Chapter 17 Blood Pool

Legend has it that the Mayans had thirteen crystal heads that existed in ancient times. Whoever can collect the complete thirteen crystal heads can see the miracle of God.

There are three real crystal heads that appear in the world now, one in the British Museum, one in St. Paris, France, and one stolen in the United States. The whereabouts are still unknown, and the rest are countless counterfeit crystals.

I think the crystal head in front of us should be one of them.

The temple of the god of death

Getting up from the mud-filled waterway, Professor Fang Xin breathed a sigh of relief and said to Zhuo Muchangba: "Now you can understand why Senior Pierre has to spend so much effort and do so many mechanisms in that pit.

If we cannot even decipher those simple mechanisms, then we will not have the chance to leave this underground palace at all, and he will not have to give us any guidance. Just wait for death under the ground, which is a hundred times more comfortable than now."

Zhuo Muqiangba couldn't help but respect the pioneer of adventure. He looked around. He was in a narrow passage, which was more like a vent, and the water in the sink had disappeared.

He said in surprise: "Strange, how could such a large amount of water just now disappear?"

The wizard Yara stood where they came up and said, "You will understand when you come here and see."

Zhuo Muqiangba looked over and saw that the water below seemed to be undercurrents underground, flowing forward quickly. He asked, "How could this happen?"

Suddenly I woke up again, "The stone gate has been opened, and the next layer of water is retreating!"

Master Yara said, "Yes, if we come for a minute at night, we will be washed below the eighth floor with the receding current, and there will be no chance of coming up."

Zhuo Muqiangba raised a doubt in his heart and asked, "Master, why are you not afraid when you see that skull in the water?"

Master Yara smiled and called out a wicket, "There is no demon in his heart, and there is nothing to fear."

Zhuo Muqiangba said: "Is this also the result of secret cultivation?"

Master Yara did not answer. I don’t know if it was because of fear or exhaustion of strength. Master Yara’s body shook for a while.

Zhuo Muqiangba didn't pay attention and said in fear: "It's so dangerous, there is such a place."

Tang Min also stood up, and she opened her eyes wide and told Zhuo Muqiangba: "It's much better than the two floors below. The underground palace is more terrifying the further down."

Zhuo Muqiangba didn't believe it: "How is it possible?

We only came up with this level for a lifetime.”

Tang Min said unconvincedly: "Which level is not a life-threatening life, you are a fool and have a good fortune."

Professor Fang Xin said: "It's true.

The nine-story hell of the Mayans should have been an inverted pyramid type, but through our research and analysis, this underground palace is a whole pyramid, with about one-third of the exposed ground, which is the Great Pyramid we saw in Baicheng, and there are still two-thirds buried underground.

One layer after another is dangerous, obviously taking advantage of the greed mentality of treasure hunters. Who doesn’t want to find more treasures? The more dangerous the mechanism is, the easier it is to make people feel that there is a bigger treasure below, and the person who goes on will never be able to get up again.

Judging from the dead bones we saw, this underground palace must have been hollowed out long ago, and now only these institutions are left, an absolute tomb of cannibalism.

That's right, Master Yara?

Master?"

Master Yara smiled bitterly, suddenly staggered and fell to the ground and fell into a coma. Zhuo Muqiangba was closest to him and hugged him quickly.

Tang Min pulled the mage's arm away and said with a "ah": "He was poisoned!"

The abrasions on the arm of Master Yara were already black, and the milky yellow body fluids were oozing out. It seemed that they were helping Zhuo Muqiangba and the others avoid the injuries they suffered when they were helping Zhuo Muqiangba and the others avoid the spear. In addition, they put their hands into the hot stone wall to pull the mechanism, and the poison had already invaded the body.

Professor Fang Xin said: "Fortunately it was a poison from a thousand years ago, and many toxic substances had been degraded. Otherwise, this poison should be a very poison that was blocked by blood.

How about it?

Is there any way to help the mage?”

He asked Tang Min.

Tang Min said: "I don't know what poison it is. Judging from the reaction of the wound, it is very similar to snake venom. It should be a poison extracted from the body of a poisonous dart frog or a venomous snake.

But we don’t have the serum to detoxify, so I can only give him a relief agent to neutralize neurotoxins, and then use some snake ointment to see if it is effective, but it cannot be cured. I’m afraid it will depend on the mage’s own body to detoxify.”

Tang Min gave a simple care for Master Yara, carried his backpack on his shoulders, Zhuo Mu Qiangba carried Master Kayara, and the three of them continued to move forward.

This narrow passage is less than ten meters long, and the exit is two round holes with a diameter of less than one meter high. It is separated by a vertical stone pillar in the middle. It is the same as the sixth floor, with bright lights and torches like ox horn cups everywhere.

The exit was three meters higher than the ground. Zhuo Muqiangba and Tang Min went down first, then caught Master Yara. After Professor Fang Xin came down, they saw clearly that the exit of this passage turned out to be a large stone skeleton carved by hand. Their exit was in the skeleton's eye socket.

The god of death, Ah Bech, the brother of the goddess of moon, the incarnation of the sun god in hell, the king of hell in the minds of the Mayans, is the commander of the nine night gods in hell, and is the second most gods in Mayan literature, second only to the rain snake god Kukukaner.

Its image is sometimes a hunched old man, sometimes an old woman with hands and feet like eagle claws and teethless, but at most it is like most doctrines in the world, it is a skeleton.

It held the God's Staff of Judgment in its hand and had a bell hanging on it. The Jaguar was his right-hand man.

These are the information that Zhuomu Qiangba obtained from the bad help. At this moment, he really stood in the palace of the God of Death and felt the Mayans' awe and fear of the God of Death. They expressed all this in their own buildings.

The torches in the hall are all below five meters, and the vault of the hall is hidden in the deep darkness. The entire hall, all statues, pictures, and decorations that can be seen by the naked eye, are related to skeletons.

The torches of the horn cups are held by skeletons; the bas-reliefs on the wall are huge skulls, either complete or only the upper half, and each tooth is carved into shape by the craftsmen; some black murals that can be seen are also skulls standing or sitting, realistic, abstract, and vivid in shape as if they were living skulls; the porch is carved into round skulls with wide mouths, and people need to drill in and out of the mouths of these skulls; the pillars that support the hall are neat ribs, which make people feel walking in and out of the skulls; the large floors are about fifteen square meters per square, and are covered with relief patterns of skull slaves being whipped and passively punished.

Professor Fang Xin recorded all this on the computer, claiming that it was the only art hall he had ever seen that was decorated with skeletons.

They walked for a long time and saw many large and small skeleton statues, which were larger than they thought. Pierre's notes recorded: "The Palace of Death is undoubtedly the most magnificent and luxurious palace in the entire underground palace. I never dared to imagine that using skeletons can build such a fascinating palace art (lack).

There are a few places that are impressive here, which I listed below (missed), strange giant biological bones (or stone sculptures?

)——The pit of burial for sacrificiality——the starry sky——(unrecognizable).

They are very far apart. I think the exit to go up should be one of these places, and perhaps there is still a place I have not been able to find on this floor.

Because I ran down with excitement, and only after running through many rooms did I remember the way I remembered, but I could no longer find the place-"

Zhuo Mu Qiangba thought to himself: "This senior Pierre is not trying to make us happy. Every time I go to a critical place, I either fall suddenly or don't remember it."

Professor Fang Xin switched the picture to the place where they had passed, and saw the computer draw a flat two-dimensional figure. Professor Fang Xin said: "Did you see, the entire edge is in the same line, we are like walking in a huge room, unable to measure its length and width. The Mayans divided it into small rooms, each room was about dozens of meters high and hundreds of meters long, and we did not see any of the places mentioned by Pierre.

What impressed me was the Mayan imagination, which could create so many skeleton images with the same shape and style."

Zhuo Muqiangba nodded with the carrying of Master Yara on his back. Tang Min put down Master Yara's hand and said, "Breathing, body temperature, and pulse are still normal, so there will be no serious injury for the time being."

When the three of them walked through another house, they finally found a unique room.

The decoration of the surrounding room is no different from the other rooms. The only difference is that the huge statue in the middle of the room is amazing, and it is not unfamiliar to modern people. It is a skeleton of some kind of dinosaur, standing upright and high with a height of more than ten meters and a length of more than ten meters. However, this kind of fossil appears in the Mayan underground palace, which makes people feel amazing.

Zhuo Muqiang looked at the dinosaur fossil and said, "Is this... a tyrannosaurus?"

He has seen it in a museum.

After researching it recently, Professor Fang Xin said: "It is indeed a fossil, and it is not clear what kind of it is.

This is very strange. How could the Mayans dig out such a thing from the ground?

Look, although there are traces of damage everywhere, it is still very complete in general.

They deliberately dug out and assembled the fossil skeleton completely. This..." He suddenly realized, "This must be the bone of the strange creature that Pierry saw. Because he did not know the fossil, he could not tell whether it was a stone carving or a bone."

"This is a dinosaur. Pierry won't even know this."

Zhuo Muqiangba knew that explorers of the last few centuries were knowledgeable people. In his opinion, even elementary school students now know the common sense problem of dinosaurs.

Professor Fang Xin looked up the information and said, "No wonder, you see, the word dinosaur was proposed in 1841, and Pierre had already passed away at that time.

According to him, the next place is very far away from here, so we carefully searched all the way to see if there was any possibility of finding the way up."

Zhuomchanba moved Master Yara upwards so that he could bear him better.

Just as he was about to leave, he heard a "click", he turned his head carefully, stared at the huge dinosaur fossil next to him nervously and suspiciously. After walking a few steps, he turned around and looked at it. He was sure that the fossil would not have any abnormal movements, so he began to look around the hall to find a passage to go up.

The three of them were exhausted and digging almost three feet into the ground. They searched every skeleton carving and every corner of the ribs. They did not find any passages to go up, but they encountered many mechanisms.

Once Tang Min touched the mechanism beneath her feet, the skeleton sculpture in front of her suddenly opened her chest, almost dragging Tang Min into her body, which scared Tang Min so much that she screamed in shock.

After that time, Tang Min leaned close to Zhuo Mu Qiangba and searched, which naturally had to waste some human resources.

Finally, Professor Fang Xin also said: "It seems that I won't be here, let's go and go to the next place.

But we have to look carefully on the road, maybe right next to the road.

What the senior records are indeed strange, starry sky?

Do you know what other meanings do Starry Sky mean in English?”

On another place on the same floor, more than a dozen guerrillas were watching the huge white stone inkstone that Soris had just seen. This stone inkstone, which was more than one person tall, looked like an extremely huge coffin cover.

There are many earth-brown powders in the inkstone, which are quite like dried blood. The guerrillas shook their heads when they see it, and no one can tell what it is for.

With a scream, Veto's heart tightened. I don't know which unlucky guy came across the agency again. He suddenly turned around and cursed, "Aren't you lined up?"

How could you encounter the agency?”

A guerrilla behind him looked grim and said, "It's not the mechanism, Booker, Booker... He was dragged away by a mouse! Big, big, big mouse! I've never seen such a big mouse!"

Veto gave him a slap and angrily shouted: "How big can a mouse be?

Can you drag someone away?"

The guerrilla held his swollen face in grievance and whispered: "It's a mouse, it's really a mouse. I've never seen such a big mouse.

It's a mouse, it's really a mouse..."

Veto cursed and smoked a cigar to relieve his mood. Without taking two steps, a giant python jumped out from the front with a "swish". Veto was so scared that his cigarette fell to the ground.

Four subordinates behind him shot at the same time, finally killing the snake. At the same time, a figure flashed in the corner, as if another big snake had penetrated into the darkness.
To be continued...