Using the MC system to pretend spiritual revival

Chapter 24 Everlasting Lamp

Everyone moved forward slowly along the rope.

Although the archaeologists were equipped with headlamps, the stone staircase corridor was too huge.

The few weak beams of light were not enough to illuminate the surrounding environment.

"Oh my god! This tunnel is at least ten meters wide! It's bigger than many modern tunnels! It's incredible!"

Yang Ping followed the team, moving his head from time to time and scanning the surroundings with the light above his head.

Through limited light source, it can be seen that the four walls of the corridor are regular squares.

Including the stone steps under your feet, they are all made of huge blue-gray stone bricks.

It looks so unusually neat that it is hard to imagine how the ancients built it.

"But these stone steps are too high! This one must be half a meter high. Why is it designed like this? Aren't you afraid of getting tired walking up?"

After hearing what Yang Ping said, the girl with glasses walking in front couldn't help but roll her eyes.

"Yes, yes, yes~ When you build your own tomb, you must consider ergonomics carefully, so that you don't get tired when you resurrect~"

After hearing what she said, Yang Ping realized that his previous remarks were a bit stupid, and he could not help but lower his head in embarrassment.

"This kind of upward staircase can also be found in other tombs. It's called the Immortal Staircase, symbolizing ascension to heaven after death. However, the one here is better preserved and larger in scale."

Taoist Xiong suddenly interrupted at the end of the team.

The content of these words made everyone look sideways, as if they had never expected that this unkempt old Taoist priest had such professional knowledge.

Even Professor Gu, who was at the front of the team and had a serious face, smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Master Xiong is right. This type of staircase structure is very common in some tombs. Usually, the staircase will connect to the main corridor."

".Hmm? Look, we're here right now, just as we were talking."

Everyone looked in the direction of the light and saw that it was true.

The huge stone steps stretched all the way to the end, and a flat stone brick floor extended out.

Everyone left the stairs and stood on the flat ground.

Although this corridor is very spacious, there are still no forks in the road. There is no choice but to continue to maintain the formation and move towards the depths.

The dark underground was cold and damp. In this depressing environment, even the nervous Yang Ping held his breath unconsciously.

In the pitch-black corridor, only the footsteps of the crowd echoed.

I don’t know how long I walked like this.

In order to prevent unknown dangers, the archaeological team moved very carefully and slowly.

Even so, it still felt like I had walked at least a few hundred meters.

"Professor Gu, isn't this tomb a bit too large? This is just the distance of the corridor."

The middle-aged member of the team who rarely spoke asked with a somewhat uneasy tone.

Professor Gu's face looked a little unhappy at this time, because he knew more, so he also understood the weirdness here better.

Underground buildings will be damaged by geological changes and microbial corrosion in just a few decades, if not hundreds or thousands of years.

But looking at the tomb corridor in front of us, there is not a single collapse or leakage in the hundreds of meters we have walked.

It was as if there was a mysterious, incomprehensible force maintaining and protecting this tomb.
"Alright! Believe in science! Speed ​​up and move forward. Maybe there's a tomb just ahead."

Professor Gu interrupted everyone's growing anxiety with his loud words.

As to how much of this is to comfort oneself and how much is to comfort others, it is unknown.

At least in the position of professor, the trust and authority accumulated over a long period of time allowed the team to temporarily put aside their concerns and move forward faster.

After walking for a few more minutes, a ray of light came from the distance.

This really stunned the entire team.

Wait until everyone approaches the light source and steps over a staircase.

My vision suddenly became clear.

What everyone saw before their eyes was a huge cavity.

The roof is a bowl-shaped structure that is upside down on the ground, and the ground is a gentle slope that converges towards a stone platform in the center.

The entire space looks no smaller than some basketball courts on the ground.

The entire semicircular wall was hollowed out like a honeycomb, and inside each hollow structure was something that looked like a torch or a candle.

The light source for the entire semicircular space comes from these "candles".

The dense light sources make this underground tomb brighter than the houses on the surface.

Everyone looked up in horror, watching this spectacular scene.

But such a bright environment should have diluted the terrifying atmosphere.

As a result, looking at the densely packed holes and candles, everyone felt creepy.

Now, even Yang Ping, who was the most slow-witted, felt that something was wrong.

He swallowed and pointed to a "candle" less than two meters away from him.

"Professor? Is this the legendary eternal lamp?"

Professor Gu, who was looking up in a daze, was brought back to his attention by these words. He thought for a while and opened his mouth.

In the end, he didn't say no.

".Maybe."

Now he is not sure what these things are. He thinks that the eternal lamp in the tomb is just called this name, but it cannot stay lit forever.

But looking at the tomb chamber that has theoretically been sealed for many years, it is now brightly lit.

Gu Chen began to wonder whether there were really some mysterious things in this world.

Thinking of the zombies that Taoist Xiong mentioned before coming down, I began to feel uneasy.

He took a quick glance, then turned back, trembling and closing his eyes.

What did he see? That half-immortal bear was actually tilting his head back and picking his nose! He even smeared his nose on the wall!

Although I feel that this person is really unreliable, I still feel a little relieved inexplicably because I have a Taoist priest by my side in this situation.

Although the environment here is surprising, it also makes people curious about its principles.

Especially for these archaeologists who have immersed most of their body and mind in ancient artifacts.

This naturally includes Jiang Shengping.

Looking at all the magical and strange things around him, his heart was burning with joy.

Any discovery here would be news that would shock the entire industry if brought to the outside world.

So he put on rubber gloves like the other team members and picked up the tweezers and brush in the tool box.

He walked cautiously to a "candle" and squatted down to observe it carefully.

Then I found that this eternal lamp, which was as thick as my forearm, seemed to be made of wood.

Starting from the one-third position, the column gradually becomes brighter as it goes up, until the light emitted from the top becomes somewhat dazzling.

The color is like the orange-red of burning charcoal, but there is no smoke at all, only wisps of orange-red fine particles floating up.

Jiang Shengping was dazzled by this and couldn't help but touch it carefully with his hand.

But I was surprised to find that there was no temperature.

After the initial trial, he became bolder.

He slowly reached out and grasped the eternal lamp.

At this moment, he felt that his nervous heart was about to jump out of his chest.

As his arms slowly exerted force, the base of the eternal lamp slowly left the stone slab.

But that's about it.

A somewhat off-key shout came from behind him.

"Put it down! Don't touch that thing!!"

The sudden noise frightened him so much that his hand trembled and the eternal lamp in his hand fell to the ground.

This sudden shouting really scared him and he looked back in shock.

I saw that Taoist Xiong, who had rarely spoken along the way, was full of anger, with one hand on his waist and the other pointing at himself.

"Why are you moving that thing?! Do you know that the eternal lamp is to protect the souls of the dead? Aren't you afraid of disturbing the dead by moving it rashly?"

(End of this chapter)