Two guards and a Ministry of Industry official were holding torches and looking at the painting on the wall.
When Ren Baqian, the empress and others came over, the three stepped aside: "Your Majesty, this is the place."
Then the torch waved forward: "All the way to the front."
Ren Baqian and the empress stopped and looked up, only to see that the things on the wall were carved, about half an inch deep, with smooth edges.
Tong Zhenye scratched along the marks on it with his finger, and then said: "It was carved by fingers, and the fingers are about 30% narrower than the subject, and they were drawn by people other than the ancient clan."
Not surprisingly.
After all, it has only been more than 70 years since the ancient people walked out of the 100,000 mountains.
And the construction time here is at least in the middle and early stages of Hao Kingdom, even longer than that of Hao Kingdom, but there is nothing that can really prove the time, and it has been dusty for too long. It can be distinguished after three hundred years, five hundred years, or even one thousand years not come out.
"Keep looking forward!" Ren Baqian finished ordering the Ministry of Industry official and the two guards, and then looked up at the mural.
At a glance, it looks like children's graffiti, there are small holes pointed out by fingers, or a few arcs, or irregular patterns all over the walls.
And a thin trace meanders from the beginning to an invisible place in the distance.
Everything on the wall is messy and irregular. If it is a mural, it is better to say that it was scratched by a crazy person on the wall.
But if you look closely, you can see something is different.
"What do you think this looks like?" the empress frowned for a long time, then suddenly let go, and asked softly.
"Naiko..." Two voices sounded at the same time.
"boom!"
The empress appeared next to Tong Zhenye in an instant, and pressed the big bald head directly to the ground, her whole brain was pressed in, and there were cracks everywhere around the ground.
"Your Majesty, this white jade is to be used to build a palace." Ren Baqian felt a little distressed, mainly because he had told the truth again just now.
The empress was still puzzled, stepped on Tong Zhenye's head again, and then said coldly: "If you continue to speak out, I will hang you... on the top of the city, so that the people who come and go can pay their respects to Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry." grown ups."
Then he turned his head to look at Ren Baqian, and found that Ren Baqian's eyes were moving up and down in front of his chest, a flash of red quickly flashed across his pretty face, but there was a dangerous gleam in his eyes.
Ren Baqian was already thinking about whether to take the initiative to press his head on the ground, so that it would not hurt too much when he pressed it.
"There's a door here!"
The sound came just in time.
Ren Baqian felt that a Da Yao Peace Prize should be awarded to them.
The empress gave Ren Baqian a "wait, I'll teach you a lesson later" look, and walked forward.
There was a clattering sound behind him, Tong Zhenye pulled out his head to pat the dust, and glanced at Ren Baqian resentfully.
Ren Baqian gave him a "we are different" smile in return.
After walking for more than forty meters along the passage, everyone finally saw the so-called "door".
The whole body is dark, made of unknown metal, reflecting a cold luster under the light of the torch.
On the iron gate is a snake with wings, its tail hangs down to the ground, its head is close to the top of the iron gate, and a pair of wings are gathered behind it. Unlike the color of the iron gate, the overall look is gray.
Ren Baqian subconsciously felt familiar, and immediately asked: "What kind of beast is this?"
Tong Zhenye shook his head to express his ignorance.
The queen didn't respond.
It seemed that neither of them knew about it, but when Ren Baqian saw this picture, he remembered the soaring snake in the legend of Hua Kingdom.
Ren Baqian always feels that this world has something to do with the earth. Although the characters are different, this world also speaks Chinese, and there are dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns in this world, and there is even a unicorn in the palace.
It's just that Qishui is not as powerful as the legendary beasts. He can neither fly into the sky nor escape from the ground. To die is the strength of the supreme sky, which is far from the myths and legends.
But there is no doubt that Qishui is similar to the legendary unicorn on Earth, and even has the same name.
With these commonalities, it seems that it is not too surprising that there will be another soaring snake in Chinese mythology in this world.
However, Ren Baqian did not reveal his guess.
The empress stretched out her hand to push open the iron gate, but her face changed slightly the moment she touched the soaring snake, she stepped back a few meters, and stood just in front of Ren Baqian.
"It's true!" The queen's voice surprised everyone.
Everyone thought the beast on the door was a carving, but they didn't expect it to be a real beast!
However, with the touch of the empress, cracks began to appear on the surface of the fierce beast on the door, and then pieces fell off and fell to the ground. Only then did everyone realize that the fierce beast had long since become an empty shell.
In the blink of an eye, the beast turned into a fragment of the ground.
However, the Empress' eyes flashed, and she stepped forward to pick up a dusty bead, about the size of a pigeon egg, and rubbed it casually, the bead began to reveal a cyan luster, but it was very dim.
"What is this?" Doubts arose in everyone's minds.
Whether it is this fierce beast or this bead, they have never been seen before.
Ren Baqian reached out and wiped the empress's palm, the surface of the bead was still a little elastic.
Ren Baqian immediately imagined the common plot of martial arts that this fierce beast condensed its life's power into a bead before dying.
But what exactly this bead is, needs to be studied carefully.
The empress fiddled with it for a while, but didn't see what the bead was used for, so she threw the bead to Ren Baqian indifferently, and the latter quickly picked it up and put it away.
Others only thought it was a ferocious beast they had never seen before, but Ren Baqian regarded it as a legendary beast, and what it left behind would definitely not be mortal.
"This ferocious beast is the guard of this door?" Ren Baqian had a guess.
"It's possible!" The empress nodded. Before everyone came in, the passage was not damaged in any way. This fierce beast had either been hanged on the iron gate before, or it had been left here and died later. of.
Everyone is more inclined to the latter possibility.
"This fierce beast didn't leave here until it died. I don't know who the owner of this place is."
The empress spoke softly, and was about to push the door open.
If everyone guessed correctly, the guard here is the weathered ferocious beast, so there should be no traps at the door.
But just in case, Tong Zhenye stepped forward to stop the empress: "Your Majesty, let the old minister come!"
Tong Zhenye put his hand on the door, and increased his strength little by little, until his face started to turn red after eight minutes of strength was used, and there was a dull creaking sound from the door.
"Open!" Tong Zhenye yelled, using all his strength with both hands, the door began to be pushed little by little.
Everyone kept on guard until Tong Zhenye pushed open the front door, but there was no mechanism or anything like that.
However, there was a gust of airflow, and the torch in the guard's hand flickered first, then suddenly went out.
Everyone also felt a tightness in their chests.
"People light candles, ghosts blow lamps, even the torches are extinguished, get out!" Ren Baqian pulled the Empress around and left.