Chapter 497 Ruins?
After reaching a consensus on this, Chen Ziyan immediately started the next arrangements.
In fact, there is nothing to arrange. It is just to leave a few people brought by Li Wu to act as living coordinates.
According to Chen Ziyan’s idea, he plans to let Wu Laogou stay here. After all, he still doesn’t know the quality of Li Wu’s men. It’s not easy to know the living coordinates. After all, no one can Know whether there will be any danger if you stay where you are.
However, Wu Laogou firmly rejected Chen Ziyan's proposal. Wu Laogou knew very well that no matter how dangerous the things hidden in the underground space were, it would be safer to stay with Chen Ziyan and the others.
Needless to say, Chen Ziyan and the Huahu around him are all strange people. Even Li Wu, who always seems to be timid, is someone who can be the general manager of a province. His usual performance is countless. , if you are really in danger, you will definitely be someone who can help you.
And more importantly, as he learned more about this place, Wu Laogou also saw the value of this place, so how could he be left out of exploring such an important thing.
Chen Ziyan probably guessed some of Wu Laogou's thoughts, so after trying to persuade him once to no avail, he simply didn't mention it again.
For a veteran who has been involved in the world for decades, to be honest, it is not his turn to worry about safety issues. It is enough to give him the proper attitude.
As for whether to accept it or not, that is their own business.
When they came to the edge of the cement disc, Chen Ziyan and others did not go down immediately, but stopped here.
Because the place below is actually covered with thick bones, and you can’t see the end at a glance.
“These are snake bones.” Wu Laogou took one look and already identified what kind of creature the white bones on the ground came from.
After all, snakes have distinct skeletal features and are easily identifiable.
"Master Chen, Master Wu, look over there." Li Wu suddenly shouted.
Chen Ziyan and Wu Laogou looked in the direction of his flashlight and discovered that about ten meters ahead, there was a very conspicuous skeleton entwined among the white snake bones of different sizes.
This is also a snake bone, but the size is a bit too large. The spine alone must be as thick as an ordinary person's waist.
When they saw this extraordinarily thick skeleton, both Chen Ziyan and Wu Laogou frowned slightly.
They are not newbies who came out to hang out on the first day. They know very well what the appearance of this snake bone represents, which means that if there are still living creatures here, it is very likely that there will be something like this. giant.
Although the snake's skeleton is not much different from its body, it is not difficult to imagine just how terrifying this thing was when it was alive.
For ordinary people, basically one bite is fine.
"Little friend Chen, what kind of place do you think this is?" Wu Laogou said quietly after being silent for a while.
He has now completely overturned his previous guesses. This is definitely not a tomb. This is not a burial ditch.
"Some ancient ruins." Chen Ziyan thought for a while and gave an answer.
This is the most likely answer he got after synthesizing all the information.
"Ancient ruins?" Li Wu's eyes flickered when he heard this.
In a sense, ancient ruins buried deep underground may be more valuable than tombs.
"A ruins?" Wu Laogou muttered in a low voice, and then said: "Everyone should be more vigilant later. If this is really a ruins, it may be dangerous."
He didn’t think much about the issue of value, but thought about the previous inference. The conclusion that the black-haired snake is a tomb-guarding beast is based on the existence of a tomb here. Now the possibility of a tomb is greatly reduced, which means that the black-haired snake is a tomb-guarding beast. The problem of hairy snakes has once again fallen into confusion.
At this moment, Wu Laogou had a vague hunch that those black-haired snakes that were regarded as rare ingredients were very likely to be more valuable than he imagined, but he didn't know yet what this value was. Where does it come from.
After careful inspection, everyone determined that there were only bones underneath, and then descended from the cement disc to the ground one by one.
Crack, click, click——
Stepping on the snake bones all over the ground, listening to the clicking sounds underfoot, even though the surroundings were quiet, everyone was still alert. Highest.
However, what they feared did not happen. They did not encounter any attacks until they walked out of the area covered by the snake bones.
After stepping onto the hard dirt ground, Chen Ziyan couldn't help but look back. Under the illumination of the flashlight, there was a vast expanse of white behind him, giving people an uncontrollable sense of creepiness.
"Those white bones should be distributed in a circle." Wu Laogou stood next to him and suddenly said this.
"Fifth Master, why do you see this?" Chen Ziyan asked curiously.
He really didn't see this. After all, their vision relied on light, and the light couldn't reach the end of the bones.
Wu Laogou was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "I have seen similar scenes before."
It was only when he got here that he remembered that he had encountered similar scenes before. The place was just filled with snake bones, and the one he had encountered was replaced by numerous human bones.
It was precisely because of this difference that Wu Laogou did not think of it immediately.
Hearing Wu Laogou said that he had encountered a similar place, everyone subconsciously looked at him.
Chen Ziyan couldn't help but be startled and asked quickly: "Fifth Master, what do you know?"
This is very important information.
You must know that after arriving here, Chen Ziyan's foresight has lost its effect, and everything has to be discovered by himself.
But now Wu Laogou suddenly said that he had been to a similar place, which was a great thing for them.
Even if the two places are not related, some things are inseparable from the same origin, and drawing parallels may lead to new ideas.
"I don't know much. I was not in charge of that operation, and I didn't participate in it later, so I just know what I have experienced." Wu Laogou said with a frown, apparently reminiscing. related memories.
The others did not rush, they all waited quietly.
They knew that Wu Laogou's words were not a shirk, but a foreshadowing.
Sure enough, not long after waiting, I heard Wu Laogou's voice again. "That happened a long time ago... I remember it was about four years ago. We went to the depths of the Qinling Mountains together and discovered the ruins of a vanished ancient country there. But the difference from here is that the ruins were in Inside a mountain, there was a disk where we entered, but the disk was carved out of a whole piece of rock, and there was a circle of human bones surrounding it..."
< br>Wu Laogou’s story is not complete and is broken in many places, but it sounds like there are no obstacles.
"Ancient She Kingdom." After listening to Wu Laogou's story, Chen Ziyan slowly spit out three words.
In fact, not long after the beginning, he already felt vaguely familiar. After mentioning that the ruins were deep in the mountains of Qinling Mountains, Chen Ziyan was already sure of what Wu Laogou was talking about.
Coincidences do exist in the world, but how could there be so many of them, and it is extremely difficult for two ancient ruins like this to appear in the same area.
"Xiaoyou Chen, do you know about She State?" Wu Laogou was also very surprised.
You must know that the ancient country of She State has long since disappeared in history. Unless they are experts who specialize in this field, ordinary people have no way of knowing about it.
Now that Chen Ziyan can say this name, it means that he does understand it.
Chen Ziyan nodded: "Because of the elders in the family, I know some relevant things."
He did not say that he knew what was in Qinling Mountains, but directly blamed his elders for the matter.
However, others do not doubt anything. After all, who in the industry does not know that Chen Ziyan is the contemporary Xiling bandit leader. Although the Xiling lineage has had its ups and downs, the inheritance has not been interrupted for thousands of years. It’s normal to have secrets that ordinary people don’t know.
Not to mention knowing the ancient She country, even if Chen Ziyan knew the environment in front of him very well, Li Wu and Wu Laogou would not be too surprised.
There is no way, the ancient inheritance is so powerful, it may not have much deterrence in terms of power and strength, but when it comes to knowledge... The Nine Sects are the younger brothers!
Wu Laogou himself admitted this.
"Fifth Master, who were there when you went to Qinling Mountains?" Chen Ziyan suddenly thought of something and asked.
Wu Laogou glanced at him and said: "That time it was the Bureau formed by Lord Fo. At that time, all nine gates sent people."
"Master Fo..." Chen Ziyan seemed to have something to say. He nodded thoughtfully.
Wu Laogou glanced at Li Wu and others next to him, thought for a while and asked: "Chen Xiaoyou, do you know what's going on here?"
He felt that Chen Ziyan would not be innocent. , there must be his purpose in asking this.
Although there are outsiders around now, this matter is not a secret, so Wu Laogou still asked out his doubts.
Chen Ziyan thought about it in his mind and said: "I know very little about the things in the Qinling Mountains. I only heard that that place is extremely dangerous and a very evil place. However, I suddenly thought of something similar to this place. There is a connection."
He planned to test Wu Laogou to see how deeply involved the other party was with Zhang Dafo Ye, and how deep the relationship would be in the future.
“Where?” Wu Laogou narrowed his eyes.
"Gu Tongjing!" Chen Ziyan slowly spit out a place name.
"Gu Tongjing?" Wu Laogou's pupils narrowed.
How come he doesn’t know about this place? He thought that the Wu family also contributed some money, but he only contributed some funds, so he still doesn’t know where Gu Tongjing is. And what Zhang Dafo Ye did there.
This place is not a secret within the Nine Gates, or even the entire dark world. After all, Lord Zhang Dafo intends to hide it when he does things. But the strange thing is that, except for a name, there is nothing about Gu Tongjing No information has been circulated. This is a very contradictory place.
In fact, Wu Laogou had also been curious about this in the early years. After all, people in their field can lack everything, but the only thing that is indispensable is the strong curiosity.
But after the investigation came to nothing, he gradually let it go. After all, he only provided some funds.
"You said there is a connection between this place and Gu Tongjing? What is the connection?" Wu Laogou was not surprised for too long, he quickly recovered and continued to ask.
"It's those black-haired snakes!" Chen Ziyan replied firmly.
"Those black-haired snakes? How could this happen?" This time it was Li Wu who asked, because it was about the topic of Zhang Dafo Ye. He didn't want to get involved before, but now he heard that the black-haired snakes finally tolerated it. Can't stand it anymore.
“I didn’t arrive at first, but after Fifth Master’s reminder just now, I suddenly discovered that a snake I’d heard before looked very similar to a black-haired snake, and that’s when I thought of this.” Chen Ziyan was very calm. said.
"It's very similar? Chen Xiaoyou, please explain in detail." Wu Laogou stopped Li Wu who wanted to say something more and asked Chen Ziyan.
Chen Ziyan said simply: "I have seen it from the letters left by my elders. It is said that there was a strange snake that originated somewhere on the Silk Road in ancient times. This snake's body is covered with metallic scales, and its back has a hard It has black hair on its temples, but this snake is extremely venomous, so it is difficult to catch.”
Hearing this, the people nearby nodded secretly. It is indeed very similar to the black-haired snake, saying that it is exactly the same. Nothing too much.
“Because this memory is so long ago, and I had a preconception that the black-haired snake was an edible snake, I couldn’t connect the two.”
Wu Laogou Asked: "But, what does this have to do with Gutongjing?"
"Because deep in Gutongjing, there is also a snake...snake cave full of black-haired snakes." Chen Ziyan said.
"Similar to the snake cave..." The moment Wu Laogou got the answer, he fell into thinking.
There were some things that he didn’t know before. On the one hand, it was because he was not too involved, and on the other hand, there was a lack of corresponding information.
But now based on the information given by Chen Ziyan, he was immediately sure of one thing, that is, the ruins of the She Kingdom deep in the Qinling Mountains. Here, as well as in the ancient Tongjing in the desert, there must be some kind of connect.
He even speculated that the reason Zhang Dafoye took people to Gutongjing was probably because of that trip to the Qinling Mountains.
But Wu Laogou soon felt that something was wrong, because although he did not participate in the entire operation in Qinling, he knew all the specific information, even the deepest secrets hidden there. It is clear that these Zhang Dafo Lords have not concealed anything from them, otherwise Jie Jiu would not have run there when he was desperate this time, wouldn't he just know that there is that thing there.
After thinking for a while with no results, Brother Wu looked at Chen Ziyan again and asked: "Little friend Chen, I wonder what else you know about Gutongjing?"
He did not ask about Qinling. matter, because as a person involved, he is very aware of what happened there. What he lacks now is information about Gu Tongjing.
Chen Ziyan has been observing Wu Laogou, and shook his head slightly when he saw this: "I only know that the place is very mysterious, and ordinary people can't reach it in their lifetime. As for other things, I don't know , after all, I have never been there personally.”
(End of this chapter)