The ball of light in front of Song Xing rose slowly, illuminating the entire crypt.
On the side of the bronze ball, there is a head of a god as big as a hill tilted upside down, with angry eyes wide open, which makes people shudder.
The head of the statue was severely damaged. Song Xing's gaze moved up the head. The tall, headless statue stood tall and towering beside it, covered with stone chips and dust.
The eye on the left side of the statue's head is deeply sunken into a hollow. It turns out that this huge bronze sphere with a diameter of more than ten meters is the eyeball embedded in this giant statue.
The huge statue of the god standing in this underground ancient city is as tall as a giant tower. The god's head collapsed and broke thousands of years ago. The bronze eyeballs embedded in the eye sockets also rolled down and got stuck in the corridor.
There is a huge hole on the right shoulder of the statue. The hole is empty, as if it has been bitten by something.
Song Xing carefully observed the bronze eyeball in front of him and found that there were many dark red lines around the bronze eyeball, just like the traces of paint that solidified on the skin after the blood dried.
He looked up at the dome, and through his bronze eyes, he could vaguely see a giant moon hanging above his head, and the moonlight shining on the murals in the ancient temple was painted on the top of the sky.
His mind turned and he guessed that this mural was another ancient god worshiped by the snake worshipers in ancient times. Later, the snake worshipers excavated it underground. After the great flood, due to changes in the terrain, the underground temples and sacrificial halls collapsed one after another, and they were buried in the The underground temples and shrines also collapsed, and the bones of the gods buried in the statues, coffins, and altars spread to the surface, forming the green tomb organization.
The gods, ancient enemies, and other inexplicable things recorded in the Xia Dynasty Dragon Seal may all have some connection with the ancient god who has lived for countless years.
Song Xing retracted his gaze from looking at the bronze eyeball and ordered: "Don't stare at this bronze eyeball."
He didn't know whether it was the material of the eyeball or other reasons, but he felt that after staring at the bronze eyeball for a long time, he felt that a person's spirit and soul were absorbed into it, trapping him in a nightmare until death.
So he quickly reminded Hu Bayi and the others who were relatively weak in spirit.
Professor Sun moved his gaze away from the bronze eyeball and looked at the towering mountain-like statue of the god in front of him, a look of shock flashed in his eyes.
Such huge and towering statues of gods are extremely rare among ancient architectural complexes. After all, those who can build such a magnificent architectural complex would consume astronomical amounts of manpower and material resources.
"It's hard to imagine that a civilization that worshiped snakes could build such a majestic statue underground."
Song Xing said: "Although the ancients did not have the knowledge of today's people, their wisdom is definitely not inferior to that of today's people. Some of the miraculous buildings may not be as good as those of the ancients."
Then he found a huge passage in the belly of the statue, leading deeper into the ground.
There, they also found a huge long worm with red rings, lying in the dark depths, winding for an unknown amount of time.
After the Nine-Death Jingling Armor killed the insect, Professor Sun discovered that the insect was a long insect hidden deep in the ground that liked to eat dead zombies underground.
But after swallowing it, hold it half in your mouth, look for a cold cave, spit the zombie into it, and then lay eggs in the zombie's body to reproduce.
People who don't know its details will think that it is looking for a grave hole to bury ownerless corpses, so it is rumored to be a "human burying snake".
There is a record of this creature in the rubbings that Professor Sun obtained from the ruins of the Fire Nation. The Ba snake in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the most greedy by nature and can swallow wild elephants. The prototype should be this long insect.
Entering the belly of the statue, you will find a wide rock tunnel that extends endlessly into the darkness.
After walking a few more miles, I guessed I had left the Dead City area, but at the depression of the tunnel, I saw a large fluorescent swamp formed by minerals.
There is a large amount of fluorescent powder accumulated in the swamp, and there are fluorescent flying insects above and around the head. Walking in it is like walking into the Milky Way in a clear night space, with stars twinkling in the sky.
Hu Bayi and Fatty Wang had been on tenterhooks for fear of unknown dangers in the swamp, but Song Xing knew through the five ghosts' perception that there was no danger nearby.
In this way, the group of people kept moving forward in the underground cave, until the way forward was blocked by a thick masonry wall.
Every ancient brick on the wall is closely connected, and various gods and monsters are carved on the bricks, with ancient and terrifying shapes.
Song Xing raised his eyes and saw that the brick wall was so dark that he couldn't see the edge. There was an open cave passage that went deep into it. There were many patterns of people worshiping snakes painted on both sides.
Song Xing's spirit was shaken, and he went thousands of meters underground to look for the ancient gods. The truth seemed to be in this ancient temple not far away.
Will there be anything he wants here?
Professor Sun picked up the detection instrument and scanned the wall. Suddenly, a snowflake-like electromagnetic wave appeared in the center of the screen, showing that the wall structure was built thousands of years ago, or even older.
The temple of the snake worshipers is tall and majestic, with giant statues standing on all sides. The internal passage is wide and the terrain slopes downward. It seems that the entire temple is just a cave entrance. There are still colorful marks on the murals and stone statues inside, and most of them are all kinds of rare birds and exotic animals. Beasts and gods and ghosts.
Song Xing looked at the mural attentively and found that the snake worshipers' pantheon belonged to the prehistoric pantheon, which was completely different from the two major pantheons of Yan and Huang.
The totems of gods they worship are more primitive and ancient, such as pythons and ancient trees. The mural in front of them seems to depict the source of the secret on the stone tablet of the snake worshiper.
The first person to tell the secret was a woman with the head of a snake. It was coiled in a cave and seemed to be whispering. Several kings among the snake worshipers stood nearby and stepped forward to listen one by one.
"With the head of a human and the body of a snake, it doesn't look like a normal creature?" Fatty Wang felt a little strange looking at the various weird gods in the mural.
Professor Sun, however, viewed it as real history, "In ancient history, such snake women did exist."
According to legend, there were snake people in the Xia and Shang Dynasties, but they disappeared after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Snake girls are also human beings, and they are only women. There have never been snake boys. Snake girls are just like normal people when they are born. But as they grow, their bones begin to gradually degenerate, and finally only the spine and skull are left.
From then on, the woman could only crawl on the ground like a snake. Her limbs and skin were still there, but her brain was gone. She could neither cry nor laugh, let alone speak. It was probably a rare atavistic disease, no different from that of a snake. The ancients were very superstitious about the relationship and often thought that this was a sign of something strange happening when a person turned into a snake.
Above this mural was a huge mural of Quetzalcoatl, which made Song Xing suddenly realize that this snake girl seemed to be the incarnation of Quetzalcoatl in the mortal world, confiding some secret to the five snake worshipers.
There is no doubt that this secret is engraved on the stone tablet of the Snake Worshiper, a secret that can kill someone just by looking at it.
(End of chapter)
