Along the way, with Mr. Cat as a living treasure to support them, their tense hearts relaxed a little, and they were no longer so scared when they stepped on the copper stakes.
Yue Guanchao stopped where he was and looked above his head. They stepped on the copper pile platform and walked down for tens of meters. The mouth of the well had shrunk from the size of a private house to a round spot in a water tank. If you didn't look closely, you would have thought it was the silver moon above the head.
"Everyone, let's take a rest where we are. We don't know how long we have to walk. If we have something to eat, we'll replenish it. It's too cold in the well wall, which consumes all our strength. When we encounter danger and can't run, we will Trouble."
Yue Guanchao had this intention when he saw that Song Siyuan was the first to speak out and stopped in place with Geda. After they stopped leaving, everyone else stood on their respective platforms.
It had been several hours since they entered the underground palace. During this period, they were chased all over the underground palace by dragon snakes, and they were so hungry that their hearts were pressed against their backs.
Song Siyuan knew that the belongings of those strong men were scattered and messy, and most of them had not been taken down by them.
Chao Guan's family is now empty-handed, even his thick leather jacket is gone. He will definitely not be able to take out anything.
Uncle Yu shouldn't have come down, so she deliberately pushed the housekeeper down when she came down. She didn't have time to prepare. If she wanted everyone to eat something, she had to coordinate and redistribute it. She looked at everyone:
"At this point, no matter what grievances everyone has, they are all grasshoppers on a rope. If you want to get out, you have to get the secret recipe in your hands and take everything out. Let's see how many there are. Share the things among everyone."
There was nothing wrong with what he said. Yue Guanchao took the lead in throwing out his own dry food. People who took this initiative would know what to do and handed all the dry food in the bag backpack to Song Siyuan.
"Sun-dried pork jerky, dried rolls, pancakes, milk sticks, dried tofu, and air-dried steamed buns."
Song Siyuan counted a bag full of food and counted the number of people. She kept some of these things and distributed them to everyone. Although she couldn't ensure that everyone was full, it was still possible to pad their stomachs to make them less hungry. .
After some distribution, everyone took the fried cakes and dry rolls they had prepared and mixed them with cold water to eat.
This thing needs to be placed outside. Yue Guanchao doesn't want to touch it at all, but being a hundred meters deep underground, some things can be tolerated as long as he can. A few pieces of dry food were put into the Five Zang Temple, and then soaked in cold water, and there was something in his stomach. After eating, I felt less flustered, and my strength gradually returned.
"Brother, how big is this bronze tree? It's dozens of meters tall and it's not even to the bottom yet. Do you think it grew out of the underworld? I've heard that there is a kind of ghost locust tree that grows out of the underworld. Liven up people’s souls.”
Yue Erpao turned on the flashlight and chewed the biltong in his mouth until he whimpered. These words made all the eaters stop chewing and stare with big eyes and small eyes without daring to speak.
Also, the cold atmosphere is getting heavier and heavier, and no one can avoid thinking about it.
Song Siyuan knocked the bronze tree trunk with her dagger, and the dull sound became extremely clear, like a hollow copper bell ringing and trembling.
She used a flashlight to look at the real lines and narrow leaves on the trunk. If this thing were painted, it would be no different from a real tree!
Song Siyuan understood that everyone's fear of it came from the fact that it was too similar to a tree and too tall, and it was full of unknown mysteries. She had to break through this mystery, Weiwei said seriously:
"Bronze was mostly used for sacrifices in ancient times. This bronze tree standing in the well pond obviously plays the role of a protector. It is exactly the same as the legendary Qingqiu sacred tree. However, Haidong Shengguo should not be able to produce a large number of them. Copper and bronze trees are hollow cast, which can save materials to the greatest extent and make them tall and lush, making it easy to place organs!"
"Look carefully, most of the paintings on this bronze tree trunk are patterns of gods, which symbolizes that Da Yinzun buried himself under the sacred tree to receive the blessings of the gods. In this way, this is not some ghost locust tree from the underworld."
"Such a bronze tree is better than a solid tree. It is difficult to get new clues from a solid tree by knocking. The stable center of gravity of a hollow tree must be at the root. That is to say, the closer it is to the root, the thicker it will be. Correspondingly, it will be harder to knock on it. The more dull it becomes.”
"Is this sound indeed getting duller the more you knock it?"
Thanks to Song Siyuan, Yue Guanchao picked up a dagger and kept hitting the bronze tree trunk. As expected, it made a heavy and muffled sound as they went down, which meant that they were approaching the roots of the bronze tree.
Thinking about this, the two of them couldn't help but speed up their pace, leaving everyone far behind!
He and Geda walked about twenty or thirty meters, and the roots of the bronze tree were clearly visible. Compared with the space above, the space at the bottom was actually the size of seven or eight private houses, which really shocked everyone.
On the wall two or three meters above the ground, there are two round arch holes at the front and back, one open and one closed, one closed and one closed, dripping with spring water. Further above the arch hole, thirty-six dragons are distributed along the well wall. First one!
These dragon heads are about half a person's height, about the thickness of a bucket, and raise their necks like cobras. The surface is covered with fine dragon scales. The large heads of copper basins have deer eyes and cow ears, crocodile mouths and sheep whiskers, canine teeth and snake belly. They are "self" shaped dragons. The body seems to protrude majestically from the wall, and the blood-red dragon's mouth holds a palm-sized golden dragon ball.
In addition to the dragon scales, hollow and carved auspicious cloud ribbons are twisted around the dragon body, as if wrapped in a silvery suspended shell, making the dragon head look like soaring clouds and mist, floating among the clouds, domineering and mysterious!
