Chapter 30: The Secret Sky Brick Tunnel

I saw that the secret passage has been opened, I breathed a sigh of relief, with a flashlight to the secret passage, there is a black stone construction of stone steps, diagonal to the bottom, the flashlight’s irradiation distance is limited, and then deeper can not be seen.

Fatty waved his hand and greeted the five people waiting at the entrance of the temple, and all of them saw the dark passage opened, and they all praised my method of dividing the gold and fixing the acupoints.

By this time the day is already past noon, I modestly a few words, let everyone pack up, as light as possible, first to the temple outside to drink some water to eat a few mouthfuls of dry food, this dark tunnel still do not know how far to go, well-prepared and then go in.

When eating dry food, Sa Dipeng curiously asked me, how to find the secret passage, but also too accurate.

I said to him: “a look at the arrangement of the sixteen stone pillars will know, the arrangement of this dark passage is the ancient handed down the giant door formation, why is called giant door, that is to say that this kind of mechanism, most of the time is used in the passageway portals, these counting techniques are evolved from the number of Luo, as well as the arrangement of the stars and buckets in the sky. The mysteries here are deep, you won’t understand even if I tell you.”

The people took a short rest, then I led them down the dark passage in the temple, under the entrance, I found a stone pull lever, which could be used to open this floor tile from below, these organs are delicately designed, after nearly two thousand years, the machine brackets are still usable, and the construction principles are all very different and unusual, although a lot of the concepts of Yi numerology are used, but they are self-contained, if these are all invented by that Queen of the Jingjie, then she If these are all invented by that Queen of Jingjie, then she must be an unearthly genius.

At first we were worried that there are organs in the dark tunnel, when going down carefully, extra cautious, each pulled away from the distance slowly, to be down to the end of the stone steps, the eyes opened up, appeared a five-meter wide, three meters high about the tunnel.

The tunnel is no longer surrounded by dark stone, all by the western region of the sky brick (the ancient western region to build the city wall with rectangular yellowish soil brick, by rammed earth, cow dung, cool sand mixed together, dry and strong, over time and not cracked) stacked, the head built into a rounded arch, the wall is full of strange brightly colored murals.

That painting on the most is the eyes, large and small have, open closed, some only painted eyeballs, some have eyelids and eyelashes, the Jingjie people regard the eyes as a totem, this tunnel leads to the temple, but also painted so many eyes, must be only the clergy, and the queen as the rulers are qualified to enter, may be from the construction of the past is not used how many times.

The environment of this tunnel is very closed, the air does not circulate, the color of the murals as new, not the slightest flaking, so that Professor Chen and others look excited.

Prof. Chen said far in the early nineteenth century, was discovered by foreign explorers in the remains of those ancient cities in Xinjiang, there are a large number of murals, almost all are religious themes, but unfortunately, the government did not protect, were completely looted, lost to foreign countries, I can not think of here is still able to see the preservation of such a complete and is the thirty-six countries in the Western region of the oldest and most mysterious Jingjie mural, which is enough to shock the This is enough to shock the whole world.

I heard the professor say so, thought that the queen is the legend of the demon, this ancient city is weird, if there really is a demon, perhaps from this mural to find some clues, in case of really run into good to know your enemy and know yourself not to be afraid of a hundred battles, so playing the flashlight one by one to watch those murals.

However, all of the mural of the tunnel, there is no figure of the Queen of the Jingjie, the content of the painting is to show some rituals, some paintings of a jade eyeball released light, a black hole appeared in the sky, the hole fell down a giant eye like meat eggs.

Some depicted countless black snakes crawling out of the egg and biting several bound slaves, who were struggling in pain.

Others depicted black mountains covered with black snakes, and the surrounding beasts fell to their knees and kowtowed to the snakes on the mountains.

Some of these scenes we have seen before, here against the situation depicted on the mural, more confirmed Professor Chen’s judgment, this head long black eyeballs of the snake, has been the Jingjie people as a guardian of the existence of beasts, they know how to summon and drive these serpent beasts, but also often use the living on the serpent beasts of sacrifice, can not imagine that the Jingjie ancient kingdom buried under the sand and sea for thousands of years, these monstrous serpents are still present in the world.

We walked and looked, stopped in front of the last painting, this mural is a huge cave, a thin ladder, circling down around the cave wall.

Shirley Yang said to Prof. Chen, “Do you think this cave and the origin of the name of the Ghost Cave Clan could have anything to do with it?”

Prof. Chen said, “Very likely, look at the spiral staircase on the wall of this cave, so small like a thin line, and this big hole is completely disproportionate, such a big hole in the ground straight up and down, by no means can human beings dig out, could this be the Ghost Cave?”

I remember once heard them talk about, the legend of the ghost hole a family from the underground, at that time heard did not think much, think purely ancient people bullshit, now look at the mural, the heart of the doubt, these murals in the things, some of us have witnessed, it seems not to make a fuss painted bluffing, maybe in the depths of the Jingjie Ancient City, there really is such a big hole.

Fatty laughed: “the world to really have such a big hole, is not to the other end of the earth, in the future want to go abroad to save time, do not need to take the airplane, directly from this big hole in the ground jump down, not a moment to the United States.”

Shirley Yang turned a deaf ear to the fat man’s gibberish and asked Professor Chen, “The Ghost Cave Clan’s giant-pupil stone statue is most likely their original face, and if they really came from the dark world underground, that would explain their reverence for eyes.”

Professor Chen said, “What you said has some truth, there is another possibility, this huge cave, is the ghost cave civilization in the repeated appearance of the otherworld, that is, what you said the imaginary space, this is likely to be an entity, in ancient times, the ghost cave people found this huge cave, they could not explain why there is such a large underground cave in the world, tried their best, and could not get down to the bottom of the cave to get a glimpse of what was going on. Ancient people revered the power of nature, and they probably worshipped and sacrificed this huge cave as a miracle, and they wished they had more developed eyes to be able to see the bottom of the cave, and there were a few who claimed that their eyes were able to see the world at the bottom of the cave, and they were revered as rulers or clergymen of the tribes, and since their power came from their eyes, they saw them as a source of power .”

Fatty listened to the words of the professor, greatly impressed, put up his thumb and praised: “line ah, the old man, just based on a painting you see out so much to see the name, but also Kan a head of the road, said with the real thing as if you go to practice stalls, quasi can Kan fainted a large number of people, selling what fire what.”

Professor Chen did not have the mood to joke with him, casually dealt with: “I am only subjective speculation, can not be accurate, we went out of the dark tunnel to see whether there is such a big cave, or to see is to believe.”

I don’t know why, once I heard them talk about underground caves, I remembered that in the Kunlun Mountains underground, see the past events of the Nine Layer Demon Building, that time I lost several comrades, since then I deep underground caves, more than a few points of fear of the psychology, I’m very worried about the archaeological team in the people and then what accidents, if it is not necessary to enter the dungeon to look for water, I really want to pull them back, since the desert archaeology has already achieved significant results, it’s not bad that the underground cave, the desert archaeology has already achieved significant results, it’s not bad to see the underground cave. Since this desert archaeology has already achieved significant results, it’s not so bad as that hole in the ground.

I said to the professor, “A man of a thousand pieces of gold does not sit in a dangerous hall. You are all people with status in the society, there is no need to take risks, after we find the water source in the underground palace and replenish it, it is time to go back. Since we have already found the Jingjie Ancient City, our mission is considered complete, you write an assessment report and hand it over to the relevant part of the higher-ups, and just let the government take care of the rest in the future.”

Professor Chen shook his head, but did not say anything, his whole life want to explore the mystery of the ghost cave civilization, has arrived here, itching, how willing to agree, and Shirley Yang has always thought that her father’s team of explorers, had been to the Jingjie Ancient City, not to find the last she will not be willing to rest, they are saying nothing will not go back.

I have no choice but to follow them to continue to go forward, thinking that anyway, I have done my best to be kind and righteous, what should be said have said, in case something really happened, I also have a clear conscience.

The tunnel is not too long, there is no steps at the end, there is only a stone pillar, there is no portal, is this temple under the tunnel is a dead end, just to paint those ritual murals only?

Fatty looked around, turned to me and said: “Old Hu, this time you still have tricks? If you don’t have a trick, then put on zha medicine.”

I said: “you in addition to violent means still have a little something else, use your brain, first look and then say, I estimate that the dark door most likely to fall on this separate stone column.”

This lone standing in the sky brick tunnel stone pillar, compared to the temple in the sixteen big stone pillars several times smaller, but the shape is exactly the same, the bottom of the pillar is also coiled with a six-sided statue, the empty side, facing the end of the narrow wall.

This is good to do, it turns out that the 16 dragons through the ground of the dragon’s tail here, I still let the fat man to help, according to the “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art” in the opposite of the “find the dragon order” “shaking the dragon skill”, turn the stone column under the hexagonal stone disk.