Song Siyuan paused and explained: "Is it possible that the corpse is far above the tower and has no way to get close to the soil, so it stays on the tower of the Grand Palace. In illusion, I seem to have seen some Something that looked like a human but not a human, something that looked like a corpse but not a corpse emerged from the soil, catching the Tang Dynasty’s army off guard. There are also some vines attached to this corpse, don’t you think it’s strange?”
Having said this, she motioned for everyone to look at the corpse. This corpse was very withered, with almost no traces of flesh, blood, and fat. Only the skin was left to wrap the hard skeleton. Under this condition, the skin was still not damaged at all, with only one layer. Thin vines wrapped around the skin, just like a fine fishing net wrapping the body.
They began to search for traces of vines along the end of the fishing net, and finally discovered that these vines all came from the gaps in the floor tiles above the square. Along this gap, they could see that the vines extended from the huge treasure building in front of the square.
This shows that the main body of the vines wrapped around the corpse is probably in the tower. These vines follow the lines of the bronze lamp and directly wrap the entire copper plate and fish accessories, which makes it even more weird.
Everyone's eyes were unconsciously attracted to the city gate tower in front of them!
The appearance of this tower is also in the style of a golden-roofed white tower, but the tower body is no longer made of stone. You can clearly feel the lightness of the wooden structure. The shape of the entire tower body is very strange, and the foundation is square. At the foot of the tower, a semicircular tower body is built on the square foot. It is like a semicircle, inverted on the square foot. Looking up, there is the top of the tower, which is as sharp as a bamboo shoot. The top of the tower is surrounded by A decorative nine-story eaves appeared, covered with gold paint and covered with colored glaze, about twenty or thirty meters high.
These city walls were already high in the air, and coupled with the height of the tower, the golden-roofed white tower seemed to stand out from the crowd, completely independent of all the architectural rooms of the Grand Palace. It was like a huge door god of the palace, always guarding the safety of the Grand Palace.
Song Siyuan observed the form and appearance of the tower and said: "It can also be seen from the almost semi-elliptical enlarged tower that the inside is probably a hollow structure. A tower with this structure cannot be built with stone. We The tower you see now is most likely a wooden structure, but it has a layer of stone flakes pasted on the outside to make it look like it is made of stone. If my guess is correct, what might be inside?"
"What does this mean?" Yue Guanchao asked. In his opinion, there was nothing special about this tower.
Song Siyuan knew that they could not understand the situation and patiently explained: "The tall towers we saw in the temple were more than twenty or thirty meters tall. They were entirely made of stone. It can be seen that the ancient Shanshan people had mastered the use of stone to build huge buildings." Tower technology.”
"Then if they have this technology, why did they have to use wooden structures to build the Grand Palace when they were all 20 to 30 meters tall towers? Have you ever thought about this?"
Everyone shook their heads together, they really didn't expect this.
Song Siyuan added: "Whether it is a stone structure tower or a wooden structure tower, they are similar in terms of stability. There is not much difference. There is only one point that is completely different."
In order to balance stability, stone towers will sacrifice a lot of internal space. As a result, stone towers rarely have wide spaces inside, and even some parts are completely solid. Wooden towers use the flexibility of the wooden structure and the stability of the foundation. This ensures the strength of the tower and of course allows for a larger usable space within the tower.
"I'm wondering, is there something to be stored in this wooden tower? In order to utilize the hollow space as much as possible, they abandoned the stone tower and built it with a wooden structure."
Song Siyuan's eyes lit up when she said this: "If this is really the case, then there might really be something in this tower and golden tower?" After saying this, she looked at the vines extending from the ground into the tower, with worry in her eyes. It's becoming more and more obvious.
Yue Guanchao picked up his chin, pondering his words and said, "You mean there might be something in the tower? It was this thing that smelled the corpse and directly wrapped it around the corpse, making the corpse appear completely wrapped in vines. "
Yue Guanchao's guess was obviously what he wanted to say. Song Siyuan nodded: "You probably mean what I want to say, but what I don't know is why is there this thing in this huge tower? Or is it Shan? What did the Good Queen deliberately raise to dispose of her corpse after her death? If so, does that mean that the corpses of the common people were also pulled under the ground by this kind of vine?"
This conjecture made everyone's hearts skip a beat. Judging from the hallucinations they had just experienced, the people were indeed pulled into the soil by something beneath the ground. Combined with this, the Tang Dynasty soldiers were beaten by corpses attached to vines. If you look at it off guard, the two are probably the same thing.
Realizing this, the situation becomes difficult. No matter what this thing is, it has such a large attack power and is numerous in number. It cannot be a species that was created at that time. It is very likely that it was deliberately raised under the imperial city. , which also means that these vine-shaped monsters have long been living under the rock formations of the Imperial City. They can be awakened by Queen Shanshan to activate the fish pendant to protect the city. However, in the end they really had no chance of winning. Queen Shanshan might have been afraid that the people would be captured as slaves, so she let the vines pull them all into the soil.
If this is the case, it can also explain why the Imperial City fell into the sinkhole intact. It is very likely that the vines under the Imperial City played a supporting role in the Imperial City, allowing them to slowly make an emergency landing into the sinkhole.
Xu Xiake asked again: "If that's the case, what are the living dead and demon hunters?"
Song Siyuan nodded and explained: "There is no conflict. Queen Shanshan held a ceremony and sucked their souls into some alien world. These vines captured the corpses and pulled them under the mud. Because their corpses were destroyed, the aliens If the soul of the world wants to return to the real world, it must use the carrier of the demon hunter to appear in the desert as an undead person."
Seeing that everyone was talking more and more bizarrely, Yue Guanchao quickly interrupted them: "This is a soul, and it is from another world. How many people have actually gone to that mirror space cannot be determined. They have not even gone there physically. , it’s just that the soul has passed away. Who knows whether Queen Shanshan’s sacrifice was successful? If the sacrifice was not successful, then these people may have just disappeared out of thin air, or it is very possible that they did not go to some other world, but just became some Fertilizer for vines.”
He paused and his tone became cautious: "Since their corpses can be pulled into the mud, it means that some monsters in the mud need their corpses. Maybe this is just the last thing Queen Shanshan created for them. What about the illusion? It makes them think that they have gone to another world, but in fact they are being used as nourishment by these vines. It is as if we saw the queen’s body. She was also wrapped and digested by the vines!"
Speaking of this, Yue Guanchao's face became mysterious: "Let's go and take a look inside the tower first. Maybe the mother body of the vines, or the main body of the vines, is in the tower."
The crowd couldn't come up with any results from their discussion, so they followed Yue Guanchao to the door of the tower.
This tower has only one door opening, which is divided into trapezoidal doors about three meters long and wide. The left and right doors are completely closed, and the door knocker in the middle is completely welded with a copper plate, making it impossible for anyone to enter.
This special-shaped door itself is a bit close to the door of a tomb, and the completely sealed structure further strengthens everyone's idea.
Yue Guanchao held a flashlight and looked at the copper plate that had been welded. The pattern on it was very strange, like vines intertwined with each other, forming the shape of a human skeleton. When he knocked on the copper plate, he could feel the jingling bells. It makes a sound and is very solid.
Although they don't understand what it is? Judging from the tight seal, it also indirectly proved their idea that the only wooden tower in the imperial city must contain something that was not suitable for release.
"Then do we still need to open it now?" It would be troublesome if the things inside escape. "Song Siyuan looked at the door that had been completely fixed. If it were opened, the things inside would definitely escape if they were alive. Even dead things might be in danger.
"Then we can only give it a try and see if the vine is dead or alive?"
Yue Guanchao lowered his head and looked at the ground. The vines extended along the gaps in the floor tiles to the altar.
He picked up the dagger and cut off one of the vines directly. The vines really twisted like living things. As they were cut, more tiny vines quickly sprouted, extending into other cracks in the ground, forming a whole vine-like vine again. network.
Everyone saw this scene and understood that the things in the tower were indeed living creatures, so it might be that it extended to the corpse to absorb nutrients from the corpse.
"It seems it can't be opened."
Yue Guanchao understood that no matter what these copper plates were, as long as the sealed doorway was opened, they would most likely rush out and attack living creatures. It was safer to seal the door.
Yue Guanchao assessed the current situation and said: "Now we have two ways..."
The first way is to return the same way. Without disturbing the vines, you can return to the glacier safely and then return to the ground. However, if you want to take this way, you must abandon the jade pendant, because this fish The fish pendant is already covered with vines. If they want to take out the fish pendant, they will definitely disturb the vines.
There is a second way. Taking away the fish pendants will also wake up the vines. As long as they are fast enough and get out of the glacier before the vines catch them, they can return to the ground safely. However, since the glacier is too far away from the ground, It was too far away, and they could not guarantee that it would be completely safe during this period, nor could they guarantee that they would not be caught by the vines.
When Yue Guanchao put these two paths in front of everyone, many people already had the answer in their minds.
