Chapter 14: The Purple Mist
I didn't want to sleep in the black palace in the distance, which looked particularly gloomy at night, so we all decided to sleep in an adobe house near the city gates. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoIf something really happens, you can quickly exit the ancient city!
It was supposed to be a commoner's house, with very rudimentary furnishings, and a few pieces of crockery of rough workmanship. But Luo Hai and Liu Ziping's eyes lit up when they saw it, it seemed that they were some years old.
There was an oil lamp in the house that had long since dried up, and when I saw it, I was so excited that I took out a lighter and lit it. I thought that after so many years of weathering, this thing would be extinguished after a burn, but I didn't expect it to burn all the time, and the oil in the oil lamp, which looked like it had long been solidified, slowly melted when it was hot. But the color of this fire is dark blue, and I really don't know what this lamp oil is made of.
Uncle Li also seemed to be very interested in this lamp oil, and he was stunned to observe it next to me for a long time.
"Uncle Li, what do you think this lamp oil is made of?" I asked him curiously.
Uncle Li dipped his fingers in the oil lamp a little and put it in front of his nose to sniff lightly, and then frowned and said, "It's shark oil! It's just that this thing should be very expensive in ancient times, and it is usually used as an everlasting lamp in the tombs of dignitaries and nobles, why does it appear in the home of such a commoner?"
As soon as Liu Ziping heard Uncle Li say that this was shark oil, he hurriedly came over to take a look.
"It's really shark oil!, but this thing can't be used as a lamp, because the seals of the tombs are usually very good, so the oxygen in them is limited, and the oxygen will definitely burn after lighting the wick. Once the oxygen runs out, the lights naturally go out. I've seen a lot, but I've never seen any of the lanterns in the tomb burning, most of them run out of oxygen and go out, and the mermaid oil inside is just like the things in this oil lamp, showing a semi-solidified state. ā
After listening to him, I thought to myself, Liu Ziping is really a professional tomb robber, it seems that everyone here has their own specialties.
Thinking of this, I deliberately asked Liu Ziping: "Brother Liu, how many years do you say this place has to be history?"
Liu Ziping glanced at the surrounding environment, and then said faintly, "Not to mention, it has to have a history of more than 2,000 years, you see the pottery in this house, the style is very similar to the Han Dynasty, but it is different." In ancient times, there were many small countries here, such as Loulan and Ruoqiang. I can't really see what kind of ruins of the ancient country are here, but one thing is for sure, this place has not been discovered before, otherwise I must have heard of it. ā
I know that Liu Ziping has a lot of say in this direction, and what he said should be inseparable, but I don't know if we can be the first lucky ones to announce the discovery of this site. In fact, I have been thinking about the "Black City" that Uncle Li said before, but I am afraid that no one has been here before, but those who have been here have not walked out of the desert alive......
Suddenly, a rush of urine hit, and when I saw that it was dark outside, I was a little scared. So I pushed Ding Yi next to me and said with a smile: "Hehe...... It's convenient to accompany me outside. ā
Ding Yi didn't speak, he got up and took out a wolf-eye flashlight from his backpack, and then waved at me to signal me to follow him. After I went outside to solve the internal emergency, I didn't want to stay outside for a minute, but as soon as I turned around, I suddenly felt that something was wrong.
After observing for a while, I realized why there was no wind in this ancient city? Even if it was because the buildings in the ancient city blocked the wind, I still remember the strong wind in the second half of last night, how could I not feel the slightest wind?
Thinking of this, I looked around, but I was immediately frightened and almost peed again. At this time, every house in the city was lit up with a faint blue light! It was as if the inhabitants had returned to their homes......
Just when I was confused, Ding Yi next to me suddenly pulled me back quickly.
"Slow down...... Why are you walking so fast?" I lost my body and almost didn't fall to the ground by him, but fortunately, Ding Yi's strength was great, and he lifted me up and walked back quickly.
As he dragged me back, I noticed something strange under my feet. If you look closely, there are layers of mist on the ground that are as thin as cicada's wings, and the strangest thing is that these mist are actually lilac!
After returning to the house, Ding Yi immediately turned around and plugged in the deadbolt.
Uncle Li saw that the two of us were nervous, so he asked, "What's wrong with you?
I shook my head and told everyone what we had just seen, and they all looked horrified. Uncle Li looked out through the window, and was speechless for a long time. I saw a faint layer of purple mist floating on the ground in the city, which looked extremely weird.
I don't know what it is, why I felt a strong sadness before I even entered the city, but when I came in, I couldn't feel anything!
And that mysterious back, if I'm not mistaken, the guy we're looking for. But he couldn't have survived until now! And his remnant soul was already attached to his pocket watch, which meant that he was dead! But why did he appear in this ancient city that should not have appeared?
There are too many questions for me to figure out now, and the purple fog outside and the sudden lighting of the mermaid oil lamp make the whole ancient city look even more terrifying.
As soon as I thought of this merman lantern that should not have appeared in ordinary people's homes, a terrible thought suddenly came to my heart...... Could it be that the entire ancient city is a large ancient tomb?
I told everyone what I thought, but Uncle Li was the first to shake his head and said, "How can there be such an ancient tomb?" Haizi, have you ever met Ziping?"
Both of them shook their heads and said, "It's really weird, but it's certainly not an ancient tomb." Judging from the architectural layout and the utensils in the house, they should all be objects from 2,000 years ago, but in terms of newness and oldness, it does not seem to have such a long history. The wind and sand here are raging all the year round, and some of the ancient city ruins with a history of thousands of years should have been seen by everyone, but they have long been in ruins, where can they be so intact as they are now?"
"It won't be a movie city here, right?" Ye Zhiqiu said weakly.
I shook my head and said, "This is even more impossible, how can anyone build a cinema in such a desolate place! Even if there is, there must be staff guarding here? And now the cinema city is all for land occupation, who can be stupid to run to such a desolate and remote place to occupy an area?"