Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 476 The ten-year cycle

Several people looked in the direction Chen Ziyang was looking at. Although this place was underground, the golden light from the nine armors illuminated a large area, and even the nearest rock wall could be seen clearly. Chu.But several people looked at it for a long time, but they didn't understand what Chen Ziyang meant.

Except for the triangular formation, the ground of the entire underground space is covered with black and white bugs, and these bugs are constantly gnawing on the soil on the ground.

A few people saw a very interesting phenomenon. The black and white bugs were all in one piece. The black bugs gathered together, while the white bugs gathered in other places. As long as there were black bugs gathered in the area, even one Neither did the white bugs, and vice versa.

All the black and white bugs formed areas with completely different sizes and styles, just like irregularly shaped floor tiles laid together.

"Huh?" Jin Huang seemed to have noticed something, he stood up, raised his toes, and looked as far away as possible. The other people were inspired by Jin Huang and looked in that direction.

Probably at the edge of the range that the golden light can reach, there is a very strange pattern on the ground.This pattern is still composed of black and white. Compared with the irregular patterns made of black and white bugs in other places, the pattern here is more regular and looks like a circle.

If you look carefully, the pattern is divided into two parts, the left and the right, and it looks like a pattern of a yin and yang fish.The most amazing thing is that in this pattern, there are two black and white circular areas, which turned out to be the fish eyes of the yin-yang fish, which should also be composed of these Gu insects.

"You mean there?" Several people understood what Chen Ziyang meant, and it was really as he said, that area was really special.

"It should be there. As long as someone uses power to accelerate the activation of the formation, this formation can block the Gu worms outside and protect the safety of the people inside, so that people in the formation can see the insects outside. pattern, and you will find the yin-yang fish."

"Will it be so magical? Could it be just a coincidence, or because the light there is a bit dim, we have a visual illusion.

Why are these bugs so obedient, and even put out patterns of yin and yang fish on the ground?Besides, no one directs them? " Xu Xiaoyuan asked in disbelief.

"That shouldn't be a coincidence." A weak voice came from behind Xu Xiaoyuan.It turned out that Shangguan Kangning had woken up and was staring at the handful of dirt in his hand and said.

In this handful of soil, there were several black and white Gu worms that had been patted into meatloaf by Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai, but Shangguan Kangning's attention was obviously not on these worms.

He slowly picked out the flattened bugs and threw them aside until there was nothing but dirt in his hands.

"Look, I think the reason why those black and white Gu worms are arranged in patterns should be related to the soil here."

"Mud?" Anyway, the outside is full of black and white Gu worms, and there is no place for a few people to go, so they gather around Shangguan Kangning, trying to figure out what's going on.

After fiddling with the soil in his hands for a while, Shangguan Kangning picked up a few small clods and put them aside.

"Look at these clods, are there some black and white dots on them? I think the reason why these Gu worms can form the pattern of the Yin-Yang fish is related to these black and white things."

A few people stared at it with wide eyes, and as expected, the clods picked out by Shangguan Kangning were covered with black and white dots, which looked like soot and soot .

"What are these things?"

"This should be a kind of fungus, but this kind of fungus is not big. The reason why those black and white insects suddenly appeared here to eat soil is because there is this kind of fungus in this layer of soil on the surface. , and black bugs should only eat black fungi, and white bugs should only eat white fungi, so black and white bugs will be clearly distinguished on the ground.

That's because there are only black fungi in the soil where black worms gather.If you think about it this way, maybe the yin-yang fish pattern on the ground has been arranged by someone long ago, using these fungi, as soon as the Gu insects appear, they will look for food, and naturally, a pattern will be formed on the ground.

In other words, in fact, the patterns shown on the ground have already been drawn below the surface with these fungi. As soon as the Gu worms appear, they will reproduce this pattern on the ground. The hidden clues It also appeared clearly. "

"What you said is quite reasonable, but if these fungi have long been hidden under the soil layer, why haven't the Gu worms appeared to eat these fungi after we have been here for so long, but why did they wait until the formation was activated? Then the Gu worms appeared?"

Shangguan Kangning shook his head, not knowing how to answer this question.

"This is the ingenious design of this mechanism. If my guess is correct, the reason why there were no black and white Gu worms here before is because these fungi have not yet matured.

But when the mana in the armor accumulates to a certain level, the mana will prompt the fungi in the surrounding soil to start growing.

This kind of fungus is very small, and it is not impossible to let them mature in an instant through the catalysis of mana, so those Gu worms did not appear before, but they ran after the formation was about to start here. "

Now Chen Ziyang admires the organ left by Yuan Tiangang with all his heart.Every ten years is a cycle, and every time the formation is activated, the mana gathered in the armor will spread to the surroundings, so as to promote the maturity of the fungus under the surface.

And when these fungi are mature, they will attract the Gu worms, use the Gu worms to mark the pattern of the yin-yang fish, and at the same time use this formation to protect the safety of the people who come here.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that the person who can see the clues must be a descendant of Taoism, or someone who knows how to activate the formation, so as to prevent someone from coming here by mistake and getting Yuan Tiangang to stay. treasure.

Because if people who don't know how to activate the array come here, they will not be protected by the array before the Gu worms surround them, and they will most likely become food for these black and white Gu insects.

Chen Ziyang also understood why his blood was not attractive to these Gu worms.In fact, it's not that blood is not very attractive, but rather, these Gu worms prefer these fungi on the ground, which are much more attractive than their own blood.

"Hurry up and rest, I don't think it will take long for these Gu worms to retreat, and we still have a way to go." Chen Ziyang said to the others.

Judging from the current situation, Chen Ziyang estimated that it will not be long before these Gu worms will eat up the fungus in the soil, because this place is underground after all, there are many rocks, and the soil layer on the surface is not very thick. So there shouldn't be too many fungi in it.

After all the fungi in the soil are eaten up, these black and white Gu worms should return to their lairs and enter a state similar to hibernation, until ten years later, when the formation is activated again, they will not Waking up from hibernation to eat again.

The others also understood what Chen Ziyang meant, so they sat on the ground one after another and stopped talking.

In the period just before the start of the formation, the physical strength of several people was seriously overdrawn. It seems that the treasure left by Yuan Tiangang is likely to be still on the next floor, and they don’t know how far the road ahead is. Maintain physical strength is very necessary.

Not long after, the Gu worms on the ground became restless, they no longer gathered in place, but crawled non-stop on the entire ground, obviously looking for any fungus that hadn't been eaten clean.

At this time, the whole ground seemed to be alive, black and white were constantly alternating, and the patterns on the ground were constantly changing. After a while, these Gu worms looked like they came, like The tide generally crawled towards the rock walls on both sides, and got into the darkness and could no longer be seen.

With the departure of the Gu worms, the golden light emanating from the nine armors gradually dimmed until they disappeared completely.

Chen Ziyang put his hand on the back of the general's armor and felt carefully. Now the mana in the armor has been used up, and he can't feel any mana from the armor at all.

However, the iron bars inserted into the ground supporting the armor still had a trace of mana gushing out, refilling the armor.Only this time, it will take another ten years to fill the armor with mana.

Because the Gu worms on the ground had disappeared, so the pattern of the yin-yang fish on the ground also disappeared, but several people had firmly remembered the location, and when they got nearby, they lowered their heads to check.

This piece of ground is no different from the surrounding area. If you don't know in advance that there is something tricky here, even if you walk on it, no one will notice that there is something hidden here.

Fortunately, with the reminder of the black and white Gu worms before, several people discovered that there are some small gaps on the ground here. It seems that the ground is a complete piece of stone slab covered with mud, and there are traces of cold wind blowing from it. Blow out through these gaps.

After prying open this stone slab with a sapper shovel, some mossy stone slab steps were exposed, extending down into the darkness, and I don't know how deep it is.

After the board was opened, a very strange smell wafted into the nostrils of several people. This smell was mixed with some grassy aroma and some slight rancid smell.

This time the six people came out without such advanced equipment as an air quality detector. Chen Ziyang tested it according to the earth method recorded in "Civil Engineering Collection". He found that the air blown from the depth of this passage should be is safe.Then he led everyone in one by one.

It may be because they have passed the test of Yuan Tiangang. There is no mechanism hidden in this passage. The only thing everyone needs to be careful of is the slippery steps. If you want to walk on these moss-covered steps without slipping It's really not an easy task.

The length of the steps was beyond the imagination of a few people. Compared with the distance between the underground space where the nine armors are located and the ground, this passage does not know how much longer it is.

But what Chen Ziyang didn't expect was that despite walking such a long distance underground, the surrounding temperature didn't drop at all, and there was even a little bit of warmth.

This is too unreasonable. There is a lack of light here all year round. Logically speaking, the temperature here should be below zero all the year round. These steps should be frozen, but there are still moss growing. It seems that this passage leads to the place The temperature should not be low, but I just don't know where it is.

After walking a certain distance, the steps disappeared, replaced by a crack in the mountain with a relatively gentle slope.And the crack is getting wider and wider.

Yang Lei tapped on the side wall of the crack for a while with the engineering shovel in his hand, looked at the stone balls stuck to the engineering shovel and said: "These seem to be volcanic rocks, it seems that this crack was formed during the movement of the volcano, and it is also No wonder the temperature here is not low, and the air is so humid, I guess there should be an underground hot spring here."

His words were soon verified. When several people reached the end of the crack in the mountain, they actually saw a large underground lake that was steaming.

Looking at the scene in front of them, the six people stared at twelve eyes without even blinking.

"Wow! It's so beautiful!" Like a young girl in love, Xu Xiaoyuan covered her mouth with her hands excitedly and shouted loudly.

The scene unfolding in front of the eyes of the six people can only be described in four words: fairy tale world.

Countless pink and blue-green lights filled this underground world. In this huge underground space with no end in sight, all the rock walls that everyone could see were covered with such dots of light, like It's like the endless night sky.

Whether it's the rock walls on the side or the top of the underground space, they are all filled with these light spots, and a large number of rocks and light spots are reflected on the surface of the clear underground lake, making it hard to tell where the real place is. rock.

Countless light spots are flying in the air, looking like countless fireflies, making this somewhat dead underground world full of vitality.

Looking carefully, some mushroom-like fungi emitting lavender light are all over the rock wall. Although these light is not very bright, after a large number of luminous fungi gather together, the moss on the rock wall can be clearly illuminated clearly.

And those things flying in mid-air are not fireflies, but mosquito-like flying insects emitting blue-green light.

This grotesque underground world deeply shakes everyone's heart.

(End of this chapter)