Chapter 48: Under the Nine Lands (Part 2)

Indescribably majestic.
Indescribably magnificent.
The waves are endless, swallowing up the mountains and rivers. The water is turbid. The Yellow River is thousands of miles long and the sand is thousands of miles wide. The river surface is more than a thousand meters wide, which is wider than the widest river on earth - the Amazon River! It is twice as wide as the Yellow River, as if even the stars in the sky can fit into it.
It didn't surge much, but when people stood in front of it, they felt insignificant. They wanted to roar and vent the turbidity in their small hearts, but they were so shocked by the more than 1,000-meter-long river that they couldn't utter a single word. It was as if it washed away all their worries, sorrows, and all their emotions, and they could only feel like they were paying homage to it.
The stars hang low over the vast plain, and the moon rises over the flowing river.
This was the sound of rushing water they heard on the earth.
On both sides of the Yellow River, there are mountain walls that have been roughly polished to present a hillside posture. Countless Qin Dynasty houses, built entirely of stone, are crisscrossed between the mountain walls, hundreds of thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands!
Looking around, it's like a beehive, densely packed and endless!
What's even more spectacular is that... in every area, there are dozens or even hundreds of terracotta warriors! There are at least thousands of terracotta warriors in the underground palaces on both sides - and this is just the places you can see! Suddenly looking at it, under the shining lights, it seems as if I have returned to Afang in my dream, and my soul is lingering in Xianyang.
On both sides of the river, three or four-meter-high stone statues of evil spirits stand tall, one every 100 meters, like the guardian of the river. Each statue holds a lamp in its mouth, stretching to the end of the sight. The soul-stirring sense of ritual, the magnificence beyond human power, and the grandeur directly touch people's hearts.
Just in front of their exit was a flight of stairs. The stairs were paved entirely with stone slabs, and were perfect. The stairs were actually made up of imperial steps and hanging steps!
Huge bluestones formed what might be the largest staircase in human history. In the center was a carving... not of a dragon, but of a giant black death butterfly!
Lifelike, magnificent, and hidden in the auspicious clouds. Starting from the central imperial road steps, every hundred meters are separated by guardrails to form vertical steps. These steps are at the front, forming a protruding terrace hundreds of meters in size. The real road is on both sides of the steps, falling directly into the street below.
"Oh my god..." Even though Hong Si Niang had been prepared, she was still shocked at the moment. She stared blankly ahead, unable to utter a word.
This might be... the most magnificent discovery in the history of Chinese archaeology... As long as they can get out alive, their names will surely be passed down through the world... No, this is a magnificent relic that has never been seen in the history of world archaeology!
Papa! Jiang Xian slapped himself twice and finally calmed himself down. Just as he was about to speak, suddenly, a "wa wa" sound rang out throughout the underground palace.
Monkey crane!
Everyone's eyes flickered, and then they immediately retreated to the back of the passage. This sound finally brought them back to their senses. They stuck to the wall tightly, and no one spoke.
"Am I seeing things?" After a long while, Hong Si Niang trembled and said, "Is this... the Afang Palace in the world? Under the Qinling Mountains... is there something like this hidden?"
This will drive the whole of China crazy!
The Qin Dynasty underground palace has a magnificent history of more than 2,000 years and has been well preserved to this day. Its scale, design, and value... are in no way inferior to the Terracotta Warriors and the Great Wall!
"No, it's not the Afang Palace." Ling Xiaozi pinched his thigh hard, breathing rapidly, and said hoarsely: "I just took a quick look, and those underground palaces are very ordinary, as if they can just be used for living! Do you remember the two large warehouses we saw before?"
"More than ten meters high, a thousand meters in radius, and four or five floors! What are they equipped with? I think the answer lies here!"
Two large warehouses...this underground city is being built!
All materials were delivered here!
"You mean... these houses are occupied by civilians?" The corner of the Eight-Armed Arhat's eye twitched slightly: "How many civilians live here? Hundreds of thousands?"
Ling Xiaozi licked his lips and grinned, "It is indeed several hundred thousand, and Qin Shi Huang did not treat them as human beings. It took 800,000 people several decades to build the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and some experts have already pointed out that it would not take that long. Now, we finally know what they built!"
"Such a grand project took at least hundreds of thousands of people more than 20 years. It seems that... Qin Shihuang was secretly building the mausoleum at that time. This is what he really wanted to build! It is also the real core of the Wowokeng underground palace complex!"
"Is this the core?" asked Hong Si Niang.
"Without a doubt!" Ling Xiaozi answered decisively, his eyes like fire, blazing with energy: "All questions, all secrets, can be answered here! Do you see those statues that ward off evil spirits? To ward off evil spirits stepping on the Clouds of the Wangchuan River, to look at Penglai emerging from the Netherworld at night, these two sentences can be fulfilled at this moment!"
Knock, knock... At this moment, Jiang Xian knocked on the wall and said in a deep voice: "I'll tell you later, listen..."
Before he finished speaking, the monkeys and cranes started to cry out "Wow wow" one after another. After listening for a while, Jiang Xian looked at his watch: "Six twenty-seven."
"It will be the Monkey Crane's activity time soon." He suppressed his excitement and looked at everyone: "After they are completely up, we will search the underground palace immediately!"
The Eight-Armed Arhat frowned, "The underground palace is too big. We can't search it all in one day... No, we can't search it all in a whole week. There were hundreds of thousands of civilians living here, hundreds of thousands of houses. How can we search? What should we search for?"
"Mozi!" As soon as the words fell, Ling Xiaozi and Jiang Xian said in unison: "Find Mozi's room!"
Ling Xiaozi's eyes lit up: "When I saw Mo before, I thought of Mozi. Although the Mo family has declined, it has been passed down from generation to generation. Along the way, the person who fought with us a thousand years later was Mozi!"
"We are already proud enough to survive his trap! And he must be the master craftsman here!"
"The design of the entire underground palace is secret, he must know it! Even if he dies, he will definitely leave clues!"
Jiang Xian nodded: "That's right. As a master carpenter, he is a real official. His room must not be difficult to find."
The Eight-Armed Arhat nodded and suddenly asked, "What about the ape-crane?"
"They won't come in?"
"Stupid!" Hong Si Niang raised her orchid finger and poked the other person's forehead fiercely: "The monkey crane is three or four meters tall, and it won't come in no matter what. You idiot."
Jiang Xian and Ling Xiaozi turned their heads away silently. This dog food was a bit disgusting... and it was spread so suddenly...
As they waited in silence, the sounds of the monkeys and cranes became fewer and fewer. After thirty or forty minutes, there were only a dozen monkeys and cranes left. Just when they were itching to get going, suddenly, a huge roar suddenly resounded throughout the underground palace!
"Wow--!!"
This sound was far louder than any other monkey or crane! It was not far from them, as if... as if it came from the bottom of the stairs outside!
The sound was so loud that it even caused a wave of noise! ​​All the candles in the passage flickered at the same time, and for a moment, the light was bright and dark.
Boom! Before anyone could react, a loud landing sounded, just like... just like the Tyrannosaurus Rex stepped out of the fence in Jurassic Park. Jiang Xian took a deep breath, followed the wall and walked around the corner, then walked carefully to the entrance and looked out.
This glance made his pupils shrink suddenly and his heart skipped a beat.
Monkey and crane.
A huge ape-crane, completely different from anything they had ever seen!
The whole body was covered with white hair, which had already reached the ground. The skin was black, and several of the fangs were broken. And this crane was probably 20 meters tall! And it was squatting!
Next to it, those four or five-meter-high or one-story-high evil-repelling darts are nothing. This behemoth squatted by the river, anthropomorphically stretching out its hands to drink water. It can be clearly seen that zombie fish instantly attach to its arms, but it kills them like slapping mosquitoes, and then throws them into its mouth at will.
At this moment, Jiang Xian understood that the "Evil-Repelling Stepping on the Clouds and Forgetful River" was not referring to the Anti-Evil Statue, but to this extraordinary ape crane!
After just one glance, he immediately retracted his head, suppressed his pounding heart, and tiptoed back into the passage.
"What's wrong?" His face was not good, Ling Xiaozi immediately asked: "Don't tell me there is an ancestor of apes and cranes?"
Jiang Xian smiled bitterly and said, "Your crow's mouth is really sharp."
"Really?!" Ling Xiaozi's voice rose.
Jiang Xian nodded silently, then rubbed his face, took a breath and said solemnly: "Everyone, I remembered a lot of things."
"Why would the monkey cranes go so far to find food? This shouldn't happen. Now I guess they have to do this because... they have an ancestor to take care of. I forgot to mention that this ancestor is about twenty meters tall. Um... maybe seven or eight stories high."
"Wulian Tianzun!" Ling Xiaozi held onto the wall, almost fainting.
Jiang Xian stared into everyone's eyes and said word by word: "It is very likely that it will not go out to find food."
Its body was too big to fit into any of the entrances or exits, and the underground palace would never leave an entrance or exit for it.
No... maybe the people who raised the monkey crane didn't expect it to grow so big.
This is King Kong!
"So, we have to face it when we search?" Hong Si Niang asked in a trembling voice, feeling her mouth dry.
Jiang Xian nodded deeply, and then said: "Having lived in such a place for a long time, its eyesight may not be very good, but its hearing must be very good. As long as we are careful in the search, it will not be difficult to avoid its sight."
At this moment, all the sounds of monkeys and cranes disappeared.
The underground palace fell silent, just like the more than 760,000 nights it had experienced. Only the burning candlelight spoke of its loneliness and mystery.
The candlelight flickered on the ground, dragging out demonic figures. Jiang Xian hid in the shadows and observed for more than ten seconds. When the huge crane turned around and continued to move forward, it rolled out of the passage and immediately fell to the ground, raising dust all over the sky.
Swish... The Dragon Slaying Sword was already in his hand. He held his breath and looked around carefully. However, as soon as he turned his head, he was stunned again.
Plop... several other people flipped out together. Following Jiang Xian's gaze, everyone gasped.
Fall……
Two huge waterfalls!
The place where they appeared was the mountain between two waterfalls, which divided the waterfall into two parts. Each side was hundreds of meters in size!
Just below the waterfall, behind the mountain, there are two huge pools of water, each of which is hundreds of meters in size. At the edge of the pool, there are ditches that sink into the edge of the steps, forming new waterfalls. Stone bridges span across the top .
It's nothing.
What really shocked them was... there was a huge machine above the waterfall!
It is a hollow circle standing upright, like a Ferris wheel. It is a hundred meters high! Countless wave-shaped axes extend from the center of the circle. In each axis, there is a huge sphere. As the axis moves, the sphere slides down the center when the axis moves to the top, pushing the next axis forward. When the axis moves to the bottom, the sphere falls to the edge of the circle.
Ling Xiaozi and Jiang Xian looked at each other, and neither could hide their shock. They said in unison: "Perpetual motion machine?!"
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