Chapter 75 Statue

However, at the same time, I felt a little surprised that there were artificially carved stone statues in the depths of the cave. In this way, it is also very likely to be a relic of ancient civilization.

I don't know much about the culture of the Western Regions. In the era when the Silk Road flourished, the composition of the Western Regions was very complicated. In history, the "36 countries of the Western Regions" did not actually refer to only 36 countries, but to countless small countries in the Western Regions. Some countries, such as the ancient countries, are semi-legendary. Semi-real existence, no one can tell whether it exists or not.

Although Lop Nur's geographical location is already in the south, there have been countless Western countries here that have established regimes. It is hard for me to say which country shaped the statue under the ground.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go and have a look first.

*I have more experience in field investigation than I do. I use his sharpened tree stick to poke the dead leaves on the ground first, and then lead me forward, so as to prevent them from falling into the smoke bubble.

Big smoke bubbles are in Northeast China. There are many forests in Northeast China. Dead leaves accumulate in the primitive forest for a long time. When it rains, they will become wet. The wet leaves will rot and ferment, forming flammable biogas in the leaves. The expanding gas will form a hole in the leaves. Once people step on it, they will fall into it. Like swamps, it is difficult for no one to help them get out of trouble, and many forest explorers disappear and die like this.

We slowly moved to the side of the statue, * put the flashlight in our mouth, and then used a tree stick to pick out the fallen leaves on the statue.

Because the light of the torch was relatively weak, our eyes focused on the bright spot illuminated by the flashlight. The stone carving body was covered with thick green moss plants, reflecting dazzling green under the light of the flashlight.

With the movement of the light spot, I gradually saw clearly that this was actually a rough and primitive figure.

I don't know why the statue collapsed here. After years of corrosion, the specific shape has not been seen clearly, and half of the body has been buried under the leaves.

However, I can still see from the ancient sculpture process that it is a human arm exposed on the leaf layer.

This character does not move too exaggeratedly. His left hand is very softly against the outside of his thighs, as if he were asleep, giving people a sense of peace.

With the light of the flashlight in my hand, I saw that the face of the stone statue was very weathered, but I could faintly see the eyes outlined by two lines and a soft nose. In the back of the statue, I saw the long hair of the shawl, so that the stone statue should depict a woman.

Seeing this, I have to admire the ancients' carving skills and simple lines. Even if the weathering is so serious, it can still give people a natural and soft beauty. I believe that the civilization that can carve this kind of statue must be a very developed civilization.

* Obviously, I feel the same way. As a captain, he should have seen a lot of cultural relics, but at this moment he also nodded slightly.

Although we didn't get any valuable information from this statue, we can't even see the costume of the statue. We don't know whether this is an oriental or a Westerner.

But because of its artistic sense, we still decided to clean up the part buried under the leaves.

* Very sharp, take off the engineering shovel from the back waist, squat down, and carefully clean up the leaves.

But soon, I heard the engineering shovel and stone hitting.

* frowned and whispered, "No, this direction should not touch the body part of the statue."

I also squatted down curiously and whispered, "Continue to dig..."

* nodded and cleaned up the surrounding leaves. We saw a conical stone stretching out from the abdomen of the statue, about ten centimeters.

We thought it was a decoration on the statue, but we continued to dig aside and found that more conical objects grew out of the abdomen.

* I buried my head and continued to dig, but at this moment, my cold sweat has flowed down from my forehead and slowly said, "Don't dig anymore. I think I know what's going on..."

* was stunned for a moment and looked back at me with a puzzled expression.

I swallowed my saliva with difficulty, organized the language and said, "I think this sculpture is showing the birth of those thorny monsters..."

* Hearing this, he put down the shovel and stood up and scolded, "He the mother, this... This is too evil. Do you mean that that kind of thorny monster was also born from the mother's womb?"

I nodded and said, "I'm afraid..."

* frowned and didn't know what to say. Obviously, he was very shocked.

I also stood still and looked at the statue in front of me. The soft lines, the slightly closed eyes, and the natural soft expression became twisted and strange, with a creepy strange feeling.

* said to me, "Why is this woman's expression still so peaceful when she gave birth to such a thing?"

I shook my head and said, "Then I don't know."

* looked at the statue in front of him in disgust, bent down and picked up the shovel on the ground and said, "Let's go. The more you look at it, the more evil it becomes..."

I glanced at the statue and nodded in agreement.

* Then he opened the road ahead with a torch, bypassed the statue, and continued to move forward.

After a few steps, * pointed to the ground and said, "Look here..."

I looked at the place he pointed to and saw that the leaves on the ground had been trampled on, and some of them even turned over.

* He said to me, "Boss Wu probably walked from here."

I looked at the traces on the ground and felt a little strange, but I couldn't grasp what was strange, so I had to silently follow * to continue to move forward.

Fortunately, the leaves on the ground were only wet, but not too thick. * and I quickly got into the dense forest again.

Looking at the tall and lush trees around me, I finally couldn't help asking *: "I said *, you think there is neither sunshine nor sufficient soil nutrients here. How do these trees grow so big? I think these trees are at least decades old.

* looked back at me with a surprised expression on his face and said, "I said you are not a paleontologist. I'm also curious about how you asked me this question."

I coughed twice and said, "Well, after all, I just graduated. Of course, my field experience is not as rich as yours... specializing in underground work."

* He shrugged his shoulders and didn't know if he was laughing, and then said, "In my opinion, this may be the legendary place to raise corpses. The vein contains a lot of yin qi, which can even feed the dead, not to mention these trees..."

I laughed secretly, and it's not easy to expose him. For the time being, I don't doubt whether there is such a place in the world where the corpse is raised. Even if there is a place where the yin is extremely heavy, everything will die, and there is no sunlight underground. Plants can't perform photosynthesis. Even if they can survive, there will be no chlorophyll cells and plants. The leaves will turn yellow.

Is it the mysterious red light ball we saw before that provides sunlight to plants? But sunlight is not artificial. I haven't heard of any artificial light that allows plants to perform photosynthesis.

In this case, there is only one possibility, that is, the technological level of this ancient civilization has surpassed modern times and can use artificial light sources to carry out the necessary photosynthesis of plants.

That is impossible. Even the most developed Mayan civilization in ancient times cannot surpass modern technology.

Just as I was puzzled, the trees in front of me gradually became sparse, and we could see that the shadow of some buildings lurked in the darkness not far away.

* and I accelerated our pace and walked towards the shadow of the building.

Soon, we came to a huge broken wall, and I guessed that this might be an architectural complex of the ancient civilization.

I stood under a broken wall more than five meters high, * standing behind me with a torch. The firelight showed a vague shadow on the wall, and I felt so small.