Volume 1, Ghost City of the Bone Forest_Chapter 387, Phantom City

There is a huge stone monument erected at the gate of the city, which reads: The word "Ghost City", but the "Wei" on the right side of the "Charm Character" seems to have been worn away because of its age, so it looks like the word "Ghost City" from a distance.

Flipping through Professor Xu Tianwang's notes, I was surprised to find that he had actually been here. In the notebook, it is written: We got lost in the underground of the ghost town, and the environment here is surprisingly consistent, and if we had to tell the difference, we would probably have to use the murals on the walls to distinguish them. We rounded the path ahead and found a huge castle hidden underground, and I think it might be the legendary ghost town.

There were very few records, followed by some incredible things he had heard and seen during his night in the city, and they were all nearing the end, and they were all blank when they were turned back.

It can also be understood that the ghost town is likely to be the last stop he visited, and he and the expedition team got separated in the ghost town, and finally escaped to the cave next to the Immortal River with his notebook and package, and then his whereabouts are unknown.

Either way, there must be a bigger secret hidden in this city. And the good news is that I can be completely sure that I am following the path that Professor Xu Tianwang came in, as long as I follow this route and keep looking, sooner or later I will leave this underground ghost place.

Walking into the city, the houses are very well preserved, and the Khitan are a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people, so many scholars think that the Khitan people themselves will not build houses, which is wrong. Moreover, during the reign of Liao Jingzong, especially the Empress Dowager Xiao, because of the occupation of the cities of the Song Dynasty many times, the technology of building houses in the Song Dynasty was also introduced to the Great Liao. Therefore, the shadow of the houses of the Song Dynasty can be seen on the houses of Da Liao.

The gray walls and wide eaves are not too high, and the houses themselves occupy a large area, but there are also small houses lined up among the big houses.

This is also related to the economy of the Song Dynasty at that time, before the Song Dynasty, there was no concept of open business. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there were rules for morning and evening markets, and there were rules for doing business at fixed points and times. If you exceed the time, or set up a stall in a big city, it is a crime. But this was changed during the Song Dynasty, so if you see in the TV series that there are still people doing business at night in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty, it must be a joke.

To get back to the point, I entered the Charm City at the time, and walked around the city, but I didn't find a single figure. To be honest, the fact that a town is empty, with so many houses, so many buildings, and neatly arranged streets, and all of them are uninhabitable, is unbelievable, and it makes me feel a little hairy.

Although he had already convinced himself that this was an underground city, and it could have been built as a mausoleum for dignitaries, there was still a sense of insecurity lingering in his heart. Especially for people who are used to living in a metropolis like Shanghai. I had a few friends who were traveling in the mountains at the time, and when it was dark outside at six or seven o'clock in the afternoon, they all said they didn't dare to go out.

I found a small house near the middle of the town and walked in, which served as a temporary base. The room is not big, only one bed, two windows. I rang the bell to make sure there were no ghosts in the room before I settled down.

After sitting down, he opened the leather booklet, and Professor Xu Tianwang wrote on it: On the first night, if you don't look at your watch, you can't tell whether it's day or night, because it's dark everywhere, so we sent someone to light torches to make this place look brighter. I was very tired, and the scholars seemed very tired when they were hurrying every day, and at night there was a wind, and I could hear a strange noise outside when I was under the lamp. I asked others, and they told me that it was the whispering of the souls who wandered in the city and did not want to leave. I was scared, and I was scared to hear something like a ghost that subverted my thinking. But he calmed down and fell asleep. But unexpectedly, when I woke up the next morning, they told me the bad news that one of the last people who had been released last night had died for no reason.

Seeing this, my eyes were slightly stunned, someone died, which is not a good thing for me who sees these words now. Hurriedly continuing to read, he thought and continued to write: We started to investigate the town, and they didn't tell me the cause of this man's death, and I didn't even know his name. They buried him in the earth, and I peeked at him, and he died horribly, with blood all over his face, as if he was in great pain. The research value in this town is actually not high, because there are no traces of human life, as if ancient people built a model underground. None of us are experts in ancient architecture, so we just took some photos and hoped to show them to the experts when we go back. But I also know that what they asked us to look for was not so-called research materials, but some treasures that could sell for a lot of money for them.

It looks like they started their treasure hunt the day after they entered here.

The following continues: The harvest is not good, and I can see that Mr. Tang seems to be a little dissatisfied, because he spent a lot of money on this expedition and opened up a lot of relationships. At night I heard those strange sounds again, but there were clear words in my ears, but if I listened carefully, I could not hear anything. I looked out the window and saw a strange gray glow in the sky of this underground town, very beautiful, it looked like a floating elf, and I asked someone what this phenomenon was. But they told me that this is the soul of a person after death, that is, a ghost. But I wasn't afraid, I don't know why, I seemed to be able to just get to the point where they had no ill will towards me, in the past I was an atheist, but from today onwards, I have a religious belief. However, something terrible happened, and another guard died at night.

Seeing this, I couldn't help frowning, the second person is dead, and this city is still fucking full of ghosts, it's not clean at all!

Then he continued to read, and he did not harvest for several days, until the fifth day, when he wrote in the leather booklet: Today there is finally a harvest, and it seems to me that it is a very valuable clay pot of the Liao Dynasty, not a fragment, and it is very complete in condition, and it can be seen that it may have reached the level of tribute. Mr. Tang's face softened a little, let's continue to search. When I went to bed at night, I started dreaming, and I could feel that I was having some nightmares, but I woke up the next day and I didn't remember anything. Even more terrifying than this is the death of a third person. It was one of Mr. Tang's cronies, and the people in the team were panicked, and some people proposed to leave here for the time being. But Mr. Tang seemed reluctant, and I seemed to be able to hear the strange voices more clearly than I could hear when I first arrived, as if I could understand what they were saying.

If a person doesn't have spirituality, he can't hear ghosts talk anyway, this Professor Xu Tianwang is really not an ordinary person, maybe he doesn't know it himself, but he must have spirituality, and it's not shallow.

I continued to scroll back, they decided to leave on the seventh day of exploration, and the cause of death of those people, Professor Xu Tianwang, did not write, but on the page before leaving, the notes here were very messy, completely different from the previous notes.

"I'm so scared...... They said they were coming and taking me tonight...... I was so scared, so scared, I told Mr. Tang, but he fell silent and said it was okay. But I don't believe him, even his cronies are dead, what should I do? I want to live, I'm still young. They said they would come in the evening, and I was going to run away, and I couldn't stay here and die, I wanted to run away...... ...... to escape"

His messy notes seemed to reveal the reason why he left the group, because he was threatened by a ghost and chose to escape, but why didn't the people in the team find out about this in advance?

I frowned, and when I saw this, I suddenly felt something strange behind me, and when I turned around, I saw a pair of eyes staring at me through the window, it was a pair of bloodshot, dark-skinned eyes, looking at me in horror, and when I saw it, I immediately turned and fled.

"Who!"

I shouted a loud shout, grabbed the Tushan knife, opened the door and ran out.