Chapter 91: The Heavenly Beast Firmament
A place like the Twin Cities doesn't look like a place with good security, but more like a bandit cottage that hides filth and dirt.
It is impossible for anyone to let their guard down in such a place, at least in their opinion, self-defense weapons are indispensable. According to the rules here, no weapons are allowed in the Twin Cities. Even medieval cold weapons are absolutely forbidden.
There are exceptions to everything, especially when facing dignitaries, and exceptions are even more endless. With Zhang Yue here, for the sake of the princess's face, the officers guarding the city, even though they had the heart to dissuade them, they didn't dare to say anything, for fear of angering Zhang Yue. So I had to say nothing and do nothing, pretending not to see anything.
The soldier driving the silver-white sports car, after getting off the sports car, Zhang Yue unceremoniously sat in the driver's seat. It's a sports car with three rows of seats, enough for a couple of them. The shape of the sports car is very strange, and it is very different from the usual sports cars.
This sports car is more like a Chinese bride's sedan chair, only the color is different, the sedan chair is always red, while this car is silvery-white. There is also a huge steam turbine with a height of one person behind the running body, it seems that this thing can make the sports car speed up quickly, it should be a high-horsepower guy, it can be seen that the limit speed of this sports car should be fast, from the anti-buoyancy design of the car up and down, it is also not difficult to see this.
Due to Kafka's overweight size, he occupied a whole row of seats by himself. Despite this, he sat in a row alone, which was still more crowded than the warden, Yulia, and Professor Saul. In this way, Maria and Franky Mire had to squeeze into the first row, in the passenger seat.
The sports car, which was originally designed for eight people, is now crowded with only seven people. Anyway, they didn't come for sightseeing, and they were eager to save people at the moment, so they didn't have so much to ask. It's still earlier, it's important to find the same as the Empress Dowager of the West (referring to Cixi), Mrs. Peacock, who is about the same age.
Zhang Yue drove a sports car through one crowded street after another, and every place here was full of roughness and filth. The walls were splattered with mud, and the road looked like it had been sniffed by a pig's arch. Everyone who came and went looked like a thief.
They suddenly realized that it seemed that Zhang Yue, such a noble princess of Twin Cities, should not be allowed to be their driver. She is completely different from the people around her. But apart from that, what else can they do, except for Zhang Yue, no one has ever been to the Twin Cities here, and they don't know how to go.
The streets and alleys are full of filth, clutter, disease, ignorance, and terrible poverty. Whether it is a skinny old man or a yellow-toothed breast with indistinct words, there is no doubt that the face is full of pain, the misfortune of life and the life of suffering, deeply imprinted on them, this is the old deep hatred, but also the new scars. The lame feet, the tattered clothes, and the hungry bowels gathered together and could not be dispersed. These people are stinking and ragged, and it is disgusting to see them.
The car turned into a wider road, which looked like a shopping street. Along the way, people come and go, and people are in a hurry. The butcher's shop is full of bones, the noodle shop is full of coarse grain, and the clothing shop is limited to sewing and mending.
After another street, the place no longer looked as scruffy as before. There is everyone here, some are hawking along the streets, some are shouting for war, some are dressed like medieval Venetians. Some people are peddling bells with pleasant sounds, some people are busy betting on crickets, and some people are touting how his potions can be effective for tuberculosis.
The walls of the red pillars and blue bricks are covered with various advertisements, large and small. There are all-encompassing cures, there are fortune tellers, there are sauna baths, there are foot massages, there are thousands of kidney protection pills in the Far East, and there are also the latest aphrodisiacs in Taixi (the East often calls Western Europe Taixi, just like the West calls East Asia the Far East).
Everywhere it looks, like an overcrowded abandoned factory, and more like a bustling wet market. The whole Twin Cities, the impact left by everyone, is a huge, chaotic vegetable market.
Crossing the last block, before their eyes, it suddenly became desolate and empty. Except for a few small and scattered hills and sparse dilapidated shacks, there was nothing else. There is a white cave in the distance, which is quite eye-catching.
The cave looks more like the skull of a prehistoric beast than a strangely shaped cave. The cave is covered in a thick layer of white lime, surrounded by five hideous and terrifying bison skulls, and the entrance to the cave is covered with all kinds of mysterious barriers.
Zhang Yue stopped the car in front of the cave, turned around and said to everyone: "Get out of the car, we have arrived." This is it, this is Madame Peacock's residence, how quiet it is, it's a nice place. People call this place 'Heavenly Beast Firmament', it is said that this is the bones of some kind of divine beast, of course, 'beast' means 'longevity', and Mrs. Peacock is indeed a person of heavenly longevity. ”
"According to what you say, this Madame Peacock, to say the least, is more than a hundred years old, does she still have the energy to help me heal my wounds?" The warden asked, puzzled.
"Of course, believe me, if she can't cure you, then no one in this world can cure you. She looks as strange as the firmament you see, but if you enter the firmament, you will find that this appearance is nothing, and what you see is something you have never seen in your life. ”
Listening to what Zhang Yue said, everyone didn't believe it.
Seeing the lime cave like the skull of a giant beast can't help but make people feel intimidated. In the two huge holes that resemble the eyes of giant beasts, faint white smoke continues to drift out, adding a bit of unsettling mystery to this strange cave.
After everyone followed and got off the bus, they didn't dare to go rashly. They followed Zhang Yue and slowly walked into the cave. A strong scent of rosemary came to the face, and two thin maidservants, dressed in brocade embroidered cheongsams, stood on either side of two totem poles carved with dragons and phoenixes.
Brocade and silk crawled all over the cavern, and a small fire could be faintly seen in the depths of the cavern. The surrounding walls were filled with all sorts of strange ornaments that they had never seen before. Some look like animal bones, some look like human remains, some seem to be magic tools used to cast spells, and some look like witchcraft used to cast Gu. All in all, there is nothing in this cave that makes people feel comfortable to look at.
"I don't know that Her Royal Highness the princess is coming, and the slave and maid are not welcome." The two thin maids said, they both looked young and beautiful, but their indescribably sluggish appearance always made people feel that something was wrong, and people couldn't tell why.
"I'm here to find Madame Peacock. My friend was wounded, and only my wife could heal him. Zhang Yue said to the two maids.
Because everyone thought the two maids were weird, they didn't dare to talk to the maids, but just stood behind Zhang Yue, quietly peeking into the surrounding environment.
"Madame is recuperating, princess, please come with the slave maid."
Zhang Yue followed behind the two maids, and everyone followed behind Zhang Yue. They leapt over the splendid halls of silk, past rooms littered with the remains of venomous snakes, then a room crawling with giant spiders, and a room with twin-tailed scorpions larger than all of them were connected together. Along the way, Frankie Mill couldn't resist the urge to draw his gun, and what he saw was a little too scary, which was no better than Moore Manor.
Eventually, they walked into a dark room lit only by a faint silver-purple candle. This place is less like a room for people to live in, more like a tomb for burying corpses. Even Maria, who always had an indifferent look on her face, couldn't help but shudder. This ice beauty, in the face of this situation, it is difficult to continue to keep calm.
In the dark room, they saw an old wooden bed with a purple gauze tent. There seemed to be someone squirming inside the tent, more like a giant python.