I saw that the secret passage had been opened, so I breathed a sigh of relief and used a flashlight to illuminate the secret passage. There was a stone step made of black stone that led to the bottom. The distance of the flashlight was limited, and it was impossible to see it deeper.

The fat man waved his hand to greet the five people waiting at the gate of the temple. When everyone saw that they opened the secret passage, they praised my method of dividing the gold and deciding the acupoint.

It was already afternoon. I said a few words of humility and asked everyone to clean up and try to get as light as possible. First go outside the temple and eat a few bites of dry food. I don’t know how far I have to go on this secret passage, so I will go in after I am fully prepared.

When eating dry food, Sardipeng asked me curiously, how did I find the secret passage, which was too accurate.

I said to him: "At a glance at the arrangement of the sixteen large stone pillars, you will know that the arrangement of this secret passage is the Jumen formation passed down from ancient times. Why is it called Jumen? That is to say, this kind of mechanism is mostly used on the passage portal. These numerical techniques evolved from the arrangement of Luo numbers and the starry sky. The mystery here is so deep that you can't understand it even if you tell me."

After a while, I led the secret passage in the temple. Below the entrance, I found a stone lever that could be used to open the floor tiles from below. These mechanisms were exquisitely designed. After nearly two thousand years, the mechanisms could still be used. The structural principles were very unusual. Although many concepts of Yizi were used, they had their own systems. If these were invented by the Jingjue Queen, she would definitely be a genius who was born in the world.

At first we were worried that there was an organ in the secret passage. When we were down, we were cautious and cautious. We each opened the distance and walked slowly. When we reached the end of the stone steps, we suddenly realized that a figurine road that was five meters wide and about three meters high appeared.

The figurine road is no longer surrounded by pitch-black stones, but are all piled up by Western Regions sky bricks (rectangular light yellow earth bricks used for the construction of city walls in ancient Western Regions, mixed with rammed earth, cow dung, cold sand, etc., dry and solid, and does not crack for a long time). The top of the head is built into a round arch, and the walls are full of strange and bright murals.

The most common ones on the painting are eyes, big and small, open and close together, some only have eyeballs, and some have eyelids and eyelashes. They regard the eyes as totems. This figurine leads to the temple and has so many eyes. I believe that only clergy and rulers like the queen are qualified to enter. They may not have used it many times since their completion.

The environment of this figurine road is very closed, the air is not circulating, and the color of the mural is as new as it is without peeling off at all, which makes Professor Chen and others excited to see it.

Professor Chen said that as early as the early 19th century, there were also a large number of murals in the ruins of the ancient Xinjiang city discovered by foreign explorers, almost all of which were mainly religious themes. Unfortunately, the government did not protect it at that time, and they were completely looted and lost to foreign countries. I didn’t expect that there would be such a complete preserve here, and it was the oldest and most mysterious mural of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, which was enough to shock the whole world.

When I heard the professor say this, I thought of the legend that the queen is a monster. This ancient city is extremely strange. If there are really monsters, you might be able to find some clues from this mural. If you really encounter them, you will be able to know yourself and your enemy and never win. So I used a flashlight to watch the murals one by one.

However, in all the figurine murals, there is no figure of the Queen of Jingjue. The contents in the paintings are all about rituals. Some painted with a jade eyeball emitting light, and a black hole appeared in the sky, and a giant-eyed flesh egg fell from it.

Some painted countless black monster snakes crawled out of their eggs and bite a few bound slaves, and the slaves struggled in pain.

Some of them painted black peaks, with black snakes climbing on the mountain, and the surrounding beasts fell to the ground and kowtowed to the strange snakes on the mountain.

Some of these scenes we have seen before. The situation depicted on the mural here further confirms Professor Chen's judgment that this strange snake with black eyeballs on its head has always been regarded as a guardian beast by Jingjueren. They know how to summon and drive these snake beasts, and often use living people to sacrifice to snake beasts. Unexpectedly, the ancient Jingjue Kingdom was buried under the sand sea for thousands of years, and these strange snakes still exist in the world.

We walked and looked, stopping in front of the last painting, which was a huge cave, a slender staircase circling down the wall.

Shirley Yang said to Professor Chen: "Do you think this cave has anything to do with the origin of the name of the ghost cave clan?"

Professor Chen said: "It is very likely that the spiral staircase on the wall of this cave is as small as a thin line, completely disproportionate to this big hole. Such a straight up and down earth hole cannot be dug by humans. Could this be a ghost cave?"

I remember hearing them say that the Ghost Cave clan came from underground. I didn't think much about it after hearing it. I thought it was purely a rambling man from ancient times. Now when I looked at the murals, I felt suspicious. Some of the things in these murals have been witnessed with my own eyes. It seems that they are not mysterious and vague. Maybe there is such a big hole in the depths of Jingjue Ancient City.

The fat man smiled and said, "If there is such a big hole in the world, it will lead to the other end of the earth. If you want to go abroad and save trouble in the future, don't take a plane and jump directly from this big hole. You will arrive in the United States in a short while."

Shirley Yang ignored the fat man's nonsense and asked Professor Chen again: "The giant stone statue of the Ghost Cave Clan is probably their true colors. If they really come from the dark world underground, it can explain their admiration for their eyes."

Professor Chen said: "What you said is reasonable, and there is another possibility. This huge cave is the other world that appears repeatedly in the ghost cave civilization, which is what you call an imaginary space. This is probably an entity. In ancient times, the ghost cave people discovered this huge cave. They could not explain why there were such a large underground cave in the world, and they did their best, but could not go down to the bottom of the cave to see the truth. The ancients advocated the power of nature, and they might have used this huge cave as a miracle to worship and worship. They hoped that their eyes would be more developed and could see the situation at the bottom of the cave. A few people claimed that their eyes could see the world at the bottom of the cave. They were respected and became rulers or clergy of the tribe. Since their power came from the eyes, they regarded the eyes as the source of power."

After hearing the professor's words, the fat man was very worried and raised his big hunk and praised him, "Okay, old man, you can see so many things with just a painting, and you are still talking very well. It's like it's really that way. If you go to practice a stall, you will definitely be able to talk about a large area and sell whatever you want."

Professor Chen was not in the mood to joke with him and responded casually: "I am just a subjective speculation and cannot be accurate. Let's go out of the secret passage to see if there is such a big cave, but it is better to see it."

For some reason, when I heard them talk about underground caves, I remembered the past of the nine-story demon building underground in Kunlun Mountain. I lost several comrades in the army that time. Since then, I have become more afraid of the caves deep in the underground. I am very worried about the accidents in the archaeological team. If I had not had to enter the underground palace to find water sources, I really wanted to take them back. Since the archaeology of this desert has achieved great results, it is not bad for that cave.

I said to the professor: "A man of a thousand gold, you don't sit in a dangerous hall. You are all people with status in society, so there is no need to take risks. After we find the water source in the underground palace and replenish it, we should go back. Since we have found the Jingjue Ancient City, our task has been completed. You can write an evaluation report to your superiors for the relevant part, and let the government solve the rest later."

Professor Chen shook his head but didn't say anything. He had been trying to explore the mystery of the Ghost Cave civilization for his whole life. He had already arrived here and was so itchy that he could agree. Besides, Shirley Yang always believed that her father's expedition team had visited Jingjue Ancient City. She would not let her go if she didn't find it. They said they wouldn't go back.

I had no choice but to follow them and continued to move forward, thinking that I have done my best to be kind and righteous, and I have said everything I should say. If something really happens, I will have a clear conscience.

The figurine road is not long, there are no steps at the end, there is only a stone pillar and no portal. Could it be that the figurine road of the temple of the temple is a dead end, just to paint those murals of the sacrificial rituals?

The fat man looked around and turned to me and said, "Old Hu, do you have any tricks this time? If you don't have one, just take the medicine."

I said, "Are you anything else besides violence? Use your brain and take a look first. I guess this secret door will probably land on this separate stone pillar."

This stone pillar standing alone in the Sky Brick Trail is several times smaller than the sixteen large stone pillars in the temple, but the shape is exactly the same. The bottom of the pillar is also covered with six-sided statues, the empty side is facing the narrow wall at the end.

This is easy to deal with. It turns out that the dragon tail of the sixteen dragons penetrated into the ground is here. I still ask the fat man to help him follow the "Dragon Shake Art" in the "Sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" that is opposite to the "Dragon-Seeking Order" and turn the hexagonal stone plate under the stone pillar.
Chapter completed!