A rope about five or six meters long was put into the tree hole.
"Who will go in first?" Mr. Liao asked everyone.
Everyone looked at each other, and no one dared to take the lead.
Seeing this, Zhang Meng pulled the man next to her and said, "Let's go down first."
Gu Mingtai nodded, took her hand, raised his other hand, and shouted, "Let's go down first."
When he shouted, everyone looked towards them.
The young couple ignored their gazes and walked to the entrance of the tree hole hand in hand.
"Hold my waist and let's go down together." Gu Mingtai grabbed the rope.
Zhang Meng blushed, nodded, put her arms around his neck, clamped her legs around his waist, and clung to him like a koala.
As soon as I got into the tree hole, there was no light at all and it was pitch black.
Zhang Meng couldn't stand the darkness, so she quickly freed one hand and took out a lighter from her backpack to light up the room.
Seeing the man next to her looking at her, Zhang Meng chuckled, "I saw these last time when I went to the Overseas Chinese Store with grandma. I thought they were interesting, so I bought a dozen. They're all in my backpack."
Gu Mingtai smiled, said nothing, and continued to climb down along the rope.
Now that there was light, Zhang Meng could see the tree walls in front of him clearly.
Looking at the tree murals carved on it, Zhang Meng immediately took a breath, "Gu Mingtai, look at these paintings on the tree walls, are they saying something?"
After her reminder, Gu Mingtai slowed down his climbing and looked at the tree murals carefully.
"If I understand correctly, this is about a race. Among this race, there seems to be a girl with a human face and a snake body. This should be the Nüwa we are talking about now. The people of that race seem to regard this girl with a snake body and a human face as the most supreme being. They all look up to her."
Zhang Meng was listening intently when the man beside her suddenly stopped explaining. "Why are you done? Anything else?"
Gu Mingtai looked down for a while and continued, "There was a story up there about a woman with a snake body and a human face who had eaten something, probably an elixir, and then she flew up to heaven in front of the tribe's witnesses."
"These are the only things written on the mural. Everything else is gone," said Gu Mingtai.
"It seems like a myth." Zhang Meng sighed after hearing it.
The two of them had been down there for a while when Zhang Meng suddenly realized that they seemed to still be on the rope.
"Gu Mingtai, how long will it take us to get down there?"
"Are you tired?" Gu Mingtai asked worriedly.
Zhang Meng shook her head. "I'm not tired. I'm worried about you. It's tiring enough for you to climb this rope by yourself, and now you have to bring me with you. I'm worried you'll be tired."
Gu Mingtai laughed and said, "You don't have to worry about me. When I first joined the army, the training in the barracks every day was even harder than this. Now this little hardship is nothing to me."
Zhang Meng saw that his forehead was sweating, so she immediately took a face towel and wiped it off for him. "Stop talking, and save your energy."
As two people went down together, they inevitably bumped into the tree wall. At this time, Zhang Meng felt something scratch her arm. She quickly took a lighter and shone it on the tree wall. She saw countless snake skins hanging on the tree wall on the other side of the tree. The skins were more diverse than the snakes they encountered when they first entered the mountain.
The whole way down was covered with snake skins, so densely packed that it felt like they had entered a snake cave.
"Hold on tight." At this moment, Gu Mingtai shouted.
Zhang Meng subconsciously wrapped her legs around his waist.
The next second, the two of them suddenly began to fall rapidly.
"What's going on?" Feeling that they were falling, Zhang Meng grabbed his neck tightly in fear and asked loudly.
"It's the rope. This rope isn't long enough. There's still two meters to the bottom."
Gu Mingtai hugged her tightly, and just as he was falling to the ground, he turned around and fell to the ground in a position with him at the bottom and her at the top.
Fortunately, the ground below was sandy, so the two did not suffer too much when they fell to the ground.
"Are you okay?" As soon as he landed, Gu Mingtai ignored the pain in his body and immediately helped Zhang Meng, who was lying on him, up. He looked at her several times with a pair of worried eyes.
Zhang Meng stuck out her tongue. She had obviously swallowed several mouthfuls of sand when she fell to the ground. "I'm fine. How about you? Are you hurt anywhere?"
After confirming that she was really okay, Gu Mingtai replied, "I'm fine too. Luckily the ground below is sandy."
At this time, because the space has expanded, a lighter alone is not enough to provide light.
Zhang Meng immediately took out another lighter and handed it to the man in front of her, "Light one for you too."
Only when both lighters lit up at the same time could I barely see what was going on inside.
"It's actually a cave!" Zhang Meng looked at the place in front of him in disbelief.
"It's not a cave, it's an underground city!" Gu Mingtai shone the light upwards and saw three strange characters carved on the stone cave above them.
That character looks like an ancient character from a certain dynasty.
"What strange words!" Zhang Meng looked left and right but couldn't figure out what these three words were.
"Wuyun Town." The man next to him deciphered it easily.
Zhang Meng looked at him in surprise, "You actually recognize these three words."
Gu Mingtai smiled embarrassedly, "When I was a child, I often watched my master study these characters. I read them so many times that I could only recognize a few. It just so happened that I knew these three characters."
After he mentioned this, the two of them remembered Monk Jingchen who had gone down before them.
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