Chapter 215: X-rays
The yak head without skin suddenly moved, fortunately, I and the fat man had psychological preparations in advance, the fat man raised his gun and wanted to fight, I hurriedly saw that the bull head was weird, but it did not mean to hurt us, so I stopped the fat man first, and took a closer look at what was going on with the yak head.
When the yak is alive, it is first skinned alive, and then slaughtered, this behavior we have seen in the murals of the temple of reincarnation, which is not surprising, as an ancient tradition, symbolizing the release of the soul first, so that the body can be eaten with confidence.
It turned out that there was a large wooden pen in this slaughterhouse that could hold the cattle in the middle, and the front and back sides could be retracted and moved, so that the cattle could be sandwiched in it, no matter how much brute force it had, and the butcher could slaughter them at will.
The body of the yak head was sandwiched in the bloody wooden fence, the skin of the cow body was not peeled off, the tail of the cow was still twitching, in front of the headless empty cow cavity, there was a heavy axe that cut off the head of the cow, and the head of the cow we saw was hung in the air by the rope, and the bull's eyes were still turning, it seemed that the moment when the head of the cow was just cut off, the time here suddenly froze and no longer passed, and the yak was always fixed at the moment before the signs of its life disappeared.
The separation of the body head, and the signs of life in a few seconds or even a few minutes do not disappear, is very common in the biological world, after the head of the chicken is cut off, the headless body of the chicken can still run on its own for a while, in ancient times, there was a death penalty to be beheaded, when the head just landed, if someone shouted the name of the condemned prisoner, his head will also react, this is because the nerves are not dead.
But it was only a matter of moments, from the moment the fat man and I found out that the yak head was not yet dead. It has always maintained the appearance of being between life and death, has it stopped for thousands of years? Not only this unlucky big yak, but also every grass and tree in the entire "Evil Luohai City", including the lit lights, unfinished works, slaughtered yaks, cooked beef, and the undried bloody handprints on the stone gate, were all frozen in those last seconds, and there was not even half a figure in the entire empty city, is all related to the disaster that destroyed the "Evil Luohai City"? What kind of disaster was that. Is there such a terrifying power?
Thinking that what we just ate may be a pot of beef that has been cooked for thousands of years, I can't help but feel sick to my stomach, all kinds of phenomena in this city are really incredible, it is safer to evacuate outside the city first, and then enter the beehive-like main city after dawn tomorrow, so the fat man and I called Shirley Yang and others, took our things and walked back the same way.
I glanced up at the sky, night had already fallen, but the light in this "Evil Luohai City" was still the same as when I first discovered this place, as if it was in the twilight, although there were many lights, but it looked very hazy, maybe even the light when the ancient city was destroyed would have stayed forever, if it wasn't for Ah Xiang's confirmation. I would have thought it was a ghost town.
As I walked, I briefly told Shirley Yang about the situation in the slaughterhouse, but Shirley Yang thought that this place was not as simple as being lost in the orbit of time, such as the cooked beef in the pot, which was indeed cooked and delicious, and if it was eaten up, it would not reappear on its own, and everything in the city was fixed at a certain time. If it is not affected by external forces, it will never change in any way, the sky outside changes from dim to pitch black, and the time of the watch is also normal, which shows that the time around us is still passing normally, and there is another point that is most easily overlooked. The things in "Evil Luohai City" are not static. It can only be said that it permanently retains a specific form, and it is by no means the cause of time solidification, so the idea of chaos in time and space can be temporarily ruled out, but it is not yet known the reason for the formation of this phenomenon.
If you want to solve the mystery of the "X-ray" of the sky, you must figure out what happened to the "Evil Luohai City" at the last moment, and you need to wait until dawn to enter the city to see if there are any changes to further confirm, maybe in the depths of the hive castle, you can find the answer to the truth.
I was so confused by the strange things in this ancient city that I couldn't figure it out, and even wanted to go crazy, at this time I listened to Shirley Yang's analysis, and found that her thinking was very clear, it seems that people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away, but maybe I have been a leader in my life, so I don't have a mind that can be a staff officer.
From the periphery of the city wall, we climbed back to the green rock by the "Wind Eroded Lake", and looked back at the "Evil Luohai City" in the night, it was quietly sunk underground, still flashing countless lights, but the light in the city was still as dim as dusk, it seems that tomorrow morning, the city will still be like this.
After running back and forth, Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang have been physically exhausted, because there are "spotted jiao" in the mountains and forests, we dare not go down the rock, so we have to find a sheltered place on the green rock to rest, ready to rest until dawn, and then enter the main city to find out.
So they took turns to keep vigil, and at dawn the next day, I found that Shinley Yang had already woken up, and was concentrating on looking at the "Bible map" we found from the "Temple of Reincarnation", the clouds overhead were very thick, the sunlight shining through the gaps in the clouds was not sufficient, and the valley surrounded by cliffs and dangerous peaks was very dim, and the "Evil Luohai City" under the rock seemed to be completely cut off from this world, still the same, the lights in the city were shining, but it was surprisingly quiet, and the whole city stayed on the "X-ray".
Shinley Yang said that she had a hunch that if she couldn't find the secret of the "X-ray" today, I am afraid that everyone would never be able to leave the valley behind this "disaster gate", and this place was simply in a "desperate situation".
I know that Shinley Yang's map is very damaged and damaged, it is the Portuguese priest who stole the secret of the "Reincarnation Sect", he wanted to dig for treasure, but before he could make the trip, the priest was killed due to religious conflicts, we can never tell whether the terrain drawn in the map is "the land of the Dapeng Bird" or "Phoenix Shrine", so I asked Shinley Yang, is there any new discovery now?
Shinley Yang said: "Compared with the nearby terrain, it can be concluded that the biblical map is the map of the Phoenix Shrine - the city of the Evil Luohai, but despite his best efforts, he only restored less than 30% of the drawings secretly drawn by the Portuguese priest, and it is still one in the east and one in the west, and it is not connected to each other...... However, if time permits, I can complete the missing parts of the map according to the environment here.
If we had a map of the ancient city, even if only a part of it was used as a reference, it would definitely be a great help for us, I cheered up, woke up the fat man, Uncle Ming, and Ah Xiang one by one, and distributed the few remaining foods to everyone for breakfast. After eating this meal, there is no reserve, except for going to the lake to fish, so I can only go to the city to cook my own beef and eat.
When I entered the city again, Uncle Ming discussed with me again, if you don't enter the city, it is better to go over the mountains and mountains to find a way out, since the ancient city is so strange, why risk your life.
I pretended not to hear, thinking to myself that I and the fat man and Shinley Yang had worked hard to find the root of the "phoenix gall", and finally got here, how could I give up easily, and I would rather die before the formation than after the death formation, and immediately walked a few steps quickly and rushed to the city.
Except for what we had touched, nothing had changed, and even the faint mist in the city was still the same, and the fat man went directly to the slaughterhouse and cut a few large pieces of "fresh" yak meat for later use.
Last night, I wanted to wait until dawn to see the tall "beehive" structure and then go straight to the Yellow Dragon, but the light in the city was still dim, and when I looked up under the "hive", the lights in the main city were like thousands of fireflies quietly attached to the hive, and that atmosphere brought people a sense of urgency.
The "big beehive" exposed on it is only half of it, and the larger part is deep underground, according to the values of the demon country, important power institutions, should be underground, so we walked around the city and found the largest cave to enter the "beehive", the cave inside is so dense and complex that the structure is really like a honeycomb ant nest, which inevitably makes people wonder whether the inhabitants inside are people or insects.
In the late 60s and early 70s, when the whole country was digging deep holes and accumulating grain, the reactionary elements who had wandered abroad maliciously attacked and said that we were in charge of a "gray" family, otherwise why would the whole country follow suit? I have also dug that kind of "civil air defense" facilities, but compared to the underground "Evil Luohai City", it seems to be a bit of a trivial, maybe many of these caves exist naturally, otherwise it is difficult to imagine this kind of project with the manpower and equipment at that time.
We found the largest passage to go underground, the passage here and the caves on both sides, there are lights, every time we walk forward, Shinley Yang is using a pen to write down the terrain on paper, she sketches very fast, all the way, without too much time, to draw a simple and practical road map.
From time to time, I use the "wolf's eye" flashlight to illuminate the cave houses on both sides, most of the cave houses without lights are empty, and there are some holes, some damp places, and there are many cockroaches larger than mice, which cannot be smashed with the butt of a gun, and the deeper you go, the fewer the number of cave houses, but the scale is getting bigger and bigger.
At the end of the underground of the nest city, there are two virtual big stone doors, there is a door hole on the left and right sides of the passage, there are two gems embedded in the door hole, one blue and one white, shine in with a flashlight, in the hole on the left, there are dozens of square meters square, the dome is very high, there is a stone ghost head statue in the depths, the ghost head is ugly and hideous, there is a row of seven-star ladybugs carved below, the faint butter lamps are burned in the four corners, and on the ground in the middle, there are two steamed sacrifices of black ox and white horse in rows, Things are pretty much the same in the doorway on the other side.
Shinley Yang turned out the "Bible map", one of the fragments has the "Ice Palace" and "Fire Palace" two locations, exactly the same as here, but the map should be marked with the place inside the big stone gate at the end of the passage, but it belongs to the damaged and lost part, only on the edge of the Bible map defect, you can see a little pattern similar to animal bones, remember that in the "Black Tiger Xuantan" of the Reincarnation Sect, the bottom layer of the crystal brick, there are similar figures, these bones and "Evil Luohai City" Is it related to the disappearance of all human beings?
With all kinds of questions, I pushed open the stone door at the end, and as soon as I entered, I immediately felt a chill penetrating my heart and lungs, thinking that the evil spirit in this hall was heavy enough, it was cloudy and cool, and the environment on the upper floors was completely different, and what I saw in my eyes was a jeweled temple, but although there were many lights in the temple, they were all very dim, and the hall was deep, so I couldn't see the situation inside.
At this time, Shinley Yang and the fat man also followed me into the stone gate, I was about to go forward, suddenly felt that something was missing, when I turned around, I found that Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang were standing outside and did not follow up, I greeted them: "Go, what are you waiting for?" ”
Ah Xiang hid behind Uncle Ming and whispered to Uncle Ming, Uncle Ming's face was full of panic when he heard it, and I felt more and more strange, so I walked back and asked them what the hell were they doing?
Uncle Ming suddenly pulled out a pistol and pointed it at me: "Don't come here, don't come here, I'll shoot if I come over again, you ...... You have something on your back. ”