"Huh?" Zeng Tao turned around and looked at her. "What...tomb?"
"Yes, the mausoleum." Jin Yue nodded.
"...Haha, no way?" Zeng Tao suddenly felt a little creepy. "Don't scare me, aren't tombs just underground pits? Who would turn a tomb into an underground city... What's the point of that?"
"No, in ancient my country, although this kind of thing wasn't common, it did happen." Jin Yue pondered, "The Emperor's Tomb."
"The...Emperor's Tomb?" Zeng Tao widened her eyes.
"The most famous of these is probably... the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor."
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is the tomb of the first emperor in Chinese history. It is also the first large-scale and well-designed imperial mausoleum in Chinese history.
This mausoleum covers an area of more than 50 square kilometers, which is more than 80,000 acres and 50 million square meters. The area is so huge that it is even larger than the area of a county in many cities today, and more than 100 times the size of the Vatican!
According to historical records, various palaces were built in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, displaying many rare treasures.
Around the imperial mausoleum, there are a large number of burial pits and tombs of different shapes and contents. More than 400 have been discovered, including the well-known Terracotta Warriors.
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is one of the largest, most peculiarly structured and most richly endowed imperial tombs on Earth. Compared to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, the area of the underground city they saw now pales in comparison.
Of course, the area here is also very large.
The distance from the edge to the center of the palace is estimated to be close to two kilometers. In other words, the length of one side of this square underground area is about four kilometers, and the estimated area is about fifteen or sixteen square kilometers.
It’s also very big.
Moreover, this is a large underground space. If we really talk about the difficulty of construction, I am afraid that modern people may not be able to build such a stable underground space with a height of dozens of meters.
This place is made entirely of stone and slabs, without using any metal.
After hearing Jin Yue's explanation, Zeng Tao was a little speechless. She swallowed and said, "No way... This can't really be an underground mausoleum, right? Hearing you say that, it really seems possible! The things here have never been used. It seems that they were buried deep underground after they were built, never to see the light of day again... And this very well-formed city..."
She grew increasingly excited as she spoke, her previous slight fear of the underground mausoleum vanishing without a trace. "Looking at the scale of this city, it feels like the capital of an ancient empire in this world! The owner of this mausoleum must have been a very important figure! Such an important figure would have been buried with a lot of things! If we can find it..."
"That's definitely a fortune! There must be a lot of good stuff!" Zeng Tao suddenly stopped being as irritable and unmotivated as before. Instead, her eyes lit up. "That palace in the middle! That stone palace must have good stuff!"
"Don't get excited, this is just my guess." Jin Yue poured cold water on her. "We haven't confirmed that this is an underground mausoleum yet, it just looks like one. Besides, we should be concerned about the insects outside."
But Zeng Tao was already in the mood. She paced around the room, "Let's hurry to that palace! Qin Fu might be here too. He might already be in that palace! If we go too late, he might have already explored the entire palace!"
"...Did you listen to what I said..." Jin Yue looked at her helplessly, "We can't even get out now. And even if we could get through, you can't run around. If this is really a mausoleum, there must be mechanisms to prevent future tomb robbers. Exploring it is not an easy task and could be life-threatening."
"Hmm... indeed." Zeng Tao's mind cooled down, and then she sighed, "Hey, if this is really a tomb, then the owner of this tomb must be a very powerful person!"
…
Xu Xin and Lou Feier jumped down from the human-faced statue.
There are no more bugs around the statue.
The few remaining insects in the pit had basically gathered around the campfire and would soon be completely wiped out.
"These bugs are too easy to deal with." Lou Feier glanced at the campfire and said, "Burn them all in one fire?"
"I don't know who was so scared that he screamed and his legs went weak." Xu Xin glanced at her and smiled.
"I'm just afraid of insects, what's wrong with that!" Lou Feier said confidently.
"Alright, let's take a quick look around."
"Oh, okay, lend me Coco!" Lou Feier took Coco from Xu Xin's shoulders and went to look around.
Xu Xin looked at the human-faced statue that he had already explored.
This one, a human-faced statue with his face carved into it.
He still felt that the focus should be on this statue.
The other buildings around it are already in ruins, only this statue is still intact, and it is also a special existence here.
And now, in the light of the fire, its face became clearer.
“…”
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
Seeing his own image carved into such a large statue, with the open eyes staring straight at him, was really creepy to him.
In particular, he didn't know why there was a statue of him underground!
This is too outrageous!
"Huh?" As he was inspecting the statue, he was blinded by a spot of light on the statue illuminated by the fire.
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