The sound of banging on the door quickly got a response from several guards in the courtyard, only to hear the sound of some conversations after opening the door, Li Youwu walked to the window and opened a crack to peek out a few times, but did not say anything.

Then there was a sound of footsteps, and the door of our room was gently pushed open, and behind Ah Bao and a few of them were seven or eight men and women in national costumes with strange faces, all in their thirties and forties.

I was about to ask, but I didn't want the people to suddenly kneel down one by one, kowtow to us, and mumble something in their mouths, looking very distressed and excited.

I thought that this time I would have to rely on Ah Zi to translate, but I didn't want an uncle in the center to speak non-standard Mandarin again: "Friends, you were sent by God to save us, right?" Are you heavenly soldiers? Please save us! Then he led the crowd to kowtow.

Blonde came up to me and muttered, "Hey, that's weird, what's ......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the uncle suddenly stared at Ah Zileng with his eyes, and suddenly showed a look like crying and laughing, and exclaimed excitedly: "Are you a little princess?" You're a peacock princess, right? Do you remember me? I am Ah Liang, Ah Liang Bo! ”

I saw Ah Zi's eyes red, and he rushed forward and shouted something, but he also knelt down and hugged his head with the uncle and cried.

No one expected such a scene, but I understand that we are getting closer and closer to the truth.

After crying and crying, he was finally persuaded by Company Commander Wang to stop: "Okay, okay, now is not the time to cry, hurry up and tell me what is going on, we don't have much time." It's important to save people! ”

After several people got up from the ground, wiped their tears, and the one called Ah Liangbo took Ah Zi's hand, choked up for a while, and then continued to talk about the situation here in non-standard Mandarin.

It turned out that after everyone was brought into the city that year, although most of the people lost their minds and were assigned to different places, after all, this nation has a history of thousands of years, and the hunting customs handed down by the ancestors made them have their own unique way of marking and making codes. Through their own means of communication, they gradually got together, and from time to time took advantage of the opportunity to work outside the city, looking for an escape exit outside, and in the city, there were also places where secret meetings were arranged in different places—the courtyard where we were now located, the home of several fellow villagers, was also one of the secret meetings.

The code of marks between them not only reunited the separated villagers of the Azi tribe, but also brought together another group of people who had lived in this city because of the same customs, and there were already one hundred and ten members.

This time we broke into this place, and the soldiers before and Li Youwu later met these people who happened to be out of the city in the woods, and they were brought here, and they had already passed the unique code of guò, so that the news of the entry of outsiders into the city was spread to their companions.

As one of their small leaders, Aryan Bo also came to meet us only after being notified.

Ah Zi hurriedly inquired about her parents and several brothers, but unfortunately, since entering the city, Ah Liangbo and the others have not seen the chief's family again.

But there is one thing, which is quite strange to say, that is, every time they go to sleep for the first time after returning from going out of the city to work, they will always dream of the wizard Fadhan who died of blood during the prayer, and tell them to be patient and wait, saying that there will be heavenly soldiers to save them, so this also increases the confidence that this group of sane fellows can insist on uniting and being ready at any time.

Ah Zi lowered her head and sobbed, obviously her parents and brother were still uncertain, but at least in this situation, the probability of finding them was still very promising, so she didn't cry too sadly, seeing that she opened her backpack and took out the Tang Dynasty ring head knife again, hugged it to her chest and caressed it.

That Ah Liang Bo and several fellow villagers all recognized this knife, and they all knelt in front of Ah Zi and cried again.

The doubts in my heart are still not opened, and I am sorting out my thoughts and what they call the dream of the wizard Fadhan, the heavenly soldier in the mouth of the wizard, could it be that it is me, Jin Fa Cai and Li Youwu?

I couldn't help but glance at the two people around me, the fat man was thinking about something with his brows locked and scratching his scalp for some reason, and that Li Youwu, although he was leaning against the window with an expressionless face, his eyes were staring at the treasure knife on Ah Zi's chest, although his eyes were no longer as exaggerated as when he was in the car before, but this kind of look, I have an indescribable feeling, that feeling is like a kind of love and a kind of hate.

I lowered my head and asked Jin Facai softly: "Hey, halfway through what you said earlier, what did you say, 'It's really weird'?" ”

Jin Facai shook his head and replied softly: "Why do I feel so familiar with these fellows, but I can't remember where I have seen them...... But it seems to ...... It's as if I've only seen them for a long time......"

I don't know how to answer for a while, this fat man has always felt keen, but this headless sentence, but I can't remember, to say that I haven't known him for a long time, I have only known him for less than a month, and I don't know what happened to him before, not to mention that the villagers here have basically never been out of the mountains...... Hey, the more I think about it, the more I lose it.

I decided to ask Alean directly what I had in mind.

"Aliangbo, you can speak Mandarin, can you understand what I say? I said slowly, I asked, you answered, is that okay? ”

Aaron turned to look at me, and then looked at Zi suspiciously, as if asking her permission.

Ah Zi nodded and muttered something to him in the local dialect, and Ah Liangbo hurriedly bowed to me a few more times: "Great God, you ask, I will tell you everything I know." ”

I asked him to stand up and speak, Ah Zi introduced that this Aliangbo was originally the manager of the clan who was responsible for going out of the mountains to purchase the necessary items of the clan, and he also went to school with the Han people, and some big things with the outside world were often taken care of by him, such as the installation of electrification equipment in the tribe at that time, in exchange for some circulating banknotes, etc., he also came forward to the city to do it, and the first mobile phone in the clan was also brought in by him to teach everyone to use.

I nodded: "Aliangbo, you said that there are people here who came before you, so how did they come here?" ”

Aliangbo turned around and pointed to a few of the fellow villagers, then turned back and said: "Several of them came to this city before us, and it is said that they did not enter the city together, they had earlier before, and there were several groups of people in this city, and it is no longer clear how many people came in this city. ”

"Oh? So how did they get here? I asked.

"Some of them were sucked in when they went down to the pond to look for fish; Some of them got lost when they went out of the mountains, and when they woke up in the middle of the night, they found themselves in the black hole. Some are said to have fought with their neighbors, passed out on the battlefield, and woke up in the black hole...... Also, hey, there are all kinds of strange things, but it's the first time that the whole village has come in like us. ”

"And those who are at war with their neighbors? I've heard Abba's say that we haven't been at war here for a hundred or two years! Ah Zi looked at Ah Liang Bo suspiciously.

"Yes, but how long they have been here, even they don't know, only that it's been a long, long time, and it's so long that it's impossible to calculate the time." He paused and continued, "No wonder, we've been here for a long time, and we've seen that the princess has grown so big and taller. ”

I thought it sounded strange: "Why, you've only been here for a few years, how can you not know the time?" ”

Alanbo shook his head: "Hey, this great god, you just came here and didn't know, we can't calculate the time here, starting from entering the city, here...... It's dark all the time. ”

"What!?" Jin Facai and Company Commander Wang both exclaimed.

"Yes, there is only night here, no day, and outside the city, there is only day but no night. In this city, we sleep when we are sleepy, and when we wake up we earn a living, and we can only estimate how many days we can now sleep on. As mentioned earlier, we were assigned to go out of the city every two or three months to do work, and that was also guessed by counting the number of times we slept. But ......"

Aryan Bo frowned and continued, "...... But this guess is only an average, and sometimes the gates are opened for a long time, almost every day, sometimes several times a day; And sometimes it takes many, many days to open it once. Just like recently, this city gate is often opened and closed, and it is completely irregular. ”

"Oh...... I see. "I looked down and recalled the false alarm with Jin Facai before, and it seems that this city gate is not a situation of no return. I continued to ask, "So, you said you were looking for a way out and had a clue?" ”

"Hey!" Alan Bo shook his head: "In this place outside, there are only forests and farmland, and there are some rocky hills, we don't know how many times we have walked around there, and we have never seen the hole that came out at that time." ”

"Since you're already out of the city, why do you have to go back to the city, even if you can't find the entrance to the cave, you can run all the way to the distance, and the farther you run, the better." Company Commander Wang interrupted and said, "As long as you run straight forward without looking back, you can always run out of this ghost place!" ”

"Hehehe." Aliangbo smiled bitterly: "We think the same way, but ...... It's scary, it's scary, it's a place you can't get out. ”

"What, there's still a ghost guarding outside?" Ah Zi asked.

"There are no ghosts, it's just that we ran and ran without looking back, and in the end we found that we ran back to the same place, and there was still this city gate in front of us."

"Are you lost?" Jin Facai asked.

"It's not going to be lost, it's a strange place that we can't run out, we've been to that forest many times, running away with our backs to the big banyan tree in the middle, running all the way to make marks, but running and running found that the big banyan tree is right in front of us, and the mark on the tree is the opposite of the direction we run. In other words, it's as if we're going around in circles. ”

As he spoke, he drew a circle in the air with his hand: "No wonder those blue-eyed people let us out and left without hesitation, because they knew that we couldn't run away at all." ”

A kind of fear faintly rose in my heart, this fear stemmed from the fact that my crystal compass had failed repeatedly before and could not find the direction, could it not be that the direction of the magnetic field was unrecognizable, but because of the ...... Isn't there a zài north-west direction here?

There is no direction, there is no time, there is always night in the city, there is always day outside the city, and most of the people have lost their souls...... All of these are beyond the common sense I know, and even in all the books at home, there has never been a record of such a place, even if it is a folk description of the underworld, and it does not apply to the situation here at all, what kind of place is this?

I suddenly remembered a question: "Aliangbo, you said that you have no time record here, so I would like to ask, from the first time you people entered the city to the present, have any old people died of illness, or have children been born?" ”

The thought that flashed through my mouth shook Aralbo and the rest of the people into a mouthful, and then he turned back to ask the fellows something, and they all at once became noisy, muttering together as if they were checking something.

After waiting for a while, Aliangbo's eyes widened and he spread his hands and said, "Ahhhh......h We've been talking about it for a long time, but no one has heard of this. It's as if no one has ever died here, and no child has ever been born! ”

His answer was so startled that Ah Zi couldn't help but sigh, and even Li Youwu walked over from the window, and all the people present were silent without a sound. Even I, who asked this question, shuddered, even though I seemed to have guessed the answer earlier.

Yes, in this strange place, not only is there no law of change in space and time, since it is known that people entered the city hundreds of years ago, there has not even been life or death.

I closed my eyes and thought about it, and I thought about all kinds of possibilities, and finally came up with only two reasonable explanations:

First, all the space and time here are absolutely static under a relative premise, and only humans and animals can maintain the state of life before entering the city with some kind of inertia, but this state is infinitely standing still, neither forward nor backward;

Another possibility is ...... This city is a distorted place sandwiched between two space-times, abruptly interrupted at a certain node, perhaps it is a gap between two space-times, and this gap temporarily loses the function of connection for some reason, thus forming a fault in space-time, in a state of instability, chaos, and failure.

Moreover, the two ends of the time and space that this city can connect may be the two worlds of yin and yang!