Chapter 2108 The Lost Civilization
Chu Huan was surprised when Liuli's voice came from beside him, saying, "Have you seen such a statue before?"
Chu Huan turned his head and looked at it. Seeing Liuli standing beside him, he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I have seen many various statues, but such strange clothes and masks are still on his face. This kind of statue is really rare."
"What is the goddess of liberty you just mentioned?" Liuli didn't forget Chu Huan's previous blurt.
Chu Huan laughed and said, "I saw a statue a long time ago. The locals called her the goddess of liberty. I just saw the stone statue here, and the posture was extremely similar, so I almost admitted my mistake."
"The Goddess of Liberty?" Liuli said with a slight slightest: "Is it a god who protects people from enjoying freedom?"
Chu Huan nodded slightly and said, "It's people who have such a beautiful wish, but whether the goddess of Liberty can really bring freedom may not be." Looking at the stone statue in front of him, he asked, "Liuli, have the predecessors of the Xin Sect never mentioned the stone statue here?"
Liuli shook her head, her voice softly: "Six dragons gathered their troops, the Bodhisattva opened the door, and the divine weapons came out, and the heaven and earth cut off their souls. The only thing that has been passed down from ancient times is this sixteen-character proverb. No one has mentioned what it looks like in the Buddha cave, and no one has ever talked about the Buddha cave...it is so beautiful!"
In the Dark City located underground, who would have thought that there would be such a majestic mechanism, and who would have thought that there would have such a magnificent scenery.
After the mechanism was activated, the water flowed in each waterway, and the moonlight shone down from the top, causing the waterway to emit shimmering light, which was purple-blue light. The light shone on the stone statues everywhere, and then covered the stone statues with a halo. This strange and wonderful scene is really rare.
"A city was built on it." Liuli said: "There is still a shadow of the Buddha Sect there, but there are no corpses left in the city. Do you think the people who built the city did this on purpose?"
"I'm also very strange." Chu Huan nodded slightly and said, "The city above has no corpse left. If I guess correctly, the city above is like this." He raised his hand and pointed to the face of the stone statue: "It's actually a mask. Using the city as a mask will conceal a city underground."
Liuli said: "Who thought of this? Use an empty city to hide another city... This is really incredible."
Chu Huan laughed and said, "We can't guess how long this dungeon has existed, but I can be sure that maybe a long time ago, this place was filled with grass and trees, and there were lakes and rivers." After looking around, he said, "In fact, the scale of this dungeon does not seem too large, and it cannot even compare to some of the current county towns. We can roughly see the outline of the entire city from a high point. I estimate that the maximum number of people this city can withstand will not exceed 10,000."
"It's true." Liuli nodded and said, "But if this dungeon existed for a long time, then at that time, perhaps this was already a big city."
Chu Huan laughed and said, "That's right, it's exactly the same as what I thought. Maybe this city used to be a royal city, and it was originally a palace, but later they encountered something, so they transformed it into this."
"Is it happening?" Liuli said strangely: "What will happen?"
"I don't know either." Chu Huan shrugged, "The waterway circulation system, mechanism design, and these statues, and craftsmanship have reached an extremely high level. It is hard for me to imagine that there would be such amazing skills in their era."
Liuli said: "Don't talk about that era, even now, it may not be possible to build such a dungeon."
Chu Huan looked slightly serious and asked, "Liuli, do you think your skills will be far better than before? Everything is improving?"
Liuli was stunned. She obviously didn't expect Chu Huan to ask such a profound question. She frowned and thoughtfully, and then heard a voice beside her: "Of course, now is better than before. Are people in the past smarter than us? We have seen all the people they have seen, and we have seen all the people they have never seen." As she spoke, Mei Niang had already come from the side.
Chu Huan laughed and said, "That's how you think?"
"Brother Huan, do you think people in the past have more knowledge than us?" Mei Niang twisted her waist and walked to Chu Huan. Seeing Liuli frowning and pondering deeply, she smiled and said, "Liuli, don't think about it. Brother Huan deliberately asked you such a question, just to make fun of you."
Liuli shook her head slightly and said, "Chu...Chu Huan's question is not a joke." Looking at Mei Niang, she asked, "Mei Niang, I ask you, have you seen everything here before?"
Mei Niang shook her head and said, "Of course I have never seen it before."
"You are so knowledgeable about traveling around the world." Liuli said: "But no one among us has ever seen such a clever mechanism. So he said how the water flow in this waterway can drive them to flow? Just put the peacock pendant into the hilt of the sword and activate the huge mechanism. How wonderful is this?"
Mei Niang had to admit, "But it is a masterpiece that is amazing."
"Lotus City has existed for hundreds of years. This city can only exist longer than Lotus City." Liuli said slowly: "Hundreds of years ago, the people here could create such a wonderful city. Do you think they are even more stupid than us?" Youyou sighed: "Maybe it was because we later generations regarded themselves very highly, and maybe our predecessors were much smarter than we thought. If we hadn't come to the Buddha Cave this time, how could we see such a wonderful city?"
Chu Huan nodded and said, "Liuli is right. Many of the great creations of the predecessors may have been obscured for various reasons. Just like this dungeon is buried underground, we cannot discover it, so we always think we are better than them." After thinking for a while, he said, "If there was only one royal city here, with this little power and resources, it would be impossible to build such a city."
Liuli was extremely smart and had already reacted: "You mean, this is just the tip of the iceberg?"
"Not bad." Chu Huan said: "With this royal city as the center, there should be many buildings nearby, but we can no longer discover them. I think that a long time ago, this place was not invaded by the desert, and even had a road traffic, and had an independent small kingdom. They lived here in a wealthy place and had a very high civilization. Look at the statue of the goddess holding a sharp sword. The sword in her hand was well-built. Perhaps they had been attacked by foreign enemies and resisted tenaciously and repelled the foreign enemies. That statue of the goddess may be their hero, or their belief."
Liuli and Meiniang couldn't help but squint their heads.
"But later their borders began to be attacked by the desert." From the side, the voice of Vidorazha came. Chu Huan looked over and saw Vidorazha and Ru Lian coming: "They may have made efforts, but the power of the desert is too great, and they can't resist in the end. Under the invasion of the desert, their place of survival became smaller and smaller, until their royal city was finally swallowed up, and they left their homeland and went to other places."
Chu Huan said: "Brother said that it should be wrong to be attacked by the desert, but they probably did not leave."
"Didn't leave?" Mei Niang frowned and said, "Are they waiting to die?"
"If they leave here and go to other places, there will definitely be stories passed down." Chu Huan said: "They may not record them in words, but there will always be some clues left after generations of oral transmission. But you know nothing about this, which only means that the civilization here has been completely obscured by the dust."
Mei Niang said, "Why didn't there be any remains? Did they all turn into gray sand?"
"I'm also wondering why there was no clue about people left." Chu Huan smiled bitterly: "I believe they should be very proud of their civilization. Faced with the invasion of wind and sand, they made their final efforts. This dungeon proves that they have carried out huge projects to preserve the royal city. But those who designed all this seem to hope that one day the civilization here will see the light of day again, so they created a great mechanism. Every seventy-six years, after the strong wind and sand, forged cities on the ground will appear, making people discover it."
Mei Niang frowned and shook her head, "Brother Huan, no, if... if... if they hope someone discovers everything here, why should they use another city to hide the dungeon here?"
"They want to be discovered, but they don't want to be buried here and disappear from Wuming, but they are worried that they will be easily discovered and caused damage." Liuli said: "So they have put in a lot of effort, set up many institutions, and left many difficult problems, which are to allow the wisest people to discover everything here through hardships. Perhaps they feel that only a very small number of people can solve the problems they have left, and there must be very few people who can discover the underground city through ground cities. In this way, even if they are discovered by a few people, they will not cause great damage to the dungeon."
Chu Huan laughed and said, "People have secret psychology. They have tried their best to find things that they have found through hard work. Few people are willing to share with others. They might have expected that everyone has this idea, so even if someone discovers a dungeon, they will not show off everywhere." Their hands spread out: "All this is a reward for the wise men who open the dungeon. Under the light, they share the civilization they created and appreciate this magnificent and beautiful scene."
"Six dragons gathered troops, the Bodhisattva opened the door!" Mei Niang sighed and said, "It was so amazing. I thought there were treasures hidden in this dungeon. It turned out that it was just these things."
Chu Huan glared at Mei Niang and said, "No learning and ignorant, such a lost civilization is more precious than any kind of treasure." He also said, "You have said that the Buddha's sect's celestial dragon was the first to discover the Buddha's cave, and later the eight tribes also came with it. If I was not wrong, it was the group of people who discovered the secret here. They were all the first-class wise men at that time. After discovering the secret here, they were also worried that the here would be destroyed, so they did not leave any news to the outside world."
"And after they had painstakingly explored and knew how to open the dungeon, they left behind the peacock pendant, the selfless sutra, and six dragon relics." Vidorazha said: "These are the keys to opening the dungeon. The ancestors of the Heart Sect put in a lot of effort to pass on it from generation to generation."
Mei Niang said, "So this dungeon is not a Buddha cave at all. There is no trace of the Buddha sect here, so they do not believe in the Buddha sect. The ancestors of Xin Sect discovered that this place was called the Buddha sect, and it became the holy land of Xin Sect. Brother Huan, is this a magpie's nest?" Seeing that several people were waiting for him, they curled their lips, and it was hard to continue talking.
Chu Huan suddenly laughed and said, "I think now, if Feng Hanxiao saw everything here, what would he think? He only thought that there were magical weapons and unparalleled martial arts books in the Buddha cave. But when he saw these stone statues carved from stones, would he regret that everything he had done with deliberate thoughts was so ridiculous?"
As soon as the words fell, a scream suddenly came. Everyone was shocked. Following the sound, Vidorazha had already said, "It's Gusa Concubine!"
Chapter completed!