Only one of them still had some broken threads. I found that these threads were parasitic inside the coin and had become one with the minerals of the coin. This is really magical.

But what surprised me the most was that the unbroken silk thread was pointing straight up.

I saw that it could no longer follow me forward, so I had to leave the coin where it was, hoping that Liu Sa and Er Pang would notice it more.

"They're fine. Brother Yu should worry more about himself." After saying that, Shang Qingyun raised his head.

The two of us were walking and talking, and we had arrived at the huge stone gate. It seemed majestic from a distance, but when we got closer, we realized how spectacular it was.

Under this huge stone door, I realized how small I was. Looking at the thick stone door, I always felt that there was a huge monster sealed behind the door, and my legs began to tremble.

Shang Qingyun withdrew his gaze and tilted his head: "Open sesame?"

Shimen didn't respond.

"Well...little rabbit, be good and open the door..."

Why are you still singing?

Your cold persona was ruined in an instant!

Seeing Shang Qingyun's naturally dumb reaction, the tension in my heart immediately disappeared.

"Brother Yu is not nervous anymore?"

"Uh-" I was confused by Shang Qingyun's question. I seemed to be comforted by a child?

Seemingly seeing that my expression softened, Shang Qingyun took a step forward and came to the door on the left. He took out a knife from nowhere, cut his palm and dripped blood on the crack of the door.

Blood dripped all the way to the ground.

The heavy stone door seemed to be alive, making a dull rumbling sound.

The stone door actually opened by itself!

"The earthworm moves at the sight of blood and is very powerful. It is usually used as a door mechanism." Shang Qingyun explained.

I looked at the blood seeping into the silk: "Can this creature live for so long?"

"Shedding its skin and regenerating, like a snake." Shang Qingyun said, taking the lead and getting into the stone door.

As soon as I walked into the stone gate, I smelled a strong smell of decay.

Shang Qingyun lit up the fire seal with a bang, and his vision was suddenly lit up.

We were in a passage that was closed on all sides, which made me somewhat disappointed. I thought there must be a cave behind such a huge stone door, or at least a breathtaking city, like Pompeii that was destroyed by a volcano. I never thought it was just a tunnel.

A dark passage.

"This should be a passage similar to the capital's corridor." Shang Qingyun said.

"It's really unimaginable. More than five thousand years ago, humans had such construction methods. Even modern people would have difficulty building such a huge city." I borrowed a fire seal from Shang Qingyun and followed him slowly.

As you move forward, look at and take photos of the reliefs in the cloister.

"Eh? It seems a little different?" After looking at a few reliefs, I noticed that the contents of these reliefs were slightly different from what I knew.

Generally, the cloister reliefs will engrave the founding history of the country or some relatively important events.

For the country of Osi, the most worthy thing to describe is the origin of the country, which is the story of "Taiping Silkworm Horse" that Er Pang told me before.

According to Er Pang, the general's daughter was abducted by the horse's soul and placed on a mulberry tree, transformed into a humanoid silkworm.

However, what is recorded in the relief is slightly different.

Shang Qingyun also became very interested when he heard me express my doubts, with an expression on his face as if he was waiting for me to tell a story.

I browsed the relief again, organized my thoughts, and told him the story on the relief:

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a small country on the border of the Central Plains. The people living here had simple folk customs and never communicated with the outside world. They were good at raising silkworms and spinning them, and respected silkworms as gods. There was a river outside the city, and this was where people first discovered

It is a place where silkworms grow, so it is revered as a sacred river. There is a towering ancient tree in the city, which is called the sacred tree.

The river raised the sacred tree, and the sacred tree raised them and the silkworm god.

(I speculate that it should be a tributary of the Yellow River. Judging from the geographical location, the most likely one is Danjiang)

One day, a ragged girl entered this country by mistake.

People kindly took her in and named her "Luo", which means the spool made of silk thread spun by silkworms. In this country, it also means "goddess".

This shows how much people in this country love girls.

She also has a sister who is the biological daughter of the couple who adopted her. The two sisters have a close relationship and are both beautiful and beautiful.

Many years later, the girl grew up and decided to leave the country and find her hometown.

After that, people didn't hear anything about the girl for a long time. The girl's sister missed her very much, so she came to the bank of the Divine River to ask the gods to give her guidance.

But the river gave her sister a surprising and terrifying answer -

She will soon meet the girl, but it will also bring disaster to her country.

My sister returned home and was worried every day. She decided to spend her whole life spinning a holy garment dedicated to the gods, hoping that the Silkworm God could protect them and keep them safe.

However, before this holy garment could be completed, soldiers were already approaching.

It turned out that the girl married the king of a certain tribe and told him about their technology of raising silkworms and spinning silk.

So the king decided to raise troops to conquer their country in order to win their allegiance and spinning technology.

Regardless of men, women, old or young, everyone in the country participated in this war, and all lives were devastated for a while.

Just when they were about to be defeated, the king saw Luo's sister and wanted to marry Luo's sister on the grounds of calling off the war and making peace.

People who have not had contact with outsiders for a long time hope to exchange for peace, but my sister would rather die than follow.

She carried the unfinished holy garment to the river, prayed to the river god to help her, and petitioned to sacrifice herself in exchange for the peace of her motherland.

She knelt down facing the rushing river and kowtowed three times.

With the first knock, the river changed its course, and the entire landscape outside the city underwent earth-shaking changes. The king's army was blocked on the opposite bank, and from then on the north and the south were divided.

With the second knock, the river rolled up huge waves, and the entire country was sunk underwater. The silt at the bottom of the river surged up, forming mountains and becoming barriers, forever blocking the way for outsiders to enter the country.

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After the third knock, a monster with a dragon's head and a horse's body jumped out of the river. It gave his sister a horse skin with strange formations painted on it, causing the king's army to be defeated.

After the flood receded and everything returned to calm, the horsehide and the holy robe merged into one body, and the sister put on the holy robe and walked towards the sacred tree.

My sister turned into a humanoid silkworm chrysalis and lived on the sacred tree.

I don't know how many years passed, and the people in the original country grew old one after another. One day, all the women in the country suddenly fell into an unknown sleep.

Just overnight, all the men disappeared.

Afterwards, all the women in the city turned into humanoid silkworms. They sat on their knees facing the sacred tree, devouring silkworm leaves day and night, spitting out silk threads from their mouths, and spinning endlessly.

"Not good." After listening to my story, Shang Qingyun shook his head.

I was meditating.

I always find something strange about this story.

The first half is still an inspirational fairy tale about fighting against evil forces, but then it suddenly turns into a supernatural legend.

Why do men in the city suddenly disappear? Women suddenly turn into humanoid silkworms? Are the two related?

Also, are the humanoid silkworm chrysalises we saw before citizens of the Osi Kingdom? And why were they buried outside? Why are the records in "Sou Shen Ji" and "Shan Hai Jing" so different from the reliefs?

Various problems make this underground palace, which is already full of mystery, even more confusing.

The sister in the relief story is undoubtedly an important figure, but the logic of this story tells me that the sister does not seem to be the source, she is just a victim.

The most important thing is to find the whereabouts of this piece of horsehide that is integrated with the holy cloth, and all the puzzles will be solved.

In addition, there is another point that concerns me a lot, and that is the three mulberry sacred trees and "horses" mentioned in all records.

Along the way, I didn't see any living creatures in the traditional sense in the underground palace. Whether it was the living corpse from Huang Zhong's tomb or the humanoid silkworm chrysalis on the second floor, it would be a shocking discovery to bring any of them back to the archaeological institute.

Why has no one mentioned similar incidents for so many years? It seems that all bizarre things are gathered here, waiting for us to uncover it.

For example, there happens to be an earthworm right under the gate of the sealed country of Osi, as if it exists deliberately to allow people to open the stone gate.

In this case, what is the significance of Osi country closing its door?

Judging from the burial system of Huang Zhong's tomb, it seems that he was trying to suppress things that existed in the Osi Kingdom.

Could it be said that we are being invited into a urn now?

"As soon as you come, let's settle down." Shang Qingyun said to me coldly.

I immediately understood the tone of his words. In a place like this where there are no living people and dead bodies are common, there is no point in thinking about conspiracy theories.

If you want to survive, you can only move forward.

In other words, this may be the dedication of those in the archaeological industry. If you want to pry into the past, you have to pay a price. Your thirst for knowledge and curiosity will eventually have to pay tuition.

We walked in the corridor for more than an hour. This corridor is not very long, but it has high archaeological value.

The reliefs record the history of Osi Country and several surrounding small countries, such as the Big Heel Country east of Osi Wilderness.

These reliefs even explain many historical mysteries that have remained until now, such as the authenticity of the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

But what interests me the most is a relief at the exit of the cloister.

This relief is separate and describes the geographical environment at that time. It can be said to be a map that complements the landforms recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but this map is incomplete.

"It's strange, why is this map missing a corner?" I asked Shang Qingyun, "Why isn't it here in Kunlun Mountain?"

It doesn't look like it's been destroyed, it looks more like it hasn't been painted on at all.

"It didn't exist." Shang Qingyun said, "Ancient Kunlun was not here."

I don't know why.

"The current location of Kunlun Mountain was determined by the Song Dynasty. According to the "Shan Hai Jing", Kunlun's location is not yet known."
Chapter completed!