Survival male god

Chapter 273 Not a natural cave
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Chen Jing wouldn't have believed that there was such a large underground cave entrance in the cracks in the valley of the Tibesti Plateau.

The fallen rocks blocked the entrance to the cave. Each of them was the size of a house. People standing on the rocks were like the embellishments on the cake.

After struggling to climb up and squeeze in through the gaps between the rocks, the scene inside suddenly became clear.

There is no doubt that this is a huge cave. The stone pillars in the cave are about five stories high. The winding passages on both sides are like the nostrils of some giant beast. They are dark and deep. The distance between the top and the ground is such that even Optimus Prime can stand at will. Passage.

On the stone walls on both sides, there are mottled marks caused by wet mud flowing down.

Chen Jing turned on the camera's searchlight and carefully observed every inch of the ground.

He found more shoe prints, including those from leather short boots and ordinary hiking shoes. As before, they were left by Gu Jingmo and his wife.

"Both girls are so courageous, they dare to go anywhere."

"The signal in this kind of underground cave is usually not very good. If the live broadcast is interrupted, please be patient!"

"I'm going in..."

The inside of the cave was much drier than expected, and Chen Jing could feel the air flowing rapidly.

This phenomenon shows that the space inside is large enough, but it is hard to say whether it is airtight or not.

The white light of the searchlight dispelled the darkness ahead. Chen Jing lowered the streaming bit rate and the output format from 4k60 frames to 1080p30 frames.

However, the expected lag still occurred. From the perspective of the audience, the picture became intermittent, and the screen blacked out from time to time, making the experience extremely poor.

Chen Jing also received a system prompt that the live broadcast signal was very unstable.

But what surprised him was that the system gave him two options. One was to have an intelligent core to convert the images and sounds into simple text descriptions and make voice broadcasts. The other was to directly abandon streaming data transmission and only record and output sounds. flow.

Both modes greatly reduce the upload bandwidth network signal requirements, at least compared to picture interruption, it is much better.

After thinking about it, Chen Jing decided to use the first mode directly.

This is equivalent to turning the system into a voice-over narrator, which is much more worry-free than explaining information to the audience at any time.

Chen Jing also explained it to the audience, and everyone's feedback was much better than expected.

["As long as it doesn't stutter, isn't it just like reading a real-time novel?"

“I feel like it’s more of a play on words!”

"Haha, that's interesting. I hope this artificial intelligence isn't too retarded."

"You are doing a very new kind of live broadcast."

"Okay, okay, my office party likes this. I can fish while working and don't have to stare at the screen."

"The picture is all based on our own imagination, right? It's really yours!"

"What should we do? It's already very difficult to be able to live broadcast under such circumstances. Don't ask for too much, everyone."

"Well, anyway, I can still watch the video in the future..."

"That's not necessarily true. What if something happens... Bah, my crow's mouth!"

"understand!"】

Seeing that most people said they could accept it, Chen Jing felt relieved and continued to explore.

In the passage at the front of the cave entrance, there is generally a lot of sand and dust, and the footprints are obvious.

It was probably blown in from the entrance, and over time, it spread a thick layer on the ground.

The further you go, the harder the ground becomes, there are more gravels, and you can see various gullies eroded by running water.

But what makes Chen Jing feel strange is that the overall topography of the cave does not go all the way down. Instead, the farther you go inside, the more it feels like it is going uphill.

This is not in line with the natural development law of eroded caves. All underground caves in the world, from the opening to the bottom of the cave, must become deeper and lower until they connect with underground rivers and even underground lakes.

If it gets higher and wider as you go inside, there is only one possibility.It is definitely not a naturally formed cave. There is a [-]% chance that it has been artificially modified.

It's just that the cave is pitch black, and coupled with years of oxidation and wind erosion, the surface of the stone walls has foamed and the skin has peeled off. There are no traces of manual excavation.

"what is this?"

Suddenly, Chen Jing stopped.

He saw faint white lines on the stone wall.

Taking two steps closer, under the illumination of the searchlight, he could tell that there was a huge picture on the wall.

Galloping cattle, sheep and horses, a hunter holding a spear, standing in front of a giraffe, with a round sun and some symbols of unknown meaning above.

This must be an ancient rock painting. The style is very rough and has a wild and primitive atmosphere.

As we go further in, there are more and more rock paintings.

"On the Sili Sazier Plateau in the middle of the Sahara Desert, thousands of meters of rock wall paintings have been discovered. They came from more than 5000 years ago."

"Including the later Tasili Mountains, a lot of rock paintings were also discovered, but the style of the paintings gradually became distorted."

"Because portraits of people wearing modern human clothes began to appear on it, and those people were holding radios, mobile phones and similar things."

"There's even a petroglyph called 'The Great Martian God' that shows humans dressed much like modern astronauts."

"So, people started to spread rumors that more than half of these rock paintings are modern artificial ginseng. However, the test results are very surprising."

"Those rock paintings are really the product of 5000 years ago."

"To this day, where did the rock paintings in the Sahara Desert come from? They are a true portrayal of a certain prototype of life."

"The people who lived here in the early days created improvised works. We don't know the answer."

"The rock paintings here are probably even older. Of course, these are just my guesses. No one knows what the actual situation is."

"But one thing I can be sure of is that this cave is likely to be a large human gathering place in ancient times."

"Human beings have lived in caves for a long time. This is not a rare thing. There are very famous cave cultural relics all over the world. Until the Middle Ages, there were still a large number of people living in caves."

"Maybe, I mean maybe, there are many more caves like this on the entire Tibesti Plateau. It is possible that they can be opened up internally to form residential communities."

"Think about it, including today's Sahara region, there are still people living in earthen caves and natural stone houses. Most of the 7000-year-old ancient Egyptian buildings were also built with stones."

"The most lacking thing in the desert is wood. Even if there are oases, those plants are not suitable for building shelters. It is very reasonable for ancient humans to live in caves."

"The problem is that I am not an archaeological expert, and I don't have the sophisticated instruments at hand to detect the age of the cave's formation and the traces of later artificial excavation."

"The only thing I can do is to find Jingmo and the others as soon as possible!"

Chen Jing moved his eyes away from the cave wall and walked for about 10 minutes. The inside of the passage suddenly became brighter.

Looking up, the light shines through the high gaps, which is a good sign.

It showed that the inside of the cave was not very far from the surface, but some subtle noises reached his ears and attracted Chen Jing's attention.

The searchlight swung over the corner of the cave. At a sudden glance, Chen Jingshen took a breath and felt his scalp numb.

"Hi~"

"Why are there so many scorpions in this place? They are all Israeli golden scorpions. Are they the same ones from before?"

Chen Jing didn't have time to think about it, because the Scorpions also discovered his uninvited guest.

They all turned around and ran towards him.

(End of this chapter)