Before they finished speaking, the engineers took out the climbing rope, knotted the rope on the imitation beam above their heads, and threw it into the hole along the entrance. They pulled it down a few times to make sure it could withstand the weight of an adult, then they went over and replied: "Boss, you two." The rope has been knotted and ready to go down."
The old bandit originally wanted to go down first, but suddenly he looked at Yue Guanchao and the others: "Little brother, you see I have a small number of people. You might as well go down with me. You will naturally have a share of what I will get."
What Zhang Han was afraid of was that once they entered the cave, people outside the cave would deliberately cause harm. It was not convenient to say these words now, so he had to twist them into other meanings. Yue Guanchao knew it and said: "Well, we have to spend thousands of years anyway." After the ancient clam is taken care of, we can go down together."
After finishing speaking, Yue Guanchao and Zhang Hansheng slipped into the cave first, and the others followed the rope and followed their steps into the cave space. Without the light in the temple, the eyes were dark, and the smell of salty earth was lingering at this moment. It pours into the nostrils and makes people dizzy.
Yue Guanchao pulled the rope and turned on the flashlight, scanning the surroundings with light. According to his observations, the space under the cave was countless times larger than the temple. It could even be said to be the same size as the platform of the entire Soul Palace.
Scanning farther with the flashlight, you can clearly see that the rock wall is divided into two layers by a black iron beam. Below the beam is a rock wall that is as rugged as the original mountain wall, but above the beam it is flat and regular, as if it has been built. The stone wall is surrounded by huge beams standing out of the water, directly supporting the top stone wall.
This kind of space is like adding a giant foundation to the ancient clam's nest, forming a circular stone dome, completely trapping it!
Yue Guanchao estimated that the tower was at least fifty meters tall. It was like a green-gray bamboo shoot. It had a sharp top with wide legs and rounded arcs. The tower body was completely sealed with yellow mud and green bricks. The outer wall was covered with cast-gold branches. Among the countless golden branches, you could see the shape of the loop. The staircase fits the tower body, like a giant snake snaking around the outer wall, extending all the way to the base of the tower.
They climbed down about twenty or thirty meters and landed in the spire room!
After landing, Yue Guanchao carefully observed the surroundings. The place they were standing on was on the top floor of the corpse tower. It was about the size of a private house, with arches on all sides and stairs to go down. It was like a pavilion on a high mountain. Standing here, you can directly overlook it. Ancient clam nest.
If the giant nest is viewed as a circle, the base of the tower is located exactly in the south, corresponding to the hole above the head. Directly north of the giant tower is a rift valley, which is like a wedge-shaped awl tearing apart the giant nest, and there is a continuous underground river. Flowing into the cracks.
Between the giant tower and the rift valley is the underground lake where the thousand-year-old clam lives!
Gee, this lake occupies almost two-thirds of the giant nest. It can be said that except for the shore where the tower is built, the rest is all lake water. Otherwise, it is also a small tidal flat with shallow lake water flowing ripples, which can be seen Aquatic plants, fish and shrimps swim among them.
There are more clam shells of different sizes on the beach!
These clamshells are as big as a roof, as medium as a granary, and as small as a water tank. They are like broken mineral pigments. They are piled up in a mess on the beach and extend to the mounds on the shore. They are covered with moss and overgrown weeds, and there are often giant clamshells. The hot mist from the lake floats to the beach, stirring up flying insects among the moss and grass. There are bright and dim lights flashing in and out, which is indescribably weird and strange.
While Zhang Hansheng and others were chipping away at the golden tree branches, Song Siyuan looked around and said, "This Soul Palace should have been a clam nest. After Li Tang discovered the clam nest, he used keel beam technology to cover the entire nest. Build a square platform and build a new palace."
"If we hadn't blown up the corpse tower, we might not have been able to discover this thousand-year-old clam nest. Look at the shore behind us. It's connected to the surrounding tidal flats. It's all the shells of giant clams. This is no longer the nest of the thousand-year giant clam. lair, but a giant clam graveyard.”
"Giant Clam Cemetery?"
Everyone became curious about this statement!
Song Siyuan continued to explain: "Yes, I thought there was only one giant clam locked up here. Now it turns out that there is more than one giant clam here. It is probably the grave of all giant clams. Combined with the fact that the giant clams disappeared from the ground Judging from the situation, they are likely to gather in similar places after coming underground."
The era when giant clams lived should be the ancient times with a warm climate. At that time, the Sichuan-Sichuan Basin was completely the Earth Sea. They relied on the Earth Sea and could survive anywhere in Sichuan and Sichuan.
Over tens of thousands of years, the climate has become colder, geological movements have continued to uplift mountains and change rock formations. The water levels in basins have gradually receded, forming various tidal flats. Large areas of lakes have disappeared, and the habitat of giant clams has continued to shrink. They started walking deeper into the lake.
After the shamans were expelled into the southwest, the situation became more serious. Not only did they have to face the deterioration of their habitat, but they also had to face the pursuit of humans. Some giant clam groups had to continue to move to deep water caves.
The Sichuan-Sichuan Basin is the Sea of Earth, and the mountains around it are destined to be eroded by the Sea of Earth, and caves and caves will appear. Song Siyuan has guessed before that the Wanyan Cave may be caused by underground water erosion, and then the water level drops to expose the ground. Now there will be another one. This Ten Thousand Eyes Cave is probably the nest dug by the giant clam!
