I dreamed of countless iron balls of various sizes rolling down the trench, the cacophony of grinding and the smell of rust coming at me, and I was scared to dodge.

But in my haste, I stumbled and fell into the trench, and a ball of iron more than a man high smashed down the trench towards me.

I closed my eyes in despair.

"Are you awake, but I'm tired!" I was woken up, and it was still dark before me,

Ellie said to me, "Wake up, we can't stay here for long, we have to go back quickly, otherwise the village chief will find out and punish us!" ”

I felt that my body was no longer in pain, so I got up, and Ellie took my hand and headed back up the mountain path, so that I would not have to carry her on my back anymore, and we would soon be back in the stone house.

"Xiaolan, your face is scratched in many places, and your clothes are dirty, take them off quickly and let me wash them for you!"

So I took off my jersey jacket, and Ellie took a wooden basin and wiped it down with a towel dipped in water.

Her face flushed in the light, revealing a simple beauty.

"It's almost dawn, you hurry up and go to sleep!" Ellie told me.

I replied, "I can't sleep, what is the light we encounter at the entrance of the cave?" ”

Ellie replied with some anxiety: "It's a harbinger of the catastrophe!" ”

"What is that calamity?"

While doing my laundry, Ellie replied: "The catastrophe is the heavenly fire, it is a meteor shower, and there was originally a tribe near our village, which was destroyed by the heavenly fire, and there are still a large number of meteorites left there!" ”

My curiosity was aroused again, and I asked, "Can you take me to see it?" ”

She shook her head and said, "I can't find the ruins of that village, maybe the village chief can!" ”

After dawn, I changed into the leather clothes of the villagers, and Teacher Shangguan took me and Murong to have breakfast, and the village chief and Zha Wang said to us: "You can't take pictures, otherwise you will anger the gods, and you will immediately trigger heavenly punishment!" ”

Murong expressed his doubts and said in a low voice, "Is it so effective?" ”

However, Mr. Shangguan left his DV and mobile phone, and Murong Ying also handed over his mobile phone, and I said, "I am a feature phone, so I can't take pictures at all!" ”

After Zawang took my phone and checked it carefully, he said, "There is no signal here, what are you doing with your phone?" ”

"Listen to the song on the road and soothe your mood!"

So we led the yaks, with the village chief leading the way, and we left the village.

"Where are we going?" I whispered to Mr. Shangguan.

Teacher Shangguan replied, "Go to the ruins of the village that was destroyed by the heavenly fire!" ”

We climbed a mountain range and saw a village that had been blown out.

At the ruins, we stopped, and Mr. Shangguan hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look, and he said to himself while inspecting: "The whole village seems to have been destroyed by a huge force in an instant, only a giant bomb can have this kind of destructive power, or an atomic bomb, but there are still grass and trees here, and there is no sign of nuclear radiation." ”

I asked him, "Teacher Shangguan, could this village be caused by an earthquake?" ”

After hearing this, Murong sneered: "An earthquake is still possible, but the signs after the earthquake are not like this, you can see that this village was clearly caused by countless shells!" ”

"It's a meteor!" I said lightly.

Murong Ying asked rhetorically: "Could it be that the meteor only bombarded the village, but did not affect the mountains and rocks outside the village?" ”

Teacher Shangguan introduced: "The entire village was destroyed by the huge force from the sky, but there was no sign of fire on the ruins, what is the force that caused it? ”

Zawang said to us: "This kind of power is what you call a meteor shower, and when the catastrophe strikes, we can't avoid it at all!" ”

"Then you won't move, or hide in a cave?" I asked the village chief.

Zawang replied, "I have already explained to you that our village can move, and even if we escape from the village, we will not be able to escape the catastrophe!" ”

Teacher Shangguan echoed: "He's right, look at these wreckage!" ”

He pointed to the piles of white bones in the grass near the ruins of the village, then picked up a skeleton and said, "This person was killed by an invisible force that shattered his skull, and the person who hid in the room left a whole corpse!" ”

"What is a Crystal Skull?" I asked the village chief.

The village chief led us to a cave where the entrance was almost buried, and Zha Wang pointed to the cave and said, "If you look at it, you will find that the cave is full of people hiding from the catastrophe, and none of them survived!" ”

Murong Ying took out a flashlight and looked inside, finding a large number of white bones.

I remembered the Tower of Bones at the entrance to Lost Soul Valley.

The village chief said, "We need to use the Crystal Skull Priest, so that we can avoid the catastrophe!" ”

Murong Ying unabashedly affirmed: "You are superstition, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, including meteorite landings, these are all natural disasters, not some immortal anger!" ”

Zawang confronted her, "Do you believe in luck?" ”

"Believe, but luck is unattainable!" Murong Ying replied.

The village chief said, "With the Relic Crystal Skull, we can get good luck!" ”

Teacher Shangguan said to Murong Ying and me, "We have to help them find the crystal skull!" ”

Murong Ying replied: "But we don't even know what the crystal skull looks like, where it is, how can we help?" ”

"Let Lan Zeqiong go, you help him find it!" Zawang said to us.

Murong Ying replied crisply: "I'm not going, I still have to continue my postdoctoral dissertation!" ”

The village chief was a little disappointed, but Zawang said to me: "If you are willing to help us, I will not treat you badly!" ”

We continued to the foot of the hill and came to a flat mountain area where there was no grass and the ground was still charred black.

The village chief introduced: "This is the place where our tribe worships the sky, if there is no crystal skull, it will anger the gods, and the sky will be angry, and the grass will not grow here, and it will be dark!" ”

The two yaks we were leading also made a mournful cry, and Zha Wang took the dry food from the cow's back and gave it to us to eat, and the village chief continued to tell us: "Every time the calamity is approaching, many light clusters will appear in the night sky. ”

"Please forgive our offense and invite you here!" The village chief took out the barley wine and poured it into the stone cup, and toasted to the Shangguan teacher, but Murong Ying and I refused to drink.

I don't know why Murong Ying refuses to drink, but I'm afraid that I will have nightmares when I get drunk.

Zawang said to me: "Little basket, it's convenient to go together!" ”

He winked at me, and I followed him to the ruins of the village.

After a broken wall, he urinated on a skull, and I was a little surprised, "I know you will refuse our pleas, but I won't ask people I don't believe in for help, as long as you are willing to help me, it doesn't matter if Murong Ying doesn't participate!" ”

He fastened his belt and handed me a clear plastic sealed bag with some gold dust inside.

"Take it for money, and then find some reliable helpers, but you can't tell these helpers the purpose, we just need the crystal skull, the sooner the better!"

I took the sealed bag and put it in my arms.