The hillside covered with green vines was more than thirty meters directly in front of the lake. As Zhuang Rui was running, he suddenly discovered that there were wide and long bluestone road slabs from the lake to the hillside. These were artificially built.
The traces are already very obvious.
The distance of more than thirty meters was only a blink of an eye for the aura in Zhuang Rui's eyes. Before Zhuang Rui had time to sigh at the wide bluestone steps, the aura had already covered the entire hillside in front of him.
"I...I...fuck!!!"
Just as the spiritual energy enveloped the hillside, Zhuang Rui's body that was running forward staggered violently. His feet were tripped by a vine, and he fell to the ground.
However, Zhuang Rui, who fell to the ground, didn't care about the pain in his arm at this moment. He stared at the hillside in front of him with his eyes wide open in disbelief.
No... where is the hillside? It is a castle, but it is covered by wild vines in the forest. More importantly, many parts of this castle are made of gold.
Inside and outside the main body of the wooden and stone castle, there is a very thin layer of walls made of pure gold. Countless furniture decorations in the castle are all made of gold and silver. Relatively speaking, the proportion of silver is
Be bigger.
Such a castle, which can be called a golden city, contains huge energy. As soon as Zhuang Rui's spiritual energy came into contact with it, his whole body was soothed by the energy. Of course, he could not feel the pain of falling.
"Brother Zhuang, what's wrong? What's so exciting?"
Peng Fei, who was following Zhuang Rui, stretched out his hand to pull Zhuang Rui up. He had followed Zhuang Rui for so many years and had never seen Zhuang Rui look like this.
"Huh? Is there something weird about that hillside?"
When Peng Fei saw Zhuang Rui, he ignored him at all. He just stared at the hillside in front of him and couldn't help but look over.
Silverback, who had just been subdued by Zhuang Rui at this time, also ran to the hillside. It grabbed the vines and easily climbed up the hillside. Then it used its big hand to lift a place covered by the vines, and the whole figure disappeared.
inside.
"What...what color is this?"
This time even Peng Fei noticed it. The moment the vine was lifted, the afterglow of the setting sun shone on it, reflecting a dazzling light. Peng Fei, who was not prepared at all, was blinded by the twinkling of little gold stars.
"Gold...Golden City!"
Zhuang Rui's expression was a little dull. Although he had used spiritual energy to survey the situation in the castle, he still couldn't believe that such a great building could exist in the hinterland of the forest.
In terms of scale, this castle covers an area of less than one hectare and is no more than three stories high. Compared with ancient castles in the West, it is really nothing. However... the gold decorated inside and outside this castle gives it a
The castle has a completely different meaning.
Even if the gold decorated on the walls is just a thin layer, and even if the silver jewelry in the castle is much higher than the gold jewelry, it cannot hold up to the size of the castle.
Zhuang Rui believes that if all the gold is collected together, the total amount will be much higher than the gold house in Genghis Khan's mausoleum, so it is not an exaggeration for Zhuang Rui to call it the Golden City.
The light that just appeared flashed away. Before Peng Fei could identify the color of the light, it was covered by the vines. Now after hearing Zhuang Rui's words, he couldn't help but stare straight and murmured: "Huang Rui"
...Golden City? Brother Zhuang, was that golden light just now?"
"That's right, it's the reflection of gold. Oh my god, this...how is this possible!"
Zhuang Rui realized his gaffe and said quickly: "Let's go, stop standing there, go in and take a look..."
"Ouch! Ouch!"
While Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei were communicating, King Kong had already run to the bottom of the castle. After seeing many of his men burrowing into the vines, King Kong roared loudly.
Following King Kong's roar, one by one the gorillas lifted up the vines and revealed their heads. This allowed Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei to see more and more clearly that the wall shining with golden light was definitely made of gold.
"What the hell is this...?"
Zhuang Rui groaned meaninglessly. He thought about the archaeological history of the world, and there was no record of a golden city hidden in the forests of Central Africa. Apart from Solomon's treasures, there seemed to be no place in Africa that attracted adventurers.
“Is Amazon’s Golden City built in imitation of this Golden City?”
Suddenly, this thought popped up in Zhuang Rui's mind, and once this thought came into being, he could no longer drive it out of his mind.
Among the top ten treasures in the world, the Golden City is famous, but it is about the Inca Kingdom of South America in the Middle Ages.
In the ancient Peruvian region of South America, there was a very powerful Inca Empire. Legend has it that all the palaces and temples in the capital of the Inca Empire were decorated with large amounts of gold and silver, making them magnificent and splendid.
In the early 16th century, the Spanish overthrew the Inca Empire and plundered all the gold and gems.
Pizarro, the Spanish commander-in-chief at the time, heard that all the gold in the Inca Empire was shipped from the Manoa country ruled by a chief named Patti, and that there were mountains of gold and silver treasures there. Pizarro immediately organized an expedition to
The golden city located deep in the Amazon jungle.
However, in this vast primeval forest, every step forward means fear and death. There are ferocious beasts, poisonous snakes, savage cannibal tribes, lost roads and threats. One after another, the expedition teams either returned disappointed or disappeared.
Not knowing, Pissarro could only comfort himself by imagining the forest in the distance.
Later, the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch and Germans heard about the Golden City, and everyone wanted to grab a fortune, so they swarmed in and went deep into the Amazon jungle.
Among them, a Spaniard named Quesada led about 716 expedition members towards the Golden City.
After paying a heavy price of 550 lives, the Golden City and the legendary Golden Lake were finally discovered in the Candina Marga Jungle, and an emerald gem worth 3 million US dollars was found. However, this was only the Golden City.
A tiny part of an inestimable treasure.
The so-called Golden Lake refers to the location of the traditional coronation ceremony of the emperor of the ancient Inca Empire.
According to the account of the nephew of the last Indian king in the 17th century, the heir to the throne at that time was coated with gold powder, as if he were made of gold, and then took a dip in the lake to wash off the gold powder.
Then his subjects offered gold and emeralds and piled them at his feet. The new king threw all the gold into the lake as an offering to God. This traditional ceremony was held countless times in the ancient Inca Empire.
, it can be seen that the reserves of Golden Lake are tempting to people.
Since the 16th century, people have been salvaging the Golden Lake. At the beginning of the last century, a British company dug a tunnel and drained the lake. However, the sun quickly dried the thick mud into hardened water.
When the British brought drilling equipment from England, the lake filled with water again, and this expensive salvage failed.
In 1974, the Colombian government was worried that the treasures in the lake would fall into the hands of others, so it sent out the army to protect the golden lake. Since then, no one has been able to approach the treasures. Therefore, the mysterious golden lake has become an unsolvable mystery.
Already.
"Could this be the legendary Golden Lake?"
After this allusion flashed through Zhuang Rui's mind, he suddenly turned back and looked at the radiant lake.
Although this allusion tells a story that took place in the Amazon jungle of South America, the situations before him were so similar that Zhuang Rui had no choice but to connect them.
"Brother Zhuang, there are... a lot of corpses here..."
Just as Zhuang Rui was guessing about the origin of the lake and the golden city, Peng Fei's voice suddenly came to his ears.
"what happened?"
Zhuang Rui followed the sound and saw that Peng Fei had turned on the bright light and was squatting under the green vines with a frown on his face, and quickly walked over.
"Damn, what's going on?"
When Zhuang Rui walked up to Peng Fei, he couldn't help but be startled by the dense white bones on the ground. There were dozens of corpses. The bones of each corpse were complete, but the bones were a little black.
, as if it had been corroded by some substance.
"These should be human bones..."
Zhuang Rui's doctorate in archeology is not for nothing, and he also knows a little bit about human anatomy. These skulls are composed of frontal bones, temporal bones, parietal bones, occipital bones, sphenoid bones, and ethmoid bones, showing typical human characteristics.
"How did they die? It seems as if they have been corroded by strong acid. Brother Zhuang, there is something weird about this place..." Peng Fei's brows furrowed tightly into a Sichuan character. Ever since he came to this area, he has been a little bit weird.
A frightening feeling.
"Can you please say something nice? There are gorillas living here, how can it be weird?"
At this time, the sun had completely set from one end of the forest, and the entire forest was shrouded in darkness. Except for the lights around Zhuang Rui and Peng Fei, everything else was pitch black.
What are the identities of these people? Why did they come here? Why did they die here? Moreover, there was no rotten clothing around them. Where did the clothes on their bodies go? All of this is unknown.
The unknown is always the biggest enemy in human beings. The sudden discovery of many human bones in the depths of the forest is a bit strange in itself. Coupled with Peng Fei's words, Zhuang Rui also felt a chill in his heart.
"Damn, I always feel something is wrong..." Peng Fei said while holding the submachine gun on his back in his hand, and at the same time took out four light sticks from his backpack.
After shaking it in his hand, Peng Fei threw the fluorescent stick in four directions. This military-specific fluorescent stick immediately made the area dozens of meters around the two people brighter.
