Sheng Shiyao didn't want to listen to my opinion, he rowed the boat to the ancient building, and when he approached, the oars were a little railing, and the boat leaned up, and after fixing the boat on the edge of the ancient building with a rope, he kicked his feet and easily went up to the ancient building. Turning back and reaching out to me, I hesitated, but I gave him my hand and went up with his strength.

At this time, there is no point in retreating, even if you are afraid, but if you put an ancient building that appeared in a dream and don't check it, you will itch to death. There was a wooden floor under our feet, and it creaked when we stepped on it, and we turned around along the railing, and then we stood in front of the wooden door, and when we looked up, we could see a plaque on it, and the handwriting was very blurry, and we couldn't recognize the original glyphs.

The wooden door was not locked, but it was closed very tightly, and when I saw that Sheng Shiyao was going to push the door, I grabbed his arm and reminded him urgently: "Be careful of someone inside." He smiled lightly and said, "Don't be afraid, there's no one in this building." I wondered why he was so sure, pointed to the lantern above his head, and retorted, "If there is no one, why would there be a lantern?" ”

"The wick in that lantern is specially treated to keep it alive for hundreds of years or more. As I approached this building, I had listened carefully, and there was not a trace of human breath in it. ”

It's no wonder he's so calm, I'm really a soy sauce beater, and I don't understand anything. Sheng Shiyao went to push the door, found that it seemed to be a little heavy, the first time did not push open, so that the force pushed hard, the heavy door made a "squeak" ugly sound, slowly opened, the brunt of the dust came to my face, I was defenseless, my eyes were suddenly confused, and my nasal cavity was full of dust, choking me to sneeze again and again. I finally opened my eyes and found that Sheng Shiyao had already walked inside, and I was secretly annoyed that he wouldn't wait for me.

The first thing you need to do is a number of tables and chairs, placed side by side and neatly arranged. There is a wooden staircase in the right corner, which leads to the second floor, because the area of the building is not large, so it is clear at a glance, and there is basically nothing to study. As we walked up the wooden staircase, perhaps because the building was built in the center of the lake, I realized that the wood was actually damp, and I doubted that it could still support the weight of people. But apparently I was overly worried, and I walked to the second floor safe and sound.

This second floor is not like the bottom, there are paintings hanging on all sides, and it is strange that in such a damp place, the drawing paper does not show mildew. Most of the paintings are landscape paintings, and if you look closely, you will find that each one seems to be a painting of the green lake scenery, painted from all angles and places. We started by the door, looked one by one, and found that some of the scenery we had passed by, some of which we had not seen before, and when we saw a painting with a whirlpool, the two of us stopped.

That's right, it's the location of the whirlpool that we experienced, and according to this painting, the person who painted it actually knew about the existence of the lake monster? The painting is so vivid that it is impossible to draw it without seeing it with your own eyes. It is clear that this man was not caught up in the whirlpool and survived, and later made this painting. Is he trying to warn future generations, or is he just a lover of literature and art? Looking at the painting alone, we don't get any answers, so we have to keep looking back.

The more I looked back, the more surprised I became, until the last painting, I don't know what Sheng Shiyao's mood was, anyway, I must have been stunned. Let's talk about this last painting first, it is a bird's-eye view of the maze that almost trapped us to death before, exactly as we expected, the maze forest is twisted and turned, the route is complicated and disorderly, if it is not a strange phenomenon, even if you see the panorama, it is difficult to find the right way. The strange phenomenon is that someone has drawn a path with a red pen to the outside of the labyrinth.

Of course, it was different from our method of getting out of the forest in the end, but that should be the way to survive in the Qimen Dunjia of the Lost Forest. I don't know if the painter walked through the maze and came to the conclusion, or if the painter himself was the forester of the maze and then gave a hint on this painting. But this is contradictory, even if you can't get out of the labyrinth, you can't come to this ancient building in Green Lake, and it's impossible to see this painting.

Sheng Shiyao said with great certainty: "The person who paints and the person who uses the red pen are by no means the same. These paintings are brushed with the juice of special herbs, which not only keeps the paper firm, but also acts as if sealing a protective film. Slightly surprised, no wonder these paintings could be preserved so well, his brain turned, and he immediately understood the meaning of his previous sentence, "Are you saying that the painter himself only drew a map of the overlook of the maze forest, and someone may have arrived here through the maze later, and then used a red pen to play a maze game on it?" Then this person is not only smart, but also quite conceited, and his heart moved, and he made a bold assumption: "Could this person be the owner of the ancient ship?" ”

"Quite possibly." Sheng Shiyao nodded, and his gaze moved to the side again, I also followed the line of sight to see, the reason why I was stunned just now was because these paintings were actually equivalent to maps that had been dismantled. It paints every landscape in it, and after the whirlpool there are scenes that we have never seen before, and then the last second painting before the maze of the forest, which depicts a village.

The village is located in a mountain col next to the Green Lake, and there are so many houses that it is estimated that at least a thousand people live there. Judging by the architectural complex, it is also an ancient building, and it is very old. This confirms our previous suspicion that a tribe once migrated here and found the green lake and the flat land of the col for people to live in, so they built a house to live in.

Almost all the paintings here are landscape paintings, and there are no figures, except for this village, but a person is depicted in it, and their demeanor is very peaceful and calm, as if they are very satisfied with this place that has no quarrel with the world. Judging from the clothes on their bodies, it doesn't look like Hanfu, and I don't know what kind of national costume it is.

This is undoubtedly a very important message, that is, if we continue to paddle in, we should be able to see the village in this painting, whether we can still see a scene of harmonious life, and then after asking, we will learn which of the missing tribes the other party is descended from. That's a huge historical discovery. Since the whirlpool scene only appeared once in the painting, we judged that the journey should not be dangerous again, and after searching the ancient building and finding nothing new, we returned to the boat and continued on our way.

This time, I have a goal, I am no longer looking aimlessly, and I feel much easier to row the oars. But the sky waits for no one, and soon the night comes again, Sheng Shiyao doesn't want to waste more time resting, because he agreed with Zhou Tong that they will return in three days, so we must arrive at the village tribe in a day and a half, he asked me to lie down and rest first, and wait until midnight to change him. I had no position to object, but I snuggled up in the boat, closed my eyes, and soon fell asleep.

But there was no dream to bother me, but when I opened my eyes, I found that the sky was already dark, I sat up one by one, saw Sheng Shiyao still rowing on the bow of the boat, and turned around when I heard the movement, "Are you awake?" Then you'll be able to paddle instead. With that, he walked to the place next to me and lay down, not even giving me a chance to ask why he didn't call me.

I quietly walked to the bow of the boat and rowed to myself in regret about how I slept like a pig, and I couldn't help but look back at him, only to see that even with his eyes closed, his face was tired. The familiar sour mood came back again, and he wanted me to sleep a little longer.

The silence didn't last long, because I only paddled for half an hour, and I saw that there seemed to be a village in the distance, and the green lake was coming to an end, and I immediately woke up Sheng Shiyao excitedly. The two of them quickly rowed towards that side, but the more they rowed, the more they felt that something was wrong, and I didn't see the life scene of the villagers and Le Longlong, but the village seemed to be still. It was already seven o'clock in the morning, and the villagers in the countryside generally got up early, and some even got up at five o'clock to do farm work outside.

However, this place is a paradise, and perhaps the villagers are used to a comfortable life, and they may get up at nine o'clock every day. I found that Sheng Shiyao's face was frozen like never before, his eyes were fixed on the front, and just as he was about to land, he suddenly said: "This is an uninhabited village." ”

Yes? No one? How so? This house is still very good. Facts have proved that Sheng Shiyao is right, after we went ashore, we went directly to knock on the nearest house, knocked for a long time and no one answered, so Sheng Shiyao broke in, the house was full of dust, and the ancient building was almost the same. Needless to say, the dust has accumulated to this extent, and there must be no one living inside. But we still didn't give up on searching the house, and when we found that there was no trace, we went to the second house, the same as the previous one. After searching five or six houses in a row, Sheng Shiyao no longer entered, but began to walk deeper along the stone road.

The houses were continuous, but empty, and as we walked along the road, we could only hear our footsteps, and the silence around us was so quiet that a needle could be heard on the ground. The atmosphere became very weird, if it weren't for Sheng Shiyao beside me, I would never dare to go inside. After walking around the rows of houses, I no longer had any expectation of seeing people, thinking that it seemed that the people of this village had moved elsewhere, and left behind the houses and the traces of the people who had lived in them.

We came to the last row of all the houses, and we stopped, I should say, because there was no way ahead. Separated by a straight mountain range, the village is in fact surrounded by mountains on all three sides, except for the Green Lake. found that Sheng Shiyao's gaze was fixed on the relatively ornate-looking house, which was the best built in the entire village, and was probably for people of status.

There is a river behind the house, which does not cover a wide area, and judging from the color of the river, it should be water drawn from the green lake, and it is very likely that there is a passage to the green lake underneath. The artificial traces of this river are obvious, it was dug up later, I guess it may be that it is inconvenient for the people who live in the back row to go to the Green Lake to carry water, so they dug a river here, anyway, their life here is boring, so they are looking for something to do.

I don't know what Sheng Shiyao is looking at in place, since he is interested in this house, let's go in and find out. But this thought was also thought in his heart, and he didn't dare to urge him, because his expression was so frozen that it was daunting.