Chapter 43 Chapter 43: Snake Marsh Ghost Town (Part 2)

We all looked at each other in blank dismay, and a sense of fate came over us. It turned out that we only had ten minutes to go to the exit of the so-called canyon last night, but we actually chose to stop. It's completely different. After walking a few more steps, we came to the edge of the swamp. From here, the view of the swamp is limited, not as vast as what we saw from the top of the valley outside.If you are not walking along the mountain wall, you don’t know that you have already left the valley. There is still a dense forest in front of you. It feels like a continuation of the canyon.Of course, there are still some differences. The more I walk, the more I feel wrong. The water is getting deeper, and the sludge in the ground is getting weaker and weaker.

Fortunately, in the shallow part of the swamp, there was a large flat stone that protruded abruptly from the swamp and was not submerged by water.We wondered how there was such a big stone here. We carefully waded through the water and climbed up, only to find that this huge stone was carved with complicated decorative patterns, and there was a very huge shadow under the water. Appears to be part of several large statues lined up side by side. This is an entrance to the City of the Queen Mother of the West. The Queen Mother of the West is the king of the Western Regions and the absolute spiritual leader of the Western Regions for a long time, so the entrance to the City of the Queen Mother of the West is naturally not too shabby. Maybe this is a stone sculpture at that time, or It is the statue on the city defense building here, which is used to deter the envoys spiritually. Of course, after so many years, it is naturally impossible for this kind of statue to be preserved under the erosion of rain.

At first glance, the ancient textures on the stone felt very similar to those of Angkor Wat. When I looked closely, I found that it was not the texture of Khmer Buddhism, but because this stone was also blackened by the wind and rain. Grey, looks very ancient and mysterious. Just thinking about if there is a collapsed statue here, then whether there are other relics under the swamp, I heard the fat man say hello, let us look at him. We turned our heads and saw that under the sunlight, densely packed and huge black shadows appeared in the deep part of the black swamp in front of us. It seemed that something was sinking. It looked like stones, and some of them were completely underwater.Poker-Face and I looked through the binoculars, only to be surprised to find that the shadows under the water in the swamp seemed to be all ruined walls, stretching all the way to the center of the swamp.

The ruins of the ancient city of the Queen Mother of the West were actually buried under this swamp. "There should be a very lush ancient city in this valley. After the disintegration of the Queen Mother of the West, the ancient city was abandoned, the drainage system collapsed, the groundwater surged up, and the rainwater with sediment and sludge for thousands of years flooded the whole city. The city is submerged under the water. It seems that the West Queen Mother City is very large, and what we see now is only a handful." Poker Ping said lightly. I was also a little shocked. It is quite common for an ancient city to be submerged in water. The area of ​​this swamp is definitely not large. The ancient city at that time had developed to the edge of the basin, which shows that the civilization at that time had reached its peak.But in this case, isn't the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West also in the underwater mud? How do we get in?

However, thinking of Wen Jin's notes, it has not been a year or two since this swamp was formed. In the 1990s, in her team, Huo Ling entered the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West, also after the heavy rain, so there should be some There is a way to get in, but we haven't reached that situation yet.