The mud accumulated in the stone crevices on the ground is nearly two feet deep.
The fat man stretched out a leg and tried it. The mud flooded his knees. He immediately pulled his leg out in disgust and said: "The surface layer of this thing has solidified, and there is still water inside. It's knotted with stepping on it." Like a cesspit of ice."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was immediately disgusted.
Zhang Haixing pinched the pieces of mud torn from his body and glared at the fat man in disgust, "It's already disgusting. We have to go in later. Let's leave some way to survive, okay?"
Zhang Zhuxun replaced the remaining flashlight with a new battery, turned up the aperture and looked around.
Almost all the surrounding stones were covered with black mud. Even if they stood on the highest stone, they would inevitably get splashed a lot, making them as sticky as semi-dry chewing gum.
Everyone looked at the lamp and roughly cleaned up after each other, and finally they didn't look so sloppy.
Zhang Haixing lit up a cigarette. The movement on the other side of the bronze door had completely stopped. She said, "Let's go over and see what's inside."
The flashlight that was submerged in the mud could not be recovered at all. The fat man fumbled for a mallet stone, used Feng's vest to tear it into strips and tied them with the thin end, and managed to make a torch to hold.
A few people stepped on the stones and jumped carefully, and came to the bronze door. They looked around and were stunned by the sight in front of them.
There was an extremely huge hole in the thick bronze door. It was so big that it was almost devastating. The gap, which was dozens of people high, opened ferociously outwards. It was obviously made like this by the mud pouring out from inside. .
The tall gap stood there, like a giant snake with its mouth wide open. The irregular crack edges turned into sharp fangs. It was pitch black inside, and the black mud stuck to the edge dripped down and solidified into many sticky strips. The object hung like a black flag, giving off a very ominous atmosphere.
Feng's hands were tied behind his back. He stretched his neck and looked at the huge gap in the door. He couldn't believe it. "Are you sure you used MK3A2 grenades, not Composition C-4?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The fat man was very disdainful. "Fat man's eyes are not cataracts. No matter how dark it is here, I won't be so blind that I can't tell the difference between a grenade and a C4."
Zhang Haixing said coldly: "To be able to cause such great destructive power at once only shows that this door is indeed fake and that so much effort was wasted."
Wu Xie pondered for a few seconds and said: "Actually, that's not entirely true. One thing is very strange. Since this door is completely sealed, how did the previous mud get poured in?"
"And what's even more strange is, why do you have to put so much mud in the door? What's the use? If it's just to take away the life of the person who walked through the door, it would be too much trouble. He could have set up something more lethal. agency."
Zhang Shuxun turned on the lamp and looked inside, "Perhaps it's not that nothing was found. There must be some other secrets hidden here, related to the Zhang family in the past, but the current overseas Zhang family doesn't know about it."
The fat man rubbed his hands and took the flashlight from Zhang Zhuxun's hand, "What are you waiting for? We'll know if we go in and take a look."
As he spoke, he ducked in first, stepped into the sticky mud, and turned around and said: "For me personally, this is a small step, but for the tomb robbers, this is a leap."
After speaking, he glanced at Zhang Zhuxun who was falling behind without leaving any trace, and mouthed silently: "This is the second time, you know it."
Zhang Zhuoxun's eyes twitched. He was very sure that the fat man had definitely heard the sound of him calling Wu Xie before. Now, his secret was completely exposed.
The environment was so dark that Zhang Haixing didn't notice the secret exchange between the two. He squeezed past the fat man, frowned and looked around, "How can you see that?"
"Because this is God's territory." Fatty said.
Wu Xie thought he had discovered something and was sighing, but his next sentence was: "The God of Diarrhea."
Everyone:...
Without hesitation, several people walked in, lit up the cold fireworks and threw them around, lighting up the entire space.
"If this were a temple, wouldn't it be a bit unqualified?" Zhang Zhu asked, "This place is only as big as a regular stadium."
They imagined that there was something immeasurable behind the bronze door, but in fact they only saw a huge bronze cave, and there was inevitably a gap in their hearts.
However, it is not so empty that there is nothing. The oval-shaped cave looks like an erect goose egg, with many bronze pillars of different thicknesses scattered irregularly around it, supporting the dome like naturally formed stalactites.
The back of the bronze door was also completely covered with black mud. Several people tore it off and found that the door and the mountain walls on both sides seemed to be a whole.
The cave and the door are all made of bronze, and are engraved with strange patterns, which are very precise and delicate, and are densely packed like the lines on the surface of human skin.
"Be a good boy." The fat man sighed, "These people are so patient. How did they carve these patterns? It's not something that couldn't be done in eighteen hundred years."
Wu Xie touched the mountain wall with his hand, with a serious look on his face, "The pattern is a trivial matter. The problem is that there are no injection molding lines. If you look carefully, these bronzes are so smooth, as if they were cast in one piece."
Zhang Haixing was puzzled, "Is this difficult?"
"It's not that it's difficult, but it's impossible." Wu Xie said, "There is only one place where this kind of craft can be made."
"Where?" Zhang Haixing asked.
"In outer space, without gravity." Wu Xie answered.
"Of course there is another possibility. For example, during the repair and casting process, people are sent into the red-hot cave to make brackets. If they keep sending people in and wear protective gear, they can be burned to death. Do something in the few minutes before.”
"But this method is impossible and unscientific in common sense." Wu Xie concluded.
The fat man nodded, "If you want to complete such a huge project, if you use this method, at least hundreds of thousands of people will die, and at that time, there may not be as strict protective clothing as now. It would simply be to let the living people die. The crater of the eruption was bouncing around, and it turned into soot even before it moved."
"How many people in your old Zhang family must have been able to create something like this before? If you really did this, I'm afraid that without Wang Zanghai doing anything, you would have become extinct long ago."
Zhang Haixing glared at him dissatisfied, "Then there are Kangbalo people. There are so many Kangbalo people corpses in the ice burial cliff."
After being cued, Zhang Zhuxun peeled off the mud that had just touched his hands and said calmly: "There is no record of this in Kangbalu's historical records handed down from ancient times, and the corpses of those tribesmen have nothing to do with the Bronze Gate."
Zhang Haixing was a little disappointed. In fact, she was more suspicious of Bai Ci than Feng.
She knew that Bai Ci must be hiding a lot of things. His cooperation with the Zhang family was directly contacted by Zhang Haike. She didn't know the details of the discussion. She didn't care before just because it had nothing to do with what she wanted to do.
But the inexplicable things that happened outside the Bronze Gate made her feel bad. She felt that it was more likely that Bai Ci and the Kangbalo people behind him deceived Zhang Haike. Their purpose was probably related to Zu Ling.
If it was the Kangbalo people who did it, it means that Bai Ci has already doubted her identity.
The blood that was taken from him might have revealed the fact that he was not a member of the Zhang family.
Zhang Haixing's heart tightened. If this was the case, the place they came in must be very important, and Bai Ci's design to bring them here must have a purpose.
She doesn't have much time left. Bai Ci himself is a huge obstacle, and she must find a way to get rid of him.
Zhang Haixing glanced at Zhang Zhuxun vaguely, then turned around to look for clues on the other side.
The rest of the people also dispersed and searched around the cave.
The fat man snapped his fingers to attract everyone's attention. Everyone looked over and found that he was squatting in the center of the cave. There seemed to be a deep pit there, and the fat man was leaning his head to look down.
"What did you find?" Wu Xie asked.
"An awesome thing." Fatty said with a slightly excited tone, "A super awesome thing."
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly moved forward to take a look, and found a bowl-shaped, downward-dented area in front of the fat man, like a semicircular pit in the ground struck by a huge lead ball.
The fat man had torn off part of the black mud covering the surface of this circular pit with a diameter of ten meters, revealing the patterns underneath.
These patterns are very different from those on the surrounding mountain walls. There are a few thick chain-like cracks near the people, and there are many unknown spiral circles, one inside another.
"Tear all the mud apart." Zhang Zhu said, "This is indeed a very awesome thing, a big secret."
Everyone suddenly became excited and jumped into the pit to tear up the mud quickly.
Even Feng, who was tied to one side and lazing around, came over with interest and carefully looked at the patterns that revealed his true face one after another, his face gradually becoming astonished.
"This thing... this thing..." Feng's voice was trembling, disbelief mixed with excitement, "I've seen this thing before! I've definitely seen it before!"
Feng stared at Zhang Zhuxun with burning eyes, his face turned red, and he wanted to confirm, "Is it, is it that one!"
"What about this and that?" The fat man frowned, "What kind of riddles are you kidding?"
"Have you seen this thing before?" he asked Zhang Shuxun.
"Yes, I have seen it. The notebook left by Zhang Qiling contains the overall sketch of this pattern." Zhang Zhu asked, "That notebook was obtained from the Germans."
Zhang Haixing hurriedly asked, "Where is the notebook?"
Zhang Zhuoxun spread his hands and said, "It was stolen by those who plotted against us."
Zhang Haixing frowned fiercely, obviously not believing it.
Feng Huoruan's mind immediately cleared up and he shut up, for fear that this unfounded crime would implicate him again.
"Although the things are gone, I still roughly remember the contents." Zhang Zhuxun clapped his hands and called for everyone to come up from the pit.
"The first half is the process of the Germans searching for the bronze door in the snowy mountains. Starting from the appearance of this picture, a person who suddenly appeared was mentioned later. The Germans respected that person very much. Under the leadership of that person, they found A treasure.”
"Who is he?" Zhang Haixing asked urgently.
Zhang Zhuxun raised his eyelids and glanced at her, "That person's surname is Zhang."
Everyone immediately took a deep breath.
"Is it Zhang Qiling?" The fat man hurriedly asked, "Is it my little brother?"
Zhang Zhuoxun shook his head, "I don't know."
Because the corpses and notebooks frozen by the Germans in the canyon were all the Kangbalo people who came to verify who was the ten-year agreement Dong Can said, and set up a routine for them to deal with the person who was riding the corpse of the King of Hell.
Therefore, according to Zhang Shuxun's guess, the Mr. Zhang in the creed is most likely Zhang Fulin, also known as Dong Can.
Almost all the notebooks were in German, which Wu Xie couldn't understand, but he always felt that what Zhang Zhuxun said seemed to be both true and false.
He found the note specially left by Muyu in the Tibetan robe of the little brother's stone statue. He asked Heixiazi to translate it. Although Mr. Zhang was mentioned on it, there was no content about treasures.
Wu Xie also read the contents of the notebook in Zhang Zhuxun's Zen room, and remembered the copy of the bronze door.
He said: "Although the patterns are not exactly the same, there is no big difference in their arrangement and meaning."
Zhang Haixing glanced at him, "What do you mean?"
"Bronze murals." Wu Xie pointed to the patterns in the pit. "The patterns in other places are recorded as a whole, so we can only record some important things in the middle."
"This thing has the same pattern as the bronze door. It looks like an overturned turtle shell."
"We have to find the first relief on the turtle shell and start interpreting it from there."
"Actually, the source is easy to find." Zhang Zhuxun picked up a cold firework and threw it into the center of the depression in the turtle shell.
Zhang Haixing jumped down and took a closer look. There was an obviously protruding ball in the middle, with holes all over it.
"What is this?" she asked, "a round hornet's nest."
"No." Wu Xie recognized it immediately and glanced at Fatty, who also looked at him.
Both of them knew this thing very well. They had seen with their own eyes a place that was countless times larger than the entire bronze cave, and it was full of such honeycomb-shaped things.
"This is a meteorite."
Everyone spread out along the center and looked around for the direction of the relief.
This is Wu Xie's strength. He can best distinguish the order of engraving and painting. Although the blades and brushwork are different, people's ideologies are the same. As long as these reliefs are carved by people, there will be no mistake.
He quickly found the second pattern, and combined with what he drew in his notebook, he understood it immediately.
"This is not a turtle shell." He said, "This is the scene when a meteorite falls. People stand on the ground and watch a huge meteorite in the sky split into several pieces and turn into fireballs of different sizes in the sky. , and finally fell everywhere in the world."
Wu Xie's thoughts spread and he thought of more.
The patterns in this bronze cave were actually formed in outer space! (End of chapter)
