Chapter 267: The Sky Is Like a Dome and the Poles of the ......
The sky is like a dome covering the four fields, and the eternal land is trapped in the sky.
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Although everything that happened in the Star Furry Flower Sea seemed a little too informative, it was actually just a very short conversation, and it didn't affect Xinglan's itinerary on Lanxing, and when she kept the name Streamer firmly in her heart, she had just returned to the place where she was briefly separated from those moon prayers before, but ......
When Xinglan saw Yun Mo, Mu Xue, and the strange group of moon prayers again, most of the moon prayers showed no surprise...... Of course, Xinglan didn't expect these slightly racist Moon Prayers to worry about her, but they all showed a rather weird expression, as if they were shocked to see zombies buried in the ground crawling out of the dirt, and one Moon Prayer even couldn't help blurting out, "You, you...... How did you come back alive? ”
Xing Lan was silent for a moment, and her eyes swept over the group of moon prayers in front of her who couldn't help but take three steps back when they saw the undead, and instantly understood what they meant, feeling that when you saw me chasing that mysterious girl, you didn't expect me to come back alive from her, right?
Although she felt very helpless, Xinglan obviously couldn't explain the cause and effect to these moon prayers in detail, she once again felt entangled in the situation of her inability to communicate, and finally could only fool casually: "I couldn't catch up with the other party, she left too fast." ”
This statement is at least acceptable to most of the people praying for the moon, and even Mu Xue believed it with suspicion, only Yun Mo stared at Xinglan with the crescent-shaped silver pupils very meaningfully, but she didn't say anything in the end, but signaled to the others to relax a little: "Although it is not clear why, since that terrible enemy has left for the time being, we should also rush to the southern settlement as soon as possible, and we must immediately inform them to be vigilant...... No one knows if such an attack will happen again. ”
I don't know if I should feel lucky, maybe it's because I suffered so much in the self-righteous demon extermination operation before, and when Xinglan openly expressed her intention to act with them, none of the moon praying people protested against it, although they didn't take the initiative to do this. Xinglan even had a hint of malice speculating: some of these moon praying people should not be replaced by demon phobia, and from now on they will be terrified of any demon......
But at least the location of the Moon Prayer Settlement is obviously not a secret, after all, so many people come and go, and it is impossible to be low-key with such a striking sign as the Moon Prayer Tree, when those Moon Prayer people began to pack up their things one after another and got up to leave under the leadership of Mu Xue, Xing Lan did not immediately follow, but deliberately stayed in place for a while before taking a step, with a hint of a smile at Yun Mo, who also deliberately stayed at the end of the line, and seemed to have understood the other party's intentions: "What? Still have any questions? ”
"You've caught up with her." Yun Mo said in a voice that would not be noticed by the moon prayer person in front of her, not a question but an affirmative tone, she seemed to be a little worried, "Tell me the truth, how is she doing?" ”
Xing Lan restrained her smile slightly, she didn't expect Yun Mo to be so sure of this, but there was no need to hide this matter: "The specific reason is very complicated to explain, but she will definitely never come to attack you again, as for whether those companions of hers will come across the sea I can't be sure, that's probably it." ”
She ...... Dead? Yunmo sighed and asked again.
"You can say you're dead, or you can't say you're dead." Xinglan gave an inexplicable-sounding answer, and didn't give Yun Mo a chance to continue asking, but directly asked her question, "Yun Mo, please recall, have you ever heard of a place called Trap Mountain?" ”
"Hollow Mountain?" Yun Mo was stunned for a moment, as if she felt a little confused, but she still tried to recall, "I don't know very well, but I just vaguely have a vague impression of this name, it seems to be a certain place name in some legend in the north, why did you suddenly mention this name?" ”
Xing Lan, who was originally just going to ask casually, never thought that she could really ask something from Yun Mo's mouth, and she suddenly became interested: "It's okay, you can say as much as you know." ”
"There isn't much news about this in the south, but there seem to be a lot of legends about the Trap Mountain on the northern continent, you can ask those old people who grew up on the northern continent later, they may know more." Yun Mo stretched out her hand to remove some shrubs and plants in front of her, glanced at Xing Lan deeply, and still told the information she knew, "Legend has it that the starry sky is not a part of the sky, but a higher existence above the sky, and the sky itself is not flat, but has ups and downs. ”
"Undulating skies?" Originally, Xinglan thought that the sky she was talking about was only the atmosphere, and due to the existence of the wind, she was not very surprised by the concept of the super-era in these legends, but this description of the wrinkled sky made her feel a little surprised.
"The sky is not static, it is like a leaf that is constantly shaking......" Maybe it's because the moon praying people don't have the concept of cloth, so Yunmo doesn't describe the sky as cloth here, "Every undulation is not eternal, but constantly drifting under the wind, but there are two places in this world where the sky is always stretched in one direction, that is, the two heavenly poles." ”
"Two heavenly poles, one of which ...... Is it the Hollow Mountain? "Xinglan seems to have realized something, are these legends really fictional?
"Yes, legend has it that there are two major celestial poles on the earth, namely Tianzhu Mountain and Trap Mountain." Yun Mo recalled for a moment and continued, "Tianzhu Mountain is the place where the sky is supported, and the sky there is always in a state of upward protrusion, while the Hollow Mountain is the opposite, it is said that it is the place where the entire sky collapsed, and the sky there will always collapse downward, and finally fall into the center of the Hollow Mountain and disappear completely. ”
"It sounds incredible." If the former is understandable, the latter is a bit exaggerated, at least Xinglan feels that none of the mountains he currently sees on Lanxing can be worthy of one of these two titles, but thinking of what the weird girl said at the end, it is at least certain that Trap Mountain is by no means a legend fabricated out of thin air, "Do these two places really exist?" ”
"Who knows? Anyway, I haven't heard of anyone who has seen it. Yun Mo looked up at the boundless sky and sighed faintly, "Even if that kind of place really exists, it is probably not a realm that mortals can reach, it should be a place where only gods can stay." ”
A flock of Tai Chi birds suddenly flapped their wings from above and flew over, this action made those who had not yet recovered from the shadow of the air raid experience a little frightened again, at this time they were really all soldiers, even if Xinglan clearly told them that the girl would definitely not return in a short time, but still no one wanted to be alone outside the group, and no one was even willing to go to explore the path.
Although she was an emissary from the south to the north, Yun Mo was responsible for leading the moon prayers from the north, so she didn't care about continuing to chat with Xinglan, and hurriedly went forward to appease the poor people who were overly frightened...... The Moon Prayer who had been screaming about being stunned was being carried forward by several companions, hoping that he would not become a madman when he woke up.
Xinglan glanced around, and found a few older moon-praying people to come over and ask about the situation, perhaps because they were overly frightened, and they couldn't help but tremble when they saw the long-haired blue Xinglan approaching...... In this regard, Xinglan could only say very resentfully, that the girl's hair color was obviously blue-gold similar to Mystery Xin's hair, and it was the same as her sky blue!
After tossing and turning for a long time, I finally summed up some information from the incoherent words of those moon prayers, all of which seemed to be useful but were completely useless when I thought about it. For example, Tianzhu Mountain is said to be in the south, while Trap Mountain is in the northwest, and it seems to have a direction...... But God knows where this is the reference location, you can't go all the way south to the South Pole to find it!
Then, the only clue may only be found from those mysterious members of the Third Race, if they really came from the so-called Hollow Mountain, then just reverse their course of action will definitely find the legendary place where the sky is hollowed and collapsed.
However, why hadn't the Moon Prayer people of either the Southern Yuan Continent or the Northern Yuan Continent ever encountered members of the Third Race before? Xinglan had a strange feeling, as if the other party was not a creature on these two continents, but you must know that these two continents are already the two closest continents on Lanxing, if it is a place like the Macro Continent or even the Polar Continent, how did they cross the vast sea and come here? It is clear that this race will not survive in the sea like sea giants, and should not be able to build such ships.
Lanxing is not like the earth, even with a canoe can rely on luck to drift across the ocean, the ocean on Lanxing is full of all kinds of dangerous creatures, and there are also many strange and deadly natural environments, even with metal ships and compasses may not be able to cross safely, like the chaotic magnetic field in the area of the Magnetic Vortex Sea can make the compass unable to locate normally, if you accidentally reach the nuclear continent......
Well, let's enjoy the last beautiful scenery in the world as soon as possible.
The people praying for the moon call the strait that separates the Northern Yuan Continent and the Southern Yuan Continent as the Gorge of Life and Death, crossing it is life, and not crossing it is death, and they also know that there is an island in the Gorge of Life and Death...... That is, the same volcanic island that Xinglan and Shiojie once visited, and it is expanding in size under the action of the slowly gushing magma from the active volcano. Xinglan had learned from the people of the southern settlements that they called the island Purgatory, and it was said that anyone who dared to spend the night on the island would be burned to ashes by the flames in their sleep.
Regarding this question, Xinglan is more inclined to believe that there was indeed one or a few unlucky eggs that were ignited by the spreading magma...... At least they managed to make a name for themselves and frightened the other moon-praying people who were about to cross the sea, and those who crossed the sea would rather drift in the dark than spend the night on the island.
However, regarding the islands in the Gorge of Life and Death, Xinglan heard some unusual information from the people who came across the sea to pray for the moon, and some information that would sound interesting.