Chapter 1777 Snake Path
After leaving the stone pavilion, facing away from the back of the stone pavilion is the rectangular raised area from the edge to close to the center of the circle. At this moment, the sound of water nearby suddenly weakened, but a lot of water vapor slowly rose up, covering the sky and filling the entire area.
The ground rumbled and trembled, and the raised rectangular area that I walked through before rose up from the ground with a dull grinding sound of bricks and stones, and gradually emerged row upon row of stairs. Bing Zhixie and the others couldn't see very far, but they could still see how the bridge appeared in front of them.
Kun was shocked and amazed when she saw the whole process. She had never seen such a magical and magnificent mechanism before. She never thought that something like this would happen not far from the tribe where she lived. Wonderful things.
Bing Zhixie was also surprised: "It turned out to be like this. It would be difficult to design and build such a huge mechanism project in such a deep mountain and old forest without the strength of the whole country. There must be a reason why the ancients built this place. Very important.”
"Are we going up?" Kun asked tentatively.
This is a stupid question. The wise and astute first warrior of the Qianling tribe should not ask such a question. She is really scared.
Calculating the time, it will still get dark in an hour or two. Bing Zhixie thought that the water vapor nearby was strange. It didn't look like it was rising from the ground just now. There might be something secret behind the stone steps. Even if the sun rises, it may not be able to dispel the moisture in the air.
He said to Kun: "I'd better go up and take a look first. You stay here and pay attention to safety."
"I'll go with you." Kun was not willing to stay alone .
Bing Zhixie said: "There may be great risks inside, it's better for you to stay."
"Then...okay." Kun did not insist and seemed a little hesitant.
Bing Zhixie gave her the stone lantern and stepped up the stone steps in the misty water. The Pegasus he captured followed up with its hooves.
The stone steps are very wide, and each step is not high. After walking for a few minutes, the height is about a hundred meters above the ground. At the end of the stone steps, there is a long bridge leading straight ahead. There are pillars on both sides of the bridge but no guardrails, and relief patterns also appear on the flat bridge deck.
It’s a snake. Carved snake patterns cover the entire bridge deck, and the two pillars facing each other also have snake heads standing upright. Thinking of the snake patterns carved on the eaves of the stone pavilion in the garden, Bing Zhixie vaguely guessed something.
While walking on the snake-carved bridge, a purple-black light shone in the snake-headed stone pupils of the pillars on both sides. This light was long and narrow, just like the eyes of a snake. Although it was not bright, it was bright in the blinding water. You can see clearly in the fog.
There are countless snake pupil lamps, extending to the end of the line of sight, with a pair every seven meters or so. Bing Zhixie was thinking that the suspended stone bridge snake lantern would appear only after the mechanism was activated. He had not seen it when he looked down at this area before. After walking forward for a short distance, Bing Zhixie found that the bridge deck under her feet was damaged, and there were many gravel bricks, one foot deep and one foot shallow. He stopped and held the firelight in his palm to illuminate the bridge: "Hey, this pattern, this stone..."
Only then did he notice that the stone slabs on the stone bridge were the same as his. The stone slabs seen under the small building on stilts are the same as those found in the barrier lake. The patterns and exaggerated figures carved on them are also the same.
“Could the two gravel slabs I saw before be peeled off from this stone bridge?” Bing Zhixie looked at the bridge deck carefully. The stone slabs on the bridge were thicker and hard in texture. Judging from the extent of damage around it, it was man-made, just like the buildings under the bridge. However, why destroy the bridge deck instead of destroying the bridge? If they cannot or cannot, or dare not destroy the bridge, but deliberately destroy the carvings on the bridge...
The bridge deck was severely damaged, and it was difficult to find a relatively intact area. Bing Zhixie wanted to find some clues from the vague remaining carving patterns, those figures with wide eyes and narrowed eyes. Finally, he found a floor plan that was more than ten meters long. Although it had cracks and holes, it was still complete. The location shown in the picture is the circular area under the bridge. A man with eyes all over his body is standing outside the stone pavilion, followed by a group of tribal people. There are three women in the stone pavilion who are worshiping, holding a With the mechanism key made of the three stone slabs, it seems that he is going to open the mechanism stone bridge.
Bing Zhixie took a closer look at the leader, and saw that he had big snake-like eyes on his forehead, back, arms, legs, etc. His own eyes were also very wide.
The next section of the picture is damaged. After passing this section, a man with eyes all over his body was leading the tribesmen onto the stone bridge. The former was still walking at the front with wide eyes to open the way. Among the people following behind, some of them had eyes as big as eggs. The remaining ones all narrowed their eyes. The pattern further back is damaged again.
Bing Zhixie wondered how there could be people in the world with eyes all over their bodies, but the characters in the pattern were exaggerated, and eyes all over their bodies might just be an exaggerated form of expression. He thought of the picture of the barrier lake that he had sketched before, and took it out to take a look. Previously, because the stone slab he found was damaged, he could not understand the line pattern inside. Now that he had some reference, he found that the content in the picture seemed to be connected with what he had just seen.
The characters on the paper drawing are at the bottom of the drawing. There are not many characters appearing, and many of them only show their heads. The person with eyes all over his body only shows a small half of his body in the damaged picture. Mixed in the crowd, it's hard to notice without looking carefully. Some of these people were kneeling on the ground, and a small number of them were standing. They were facing a huge object, which should be a thick black circle.
The reason why I say it should be is because the pattern he copied is not complete. There is only most of a circle in the picture. This circle can be visualized as being very large, and the people in the picture appear very small in comparison. There are many dotted lines on the circle that expand outward, making it look a bit like claws and teeth. There are also some other depictions that cannot be identified due to incomplete pictures.
Bing Zhixie looked at it confusedly. He couldn't figure out what the black circle was for a moment, let alone what happened to the person with eyes all over his body. But there is no need to think too much. No matter how deep the mystery is, the answer is right in front of you. You can know it by yourself.
After walking about one hundred and fifty steps, I saw the oncoming mountain. This is the outer boundary of the circular area. At this time, there is a straight mountain crack on the mountain, the passage of the stone snake. Extend inward.
Suddenly, the Pegasus following behind became anxious and kept neighing warnings in Bing Zhixie's ears, as if to dissuade him from going in.
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(End of this chapter)