What shocked Chen Mo was that after descending so deeply, there was still such a vast space. If his vision had not been as clear as daylight, he would have suspected something was wrong with his eyes.
The platform he stood on could be described as a cliffside ledge, still more than a hundred meters above the bottom of the entire space. The platform beneath his feet covered nearly a hundred square meters and was shaped like a half-ellipse. Moreover, that half-ellipse was remarkably neat—one glance was enough to tell that it had been made by human hands.
But how was that possible? Judging from the statues and ruins they had encountered on the way down, these things should have been relics from Cambodia's Khmer period, with a history of nearly a thousand years!
The entire platform was located inside an enormous cave. The cave resembled an inverted hemisphere. As for its size, Chen Mo estimated from what he could see that the hemisphere's diameter was roughly twelve or thirteen kilometers, while its height was likely several kilometers. His eyesight was exceptionally good, yet even from where he stood, he could not clearly make out the opposite side.
That estimate of the semicircular expanse was only preliminary. It might have been smaller than it appeared, or the actual distance might have far exceeded what he could see. But the mere existence of such an immense space was utterly unbelievable.
After all, with so much earth, rock, and other material above it, how could such a space possibly support itself? Yet it still existed, and seemed to be holding up perfectly well! That was somewhat eerie.
When he looked up toward the heights of the hemisphere, he saw nothing but rock. He could not tell whether it had been polished, but