Chapter 318 Soldier Sculpture, Bronze City Gate

I stared at the increasingly wide secret passage ahead with my eyes wide open, my face filled with shock.

I thought that the place where the Ganoderma lucidum lived would be an ancient tomb.

But who could have thought that there would be a road underground?

This was not the most shocking thing for me. What really shocked me was where this road led to at the end?

Could it be that there was really an ancient city buried several dozen meters underground?

I swallowed my saliva with a "gulp" sound, then turned to look at Pao Zhen, and saw that Pao Zhen also had a solemn expression on his face. When he saw me looking at him, he said, "If that's the case, then what we found is very likely a mysteriously disappeared ancient civilization. Let's go and take a look first. Be careful. If there is anything wrong, we will retreat."

Even Pao Zhen, one of the top ten masters in the world, became cautious at this moment.

It was really that this road appeared too strange, so we had to be extremely vigilant.

I nodded, and then followed Pao Zhen, walking forward step by step.

As Pao Zhen and I slowly went deeper, I suddenly felt that the death energy in the secret passage was slowly becoming thicker.

At first, the death aura was almost undetectable, but now, the thick death aura suddenly spread out from the depths of the secret passage, and with it came a gust of cold wind. The cold wind was icy and piercing, and when it blew on my body, I got goosebumps.

After walking for about half an hour, Pao Zhen in front of me suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong, Uncle Pao?" I asked subconsciously, and then turned around and stood side by side with Pao Zhen.

"There is someone in front!" Pao Zhen said in a deep voice with a gloomy face: "No, I don't feel any breath of life on that thing, it doesn't seem to be a person."

"Not a person?" My heart skipped a beat, and I thought, if it's not a person, could it be a ghost?

Or... a zombie?

I couldn't help but shudder, and then squinted my eyes and looked forward.

At this moment, we are at least 50 meters underground. It is so deep underground that it is not only hot and humid, but also extremely dark.

The darkness is different from the darkness outside. Outside, even in the darkest night, there will always be a glimmer of light, but underground, there will be no light at all because there is no light source underground. Therefore, the darkness is like thick ink. For ordinary people here, it is no different from being blind.

However, Pao Zhen is one of the top ten masters in the world. Even if he is blind, his sharp five senses can sense the changes in the surrounding things and atmosphere. I have also been practicing since I was young, which makes my eyesight and hearing far superior to ordinary people.

But even so, when I looked forward, it was still pitch black. I could barely see the outline of the two or three meters in front of me, but I couldn't see anything farther away.

"Uncle Pao, are we going to continue?" I asked nervously.

It would have been fine if Pao Zhen hadn't said that just now. When he said there was someone in front, I suddenly had a feeling of... like a thorn in the back.

It was as if there was a pair of invisible eyes staring at me in the dark.

Once this feeling arose, it could no longer be suppressed. I broke out in a layer of white sweat and felt a chill down my spine.

Pao Zhen put his hand on the pig-killing knife and said, "Let's go and take a look."

After that, he continued to walk forward.

Seeing this, I looked back first, and then hurriedly followed.

After walking for about ten minutes, Pao Zhen in front of me suddenly stopped again, and then I heard a "swish" sound, but the pig-killing knife on his waist suddenly came out of the sheath, and a blade of light was immediately cut out.

The blade light instantly illuminated the surrounding darkness, and through that light, I finally saw the scene in front of me clearly.

"What is that!"

At that moment, I only felt my scalp tingling, and my heart almost jumped out of my throat.

Because at the moment the blade light lit up, I actually saw... countless people standing in the darkness.

In a trance, I even saw that they were all wearing ancient armor, with sabers hanging from their waists. They were lined up in two rows, standing on both sides of the secret passage. It felt like soldiers standing guard.

However, this place was dozens of meters underground, how could there be soldiers standing guard in a line?

Moreover, judging from their clothes, they could not be modern people.

I suddenly remembered the ancient tomb behind our village. My heart skipped a beat and I murmured, "Could it be... terracotta warriors? Could this be related to the big tomb behind our village?"

"No, it's not terracotta warriors." Pao Zhen shook his head and said, "Your master once told me that the terracotta warriors in the ancient tomb behind your village were all made of real people, and the three souls and seven spirits were sealed inside the terracotta warriors, making them living corpses. As for the ones in front, I didn't feel any soul fluctuations."

"Then, what are those? Are they zombies?" I asked nervously.

"No, they are not zombies either. They should just be a group of... sculptures!"

I stood still when I heard that.

"Sculpture... sculpture?"

I wiped the sweat from my forehead and thought to myself, damn, you didn't tell me earlier that it was a sculpture, and I was shocked.

"However, I always feel that these sculptures are a bit strange, but I can't tell what's wrong with them. Anyway, be careful."

After Pao Zhen finished speaking, he walked forward again with a pig-killing knife in his hand. I took a deep breath and followed him closely.

When we approached the group of sculptures, I immediately found something wrong.

Because these sculptures were not clay sculptures. I took a closer look and found that they were all cast in bronze.

Oh my God!

Bronze craftsmanship can be said to be the pinnacle of smelting in ancient times. In ancient times, bronze was revered. Whether it was the square tripod that represented the fortune of a country or the utensils used by the emperor, most of them were made of bronze.

From this, we can see how high the status of bronze was in ancient times, and how much the ancients respected bronze utensils.

However, here, there are dozens of sculptures made of bronze?

If this were to come to light, the whole world would be shocked.

In particular, this smelting technology would surely drive scientists all over the world crazy!

But then, a scene that shocked me even more appeared.

Because at the end of the secret passage, there actually appeared a... city gate.

A... city gate that was nearly 20 meters high and made entirely of bronze!

[Author's words]

Four chapters with nearly 10,000 words have been updated. I have a headache. Good night!