Chapter 119: Underground Palace
The next day, Zhang Jiayong and his friends came to the abandoned mine mining area again. The weather today was a bit weird. It was a sunny day with bright sunshine, but after they entered the mine area, it suddenly became dark clouds.
The dark clouds make people feel a little depressed. Some routes ahead require turning on the lights to see clearly.
This time, the three people who were preparing to go to the mine were Zhang Jiayong, Zhang Xian and Zuo Xiong. After Xiao Gao returned last night, he suddenly had a high fever and was in the hospital for infusion. As for Lu Dandan, he was feeling a little uncomfortable, maybe because of his period, so Zhang Jiayong asked her to stay in the room to rest.
When Zhang Jiayong saw Zuo Xiong take off boxes of equipment from the car, he was stunned. Is this guy planning to arm himself as Iron Man?
Zuo Xiong wore a watch-like object on his left and right wrists, a rubber ring on his head, a black vest, a black box backpack on his back, and a pair of black rubber shoes on his shoes.
"I heard you say so cautiously yesterday. If you don't prepare well, I'm afraid I will never return!" Looking at Zhang Jiayong who was stunned, Zuo Xiong said with a smile.
Zhang Jiayong shrugged and said that it had nothing to do with him, and you could do whatever you want. Then he and Zhang Xian also tied ropes, and the three of them were about to descend into the mine.
During the descent, the situation was similar to yesterday, and no big accident happened. However, Zhang Jiayong heard the whimpering sounds of some wild beasts silence, and it was a bit like the whimpering sound of strong wind blowing through the crack of the window.
"Xian, do you feel that today is much wetter than yesterday?"
After reaching the bottom, Zhang Jiayong stepped on the ground and found that water was seeping out. Yesterday was not like this.
Zhang Xian nodded with a serious look. It seemed that this trip to the mine would not go too smoothly.
"Why are you two so serious? Don't scare me?" Zuo Xiong swallowed and looked at the two with a serious expression. He suddenly felt a little regretful.
His original intention was to come down to have fun, because he stayed in the institution almost every day, and the shutter broke, so it was rare to come out once. Moreover, there was no danger in Zhang Jiayong and the others coming down before, so he seemed to have come down to see it in person.
"Your high-tech is almost armed with yourself as a super soldier, are you still afraid of a ball?" Zhang Jiayong rolled his eyes speechlessly.
Then, the three of them got on the mine cart and advanced deeper. After a while, they arrived at the cliff. The three of them followed yesterday's route and arrived opposite the cliff.
"Xian, can you still feel the familiar smell of yesterday?" Zhang Jiayong asked.
"I can always feel that since I entered the mining area, this familiar aura has been lingering around me, but I cannot determine the specific location of that aura now." Zhang Xian said.
"Did you meet that 'ghost' here yesterday?" Zuo Xiong interrupted in a low voice.
Zhang Jiayong nodded, and then he was surprised to find that Zuo Xiong took out a candle and lit it. Not only that, this guy also took out a bowl and filled it with water.
"What are you doing?" Zhang Jiayong asked.
"I'm warding off evil spirits. Have you ever seen ghost blowing lights? If the candle is turned off, it means there is something unclean here! And this bowl of water means that the well water does not interfere with the river water, which means that we have no intention of hitting it.
Trouble that 'ghost'." Zuo Xiong explained seriously.
Zhang Jiayong took a deep breath and wanted to add a big foot to the second guy. What does this mean? I have read too many tomb robbers? Zhang Jiayong discovered that since he arrived in Mengchuan County, Zuo Xiong has shown more and more of the second guys.
"Put the bowl and candles away, and we continue to move forward." Zhang Jiayong said.
"Oh." Zuo Xiong said lightly, then poured out the water in the bowl in a frustration and took the bowl into his backpack.
However, when he was about to blow out the candle, something strange happened and the candle went out by itself!
"Candle, the candle is out!" Zuo Xiong exclaimed.
Zhang Jiayong frowned and saw the process of extinguishing the candle. It was very strange. It was not that the flame slowly became smaller and extinguished, nor that the flame was swayed and then extinguished by the wind. Instead, the flame seemed to disappear out of thin air! It was just like that, it disappeared directly, just in the blink of an eye.
All the tricks in tomb robbery novels are true? Are there really ghosts here? But this is just an abandoned mine, although it may also be an unfinished imperial tomb.
"Xian, do you feel the familiar aura approaching?" Zhang Jiayong asked.
"No, but I think something is staring at us." Zhang Xian was cautiously alert and his expression became even more nervous.
The three of them stood on their backs and stood there for more than ten minutes, but no danger came.
"Continue moving forward?" Zhang Xian asked.
"It's not a big deal to stand here, keep moving forward. How are you? Do you want to go back first?" Zhang Jiayong asked at Zuo Xiong.
Zuo Xiong shook his head and expressed his desire to advance and retreat with Zhang Jiayong and the others. What a joke? When walking back alone at this time, wouldn’t that scare him to death? He doesn’t have the courage.
So the three of them continued to move forward. The space below the mine was quite large, which was related to the fact that it might have been an abandoned imperial tomb before.
On the way forward, Zhang Jiayong discovered some vegetation and special insects, and even some small animals similar to four-legged snakes appeared. It seems that the ecological environment here is quite complete and unique.
Moreover, as the air humidity becomes deeper and deeper, some visible accumulation of water appears on the ground.
At this time, a small pool appeared in front of him, but considering that it was underground, some water dripped here along the roots of the vegetation, forming a pool, which was normal.
"Wait a minute! There is something in the pool!" Zhang Jiayong was about to step over the pool, but Zhang Xian grabbed him.
"Things? What?" Zhang Jiayong was puzzled. What other monsters could be found in a small pool with a larger washbasin?
Zuo Xiong took out a metal stick from his backpack and then rushed into the pool. Sure enough, a pair of black small eyes emerged from the water surface of the pool, which were only the size of a soybean.
"I'll go, what's this thing?" Because this thing is relatively small, although it's a bit weird, Zhang Jiayong and others are not too scared.
The thing crawled out of the pool, and had four small feet and a tail. The skin was dark brown and the head was a little yellow-brown, especially the circle around the eyes.
"This thing looks like a giant salamander." Zuo Xiong said, holding a metal stick again
Pointed the little thing.
Suddenly, the little thing that looked like a giant salamander opened its mouth and spewed out a column of water and shot towards Zuoxiong.
Zhang Jiayong reacted quickly and pushed Zuo Xiong away. The water column fell on the vegetation not far away, making a whispering sound. The vegetation that was poured by the water quickly turned yellow and withered.
The water spurted out by this little thing is poisonous!
Zhang Jiayong picked up a big stone from the side and smashed it at the little thing, but the little thing was very agile and slid back to the small pool, and then disappeared!
Zhang Jiayong took the metal stick from Zuo Xiong's hand and tidied it into the small pool, but he could not find the little thing again.
After this incident, the three people's pace of progress slowed down and became more cautious. Even if it was the walls on both sides, they would look at them a few more times. Something next to them suddenly jumped out of the wall, causing harm to them.
Zhang Jiayong and his team passed through a very long tunnel, and then the front gradually became wider, and they finally came to a clearing.
Zhang Jiayong looked up at the surroundings. He felt that this place looked like a certain hall, with a height of more than ten meters. There were some strange and uncensored portrayals on the ground. I don’t know if it was a text or a pattern.
"This is..." Zhang Xian squatted down suddenly and stroked a pattern on the ground, as if he was trapped in some memory.
"Xian, what is this?" Zhang Jiayong asked.
Zhang Xian did not answer immediately. After a long time, he said: "This is one of our secret codes. The group of people who followed me to Devil Mountain at that time. We agreed on the secret codes to prevent us from finding each other when we were lost."
Zhang Jiayong leaned over and looked at the mark. It was a shield-like pattern. There was also a cross star symbol in the middle of the shield.
"Did you say that you have any companions here? They left a mark." Zhang Jiayong felt a little confused. Could it be that Devil Mountain is really underground again?
"I speculate that there may be some passage in Devil Mountain and you can come here. Maybe, Devil Mountain is really near this abandoned mining area!" Zhang Xian expressed his opinion and had recovered from a faint sadness.
"You guys come here. It seems that there are some words explaining something." At this time, Zuo Xiong's voice alarmed Zhang Jiayong and Zhang Xian.
Zhang Jiayong and Zhang Xian ran to Zuo Xiong. On the wall, they saw some words, which were some ancient words, but in fact they could not be considered ancient words, they were all traditional characters.
"What a cruel heart, he actually... his life should not be lost... the curse of death..." Zhang Jiayong pronounced the words that he could still see clearly, intermittently, and didn't know what the specific meaning was.
"Hey, this is..." Suddenly, Zuo Xiong discovered something like a mechanism and pressed it down.
When Zhang Jiayong discovered it and wanted to stop it, it was too late, and the ground became trembling, as if an earthquake had occurred.
Several people found that they were getting closer and closer to the top and were about to touch the stone wall above their heads. When they were still four or five meters away from the stone wall above their heads, they finally stopped.
Then, two stone gates were opened directly in front of them, which was a very large underground palace.
In a trance, everyone saw a scene of bells singing and eating at the tripod.
Chapter completed!