Chapter 31 The underground palace

“Dragon energy into the cave, Yang only one through the square convergence, Yin non-five points do not show”, “Shake the dragon skill” projected, in fact, is only the previous in the temple, the order of turning the stone disk reversed to do it again.

We turn that stone disk last frame finished, in front of the sky brick wall should sound and open, the fat man copied the assault rifle, a horse first out of the sky brick tunnel, the rest of the people out in a row.

The people came to the outside, with a flashlight to look around, although it is in the underground building, surrounded by a grand space, carved beams and painted columns have been peeled off, but still visible in the year’s gorgeous weather, really is to the underground palace.

We are in what seems to be the main hall of the underground palace, out of the brick wall exit, is in a jade carved into the throne after this dark wall repair is very exquisite, in the temple completely can not see the jade seat is a dark door.

Finally came to this once only existed in the legend of the Jingjie Palace, we in order to take a closer look at this place, using all the lighting equipment with the body, only to see the throne and the floor of the hall are jade, the ceiling top of the lamp chain also rotten broken, fell to the ground, all corners of the gerbils in the crawl, it seems that the air circulation here, in addition to a number of jade products, pottery, wood, iron, copper, silk fabrics, and other things were extremely badly damaged by air erosion.

For us, this situation is a mixed blessing and sadness, happy that since there is a flow of air in the underground palace, that means that and underground water veins are connected, Ye Yixin this little life is considered to be retrieved.

Worried about is the palace in the antiquities destroyed more seriously, some pots have been rotten beyond recognition, a touch will become broken pieces, scattered around the countless rusty armor blades, such as tentacle arc sword, crane mouth axe, arc back concave edge knife, armor on a variety of rich ethnic characteristics of the odd card decorations and buckles, and the owner of these round shields and curved knives are not even bones, look carefully and perhaps also find a few mutilated The skulls.

The age is too far, air erosion and decay is a reason, and I do not know here since a few hours, drilling in a lot of gerbils, gerbils usually desert plant roots, and desert insects for food, very like to use hard objects to sharpen their teeth, a lot of things in the dungeon, have been gnawed away by them.

The best preserved in the main hall belongs to this jade throne, jade seat carved with a red jade eye at the top, the seat body body inlaid with gold embedded silver, engraved with immortal mountain clouds, birds, fish and animals, etc., the base is a large piece of jade like sheep’s milk white, and then to the black color tone in the main hall, appear particularly striking.

Fatty see this dilapidated situation, great disappointment, sitting on his butt on top of the jade seat, patting the armrests, said: “This is also worth a little money, the rest of the direct contact with the collection of rags to the waste recycling station to send it.”

I thought this grandson where can not change this loose temper, no organization and discipline, I have to scare him, lest let Shirley Yang they laugh, then said to the fat man: “I say comrade Wang Kaixuan, this is the exploiting class of the feudal dynasty sitting position, you do not forget that you are also a revolutionary cadre family origin, you sit there, your principles and position or not! .”

Fatty laughed: “Come on Old Hu, still pretending to be a political commissar? This is what years still have to stand, you say this jade throne can be worth a million dollars? …… Hey, this head is too big point, not dismantled is really not good to move back.”

I then said to the fat man: “You do not think about it how to move back, I tell you do not believe, this jade seat is the Queen of the Jingjie sitting in life, maybe her spirit is wandering in this palace, thousands of years, and lonely and lonely, it is just that you sit here, maybe let the Queen saw, she must think, hey, this big fat really good ah, so much fat flesh all over the body! She must think, “Hey, this big fat man is really good, so much fat meat all over his body, come on, stay as the son-in-law of the Jingjie country, it’s okay to gnaw on it and grind her teeth.”

These words did not scare the fat man, Ye Yixin was not in a coma, barely able to walk, Shirley Yang has been holding her, listen to me say that the ghost of the death of the female Jingjie is still in this underground palace, Ye Yixin eyes rolled over and was scared to pass out.

Shirley Yang anxiously stomped her feet: “Can you two not fool around? Don’t look at what time it is, don’t come and help.”

Fatty and I see another trouble, also do not dare to fight, past the Ye Yixin lifted up, placed on the back of the fat man, let him carry, the fat man just said a sentence less, think not quite on the count, and then muttered under his breath: “Inverted son-in-law? I have never seen you so uneducated people, you think the queen is a widow in the countryside ah, the queen s husband, that should be called …… what is it called? It seems like it shouldn’t be called a horse, right?”

Shirley Yang saw that the fat man was still nagging, and he was so angry that he couldn t help but say, “Call it a eunuch.”

If it wasn’t for the fact that there was a dead Hao Aiguo in the archaeological team, the atmosphere was very depressing, and laughing at this time was really out of place, I forced myself to hold back and searched with the crowd in the wide underground palace, looking for a place with a water source.

Jingjie ancient underground palace, not as big as I previously thought, only the main hall is quite large, both sides of the hall are relatively simple, the front door of the hall and the stone steps are sealed by the sand dead, leaning into the front door of the hall, a black stone roof was zha drug damage, which indicates that there have been people who have been in the palace before, look at the degree of damage to the stone door and the traces of the door are not recent, to say the least do more than a few decades of history. More than a few decades of history, it is likely that the owner of the black and white photo, now this gap has been buried by the yellow sand.

Seen on both sides of the supporting hall, and then turned to the back of the hall, this is the royal family members rest and living place, there are a few jade fence fountains, but has long been dried up, a line of people walking and looking, Shirley suddenly said: “you listen, is not the sound of running water?”

I stood up my ears to listen, and indeed not far away from the sound of water gurgling, look at that direction is in the back of the bedchamber, at the same time the crowd to speed up the pace, looking for the sound of water to the back of the temple in a cave.

Cave terrain is extremely low, go down very deep, to a ballpark-sized natural stone cave, here is natural, but apparently after artificial repair, the ground is very flat, in the cave there is a small underground lake, the lake rises a convex land, as a small island in the center of the lake, only ten square meters in size, flat lake like a mirror, surrounded by the surrounding area.

Our group of people for a week in a row, are only drinking the minimum standard ration of water, not to mention the desert, unusual to drink only so much water a day is also enough to suffer, this time to see the cool underground water, are eager to head into the wild drink a pass.

Shirley Yang stopped the crowd: “This water has been abandoned for many years, I do not know is dead water live water, not to mention the underground rivers are constantly rerouted, now the groundwater, may not be the same as two thousand years ago, the most nitrate and sulfur underground in the western region, the water in case of toxic how to do, first look and then say.”

I took a look close by, and saw that there were several tails of small colorful fish swimming in the lake, so I laughed and said, “overthink it, there are fish in this lake, and there must be springs in the depths, it is living water, and it won’t be poisonous.”

With these words, the rest of the few people could no longer care about anything, grabbing to the lake to drink water in big gulps, all filling their stomachs with water, still feeling that they didn’t drink enough, until the moment they moved, the water flowed out from their mouths, and only then did they give up.

Ye Yixin has dehydration, can not directly drink a lot of water, Shirley Yang with salt and a pot of water, little by little for her to take. We drank too much water, can not move, can only rest on the ground.

I have never felt the water like now so good to drink, four backs and stomach lying on the ground, close your eyes to rest, this time all around are quiet, I seem to hear the sound of water in the distance, it seems that the water veins in the palace is not only this one. We drink water from this tiny lake, very quiet, in the back of the hall heard the sound of water flow, is from farther away from that source of water, that should be a large flow of underground river, maybe it is bypassing the Zagrama mountain Zidu dark river.

While I was thinking, suddenly heard Shirley Yang “eek”, voice full of surprise, I hurriedly sat up with both hands on the ground, asked her what happened, Shirley Yang pointed at the center of the lake convex land, indicating that I look over there.

Professor Chen and others have also sat up from the ground, the crowd followed the direction Shirley Yang pointed to see an incredible scene.

The convex ground in the lake, I do not know when, has crawled all over a dense layer of green-colored phantom bugs, there are tens of thousands of them, their bodies gradually turned grayish-white, one by one from the shell of the worms wriggling and crawling out of the shell after moulting there seems to be a lot of fluorescence on the worm body, glittering, as bright as the sky as the starlight, the worms stretching the wings that they just got, and then a little while later, they can fly to the sky.

Just at this moment, countless big rats from all directions leaped into the cave, these rats are not afraid of humans at all, blind to us people, do not hesitate to jump into the lake, go to the water, scrambling to climb up to the convex ground in the center of the lake, greedily grabbed the bugs that have just faded shells, and constantly sent into the mouth to eat, the wind rolled up the clouds, and in a moment, ate all of them.

We saw this many rats swimming in the lake, it seems that these rats must often get together here, otherwise how would be so skillful, think of here unspeakable nausea, open your mouth wow big spit, that a stomach of lake water, and the original spit out.