After hearing this, Hongque sighed and said, "I don't understand your cell phone, but when I heard what you said, I suddenly remembered that when we fell from the top before, we kept falling for more than ten seconds without falling to the ground."
"By the way, I fell for more than ten seconds before I fainted. Did you notice how long we fell?
We can calculate the distance based on the speed of fall."
After hearing this, Yang Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Like you, I also fainted after falling for more than ten seconds."
Cardinal was stunned after hearing this, "So, we both fell to the ground after we were unconscious. How come we didn't do anything at all from such a high distance?"
Yang Xuan let out a long sigh, "I can't care about this now. Mysteries are coming one after another. Now I can only take one step at a time. The most important thing for us is to find a way out of here before we can think about anything else."
Cardinal nodded after hearing this, and then the two of them began to observe the surrounding environment.
Fortunately, the built-in flashlight of Yang Xuan's special mobile phone has pretty good lighting effect. This place is like an underground cave, about ten meters wide and seven or eight meters high, so the space is quite spacious.
Surrounded by wet and cold rocks, the cave leads deep into the cave for an unknown length.
After looking around for a while, Cardinal frowned and said, "Why is this underground cave so different from what I saw on TV before?"
Yang Xuan sighed lightly, "Of course it's different. The caves you see on TV are naturally formed, but this cave is man-made."
"ah?
Do you think it’s chiseled?”
The Saint Cardinal opened her mouth in shock, "Isn't this possible? Who would go to such a deep place and dig a cave out? Could it be a mistake?"
Yang Xuan shook his head slightly, walked to the stone wall, shined a flashlight on the damp stone wall, and said, "The traces of artificial excavation on it are obvious. If it were formed naturally, the lines on it should be very smooth and regular.
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"However, the lines on the stone wall are very stiff and are definitely not natural. However, judging from the weathering marks on it, this underground cave is probably quite old. It is estimated to be at least a thousand years old."
Hongque followed Yang Xuan's gaze and carefully looked at the stone wall for a while, then frowned and said, "It's really man-made."
"But this is even more incredible. This cave is definitely a huge and difficult project even now, let alone in ancient times. How did those people do it in the past?"
Yang Xuan took a deep breath and sighed, "You have to ask the ancients to find out. Don't underestimate their wisdom. Let's go. We don't have time to study archaeological knowledge now. We have to find a way to get out of here as soon as possible."
"Now there is better information. Since this cave was dug, it means there must be an exit. I hope we can continue to escape death this time!"
When Yang Xuan said the last sentence, there was a wry smile on his lips.
Continuing to escape death, these words make people feel extremely tragic.
They had narrowly escaped death several times today, and they didn't know whether they were lucky or unlucky.
It is estimated that a normal person will not have as many experiences as they have today in several lifetimes.
The two of them walked deep into the cave. Fortunately, although the cave was deep underground, the air was very clear, which made it even more certain that there must be an exit to the outside world.
The size of this cave was beyond Yang Xuan's expectation. He walked forward for more than ten minutes and still couldn't see the end.
The only explanation is that this place was indeed a natural underground cave before, and the ancients also processed and transformed it based on the original natural cave.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to complete such a huge project relying solely on manpower.
"Why do you think ancient people built such a huge underground cave here? What was their purpose? They couldn't hold on until they were full."
Cardinal looked around and exclaimed, his curiosity outweighing his worries and fears.
Yang Xuan pointed his flashlight ahead to clear the way and said, "Whether it is ancient or modern, building underground caves is generally inseparable from several motives."
"The first is to store supplies. However, judging from the size and structure of this cave, the ancients who originally dug this cave should not have used it to store supplies. Otherwise, there would be no need for such a large scale, and the structure is wrong."
"The second possibility is to migrate to the underground to avoid disasters such as wars. However, this possibility is almost impossible because there are no signs of long-term human survival here."
Cardinal wondered, "It's neither used to store supplies nor for survival, so what is it?"
As he said this, Hongque was suddenly stunned, "Could it be a mausoleum?"
Yang Xuan nodded, "This is the greatest possibility. In the ancient people's concept, after death, people will go to another place to continue living."
"So the ancients attached great importance to their tombs. The first thing many emperors did after ascending the throne was to start building their own tombs."
"From the time they ascend the throne to their death, it can take anywhere from a few days to decades. They will build their mausoleums to be very luxurious and huge, trying to continue to enjoy the glory and wealth of the world even after death."
"If this is possible, it can well explain why the ancients built such a huge underground project in the first place, because it was definitely a top priority for them as important as immortality."
"It's just that in the thousands of years of human history, there are by no means a few emperors who have consumed a lot of national power in order to build their own tombs, and indirectly led to the destruction of their country while still alive."
"Of course, something built with the efforts of a whole country cannot be small in scale."
Hongque listened to what Yang Xuan said with great interest. He seemed to have forgotten the situation at this time. He seemed more like a tourist and adventurer. He exclaimed and asked curiously, "But this doesn't look like it."
It's like a mausoleum, it's just a dark corridor, and I didn't see a coffin or anything."
Yang Xuan couldn't laugh or cry, "If you were an ancient emperor and you had the final say in the whole world, would you be so hasty about a top priority like your own mausoleum?"
"Those ancient emperors' tombs were built with the efforts of the whole country. They cost a lot of money. It is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to build them for decades."
"If this is really the tomb of an ancient emperor, the location we are in now is probably just a passage, not even the entrance to the underground palace."
"This is like a city. We haven't even entered the city gate yet. Where did the coffin come from? You will throw your coffin outside the city!"
After listening to this, Linque rolled his eyes and said, "Your coffins are thrown outside. You are the only one who can do it. I don't understand why I'm asking you. You have one coffin for each coffin. Why do you speak so hard?"
Yang Xuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You were obviously the one who carried the coffin first, and besides, I was just giving an example."
"Tch! Then why don't you give other examples?"
Cardinal curled his lips in dissatisfaction, and then suddenly thought of something, and said happily, "If it is really the emperor's tomb, there must be many treasures, and we are going to make a fortune!"