After walking through the passage, everyone held torches and entered the Miyamoto base.
I saw that the interior of the base seemed to be an empty square...
In the darkness of the square, a dozen green lanterns were floating swaying...
The green light of the lantern is not very strong, so I can't see what's there...
As soon as everyone entered the square, the dozens of green lanterns floated up, floated higher, and floated farther and farther...
Jiang Zhonglou quickly turned on the flashlight and saw that the dozen lanterns had floated out of the castle wall and disappeared...
"What is that?"
Sanya asked curiously.
"I don't know, maybe...it's a super big firefly?" said the fourth senior sister.
"Isn't this firefly too big?"
Sadako sighed: "The largest fireflies we saw before were the size of walnuts, but this one is actually as big as a lantern!"
"It's okay, fireflies don't bite, it doesn't matter how big they are!"
Sanya raised her head and looked around nonchalantly.
Following the light of Jiang Zhonglou's flashlight, everyone discovered that this circular castle was almost exactly the same as the Colosseum in ancient Rome, but it was larger.
In the middle of the castle is a huge circular square, which is empty and has nothing...
Around the square, there are layers of stands. Visually, there are about a dozen floors, divided into three levels...
Below the stands, there are many houses...
This is also somewhat like a stadium in modern society, except it is larger than a football stadium, and it is perfectly round...
"Is this... a stadium?"
Sadako asked curiously.
"It's more like a gladiatorial arena..." the eldest sister thought, "This may be...a place where pirates competed in the past, right?"
"Well...it's very possible!"
Jiang Zhonglou said: "I heard from Xia Mingzi that the bandits on Haiyue Island have been here for hundreds of years. At their peak, there were thousands of people...
They have been passed down from generation to generation, and there must be a place to compete, elect leaders, discuss major issues, etc...
This underground castle is probably where they hold the gathering, right?"
"Why don't they build the castle for the gathering on Kaiyue Island?" Sadako sighed, "Isn't it too troublesome to build this castle in this Kaizo Labyrinth?"
"Of course they are afraid of encirclement and suppression by the officers and soldiers!" Jiang Zhonglou explained, "The officers and soldiers attacked Shanghai Yue Island several times back then. Although they destroyed all the buildings on the island, they had no way to enter the Haizang Labyrinth Cave!"
"Oh...so that's it..."
"No..." Mo Xiangjian said coldly, "Pirates only have a few thousand at most. This castle can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people. Do they need to build it so big?"
"this..."
Jiang Zhonglou paused and noticed something was wrong, so he said, "Let's go and take a look in those rooms!"
So, everyone went to explore the houses under the stands...
Many of these houses were destroyed.
Between the ruins and broken walls, there are nests of snake eggs, large and small...
The snake eggs are as big as a basketball, and the small ones are as big as a fist.
Some snake eggs have huge pythons coiled around them, and they seem to be hatching...
Different types of snakes have different habits.
After laying eggs, many pythons will be placed on them to hatch.
However, most snakes leave after laying eggs, so there are not many snakes in the rooms in this castle...
"This place is now a nest for snakes to lay their eggs. I don't know what it was used for back then..." said the senior sister.
"Let's look for it. If we don't find anything, let's leave quickly!" Jiang Zhonglou said.
"good!"
Everyone searched the room, going deeper and deeper, and at the deepest point under the first floor bleachers, they found some rooms that had not yet been destroyed.
There are actually many large machines in these rooms.
After decades, only the rusty cast iron frames of these machines remained, and everything else rotted into dust...
"Isn't this a meeting place for pirates? What are these machines for?" Sanya asked doubtfully.
"I don't know..." Jiang Zhonglou frowned, "It seems that this may not be a place for pirates to gather!"
Everyone was also confused, so they continued to search, and in some rooms, they found large glass jars like those from the "Xianghe" and "Yunlong" bases...
The iron doors of the deepest rooms on the ground floor are all closed, and there are no snake eggs. Obviously, snakes have not entered these rooms...
"Come and look, there's an iron cabinet here!"
Sanya entered a room and shouted excitedly.
Everyone also went in and found that it seemed to be an office, but the wooden desk and filing cabinets were in decay...
Only a cast iron safe in the corner is still in good condition.
Jiang Zhonglou came to the safe and found that the lock plate and other items on it had long since decayed.
He gently opened the iron door of the safe, and it fell to the ground with a clang.
All I saw was that there was only an oil paper bag placed in the huge safe.
Jiang Zhonglou took out the oil paper bag, opened it gently, and found that there was a notebook wrapped inside.
The cover of the notebook seems to be made of cowhide and has not deteriorated after decades.
Jiang Zhonglou gently opened the cowhide cover and saw that the paper inside the notebook was also intact, with foreign characters densely written on it.
"Sister, come and see."
Jiang Zhonglou handed the notebook to the senior sister.
"good..."
The senior sister took the notebook, read a few pages and said, "This is the diary of a person named Chuan Qiong."
"Diary? What did you write?"
Jiang Zhonglou asked curiously.
"Today I officially settled in the Miyamoto Base of Kaizo Labyrinth Cave. I will start researching the holy objects soon. I am so excited! I must work hard and research the holy objects as soon as possible... As long as we have the holy objects, we can
Conquered the whole world..."
The senior sister read the foreign text in the diary: "Miyamoto Base was rebuilt on the basis of the pirate base camp. It is really grand...
It is said that the pirates were afraid that the army would get the map and enter the Haizang Labyrinth Cave, so they built this base camp here. There is only one door to enter, and no matter how many enemies there are, they can't get in...
The pirates stored five years' worth of food in the rooms at their base camp to prepare for the encirclement and suppression by the government troops...
They usually live in the rooms in the base camp, and the square in the middle is their market and arena. They seem to be very combative..."
"It turns out that this is an underground castle built by pirates, and later transformed into a Miyamoto base by soldiers..."
Mo Xiang Jian Leng said thoughtfully.
"Yes, but what exactly is the sacred object they transformed and studied here? How can it be possible to conquer the whole world?" Sadako asked doubtfully.
"Let Senior Sister continue to translate the rest of the content!" Jiang Zhonglou said.
"Wait a minute!"
Sanya said, "We are tired and hungry, so why not light a fire here, roast snake meat and eggs, and let Sister Yu Nie read us stories while we eat!"
"All right!"
So, everyone dismantled the rotten wooden tables and cabinets, poured kerosene on them, and lit a fire.
We killed a lot of snakes earlier, cut some of the snake meat and carried it on our bodies, and now we are taking it out to roast and eat...
Sanyayou and Senior Sister Sadako went outside to find a few snake eggs as big as basketballs and roasted them by the fire...