Chapter 23 Chapter 22 The Boulder Maze

"I'm sure! Captain! Look, how windy is it? If it's a closed cave, can such a strong wind blow out? Besides, look here!" The little monk pointed to an obvious shoe print on the ground and said, " This must be the cave where Buhebayi is going to take us. These are the shoe prints of professional hiking shoes. No one wears them in the mountains. Only those foreign tourists, mountaineering enthusiasts or photographers will wear them. Such a high-end shoe! And the deep print on the shoe shows that this person is carrying a heavy load. That photographer, his equipment is not light!"

The little monk felt that this shoe print must have been left by the photographer brought by the guide last time.This shows that he found the right passage! what a pity!Buhebayi is not here, if he were, he would be surprised by the little monk's words! After these people entered the cave, the road soon began to bend and go deep underground, and turned left and right, as if they had come to the bottom of the weird valley.Just as they felt that the terrain seemed to be rising, a muffled thunder sounded overhead. Even though it was underground, there was still thunder roaring overhead, and it was strange that the gunshots in the Haxiong ditch in the distance could be heard clearly!Da Qi's faint suspicion was interrupted by Chu Feng, and he dropped it.

keep going.It's very strange, I don't know if there is no water vapor and insulation in the cave, or if the lightning strike can't go deep into the ground at all, only the roar of thunder above the head, but the people walking in the tunnel are not affected at all. With a lot of heart and courage, I finally walked out of the cave, and I could see a glacier when I raised my eyes from the exit.Everyone turned around and saw that the mysterious valley was behind them. They quickly took off their raincoats and let out a long breath—even though they had confidence in the "little monk", everyone's safety was the most important thing. Everyone is required to wrap plastic raincoats tightly around their bodies.At this time, everyone was sweating profusely!

"This place is really weird! We have traveled so many places, and this is the first time we have encountered such a strange valley, and it is also the first time we have passed such a place so thrillingly!" William Lin said looking back at the valley, with lingering fear. Just now the thunder exploded on everyone's heads, and it was a lie to say that they were not worried or afraid.Even the young men under Daqi's subordinates felt a little weak in their legs, one can imagine the horror of this road! "That's right! This road is really comparable to the road to hell." Chu Feng wiped his sweat and said, "It's even more frightening than the road to hell!"

After passing through that weird valley, Da Qi knew that he was not far from the place on the photo.When Buhebayi was there, he told him the route more than once. Passing through the valley smoothly, there will be a wall made of huge stones. After walking a few kilometers behind the wall, you will arrive at the huge building ruins location. Da Qi checked the direction with his teammates and felt that he was right.The glaciers in the Altai Mountains are the lowest glaciers in my country.Here, the lowest glacier end is only 2400 meters above sea level.Therefore, in summer, people in this place can feel the feeling of walking barefoot on the glacier-although it is cold to walk on the ice, as long as the sun is shining, it is perfectly fine to walk on the ice for a few minutes.

Especially in the hot weather at the bottom of the mountain, the people who just came up are still surrounded by that kind of heat, and they are suddenly exposed to the huge glacier. How cool is this word! Soon, we came to the end of the ice tongue of the opposite glacier.There is a large temperature difference between day and night in the mountains. Everyone will wear a coat when they go out in the morning, and only wear summer clothes at noon.The people who were sweaty from the airtight raincoat just now came to this snow-white glacier, and they were very proud! Ling Ning was riding on the back of an old horse, wearing only short sleeves.The old horse walked unsteadily, as if the ice under its feet had no effect on it at all, but Ling Ning was different.After all, I was only wearing summer clothes, and the wind was blowing on the glacier. I felt very cool at first, but then I felt cold after a while.Just when she was about to sneeze for the first time, Chu Feng had already thrown a coat on the horse's back: "Hurry up and add more clothes, it's time to catch a cold!"

Ling Ning wrapped the men's coat that still had Chu Feng's body temperature on his body, feeling warm in his heart, and immediately felt that everything was pleasing to the eye.The weather is hot today, and the sun is quite powerful. Although the cold wind on the glacier is fierce, a jacket is enough to resist it when people are exercising.It was colder for Ling Ning to stay on the horse all the time, so he jumped off the horse and walked by himself. Originally, the sun in early July was the most vicious, and the ultraviolet rays on this glacier were strong. After such a short time, Ling Ning's little face became flushed.

This glacier is not big, and the altitude here is not too high, so everyone climbed over this hillside and came to the other side of the mountain without any trouble. The road over the mountain suddenly became extremely rugged, and there was another forest not far away, mixed with the green grass and wild flowers in front of me, producing a sweet and greasy smell, which went straight into people's noses. After going down a slope, there is a swamp hidden on the seemingly flat ground, and there is actually a pool of black water under the lush grass.Lao Ma Hua'er seems to know the depth, and she is not afraid of it.Facts proved that its self-confidence was justified, because even if it stepped into the small swamp, the black water had only just reached its belly, but its self-confidence made Ling Ning on the horse up and down suddenly.

Except for Ling Ning, all the team members carefully avoided the small swamp, making Ling Ning, who had been lagging behind, suddenly become the leader. After passing the swamp, they plunged into the woods.This forest is denser than the previous ones. Fortunately, the old horse knew the way and led the way. Everyone quickly reached the "wall" that Buhebayi said. When I heard about it before, everyone thought it was just an ordinary wall, probably made of huge stones, so it was taller.Didn't expect that to be the case at all. This is not a wall, but a maze-like barrier composed of piles of large boulders.Chu Feng climbed to the top of the nearest boulder pile and looked out.Both ends of the boulder pile go deep into the dense forest halfway up the mountain, and the exact length is unknown.Just the section in front of me is tens of kilometers long.The width is much smaller, only about 300 meters.The height of each stone pile is different, some are three or four meters high, and some can reach a height of nearly ten meters.Looking at it this way, it seems quite vivid to call it an uneven and ultra-wide "wall".

"Who built this?" Chu Feng couldn't help muttering to himself after jumping off the stone pile.This boulder belt is obviously artificially built, but what role can the piles of stones on the left and right play?A real wall would be far more useful, if anything, for protection.If it is a maze, the width is too narrow. How can a maze with such obvious loopholes trap people? Everyone passed the rock pile area one after another, turning left and right. Although these huge rocks blocked most of the straight lines, as long as they turned around, they could find another way to pass.It didn't take much effort for everyone to pass through the maze, which also proved that the boulder belt really didn't play any defensive role.

Chu Feng had no reason, but felt that this stone belt made of huge rocks had a special function.There was a feeling of familiarity and strangeness in his heart.He decided to take a closer look here. "Let's go! Xiaofeng! We must rush to the ruins to set up camp before dark. What's wrong with you?" Da Qi led the team a long way ahead, seeing that Chu Feng didn't keep up, he got anxious and came back in person Crowd. "Da Qi. I always feel that these giant stone piles are weird, but I don't know where the weirdness comes from. I want to search here to see if I can find some clues." Intuition told him that there must be some secrets here.But Chu Feng couldn't grasp the flashing light in his head. "No! There can't be too much delay here. Hurry up! Go!" Da Qi almost half-forced Chu Feng to rush forward. Chu Feng didn't insist anymore, followed Da Qi's pushing and shoving, and took a few steps forward, but he still turned his head and glanced at the stone piles: "Why do I feel familiar? Could it be that I have seen similar stone piles somewhere? megalithic building?" Chu Feng felt a little regretful for not being able to examine these boulder piles in detail.In fact, along the way, Chu Feng also murmured in his heart: Although he didn’t know what Daqi’s leaders were thinking, the investigation of a mysterious site should be organized by the cultural and archaeological department, how could Daqi and the others take the lead? ?And even if Da Qi came forward, it was understandable that the inspection team needed him, an expert in ancient characters, and two archaeologists, Sang Bu and Wang Cong, but why did he ask Ling Ning to participate by name?And even William Lin can follow?What's the secret here?Da Qi must not have told the truth to himself. Forget it, if you didn't tell the truth, you didn't tell it. After so many years of friends, he must have had a last resort.Although Chu Feng felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, he also knew that Da Qi must be involuntary.There is no need to delve into it, it's just that the boulder pile is really familiar to him, as if he has really seen similar buildings before.But Chu Fengzai thought about it carefully, and he had never seen similar huge stone buildings. Those stones were so huge and there were so many stone piles. If he had seen them somewhere, he would definitely have an impression. "Brother Chu! Look! In this photo, you look so condescending!" William took a picture of Chu Feng climbing to the top of the boulder pile and looking into the distance.At this time, he pulled out the photos from the camera and showed them to Chu Feng as if offering treasures. Chu Feng saw that this kid really had a talent for photography. This photo was good in terms of lighting, framing, and even the angle of light and shadow.The figure of Chu Feng standing on the highest pile of nine boulders looks very stylish. After reading it, Chu Feng smiled and returned the camera to William. Just as he was about to hand the camera to William, he suddenly found a clue: "Wait!" He had inadvertently passed the camera with a sideways glance, in order to prevent the camera from falling to the ground during the handover process, but he did not expect this glance to make him an unexpected discovery. "What is this?" Seeing Chu Feng holding his camera with a serious expression and adjusting the focus to the maximum multiple, William zoomed in to see the white powder at the junction of the boulders. "Sanhetu!" Chu Feng casually gave an answer without raising his head. "What is Sanhe soil?" William still didn't understand. "Sanhe clay is... oh, you won't understand even if you say it, let's put it this way, Sanhe clay is ancient cement!" Ling Ning knew a little bit. "Sanhe soil is nothing unusual. Did you find something?" Sambu, who was walking in front, heard William's bluff, and immediately turned around.As soon as he walked to Chu Feng, Chu Feng handed him the digital camera: "Look!" "These boulders are all built artificially. It is normal for the builders to add some triadic soil to solidify the gaps in order to be strong. Besides, although triadic soil appears a lot in the south, it is actually found in many places. The earliest triadic soil was also used by the ancient Romans. It is used in their various buildings. Although there are few ancient buildings in Xinjiang that use sanhe clay, it is not without it." Sang Bu took the camera and explained casually. He thought it was because it was rare to use sanhe clay as a coagulant in Xinjiang. Ancient buildings, so feel strange. "It's not that these triads are weird, but this pattern!" Seeing that he didn't see the mystery for a long time, Chu Feng couldn't help reminding him. "This is... what kind of pattern is this?" Sangbu reminded him, but found some clues. "It seems to be a bird!" Ling Ning was next to him, and he was the first to see it clearly. "It really looks like what you said!" William also took it and looked at it carefully. The huge pattern made of white powder in the gap between the boulders and the boulders in the picture really looks like a bird. Did the owner of this building intentionally or unintentionally?If it is unintentional, we can only lament the coincidence of nature. If it is intentional, the ingenuity of the builder is second-to use the gap between stones to form a pattern, what a cleverness!That intention is even more imaginative! Thanks to William's carefulness in taking pictures, he chose a good angle to take a panoramic view of the stone pile, otherwise he would not have found such a magnificent "drawing" on the stone pile! Several people are amazed here.Da Qi got impatient with the wait: "I said, let's study this later, it's important to hurry now!" After hearing his words, Chu Feng and Sang Bu looked at each other and said nothing.After telling William to save the photos, he followed him on the road.Just as the team was about to climb over the hillside and reach the edge of the ridge, Chu Feng turned his head and took another look at the huge boulder belt in front of him like a long dragon.He had a very strange feeling in his heart, as if he had to deal with these stone piles on this trip—not a shallow deal!