Chapter Twenty-Seven: Kunlun
The ship landed in a valley in the eastern part of the Kunlun Heights, and Neil was eager to go out and explore.
Dice took out a gray-black cube the size of a human head from under the ship's console, put it in his backpack and carried it on his body, and then while assembling a weapon like a rifle, he said to Neil in an extremely serious tone: "Neil, Kunlun is different from Atlantis, the latter is a prosperous and peaceful continent, the people there are peaceful and friendly, but this is a land full of dangers, and coming here is equivalent to an expedition. Once we've stepped out of the ship, you'll have to be careful and follow me and Victim closely, or you'll be in unforeseen danger. Neil had never seen Dis so serious and nervous, so he nodded quickly.
The three of them stepped out of the ship. Neil could hear the roar of the forest in the distance, but he couldn't make out what kind of beast it was when he listened closely.
The three of them looked left and right, walking on the edge of the dense forest with the snow under their feet. It seemed desolate and desolate, but from time to time strange cries came from afar, and from time to time in the woods around him, the rustle of wild beasts could be heard from time to time, and Neil couldn't help but tremble his teeth, on the one hand, because of the very low temperature, and on the other hand, the anxiety in his heart was far more than the cold outside.
Dees led the front with the weapon, Victim and Neil following closely behind him. Neil was about to whisper to Victim to ask where they were going, when he suddenly heard several sounds of giant birds flapping their wings overhead, and at the same time there was a creepy cry like a baby's strange laughter, Neil was startled and looked up suddenly, only to see a flesh-red strange bird appear out of nowhere, swooping straight towards him overhead, Neil glanced at it, and saw that this strange bird actually had three slender necks, each with a hideous human head on its neck, Neil was so frightened that he couldn't help but scream loudly.
Dice raised his weapon and shot an electronic beam at the strange bird, which pierced through the strange bird's body, and a puff of green smoke came out of it, and the strange bird fell beside Neil with a thud.
Neil broke out in a cold sweat. Dees narrowed his eyes, put his index finger to his mouth, and made a silent gesture to him, then turned and walked on.
Not long after walking, there was a murmuring sound in front of them, and a crystal clear stream appeared in front of the three of them.
The stream was not deep, and Dees was the first to step on the pebbles in the water, and jumped to the opposite bank in three steps and two steps. Neil also stepped on the pebbles and prepared to cross the river, and when he looked down, he saw a dozen strange fish more than half a meter long gathered in the water, each with a blue body, but each with a strange human face turned upward, staring at him without blinking.
Neil was so shocked that he slipped and fell into the river. Walking through the stream, Neil couldn't help but ask Victim about the origin of these monsters, and Victim said: "I don't know much about the creatures on the ancient earth, I only know that before the Great Flood, there were indeed many strange creatures living here, especially these creatures on the Kunlun Heights, their appearance is strange, their habits are varied, and their intelligence is also different, as if they were created by some creator with a joking mentality. After the Minotaurs and the Serpents dominated the plains, these ancient creatures were gradually expelled to live in areas with harsh natural conditions and inaccessible areas, such as Kunlun where we are now. It wasn't until the Great Flood that the Kunlun Heights were completely destroyed, and these ancient and strange creatures also died out. When Neil heard this, he couldn't help but be secretly surprised in his heart.
The three of them continued on their way, encountering some strange creatures several times along the way, but luckily most of them just looked at Neil and the three of them and walked away, not attacking them like the three-headed strange bird.
Slowly, Neil became less afraid of the creatures of the land than he used to be, and began to look at them with great interest.
Neil thinks of the wild Masai Mara and Serengeti in East Africa, as well as the national parks of his own country, all of which are equally far removed from modern civilization and full of unpredictable wildness, but undoubtedly more beautiful and fantastic than any other land on the modern earth he knows about.
After walking for about an hour, the surrounding scenery slowly added some of the meaning of a primitive village, and Neil was pleasantly surprised to see some man-made simple shacks, as well as groups of human-like creatures.
But that's it
"Human" may have the same appearance as a human being, but in essence it is very different. Some of them can walk upright, while others can only walk on all fours like orangutans. Some were as short as gnomes, and some were stout giants much taller than Schimer.
The physical characteristics of these creatures vary greatly, and the length of their limbs and the arrangement of their facial features are also slightly arbitrary.
Some of them wore ridiculously simple clothes, and some of them were naked; After seeing Neil and his party, some of them will stare a little nervously until these few people
The "strangers" disappeared outside the safe zone, and some simply looked up for a moment, or screamed menacingly, and went about their business again.
Neil was amazed at all sorts of things
"People" can mix together without incident, which feels both grotesque and witty and funny. Walk through this piece
After the "village", Diss gradually picked up his pace. Neil looked up and was surprised to see a pyramid-shaped building standing in the distance ahead, estimated to be about the size of Giza in Egypt or Atlantic City in Atlantis, according to its distance and size.
Dees leads Victim and Neil towards the pyramid at a brisk pace. After approaching, Neil found that although the shape of this pyramid is similar to that of Egypt and Atlantis, the color is a rare red, and each of the huge square bricks that make up the tower is translucent like ice bricks.
The trio walked around the tower and found an entrance that wasn't too wide, and Dice lit a light source on his backpack and led Victim and Neil into the tower.
The trio walked along the narrow aisles inside the pyramid, which became darker and darker the further they went. Neil remembered when he first arrived on the moon and ran around underground buildings.
As if he was very familiar with the road, Diess always walked ahead. After a few turns, the three of them stepped on a long staircase all the way up into a relatively spacious space.
The walls here are also paved with large red bricks, and one of the four walls looks brighter than the other three.
Dice hurried to a recessed spot on the wall, took off his backpack, took out the cube from the backpack, and embedded it in the square groove in the wall that was recessed like a shrine.
After a few minutes, the gray-black block began to slowly become transparent, and there seemed to be an arc of light dancing faintly inside the block.
After about a meal, the cube changed from grayish-black to translucent red, just like the color of a pyramid.
Diese took it off and held it in his hand, as if he were holding a huge crystal clear gem. Dees laughed and played with it, then tucked the cube back into his backpack, tilted his head and winked at Victim and Neil, and then hopped out of the room.
Neil had been staring blankly at Dees as if he were watching magic, and only then did he turn his head to look at Victim beside him as if he had just woken up from a dream, and his eyes were full of doubt.
Victim squeezed his eyes at him and said two words: charge. Then he took Neil's arm and followed Diese and walked out.
The three of them walked briskly along the road they had come from, and it didn't take long for them to reach the exit of the pyramid. As soon as Neil's eyes came into contact with the light, a huge net suddenly fell from the sky, and Dees and Victim obviously did not expect this to happen, and they were encased in this large net with Neil.
At the same time, an earth-shattering cry rang out from all around, as if hundreds of giant beasts were roaring together.
Neil looked out through the mesh on his head, and saw a huge tiger standing high in front of him, with an eerily human face, and several long, thick tails behind him, which kept swaying like a python; To the left of the giant tiger stood a flock of goats with four horns and fierce eyes, and on the right was a flock of strange birds that looked like wild ducks with long pointed beaks.
In desperation, Dis took the spear from his shoulder and shot at the beasts, but the giant tiger moved quickly, jumped over in three or two times, knocked Dis's weapon to the ground with a wave of his palm, and stepped forward to crush it with a single kick.
The giant tiger roared, as if there was a thunderbolt in the sky. A few sheep-headed monsters quickly ran to the front, cut the arms of Dice and the other three behind their backs, and tied them firmly with thick hemp ropes.
The strength of the sheep people was amazing, their fingers were rough and their nails were sharp, and Neil felt that his arms were twisted by them.
With a wave of his hand, the giant tiger motioned for his men to bring the three captives back. The long-beaked birds turned and buzzed ahead, the giant tiger in the center, and the sheep-headed monsters escorted the three captives to the back of the group.
After a while, a group of people came to the front of a cave, the giant tiger entered the cave first, the strange birds flew in, and the three Dice were also pushed and shoved into the cave by the sheep.
The tiger sat down in a huge seat deep in the cave and began to speak to the sheep-headed people below, and Dees heard the look of surprise behind him and began to shout at the tiger in the same language, and the tiger ordered his men to bring Dees and the other three to him.
The Tiger and Dees talked for a long time in strange language, and Dees changed his previous playful expression and communicated with the Tiger sincerely, who had a cold and arrogant attitude, sometimes waving his hand and shouting at Dees, sometimes shaking his head again and again with a serious face.
Neil couldn't understand what the two men were talking about, so he approached Victim and asked her. Victim whispered to Neer: The giant tiger said that this Kunlun Mountain is the division between the east and the west on the earth, and it is also a forbidden place connecting the heavens and the earth.
Dees explained to the other party that the three of us were from the future West Errels, and that we had strayed into Kunlun because we had lost our way, and that we had not intentionally broken in, hoping that they would be able to open the net, but the giant tiger refused to accept Dees's request, even if Dees begged for it.
Neil was anxious, wondering if his soul would be resurrected if the three of them were killed together.
At this time the giant tiger
"Suddenly" got up from his seat and strode out of the cave, and the sheep also pushed and shoved the three of them to the outside of the cave.
The giant tiger stood in front of the three of them, waving his hands and scribbling and speaking, and Victim translated to Neil in real time: The giant tiger said that outsiders entering Kunlun will be executed, and this rule cannot be broken, but since we can understand their language, we can execute the three of us according to an ancient protocol - there is a stone statue of the god five hundred steps to the left and right of this mountain gate, named the god of truth and the god of lies, and the three of us can say a word to the giant tiger at will, It is up to him to judge the truth of what he says, and if he thinks that what he says is true, he drags us to the God of truth and kills us, if he thinks that what he says is false, he drags us to the God of lies and kills us, and if we don't want to speak to him, then kill us on the spot.
After the giant tiger made this statement, he stared at Dice and the other three with that human face, and several sheep-headed people also looked at them with fierce eyes and greed, and the corners of their mouths unconsciously drooled.
Dees's eyes were tightly closed and his brows were tightly locked, Victim sighed and shook his head gently, Neil's brain spun rapidly, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and whispered in Victim's ear, and Victim thought for a moment, and then shouted loudly in the language of the giant tiger: "We will be killed by you in front of the god of lies!" ”