After finishing the slave trade, a West India Company ship immediately met up with another ship coming from the top-secret route.
Then the West India Company, carrying a large amount of labor and equipment, disguised itself as a caravan and arrived in the mountains not far from the small town of Salem.
They seemed to have discovered gold veins here, and in the local indigenous civilization, this mountain was the world tree in Mayan mythology.
The roots extend downward to the underworld, its trunk represents the middle realm where humans live, and the high arched crown of branches symbolizes the upper realm and the thirteenth level of the Mayan paradise.
Whether out of curiosity or in search of mineral veins, the West India Company came here and began searching for mineral veins.
For several days, the people of the West India Company returned without success. This almost uninhabited area contained only the endless dense forest and the wild beasts and poisonous insects that constantly attacked them.
After several days of exploration, the West India Company not only failed to find any mineral veins, but also found several slaves, which made the commander feel extremely sick.
For several days a year, they only feel that they are fighting wits and courage with this barbaric environment. In such an environment, he would rather go back to the slave trade than stay here anymore.
But amid their complaints, several slaves and the responsible supervisors disappeared forever.
A team of mineral vein experts and colonists from the West India Company moved in along the direction of the disappearing group of people. They discovered a cave that was connected to an underground river. Going deeper, you could still hear the sound of water flowing from the underground river.
The detection should have ended here, because it is basically impossible for mineral veins to be associated with underground rivers. Even if there are indeed mineral veins under underground rivers, and they are still gold mines, it is a loss-making business to excavate them with the current level of technology.
But this time, the people of the West India Company found the body of the supervisor at the entrance of the cave, and the slaves ran deeper into the cave. This made the slave owners of the West India Company feel a wave of anger.
They were going to send slaves in again to explore the situation. This time, all the slaves were tied with thick hemp ropes, and the other end of the hemp ropes was in their hands, so that the slaves would not have the slightest chance of escaping.
However, after about two hundred meters in depth, the tight hemp rope suddenly broke. A large number of West India Company people felt that something was unusual. Even if this kind of hemp rope was cut with a knife, it would probably take a long time to break.
In their opinion, the hemp rope tied to the slave broke suddenly without any warning.
Then people from the West India Company used the same method to place several batches of slaves in, but all the slaves seemed to have disappeared into the sea. After reaching a certain depth, the rope suddenly broke, and then they were completely lost.
The cave is like the gate of the devil in hell. It has swallowed dozens of people in succession without making any sound.
After all the slaves on hand were basically used up, they lit the torch with one hand and picked up the flintlock gun with the other hand, before preparing to enter the cave to investigate in person.
Several people walked all the way in. Under the light of torches, there were no traces of any living things in the cave. Even bats and insects living in the darkness showed no signs of appearing.
The sound of underground water became clearer and louder, and several people also felt colder and colder at the same time. However, the light of the torches flickered in the underground cave, giving the dozens of colonists a small sense of security.
The person leading the way suddenly disappeared after turning a corner, which caused all the people behind to get into a commotion. Then, as soon as they passed the curve, even the light of the torch disappeared.
"Charlie? What's in front of you?"
The people at the back were asking questions, but there was no response from the front.
There were echoes echoing continuously in the strange underground cave, and no sound came back from the bend ahead.
There were only echoes in the silent crypt, and the sound of running water that seemed to be ringing in my ears.
All the silence, depression, and panic began to spread. The remaining people did not dare to cross that bend again, and the leader at the rear held a gun to prevent these people from escaping.
Just when this group of people almost fired and started shooting because of this situation, the voice of their companions was heard from the depths.
"Come in quickly, we are getting rich, hahahaha, getting rich, getting rich!"
The people who were about to mutiny immediately relaxed their vigilance after hearing the sound. After their companions kept repeating the words "get rich", greed suppressed their fear, and a group of people turned the corner in a mighty manner. .
This curve is very narrow and can only accommodate one person for more than ten meters. However, after crossing this narrow intersection, it suddenly became clear.
A terrifying underground space was displayed in front of everyone. The most eye-catching thing was a spiral spire hundreds of meters high in the sky that led to the top of the underground space.
This spiral spire emits red light, and the light covers the entire underground space, as if the sound of running water is constantly emanating from the spire, and the spire hangs upside down from the top, which is like a miraculous workmanship.
Around him, a large number of artificial building debris were scattered underground. Through the blood-red light of the inverted minaret, they saw that they were open-air tombs one after another.
All the colonists looked at this inverted spire in shock. The only thought in their hearts was "get rich"!
They didn't even realize that after entering, they didn't find Charlie, who was the first to come in, and the traces of the dozen or so slaves had completely disappeared. At this time, they were completely attracted by this group of tombs and couldn't move their eyes away.
To them, tombs are gold, money, and everything plundered, which is more important than life.
In addition to the sound of running water, a large number of gurgling sounds began to echo in everyone's ears, and countless people began to pour into the tomb crazily.
At this time, the people waiting outside the cave were even more confused. The previous group of colonists entered for half a day, but there was no response.
Just when they were about to send people in again, a man with his hands full of strange stones rushed out of the cave with a loud smile, muttering "We're getting rich, we're going to get rich"!
He looked like he was going crazy, and his mouth was constantly dripping with a mixture of blood and saliva, but he didn't pay attention at all and kept repeating it in his mouth.
This confused the people waiting outside. Obviously what this person brought out was just a pile of stones with strange patterns on them, why did he keep saying "get rich".
Who would want this pile of broken rocks? Those artists who are addicted to hallucinogens don’t like these broken stones, right?
However, everyone present soon felt that their eyes were slightly blurry. They all rubbed their eyes, and then they realized that the stones in the hands of the companion who came out actually seemed to be pieces of nugget gold.
Get rich! This is their only idea.
"Bang!" I don't know who shot and killed the companion who came out with a large amount of gold nuggets in his arms, and went up to grab the gold nuggets.
Everyone started to grab it.
Not long after, the colonists of the West India Company who came over again felt a little confused when they saw their companions frantically grabbing several stone fragments.
Isn't it just an ordinary stone? It's not gold. Why are you grabbing it like crazy?
With such doubts, they also walked to the side of the stone...