Chapter 31 Chapter 31: The Gate of the Stars

click. The huge stone door opened heavily and slowly, and a strong smell of corruption came oncoming along with the dust.The four quickly stepped back, covered their mouths and noses, and waited for the turbid air that had been sealed for thousands of years to dissipate. After about an hour, Sikong took out the gas mask from his equipment, lit a torch and went in.The torch was burning very vigorously, and the stale air must have dissipated.But to be on the safe side, Team Xing still wore a gas mask, while Ye Buer and Bai Xiaozhou put the stones given by Teacher Long in their mouths, which is said to prevent poisonous gas from entering the body.

The statue of Emperor Yan is still enshrined in the hall, and the offering plate is still placed on the altar, but the food inside has been completely rotten.The wall behind the statue is carved with exquisite reliefs, and there are more than 500 statues, which are magnificent.The lower part is the pavilions and pavilions in the world, Pepsi in the world, and various sculptures of ancient monsters.The upper part is a picture of fairyland, surrounded by beautiful naked goddesses, and the heavenly palaces and pavilions are extremely exquisite.From the lower part to the upper part, there is a long ladder connecting, which seems to imply that people who have cultivated great merit can lead to heaven through this ladder and become immortals.The whole composition is meticulous and ingenious in terms of architecture and character layout.

"It's really spectacular." The four of them were dumbfounded. There were such exquisite carvings thousands of years ago, and people have to sigh how glorious this lost civilization was. The temple is not very big, there are several rooms on both sides, and the four soldiers are divided into two groups to check one by one.Bai Xiaozhou and Ye Buer pushed open the door of the room with monsters engraved on it, there were rubble everywhere inside the door, there was a stone table and several stone benches, all of which were carved with primitive patterns. "Xiaozhou, how do you know the mechanism to open the door?" Ye Buer asked softly.

"I dreamed about it." Ye Buer was a little strange, looked at Sikong and the two, lowered his voice: "What dream did you have?" Bai Xiaozhou looked around, leaned close to his ear and spoke rough about the dream.Ye Buer thought for a while, and said seriously: "You mean, you dreamed that you were someone from ancient times, and you saw some fragments of what she saw before she died? something like that?" Bai Xiaozhou was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to look at him: "You mean..." "Near death experience." Bai Xiaozhou gasped: "Impossible, the near-death experience requires many conditions, and it is quite dangerous. How could it be possible for me to see it casually?"

"Don't you see those unclean things all the time? You can even hear their voices and smell their scents, so it's not impossible to communicate with them? According to the scientific explanation, the girl left The brain waves here match yours, allowing you to see some of what she saw." Bai Xiaozhou thought about it carefully, but thought it was very possible, he patted Ye Buer on the shoulder: "Fuer, I didn't see it, you have a good mind." Ye Buer scratched his head embarrassingly: "I was just guessing." "What else have you guessed, you might as well say it all, let's add up."

The two sat down on the stone bench, and Ye Buer said: "I've been thinking, how did those two professors get in? I said they came by helicopter, but after entering this area, any electronic equipment will fail. How can they fly in? They don’t have the skills of special police, and it’s even more difficult to get in on foot.” "what do you mean……" "Someone brought them in." Ye Buer said seriously, "This person is much stronger than me. He can bring two people to and fro freely and protect them from the monsters that appear everywhere." A thought suddenly flashed in Bai Xiaozhou's mind, which sent chills down her spine: "What is this person's purpose?"

"That's unknown." Ye Buer said, "However, it is very likely that it has something to do with what Team Xing and the others are looking for. By the way, before I came, I checked the details of the two professors, and they all He is a world-renowned archaeologist. This Professor Qian has always been famous for his research on ancient civilizations in Southwest China. He participated in the excavation of Sanxingdui. I found an interview with him on the Internet. In the interview, he revealed that he He is researching an ancient country with an ancient civilization. This country is older than Sanxingdui and is related to the legend of Xingtian. But this country is not found in any history books, and only exists in the county annals of some small places. He believes that the ruins of this country are in the city of Y Somewhere, they are already raising funds and preparing to organize an archaeological team."

"What does the county chronicle say about this country?" "I don't know about this, I have to go to the county library to look it up." Ye Buer looked outside the door and said in a low voice, "I don't know if you have noticed that there is something strange about someone in the SWAT team." "Who?" Just as Ye Buer was about to say something, Team Xing suddenly opened the door and came in: "What are you still dawdling about here? We have discovered something, come out and have a look." The two came out in a hurry, followed him around to the back of the god statue, and there were rows of densely carved small god statues behind the god statue, which seemed to be the various monsters recorded in the book, but it seemed to be more detailed than what was recorded in the book.

"Look at these reliefs." Sikong said, "It doesn't seem to be carved directly on the statue." Ye Bu'er and Bai Xiaozhou hurriedly moved over to take a closer look. Although the small statue and the big statue fit perfectly together, they could still be vaguely seen that they were inlaid. "Perhaps these reliefs are like combination disks. Once the combination is entered, a certain door can be opened," Sikong said. Bai Xiaozhou recalled what he saw in his dream, there seemed to be a passage under the statue, leading to the unfathomable underground.However, the dream did not tell her the password.

Sikong looked at her and asked, "Do you know the password?" She shook her head, and Sikong and Team Xing naturally didn't believe it.Ye Buer was silent for a while: "Could it be related to the monsters we encountered?" Everyone suddenly realized that Sikong found the several monsters he had encountered before in the relief, and pressed them one by one in order. dust off.I don't know if it was affected by this machine, the ground also began to tremble, Xing team shouted: "No! It's an aftershock, hurry up, get out!" The four of them ran as fast as they could, and fell down in the garden. There was a loud sound of rocks collapsing behind them.Some stones flew over and hit everyone, shaking for more than ten seconds, the mountains and rivers finally stabilized.The four climbed out of the rubble, shaking off the dust all over their bodies, and when they turned their heads, they saw that the small temple had also collapsed, and only the statue and the wall carved with heaven behind it were still standing.

The position of the statue moved slightly, revealing an entrance that only allowed one person to pass through. Wisps of green smoke emerged from the entrance of the cave, steaming up, as if the cave was extremely cold. The four hurriedly walked over with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and went to the entrance to look down. It was pitch black inside.Team Xing took out a fluorescent stick and threw it in.The inside is not deep, it seems to be a refuge, and things like stone tables and chairs can be vaguely seen. "I'll go down and have a look." Bai Xiaozhou was impulsive, but was stopped by Sikong.He tried it with a torch, and although it didn't go out, the flame was much smaller, and when he took it out again, some ice crystals still condensed on it: "It's strangely cold down here, I'll go down first." "Is there anyone who wants to fight to the death?" Bai Xiaozhou stopped him, "I'll go." "You might as well go outside and fight." Captain Xing glanced at the two, "I'll go." Before finishing speaking, he had already jumped down.Sikong was a little worried: "Captain Xing, be careful." As soon as Captain Xing raised the flashlight, he heard him shout: "There are people below!" "Who?" The hairs of the three of them stood on end. There was a stone chair in the corner of the stone room, and someone was sitting on the stone chair, quietly.Team Xing took a photo with a flashlight, and it was a very beautiful woman, no different from a living person, wearing costumes that only existed in ancient times, and wearing several strings of shells or animal teeth necklaces around her neck. "It's a living person!" Team Xing carefully took two steps forward, and asked cautiously, "Who are you?" No one answered, the woman seemed to be asleep. Team Xing came in front of her and couldn't feel her breathing, but her skin was still rosy, and she didn't look like she was dead.He was very puzzled in his heart, and couldn't help stretching out his hand, wanting to touch her arm to see if she was dead or alive. "Captain Xing, don't touch her!" Bai Xiaozhou shouted, but it was too late, Captain Xing touched her elbow, and the skin he touched began to rot. The speed was astonishing, and it spread rapidly. The middle arm has decayed into white bones, and then the torso, head, and feet. Team Xing backed away in shock: "What's going on with her?" Before the words were finished, there was a "crash", and the beauty's body collapsed completely, scattered on the ground, becoming ashes all over the place. "It's an autopsy." Ye Buer shouted, "This sister has already turned into a fairy." Sikong looked at him as if he was looking at a monster, his cheeks were flushed: "It is said in ancient notebook novels that those who have attained Taoism and become immortals abandon their bodies and go to immortality. This is called 'corpse dissection'. There is a notebook novel that mentioned This kind of female corpse is about a woodcutter who met a female Taoist priest in the forest, and the female Taoist priest looked as if she was alive, and he went up to touch it, and felt where it was rotten..." Sikong stopped him. "Okay, this can be explained later." He shouted down, "Captain Xing, are you okay?" "I'm fine." Xing team walked to the pile of ashes, besides clothes, there was also a lot of jewelry.He picked up the jewelry and looked at them, took out a plastic bag from his bag, and put the necklaces in it. Only Bai Xiaozhou discovered that the wooden accessories she had seen in her dream were not included in those jewelry. Could it be that, in the thousands of years of time, has that piece of jewelry been turned into powder? "Did you find that thing?" she asked aloud. Team Xing didn't answer, and seemed to be still looking for it below.Bai Xiaozhou didn't have much patience, so he jumped down, but when he landed, he stepped on a stone, slipped, and fell on his back.Sikong couldn't hold back, he laughed, and Bai Xiaozhou's face flushed with embarrassment.There was a severe pain in the foot, and when I lifted the trousers, I saw that there was a long hole in the ankle, and it hurt when I moved. Seeing this, Ye Buer hurriedly followed, took out bandages and medicine from her bag to stop her bleeding.Team Xing sneered: "Little girl, it's better to walk the dog online at home, don't come to such a dangerous place, and cause trouble for others." Bai Xiaozhou looked at him angrily, but didn't speak. All kinds of monsters are carved on the surrounding walls, densely packed, there are more than a thousand, each of them is carved extremely exquisitely, lifelike.Ye Buer thought it was still a cipher disk, so he pressed it in the previous order, but unfortunately none of them could be pressed. Ye Buer helped Bai Xiaozhou to the chair where the corpse had been sitting just now, and Bai Xiaozhou carefully put his feet away so as not to step on the ashes of others. "Xiaozhou, I think this ancient site is very strange." Ye Buer whispered in her ear. "What kind of strange method?" "We walked all the way, and apart from various stone tools and decayed wood tools, we didn't find any metal products." "It's not surprising. This city is very old, very old, maybe it was in the Neolithic Age?" Ye Buer looked around: "Look at these carvers, it doesn't look like they were carved with stone tools. Besides, as household items, don't we think the wood and stone tools we saw before are too few?" Bai Xiaozhou thought about it. In her dream, she seemed to have seen weapons made of bronze. Where did these metal products go? Team Xing said dissatisfied: "You guys have time to whisper there, why don't you come and help me find it." "Xiaozhou, what are they looking for?" Ye Buer continued to whisper to Bai Xiaozhou, "Is there any clue in your dream?" Bai Xiaozhou was silent for a moment, then said in a very low voice, "The wooden sign." "what?" "A round wooden plaque, engraved with ancient patterns." That wooden accessory appeared many times in her dreams, it must not be accidental, maybe it is the treasure Team Xing and his party are looking for. Could that treasure be related to all the weird events that happened here? "Hey!" Captain Xing shouted vigilantly, "What are you talking about?" "We're talking about those headless Xing Tian." Ye Buer reacted quickly this time, took two steps forward, and said to Team Xing, "I don't know if you have noticed, but they are holding farmhouses. Things to use, such as hatchets and kitchen knives." Team Xing frowned: "You mean..." "They are most likely the villagers nearby. They survived the earthquake and strayed into this ruins, accidentally bumping into those white flowers..." "Wait." Team Xing interrupted him, "You mean, they were changed by humans?" Bai Xiaozhou quickly said: "Didn't we become Xing Tian after seeing Shangguan beheaded?" Team Xing frowned, turned around and looked outside the cave.Sikong nodded at the entrance of the cave, he was silent for a while: "Are you sure it has something to do with the white flower?" "I guess, the white flower is the source of infection." Ye Buer continued to analyze, "Everyone who touches it will be parasitized by spores and grow in their bodies. Xing Tian will cut off their heads, and the infection will be complete." Bai Xiaozhou interjected, "If their heads died without being chopped off, after a certain period of time, the flowers growing in their bodies will bloom and continue to act as a source of infection." Team Xing's eyes were a little gloomy, he was silent and didn't know what he was thinking. "People are dead, what's the use of talking about this?" After a long time, he said this sentence gloomily, and asked, "What do you think of these statues?" Ye Buer went to see those stone carvings, but Bai Xiaozhou couldn't stay idle and wanted to see them too.The moment he stood up, he staggered suddenly and almost fell down again.She felt something was wrong, her feet seemed to be sucked by something, and she couldn't move.She turned her head and saw that the ashes were all gathered at her feet. Impossible, she was obviously very careful not to step on ashes. The ashes seemed to be alive, climbing up her legs like ants, and spreading all the way up.She screamed and struggled desperately, but to no avail.The ashes enveloped her body in an instant, and she seemed to have become that ancient girl again. She took off the wooden pendant around her neck, swallowed it in one gulp, adjusted her clothes, and slowly sat on the rock. Sitting on the chair, I closed my eyes. "Xiaozhou, wake up!" She screamed and opened her eyes, and saw Ye Buer looking at herself worriedly, panting heavily, covered in cold sweat: "Fa, what happened?" "I still want to ask you." Team Xing said, "I just saw you yelling with your eyes closed." Bai Xiaozhou wiped the cold sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand, looked down at his feet, the ashes were still in place, his feet hurt but he could still move. Could it be that she could really talk to the dead? Ye Bu'er and Team Xing continued to search for agencies. Sikong was outside to let the wind go, but seeing no progress, he also came in to help.Bai Xiaozhou took the three of them not paying attention, pretended to bend down to check the wound, and then fumbled among the ashes for a while, and actually touched a hard thing, picked it up quickly, and stuffed it into his cuff. Strange, Team Xing searched so carefully before, why didn't they find this wooden sign? After working for a while, everyone was a little discouraged.Sikong said: "Team Xing, why don't we go back first and report the situation here to Shangfeng, please ask Shangfeng to send professionals to deal with it." "Are you going to give up halfway?" Team Xing glared at him.Sikong frowned and said, "Team Xing, I know your determination to complete the mission, but should archaeologists do these things? We don't know anything about the history of this site. Find the way. No matter how long you spend here, it's useless." Ye Buer agreed, and interjected: "Archaeology cannot be done overnight. Some people have spent more than ten years digging up nothing good." Team Xing remained silent. "Team Xing..." Sikong wanted to say something more, but Team Xing stopped by raising his hand: "I listen to you, let's go back first and report the matter here." Ye Buer turned around to help Bai Xiaozhou, Bai Xiaozhou whispered: "I don't want to leave, I haven't found my father yet." "Your father may not be here. If he was, he would have come out long ago when he saw that you were in danger." Ye Buer comforted him, "Let's go back first, and then we can discuss other things in the long run." Although Bai Xiaozhou was a little reluctant, he didn't object anymore.Ye Buer helped her to go out, and when she reached the exit, Ye Buer suddenly became limp and fell to the ground.Bai Xiaozhou was shocked, and when she turned her head, something hit her on the collarbone.She took a deep breath, only to feel that all the strength in her body had been sucked out, the world was spinning, and there was only a blank in her mind. Sikong and Team Xing held an anesthesia gun, their faces gloomy. She was careless. Sikong walked over, took out the wooden sign from her sleeve, and took out a palm-sized glass box from her backpack, carefully put the wooden sign in. "I'm sorry." He said, "We have to take this thing back to the business. You wait here for a while, and we will call someone to rescue you as soon as we go back." He took out a few bottles of water and a few bags of compressed biscuits from his bag, put them beside Bai Xiaozhou, and crawled out.They were afraid that moving the statue back to its original place would cause a lack of oxygen in the stone chamber, so they only moved a large stone to block the exit. Sikong was still a little worried, he couldn't help but look back after walking a few steps.Team Xing said: "If I were you, I would hurry up, go back earlier and call for help earlier." Sikong didn't speak, and followed him out, when he was about to walk out of the garden, he stopped suddenly: "Captain Xing." "What? You want to go back and let them out?" "There seems to be something over there." It was a round platform that looked like a small pond for raising fish.Sikong walked around to the back of the pool, his face changed greatly: "Captain Xing, come and see!" Team Xing hurried over and saw a military backpack, a camouflage uniform, and a piece of human skin lying on the ground.