Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 2506: A winding path leads to a quiet place (2)
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Ye Tian quickly removed the six-pointed star golden scepter head embedded in the stone door, put this priceless treasure into his hiking bag, and then reached out and pushed the stone door completely open.
With his actions, the secret passage behind the stone gate, which had been sealed for at least a thousand years, finally appeared in front of everyone.
The entrance to this ancient secret passage is about two meters high and one and eight meters wide. It looks like an irregular door, but it is made of extremely hard and extremely heavy granite.
After more than a thousand years, this stone gate has been completely integrated with the environment on the cliff outside. If it weren't for Ye Tian, it would be impossible for others to discover the existence of this stone gate.
Entering through this gate is a secret passage with winding paths leading into the heart of the mountain.
Where the end of this secret passage is, how long it is, whether there are deadly traps in the secret passage, and whether a large number of poisonous creatures are growing and entrenched in the secret passage are all unknown for the time being.
Moreover, the space becomes larger as you go deeper into the secret passage. Looking in from the door, you can see that the ground near the entrance of the secret passage is fairly flat, as are the walls on both sides and the top. The ancient Mayans should have deliberately trimmed it. .
Go in from the entrance, about three meters in, and there are several steps going down.
Only when you walk down those steps can you truly enter this secret passage. As for the terrain of the deeper parts of the secret passage, you cannot see it yet. The depths of the secret passage are now shrouded in darkness.
Fortunately, or unexpectedly, there is no foul air or poisonous mist accumulated in this secret passage, and no poisonous insects or beasts suddenly rush out from it to hurt people.
On the contrary, the air blowing out of this secret tunnel is very fresh and moist. It seems to be better than the air in the tropical rain forest where we are.
Obviously, this dark secret passage should not be too long, and it is connected to the other side, so air convection will form.
Ye Tian stood on the side of the stone gate for a moment. After confirming that there was no danger, he came to the front of the stone gate and looked into the secret passage.
With the help of the natural light that slanted into the secret passage, the situation at the entrance of the secret passage suddenly appeared in his eyes.
At the entrance of this secret passage, the ground and the walls on both sides were covered with moss and dust. The ground and walls covering them below were not visible at all.
The roof of the cave above was also covered with moss, and there were several tree roots or vine roots that spread along the cracks in the rocks and hung directly from the cave roof.
Because there is no light penetrating into this secret passage and there is a lack of photosynthesis, there are no other plants here except moss and the roots of trees and vines.
In addition, many traces and footprints can be seen on the ground of this secret passage, including traces of snakes crawling, footprints of small animals, and even footprints left by jaguars.
From this point of view, the other side of this secret passage should be open, so those animals can enter this hidden secret passage, but they are restricted by the stone gate here and cannot come here through the secret passage. rainforest.
Ye Tian stood at the entrance of the cave and pretended to check the situation in the secret passage carefully, then stretched out the jungle machete in his hand and scraped off a piece of moss and dust on the left wall of the entrance to the secret passage.
With his movement, the dust and moss covering the wall immediately fell away.
The next moment, a wet granite wall appeared.
It can be seen that there are several Mayan hieroglyphs carved on the wall, and there seems to be a stone mural, with only one corner exposed, and the rest is still covered by moss and dust.
Ye Tian looked at these Mayan hieroglyphics and murals, then looked deep into the secret passage, and then said loudly:
"Professor Delgado, Hernando, you can come up. As far as the current situation is concerned, the secret passage behind the stone door is relatively safe, and no dirty air or poisonous gas escapes from it.
For safety reasons, not too many people should come up to check the situation. The rest of the people will wait until we have thoroughly explored this secret passage to make sure there is no danger before everyone enters it to check.
Mattis, Jason, bring two small drones over, put them into this secret passage, check the situation in the secret passage, see where this secret passage leads, and prepare for the next step. Prepare! ”
As soon as the words fell, there was a response from behind.
Immediately afterwards, Professor Delgado and Hernando walked up quickly. There were six people in total. Everyone was extremely excited and full of expectations.
When they arrived at the stone gate, these guys immediately looked into the secret passage, and turned on the bright flashlights they carried to shine into the depths of the secret passage.
The next moment, there were several powerful beams of light in this dark secret passage, each shining at different corners.
As these beams of light entered, the situation deeper in the secret passage suddenly appeared before everyone's eyes.
Different from the entrance of the secret passage, the depth of this secret passage is like a naturally formed cave. Although there are many traces of Mayan modifications at the entrance of the secret passage, the deeper you go inside, the more primitive it becomes.
Especially at the top of the cave, about seven or eight meters from the entrance, there are many inverted stalactites on the top of the cave, dripping water down, and small drops of water are smashed on the ground. pit.
In addition to the puddles, there are several small ditches on the ground inside the cave, crisscrossing them, to divert the water dripping from the roof of the cave to avoid causing a large amount of water accumulation.
These small ditches are all connected together, and eventually lead to a corner of the cave, where there happens to be a small hole, and the water in the cave eventually flows out from there.
It can be seen from this that there should be a stream on the other side of the cave, or an underground river under the cave, which can lead away all the accumulated water here.
Another point is that the entrance to the cave is about thirty centimeters higher than the inside. From the entrance, you have to go down three steps to reach the ground.
In this way, even if water accumulates in the cave, it will not overflow from the entrance, thus exposing the location of the entrance.
Obviously, after the Mayans discovered this natural cave, they made use of it. Although the design is very primitive, it is very practical!
They knocked off the stalactites on the roof of the cave at the entrance, sorted it out, and designed and built a hidden and heavy stone door to hide the cave.
They didn't do much to deal with the depths of this cave. At least they didn't knock off the stalactites on the roof of the cave, retaining part of their original appearance.
Unlike the situation at the entrance of the cave, there are no plants inside this cave. Even the roots of the extremely vigorous trees can hardly break through the hard granite.
In the depths of this cave, there is only the sound of dripping water and stalactites of different shapes hanging upside down from the ceiling.
In addition, there are two stone statues standing against the walls on both sides of the deep cave. They are covered with moss and dust, and it is temporarily unclear what the content of the carvings is.
Several powerful beams of light continued to extend inward, extending to a depth of thirteen or four meters, but were blocked by an arc turning and could not advance any further.
As for the situation behind the corner, there is no way to know for the time being. We can only use a small drone to explore it later.
Looking at the situation in this secret passage, Professor Delgado, Hernando and others standing at the entrance were all excited, and they screamed one after another.
"Wow! The size of this cave is really big. I wonder how the Mayans discovered it? How did they transform and use it? What is on the other side of this cave? Is it the legendary gold? City? ”
"The Mayan hieroglyphs and stone murals carved on this wall record a battle. This battle should be very famous. It looked familiar to me, but I couldn't remember that battle for a while."
Looking at these yelling guys, Ye Tian just smiled softly and didn't say much.
At this moment, Matisse and Jason each walked up with a small drone, preparing to use the drone to explore this secret passage.