Standing by the water tank, Liu Shiba went around to the back of the water tank and pulled out the wooden plug from the water outlet of the water tank.
After a few minutes, the water in the reservoir was completely drained, leaving only a layer of yellow sand on the bottom of the pond.
Liu Shiba and Solanta gently turned over and entered the pool. After using their hands to remove the yellow sand at the bottom, they saw a square wooden door underneath.
After uncovering the wooden board, there is a layer of waterproof oil paper underneath, and then there is a slightly smaller square iron cover.
"Canopy!"
Liu Shiba and Solanta pulled together, and the iron cover opened with a sound, revealing a man-made stone staircase underneath.
Looking at the deep and bottomless stairs, Solanta couldn't help but feel an inexplicable chill all over her body...
"Crack!"
Liu Shiba lit the three torches he carried with him, handed one to Solanta, and then greeted Lao Hei who was standing on the reservoir:
"Old Hei, come down!"
After Lao Hei jumped to the bottom of the pool, Liu Shiba took out a rope and tied a smaller torch straight to Lao Hei's back.
After doing all this, Liu Shiba took out two cigarettes, handed one to Solanta, lit one himself, took two deep puffs, and said softly:
"Let's go! Let's go down, and Lao Hei will take the lead to explore the way."
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Two people and one dog, lighting torches and carefully descending the stone steps, reached the bottom within less than ten meters.
Liu Shiba raised the torch and looked around, and found that this place was a natural cave with an area of less than a few hundred square meters. The ground and the surrounding stone walls were very damp.
"Wow!"
At this time, a slight cold wind came, and Lao Hei, who had been standing quietly after coming down, ran directly into the darkness.
"Let's go! Follow Lao Hei."
Solanta finally came down and covered the iron cover with her backhand. Before Solanta could stand firm, Liu Shiba pulled Solanta in a low voice and chased after Lao Hei.
Since Lao Hei also had a torch tied to his body, he could still see clearly along the way. When he reached the end of the cave, he saw a dark tunnel with a length, width and height only for two people to walk side by side.
Ten meters away from the corridor, Lao Hei stood quietly waiting, not running far...
"Boss! It's so oozing down here. I haven't felt like this for a long time."
Solanta followed Liu Shiba while looking around in horror.
"Shh! Keep your voice down, this place is very dark... follow Lao Hei and move forward."
Liu Shiba frowned when he heard this and whispered.
Solanta shook her head and responded:
"What does heavy yin mean?"
Just as he lit the torch, Liu Shiba suddenly turned around with a strange light flashing in his eyes, stared at Solanta and said lightly:
“It’s been a long time since I’ve encountered such an interesting thing, I almost forgot that I was a tomb robber, haha!
The heavy yin energy means that many people have died in this place..."
"A lot of dead people? Those who sell ointment..."
Solanta trembled with fright, feeling that all her abilities were of no use since she came down, and the sniper rifle on her back seemed to be a big burden.
The corridor was very dark and long, and seemed to be slightly inclined downwards. After the two people and the dog walked forward quietly for about two hundred meters, their eyes suddenly opened up!
What appeared in Liu Shiba's eyes was a huge cave. Liu Shiba couldn't describe how big it was. It was at least several thousand square meters.
Solanta raised the torch above his head, but it seemed that he could not see the dome. After following Lao Hei for a while, Liu Shiba was surprised to find that on the stone walls around the cave, there was a humanoid sculpture embedded every few hundred meters.
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These stone sculptures have different shapes, and without exception they are all ancient men wearing armor. Each statue is lifelike and powerful with a variety of weapons.
"Seller of ointment! These sculptures are simply works of art, so amazing."
Solanta followed Liu Shiba, her eyes widened and she exclaimed.
Liu Shiba stood there, but there was something strange in his heart. He turned to Solanta and hissed:
"Solanta, walk around this place and count how many statues there are."
"Me? Me?"
Solanta's heart trembled, she held up the torch and looked around at the dark surroundings, and then looked at Liu Shiba's smiling face that looked a little green under the light of the torch, and couldn't help but tremble in her heart.
"Boss, boss! Why is your face green?"
Finally unable to bear it any longer, Solanta asked in a low voice.
"Um?"
Liu Shiba laughed strangely when he heard this:
"Your face is also green, I see? It's okay, it means this place contains a lot of phosphorus.
It will emit a little green light when the torch is burning, it doesn't matter! As long as there is green phosphorus, it means there are only dead people down there.
It would be hard to say if there is no green phosphorus, which means there are often people coming and going here, and there are only living people..."
Solanta seemed to be frightened, swallowed her saliva and hesitated:
"Ah? Boss, let's go out? You can improve your strength in the small dark building outside. There is no need to come down in the dark. Or should we come down during the day?"
Liu Shiba didn’t know whether to laugh or cry:
"Are you mentally ill? There is no difference between day and night in this environment. Hurry up and count how many statues there are. If you are afraid, ask Lao Hei to follow you. Speed!"
Watching the trembling Solanta dragging Lao Hei away in the dark cave, Liu Shiba turned his head and looked carefully at a sculpture on the stone wall in front of him by the light of the torch.
The sculpture in front of Liu Shiba is a male military general, about two meters high. The material is unclear, but the facial contours are rare and exquisitely carved, and the face is shaved into a faint bevel.
In addition to being exquisitely carved, this general is also decorated with black paint to outline the plump lines of his eyes, eyebrows, bridge of nose, auricles and other parts of his body. The armor is also streaked with stripes of red, black, brown and other colors.
Then, Liu Shiba quickly ran to the second statue hundreds of meters away and took a closer look. He found that this one was the same as the previous one, with the addition of a mustache, crown, belt, lapel, sleeves, train and other decorations.
However, these two statues are definitely not ordinary stone sculptures, because they both have an extremely rare feature that is not found in the statues Liu Shiba has seen before.
"interesting!"
As he looked at it, Liu Shiba couldn't help but touch his chin and smile. He discovered that the two sculptures had one thing in common.
While he was thinking, there were urgent footsteps behind him. Solanta walked over quickly, panting and sweating profusely and said:
"Boss! I went around in a circle, there are eight statues in total... hoo hoo... eight... hoo hoo!"
Liu Shiba's eyes widened and he was dumbfounded and said:
"It's only been a few minutes and you've already finished counting? Each sculpture is at least a hundred meters apart?
The eight sculptures are at least 800 meters close to one kilometer. You actually told me that you counted them all in less than five minutes...
Why are you still holding a torch? The world champion among 100-meter track and field athletes doesn’t have such speed?"
"call!"
Solanta gasped and smiled bitterly:
"Phew! Actually, it's almost the same. A 100-meter athlete needs more than ten seconds to run. Eight or eight hundred meters also takes two minutes. I'm much slower..."
