Chapter 353: Stone Road

With a "poof" sound, Shen Shi fell to the ground, the soft soil and the thick and dense plants around it made this land like a thick blanket, and it was no wonder that the green python just fell down as if nothing happened, and Shi Shiran crawled away again.

After taking a look around and making sure that there was no danger in the vicinity for the time being, Shen Shi walked to the place where the green python fell just now, squatted down and took a closer look. The land exposed by the thick snake body of the green forest python is not large, only about two feet square, the soil on the ground is very damp, showing a gray-black color, in addition to the smell of the surrounding grass and trees, you can also faintly smell a smell of decay, I think it should be caused by the rot of the leaves that have fallen in this rainforest for many years.

But at this moment, in the middle of this soil, there is a corner of a white stone exposed, Shen Shi reached out and touched the edge of this stone, the touch is rough, at first glance it is not a particularly precious and rare stone, but there are several traces of chiseling and cutting on the edge of the stone, making this stone into a similar square shape.

Shen Shi stared at the artificial traces on the edge carefully, and after a while, he suddenly stretched out his hand, grabbed the part of the stone that exposed the ground, and shook it vigorously a few times, and the soil rope fell, and after a few back and forth, he felt a feeling of looseness in his hand, and Shen Shi pulled it up hard, and with a muffled sound, he directly pulled the stone out of the soil.

At first glance, this white stone is not too big, it is roughly a relatively neat square stone flake, but the parts inserted in the soil have signs of wear and erosion in many places, and some stone parts have even fallen. Despite this, it is still clear that the stone was deliberately made into such a shape, but who made it, and why did it end up in the depths of this inaccessible rainforest, buried under the earth?

Shen Shi took this stone and gestured a few times, his brows furrowed slightly, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly put it back on the ground, but this time it was flat on the soil, and after pressing it a little firmly, when he stood up and took a few steps back, it looked a bit like the side that was placed on that piece of land...... Stone?

Shen Shi's brows furrowed even tighter, and he subconsciously looked around, but everywhere he looked, there was a patch of green, and almost every inch of the dirt was hidden under the shadow of green trees and weeds. Shen Shi hesitated for a moment, but then leaned down, took out a sharp dagger from the Ruyi bag, and silently began to cut the stems of the weeds and trees that covered the ground around him.

In the flying of the blade, pieces of wild grass and shrubs that grew wantonly were neatly cut off by him and thrown aside, and more land was soon exposed, about half a tea time, Shen Shi took a break in his hand, and gently raised the dagger in his hand, revealing a corner of white stone in front of his eyes in a broken grass stalk and black soil.

Another white stone was dug out by him, and when it was placed on the ground, it looked almost exactly the same as the previous one, and Shen Shi's eyes showed a hint of satisfaction. The two white stones, which are very similar in shape, are about four feet apart, and both are clearly artificially processed, and it is obviously unlikely that outsiders have discarded them here. Shen Shi vaguely guessed something in his heart, then thought for a while, and then no longer continued to cut the plants on the ground, but roughly compared the distance between the two stones on the ground, and then stepped forward four feet directly from the second stone.

At the bottom of the foot, stepping on those green plants and stepping on the ground, there is no sinking muddy feeling, but a solid feeling.

Shen Shi swept away the branches and leaves at his feet with his feet, and then saw a third white stone.

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The next thing quickly became simpler, Shen Shi no longer hesitated, and began to search for these mysterious white stones hidden in the rainforest at this fixed distance, and these stones seemed to be a bit like a stone path paved in this rainforest by unknown people a long time ago. It's just that after a long time, those characters and races have long since disappeared, and only these remaining stones are still left alone in the dense forest, enduring the erosion of wind and rain.

Of course, it wasn't all smooth sailing, at some point, Shen Shi would find that he wasn't stepping on those white stones after stepping four feet away, but after expanding the search area, he could usually find them nearby, and he quickly saw the reason, that is, this stone path was not actually straight.

It is a stone path that zigzags forward through the dense forest.

Shen Shi also patiently walked forward step by step in the rainforest, the surrounding water droplets dripping from the sky, and in the green rainforest, only his figure was walking alone. The strange thing is that in addition to the green python that he met on the tree before, Shen Shi, who was walking on this stone path, has been walking for a long time and has not encountered a second demon beast.

In the secluded primeval rainforest, everything seemed to be silent, and Shen Shi walked for a long time on this hidden and ancient stone path, and gradually found that this ancient road seemed to be much longer than he expected. After walking for about half an hour, Shen Shi suddenly found that he seemed to have reached the end of the stone road.

The last two white stone steps are not even buried in the earth, but are directly exposed to the earth, and they are laid out so flat that they look like they were there a long time ago. And when Shen Shi stepped on the last stone step, he stood still, staring ahead.

Ahead is still a densely vegetated rainforest, but in the midst of this dense forest where the greenery flows freely, there is a clearing that is not occupied by tall trees, but a few stout stone pillars standing and falling to the ground.

Almost all of the stones were covered with moss, and there were quite a few vines that had grown from the side wrapped around the thick stones, but in general, Shen Shi could still tell that the stone pillars looked like they formed a circle, but some of the stone pillars fell to the ground, and some of the stone pillars were skewed to the side, making the circle no longer perfect.

However, apart from the moss and the green vines that were wrapped around the stone pillars, the green vegetation in the space enclosed by these stone pillars was surprisingly scarce, and probably only some of the small green weeds on the ground that poked their heads out of the cracks in the stones would grow among the stone pillars.

Shen Shi's gaze fell on these stone pillars, looked at them carefully one by one, and then quickly came to a judgment that these stone pillars were also artificially made and placed in this dense forest.

So who was the person who created the stone path and this strange group of stone pillars, was it the legendary "Forest Man"? Or was it someone else?

And what's the point of them enclosing these stone pillars here?

Shen Shi stared at the ancient and desolate stone pillars in front of him, fell into deep thought, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows, and then took a step forward and stepped into the middle of this circle of stone pillars.

(I'll update the chapter first, there's something going on today, and I'll try to come back in the afternoon to update.) ）