Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 146 Red Soil

Seeing the things on the stone platform in the center of the stone room at first glance, Chen Ziyang had an illusion. He felt that he was not in the Bohai underground palace, but returned to the tomb of Li Xuan of the Eastern Dynasty, because the things displayed in front of him It is exactly the kind of phoenix crown that has been crazily fought over in the tomb of Li Xuan in the Eastern Dynasty.

It's just that the difference between the phoenix crowns in front of me and the ones I've seen in Li Yun's tomb is that these phoenix crowns in front of me are not one or several plants, but a large cluster.More than a dozen phoenix crowns are gathered together, the smallest of each phoenix crown is six or seven meters high, and the tallest is even nearly ten meters.

Each phoenix crown is very thick, and the thickest one needs two or three people to hold it together. Even the thinnest phoenix crown, after visual inspection, Chen Ziyang thinks its circumference is at least one meter. .In terms of size, compared with the one-foot-long phoenix crown in Li Yun's tomb, it is like a great-grandson meeting his great-grandfather.

This large cluster of phoenix crowns is all crimson, and the red ones are even a little black. On these phoenix crowns, there is a trace of red mist slowly seeping out, and then the mist slowly drifts downwards, condensing in the Looking at the lower part of the phoenix crowns, it seems that the red mist is emitted from these phoenix crowns.

Two soldiers who explored the path found that after the red mist cleared, the platform ahead was relatively safe, so they groped and walked over, and continued to observe the back of the platform.Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na looked at each other, maybe other people don't know what these things in front of them mean, but the three civil engineers who have experienced the incident of Li Yun's tomb and Xiao Na know the value of these things in front of them.

Just a small plant of this phoenix crown that was one foot high before caused Dongchao to spare no expense, even costing more than 200 lives, but it may not have been obtained in the end.If they were allowed to see this large cluster of phoenix crowns in front of them, they would be crazy to what extent.

Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na couldn't wait to walk across the stone bridge and came to the central square, looking carefully at the thing that surprised them.This is the first time for Chen Ziyang to observe this kind of phoenix crown at close range. When he was in Dongchao country, he didn't even look at that phoenix crown a few times. The people in Dongchao country didn't even give him this Chance.

The same is true for Xiao Na. At that time, her status was even lower. She was just a translator, even worse than Chen Ziyang. Although she was also very interested in that thing at the time, she still couldn't get close to it. The clusters of phoenix crowns caused uncontrollable joy to appear in the hearts of both of them at the same time.

These phoenix crowns are very thick and look a bit shriveled. The phoenix crowns are covered with densely packed tiny holes one after another, and the red mist seeps out from these holes.Chen Ziyang's eyes moved down with a trace of red mist until he saw the roots of these phoenix crowns.

It was only now that Chen Ziyang was able to be [-]% sure that the so-called phoenix crown in the legend turned out to be a plant.Because Chen Ziyang could clearly see that there were many thick pink roots protruding from the bottom of these phoenix crowns. Although most of these roots had penetrated into the nearby soil, a small part was still exposed. It can be seen intuitively that these roots are connected with these phoenix crowns.

This discovery aroused Chen Ziyang's interest. He squatted down, carefully looked at the soil under the phoenix crown, and scanned the surrounding environment at the same time.It turns out that on the stone platform in the center of this stone room, nearly half of the area is a huge flower bed, which is full of this red soil, and these phoenix crowns grow on the soil.

At the same time, on the other ground without such soil, there are many things like manhole covers. Chen Ziyang guesses that these things are the mechanism channels that sucked away the red mist after opening them.

After thinking about it carefully, Chen Ziyang had a bold idea. Could these passages be connected to the rooms in the entire underground palace where all kinds of rare and exotic beasts were bred, and among these rare and exotic beasts? So for so many years, he can survive without eating food, and at the same time he can grow very large, which is probably related to the red smoke emitted by the phoenix crown.

Chen Ziyang glanced around. There are at least 20 manhole-like mechanisms on the ground. Could it be that the huge creatures in this underground palace are not limited to the human-faced bat and the alligator gar they saw? .After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ziyang felt that his idea made sense. In fact, they only walked through a small part of the entire underground palace. big.

And because I cracked the rotating channel mechanism in time, the team didn't go wrong. If there is a huge monster in every fork of the channel mechanism as a means of preventing theft, then the number of these manhole cover mechanisms It makes sense.

At the same time, Chen Ziyang carefully recalled the red mist he saw in the crocodile gar pool, no matter the volume or density of the red mist, the red mist in the crocodile gar pool and the red mist that was sucked away just now It is incomparable. It can be seen that the red mist seen there should be only a small part of the total.

Wiping the cold sweat oozing from his forehead, Chen Ziyang exclaimed that he was lucky. If he hadn't cracked the rotating channel himself, the ghost knows what the whole team would have experienced. The whole team has already become the food of those strange beasts.

Xiao Nana's method of studying the phoenix crown is obviously more effective than Chen Ziyang's. Xiao Na took out a few empty bottles from her pocket. These bottles were all flat and rectangular, just like a small flagon.It is estimated that these bottles are designed like this for easy portability.

Xiao Na put one of the bottles in a crack of the phoenix crown, where the red smoke slowly flowed down. When the bottle was filled with red smoke, Xiao Na carefully removed the cap of the bottle. screw on.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Na took out another knife, cut off a small piece of these phoenix crowns, and stuffed them into an empty bottle, and cut off a section of the roots of these phoenix crowns, and put them in the bottle as well. And in the last bottle, Xiao Na filled the crimson soil under the phoenix crown.

Seeing what Xiao Na did, Chen Ziyang admired it. The samples taken by her were really comprehensive and detailed. Even though Xiao Na took few samples, they were all the most important things.If these few things were studied and understood by her, she would even be able to reproduce the phoenix crowns out of thin air, which would be much better than cutting off this huge cluster of phoenix crowns and bringing them back.

While Chen Ziyang was carefully watching Xiao Na collect the samples, he suddenly discovered that there was something wrong with the soil under the phoenix crown.Chen Ziyang looked over carefully, just now when Xiao Na cut off a section of the root system of these phoenix crowns, there seemed to be something exposed under the red soil she pushed aside.

Ask Shuai Shishuai for the engineering shovel, and Chen Ziyang carefully strokes and pulls the place with the engineering shovel, and then goes down with the shovel a few times. Chen Ziyang is surprised by what he dug out.In the soil next to the root system where Xiao Na collected samples just now, Chen Ziyang actually dug out a human skull from it.

Seeing what Chen Ziyang dug out from the soil, Xiao Na's eyes widened, she quickly bent down, observed carefully, and illuminated Chen Ziyang with the flashlight in her hand.The crimson soil where the phoenix crowns are grown looks loose, but it is very laborious to dig them up.

These soils are full of stickiness, as if the soil has been glued and then put back into the soil.The soil is very soft, but it takes a lot of strength to separate a clod from it. After digging for a while, Chen Ziyang was tired and sweating profusely. It took only a few minutes for the engineer shovel to help him get to work, and what Shuai Shishuai dug up made several people look surprised.

In the area of ​​several feet dug by Shuai Shanshi, four human skulls, more than a dozen human ribs, and seven or eight human thigh bones were dug out.Chen Ziyang looked carefully, the more he dug down, the more bones there were in the soil, and the less soil there was. It seemed that there was only a thin layer of soil that raised these phoenix crowns. Underneath, there should be all corpses.

It’s no wonder that many of the roots of these phoenix crowns are exposed outside. In fact, it’s not that the phoenix crowns have grown taller and brought out the roots, but because the corpses have rotted and caused the soil layer to drop, so these roots are exposed to the outside.But because the soil is sticky, the soil is connected together and covers the top of these bone frames, and does not completely seep into the gaps below.

Picking up a small piece of soil, Chen Ziyang put it under his nose and smelled it carefully. There was also a strong smell of blood in the soil.Chen Ziyang threw away the soil, clapped his hands, and analyzed it carefully.

Originally, Chen Ziyang thought that the reason why the soil smelled bloody was because the red mist secreted by these phoenix crowns flowed downwards and gathered on the surface of the soil, and then when those organs were opened, they would be released. Suck somewhere else.So the perennial infiltration allowed the bloody smell in the red mist to penetrate into the soil.

But after seeing the many human bones below, Chen Ziyang had another idea. He felt that the reason why the soil had such a strong smell of blood and was so sticky was completely It is caused by the soil being soaked by the blood in the corpse below for a long time.

In a short while, a layer of red mist re-condensed on the surface of the soil. Because he was afraid that the red mist would harm the human body, Chen Ziyang did not take off his gas mask, so he lightly wiped it with one finger. Rotating above the red mist, the airflow driven by the fingers made the red mist form a small smoke column, which was thicker at the bottom and thinner at the top, and it also slowly rotated with Chen Ziyang's fingers.

Turning his fingers, Chen Ziyang thought back to the scene when he saw the phoenix crown in Li Fan's tomb. Li Fan's tomb also smelled of blood, and Chen Ziyang had judged that the smell of blood came from that plant. The phoenix crown, and the blood corpses in the tomb, were very yearning for the smell of the phoenix crown. When the phoenix crown was taken out of the coffin, it immediately attracted a large number of brain devourers and blood corpses.

The same is true in this Bohai underground palace now, these red mist are also very attractive to those huge monsters in the underground palace.Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang quickly got up and said to Xiao Na:
"Do you still remember the attraction of the phoenix crown in Li Yun's tomb to those blood corpses? Let's hurry up and stop dreaming. Such a strong smell may really attract something."

Xiao Na also nodded, anyway, the samples are finished now, although such a big phoenix crown is a treasure, but these few people can't take it out, so it's better to hurry up and complete the goal of this mission.And just when Xiao Na finished her discussion with Chen Ziyang, she happened to hear the voice of the team members calling her.

"Captain Xiao, come over here and take a look." The one who spoke was one of the two soldiers who were exploring at the front of the team. After exploring the round platform in the middle, the two soldiers turned to the direction to continue moving forward. , continued to scout there, seeing that Xiao Na was very interested in the red plant, so the two of them didn't bother him.

Seeing that Xiao Na was idle now, the two of them couldn't wait to call Xiao Na over.Walking to the side of the two team members, Xiao Na followed the flashlights of the two team members and looked over. On the other side of the huge stone platform where the phoenix crown was planted in the entire stone room, there was still a stone bridge that was exactly the same as before. stretched forward.

This stone bridge is about the same length as the previous stone bridge, and there is also a semicircular stone platform connected to the front of the stone bridge.The size of this stone platform is exactly the same as the semi-circular stone platform they were on before.If you look down from a high altitude, in the entire circular space, there are two semicircular stone platforms, a huge circular stone platform in the middle, and two thin stone bridges. A ground shaped like a dumbbell, and everything else is a bottomless abyss.

Originally, there was nothing strange about a stone platform opposite, but what surprised Xiao Na the most was what was on the stone platform.Under the flashlights of the two team members, Xiao Na saw that on the opposite stone platform, there were rows of huge boxes stacked neatly.

Although it is not very clear from a distance of 70 meters, Xiao Na can see that these boxes are very huge, and at the same time, the boxes are all locked, and these boxes are of different shapes and materials. They are different, some are wooden boxes, some seem to be tin boxes, and some seem to be heavy copper boxes.

As for one of the wooden boxes, it may be because the age is relatively long, or it was bumped when it was transported before. The wooden board in one corner of the wooden box has been cracked. A trace of golden light was reflected, and it looked like a box full of gold.

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