Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Dead City
Wang Zhi held the mentality that he had to see clearly even if he died, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and rushed into the archway, but when he rushed more than a dozen steps, he found that nothing had happened, not even tripping over a stone.
He took a deep breath, then slowly opened his eyes and looked up.
For a while, Brother Wang Zhi was stupid again, although he often made stupid mistakes, but he had never been so stupid once.
In front of him was a group of blue-tiled buildings hidden among the trees, most of these buildings were only one-story wooden walls and tile roofs, and it was rare to see two-story ones, so it seemed leisurely and quiet among the trees on the hillside.
The whole gentle slope was littered with such houses and ponds, and at the top of the hillside was a tower several stories high built against the cliff, and he could not see how many floors the tower had, because of the light mist that had filled it.
However, apart from the beautiful and tranquil scenery, it is extraordinarily quiet, with no birdsong, no animal roar, no squeak of insects, not even the wind.
Wang Zhi was stunned for a moment, and looked carefully again, indeed, the entire hillside was more like a mural hanging on the wall, and even the leaves would not sway.
He felt a chill hit him for no reason, shivered, and couldn't help but look back, and found that the square behind him was clearly placed there, littered with rocks and weeds.
He swallowed, then stubbornly walked forward.
He went up the hillside, and he didn't know where to go, and he came across a few houses, and only looked at them at the door or out of the window, these houses were obviously ancient, and it was not clear how old they were, but most of the furnishings inside were very simple, usually beds, tables, or incense burners and futons, or there were some strange things hanging on them.
After Wang Zhi saw some strange things, he didn't feel too much, mainly because after they were too strange, he didn't know what the use was, so he continued to walk after taking a look, and he didn't have the courage to take them one by one.
After half an hour, he finally came to the top of the hillside, and there was not a single figure on the way, not even a fly, not a ghost, which inevitably made him even more nervous, and in front of him was the tower embedded in the cliff.
In fact, it is not appropriate to say that the mosaic is not appropriate, because the tower itself is carved out of the cliff, and only the cornices are built.
And below the tower, is a palace that looks very big, in front of the palace, is a huge square, the square is empty, are paved with bluestone slabs, there is no trace of weeds, compared to the pile of stones in front of the archway, it naturally looks magnificent, but it also makes people feel the huge pressure, especially when the surrounding seems to be a dead city.
Wang Zhi nervously walked along the square to the door of the main hall, and looked up to see that a huge plaque had three characters written in bright red, but unfortunately this character was as strange as the archway in front, although it looked like Chinese characters, it was not at all related to Chinese Simplified.
He was stunned for a moment, he couldn't figure out where this was, the only thing he knew for sure was that this was a place where cultivators had once lived, and as for more, he really couldn't guess.
He thought for a moment, then rushed up the stairs in front of the main hall with a quick step, and walked into the main hall in a few steps.
The furnishings in the hall are very simple, directly opposite the door, is a shrine, on which there is a huge painting, painting a scholar wearing a white robe, looking like a white dress fluttering, scarf flying, holding a fan in his hand, how elegant and elegant.
Underneath the portrait are three simple wooden chairs, but the chairs on either side are slightly lower than the one in the middle, and the chair in the middle is clearly respected, and on both sides of the main hall, except for the pillars that support the roof, there are only three chairs on each side, and there is nothing else.
He didn't expect the furnishings of the hall to be so simple, he looked at it casually, and came to the portrait, the portrait was painted very vividly, although it was not as real as the oil painting, but the kind of freedom on the floating paper made Wang Zhi feel that this scholar seemed to float out of the painting at any time.
But after looking at it for a while, he couldn't see the reason, but he noticed that there was a courtyard behind the shrine.
So he quickly came out of the main hall from the back, and the courtyard behind it was not too good because it was close to the giant tower of the cliff, and it seemed a little dim, and the whole courtyard gave people the feeling that it was inevitably a little cloudy.
Wang Zhi looked around nervously, the courtyard looked quite ordinary, there were stone tables, stone benches, and a few pavilions under the big trees, as for the two sides, there were rows of houses, and it seemed that there should be no fewer people living there.
He walked along the middle of the yard, bypassing a rockery by a small pond, and came to a house close to the bottom of the cliff, the door of the house was closed, he hesitated, since he had come here, he naturally could not just retreat, so he stepped forward and pushed open the wooden door, which should have not been moved for a long time, but it was easily opened, not even squeaking, nor stirring up a trace of dust.
The door opened, Wang Zhi squinted, adapted to the dim light inside, and only then did he vaguely see the inside, in front of the house, there were countless spiritual positions placed in a trapezoidal shape, from bottom to top, there were at least twenty or thirty floors, and each layer was densely packed.
Suddenly, he saw so many spirit cards, and he saw a lot of dead ghosts in vain Wang Zhi's brother, and he was still frightened all over his body, that feeling was really uncomfortable, that kind of gloomy and solemn feeling, which made him feel that there were hundreds of pairs of eyes on the other side, staring at him, and he had an urge to turn around and run away.
After standing at the door for a long time, he still didn't turn around and run away, and then walked into the mourning hall cautiously and nervously, the dirty and tattered sneakers, even on this stone floor, made a relatively clear sound, and he didn't care when he was outside, but in front of so many spiritual seats, this voice was especially loud.
He swallowed, and finally did not have the courage to go up to see who was written on the spiritual tables, but looked into the room, and found that on the left side of the house, there was a ladder that led to the upper floor against the cliff.
Without thinking, he took a few steps and carried the ladder to the upper floor.
The room on this floor is empty, only a futon is placed in the middle, which looks like a room for practice, but for Brother Wang Zhi, a person who has no fixed residence, such a large room only puts a futon, which seems to be too wasteful.
So he went up the ladder up the cliff again, and this floor was obviously a bedroom, with candlesticks, tables, chairs, benches, bed curtains, all in order, as if the owner had just gone out to run errands, and would come back when it got dark.
Wang Zhi had more and more doubts in his heart, but he couldn't answer them, so he had to continue to go up.
The fourth floor is a library building, Wang Zhi looked at the bookshelves on the entire floor, which were filled with dense books, he stepped forward and randomly pulled out a copy, but found that he still didn't know these words, opened it, the words inside were dense, it looked more unreliable than the English he read in junior high school, he reluctantly put the book back, the original plan to find some powerful exercises also failed, just these words, I don't know if they are taken to the professors of the Chinese department of the university, do they recognize it?
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