Forty-five, hourglass
I was very sensitive to the source of the sound in the quiet underground, and when I looked up, I quickly found the source of the sound, which was from the sky, and there should have been a lot of small things in the rocks above that had penetrated and flowed down. I swept the flashlight in that direction, and I saw that the things in the sky reflected the bright light as soon as the flashlight passed through it, and it was left like a galaxy.
"It's sand, it's all sand." I was stunned for a moment and immediately ran towards that side to get closer little by little, I completely ignored Xie Chenhui's voice behind me, I just wanted to know one thing, whether those things were sand or not, and if so, what did it mean? The appearance of the emperor ribbon fish means an earthquake under the sea, and the appearance of the earth's qi is the result of the intersection of yin and yang, and everything is heading for the worst.
Soon I shook off the dawn and they walked in the direction of the sand to the huge stele, when this stele came in, I looked far away and thought it was just an ordinary stele, but this time I approached and slowly found that this stele was actually rough in surface, and had many fine holes of different sizes, and the holes were mostly gray-white or gray-yellow. And it takes on a brown color under the illumination of a flashlight. And not only that, but I also saw a little moss in those holes as I clinged to the surface of the stones.
"It's pumice." One of these words popped into my head. "It's actually a pumice stone, how could someone use this kind of stone as a material for a stone stele? That's. If I had to say that there were advantages, I would think that it was not only "non-polluting, non-radioactive, etc., but also an ideal natural, green, and environmentally friendly product." 'That's it. Ignoring this, I raised my head with my hands over my eyes, and saw that the sand and rain in the sky were falling densely, different from the rain we encountered in the desert. The sand, however, seemed to be attracted by something, and fell straight from the sky, and they were sprinkled on the stone monument and slid down the body of the pumice. I felt the holes in my mask and found that for some reason the sand I saw didn't fall to the ground, and most of it went into the hollow of the stone.
"Could it be a mechanism?" I asked, looking down at the sand that was gathering little by little in my palm.
"Xiao Du." I was in my trance. Liming and Xie Chenhui's voices suddenly sounded, and then I saw a black shadow rushing towards me, and I didn't have time to react in surprise, so I was fluttered and crawled out.
"Bang" I was knocked into a tomb, and then I was pressed to the ground by a hand, and I didn't know why for the sudden change, and soon I heard a bang "pound", as if something had touched together, making a loud sound. Then there was the sound of the stones falling, and within a second there was a thud, and I felt something fall to my side, and my ears just chirped, and then I couldn't hear anything.
In a trance, it was as if someone was squeezing me, trying to push me into the grave, and my back was under increasing pressure. "Xiao Du, Xiao Du." When I heard the sound of dawn, I felt a pain in my eyes. Fainted.
Actually, I don't remember the first time I was unconscious, but when I woke up, anyway. Only then did I see that I had fallen in the midst of the ruins, and more and more sand in the sky formed a magnificent sand waterfall that slid down from the darkness. And the stele has somehow faded its mottled appearance and turned into a crystal stele, and the sand has flowed into it.
But this is not surprising to me, I am surprised that the world in my eyes has changed to normal colors again, and there are no space-time spiral nests and transparent ghosts in this area. My eyes changed from the blow I had just made. "What happened before?" I asked, a little incredulous.
"A huge stone fell from it, shattering the perimeter of the stele. When the pumice stone cracked, the crystal stele inside was revealed, and there seemed to be a gap in the top of the stele, and all the sand on it flowed into it, making it an hourglass. Although I don't know what exactly this hourglass is for. Or is it just a thing? An ornament? Dawn spread her hands.
"No, actually, what I want to ask is what is going on with my eyes?"
"Eyes? What's wrong with your eyes? Dawn leaned over with concern.
"My eyes are back to where they were before, and now I see the same as all of you? Is it the environment here that has disappeared? Or is my eye failing? By the way, I ended up being hit by something? ”
"It's earthy! Maybe it's because you have too much negative material in your body, so I saw that the cow-like earth qi in the back was directly towards you. ”
"It's over, so how do we get out of here?" I was in a hurry to interrupt Xie Chenhui's words.
"Alright, alright, that's not a good thing, you're not here to live underground." He patted him on the shoulder and said, "You're a normal person!" ”
"But it's not time for me!" I sighed, "There's no time, isn't it?" You all know we're running out of time here. I pointed to the huge hourglass up there.
"Do you know what this hourglass is for?" Xie Chenhui asked.
I shook my head, I was only guessing what the hourglass would do, but what would happen if we waited here until the hourglass was full? In fact, if we can't run out of the range here, it's better to sit here and watch the changes, not to mention that my eyes have returned to normal, in the ancient city full of dangers, one more step is equal to one more danger.
"It's only a matter of time before the hourglass fills this, but now we have a more difficult task, so it's not that we don't go, it's that we can't." Dawn said slowly, "The purpose of my coming here is not only to find the statue, but also to find the secret of the immortality of the country without enlightenment, starting from the soul, we have studied for decades, but just like Xiao Du said, we can't control the soul, of course we can't survive for a long time, so in that case, what is there to talk about eternal life." ”
"But haven't you achieved your goal? It is the time vortex when the soul travels between time and space for a long time. In this way, the life of the soul is extended, that is, the soul becomes a separate object after it is separated from the human body. "Speaking of which, I thought of the out-of-body experiment that the crutch in Pangu and the woman said, with the only exception." Who is that person? It only occurred to me to this day, if the soul could really get out of control, then where would that person go? ”
"Wait." Xie Chenhui stammered, and suddenly shouted: "There are words on the tablet." ”
At that time, I was talking to Liming, and when I was highly concentrated, I was suddenly startled by Xie Chenhui: "Why don't you say that the is poisonous." Dawn roared.
"No, there are really words on the stele."
Liming and I glared at Xie Chenhui indignantly, then turned our heads, thinking about the huge crystal hourglass stele, and it didn't take long to see two lines of transparent font revealed in the sand-filled place: "The sun is getting dusk, and the fate is nine reincarnated." (To be continued......)