Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Crater (Part 1)

Shunzi's voice came from the darkness: "This kind of insect is worshiped as a god here, because it can live for a long time, and after a gnat dies, its corpse will attract many, many of its kind, so we Be very careful when walking and don't step on them." As he spoke, he turned on the flashlight, and as soon as the flashlight was turned on, the green sea of ​​stars around him disappeared immediately, and suddenly turned into boundless darkness again. The protective color of these gnats is too strong. If we don't turn off the flashlight, we won't be able to detect it at all. I can't help being afraid for a while. If I accidentally press one to death when I was crawling just now, I won't say anything disgusting, and I might die here.

We restrained our minds and continued to climb up slowly along the stone steps. We carefully passed this section of the hot spring area, and the stone-patterned gnats gradually decreased. After that, we couldn't see them anymore. Obviously, as Shunzi said, the ecological link of the snow mountain , are all around the hot springs. But the scene just now is really spectacular. If I have the chance, I really want to see it a few more times. It is hard to imagine that such an ugly bug can form such a beautiful scene. This world is really very strange. Without the stone-patterned gnats, our speed is relatively faster, but the darkness above seems to be endless, and we don't know when we will be able to walk out of the gap and walk to another exit of this natural passageway.

The fat man asked as he crawled, "By the way, old man, let me ask you something. At the station, you told us what happened to the dead body in Kowloon? I have been listening, but I didn't Heard you mention it again?" Chen Pi Asi stopped to look at him, then at Monk Hua, and beckoned him to speak.Monk Hua explained: "We don't know either. All our information came from that dragon fish. Carrying corpses in Nine Dragons may be a lost funeral system. The original text records seem to be about Emperor Wannu. The coffin was carried by nine dragons, and the nine dragons guarded his body, no one could approach it, but the Jurchen language is almost lost, I translated something. I don’t know if it means that.”

Then he read the original text for us to listen to. Jurchen's pronunciation was so unfamiliar that I didn't understand anything at all. "Wow, if the words on the fish are true, then if we want to open the coffin of Emperor Wannu, don't we have to learn from Nezha and fight against the third prince of the Dragon King?" Ye Cheng joked. "Then don't worry about it. I think the Nine Dragons Corpse Carrying Coffin probably has the nature of nine dragons carved on the bottom of the coffin. Think about it." The fat man said: "If there are really dragons, then we will get rich. Catch him and take him back, and release him in the Forbidden City, there will be a huge crowd of people keeping him, and the ticket money will cost tens of thousands.”

I said: "With your talent, you only care about money. If you really catch the dragon, then you are Sun Dasheng. I have never seen Sun Dasheng with your body." The fat man was furious when he heard this, and cursed: "So what's the matter with being fat? Fat Lord, I go to the world, relying on this fat body. The situation changes suddenly, and the mountain shakes—oh..." Before the fat man finished speaking, suddenly a gust of wind blew over from one side of the cliff, and he almost fell off. I quickly grabbed him and pulled him back against the cliff.Turning my head, I saw that the gap had reached the front and ended, and the stairs had reached the end of the gap. Walking through it again, there seemed to be a large space outside, but it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly.

Arrived!I was suddenly excited. A few people stopped talking, and approached the limit of the edge with their heads covered. There was a protruding rock, and we climbed it.Monk Hua first set off a cold firework and illuminated the surrounding area. Except for the cliff where we were standing, nothing in front of us could be illuminated. Then he threw the cold smoke and fire down the cliff, and the cold smoke and fire fell straight down, turning into a small dot at once, watching it keep getting smaller and smaller, and when it fell to the ground, it was almost invisible. We couldn't help but be speechless, what is the front?How come it seems like a huge basin surrounded by cliffs.

"Flare." Chen Pi Asi said. "Bang!" Immediately, the meteor-like flare slid across a long arc, shot into the darkness in front of him, shot straight for 1670 meters, began to descend, and then a group of dazzling white balls exploded , The light suddenly illuminated the entire darkness ahead. I wanted to raise the binoculars to look ahead, but when I raised my hand halfway, I froze. Suddenly my ears couldn't hear any sound, and time seemed to freeze. Under the shining of white light, an extremely huge crater with a diameter of at least 3 kilometers appeared in front of us. The huge basin formed by the huge gray basalt was like a giant stone bowl, and the bowl we stood on the side On the wall, like a few small ants, extremely small.

"Unexpectedly, it was directly connected to the volcano." A voice came from the side, but I couldn't tell who this person was, and only the spectacular scene in front of me was left in my mind. If the hydra cypress and ancient bronze trees just give me a sense of miracle, then this buried crater basin is simply a trace of a god. The basin is covered with a large number of dead trees. Obviously, this crater was once exposed to the atmosphere. It must have been an "underground forest" in the past. It may be due to volcanic eruptions or sudden volcanic activity. The trees here are all vulcanized and dead. The remains of the forest now stand in the basin.

"Look there." Someone continued to shout, and I couldn't tell who it was.Then two more flares were fired, flying towards the top of the crater. Under the enhanced light, we saw a majestic building group appearing in the depths of the central underground forest in the volcanic basin. The huge black stone city was so dark that we couldn't see the whole picture clearly. Could that be our destination this time, the mausoleum of Emperor Wannu?The underground palace of Yunding Tiangong is actually in the crater?