020 Forgotten Sea

When Mu Qingyang finally found himself drifting with the tide, he was like falling into the clouds. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is a vast body of water, and Mu Qingyang himself has never been a qualified navigator, and he can't see any islands or embankments as far as his eyes can see.

The weather has been sunny. Under the scorching sun, Mu Qingyang drifted aimlessly on Lulu Jian for an unknown number of days, expecting something to pass by, or be thrown by the waves onto some habitable land. However, the endless waters are always choppy waters, and he begins to feel hopeless.

Bai Qi seemed to be hiding again, I don't know if it was because he ran out of strength or for some other reason, no matter how Mu Qingyang called, he couldn't get any answer.

Finally, a miracle happened while Mu Qingyang was sleeping.

But how it happened was never known to him, for his sleep, though dreamy, was never interrupted. When he finally woke up, Mu Qingyang found that half of his body was trapped in a terrible black mud. The mud floor took on an undulating shape, stretching from his surroundings to the point where it could be seen. Lu Lu Jian also ran aground on the dirt floor, some distance from me. With Mu Qingyang's action of turning over, it immediately couldn't wait to return to its original size. At this moment, Mu Qingyang's first reaction was to be surprised by such an unexpected drastic change. In fact, it was more terrifying than surprised, for there was a chilling omen in the air and in the mud.

The area is filled with all sorts of rancid smells. They emanate from decomposing fish carcasses and carcasses that are indistinguishable. Perhaps, he should not have put into words this horror, which is the indescribable horror that exists in the barren land where everything is so far and boundless.

There was nothing to see or hear here, except for a large dark mud floor. This lifeless place made Mu Qingyang feel deeply depressed and afraid.

The light was shining directly from the sky, but it seemed to him that the sky was almost dark and dreary, so cruel that there were no clouds to be seen, and the sky seemed to be reflected in the pitch-black mud beneath his feet.

He climbed into a large rocky cavern and realized that there was only one theory to explain his situation.

It was still in the abyss, because the sky above was unreal, so low that it almost pressed overhead. The new continent that bulged under his feet was also very magnificent and desolate, Mu Qingyang tried to prick up his ears, but even then he couldn't hear the faintest sound from around.

As far as the eye can see, there are no seabirds, just barren beaches and reefs. For hours on end, he sat on the reef and meditated. As the day wore on, the mud had lost much of its stickiness, and it seemed to be dry enough to walk for a short time.

So, Mu Qingyang prepared to travel on land, looking for people and possible rescue, and the mud had dried up so that he could walk freely. At the same time, the smell of dead fish is increasing day by day, and the smell is unstoppable. However, he didn't mind the small disaster anymore, because he had to take care of the big things.

Mu Qingyang began to boldly set off in search of an unknown destination. In this undulating wilderness, he spent his days aiming for the highest hill in the distance, steadily advancing into the depths. In the evenings, he slept in the open.

The next day, he continued on his way, and although the hill did not seem to be any nearer than he had seen it at first, by the evening of the fourth day he had reached its foot. In fact, this hill can be said to be quite a hill, it is much higher than it can be seen from a distance, it is uplifted by a trough in the middle, and the slope is steep.

Mu Qingyang felt very tired, he was unable to climb the mountain, and fell asleep under the shadow of the mountain.

Before the strange moon that was gradually falling out of order rose, Mu Qing broke out in a cold sweat and suddenly woke up. The nightmare was unbearable, and he decided not to sleep again.

Under the moonlight, Mu Qingyang suddenly realized that walking during the day was really a stupid move, if he didn't walk in the scorching sun, he could actually save a lot of physical strength. Now, he clearly felt that he could march towards the obstructive hillside at sunset. Spirited up, I began to climb towards the top of the mountain.

Fortunately, Mu Qingyang's current cultivation has allowed him to maintain his strength without eating or drinking for a few days, except for the feeling of hunger that is not very comfortable, he just feels that his body is a little weak, but it will definitely not make him unable to move.

The unknown, the rolling wilderness in the distance, is a source of vague dread. But when Mu Qingyang climbed to the top of the mountain, looked down the other side of the mountain, and saw a large canyon where the moonlight had not yet shone into its dark depths, his sense of fear suddenly multiplied. He felt himself standing on the edge of the world, staring at the bottom of the unfathomable valley where darkness coexisted. As the fear intensified, Mu Qingyang couldn't help but think of the strange scene in hell.

The moon climbed higher, and he began to see that the canyon was not as steep as I had originally thought. The protruding rocks provide a convenient base from which to descend from the rocks to the flatter slopes, where you can stand and gaze at the valley floor where the moon still shines.

Suddenly, Mu Qingyang's attention was attracted by a huge and unusual object on the opposite mountain. It stood steeply and upright, more than a hundred meters away from itself, shining brightly in the light of the moon in mid-air. He immediately figured out that it was a large stone, but noticed that its shape and location were not natural.

Looking at it carefully, it filled Mu Qingyang with an indescribable feeling. Despite its size and location in a deep ravine, this strange object is a well-shaped stone pillar. Its massive body resembles the stone pillars of a Roman temple, reminiscent of its association with the crafts or worship of the Abyssal people.

While being both dazed and scared, Mu Qingyang also had a kind of pleasure that only scientists and archaeologists can have.

So, he looked around more closely.

In the middle of the moon, the moonlight shone on the cliffs around the abyss clearly and impossibly. Suddenly, he saw a stream of water cascading down from a great height, almost splashing to his feet standing on the hillside, and then rushing along the winding stream in both directions. The waves washed the base of the massive monolith on the opposite side of the abyss. The base is engraved with inscriptions and rough carvings.

The inscription was inscribed in hieroglyphs that were incomprehensible and had never been seen in a book. Most hieroglyphs represent animals such as eels, octopuses, whales, crustaceans, mollusks, etc., in simplistic symbols. A few hieroglyphs apparently represent unfamiliar marine animals, although their decaying shapes seem to have been seen in books.

However, what fascinated Mu Qingyang the most was the vivid carvings.

On the other side of the stream, a series of large reliefs are clearly visible, and Mu Qingyang guesses that these reliefs should be used to depict people—at least some kind of people, even though they are frolicking like fish in some sea cave, or performing allegiance rituals in some great temple that emerges beneath the waves.

Mu Qingyang couldn't describe their form, because just looking at their appearance would make him feel a disgust from the bottom of his heart. These things look strange, and their ugliness is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. With the exception of webbed hands and feet, surprisingly broad lips, glazed protruding eyes, and other features that are more unpleasant to recall, they generally have the form of a human. Curiously, the half-man, half-fish were carved so that they didn't match their reality, and one of them was about to kill a whale that wasn't much bigger than itself.

Due to their strange appearance and fat body, Mu Qingyang quickly came to the conclusion that they were nothing more than some imaginary god.

Mu Qingyang was stunned by this unexpected encounter, until the moonlight miraculously projected into the silent valley in front of him.

Suddenly, Mu Qingyang saw a figure.

With a slight churning sound as it was about to emerge from the water, it crept into the black water. It was tall and hateful-looking, resembling a troll. Waving its arms, it raced like the wind towards the monolith, then thumped the huge scaly arms beside the monolith, and lowered its terrible head, making some rhythmic sound from time to time.

"Damn, what is this? Could it be some kind of mutated abyssal creature? ”

Mu Qingyang felt that his situation was a little dangerous, he silently lowered his head, turned around and ran in another direction, because he was too nervous, when he stopped, he found that he seemed to be in a huge vaulted hall, where the huge stone pillars towered upwards and almost disappeared into the darkness overhead.

The vaulted hall had large round windows, high arched doors, and pedestals or tables each as tall as a normal room. Huge shelves made of black wood line the stone walls, and on them appear to be unusually thick books with strange pictograms written on the spine. Some of the exposed stone objects were carved with bizarre sculptures, often designs that resembled geometric curves in mathematics, and inscriptions similar to those found in the giant books. This dark granite building seems to have the style of a giant European megalithic ruin, with rows of giant convex stones standing in a stone circle with a concave bottom. There were no chairs there, but the top of the massive pedestal was often littered with books, papers, and something that looked like writing instruments—a strange purple metal jar and some colored sticks.

Some of them have large spherical luminous crystals on the top, which appear to be lamps and other lighting appliances; Others have indescribable machinery made up of glass tubes and metal rods. The windows were glazed and divided into small compartments by long, thick-looking bars. Although he did not dare to go near the windows and look through them, he could still see the strange swinging tips of ferns.

The floor is covered with huge octagonal stone slabs.

There are no carpets or curtains in the room. There are a few other buildings around, stone passages that resemble caves where cyclops live; Or up and down on the wide, sloping surface of the same huge stone building. But nowhere here are there any stairs, and there are no walkways less than thirty feet wide.

Mu Qingyang was stunned to find that he could float past some towering buildings.

Below, a multi-layered composite black dome can be seen; and some skylights that have never been opened. These skylights are reinforced and closed by curved metal strips, which seem to imply some particular danger.

Mu Qingyang felt as if he was a prisoner, and he was full of fear of everything he saw around him. He could even feel the hieroglyphs on the walls that seemed to be mocking him, pouring the meaning they expressed into his soul, and he couldn't even get the slightest benevolent power to avoid it all. Then he saw some vistas through the huge round windows, as well as from some of the wide, flat roofs.

In the middle of this place are strange gardens, vast and barren land, and a tall, fan-shaped stone wall at the top of a wide slope that once went up and down.

There are almost countless huge buildings built in their own gardens, and they are not as tall as they are. The buildings were surrounded by paved roads that were two hundred feet wide. Although most of them vary in appearance, few buildings are less than 500 square feet in size or less than 1,000 feet tall. Many of them may seem endless, with their fronts alone being thousands of feet high; Others even soar to mountain-like heights, towering and disappearing into the gray, misty sky.

They appear to have been built mostly of rock or concrete, and most of them reflect a strange curvilinear architectural style. This style is even more evident in the earliest buildings. The roofs of the buildings are mostly flat, with bizarre gardens on top, and often decorated with fan-shaped walls at the tops. Some rooftops will have terraces and taller floors, while others will clear a wide open space in the middle of the garden. At the same time, there were some moving shadows on those wide avenues, but Mu Qingyang had not paid attention to these details in the early period.

Somewhere, Mu Qingyang saw a majestic cylindrical tower that far surpassed the other buildings. They seem to show another completely unique world, full of ominous signs of antiquity and decay. These bizarre towers are made of squared basalt and are stacked out of reach to form a dome. But I didn't notice any of them having even the smallest window or opening for the main door.

Mu Qingyang also noticed some slightly shorter buildings that seemed to have been weathered for hundreds of millions of years. Most of them are similar to those of the black cylindrical towers. The buildings built around these deviant square-cut rocks always have an indescribable coercion and a thick atmosphere of terror, as expressed by the closed skylights reinforced by curved metal strips. Of all these strange things, the ubiquitous garden is probably the most frightening.

Strange carved boulders line the garden, while strange and unfamiliar plants sway above the wide road to obscure the sky. Most of those plants look like ferns, some are green, while others are horrible fungal-like pale. Among the ferns stood huge, ghostly reed-like plants, their bamboo-like branches towering upwards to incredible heights. There are also clusters of incredibly large cycads; grotesque-looking dark green shrubs; A coniferous tree with globular fruits. The flowers, on the other hand, are always weak, dull and unrecognizable, blooming in geometrically designed nurseries or large green spaces. There are more and larger flowers in the gardens of the few terraces and rooftops, but mostly in an unpleasant style, and it seems to be the result of intentional cultivation.

Some incredibly large mushrooms grow together, forming some kind of fancy and pattern with their colors and silhouettes, as if to show some unknown but already ingrained gardening style here. If there seems to be some kind of attempt to preserve the original appearance of nature in the large gardens on the ground, the plants planted in the gardens on these rooftops appear to be more selective and show more of a certain idea of garden art.

The confused scenery made Mu Qingyang at a loss, he completely forgot about his troubles, and just kept browsing the past.

Occasionally, he would catch a glimpse of an unusually large looking sun or a somewhat unusual moon. The markings on the moon seemed to be a little different from a normal moon, but he had never been able to say what the difference was. On rare occasions, the whole sky was pure and clear, and I could see a lot of star-like products, but he didn't know what ore it was. The outlines of some of the stars may be similar to those he remembers, but they will never be exactly the same.

Finally, Mu Qingyang saw the ocean underground. The expanse of steam-filled expanse of water stretched out beyond the quays built with boulders on the edge of a huge town with arches and domes. Large, strangely shaped shadows moved over the water, and anomalous fountains were gushing out of its surface......

"Damn, why are you here?"

When Mu Qingyang was thinking about it, Bai Qi's voice suddenly sounded beside him.

"What kind of place is this? That's right...... What's going on with you? Mu Qingyang was first startled by his voice, and then ecstasy.

Bai Qi's appearance meant that he could leave this abominable abyss world immediately, and I have to say that the sulfur-like burning aura that permeated here made him almost unbearable, even on this deserted island, there were traces of chaos and destruction everywhere......

"This is the temple of the Forgotten Sea...... It's the place of the Abyss Demon Lord Loth, damn it, how did we get thrown into this hellish place! Bai Qi shouted loudly, he had been recuperating for a few days, and his energy should be very vigorous, and it sounded like his shouting was full of energy. (To be continued.) )