Tomb Robber: Stop pretending, I am the Zhang family!

Chapter 89 Another Entrance

At this time, Monk Hua and the others also walked down with the help of Chen Pi Asi, and everyone gathered around to watch.

Monk Hua took a few glances and said, "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. This is a centipede dragon, not a pan dragon. The early dragon sculptures of the Eastern Xia Kingdom all looked like this. Dragons in ancient China had very different shapes. It's not surprising that some dragons have pig noses."

He is right. Dragons in China were gradually formed after a long history of evolution. There are many kinds of dragons in ancient times, and each tribe has its own dragon totem. Naturally, the shapes are all kinds of strange.

The very first dragon crawled, just like an insect, and it became a dragon if you put a beast head on it. It was not until Qin Shihuang unified the world, and after the Han Dynasty unified the world, and the spread of Central Plains culture, that there was a unified dragon. dragon shape.

The centipede-like dragon-like monster in front of him should be an early dragon, at least two to three thousand years old.

It looks like this, not only does it lack the domineering might of a dragon, but it gives people an evil and uncomfortable feeling.

Fatty Monk Jian Hua seemed to be a well-informed person, so he couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother Dao Scar, I don't see that you are quite knowledgeable about literature, so is this stone something from Dongxia Kingdom?"

Monk Hua looked at the stone carvings, then looked up at the top of the hillside, and said doubtfully, "That's right, it must be something from Dongxia. There can't be dragons of this type in the Central Plains. It's just... this piece of dragon carving Where did the stone come from?"

This stone is five meters high and three meters wide. It is carved from a single huge black stone. It is obviously different from other stones here, and it is very likely that it was transported here from other places.

Naively checked the material of the stone, and speculated: "It may have collapsed from the top of the ancient tomb. You see, the shape of this dragon is asymmetrical. It should be a pair of dragons playing with pearls. There should be another side of such a stone carving, usually Carved on the stone gate, one on each side."

Chen Pi Asi on the side coughed, and said weakly: "Fart, half-knowledge, talk a lot, what double dragons play with pearls and stone gates? This is the sealing stone in the tomb passage."

As he said that, the old man pointed to the dragon's mouth, and Monk Hua went over immediately, put his hand into the dragon's mouth and pulled out a black wrist-thick iron chain for him.

The fat man looked at it and said, "Oh, it's over, you have ripped out the dragon's intestines."

This iron chain is exactly the "horse chain" on the sealing stone.

When Tian Zhen saw this horse chain, she immediately blushed, looked left and right and said, "That... I was wrong just now, this is indeed a sealing stone, but... shouldn't this thing be in the tomb passage? How would it appear here?"

Monk Hua tugged at the iron chain, but the stone remained motionless.

A trace of doubt also flashed across Chen Pi'asi's face, as if he couldn't figure out where the sealing stone in the tomb passage came from.

Just when everyone was wondering, Zhang Yunfeng suddenly walked towards the rock wall, because he knew that this was also one of the passages leading to the underground bronze gate, and he could directly reach the crack of the hot spring after walking in.

Everyone didn't understand what he wanted to do, and they didn't care about him.

"Now the hail has stopped, but the snow is coming again, we have to find a place to rest quickly." Shunzi looked at the sky and said.

At this moment, Zhang Yunfeng had already arrived at the rock wall. He stretched out his hand to scrape off the snow on it, and soon a crack in the rock was revealed, and a strong sulfur smell came out.

"Damn, why is there a crack in the rock?" The fat man widened his eyes and ran up quickly.

As soon as he walked in front of him, he smelled a strong smell of sulfur, and he couldn't help asking curiously, "What's this smell? Why is it so choking?"

At this moment, Tian Zhen, Brother Hua, Monk Hua and others also gathered around, looking carefully into the cracks in the rock.

"It smells like sulfur. It's strange... Could it be that this place is already close to a volcano?" Monk Hua said doubtfully.

Shunzi said with a happy face, "Changbai Mountain has many dormant active volcanoes. According to historical records, the last small-scale eruption should have been 1000 years ago. Although the volcano is dormant now, the nearby geothermal heat is extremely rich. Many volcanic periods The geological fissures and lava mouths in the cave maintain extremely high temperatures, there may be a steaming fissure behind the Panlong Sealing Stone, and the smell of sulfur will come out, we can go in and take a rest."

Hearing what he said, everyone immediately became excited. You must know that they have walked in the snow for so many days, and they can't even sleep well, and they must always beware of hypothermia. If they can sleep in such an environment, Not to mention how enjoyable it was.

Fatty was impatient, after hearing Shunzi's words, he immediately got into the crack of the rock, and kept waving for everyone to follow.

Zhang Yunfeng was the second to get in, and the rest of the people also got into the rock crevice after seeing this.

The crack in the rock is very narrow, and only one person can barely walk, and he has to walk sideways, otherwise his shoulders will get stuck.

After everyone walked forward for more than ten meters, the surrounding temperature immediately increased several degrees, and the body felt much more comfortable at once.

"It seems that the guide was right. This is definitely a ground fissure close to the volcano. There is a place to sleep tonight." Monk Hua smiled.

"That's a good relationship. I haven't slept well for several days. This time I have to sleep with him forever!" Fatty said as he walked.

Soon everyone walked forward for tens of meters. At this time, the crack in the rock was much wider, allowing two people to walk side by side, and the temperature here was much higher, even the stone was hot to the touch.

At this time, the fat man who was walking in the front suddenly stopped. He held up his flashlight to shine on the rock wall, and said curiously: "There are a few words here, do any of you know them?"

Everyone went up to take a look, and found that there were indeed some Korean-like and Japanese-like characters written on the rock wall, which were very scribbled.

Monk Hua glanced at it and said, "This should be a Jurchen character, but I don't know how to translate it either."

As he said that, he took out a camera from his backpack, took pictures of those Jurchen characters, and copied them in a notebook.

"It seems that it should have been left by the Eastern Xia people at that time. After we go back, we should find experts in this field to study it." Monk Hua said.

After doing this, everyone continued to move forward.

The cracks in the rock were very long. After walking for more than 30 minutes, everyone was out of breath and everyone started to sweat. At this time, the surrounding temperature had reached ten to twenty degrees, which was very warm.

Everyone had to take off their coats and continue on their way.

After walking forward for another half an hour, the terrain ahead suddenly opened up, and a large volcanic cave appeared in front of me, and there were actually two steaming hot springs inside.

(End of this chapter)