Chapter 8: Entering the Ancient Ruins
In the South Pole in May, it has entered the polar night, and although it is morning, the familiar morning sun cannot be seen. Even though the ice and snow in Antarctica have melted on a large scale, it is still bitterly cold.
Chun Yu woke up very early, and basically didn't sleep much all night, mainly because of Wang Lin's words last night, which made him think crankily all night and have no sleepiness.
When he opened the door, a cold wind rushed in his face, and he shivered from the cold, and at this time, he happened to see Wang Song stretching his waist and walking this way.
"Early" Wang Song was also in a half-asleep state at night, from closing his eyes to waking up, he had been dreaming, dreaming of scenes of various gods fighting, and his brain would still buzz.
"Early" The two said hello, and a cold wind made Chun Yu also sober up a lot.
"Hey, I had a dream all night, Honggong, Pangu, Hongjun Ancestor and other great gods came out, and they danced with the fairy for a long time!" Wang Song opened his mouth and said.
"Me too, I'm almost going to break new ground! There is a knife on the head of the color word, be careful not to be slashed by the knife one day! Chun Yu thought to himself, this thing is dead, this is where it is.
"Heh, people die under flowers, and ghosts are also romantic! By the way, I forgot to tell you yesterday that my cousin is going to be with me today. Wang Song stroked his fluffy hair and spoke.
"What is she going to do?" Suspicious.
"How can there be so many whys, anyway, they must be with the two of us! Estimate...... What's that...... You get the idea! Wang Song laughed very loudly, the royal father and queen mother are very outstanding, Chun Yu once asked Wang Song if he was born to the two!
"What do I understand? Don't talk nonsense! Chun Yu has a heroic face, and he does attract girls to like him, but he doesn't have much heart now, and he doesn't have the energy and time to spend on falling in love.
The two exercised in the yard for a while, and then retracted into the house from the cold. At the polar night, Antarctica is still very cold, but it is not as extreme as before, minus 30 degrees Celsius. When it comes to the polar day, Antarctica is unusually warm, and the islands around Antarctica are summer resorts, and only Antarctica has no super storms and super waves in the world's seas, which is relatively safe. The polar day occurs in the second half of the year, so the time for large-scale glacier melt is mainly in the second half of the year.
After breakfast, Wang Lin explained what the three of them said, and then set off to the ancient ruins.
Wang Lin arranged a starship and sent dozens of people to follow, first targeting the place where the Wang family was stationed in the ancient ruins.
Originally, Chun wanted the two of them to go over by themselves, Wang Lin said that the outside world of Seoul is not peaceful, after all, Antarctica is now a land of right and wrong, there is no country, and there are mixed fish and dragons. Mercenaries, pirates, and underworld forces are rampant, bloodshed is small, and murder is common, so it is imperative to do a good job of protection.
The ancient ruins are two thousand kilometers away from Seoul, which is not a short journey, and it is not a big deal for a starship. The three of them drank a cup of tea, and the starship galloped in.
When I got off the starship, it was pitch black in front of me, which was completely different from what I imagined. Chun Yu thought that this should be a glorious ancient world, dazzling, but he didn't expect to see that it was pitch black, completely different from the brightly lit Seoul.
Before coming to Antarctica, I didn't consider that Antarctica was in the polar night at this time, and there was a contrast in my heart, if it was daytime, such a magnificent world, even if it was full of vicissitudes, it should look extremely shocking.
Chun Yu looked around, the shadow of the mountain in the distance was hazy, and the snow was piled up on the top, even in the polar night, he could still feel the majesty of the mountain.
Decades ago, these mountains were covered with snow, and for hundreds of millions of years, they were not born, but now that cleanness has been violated.
Vaguely, a few lights were faintly seen, above the sky, sporadically, at this time, everyone was in a valley.
This is where the royal family is stationed, and many chaebol families are also stationed here.
On the periphery of the garrison, there are guards guarding at all times, because there are many mercenaries nearby, as well as other armed groups, and some armed organizations have always had no bottom line.
Since people began to migrate to Antarctica, there has been a lot of burning, looting here, especially on the outskirts of the city, where there is little security. Incidents of armed clashes occur from time to time, and even bloody clashes between two types of mercenaries are often staged.
It can be said that there is a lot of blood and chaos here.
After arriving at the Wang family's camp, they prepared all kinds of equipment, including guns and ammunition, and without too much delay, the three of them continued on the road under the protection of the Wang family's twenty guards.
The ancient ruins, about 5 kilometers away from the station, have to completely pass through the valley and out of the gorge.
Along the way, everyone was cautious, and at this time, two gunshots rang out in the distance, and everyone's nerves tensed.
Now it is like a three-way zone, a paradise for lawless militants, if you don't have the protection of your guards, you can walk here alone, and it is basically difficult to see the sun the next year.
Fortunately, Chun Yu and others have practiced live ammunition shooting and experienced life and death, although it is the first time to face this kind of scene, they are not scared.
As everyone walked through the canyon, the open area in front of them was where the ancient ruins were, and at night, Chun Yu could faintly see part of the outline of the ruins, and even then, he could feel its grandeur. The huge building, like a mountain, stood in the distant haze.
As soon as they got out of the valley, they met a group of people in front of them, and the two sides suddenly became nervous, but fortunately, they didn't have the intention of rubbing with each other.
Chun Yu suddenly felt that this place was really not an ordinary mess.
When everyone came to the city, the tall city wall made the three of them dumbfounded, "This is a full fifty meters, right?" Wang Song was stunned.
Chun Yu saw that on the stone walls on both sides of the city gate, there were two divine beasts inlaid with them, but the divine beasts looked very strange, their bodies were like dragons, and their heads were actually a 'Taiji map', and the head of another divine beast was a 'Wuji' map.
Tai Chi is the initial state of heaven and earth, in mythology, before the opening of the world, the universe is chaotic, Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments, so far the heaven and earth are open, yin and yang.
Infinity is a state that precedes chaos, and everything in the universe returns to zero and becomes nothingness.
The sage said, "The Tao begets one, one begets two, two begets three, and three begets all things." All things are negative yin and embrace yang, and they are impulsive and peaceful. ”
The Tao evolves all things in the world, and all things are exhausted, and finally they return to the "Tao", and the cycle repeats.
The world is born and dies, everything is revived and dies, and everything is revived and revived, as if nothing is eternal, and if there is "eternity", there is only one "Tao".
Chun Yu pondered carefully, among the ancient creatures, it was almost impossible to find those who matched the appearance of these two divine beasts.
In myths and legends, there are two kinds of creatures that are slightly consistent with their appearances, but they are too illusory to distinguish between truth and falsehood. These two mythical creatures are the sun and candle and the sun and the shadow.
Candlelight and Phantom Firefly are both creatures in ancient myths and legends, and there is actually a big difference between them and 'Taiji' and 'Wuji' here.
On the unearthed bronze vessels, the appearance of the candle and the shadow is quite strange, and from an evolutionary point of view, if they are really related to each other, the appearance of the candle and the shadow in the bronze may have changed greatly from these two creatures.
Just like humans and apes, their genes, limbs, bones and other characteristics are similar, compared to other creatures, apes are also the closest to humans, if humans evolved from apes, the current human beings have undergone great changes. Outwardly, humans have become 'pretty', although this perception may be just wishful thinking on the part of humans.
There are guards at the gate of the city, and you need to show a pass to enter and exit, and only mercenaries from various countries and major consortia are eligible to enter, and other armed elements, including illegal mercenaries, can only be smuggled in. They risked their lives and went in mainly to hunt for treasure.
The ancient ruins are divided into the outer city and the inner city, and the major families gradually began to blockade the inner city, but the city is very large, and the role is not too obvious.
There is also a common agreement between the chaebols on the surface, but in private, they will still send people to sneak into the inner city, most of these people are dead, and the chaebol gives them a good reward and promises to take care of their families.
Chun Yu and the others are more cautious, and only plan to explore the outer city area, and the situation in the inner city is unknown now, so they can't go rashly.
At the time of the discovery of the site, Antarctica had already entered the polar night, which was very detrimental to the excavation of the site. Antarctica is not the territory of a certain country, and the plutocratic forces of various countries want to lead the exploration of ancient ruins, so for this reason, countries have been wrestling with each other for a long time, and finally they have not been able to formulate a relatively complete plan. In the face of such an astonishing discovery, countries couldn't help it, so they sent mercenaries one after another, on the surface, none of the countries participated in this matter, but everyone knew it, but they didn't put it on the surface and provoked it.
Chun Yu and his party entered the city, which was as dark as an abyss, and they could only rely on the flashlight to move forward.
Chun Yu was surprised that the internal buildings could still be preserved so well after tens of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions of years of ice and snow erosion.
Search-around revealed that most of these extremely old structures were intact. You can imagine how glorious this city was thousands of years ago!
Everyone seems to be walking on the 'street' that does not know the years, and the road is very wide, four or five hundred meters. On both sides of the street, round pillars stand tall, and it is impossible to see what kind of material it is, which has been infected by the years and filled with the vicissitudes of life.
After too many years, its exact purpose is unknown.
Huge buildings piled up on both sides of the road, each of which is so large that even with the means available to man, to build such a structure is a huge undertaking, let alone a whole complex.
Wang Song and Wang Yu were amazed.
The megalithic building is only a part of the structure of the ruins, and there are many strange-shaped buildings, shaped like irregular meteorites, which look like a whole in appearance, without any traces of splicing, like a huge meteorite hollowed out from the inside. This can't help but make Chun Yu and others marvel, what a means this is, extremely amazing!
"Can you go in and have a look?" Wang Yu asked the Wang family guards.
"Yes, Miss!" Twenty guards were heavily armed, tall and sturdy.
A few people walked towards a nearby 'meteorite building', the gate was intact, but it was not closed, but it was open.
Chun Yu found that the doors of these buildings, some of which were closed and some of which were open, seemed to have a sudden catastrophe that left everyone in the city defenseless, so that it was as if the whole city had not had time to do anything else when they were buried. It's like when the dinosaurs were extinct, they were still calmly grazing, not knowing that natural disasters would suddenly come.
Walking into the door, I found that there are still stone tables and stone benches in the house, which are polished quite exquisitely, and not far away, there is a bed made of jade, which has been sealed by ice and snow for thousands of years, and it is still perfect after being soaked by the years.
"So many people come here to explore the treasures, why doesn't anyone take them away?" Suspicious.
"It's too close to the city gate, and there are patrols around it, and there is an agreement between the major families that no one is allowed to leave without permission. Illegal militants, as well as illegal mercenaries, are choosing remote areas to hunt for treasure, recently, more and more armed forces have been sent by all sides, patrols have gradually strengthened, and major families have been discussing to completely ban the site. The strong man who spoke was named Zhou Wu, the captain of twenty people, and one of Wang Lin's personal bodyguards.
The objects in the ruins, any one taken out, will be sky-high, no one will not be tempted, and there will definitely be no shortage of buyers. If you can successfully bring out a complete antique, it is enough to make people turn over, which is also the real reason why many armed forces do not hesitate to risk their lives.
The three of them looked around, there was nothing else in the room except for the jade bed, stone table, and stone bench, the age of each other was too old to even be traceable, even if it was sealed by ice and snow, most of the things were difficult to preserve. It can be seen from the black gelatinous objects left on the ground that hundreds of millions of years of ice and snow have been sealed for hundreds of millions of years, and it is still difficult to resist the erosion of time.
The house was very large, and the three of them turned around, but found nothing else, and when they were about to go out the door, suddenly the house shook and the ground shook.