Lonely country
After taking a shower, I lay down on the bed in the RV, comfortably sipping my favorite drink, and after the exhausting ordeal, I felt that it was finally time to be in style. And you will be able to eat the love meal made by Boss Ning soon.
Li Xuanqing said on the side: "Master, are you really okay?" I see that your clothes were worn out and tattered, and you crawled over to save us, right? ”
"It's okay, I deliberately wore a few extra ones. The one that wears out is the clothes I found in the cupboard, which should be yours. I said.
"It's cunning." Li Xuanqing said, "Strange, I think I just watched over there for a few minutes, how could I watch it for so long?" I feel like I'm frozen into a popsicle!! ”
He was now squatting on the bed wrapped in a big quilt, which Tang Xiu had forcibly wrapped him.
"It's the koi god who confuses your concept of time, but the god who can be killed by my spell is really weak." I said, I flipped through the travel guide book, and found that it did not record the deeds of this koi god, it should be just the trash fish we encountered on the way.
Boss Ning finally prepared the meal and brought it to the dining table, looking out the window, those people from the tour group were also cooking nearby, but instead of eating human food, they ate the koi fish in the ditch.
"Do you know what it turns out to be using so many spells at the same time?" Boss Ning helped me serve the meal, "You are too hard!" I used dozens of talismans at once! Use a few more and you'll be sucked dry! ”
"I may not be able to drive any more talismans for days." I said, "So you'd better be careful, or I won't be able to save you, don't you feel ashamed to let me save you great gods as a waste?" ”
"You've taught me a lesson!" Boss Ning looked at me incredulously.
After some repairs, a report came out about the ruined building around the koi ditch, and the alien gods were willing to share their intelligence resources with us.
It turns out that the building surrounded by the ditch seems to be an ancient abandoned temple, and it is because of the things buried deep in the temple that the koi god built his nest here. The alien gods found an iron box buried under the stone slab under the former main hall of the temple, but they did not dare to open it, and kept it for us to inspect.
And this tin box is also in line with the narrative of the second ring that I saw on the guide -
A description of the second ring emerges after we have destroyed the ditch:
"A long time ago, people in a small place saw the Bodhisattva's apparition when they were walking at night, so they raised money to build a temple to worship this luminous Bodhisattva, and hid the treasures given by the Bodhisattva in the temple."
Therefore, Boss Ning took the iron box to the car to study.
The locks on the iron box were all ancient styles, and Tang Xiu easily broke them with iron tongs.
The moment the tin box was opened, each of us held our breath, looking forward to what kind of treasure it contained, or rather, what kind of spectacle it could bring.
A round crystal ball the size of a goose egg lies quietly in an iron box.
"This is a secret treasure?" Boss Ning picked up the crystal ball and looked at it, "No matter how you look at it, it's an ordinary glass ball." ”
"In ancient times, this kind of crystal was very valuable, and this temple is hundreds of years old." Li Xuanqing said, "I just don't know how this crystal ball should be used?" How do I use it to get to the third level? And that doesn't seem like a spectacle, does it? ”
"Show me." I held out my hand.
Boss Ning looked at the crystal ball for a while and handed it to me after confirming that there was no problem.
I held the crystal ball to the sky outside, and looked through the crystal ball, and the original ruined realm turned into an old-fashioned normal building in the refraction of the crystal ball, and the wilderness in front of us became a city in the distance.
When I took the crystal ball, these images did not disappear, they were really displayed in front of our eyes.
The scene around us has completely changed.
"That's how the crystal ball is used. It's the key that opens the door to the inner world. Li Xuanqing said.
"Perhaps it can also be said that another realm hidden in the crystal ball has been released." I said.
Our car was trapped in the narrow alleys between the buildings.
The alley seemed to be the site of a slum, and the movement of Tang Xiu's car quickly attracted the attention of the nearby residents, and when those people gathered around, I realized that the people here were dressed in a subtle and exotic way.
Even the architecture here is a bit unspeakable of what era it is.
They were like they had never seen Tang Xiu's RV, pointing in front of the car, Tang Xiu honked the horn, and scared many people.
But more and more people came around, and some even brought sticks and kitchen knives.
"I'll go and talk to them, these people seem to be living in God-made isolation all along." I said to Boss Ning.
"No, you're so weak now, and the damage caused by the spell to you hasn't recovered, so you can't come forward!" Boss Ning said, "I'll go negotiate with those people!" ”
With that, he closed the windows and the glass doors that were used to separate them.
"Boss Ning is very good, everything is taken care of, Master, don't look so worried." Li Xuanqing said, "Why don't you play your mobile game for a while!" ”
"No signal, play with a hammer." I say.
"Stand-alone game, traveling frog, you see, my frog has brought me all kinds of treasures at once!" Li Xuanqing boasted, "In fact, this kind of collecting game is no fun for me. ”
Li Xuanqing is not as simple as the European Emperor, he is the embodiment of European energy.
I watched Li Xuanqing fiddle with the mobile game for a while before asking, "Xuanqing, do the residents here also have numerology lines?" Are they truly mortal or? ”
"It's a real mortal. But their numerology lines are unexpectedly very tedious. But even if I show you, you won't be able to see it now. Li Xuanqing said, "They seem to have been abducted by the gods, and they have lived here for many years. It's been so long that they all have their own way of life. ”
So I could only wait for the result of Boss Ning's negotiations.
I lifted a crack in the curtain and saw Boss Ning talking to those people, and the shape of their mouths showed that we could still understand the language they used, and their ancestors were probably the ancients who lived near the temple dedicated to the crystal ball.
It can be said that this is the legendary "Peach Blossom Spring" that is independent of the world, but it is far from being so beautiful.
I don't know how long it took, but Boss Ning finally returned to the car and brought an old man who looked not too old.
"This is the local elder who showed us the way." "He agreed to take us out of this slum neighborhood. Instead, we were going to give them gifts, so I gave the two boxes of instant noodles from our car to the elders. ”
Under the leadership of the elders, our car and the tour bus of the gods finally winded through the narrow and winding streets and came to the main road.
The city, under thick clouds, still looks like it was more than a hundred years ago, and according to the ragged elder, the place has never really been sunny.
When he came to the main road, Boss Ning handed over the instant noodles he bought to the elder as promised, and told the elder how to use the instant noodles.
At this time, Boss Ning told us what he had seen.
It turns out that the ancestors of the people here came to live in this city hundreds of years ago to escape the war, and it is said that they came to live in this city under the guidance of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva who appeared in the local Bodhisattva Temple. The gods appointed special people to govern them, so the city was divided into areas for the nobles and for the poor, where crops were grown and where they were produced by hand, and everything was self-sufficient.
It's a small country!
And the most surprising thing is that their technological level is almost close to that of modern times, but all technological products are controlled by the so-called royal family, and these technologies are never devolved to the slums. The royal family lived in the royal city in the middle of the city.
All supplies are almost never given to the poor, who are still living in poverty and without electricity.
It is said to be a royal city, but in fact, it is only an area as large as a small community, and there are not many people in this city. And being able to have technology such as electricity in such a low population shows that there are indeed gods living here.
I think that's probably the key to moving forward.
The ghetto elder agreed to help us, also because he thought our RV might be the property of the royal family.
I communicated my thoughts with Boss Ning and the others, and after listening to it, Boss Ning said: "So you think that the royal family holds some kind of secret treasure, which is a certain key that we need, and you want to persuade the royal family to hand over the secret treasure that may be the survival of the people of the entire city?" Even, your request may break the illusion of this kingdom and bring them all back to the real world. ”
"The royal family that maintains privileges in this country will definitely not take the initiative to hand over the secret treasure to me, and even the gods who are free in this place will not welcome my arrival, so I only negotiate with them, but I will not mention the secret treasure. I want you to cooperate with me and steal the treasure out. I said.
"Yikes! What about the wise man who said yes! Was it a robbery? Boss Ning said.
"It's a thief. And judging from the conditions described by the inhabitants of this place, they have not been abused by other strange habits from the gods over the years, except for living in poverty. So the gods here should still be asleep. I said, "I want to try not to disturb the god who can create such a large independent illusion, and his mana should be on par with the peach god." ”
"Then give a name to the gods of this place! Because you can only get here with a crystal ball, it's called the Crystal God! Li Xuanqing suddenly interjected.
"It's good." I agreed, "The so-called treasure hunt is actually just exploring the seven layers of the other world, and only by constantly falling can we reach the final 'bottom of the ditch', and this is only the third ring of hell."
I wanted to talk to the gods on the tour and tell them about my plans so that they could cooperate with me. ”