Chapter Twenty-Eight: Huangquan Road
As if in a dream, Fu Le and Xiang Tiange could clearly feel that they were falling, and their bodies were in the process of falling, as if they were falling into an abyss.
It's like the countless dreams I had in my childhood of falling from a high altitude and waking up, but it wasn't as real as it is now.
Due to the excessive speed, Fu Le's ears were filled with the sound of whirring wind, and his cheeks were extremely painful when the wind blew. He could feel the bone-chilling coldness blowing from below, as if it could freeze a person's soul.
There seemed to be a faint sound of singing in his ears, as if the road below was some lavish banquet.
Fu Le couldn't control his body in the air, and he couldn't judge Xiang Tiange's position, he opened his mouth and tried to call out to Xiang Tiange, but no sound came out.
They were still falling, and Fu Le not only thought a little self-deprecatingly, but such a deep abyss was probably going straight to hell.
Slowly, the surrounding vision was no longer so dark, and they seemed to be really in the abyss, with cliffs on both sides, and it was the cliffs that emitted a faint light.
Fu Le looked at the cliff, but found that there seemed to be something painted on it, it seemed to be a mural, as if a solemn and huge sacrifice had taken place here.
However, the speed of this fall was too fast, and Fu Le didn't see the pattern clearly, and it passed in just a moment.
Fortunately, the mural seemed to be endless, and according to Fu Le's calculations, he descended a few hundred meters, but he could still see part of the mural on the cliff below.
Fu Le held his breath and focused, focusing his gaze on one point, and in the moment of his fall, he finally saw a picture clearly.
It was a tree, and it looked like a huge, very luxuriant old tree, with a very thick trunk and many roots hanging down from the branches.
Before he could think about it, he saw a faint light below, as if it was almost the end, and the abyss, which had been falling for an unknown amount of time, seemed to have finally bottomed out.
Fu Le looked intently, and he could already vaguely see the scene below.
If they fall down at such a high distance, the two of them will definitely be crushed. Fu Le's heart tightened, and the bottom of his heart began to fear.
Without giving him much time to think, the two teenagers fell to the ground.
There was no imaginary sound, and the two teenagers fell directly into the ground.
Fu Le stood up in surprise, but his feet were still sunk in the ground, and he checked his body, unharmed.
Fu Le then noticed that the color of the ground was a dark yellow, more like stepping on a soft and collapsed quagmire, but it was softer than the quagmire, and there was nothing contaminated on it after lifting his foot, and when he stepped on it, his foot sank into it again.
Fu Le looked around, only to find that not only the ground was dark yellow, but everything around here was dark yellow, as if he was in a hazy yellow fog, and the visibility of the field of vision was very low, except for a hazy patch, he couldn't see anything clearly.
Only the road ahead, which looks like a stone road, is very clear, and this road is in this space of yellow mist, and there is no end in sight.
Fu Le walked over one by one, it was really an ordinary stone road, just like a random ordinary pastoral path, abruptly paved here.
In this whole dark yellow world, there is nothing, only this stone road in front of you.
Fu Le saw that on the ground on one side of the stone road, there were a few sunken words, as if they were randomly drawn on the soft ground like cotton with their toes, and the handwriting was very sloppy, and it could even be said to be ugly.
Fu Le leaned down and looked at it, there were still typos, he reluctantly and carefully identified them, and finally saw seven or eight points.
- Huangquan Road
Fu Le smiled helplessly, it was really direct enough.
He stood up and looked around, the yellow sky was boundless, and he couldn't see Xiang Tiange's figure.
He opened his mouth and tried to shout out to Xiang Tiange, but found that no sound came from his throat, and Fu Le suddenly lost one of his five senses, and immediately panicked.
He carefully felt the vibration of his throat, and felt that his throat was not dysfunctional, it was not his problem.
Fu Le seemed to suddenly understand something, he raised his head, and looked around this space again in surprise, he hadn't noticed it just now, but now he felt it carefully, this yellow and vast world, the silence was terrible.
This space seems to be non-vocal.
Fu Le became more and more convinced of his conjecture, and he began to look at this strange world vigilantly and seriously.
The yellow fog is also stationary, there is no sense of the passage of time, no matter how many steps you take forward, it is a yellow vastness, no sense of distance in space, no sound, no vision, no loss of five senses, no trace of flow and change, this is a dead world.
There are no terrible scenes, no terrifying poisonous insects and giant beasts, no monstrous sea of fire, there is just silence, and it can even be called peaceful, but Fu Le just feels creepy.
It's not like the underworld in folklore, but you can feel it only when you're in it, this is what should be the real Huangquan Road, the silent Huangquan, and the road of a person.
Fu Le took a deep breath, looked at the stone road in front of him, raised one foot and stepped on, he had no other way than to take this road, maybe Xiang Tiange was waiting for him in front.
Fu Le cheered up, suppressed the fear and anxiety in his heart, raised his head and gritted his teeth to look ahead, and walked along the stone road towards the front with no end in sight.
......
In the vast yellow world, there is only a thin figure of Fu Le, walking on this narrow stone road.
Fu Le walked mechanically, like a clockwork puppet, he had been walking for an unknown amount of time, and during this time, he had been relying on memories to pass the time.
After a long time, Fu Le began to feel tired, and he began to look at the sides of the stone path.
He was surprised to find that there were still some small yellow and red flowers growing on both sides of the stone road, the kind of wildflowers that are common in the countryside of the earth, and there were even butterflies and bees buzzing and shaking on them.
Fu Le felt a little comfortable, it really felt like walking on an afternoon country road.
Fu Le hummed a song and took a big stride forward, and he was surprised to see that in front of the stone path, there seemed to be a shadow of an ancient temple.
Fu Le hurriedly ran, and when he got closer, he saw that it was really a dilapidated ancient temple.
The exterior of this ancient temple is a vermilion color, covered with dust, and the windows and doors are dilapidated.
Fu Le hesitated, raised his feet and walked in, Fu Le covered his nose and frowned, the inside of this ancient temple was even more dirty and dilapidated, the dust accumulated several layers thick, and at the same time, a choking smell came to his face.
There is an offering platform in the center of the house, but the statue enshrined on it is gone, only an offering table is empty, and the items in the entire ancient temple are placed, giving people a sad feeling.
Suddenly, Fu Le felt a hand on his body, and Fu Le's scalp instantly went numb, and the hairs on his body stood up.
After a few seconds of silence, a voice came from behind: "It's me." ”
Hearing this familiar voice, Fu Le looked ecstatic and turned his head suddenly.
"Hato?"
Looking at Xiang Tiange's familiar face behind him, Fu Le cried out excitedly, and at the same time, he was surprised to find that he could speak.
Xiang Tiange hugged Fu Le violently, then let go of Fu Le, nodded as if he was very old-fashioned, and said: "You can talk in this ancient temple, and this ancient temple seems to have privileges in this world." ”
Fu Le found that the doors and windows of this ancient temple were open, but the yellow smoke outside did not penetrate at all, and only distributed next to the ancient temple.
Fu Le couldn't hide the surprise on his face, he had walked alone on this lonely stone road for so long, and now he saw Xiang Tiange again, with an indescribable excitement and happiness.
Xiang Tiange sat on the side, looking very tired, and he replied, "I only arrived a little earlier than you, and when I heard someone coming in, I hid behind the door. ”
Xiang Tiange stood up and looked solemnly at the wall behind the ancient temple altar and said, "It seems that after this ancient temple, this stone road will come to an end." ”
Fu Le was a little puzzled, he scratched his head, looked at the vermilion wall behind the altar, and muttered: "What's the matter, if you go out and go around this temple again, it's over." ”
Xiang Tiange shook his head and said, "No, I have already tried it just now, this ancient temple has completely blocked this narrow stone road, and there will be no road on both sides after you go out." ”
Xiang Tiange suddenly squatted on the vermilion wall, slapped the wall, and said to himself: "This wall should have a passage." ”
At this time, Fu Le saw that behind this altar, there were many ceramic fragments, and there were some colored glazes on the ceramic fragments, and on top of these ceramic fragments, a bronze mirror was placed on the base of the altar.
Fu Le saw his face on the bronze mirror, after so many days of experience, he looked a little haggard in the bronze mirror, and his hair was very messy.
Fu Le looked at his bloodshot eyes and dirty face, and sighed.
He also saw that under the base of the altar, there were several broken gray pottery shards, and Fu Le picked one up casually and played with it in his hand.
Fu Le withdrew his gaze from the mirror, and his eyes inadvertently glanced to the side, a small piece of the mirror edge of the bronze mirror was the back of Xiang Tiange.
At this moment, Xiang Tiange was knocking on the vermilion wall, patting here and there.
Xiang Tiange's side face could be vaguely seen from the bronze mirror, and Fu Le's movements suddenly stopped.
"Found it!"
Xiang Tiange suddenly let out a cry of surprise, at the bottom of this vermilion wall, there was a brick with a lighter color, Xiang Tiange went to knock on it, and sure enough, there was a hollow percussion feeling.
Xiang Tiange stood up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, breathed a sigh of relief, and showed a relieved smile.
The surroundings suddenly quieted for a while, he didn't hear Fu Le's response to him behind him, Xiang Tiange's smile stiffened, he turned his head, and slowly turned to look at Fu Le.
Fu Le stood at the door of the ancient temple, looking at him with a look that he had never seen before, Fu Le lowered his head, unable to see his expression.
He opened his mouth slightly, and his voice carried irrepressible sadness and trembling:
"Who the hell are you?"