NOVPUBWu Bin looked at the stone door in front of him and asked nervously, "So, you all are not here for archaeology?"
Jin Nanhua smiled and said, "Saying we are archaeologists isn’t wrong either, after all, members of the Dragon Clan have been asleep in remote areas, and they sleep for hundreds or even thousands of years."
"So finding their hiding places is in itself a form of archaeology."
Just as Jin Nanhua finished speaking, an assistant walked over from afar.
"Doctor, it has been confirmed that there is indeed a large space behind the stone door. Judging from the stone carvings around, this should be a Dragon Tomb, likely the tomb of a giant turtle fish."
Jin Nanhua asked, "Can the door of this tomb be opened?"
The assistant said awkwardly, "The method to open this stone door is a bit complicated. We detected many gears and linkages inside it, making it difficult to crack the opening method in a short time."
"If we need to get in, we can directly perform controlled blasting."
The demolition experts were already in place.
Now, as soon as Jin Nanhua gave the order, they could blast the stone door at any moment.
But Jin Nanhua shook his head.
"Every item here belongs to the relics of Dragon Country; we are not tomb raiders and can’t break in using such a brutal method."
"If it really doesn’t work, we’ll just take pictures and record, and think about how to open the stone door slowly after we go back."
Just as Jin Nanhua finished speaking, Wu Bin, as if possessed by a ghost, walked up to the stone door.
The door was covered in relief patterns, among hundreds of giant turtle fishes, one of them was the correct key to opening the stone door.
To an ordinary person, these turtle fishes all looked similar, with no apparent difference.
But to Wu Bin, one of the turtle fishes obviously looked different from the others.
"Does opening a door need research? It’s obviously this one."
Wu Bin reached out and directly pressed on the head of that turtle fish.
This action frightened everyone.
"Don’t mess with it!"
The assistant wanted to step forward to stop him, but it was too late.
Wu Bin pressed down, and the whole mountain started to shake violently as if he had triggered some mechanism.
Everyone became tense.
Places inhabited by the Dragon Clan often contained deadly traps against intruders.
If Wu Bin’s careless pressing had triggered a trap, their group would likely be in grave danger!
Along with the shaking of the entire mountain, the turtle fish on the stone door changed.
Black slime oozed out from the body of the turtle fish, and in no time, it had completely blackened the turtle fish.
Then the entire stone carving pattern changed.
All the turtle fishes parted left and right, as if making way for the black turtle fish.
That black turtle fish then ascended higher and higher, going directly under the Dragon Gate!
With a thunderous rumble,
the stone door, sealed for a thousand years, began to open left and right, accompanied by a series of loud noises.
Everyone stared at Wu Bin, speechless.
Nightingale frowned and asked, "How did you know that fish was the button for the door?"
Wu Bin didn’t know how to explain either.
Seeing Wu Bin’s embarrassment, Jin Nanhua smiled and helped him out.
"Maybe it’s just intuition. Intuition is also very important in our line of work."
Jin Nanhua always seemed to have an unexplainable trust in Wu Bin.
But the assistant was very dissatisfied on the side.
"Doctor, if he had pressed the wrong place just now, we might have very well died!"
"With relics related to the Dragon Clan, there are many traps that put people in mortal danger. He shouldn’t gamble with our lives, should he?"
Wu Bin hadn’t expected it to be so dangerous, and he awkwardly said to his assistant, "Sorry, I just pressed it without thinking. Don’t worry, I won’t mess around anymore, I’ll listen to you all."
Having received Wu Bin’s assurance, the assistant finally closed his mouth.
It was then that Jin Nanhua spoke up, "Alright, let’s save the discussions for later. Hu Feng, lead the way."
"Yes, Doctor."
Hu Feng, leading a few advance team members, paved the way for everyone.
Behind the stone door was a long corridor.
The corridor wasn’t wide, only enough to accommodate two people walking side by side, and it was just two meters high.
But what shocked Jin Nanhua was that the walls of this corridor were densely covered with murals!
Jin Nanhua excitedly asked for the camera to be taken out.
"These are all valuable Dragon Clan research materials! Quick, start filming, make sure to capture them clearly!"
As a doctor who had studied the Dragon Clan for over a decade, Jin Nanhua was as thrilled at seeing these murals as if he had discovered a treasure.
The most difficult aspect of studying the Dragon Clan was finding genuine materials.
If humans considered the Dragon Clan as adversaries, then according to the logic of Dragon Country, mustn’t one know both the enemy and oneself to be ever-victorious?
But the Dragon Clan had existed for too long.
During the periods when humans were ruled by the Dragon Clan, no one would document or record details.
Because such an act would be as bizarre as your pet dog suddenly starting to write a diary in their own way, it would naturally draw the attention of their master.
Jin Nanhua, holding a flashlight, examined the murals and tried to interpret them.
Although Wu Bin also felt that the murals were quite exquisite, he absolutely could not understand what the content on the murals meant.
"Doctor, what do these paintings actually mean?"
Hearing Wu Bin’s question, Jin Nanhua patiently began to explain.
"Looking at the content of these murals, it should be the story of Nuwa mending the sky."
Wu Bin immediately perked up upon hearing this.
He was familiar with Nuwa mending the sky!
He had heard this mythological story since he was a child and knew it by heart!
Wu Bin scanned the mural, asking, "That’s not right, Doctor. Where is Nuwa? I don’t see her."
Jin Nanhua explained, "Nuwa couldn’t possibly appear in these murals, as lower deities can’t appear alongside higher deities. Even if they do appear, they cannot directly depict the gestures of higher deities, otherwise they would be punished."
"What?"
Wu Bin was stunned.
"Then how do you know this is about Nuwa mending the sky?"
Jin Nanhua pointed at a dark hole above in the mural, then pointed at the five-colored stone beneath it.
"Isn’t that obvious?"
"Take another look around this mural. Are there four pillars?"
Upon closer inspection, Wu Bin indeed saw them.
However, the shape of these pillars was very strange, and the patterns on them looked like crocodile skin.
Jin Nanhua said, "These four pillars are the legs of a mythical turtle, used to support the sky."
Nightingale also spoke up at this time, "It is said that in ancient times, the sky collapsed and the earth caved in, wreaking havoc on all living beings."
"Unable to bear the suffering of creatures, Nuwa smelted five-colored stones to mend the sky, chopped the feet of a divine turtle to support the cardinal points, controlled floods and fierce beasts, balanced yin and yang, eliminated adverse energy, and finally brought peace to all beings."
The others nodded, all agreeing that Nightingale was correct.
Wu Bin stood to the side feeling a bit awkward.
Damn, why was their version of Nuwa mending the sky so different from what he knew?
He remembered Nuwa mending the sky as simply grabbing a stone and flying up to plug the hole, and wondered if it was really that complicated.
With talk of five-colored stones and mythical turtle legs.
