"Do you know the cave dwellers?" Meng Qisheng said.
I think of the Jing people. The people of the Jing people live underground. The whole city is built under the Shiwan Dashan Mountain. After I returned from Sichuan, I met with my professor Hu Zhiping at university. He told me something about living. The things of the people underground.
"To understand a little bit, I have been to Sichuan." I said, "But Guangxi, an unknown nation, their city was built on the ground."
"They lived underground in the first place and lived in caves. According to Ning Hanqing's speculation, they might be closer to the underground things, which is something similar to totems and beliefs. Later, because of some accidents. , They gradually left the ground, moved to the ground, and built the city we saw. Later, this nation died out mysteriously."
"So, the underground is actually the cave where they used to live?"
"It's not that simple. They don't know how many years they have lived underground. The entire city's underground has actually been hollowed out. It is densely packed with pits that they have dug out hundreds of years. It is intricate. When Ning Han and I came here, Because he had the map left from the first expedition in his hand, he found what he wanted, but this time, we don’t know how much time it will take to spend in this underground city."
Sometimes I have to lament the greatness of manpower. Whether it is the underground palace of the Jing clan or the cave dwellers, they are doing something with the power of the entire group. Maybe we can't understand their original intention, but for them, this may be faith.
"How long will they take?" I asked. Fang Jindong and Wang Di have been exploring the way for a long time.
"Almost." Meng Qisheng said indifferently: "Your eyes will almost recover. Then we will go straight down. We may have to walk here for a while, and there are some bad things. You have to be psychologically prepared. ."
I have been mentally prepared for a long time, if there is nothing weird, I would be ashamed to say that this is the place I have been to in Ningchuan.
"What are we going to look for?"
"The caves of this unknown nation are all built around a bottomless abyss. We only need to find this abyss, climb down the abyss, and build a building on the cliff..."
Before Meng Qisheng finished speaking, I blurted out, "Something is in the building?!"
"Yes. No one knows what is in the building. Even when Ning Hanqing and I came here, I didn't know that a building was built on the cliff of the abyss. I came here only after his arrangements. No one Knowing what's in the building, obviously, he put some things in during the time when Ning Hanqing disappeared."
An uneasy feeling surged into my heart. What did he put in it, causing everyone to hear the wind, and I was involved in it somehow. Does this thing have anything to do with me
I didn't speak, thinking about this matter from the bottom of my heart.
Meng Qisheng said: "After this trip to Changning, many things will become clear. Ning has appeared in history, probably in the past few years." After a pause, he said again: "I hope this is not our wishful thinking."
The two rested for a while, and some ghost images gradually appeared before my eyes. Although I still couldn't see clearly, I was not a blind man anymore. It seems that the old fellow Meng Qisheng didn't lie to me. Only then did I start to turn on the flashlight, strenuously looking at the scene in front of me.
Judging from the level of productivity at that time, the cave was not bad enough to be dug, and it didn't feel too depressing. It was quite spacious. We fell from the puddle, and we should have just fallen into the corridor where people were walking. There were traces of ruts on the ground. It seems that even if they live underground, their transportation uses vehicles.
On both sides of the corridor are very neatly arranged caves. If you walk into one, you can feel the prosperity of this declining civilization.
"They still use the form of collective life. There is no private property here. Everything is shared. Therefore, they can gather the power of the entire ethnic group to build the underground cave." Meng Qisheng said, "Later we discovered that the entire underground cave The system is divided into two parts. The layout of the part closer to the ground is more orderly, and the productivity level is also higher. Ning Hanqing speculates that they may have moved from deeper underground to a stratum closer to the ground, which may be in the middle. What happened in the abyss forced them to relocate as a whole family, and later they moved directly to the ground, and finally ushered in their extinction."
"What the hell is the underground?"
"I don't know, but Ning Hanqing will definitely know what is in the abyss. This is also his first trip to Changning. All the members died here. It is very likely that something underground is causing it."
This shows that this trip should be more dangerous. I thought about it and said: "The underground things must have a continuous influence on the outside world, and occasionally they will fluctuate sharply, causing serious damage to the outside world. This cave dweller probably thinks that he has control over it. The law of the influence of the underground thing on the outside, but the law does not exist, and ultimately led to the decline and death of the cave dwellers."
"It makes sense."
Two people raised their flashlights to look after them slowly. Meng Qisheng had long been tired of seeing it. I was mainly watching. The more I look at it, the more I lament the hard work of this nation.
Meng Qisheng called this an underground cave, which is really disrespect for the fruits of other people's labor.
Every pothole here is extremely huge, the small one is the size of a basketball court, and the big one is the size of four or five track and field fields. You can't find a side with a flashlight. Each cave is connected to more than a dozen corridors, or pits that go down vertically, and there are bursts of cool air in the dark. It is true that the high places do not reach the top, and the deep places do not see the bottom.
Each huge cave has the functions of life, assembly, production, and sacrifice. Basically, each cave is divided into three layers. The first layer is the production site, where you can see the traces left by the rut and the tools of labor. You can imagine the scene when people of this ethnic group work collectively here. There are even places where livestock is suspected to be raised. It is really amazing. There are such huge traces of human activities in this dark underground.
Walking up the steep stairs, the second floor is the living area. The small caves that only appeared here are divided into densely packed caves arranged on the inner wall of the mountain like honeycombs. Of course, there is no one living inside. , On the edge of the second floor is a huge drainage ditch, indicating that they have been able to master the construction of drainage projects. The second layer is like a long and narrow crescent moon inlaid in the middle of the cave. There is no other activity area arranged. It is in sharp contrast with the large scale of the production area of the first layer. Obviously, the personal private time of this ethnic group is very small. All people spend most of their time in collective labor.
Arranged on the top third floor of the entire cave, it can be said that it is the most sacred place of this cave civilization-the place of worship. (End of this chapter)