Chen Wenjin looked around, walked to the stone platform, stared at the translucent sphere, turned to several people and said: "This is probably the longevity laboratory of the Queen Mother of the West. Look at the things in these spheres."
The things are exactly the same as the carvings on the ground."
After hearing this, Zhang Zhu and several others walked over and shined a light on one side of the sphere. Looking in from the other side, they found that the things in these spheres seemed to be artificially connected.
Most of them are half centipedes and half snakes, cut off from the waist, then connected together, soaked in special antiseptic liquid, and sealed. Some have long since deteriorated into an unknown substance like a ball of cotton wool.
Several people looked at each other, not expecting that the Queen Mother of the West could actually have such advanced and high-tech operations. In that ancient period, she could actually turn the corpses of living things into specimens.
Wu Xiaoxie suddenly thought of a possibility and hissed, "This is probably the place where the Queen Mother of the West conducted longevity experiments in the early days. Human lifespan is too short. She may want to combine the human body with other long-lived creatures."
, but it also needs to be combined with the original human thoughts, so the two depictions under the stone bricks are both human-headed monsters."
Chen Wenjin confirmed his guess, "But it was obvious that she failed, so she thought of using alchemy to continue searching for the method of immortality."
The fat man gasped, "Then according to what you said, it is really possible for the Queen Mother of the West to create the elixir of immortality? If so, when we enter the real palace, wouldn't we meet that old woman face to face?"
Wu Xiaoxie laughed and said: "The possibility of this is almost zero. If she really becomes immortal, there will definitely be relevant records in history. Don't forget that her old friend King Zhou Mu failed to live forever long ago and turned into a blood corpse.
Brother and Muyu had their heads chopped off."
The fat man scratched his head and smiled, "That's true."
After walking around for a few times, I saw that they were still staring at the balls and studying them, so I said impatiently: "It doesn't matter whether they succeed or not, let's think about how to get out of here first."
Zhang Zhuoxun smiled and patted him, "Don't worry, this is research, the secret to getting out must be in these spheres."
At this time, the little brother walked to the stone wall, stretched out his hand to tap lightly, then touched it with his hand, and said lightly: "There is nothing behind this wall."
"Look." Zhang Zhuoxun raised his chin, "Isn't there a way out?"
The fat man eagerly took out the detonator from his backpack, his face full of excitement, and urged: "Mother Dute, get out quickly, the fat man is going to go on a killing spree."
The little brother stretched out his hand to stop him and shook his head, "You can't blow it up."
Wu Xiaoxie also disagreed, "The structure here is not particularly strong. If you explode, the entire stone chamber will collapse, and we will not be able to get out."
The fat man put away the detonator angrily and sighed in a pretentious manner, "My dear detonator is of no use today."
Wu Xiaoxie smiled and put his arm around his shoulders, and took him to the side, "Okay, our strongest bomber in reverse fighting, please move to a different place and don't disturb Muyu and the others to dismantle the mechanism."
The mechanism on the stone platform is very simple. Anyway, the jade figurines have been completely hung up, so there is no need to worry about them suddenly popping up and hurting people. You only need to twist the balls corresponding to the four corners, and the stone wall in front of you will suddenly retract inward.
A distance as wide as one person.
The fat man came over and took a look and yelled, "This bitch is discriminating against us fat people again. If you leave such a small gap, when you squeeze through, the fat bitch will turn into a lump."
Several people burst into laughter.
Zhang Zhuoxun patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, don't complain. It's good if you can walk. Just treat it like losing weight."
As soon as the black blind man picked up the fainted boy, he heard the man snort and opened his eyes in a daze. Before he could see clearly who was in front of him, he was pinched and fainted again.
The black blind man took back the hand on his neck and smiled harmlessly, "The best way to eliminate trouble is to eliminate the source of it."
"Very philosophical." Zhang Zhuxun gave him a thumbs up.
Several people carried equipment and crossed the gap in the stone wall. The younger brother took the lead, groping for what was on the wall as they walked.
Suddenly his footsteps stopped, and Zhang Zhuxun quickly reminded the people behind him to stop the car.
"What did you find?" he asked the little brother.
"Mark." The little brother replied calmly.
With the brother's body blocking it, Zhang Zhuxun couldn't see clearly. He only felt that the brother stabbed a place with a dagger, and then there was a sound of stones falling to the ground.
A small hole was quickly made, and the younger brother got in first.
Zhang Zhuxun quickly followed and got in.
Wu Xiaoxie from behind asked puzzledly: "Why is there a robber cave here?"
"It's not a robbery hole." Zhang Zhuxun turned around and explained, "This is a pipeline used to design mechanisms. If we continue to go forward, the mechanism in front of us may still be the same as that in the laboratory. This time we are equivalent to taking a shortcut.
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After crawling forward for less than ten meters, the terrain suddenly turned sharply downward, and the passage was almost vertical. It was too narrow to turn around here, so the few of them had to continue climbing down.
I kept crawling until my head was filled with blood and I was about to faint, when suddenly there was the sound of water in front of me.
The little brother pushed open the stone blocking the front, and the sound of the water became louder.
The little brother put his head out to observe, and then jumped out immediately. Several people were exhausted in this narrow passage, so they quickly followed out and stepped into the pool. Something splashed around their feet and swam out of the water.
Far away.
Several people were startled and stared at the water warily.
However, I soon discovered that it was just a small shellless soft-bodied insect that looked like a white blind shrimp. It was not a snake or the like. It ran away at the slightest movement of the water surface, so there was no danger.
Looking around, I saw that this was a wide waterway with gentle water flow and the water surface only reached above my knees.
Two steps upstream from them was a sluice gate. The iron gate was as thick as a rolling pin. Due to being soaked in water for many years, the half of the iron railing above the water was rusty and covered with broken branches washed down from the upper reaches.
Broken leaves, darkness behind the gate, no one knows where it leads.
The fat man held the iron rod and shook it hard, but found that it couldn't be shaken. "Oh, wow, it's quite strong."
"The water here is deep and the flow is large. Could it be the main channel leading to the lowermost water storage lake?" Wu Xiaoxie asked Chen Wenjin.
Chen Wenjin nodded and turned on the miner's lamp to shine downstream. He suddenly took a breath and pointed, "Look there, there is a statue with a human face and a bird's body."
Several people turned to look over and found a gray-white statue standing quietly in the waterway downstream, exactly the same as the one they saw when they entered the rainforest.
Before he could take a closer look, the little brother suddenly raised his feet and walked straight over there. Zhang Zhuoxun and the others quickly followed.
As we waded through the water, the transparent insects at the bottom of the water were disturbed and fled in all directions.
The fat man quickly grabbed one with his quick eyes and put it under the lamp to take a closer look. Unexpectedly, his hand slipped and the little insect fell into the water again and disappeared in an instant.