The Strongest Iron Triangle of Tomb Raiders

Chapter 78 The Ancient Altar

"Let's talk about it, what should we do now, do we want to go back the same way?"

There was something in the water, and the elusive female corpse.

Weird cave.

Eerie everything.

If you want to move forward, you must first determine whether the cave has the weird ability to make people smaller.

If you don't figure out this problem, no one can guarantee whether you will lose your life because of it.

Partridge Whistle previously suggested going to the bottom of the river to look for aquatic plants as a reference.

It now appears that this approach can only be shelved temporarily.

The question was once again in front of everyone, going back the same way vs moving forward.

Chen Yulou looked around at the crowd, and finally settled on Ming Li.

Everyone turned their attention to Ming Li in unison.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"Fourth brother, we listen to you."

"I'll go." Ming Li didn't expect that the decision whether to go back the same way or move on would ultimately fall into his hands. "Why don't we take a gamble?"

"Fourth brother, do you mean to move on?"

"People die and birds face up, and they will not die for thousands of years. Dare you bet?"

"In our line of business, you are hanging your life on your waistband. If you hadn't been there, we might have gone to see Lord Hades when we were in Pingshan. There is nothing we dare not gamble on."

"Then let's take a gamble, Hua Maguai."

"Master Ming, you order."

"Go forward!" Ming Li cut off a vine above his head with a single knife.

"Hehehe..." Nu Qing raised her head to the sky and sang loudly, making a sound of wind moaning, killing a large area of ​​dragonfly-like black flying insects at the bottom of the plant's rhizome.

"Okay!" Hua Ma propped up the raft and continued to move forward.

As for the question of whether it will continue to shrink if it continues to move forward, it has been completely left behind by everyone.

Ming Li squatted in front of the raft with Ming Hongdao, carefully observing the conditions of the caves, and he used his geomancy skills to the extreme.

However, he found that geomancy was not very useful in this cave.

Because this cave was formed too long ago, it has its own pattern.

This place is really weird.

"Fourth brother, look quickly, there seems to be a stone platform over there."

"Hua Maguai, row over there."

After being reminded by Chen Yulou, Ming Li discovered that there is indeed a stone platform in the fossil forest.

The stone platform is not big, it can only accommodate two or three people.

This square stone platform is square and square, which is out of tune with the surrounding environment, and there are obvious traces of man-made repairs.

The surface of the stone platform was covered with vines, and a lot of slippery moss grew.

"Strange, why is there a man-made stone platform here?"

"Fourth brother, do you think this square stone platform is related to Xianwang's tomb?"

"Go up and have a look."

Ming Li, Chen Yulou, and Partridge Whistle boarded the stone platform, while the others waited on the raft.

Not far away, the group of giant toads appeared again, shooting out their big tongues from time to time to devour the black flying insects and big spiders on the water surface.

After getting on the stone platform, Ming Li scraped off the vines and moss with a Minghong knife, only to see relief patterns on the surface of the stone platform.

These relief patterns record some kind of secret sacrificial ceremony in ancient times, which is a very bizarre and mysterious ancient ceremony.

The ceremony was held in this gourd-shaped cave, and this square stone platform was a special altar for offering sacrifices.

This altar was not left over from the time of King Xian. Judging from the ancient carving traces on the altar, it can almost be concluded that long before King Xian built the tomb, the local aborigines had already regarded this gourd-shaped cave as a very An important place, and a mysterious altar for sacrifices was built here.

"Fourth brother, since this altar existed long before King Xian built his mausoleum, what exactly is this altar dedicated to?"

Chen Yulou, Partridge Whistle is very curious, what exactly did the original residents find in this gourd-shaped cave?
Why build such an altar in this place.

This gourd-shaped cave has some great secrets.

"This altar is used to worship the mountain god." From the relief sculptures on the altar, the bright carp speculates that this is an altar used by the ancient aborigines to worship the mountain god.

In one of the stone sculptures, there is a tall black-faced god with big ears, a high nose, rough hair on his face, and a skull in his mouth. His face is very strange.

"Hey, isn't this the statue of the mountain god enshrined in the mountain temple?"

Chen Yulou was very sure that the black-faced god in the altar relief was exactly the same as the mountain god enshrined in the mountain temple.

The difference is that the statue of the mountain god in the mountain temple has two more servants of Yasha evil spirits, but this black-faced god does not.

Ming Li said, "The appearance is slightly different, but the essence is exactly the same."

The black-faced god on the altar relief is indeed exactly the same as the mountain god statue in the mountain temple, and they are probably the same person.

The mountain god statues in the mountain temple are in the style of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and the image looks more elegant and elegant.

The reliefs on the altar are full of freehand brushwork from the barbaric period. They should be primitive monuments at least three or four thousand years ago, probably relics left by the ancestors of southern Xinjiang during the Warring States period.

As for the statue of the mountain god in the mountain temple at the entrance, it may be that the altar was found here when the tomb was built for the king, and it was shaped according to the image of the black-faced god.

The three of them continued to look at the remaining stone reliefs, which were so old that most of the stone carvings could no longer be seen clearly after years of erosion.

Fortunately, one of the stone carvings is relatively complete, and I can barely see the general idea.

This is a very strange picture.

On the water surface of the fossil forest, a group of natives with feathers on their heads ride in small boats, holding long poles in their hands.

There were many big toads tied to the wooden boat, and these toads looked very frightened.

Although the depiction is rough and simple, it is very vivid, and people can know the information expressed in it at a glance.

Under the command of a leader wearing horns, several natives simultaneously hoisted a huge toad with a long pole, and lifted it into a hole that was emitting thick black air on the top of the fossil forest.

There is another wooden boat behind, with a few toads that have shrunk down on it.

These toads showed a desperate expression, and their bulging bodies became shriveled and lifeless.

Ming Li said, "Second brother, third brother, do you still remember the situation of the mountain temple at the entrance?"

"Fourth brother, what did you find?"

"The mountain god statue in the mountain temple is served by a mountain ghost on the left and right. One of the mountain ghosts is holding a red stone gourd, the other is holding a jumping toad, and there is a huge red stone gourd in front of the mountain temple. .

Judging from this pair of stone carvings, the god who guards the mountain lives in a gourd-shaped cave, and the local people capture these huge toads to worship him. "

"Fourth brother, according to what you said, are we here at the mountain god's house?"

"Although there are some descriptions about the terrain on these stone carvings, our current location should be at the bottom of the gourd, in the lower half of the gourd's belly.

The entrance we came in was the bottom of the gourd, and an artificial passage was cut through this natural big gourd hole.

These natives entered the lower half of the gourd to hunt giant toads, and picked them up with long poles to worship the mountain gods living in the upper half of the gourd.

If we want to reach the tomb of King Xian, we have to go through the entrance of the cave and enter the upper half of the gourd belly.

That mountain god is probably waiting for us inside. "

From these vague moments, Ming Li has already figured out how this gourd-shaped cave came to be.

Before, he thought that the place where they came in was the mouth of the gourd, but in fact, the place where they came in was the bottom of the gourd.

Not surprisingly, the Tomb of King Xian is located at the mouth of the gourd.

They need to go through this natural giant gourd hole to reach the tomb of King Xian at the mouth of the gourd.

At the same time, he was basically sure that they hadn't become smaller, everything was an illusion.

(End of this chapter)