Chapter 208, the remnant of the hall

The four of them approached the half-collapsed palace, and saw that its ground floor was made of huge black boulders, tall and sturdy.

The dome on the ground floor is also made of black boulders, so there is no sign of collapse on the entire ground floor.

The upper six floors are mainly brick and wood structures, after an unknown number of years of wind and rain, most of those giant wooden beams and columns have turned into rotten wood residues, and naturally collapsed, leaving only stone bricks, tile roofs and pottery cornices mixed together, stacked on top of the bottom layer.

The ground floor is as high as ten zhang, and there is a six-zhang high gate hole in the front, but there is no door.

The four of them walked into the doorway and came to the main hall, only to see that in the middle of the spacious hall, there stood a tall and majestic black statue, he sat on a huge throne, the top of his head was less than six feet from the top of the ten-zhang high hall, and the back of the throne was connected to the top of the temple, becoming a huge pillar supporting the dome, which is also one of the reasons why the bottom floor was not collapsed by the several layers that collapsed above.

In addition, the entire hall with a length and width of nearly 20 zhang has no pillars.

The statue is also carved from a black boulder, and is a bearded man with a strong figure and a majestic expression. This should be the so-called sea god.

The offering table before the idol was still there, but there was no tribute for a long time, and it was covered with dust, and there were no other items in the wide hall.

The four of them inspected the main hall and found a lot of relief stone carvings and ancient characters on the four walls. The reliefs show the scenes of the sea god killing the sea monster, conquering aliens, establishing political power, and proclaiming himself sacred, but the age is not examinable, and Xiang An has neither the interest nor the ability to interpret those vague ancient characters one by one.

Aoshi was more interested in the reliefs, and carefully examined them one by one, and finally found a complete map depicting the sea area conquered by the sea god, from the map, in the southeast of the island where the sea god used as a burial ground, there is a large sea area similar to the Seven Evil Seas, which is the place where the sea god established his power.

There are many relief pictures in this hall, but there are very few words, and next to this chart, there are some patterns similar to words. Qingshi called Xiang An and asked him to identify it carefully.

Xiang An looked at it for a while and said: "That's right, this is also the text, it should be the same as the text on the stone tablet outside, I don't recognize it all, probably the name of this sea area, it seems to be the Wuyun Sea and the Wuhai Country." ”

Judging from the current situation of the island god tomb, most of this Wuhai country has long since disappeared, and the people who guarded the tomb have long been dispersed. And this so-called sea god is probably also his self-appointed or descendant's honorific title, he himself should be a powerful hero in troubled times, not a real god.

Qingshi and Xiang An carefully studied the chart, and what made them happy was that they finally had a chart of the way forward, so they would not rush forward blindly.

If the charts are accurate, islands will begin to appear less than 10,000 miles to the southeast. In that sea area called the Sea of Clouds, there are several islands with a large area, the largest of which is the main island of the Sea of Clouds, Wuyun Island.

Qingshi Xiang An tried hard to memorize the content on the map, but Duan Chen and the others searched for treasures everywhere, but they found nothing.

Duan Wutian was disappointed and asked Xiang An, "Old Xiang, didn't you say that there is a dungeon?" Where? ”

"The dungeon is naturally underground." Xiang An said.

"Right down here?" Duan Wutian said, "Then dig it out!" ”

"Since the schematic diagram in the defense control room marks the underground palace," Xiang An said, "then it shouldn't be hidden, there must be a doorway to enter it." ”

"yes!" Chen Tianye said, "I've been looking for it, but maybe it's a secret door, I haven't found any clues." Bluestone! Don't keep reading comic books, look for the entrance to the dungeon. ”

Qingshi remembered the chart and walked over and said, "Is it so difficult to find an entrance to the dungeon?" You can't find the old item? ”

"I can't find it," Xiang An frowned, "It doesn't make sense!" ”

Qingshi walked around the hall and said, "It seems that I haven't seen any secret doors." ”

"That's it," Chen Tianye said, "I've knocked every floor tile and checked every relief around it, but no." ”

"What about the idol and the offering table?" Aoshi asked.

"I've seen it," Xiang Andao, "no." ”

"That's all there is left in this hall," Duan Wutian said, "I really can't think of where this secret door will be hidden." ”

Bluestone once again set his eyes on the idol in the center.

The statue was built on a pedestal more than two zhang high, and the whole abutment was boxy, and it was made of huge black stones, each of which was at least six feet long and wide, and the stones were very close to each other, without a single gap.

Bluestone walked around the base of the idol again, and finally stopped in front of the largest ashlar on the back of the pedestal, which happened to be in the middle of the back of the base of the idol.

Qingshi stretched out his hand and knocked on the stone, without any empty sound, Xiang An said: "I have seen it, the gaps around this stone are also tightly plastered with plaster, it should not be a secret door." ”

"It's plastered with plaster," said the bluestone, "and it's very tight, more tightly than any other stone crevice." ”

"Ahh I understand! Chen Tianye said, "This shows that this big stone is not stacked at the same time as other stones." It was originally a doorway, but it was later blocked with a large stone. ”

Chen Tianye walked over as he spoke, flipped his wrist and took out a dagger with a very thin blade, carefully inserted it into the gap in the stone, and then cut it along the gap. As the stone dust fell, the cracks around the stone were soon opened.

Chen Tianye put away the dagger, pressed his hands on the stone and sucked the stone, and then pulled it back, but the surface of the big stone was hard and smooth and there was no point of strength, Chen Tianye couldn't use it, and he didn't pull it out for a long time.

"Let me come!" Duan Wutian walked over and put his hands together to exert his strength. But it still didn't work.

Xiang An said: "We can dig a hole like a doorknob in this big stone, and then we can use our strength." ”

"I'm better at it," Bluestone walked over, took out a black sledgehammer the size of a basin with his right hand, and said, "It's all out of the way!" ”

Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian flashed aside, Qingshi picked up a sledgehammer and smashed it in the middle of the big stone, with a dull impact sound, several cracks immediately appeared on the big stone, and they spread out with the force point as the center.

The bluestone didn't say a word and two hammers went down, the boulder was smashed out of a hole bigger than the sledgehammer, the hole revealed a trace of golden light, the bluestone came another hammer, the boulder completely collapsed, turned into a pile of gravel and fell.

It turned out that this was not a whole square stone, but a stone slab more than a foot thick. The slate is extremely thick, so it can't make a hollow sound. Chen Tianye's dagger blade was no more than half a foot, and naturally it was not really cut apart.

Several people moved away from the broken large stone slab, revealing a doorway eight feet high and five feet wide, only to see that inside the doorway was a stone staircase with an oblique downward slope, and the cave was not dark, but there was a faint golden light through.

Bluestone took the sledgehammer and took out a humanoid puppet and let it walk along the stone staircase, while he followed him a foot behind. Duan Chenxiang and the three of them followed the fish.

The stone staircase is about fifty steps, and at the end is a dungeon with a length and width of about twenty zhang and a space height of about three zhang, and the entire dungeon is full of golden light, except for dozens of lighting artifacts that emit yellow light on the four walls, most of these golden lights are the light reflected by the items stacked in it.

The whole underground palace is full of all kinds of treasures, there are dozens of gold statues more than two people high, golden lampstands like big trees, a whole row of golden bells several feet long, boxes of pearls and gems with lids opened, gold shelves filled with all kinds of bright and bright golden weapons, piles of gold cups, plates and bowls and jade objects, and the four walls are also hung with golden silk thread weaving, embroidery, tapestries decorated with gold beads and jade leaves, and so on.

The four of them were stunned for a while, and Duan Wutian said, "That's all? That's all this garbage? ”

Yes, the four of them were stunned and indeed shocked by these so-called treasures, but not ecstasy but loss. These treasures can be regarded as rare treasures for ordinary people, but in the eyes of these monks, they are really just garbage.

Bluestone walked into these garbage-like treasures, grabbed a handful of jewels and gems from a box of jewels, looked at them casually, shook his head and threw them away. Stretching out his hand again to pat the golden statue, he thought and said, "These things should have been placed in the sacrificial hall, and most of them were moved into this underground palace and sealed when the guardian left. ”

"Yes, these things are not artifacts." Duan Wutian quickly took a turn in the underground palace and scolded: "These guys have taken away all the burial goods of the Sea God, and even the coffin of the Sea God!" ”

"That's not right!" Qingshi said, "This is not the tomb of the sea god. It's just an underground warehouse for storing sacrificial items. ”

"Yes!" Xiang An also said, "I'll just say, how can there be a schematic map that clearly marks the location of the tomb." ”

"That's it!" Duan Wutian breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, I thought this overseas god tomb had also been stolen." ”

"And where is the tomb of the gods?" Chen Tianye said, "I think it should be deeper underground!" ”

"The tombs are naturally underground," Xiang An said, "It's just that it's not easy to find a tomb path that leads directly to the tomb dungeon." ”

"Of course," Duan Wutian said as he fumbled around the walls, "It's so difficult to find a warehouse for garbage, and it's naturally even more difficult to find a tombway. ”

"It's not difficult!" Qingshi saw that this so-called underground palace was just a storage room, and his mind turned to understand where the tomb of the god should be, and immediately smiled and said, "The location of this tomb is obvious, and it is clearly written in Dou Da characters, it is simply three hundred taels of silver here!" ”

"Ahh Xiang An suddenly realized, "I understand." ”

"Could it be under that monument?" Chen Tianye also understood.

Duan Wutian said: "What does it mean that there are no three hundred taels of silver here?" ”

Aoshi told the story to the three of them, and everyone laughed and walked out of the storeroom, walked out of the sacrificial hall, and came to the huge black stone tablet.