Ye Qiong pinched his thigh fiercely.
The strong pain that shot straight to his forehead was enough to prove that all this was not his imagination.
The height of this stone gate is about five meters, which is not too high compared to the city walls and gates built by some tribes outside.
The top of the stone door is arched, and on the top are several hieroglyphics, very large ones, each about half a meter in diameter, and they are carved like the dragon-shaped patterns below. In the middle In the ravines, you can also see the dark green rust stains.
Ye Qiong first looked up at the top few words, and there were two that he could recognize directly.
One is the turtle and the other is the moon.
Ye Qiong still has some impressions of hieroglyphs. This thing is difficult to say, but to put it simply, it is actually simple.
Hieroglyphs use lines to describe the shape of things.
It is a purely natural method of making characters. Many civilizations have figured this out, but the characters after evolution will develop in different directions.
So if there were only those graphic words on this stone door, Ye Qiong wouldn't think there was anything strange about it. It was probably just a tribe that he had no contact with.
But if there is a dragon-shaped pattern underneath these hieroglyphs, it will be different.
Looking further down, the dragon-shaped pattern on the stone door appeared before Ye Qiong's eyes.
But overall, there are still some differences between this dragon-shaped pattern and the one in Ye Qiong's memory.
It's not the kind of coiled dragon or five-clawed golden dragon, but a very ancient round dragon, that is...
First there is a circle, like a giant snake coiling itself up, and in the center is a dragon head. This dragon head does not have the details of the dragon's beard, but you can see the dragon's horns, eyes and open dragon's mouth.
Although it was a bit abstract, after Ye Qiong saw this pattern, he immediately compared it with the dragon-shaped patterns in his mind, and quickly found some clues.
This pattern is even older than the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Staring at the dragon-shaped pattern on the stone door, Ye Qiong continued to be stunned until Ye Tianling came over.
Seemingly noticing Ye Qiong's abnormality, Ye Tianling also looked at the stone door after walking in, and asked curiously: "Is there anything different about this pattern?"
"It's hard to say...it's hard to say, let's go in and have a look!"
Ye Qiong replied lightly, then took a step back and waved his hands at the two soldiers beside him.
The two warriors holding long weapons each took a step forward, placed their hands on the stone door, and began to push hard.
The stone door was not stuck, and it seemed quite heavy. However, after the two warriors exerted their strength, the stone door was slowly pushed open.
The scene inside the city wall appeared in the eyes of Ye Qiong and Ye Tianling.
The lights were still dim, and some buildings could be seen within the city walls.
Neither high nor short, it is generally on the same level as the surrounding city walls.
Ye Qiong suddenly thought that the stone steps outside the cliff should have been built by the people living here, or the tribe.
It's just that why there are hieroglyphs and the round dragon pattern on their door is something Ye Qiong can't understand for the time being.
In order to find out, Ye Qiong decided to take the soldiers in to take a look.
For safety reasons, not all the team went in, and four soldiers were left guarding the door.
After hanging barrel grease lamps on the walls on both sides of the stone gate, in the empty cave, this building that had been silent for countless years lit up its eyes like a giant beast waking up.
Four warriors stood on the left and right sides of the stone gate, holding their weapons tightly to prevent any magical beasts from suddenly jumping out of the surrounding area.
Ye Qiong led the remaining warriors into the tribe hidden in the cave. A torch was added to the light source again, and the entire team gathered together and formed a triangle around the city wall.
About an hour later, a light source appeared in another direction.
I walked around the city wall, and when I came back, I was on the other side.
This time, Ye Qiong also found some interesting patterns inside the city wall, which asked Ye Qiong to connect this tribe with himself.
I had to contact him, because after Ye Qiong entered here, he always felt...
This should be the tribe where I was born. The architectural style inside is really oriental.
However, after wandering around, Ye Qiong also confirmed one thing, that is, he did not return to the earth mysteriously. It was still the snow star here. Within the city wall, many footprints of the Lielin Weasel were found.
In addition to the footprints of the Lielin Weasel, there are also the bones of some large monsters.
This thing definitely doesn’t exist on earth.
For this tribe, Ye Qiong's curiosity has reached an extreme level. He wants to immediately dispatch a thousand-man troop from the central tribe to station in and study it carefully.
Because it is likely to solve a problem that has troubled me for more than ten years, that is, whether I traveled through time, or came to Snow Star for some other reason...
There are words and totems, which means that this is a tribe with the seeds of civilization. Although there is nothing with a sense of technology around the city wall, Ye Qiong has already hidden this in the cave. The tribal relics inside are divided into the most important positions.
More important than any sub-base or tribe, the Red Flame Leopard Tribe and the Na Ning Tribe, together, are not as important in Ye Qiong's heart as the ruins of this tribe.
After wandering around for a while, the team returned to Shimen again, and Ye Qiong also had some preliminary plans in mind.
As for whether to continue the rest of the journey and the matter of the King Lielin Weasel, I am not in a hurry.
The snow star's winter continues to lengthen, and the time left for mankind seems to have entered a countdown in a sense.
If the tribe does not develop enough strength to fly to the blue mother star before the end of this countdown, then moving the tribe underground seems to have become the only option and the last resort.
The choice of slow death...
It is actually not that difficult for a human tribe to survive underground for a long time. As long as there are sufficient supplies and food, there is no big problem in surviving for a few years or more.
If winter is infinitely long and spring never comes, then first of all the temperature on Snow Planet's surface will inevitably drop to below minus 100 degrees, or even lower.
At this temperature, without high-tech protective equipment and relying on things like animal skins and clothing, you will freeze to death in a short time if you go out.
But below the surface, in caves like this, the temperature is not too low. It can even remain above zero and is in a constant temperature state. It will not be too hot in summer.
The ultimate problem is that of food and water sources.
After discovering this magical tribe, Ye Qiong was not very interested in the King Lielin Weasel for the time being.
Inside the cave, not only was it impossible to judge the direction, but it was also impossible to calculate time.
Now Ye Qiong and the soldiers can only rely on the body's biological clock to roughly estimate whether it is day or night in the outside world.
As for the specific time, there is still no way to calculate it.
In the central tribe, there are some things that Ye Qiong has tinkered with for timing, such as hourglasses and the like, which can be used to count down in a short time, but it is impossible to achieve accurate timing that exceeds one day. If you use timing tools such as hourglasses or water drops to calculate a day or even longer, the volume is still very large.
The team of twenty people temporarily stopped at this mysterious tribal ruins inside the cave, and had no intention of continuing to go deeper.
Ye Qiong wanted to study this site carefully.
The team began to set up a temporary camp outside the stone gate facing the direction they came from.
The entire tribe's city wall, like the dragon-shaped pattern, is also circular, with a diameter of about three hundred meters, and is still very large. Although the buildings are not high, the gaps between them are very small, so it is possible to live inside. Human beings are still very large.
While the team was setting up a rest area, Ye Qiong once again led two soldiers into the tribe.
This time, Ye Qiong led the soldiers directly into the buildings within the city wall.
Three figures and three light sources lit up the buildings inside the city wall.
I have circled around the outside, but I have also discovered something, that is, the buildings inside are all of the same scale, as if they were built by copying and pasting.
seem……
There are no partitions and no functional divisions.
There is a gap of about three meters between the two buildings, like an alley, crisscrossing the building complex.
After Ye Qiong walked in with the two soldiers, he even wondered if he had entered some kind of maze.
It was actually fine when we first entered, but after walking forward for a while, it became difficult to discern the direction.
But the good thing is that although the buildings inside are all similar in appearance, the alleys, that is, the criss-crossing roads, are somewhat differentiated. Some intersections have wooden stakes to guide the way.
The buildings on both sides are all made of stones directly piled up and are very well preserved, as if there are still people living inside.
But what is certain now is that this tribal ruins have been abandoned for a long time, and the bones of the monsters on the outer city walls have been completely weathered, and even have signs of petrification.
There is no wind or rain in this big hole. Such a building can be preserved for a very long time as long as it does not encounter a major earthquake.
Three rays of light and shadow shuttled through the building complex.
After walking about a hundred meters forward, the scene in front of him changed again. The dense buildings began to become sparse, and an open area could be seen not far away.
Ye Qiong held a torch and led two soldiers around a building. His vision suddenly became empty. After his pupils adapted to the environment, he saw a large building in the distance.
The entire outer area, that is, the circle of buildings next to the circular city wall, is a dense construction area.
Viewed from the air, it looks like...
A model of the Bagua array. If you continue to walk towards the center, the buildings will become sparse, and the most central area is where Ye Qiong and the two warriors are standing now.
In front of them was a building nearly thirty meters tall.
Looking at the building in front of him, Ye Qiong could not help but curl his lips again. It was still somewhat familiar because it was in the shape of a tower.
It is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. It is surrounded by a vacant area without any area. It is all paved with stone slabs. From Ye Qiong and the two soldiers, they need to go up three steps to enter the stone slab area.
There are many round things appearing in this strange tribal ruins.
The circular dragon pattern, the circular city wall on the periphery, the high-density circular building complex, and now after entering the central area, another circular tower appears.
Surrounding this circular tower is a stone square.
If Ye Qiong and the others had a powerful light source when they came over, they would have been able to see the tower directly from a long distance away.
But if the light source is not powerful, you have to enter the tribal ruins and come to the central area before you can see it.
In the central tribe, two pyramid residential areas have been built, so Ye Qiong and the warriors have a certain ability to withstand large buildings.
However, when the three of them walked a few steps forward, climbed three steps, and entered the stone square, they were still deeply shocked by the tower-shaped building in front of them.
Intuition told Ye Qiong that this tribal ruins might not really be used for the tribe to live.
Because there is nothing in it that is convenient for the daily life of the tribe. If this area was moved by his own tribe, Ye Qiong would never build so many useless buildings on the periphery. Those buildings about five meters high, More like...
To store things.
So the tower-shaped building in front of us is for the tribe to live?
Ye Qiong could only think this way for the time being. Looking at the ten-story behemoth in front of him, Ye Qiong was not in a hurry to take the soldiers in because he felt a little uneasy in his heart.
What kind of tribe would choose to live in this kind of environment for a long time?
Although the current external environment of Snow Star is already very harsh, especially in winter, humans can still survive the cold winter by storing supplies and food in summer.
How did you persevere when you just moved into a place like this, without the light of a star or the wind and rain?
Problems with food and supplies can actually be brought in through the outside world, but without the light of stars, after a long time, the body will have various problems. The human body cannot photosynthesize, but some trace elements in the body must absorb some stars. Light can be synthesized normally.
Go out regularly to collect scenery?
Maybe that's a way, but in this case, this circular tribal ruins seems to be no different from a prison.
Or maybe...
Is it a prison?
Those two hieroglyphs on the stone gate outside, to this tribe, mean prison?
A series of question marks appeared in Ye Qiong's mind, turned into some information points, and stored in the brain, but in a short period of time, it seemed that there was no way to sort them out.
If you want to connect these information points together, you must explore more areas and obtain more information points.
"Young Patriarch...Why is this big house in front so weird?" A soldier looked at the round tower in front and muttered next to Ye Qiong.
