The Zhang family would not carve so many monsters in the ear room for no reason.
Zhang Zhuxun decided to go and take a look at the large bronze turtle with an organic tortoise cover on it. After all, it was the most special thing here.
"Be careful," Wu Xie reminded from behind, "in case there are other institutions hidden nearby."
Zhang Zhuxun waved his hand casually, plunged forward into the water, and swam directly in the direction of the bronze dragon turtle.
The water in the pool had already become turbid after the passage just now, and the underwater visibility was pitifully low.
Zhang Zhu swam around in his memory, tracing the area where Wu Xie had stepped on the mechanism, and soon touched other similar animal heads, plus the one that was caught by Wu Xie's foot and taken away.
In total, he found nine similar small Bixi statues around the bronze Bixi.
He gave it a try and found that the head of each Bixi could rotate. He was afraid of accidentally touching other mechanisms, so he did not move rashly again.
After finding out what was going on under the water, he swam toward the large Bixi, grabbed one of its thick front legs squatting on the base, and climbed up in twos and twos.
The moment Zhang Zhuxun stood up with his head held high and poked his head towards the shellless turtle's back, a depressing smell of corpse odor with a high oil content hit his face.
He never expected that the inside of Bixi's back shell was actually hollow, with most of the cavity filled with yellow-white solidified grease. The pungent corpse odor was emitted from these greases, which were also mixed with...
It has an aged hala smell, commonly known as the smell of old oil.
Suddenly smelling it, Zhang Zhuxun felt that it was even stronger than the smell of corpses.
He raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose, enduring the discomfort that almost made him sick, and carefully looked at the grease in the turtle jar. The thick solidified grease on the top layer contained the real black corpse oil hidden underneath.
In order to prove his idea, Zhang Zhuxun reached into the altar cavity with the tip of his dagger, scraped off a bit of solidified black oil skin from the inner wall, and then took out a fire stick and blew it to shine.
After the flame is close to the tip of the knife, the small piece of oily skin will burn very smoothly and naturally.
The reason why humans have emotions such as fear, avoidance, and disgust when facing a corpse of a similar species that died abnormally is because the subconscious mind in the brain sounds an alarm and allows itself to have a certain homologous substitution of the corpse in front of it.
sense and crisis awareness.
At the same time, mutilated corpses are more likely to resonate with people than complete corpses, similar to the feeling of death and coldness.
Even Zhang Zhuxun, who had harvested so many lives that he could not count them with both hands, could not help but feel the unhappiness of vomiting when faced with such a large turtle jar of human corpse oil.
Zhang Chuxun inevitably felt resistant. He no longer wanted to find out why the Zhang family built a large turtle altar here to hold corpse oil.
In fact, thinking about the relationship between these corpse oils and the bronze door, he already had a relatively certain guess about its role.
So he decided to throw this terrible thing in front of him, including the blame and altar, to Zhang Haike, who was dedicated to recording the deeds of the Zhang family's ancestors.
"Zhang Haike, come here." Zhang Zhuxun straightened up and greeted Zhang Haike without saying any reminder.
Zhang Haike raised his head when he heard the words, and his feet were already walking that way, "What?"
When Wu Xie and Fatty saw this, they thought Zhang Shuxun had discovered something strange and pointed. When they were about to go over, Zhang Shuxun stopped them.
"You two just stay where you are, or walk to the back."
"Okay, okay." Wu Xie and Fatty looked at each other in tacit understanding, but didn't insist.
Zhang Haike really thought that Zhang Chuxun had found some key clues, so he walked over to the water without thinking. After climbing up the mountain, he asked him expectantly, "What's wrong? Did you find anything?"
"Hey, you can see for yourself."
Zhang Zhuxun gave him an encouraging look, put the oil-stained dagger into his hand, then jumped into the water without looking back, and swam behind the ear room after Wu Xie and the others.
Zhang Haike didn't understand why at first, but when he saw it clearly and understood what the jar of things was, he looked up at Zhang Zhuxun's relaxed back that couldn't be moved back with Erkang's hands. His silence at this moment was deafening.
He could not help but think of those clay pots containing internal organs that he had seen outside before. Combined with the current situation, there were even more questions in his mind.
Why did the Zhang family boil corpse oil here? What was their purpose in doing so? Where did the corpses for boiling the corpse oil come from?
There are also specially treated internal organs. Maybe they thought this place was a little simpler. I'm afraid their owners have already integrated into this turtle altar.
Zhang Haike felt that that boy Muyu left so neatly and even made a little fool of himself before leaving. He must have noticed something or thought of something.
He simply stopped worrying, wiped the dagger clean and put it away, then made a few notes in a small notebook, looked around and found no other clues, and then got off the bike quickly.
Wu Xie and the others walked more than ten meters deep into the water, and there were steps going down. The steps were four or five meters long. Now the water was up to their necks. The water got deeper as they went down. In order to avoid stepping on it again.
When it was empty, they paddled and swam down.
Zhang Zhu was swimming at the front. After swimming for a while, he threw a cold firework into the water, allowing them to see clearly what was going on under the water.
Under the pink and white flashing light of the cold fireworks, they saw many irregular and huge shadows appearing on the bottom of the water, like many stone slabs piled randomly together, but those "slates" under the firelight reflected a faint purple light, which should be some kind of
Special ore.
Wu Xie held his breath and dived into the water, and touched it with his hands. The cold and cold touch made him realize that this was probably what Muyu said, where the Zhang family smelted ore and made bronze doors.
The underwater bronze plates were completely decayed and rusted purple, and were stacked layer by layer.
He swam forward, climbed to a bronze plate and stood up, with his waist above the water surface. He saw Zhang Zhuxun standing in front of another bronze plate with a serious look on his face.
"Is the Bronze Gate built here?" Fatty asked Wu Xie and Wu Xie what they were thinking.
Zhang Zhuoxun threw a few more cold fireworks into the water, illuminating the bottom of the pool as bright as day. More and larger bronze plates spread out to the back, where there were some even bigger shadows.
Those are giant smelting equipment.
Wu Xie had already come to a conclusion. He said: "Copper is sourced locally. The rocks here contain a large amount of copper ore, and perhaps tin ore. They smelted bronze on the spot and cast molds to make these bronze plates."
