As soon as he said this, I also noticed that the street we were on now was very different from the zigzag lines drawn on the map, and we would probably have to hit the wall directly to follow the trend of that line on the map.

"So you mean we're on the wrong track?" I'm worried about the inquiry.

However, he shook his head and said, "We are not wrong, I don't know why this happened, I can only walk forward first." According to the map, the direction of the palace should be at an angle of forty-five degrees to the southeast of us, and the straight-line distance is about ten miles. ”

"Okay!" The four of us answered and set off in a southeasterly direction.

The streets were very quiet, and along the way we encountered many strange dead pine nuts, and we don't know why. With the previous experience of entering the illusion, almost all of us were careful to guard our surroundings and did not dare to relax in the slightest.

As he was walking, Liu Yang found that there seemed to be some kind of mural painted on the wall of a small building next to us, with teeth and claws, which was very scary to look at. He shone his flashlight and beckoned us over.

Since the light range of the flashlight was too small, I simply lit the miner's lamp that I had scavenged from the gang and held it high to illuminate the mural on the wall.

The dim light shining on the hard stone walls gave me a sense of ancient mystery, and the quiet around me made me feel a little nervous.

The mural uses a lot of black, and before the light hits, only a blurry image can be seen, and the outline feels like a demon with teeth and claws. Now if you look closely, this black color actually presents a kind of Burling Buling texture under the swaying light of the miner's lamp, as if the paint painted is mixed with gold.

However, it was not only the special nature of the paint that struck me, but also the content of the entire mural.

What exactly is depicted in this mural? It's hard for me to put into words, but the picture is as wonderful as a movie trailer.

Mo Ranchen stared at the mural for three or five minutes, and suddenly explained: "This may be the scene where the prince's people and several other forces are fighting. He said and pointed to a few people in different costumes, "These are obviously from foreign races, and judging by the costumes on them, they may be wizards or something." In the picture, the people on the prince's side are at a disadvantage with one enemy, but you look at the clouds in the sky. ”

I looked at his fingertips, and saw a man sitting on the cloud, with a momentum like a god, overlooking the whole earth, with a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, squinting at those who were hostile to the prince.

"This person on the cloud should have a special identity." Kong Xian guessed: "If a person in ancient times painted a person on a cloud, then he must be a god-like existence in people's minds. ”

"Yes." Mo Ranchen nodded in agreement with Kong Xian's guess, "Nine times out of ten, this battle is because of the help of the people on the clouds, and the prince can win from the other waves of forces, so he left the scene of this battle on the mural. ”

"Sss Liu Yang looked at the person sitting on the cloud, scratched his head and asked with some doubts: "Don't blame me for being suspicious, I just mentioned it casually, do you think that the person sitting on the cloud is a little similar to Jin Ye?" ”

When he asked, we looked at it again, and we really found that there were four or five points of similarity. However, if we want to say that he is similar to Kong Xian, I think he is more similar to the Taoist priest in the fourth stone statue we made in the bronze gate before.

"Eh, do you think our Jin Ye will really have something to do with the characters painted on the stone wall?" Liu Yang said this carefully, and he wanted to say it for fear of offending Kong Xian, "And do you remember the corpse of the Taoist priest we saw before?" Isn't it also very similar to our Jin Ye? Maybe it's really related. ”

After listening to him, all of us turned our eyes to Kong Xian, but Kong Xian just shook his head and said, "Our family's ancestors can only be traced back to the generation of our great-grandfather, and no one has ever heard of it ever since. After all, the distance is not far away, is there really a blood relationship? I can't say for sure. ”

Kong Xian said this, Liu Yang's guess was even more bold, he took a sip of the water in the pot, and asked us: "Look at the person sitting on the clouds, and then look at the prince sitting in the sedan chair below, how do you feel?" ”

I shook my head and said, "How can this feel?" The location is so far away, the eight poles can't be beaten, can the two of them still have a little ambiguity? ”

"Is there any ambiguity between the two of them? I don't know. Liu Yang waved his hand and said, "However, this picture gives people the feeling that the person sitting on it has a higher status than the prince." ”

Hearing him say this, I did have such a feeling, logically speaking, it should be impossible for someone with a higher status than the prince here, after all, it is a small town with high mountains and far away emperors.

But if the prince is the person with the highest status, and the person who painted this painting paints another person with a higher status than the prince, then presumably the painter will be dragged out and killed the next day. The painting must have been destroyed immediately, and it would have been impossible for it to survive to this day.

"If that person is a mysterious and powerful existence in the minds of the people and in the eyes of the prince, then this painting will be a very reasonable existence." After Mo Ranchen finished speaking, he didn't stop, and took the lead and walked forward.

The road ahead has only gone far, and the bluestone street has begun to appear uneven, and the more you go forward, the more broken the bluestone slab under your feet, the whole thing is as if it has been smashed by the demolition team, and the houses next to it are also damaged to varying degrees.

We walked about half a mile further when we suddenly noticed a huge rock in front of us, completely blocking the road in front of us. It looks like the stone has collapsed from above, but it's not a complete stone, it's a very large rock. Mo Yanchen climbed to a high place and looked at it, then shook his head helplessly and said: "This ancient city has been divided into two, it seems that there is no way to go over, and it is unrealistic to climb on it." ”

After listening to him, we were really disturbed, this mountain rock is very hard, it is not easy to make a hole, if you can't climb over, then it will be a big trouble.

When we were frowning one by one, Kong Xian, who was gnawing on the map next to us, beckoned us over and let us look at the map in his hand.

"If this map is really a map of the ancient city, and it is not really the street we are walking on now, then it means that there is a road here, that is, the road marked on the map."

After Kong Xian finished speaking, I guessed: "There is no way for us to have a road above, if there is really another road, it must be underground, and we have to find an opening to go down." ”

"Hey, hey, I have to find a way to get into the ground." Liu Yang touched his head and complained: "We are already underground, and we have to go down to the next floor, but don't let us go eighteen floors underground according to the road planned on the map at that time, then we will really be awesome." ”

I saw that he was talking endlessly, so I sighed twice and said, "If we can go to the eighteenth floor underground, we can go back and write an autobiography directly." If you think it's so beautiful, and dig eighteen floors underground, then you don't have to pay for labor and materials? Do you think it's ear picking? Dig when you say dig? ”

At the same time as I was talking to Liu Yang, the voices of other people suddenly appeared around us, but this sound was still a little far away, and it would have been impossible to hear it if it weren't for the silence in the ancient city.

"Shh Kong Xian made a silent prompt, "Let's find a way to find our own way and try not to run into that group." ”

"Can you tell, is it that the crazy women and the gang have woken up?" I asked.

Mo Ranchen shook his head and said, "It doesn't sound like it, it should be another group." ”

I couldn't figure this out, so I whispered, "Why aren't they affected by the environment?" ”

"I told you before that when we entered the illusion, it was very likely that it was artificial. They may have been lucky enough not to meet someone who had led us into a fantasy. After Kong Xian finished speaking, he beckoned us to follow him.

Like thieves, we cautiously flashed into a large courtyard, which was quite luxurious, and it seemed that it was only lived by landlord-level figures. However, due to the long-term uninhabited population, it has been very dilapidated, and there are many cobwebs as if they have entered a hole in the coil.

Although the original delicacy has been broken in the years, the exquisite decoration of this yard still makes us jaw-dropping, not to mention the main house and wing room at the back, let's just say that the housekeeper's room at the door, it is a three-bedroom layout, pear blossom wood furnishings, not to mention how atmospheric.

Liu Yang, who had been patrolling the housekeeper's room for a week, dusted off the cobwebs on his body with his hands, sighed and said, "The status of the housekeeper was quite high in those years, and he was given a room?" The three-bedroom and one-bedroom apartment that Lao Tzu bought in Lijiang was not as generous as him. ”

I gave him a blank look and said, "You think all housekeepers have this treatment?" Some housekeepers have followed that family for generations, and as they grow older, they are the same as their own family. ”

"Yo, if Lao Tzu can meet such a good master, he will follow him for generations."

Looking at Liu Yang's appearance, I was quite envious of that kind of life, I snorted and teased: "Don't be honest with your Dayang, just rely on your uninhibited and freedom-loving nature, just be a housekeeper, I estimate that your master's family can be killed by you." Let's not talk about it bigger, just let you live in one house for a year or two, will you stay? ”

"Alas, little brother, that's because you don't know my Dayang." Liu Yang said to me in a serious and reasonable tone, "My Dayang is as quiet as a virgin, and if you move like a rabbit, you only see my moving side, but you don't see my quiet side, how can you make a rash decision?" ”

"Okay, okay, you're right." I didn't bother to talk to him anymore, so I turned my head and asked Kong Xian, "Master Jin, it's too troublesome for us to find a way back now, I saw that the crazy woman still has some detonators in their bag, why don't we get it over and blast it?" If you can break a path, you can save a lot of time. If it continues to be consumed like this, I am afraid that there will be extraneous branches. ”