Across the Sky From the Stop of Time

  Chapter 401 Three hundred and ninety-seventh ancient city

"Yes, what Shenzhu said makes sense. The ancient city of Jingjue is here, and it won't disappear. There is no difference between going in now and going in tomorrow morning, but that strange snake comes out at night." Hu Bayi on the side also agreed to take a break Late in departure.

  Seeing that the two callers had said so, Professor Chen and the others could only obey the arrangement, and even Shirley Yang, who wanted to go in the most, helped to set up camp.

  …

   In the middle of the night, a bright moon hung in the sky, shining white on the earth.

  Looking at Hu Bayi and the others who were sleeping soundly, Hao Shuai, who was on duty, took out two armed robots from the space and ordered them to protect Hu Bayi and the others here, but he walked towards Jingjue Ancient City.

  Before leaving, just in case, Hao Shuai touched everyone’s sleeping holes one by one to ensure that they would sleep until dawn. At the same time, to be safe, he wore a wake-up talisman and a curse-blocking talisman on his body.

   Surprisingly, the ancient city of Jingjue has been found, Hao Shuai decided to leave the archaeological team alone to collect the things he wanted, and leave some research-worthy things for the archaeological team to study slowly.

   Entering the city from the ruins of the city wall, there was a dead silence in the surrounding ruins. The streets and houses in the city were either collapsed or dilapidated. There were only a few dilapidated huge wooden pillars and beams whose vermilion paint had peeled off, and some glimpses of the luxurious atmosphere of the old city could still be seen.

   It is said that the city was once destroyed by the flames of war, and the coalition forces invaded the palace. At the end of the battle, the black sandstorm buried the Jingjue Kingdom and the resident army in the city indiscriminately deep in the yellow sand. It was not until the nineteenth century that the movement of the desert brought it to light.

   From the perspective of the scene, it basically matches the legend, but there is no mummy, and it must be buried in the sand.

   According to the plot, Hao Shuai walked through the ruins to the center of the ancient city, followed the stone steps buried in the sand, and found the entrance of the temple.

  Hao Shuai walked into the temple and found that it was a stone temple, and it was very grand, with sixteen giant stone pillars around it.

  A jade eyeball is enshrined on the stone platform in the middle of the hall. There are also naturally formed red threads in the jade, and the blue pupils are well-defined, almost unreal.

  Take out the jade pendant from Fatty Wang, and insert it in the groove of the jade eyeball.

   It stuck in with a "click", Yushi's eyeballs flickered, and rolled away from the previously fixed position.

   Conveniently put the jade eyeballs into the space, it can be regarded as a good work of art, and it is not bad as a collection.

  At this time, Hao Shuai sensed a washbasin-sized eye suddenly appeared on the ceiling above his head, and then a huge ball of meat fell from the eye.

   Before the strange snake inside came out, Hao Shuai stretched out his hand to hold the meat ball, and the huge meat ball shrank a lot in an instant, turning into a real meat ball.

Hao Shuai guessed that the jade eyeball should serve as a sacrificial function. Once someone puts the jade pendant on it, the sacrificial process will start automatically, and the meat ball will fall to eat the sacrificial person or animal. After the sacrificial ceremony is completed, the passage leading to the ghost cave will open.

  After solving the strange snake, Hao Shuai turned the stone platform according to the plot. When he turned to the last space, he heard a clicking sound, and the stone bricks on the ground sank, revealing a bottomless tunnel.

   This secret passage is a downward step, built of black stones. Below the entrance, there is a stone pull rod, which is used to open the floor tiles below.

  These mechanisms are exquisitely designed. After nearly two thousand years, the mechanism is still available, which makes Hao Shuai feel excited to break through the barrier and win the treasure. The only difference is that he is alone, and no one shares this process with him.

  Going down to the end of the stone steps, the front suddenly opened up, and a five-meter-wide and three-meter-high corridor appeared in front of them.

  The surroundings of the corridor are no longer dark stones, but are piled up with pieces of yellow clay bricks, the top of the head is built into a round arch, and the walls are full of weird and bright murals.

  Hao Shuai is not an archeology expert, and he has no interest in the so-called murals. He quickly drifted through the passage and came to the underground river.

  Because he didn't want to leave footprints on the ground, Hao Shuai flew with his thoughts all the way down the road without touching the ground.

  After flying over the Zidu Dark River, Hao Shuai saw a Qianjin gate, which is a kind of broken dragon stone. This is the guard wall used in the ancient emperor's tomb and the tomb of the scholar.

   But at this time, the jack gate was half-opened, and there were traces of explosives and crowbars around it. It seemed that it had been decades. According to the time speculation, it may have been done by the group of British explorers who went crazy after returning.

Behind the gate is a narrow and long downward ramp with an extremely steep slope. Hao Shuai quickly flew to the end of the ramp. Below the ramp is a platform with hundreds of giant-pupil stone statues standing on the platform. Looking up, you can't see the top of your head, it's all pitch black.

  Standing on the platform and looking down, I saw a large flat land below, piled up on the ground like hills of all kinds of gold and silver vessels, pearls and gems, and treasures of ancient chalcedony.

  Flying down to the platform, Hao Shuai grabbed a handful of gold coins casually. Hao Shuai was still a little excited. Although he didn't need these gold, silver and jewelry at all, this kind of harvest-like joy was really fascinating.

   Didn't care about the curse that if you take the treasures of the ancient city of Jingjue, you will not be able to get out of the black desert, but waved your hand and put all the treasures into the space.

  Walking along the pile of treasures, Hao Shuai came to a dark platform, a cliff supported by rocks, standing in the darkness.

   This place belongs to the bottom of Mount Zagrama. The top and surroundings are covered with black rocks. There are countless tall stone statues with giant pupils. Beyond the cliff, there is a huge black hole with a whistling wind and no end in sight.

   This is the real ghost hole, a hole with a diameter of about one thousand meters, which is definitely not dug by man.

  Hao Shuai flew straight towards the stone beam hanging in the middle of the cave entrance.

  When it fell on the stone beam, Hao Shuai saw one of the goals of this exquisite ancient city, the Kunlun Shenmu.

Regardless of the East or the West, since ancient times, there have been various legends of "sacred trees" and "sacred trees" all over the world. Ancient books say that the Kunlun sacred tree is also called the tree that reaches the sky. The Kunlun Shenmu is the ladder between heaven and earth.

There are related records about the legends of similar sacred trees. The three sacred trees of Fusang, Lamu and Ruomu are the most famous three among the many myths and legends recorded in ancient Chinese documents such as "Shan Hai Jing" and "Huai Nan Zi". Ruomu, also known as "Kunlun Ruomu", can be regarded as the prototype of Kunlun Shenmu.

And on the coffin made of Kunlun Shenmu grew a huge green flower, the size of the flower was like a big bucket, with a small mouth and a thick belly, the petals were rolled together, the whole body was emerald green, and there were a large blood-red leaves on each side. Roots had grown on the wood, and its tendrils, together with the great iron chain, wrapped tightly around the length of the wood.

  This should be corpse-flavored konjac. It has two functions. One is that it can keep the corpse from rotting, and it can also make the corpse emit fragrance, which is extremely precious.

  The reason why Amorphophallus konjac can grow in the mountainside of Mount Zagrama without photosynthesis is entirely due to its parasitic existence on the Kunlun sacred tree.

   From this we can see the magic and preciousness of this Kunlun Shenmu.

  (end of this chapter)