"Them? What are they doing?" Du Xin'er asked with a trembling voice.

"What?" Gu Xiaole replied with a slight smile:

"Young girl Xiaoxin is so smart, but you still can't tell! Aren't these ancient humans using fish-headed monsters to make oil lamps?"

"What?" Du Xin'er screamed and almost fainted when she thought that the lifelike relief oil lamps next to her were actually made of real fish-headed monsters!

"Don't worry! These fish-headed monsters are already dead, and they've been embalmed so they won't hurt you anymore!"

As Gu Xiaole spoke, he slapped the relief on it vigorously with his hands, making continuous "bang bang bang" sounds.

Du Xin'er shook her head repeatedly and said: "Stop, stop, stop! Don't take pictures, don't damage them. Even if they are dead, if you leak it right now, wouldn't it be disgusting if the liquid inside flows out?

Dead!"

The two people walked towards the front of the corridor while talking. Fortunately, the gravel-paved corridor was not too long, and they came to a large room in front of the room where they were talking.

However, when the two of them saw this room, they were a little dumbfounded, because what kind of room was this? It was clearly a prison cell made of thigh-thick wooden fences!

Although the appearance of the wood has turned yellow and become brittle over time, Gu Xiaole kicked it twice and made a "bang bang bang" sound without moving. It seems that these big woods are still quite strong.

When you look inside again, the scene becomes a bit more terrifying.

The cell was filled with all kinds of ancient torture instruments, and there were even dark red bloodstains left on them from who knows how many years ago.

Gu Xiaole gently pushed open the cell door and walked past the strange torture instruments.

Judging from the size of these torture instruments, these torture instruments are basically used by giant slaves. Even after so many years, the blood stains on them and the wear and tear of the torture instruments can still tell the horrific scene in the entire cell.

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Du Xin'er followed him and looked a little shocked. She lowered her voice and said:

"Brother Xiaole, you said that these ancient humans not only wanted to feed these giant slaves to the queens of red fire ants to eat, why did they use these tortures to torture them?"

Gu Xiaole thought for a moment and replied:

"Perhaps this is a method of punishment. Even if they are fed to the queen ants of fire ants, they must be tortured during their lifetime to show the intensity of their punishment for those who dare to defect, right?"

While talking, Gu Xiaole casually took down a simple mace made of a wooden stick and ceramic fragments from the shelf where torture instruments were placed, weighed it in his hand and carried it behind his back.

"What are you doing with this thing?" Du Xin'er asked curiously

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Gu Xiaole smiled:

"I hope it's my imagination. I always feel that we may have a chance to use this thing soon!"

After visiting the torture cell, walking further inside is a separate stone room.

It's just different from what the two of them imagined. Every stone room has a pit surrounded by a stone fence.

When the two people looked down the pit, they found that there were actually large and small human bone remains piled up inside.

"Ugh, vomit, vomit!" Du Xin'er covered her mouth and leaned against the stone wall behind her, asking with a pale face:

"Brother Xiaole, this pit should be the place where ancient humans used to feed the queens of giant fire ants, right?"

"Well! It shouldn't be wrong! But?" Gu Xiaole nodded, hesitating to speak.

Du Xin'er was a little confused and asked: "Just what? It's so scary down here. Apart from so many dead people's bones, there's nothing else to look at! Let's hurry up, shall we?"

Gu Xiaole did not answer her directly. He checked several pits used for feeding and found that the tops of the pits were heightened with very solid stone walls.

It seems that these ancient humans were also quite afraid of these giant red fire ant queens, and they had to be raised so much in order to safely feed these big guys.

However, what Gu Xiaole was a little confused about was that he found a large hole with a diameter of nearly 2 meters above each feeding pit. It seemed that something big had rushed down?

Seeing Gu Xiaole looking at the big hole, Du Xin'er explained: "Oh, brother Xiaole, don't think about this big hole. I guess it was destroyed when the giant slaves rebelled against these ancient humans, right?"

Gu Xiaole shook his head and pointed to the edge of the big hole and said:

"I don't think so. This big hole doesn't look like someone smashed it out with a blunt object on the outside. It looks more like it was knocked out by some creature from the outside!"

In response, Du Xin'er laughed:

"Brother Xiaole, have you read too many science fiction novels? What kind of creature can knock out such a big hole in such a thick stone wall? Isn't that a large machine for digging tunnels?"

Gu Xiaole did not answer her question directly, but said:

"Sister Xiaoxin, what do you think will happen to those giant ant queens that were fed and raised by ancient humans after the ancient humans were wiped out?"

Du Xin'er tilted her head and thought for a long time and said:

"It won't end well, right? They ate so many giant slaves back then. I guess once those rebellious giant slaves turn over, they will probably be the first to kill them, the giant red fire ant queens, right?"

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"No!" Gu Xiaole shook his head firmly and said, "I want to go down below and have a look, will you come?"

"Go down?" Du Xin'er looked at the numerous bones below and stuck out her tongue and said:

"Isn't it? There are corpses of giants down there, what's there to see?"

But at this time, Gu Xiaole had climbed little by little from the big hole in the stone wall to the bottom of the pit. He held a torch high in one hand while carefully avoiding the mountains of giant skeletons below.

Although I don't know how many years have passed, the twisted and deformed appearance of these giant corpses below is still shocking, but that is not what Gu Xiaole cares about.

He rummaged through the wreckage carefully for all the details, and finally he discovered a hidden tunnel among the dense bones.

"What did you find?" At this time, Du Xin'er couldn't restrain her curiosity and climbed down, looking at what Gu Xiaole had just discovered:

"Hey! There is actually a cave here. Could it be that... there is a queen ant among them that has not been killed and escaped from here?"

Gu Xiaole nodded:

"That should be the case, so the giant fire ants besieging us outside should be the descendants of this queen! I just don't know why the descendants of these guys are still here and not leaving? Could it be that..."

Just when Gu Xiaole was puzzled, he saw Du Xin'er very sharp-eyed and picked up a bronze product from the ground that had been oxidized and corroded beyond recognition.

Gu Xiaole took a closer look and saw that this should be a bronze bell made by ancient people.

It seems that it was originally hanging on the stone wall next to it, but the hemp rope tied to it has long since rotted away because of time, so only this tattered bell remains.

"This bell..." Gu Xiaole suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Hey, brother Xiaole, this bell is so tattered that it won't fetch much money even if it is taken to the antique market. You'd better keep your blood orchid!"

As Du Xin'er spoke, she casually threw the broken bronze bell away.

"Don't throw it!" Gu Xiaole reached out to catch it, but was still a step too late. The bell bounced off the stone wall next to it, and then fell to the ground.

Although this bell has been oxidized and deformed, it still made a crisp copper bell sound when it fell on the ground: clang, clang, clang...

The ringing kept echoing in the crypt, and Du Xin'er said nonchalantly:

"What's wrong? What happened if I threw it away? It's not a love token given to you by Sister Xiaolei. What's the fuss about?"

But Gu Xiaole didn't answer her, he just stared at the dark hole below.

Du Xin'er was a little fussed by Gu Xiaole's actions and asked in a low voice, "Brother Xiaole, what are you looking at?"

Gu Xiaole did not speak but squatted on the ground, constantly sensing something with his palms...

Suddenly he shouted:

"No! Run! That bell is specially used by the giant queen ant to feed!"
Chapter completed!