The entrance to the basement is like a fireplace, and the blazing flames illuminate the basement.

Roger saw it clearly.

There is a dark hole on the wall behind the cabinet, and I don’t know where it leads.

Inside the cave, a cold wind containing water vapor blew out.

It's fresh air.

Obviously this road can lead to the outside.

An escort rushed to the entrance of the basement and picked up a few burning wooden sticks.

Then there was an escort who followed the mysterious stranger into the dark cave.

Roger also took a torch from the guard and then stepped into the cave.

In the cave is a wooden ladder that goes down against the wall.

Roger was not in a hurry to go down. He stood on the wooden ladder and held the torch to observe.

He walked down the ladder first and looked down. He saw that there was a reflection of fire under the ladder, which should be a surface of water.

He looked around again and found that it was very empty, as if it was a huge cave.

Except for the wall behind him, within the range of the torch, he did not see any other walls. Apart from the aperture, there was only darkness.

But he saw several pillars, arranged neatly.

These thick Corinthian round stone columns carved from white marble are typical Greek stone columns.

Roger saw that the pillars were about 8,9 meters high from the water.

There are exquisite stigmas on the top of the column.

Each stigma is carved with exquisite reliefs, but each has its own characteristics and is not the same, but it is all typical Greek carvings.

The stigma supports a huge brick vault.

Roger went down the wooden ladder.

So the "crackling" sound of flames gradually weakened from the entrance of the basement.

What sounded in his ears was full of water drops falling from the water surface, with a crisp "tick" sound.

When Roger felt a cold under his feet, he knew he had stepped into the water.

He continued down a few steps, until the end of the wooden ladder.

He stepped on the solid ground.

At this time, the water flooded his calf.

Everyone got off the wooden ladder.

Then, everyone was like tourists on a tour, following the mysterious stranger and wading forward.

Roger just walked through water, passing by stone pillars after stone.

The sound of water dispersed in this quiet space with only the sound of water droplets, and then an echo came from a seemingly far away.

After walking for a while, Roger looked back and saw that the wall was already hidden in the darkness.

There is no boundary in the aperture of the torch, only neatly arranged stone pillars.

Roger felt that he had walked into a stone pillar without a forest.

He understood that there were no natural caves here at all, and this was a man-built underground palace of huge scale.

Roger asked the stranger curiously: "Where is this?"

His voice seemed to be amplified in this empty underground space, and then, he seemed to hear an echo.

He thought, how big is this place?

The stranger introduced in a proud tone:

"This is the underground water palace of Yerebatan. Nearly 500 years ago, Emperor Justinian, who called 7,000 slaves, built on the ruins of the church."

Roger calculated that it was built more than 500 AD.

He asked, "Why do you need to build such a palace? It's too wet and is not suitable for living."

"This is not for people to live in. It is a water palace. It is just used to store water. When it is full, it can ensure that people in the city drink for a month."

Roger thought, that was an underground reservoir.

He thought the Romans really had ideas.

He remembered that in some places in later generations, he proposed to build a sponge city.

It seems to be collecting rainwater from the ground and storing it in the underground reservoir.

At that time, he thought that this idea was very advanced.

I really didn't expect that in more than 500 AD, someone had already built an underground reservoir.

But Roger still has a little doubt.

He said: "Why not build a ground reservoir directly? Isn't it more convenient to build it in this way?"

The stranger said: "This water palace also has a function, which can be used as a secret passage when the enemy is besieged.

"The emperor and nobles can escape through this water palace in an emergency.

“Just like we do now.”

Then they stopped talking.

The surroundings immediately became quiet and distant, mysterious and hazy.

Suddenly, Roger felt something hit his feet.

He stopped and looked down with a torch.

He saw a group of fish, leisurely shuttled and leisurely.

Roger knew that these fish were the owners who lived in this palace.

He asked the stranger again: "You built an underground water palace just to save water and escape. Is it necessary to carve such exquisite relief?"

Roger continued with a joke: "Does these fleeing emperors and nobles need to enjoy these exquisite carvings while escaping? Is it to relieve the depression when escaping?"

The stranger said: "This is not specially carved. These stone pillars and stones were moved from the temples in the Antatolia region. This was what they looked like before they were moved."

As Roger walked, he suddenly felt that this place seemed familiar.

He thought, had he been here before?

This is impossible.

Then he remembered that "007 in Istanbul", "The Mysterious City of Secrets", and "Dante Code" had all taken scenes here.

There is also the game "Dark Dungeon" I have played myself. The underground palace in it is said to be referenced by this palace.

Roger thought about this and watched, but didn't notice that he had taken the wrong path without realizing it.

Fortunately, he soon discovered something was wrong.

But when he turned around and was about to catch up with the team.

Sudden.

He saw a pair of huge eyes staring at him.

It was a huge woman's face, as tall as his whole person, lying on his side, looking at him horizontally.

There is no hair on the woman's head, it is full of poisonous snakes.

There are no pupils in the eyes, just a piece of stone gray.

Roger was startled.

But then, he looked carefully and found that it was just a stone sculpture.

A relatively short column was placed underneath a cube stone about 2 meters square.

On the surface of this square stone, Medusa's face is embossed.

There is more than one stone like this.

Roger noticed that there was another one that was carved more exquisitely and realistically.

He looked at the Medusa portrait and put it upside down.

Her hair was half soaked in water like a poisonous snake.

Under the shaking fire, the reflections of the poisonous snakes in the water seemed to come alive.

Then, Medusa reflected in the water, her face twisted.

It seemed that she was about to wake up and was about to open her eyes.

Roger felt a cold wind with moisture blew on his back.

It seems to be the breath of some kind of creature.
Chapter completed!