Chapter 158 The Fire Under the Sea Cannot Be Extinguished

After looking around the house, everyone felt relieved that there was indeed no monster hiding.

This house by the river is different from the other houses below.

Not to mention the unusual warmth inside the house, there are not even any living facilities built here, not even a simple stone bed, and there is a big hole in the roof.

The ground on one side of the house was piled with stones, and the simple stone table on the other side was piled with rusty and broken cold weapons.

In the center of the house, a small stone well was built with stones. The wellhead was only thirty or forty centimeters, but the stone platform was still very wide.

A blazing red light emitted from the mouth of the stone well.

Everyone leaned over to take a look, and the burning sensation hit him instantly. Eggplant threw the seawater on his body towards the small stone well platform.

Water droplets fell on it, making a "squeaking" sound, and evaporated instantly.

Ji Han flashed his body and passed over the well mouth. He only saw a dazzling red light below and felt that his face was suddenly burned.

Eggplant asked:

"Ji Han, do you see what it is?"

Ji Han shook his head and said:

"It's too hot. I only see a dazzling red light below. It's probably either magma or burning underground natural gas."

Chen Ke was surprised:

"The color seems to be that of underground magma. There may be an active volcano down here, but it is so close and it has not been extinguished even after a thousand years. It is really unimaginable to see a thousand-year-old fire on the bottom of the sea."

Song Qian picked up the stone on the side and said:

"It seems that they used the temperature of underground magma to forge metal weapons. They should have dug these iron ores from nearby."

Eggplant scratched the weapon forged by the islanders on the table and said:

"They are all scrap metal. They require craftsmanship but no craftsmanship, and they require no level of quality. They are useless except for bringing tetanus. I thought they could be two treasures."

Ji Han didn't give up and even scanned it, but as Eggplant said, it was just a pile of scrap metal.

I couldn’t help but complain:

"These islanders are too bellicose. They are guarding such a volcano to make weapons. Why don't you even collect some pearls?"

Chen Ke approached Xiaoshijing Road:

"No matter what, I can warm myself up by the fire. If I stay in the sea water for so long, I will freeze to death."

Everyone also came closer to warm themselves first.

Song Qian said:

"My guess is that they are all able to come to the bottom of the sea, which means they are not warlike people. Why do they want to make weapons? Could it be that after the island residents arrived here, they were attacked by the mermaids below. In order to protect themselves, they forged weapons To defeat the mermaid, but ultimately failed?"

Ji Han considered Song Qian's guess and replied:

"What you said makes some sense, but why don't the island residents here just rely on the power of the divine pillar to go back directly? And looking at the scale of the house construction, it doesn't look like they were defeated by something."

At this time, Chen Ke, who was leaning against the small stone well and facing the wall, suddenly stood up and said:

"Hey, look here, there seems to be something."

As he spoke, he wiped the wall closest to Xiaoshijing with his clothes.

That wall was probably covered with black dust because it was the closest to the small Ishii stone platform where iron tools were forged.

However, someone accidentally rubbed off a piece of the edge, revealing part of the pattern underneath.

It seems that something should be restrained on that wall, but it is covered.

Everyone helped Chen Ke wipe away the thick layer of black dirt, and finally the true face of the wall was revealed.

It was another simple drawing carved on the stone, and there were as many as on the island temple.

There are still six paintings from top to bottom.

Not only are there paintings this time, but the last picture seems to have a few small characters engraved on it. Although I can’t tell what language it is from, at a glance, it looks a bit like the ancient characters seen on the walls of the catacombs in the Black Rock Mountain of Crescent Moon Spring. .

However, the two places are more than 100,000 miles apart, so Ji Han probably has nothing to do with them, it's just that the original hieroglyphics are relatively similar.

The first painting seems to depict the scene when the island residents just arrived here. It only depicts a huge bowl-like space with a river running through the middle and several small volcanoes scattered around it.

Ji Han nodded and said:

"It seems that when the island residents arrived here, the river was already here."

The scene engraved in the second painting is exactly the same as the previous one. The only difference is that the residents of the island all worship towards the river.

Eggplant asked:

"Have these islanders never seen the river? They don't make pilgrimages, right?"

Chen Ke continued:

"Maybe it's because the river emits blue light. After all, this is the first time I've seen this kind of river. Do they think it's a miracle?"

Ji Han shook his head and said:

"It shouldn't be that simple. Look at the third picture."

In the third stone painting, the islanders have begun to build houses around them, and it seems that they have decided to settle here.

Pointing to the third painting, Ji Han continued:

"If you just discover a luminous river and bring the whole island to live next to it, this is obviously not reasonable. Living here lacks sunlight and food, and they will not survive for long. The ancients should not be so stupid. kind of situation.”

The three of them nodded and agreed with Ji Han's statement that this river was definitely not as simple as they thought.

Everyone is looking at the fourth painting. The scene is basically the same as the third painting. The only difference is that the residents in the painting have all turned into mermaids.

Eggplant scolded:

"After they built their house, was it occupied by mermaids and doves?"

Song Qian shook her head and said:

"No, if there was a dispute between the mermaids, it would definitely be drawn, but this is too peaceful, as if, as if..."

"It's as if the residents of the island have turned into mermaids."

Ji Han said what Song Qian wanted to say.

When this was said, everyone frowned, although this idea was a bit unbelievable.

But looking at the almost identical scenes and residents in the third and fourth paintings, except that the bodies have turned into fish, it seems that this is indeed the most reasonable explanation at present.

When I saw the fifth painting, compared with the previous one, the obvious change in this painting is that there are more houses and platforms have been built. It seems that the scale of the island residents has expanded.

Chen Ke concluded:

"It seems that the living standards of the island residents have obviously improved after living here. I really can't figure out how they did it."

Eggplant prompted:

"Not only are there more houses, you see, in the fifth painting, the river has also become narrower."

Sure enough, as Eggplant said, compared from top to bottom, the river in the fifth painting is narrower than the previous four. Eggplant's eyes are really poisonous.

It stands to reason that the painter could reproduce two basically identical scenes, so he should not accidentally create such a big difference in the thickness of the river. In other words, the narrowing of the river is also the message they want to convey.

Next is the last painting.

When they saw this painting, the faces of the four people changed.

In the last painting, the river became narrower than before, the mermaids in the sea were fleeing, and a huge "hand" stretched out from the water wall at the end of the river.