"A living primeval city?"

Chu Ge couldn't understand, "What does this mean, you mean a very well-preserved ancient city where you can see the whole picture clearly?" ”

"No, 'living' is literal, a city that seems to be still in operation, with countless inhabitants."

Yun Qianhe sighed and said, "I know you won't believe it, in fact, the members of the expedition team who saw this city for the first time couldn't believe everything that appeared in front of them, and our intuition was that we had been subjected to a large-scale mental attack, so that the phenomenon of mass hysteria was produced.

"Or is it some kind of large optical illusion, something like a mirage?

"The problem is, no matter how much we try to test our brains and try to detect the energy fluctuations of the primeval city with all kinds of instruments, it still stands there, like a castle made of crystal, gold, crystal clear, incomparably brilliant and prosperous."

"Uh......"

Chu Ge couldn't help but interrupt, "Senior Yun, how can you be sure that it is 'alive'?" I mean, it's like a beautiful coral, but it's also a dead thing, maybe the city is just outwardly splendid, but in fact it's long since it was empty, piled up with bones that have been in the dust for billions of years? ”

"That's the most incredible part."

An indescribable brilliance appeared on Yun Qianhe's face, and he said seriously, "We have found living residents in this city. ”

"The living primeman?" Chu Ge was taken aback.

"It should be."

Yun Qianhe said, "We are only observing from a distance, neither dare nor too close to the ancient city, coupled with the observation of electronic instruments, it is always subject to various interferences, and the resulting image is very blurry, so we can only observe with the naked eye."

"According to the naked eye, the streets and alleys of this primeval city and the rows of buildings are all present in the primeval people - they should be a little bigger than us, but not so big as monsters, just like us, they also walk upright, with heads and limbs, and they look like some kind of primate.

"It's not surprising, if they are really our creators, then it is very natural to create new life in their own image, just as we humans create robots, and often mold robots into our appearance.

"However, outside the bodies of these primeval people, there are circles of shining halos around them, so that their forms are hazy and blurred, as if they are wrapped around their bodies with hundreds of neon strips, therefore, we have not observed their details and do not know what they really look like."

Chu Ge was fascinated by this, and was already deeply attracted, and he pondered for a moment and said, "Didn't you get close to this primeval city and try to get in touch with the primeval people and see their true colors clearly?" ”

"We tried."

Yun Qianhe said, "Of course, we know that we shouldn't do this—if the other party is really from an ancient super civilization, it is very likely that they have the power comparable to that of gods and demons, and our existence is likely to be like a wriggling ant to them, and the other party can yawn and trample us to death without any reason at all, not even any emotional fluctuations."

"However, our thinking at the time was that if the other party was really an ancient super civilization, they must have a hundred times more advanced observation methods than us, and since we can all observe each other, the other party must have already observed us.

"If the other party wants to destroy us, or prevent us from getting closer, they can do so at any time, even if they don't want to hurt us, then they can find a way to hide their city - even the current human beings have invented optical stealth camouflage, and the primeval anti-gravity aircraft obtained by the celestial organization also has stealth functions, there is no reason why the primeval city does not.

Therefore, since we can see each other alive, it means that the other person does not want us to die, and is even willing to communicate with us.

With that in mind, we decided to take the plunge and engage with each other.

Chu Ge said: "Have you succeeded? ”

"Nope."

Yun Qianhe's expression became more and more strange, as if he was trapped in a chaotic maze of memories and couldn't find a way out, "I was one of the first members of the exploration team to venture close to the ancient city, and I had all the mental preparations along the way, even if the ancient people suddenly turned me into a fat big bug, I wouldn't feel too strange."

"However, just as we were about a kilometer away from the ancient city, and we could reach out and touch the circle of light that lingered outside the city, this magnificent and beautiful ancient city suddenly collapsed, annihilated, and disappeared with the wind like a fortress made of sand!"

"What?" Chu Ge was surprised.

"No one can believe that scene unless they see it with their own eyes."

Yun Qianhe said, "It's like a beautiful woman who instantly turns into rotten dry bones, like a wonderful dream that returns to the cold reality in a moment, those crystal-carved pavilions and criss-crossing air roads have all turned into crystal clear sand, pouring down to the ground like mercury, and disappearing without a trace along the cracks in the ground, in less than ten seconds, only a piece of barrenness is left in front of us, and even half of the bones of the primeval people are gone." ”

Chu Ge didn't know how to answer.

"I know, now you must be more and more suspicious that what we are seeing is a mirage, or some kind of spiritual force field left over from the primeval era, or a treasure that can create large-scale illusions, like some kind of ...... Swire's holographic video. ”

Yun Qianhe said, "The problem is, we haven't just seen this primeval city once, but more than a dozen times we've seen it appear in different parts of the cave world. ”

"Huh?"

Chu Ge's eyes widened, "What does this mean, what does it mean to 'appear in different places more than a dozen times'?" ”

"Ever heard of the 'Ghost Ship'?"

Yun Qianhe said, "The legendary warship full of heroes and treasures, with countless glorious achievements and moving legends, after sinking to the bottom of the sea, was coerced by the power of unwillingness and remorse, and returned to the sea, haunted and galloped.

"The primeval city we are talking about is somewhat similar to the ghost ship, like a ubiquitous 'ghost city', or rather, the soul of a certain primeval city.

"In the years since the first observation of it, more than a dozen different groups of expedition members have found traces of it in more than a dozen different coordinates of the cave world, and each time it is so crystal clear and splendid, as if it will never fall, never collapse, and never decay.

"The problem is that every time our people try to approach it, it quickly collapses and disappears, like a flower that is so shy that it withers in an instant when touched.

"No one knew what it meant to be in the primeval city, until one of us, a mathematician and map enthusiast, accidentally connected a dozen coordinates that had appeared in the primeval city, drew a circle with those coordinates, and found the center of the circle - we found a new cave in the center of the circle."

“…… A cave within a cave? Chu Ge felt more and more weird.

It's like goosebumps.

"Sounds scary, doesn't it?"

Yun Qianhe said, "We sent a large number of flying machines to fly over the cave to explore, and before the aircraft crashed, they sent back blurry images and a large number of contradictory messy data showing that inside this 'cave within a cave', there was the remains of a collapsed city or temple.

"We guess that the remains of this temple hidden in the cave within the cave are the real primeval cities, and the 'ghost cities' we saw before are just some kind of projection - not in the optical sense, similar to a mirage-like projection, but somehow, some kind of projection with a physical body, do you understand?"

Although Yun Qianhe spoke a little mysteriously, Chu Ge could still understand what he meant.

"So, have you entered the cave within the cave to explore?"

Chu Ge asked, "It sounds like that's the origin of everything, and you can find the ultimate answer to the carbon-based intelligent life needs of the Earth, the Immortal Cultivation Realm, and the Illusion Demon Realm." ”

"No, Ghost City, which has appeared more than a dozen times in a row, has already frightened us."

Yun Qianhe shook his head and said, "Besides, the cave world itself contains a large number of ruins, wreckage and lost technology, which can allow us to study for at least a few decades. ”

Chu Ge heard his voice: "'Original'? ”