sinovels Chapter 16 Fatal Curiosity, the Professor's Mistake
Chapter 16 Fatal Curiosity, the Professor's Mistake
After a brief rest, the team immediately headed towards the buildings.
Everyone was filled with awe and anticipation.
After passing through a huge pile of rubble formed by collapsed buildings, the entire temple was finally revealed to everyone without reservation.
It was an extremely magnificent circular underground temple.
The entire temple appears to have been hollowed out from a single, massive black rock, with a diameter of at least one hundred meters.
In the center of the temple, sixteen enormous black stone pillars stood in neat rows.
Each stone pillar is over ten meters tall and requires five or six people to encircle it.
The pillar was densely covered with countless eerie eye totems and ghostly runes that looked like scribbled symbols. Under the beam of a flashlight, it seemed as if countless eyes were watching them from the darkness, radiating a chilling sense of oppression.
At the very center of the circle formed by the sixteen stone pillars is a circular stone platform carved from a single, enormous piece of white marble that emits a soft white light.
"My God...this...this is simply a miracle..."
Professor Zhou muttered to himself, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes vigorously with the back of his hand, as if he could not believe what he was seeing.
"Professor, the material of this stone pillar... doesn't seem to be local rock."
Chen Wentao had recovered slightly from the previous setback. He walked to a stone pillar, shone his flashlight on it carefully, and looked extremely confused.
"The surfaces of these stone pillars are too smooth, and there are no traces of splicing, as if they were formed naturally. But in this geological environment, it is simply impossible to form a solid rock of this material."
"And this white jade platform..."
Student Fang Ting adjusted her glasses, her voice filled with shock: "How could such a huge piece of white marble have been transported from the Central Plains, thousands of miles away, to this place, and how was it transported to this depth underground, given the limited productivity of ancient times?"
Scientific common sense once again proves powerless here.
After a brief period of silence, the chat in the live stream room erupted in excitement.
Holy crap! Is this real? I thought I was watching Avatar!
Sixteen black stone pillars standing on a white jade platform in the center—this scene is incredibly striking!
This is definitely made by aliens! Humans couldn't possibly have this kind of technology!
Lin Mu didn't speak; he simply stared at the scene before him, his heart filled with the same shock.
"Everyone be careful, follow me."
Lin Mu took a deep breath and was the first to step forward, walking towards the white jade platform in the center of the temple.
The group followed him cautiously, passing through the black stone pillars that stood like ancient giants.
Upon closer inspection, the entire white jade platform becomes even clearer.
The stone platform is about five meters in diameter, and in addition to its smooth jade surface, it is also engraved with a circle of extremely precise lines, like clockwork markings.
In the very center of the stone platform, there is a fist-sized jade artifact shaped like an eyeball, carved from a single piece of white jade – the Jade Eye.
This jade eye is exquisitely carved and lifelike, but what is most strange is that its pupil is a black seven-aperture hole.
"Professor, look at this!"
Chen Wentao pointed at the jade eyes and shouted excitedly.
Professor Zhou strode forward, and when he saw the white jade eye and the hole below it, his expression changed drastically, and his breathing became rapid.
"Key...keyhole!"
Professor Zhou's voice trembled. He turned around abruptly and carefully took out a simple-looking blue jade pendant from his close-fitting shockproof box.
"Before we set off, based on a record in a fragment of an ancient book, we found this jade pendant in an ancient ruin on the edge of Lop Nur. At the time, we only knew it was related to the ancient Jingjue Kingdom, but we never knew its specific purpose... until now..."
As Professor Zhou spoke, he excitedly aligned the jade pendant with the hole below the jade eye.
"Click".
With a crisp, clear sound, the jade pendant was perfectly embedded in the hole, fitting snugly.
"Success! We've found the core of the mechanism!"
Chen Wen shouted excitedly at the TPP.
Professor Zhou was moved to tears; he had dedicated his entire life to archaeology and had never made such a significant discovery.
Overwhelmed by his academic fervor, he instinctively reached out to pick up the white jade eye, which already had a key inserted, and began to examine its structure closely.
At this moment, Lin Mu's attention was completely elsewhere than on the stone platform.
His brows were furrowed, and his gaze was fixed on the dome of the temple.
Zhang Qiling's template-infused beastly intuition made him sense an extremely dangerous aura coming from above.
Knowing the plot well, he knew that there was a deadly threat hidden within that could wipe out the entire archaeological team.
He raised his tactical flashlight, turned the beam to maximum power, and shone it onto the dome.
In the very center of the temple dome, there was a huge eye relief made of pure gold, with a diameter of over three meters!
Around that giant golden eye, dozens or even hundreds of strange black snakes were coiled up in dense array!
"Watch your head, and don't touch anything unnecessarily!"
Lin Mu was about to issue a warning.
But it was too late.
In those few short seconds, Professor Zhou, driven by academic fervor, reached out and picked up the white jade eye on the stone platform.
The moment the jade eye left the stone platform!
"call out--!"
A black lightning bolt suddenly shot out from the hole below the jade eye, heading straight for Professor Zhou's face!
It was a small snake, completely black and only as thick as a baby's arm!
"Professor, watch out!"
Su Nianwei and Ye Zhiqi exclaimed in surprise at the same time.
But everything happened too fast!
Lin Mu's reaction was incredibly fast!
Before he could even pull out his entrenching tool, he darted forward like a ghost and shoved Professor Zhou aside.
At the same time, his uninjured right hand, with his index and middle fingers joined together like iron clamps, precisely gripped the small black snake's vital spot!
"Snap!"
With a crisp crack, the snake's spine was instantly crushed.
However, Professor Zhou, who was pushed aside, stumbled and his hand slipped due to his advanced age.
"Snapped!"
The white jade eye he held in his palm crashed heavily onto the hard black rock and shattered into pieces instantly!
"boom--!!!"
The moment the jade eye shattered, a tremendous roar, like thunder, suddenly resounded from the dome of the entire temple!
The light from the enormous golden eye relief on the dome dimmed instantly.
Then, something truly shocking happened.
The nearly one hundred black-eyed serpents that had been quietly coiled on the dome suddenly seemed to have lost some kind of restraint and instantly went berserk!
They emitted sharp hisses, like black waterfalls cascading down from the dome tens of meters high!