lost realm

The tall sacred tree became strange in Dorje's eyes. He didn't hear what Gao Ming said, but my father immediately ordered everyone to stop touching the sacred tree. Obviously he thought the tree was dangerous.

The person carried back by Gao Ming was the young leader. Except for the body that fell down, all the other guys were missing. This gave the Cao family below an unspeakable fear.

They immediately left the sacred tree, retreated to a corner, and arranged for people to go out to explore the way. What was disturbing was that more than half an hour passed, and the person who explored the way did not come back.

My dad came over to discuss with Zhao Sanshui. Dorje heard Zhao Sanshui say that they were probably in a rare underground mountain, or similar to the Xiaozhai Village fill pit in Chongqing. Because the ground collapsed and was covered by toppled mountains, so A huge space was formed. This place could be hundreds of thousands of square meters in size. Moreover, there was still this demon tree. It was very dangerous to blindly find the way like this.

My father asked if there was any good way. Zhao Sanshui thought for a moment, looked at the fog in the distance, and then looked at Dorje. He hesitated and said that it might not work, but he could give it a try. My father asked what we could do, and Zhao Sanshui pointed at Dorje and said, let Dorje go again.

My father looked surprised. Zhao Sanshui mentioned the White Tower Pendant on Dorje. My father frowned and said vaguely that you were suspicious... Zhao Sanshui nodded. When Dorje saw my father's hesitation, he took the initiative to say that although he didn't I quite understand what they mean, but I am willing to give it a try. My father wanted to find two guys to accompany him. He said that if it was like what Zhao Sanshui said, no matter how many people there were, it would be useless.

After hanging up the waist knife, my father gave Dorje two more stone pens and asked him to leave marks along the way. If he found anything unusual, he would come back immediately and don't be brave. Dorje patted his chest and said that King Gesar would protect him.

There is a fog that persists all year round with the sacred tree as the center. Dorje did not go directly into it, but walked around the outside. The fog here was much lighter. Although the penetrating power of the flashlight at that time was not very strong, it was enough to see Clear things around you.

Not long after he walked out, he heard a rustling sound coming from not far away. He held the waist knife in his left hand and walked a few steps closer. He found two figures appearing in the fog. Dorje was a little hesitant. The sound seemed to be two people. People were having a conversation, and he planned to lean over to take a closer look, but found that the two of them were walking very stiffly, and their backs were slightly hunched. Dorje was shocked, and wondered if it could be the rice dumplings that Zhao Sanshui mentioned.

Just when he was hesitating, the two people had already arrived not far from him. Judging from their clothes, they were the two people who came in to explore the way. Dorje was so happy that he couldn't help calling them in a low voice, but they As if he didn't hear anything at all, he continued to move forward. Dorje felt strange that at such a close distance, he couldn't see the other party even though he was holding a flashlight.

He was very brave at that time. I would never have dared to go there. He had a knife in his hand and quietly touched it from the side. When he looked sideways, he couldn't help being shocked. He was so capable. I didn't notice that the two of them were pale, with obvious dark circles under their eyes, making them look very tired. They were dragging their bodies forward listlessly, looking haggard as if they had been lost here for a long time.

Dorje didn't say anything anymore, so he followed them to see where they were going. Not long after walking, a stone bridge loomed in front of him. Dorje ran over to take a look and found that it was a rift valley. It was dark and rocky below. The bridge was built artificially. It looks like it has been there for a long time, and I don't know if it is still strong or not.

But one thing Dorje was puzzled about was that the two of them should have seen the bridge from the angle they were in just now. How could they turn a blind eye? He looked at his watch and saw that it had been more than twenty minutes since he came out. My father and the others would be afraid if they kept going any longer. He had an accident, and it would be terrible if another person came in and got lost.

He immediately made a decision, turned back, and caught up with the two people. When the two people saw it was Dorje, they pulled him and told him to go back and report, saying that they had discovered an extremely luxurious palace complex in front of them and that there must be valuable treasures.

Dorje looked forward in confusion. There were no palaces there. Could it be that the two of them had seen a mirage? He couldn't figure it out at the time, so he simply pulled the two of them back. The two of them were not willing to go back at first, but because of their weakness His state was no match for Dorje, and he was pulled away in just a few strokes.

He walked back along his own mark. As he walked, he felt that something was wrong. He felt like he was being spied on. He turned around several times but did not see anyone else. When he walked out of the fog, everyone was there. While we were waiting, my father immediately came to greet me. Dorje smiled and said it was nothing.

He told my father and others what he saw along the way, especially the weird behavior of the two people. Zhao Sanshui pinched his beard and asked if they were talking about the palace group. Dorje nodded, and Zhao Sanshui stopped talking thoughtfully. , my father said that there was something strange about this tree, and he guessed that it was probably the reason why they had been fascinated by it.

The demonic tree was so weird that my father didn't dare to delay any longer. With Dorje leading the way, the team continued on the road and headed straight for the stone bridge.

The fog was very light when we arrived at the stone bridge. Although the stone bridge was old, it was no problem to carry people. My father asked the Cao family to cross the bridge as quietly as possible, as if they were afraid of disturbing anything.

After passing the stone bridge, there is a cave, some natural and some artificial. The number is extremely large, and in the connected parts in the middle, there will be a large pit with a slope at intervals, which is like a buffer and resting place. place.

After their exploration, they found that these tunnel mazes have four floors inside and outside. On each floor, you will see some abandoned and aging traps, and some alternately winding to the deepest place. The Cao family did not dare to venture in rashly.

They stopped in one of the stone rooms to rest. This stone chamber was built in the middle of the tunnel, more than one meter above the ground. The entrance is very small, and there is an escalator next to it. You need to climb in. What's even more amazing is that they found that there are vents in the stone chamber to allow oxygen to be transported. Go inside the cave.

Dorje looked at the structure inside, and Zhao Sanshui murmured to the side that he didn't know if there was an Ming Bao on the ground. Generally, secret passages would be connected to the Ming Bao. If there was one, we could go back from there.

He asked Zhao Sanshui if this was where the ancients lived. Zhao Sanshui couldn't tell for sure. He thought it was more like a fortification to resist invasion by foreign enemies. After all, no one set traps in their own homes.

Sure enough, not long after, several Cao family children found several corpses locked in stone railings in a nearby connected stone room. They had turned into white bones. Someone picked up a metal disc from it and brought it over and wiped it. It could reflect people's figures, so I suspected it was a mirror. My father only took one look and concluded that this must be a military fortress.

It turns out that thing is not a mirror at all, but a round shield, usually inlaid on the front and back of the armor. Because this thing was polished back then, it will emit dazzling light when the sun shines on it, so the armor is also called "Mingguang Armor". It is a typical Tang Dynasty armor.

The most famous military activity of the Tang Dynasty in Shennongjia was the crusade during Wu Zetian's reign. When Xue Gang rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, in order to escape the government's pursuit, he crossed Lintong, passed Fangzhou, and went straight to Dajiu Lake. He was captured by Luanying, the king of the mountain at that time. Later, the two got married, held high the flag of righteousness, and opposed Wu Zetian. Therefore, the imperial court sent people to encircle and suppress Wu Zetian many times. Due to the special geographical location, the fighting was fierce and lasted for a long time.

I think the most likely scenario at that time was that the people of Luanying Village discovered the secrets in the mountains, and they sent people to attack the ancestors living here. The ancestors took advantage of the geographical advantage to dig holes and caves to resist the attack, and from Dorje's Judging from the description, this nearly perfect underground military fortification can not only accommodate hundreds of thousands of people fighting, but also ensure long-term residence, waiting for the enemy to be exhausted in the mountains and come out from inside.

Sure enough, Dorje's next words also verified my guess.

My father and others also concluded that it was an ancient battlefield, but they didn't know what happened to the ancestors in the end. Whether they were wiped out in the battle or moved away.

Everyone settled down for the time being. After a long period of mental stress, most of the people, except for those who were on guard duty, fell into a deep sleep after eating.

The tent of my father and others was close to the side. Zhao Sanshui was called over to discuss the matter. Dorje fell asleep alone in the tent. In the middle of the night, he woke up from urinating and saw that Zhao Sanshui had come back to sleep. On the side, he got up and went out to put water in the stone room next to him, but suddenly he saw a figure sneaking out of the tent group. Dorje suddenly woke up and hurriedly bent down to hide, watching the man sneak into the tent next door. Stone chamber.

He was very shocked at the time. Thinking of my father's repeated warnings in the past few days, he thought that my father must have known that there was something strange in the Cao family, so he was so cautious. He wanted to call my father, but he forgot which tent he lived in for a while, and Worried that the man would not be able to "take away the stolen goods together" when he came back under cover of darkness, he reached back and took out a waist knife from the tent and followed him. He was confident that if there was a conflict and they chased and killed each other one on one, the man would not be his opponent.

Dorje grabbed his sword and ducked into the stone chamber. He was already ready for a military encounter, but found that there was no one in the stone chamber. He was slightly surprised and realized that there must be a secret passage. At the same time, he also wondered how this person could be like this. Learn about the structure of this place.

He searched the stone room and finally found a palm print in a ditch on one side. It seemed that the man had propped himself on the ground and jumped in.

The ditch was very narrow, about one meter deep at the bottom. Dorje knelt on the ground and looked down. Sure enough, where the ditch entered the wall, there was a hole, leading to the stone chamber at the back.

He jumped down without even thinking about it. After only taking a few steps, he felt a little regretful. Because the ditches were too narrow, he had to carry his chest against his back in order to get across. Moreover, the walls were not smooth, so it would be difficult to walk only a few steps. If he were to be hit, if he really met the opponent, he wouldn't even be able to pull out the knife. Even if the opponent got up to him first, it would be all of a sudden when he first came forward, and he wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

He gritted his teeth. Since he had already come down, there was no reason to retreat. Dorje found a relatively spacious place, took out the knife and held it in his mouth. If there was a conflict, he would still be able to fight.

After passing through a dark ditch, he felt that he had walked out of the rock crevice and reached the stone room next door.