Chapter 968: This is a rare treasure
Xu Mutang was reminded and followed Chen Chuan's gaze. After a while, he also made some discoveries.
Every three or five of these statues are just flesh and blood bodies painted with gold paint on the outside. They are large and small, with the large ones being more than ten meters tall and the small ones looking like ordinary people. Except for the clothes they wear like those of immortals, their facial expressions and postures are very vivid and lifelike.
His expression suddenly changed slightly, "Could it be..."
Chen Chuan said, "What did Chief Inspector Xu come up with?"
Xu Mutang said, "I've heard that Emperor Gao, the father of Emperor Ying, built a terrace specifically to honor his meritorious officials. All civil and military officials who had made great contributions to the new dynasty had statues erected and temples built for them to be worshipped by future generations. At the time, there were probably as many as thirty-six such officials with names. Most of them passed away during Emperor Ying's reign. These people..."
He looked at the statues around him and said, "These are probably it."
Chen Chuan took a look and found that some of these people were just ordinary people in size, and they might be the civil servants at that time.
As for military generals, most of those who could come to power were "generals who conquered the country". It seemed incredible that these people disappeared in just a few decades, but it was actually normal. The old era was different from the new era, and the two worlds were either separated or apart.
If they were in a cold and dormant period, these people would not be able to sustain themselves at all. Even if they had some relics to maintain them, the best outcome would be eternal sleep. There are also records in history of them being excavated and dissected for making medicine.
If it is a period of change, people usually live in a place of integration and rarely stay in the present world. The higher they go, the more serious the alienation infection is. Therefore, some people may end their lives early to protect their reputation after death. After all, the concepts at that time were very different from those today.
Xu Mutang sighed, "Though these people are nothing more than a pile of dust, they have built a name for themselves that will live on for generations to come. It's not a wasted life."
Chen Chuan didn't comment. He said, "Inspector Xu, there's nothing here. Let's move on."
Xu Mutang quickly said yes.
The two turned around and walked forward along the passage under their feet. After coming out, they saw a huge pool of water with large vats placed in the water. Different images of dragons and snakes were painted on the vats, and each one was lifelike.
The two of them walked along the middle road and took a quick look at the number of these large vats. They found that there were probably thousands of them.
Xu Mutang snapped his fingers, and a powerful force hit it, making a solid, dull sound.
He said: "This should be a 'green food jar', which is made of the bone powder of a unique creature from the fusion land, combined with some special minerals. It has a good storage capacity. In the Middle Ages, generals often used it to preserve their food when they went to war.
These are placed here. Judging from the carvings on them, they should be the nutritional paste and medicine used to feed the dragon snakes. If I am not mistaken, these are what Emperor Ying's five dragons eat."
Chen Chuan said, "I've heard that the five dragons under Emperor Ying often eat people."
Xu Mutang nodded and said, "That's to maintain the dragon snake's ferocity. Dragon snakes are responsible for protecting the imperial family and are needed for battle when necessary. Sometimes, they also serve as mounts, but very few can be used as mounts. The one we just encountered outside is one example. The fact that it has survived until now, besides for its ritual purpose, is probably because the imperial family treats it with special regard."
Chen Chuan nodded slightly. Just now, Yuwen Yuanqi was riding the dragon snake, which would indeed play a significant role in the battle.
However, the dragon snake itself was very weak, and he had just used his strength to destroy all the alienated tissues on its body. It should not survive, but it should still have some research value, right?
When Xu Mutang was about to leave, he paused because he saw that the pattern on the surface of the jar was different from before. The dragon snake had wings. His eyes immediately lit up, "This is... a flying dragon!"
Chen Chuan took a look and asked, "Is there any difference?"
"Cultivating dragon snakes has been a tradition throughout the dynasties. It's rumored that ancient dragon snakes were able to fly, but this skill was gradually lost during the Middle Ages. If I'm not mistaken, what's hidden here should be the original medicine and formula for cultivating flying dragons."
Xu Mutang said excitedly, "If we can thoroughly research this, we can create more combat and transformation creatures along this path, thereby expanding our technological space and market."
Chen Chuan nodded. Some things can only be useful in the hands of specific people. If it were in his hands, it could only be used to feed some creatures. At this time, he remembered the biological egg he had picked up before, and couldn't help but think about it.
After stopping for a moment, the two walked out from here, passed through a passage, and came to a warehouse where medicines were stored. Surrounding it were rows of medicine cabinets with separate doors.
The name of the medicine is marked on each medicine drawer, and there is also a bookshelf-sized general index book and many precious prescriptions and elixir recipes.
Thousands of years have passed, and it is hard to say how much of the medicinal effects of these medicines remain, but in today's era, these prescriptions and recipes are undoubtedly more valuable.
Today's technology is definitely superior to that of the old times, but some ideas and unique drugs from the old times are definitely worth paying attention to.
After passing this place, the two saw an alien weapons warehouse, which contained hundreds of various weapons, and none of them had been used.
Chen Chuan took a look and stopped paying attention. These were undoubtedly sophisticated weapons, but no one had ever used them. Weapons without any history were of much lower value in his eyes and there was no need to pay special attention to them.
The two of them just stopped here for a while, then walked out and continued to the next warehouse. Here they saw two large trees shining with silver light. The trunks of the trees were extremely slender, and the branches were spread out beautifully, as if they were carefully carved by skilled craftsmen.
On the branches hung embroidered bags with patterns outlined in gold thread, as if there was something inside.
After seeing it, Xu Mutang's breathing quickened slightly, and he whispered, "This is... Lian Shanzhi!"
When Chen Chuan heard the name, he immediately remembered it.
Lianshanzhi is said to be a precious tree in ancient times. It was rarely seen in the Middle Ages, with some scattered records occasionally. It may be completely extinct now and cannot be found in the hybrid area.
This thing has a special feature: any living thing hanging on the branch can maintain its activity at the moment it was picked.
However, the branches and leaves of this thing are very thin, and the objects it can carry are really limited, so the things that can be hung on it are all rare and precious. Therefore, the things inside those brocade bags they saw now must be extremely valuable.
When he got closer, he could see various names embroidered on the brocade bag, and discovered that they were all rare alienated tissues and medicinal pills.
After seeing these, Xu Mutang was not as excited as when he saw the Lianshan branches. Although the things hanging there were rare, they could only benefit one or two people at most. On the contrary, the plant itself had great research value.
Chen Chuan took a few glances. If nothing unexpected happened, these should be prepared by Emperor Ying for him. At least half of them can only be used by practitioners in the state of distraction, and the rest can be used by both human and alien practitioners, which are very effective in assisting practice.
After looking around here, they went to more than ten warehouses, which stored various books and classics, ancestral temple sacrificial vessels, proclamations, tax records over the years, land survey documents, maps of the world's passes and mountains and rivers, etc. There was also a room specifically used to store esoteric Buddhist ritual materials and metaphysical scriptures.
Apart from the esoteric scriptures, most of the things that were extremely important to a certain dynasty could now only be used as historical research materials, so neither of them looked at them carefully.
Going further, they came to the end of the passage, and in front of them appeared a huge bluish-brown wall between plants and animals.
As if sensing the arrival of the two people, several eyes suddenly appeared on it, looked at the two people, and after staying on Chen Chuan for a moment, they made a roaring sound, and then rolled their eyes upwards, and saw a crack in the thick wall, and an extremely dazzling light shone out from outside.
Chen Chuan was very familiar with this and knew at a glance that the light was coming from the crack on the opposite side. There was no doubt that this was the way to the crack.
Xu Mutang looked at the light and said with emotion: "Fissure, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the escape route that the imperial family left for themselves."
Chen Chuan changed his mind and felt that it was not that simple. Although he saw a lot of things when he came here, which seemed to be hidden treasures in the usual sense, he always felt that something was missing.
He combined the body hut given to him by the unknown person just now with the crack in front of him, and suddenly felt that there was some connection between the two?
He looked at the light outside the crack. No matter what, no one knew where it led to or what they would encounter, so he would not go deeper easily.
Xu Mutang looked at the crack cautiously and said, "It seems that this is all the stuff we have here. Director Chen, why don't we go back first?"
Chen Chuan nodded and turned back along the same path. As the two of them gradually moved away, they could see the thing with eyeballs behind them shouting a few times, and the torn crack closed again.
This time they did not walk slowly, but quickened their pace and turned back up.
After returning to the surface, Chen Chuan said, "Inspector Xu, there are quite a lot of things in here. I think you should discuss how to distribute them with your government affairs office first, and then we can talk about it."
Xu Mutang was stunned and said, "Director Chen..." He originally thought that after Chen Chuan read these, he would directly assign them, but he didn't expect that he would actually ask him to go back and discuss it.
Chen Chuan said seriously, "If it weren't for Chief Inspector Xu creating that tiny opportunity in the fight just now, the outcome would be hard to predict. Chief Inspector Xu, you also contributed, so you should have the right to share the responsibility."
There is no such thing as absolute victory in a fight, and it is extremely difficult to determine the winner between two equally matched people. So just speaking of this battle, this person definitely created the opportunity and played a significant role. In addition, this person himself belongs to the faction that can be won, so he is willing to share.
This is not without benefits. There are simply too many of these things, and many of them are meaningless to him personally. Even if he can take them all down by himself, he won't be able to keep an eye on them, and he may face endless troubles because of it. However, if he has the official endorsement of Longyou Dao, he can avoid these.
He also believed that as long as he became strong, some things would come to him in the future, and he didn't need to be bound by them, as that would only limit himself.
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(End of this chapter)
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