Following closely behind were me, Yin Ling'er, and Ge Weihan who was carrying a flower machine gun. The three of us stood in a row, and Yin Ling'er was sandwiched between us one after another.
Next are the mountain guards. They are large in number and can be responsible for the rear.
Before setting off, Lao Jiang Qian warned everyone not to mess around in the tomb passage, let alone leave the team.
Everyone followed the torch and could only walk on the bricks he and the Acuo clan leader had stepped on!
As I was walking, I discovered that this was a Western-shaped tomb passage. The foot was paved with neat bluestone bricks. The top of the tomb was dark and hard to see clearly.
From time to time there are one or two small puddles in the tomb passage, which are deposited groundwater.
However, there is an everlasting lamp set up every two meters or so. The everlasting lamps here are very simple and far less luxurious than the bronze lamps in the Yin Ruins.
The wicks are soaked in a kind of brown grease and placed in round clay pots. The totem of the ancient Shu Kingdom - the Sun Bird - is painted on the pots.
The sun bird flaps its wings and brings light, which seems to mean that it brought light to the ancient Shu Kingdom.
Ge Weihan was very curious: "There were always bright lights so early? Unexpectedly."
The leader of the Acuo tribe pointed to the wick and said: "This is oil squeezed from a special kind of tea called 'luminous tea' grown on the hillside of Wawu Mountain. It is usually used in the tribe's sacrifices. After it is lit, it will have a refreshing aroma."
"Glow-in-the-dark tea often grows on both sides of mountain roads. It can light up the way home for people in the mountains late at night, so it gets its name: glow-in-the-dark tea."
I saw that these tea lights were densely packed leading into the distance, like an endless long dragon.
Chief Acuo lit a lamp with a torch. The wicks connected to each other were like human hands, transmitting light to each other. In just a blink of an eye, they were all lit, and the wicks led to the distance.
The pale yellow candlelight shone in the tomb passage. Although it was not as bright as the sun, it still managed to illuminate the path under our feet.
In the distance is a tomb passage built with blue bricks, two to three meters wide and high, like a military tunnel.
We had to move forward cautiously, for fear of encountering some surprise attack. Fortunately, there were no dangers along the way. When we finally reached the end of the tomb passage, we all gasped.
Because right under our feet, a huge maze rises from the ground!
As far as the eye can see, this maze covers an extremely wide area, with a radius of at least a thousand meters. And because the tomb passage we are in is relatively high, we can clearly see the entire maze.
It is actually filled with densely packed bronze sacred trees. Each bronze sacred tree is three simeters high, and its whole body exudes a green luster, just like the legendary iron tree, standing there and never falling down for thousands of years.
They are arranged one after another, very neatly, with a distance of about two meters between each tree. They are arranged in such a dotted pattern, forming a huge forest of bronzes.
After thousands of years, these bronze sacred trees have been covered with green patina, just like green pimples, germs, and sarcomas. In short, they are indescribably weird.
Logically speaking, such a scene should be very sacred and spectacular.
I don’t know why, but when I saw this forest formed by the bronze sacred tree, I felt a sense of horror, coldness, and terror coming over me!
Because there is no life in this bronze forest hidden deep in the cave. They are artificially created, but they are no longer what they were originally.
The bronze trees were like huge magic circles, and the twisted tree trunks turned into weird-shaped ghost claws, struggling to pounce on us.
I even have a feeling that the bronze sacred trees in this forest are alive.
Every bronze tree inside is a monster that has been hungry for thousands of years. They will kill and gnaw us as prey.
Ge Weihan was really a competent adventurer. Regardless of the gloomy environment here, he immediately took out paper and pen and drew the scenes in front of him one by one.
Lao Jiang on the side calmly took out his pocket spy camera, looked at everything in front of him, and clicked the shutter.
This is his first time taking photos in Wawushan!
Seeing this scene, Ge Weihan was stunned, and the pen in his hand dropped. After reacting, he roared like a killing pig: "Mr. Jiang, you are not kind. You don't tell me if you have such a good thing. I didn't know about it along the way. How many pens have been ruined and how many times have you stared..."
As he spoke, Ge Weihan felt sad and could not help but wipe away tears.
Unexpectedly, Old Jiang raised the corners of his lips and replied shamelessly: "You didn't even ask me."
Well, Ge Weihan really didn’t ask.
Ge Weihan stared at Lao Jiang with his head raised. He couldn't scold or beat him. He could only regret why he didn't say more words in the first place.
Seeing that Ge Weihan was still scratching his head and regretting it, Lao Jiang had already started to take action. He tied a rope tightly at the end of the tomb passage, and then slid down in a demonstrative manner.
Patriarch Acuo was also very fast and fell into the underground maze.
And of course I will continue to hold Yin Ling'er as a dragster and go down together!
After we all landed, this piece of bronze sacred tree became even more impressive.
It was one feeling when you saw it from a distance just now, but now it's another sight when you see it up close.
Before, I guessed that the bronze sacred tree here was three simeters high. It was simply an illusion brought to me by the visual gap.
When I came here, I realized that each of the sacred trees here is six or seven meters high, with huge trunks and thick branches. They are like bronze giants standing next to us, waving to us.
For a while, I had some phobia of giant objects.
This also made me wonder, what on earth did the ancient Shu Kingdom do to create so many bronze sacred trees?
I subconsciously turned my attention to Chief Acuo, and saw that Chief Acuo was stunned. Looking at these bronze sacred trees, tears flashed faintly in his eyes.
Afterwards, Chief Acuo murmured: "My father once told me that the ancient Shu Kingdom was building bronze sacred trees day and night, because they firmly believed that one day, the sun bird would come to this place, Falling on the branches of the bronze divine tree.”
"Many people have been waiting their whole lives and never got it."
"I didn't expect that the forest of the Bronze Sacred Tree actually exists."
Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask: "Has anyone in your ancient Shu country seen the Sun Bird?"
He shook his head: "No."
I laughed and said, "Isn't that just a myth?"
Waiting day and night for something that only exists in myths, is this faith?
