Chapter five hundred and seventy seventh ancient palace
The team moved forward all the way. During this period, no one said a word easily. There seemed to be a kind of magic in the darkness that kept people's hearts holding on and unable to let go.
All the original relaxed emotions had disappeared at this time. Everyone was tense and on high alert as they moved forward. In the quiet darkness, they could even hear each other's breathing and heartbeats.
However, Baike, who was originally the guide, has long since disappeared, and Asuo has also lost his trace because of his search for him. They can only rely on themselves to explore the rest of the way in the darkness.
On this dark road, everything around is invisibly revealing an inexplicable weirdness. This weirdness is very gloomy, making people feel very heavy in their hearts and blocked in their thinking. Even this group of warriors who have experienced hundreds of battles,
We dare not relax our vigilance, and even say that in this weird darkness, the human mind seems to be unable to bear it.
The light here is very strange, and everything is very different from the outside world. The darkness here is cold, damp, and full of the smell of blood.
This smell of blood is very fresh, as if a life has just been slaughtered here, and the fresh blood can emit this strong smell.
However, the searchlights on their arms malfunctioned for unknown reasons. No matter how they adjusted the beam, they could not reach a location ten meters away.
In this way, that darkness will always appear in their field of vision, always as black as a curtain, as if there is always someone hiding in that darkness, blocking all light.
They walked forward like this. As they walked, the surrounding environment did not change much. It seemed that what was in front of them was always a dark corridor going straight forward. However, there were green derivatives on the stone walls here.
Those derivatives have been petrified, layer by layer like scales. This kind of phosphating derivatives takes a long time to accumulate. In other words, the wall they see now may have existed for a long time.
Thousands of years, or even longer.
During this period, I occasionally passed a few stone chambers, but there was nothing in the stone chambers. There were no furniture or utensils around, as if everything had been moved away.
But the layout here is very strange. Generally speaking, this is not a room suitable for human life. All the stone rooms are irregular polygons. In terms of human living habits, stone rooms with this pattern are simply placed.
There was no furniture or daily utensils left behind, and there was no trace of anything left on the ground.
It seems that the people who have lived here do not need daily utensils such as beds, tables and chairs, and it seems that they do not live here in human form.
Chen Zhi saw that there was a strange black iron rod placed in the middle of some stone rooms, parallel to the middle of the room.
Although it is an iron rod, it is actually a kind of metal that cannot be seen clearly. It looks dark and looks a bit like bronze, but it is not made of bronze. There are many bells hanging from the bottom, hung with two hooks at both ends.
The middle of the stone chamber, if you want to describe it, is like a bird hook in a birdcage.
And on the walls of the stone chamber, you can still see some strange murals. Those murals are completely different from human painting styles. They have no specific expression, not even a complete line. They look messy on the surface, like large and small.
The eyes look like they were clawed out by the claws of a wild beast, very similar to those weird totems in the temple outside.
After they walked for several miles in this weird place, they still didn't see any meaningful area, but Chen Zhi had already judged one thing at this time. The building they were in was actually a
palace!
Palace is a very ancient architectural form in China. Nowadays, the palaces in our consciousness are basically the palaces of princes. But in the past, palaces had many forms, and they were not necessarily owned by princes and nobles. There are some ancient documents recording that those with noble bloodline
This kind of people live in the palace and never come out all day long!
However, most of the recorded content is just a few words and phrases, which cannot be explained clearly~~
As for the current palace, because it is too old, many things cannot be judged. It is impossible to judge its precise age, and it is impossible to judge the background of the world in which it is located.
But one thing is for sure, the architectural pattern here is very strange!
"We can't go any further...",
Chen Zhi suddenly said something over the wireless, and then waved his hand to ask everyone to stop.
The warriors were always alert. When they heard the order, they immediately stopped quickly and then formed a circular team to guard Chen Zhi's side.
Ji Ying and Bao Jiu were at two important positions in the team. They turned back together and looked at Chen Zhi.
"Clan leader, why did you stop?" Bao Jiu asked Chen Zhi first.
As a samurai, Bao Jiu is by no means a person who can calm down. He was walking very fast just now and wished he could reach the end all at once. But looking at the long and directionless road ahead, he was obviously a little impatient.
"We can't go any further!",
Chen Zhi took off his hood, wiped the sweat from his forehead, then walked to the stone wall next to him, touched the pits and dents on it with his hand, and then said:
"Haven't you noticed that since we came in, we have actually entered a winding channel, like a maze, and when we walked for so long just now, we were actually walking in a maze!"
"This is completely impossible!",
Ji Ying immediately said firmly:
"I have a very good way-finding ability. Even in the deep mountains, I can see very far away. And I will have certain signs on the surrounding landforms to prevent going around in circles and getting lost. We never took the original path!"
"That's not what I meant!",
Chen Zhi stroked the strange patterns on the wall,
"The labyrinth I'm talking about is not the concept of a labyrinth as we understand it.
A real maze does not need to be repeated, and people can be trapped inside.
Just like a simple fishing net can trap fish very easily, the same reason can be used to trap elusive beasts through some strange formations.
This place is a maze and we are lost in it now!"
"What should we do? Do I need my subordinates to cut open the wall here and find a way out?" Bao Jiu had already picked up his chain axe.
"No need!!",
Chen Zhi shook his head gently,
"We can't get out here by ourselves, we need a guide, someone who really understands this place!"
"But this is impossible!",
Ji Ying looked at Chen Zhi and said:
"Baike can no longer be found. It's our first time here. The only one we can rely on now is ourselves!"
"No!
There is another person!",
After Chen Zhi finished speaking, he looked forward solemnly with a complicated expression on his face. He pointed at the darkness in front of him and said softly,