Wang An hurriedly escaped from the cave.
The shaking of the mountain below lasted for no more than ten seconds and then stopped. Some rocks rolled down the mountain and a few trees fell. Other than that, there was no other huge impact.
He stood on the mountain for a while, and after finding that the earthquake did not continue, he was about to enter the cave again. Suddenly, he vaguely saw a faint light in the valley not far away, which was very weak.
"what?"
Wang An suddenly disappeared from the mountain, his figure flashed a few times in the mountain, and soon he came to the place where the light came from.
The light came from the ground. A crack appeared on the ground, no more than twenty centimeters wide. The light was slightly green. It was more than ten meters deep underground. Then Wang An saw two white bones with the shining light.
“This is an underground tomb?”
Wang An looked at the surrounding terrain and could vaguely see several incomplete rock paintings on a broken rock nearby.
He came closer and took a closer look. Because the stone was broken, the picture was incomplete. However, he could roughly see that some people were worshiping something, and there were some upward stairs in the picture.
Wang An walked forward along the curved crack, and found that there seemed to be a vague passage underneath the crack, and he didn't know where it led.
He followed the crack for nearly two hundred meters, and when the crack disappeared, he looked up at a towering mountain peak in front of him.
“Let’s wait until it gets bright tomorrow and then take a closer look.” Although his current vision is not much different between day and night, he decided to wait until it gets bright again.
He waited calmly in the mountains all night. The other people in the mountain were frightened and all of them were terrified.
“Holy shit, what’s going on? Is there an earthquake?”
“Don’t be alarmed. Earthquakes occasionally occur in Beiyi Mountain. The frequency of earthquakes here is much higher than in other places.”
“Really, this is normal?”
“Yes, normal.”
“If your legs were shaking like a vibrator, I almost would have believed you!”
As he was talking, a stone rolled down from the top of the mountain.
“Be careful, get out of the way!”
The other team was not much better and hurriedly found an open space to hide, but where could they find an open space in this mountain forest? Fortunately, the earthquake was short-lived and not very intense.
“Huh, it’s a false alarm.”
“Why was there an earthquake all of a sudden?”
“Beiyishan is an earthquake-prone area.”
“Alas, do you think this earthquake was caused by some man-made factors?”
“Human factors, what do you mean?”
“Someone blew something up with dynamite and caused an earthquake.”
“But we didn’t hear the explosion?”
“Perhaps the explosion was underground, or it was hidden in a cave.”
“Whatever the reason, please be alert tonight.”
The two teams stayed up all night for fear of another earthquake.
The next morning, as soon as it dawned, Wang An was ready to start.
He thought about going underground to take a look, but the crack on the ground was very narrow. It looked like it was no more than twenty or thirty centimeters. Naturally, a person with this width would not be able to get down, and a cat could get in.
Wang An gathered his true energy and gave a powerful palm strike. With a bang, a big pit sank into the ground.
Then his whole body sank more than one meter deep, and then he used his palms to open a path underground.
With the blessing of Zhenqi, Wang An's palms easily broke through the hard ground and shattered the rocks underground. The further down, the wider the cracks in the ground became. After four or five meters down, they could barely accommodate a person. pass.
Wang An looked at both sides of the crack, which were filled with hard rocks.
As he went all the way down, his feet reached the ground more than ten meters deep. Here he actually saw stone steps. It's just that these stairs are incomplete, broken, broken, and in pieces.
Looking at these stairs, Wang An thought of the petroglyphs he saw on the broken rocks last night.
Those who worship, the stairs leading to higher places.
But now the stairs have sunk into the ground and have completely collapsed.
Where will this staircase lead? Wang An thought of the painting recorded in that person's diary, the glowing door.
“Will it lead to the legendary immortal’s residence?”
Underground, Wang An walked along the broken stone steps. On both sides were piled rocks, some large and some small. Suddenly Wang An stopped.
He saw two skeletons, but only part of the body could be seen, and the other part must have been pressed into the rocks. It looked like it was buried underground.
Continuing to move forward, he discovered skeletons one after another. Almost none of them were complete. They were all pressed into the rocks. The clothes they wore were a little weird.
“Sacrifice, earthquake?” Wang An suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Did these people encounter an earthquake while holding some kind of sacrificial activity? They were crushed to death before they could escape. The clothes they were wearing may be sacrificial clothes."
Wang An was looking for the way forward along the broken stone steps. Suddenly, the road in front of him broke off and was cut off by a rock with no visible edge.
If the road is gone, then open a new one. There is no road underground.
Wang An took a deep breath, raised his hand and slapped the table with his palm. With all his strength, he landed on the boulder.
The energy rises from the feet, driving the energy all over the body to gather upward. The true qi gushes out from the sea of qi and travels up the meridians.
They started to meet at the shoulders, converged together, and moved hand in hand, just like fire meeting fuel, exerting amazing power.
Hit a palm on the boulder,
King Kong beats the case,
The moment his palm came into contact with the stone, the part of the rock in contact with his palm immediately shattered, and his palm sank into the rock. Almost at the same time, dozens of cracks quickly spread in all directions centered on the place where his hand sank. Spreading, spider webs covered the entire rock.
Cracking, cracking sounds continued to come from the inside of the rock. With a roar, the mountain rock shattered and then collapsed.
Behind the rock, a winding passage leads to an unknown direction, and some crumbled stone steps can be seen below. He walked along the stone steps. The further he went, the lower the stone steps went, seeming to lead to the depths of the ground.
“Is it possible that the stone steps in the painting on the rock outside are pointing underground, not upward?”
On the ground, in the mountains and forests, the two teams had not had a good rest all night. They were traveling through the jungles, and they were still searching separately.
“Boss, will there be another earthquake today?”
"Hard to say."
“Then let’s withdraw. Even though the money is a lot, we still have to live to spend it!”
“You have the money in your hand, but what you put into your mouth is spit out again. Besides, what a coincidence, there was an earthquake last night, and it’s happening again today?”
Just after saying these words, there was a muffled sound, and the ground beneath the feet of several people shook.
“Hold the grass, isn’t it! It’s really coming!”
“Crow’s mouth!”
Another team in the mountains has climbed to the top of a mountain, standing high to see far.
“Captain, I really have you. There was an earthquake last night, and you led us to the top of the mountain today. If there is an earthquake later, we won’t have anywhere to run.”
“Stand high and see far.”
“Well, I think you’ll die faster if you stand high!”
“What are you talking about, crow’s mouth?!” a teammate on the side immediately yelled.
“Bah, bah, bah, I was wrong!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the mountain began to shake.
“Hold the grass, isn’t it?”
These people hurriedly fell to the ground, but regained their composure after a few seconds.
“Captain, I think so”
“You’re not allowed to say a word from now on, do you hear me?”
Uh-huh!
Underground, Wang An walked all the way down, the air here was a bit dull, and there were no cracks visible above his head. Wang An made a rough estimate and found that he was now close to a depth of twenty meters underground.
If an earthquake happens again now, if both sides collapse, he will be buried directly inside.
Wang An stopped and saw a relatively empty space in front of him, because there were several sloping stone pillars underground supporting the surrounding area, and the stairs under his feet began to become continuous.
You can see several corpses within a few steps of the stone steps. Wang An felt more like he was leading to a tomb somewhere.
After walking forward for some distance, an unfathomable ravine lay in front of us, seven or eight meters wide. Diagonally opposite, below and on the stone wall were two doors.
The appearance of the two doors is exactly the same as what was recorded in the diary.
“Is there really one?!”
Originally, Wang An's purpose in coming to Beiyi Mountain was to lure out the person behind the last incident in Beijing. He just wanted to go around and make some noise as bait. He didn't expect to find such a thing in this mountain.
Wang An's body swayed across the unfathomable ravine and came to the front of the two doors.
In front of the gate is a broad altar. At this time, the altar is also full of cracks and there are some animal bones on it. It seems that it should be used for sacrifices.
Wang An passed through the altar and came to the front door. There were some weird runes on the door. There is also an overturned stone tablet beside it, which contains some ancient writings.
“What’s behind this door?”
Wang An stretched out his hand and tried it. The stone door was very thick, but it was not unbreakable.
He looked at the two doors, but did not use his own strength to break open the stone door. He used his mobile phone to take pictures of the stone gate, stone tablets, altar and other ancient artifacts and then looked around.
He turned around and came to the bottomless ravine and looked down.
The endless abyss, the horrifying darkness, seems to be a gaping mouth, trying to swallow everything that comes close.
Wang An turned around and looked at the two doors again, then crossed the ravine in one step and left along the way he came. However, when he went back, he moved several rocks and re-sealed the road leading to the stone door. died.
When he came out of the ground, another palm shook the ground, completely blocking the way in.
He was not sure what was behind the two stone doors. It might be a god, or it might be something bad. He always felt that the latter was more likely.
“It’s almost time to go back.”
Wang An secretly found the two teams on the way back and quietly took additional photos for them.
While the two teams were still searching hard in the mountains, Wang An was already on his way back.
He returned quietly. He set off from Beiyi Mountain in the morning and returned to the mountain village that night. He woke up just in time to have breakfast. It was so fast.
Seeing Wang An return, Xu Qi informed him of the progress of the investigation.
“All that can be found now are some small shrimps. These people are very careful, and the clues are broken at one place.”
"This can be considered a harvest. Only by casting a long line can you catch big fish. I also have a bait here." Wang An told Xu Qi what he discovered at the foot of Beiyi Mountain. Xu Qi was stunned after hearing this.
“Here, why does what sir say sound so similar to the stone gate of Immortal Burial Valley?!” He couldn’t help but exclaimed.
There is also a stone door at the end of the depths of Immortal Burial Valley, and the stone door has been opened, but no one knows what is inside.
"Perhaps there is some kind of connection between them. After all, they are all in the land of Xiqiang. I have brought back the photos. You can ask an expert to decipher some of the ancient characters and symbols on them."
"good."
“This bait should attract a lot of people.”
“Sir, didn’t you go in to take a look?” Xu Qi asked curiously.
“I thought about it, but I held it back.”
“Why, maybe there really are immortals inside?”
"Immortal, what is an immortal? So what if you meet me? I have my own way now, the one that suits me best. And I have a vague hunch that there may be something bad in it. How has Lei Hai been doing these days? Sample?"
“It’s pretty good, getting better day by day.” Xu Qi said, this is what makes him happiest. His friend's injury has been a knot in his heart over the years.
The day after Wang An returned, Xu Qi left the mountain village and headed for the capital. During the time that Wang An was away, he was secretly inquiring about information and taking care of Lei Hai in the mountain village. Lu Xiangyi was keeping an eye on him in the capital.
“What, the underground stone gate?” Lu Xiangyi was also stunned after hearing what Xu Qi said.
“Isn’t this related to Immortal Burial Valley?”
“Perhaps, I have to find someone to decipher the words and symbols on the photos that my husband brought back.”
“What do you think will be behind the stone door?”
“I don’t know, sir, he didn’t even go in. He said there might be something bad behind it.”
“Maybe it’s just an ancient tomb?”
"maybe."
On the same day, Xu Qi contacted a relevant expert for advice.
“Here, where did you get these photos?” The expert was very surprised after seeing the photos Xu Qi showed him.
“This is Tangut script, which is Xixia script.” The expert pointed at the stone tablet.
“As for these two doors, the symbols on them look like they were from the Pre-Qin period. I need to research what they are specifically.”
(End of this chapter)