Chapter 1152 – Discovery (II)
Zhuang Rui felt a little deflated, according to his analysis, the Arzai Grotto was the most likely place to become the tomb of Genghis Khan, but all of this observed by Aura clearly shattered Zhuang Rui’s fantasy.
“It seems like we need to find some time in the future to run over the entire Inner Mongolia prairie.”
Zhuang Rui was a bit reluctant, this time if it wasn’t for the time constraints, and the aura in his eyes had been depleted before in order to save Chasing Wind, he still had the certainty to find out some of the tombs of Mongolian nobles and even emperors.
However, Zhuang Rui is still a person who refuses to lose, this time he can not find, does not mean that he will never be able to find the tombs of Mongolian emperors and kings, to unveil the mystery of Mongolian tombs that has been plaguing archaeologists for thousands of years.
From the time when he took the history of the Yuan Dynasty as his doctoral research object, Zhuang Rui actually wanted to use his own pair of eyes to fill this defect of the blankness of the Yuan Dynasty burial archaeology, just obviously, this time the timing is not very good.
Zhuang Rui thought about the mind, the aura in the eyes is not stop, continue to penetrate down, but the eyes feel all the same as the upper layer of red sandstone.
This made Zhuang Rui a little disheartened, so he wanted to withdraw his aura and use these few days to properly study the Mongolian Yuan culture of the Arzai Grotto.
“Huh?”
However, just at the moment when Zhuang Rui was about to withdraw his aura, he suddenly felt that the aura seemed to have penetrated through the rocks and came within a space.
“Could it be ……”
Zhuang Rui’s heart was first startled, then rejoiced, and he hurriedly concentrated and slowly sensed the situation at one end of the aura.
“It doesn’t look like an artificially excavated space, but rather like a naturally formed limestone cave.”
After Zhuang Rui had deepened his aura into that space, his brows slightly furrowed, the space was very empty and far-reaching, and the terrain inside varied in height, bending as if it were a snake spreading throughout the entire Alzhai Stone Mountain.
The distance that Zhuang Rui had sensed using his aura alone had reached more than two hundred meters, and the front seemed endless, like an underground labyrinth spread throughout the interior of the Al Zhai Grotto.
Such a scale of underground maze, absolutely impossible to manpower can be carved out, not to mention more than a thousand years ago the Mongolian dynasty, is placed in today, that is also a difficult to complete the huge project.
“This should be the internal caverns that were naturally formed when the Arzai Grotto was formed, and the ones on Pirate Island are somewhat similar.”
After closing his eyes and sensing for more than half an hour, Zhuang Rui slowly opened his eyes, he was not unfamiliar with such a terrain, a few years ago when he was trapped on Pirate Island, Zhuang Rui had seen such a volcanic cave.
“It seems to have nothing to do with Genghis Khan.”
Zhuang Rui’s heart, this moment is considered to be ups and downs, the hint of hope that originally bubbled up, was again extinguished by himself, shaking his head, Zhuang Rui will be spread all over the bottom of the Al Zhai stone mountain of aura slowly retracted.
When Zhuang Rui initially released his aura, it was in the form of a line from the grotto underneath his feet into the Alzai Stone Mountain.
But when it was retracted, there was no pattern to it, the aura spread across the bottom of the mountain was in the form of a net penetrating through the rocks above, and was slowly received into Zhuang Rui’s eyes.
“Eh? There …… seems to be something wrong.”
As the strands of aura were returning to Zhuang Rui’s eyes, he was also scrutinizing the differences between the cave space and the red sandstone in the state of aura.
When the aura penetrated from a grotto at the bottom of the mountain to the ground, Zhuang Rui suddenly felt that the distance between the ground and the cave there seemed to be very weak.
In several other places, the cavern was more than thirty meters thick from the ground, but in the underground of a grotto, it seemed that there was only a distance of five or six meters, and the cavern was connected.
This discovery slightly lifted Zhuang Rui’s spirits and focused his aura to that location.
However, due to the terrain, it was not uncommon for the cave within the mountain to be close to the surface, and Zhuang Rui was only preparing to re-survey the place out of habit.
“It’s a collapsed grotto.”
Zhuang Rui first sensed the location of the grotto and found that this grotto was located at the foot of the Alzai Stone Mountain, and due to years of weathering, the inside of the grotto had collapsed.
In the long years of history, due to the wind and rain natural weathering and erosion, the rocks were loose and the cliffs collapsed, causing damage to the grottoes, which was an extremely common thing in the Alzai Grottoes.
Originally this red sandstone hill, along the mountain there are a total of hundreds of grottoes, to this day is still preserved, a total of only forty-nine grottoes, the rest are like this one in Zhuang Rui’s eyes, has collapsed and abandoned.
“This grotto, there’s a problem ……”
When the aura in Zhuang Rui’s eyes focused on the underground of that grotto, he finally discovered a little difference, that is, the mountain rock underneath the grotto was not naturally formed, but rather, it was sealed after it was excavated.
From the surface of the collapsed grotto, to the access point of the cavern, there were traces of artificial excavation, although the rocks used for sealing were also put in whole, but under Zhuang Rui’s mercury-like aura survey, there was still nothing to hide from being revealed.
“This …… this was excavated by later generations, who did it? What is the purpose?”
After Zhuang Rui checked out the underground of this grotto, the whole person was stunned, and he sensed from his heart’s intuition that there must be inside information that was not known to anyone.
No one would excavate the mountain for no reason, and no one would take the trouble to refill it with stones after opening it up, now Zhuang Rui felt that even the collapsed grotto might be man-made, as if it was covering up something.
Deeply inhaled a breath, Zhuang Rui fixed the mind, in that grotto under the cave, and carefully observed up, this fine check, really was he opened up many differences.
In the grotto under the cave seven or eight meters long distance, along the rock wall, there are many traces of artificial excavation, but the ground is cleaned up, but there is no artificial items left here.
“There must be a problem, this is a desire to cover up.”
Zhuang Rui’s aura searched deeper along the cave under the grotto, if he encountered a fork in the road, he would split his aura into two shares to probe at the same time, gradually infiltrating into the interior of the mountain.
“Grandma, dropping the chain at the critical time.”
Just when Zhuang Rui wanted to expand the search range, the aura in his eyes was not strong enough, he realized that the aura had already penetrated hundreds of meters into the mountain, which was also the maximum range that his aura that had not recovered could probe.
Although within this circle of hundreds of meters, did not find a single artificial item, but Zhuang Rui firmly believe that the ancients could not have spent so much effort to open this cave and then abandoned it, there must be secrets that are not known to others.
Even if this is not Genghis Khan’s mausoleum, will also be a Yuan dynasty emperor’s shelter, just let Zhuang Rui regret is that he today is no way to continue to survey down.
There is a new discovery, but due to their own reasons can not continue to survey, this makes Zhuang Rui heart like a cat clawed general itching.
After wandering around the mountain top like a trapped animal for a while, Zhuang Rui could only helplessly walk down the mountain, he wanted to find Chasing Wind to properly gallop on the grassland and dissipate the depression in his heart.
“Hm? Big Brother Bartel, Timur Anta, Brother Ren, you guys are here?”
When Zhuang Rui walked to the place where he found Wind Chaser yesterday, he found Bartel and the others who left yesterday standing there with their horses, and hurriedly went up to greet them.
At a distance of twenty to thirty meters away from Bartel and others, there is a wild horse herd, Zhuang Rui roughly counted, the number seems to be less than before, it is estimated to be on the road do not know again by those herdsmen to the set.
These wild horses will chase the wind surrounded in the center, also not afraid to stand in the distance to watch them Bartel and others, perhaps this is also the result of the wind to appease it?
When Ren Chunqiang saw Zhuang Rui come over, he laughed and scolded, “You kid, you left Brother Ren behind and ran off to have a good time by yourself, no, you have to get me a good horse as well.”
These days, Dr. Ren has been practicing horsemanship, and under the guidance of the ranch people, he has successfully turned into a figure 8 leg and almost rubbed his crotch, and he is quite decent on the horse, of course, if he is allowed to ride on the chasing wind, he will fall on all fours.
But a few days down, Dr. Ren fell in love with the sport of horseback riding, he was too embarrassed to ask Bartel for a horse, just now after coming here, see so many wild horses, and then moved Zhuang Rui’s mind.
As for future problems, Dr. Ren also made plans, he is ready to bring the horse back to Beijing, find an equestrian club boarding in it, free time to go to ride a round, to Dr. Ren’s current income, but also can afford the expenditure.
Zhuang Rui pointed to the wild horse herd not far away and said, “There are quite a lot of horses here, Brother Ren, you can choose as you like, but I say, Brother Ren, you can’t stand these horses?”
In Zhuang Rui’s heart, these wild horses can’t be called wild horses for a long time now, having subdued the Horse King, basically completing the transformation of the wild horse herd, if it was placed in the past, I’m afraid that the wild horse herd would have long since run away without a trace when they saw the shadows of humans.
“How do you say that, your brother Ren, I haven’t spent these few days for nothing.”
When Dr. Ren heard Zhuang Rui’s words, his face turned red, and after a short pause, his voice lowered again, “Zhuang Rui, if I can’t bring it down, you can let that horse king talk it over!”
Not to mention the wild horse, is a tamed horse, Ren Chunqiang now do not dare to let go of the run, so the bottom of the speech is not so full.
“Good, Brother Ren, you pick a horse, Peng Fei, what about the horse you chose?”
Zhuang Rui nodded his head and agreed, turning his face to look at Peng Fei, he instantly realized that this younger brother’s face was not that good looking, and the clothes on his body had been scratched a few times.
Peng Fei didn’t have the good sense to point at a white horse standing next to Chasing Wind and said, “That’s the one, grandma, turn around and I’ll get on it once more, if I can’t subdue it, I’ll have to bleed it a bit.”