A group of people circled down the ancient stone path. On one side was a rock as black as iron, and on the other side was a bottomless abyss. There was no barrier. Everyone tried to lean in as much as possible, for fear of accidentally making a mistake.
My feet slipped and I said goodbye to this world.
Xiao Donghu was still cautiously walking at the front carrying the last miner's lamp. Since it had been underground for more than a day, everyone's eyes had gradually adapted to the darkness. In addition, although the green light on the top of the cave was weak, it could still
We see an outline, even if it's a little blurry, it's still much better than no light at all.
Viewed from above, the entire ancient road is like a giant snake, circling and attached to the stone wall, extending downwards with no end in sight. The abyss next to it is like the open lips of a giant beast, waiting for people to enter.
Eat, when the two are combined together, the visual shock is beyond words.
The more they walked, the more frightened they became. It was as if they were walking on a road leading straight to hell. They carefully tested every step, for fear that if the stone steps broke again, their progress would be much slower.
It took a lot of time, but we didn’t walk very far.
The rocks next to it have obviously not been processed and are extremely rough. In some places, there are some edges and corners that protrude outward, as if they are trying to push pedestrians into the abyss. Fortunately, the width of the stone steps is acceptable, as long as there is no foot pressure.
It's slippery, but not dangerous.
Moreover, the abyss next to it is so large and deep that it is unlikely to be an artificial cave. The most likely possibility is that it is a natural cave being used. I just can't figure out how these suspended stone steps were built up.
But this question did not last long before the answer came.
After walking for about an hour, we found some very colorful murals on several relatively flat stone walls. Although they have been here for who knows how many years, there is no erosion from wind and rain.
, still quite well preserved.
Maximize the aperture of the flashlight, and the light emitted into a halo will be enough to see clearly the contents of the mural. The first one is a scene of workers quarrying. Countless workers in ancient costumes are using hammers and chisels on the stone surface.
Sparks are flying everywhere, and it's as if you can still hear the "ding-dong-dang-dang" sound of work.
Then there was a scene of a convoy transporting stone materials, winding for miles and miles, with horses and people pushing, and crowds of people. Next to them were officers and soldiers in armor and riding horses, with fierce expressions on their faces and whips in their hands, constantly beating the workers.
, the carriage is loaded with stone bars, thick, long and wide as the stone steps we step on.
Next, on a sea of sand, under the scorching sun, an astonishingly large camel team was slowly marching. Between every two camels, there was a stone bar tied with a rope, and the weight was shared by the two camels.
In addition, the camel's hump was also covered with water bags and food.
Next to the camel caravan, there were many exhausted costume workers, and there were a few officers and soldiers in the distance. They were moving away the workers who had fainted, and threw them directly to the side so as not to affect the movement of the camel caravan. The yellow roads on both sides of the road that the camel caravan passed through were
From time to time there are bones exposed in the sand, probably the bones of workers who died on the road.
Then the picture suddenly changed. It was no longer an ordinary scene of labor and transportation, but looked like a war. To be precise, it seemed like a suppression. The workers in the picture lifted up stone hammers, chisels and some
Working tools were being torn apart by the officers and soldiers, but since these workers were just ordinary laborers, they seemed to be no match for those officers and soldiers who had received formal training, and some people were constantly falling down and dying.