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Chapter 186 Entering the Ruins
In the corridor leading to the depths of the ruins, Professor Cui was carefully identifying the symbols on the stone wall, trying to get some information about the ruins from them.

This stone wall should be a door leading to the main site of the ruins. It looks old, but Zheng Lei tapped it a few times with the handle of a Tang knife, but the stone wall made a sound like hitting metal.

As a door, this stone wall is not difficult to open, but Professor Cui wants to study the symbols on it, and there is no camera, so Professor Cui has to draw those symbols on paper and record them for future research.

Zheng Lei has different opinions on this. Since it is a door, what will be written on the door, will anyone write on their own door now?It is estimated that these symbols are also used as decorations, and it may just be that the "human" aesthetics of that era are relatively unique.Instead of wasting time here, it is better to go inside to touch the real ruins and see what is inside.

However, Professor Cui's rigorous and serious research spirit came out at this time, and he disagreed with life and death, and he had to record these symbols before he could do it.

After Professor Cui finally drew those symbols, Zheng Lei inserted the Tang knife through the gap on the stone wall, and then Xia Luoli also drilled the vine through the gap, and the two of them worked hard together to forcibly tear the stone wall to the ground. hold up.

Below is a long stone ladder. After Professor Cui and Zhang Yinlan entered, Zheng Lei and Xia Luoli also entered the interior of the ruins and put the stone wall back in place.

Only here did we see that the upper part of the stone wall had been damaged, and there was a hexagonal depression. It was obvious that something was inlaid in it, and it was later picked away.

As soon as the stone wall was closed, a faint blue light lit up in the passageway of the stone ladder. Everyone looked up in surprise, only to find that there was a piece of ping-pong ball sized on the stone wall on both sides of the stone ladder at a distance of about ten meters. The oval-shaped crystal emits a faint blue light, illuminating the entire stone staircase passage.

Zheng Lei flew up, wanting to see what that crystal was.

Put your hand on it, but the system didn't give any hint.Zheng Lei fell down with some disappointment. Although it looked alike, it didn't look like a crystallization of dead bodies.

Walking down the passageway of the stone ladder, Zheng Lei and the others came to a hall, on which there were also faint blue crystals emitting soft light, reflecting the entire hall like a blue bottom under the sun. .However, what everyone paid attention to was obviously not the light, but the messy traces in the hall.

It looked as if the place had been looted. Many half-person or one-person-high stone pillars were scattered in the hall. There were bloodstains on the ground. There were bullet marks on the surrounding stone walls and the fallen stone pillars. , obviously, the people at the air force base have experienced a battle here.

The first thing Zheng Lei thought of was the monsters in the underground base. Maybe the soldiers of the air force base encountered those monsters after retreating into the ruins, so a fierce battle started here, fighting and retreating, and exited the ruins Later, in order to prevent those monsters from coming over, the place where the underground base and the ruins were connected was destroyed, but in the end the monster was taken down and entered the underground base, killing the soldiers of the air force base!

In this way, there may still be those monsters in the ruins.

Zheng Lei was vigilant around while telling others his guess, telling them to be more careful.

"Very likely." Professor Cui frowned, looked around the messy hall, and nodded.

A group of people looked around in the hall. Professor Cui was biting the cap of the pen in his mouth, drawing quickly on the paper with his hands, and annotating notes, wishing to draw the entire hall of the ruins.

Zheng Lei and Zhang Yinlan moved this and looked at that curiously, especially those stone pillars and stone chairs, which looked like stones, but they were not as cold as stones when they touched them with their hands. Zheng Lei tried to move them. , I found that those things were not heavy, and some were even as light as plastic, but when Zheng Lei tried to hit them with a Tang knife, and even pierced them with the tip of the knife, he found that they were as hard as steel.

I don't know what material it is made of.

After drawing the shape and layout of the relic hall on the paper, and marking it, Professor Cui looked up and looked around, frowning and holding his chin with a thoughtful expression: "Strange... "

"What's wrong?" Zheng Lei asked.

"Didn't you read the information I gave you?" Professor Cui glanced at Zheng Lei: "Didn't you find that the style of this relic is different from the style of the relics in the information I gave you?!"

"Uh..." Zheng Lei was at a loss for words for a while. When he read those materials, he read them purely out of curiosity. Those pictures and text materials were also scanned, but he didn't study them in depth. At this time, Professor Cui said , he couldn't answer anything.

Professor Cui shook his head helplessly, and explained to Zheng Lei: "There are some obvious features in the ruins discovered before, but none in this ruin. For example, the concept of 'three' is a very important feature. In the previous ruins, the lines on the stone walls are all - the lines are repeated three times as a group, and the ornaments in the ruins are also placed in groups of three, for example, the three lighthouses in the triangular branch, the shape of the lighthouse is also standard Equilateral triangles. There will be some remains of buildings in the larger ruins, and they are all composed of three identical buildings. For example, every three pyramids form a group of towers, and the word "three" is reflected everywhere. concept."

Professor Cui pointed to the stone walls around the hall, and said, "But look inside this ruins, in such a large hall, all the stone walls are twisted lines with branches at the ends, and some lines are entangled with each other. Those The stone pillars fixed on the ground, you can see that they are all single branches, and there are branches at the end. The lines on the stone pillars are also mainly twisted and branched at the end, but there is no deliberate pursuit of "three" ’. Instead, the concept of twisted lines and branches is everywhere.”

Following Professor Cui's explanation, Zheng Lei took a closer look and found that it was indeed the case. Whether it was the lines on the stone wall, the stone pillars, or the stone tower at the end, they were all twisted lines like ripples, and they all formed at one end. branched off, branching out into additional curved lines, longer or shorter.

The degrees of bending of those lines are not the same, and the branches do not pursue any similarity and symmetry. At first glance, it seems that they are bent wherever they are when they are engraved.

"Based on this completely different feature, I conclude that this ruin is definitely not the same civilization as the ones discovered before, or at least it is a different ethnic group." Professor Cui stroked his chin and said affirmatively. Put on a handful of beards and a feather fan, well, Zhuge Liang should have this look, Zheng Lei cursed inwardly.

Fuck, brother Cui, your judgment span is a little too big!

"Based on this, you can see so much?" Zhang Yinlan exclaimed with her eyes wide open, with an unbelievable expression on her face. Professor Cui was very pleased with her astonished expression, and stroked the imaginary beard under her chin. The hands are more energetic.

"Hehe, although the old man teaches ancient literature in school, his interest in the study of prehistoric civilization is even more important. After decades of research and exploration, plus the two years of research on the ruins, this point of vision is not enough. What is it?" Professor Cui shook his head, pretending to be modest and smiled.

Holy crap, brother Cui, don't be rude in front of little girls when you're old, okay? !

Zheng Lei looked at the prominent Professor Cui with a black line on his face, and complained in his heart.Just as he was about to speak, his heart throbbed suddenly, and his scalp went numb.

Zheng Lei raised his head suddenly, only to see a figure jumping out from the top of the stone wall and jumping down.

With a crisp sound of "Dang", Zheng Lei's figure flashed over the heads of Professor Cui and Zhang Yinlan in an instant, and the Tang knife in his hand just blocked the two bent weapons like a death scythe.

Only then did Zheng Lei see clearly what was jumping down, it was a knife-edged praying mantis, its green body was not so conspicuous in the dark blue crystal luster of the hall, if it hadn't been for it to jump down on its own initiative, Zheng Lei wouldn't have Really missed it!
But now that Zheng Lei has discovered this blade mantis, it is no longer Zheng Lei's opponent. After Zheng Lei blocked its forelimb, a layer of white light appeared on his left hand to wrap his fist, and then he punched hard. The belly of the Blade Mantis.

Immediately there was a rustling sound, and the blade mantis retreated immediately in pain, but the Tang knife in Zheng Lei's hand was twisted like this, twisting its forelimbs together, pulling it back violently, and then a white light came from it. The fist spread out, enveloping the body of Blade Mantis.

There was only a terrible hiss, and the body of the blade mantis turned into a piece of flying ash.

At the same time, another shrill neigh was heard from the side, and another blade mantis suddenly rushed out from the side, and rushed straight towards Zheng Lei.Different from the one just now, this Blade Mantis clearly has two lumps of protrusions on its chest.Fuck, it must be the female blade mantis. The mantis in human form is really easy to identify. It seems that I just killed her husband!
But just as the female Blade Mantis rushed halfway, it was tightly entwined by several vines that rolled up from the ground. I saw those vines strangled hard, and the Blade Mantis broke in two.

Xia Luoli was expressionless, and the vines twisted from the air and retracted behind Xia Luoli's back and disappeared.

etc!The way I retracted those vines just now...

Zheng Lei suddenly turned his head and looked up at the lines, lines and branches on the stone wall, don't they look just like Xia Luoli's vines!
(End of this chapter)