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Chapter 196 Weird Jade Eyes

According to the direction pointed by the eye on the stone tower, the group finally found the entrance to the temple.

The entrance is very hidden, located on a slope and cannot be seen without climbing up.

"I found it, I finally found it. This is the temple. This is the temple of Jingjue Kingdom..."

Professor Chen became excited again.

Hao Aiguo's eyes were shining, his face flushed with excitement, and he was shining his flashlight around.

"Huh? Why are the pillars here all black? They look eerie."

"These stone pillars should be made of black stone from Cishan. These statues are lifelike, which shows that the craftsmen of that time were very skilled..."

"and many more!"

Ding Xiu suddenly shouted.

"What's wrong?" Hu Bayi asked quickly.

"You guys should exit the hall first."

"What's wrong, Comrade Xiao Ding?" Professor Chen asked anxiously.

"Master Ding, what did you find again?" Fatty Wang couldn't help but stepped forward and asked.

"There are a lot of black snakes here..."

"blacksnake?"

Everyone was startled.

"That's right, you go up, I have my own way to deal with it..."

Ding Xiu rushed everyone up. He didn't need their help below, as that would only make him unable to let go.

In desperation, Professor Chen and his party had to return to the entrance of the temple.

As soon as they went up, they heard a burst of fierce movement below, as well as a dazzling fire...

"It's strange, I remember he didn't burn anything solid?" Shirley Yang muttered to herself.

The fat man said: "Anyway, I think Mr. Ding is quite awesome."

Hu Bayi echoed: "Well, indeed, there are many things about him that we cannot understand, especially his strength."

Hao Aiguo said with rare humor: "Just like our archeology, it is full of puzzles..."

Sa Di Peng wondered: "Brother Ding is not an alien, right?"

"Xiao Sa!" Professor Chen said earnestly: "It's a good thing to have ideas, but don't blame everything on aliens..."

In fact, Sa Di Peng was really wrong this time. Upon closer inspection, Ding Xiu can really be called an alien. After all, he traveled to this world.

Not long after, Ding Xiu's voice came from below: "Okay, everyone, come down."

"Quick, get down!"

Hu Bayi rushed down first.

When they returned to the hall, they could clearly feel that there was still a burning aura left in the hall.

On the ground, you can see the charred corpses of some black snakes scattered here and there.

In fact, what they saw was only a very small part. If they knew that there were tens of thousands of black snakes in it, they would probably be so frightened that they could not speak.

"Old Ding, I, Fatty Wang, have never served many people in my life. Lao Hu is one of them, and you are one..."

Fatty Wang began to sigh with emotion again.

After a while, Professor Chen and others began to inspect the hall excitedly.

There are many stone pillars and stone statues in the temple, with different shapes and lifelike shapes.

"Strange, why are these statues different?" Ye Yixin couldn't help but say.

Professor Chen nodded: "Well, that's true. Generally speaking, most temples are guarded by ghosts and gods, but this temple is completely different. There is an obvious hierarchical order. I think it may be a spiritual symbol. "

Hearing what he said, Chu Jian suddenly said: "Yes, yes, I remember when we first came in, the statues were all livestock such as chickens and dogs, but after we walked onto the second stage, they were all human figures. …”

"Well, Xiao Chu is right!" Professor Chen nodded happily: "This is obviously a sorting from low to high, from cheap to expensive.

The first row is livestock, and the second row is ordinary people. Their status is only slightly higher than that of livestock, and they probably represent slaves. Next, are these giant-eyed human figures in front of us..."

"Professor Chen, isn't this the giant-eyed figure we saw at Xiye Trail?"

"That's right, almost exactly the same!" Professor Chen nodded: "This is enough to show that the status of giant-eyed figures is very high in the ancient Western Regions.

And there is another detail. The first station we just entered had a lot of statues, that is, the statues of livestock. The second station had significantly fewer statues, and the one we are standing on now has even fewer statues, only eight statues.

Based on this arrangement, I guess that the one above will have fewer statues and a higher status. "

So, the group continued to climb the steps and arrived at a higher platform.

This is also a characteristic of this temple. When you first enter the temple, the terrain is the lowest. The further you go inside, the higher the terrain becomes.

Sure enough, when the group came to the next platform, there were only two statues on it, one on the left and one on the right, like gatekeepers.

"Look at this statue...does it look like those black snakes underneath?"

The fat man said with a surprised look on his face.

"It's really..." Hu Bayi also looked surprised.

The two statues have the same appearance. The upper body looks like a general, wearing armor, a shield in his left hand, and a sword in his right hand.

But the lower body has a snake's tail, which looks almost the same as the tails of those weird black snakes before.

In other words, this statue is a half-human, half-snake monster.

"This is so weird..." Shirley Yang couldn't help but frowned.

"Look, this monster has an eye on its forehead."

"It really is."

"It seems that this Jingjue country really worships eyes. If you put it this way, even if the legend about Queen Jingjue's eyes is exaggerated, her eyes must have abilities beyond ordinary people."

"It seems that the top one is the core of the temple..."

Professor Chen subconsciously glanced ahead.

There was a deep darkness there, giving off a mysterious aura.

So, everyone set foot on the steps again with anticipation and excitement.

Sure enough, this is the last one, facing a stone wall, which means that this is the end of the temple, which is equivalent to the throne of the palace hall.

However, the strange thing is that except for two stone piers, there is nothing here.

"What's going on? There's nothing here? Could it be that when Jingjue Kingdom was destroyed, this hall hadn't been repaired yet?"

"Impossible!" Professor Chen immediately denied: "Judging from the situation below, this hall was carefully built. It is impossible to say that it was only half completed."

At this time, Hu Bayi suddenly said: "I have an idea..."

"Tell me about it!" Professor Chen looked quite interested.

"I wonder, does this represent the space of imaginary numbers?"

"Imaginary number space?" The fat man looked surprised: "Old Hu, why do you believe in this stuff?"

Hu Bayi smiled and said: "This is not a question of belief or not, I am also inspired by everyone.

Since it is said that Queen Jingjue's eyes can make people disappear, and Miss Yang also said that it does not really disappear, but transports people to an unknown space, which we can understand as an imaginary number space.

If this is the case, then in the Jingjue Kingdom, is the imaginary space the supreme power they worship? "

"Yes, with the development of science today, there are still many unknown areas, and there are still many things that science cannot explain and that are difficult for people to understand..."

"There's something else over there."

Ding Xiu suddenly raised his hand.

Hu Bayi followed the pointing and shined a light with his flashlight... It was true.

At first they thought the one they were standing on was the last one, but after taking a look at it, they discovered that it was not. There was a small round platform on top.

But the strange thing is that none of them noticed it before.Now that I have seen it clearly, I understand that the small round platform is the core of the hall.

There was a stone platform about one meter high, and on the stone platform, there was an eyeball the size of a bowl.

Although it was not a real eyeball, it looked like some kind of rare jade, but it looked a bit creepy, as if there was a real eyeball on it looking at everyone.

The fat man ran up, shone his flashlight on the eyeball, and said in a trembling voice, "Is this jade?"

Professor Chen stepped forward and said: "It must be, it is completely natural, and it is so big, it is simply a rare treasure, a priceless treasure..."

Upon hearing this, Fatty became even more excited.

"Teacher, there are words on it."

Hao Aiguo couldn't help but look at the stone platform in surprise.

Sure enough, there were some strange words carved around the stone platform, which were exactly the same as the words found in the nine-story demon tower.

"This is the Ghost Cave Text... Now we can finally confirm that this is the temple of the Jingjue Kingdom. Moreover, from all indications, the totem they worship is the eyes. This is an important step in our research on the culture of the ancient Western Regions. breakthrough……"

While Professor Chen was explaining eloquently, Shirley Yang couldn't help but stepped forward to take a look. She suddenly discovered that the eye-shaped jade ball had a heptagonal groove on it.

"Professor Chen, look quickly."

Shirley Yang couldn't help but shout.

Professor Chen stepped forward and asked, "Shirley, what did you find?"

"Professor Chen, look..." Shirley Yang pointed to the groove.

"Huh? This..." Professor Chen was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but glance at the fat man.

The fat man looked guilty: "What are you looking at me for? I... I just touched it out of curiosity..."

Professor Chen said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Wang, can I borrow your jade pendant?"

"Jade pendant?" The fat man was also stunned, and then he glanced at the jade stone. An idea flashed in his mind, and he hurriedly took off the jade he was wearing, and moved in front of the jade stone to compare.

"Old Hu, look!" The fat man looked surprised.

"It's strange, the jade in Fatty's jade pendant looks almost the same as this jade..."

Shirley Yang said: "It's not almost, but exactly the same. If nothing else, Fatty's jade was chiseled from this stone."

"Yes, yes, the shape of the groove looks the same, fat man, give me the jade!"

Hu Bayi couldn't help but snatched the jade from the fat man's hand, and then carefully placed it towards the groove.

The groove is not completely hollow. There is a stone core with three grooves in the middle. The fat man's jade pendant is also hollow. Both the outside and the hollow shape correspond to the shape of the groove.

Hu Bayi put it in the right direction... the jade pendant slid all the way to the bottom and fit tightly.

"Amazing!" The fat man looked surprised.

He wasn't worried at all that he wouldn't be able to get the jade pendant back. If he couldn't get it back, he wouldn't be polite. The whole piece of jade would be his.

Of course, this is just his personal opinion.

"Crack!"

"Boom boom boom..."

When the jade pendant and the jade stone came together, there was a sudden rumble, as if some mechanism had been activated.

"Everyone be careful!"

"Go back!"

The group of people took a few steps back and stared nervously at the small stone platform.

After a while, the movement disappeared, and they were surrounded again.

"It's so amazing...Xiao Wang, can you tell me more about your experience with this jade pendant?"

Fatty Wang got excited again: "I remember back then, when I was in Niya Oasis..."

"Fat man, tell the truth!" Hu Bayi glared at Fatty Wang.

Fatty Wang looked embarrassed: "Yes...it was my dad who suppressed bandits in Niya Oasis..."

This guy finally told the truth for once.

After some research, Hu Bayi determined that this small platform was a trap, and that the trap had been opened, but he still needed to continue looking for the trap in order to find the secret door.

Based on his experience, there is usually a secret door or secret passage hidden behind such a mechanism.

After some fumbling, the mechanism finally opened.

Sure enough, an underground passage appeared in the palace.

Professor Hao was very excited: "Great, teacher, we are getting closer to the truth."

"Yes..." Professor Chen looked pleased: "Perhaps, this time we can really solve an eternal mystery..."

Next, one by one, the group carefully stepped onto the steps of the underground passage.

Below is another long passage.

However, there were no mechanisms in this passage, and the group of people passed through the passage smoothly.

The sound of water came, which made people feel refreshed!
"The underground river, great, there really is an underground river here."

After walking out of the passage, sure enough, an underground river appeared in front of everyone.

This underground river looks similar to the underground river discovered in Kunlun Mountain last time, except that the water is shallower and the stones at the bottom of the river can still be seen.

"Hahaha, great. This time I have enough drinking water and can take a shower..." The fat man couldn't help laughing.

"Everyone should be careful and don't forget last time..."

When Hu Bayi said this, Professor Chen and others couldn't help but look shocked and quickly stopped.

Because they suddenly remembered the Overlord Salamander they met last time.

"I'd better go take a look first, Fatty, and take care of everyone."

Hu Bayi still has a sense of responsibility and dares to be at the forefront at any time.

He held the gun and walked forward for a while, carefully looking at his surroundings.

"Lao Hu, be careful..."

At this time, Ding Xiu stepped forward and glanced to the right.

There is only one section of the underground river, about 30 meters long, and there are mountains on both sides. The upper and lower reaches of the underground river are deep and dark caves.

The direction Ding Xiu was looking at was the cave on the right.

"Old Ding, what did you find again?" Hu Ba asked in a low voice.

Now, he has great trust in Ding Xiu. As long as Ding Xiu shows vigilance, he will know that something bad will happen.

"Professor Chen, please return to the passage immediately."

Ding Xiu turned his head and said something.

At this time, Fatty and Shirley Yang also felt something was wrong and quickly took out their guns and looked around.

"Quick, let's go back."

Professor Chen didn't ask any more questions and quickly greeted Hao Aiguo and others.

Because he knew that if they stayed, not only would they be unable to help, but they would also cause trouble for Ding Xiu, Hu Bayi and the others.

"Old Ding, are there any weird things?"

Fatty Wang ran to Ding Xiu and asked in a low voice while looking around.

"Anyway, be careful and spread out..."

Ding Xiu raised his hand to signal.

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(End of this chapter)