Chapter 18 The Corpse Pool
The sharks believed that these black stones had mysterious powers and that the palace built with them could withstand the scorching fire! So they collected all the black stones on the ground and built this ancient city .......
The last mural depicts that because of the lack of supplies here, all the dead sharks here will be refined into a liquid, which is the shark oil we saw before, used for lighting.
At this point, Uncle Lai continued to ask the middle-aged man, "Then the Water God on this mural is the scary plant you mentioned?"
"Yes, the sporocarp of this plant should mature once every 7 years, and if an animal touches it during this time, it will spew out spores. And this underground water vein should have been shaped for tens of millions of years, it's hard to say that there won't be any creatures from the Cretaceous period, it's normal for these sharks to treat it as a water god guarding the water vein." The middle-aged man said.
Ye Zhiqiu, as the team doctor of the team, she was most concerned about whether or not she could find a water source, so she busily asked this middle-aged man, "Uncle, did you find a water source here?"
The middle-aged man nodded his head with certainty and said, "I found it, this was originally a temple used for rituals, and underneath the temple is the water cellar that supplies the whole city with drinking water."
I looked at the middle-aged man's dry and cracked lips, and was instantly skeptical, since there was water why didn't he drink it? If the water that wasn't had a problem, then it must be him that had a problem!
The middle-aged man led our group to the entrance of the temple water cellar, it was not a hidden location, but when I approached was still shocked by the ancient people's architectural skills.
Just see this is a foot basketball court size of the water cellar, the water surface is as calm as a mirror, people will walk into a burst of coldness will immediately feel a burst of coldness forced people, must be here the water temperature should be very low ......
Suddenly, my heart tightened, that familiar feeling once again came back, but this time it is a little different, I did not see any picture, but actually can hear countless voices whispering, which are male and female, old and young ...... For a time, let me be a little delirious.
This inside the light is very dark, so we have opened their hands of the wolf-eye flashlight, the initial illumination found that although this is a Tan stagnant water, but clear to the bottom.
Zhao Qiang couldn't wait to use the water bottle to fill a pot of water and send it to his mouth!
"Wait! It's better to heat up this water before drinking it! It's not living water after all." Ye Zhiqiu said worriedly.
But Zhao Qiang shook his head and said, "Don't worry, this water must be living water, otherwise it would have dried up a long time ago, I'm sure that underneath this water cellar there must be an underground water vein!"
The people heard also think that he said reasonable, Liu Zi Ping also used his hand in the water scooped a handful on the nose in front of the light sniff, and then with the tongue dipped a little bit under the fine taste and said to everyone: "There is no odor, it should be able to drink!"
When everyone heard this, they started to pour water into their own water bottles, only Ding Yi walked towards the deeper part of the water cellar with a puzzled look on his face, and as he walked, he kept shining his wolf-eye flashlight into the water.
Suddenly, a miserable white human face appeared in the water ......
I was still a little hesitant to look at this stagnant water, a strong uneasiness made me doubtful, can the water here really be drunk? Why is there only one corpse bride in a wedding dress left in a large ancient city? Just as I was having one question after another in my mind, I suddenly heard Ding Yi yell out, "Don't drink it, there's something in the water!"
But at this time, Zhao Qiang and Liu Ziping had already taken a sip, and they looked at Ding Yi with a horrified face ......
In fact, after hearing Ding Yi's voice, I immediately understood that there should be corpses here, and there were quite a few of them! So I quickly walked towards Ding Yi.
Although I have long had this psychological preparation, but when I saw the water that has some swelling of the body, or head a side spit out, after all, this is the first time I saw such a large number of corpses.
They look at me this situation, know that this water must have something disgusting, especially just drank the water Zhao Qiang and Liu Zi Ping face is even more ugly ......
When they walked to my position and Ding Yi's position and saw what was in the water cellar, they immediately all vomited in disgust one by one as well ......
I tried very hard to suppress for a long time before I could push down that flipping feeling in my stomach, and then began to observe these corpses in the water.
Look at the dress of these people should be the original residents of the ancient city, but why would all of them die here?
The ancient corpses in the water have not decayed after thousands of years, it should be because the temperature in the water is very low and has been kept at a constant temperature, plus this place has been a confined space for a very long time.
Think here I still want to come to the front to see clearly, but was Ding a pull, "Do not touch the water, may not be clean."
In fact, I don't need him to say that I also know that this corpse water that has been soaked for more than two thousand years can be clean to where? Now I sympathize with the two who were brave enough to drink the water first just now. ......
Uncle Lai looked at the corpses in this water, his face was particularly ugly and said, "It seems that this water source can no longer be used, we still have to think of other ways to find water." After saying that, he turned to the middle-aged man and said, "May I ask if you still know where there is a drinkable water source?"
The middle-aged man was also surprised to see the corpses in the water and kept muttering, "How could this happen? Why didn't I find these bodies before? How could this happen? ......"
It was a while before he came back to his senses and replied with a look of despair, "There is no more, I have searched all over this ancient city and there is only such a water cellar here."
The crowd in the hearing are full of despair, difficult to not we really want to all die of thirst in this?
Just when everyone was worried about how to find water, Ding Yi suddenly whispered to me, "Be careful of this middle-aged man, he is not a living person."
Hearing him say this, my heart "thumped", don't really let me guess, right? At this moment, when I looked at the middle-aged man, his face was really green and his eyes were black, if it was really him, I am afraid that he wanted all of us to stay here with him, right?
The morale of the team was getting lower and lower, as if we would die here soon. Uncle Li had to encourage everyone, "Don't be so pessimistic, the water here is undrinkable, we can look for something else, as long as we don't give up, we will surely have hope! This place is too heavy with corpse gas, it is not suitable to stay for a long time, we'd better go out first and then make plans!"
It seems that ginger is still old and hot, Uncle Lai, this guy has eaten more salt than we have eaten, and he must be much more stable when things happen. Now I only hope that this old man will not swindle me, otherwise I will not let him go even if I become a ghost!