Chapter 1216 Goddess Athena

It seems that when this tunnel was originally designed, it still had the function of being an escape passage.

The reason why the few people who pass by will fall through the stone gate is so that when they escape, the few people on their side will pass through the stone gate as quickly as possible. Even if the pursuers behind find this place, they will never know how to pass through the stone gate. Not only It played a role in his own escape and also trapped his pursuers in this tunnel.

However, after the design of this underground palace was completed, there was obviously no incident that required the use of this passage to escape.

Shi Lei didn't have much time to think about this. Now, he had arrived in the real underground palace.

This underground palace is smaller than Shi Lei imagined, and the area is not that huge.

It was about three to four hundred square meters in size. When Shi Lei shined a flashlight over it, he could see all kinds of mechanisms.

Shi Lei walked to the edge of the underground palace, and by the light of the flashlight, he saw that the mechanisms were really exquisite and each part was different.

There are metal ones, wooden ones, and rock ones.

The key is that the various parts fit together to an admirable degree. Even if measured by modern people's mechanical thinking, this is still in the top state of physics.

But this was made by the ancient Greeks more than a thousand years ago. In terms of its craftsmanship, ancient Greece was not listed as one of the four ancient civilizations simply because its inheritance was broken.

Shi Lei raised his head and shined the flashlight in his hand towards the top of his head, but almost missed the end.

Acropolis Mountain is not high, and this underground palace obviously leads directly to the top of Acropolis Mountain from the ground or even underground, with a height of two to three hundred meters, which also makes Shi Lei unable to see clearly the situation at the top.

Shi Lei changed the flashlight mode to strong light mode, but as soon as he switched it, the flashlight flickered a few times and then went dark.

The power of the flashlight is no longer enough to turn on the strong light mode, which shows that even if it is used as an ordinary flashlight, it can only last for tens of minutes.

Shi Lei must find the exit of this underground palace immediately, otherwise, even if there is enough oxygen here, he will not be able to survive. Without the light, Shi Lei can only see a black eye here.

Shi Lei began to search along the surrounding mechanisms.

While walking, Shi Lei suddenly felt something stir under his feet and almost fell to the ground.

But just when he barely stood firm, he felt his eyes light up slightly, and then he saw a surprising scene.

a lamp……

No, a torch ignited on its own, and then, about two meters away from that torch, another torch also lit...

The torches were about two meters above Shi Lei. It was almost impossible for normal people to reach those torches.

Then, throughout the underground palace, torches were lit one after another, and a circle quickly formed.

Not only that, after a circle of torches was lit, another torch was lit about three or four meters above it.

Similarly, torches were lit in a circle, and soon, the underground palace, which was not too big, was brightly lit.

Shi Lei marveled at the exquisite design of the ancient Greeks. He lowered his head and saw under his feet that what had just tripped him was something similar to a wrench.

This thing is a bit like the switch on the railway track in the past. Obviously, it was left by the people who originally designed this underground palace, just to allow their own people to have sufficient light after entering the underground palace.

Shi Lei extinguished the flashlight and finally saw the entire underground palace clearly. What he had seen before was only a partial picture.

The entire underground palace is indeed only three to four hundred square meters in size, and the surrounding organs alone take up more than half of the area. It's just that the mechanisms are all exposed, connected by ropes and chains, making it look like you're standing inside a super clock.

Then, Shi Lei looked up and noticed that there was a huge object hanging in mid-air above his head.

From Shi Lei's current angle, he couldn't see clearly what it was, but from the bottom, it looked a bit like an extremely large statue.

Above the head and along the inner wall are various mechanisms, densely packed and exquisite. It seems that these mechanisms are used to hang the huge statue and are responsible for raising and lowering it.

Such a huge mechanism was built just to hide such a statue. A strange idea suddenly came to Shi Lei's mind.

Could this statue be the original statue of the goddess Athena?

Shi Lei stepped back to the machine. He still couldn't see the statue clearly, but he could see that it was covered with golden light, and it seemed that many parts were inlaid with gold.

This made Shi Lei feel more and more that this was the original work of the Athena statue.

However, the joy of discovering the original statue of the goddess Athena did not last long. Shi Lei soon realized that what he needed now was to find a way to leave this underground palace, rather than caring about whether the statue was originally hidden in the Parthenon. The goddess Athena in the temple.

Shi Lei immediately started searching in the underground palace. He walked to the other side and soon saw something that looked like an elevator.

It is said to be an elevator, but in fact it is more like a cage, more like a machine temporarily built for construction in some construction sites that can move up and down vertically.

The bottom is a fence that is more than half a person's height. The upper part is simply built with a few pieces of wood, and the top is connected to a metal chain.

Shi Lei knew it was right. This was an elevator from more than a thousand years ago. These mechanisms, obviously, in addition to being able to hang the statue, also had another function, which was to start this "elevator".

Walking to the front of the "elevator", Shi Lei saw an object similar to a wrench again. This object could be easily pulled down as long as someone stood in the "elevator".

Shi Lei climbed up the "elevator" without hesitation, and then he pulled down the wrench.

With a series of mechanical clicks, Shi Lei felt the "elevator" under his feet sway slightly, and then began to slowly rise.

At the same time, the huge statue began to slowly descend from the top of Shi Lei's head. Shi Lei soon saw the sole of the statue's foot, and then the waist...

Ivory, gold...

Especially the hand stretched out, with a small statue in the palm of his hand. How consistent is this with the miniature version of the statue of Athena he saw in the Parthenon? The only difference is the size.

Shi Lei rose higher and higher, while the statue got lower and lower, and Shi Lei finally saw its face.

He completely confirmed that this was the statue of Athena originally located in the Parthenon. Shi Lei used the opportunity of the identification card without hesitation. A layer of hazy light appeared in front of his eyes, and it flashed deep purple.

This made Shi Lei easily judge that this statue was an antique at least 2,500 years old, and judging by the brightness of the light, the value of this statue was at least tens of billions of dollars.

To have such a high value, there is no doubt that it can only be the original statue.

At first, Shi Lei just came here for the mechanism, and he couldn't help thinking that maybe there really was a possibility that the 23 calligraphy and paintings required for the black card were hidden here.

But now, he realized that this was the place where the original statue of Athena was hidden.

It seems that more than a thousand years ago, the architect who rebuilt the Temple of Hephaestus hid the statue of Athena in the belly of the Acropolis in this way, but for some reason, this secret was not passed down.

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