bookcurios Chapter 367 Why did they build such tall stone pillars in the mountains?
Chapter 367 Why did they build such tall stone pillars in the mountains?
"what?"
Qin Jingnian didn't quite understand.
"Brother, go to the space and get me some paper and pen. I'll draw the surroundings for you."
Qin Jingnian flashed into the space and took out paper and pen.
Qin Wan used the moonlight to draw on paper what she had discovered about the col, its vicinity, and even further away.
Qin Jingnian frowned as he watched from the side.
When Qin Wan finished drawing, he pointed at the drawing and asked in confusion:
"I recognize these, they are the terrain around here, but sister, what are the round pillars above?
It’s so high, almost reaching the sky, and it’s everywhere.
Could it be that the Changsheng Cult knew that I had done so many bad things and was afraid of being struck by lightning, so they built a lightning rod for me?"
The last sentence is of course a joke.
Qin Wan couldn't answer this question either.
"Come on, let's find a pillar and take a closer look."
These pillars certainly did not appear here for no reason.
The two men found a pillar nearby. Perhaps because the other party was too confident that they would not be discovered in the deep mountains and forests, there was no one guarding the pillar.
As soon as they approached the pillar, the brother and sister both looked solemn.
They actually felt energy fluctuations around the pillar.
"Sure enough, these stone pillars were not erected here for no reason, so those workers came to plant these pillars?"
Qin Jingnian muttered something quietly, then raised his head and looked up along the stone pillar.
The stone pillar is ten meters high. Judging from the patterns carved on it and the traces of soil around it, it should have been repaired not long ago.
Qin Jingnian used pen and paper to draw the patterns carved on the stone pillars.
Qin Wan released his mental power and probed under the stone pillar.
The result made Qin Wan couldn't help but frown.
It is actually 100 meters deep underground.
The shape of the stone pillar at the underground end is not cylindrical, but is inserted into the ground like a sharp arrow.
The entire stone pillar looks like a nail driven deep into the ground.
The deeper she went underground, the stronger the energy fluctuations she sensed from the stone pillars became.
The source of this energy on the stone pillar comes from deep underground.
Qin Wan couldn't see what the source was specifically, he could only sense that it was a ball of light.
The tip of the nail-like stone pillar pierced through the ball of light and stabbed down fiercely.
In an instant, a painful roar of an animal seemed to sound in my ears.
The chanting sound seemed to come from the distant heaven and was extremely hazy.
When Qin Wan concentrated and tried to listen again, the beast roar was gone.
It was as if what she just heard was just her illusion.
Qin Wan frowned and probed with his mental power again.
There was no such thing as a ball of light; it was just rocks that glowed faintly deep underground.
The thing on the tip of the stone pillar was not a ball of light, but a stone that emitted a faint fluorescence.
Qin Wan shook her head and murmured softly:
"Is it an illusion?"
Qin Jingnian had already drawn the patterns on the stone pillar and had been paying attention to Qin Wan's condition.
Hearing Qin Wan muttering quietly and looking unhappy, he couldn't help but ask with concern:
"What's wrong sister?"
"Brother, I just..."
Qin Wan carefully recounted what she had sensed when she first used her mental power to probe into the ground. At the end, she looked at Qin Jingnian in confusion:
"Brother, do you think I am delusional?"
"It disappeared when I went to sense it the second time?"
"Ah."
Qin Wan nodded, "The second time, we only found ordinary stones that emitted a faint fluorescence.
I didn’t sense any energy fluctuations from it either, it was as if the energy fluctuations I sensed the first time were an illusion.”
"It shouldn't be an illusion."
Qin Jingnian affirmed.
Qin Wan: "What do you mean?"
Qin Jingnian pointed to the stone pillar in front of him and said, "Look at this pillar. Can you still sense the energy fluctuations on it?"
After Qin Jingnian's reminder, Qin Wan discovered that the energy fluctuations on the stone pillar that they had sensed when they first arrived had disappeared.
If the brother and sister hadn't sensed it, they would probably have thought it was someone's illusion.
"Brother, what do you mean?"
Qin Jingnian crossed his arms with one hand and touched his chin with the other:
"What I mean is that maybe when you released your mental power just now, the thing behind you noticed it.
Then that thing used some method to conceal the energy fluctuations we sensed."
Qin Wan thought about it and felt that what her brother said this time made sense.
"Sister, should we go and take a look at where the other pillars are placed?"
Qin Wan shook her head:
"If brother's guess is true, then my investigation of the stone pillar must have attracted the attention of the person behind the scenes.
The person behind this will definitely send someone out to check on the situation."
At the same time, in an underground palace deep in the valley, a formation emitting black gas was floating on an altar emitting a bloody smell.
The formation shook slightly, and the man in black guarding the formation immediately stood up to check.
Then the man in black shouted outside:
"Come here, there is something wrong with the formation, send someone outside to see if there is anything unusual?"
"Yes."
The moment Qin Wan finished speaking outside the valley, his spiritual power, which had been radiating outward, detected a group of people walking out of the valley.
"Someone is coming, brother, quickly hide in the space."
Qin Jingnian flashed into the space, and Qin Wan also entered the space after smoothing out the traces left by the two around.
When the patrol checked the vicinity, they found no traces.
"No one has been here before. Let's go to the next place."
"Yes."
In the space, Qin Jingnian and Qin Wan gathered together to study the stone pillars drawn on the blueprint and the patterns drawn on the stone pillars.
Neither of them could recognize the pattern.
After studying the arrangement of the stone pillars for a long time, I still couldn't find any pattern.
"Qiuqiu, can you tell anything from the pattern and the arrangement of the stone pillars?"
Qin Jingnian helplessly asked Qiuqiu for help.
Qiuqiu shook her head obediently:
"Unrecognizable."
Qin Jingnian:…….
He grabbed the ball in his hand and threw it far away.
"Let's play."
A scream came from the air:
"Ah, host brother, I hate you."
Qin Wan watched Qiuqiu's round figure disappear from her sight in a parabolic shape.
Suddenly he looked at his own figure, then at Qin Jingnian's figure, and let out a long sigh.
"Why are you sighing suddenly for no reason?" Qin Jingnian was puzzled.
Qin Wan pointed at herself, then at Qin Jingnian:
"I hate our small stature. If we were taller, we could kill two people and disguise ourselves as those men in black to easily blend into the enemy's ranks.
Once I figure out who the boss is, I can ask him why they planted these stone pillars.
This way, we don't have to stare at each other here, studying these incomprehensible patterns and strangely arranged stone pillars."
Qin Jingnian raised his eyebrows:
"Want to sneak into the enemy's team? That's not difficult. The enemies are all in the valley, right? Come on, if you want to sneak in, I'll take you in now."
As they spoke, the two of them left the space, and Qin Jingnian pulled Qin Wan and flashed towards the valley.