Chapter 1664: Blue Brick Corridor, Living Sculpture
With his eyes bulging, Liu Shiba pointed at the Barrett carried behind Solanta's back, twisted his lips and said:
"Did you forget that you were carrying a Barrett weighing several dozen kilograms? You ran nearly a kilometer in a dark place with a gun on your back in a few minutes? Are you kidding your employer?"
Staring at Liu Shiba with unbelieving eyes, Solanta finally smiled bitterly and said:
"I'm not lying to you. I was scared. I ran fast because I was scared. I ran all the way until I stood behind you, and I didn't even feel - so, so tired..."
Liu Shiba squinted his eyes and smiled:
"Aren't you tired? If you're not tired, why are you panting like a cow? You are quite courageous, why are you like this now?"
Solanta lowered her head and was silent for a while, then suddenly raised her head and looked at Liu Shiba and said:
"Because you gave me hope, saying that I might be able to see my wife and children again in this life, so I'm a little scared to death, okay..."
After hearing Solanta's explanation, Liu Shiba immediately believed it. People can indeed perform exceptionally well in a state of fright.
But in the end, Liu Shiba continued to ask:
"Did you count clearly, eight?"
Solanta responded out of breath:
"No, that's right! Including the one you're standing on, there are eight!"
"Eight? Interesting, so interesting!"
Liu Shiba turned his head and stared at the statue carefully, then stretched out his hand and gently groped the surface of the statue for a while, then put a finger in his mouth and licked it.
Solanta asked curiously:
"Why is it interesting? When did these statues come from?"
Liu Shiba stared at the statue intently, stretched out his hand again and touched the back of the statue's head, and then said strangely:
"The age of these eight statues is correct. They are indeed from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Ordinary stone statues are carved from a single piece of stone and generally have no components."
While talking, Liu Shiba pointed at the statue in front of him and said:
"But these statues are definitely different. On the surface, they appear to be carved from stone, but you will find out when you touch them yourself.
The shoes worn on the feet of these statues and the swords and weapons on their hands, including the hairpins and crowns on their heads, were all made of stone carvings and added on."
Solanta said doubtfully:
"What's weird about this? I remember seeing the statue of Venus, the goddess of love, before. The small bow in his hand was not added."
Liu Shiba turned his head to look at Solanta and said strangely:
"The hair behind the facial features of this statue is real..."
"Really? What does really mean?"
Solanta opened her eyes suddenly.
Liu Shiba showed a dignified expression and said softly:
"The weapons in their hands are all real people, but their luster has been obscured by the dust of time after thousands of years. And those hairs are real people's hair."
"What? Hair from a living person? It's rare to use it on sculptures..."
Solanta's eyes bulged, her face full of disbelief.
Liu Shiba's expression changed, and he smiled sinisterly:
"You're wrong! It's not that the sculpture is made of living human hair, but that the entire sculpture itself is made of human hair.
I just scraped it with my finger and found that the low dust of these sculptures contains a lot of gypsum, so I concluded that the interior of these sculptures should be human corpses."
"ah?"
Solanta screamed in fright and could no longer speak.
Liu Shiba lowered his head and looked at Lao Hei, who had been staring up at him with golden light in his eyes, and said with a wry smile:
"Old Hei! Let's go back to grandpa's old business..."
"Ouch..."
After hearing this, Lao Hei whimpered, his dog eyes blinked, and the golden light in his eyes soared!
"hehe!"
Liu Shiba chuckled lightly, but his face gradually became calmer, as if he was back to the captain who was strategizing and winning a victory thousands of miles away...
"Let's go down! Lao Hei should have found a way out, continue to lead the way!"
After resting for a while, Liu Shiba said to Solanta and Lao Hei.
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The exit of this large cave is right in the middle of the eight statues, and there is also a corridor that is only two people wide.
The difference is that this corridor is not the same natural passage as before, but a man-made one, because the corridor is covered with thick green bricks on all sides.
Most of these corridors paved with green bricks are intact, but there are many areas where the green bricks are twisted and broken. Liu Shiba speculates that this is caused by the squeeze and distortion caused by the vibration of the mountain.
This corridor still slopes down a little bit, and you can't feel it at all if you don't pay attention.
But what Liu Shiba felt was more than just an inclination. He even felt that the corridor slightly took on the shape of a circular staircase extending downwards.
In other words, this corridor is quietly making a large circle and extending deep into the mountain.
Two people and one dog walked in this dark and gloomy environment without saying a word for about half an hour before finally reaching the end!
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"call!"
An inexplicable dark wind blew suddenly, blowing out the torches of Lao Hei and Solanta.
"Ah, boss? Torch..."
Solanta screamed in fright.
With a sullen face, Liu Shiba took out two more torches from the gold-touching order, lit them, and handed one to Solanta.
Lao Hei can see at night, so he doesn't need a torch at all, so Liu Shiba saves one.
Holding the torch, Solanta looked around. After looking at the ground clearly, she took small steps forward and whispered in a low voice:
"What kind of place is this? It seems like everything is dark everywhere. Why can't I see the edge?"
Liu Shiba didn't respond because he didn't know clearly, but when he turned his head, he noticed that he seemed to see a luminous object on the ground out of the corner of his eye.
"etc!"
Liu Shiba said suddenly. After stopping, he took Lao Hei with a torch and hurriedly walked dozens of meters in one direction, and then quickly squatted down.
Solanta felt terrified and quickly followed up and shouted:
"Don't run away, don't leave me!"
Walking to Liu Shiba's side, Solanta lowered her head and said curiously:
"Boss, what did you find?"
Liu Shiba stood up slowly, held up a torch and illuminated a plastic bottle in his other hand, and said calmly:
"This should be the place where the more than 10,000 people who moved from Dingbian Town were hiding from the tide of corpses.
You see, there are domestic garbage everywhere on the ground, including water bottles, toilet paper, sweet potato stems, and other random things.
If my guess is right, there is a passage here that can lead directly to the small building where Mr. Wang lives on the top of the mountain."
"It's so big here that you can barely see the edge. It's easy to hide tens of thousands of people, but where are we going?"
Solanta held up the torch in wonder, but she still couldn't see her head around.
In the darkness, Liu Shiba said coldly:
"Be quiet, listen carefully to the sound of the wind, and slowly watch where the flames of the torch drift, and that's where we will go.
I feel like this is the second underground floor that Old Man Wang told me about. If we find the road again, we should be able to see the tombstone that writes about Li Mu’s tomb!"
Solanta's whole body was sweating and she hurriedly responded:
"Behind the tombstone must be the restricted area that Old Man Wang mentioned, the restricted area where dozens of people have disappeared."
"call!"
While they were talking, an inexplicable wind suddenly swept over and blew out the torches in Liu Shiba and Solanta's hands again...
