They continued deeper into the building.
Upon closer inspection, I discovered that these houses made of huge stones had intricate reliefs on them, but they were no longer clearly visible due to their age.
In the dim light, they gave up studying the broken reliefs for the time being and moved on.
As they went deeper, a huge black shadow gradually appeared at the edge of the dim light.
Li Yue, who was walking in the front, was probably frightened. He paused before continuing to move forward.
Then everyone saw the black figure, and everyone held their breath unconsciously and carefully minimized the movement under their feet.
As the light of the torch came closer, dry branches covered the surface of the thing, probably steps. As the light of the torch came closer, each level was revealed in front of everyone.
Visually, there are hundreds of steps. This huge building is boxy, with the largest lower circumference, and gradually shrinks as it goes up. It is a standard ladder shape.
Shi Bao let out a small exclamation: "Wow!"
This is actually a tall altar.
Everyone looked at each other.
In this deep darkness, the tall altar, like a giant beast, stood quietly, like an ancient guardian, exuding a silent and solemn flavor.
Even before everyone got close, they already felt the invisible pressure.
Lin Yan stared blankly at the scene in front of him and murmured to himself: "I feel like this is an amazing tribe..."
Shi Lingyao was a little surprised: "Have any of you ever seen this style of building?"
Everyone shook their heads.
She said, "I want to go up there and have a look."
Jing Hexuan said: "I'll go with you."
Jiang Heng then said: "Let's come together. I don't know whether this place is good or bad. Don't spread too far apart so that we can be taken care of."
The group of people climbed up the stairs, and the dry rattan under their feet made a crunching sound. After counting the 199th step, they finally stood at the highest point of the altar.
The floor of the altar is also covered with these dry and dead vines. At first glance, they look like densely packed poisonous snakes, which makes people feel frightened.
Lin Yan asked: "Do you need me to burn these things?"
Shi Lingyao shook his head: "If you put a fire on it, the entire altar will burn.
After she finished speaking, she squatted down and tapped the dead vine with her fingertips. She saw a warm green light flash past, like mud entering the sea, ripples and spread instantly.
Then these rattans visibly returned to a lush green color, and then slowly retreated as if they were alive, revealing the original ground of the altar.
Lin Yan couldn't help but admire: "You are truly worthy of being Dr. Shi!"
The entire altar floor is only about three feet long and wide. There is a huge ring-shaped relief on the ground, and in the middle of the ring is a smaller oval shape.
Zhang Xing hissed, rubbed his arms, stepped back and stood outside the ring: "Why do these things look so like eyes? It's so scary."
Lin Yan nodded repeatedly: "Indeed."
Xiaoxiao's focus shifted for a moment: "If this is an eye, wouldn't it be missing an eyeball?"
But there was nothing in the middle of the oval.
Several people scattered around and searched every corner of the altar. Apart from this strange symbol, there was no valid information left on the entire altar.
Jiang Heng analyzed: "Generally speaking, this kind of altar is used for sacrifice, and its effect is nothing more than praying for blessings. Objects with this purpose should have some characters or sketches left for expression purposes. "
Shi Lingyao also couldn't figure it out: "Now it seems that there is really nothing else but this strange symbol."
Li Yue squatted half-crouched, put his hands on the ground and closed his eyes: "I'm trying to sense the bottom of the altar."
In fact, except for him, Shi Lingyao had already released his power of thought when he first entered this building, spreading it in all directions to explore how big this building was.
Perhaps the darkness and looming lights at the beginning gave them psychological hints. They only felt that the underground space was huge. In fact, upon closer inspection, the area occupied was no more than the inner cavity of a mountain.
Compared to Taoyuan City, it is smaller than the inner city.
The altar where they are located is the center of the entire building.
Now that she heard what Li Yue said, she also poured her mind power down from the altar, only to find that the altar was solid and there were huge stones there, with no room for imagination.
Li Yue obviously came to the same conclusion. He stopped and stood up, shaking his head at everyone: "The inside of this altar is made of huge rocks, which is consistent with the material of the steps we see outside."
Xiaoxiao felt confused: "Such a project is no small feat. How could it stand like this in this mountain and no one knows about it?"
Jiang Heng nodded and added: "And no one has discovered it yet."
Li Yue raised a question he was concerned about: "If you want to build this building here, do you need to find such a mountain first, or have they hollowed out the mountain artificially?"
Lin Yan opened his eyes in a daze: "It's not easy to hollow out such a mountain artificially, isn't it? These buildings are old, which means they were before the natural disaster came, and the people before that did not have the ability of the strong men now. , wouldn’t it be extremely difficult to do this?”
Jiang Heng nodded in agreement: "This little brother is right. No matter how you say it, this building complex was not something we could have built at the time."
Xiaoxiao asked: "So can't this spacious mountain cavity be formed naturally?"
Li Yue answered her: "If it were formed naturally, it would be like the passage we just entered, with obvious cracks, but the entire mountain cavity is hollow, as if someone has hollowed out the middle. If it were formed naturally, it should not be a regular square space inside, but a long and huge crack like a valley."
Shi Lingyao also agrees with this.
Because when she first came in, she had already used her mind to detect the size of this space, and naturally she also knew the shape of this space.
"This can only be man-made," she said.
She said and turned to Li Yue: "Can you do it now?"
Li Yue subconsciously raised his head, looked around, and said with a wry smile: "Doctor Shi, you praise me too much."
Shi Lingyao spread his hands: "Even the natural earth type ability users can't do things. How on earth could one do this without the world before the ability users appeared..."
She didn't finish her words, she just raised her head and looked up into the dark void. The meaning of her unfinished words was very obvious.
Lin Yan scratched his head: "But it's useless for us to worry about this now, there seems to be no living person in this place."
As if he was going to confront him, as soon as he finished speaking, he heard a faint crisp sound not far away, which seemed to be the sound of pebbles rolling down.
"Who?!" He was startled and immediately turned his head to look over there.
Shi Lingyao's mind power had already swept towards the direction of the sound.
