Near the entrance, Xia Yanzhen saw many people kneeling on the ground. They stood upright and raised their hands high, as if they were worshiping.
All of these people were dead mummies, the size of which was the same as that of an ordinary person like him.
It does not match the huge buildings around it.
"Is this a temple and palace built to worship giants?" Xia Yanzhen walked in through the stone pillar gate.
Along the way, there were mummies like this kneeling down in worship.
Soon, he arrived inside the building.
This is an empty hall. On the flat ground, a large number of mummies are kneeling on the ground, with their hands spread upward, as if they are hugging something, or praying or calling.
After seeing the thing in the main hall, Xia Yanzhen knew why these mummies were holding their hands up and embracing each other.
Because they are indeed worshiping something giant.
In the main hall, there is a huge stone seat.
Sitting on the stone pedestal was a gigantic figure over ten meters tall.
At the foot of this behemoth, a large number of mummies were surrounded in circles.
These mummies are all in the same posture, worshiping the giant creature on the stone throne.
This behemoth is also a mummy.
The head has a strange shape, the upper part looks like a deer's head, including the antlers are clearly visible.
The lower part is a person hanging upside down.
The upper part of the body is no different from a human being, with hands like a human being - but with a total of six fingers.
In the lower part, the legs are recurved and have the shape of animal hooves.
In the hands of the huge deer-headed corpse, there is also a mummified corpse, and judging from the movements, it seems that it is stuffing it into the mouth.
"Eating?"
Xia Yanzhen couldn't help but think.
Maybe he saw it wrong. The lower part of the head did not grow a person, but was eating a person.
However, before it was completely swallowed, a huge accident occurred, killing everyone and the giant deer-headed monster in an instant.
Everything is frozen here, faithfully presenting the picture of the past.
For Xia Yanzhen, the problem is that ancient ruins, ancient people and ancient monsters have all been found.
What about ancient relics?
This hall is spacious, empty, and has no unnecessary decorations.
Xia Yanzhen walked behind the stone seat and saw nothing more than people (food) worshiping.
Behind the stone base is a wall.
Turning back, Xia Yanzhen focused his attention on the deer-headed monster again.
He walked over and punched the hoof of the deer-headed monster corpse.
Regardless of whether this deer-headed monster was powerful in person, it has now become a mummy, and has become quite fragile after years of ravage——
At least in front of Xia Yanzhen, this corpse was fragile.
The hoof was shattered, and cracks ran up the leg, covering the entire body of the deer-headed monster.
Xia Yanzhen came to the other hoof and punched it again.
The entire deer-headed monster shattered into pieces under this punch, turning into real corpse fragments.
"...Is this a living thing?"
Looking at what appeared among the corpses, Xia Yanzhen frowned.
There is a black object in the deer-headed monster's body.
At first glance, it looks like a box, and there are even lines on it.
Is there such a thing in a normal organism?
Could it be the special stone of the deer-headed monster?
Xia Yanzhen jumped onto the remains of the stone base and reached out to touch the thing with an edge that was about half a meter long.
Information emerges:
【Ancient Relics】
[The mysterious object from the ancient ruins contains powerful power and is the crystallization of some kind of power.]
[It can be used as an energy core to provide energy for many devices and equipment, or to upgrade and strengthen them.]
"Sure enough, it is an ancient relic." Xia Yanzhen tried to pick up the "black box" in front of him. After holding the bottom with his hands and lifting it up, even he felt its considerable weight.
Jumping down from the stone pedestal, accompanied by a sound.
The flat ground beneath his feet was shattered.
This shows the weight of ancient relics.
"Think about it carefully, isn't this just stone or coal?" Xia Yanzhen glanced at the wreckage behind him and suddenly thought.
When he saw the ancient relics, his first reaction was that they had a "sense of technology" and were not naturally formed in living organisms.
But after reading the information introduced, I felt that ancient relics, oil and coal are essentially the same.
The most widely accepted explanation for the formation of petroleum is biological sedimentation into oil.
Creatures are usually thought of as beings that lived in ancient oceans or lakes.
Coal evolved from plants buried underground.
All three can provide energy and be used as "energy".
The difference is that ancient relics can also be used to upgrade and evolve - I don't know how this is done.
In short, as long as we treat it as something like petroleum and coal, the original sense of disobedience of having a "technological creation" in the living body disappears.
The remains of animals and plants after death will evolve into things like oil and coal.
After the deer-headed monster dies, isn't it normal for "ancient relics" to be found in the corpse?
Once you accept this setting, everything becomes reasonable.
Because the space was blocked, it was impossible to put this thing in. Xia Yanzhen put the ancient relic on his shoulders and walked all the way back to the steps in a water-resistant posture.
Putting on his helmet, he used his free hand to lend some strength on the steps above, and climbed up.
The weight of the ancient relics is indeed not light, but it is not so heavy that Xia Yanzhen cannot bear it.
All the way up, climbing hundreds of meters in height, Xia Yanzhen returned to the top.
"call--"
Putting down the ancient relics, he moved his slightly sore right shoulder.
Afterwards, Xia Yanzhen picked up the ancient relics again and continued to move forward.
Soon, he returned to where the mining machine was. After putting the ancient relics into the cockpit, Xia Yanzhen started the mining machine and found that the moving speed of this thing was almost zero.
Moreover, the metal shell outside the cockpit stopped moving.
This metal shell is the key to mining and is equivalent to a drill bit.
Without this drill, the mining machine cannot return to the mine hall.
You know, the mining machine fell down.
You have to dig back up through the rock wall next to it, and then you can go back through the tunnel dug when you came here.
"It looks like we're going to move back little by little."
Xia Yanzhen came out of the mining machine.
Suddenly, he saw a round ball in the middle of the mining machine, which opened on its own, as if inviting Xia Yanzhen to put the ancient relics inside.
The ball behind the mining machine is itself used to store ore, but it has never been opened.
Xia Yanzhen walked over, and the light from his helmet shone on the inside of the ball, which was hollow.
Just as he guessed at the beginning, this is a place used to store various ores.
"These red marks..."
Through the light, Xia Yanzhen clearly saw red traces inside the black ball, which were very similar to the red traces left in the camp.
However, these traces are much fresher.
Xia Yanzhen put his hand in, and just as he touched the inside of the black ball, the originally open black ball suddenly closed.
Xia Yanzhen took his hand back and was not caught.
The sound of closing collisions echoed in this underground space.
Xia Yanzhen took a step back and watched the mining machine move on its own, squirming in the direction of the ancient relic he placed next to it.
The impact of the fall damaged the power, mobile device or system of the mining machine, making it move very slowly.
Grandma Li can move faster than the current mining machines.
Xia Yanzhen watched the mining machine move forward with difficulty, "walking" towards the ancient relics.
He walked over and moved the ancient relics, and the mining machine also changed its direction.
Change again, change again.
After walking the dog for a while, Xia Yanzhen came around the mining machine and observed it carefully.
He saw some cracks on the black ball, and in the cracks, red liquid seeped out, which quickly dried outside to form red traces.
The red traces in the camp are not left by the red monster.
It’s the liquids in various devices in the camp!
"The red liquid can still move on its own. How can these machines be 'alive' after working for a long time?"
Xia Yanzhen looked at the mining machine in front of him.
The equipment in this camp is not the "black technology" he imagined, but the "flesh technology"?
Well, flesh and blood technology can also be considered a black technology.
To be sure, it is not purely mechanical technology, but more in a weird direction.
Xia Yanzhen had seen this combination of machinery and flesh and blood in the Lilong Dynasty.
What the great commander did.
There should be no connection between the two mission worlds, but the paths they take are similar.
The appearance of ancient relics seems to have awakened the "activity" in these flesh-and-blood machines.
Xia Yanzhen kicked the mining machine.
The mining machine was kicked by him and rolled away.
After stopping, the mining machine changed direction and squirmed toward Xia Yanzhen.
Xia Yanzhen moved to the side, and the mining machine followed suit.
"Yes, with a sense of hostility." Xia Yan really knew that he couldn't keep this mining machine.
Ancient relics can be upgraded and strengthened.
If you put it into a mining machine, you might get a super mining machine.
But this was of no use to Xia Yanzhen.
He is here to complete the mission.
Coming to the other side of the mining machine, Xia Yan really took action.
Accompanied by the tooth-ache-inducing sound of metal deforming.
The mining machine rolled and fell into the underground river.
With splashes, the mining machine disappeared into the dark water.
The river is not shallow, and with the extent of damage to the mining machine, it is impossible to climb out.
It has no effect anymore, just stay underground.
Xia Yanzhen carried the ancient relics again, went to the bottom of the tunnel dug by the mining machine, jumped up, and jumped directly in.
Before he could fall, he kicked off the passage wall.
While pushing down a large amount of gravel, the whole person tilted upward due to the reaction force.
He kept climbing upwards by jumping off the wall left and right.
Just being able to do this, Xia Yanzhen kicked the mining machine away.
Without it, he could still leave the mine and return to the surface.
After jumping for a while, Xia Yanzhen jumped into the mine tunnel that sloped downward.
"call--"
Even Xia Yanzhen felt quite tired after jumping continuously while carrying heavy ancient relics.
The inclination angle of the mine tunnel is not severe, forming a 30° slope with the horizontal plane.
Xia Yanzhen put down the ancient relics and sat next to them to rest.