Chapter 243 Empty City

After the cave, there is still a narrow and long corridor.

However, the subsequent corridors are relatively rough, far from being comparable to the caves that record history. There is no more white marble pedestrian passage, and the corridors are even narrower and cramped, not much bigger than the robbery hole. People can't stand up straight when they walk in, and can only move forward with their bodies crouched. Moreover, there are many forks in the robbery hole, which is complicated and the whole thing is a maze! !

Brother Yaozi thinks that this may be a maze to defend against the enemy.

Thousands of years ago, this race came all the way from the Mediterranean to China, and was immediately hit head-on. They were hurt and scared, and received a very painful lesson. I guess after drilling into the ground, they were still in a state of panic, so they built this kind of corridor similar to the honeycomb structure, forming a huge maze.

I immediately took out the compass, identified the direction, and plunged into countless corridors. The maze was just a trick. I already knew the overall structure here, and I knew very well where the real location of this underground city was. As long as I grasped the general direction, I would basically not make mistakes.

In less than three hours, I got out of the complicated corridors.

Suddenly, the view in front of me was clear, and a vast underground space lay in front of me.

To be honest, although I have seen the layout of this underground city on the murals, I still couldn't help but marvel when I saw it in person.

The entire underground space is nearly ten meters high and stretches for three or four kilometers. It is almost hollowed out. At a glance, the front is dark, and countless huge earth mounds can be vaguely seen connected together, with a wide enough passage in the middle.

At first glance, this place is really not related to the city. There are no houses, only endless earth mounds. If you don't know, you might think it is a naturally formed underground space.

If there are any traces of human activity, there is probably only a huge stone statue standing at the entrance.

This is a strong man, wearing a simple patch, pointing to the east with one hand and a firm gaze.

This is the sage who guided this race to the east. He has always been regarded as the founding monarch of this race, and his descendants are also called the royal family. Whether it is the second prince in the Mercury Sea or the princess, they are all his direct descendants. However, this underground city implements the system of abdication and recommendation. Queen Xin's leadership position was obtained through abdication. The so-called royal family is more of a spiritual symbol, just like the king after the constitutional monarchy, but still has a lot of say.

As for those huge mounds, that is the residence!

Don't underestimate these mounds, the technical content is extremely high! !

Because it is underground, the first problem to consider is moisture-proof, and these inconspicuous mounds are exactly this point.

First, they polished and built a frame with natural stone, and then began to make a thick moisture-proof layer.

This involves a special material, which they invented themselves.

There are mines in Taiyue Mountain, which bothered us when we came here.

From the earliest rock paintings, we can see that this race discovered and began to use the ochre in the mountains early on.

And the main component of this special building material is ochre.

They mixed limestone, clay, ochre and sand together, calcined them, and then obtained a mixed black-gray powder...

This may be their accidental discovery, but people who know it know that these four things mixed together almost formed the most primitive version of cement. Although it is so simple that it cannot be improved, it... at least has some characteristics of cement!

Then, they used this primitive version of cement, mixed sand in a certain proportion, adjusted it with water, and directly hit it on the residence, which formed the so-called moisture-proof layer.

When I saw them building houses like this on the murals, I couldn't help but sigh that they were so smart. The desperate situation squeezed out every bit of their wisdom and potential. In a sense, this moisture-proof layer is very close to what we call waterproof mortar in modern times! !

A rough framework, plus a moisture-proof layer, and a layer of soil on the outside, this formed their so-called house, and it was destined that this kind of house would be extremely strong, so that even now, there is still no sign of collapse!

I walked forward, walked around one of the big mounds, and soon found the door and went in.

It was pitch black inside. I turned on the flashlight and saw that there were wind-eroded and corrupted objects everywhere, and there was nothing worth paying attention to.

Next, the four of us entered some more mounds one after another, and the situation inside was almost exactly the same.

"Not a single body?"

Walking among countless earthen mounds, Brother Yaozi couldn't help but frown and said, "This city was destroyed 2,500 to 6,000 years ago. It's really hard to preserve human bodies in such a year, but... not a single bone, not even a bone residue, is left. This is not right. Don't you think it's strange?"

Indeed, this place... is too "clean"!

There is no trace of death at all! !

This city is underground. Due to its structure, it is impossible to open up too much, otherwise it will collapse too easily. After the scale of the city reaches a certain point, it can no longer be opened up. Trapped by food and city size, in the later period, this mysterious race has been trying to control the population. Their population has been saturated for a long time, even on the eve of their demise.

According to our estimate, their population at that time should be constant at around 20,000 to 30,000 people! !

So many people died together. Even after more than 2,000 years, it is impossible not to find even a little bone residue, right? The Yuanmou people from 1.7 million years ago still have teeth left!

Before entering here, we were all prepared to be besieged by a large group of evil spirits, but in the end, there was nothing, only an empty city and endless dead silence! !

If the ceremonial officer used the Langya ship to send so many people into the Mercury Sea, this doesn't make sense! !

If he really had the ability to bury everyone alive with the Langya ship, why did he conspire with Shi Kuang for so long, pay such a great price and energy to promote the Luoshu Bureau, and finally achieve the goal of destroying this clan, which is like taking off pants and farting.

Moreover, the Langya ship is not that easy to build!

In the entire Mercury Sea, we only saw such a ship, and it is far from saying that 20,000 or 30,000 people were buried! !

So, where did the people in the city go? Why was there such an empty city left?

"It's a pity that the murals didn't record what happened later."

Brother Yaozi sighed with regret, and then he suddenly asked me: "By the way, Jingzhe, you said, raising a living person as a dead person and then suppressing him with the Luoshu Bureau, is this way of death violent or slow?"

"I'm not sure about this. There is no record of this method in my family's teachings. It is estimated that the ritual officer created it flexibly according to the situation at the time."

I shook my head, thought about it, and said: "But it should be a chronic death. Brother Yaozi, you understand Feng Shui, you should know what Feng Shui is. This is not just a mysterious study. To put it in a profound way, it is to study the environment and changes in the universe. The powerful geomancers are no longer limited to looking at the land, but are looking for some balance points. This balance point is how people, as part of nature, can use Feng Shui to integrate with the environment to achieve a perfect state of endless life, which is what we often call the unity of man and nature.

To put it bluntly, Feng Shui is closely related to people. Killing Feng Shui actually uses natural forces to destroy the balance of your body and suppress your trunk. At first, you may just feel unwell, and then you will gradually develop serious diseases, and your vitality will be exhausted little by little until you die completely, just like water seeping into dry soil. It is a slow process and takes time..."

At the end, my tone became more and more certain.

Luoshu Bureau is just a Feng Shui Bureau. There is no need to demonize it too much. The ritual officer just used it in a proper way, which achieved the effect of killing without blood. This Feng Shui Bureau is just a simple suppression of Yin Qi, which is very suitable for the layout of Yang House. There are many similar Feng Shui Bureaus, some of which are even naturally formed. There are also many normal people who are born with heavy Yin Qi. Could it be that once they walk into the Feng Shui Bureau that suppresses Yin Qi, they will die immediately? Think about it, it is impossible. As long as they are not waiting for a long time, there will be no danger to their lives! !

Brother Yaozi said "Oh", looking thoughtful, but didn't say anything more.

Before we knew it, we had already gone deep into this underground city, but we still didn't see a single corpse. It was so clean that it was outrageous!

The surrounding mounds finally began to become sparse, and it was almost a white ocean...

There were mushrooms all over this place!

Whether it was on the mounds or on the open ground, they were all densely packed with mushrooms!

These mushrooms were all white and larger than ordinary mushrooms. The length of the fungus was about 20 to 30 centimeters, and the cap was like a small umbrella.

"There are this kind of mushrooms on the mural..."

Zhang Xinya said: "This kind of mushroom is artificially cultivated. The underground is not suitable for growing crops. Edible fungi are the best source of food. Someone cultivated this thing and left a personal portrait on the mural!"

I naturally knew this, but I never thought that this kind of mushroom had such a strong vitality that it survived until now and continued to grow wildly. Now it has reached the point of being out of control.

In this sea of ​​mushrooms, a huge black shadow can be vaguely seen in front of us...

"It's that tower! Queen Xin is in that tower!"

I was shocked and felt unreal. I didn't expect that we could arrive in front of this tower so smoothly!

"It's so stinky!"

Suddenly, Lao Bai whispered: "Don't you smell a bad smell?"

"There is indeed a strange smell, but it's the smell of mushrooms. Generally, mushrooms have this strange smell."

Zhang Xinya responded, broke off a mushroom from the mound next to her, squeezed it gently, and the juice splashed. She rubbed the sticky juice on her hands and sighed: "I can't imagine how this race survived. They actually used this thing as their staple food. I would go crazy if I ate it for three days..."

Lao Bai did not respond to her sigh, and continued in a serious tone: "It's not the smell of mushrooms, it's a very stinky smell, very fishy!!"

I really didn't smell anything fishy. I turned my head and was about to ask, but I saw Lao Bai looking around, as if looking for the source of the smell. Then he shook his body and immediately walked forward. Not long after, he stopped, bent down and used his arms to sweep the mushrooms on the ground into pieces. Then he suddenly pulled out a black thing from the wet mud...

In an instant, a strong fishy smell hit me in the face! !

This time he didn't need me to say it, I also smelled it, it was a smell similar to dead fish and rotten shrimp, which made people sick. I hurried towards him and wanted to see what it was...