Chapter Twenty-Four: The Corpse
Like the first one, the second "yurt" building was weathered into a wreckage in a short period of time.
The masonry faded and cracked everywhere, and the wall lamps were extinguished.
Although this is shocking, it is somewhat expected by everyone. It really made even Ying Xingtian, a top martial arts master, almost lose his mind...... It is the five-meter-diameter wide hole that appears in front of everyone at this moment, the countless deep and shallow footprint stone pits on the ground inside the building, and the wall lamp that has been pinched into powder on the surrounding walls!
ββThe interior of this "yurt" building, which is several kilometers away from the previous one, is exactly the same as the damage caused by Ying Xingtian in the first "yurt" a few minutes ago!
Every detail, every footprint stone pit, is no different from the memory of everyone, which is not blurry.
Even Ying Xingtian finally expanded the original two-meter hole to a five-meter diameter, which was exactly the same.
It was as if the kilometers of straight road they had just walked had suddenly returned to the original point somewhere.
Ying Xingtian turned over and entered again, and quickly walked around in a large pile of debris and rubble, and the more he walked, the more solemn his face became.
With his realm as a top martial arts master, his own power control and surrounding environment perception were also beyond the limits of human cultivators, and he soon discovered that this "yurt" building was the first building that he had destructively inspected a few minutes ago.
It's just that...... How can it be?
A straight road, with buildings at least five kilometers apart on both sides, and nothing unusual happened during the walk from that side, why is there such a strange situation!?
His face sank like water, and he turned back into the corridor again, and quickly led everyone back without saying a word.
Just before leaving, he quietly stretched out his hand and carved a simple symbol on the five-meter-diameter hole.
Although the seven people followed behind and did not hear the explanation, they also guessed one or two from Ying Xingtian's face, and they looked at each other one by one, and their hearts were full of surprise. Even in the experience of these masters of the "Hidden Dragon Abyss" who have experienced several ruins exploration, they have never encountered such a strange and extraordinary situation.
Although the labyrinth formation is rare, it is occasionally encountered, and the space formation is often used as a teleportation channel, with a single effect and basically has great restrictions on use. The peculiar combination of this "suspected" space formation and the maze formation is simply unheard of.
In this world, can there really be a space maze that can make the people of Yingxingtian unaware of it?
A few minutes later, the people who returned to the original "yurt" building saw the same building again, both at the entrance of the cave and the broken stone wall lamps inside.
Ying Xingtian, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, moved his gaze down slightly, and soon found the iconic symbol of "Hidden Dragon Yuan" that he had carved a few minutes ago in the same position.
He took a deep breath and looked back at the dark corridor several kilometers away.
"It's a space maze indeed...... The seemingly endless corridors and yurts here are probably the same one. "In the face of strange formations, spatial secrets, and changes in gravity beyond the scope of his understanding, this master with the realm of a top martial arts master finally felt a sense of powerlessness for the first time.
What to do?
Not only did he ask secretly in his heart, but the seven members of the Ruins Exploration Department behind him also had blank expressions on their faces, and the words "what to do" were also on their lips and were not spoken.
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"Hundreds of years ago, there was a large-scale battle here in the Suifen River valley where both sides were strong and well-armoured. The number of people on both sides is more than 50,000, and this kind of hedging battle of 100,000 people without fancy has never been recorded in history. Ying Xingtian took the wooden array plate from Yu Zhenzhen's hand, and while looking at the gaps exposed on the wall and the passage behind him, he analyzed in a deep voice: "Whether it is a unified battle between Jurchen tribes or not, this matter must be related to the remains of this 'former Qing ancestral land'. β
"Hmm, the analysis is correct, so what?" Yu Zhenzhen squeezed half of his body away, and also probed his head to look at the narrow and long Yong in front of him, which was no different from the place he came from, and said: "It's just a projection formation from hundreds of years ago, although the appearance of the miniature array disk is a bit surprising, but does the analysis of these help us explore the ruins here?"
The former's fingers rubbed the delicate lines on the wooden array plate, and shook his head slightly: "I suspect that this war has something to do with the cultivator predecessors who built this former Qing Ancestral Land in the first place, and even the two sides who controlled the war were cultivator masters who belonged to different organizations back then. β
"Absolutely! no! but! can!" Yu Zhenzhen stopped his movements and categorically denied: "From ancient times to the present, since the Battle of Zhuolu of the Yan and Huang Emperors, it has become an iron law that the cultivation world is not allowed to participate in the war between ordinary people in any way, and if there is a violator, all the cultivators in the world will attack it in groups. If there were cultivators involved in such a huge battle, even if the records in the history of China were erased, it would be impossible for our cultivation world history books and classics to have no records. β
Is there still such a rule in the world of practitioners?
Ji Yiming frowned, but he didn't expect this. However, when he saw that dazzling image just now, he always had a very strong feeling in his heart, and he always felt that this battle was inseparable from the cultivator world.
"Do you want to go over there and have a look?" Yu Zhenzhen ignored his doubts, and only knocked a few punches in a row to expand the entrance of the cave a little more towards the corridor: "Although it looks no different from the one in front, maybe there are buildings similar to this place on this road." β
"Let's see, if there are similar buildings and video arrays, at least you can know more about the remains of this 'former Qing ancestral land'. Ji Yiming took the first step across the hole, and in the next second, his body turned sideways and stood on the ground of the corridor perpendicular to the dome building: "If you want to break the mystery here, maybe they are the real key." β
Yu Zhenzhen stepped inside behind him, looked at the faint light in the distance at both ends and nodded: "Sure enough." β
Xiao Yang, the huge Gu snake behind the two of them, was a little anxious, and his big head slammed into the hole less than one meter in diameter several times, expanding the hole to more than two meters before squeezing in with a body full of rubble, instantly filling the narrow corridor. Ji Yiming patted its head and turned his head to look to the right: "It feels better over there, where are you going?"
"Go as you feel. Yu Zhenzhen looked back, casually made a mark on the wall, and followed Ji Yiming and the Grandmaster Realm "Yin Evil Anode Snake" to continue to explore the past.
Of course, along the way, the two of them also habitually looked at the bluestone brick walls on both sides from time to time to see if they could find another "yurt"-style dome building - find a second array disk with images from hundreds of years ago.
The two of them walked forward in silence for about another twenty minutes, but they never encountered the second hole in the brick wall, and naturally they did not find the second imaginary dome building. Yu Zhenzhen still didn't forget to leave a mark every 100 meters along the way, although I don't know if Ying Xingtian and the others found the Tianchang Mountain Peak Building, but if they also passed through this road, they would naturally be able to find their own traces.
Another few minutes passed, and just as the two of them began to feel a little impatient, Yu Zhenzhen was about to open his mouth to ask Ji Yiming's so-called "hunch" whether it was reliable, but the latter, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, and his whole body tensed, and the internal breath of "Taiyi Longevity Jue" instantly moved from the dantian to the twelve Qizheng meridians up and down the body: "Don't move." β
"How?"
Yu Zhenzhen tilted her head and looked ahead, and quickly saw the reason why Ji Yiming's face changed slightly.
About 100 meters away, under the faint light at the top of the narrow corridor, a human-shaped black shadow was "sitting" on the ground with its back against the wall, motionless.
Is it a human or a ghost?
Friend or foe?
Ji Yiming and Yu Zhenzhen glanced at each other, and both of them were ready to fight at any time. Yu Zhenzhen also snorted behind her back, meaning whether to let the Gu snake "Xiaoyang", who has the strength of the Grandmaster Realm, step forward to explore the way, but Ji Yiming quietly waved his hand to stop him: "Let's take a look at the situation first, it may not necessarily be the enemy...... It doesn't seem to have any breath. β
Is it the remains of craftsmen who built this underground site hundreds of years ago?
More than 100 meters away is not far away, but it is not close, with the original speed of the two of them, it may only take more than ten seconds to walk, but at this moment, they walked for nearly a minute before finally getting to the vicinity of the "figure".
The figure sitting on the ground and leaning against the wall did not respond during the whole process. In Ji Yiming's spiritual sense, there was not the slightest breath on his body that belonged to a cultivator or even a living person.
When the distance was less than 20 meters, the two of them were 780% sure that this was the remains of craftsmen who had been left in the corridor hundreds of years ago, but for some reason they had not been collected and buried by the overseer of the ruins.
After the worry was removed, Ji Yiming and Yu Zhenzhen's pace quickened, and they soon approached the "figure" less than five meters away.
Then, Yu Zhenzhen, who had gradually relaxed her expression, suddenly changed her face, and walked forward and squatted down in a few steps.
Sitting on the ground, the figure was like Ji Yiming feeling that there was no breath, his head was lowered and his body was stiff, it was indeed a corpse, but it was not a builder from hundreds of years ago as speculated, but a young modern man wearing familiar clothes.
Qianlong Yuan customized mountaineering jacket and waterproof shoes.
"Liu Luo. Yu Zhenzhen probed the deceased's snort, turned on the flashlight and turned on the low-light mode to shine on his face, and then stood up with a solemn expression: "He is a member of the newly formed Ruins Exploration Department, a middle-grade martial artist master directly led by Boss Win, and is proficient in various ancient Chinese characters and many small foreign languages. I learned a lot of Manchu from him......"
On her delicate and beautiful face, the expression that was always a little smiling finally disappeared, and a faint sadness quietly emerged: "I was transferred a few days ago to join the Ruins Exploration Department, and I didn't expect it...... But he died here. β
"I'm sorry, don't be too sad. It's not the first time Ji Yiming has seen life and death, although he doesn't know this member of Qianlongyuan called "Liu Luo", he also patted Yu Zhenzhen on the shoulder with a heavy heart: "Are you okay?"
The latter let out a long exhale, shook the ponytail at the back of his head, and the smile resurfaced on his face: "It's okay, it's just that I can't help but feel a little emotional." Recently, we have lost a lot of brothers and sisters in the Dragon Abyss......"
Ji Yiming replied softly, and then looked at Liu Luo's corpse sitting on the ground: "So Ying Xingtian and them have also entered this 'former Qing Ancestral Land' ruins." β
"And he also encountered danger, and even the winning boss failed to protect Liu Luo's danger. β