Even if I don't know where the weak water comes from, there is always more hope when you go north. Several soldiers were by the river, sticking Zhang Qing's gun into the riverbank, which he regarded as his tombstone.

On weekdays, these soldiers had a good relationship with Zhang Qing, and they shed a handful of tears for the death of their friends, then packed their bags and turned around to leave.

After marching along the river for more than three hours, soldiers suddenly saw a city to the northeast of the procession. When Lin Ci heard the report, he personally came to a grassy slope and looked through a telescope, and sure enough, in the northeast plain, an ancient city was faintly visible.

I had to be too far away to see the ancient city clearly. But in the city, Lin Ci saw a ship. At first, he thought he was wrong, but he watched it two more times, and what entered the camera was indeed a ship. Lin Ci saw the hull, the mast, and the sails.

But if you calculate the distance, you can see that the ship is as huge as an ocean-going oil tanker. It was a behemoth, Lin Ci couldn't help but be stunned, thinking to himself that the residents of Kunlun rely on that kind of giant ship to travel between the two sides of the weak water?

But the city is not close to the weak water, how can we get the boat to the riverbank? And the hull of the ship is so large, I am afraid that it can be used as a bridge if it is on weak water.

With these questions, he returned to the team and reported what he saw to Su Jinwei. After hearing this, Su Jinwei immediately said: "Let's go, go to that ancient city and have a look." Anyway, there is no means to cross the river in this vicinity, so it is better to try your luck in the city. ”

Since the doctor said this, the rest of the expedition naturally had no opinion, so the team turned around at the river and headed northeast.

It took five hours, during which time the expedition took a break, before the expedition saw the walls of the ancient city. When I looked at it from a distance, I didn't think the city was big.

But now that they got closer, they realized that this city was more than half larger than the deserted city they had entered when they first entered Kunlun.

The ancient city is like a giant beast lying silently on the earth. The years have left endless vicissitudes on it, and those mottled traces on the city wall, I don't know how many springs and autumns have gone through to leave such a mark.

The ancient city is majestic, and the vast atmosphere is blowing in the face.

The expedition team walked into a section of the city wall, which was made of thick stone slabs as wide as possible and nearly a foot high, but due to the erosion of wind and sand, it had already collapsed in many places, revealing gaps one after another. Beneath the rubble of the walls, weeds grew tenaciously and dotted the gray walls with their greenery.

Suddenly, the team stopped, and there was a soft shout from the front, Su Jinwei approached, and couldn't help but raise his glasses: "This is ......"

This section of the city wall is largely intact. But there was a regular circular gap in the middle, and the surface of the city wall was painted with a black ash, a deep color, and the closer you got to the gap, the darker the color became. Su Jinwei stood a little farther away and could see the black around the gap, evenly radiating and spreading around.

Lin Ci stood by the wall, stretched out his hand and touched the gap, his hands were full of fine grains. He frowned and said, "This is the carbonization phenomenon that occurs after the wall was destroyed by high thermal energy?" ”

"That's right." Su Jinwei said: "I don't know if it was caused by some kind of alien beast, or if it was the result of using a similar high-energy weapon attack." ”

Lin Ci put down his hand and said: "If it's the former, it's fine, if it's the latter, then isn't Kunlun really hiding a level of science and technology far beyond our time?" ”

"This possibility is not ruled out, so that space technology can be explained. It's just that where their knowledge and technology come from, according to human history, before Kunlun, there is no trace of any splendid civilization. Kunlun's science and technology can't suddenly burst out. ”

Su Jinwei frowned and said, "If it wasn't for their own, then where did they get it, and such a high-tech civilization would suddenly appear." ”

With that, the Doctor continued walking, and then saw some of the ruined walls and the toppled buildings in them. From these signs, it is not difficult to imagine that this ancient city must have experienced a war, and it was a very tragic war.

One section of the city wall disappeared completely, not only from the city walls, but also from the buildings behind the walls, and even the traces of destruction extended to the inner city, affecting the surrounding houses and streets.

Unfortunately, there is no sign of human activity outside the city at all, and the city is also dead, and it is estimated that there will be no living people. So there is no way to know what kind of people were defending and attacking the city at that time.

Finally the team stopped at the gates, which were shaped into the maws of a giant beast that could not tell whether it was a lion or a tiger, or both.

But no matter what, even if the ancient city has long been abandoned, it makes people feel that the eyes of the giant beast on the city gate are still watching everyone who visits.

Above the city gate, there is a stone flat, on which are inscribed with two ancient characters. Anyway, Lin Ci couldn't see what it was, but Su Jinwei saw the doorway, and the doctor wrote those two words on the ground with a tree branch.

After looking at it for a moment, he read it softly: "Tian Yong? It seems that the name of this city is correct. ”

"Dad, do you understand?" Lin Ci walked over.

Su Jinwei nodded and said, "It's just a fluke, I have visited some anthropologists before, and I know from them that there is a script that is older than the oracle bone inscription. In the "Book of Xia Yu" that has been discovered, most of the text is consistent with the oracle bone inscription.

But there are some words that are not found in the oracle bone inscription. Therefore, scholars generally believe that these characters are earlier than the oracle bone inscriptions and should be the ancient scripts used during the Yellow Emperor's period. ”

"At that time, an old scholar wrote me a few ancient characters, and there were two of them, which were the characters of this city." Su Jinwei looked up at the city gate: "God, Yong." Tianyun City! ”

After speaking, he frowned again: "In this way, the text used in Kunlun should be the text known as the Yellow Emperor in anthropology, and according to legend, it is the text created by Cangjie."

But the person in the rift before, I used the same ancient language from the Yellow Emperor period, but he didn't seem to understand, why is this happening? ”

Lin Ci thought for a while and said, "Could he be pretending?" ”

"Not really." Su Jinwei shook his head, stood up and said, "There may only be two kinds of ...... I can think of."

Lin Ci looked at him, and the doctor said: "After Kunlun was isolated from the outside world, although the people of that period still used the Yellow Emperor's language, they created another language. Or maybe the pronunciation we learned from ancient books was so different from the language of that era that they couldn't understand what I was saying. ”

"This kind of thing, probably only God knows." Lin Ci exhaled and said, "Let's go, let's go into the city and have a look, maybe there will be more discoveries." ”

"Yes, it's a pity that I didn't specialize in archaeology, otherwise I would have been able to see more things." Su Jinwei sighed: "Manpower is sometimes poor. ”

"Take a break here."

On Huaijiang Mountain, Li Yuanqian and the three of them stopped by a jade pond. This pool is surrounded by jade, and the mountains and rivers in the pool are clear, and there are small golden fish that cannot be named shuttle between the jade stones in the pool.

Turning around, Bu Xuan and Bai Ling were talking. asked about the situation of the Wu clan now, and it was not difficult to hear from Bai Ling's words that the original Wu clan, which has now differentiated into the White Witch, is not living well.

Li Yuanqian simply sat down by the pool, and just now he walked all the way, explaining to him the origin of Kunlun intermittently.

Li Yuanqian believed that if this information was released to the outside world, he would only be afraid that the whole world would be shocked.

The old monk said that in that distant era, there was no concept of a state. At that time, people gathered more in the form of tribes, and at that time, there were already gods like the Yellow Emperor and Nuwa.

However, at that time, people called the Yellow Emperor the dragon god and regarded Nuwa as the snake god. As for the Yellow Emperor and Nuwa, they were called after the end of the Kunlun era.

In that era when people were still living a primitive life of herding, hunting, farming, one day, a huge fireball appeared in the sky, reflecting the night into day, and the firelight illuminated the 100,000 mountains, alarming the dragon god and snake god, and making the people of many tribes panic.

Just when people thought the sun was falling, the fireball suddenly exploded in the middle of the flight. It was an earth-shattering explosion, and the sound reached the ends of the earth, and I don't know how many mountains collapsed, and the mountains and forests spontaneously combusted without fire, and the animals fled for their lives.

And in the sky, there was a rain of fire!

The rain of fire fell all over the sky, and the earth turned into a sea of fire, burning thousands of living beings. When it rained fire, the fireballs split and scattered into several flames, several of which flew into the sky and disappeared. One fell into the mountains, and after the firelight fell, the mountains were leveled, and a large plain was blown up.

The fire burned for several days and nights, many tribes suffered heavy casualties, and what was worse was that since that night, since the rain of fire fell from the sky, there were seven colors of light in the sky day and night.

From time to time, bands of light of different colors fell to the earth, and where they were crossed, trees died, and animals became dried corpses, even humans were not spared. Those who have come into contact with the light belt will festering and die in a few days, or a few hours.

So people turned to the snake god for help, and the snake god was proficient in medicine, but even she was helpless against those who came into contact with the lightband.

At that time, people had to hide in caves to escape the bands of light that would fall to the earth at some point, but those bands of light could not prevent them from invading except for the elusive children.

In times of despair, the dragon god causes the tribe to migrate outside the light-infested area. At the same time, the snake god asked people to collect all kinds of jade, and after refining it, it formed a colorful mist.

When the band of light appeared, she greeted it with a colored mist, and as soon as the band touched the mist, it disappeared into it. After that, the snake god drove away the rain, blending the colorful mist into the rain clouds and raining down colorful light and rain. After the rain of light, the seven-colored light in the sky disappeared, and those deadly bands of light no longer fell.

These records, from the oral transmission of the ancestors, to the later generations through exaggeration, became the legend of Nuwa mending the sky. However, according to the old monk's own account, he believed that when the fireball as big as the sun exploded in the sky, it was probably destroying the earth's ozone layer, causing cosmic rays to enter the earth through the gap.

The colored mist refined by the snake god, the light rain driven by it, is to replenish the ozone layer with some inexplicable force, rather than really replenishing the sky.

After that, the dragon god led the people to the place of the fire. In the records of the Wu clan, it was originally a rolling mountain range, known as Zhulu.

But Zhulu Mountain was leveled by fire and turned into a plain. On that plain, it is said that magnificent palaces that cannot be expressed in words have been discovered. Ryujin used a lot of manpower and material resources to finally bring the palace back, and found a great power inside that is said to have shocked even him.

It didn't take long for rumors of a four-armed bull-headed demon to appear in the tribe, and later, this demon was called the god of war "Chiyou" by the leaders of several tribes. And with the appearance of Chiyou, rumors began to spread that evil ghosts devoured people.

Hearing this rumor, the dragon god led people to investigate, and found Chiyou in a tribe. It is said that when the dragon god found Chiyu, Chiyou was eating the corpses of several women. The dragon god was furious, engaged him, and beheaded half of his body, but still told Chiyou to flee.

Later, Chiyou was worshiped as a co-leader by many tribes, and fought with the dragon god, and the war lasted for many years, with each other winning and losing. And in the years of war, it was discovered that Chiyou had an immortal body, which made people feel frightened.

At the same time, more and more man-eating monsters appeared around Chi You, which made his army a layer of fear.

Eventually, after paying a terrible price, the dragon god defeated Chiyou and chased the deer, inflicted the punishment of splitting his body, and had Chiyou's body taken to the ends of the earth, where it could never heal.

As for Chiyou's head, it was brought back by the dragon god and placed in the heavenly palace found from the Zhulu Plain.

After a few years of this, the various tribes that had been badly injured were given time to recuperate and prosper again.

The dragon god obtained a great deal of knowledge from the palace outside the heavens and passed it on to the witch. Witches grow exotic flowers and fruits, cultivate exotic beasts, and thus make people's lives better.

According to the true statement, if there were no accidents, if the development continued at that time, an incomparably splendid ancient civilization would appear. But after the dragon god planted the immortal tree, everything changed.

"It's time to go." The old monk's voice brought Li Yuanqian back to his senses. He answered, and stood up on the edge of the jade pool.

Looking at this mountain forest, Li Yuanqian exhaled. They had already discussed it on the way, and from the current point of view, the so-called extraterrestrial palace was obviously an extraterrestrial product.

That is, things that came from outside the earth, and after the rain of fire and rain from the sky, Chiyou appeared, and a large number of cannibal demons, including him, appeared. If there is no accident, Chiyou and the so-called cannibal demon should be both pretenders.

And Chiyou is one of the native species.

This has been listed in the records related to Kunlun in China, and the immortal cells that Su Jinwei found on the mysterious island that day were left by Chi You. And from it, he also brought back Chi You recorded Kunlun-related jade slips.

In this way, the extraterrestrial palace is likely to be the "ark" that the native species came to the earth and boarded. After the ark entered the atmosphere, it exploded, and the wreckage was scattered everywhere, so the Wu clan has a record of the sun falling and the flames scattering.