Chapter 42 Chapter 41: Abyssal Haunted Cave

As Katsuo said, this is indeed a site with human activities, but this site looks a bit scary. I didn't expect the so-called ruins to be so big. Looking around, the entire mountain has been hollowed out, like a moth-eaten, full of holes of all sizes.The rocks of the mountain are crimson and covered with many small holes, which is a typical feature of volcanic rocks. The architectural pattern of the ruins is very special, layer by layer, penetrating into the interior of the mountain, and the black hole entrance seems to remind us that there is no end here.At this moment, I seem to have seen another version of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. It is hard to imagine how such a huge project was completed, as if a huge building was forcibly stuffed into the mountain, and finally integrated with the mountain as a whole.

"It seems that you are right. These things have a very long history. You say ten thousand years is not too much!" I said in horror, feeling that I am walking through this ancient ruins at this moment, and I am as small as an ant. Katsuo said: "Actually, I'm not guessing. I've seen similar ruins before. Our people have also carried out carbon-14 measurements on the rock elements in the ruins, which proves that the ruins have existed for more than 10,000 years!" "Your people have been here before?" I was surprised and surprised, and I couldn't believe it for a while.

Katsuo frowned and said, "Didn't you understand? What I said was similar, and I didn't say it was here. The ruins we saw belonged to the above-ground buildings, composed of huge stones and totem poles. We also took a bird's-eye view of the sky. The site looks like a human face from the sky." Hearing this, I immediately got a headache. This description really horrified me. How could I come here? It’s all thanks to that fucking face. I really didn’t expect all of this to be so dramatic. Katsuo further explained that the ruins were actually the ruins of the ancient city of Nanling, which had been buried in the mountains by dense forests and had never seen the light of day. Later, it was accidentally discovered by Japanese pilots during an air raid by the Japanese army, which made Nanling, which had been silent for many years. The ancient city was able to see the light of day again.

Katsuo's words reminded me, because I was originally engaged in archaeological research, and the most important point of archaeological research is to find possibilities in legends. Right now we are in a wonderland, everything is seen with our own eyes, so naturally it cannot be fake, so I came to a bold conclusion: the ancient city of Nanling was actually built after a certain site, needless to say , this site is the one we are in now.If according to what Shengnan said, the Nanling ancient city site is more than ten thousand years old, then the existence of this underground site must be longer, and it may even be so long that it is frightening.

Katsuo agreed with my guess, and in such an environment, no matter what grievances they had before, they would not deliberately conceal and deceive each other. "Who built these ruins? Would anyone like this kind of underground life?" I was surprised. These ruins seem to be empty now, extremely silent, but it makes me feel uncomfortable. It always feels like something. nest.I really don't know if anyone likes this kind of dark environment, but maybe the things that live here are not people at all. Katsuo groped along those rock walls for a while, and then said, "I don't know how to get up. This is a few hundred meters below the valley, and it's still very dangerous!"

I nodded and said yes, this place is full of passable holes, but we naturally dare not break in without authorization. Even if there is no danger inside, the passages of those holes are criss-crossed and extremely complicated, like a maze. If you go in, you must be trapped inside. , we simply have no other choice but to keep moving forward. I checked my backpack, and there was only a flashlight and a few cold fireworks left in it, plus the official seal of the Tianji Camp that Adong gave me before, and there was nothing else, and there was nothing here except stones. We would starve to death when we went out to designate. Thinking of this, we couldn't help speeding up our pace.

The passage is very long, which is enough to prove that the scale of this site is definitely not small. It is easier to explain if it is a site on the surface, but this kind of underground site is really puzzling. Why did the ancient ancestors build such a site? ? After walking for a while, Katsuo suddenly stopped. I looked up, and saw that the passage ended here. In front of me was a towering grotto door, which was much larger than the openings I saw before. The tunnel for the train to pass through is average and extremely deep.Moreover, this door looks a lot of style, if it is not because of the age and corrosion, it can even show a kind of domineering, obviously the builder has put a lot of effort into it.

This is the largest grotto door, and on both sides are densely covered with countless small grotto doors as tall as a person, and there seem to be some traces of relief on the volcanic rock wall. Volcanic sedimentary rocks are actually not suitable for engraving. After years of corrosion, the specific content of the engraving here is basically invisible. Fortunately, there are still a few for reference, and I can see some of the content at a glance. The content was exactly that a four-winged centipede with a huge body climbed up the cliff, and countless people attacked it with spears, stones and other weapons, which was the scene of trapping.The content of this kind of relief is the same as what we saw in the Linggong Hall before. I really didn't expect that the Nanling people would be so imitative, even imitating such things as hunting and killing giant centipedes.

I said: "They are hunting this kind of centipede, Nanling people also have this tradition, it seems that these things have a great impact on their life!" Sheng Nan said: "You see clearly, this is trapping, not hunting!" I frowned and thought, is there any difference?If you think about it carefully, you will find that there is indeed a difference. Hunting is to find ways to kill it, while trapping requires an additional procedure, which is to capture it. Katsuo said: "Their purpose is not to kill this centipede, but to capture it, and we must ensure that the centipede is caught!"

Katsuo was very sure, I thought about it for a while, and compared the content of the relief in front of me according to my impression, it seemed to be true, but I couldn't understand the reason for it for a while, why did the Nanling people do this?Is it true that, as San Pao joked, life is too hard, and two are used to improve collective meals? I searched for the content of the relief, trying to find the answer, but the relief is so badly corroded that nothing substantial can be seen at all.However, there is no time to study these at the moment. How to get out is the key. The time left for us is too limited and we cannot be distracted any longer.

Shengnan frowned, and said to me: "It seems that the surrounding area is closed, and the passages must be inside. Is there anything you can do?" I thought to myself, what can I do? If Master Feng or Master Long are here, I might be able to stand up here. Although I also do archaeology, it is too formal. When encountering such creative ancient ruins, I can only do it. stare. I said to Shengnan: "I have never come into contact with this kind of relic, so I really can't help it at the moment. How did you deal with this situation in the ancient city of Nanling?" Shengnan replied: "That's incomparable. We used the most advanced GPS communication system in the world at that time to enter the ancient city of Nanling, and there was also a helicopter responsible for aerial inspections. How can the current situation be compared!" I listened to my heart and said, what are your backgrounds?Such a big momentum!But I didn't have time to think about it, and then said to her: "It's true that you don't have the conditions now, but we have to create the conditions. If we delay for a second, we will lose hope. When the ancient ancestors excavated here, they must also There is an upward passage, and there may be hope for us to follow here.” After I finished speaking, I actually had no idea in my heart. There is hope, but it is quite slim. Fortunately, slim does not mean that there is no. The current situation is like a person who can't swim falling into the water, and a straw has to be desperately grasped. We carefully explored along the grotto door, and within a short distance, we found that there were dense forks and door openings inside, just like walking in the ancient Roman Colosseum. As we walked, we collected the scattered gravel and piled them up in an arrow shape. We piled up one piece every time we walked, to make sure that there was nothing wrong with it, so that we could return smoothly in case of any situation. The deeper you go, the denser the door openings become, gradually becoming like a beehive. At first glance, it seems that hundreds of eyes are staring at us.The place is exceptionally clean, so far no corpses and feces of any living beings have been found. Except for the red volcanic rocks, this place is simply nothingness, without any trace of survival.This not only didn't make us feel at ease, but also gave us a suffocating sense of depression. We always felt that if we continued like this, we would disappear without a trace, and we didn't know which space we went to. Going forward, the door openings began to reduce and merge again, and gradually formed a large passage. This passage looks more elegant. The entrance is a pair of thick columns, and the walls of the passage are covered with "@" For the carvings, there are a pair of unnamed stone carvings like sheep's heads at intervals. Due to corrosion, those stone carvings are somewhat disfigured and look extremely uncomfortable, which makes people feel weird. However, I was a little bit happy when I saw this channel. We saw the same scene before. At first glance, we will naturally feel a little different, because the difference often means a breakthrough. I gestured to Katsuo, and we made another mark at the entrance with gravel, and walked through the passage.The passage is not long, we passed through it soon, and a circular inner room appeared in front of us. The inner room is not particularly large, it should be about 200 square meters, and it is a regular circle. As usual, there are many arched stone caves with a height of one person on the stone wall of the inner room. There is one every two meters or so, in a ring shape. The arrangement is very neat. There are several layers of such arched stone caves, all the way to the invisible place above. When I saw this, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. I thought I could find an exit or something, but it turned out to be this endless hole again.I cursed angrily, and suddenly found that these caves were a little different from what we had seen before.