As Liu Dong turned left and right in the ruined city, he saw many incomplete and dilapidated buildings from time to time. Although these buildings have been unknown for millions of years, they still project exquisite craftsmanship, which all amazed us.
I couldn't stop sighing and sighing at the extraordinary talents of ancient civilizations.
After turning out of the dilapidated ruins, we all walked on a spacious white stone road under the leadership of Liu Dong. The buildings on both sides were relatively complete. Some of the buildings with spiers or domes had a strong alien atmosphere, and
Almost all the buildings are made of black stones. These black buildings form an extremely sharp contrast with the white stone roads, which feels very strange.
After walking along the stone road for about ten minutes, Liu Dong, who was walking at the front, stopped and said: "Turn left ahead and you will see the palace of Queen Jingjue, the sacrificial temple that hides the entrance to the underground palace.
Just inside the palace."
Several experts were a little excited when they heard that they were going to see Queen Jingjue's palace. Minister An happily said: "After entering this ancient city, all the buildings I saw are extremely exquisite. I believe that the Queen's palace will be even more beautiful."
Absolutely beautiful.”
Several experts also nodded in agreement.
At this time, Liu Dong looked at Minister An and several experts with strange eyes and said, "You are wrong. The Queen's palace is not exquisite. On the contrary, it will surprise you."
Minister An was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked Liu Dong, "What?"
Liu Dong smiled with an unpredictable expression and said, "Lao An, you will understand what I mean when you see the Queen's Palace later."
After saying that, he continued walking forward without looking back.
Minister An looked back at the experts with some confusion, shook his head, smiled bitterly, and followed Liu Dong. Everyone also walked forward with doubts in their hearts.
After walking a few steps, a crossroad appeared in front of everyone. Liu Dong turned to the left and continued walking forward. Everyone also followed the left and continued moving forward.
After walking about five hundred meters, a group of buildings appeared in front. Liu Dong turned back and said with a smile: "Did you see those buildings in front? That's the queen's palace."
Everyone stopped and looked forward carefully. Only then did they realize that, as Liu Dong said, the palace was not as exquisitely built as we imagined the palaces of the dynasties from Xia and Shang to Ming and Qing Dynasties.
It is extremely luxurious, but it is a very simple square courtyard, surrounded by low black stone walls, and inside are square stone houses in an orderly manner. Judging from the appearance of the buildings, these stone houses are very simple, just some simple stones.
It is made of piles of buildings and is simpler and simpler than any dilapidated building we saw when we entered the city.
Minister An, including all of us except Liu Dong who entered the ancient city for the first time, were very surprised. The inner courtyard of Queen Jingjue's palace turned out to be so ordinary, which was a bit unexpected.
Seeing our expressions, Liu Dong smiled slightly and said: "When I first came here, I didn't think this was the palace of Queen Jingjue at all, but then when we searched all over the city and couldn't find the queen's palace, we finally entered
This building complex, only after entering the queen's chamber, did I believe that this building complex was the royal palace of Jingjue City."
Minister An nodded and said: "Judging from the simplicity of this palace, the Queen of Jingjue Kingdom at that time must have been a female monarch who lived a very simple life and loved her people like her own children."
Hearing this, Liu Dong looked at Minister An with strange eyes, smiled "hehe" and said, "Old An, wait until we enter the palace before you comment on this ancient queen."
Liu Dong's words aroused everyone's doubts again, but Liu Dong did not explain anything, but led the way and continued walking forward.
When they came to the low wall of the palace, a small cyan metal door was inlaid on the black wall. The door was ajar. The rust marks on the door seemed to be made of bronze. Liu Dongshi Shiran
He pushed open the metal door with force. It seemed that he should know clearly that there was no danger inside.
Everyone followed and entered the palace garden. The scene inside surprised everyone again. Different from the ruins when they entered the ancient city, all the buildings displayed in front of everyone were well preserved, and the silence was breathtaking.
It exudes a solemn and mysterious atmosphere.
Liu Dong expertly led us around the stone houses in the front row and towards the back. After passing about four or five rows of stone houses, we saw a very small palace building. The entire palace was without exception made of large black stones.
It is built of bricks, without very gorgeous decorations or colors, but standing before our eyes, the black color still carries a strong sense of solemnity and solemnity, even a touch of mystery.
Standing in front of the palace, Liu Dong's eyes were a little obsessed and a little inexplicable. He stood silently for dozens of seconds, then pointed at the palace and said to everyone: "This is the real palace of Queen Jingjue, divided into two parts."
The upper floor is her bedroom, and the lower floor is divided into two halls, the front and back. I think the main hall is where the queen meets with ministers or discusses matters, and behind it is a sacrificial temple. The entrance to the underground palace we are looking for is at the sacrificial temple.
underneath.”
Minister An asked Liu Dong at this time: "Old Liu, are you sure the Queen's underground palace can lead to the deep cave in the black mountain?"
Liu Dong looked deeply at Minister An and said: "Of course, I saw that bottomless hole with my own eyes, but... the feeling that the hole gave us is beyond words... I will tell you when you all see it."
Speaking of this, Liu Dong's eyes were a little weird. It seemed that he didn't want to talk more about the feeling that the cave gave him. However, we could feel the fear in his heart. I thought to myself: What kind of cave would that make him feel?
Why does Liu Dong, who seems so courageous, have such fear?
At this moment, Minister An signaled Liu Dong to continue leading the way, so we all entered the palace. We all turned on our flashlights and dispersed the darkness in the palace. As Liu Dong said, eight screens like screens appeared in the center of the palace.
The golden fan-shaped wall divides the space in the hall into two parts, the front and rear. In the middle of the golden screen, there is a white jade throne. There is a corridor on both sides of the eight-sided golden screen, which should lead to the back of the golden screen.
Liu Dong pointed to the left side of the palace and said: "There are stairs behind the yellow curtain on the palace wall that lead directly to the queen's bedroom on the second floor, but there are only some utensils used by the queen in daily life."
Then he pointed to the eight-sided golden screen in the middle and said, "Behind this golden screen is the sacrificial temple. You can go there on both sides."
Minister An nodded, stared at the golden screen and said: "We don't have to go up to the queen's chamber. The most important thing now is to quickly enter the underground palace, find the "ghost cave" of the Jingjue tribe, and figure out the secrets there."
Liu Dong waved his hand silently and led us towards the corridor on the left side of the golden screen.
The corridor is very dark and narrow. The black stone contains some strange substance. It is very strange. Several of our powerful military flashlights only emitted weak light in front of it. Fortunately, the corridor is very short, and the people at the back are still there.
Before entering the corridor, the people in front had already walked out of the corridor and entered the sacrificial temple.
When everyone entered the back hall, at the moment when the flashlight illuminated, Minister An exclaimed. When everyone hurriedly looked, they saw that the entire ground in the sacrificial hall was filled with countless large and small sarcophagi. And these
In the center of the sarcophagus is a circular altar about two meters high. In the middle of the altar, a cyan column goes straight into the dome of the temple. There are tree-like decorations on both sides of the column, with many branches scattered on it.
.
As soon as they saw the sarcophagus, everyone became nervous. In the "City of Time", it was those evil one-eyed creatures that came out of the sarcophagus that almost killed us all. Now who knows what is inside the countless large and small sarcophagi in this temple?
What kind of weird thing is it pretending to be?
Seeing how nervous we were, Liu Dong quickly waved his hands and said: "Don't be afraid, everyone. I have opened several of these sarcophagi with my previous companions, and they were full of dead bones. As for the purpose of placing these dead bones and sarcophagi here,
It’s unknown.”
Then he pointed to the altar in the middle and said: "The column above the altar is the mechanism that opens the underground palace, but the premise is that the two "money trees" on both sides of it must be filled with money, so that the column can open.
effect."
"Money tree? Old Liu...you said those two trees are money trees?" Fei Fan stared at Liu Dong in surprise and asked in a high voice.
Liu Dong nodded heavily and said: "Yes, those two trees are the legendary "money trees". When I saw them last time, I couldn't believe it. I didn't know that they were until I saw them covered with money in an instant.
real."
Fei Fan opened his eyes wide and shook his head in disbelief: "This... is simply unbelievable."
Minister An interrupted Fei Yifan's words and said: "Changes will happen later. Let's all hurry over. Open and find the entrance to the underground palace first."
Since there was only a small gap between the sarcophagus and the sarcophagus, we all lined up and walked to the altar in the middle of the sarcophagus one by one. Although Liu Dong had already said that there was no danger in the sarcophagus, everyone was still worried.
Ichiban.
Walking up to the altar, fortunately, none of the sarcophagi appeared to be in any unusual condition, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. The altar was not very big, and in addition to the thick cyan column in the middle, I also saw two cyan columns.
The tree-shaped object was close to the stone pillar, and he couldn't wait to touch the green tree-shaped object that Liu Dong called the "money tree" with his hand. Then he frowned and said to Liu Dong: "Old Liu, you are so awesome
Damn you, you can fool me. This is a "money tree" made of bronze. It is fake, not real! It is not made of metal, but naturally occurring. Ancient books record that "it is as green as jade, as smooth as ice, and flexible to the touch."
, Shake off the money.” Look at the patina. You can tell at a glance that it’s definitely a fake.”
Liu Dong shook his head and said: "Historical records are good, but I saw with my own eyes how they were filled with money in an instant. How can I explain this?"
Fei Yifan walked around the two "money trees" strangely. After looking at the column for a while, Minister An asked Liu Dong: "Old Liu, this stone column looks bare, with no patterns and nothing strange. It's just a
A bronze pillar, how to open the mechanism?"
Liu Dong smiled bitterly and said: "To be honest, I don't know how to open the entrance to the underground palace, but the mechanism is indeed controlled by these two "money trees" and this column. Last time we came here, we just thought it was
An altar, but I don’t know when, after a strange "ding-dong" sound, the two "money trees" were suddenly filled with a lot of shaking money, and then the columns also started to rotate. Several square bricks on the altar
It collapsed, revealing the entrance to the underground palace."
As he said this, he pointed to a few square bricks on the altar for us to see.
Fei Fan pointed at a "money tree" and suddenly said: "Lao Liu, Lao An, come over and see, what is this?"
Minister An and Liu Dong quickly walked to Fei Fan. Fei Fan pointed at the top of the main branch of the money tree. On it was a round bowl-shaped object as big as a human thumb, with a downward-facing
Minister An and Liu Dong looked at the hole and shook their heads, expressing that they didn't understand what it was.
Fei Fan asked Liu Dong again: "When you came here, were there any injuries or bleeding?"
Liu Dong was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and suddenly realized: "Old Fei, I understand. It's blood. It's the blood that drained out of this hole, which triggered the "money tree" mechanism."
Fei Fan smiled proudly, and Liu Dong stretched out his right hand excitedly and said: "Among the few of us at that time, I was the one who injured the fingers of my right hand when I was prying the sarcophagus. After I came up to the altar, I even touched it."
"Money tree", I must have somehow dripped blood into it at that time, which led to the emergence of "money tree" and triggered the agency."
After listening to Liu Dong's words, Minister An said without hesitation: "Okay, let me trigger the mechanism." After saying that, he took out a military dagger and cut his finger. Yin Hong's blood flowed out instantly, and An
The minister put his finger on the top of the "money tree" and dripped blood into the hole in the mouth of the bowl.
Liu Dong motioned everyone to leave the stone bricks in the center of the altar and wait for the opening of the underground palace.
Perhaps Minister An felt that the blood volume of one "money tree" was not enough to open the entrance to the underground palace, so he dripped blood into the mouth of another tree. Dr. Lin immediately stepped forward to apply a hemostatic bandage to Minister An.
The mutation, indeed, came quickly. Dr. Lin had just bandaged Minister An when a strange sound sounded, and the "ding-dong" was pleasant to the ear. As expected, the two "money trees" were incredibly illuminated with a green light, and each one
The branches also shone with golden light, and soon, round coins swayed all over the tree.
Just when everyone was about to see the magical changes of the "money tree" clearly, the bronze cylinder began to rotate with a "bang", and the entire altar shook with it. After a burst of noise, several stone bricks in the center of the altar began to rotate at extremely fast speeds.
It collapsed at a rapid speed, revealing a bottomless tunnel.
As the tunnel appeared, strange things happened again. The money on the two "money trees" disappeared instantly, and the green light flowing throughout the trees also dimmed, losing its color and turning into the original patina.