Chapter 98: Approaching the Royal City
Looking at the scene in front of me, I couldn't help but remember that the black hole at the end of the corridor on the right side of the island tomb was equally bottomless, and I almost buried it myself. I couldn't help but be curious, why do these people like to dig holes? Or, what is hidden under these places?
We took two steps back and then looked at the statue on the stone wall in front of us again. I have to say that this carving is really strange. The whole part of it is two spread wings, and in the middle of the wings, there are two red stones, and it is not obvious whether it is a ruby or any other material. This is all the content carved on it, that's it!
Generally, most ancient carvings tend to celebrate and narrate content. Whether it is carving the gods they worship or narrating the deeds of their monarchs and leaders who are good at fighting, they all have some specific content. This is the first time I have seen such carvings that are obviously abstract. People in the ancient country of Shanhuan worship a pair of big wings!
We looked at it for a long time and couldn't see any tricks in this carving. I looked at the black hole under my feet and was even more clueless. Although I was curious about the situation below the black hole, I didn't dare to go on rashly even if I beat it to death.
In this case, we can only return and return to the fork in the road.
We walked a corner and turned to another river. Suddenly, my light saw a person squatting in the darkness beside me. I was so scared that I gasped, "Who! Who!" I hurriedly raised my hand and clicked on the photo, and then I saw clearly that the person squatting there was Wen Mo.
"Damn! Brother, you're scared, why don't you turn on a flashlight? You want to play hide and seek!" I glared at him angrily, but Wen Mo still looked calm and reached out to take out another flashlight from his bag, "I'm running out of flashlight, and you're about to change it, and you're showing up!" As he said that, he turned on the flashlight with a snap, and a dazzling white light shone over.
I was speechless about Wen Mo, but I was not annoyed by him. After all, I saved my life several times.
I saw that the position where Wen Mo squatted just now was where Uncle Er left the strange symbol. It seemed that he was also looking at the symbol just now.
The location of that thing was carved so hidden that we could find that it was purely a blind cat and a dead mouse. I really don’t know how Wen Mo discovered it. I asked him, “Do you know what this symbol means?”
Wen Mo looked at me but didn't say anything. I had to ask again: "Can this symbol be left by my second uncle?"
Wen Mo's expression was calm, and she was still just looking at me quietly without saying anything. I was very upset by his attitude. I held back the anger in my heart and asked the third question, "According to this symbol, should we go in this direction?"
After repeated recurring, if Wen Mo still ignores my problem, I will really explode. Fortunately, Wen Mo stared at me for a while and nodded slightly, "Yes!" I finally had a reason why I didn't care about him, and also found a step for myself.
Kong Xue looked around and asked, "Where is our current place equivalent to the ground?"
I estimated it in my mind, "It should probably be not far from the royal city!"
Wen Mo nodded, "Our current position should be under that red sand."
Wen Mo's words cheered up our spirits, "In this way, we should be not far from the royal city."
After going through a lot of hardships, I finally arrived at the destination of this operation. I felt a little excited, but more uneasy. The four major families returned here in a miserable way. Will we now repeat the mistakes we had twenty years ago? Or can we create miracles? These are unknowns. What kind of shocking mystery is hidden in this mysterious and ancient country!
As we continued to move forward, we gradually discovered that the river we were in began to become deeper and deeper, and the stone walls on both sides of the river also retreated to both sides. I speculated that there should be a large space outside the river now.
The already cracked silt at the bottom of the river began to become thicker and thicker. The silt was bronze-colored and as solid as a rock when stepped on. At the same time, some strange things began to appear in the silt, including ceramic fragments, broken weapons, and some flocs that were not visible. All of this shows that we have entered the water system range of the Ancient King of Shanhuan.
Further forward, not only did the things just appear in the river, but some sporadic bones were also discovered by us. Moreover, we noticed that many of them were human bones.
Kong Xue was obviously still a little afraid of these things, and walked on them tremblingly, taking every step carefully, for fear that he would step on a broken skull.
Suddenly, Kong Xue screamed. We hurried over and looked at it, but found that Kong Xue was frozen there, and one of her legs was raised but she didn't dare to fall down. "Let me see, something has grabbed my pants!"
When we shone the flashlight, we realized that there was nothing at all. It was just a half-stretched man's hand bone hanging on Kong Xue's trousers' legs. I reached out and took off her pants from the hand. Kong Xue was still slapped in her chest with lingering fear, "Huh, I'm scared!"
I looked at her a little funny. I had been away for so long and had experienced this kind of thing not once or twice. I was still scared like this by the hands with only bones left.
Suddenly I thought of something. I turned my head again to look at your hand leaking out of the mud, but found that it was a normal person's hand bone, not like the mummies in the cliff burial groups we saw on the stone wall earlier. The hands of those mummies were very slender, and the length of the finger bones was at least two to three times that of a normal person. The hand in front of me was no different from ours.
I couldn't help but wonder, are the people from the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom like the people who grew up in the cliff and buried groups of mummies, or are normal people like us, and how can I explain those mummies with strange bodies?
At this time, the depth of the river channel had exceeded two meters, which was very different from the one just now. It was obviously artificially constructed. We saw a black shadow appearing in the dark river channel ahead. I was always a little nervous about this black shadow that suddenly appeared in the aperture of the flashlight. Based on the previous experience, this discovery will most likely cause us some trouble.
Chapter completed!