"There's a pattern!"
Yun Yi exclaimed, causing everyone to look up at him.
The patterns on the ground are so obvious that anyone with eyes can see them!
Yun Yi also felt a little embarrassed for his surprise. The key point was that this was his first time to personally experience the ruins of an ancient capital in the desert. It felt more exciting than exploring in the desert, and it was inevitable that he would be a little excited.
"But what is engraved on this pattern?"
The platform they were on was not small at all. Just now, nearly fifty people fell down like dumplings. Only a few were unlucky or in a panic and accidentally hit other people. Others fell to the ground. They are quite far apart from each other.
But even on such a spacious platform, it is covered with patterns that are almost dazzling at first glance.
Moreover, the lines of the pattern are very thin, so anything accidentally dropped will be stuck, but the fine sand that just fell can pass through unimpeded.
Xu Zhao adjusted the focus of the flashlight in his hand to the minimum and aimed at one of the denser lines to shine.
"The bottom is solid, and the light penetrates less than ten centimeters to the bottom."
Yun Yi followed and lay on the ground to watch, "Then how did so much sand seep in just now? It's less than ten centimeters. Even if all these gaps are filled, it still can't fit in!"
Xu Zhao replied with three words: "I don't know."
Yunyi: "..."
He wanted to say more, but Chang Ning slapped him on the arm, "Please calm down."
Seeing Yun Yi shut up, she continued: "Do you think this pattern looks like a tree?"
"Tree?"
Several flashlight lights suddenly flickered on the ground.
"Don't tell me, these criss-crossing trees really look like branches if you look at them for a long time. If they were trees, they would be really lush, but they don't have leaves."
Jiang Lingxi was quietly listening to everyone's discovery, and suddenly called out "Hu Zi".
"Huzi will go and take a look at the rope left by the people from Chang Cangmen on the other side of the cliff."
Huzi was a little confused, but still trotted over.
He still remembered the general location, but when he got there, he found that the cliff was completely bare, one rope was missing, and even the traces of the fixed rope had disappeared.
Before he could run back, he turned around and reported loudly: "Sister Xi, the rope is gone!"
As soon as he said this, several more people ran over.
Yun Yi ran and shouted: "Isn't it because you remembered the wrong place?"
"impossible."
When Huzi didn't find the rope, he doubted himself just now, but he quickly dismissed his doubts.
"I remember very clearly that at that time, the people at Changcang Gate fixed the rope directly towards the ruins of the ancient capital below, so that after going down, it could fall directly to the city gate below." He said and shined his flashlight downwards. , "Look, the city gate is right under my feet. It can't be that the reference point will change its position."
"Such a large ruins will definitely not change, so if it changes its location..."
More than a dozen pairs of eyes immediately looked at the platform they were standing on.
Yun Yi's voice was a little shaky, "We were the ones turning? But I didn't feel anything!"
"I don't feel it either."
"Just go and find out if there is any rope elsewhere."
Everyone woke up from a dream and took action one after another.
This time there was strength in numbers, and the discovery was soon made.
"Here's the rope!"
This time's position is not far different from Huzi's position just now, not to mention completely different.
Jiang Lingxi put the flashlight on the ground and fixed it, "Actually, if we had stayed on the edge, we would have found that we were slowly turning with the platform under our feet, but just now we were almost in the center of the platform, and we were all paying attention to the patterns on the ground, ignoring this a little."
Yun Yi still couldn't hold it back, "Sister Xi, how did you find out?"
"As I said before, everything remains true to its origin. It's impossible for so much sand to just disappear," Jiang Lingxi said, stepping on the ground beneath her feet. "It must still be under our feet. Have you seen the millstone?"
"I know, grinding grain in circles." Yun Yi said and suddenly felt enlightened, "So this time it's sand!"
"You can say that."
It was the same as Xu Zhao did before, except this time the flashlight light stayed on the lines and gaps in the pattern for a longer time.
After waiting for nearly a minute, I finally made a new discovery.
"The light is shining through!"
"So, the bottom is hollow, can you go down from the inside?"
"If Yun Qing and the others go down from the inside of this platform, then there will definitely be a downward passage on this platform."
"The passage is such a big place. How long does it take to find it? It's better to just use a rope to go down."
"Patterns, you should still work hard on patterns."
Jiang Lingxi and everyone else scattered around to look for a breakthrough from the patterns on the ground. She was still thinking silently in her mind while searching.
If Shen Yunqing could predict that she would come after filming, he would have left some clues for her.
And with people from Chang Cang Clan around, this clue should still be very secret.
It was probably a clue that only she could identify.
The brightness of the flashlight has been adjusted to the maximum, and it has become slightly warm in the hand after holding it for a long time. The lines on the ground are crisscrossed and complicated, and it will feel a little dazzling after looking at it for a long time.
The impetuous atmosphere began to spread quietly.
"Chang Ning, do you think you can really find any clues from these lines? I think these are just scribbles."
Chang Ning gave Yun Yi an elbow as he approached, "Pay attention."
"Looking at it again, I think I will become presbyopic."
Xu Zhao turned back to look at Jiang Lingxi.
"I don't think it's going to be like this..."
Before he could say the word 'method', Jiang Lingxi, who was standing not far in front, suddenly squatted down.
After being stunned for a moment, he quickly walked over.
"Did you find anything?"
When Jiang Lingxi looked up, she saw that people had gathered from all directions.
"This one seems to have the most messy lines among all the patterns."
“The location is close to the middle.”
"Then what is this painting?"
"trunk."
Jiang Lingxi faced everyone's gaze, stretched out her hand and gently wiped two shallow lines mixed in among the many lines, "Think of the entire pattern as a big tree looking down from top to bottom. The reason why this line is At most, it’s because there are still tree trunks. The tree trunks are rooted in the soil. If there is a passage down, this is the most likely place to have a passage."
This discovery made everyone excited.
"Then quickly check if there are any gaps or traps in this area."
While everyone was busy looking for the mechanism, Jiang Lingxi stood up, raised her foot and landed between the two lines she had just discovered, and stomped twice tentatively.
The ground beneath his feet suddenly sank a few centimeters.
Before Xu Zhao, who was next to him, could react and stretched out his hand to pull, Jiang Lingxi jumped out immediately.
When he turned around, he saw the sunken ground moving sideways, revealing a dark hole.
"There is actually a passage!"
While he was talking, several flashlight lights were shining down.
Under the strong light, the scene in the passage suddenly came into view clearly.
The stairs that curve downwards seem to have been cut directly.
"If you can leave, I'll take the lead."
Xu Zhao said that he was the first to jump down, but instead of rushing down, he touched the side of the stairs that was neither stone nor wood.
"This seems to be the trunk of a tree!"
"How is it possible? How could the tree be buried under this?"
"It's a tree, it's a petrified tree."
(End of chapter)
