Endless route

Chapter 262 32. Ancient containers and hidden wells

Everyone immediately began to prepare, taking out the camera and rope from the Yin soldier's backpack, hanging the rope on the Yin soldier, and letting the Yin soldier hold the camera in his arms and walk towards the mud.

The screen is displayed on a waterproof tablet.

As the Yin soldiers slowly walk towards the mud, there are also mud and sand undulating in the water body, gradually becoming blurry.

This is an inevitable result. The situation shown in the picture is the same situation they will face after drilling into the mud. The visual distance is zero and there is only mud in front of them.

But the camera can still obtain information, such as whether the Yin soldiers are alive or whether they have been attacked by something.

Time passes slowly.

The Yin Soldier completely got into the mud, and with his head parallel to the ground, he squeezed in and crawled forward.

The mud is soft after all, and Yin soldiers can get in, but their movement speed is limited. If the mud is shallow, they can crawl for twenty minutes. If the mud is deep, they have to use an hour meter.

wait.

There is no other way.

No one with weak physical strength can drill it.

This is what exploration in a swamp is like. It takes a lot of time to drill through a short section of mud. They will encounter this situation frequently and have to wait every time.

Zheng Yun asked Ji Dao to stare at the video screen, while he took out his tablet and used this time to look through the information on the old blog.

In particular, he has been thinking about the causes of death of all the victims in the ruins of Nanze Ancient City from the year before the year before to now.

[Summary of the Nanzawa Ruins Incident]

Xu Yu also just obtained this information. Their Fuen City archaeological team arrived at E-07 in the morning. After entering the camp, the old doctor sent it over. It is definitely the latest research result.

Zheng Yun had wanted to see it for a long time, but he did not dare to stop for a moment after getting off the bus, fearing that the explorers from the Royal Museum would enter the Dusi Mansion first and race against time to compete with the West.

Because of Nia's confession.

Nia and the others went to the floating city in the deep sea to find the key, which means that their expedition team found a 'door' that needed a key to open last year, but where is this door?

In addition, the key that Nia is looking for can only be a fairy gate, and there is probably a fairy gate in the Nanze Ruins Dusi Mansion.

Nia is just a member of the secret organization, and she goes to the floating city at all costs to find the key. What will the other members do? Where to look for the key now?

Zheng Yun believed in the opponent's strength and respected the explorers of the Royal Museum. With their speed and efficiency in excavating cultural relics, they might have entered the Dusi Mansion last year.

It’s too late to see it now.

I read it every time I encounter this situation, and I finish reading it all in just a few times, which is just enough to waste time.

They will have too much time to read the information later, and they are afraid that they will not be able to read it by then, so they can only stare and wait...

The information in Gubo is extremely detailed.

The ruins of the ancient city of Nanze were discovered by Western explorers the year before last. This year is already the third window period. The largest accident occurred in December last year.

At that time, the ruins were not restricted by the East and the West, and there were many explorers with varying abilities.

It happened on December 3 last year.

The window period lasted for three months, during which it was not supposed to rain, but a heavy rain suddenly occurred that day. From 7 pm to the early morning of the next day, the rainfall reached 1,100 mm.

Seventy people died overnight, and one hundred and ninety-seven people were missing at the same time, and their whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

But that's a start.

Heavy rain caused water levels to rise throughout the Nanze ruins, and some subtle changes occurred in the swamp area. Afterwards, accidents occurred one after another, causing thousands of casualties in just three days.

Gubo estimated that at that time in December last year, there were more than 4,000 people in the entire ruins. In other words, nearly one-third of the people were involved in the accident within three days.

These thousand explorers died for different reasons, including serious illness, fever, poisoning, madness and suicide, accidental death, gunfire and mysterious disappearances.

Normally it might be classified as an accident.

But it’s wrong to have such a high concentration of accidents.

Among them, there were more than 70 cases of gun misfires alone. The deceased were explorers from the East and the West. Who has never touched a gun? How is it possible that fires occur frequently? It's really unbelievable.

There are various speculations about this matter. For example, rain caused all areas of the swamp to be connected by rainwater, so the toxins in a certain area flowed to all parts of the ruins.

Gu Bo has the same view.

Only some kind of invisible toxin can create this weird effect, with almost full coverage of lethality.

This toxin will cause the explorer to become insane and have hallucinations. The toxin itself is not fatal, but in the already dangerous swamp area, a little hallucination can be fatal.

A little thought wanders.

You may lose your footing and fall into the mire.

Gu Bo’s understanding of this weak toxin is that it is likely to have always been present in the air or rivers in the swamp area, and it is impossible to avoid inhaling it once it enters the swamp.

Weather can affect changes in toxin concentrations.

Explorers who spend long periods of time in swamps will continue to inhale toxins, causing toxins to slowly accumulate in their bodies.

Only when the toxin is concentrated to a certain extent will the explorer suffer from mental disorders, or there may be other inducements that can induce the toxin in advance.

But Gubo didn't know the source of the toxin.

It is likely to come from some kind of algae, or some seemingly ordinary plant, or even an inconspicuous fungus.

At present, no one or organization can determine the source of the toxin, and tests on the air and river water have yielded no results. No conclusive evidence has been found in either the East or the West.

It should exist.

But it cannot be touched or seen.

It was like an invisible cloud that hung over the entire ruins of the ancient city of Nanze, weighing on everyone.

There are also other speculations in the academic community, such as the special magnetic field theory, the color atmosphere theory, the human immune deficiency theory, etc.

Zheng Yun flipped through twenty pages, all of which were filled with various speculations put forward by authorities in various fields regarding this phenomenon.

Because if nothing unexpected happens, the toxin that creates this phenomenon is the core of danger in the entire Nanze.

These professors are all abbreviations, and each guess only provides a general framework and precautions. There is no long explanation to prove the guess, but only a list of coping methods.

There is only one guess per page.

There is the signature of the proposer in the lower right corner. Most of them are a team of university professors, or some research institute, etc.

Zheng Yun glanced at each page before scrolling back. Suddenly he saw the Palace Museum also signed a guess:

[Theory of Ancient Containers]

The main content of this speculation is that there is an exquisite ancient container similar to a seismograph inside the ancient city of Nanze.

Gu Bo suspected that the name of this ancient vessel was a rare character. Next to the word "Yin" was the word "Zun", which was pronounced the same as "Zun" and "鐐".

This word appears frequently in the entire Ming Dynasty history and ancient books, but it only appears in the emperor's accession to the throne or major sacrifices, which means that its status is extremely high.

But Gu Bo didn't know what it looked like, because Gu Bo had never seen the Silver Zun before, and had only glimpsed the vague shadow of this artifact from the lines of ancient books.

Gubo's guess is that the Silver Zun may be the same type as the Nine Tripods of the Xia Dynasty. It is a heavy gold instrument that symbolizes the territory of the Ming Dynasty. It is usually stored in the Dusi Mansion of various major immortal continents.

The source of this speculation is that Emperor Ming was the emperor with the largest territory and the most people among all the emperors in ancient times. He was also the first emperor to include the Endless Fairyland into his territory.

His achievements through the ages are comparable to those of Qin Shihuang.

Therefore, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not exempt from vulgarity. He also had various self-evident artifacts symbolizing his achievements similar to those of Qin Shihuang.

Yin Zun is one of them.

It may be modeled after the Jiuding of the Xia Dynasty.

Whenever the Ming Dynasty conquered a fairy continent and established a city and a capital, a silver statue would be cast to symbolize the Ming Dynasty.

These silver statues are usually stored in various places, and only on key occasions will they be transported back to the imperial city to participate in sacrifices.

But the silver statue is more than just a symbol.

In that feudal era, it was generally believed that the Endless Sea Route was the Endless Immortal Continent, the government and the public were full of rumors of immortals, and there really were "gods and ghosts" in the world.

Jiuding is not just Jiuding.

Yin Zun is not just Yin Zun.

Gu Bo once found a poem about Jiuding written by Ming Emperor Mingli Zong. Minglizong believed that the Chinese Jiuding was an important weapon symbolizing the Han Dynasty.

He really thinks so.

Believe in this statement.

How could the silver statue cast by the Ming Emperor be a mere symbol? It must have something to do with gods and ghosts.

At present, Gu Bo has discovered traces of the existence of silver statues in several Dusi Mansion. These silver statues are extremely strange. They may have the same size, but the details must be different.

Gubo did not go into details, but Gubo believed that there was probably a silver statue in the ancient city of Nanze that had not had time to be transported away. After the ancient city was buried, it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to dig it out.

Nanze Yinzun may be the culprit.

Because Gu Bo believes that the Silver Zun is an important weapon to guard the Dusi. After a disaster occurs in the Dusi, it will be opened by the "superstitious" to pray for the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty to protect the Dusi.

The silver statue is a container.

What is stored inside?

Could it be some kind of toxin?

If it is opened, will it release some kind of toxin that will kill all future attackers outside the city?

"..."

Zheng Yun was slightly silent when he saw this.

He read between the lines. In fact, Gu Bo's guess was the theory of divine and ghost tactics. Gu Bo suspected that there were divine and ghost tactics protecting the city in the ancient city of Nanze and it was turned on.

But Gubo cannot be superstitious.

Therefore, the name "ancient container" is used, and a larger space is used to explain that there are toxins in the silver statue that are difficult to find scientifically, rather than the illusory "superstition of gods and ghosts".

"Jidao, is there a golden statue in the Tiangong?" Zheng Yun asked Jidao out of caution.

"Zun? Yes, Master Xian, don't you use it every day?" Jidao looked up at Zheng Yun and scratched his head.

"Do you use it every day?"

Zheng Yun was stunned for a moment.

"You are the base of the Immortal Gate, which is the clear pool under the Black Jade Gate. Master Immortal, didn't you realize that those pools are made of metal with patterns of immortals, demons, gods and ghosts?"

Ji Dao immediately gave an explanation.

"..."

Zheng Yun immediately recalled that each immortal gate was located in a clear pool, but all the clear pools were black, with a texture like a kind of black jade, and they were all buried underground.

He really hasn't looked at it carefully.

But as soon as Ji Dao said this, he recalled that those clear pools seemed not simple, they were all square in shape, similar to the Sifang Ding, but very huge in size.

The Black Jade Gate is a fairy gate.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Immortal Gate is the most important legacy of the Ming Dynasty. How could its base be an ordinary thing?

As the saying goes, a good horse deserves a good saddle.

How could the clear pool at the base of the black jade door be made of black bricks? It must have a great background. If taken out alone, it would be an important weapon that matches the Jiuding.

And it is also the same as the conclusion drawn by the old blog. If important capitals have black jade gates, they must also have silver statues.

"What magical powers does this statue have?"

Zheng Yun asked again, is the clear pond that he passes by every day and makes his trousers wet every time, is it a magical artifact?

"I don't know, it seems like it just contains some water for the fairy gate to activate. I haven't researched it, but it shouldn't be a decorative device, and it may have some special uses."

"You have to dig it out to find out. But Master Immortal, if you give me ten courages, I wouldn't dare to dig up the Immortal Sect. Even if it has magical powers, we don't know."

Ji Dao replied immediately.

Zheng Yun nodded thoughtfully, not everyone dared to touch the base of the Immortal Sect. The weight of this thing was too heavy, and even he would never dare to move it rashly.

He even had a wild guess.

Is there a possibility that the Qingchi Silver Zun on the base of the Immortal Gate is the true body of the Black Jade Gate? Because the black jade pillow can be opened without the square door frame, is the square door frame of the black jade door decoration? Is the real appliance actually a clear pool?

This is really hard to say.

Perhaps Gu Bo knew about the existence of the Immortal Gate and knew that Silver Zun was the base of the Immortal Gate. However, the archaeological team had many mixed members, and he all 'colluded' with the Western explorers. Who knows whether other people who are qualified to read the information would leak it.

Therefore, the old blog only mentions Yin Zun and not the Immortal Gate. Anyway, it is almost the same thing. Just find the Immortal Gate.

It is also possible that Gubo really misunderstood. Just as none of the Jiuding in history has been unearthed until now. No one has seen what Jiuding looks like. Gubo also misunderstood Yin Zun.

They probably didn't expect that the Silver Zun was actually just the base of the black jade door, and they thought the Silver Zun was a large and heavy weapon.

If Zheng Yun was asked to figure out Jiuding, he would also subconsciously imagine Jiuding as a large, majestic and exquisite bronze tripod, because this is how it is described in the corners of historical ancient books.

So it’s really hard to say.

Both guesses are possible,

"Master Immortal, something is abnormal. He has walked more than 600 meters in the mud." Ji Dao suddenly reminded him.

Zheng Yun took back the information and looked at the tablet in Ji Dao's hand, only to see the Yin soldiers going deep into the mud. Everything was black in all directions, but an iron ladder suddenly appeared in front of him.

This ladder was embedded in the black mud. The Yin soldiers walked straight and bumped into it. The camera was tightly attached to the ladder.

The video footage is extremely weird.

There are man-made objects deep in the mud.

And there is still a little blood on the ladder.

"Is this the ladder left by that team of explorers? And it was placed upwards. Have they been up there?" Zheng Yun guessed.

This ladder looked like a modern creation, so that was the only possibility. It belonged to the expedition team, but they did not have the ability or time to remove this ladder from the mud.

"Master Immortal, they must have found an uncovered well and drilled into the ancient city of Nanze from the underground sewer." Jidao quickly took out his tablet to determine the location.

After searching for a while.

Ji Dao lowered his voice: "It's only four hundred meters away from Nanze Dusi Mansion. It's not directly opposite Dusi Mansion. After you go up there, you have to walk two blocks west and then south to get there."

"But there is a river that runs through the city, called the Sanjing River. Just above the Yinshao is a very long bridge hole. Drilling up from here will not bear too much silt pressure."

"I see."

Zheng Yun nodded. Sure enough, no expedition team should underestimate them. Those who can get here are not ordinary people.

It is true that the place where the silt is flooded will create obstacles, but it is also an exit, connected to the streets and alleys of the ancient city submerged in the swamp, and you can go directly into the ancient city.

This team of people drilled 600 meters to find the exit in the mud, and even used ladders to climb up.

It can be said that a master of art is brave.

One has to admire him.

It is indeed unusual for ordinary people to be able to accurately get to the vicinity of Dusi Mansion without the blueprint of the ancient city.

"Master Immortal, there is no need for us to go up here. Even from the Yinjing to the bridge, we have to cross two streets to get to the Dusi Mansion. The last few hundred meters are as difficult as a natural moat."

Ji Dao shook his head and took back the drawings.

I and others were cheating here and could quickly judge the route. It was a pity for this team of explorers. The road they found was a dead end and it was difficult to pass with modern equipment.

"Indeed."

Zheng Yun also felt a little emotional.

Silt at a depth of thirty meters.

Add a few hundred meters more distance.

The upper steel pipe may be able to withstand the pressure and allow people to pass through the steel pipe, but it will take at least half a month for them to drill the steel pipe, unless they have a special version of the shield machine for silt.

Of course there is a possibility.

This section of the underground waterway originally had no silt. It was these explorers who blew up the cover of the well, causing the mire above to bury it like a spurt.

A very reasonable guess.

There are so many dark wells here leading to the ancient city. How could these explorers resist digging a few robber holes? Either they dug them or the explorers from the previous two years dug them.

Not even one hole.

They hit everyone in the neighborhood.

However, being unable to go to Dusi Mansion does not mean that there is no value for exploration. In ancient times, on both sides of the Chuancheng River, most of them had Goulan Brothel, which they could explore.

"Then let's go around again. The sludge leakage point is deep in this sewer. We can go west and we should be able to bypass it and reach the bottom of Dusi Mansion."

Zheng Yun made a judgment.

Take the team to continue the detour.