Chapter 319 Stone Tower
After regaining consciousness, when they saw the beautiful scenery in front of them, everyone couldn't help but scream.
Only Aoi didn't seem interested in this kind of sight, and ran closely behind Lin Xi.
In fact, where they are now, the mountain pavilions they see are only the tip of the iceberg.
Looking down from above, a city is evident at the foot of the hill below. Beyond the city, there is a plain, with rolling hills and rivers in the distance.
As far away, there are mountains that support the sky. Even though it is far away, the mountain still occupies half of the field of vision, the roots of the mountain are wide, and the mountainside alone is already hidden among the white clouds, and I don't know where the top of the mountain lies in the clouds.
Compared to it, the other mountains are like small and big things.
"That's ......" Lin Ci's eyes were full of shock, he never thought that there were such huge mountains in this world, it was simply unheard of.
Su Jinwei came to his side and said softly: "Kunlun has a copper pillar, which is high to the sky, and it is called the heavenly pillar. Circumference of three thousand miles, the staff is like cutting, there is a house under the copper pillar, and the wall is a hundred zhang...... That should be the Kunlun Heavenly Pillar, which is the center point of Kunlun. Legend has it that it goes straight to heaven. The jade ruin should be on top of the heavenly pillar. ”
Lin Ci silently calculated the distance between this place and the Heavenly Pillar in his heart, and said with a wry smile: "This is a bit far." ”
"Let's go, a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single step." Su Jinwei patted his arm, turned around and said loudly: "Assemble, get ready to go, we still have a long way to go!" ”
The expedition team was quickly assembled, and a number of black horsemen were interspersed among the many warriors, divided into two teams, the front and the rear. The team in front was in charge of exploring the guard, Su Jinwei was in the middle, and another team was behind him.
The team exited from the jade ladder at the edge of the platform, which led to the mountain path below, and the ladder had 100 steps. After descending, through an archway, you enter the mountain pass.
All the way down the mountain, passing through many pavilions built in the mountains, walking across the jade bridge hanging between the two peaks, passing through the hidden tunnel behind the waterfall, it took a little half a day for the team to finally come to the foot of the mountain.
At the foot of the hill is the city, which has been abandoned for a long time, and the towering walls have long been breached. These walls, as well as the buildings in them, are mostly covered with bluestone.
The 30-meter-high wall is built with a huge bluestone wall with a length of three meters and a width of three meters, and there are several stone towers on the wall in addition to walkways.
Within the city walls, there is a city flooded with sand and weeds. The building has long since collapsed, and the one that is still standing is not intact. Walking through the city, it's not hard to see that the city is huge and completely planned.
The main roads are neat, and the functions of the buildings are also differentiated. For example, the square used for the worship of heaven is located in the center of the city, and there are wells for water and canals on both sides of the street. As you can imagine, the city was once glorious long ago.
Unfortunately, it has now become an empty city.
"With such a size, it can accommodate at least about 100,000 people. In the Wilderness Era, there were almost no cities with a large population like this, and the people at that time were more in the form of tribes.
And judging from the construction process of the building and the urban planning, the people who designed the city had knowledge far beyond that era. ”
In a stone pavilion not far from the city walls, the procession rested. Su Jinwei drank the water sent by the soldiers and said: "Kunlun is known as the capital of the Emperor of Heaven, and those who can live in Kunlun should be the people of the Emperor of Heaven." I don't know, are there any people alive now? ”
"If there were still people alive, the city wouldn't be deserted, right?" Lin Ci said.
Su Jinwei shook his head: "How long has it been since the Yellow Emperor era?" Who knows what this world in the alien dimension has experienced in such a long time. Maybe the city is deserted, but it's not surprising that there are still people alive. ”
"Then I really want to meet the so-called people of the Flood." Lin Ci smiled, "I'm afraid I can't communicate." ”
"There are many ways to communicate, and language is just one of them. Gestures and patterns are ways to communicate, but I'm not worried about that. Su Jinwei smiled.
Suddenly, someone shouted in the distance: "There is movement!" ”
Lin Xi swept out of the stone pavilion and went straight to the far city wall. He climbed up in quick twos, and one of the soldiers on the wall pointed to the plain ahead and shouted, "Something is coming over there." ”
Lin Xi saw that there was a black thing on the plain outside the city that was coming this way. He took the binoculars handed by the soldier, adjusted them and looked at them, and immediately a beast crashed into Lin Xi's field of vision. This is the last creature ever seen on earth.
As if sensing that Lin Ci was looking at itself, it suddenly looked in the direction of the camera and suddenly opened its mouth and yelled.
Suddenly, there was a continuous roar from the other side of the plain. The sound is as loud as thunder.
Lin Ci put down the binoculars, his face solemn. The monsters were menacing, and they looked like they were heading towards the city. And there are quite a few of them, not a thousand, but eight or nine hundred.
A team of less than forty people on his side, if he is put into this group of monsters, he will be overwhelmed in an instant. Of course, quantity does not mean quality.
There are many black horsemen in the expedition team, not to mention a few Lin Ci, even if it is an army of 1,000 people, it may not be able to defeat them.
At this moment, another strange cry was heard in the sky. Lin Ci looked up, and a red cloud floated from the sky to the west of the plain, and it was also floating in the direction of the city at a speed no less than that of the beasts on the ground. It wasn't a red cloud, of course, but a large number of red birds.
But whether it is a flock of birds in the sky or a flock of beasts on the ground, it can be seen that these things are not good.
But now these birds and beasts don't come early, they don't come late, but they appear at this time, which is by no means unusual.
Suddenly, Lin Ci thought of something, and turned to look at the mountains behind the city.
Above the high mountain, there was a little blue light flashing, and that was the high mountain platform where they had entered from the Heavenly Lake. Thinking that the blue light in the jade door is still flickering, these birds and beasts are afraid that they are attracted by the blue light inside the door!
The herd approached.
Although the expedition had a city to rely on, the number of people was too small for it to make senseless in defending it.
The herd seemed to be heading for the spatial gate at the top of the mountain, and it was naturally better to reduce unnecessary conflicts. As a result, the expedition retreated into a nearby stone building.
There are stones everywhere in the stone building, and a toppled stone pillar leans against the wall on the left, which makes the space inside the building seem cramped. After nearly forty people were stuffed, it was even more crowded, so some of them went up to the second floor to observe the situation outside the downstairs.
Gangwu and Eugene brought some gray stone slabs, moved them to the front of the building, and sealed the door. As soon as he had done all this, he heard the roar of a beast like thunder, and the huge sound wave continued to hit everyone's ears.
Lin Ci and Chen Hu came to the second floor, as well as a dozen celebrities. Outside the open window on the second floor, the roar of the beast came, Lin Ci made a gesture, and everyone squatted down and hid behind the pillar or under the window, so as not to be seen by the beasts.
When observing the beasts on the city wall before, Lin Ci had already found that those leopard-like beasts had extremely keen vision, and once they were recorded, they would probably be targeted.
He hid behind a window, spread out his palm, and a thin slit opened in the palm of his left palm, and a blood ball gushed out of it. When the blood cells fall to the ground, they do not disperse, but continue to expand, and the blood produces tissue, and the tissue builds the body.
Soon, a blood rat appeared on the ground. The blood rat, created by devouring blood, quickly climbed up the window and burrowed out, looking out the building.
Lin Ci, who shared his vision with it, simply closed his eyes, and let the picture seen by the blood rat appear directly in his mind.
Lin Xi "looked" at the city wall in the distance outside the building, and suddenly poked out a bulging head, and then a one-eyed beast climbed the city wall with its tail, and then jumped down from the high wall and fell lightly to the ground.
More beasts climbed the wall, surging over the wall like waves, and falling to the ground inside the city. Some of the wiser ones got through the gaps in the walls without any effort.
The beasts did not stay long under the walls, they roared and began to run, like a tidal wave across the ground, and soon poured into the streets and alleys of the city.
Then the sky darkened, and the red cloud finally entered the city. Hundreds of red exotic birds chirped and flapped their wings over the city walls, flying above the heads of the ground herds towards the mountains behind the city.
Lin Xi gave a command in his consciousness, and the blood rat turned its head to look at the mountains behind the city. I saw that on the top of the mountain, the blue light was still flickering. It's like a lamppost on the sea, attracting these birds and beasts.
Suddenly, in the midst of the crowd, a strange beast stopped. The man's face-like head turned to the stone building where Lin Ci and the others were, and the one-eyed turned, the picture in the eye continued to expand, and finally the blood rat was reflected in its pupils.
The blood rat immediately noticed that under Lin Ci's order, he suddenly jumped down from the stone tower, but it was Lin Ci who planned to use this blood rat to lure away the strange beast.
Strangely, the beast didn't pounce right away. Instead, he raised his head and let out a few short and long cries from his mouth.
After hearing its cry, the surrounding beasts stopped one after another, and then dozens of strange beasts broke away from the herd and rushed towards the stone tower.
A soldier next to Lin Ci immediately clenched his rifle, and Lin Ci hurriedly reached out and pressed it on the gun, shook his head, and signaled him not to act rashly.
At the same time, he continued to order the blood rat to flee, and the blood rat rushed out directly towards the dozens of strange beasts, but turned a corner in the middle of the way and slipped in the direction of the city.
Immediately, a dozen or so strange beasts chased after them, but the rest were in no hurry to leave. The beasts at the front sucked in vigorously with their human-like noses, and a look of confusion appeared in their solitary eyes, one of them screamed, and the last few gave a short response, sounding as if they were talking.
A strange beast raised its head and let out a low roar in the direction of the stone building, and four or five strange beasts trotted forward. They lay on the stone slab where Gangwu and the others blocked the gate, scratching with their claws. Those black and shiny curved claws actually caught the claw marks on the stone slab.
The strange beast, which was clearly the leader, rushed over, and with a few low roars, the beasts that were picking at the door dispersed. The leading beast slammed into the stone slab.
The slate was suddenly torn apart, and the rubble rolled down towards the door, but the beast that smashed the slab only shook its head, unaffected at all, as if it had a body of copper skin and iron bones.
The slate shattered, and the figure in the building suddenly burst into a recording, and the strange beast was obviously stunned, and then raised its head and let out an earth-shattering roar.
This roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the rushing beasts all stopped when they heard this cry, and even the red cloud in the sky stopped in mid-air, and then turned around and floated in the direction of the stone tower!
The blood rat had been overtaken by several strange beasts, one of whom bit its tail and threw it up. The blood rat that flew into the air happened to see the turn of the bird and beast in his eyes, and fed back to Lin Ci in real time.
Lin Ci on the second floor of the stone building immediately whispered: "They have discovered us, move!" Move it! ”
When one of the soldiers pounced on the window, they set up their rifles and pointed downstairs to shoot at the beasts. And the strange beasts hovering in front of the stone building door had already begun to drill into the gap in the door of the building.
The strange beast that smashed through the stone slab burrowed into the building, and before it could hit the ground, it was greeted by a dense rain of bullets.
It was startled by the sound of heavy machine gun fire, apparently it had not heard the sound of a firearm, and instinctively shrank back, and then opened fire all over its body.
The intertwined lines of fire of a dozen submachine guns plowed over it, and the alien beast was immediately bombarded with blood mist, and although it was not dead for a while, it was suppressed by the wall and could not move.
But soon other strange beasts came in, and Eugene's roar immediately sounded in the building.
The sound overshadowed the roar of the gun, and Eugene strode towards the strange beast that entered the building. As he walked, his body rose steadily, and by the time he came to a strange beast, he had turned into a black giant several meters tall.
It is also thanks to the extremely high belly of this stone building, which can actually accommodate Eugene, otherwise Eugene's head will be afraid to break through the ceiling.
The giant picked up the totem he was carrying, and swept it sideways, and the strange beast was swept by the totem with a snap.
The pulpy corpse flew out and hit the stone slab, sticking to it like that, and then the blood gradually flowed down.
With a successful blow, Eugene swept and smashed the totem, and soon several strange beasts that entered the building told him to be stoned to death.
Su Jinwei squatted down next to one of the beast corpses, and after fiddling with the head of this strange beast, he exhaled and said: "This is Zhuqian, its shape is like a leopard with a long tail, a human head and bull's ears, and a glance, the name is Zhuqian." Zhu Qianzha is good, its voice is like thunder, copper skin and iron bones, water and fire do not invade......"
"This kind of strange beast actually exists in Kunlun, this is really surprising."
"Doctor, now is not the time to sigh about this, we have to go, this small building can't stop the beasts." Li Feng walked over and said.
Su Jinwei nodded and said, "We do have to go, if what the ancients said is true, Zhuqian should have the ability to speak loudly, not just shout loudly." ”