From seeing it

Zhou Kesheng murmured, feeling that Li Zhibao's words made sense.

Since Yu Ding is used to suppress the stone balls, there is no reason to put the stone balls on the upper layer.

Wang Lei touched his chin and said: "It's useless to think so much. Who knows what these ancient ancestors thought. We still have to go down to the fourth floor to see what happened, and then we will understand."

That's right, if Song Jifu's conjecture is true, the purpose of this double building is to store Yu Ding, then something should be found on the lower floor.

After testing by Sun Tao, the air quality on the lower floor is even worse, and the oxygen is thin. If you stay for a long time, you will be prone to hypoxia, but if you enter for a short time, it is not a big problem.

After confirming that it was safe to enter, everyone continued down the stone steps and entered the fourth floor below.

The fourth floor is nearly twice as large as the third floor above, and the chill is heavier and more depressing. A kind of coldness deep in the bone marrow penetrates into the human body from the exposed skin pores of everyone. They all instinctively felt an inexplicable fear in their hearts.

"We can't stay here for too long, everyone, hurry up and look for it, and hope to find something."

Li Zhibao gave an order, and a dozen people dispersed, and several of them turned on their camping lights. Under the light of each camping light, everyone quickly explored the fourth floor clearly.

On the fourth floor, there is no Yu Ding as everyone guessed, and there is not even the slightest clue about the tripod. There are no murals on the surrounding walls, and only a rock statue about two or three meters high is placed in the center.

The sculpture was relatively rough, but everyone could tell at a glance that it was a statue of a hand.

Carved a piece of rock into a rough big hand, the entire fourth floor, only this big hand stone carving, other than that, there is nothing else.

When everyone saw it, they were a little surprised, but Xiao Ling's heart moved slightly.

He thought of the big pale hand.

Could it be that the theme that this layer wants to express is actually a big pale hand?

It's just that ordinary people can't see this pale hand at all, so how did the ancient ancestors know?

Or could it be said that among the ancient ancestors, there were people like themselves, who knew that there were big pale hands in this world?

Or, is it purely a coincidence that this big hand stone carving is a totem worshiped by the ancient ancestors?

Ancient ancestors relied on hard work with their hands and hunting animals to feed themselves, and then worshiped hands. It is not uncommon for hand totems to exist.

Song Jifu saw that it was not the Yu Ding as he had imagined, but only a stone sculpture with big hands. He was disappointed and looked at Li Zhibao.

Li Zhibao had a pondering look on his face, and the old professor was also lost in thought.

Zhou Kesheng knew that Xiao Ling could see the big pale hand that ordinary humans couldn't see. When he saw the statue of this hand, his heart also moved slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at Xiao Ling.

"Professor, there is only this big hand statue on this floor, but what does it represent?" Pang Yan couldn't help asking.

Hu Shengzhe felt a lot of sweat on his forehead, so he wiped it with his hand, and said, "It should be a kind of totem. In ancient times, many tribes had various totems. They worshiped tigers, wolves, bears and other animals as totems, and also worshiped various organs of the human body." Yes, there is even reproductive worship, this kind of worship with hands as totems is not so unusual."

Li Zhibao also hummed lightly, expressing his agreement with Hu Shengzhe.

Yu Tingting bit her lips lightly, thought for a while, and said, "Professor, I suddenly thought of something."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Li Zhibao turned and looked at her.

Yu Tingting brushed her long hair that was hanging down in front of her eyes, and said, "Looking at this big-handed stone carving, I think of the murals I saw underground in the Lobu Desert, among which the ancestors of the Yu Dynasty painted claws growing on the black sun."

Li Zhibao smiled, and said: "You still believe that this claw is real, not a metaphor, and the big hand carved here does not represent the totem worship of the hand, but is the same as the claw on the mural, and it refers to something else? "

Wang Lei laughed and said, "Younger, if it's really like what you said, the big hands and claws refer to something else, what exactly do they refer to?" Obviously, at this point, he is standing Based on Li Zhibao's point of view, he believed that the claws drawn on the black sun were just a metaphor for the Pisces jade pendant as a monster, and it definitely did not point to the existence of a certain claw shape.

Yu Tingting shook her head slightly, expressing that she didn't know, then her pretty face became serious, and she said, "If this building only has four floors, then that's fine. If there's a fifth floor here, I think...the answer to all the mysteries may be... On this fifth floor."

At this moment, Sun Tao's voice came over, shouting: "Professor, here is a stone step leading to the ground, and there is a fifth floor in this heavy building."

Hearing this, everyone took a deep breath.

"Okay, then let's go to the fifth floor to have a look. If it's really smaller than what we guessed, then this fifth floor should hide the truth about this heavy building." Li Zhibao's voice was still calm.

The five-story building is made of rocks, and each floor is bigger than the next. The five floors are stacked together, and the scale is astonishing.

No one could have imagined that such a magnificent building would be buried under the perennial snow on this snow mountain.

The air quality on the fifth floor was even worse. The air inside seemed to be frozen, filled with a cold atmosphere, the darkness was deep, the light of the camping lights seemed to be blocked, and there was a faint cold mist floating in the air.

When everyone set foot on the fifth floor, they couldn't help shivering.

"The yin here is so heavy, buried deep under the snow, the air is thin, so we can't stay longer." Hu Shengzhe felt the chill getting worse in his body, shivered several times, and hurriedly reminded everyone.

The task of Sun Tao leading Qin Yang and Liu Guangsheng's team members was to go to the four corners to find if there were any stone steps leading to the next level.

"Mr. Li, there are no stone steps leading to the ground here. This is the end." After Sun Tao checked, he immediately reported to Li Zhibao.

Li Zhibao hummed, and personally took a flashlight to shine around.

The surrounding walls are the same as the upper floor, without any murals or lines drawn, but on the ground, there are a large number of human-shaped stone statues about half the height of a person.

These human-shaped stone statues are densely packed in the fifth floor of the heavy building. At a glance, there are hundreds of them at least.

The bodies of the stone statues are relatively rough and simple, with single lines, but the head carvings are relatively delicate, especially the facial expressions, which are very rich, and you can even see whether the expressions of these stone statues are pain or anger.

Originally, everyone was expecting to see Yu Ding or clues related to Yu Ding on the last fifth floor, but no one expected that there would be a large number of stone statues here.