I saw a swarm of bats cutting through the sky, like a black blade in the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and penetrating to the bottom of the valley.

Looking down, the four of them are as small as ants...

Vampire bats, midnight is approaching.

"This thing... Can you still come out in broad daylight? Su Ye's neck was almost tilted at ninety degrees, looking at the black bat swarm.

"The point is not bats, look at that..."Tang Rui pointed to the bottom of the mountain.

Looking at the fingertips, the four of them realized that they had reached the top of the mountain all the way.

Stretching over the pergola, looking down, a deep valley of lush forest, surrounded by towering peaks, encloses the forest and forms a typical basin structure.

Due to the intricacies of the valley and the fact that it is covered with reckless jungle, it is impossible to see where the way in is.

Fortunately, Su Ye made a mark all the way.

At the bottom of the valley is a turquoise square, in the center of which is a vermilion palace, surrounded by two stone walls, huge banyan trees and statues on both sides of the avenue spread out like a picture scroll, and the fallen civilization is at the foot.

"I didn't expect that there is a small basin hidden on the edge of this big basin, it's really cold from a high place!" Su Ye muttered.

The third uncle frowned: "I want to know now, what kind of place is this, let's go, go down and take a look, maybe there is something new." ”

After saying that, he led everyone down the mountain.

After a few more hours of walking, the sun began to set in the west, and the people were tired and hungry.

In front of the ancient stone walls, the trees are relatively sparse, and the sunlight hits the ground, sprinkling on the red and white walls, emitting strange reflections and traces of erosion by flowing water, and it is clear that this place has been around for thousands of years.

Suddenly there was a stone wall in the forest, and the four people seemed to be primitive people who saw the civilized world and stood in place in a daze.

Su Ye felt that his footsteps were a little messy, accompanied by an inexplicable heartbeat, he took two steps back, trying to see the whole of the wall, among the messy big banyan trees, the wall extended to the left and right, and was covered by the jungle, and there was no end in sight.

The walls look solid, but there are still a few collapses, and the ruins on the gaps symbolize that the place has been devastated to some extent. It was like a forbidden area, and although the sun was shining, they still felt a strange cold, slowly emanating from the cracks in the wall, wrapping around everyone, making them dare not take another half step forward.

Was there a war here?

The faces of the four were solemn, and they all fell silent.

After confronting the wall for two minutes, Su Ye was the first to walk over.

The forbidden area is not a fear for him, but a secret call,

A reality, which is subversive, is quietly attacking entrenched worldviews.

He couldn't wait to unveil this holy place, but an inexplicable throbbing ignited in his heart.

Over here...

What kind of secrets are hidden?

finally

Slender fingers touched the wall.

The hands are full of cold and hard stones, the stones that countless people have exhausted for a hundred years, the stones that have flowed through countless blood, and the stones that have been soaked in sad tears,

Su Ye, like a pilgrim trekking thousands of mountains and rivers, lay in front of the sacred stone wall with great reverence,

This is a moment in his fate that he can't get rid of,

It is also a destined moment in several reincarnations in previous lives and present lives.

He spread his hands on the wall, letting the cold breath seep into his palms, and then pressed his entire cheek to it, the coldness of the stone penetrating the capillary blood pores of his skin, and quickly rushed through his heart, rushing through the deeply locked garden of memory.

The left half of his face was firmly pressed against the wall, as if listening to the wall's cry, but for a long time, he heard nothing, except dead silence and dead silence.

The surface of the wall is detached in large patches, revealing a mottled red, and the stone wall is five meters high, a strong line of defense, towering majestically from the deepest part of the forest.

Suddenly, Tang Rui in the crowd had words in his mouth, but no one could hear what she was reading?

What did she see and what did she say?

“… What's wrong? The third uncle asked.

Tang Rui squinted his eyes slightly, even his eyelashes seemed to have grown a few millimeters, and he whispered, "There... There are many souls. ”

"Many?"

The third uncle was surprised, stopped talking, stepped forward and patted Su Ye, "Let's go." ”

Su Ye got up and looked at the wall in confusion, he couldn't climb over the height of five meters, unless he climbed onto the big banyan tree next to him, even if it was a collapsed wall, after the rubble was piled up, it was two meters high.

"Let's see if there are any other entrances." After speaking, the third uncle got up and walked towards the south side of the city wall, and everyone followed.

In such a strange and strange environment, it is not wise to explore the path separately.

Ten minutes later,

A notch suddenly appeared in the ancient stone wall, and they carefully went around it, and a gate appeared in front of them?

The gate was open, and in the middle was a huge square!

When they saw the front of the square, everyone's hearts were shaken.

A few hundred meters away, on the front, is a building with an ancient palace roof - it looks a bit like the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City, especially the majestic golden roof.

The main hall is built on two rows of high steps, and standing in the square can only look up with difficulty, the scene is like an ancient courtier kneeling outside the Taihe Gate waiting for the summons of the supreme emperor.

Su Ye took a step forward before confirming that his feet were not the stone slabs of the Forbidden City, but the asphalt-paved square.

Walking into the square, Su Ye worked hard to let go of every detail, for fear of missing anything.

On the west side of the square is a modern building, encased in a glass curtain wall. It is located on the inside of the palace, it is simply nondescript, like the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre, on the east side is an ancient Greek Corinthian building, the outer wall is supported by nine granite columns, the tall pillars run through the whole building, and the roof is Acropolis-style, with many human reliefs on it, which cannot be seen clearly from the square.

This scene confused the four of them, I don't know which era and which country,

Did it "cross" all at once?

In the same square, there are three completely different buildings: one is ancient traditional, one is American and European classical, and the other is modern.

Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign buildings have all collided here, and I am afraid that there is no other in the world...

If the designer of the square is not a genius, he must be a madman!

"What the hell is the place, there is still a palace, is it possible that the monarchy is implemented here?" Qi Tong asked.

"The monarchy..."

The third uncle repeated, his expression was more solemn, and he said in a low voice: "Go up and take a look, be careful, this square is a relic of war, everyone keep the formation closer!" ”

Everyone nodded, and walked in the empty palace square, their footsteps echoing around, and each sound wave seemed to convey something.

Su Ye was calm and listened attentively, this square has the function of gathering sounds, like the echo wall of the Temple of Heaven. If thousands of people stand in the square, it becomes a giant resonance box, and the sound is amplified many times over, like an imposing choir.

The four of them pressed their pace, and after a while, they walked to the foot of the palace, looking up at a greater angle here, Su Ye felt a sore neck, and then the depression brought by the palace was also heavier.

Carefully walking up the steps, it was actually paved with bluestone slabs, and grass still grew in the cracks of the stones.

There are two floors of stairs, each with thirty-eight steps, and between the two steps, there is a platform seven or eight meters wide.

Everyone climbed two thirty-eight steps in one go, and their knees were a little sore...

This may be the design concept of the palace, so that the courtiers who meet the king are physically and mentally exhausted, trembling and kneeling at the feet of the Son of Heaven, completely succumbing to the majesty of the imperial power!

The third uncle kept sifting through the long river of memory, which monarch had such a strict system.

Under the main hall, a golden plaque is hung on the tall eaves, with three words written from top to bottom, some like oracle bones, crooked, but extremely rigorous, Qi Tong tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, before slowly distinguishing these three words, and read:

"Gu, Soul, Temple!"

The four of them looked up at the golden plaque almost ninety degrees, and these three words were like sharp swords, straight into the heart through the throat!

Su Ye shuddered, turned his head, and looked behind him, the huge square was crawling at his feet, presumably the emperor overlooking the ministers in ancient times was just like this.

The red door was closed, and the window lattices were covered with dust.

Su Ye hesitated, reached out and touched the door panel, and found that it was actually a solid steel gate, but the surface seemed to be coated with a layer of red paint, and he pushed it forward again, and the door was slowly pushed open!

As the door shaft turns, a dim space appears inside!

Everyone only felt a gust of cold wind blowing out of the main hall, as if the archaeological team members had opened the ancient tomb that had been sealed for thousands of years.

The seven-pupil monkey was anxious to break in, but was pulled by the third uncle: "Be careful of your step!"

It turned out to be a high threshold, as high as an adult's calf, and if it wasn't for a reminder, I would have to fall hard.

Even the threshold is according to the specifications of the Imperial Palace, what is this place?

Qi Tong smiled "hehe", and while rejoicing, he carefully crossed the threshold with a full stomach full of doubts.

The cold wind accompanied by a strange smell quickly drifted out of the door, and by the light from the outside, the eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness of the hall.

The hall of hundreds of square meters, with several thick pillars erected in the middle, is not difficult to speculate that it is a high-quality golden silk nanmu.

But—

Is the whole hall empty?

His feet were like black marble, and even the air was so cold that Su Ye shivered, feeling like he had entered a funeral home.

At the end of the hall are three large doors.

Su Ye was a little puzzled, from the outside, the scale of this Gu Soul Hall was obviously much larger than this hall, and there must be a lot of space hidden behind the door.

He walked to the door on the far left, slowly pushed it open, and inside was a dark hallway, with countless more doors on either side of the corridor, he stopped in front of one of the doors, and pushed it open.

In an instant, countless murals appeared in front of me!

Qi Tong behind her almost screamed excitedly, she was pleasantly surprised to see the figure patterns on the relief, which were the thirty-two layers of hell and thirty-seven heavens in Hindu mythology, as well as the ninety-two asuras and eighty-eight heavenly gods of Vishnu's order!

Oh, my God!

Hitomi Seven has a paranoid love for ghosts, cow gods, and delicious ice cream around the world.

She knew that the formation of Hindu mythology was closely related to its own history.

In 3000 B.C., civilization emerged in the Indus Valley, and in 2000 B.C., a group of Aryans who migrated south invaded India, and after countless wars, their power entered the Ganges Valley from the Indus Valley and enslaved the local indigenous people, so far, the indigenous civilization of the Indus Valley was destroyed and changed.

In Hindu mythology, the most famous is the great creator god: Brahma, also known as the 'creator' and 'living master'.

Legend has it that the world is moving when the supreme soul is awake; When he lay down, the world calmed down; When he was about to sleep, all things vanished and melted into the Supreme Soul. The supreme soul is to sleep and wake up, endlessly allowing all things to come and go.

Man's year is a day and a night of the gods. The 4,000 years of the gods are an "era of consummation", the 3,000 years of the gods are the "age of three points", the 2,000 years of the gods are the "age of two points", and the 1,000 years of the gods are the "age of struggle". The end of the four epochs is a catastrophe, and then the world is recreated.

The 12,000 times of these four eras is known as an age of the gods. The age of a thousand gods is the day of Brahma. Naturally, the 2,000 Age of the Gods is one day and one night of Brahma. As for the process by which the supreme soul created the world, it is probably like this, creating a mind that is both real and unreal, and from the mind it transforms into creation, giving birth to emptiness, and the attribute of emptiness is sound. After the void, there is wind, and the attribute of wind is touch. After the wind, fire is born, and fire is light, and the attribute of light is color. Then there is water, and the property of water is taste. The last thing to be born is the earth, and the attribute of the earth is incense. These five elements then make up all things.

Qi Hitomi couldn't have imagined that because of an accident, he could see the god of his dreams in such a place!

Then, push open the second door.

The first is a 100-meter-long corridor flanked by statues.

The third uncle stepped forward and touched the statue next to him, it was a blue-faced and fanged monster, covered in exquisite armor, holding a huge axe in his hand, like an executioner on a decapitation mission.

"What is this place?"

"Maybe it's a mausoleum!"

Su Ye behind him was also a little excited: "I went to see the mausoleum with my father before. You see, the demons and monsters on both sides of these roads don't look like the Shinto of the ancient emperors' tombs? On both sides of the Shinto of the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, there are also many stone carved civil servants and military generals, as well as horses and camels and other sacred beasts, all of which are guarding the mausoleum.

But the statues here are clearly more elaborate and denser, and they all face the gate like a neat procession rather than two rows facing each other, which alone assures that the king here was a very refined man. ”

The third uncle looked at the rest of the doors, they were all the same, and he didn't plan to look at them carefully, so he retreated.

Standing in the middle of the corridor and pushing open the second door in the middle, everyone was stunned and watched this ancient miracle in amazement.

"Oh my God!"

Su Ye was the first to call out to the gods of the East, and he believed that he had seen a myth.

Mythology – Mythical gates, mythical squares, including this mythical experience.

There's a huge, empty square ahead?!

Su Ye instantly felt that this palace seemed to be like a labyrinth, and every door led to a shocking world!

The square is the size of hundreds of football fields, and in the center of it stands a building of astonishing size, with its tall towers blocking out the sunlight and casting shadows over them.

It's indescribable, like a pyramid in the jungle, more like a tower castle in The Lord of the Rings.

The surface is dominated by black and red, covered with countless intricate carvings, and in the center of the upper floor of the building, five black pagodas rise into the sky, giving people an irresistible sense of oppression.

The towering pagoda in the center, like the spire of a church in the Middle Ages in Europe, with a high gourd top reaching into the sky, is just the angle of the backlight, and the sun behind the spire is like a sacred halo, making everyone below dizzy.

Su Ye looked up at the pagoda in the center with a dull expression, and there was a white trance in his eyes.

Qi Tong looked at it stupidly, his feet trembled slightly, and he almost fell on the stone slab.

Su Ye was quick and immediately supported him: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay......"

"I really can't imagine that there is such a structure in this palace, it's really eye-opening!"

"Third uncle, I can't wait to open the third door now!" Qi Hitomi flew her eyebrows, and she had completely entered the state of a tourist.

After the third uncle remembered the buildings in front of him one by one, he slowly closed the door.

It's like closing a world.

When they walked to the last door, the four of them were shocked!

There are also many carvings on the spire of the gate, along with the three Buddha statues on the door, which are entirely in the style of Southeast Asia, like Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Sukhothai in Thailand, Bagan in Myanmar......

Even the facial features of the Buddha statue are Thai, with a wide nose under large eyes, and thick lips, and the corners of the mouth are slightly upturned, revealing a unique expression that seems to be smiling but not smiling.

The so-called "mysterious smile" ...

Is it to welcome them as uninvited guests, or is it some kind of harsher warning?

The face of the Buddha statue is full of traces of rain, like tears flowing wantonly for hundreds of years, flowing for them...

The gates are flanked by tall stone walls covered with moss and about three or four meters high.

The stone doors are intricately carved with everything from elephants to Kannon to samurai, like waves in a hurricane that rise and fall on the porch.

At the top of the stone gate, carved a two-winged god with its head sticking out of its pointed beak and looking down at them with a hideous face, the idol holds a sword in his left hand and a war hammer in his right hand, the sword and hammer are crossed in front of his chest, and the wings behind him are spread out, guarding the gate majestically.

Su Ye noticed that the top of the wall on both sides of the gate had stacks and arrow holes, which were obviously wall-like fortifications.

"The strong Buddhist style, with the gods and monks in the statues, should be older than ordinary ruins." Su Ye walked to the front and touched the delicate carving of the stone gate, the smooth texture of the surface made his heart beat wildly for the second time!

Pushing open the stone door, the sun returned to the eyes and sprinkled on the wide and straight avenue.

The avenue is paved with bluestone strips, large enough to pass side by side with two African elephants, contrasting with the surrounding green grass and trees, and there are bizarre statues on both sides of the avenue, which at first glance thought were two rows of living soldiers.

They stepped forward to look at the two rows of statues, but they were not generals or samurai, but demons and monsters in armor.

Each statue is life-size, carved from a single block of cyan stone, and the carving technique is Indian and Southeast Asian, but the armor and decoration are more similar to those of the ancient Qin.

The face under the helmet was a monstrous demon - with large round eyes like brass bells, a nose and beard facing the sky, and sharp fangs in the mouth, very similar to the fairy tale devil statue.

But this is more like a "human", some of the statues are simply bull heads and horse faces, or even the heads of eagles and elephants, but they are all majestic with armor and eighteen blades in their hands, like a talisman samurai protecting Shinto.

They had never seen such horrible statues, one after the other, with the bases tightly connected, almost like queuing to buy a train ticket.

The third uncle squinted his eyes and estimated that there were at least one hundred and eighty statues in the two rows.

Qi Tong was interested, and for a while he couldn't help but reach out and touch the armor, the steel armor was extremely heavy, at least eighty pounds on his body, and with all kinds of weapons and equipment, not to mention charging and fighting, the physique of modern people may not be competent.

Su Ye looked at the shape of the armor carefully, and it looked Mongolian from the nose guard, but the heart guard and mountain-shaped armor were very similar to the appearance of the early Ming Dynasty, especially the chain mail for ear protection, which was obviously influenced by the Middle East and Europe.

He concluded that this was a pair of armor of the Ming Dynasty, and from the point of view of the armor production process, it was an imitation of later generations, but the imitation process was really great, from the specification design to various materials, it was completely handmade in accordance with the records of ancient books, and it was placed in the corridor of this palace, which was extremely powerful and exquisite.

Qi Tong walked up to a rather special statue: "Hey! Come and see this! ”

The crowd gathered around.

The man was quite burly, at least 2 meters tall. Standing there with his legs apart, Qi Tong took out his mobile phone, and the halo hit him, and his momentum was like the great king in the Dunhuang murals!

He also wore a very strange hat, and when the light was pointed at his head, it actually glowed with a metallic sheen, which turned out to be a steel helmet!

There was a pointed thing on the top of the helmet, chain mail dragged on both sides of the helmet to protect the cheeks and chin, and a nose guard in the middle of the helmet.

That person's face is hidden in the dark?

No, it's not a steel helmet at all, it's more like the wreckage of some giant arthropod!

Looking at the clothes again, they also emit black metal reflections.

There are two heart goggles on his chest, and the back is lined with a mountain-shaped iron armor.

The shoulders are inlaid with two metal tiger heads, the tiger's mouth bites the iron armor to protect the upper arm, and the lower arm has iron bracers and handguards. The abdomen was surrounded by a green battle robe, a belt was tightly tied, the battle skirt connected to the lower half of the body was covered with fish scale armor, even the shin guards and shoes were iron, a sword hung from the waist, and as for the eyes that were threatening, they were two glass beads embedded in the mask.

"It turned out to be glass beads!"

Qi Tong wiped a cold sweat, and the reason why the mask shot out of his gaze was just the reflection of the glass beads on the electrician.

She circled around the armor, shining her flashlight up and down, and then continued to caress the armor.

But when she touched,

carelessly

It was as if a finger was fluctuating the strings in my head.

The mysterious and huge Gu Soul Palace, at the end of the third door, a warrior covered in armor, who has experienced many famous battles and has been baptized by countless swords and bows,

A puff of black smoke rose up.

A soul,

A soul imprisoned for a thousand years,

Amazement: An electric current passed through the bodies of the four people, and everyone really felt something.

Five people from the far south were already stunned in front of him.

"Bang!"

finally

The face in the armor,

Dust off the glass beads,

Radiating two devouring gazes!