Li Mu was bold. Without any hesitation, he directly went down the stairs like a ramp.
The stairs were not long, only more than 20 steps, and they were connected to an underground chamber of several hundred meters square.
The area of the chamber was not small, supported by six rock prisms. The walls were not exquisite, but absolutely solid. The cyan brick walls were rough and uneven. There were torches hanging on all sides of the walls. There were air holes in the four upper corners of the chamber, so it was not too stuffy, and there was a trace of moisture in the air.
At a glance, Li Mu could conclude that this chamber was not built for a long time.
In the chamber, Li Mu was not surprised to find a pile of gold, silver, jewelry, and various kinds of jade.
In addition, there were various weapon racks, on which many extraordinary weapons were placed, such as knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks. In the northwest corner of the chamber, there were nearly a hundred huge wooden boxes emitting the smell of oil. When he opened them, he found that they were all fine steel weapons, mainly swords and armors, which were soaked in oil and kept in very good condition.
"These nearly a hundred boxes of weapons can equip an army of more than 1,000 people, and it is more than enough. Ma San is just a ruffian. How could he have such things? Is he going to rebel?"
Li Mu felt more and more strange.
He realized that he might have accidentally broken something.
Finally, what attracted Li Mu's attention was a small building similar to an altar in the middle of the chamber.
This small altar was more than two meters high, divided into six layers, large at the bottom and small at the top. It was stacked with white marble, and there was a small staircase on each side. On the marble, various patterns were carved, and the carving was extremely exquisite. At first glance, it was not carved by ordinary stonemasons.
At the top of the altar, there was a jade table, on which there were candlesticks, offerings and other things, but there was nothing special.
He stepped back and carefully observed the various patterns on the stone layer of the altar.
They were all pictographic patterns without words. The various scenes depicted were more like some kind of religious sacrificial ceremony, with the process of offering sacrifices to heaven, offering animals, ceremonies, and so on. The system was relatively complete. And the image that appeared most in the various patterns was the image of a black ball with three tails, which seemed to be some kind of totem pattern.
In addition, Li Mu did not find anything special.
Judging from the general layout of the entire chamber, Li Mu felt that this place seemed to be a secret branch of a cult.
However, he couldn't see anything from the altar alone.
Li Mu's attention returned to the gold, silver, jewelry, and weapons in this secret chamber.
"I have to find a way to bring all these things back to Taibai County."
Without thinking, Li Mu made up his mind.
No matter what these ruffians wanted to do by preparing so many weapons, one thing was certain, it was absolutely not a good thing. If they really succeeded in their plan, it must be a disaster for ordinary poor people. Now that the ruffians were dead, it was time to "make use of the waste" and take them back to Taibai County to protect the border and pacify the people. It was just a good use.
Zheng Cunjian, the Heartless Scholar, had to take responsibility for that.
As Li Mu pondered, he checked all the items in the secret chamber and came to a conclusion.
Then, he went to the small altar in the middle of the secret chamber and looked down at it carefully to see if he had missed anything.
After a round of checking, there were no omissions.
Li Mu had an idea. He held the candlestick in his hand and weighed it. Then he subconsciously glanced at the stone table on the altar.
Eh, there was actually a carving and painting pattern on the surface of the stone table.
Compared to the pattern on the altar before, this pattern was much clearer, be it in terms of carving or drawing. It was a Heaven Offering Diagram. A group of figures dressed in strange black clothes were surrounding a strange metal beast and worshipping something. The lines were vivid and lifelike, giving people a sense of lifelike.
All kinds of sacrifices were placed around the metal beast. There were not only cattle and sheep, but also all kinds of rare birds and beasts that Li Mu couldn't name. At first glance, he knew they were not ordinary. There were even living people as sacrifices. It was a very grand scale.
"This metal beast is a bit interesting. It looks weird. Why does it look like a Transformer? Haha …"
Li Mu looked at it and found the object that those men in black were worshipping a little familiar.
And the more he looked, the more familiar he found it.
"Wait!"
"This thing … Why … It looks like …"
Li Mu suddenly widened his eyes.
He was shocked because the so-called metal beast looked more like a spaceship … No … To be precise, it looked like some kind of high-tech metal detector.
Brackets, solar panels, radar, and metal tracks!
"Holy crap!"
Li Mu almost exclaimed aloud.
"No way, is it really … an alien detector?"
He couldn't believe his eyes.
To make sure that he was not mistaken, Li Mu directly took a torch from the wall of the secret chamber and held it up to take a closer look.
"Yes, it is definitely an alien detector."
And, he was sure that it must be a detector from Earth.
Because after careful observation, Li Mu saw two very small but very familiar letters on the metal beast in the pattern on the jade table — NASA.
NASA, the English abbreviation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
There could never be such a coincidence in the world.
It was one thing for the metal beast to look like a space probe, but it just had to have four English letters on it. Even if it was just one English letter, it might still be a coincidence, but the four letters were in the exact same order. This was too much of a problem.
Li Mu carefully looked at it dozens of times to make sure that he was not mistaken.
Judging from the size of the human figure on the pattern, this metal space detector was at least a dozen meters high, like a small six-story building. Of course, Li Mu could only make a guess about the appearance of this detector. He did not know what kind it was and whether it could carry people.
Or further, whether this thing was a space shuttle or an unmanned detector, he was not sure.
After all, no one knew how many detectors the major scientific and technological countries on Earth had sent into the depths of the universe, and no one knew what the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration had done.
But this was not Li Mu's concern.
What he was most concerned about now was why this thing suspected to be a space shuttle or a space detector — well, let's call it a spacecraft for the time being. How on earth did this spacecraft come to this planet?
Did it drift here on its own?
Or did it get involved in some kind of space-time tunnel in the process of drifting in the universe and happened to fall in this world?
This question was very important for Li Mu.
If it was the former, it meant that Earth was not far from this Martial Art Planet. In the era when humans on Earth entered the era of launching probes into outer space, they had committed no more than a hundred years. Even if the detector in the pattern on the stone table was one of the earliest detectors launched from Earth, it had only drifted in the universe for a hundred years at most. How far could it drift in this way of completely drifting in the universe even for a hundred years?
The closer this Martial Art Planet was to Earth, the less difficult and more hopeful it was for Li Mu to return to Earth in the future.
On the contrary, if it was the second possibility, that this spacecraft was involved in some kind of space-time vortex, space-time crack or black hole in the process of sailing and then landed on this planet, then for Li Mu, there was really no reference value.
There was another question that also interested Li Mu.
What was the identity of these men in black who worshiped the spacecraft as a totem?
Were they people on Earth carried in the spacecraft?
Or … the aborigines of this planet?
In Li Mu's mind, at this moment, no one knew how many thoughts came to mind.
But thousands of thoughts were mixed, and he couldn't figure out a clue at all.
Indeed, everything he saw in the pattern on the stone table was too much for him. Li Mu never dreamed that he would encounter some traces and clues of Earth on this planet.
He stepped back from the altar and looked carefully again. He found that the most frequently coveted black balls with three tails on the stone layer of the altar were similar to the freehand patterns of satellites or detectors.
Li Mu took a deep breath, ran the Xiantian Skill, sat on the top of the altar, and forced himself to calm down.
First of all, no matter what the truth was, it was good news that there were traces of the Earth civilization on this planet. At least, it showed that the two planets were not completely unrelated. There were still some subtle connections. Even these subtle connections were a clue worth exploring for Li Mu, who was hell-bent on returning to Earth.
Secondly, the picture of the men in black worshiping the spacecraft showed that in this martial art world, there was actually such a group of people, whether they were lunatics, cults, or descendants of Earth people, at least they had some understanding of spacecraft.
"I must find a way to find those men in black painted on the pattern."
Li Mu made up his mind.
Unfortunately, in this villa tonight, Ma San and other ruffians were all killed by the sword of the woman in white, and no one was left alive. Otherwise, he could get some clues from Ma San.
"Ma San must have something to do with the black-clothed man on the pattern on the stone table. He may even be a member of the black-clothed man's gang. This explains why a little rascal like Ma San could gather so many people to work for him and own such a manor, as well as so many gold and silver treasures and excellent weapons."
Li Mu sorted out his thoughts bit by bit.
"So, if I want to trace the whereabouts of the gang of the men in black, I have to start with the people around Ma San."
"By the way, Granny Cai also said that Ma San just made his fortune in the last half year, that is to say, he joined the organization of the men in black in the last one or two years, or was supported by the organization of the men in black. As long as I check the people he often contacted in the last one or two years, I will definitely find some clues."
"It is said that someone in the town government supports Ma San. Is it possible that someone in the organization of the men in black is lurking in the government?"
His eyes were getting brighter and brighter.
Nothing in the world is difficult for a determined person.
As long as he carefully investigated, he would definitely find some clues.
Li Mu gradually had an idea.
But at this time, Li Mu's face changed.
His hearing was extremely sharp. If he listened carefully, he could even distinguish the sound of ants crawling 100 meters away. Even if he did not deliberately, he could clearly hear any wind blowing grass within 20 meters.
At this moment, Li Mu clearly heard a sudden sound of footsteps outside the secret room.
And the footsteps were dense, and there was more than one. At least 40 or 50 people came, and there was a faint sound of armor rubbing in the air. Among them, there were several warriors in Joint-qi level who walked lightly. Judging from this posture, it should be the guards of the town government.
"Block the whole villa for me, and no one is allowed to go in or out."
"Investigate, find out the truth for me, and don't let go of any clues to find out who committed the murder."
"Your honor, is there an entrance to a secret room here?"
"Archers guard the entrance, and send people down to have a look."
Loud shouts and noises came from the top of the stairs of the secret room.
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