Chapter 319 Giant Stone Castle

Several other people looked at the arched and square holes of different shapes and sizes on the boulder, and they could see that there used to be a door or window. Now when they looked closer, they realized that the boulder was indeed more like a

An abandoned city. From just a dozen meters away, the four walls of this giant square stone have weathered and fallen, so there is no way to reach the top.

The fat man rubbed his hands and said, "Damn it, I really want to see what's on it. Since it's a small tower and there are no visible utensils, there must be some daily necessities, right? What if there are some gold, jade and porcelain..."

Xiao Ran took out the Flying Tiger Claw from his backpack, shook it and said, "This is easy to talk about. I'll go up and take a look first."

The fat man looked at the thin rope and said happily: "Then you are the only one going up there. You have to shout whenever you see something good. There is no one else here anyway."

Xiao Ran threw down his backpack, engineer shovel and other items, leaving only the flashlight and Guanshan knife beside him, and then swung the rope and threw the Flying Tiger Claw to an edge more than ten meters high.

His movements were as light as an ape's, and he climbed onto the stone platform in two or three moves. There was an arched door right in front of him.

Xiao Ran put away the rope and walked inside with a flashlight. He saw that in this earthen room with ventilation on all sides, almost nothing was left except the original structure of the house.

Xiao Ran took a flashlight and looked around. The fat man below couldn't hold back anymore and kept shouting at the top of his lungs: "Brother Xiao! What's up there? Tell us!"

Xiao Ran poked his head out from the edge and shouted below: "There's nothing left, just an empty shell of loess, just like those shabby houses in Xiye Ancient City!"

"oh……"

The fat man's "Oh" was loud, which also amplified his disappointment and loneliness.

Xiao Ran took a look at the other side of the stone door and found that there was a corner. After turning the corner, there was a staircase leading upwards.

He climbed up the dirt stairs and reached another relatively spacious room. This room should be a large bedroom, with a wide stone bed carved directly from the boulder itself, and a large pavilion.

, it is estimated that it can accommodate at least a dozen people.

There is also a door on the other side of the room, and outside the door is a passage. There are several rooms of different sizes on both sides of the passage. It is difficult to tell what they were used for before.

Xiao Ran walked along the passage to the end and saw two more stairs leading up and down. So Xiao Ran followed the stairs and looked randomly at each room. In addition to the previous large bedroom, he also found several small rooms.

There is a bedroom and a cell divided into three compartments. Most of the other rooms have become as empty as rough houses and have no use at all.

Most of these large and small rooms, passages, and stairs are on the outside of the boulder. Perhaps the builders did not dare to dig too far into the center to prevent the boulder from collapsing.

Xiao Ran's flashlight light moved back and forth along the outer wall of the boulder, and the three people below also followed Xiao Ran around, listening to Xiao Ran report his findings from time to time.

Xiao Ran walked all the way up and finally arrived at a relatively large room, which was a hall supported by six stone pillars. On the innermost wall of the hall, there was a vague relief, and there was a square stone table in front of it.

Xiao Ran carefully shined a flashlight on the relief, and roughly saw a human figure, but on both sides of the human figure, there were five limbs on each side. This shape was already familiar to him. It seemed that this hall was another temple dedicated to Empress Xia.

, should be the main activity place for those who lived here before.

There is an arched door on the wall on both sides of the relief, and a few stairs can be vaguely seen behind it, but the way up is buried by collapsed earth and rocks.

Xiao Ran roughly guessed that maybe Tianling Sanren was not the founder of Xianniang worship, but just a preacher. After some changes occurred at the base of Xianniang Temple, he left with the living pills and the corpse of the sage.

I came here to continue to spread the worship of Xia Niang and take this opportunity to conduct those inhumane immortality research.

He quickly returned from the original route, climbed down the rope again, and told everyone else everything he saw and his conjectures. After hearing this, Hu Ba said, "It seems that we have found Tianling."

This is Sanren’s lair, we should dig him out next..."

The fat man looked around and said, "Dig? Where to dig? There are no graves near here."

Hu Bayi said: "We were spinning around with Xiao Ran just now, and you were staring at the top. Of course you didn't see anything below. Come with me."

Hu Bayi led a few people around to the south side of the boulder. Near the middle, there was a slightly raised ground. If you look carefully, you will see that it is indeed different from the surrounding ground. It looks like it was buried and piled up later.

When the fat man saw the ground, he suddenly realized: "Oh! Sit north and face south. They have arrived at their hometown. There must be nothing left to hide. At most, they can just bury them like this. But what you mean is that Tianling Sanren can do it himself."

Buried yourself?"

Hu Bayi said: "Although this place is called the Hidden God Bureau, judging from Xiao Ran's discovery, the group of people have transformed this place into another place. It is very likely that it is the same as the Xianniang Temple below. It is a place for refining elixirs and medicine for immortality."

The place is not a tomb. What is going on underneath, we can only dig it up and talk about it."

When he heard about digging a hole, the fat man got excited. He picked up the engineering shovel and shoveled toward the ground. The shovel collided with the ground and made a "ding" sound. The tip of the shovel only penetrated the ground for a few centimeters, and the soil below was already frozen solid.

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The fat man shook his sore wrist and said to Hu Bayi: "Old Hu, this thing can't be dug. I think we need to use explosives. Anyway, we can make enough now..."

Hearing that the fat man wanted to use explosives, Xiao Ran was the first to stand up and wave his hands: "No, no, this stone is almost hollowed out. If the explosives explode and the whole thing collapses, we can't guarantee that we will be able to run..."

Hu Bayi looked around with his flashlight and said: "Brother Xiao, don't worry about the explosives, but I don't want to use explosives unless it's a last resort. Logically speaking, we should be prepared to dig different ground, like ancient tombs

You have to use vinegar to ram the soil. If it was glacial frozen soil like the Kunlun Mountains back then, we would use ginger juice. If we had known that this would be the case, we should have made preparations..."

He looked at it nonchalantly, as if he was trying to think of a solution. When his flashlight shone on the stone wall opposite, Xiao Ran suddenly saw something on it, and quickly raised his flashlight to shine on it.

More than one meter above the mound, there is a cross-shaped symbol. At first glance, it looks like the marks on the trees in the pine forest, made by the black blind man.

Xiao Ran walked to the side and saw three small words carved on the side of the cross symbol: Stab here.

Xiao Ran raised the shovel and dug, and the loess fell. He looked around and happened to catch a glimpse of the Luoyang shovel in Xu's second hand. The Luoyang shovel was made of multi-section hollow iron pipes. When the shovel head was unscrewed, it became a big straw.

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He took the Luoyang shovel from Xu Er, removed the shovel head, and thrust the pointed end into the stone wall. A stream of broken soil instantly spurted out from the iron pipe.

Xiao Ran picked up the engineering shovel again and slammed the top of the iron pipe into the stone wall. After a few shovels, a dark red turbid liquid suddenly spurted out of the iron pipe and poured onto the slightly raised ground.
Chapter completed!