Chu Huan was surprised when Liuli's voice came from beside him: "Have you seen such a statue before?"
Chu Huan turned his head and glanced, and saw Liuli standing beside him. He shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have seen a lot of various statues, but with such strange clothes and masks on their faces, this kind of statue is really rare."
"What is the Statue of Liberty you just mentioned?" Liuli Wuzi did not forget what Chu Huan blurted out before.
Chu Huan said with a smile: "I saw a statue a long time ago. The locals called her the Statue of Liberty. The posture of the stone statue I just saw here is very similar, so I almost recognized it."
"The Statue of Liberty?" Liuli asked faintly: "Is she a god who protects people from enjoying freedom?"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said: "It is people who have such beautiful wishes, but it is not necessarily true whether the Statue of Liberty can really bring freedom." Looking at the stone statue in front of him, he asked: "Liu Li, do the seniors of the Xin Sect never No mention of the stone statues here?¡±
Liuli shook her head and said in a soft voice: "The six dragons gather their troops, the Bodhisattva opens the door, and as soon as the divine soldiers come out, the souls of heaven and earth are cut off. The only thing passed down from ancient times is this sixteen-character motto. No one has ever mentioned what it is like inside the Buddhist cave. , and no one has ever mentioned that the Buddhist cave is so beautiful!"
Who would have thought that there would be such a majestic mechanism in the dark city located underground, and who would have thought that there would be such a magnificent scene.
After the mechanism was activated, the water in each waterway was gurgling, and the moonlight shone down from the top, causing the waterways to emit sparkling light. It was a purple-blue light, and the light reflected on the stone statues everywhere, and The stone statue is shrouded in a halo. This strange and beautiful sight is really rare and unusual.
"A city was built on it." Liuli said: "There are still shadows of the Buddha there, but there are no bones left in the city. Do you think the people who built the city did this on purpose?"
"I'm also very surprised." Chu Huan nodded slightly and said: "There are no bones left in the city above. If my guess is correct, the city above is just like this one." He raised his finger and pointed at the face of the stone statue: "Actually, It¡¯s just a mask. Use the city as a mask to hide that there¡¯s a city underneath.¡±
Liu Li said: "Who could have thought of this? Using an empty city to cover up another city This is really unbelievable."
Chu Huan smiled and said: "We can't guess how long this underground city has existed at all, but I can be sure that maybe a long, long time ago, this area was covered with grass and trees, and there were also lakes and rivers." After looking around, he said: "Actually, The scale of this underground city does not look too big, not even comparable to some of the current county towns. From a high position, we can roughly see the outline of the entire city. I estimate that the maximum number of people this city can bear will not exceed 10,000. people."
"That's true." Liuli nodded and said, "It's just that if this dungeon existed for a long time, then maybe it would have been considered a big city at that time."
Chu Huan said with a smile: "Yes, it's exactly what I thought. Maybe this city used to be a royal city, and it was originally a palace, but then something happened to them, so they transformed it into this."
"Encounter something?" Liuli asked curiously: "What kind of thing will happen?"
"I don't know either." Chu Huan shrugged, "The water circulation system and mechanism design here, as well as these statues, have reached an extremely high level of craftsmanship. It's hard for me to imagine that in their time, there would be such amazing things. skill."
Liuli said: "Not to mention that era, even now it may not be possible to build a dungeon like this again."
Chu Huan's expression became slightly serious and asked: "Liu Li, do you feel that your current skills will be far better than before? Is everything progressing?"
Liuli was startled. She obviously did not expect that Chu Huan would ask such a profound question. She frowned in thought and heard a voice next to her: "Of course it is now better than before. Could it be that people in the past were smarter than us? They have seen We have all seen it, and we have seen everything they haven't seen." As she spoke, Mei Niang came over from the side.
Chu Huan laughed and said, "Is that what you think?"
"Brother Huan, do you think people in the past would be more knowledgeable than us?" Mei Niang twisted her waist and walked to Chu Huan. Seeing Liuli still frowning in deep thought, she smiled and said: "Liuli, don't think about it, Huan I asked you this kind of question on purpose just to tease you."
Liuli shook her head slightly and said: "ChuChu Huan's question is not a joke." Looking at Mei Niang, he asked: "Meiniang, let me ask you, have you seen everything here before?"
Mei Niang shook her head and said: "Of course I have never seen it before."
"You can be considered very knowledgeable after traveling all over the country." Liuli said: "But there is no one among us.Having seen such an ingenious mechanism, I asked myself how it could drive the flow of water in the waterway. Just putting the peacock pendant into the hilt of the sword can activate the huge mechanism. How wonderful is this? "
Meiniang had to admit: "It's so ingenious that it's amazing."
"Lotus City has existed for hundreds of years. This city can only exist longer than Lotus City." Liuli said slowly: "Hundreds of years ago, the people here were able to create such an exquisite city. Could it be that you Do you think they are stupider than us?" Youyou sighed: "Maybe we later generations think too highly of ourselves, maybe our predecessors were much smarter than we thought. If we hadn't come to the Buddhist cave this time, how could we have seen this? Such an exquisite city?¡±
Chu Huan nodded and said: "Liu Li is right. Many great creations of our predecessors may have been lost due to various reasons. Just like this underground city is buried underground, we cannot find it, so we always think that we are better than them." thought. After a moment, he said: "If there was only one royal city here, with this little power and resources, it would be impossible to build such a city."
Liuli is extremely smart and has already reacted: "You mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg?"
"That's right." Chu Huan said: "With this royal city as the center, there should be many buildings nearby, but we have been unable to discover them. I think that a long time ago, this place was not invaded by the desert, and there was even no traffic. A small independent kingdom. They live and prosper here and have a very high civilization. Look at the statue of the goddess holding a sword. The sword in her hand is well made. Maybe they have been invaded by foreign enemies and are tenacious. Resisting and repelling foreign enemies, that goddess statue may be their hero, or it may be their belief.¡±
Liuli and Mei Niang could not help but nod slightly.
"But then their country began to be invaded by the desert." Bitraza's voice came from the side. Chu Huan looked over and saw Bitraza and Rulian walking over: "They may have made efforts. But the power of the desert was too great, and they were unable to resist in the end. Under the invasion of the desert, the place where they lived became smaller and smaller, until their royal city was finally swallowed up, and they stayed away from their homeland and went to other places."
Chu Huan said: "The eldest brother said that he was invaded by the desert. This should not be wrong, but they probably did not leave."
"Didn't leave?" Mei Niang frowned and said, "Are they waiting to die?"
"If they left here and went to other places, there must be stories passed down." Chu Huan said: "They may not record it in writing, but oral transmission from generation to generation, there will always be some clues left. But what do you think? Knowing nothing can only mean that the civilization here has been completely buried under the dust."
Meiniang said: "Then why are there no remains left? Did they all turn into dust?"
"I'm also wondering why there aren't any clues about the people left behind." Chu Huan smiled bitterly: "I believe they should be very proud of their civilization. In the face of the invasion of wind and sand, they made a last-ditch effort. This The underground city is proof that they have carried out huge projects to preserve this royal city. But the people who designed all of this seem to also hope that one day the civilization here can see the light of day again, so they created a great mechanism that every seventy-six years , after the strong sandstorm passes, the forged city on the ground will appear, allowing people to discover this place."
Meiniang frowned and shook her head: "Brother Huan, no, ifif they want someone to discover everything here, why do they use another city to cover up the underground city here?"
"They want to be discovered and don't want to be buried and disappear, but they are also worried about being easily discovered and causing damage." Liuli said: "So they spent a lot of thought and set up many mechanisms, leaving many unsolvable questions. The problem is that the wisest people can discover everything here through untold hardships. Maybe they feel that the problems they left behind can only be solved by a very small number of people, and there must be very few people who can discover the underground city through the above-ground city. , In this way, even if it is discovered by a few people, it will not cause huge damage to the underground city."
Chu Huan said with a smile: "People have secret psychology. Few people are willing to share things they have discovered with great pains and painstaking efforts. At the beginning, they may have expected that everyone has this intention, so even if someone discovers the underground city , and won¡¯t show it around." He spread his hands and said, "All of this is a reward for the wise men who open the dungeon. Under the light, they can share the civilization they created and appreciate this magnificent and beautiful scene."
"The six dragons gathered their troops, and the Bodhisattva opened the door!" Mei Niang sighed and said: "It's so magical. I thought there were some treasures hidden in this dungeon, but it turned out to be just these things."
Chu Huan glared at Mei Niang and said: "Without learning and skills, what can such a lost civilization be compared to?"All babies are precious. Then he said: "You said that the first person to discover the Buddhist cave was Tianlong of the Buddhist sect. Later, the eight tribes also came. If I am not wrong, it was that group of people who discovered the secret here. They were all at that time. The first-class wise men, after discovering the secrets here, were also worried that the place would be destroyed, so they did not let the slightest news to the outside world. "
"And after painstaking exploration, they knew how to open the dungeon, so they left behind the peacock pendant, the Selfless Sutra, and the six dragon relics." Bidaraza said: "These are the keys to opening the dungeon. , the ancestors of the Xin Sect put a lot of effort into this and passed it down from generation to generation."
Mei Niang said: "So this underground city is not a Buddhist cave at all. There is no trace of Buddhism here, so they do not believe in Buddhism. The ancestors of the Xin Sect discovered this place and called it a Buddhist cave. It became the Xin Sect. The Holy Land, Brother Huan, is this a dove occupying a magpie's nest?" Seeing several people waiting for him, he curled his lips, not wanting to continue talking.
Chu Huan suddenly smiled and said: "I am thinking now, what would Feng Hanxiao think if he saw everything here? He only thought that there were magical weapons and unparalleled martial arts books in the Buddhist cave, but when he saw These are just stone statues carved from stone. Do you regret that everything he has done carefully and deliberately is so ridiculous?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a scream. Everyone was startled. They followed the sound and looked over. Bidaraza had already said: "It's Concubine Gusa!"