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Eggplant wanted to continue asking, but Ji Han explained:

"Then let's tell the truth. In fact, our ancestors were conscripted into it, so this time, on the one hand, we came here for sightseeing, and on the other hand, we wanted to pay homage to the members of the clan."

Song Qian, Chen Ke, and Qiezi also reacted quickly, and they all nodded in agreement.

But in my heart, I was secretly surprised that Ji Han didn't even draft his words, and he acted so fucking naturally.

The Taoist priest in purple looked at the large bag of dried pork he had just eaten, and he really believed that the four of them had brought enough dry food.

What's more ruthless than myself is that they actually came to this wilderness on foot without hesitation. Apart from what they just said, it seems that they can't think of any other reasons.

It can't be the same as yourself, right?

But no matter what, let them leave as soon as possible, otherwise they will be involved in their own disputes, and I am afraid that none of these four little friends will live.

Immediately replied:

"So that's the case. Since this is the case, you should leave as soon as possible after the memorial ceremony, so the housekeeping skills are not so good, but if you stay here until the evening, there must be a bloody disaster."

Ji Han and the others listened to this guy's words of urging everyone to leave, and their ears almost felt cocoons.

But I have to admit that what others said is indeed accurate, fortunately, Ji Han replied along:

"Don't worry, we will definitely not stay here too much, and leave in a bullock cart after the worship.

But would you also give us an introduction to what is going on inside?It also saves us from wandering around by ourselves. "

Hearing this, the Taoist priest in purple finally breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"Forget it, just take it as my reward for spending money from a few fellow Taoists."

At this time, the bullock cart had already pulled the crowd to the outside of Stone City, Ji Han and the others got out of the cart and followed the purple-clothed Taoist priest through the broken city gate and entered.

As expected, the situation here is the same as shown in the space-time compass. The entire city is basically built with simple local stone materials, and there are almost no other buildings except for the simple turrets built on the four corners.

Chen Ke asked:

"I still don't understand. How can such a stone city be defended? Is there any luggage in it?"

The Taoist priest in purple explained:

"This city is only to prevent the enemy from invading the place where they live. I think what those soldiers and warriors really guarded should be the ridge not far in front. That is the real natural pass."

Eggplant looked around, and the stone city was empty except for a simple building in the center.

"Although the supplies are tight, the buildings here are too simple, so they won't all sleep in the open space, right?"

The Taoist priest in purple pointed to the central inner building:

"There's a huge hole in there, and if I'm not wrong, they basically live under it."

Hearing this, the four of them were a little shocked.

Ji Hanxin said that although considering that building a residence in such a place is too labor-intensive and does not keep warm, it may be that the construction of the residence going down from here will only have a larger amount of work, how could they do it?

What's more, they didn't settle down here, but they needed to perform guarding tasks, and they all lived underground. They came in and out through such a hole, and there was really an incoming enemy, and there was no possibility of dispatching together.

"That's unlikely, is it?"

"I don't know the details. I also guessed this way because I found that there were many soldiers' bones at the bottom of the pit."

At this time, when I looked up, I could see the ridge not far away like a Great Wall towering outside, blocking all the scenery behind and forming a natural barrier.

And in the middle of the ridge, there still stands a simple building. It can be basically confirmed through the space-time compass before that it should be an extremely simple Taoist-like building.

Chen Ke raised his hand and asked:

"Fellow Daoist, do you know who built the Taoist temple on the ridge, and what is its origin?"

The Taoist priest in purple was also a little shocked when he heard Chen Ke's inquiry:

"Good eyesight, you can see that it is a Taoist temple from such a distance, presumably the masters in our Taoist temple will be very happy if they know, that Taoist temple was built by our ancestors who traveled here.

They were also touched by what happened here, and decided to build this simple Taoist temple to pay homage to the undead here, but that was all too many years ago, and now the Taoist temple is almost dilapidated. "

Song Qian was puzzled and said:

"Since it is a sacrifice, why is it built in such a dangerous place? Isn't it good to build it directly in this stone city?"

The Taoist priest in purple shook his head and said:

"I'm not sure about this. Maybe the master at that time wanted to practice hard work. In fact, I only came here twice before."

The four of them followed the Taoist priest in purple to the building in the middle of the stone city. Sure enough, as he said, the building was a simple tunnel entrance, and the steps paved with gravel led directly to the dark underground.

"For the sacrifice, here is enough. I still have some things to deal with, so I won't waste your time."

Ji Han then asked:

"Wait a minute, Fellow Daoist, is there any danger in going down here? I don't want to see the bones of my ancestors before paying homage."

The Taoist priest in purple looked back at the four of them. The four of them were dressed in nondescript clothes. They really didn't look like they came out of some serious Taoist temple, but there was no trace of fear or guilty conscience on their faces. Judging from their own experience, it shouldn't be What grave robbers.

Then he replied:

"Go down the steps, and soon you will see a flat ground, there should be a lot of bones on it, it is enough to worship there.

However, I still advise several fellow Taoists not to go further into the deep place, and not to have any other ideas, otherwise there will be no entry and no exit from this place. "

Song Qian, Chen Ke and Qiezi followed Ji Han with expressions of "you can rest assured".

Seeing that the Taoist was about to leave, Song Qian finally asked:

"Fellow Daoist, how do you call me yet?"

Although there is basically only one-time fate for the people you meet after traveling back, but meeting is fate.

The Taoist priest in purple sighed and shook his head, saying:

"If I can come back alive, I will definitely catch up with you, tell you my name, and make friends with a few of you, but now is really not the time, four friends, let's just say goodbye."

As he said that, he stepped forward and twisted his waist to lightly step on the wall inside the stone city, and turned out of the city with an extremely light figure.

Seeing that the fellow daoists had finally left, Ji Han and the others turned around and took out their respective devices in an extremely tacit understanding.

"Down the hole."

Chapter 818 Underground Cave

Seeing the Taoist priest in purple leave, Ji Han took out the space-time compass from his bag.

Sure enough, the direction pointed by the compass happened to be this pothole in Stone City.

Chen Ke first used two lighting sticks towards Hei Youyou's cave entrance, but because of the long stairs below, they stopped before illuminating too far.

The four began to take out the lighting equipment needed for exploration from their backpacks.

Chen Ke shone down with a flashlight, but apart from the long steps extending down into the darkness, he couldn't see anything else at all.

"Brother Ji, do you think those soldiers would really live in this kind of cave?"

Ji Han put his backpack back on his back and shook his head, saying:

"To be honest, I don't really believe it. It's really inconvenient to get in and out of this hole, and just now the fellow Taoist deduced that this might be the residence of those soldiers because of the many bones below. Probably where they buried their bodies."

Because they are far away at the border of the Western Regions, even those killed in battle cannot be returned in horse leather shrouds, so they were buried in such a deep pit.

However, this idea does not seem to be valid, because if it is only based on the bones, it seems that there is no need to dig so deep, and now we can only find out by going down and looking.

Song Qian asked:

"Brother Han, do you think that little Daoist coming here just now has anything to do with us?"

"I'm afraid it's just a coincidence. I don't understand why he came to such a remote place, but I can't say why. I don't seem to have any resistance to the little Daoist just now. I feel like old friends at first sight. He shouldn't be a bad person."

Eggplant joked:

"It really doesn't look like a bad guy, but it's a big appetite. After chatting for a while, Tian Sheng ate two large bags of dried pork."

Song Qian worried:

"Just listening to his last words, I feel a little worried. He seems to be going to do something dangerous."

Eggplant waved his hand and said:

"Let's take care of our own tasks first. Now we don't have the energy to take care of others. If we come back alive, I used to say it when I was looking for fun. It's not a problem."

Ji Han stopped Eggplant before he was ready to drive:

"Let's take a look at the matter first. If there is a real destiny, maybe we can see him after finishing the task. Let's go."

Song Qian was the first to walk down the steps at the entrance of the cave, followed by Ji Han and Chen Ke, and finally Eggplant.

The four of them already had some experience in this kind of dark and confined space. There were no falling rocks on the stone steps under their feet. It seemed that the geological environment here was relatively stable.

It can be clearly felt that the temperature inside the cave is much higher than outside.

Except that the steps under the feet were paved with gravel, the rock walls on both sides were excavated very neatly, and artificial traces could be vaguely seen.

Chen Ke judged:

"Brother Ji, we may have a problem with the judgment of this cave. Although the building at the entrance of the cave and the steps under our feet were built later, the stone wall below seems to have been dug a long time ago."

While carefully watching behind him, Eggplant followed slowly and said:

"speak English."

"That is to say, the builders of this cave and the builders of the Stone City outside may not be the same group of people, and the latter just used the space here."

Ji Han also thought of this point, after all, digging such a large underground space at that time was still very labor-intensive and materially resource-intensive.

For the remnants of the Tang Dynasty who are sticking to the Western Regions, it is obviously impossible.

And excavating such a huge underground space in this kind of place is definitely not meaningless. The only possibility I can think of seems to be: tombs or underground civilization sites.

Eggplant reminded while complaining:

"Grass, it's this kind of place again, isn't it right? Didn't the Taoist just say that you can see the bones if you walk down tens of meters? Why are you so clean after walking for so long?"

Although there was only one meeting, the Taoist priest really had no motive to deceive them. The only explanation was that something happened here later.

Walking in the front, Song Qian raised her hand and said:

"Shh, it seems to be the end of the road ahead."

I saw that the stone steps had also come to an end at this moment, and further forward was a huge flat stone plate, and further outward was an endless darkness, it seemed that there was still a lot of space outside.

"The fellow Taoist should be talking about this place, but there should be some bones here."

Chen Ke threw a few more lighting sticks out of the stone plate, saw a small gentle slope below the stone plate, and found no living things around, and the four of them jumped onto the slope one by one.

Only then did I see that there was a three-way intersection on the small slope, and there was a road along the direction of going down and sticking to the wall.

On the left side of the road, there is a road that continues to go downwards in the vertical direction, but there are still many stones scattered on this road. It seems that this road was sealed off with a stone wall before, but There is still a gap of half a meter wide above.

This time the supplies were all in place, so Eggplant fired a flare directly into the air.

The main purpose is to illuminate the upward path clearly, but under the illumination of the white light, everyone found that there were several forks in the upward direction, connected with many wide cracks.

Ji Han nodded and said:

"So that's the case. If you say that, it's really possible for those soldiers to hide below. There must be more than one way out here. Looking at the direction, those fork roads should all lead to that ridge. Good guy, the tunnel warfare is being played by them. Understood."

Ji Han took out the space-time compass to check the direction, and found that they were not going up, but heading towards the forked road on the left that was originally sealed.

In order to reduce the risk of collapse below, Chen Ke carefully kicked down the left side of the stone wall, leaving room for four people to pass through.

But on the other side of the collapsed stone wall, there were many bones scattered on the ground.

Eggplant asked curiously:

"It stands to reason that soldiers should be buried anyway after death. Why did they all die inside? Since they have time to build a wall, why don't they take these bones out?"

Song Qian guessed:

"Maybe it was a bloody battle at the time, and I didn't have the energy to worry about these things. Later, this place was captured by Tubo, and there was no one to deal with those corpses."

Chen Ke lowered his head and briefly checked the bones and the clothes they were wearing, then shook his head and said:

"No, these are not the bones of Tang soldiers, these are the bones of Tubo people, but this is even more unreasonable. In the end, Tubo occupied this area. How could their bodies be sealed inside without being processed? What? Everyone wear some masks, maybe there may be some germs here, and to ensure that people outside are not infected, they are sealed inside."

Then he took out the air detector and checked it.

Ji Han remembered that the stone wall he saw just now was not completely sealed, and guessed:

"It's not that complicated. You don't even have any armor on your body, and the wall hasn't been sealed. I guess they took the wall apart and touched it secretly, but they didn't survive in the end."