Chapter 188: The Tower
And finally, after all this distance, they finally came out of the endless desert.
????“ Is that an oasis?" exclaimed in surprise, as if it were really a lost desert traveler who had seen the joy of an oasis coming to life.
????“ It's the forest!Are we coming out of here?" Kang Long couldn't help but be a little surprised, he looked at Li Feng, his eyes seemed to ask what was going on.
????“ Have we just come out of that psychedelic forest?" someone muttered.
???? But someone retorted, "Who knows? Maybe we haven't gone out yet, and the forest ahead is still within the scope of that psychedelic forest!"
????“ Aren't we? Haven't we gone out yet?"
????“ Why did we come in in the first place where the birds don't poop?" someone complained.
????“ Let's hope we're out, or it's maddening. "Someone comforts himself.
????“ Could it be a mirage?"
???? Li Feng turned around, glanced at them, then looked at Kang Long, and said, "I think we shouldn't have gone out yet, let's keep going!"
???? Before the men could complain, the group continued on their way, heading towards the green area ahead.
???? After entering the forest, everyone felt a sense of relief for no reason, a sense of relief, and the scorching sun was not as vicious as before, which made people feel refreshed.
???? The place was full of life, and after a few kilometers of travel, they felt like they were back in the forest where they had started, and if they hadn't found themselves still unable to touch everything here, they would almost have believed that they had come out.
???? It was about a few hundred meters ahead.
????“ There are people in front!" One of the people walking in front suddenly saw a few scattered figures not far ahead, and couldn't help but exclaim.
???? Needless to say, everyone who went to the front also noticed the figure that appeared in front of them.
????“ "Qiu Fengdao was very puzzled, how could there be people in this barren and populated place?
???? But then he figured out that this place was an illusory place, and it was in an illusion, so those people should also be illusions.
???? Everyone was also a little shocked and puzzled at first, but they quickly figured it out like Qiu Fengdao.
???? And as the crowd gradually approached, they found that this was not a few scattered people, but very fast people, these people were coarsely clothed, devoting themselves to labor under the sun, in full swing, with an orderly division of labor, cutting trees, mining, planting...... It seems to be building a home.
???? Is this a village?
???? These people did not flee because of their arrival, but they did not treat them as guests from afar, and they did not mean to be hospitable, but after a glance, they continued to devote themselves to their work, as if they were enjoying what they were doing.
???? This made everyone look at each other a little, and they couldn't help but wonder where the village here was.
???? Kang Long coughed lightly, took the initiative to step forward, and stopped a villager from a local village, "Uncle, we are travelers from afar, can you tell me what kind of place this is?"
????“ Here, of course, is our village. After being stopped, the middle-aged uncle replied.
???? Kang Long asked, "What kind of village are you?"
????“ What kind of village? It's a big village, of course. The middle-aged uncle replied.
???? Kang Long explained: "No, I'm asking what is the name of this village?"
????“ A village is a village, what else can it be called?" the middle-aged uncle was puzzled.
???? Kang Long asked, "Isn't there any other village here?"
????“ No. The middle-aged uncle replied sincerely, as if he didn't mean to lie to him.
????“ How big is your village?" Kang Long asked.
???? The middle-aged uncle raised his hand and pointed to the direction behind him, "From there, all the way down, it's our village, I don't know how big it is." ”
???? After hearing this reply, everyone couldn't help but be a little surprised and puzzled, so how big is this? Or did this uncle himself not understand?
???? Kang Long asked, "What about the chief of your village, and where is he?"
????“ We don't have a village chief. The middle-aged uncle replied.
???? Kang Long couldn't help but be a little surprised, "There is no village chief, who is in charge of your work and the construction of the village?"
????“ Of course, we work and build on our own. The middle-aged uncle replied: "Okay, I won't tell you, I still have work to do, you can do it yourself!"
???? After that, the middle-aged uncle ignored everyone's resistance again and went back to work, and as expected, they really couldn't touch and intervene in everything here, and the same is true for the villagers here, they seem to be outsiders who have come here as holographic projections.
???? However, this also confirms that they are still in the psychedelic forest and have not gone out.
???? But how are they supposed to get out? So they stopped one of the villagers and asked, "How are we going to get out?"
???? Surprisingly, the villager didn't ask where they were going, as if he knew where they came from or where they were going, and pointed in the direction behind him and said, "Go in this direction and you can get out." ”
???? This direction is the direction in which the sun moved when Li Feng pointed out, which is actually the west, and it still has to continue to go west?
???? But as to why he was able to get out, the villager did not say much, and continued to devote himself to his work.
???? Everyone asked several villagers in a row, but they were all like this, not only them, but even Li Feng was a little puzzled, but what could be done?
???? They had to go in the direction they said, or where else could they go?
???? The mighty westward journey team of more than 300 people, after a short pause and a short rest, continued to move forward, and really felt like going to the west to learn from the scriptures...... Could it be that when they arrived at their destination, the treasure they found was a pile of Buddhist scriptures?
???? They walked through the boundless village, really as the middle-aged old man said, this village was huge, almost big and boundless, and they had all traveled about the same distance as a city, and they still hadn't come to an end.
???? They couldn't help but wonder, can this really be called a village? It's so big, it's bigger than several cities combined, right?
???? Further back, the larger the village becomes, with huge stones cut and carved to build towers or ornate buildings.
???? On the way, they also encountered an ore field, where many villagers were mining various minerals such as gold and jade.
???? These mined gold and jade stones are dazzling and radiating under the sun's rays...... People seem to be born with a liking for these gorgeous and dazzling things, otherwise how could they go to such great lengths to mine these things that do not wait to eat or drink?
???? ......
???? Gradually, everyone found out that they had really walked out of the village, as the villagers said.
???? Are they finally going out again?
???? Then what appeared in front of them was another endless desert...... Dare they just come out of this village?
???? So how should the psychedelic forest get out?
???? It felt like I had been tricked by those villagers......
???? So Li Feng and the others went back and asked the villagers here again.
????“ We're going out, how should we go?"
????“ Just go in that direction!"
???? Sure enough, the villager who answered the question also pointed to the west where they had been walking.
???? This made everyone a little confused, they didn't understand the world, and they didn't understand these villagers and this strange village, the psychedelic forest...... Is it really worthy of its name?
???? This confuses them, how the hell are they going to get out?
???? There was no way, and the people didn't ask for any useful information from these villagers, so Ximen might be the only clue, so they could only move on.
???? ......
???? If...... If it is really calculated according to the number of roads in Journey to the West, does it mean that they will have to walk through another eighty villages after that?
???? ......
???? Continuing all the way to the west, there was a desert as far as the eye could see, but for some reason, this place suddenly fell into the eternal night, and the sun could not be seen, even the strangers and cultivators felt a biting cold.
???? On the road, you can see a few tall towers piled up of stones, and beyond that, there are piles of rubble, and stones can be seen everywhere.
???? ......
????“ Someone! Someone appeared in front of them!" suddenly exclaimed from the group.
???? When they looked up, they saw a figure in the distance, had they arrived at another village?
???? Closer to that, you can see a large cluster of buildings, but instead of wooden houses, they are tall towers made of stone.
???? In the open space next to the tower, a group of people can be seen gathered together, holding their hands high, as if they are huddling together to keep warm, but their center is not a fire, but above the center, there is a bright point of light relative to the night sky, like a light bulb floating in the dark, which is eye-catching.
???? Scenes like this are not just in one place, but everywhere in this place, and you can see such scenes in the open space of the tower, and they are exactly the same points of light.
???? Li Feng and the others stepped forward, very puzzled, so they asked, "What are you doing?"
????“ Warm up. A closer man replied.
???? Li Feng pointed to the point of light above the middle and asked, "What is that? What are you doing around this thing?"
???? The man replied, "That's the star, and we're around the star for warmth!"
???? Li Feng leaned out his consciousness and felt that the star was indeed a little hot, but this heat was not at all comparable to the warmth brought by the sun or the bonfire, and their so-called heating was not caused by the heat brought by the stars, but gathered together.
????“ Since you feel cold, why don't you go home?" Li Feng thought of this question and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Maybe it's much warmer in the tower than outside." ”
???? As a result, the man gave Li Feng an unexpected answer, "We don't have the right to live in the tower. ”
???? Li Feng looked strange and surprised, and asked, "Why? There are so many towers here, aren't they used for living?"
????“ Of course, it's for living, but we don't have residency. The man replied.
???? Li Feng asked, "Then why...... Are you outsiders? Didn't you participate in the construction of the tower?"
???? The man hesitated for a moment before he said, "It's true that we didn't participate in the construction of the towers, because many of the towers here have been built since before we came. ”
???? Li Feng and the others suddenly felt like this......
???? But before Li Feng could ask again, the man suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed in the distance in another direction, where there was another group of people, cutting stones, building towers, "They also didn't ......"