[Grave Raiders Notes bg] Lost Notes 2: Heavy Fate

"But, I remember, don't they have hands? At the murals before, they could cut their hands and bleed and hang corpses." Nan Xing said in surprise.

Zhang Qiling stared at the front without saying a word.

Nan Xing didn't ask any more questions, and after waiting for a while, the white figures stopped, and then stretched out several extremely thin arms from his plain body.At the riverside of the human body murals, because the light was dark and far away, I didn't notice that their arms didn't have palms.

Only then did Zhang Qiling whisper into Nan Xing's ear, "This is not their arms, but a smaller snake wrapped around them."

Nan Xing immediately looked towards those "arms", at this moment, those "arms" suddenly got out from the plain onyx, jumped to the ground, and crawled back into the water along the ground like lightning.Nan Xing was surprised, and suddenly realized something, took a breath and asked: "Could it be that they are similar to insects living in groups, and have a clear social division of labor?"

"En." Zhang Qiling nodded, and then glanced in the direction of the white snakes, "They have a special way of communicating information within the group, and we should not move until these white snakes leave."

"Understood, so as not to overwhelm the snake." Nan Xing carefully sat down beside him, "So, these white human-faced snakes and those small snakes are like worker bees among bees. They work together and can only dispose of corpses." This kind of work, the others will not. And the giant red human-faced snake is equivalent to the queen bee. But because they all reproduce asexually, they don’t need the social division of labor corresponding to the drones.”

Zhang Qiling nodded in affirmation.

Although Nan Xing understood the ins and outs, he was still a little surprised: "I have lived underground for a long time, without natural enemies, and the evolution rate is ridiculously slow. The social division of labor is still at the stage of food and clothing, and even needs such as teeth picking have to rely on external forces—"

The white human-faced snake on the opposite side moved again, and Nan Xing's voice stopped abruptly.All the little white snakes in the water crawled back at this moment, skillfully wrapped around the plain onyx on the body of the white human-faced snake.

After the white human-faced snake left, Zhang Qiling and Nan Xing returned to the palace gate on the cliff along the original road.

In order to avoid the attack of the red human-faced snake, Zhang Yuetong and the others all hid in the corner of the hanging stairway. When Zhang Qiling and Nan Xing came back, they came out to join them.

A group of people stood at the entrance of the temple that had been smashed open by the human-faced snake. There were luminous butterflies inhabiting it, and the top was inlaid with luminous stones, so they could vaguely see the situation inside the door, but further down, it was still dark and gloomy.

Zhang Qiling went in with a flashlight and turned around, then nodded at the others, indicating that he could go in.

Everyone put on their equipment and entered the gate of the palace. Nan Xing's flashlight stopped in mid-air—the inside was even bigger than what he saw from the outside just now, and it seemed to be thousands of meters wide.

The dome is inlaid with large and small luminous stones, and yellow-green, light blue, and orange-red fluorescent colors alternately flash, like a sea of ​​stars. In this quiet and strange underground space, it looks even more eerie.

In the middle of the front is a hall in the hall, and there are two side halls in the east and west directions in front of the hall.The platform in front of the main hall is surrounded by white marble railings, on which are placed bronze tripods, bronze cranes, and bronze deer, all in pairs, which conforms to the normal system of mausoleum buildings.

Zhang Yuetong asked from the side: "Patriarch, are we still going in these side halls?"

Zhang Qiling shook his head, Nan Xing followed his footsteps and went around, while working part-time as his simultaneous interpreter, he explained to Zhang Yuetong: "Our purpose is the main tomb. Put key funerary objects, we are not here for archaeology, so we don't need to waste time inside."

After bypassing the side hall, there is a straight Shinto path, with Qiao Song on both sides of the Shinto path, but they have all dried up, and they must have been planted in the way of the ground Shinto in the traditional mausoleum system when the mausoleum was built.

There are three glazed flower gates left on the Shinto, and further north is Fangcheng Minglou.

High walls were built on both sides of Minglou, and only a hole was left at the base of Minglou.

Entering from the cave door, it is a corridor that goes up obliquely. At the end, it divides into two staircases, leading to the Minglou.

There is a huge tombstone one floor high in the middle of Minglou. Nan Xing was about to confirm the identity of the owner of the tomb, but when he came to the tombstone, he found that the tombstone was blank, and only a unicorn with distinct scales was carved on the head of the tombstone.

"It's a unicorn again." Zhang Yuetong blurted out on a whim, "Could it be the tomb of the Zhang family? Did we fall on our own?"

Zhang Haiyin couldn't help popularizing Zhang's family history, "Sister Yuetong, our Zhang family will not build mausoleums outside, and have been buried in groups in ancient buildings throughout the ages."

"There are no absolutes in everything, we have to use a dialectical method to look at the problem." Zhang Yuetong raised his eyebrows, "Sometimes the most unlikely assumptions are actually the truth, or let's make a bet, is there something buried in it?" Zhang family."

Zhang Haiyin shook her head solemnly, "No."

"I haven't said the bet yet, so you don't want it."

"Sister Yuetong, I'm doing it for your own good. If you lose then, it will be too embarrassing in front of the patriarch and his wife." After Zhang Haiyin finished speaking earnestly, she followed Nanxing and Zhang Qiling to the other direction of Minglou without looking back. go down.

Zhang Yuetong groaned for a moment, then came to his senses, and chased after him, "Who says I will definitely lose, don't rush to run, I will have a good fight with you this time."

Coming down from the Ming Tower is a courtyard of about [-] square meters. In the middle of the courtyard is a Shinto path leading directly to the opposite side of the courtyard, and then there is a sunken staircase. The end of the staircase is blocked by a glazed screen wall.

"This is Crescent City." Nan Xing looked at the glazed screen wall opposite, and said slowly, "Behind the glazed screen wall is the main tomb."

It is rare for Zhang Yuetong to be on the same channel as Nan Xing, "Crescent City? This seems to be a unique structure of Qing Dynasty mausoleums."

Nan Xing nodded, "Well, it was only built in the Qing Dynasty."

Zhang Yuetong: "Then that's not right... That snake with a human face outside has been practicing for at least a thousand years."

At this time, Zhang Qiling's voice interrupted the discussion between the two, "This place is most likely the Hidden Dragon Cave."

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Today, I was so angry with stacking paper. Shannuan just got the black fish last week. I thought that I could return to the original intention of collecting beautiful clothes in a Buddhist way. As a result, stacking paper made me feel compelled by today’s event. Now I just want to retire. , Tired of cursing.