Chapter 46: The Square
"Hey, flat." Wang Luli held up Cheng Wulin, who was about to kneel down like an emperor, and pretended to say, "You said you should slow down, why are you in a hurry......?"
Cheng Wulin heard the second half of the sentence before he could thank him.
“…… It's not even the New Year. ”
"Do you want to know how deep this water is, I'll send you down to measure it." Cheng Wulin gritted his teeth and said.
"Don't make a fuss," Wang Luli took two steps back, reached out and touched the white wall next to the boat, and said, "I remember that this wall should recognize us." ”
He clasped the wall with both hands to stabilize the boat under his feet, and was about to close the distance between the boat and the wall, when he suddenly felt that his legs were a little weak, and he was swaying on the water with the boat.
That's not good.
He looked back at Cheng Wulin, who was looking around, coughed twice and asked, "Hey old Cheng, do you believe me?" ”
"What are you going to do?" Cheng Wulin closed his gaze, and his eyes became vigilant.
"No, you're as if you're scared of me now." Wang Luli seemed to be smiling.
"Who is not afraid of being pitted by you all the way?" Cheng Wulin said helplessly, "Say, do you want to do it?" ”
"Come and hit the wall."
"Bump...... What? ”
"I can't hold on anymore...... Jump! Wang Luli looked guilty, and as soon as the words fell, the boat under his feet suddenly scattered into the original appearance of the soil, like instant coffee poured into hot water, quickly sank into the river and disappeared.
But fortunately, Cheng Wulin did not hesitate, and when he heard the "jump", he had already followed Wang Luli and crashed into the wall.
The white walls of the Falling Turbulent Valley seemed to be hard, but as the two of them pounced on them, they were pressed out of two deep pits, and then, as if they were crushed, they cracked open two gaps and swallowed them in.
Cheng Wulin fell to the ground and rolled on the ground, and Wang Luli, who had already stood up beside him, stretched out his hand and pulled him up.
"I said you asked me if I believed it or something...... Why didn't you say earlier that you couldn't sustain it......" Cheng Wulin patted his clothes and complained.
"I don't know why, I didn't expect it to ...... all of a sudden It wasn't like this last time, maybe I haven't had a good rest recently? Fortunately, it didn't disperse in the center of the river. ”
"Last time?"
"Ah, I've been here twice myself......"
"No wonder you know the mirror-like aborigines...... Damn, don't call Lao Tzu! Cheng Wulin said indignantly.
"Haha." Wang Luli responded vaguely.
Cheng Wulin narrowed his eyes and looked around. On this side of the wall was a narrow, dark passageway, and at the end of the passage was a square point of light, which looked like a gate to the city, but it was too bright to see outside.
He reached out and touched the thin wall behind him through which they had penetrated, and felt the touch coming from his palm like rubber, soft and flexible. At the beginning, Old Man Kou seemed to have broken through this kind of wall and let them in.
"I read the city chronicles at Old Man Kou's house, and this wall will remember the people who were brought into the city by the city lord or deputy city lord, and when they touched it, it would become a natural door."
Cheng Wulin turned his head and listened to Wang Luli's explanation and nodded. The other party beckoned to him: "Just follow me." ”
When Cheng Wulin walked out of the passage, he knew what it meant to be suddenly enlightened. After a short period of adaptation, the majestic scenery of the Falling Turbulent Valley came into view again.
Unlike the foggy weather when I came to Luotuan Valley last time, today's Upper Realm Mirror Wind is beautiful. Cheng Wulin didn't feel much on the way here, and only noticed this after entering the Luotuan Valley.
The clear blue sky was cut into a perfect circle by the upper ring, and the well-shaped white clouds moved very fast under the impetus of the high winds. The majestic ring city is slowly turning, like a giant white gear.
This beautiful scenery made Cheng Wulin fascinated for a while.
"Hey, come on!" Wang Luli waved his hand in front of him, startling a group of pigeons.
This is a huge open space square in the center of the city on the ground floor of the Falling Valley, and the towering tower of the city tower stands in the center of the square, but it looks only as thin as a pencil because it is so far away.
The square is now full of all kinds of stalls and vendors, and the shouts are endless. Cheng Wulin saw Wang Luli walking into the group of vendors, although he felt a little strange, he still followed.
As soon as he entered, he recalled how he felt when he accompanied his father to the antique market as a child.
"That's great!" Cheng Wulin looked around at this simple pedestrian street, his mouth kept amazed, and he couldn't help but look at the bustling crowd and strange vendors around him.
"Fashionable dagger in the Warring States period, simple and generous!"
"You see there are weapons for sale," Wang Luli took Cheng Wulin's arm and pointed, and said, "Otherwise, we can pick one here to make a seal." ”
Cheng Wulin glanced at the strange knives cast, shook his head and vetoed: "It's not good-looking." ”
The two continued to walk forward, and Cheng Wulin saw many stalls selling ancient funerary items such as jade clothes and pearls. There are also stalls that are almost invisible now, such as floppy disks and tapes, which are obsolete technological products. It's more of a shop selling items from the future that he's never seen before.
"If you are thirsty, you can drink ......water by yourself," shouted a woman in a leotard with a weak breath.
"This ...... Is it genetically modified in the future or something......" Seeing the plants holding the cage with branches and leaves, Cheng Wulin happily pulled Wang Luli and pointed his finger.
"Fresh roasted rat, fat and juicy!" There was a shouting sound from a stall behind him.
"What era is this person from......" Cheng Wulin glanced at the stall owner's tattered clothes. As he thought, there was no one in the stall, only the stall owner shaking the fan unhurriedly, and the smoke from the fan made the other stall owner who sold enamel vases next to him frown.
"Let's be in the war era in the future, or what kind of rats will be roasted." Wang Luli said he was not clear.
Shuttling between the vendors, Cheng Wulin asked: "Wasn't it still deserted here when we came last time, how can it be like a flower and bird market today?" ”
Wang Luli raised his finger and pointed to the city lord tower in the distance and said, "This is the periphery of the square, so there are so many people. Last time we were next to the main tower, there was no one there. ”
"...... like this"
"Borrow it!" Someone shouted behind him.
Cheng Wulin turned around and saw a flower tree pressing towards the two of them, and then looked at a black aunt holding a large bouquet of two-person high lavender. Cheng Wulin pulled Wang Luli out of the way.
"By the way, aren't we going to Old Man Kou's house," he raised his hand to remove the branches and leaves that were rubbing against his face, and stared at the woman who had squeezed through, "What are you doing here?" ”
"If you go through it, you have to go to the vicinity of the main tower, and only there are those stone stairs that can fly nearby."
"Ao ......" Cheng Wulin felt that Wang Luli must have come more than twice......
After a while, the two crossed the outer circle square and entered the inner circle square.