Chapter 251: Snake Ghost Town Stone Statue

After thinking about it, we have come to the bottom of the statue, and the water flow is getting more and more urgent. We see the muddy water flow under the tree roots. I do n’t know what is happening below. Pan Zi let us be careful, saying that there may be some gaps in the ruins under the mud Go underground. It's like going to the wellhead.
The fat man didn't even listen in. All his attention was attracted by the stone sculpture on one side, and the miner's lamp slid around.
Under the focal length lighting, I saw more details. The stone carving seems to be carved from a monolithic stone. Many places have been torn and cracked, because the large amount of covered moss makes it look more strange and ugly. I can't feel what the whole sculpture is.
After a few glances, the fat man turned the light underwater. The stone statue was almost wrapped between two huge dipterocarp trees. The part of the swamp was completely entangled by the roots of the tree. At the deeper part of the water, there are some strange shadows at the same time. The shape is very irregular and shrinks inside the roots of the tree. I don't know if it is part of the stone carving.
The fat man could n’t see what it was for a long time, and I also found it strange why the roots around the trees could be so clearly illuminated by the miner ’s lamp, but how to take that thing was a shadow, and then we realized it suddenly. Not a shadow, but a hole.
And looking at the direction of the movement of the attachments on the tree roots, it seems that the water here is flowing down this black hole. Sure enough, as Pan Zi said, there is a gap below the statue leading to the underground.
Originally thought that we could see something weird and strange, and now we can't help but be disappointed. Pan Zi then continued to urge, we can only continue to set off.
The fat man was not very reconciled. He swept the miner's lamp to take photos, and said to himself, "Where is this water flowing? Is this ancient city empty below?"
No way, this may be part of the previous urban sewerage project, some groundwater channels can still be used, there will be such a phenomenon.
Fat man said: "So where does this sewer go to? Here is a low-lying area, and there is no place to run even at a low level."
I thought about it. In general, the drainage system of a city has exits from nearby big rivers, and finally rushes into the sea. Like this ancient city in the Western Regions, there are no large above-ground lakes or rivers nearby, but there will definitely be dark rivers passing around. According to the principle, this drainage system should lead to the nearby dark rivers. However, in fact, there is very little rainfall in the Western Regions. Water is extremely precious, and it is impossible to require such a luxurious system as "drainage". In general, the investigation of Loulan and nearby ruins. The so-called drainage is all above ground drainage, and then introduced into the well. It is a bit strange that underground drainage appears here.
So I feel that the drainage system here is either a dark river underneath, or there are wells or pools with water storage in the underground of the ancient city. These waters are flowing into those deep wells and are stored, and These wells may be connected to the underground wells in Turpan. When one well is full, water is automatically sent to the other well until all wells are full of water.
The hollow under this statue may be the wellhead at the time, which is quite possible. In the stone tower we saw just now, the fat man said that there was a sound of water underneath, and it might also be the sound of an underground water diversion tunnel.
"The thing is to dig deep and accumulate food. It seems that Chairman Mao's ideas also came from the ancients. Our Western Queen is really unambiguous." Fatty said.
Pan Zi said: "But there is so little rainfall here, and only a few years before a heavy rain. Such a large project may take hundreds of years. Does his mother work?"
"If you look at it in a short period of time, it may not be worth the loss, but in Western countries, if there is water, it can be king. Loulan only claims thousands of soldiers in the Western Powers. The terrain here is strange. If there is a lot of water, even if the country is small, you can stick Look at the situation here. This oasis must have been formed because of this. The tree can fix water and the water can raise trees. The Queen Mother of the West was obviously a far-sighted person. "
Originally, the geographical location of the ancient city of the West Queen was extremely low-lying, and this setting could even introduce limited Gobi groundwater. However, if I thought it was right, then we have been here for a few days. For such a long time, these wells It is still draining, indicating that those wells are not full yet. How deep are the wells and thoroughfare underneath?
Pan Zi thought for a while and nodded, "It makes sense, but everything has its advantages and disadvantages. If there is a war and someone sneaks into the city and throws poison, it is not that everyone in the city is unlucky?"
I said, "There are definitely not many wellheads. I think there may be wellheads in the West Queen's Palace and Quanchen's house. The people may use the common wellheads we just saw. These places are definitely guarded. We have also seen costume films. Yes, poisoning seems easy, but it is still difficult to do. After all, the wellhead is deep. Once the poison is diluted, I am afraid that even E. coli will not be poisoned. "
Speaking of fat here for a moment, I did n’t know what I thought of, and thought suddenly: "I depend, so to say, these wellheads must be connected, then we can go from the wellhead to the palace of the Western Queen."
I said: "It's true, but we are not fish, and the lower shaft must be criss-crossed, like a maze, even if you give you the most perfect diving equipment, you may not be able to live out. Maybe the lower wellhead is open Only the thickness of the bowl is more troublesome. "
The fat man scolded: "You satire me again? Fatty, my fatness is hindering you."
I said: "I rely on, where is my irony to you. I haven't lost weight to the thickness of the bowl."
"I don't think so." The fat man said: "We used to take basic courses when we were on the sidelines. Digging the ditches and diversion canals. The width should also be set according to the amount of water. If it is such a heavy rain, is the thickness of the bowl opening enough? Xiao Wu Can't you count these? "
When I was studying architecture, I talked about this problem, but now I want to use it temporarily, it is completely impossible, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, I have to give up. He said to him: "I can't remember it now, or think about it carefully when I rest."
Pan Zi said: "Yes, Master San, don't think about these two of you. Hurry up, even if the subway is so wide, we can't get off, and, now our most important thing is to get there as soon as possible."
As soon as I thought about it, I nodded immediately, and I no longer thought about it. At this time, I only heard the sound of a broken tree branch in the forest behind me, and at the same time, there seemed to be a continuous shaking of the crown and leaves. , I do n’t know what moved in the dense bush.
We walked all the way, there was almost no sound in the forest, and the sudden appearance of this movement shocked us all, and all stopped, turning around and looking back.
The canopy is dense, except for the huge stone sculpture of the human face and bird body, you can't see anything clearly, and then the voice slowly stopped. The woods quickly restored that suffocating quiet.
We looked at each other, this kind of movement is definitely not something that can be sent out. It seems that there is nothing in this forest.
Pan Zi put the gun up, motioned us to prepare the weapon, stop talking, and leave here quickly. We nodded and did not dare to neglect any more. We gathered our energy and began to observe the movements around us, and accelerated our pace.
Walked no more than two steps, suddenly the fat man snapped and said, "Wait!"
We asked him why, he turned back, pointed to the stone statue of the human face behind him, and asked us, "Where did it face just now?"
When we looked at the stone carving, we found that the face of the stone carving didn't know when it turned around, and the huge, mossy, greasy face turned towards us. Because it was half covered by trees, it was like an unknown creature peeping behind the tree.