Chapter 74: The Old Site
The car swayed, the road became more and more desolate, more and more remote, the plants along the way began to decrease, and the land became arid and desertified.
"A little further on, we are at our destination, everyone is ready to get off the bus."
Two hours later, Mobei reminded everyone that they were about to reach their destination.
The car slowly stopped, and everyone got out of the car to see that the scene outside was extremely desolate, compared with the previous Mojia Village, it was simply the difference between heaven and earth. Mojia Village has clear water and green trees, simple and intact buildings, and the breath of people. And here, there is only a patch of earthy yellow, and occasionally you can see some weeds, struggling to survive on this land. Farther away, it's all sand!
"It's so desolate! Has anyone really lived here? I didn't see any traces of the building. ”
A girl looked around and muttered that she was one of Mr. Zhang's students.
"But it's a magnificent place to look! There is a feeling of desolation! ”
Another girl looked at the endless sand in front of her and exclaimed.
"This is only a peripheral area of the desert, and it has not yet been completely desertified, so the land here is quite solid, otherwise, we have to explore the ruins of Mojia Village, I am afraid it will be extremely difficult."
Zhang Lao looked at the sand under his feet, his brows furrowed, such soil quality will cause great trouble for the next work, because these lands are not solid enough, and if they are excavated, they may collapse at any time.
"Actually, the ruins of our Mojia are behind that sand dune. It's all sand in the back."
Mobei pointed to a sand dune not far away, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Forget it, if you don't come, you'll come, so you have to see if you say that."
Zhang Lao took the lead in putting his bags on his back, picking up his equipment, and walking towards the sand dunes. Everyone also picked up their equipment and followed.
With each step, a footprint was left behind them, and when everyone climbed over the sand dune, they finally saw the ruins of Mojia Village.
It was surrounded by sand dunes, like a lone warrior, alone, alone.
The ruins of the entire Mojia Village seem to be not small, but many buildings on the edge have been covered with sand, and because the entire site has sunk a lot, coupled with the long-term erosion of wind and sand, everyone can see that only a part of the buildings in the center are left.
Sliding down the dunes, the group finally came to the edge of the ruins.
"Teacher, where do we start exploring?"
One of Mr. Zhang's students asked, looking at the sand-covered streets, at a loss.
"Old Mo, what do you think?"
Zhang Lao looked directly at Mo Lao.
"What else, I must start there."
Mo Lao pointed to the center of the ruins and said with a smile. There is a tall tower that stands upright even after subsidence and erosion by the wind and sand, and it is the tallest building in the entire site.
Everyone trampled on the yellow sand and walked to the front of the tower step by step. The height of this tower is more than 20 meters above the ground at present, there are a total of eight floors visible, the whole tower body is eroded by the sun and rain and the wind and sand, leaving traces of the years, the color of the tower body has been old gray and yellow, no longer the color of the year! The artificially carved texture on its surface has also been worn away by time.
The lower part of the tower is already buried in the ground, and it is unknown how many floors have been buried, but fortunately, although the exposed part of the ground is dilapidated, everything inside can still be seen as before, and the stairs up are still there.
"Let's get to work, and remember to be careful later, after all, these buildings are too old, and they haven't been repaired for a long time, and they could collapse at any time. Safety is paramount. ”
Mo Lao turned around and said to Lin Jiumu and the others.
In fact, their current work is not easy to say, and it is not difficult to say that it is difficult, that is, to take pictures of those who can be taken first, and then to inspect the well-preserved buildings, and record them well, and to look for any cultural relics or murals left behind, etc.
The crowd dispersed and began their work.
The reason why the old village chief of Mojia Village invited them here was because at the request of the government, professionals were required to conduct an overall survey of the site, record all the relevant data, and come up with relevant plans to protect the site, because it would be used as a cultural relic. At the same time, it is also necessary to search all the items in the site, and transport all the items that can be carried back to Mojia Village and store them in the cultural relics museum as cultural relics.
In fact, this is also the biggest wish of the old village chief in this life, he grew up listening to stories about this site since he was a child, whether it is his ancestors or him, or the people in the village now, they all hope that everything in this old place can return to the embrace of Mojia Village. This can be regarded as a kind of inheritance.
"Mo Lao, I'll go up to the top floor and take a look."
Lin Jiumu wanted to go to the top of the tower to take a look, after all, if he climbed high and looked into the distance, overlooking all living beings, he could take everything in at his sight.
"Well, be careful yourself."
Mo Lao nodded, and then shouted to the fat man Li Baixiang on the side, "You are not allowed to follow, you can only stay below." ”
"Why?"
The fat man looked puzzled. He was about to follow Lin Jiumu to the top floor, and then be lazy by the way.
"You're so heavy, wouldn't it be easy to collapse when you go up! What about hurting the people below us? ”
Mo Lao's words made the fat man's face suddenly turn red, and then he looked at Mo Lao with a resentful little look.
"Don't look at me like that, I'm not just for everyone's good, I'm for your good! Think about it, it's so high, after you climb up, you must be tired and tired, how can you work? Or will you be able to climb up without getting tired or panting? ”
After listening to Mo Lao's words, the fat man could only helplessly stay below.
"Old Mo, we're a few floors up."
After speaking, Zhang Lao took a few of his students and walked to the middle level of the tower.
Everyone else has found their own floors and started working.
And Lin Jiumu walked up the stairs, layer by layer.
He found that the murals in each floor of the tower are different, the ground floor is the largest, there are many murals, mainly to describe the life of the villagers, and each upper floor, the tower body will be smaller than the next floor, and there are fewer murals in it.
And when it came to the back floors, the content that Lin Jiumu was interested in slowly appeared, which was somewhat similar to the murals seen in the ancestral hall of Baicao Village, and there were pictures of villagers worshipping the sky and someone standing in the air.
When Lin Jiumu finally arrived at the top tower, he found that the content of the mural on it was very different from the content of other murals, because the top picture actually depicted two different pictures, one on the top and one on the bottom, and there was a vortex painted in the middle, and the vortex was like a channel, connecting the two pictures. It's as if these are two worlds.
The content of the picture above is the site where he is, but the mural shows the scene before this site was abandoned, with a steel-like city wall, magnificent buildings, crowded streets, and rows of shops, such a prosperous scene!
The picture below is like a wild world, depicting ferocious beasts, towering ancient trees, and towering mountains, like a primitive place, where no one has any traces.
And the vortex in the middle, which is probably the "door", is the passage, because on the screen, there are a few huge fierce beasts that approach the vortex, from the bottom up, and penetrate their claws.
In the picture above, near the vortex, someone stands in the air, and at the same time sacrifices a flying sword and slashes at the claw of the beast that sticks out from below.
This should be the scene of the battle between the Ghost Soul and the fierce beast in ancient times! The place where those beasts are located should be a secret realm!
Judging from the picture, this secret realm with countless fierce beasts is at their feet, and it is under the ground of this ruins!! Because in the picture, this tower is in the center of a formation, and the tower and the formation are connecting the vortex.
Is there really a secret place here?! How is this possible? Because the map obtained from Hei San shows that there is also a secret realm in the depths of this desert!
One secret realm is under the land he is currently in, and the other secret realm is from here, going deeper into the desert. Two secret realms?
Although it is neither far nor close to the depths of the desert from here, it is too close to the location of the two secret realms, which is very unreasonable, and in "The Secret Land", it is only recorded that there is one secret realm here! It is called the Secret Realm of the Heavenly Desert Plug, and in that limited record, it is written that this is a wild secret realm, and there are countless wild beasts in it! This description is very consistent with the content of the mural.
Could it be that one of them is fake? Used to distract people's vision? So which one is true? According to the description of "The Secret Land" and the records of the murals, the secret land is under this land. However, the map given by Hei San and the legend of the dragon's roar mentioned by Mobei point to the depths of the desert.
Lin Jiumu really couldn't guess what was going on.
Forget it, no matter which one you have, just find out!