Chapter 423: Strange Empty City
As Li Ling calculated, it really only took one day to get out of the waterhole, and in another seven days, Li Ling and the three of them walked out of this swamp and stepped into a very desolate area.
Speaking of desolation, it is because the yellow sand is rolling everywhere here, and when the wind blows, the dust flies up three feet high, covering the road in front of you, although it is not a desert, but it is also a yellow earth.
"What a desolate feeling." Hei Lin patted away the sand and dust that blew over, covered his lips and said.
Li Ling walked up to a tall mound of earth, looked into the distance, in front of him was a loess land, no lush trees, but only endless yellow sand, here is not a desert, it is said to be a plain, it is not, perhaps, it is between the desert and the plain.
"I don't see a little bit of prosperity, in such an environment, there will be a city, I really can't believe it." Li Ling jumped down from the high mound of earth and slowly walked towards Hei Lin and Mo Soul.
"Are you sure there's going to be a city here?" The silent soul was a little unbelieving.
"It's the information that exists in your mind, if you believe in the bamboo slips, I can be sure, if you don't believe it, I can't give you a definite answer." The information in Li Ling's mind, at its root, was indeed from the bamboo slips of the five-star mission.
"The information of the bamboo slip will not be wrong, let's go in and take a look first, maybe the leafless city is behind this loess? Maybe after walking through here, it will be a prosperous scene? Hei Lin stepped forward.
Li Ling led the Huolin deer to follow, and the silent soul rode on the lion to break off.
In the loess land, the soil is very soft. On that loess, there are no plants growing, sometimes. You can only see one or two weeds, and as for the trees, you don't want to see them in this place, or even see the water source.
"I see, it could be due to drought here." Li Ling said on a whim.
"Drought?" Hei Lin frowned slightly.
"Well, what would it be if it weren't for the drought? You see. The land here is very soft, indicating that it was fertile before, and there is. There are signs of riverbeds, there are some remnants of dead wood roots, there are signs of animal activity, but ...... Later, I don't know what the reason is. The area is completely withered. The water is completely evaporated. Li Ling said as he instructed the two to look at the surrounding environment and signs.
Looking at this dilapidated scene, Li Ling faintly felt that the dilapidated environment in this area did not seem to be a masterpiece of nature, but man-made, as if it had undergone a terrifying man-made destruction that led to the current leafless city.
The city without leaves is unusually desolate when you hear the name. There was not a single leaf in the whole city. This can be described as lifeless.
The most surprising thing for the three of them was that even though this area was desolate, there was not even a single dry bone visible, that is, there was no living creature here.
"Don't you think it's weird here?" Hei Lin's brows furrowed slightly, a kind of killer's natural vigilance, telling her that this place must not be simple.
"I think, but I can't say, what's so strange?" The silent soul also pressed his chin and said thoughtfully.
"Let's go inside, it's almost evening, and hopefully we can find the leafless city before it's completely dark." Li Ling frowned.
"Yes." The two nodded in agreement.
It was getting dark, and the last ray of sunlight disappeared before the eyes of the three of them, but fortunately, the shadow of a silent city appeared in front of them.
A city that can only be described as dry.
The walls of this city have been weathered only a pile of loess, the moat has long been dried up without a drop of water, and the huge city gate is rusty, as if as long as it is pushed, the city gate will collapse in an instant, decaying and decaying.
"It's the first time I've seen such a ruined city, will there really be people living in this city?" Hei Lin's heart was desolate by the decadence, and it seemed that the wind blowing from the city was desolate and vicissitudes.
"I don't think there will be anyone living in it, will this be an empty city, or rather, the people in this leafless city have already moved away, or rather, they have long since died." These insights were put forward in horror.
"Let's go first and see before we make a decision." Li Ling rode the Huolin deer to open the road in front, it was very quiet here, and the sound of the Huolin deer walking would echo all around.
After entering the city gate, what was given to Li Ling in the city was a strange aura, it seemed that this city was as if it did not exist in this world, but a void city, and there was a feeling of time and space disorder.
Depression, fear, and inexplicable sadness made the emotions of the three of them very tense.
In the city, there are buildings, although those buildings have decayed, but from the outline, you can still vaguely see some of the glory of this city, the leafless city, is really a city that has completely decayed.
"It seems that there really is no one here." Li Ling glanced around, only to see the weathered earthen buildings.
"An isolated city, which has not been discovered for thousands of years, is already like this when it is discovered." The silent soul has a sad feeling for this silent dead city.
All three of them got off their mounts and walked on foot in this ruined empty city, above the night sky, dotted with stars, but the night sky here was unusually bright.
This ancient city under the moonlight is unusually poignant, like a faint yellow veil.
Empty City, when Li Ling and the three of them came to the City Lord's Mansion of the Leafless City, which was still on the same scale, everyone looked at this mansion, and there was no longer any glory in the past.
"Hey, I really want to know what happened in this city? What have the people here, everything here, experienced? Mo Soul scratched his scalp, eager to know more clues about the Dao.
"We're just a passerby now, so there's no need to stay in this empty city, but tonight, let's spend it in this ruined city lord's mansion." Li Ling stepped forward and stepped on the stairs, came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, and pushed the iron gate with one palm, and suddenly, with an ordinary sound, the iron gate broke a big hole.
Li Ling was stunned, looked at his palm, looked at the rust on his palm, and sighed slightly: "I didn't use my strength, this door was pushed out of a big hole like this, it can be seen how long this has been history." ”
The silent soul also stepped forward and pushed, and suddenly, the entire gate collapsed, and the moment it collapsed, it raised the endless dust on the ground.
Inside, there is a floor paved with marble, and you can vaguely see the shape of those marbles, and some of the floors are not too badly damaged, showing the scale and scene at that time.
Walked into the Leafless City City Lord's Mansion, it is a building, the tallest building is ten zhang, the shortest one is also three zhang, the most central is the main hall where the city lord often lives, the main hall in addition to a few golden pillars, is still supporting the entire hall, the others, but they are all about to decay.
Pushing open the door of the main hall, there was a mess inside, the so-called furniture and wood, chairs and pillars were all broken to the extreme, and the eyes were full of cobwebs, but there was not a single spider in sight, or rather, the spiders were all dead.
"Hey, although the environment is a little poor, but it will be one night, tomorrow, we will go all the way north to Futiansen." Li Ling patted away the cobwebs and dust in front of him, and cleaned up the neighborhood with Mo Soul and Hei Lin, at least they could lie down.
Mo Soul cleaned the surroundings, patted away the dust, straightened his waist, and said: "Li Ling, tomorrow we will enter the forest of thousands of miles, that is the beginning of the real danger, we will continue to face some fierce beasts that we have never seen before, and we will also face some terrifying alien races. ”
Mo Ling's words attracted Li Ling's attention.
"Heterogeneous?" Li Ling silently recited it in his heart a few times, and then asked out in a lost voice.
"Well, the half-human, half-beast kind." The silent soul is solemn.
"Half-human, half-beast?" Li Ling and Hei Lin both said in surprise at the same time.
Although Hei Lin is a person from this world, he doesn't know the half-human and half-beast race at all, and he has never seen it, so it is normal to be surprised.
Li Ling was surprised because he felt that the species were so abundant. (To be continued......)