The three of them walked through the doorway. On the inner walls on both sides of the doorway, carvings of the God of War Nakarosa and rat-headed guards were carved inward. They were also holding swords, guns and spears, with their eyes half open and half closed. The reliefs are inlaid with stone slabs, which depict the war god Nakarosa leading his rat-headed army in battles in all directions, as well as the various sacrificial activities of the Tatunaan people to the war god Nakarosa.
I don't know whether it was the light from the torch that was too bright or the eyes of the three people were hallucinating. As Chen Tao and the others continued to move forward, Chen Tao always felt that the eyes of the reliefs and the rat-headed stone statue outside the porch were moving with them, which made people feel like they were moving. Hairy.
After passing through the doorway, his eyes suddenly opened up, and the space suddenly changed from narrow to large. Chen Tao couldn't help but think of the description in Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring".
"It was extremely narrow at first, and then I understood people. After taking dozens of steps, I suddenly became enlightened!"
But the scene in front of me is not "flat land and scattered houses."
No one present expected that the huge underground hall would be filled with rows of mummies!
Opposite the door was an altar, with gold plates, silver bowls, iron spoons and copper cups scattered on it. There seemed to be something else on the plate, which was dark and rotten.
People looked around in front of the altar and saw that there were countless stone pillars in the hall leading directly to the top of the hall. The stone pillar is one foot square and seems to be carved directly out of the rock mountain. It is surrounded by deep rectangular holes, two meters long and half a meter high. Looking from the bottom up, they all disappeared neatly into the depths of darkness. Looking at the main hall, there are more than twenty or thirty square stone pillars like this in front of you, and you don’t know how many there are in the future. They are so dark. No end in sight.
What's even more incredible is that there is a corpse lying in every square hole! I don’t know how many years they have been here, but they have all been eaten by people. Some of them even have no dried meat, leaving sections of gray-white withered bones exposed. Some even have only a part left, incomplete and don’t know where they went.
In the flickering light of the torch, Chen Tao felt his eyes blurred. An extremely grand hall appeared in front of him, even wider than the Hall of the God of War Nakarosa above.
I don't know when torches were lit on the stone walls on all sides, and the surroundings suddenly became brighter. Chen Taogang wanted to ask Haozi and others to take a closer look, but when he turned around, he found that there was no one around him.
Damn it! Where are the people!
Ta da da da...
In a state of shock, Chen Tao suddenly heard footsteps coming from the doorway behind him. When he looked back, Chen Tao's heart suddenly beat wildly.
I don't know when there were two rows of guards wearing rat masks standing outside the porch. They were strong and dark-skinned. Their exposed arms were covered with strange tattoos that extended into the leather armor. The weapons in their hands were flashing in the light of the fire. There was a cold light shining in it.
Darling, how come those stone men have become real!
Chen Tao was nervous and looked around to avoid it, but he heard the footsteps approaching, and several people came down from the stone stairs on the opposite side. At the head were two men and one woman, followed by two female attendants wearing veils.
"Qian...Qian Shu Hongde!"
Chen Tao's jaw dropped in shock
What the hell is going on? Why did that old immortal Qianshu Hongde jump out again!
Although the Qian Shu Hongde that Chen Tao met in Heizigou was just a bad old man who had been dead for many years, he had been plagued by nightmares ever since. He was 100% sure that the middle-aged man was Qian Shu Hongde.
At this time, Qian Shu Hongde was only in her thirties, in her prime, with hair like a knife cut, eyebrows like ink paintings, and a calmer and more sophisticated manner when she raised her hands.
Chen Tao's eyes widened when he saw it. He really couldn't believe that Qian Shu Hongde looked like this when he was young. His handsome face was angular, and even now it can fascinate a lot of people.
This is definitely a dream!
Chen Tao pinched his thigh hard, and his expression instantly became distorted.
That hurts!
Chen Tao rubbed his thigh, which was bruised and white from being pinched, and was completely stunned.
This is not a dream, is everything in front of me real?
This special girl is really living in hell!
Looking next to Qianshu Hongde, in the middle is an elder with a turban on his head, embroidered with gold threads and a bright ruby in the middle. He is obviously of high status.
On the other side of the elder is a woman, wearing a light yellow gauze dress, with curvaceous curves and concave and convex shapes. Although she is also wearing a thin gauze scarf on her face, her big, watery eyes can make people suffocate with just one glance.
this......
This is the big beauty on the sand dune!
Seeing those people getting closer and closer, Chen Tao just remembered that he wanted to hide, but the group of people were already approaching him face to face, and there was no time.
It's over...wait to die!
Chen Tao shouted in his heart that it was bad. Before he could make any move, Chen Tao saw those people walking past him as if he didn't exist.
Several people stood in front of Chen Tao. The elder didn't know what he said. He picked up the exquisite wine jug on the altar and poured out a glass of sake. He raised it to his head and bowed in front of him a few times, and then poured it all out.
"Taozi! Taozi?" A cry suddenly came from his ears. Chen Tao woke up suddenly and froze on the spot.
"What just happened?" Chen Tao touched his forehead
"Just now your fucking eyes almost popped out of your head when you looked at those mummies in front of you!" Haozi pointed to the stone pillar in front of him, "Oh my god, how many dried salted fishes are there! They are all so crowded together. ”.
"This isn't a bunch of people, this place is like a human fuck supermarket, with tens of thousands of human flesh fucked!"
Chen Tao was also startled, and he was more frightened by the illusion just now.
It was all too real, as if I had traveled through thousands of years at that moment and truly witnessed the scene that had happened here.
Others were obviously taken aback, as they did not expect there to be so many corpses.
Looking back at the bearded man and the others, he saw the bearded man's eyes flashing with murderous intent. Chen Tao was frightened and wondered what was wrong with the bearded man and how he had a grudge against everyone.
Seeing that Chen Tao and the others were not moving, Big Beard pointed his gun at Chen Tao's lower back.
"Enter
go! "
Despite all the reluctance in his heart, Chen Tao still took a step forward, only to hear a crunching sound under his feet, as if he had stepped on something. When he looked down, he saw that it was a broken bone.
"Strange, why did this broken bone come here? Could it be that these salted fish got tired and took a walk?" Haozi grinned and directly picked up the broken bone on the ground.
"The Tatunaan people have the habit of burying corpses under temples and temples. Generally, those who are placed here are either high-ranking officials or national heroes. Although the God of War Nakara is the younger brother of Nakara, the God of Death, he is The God of War, those buried here should all be soldiers who died in the Tatunaan Dynasty’s battles." Ye Rong said.
"According to what you said, how many corpses must there be in this place!" Chen Tao said in shock.
"Not all people are qualified to be buried under the hall of the God of War Nakarosa. At least they are those who have made military exploits or made significant contributions to Tatunaan."
"I'm so disrespectful." Haozi quickly put the broken bone in his hand on the ground, clasped his hands together and bowed several times.
Chen Tao walked around the altar and looked down, only to see stone pillars rising from the ground and disappearing into the darkness above his head. This place is said to be a main hall, but in fact it is a big pit. It is still several meters deep from the altar. The wolf-eye flashlights and signal torches are in the hands of Big Beard and others, and the light from the torches is very limited. Chen Tao is on the altar. All that could be seen was the darkness below, and there seemed to be black energy stirring in the darkness. Countless thick square pillars were rising from the ground, leading straight to the top of the palace.
There is a stone staircase on both sides of the altar that leads directly to the ground. It is one meter wide. The top is also piled with a single piece of long stone. There are guardrails and handrails on the outside. It is carved with exquisite patterns and various beasts that Chen Tao does not recognize.
Everyone didn't know how deep they had gone underground, but they felt that the air in the cave was dry and cold, and there was even a slight cool breeze blowing through, mixed with an indescribable strange smell.
Chen Tao told Haozi and Ye Rong to be more careful. He held up the torch and waved it on the edge of the stone stairs. He stepped on the stone steps and walked down a few steps. He couldn't help but frown.
There was a strange feeling under the feet. The stone stairs were obviously made of stone, but they seemed to be stepping on sand. Chen Tao bent down and took a look, and saw that there was a thick layer of black sand on the stone steps. It seemed that there was more and more black sand as he went down.
Chen Tao grabbed a handful in his hand, but felt a coolness in his hand. He twisted it with his fingers. The black sand particles were very large, and some even condensed into lumps. It gave off a vague smell.
"It's strange, what kind of sand are these? It's completely different from the ones outside, and it actually has a slight sense of coolness." Chen Tao felt the coolness coming from his hands. In this sweltering desert, it really made people feel cold all over. It was a moment of relief.
"The devil knows what it is. If you don't know what it is, it's the poop of snakes, insects, rats, and ants, so I'll just scratch you."
There were about thirty steps on the stone staircase. When everyone got off the stone staircase, there was more black sand under their feet, and it felt soft when their feet stepped on it, as if they were stepping on plasticine. The bearded people behind him didn't say a word, and they all jumped down the stone steps one after another. They all looked around with vigilance. Chen Tao turned around.
Look, there are two torches shining on the altar, and there are two minions on top of them guarding the entrance of the cave, with their guns pointed down, aiming at themselves.
Damn...
Chen Tao cursed, holding a torch and observing the surrounding situation.
If what you see on the altar is a kind of shock, then there is only wonder below. People standing in front of the stone pillars feel like they are under a 100-meter-high building. Looking up, there is no end in sight. What's more, there are all ancient corpses in there. In this dark and cold underground, it's like mountains of corpses are weighing on people's chests, making it difficult to breathe.
Chen Tao approached a stone cave next to him and saw a mummy lying inside, wearing a battle suit, with his hands crossed on his chest and a long sword in his hand. The body was black and purple, the head was missing, and the rest of the skin and flesh had been dried into old bark, tightly wrapped around the bones.
What surprised him was that although the mummy had dried to look like this, the surface of the flesh seemed to have been coated with a layer of oil and wax, tightly wrapping the corpse inside, and it shone brightly against the firelight. A layer of oily shine.
Chen Tao took a closer look and saw that the wax shell was crystal clear and about as thick as a dollar coin. It was very hard when pressed with his hand, like glass.
The torch flickered, and a light suddenly flashed around the waist of the corpse. Chen Tao's eyes suddenly shrank, he turned back and glanced at the bearded man, and quietly reached out to the corpse...
(End of chapter)
