42, the old land

For my adventure of more than a year, and from this two reincarnations dating back more than 1,000 years ago to today, it all started from Niuerling to the end of Niuerling, and everything was drawn into a circle.

"Let's go," Lao Lin didn't have much excitement, but there was endless fatigue in his expression, and he stepped off the altar with his feet, "There is still a long way to go." ”

Lao Lin's deep voice sounded desolate, full of puns, for me and him, it was the beginning of another period of life, but when I really let go of the entanglements in my heart, how could I infinitely miss the ruggedness and ups and downs that I had walked?

The two of them walked silently all the way through the cave back to the bottom of the Tai Sui Valley, at this time the sky outside was already bright, I knew that all the relics left by King Luo Dian would soon be completely destroyed, and in a few decades, when King Luo Dian died of old age for the second time after more than a thousand years as "me", everything about him would be annihilated with time and slowly forgotten.

Qin Weiguo's half-life efforts to save the country will not leave a single word in history, and like those prehistoric texts, it will become a permanent mystery that has been solved. And Qin Weiguo was far from the only one who made the sacrifice, my heart suddenly hurt, thinking of Gu Guangming, who had no more news, gently pulled Lao Lin who was walking in front, and asked hesitantly: "Gu Guangming...... He died ...... the end."

"There is nothing to last," Lao Lin shook his head and interrupted me, "The prophets of each generation, in fact, their endings are destined to be tragic, the resurrection of King Zhou Yuan and Genghis Khan has failed, King Luo Dian has become another person, Gu Guangming has forever ended the possibility of the prophet's existence in the future, he himself ......"

Lao Lin paused for a moment, sighed softly when he wanted to speak, and looked up at the mountains in the distance, looking extremely lonely. I knew that Gu Guangming must have been involved in the rest of 083's secrets, and although there were too many questions, I still followed closely behind Lao Lin without saying a word.

The two of them walked not far away, Lao Lin pointed to a direction in the south and said: "No one will answer this time, you and I need to avoid Zhang Xuan's team, and the final end will be secretly sent by 083." If you don't bother, we will take a half-day detour from here to the three forks of Tianshui Creek, where we camped last year, and walk back to Kelang Village from there. ”

Lao Lin finally diverted the topic of Gu Guangming and was reluctant to mention it, so I nodded and stopped asking, the experience of more than a year made me no longer curious about all the unknowns, but the fragments of memories left by Gu Guangming suddenly appeared in my mind, and I was depressed and sad for a while.

Lao Lin and I climbed the mountain beam without hurrying, and the two people who hadn't closed their eyes all night found a place to sleep for a few hours, and when they got up again, it was already noon when the sun was shining. Lao Lin came prepared this time, bringing enough compressed food for two people for a few days, and there was a clear spring in the mountains. This kind of sleeping in the open is not hard for me, and I feel a little reluctant when I think of the leisurely life of seclusion abroad a few months later.

Lao Lin is very familiar with the terrain in this area, and he doesn't need to take a map to identify it, and the road he chooses is easy to walk, and the continuous mountains do not bring us much obstacles. In the afternoon of the next day, when the two of them crossed a ridge, and I felt that the surrounding scenery was slightly familiar, Lao Lin stopped and said: "Last year, the four of you encountered miasma in this area, and it is only a few kilometers away from the three-way mouth of Tianshui Creek. ”

Going down the ridge, not far away, I saw the cave halfway up the mountain where I had avoided the miasma last year, and Lao Lin seemed to suddenly have extra interest at this time, "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." ”

As a boring workaholic, Lao Lin usually goes straight to the point when he does anything, I rarely see Lao Lin will have a tour of Yaxing, this is probably because of the complete relaxation without pressure, this time he and I thought together, I now really have that kind of mood of revisiting the old land to find nostalgia, two people talking one after the other into the cave that stuck us lost last year.

Without that panic of escape, there are a lot of nostalgic smacks when this section of the potholed cave walks, and unconsciously walked to the cave hall full of rock murals, and we suddenly remembered that Gu Guangming was the first to discover this mural, and my heart was faintly sad.

Lao Lin didn't need me to remind him, he stopped in front of the mural and looked up and down without saying a word, it seemed that he had long known the existence of this cave, and nodded lightly: "The second half of the article is part of the life of King Luodian painted by the ancient Miao people, and the true appearance of King Luodian has been beautified, and the real appearance can no longer be seen." ”

Realizing that I am the king of Luodian, and then looking at the heroic spirit between the nose and eyebrows on the mural, the generation of heroes who fought and killed, I secretly smiled bitterly, and said that Lao Lin does not know how to be polite, and the king of Luodian may be painted ugly, and I may not be so ...... Never mind.

After more than a year of figuring out their origins, and then calm down and look at these comic books-like historical narratives from left to right, the perception and mood are completely different, in addition to the vicissitudes of ancient history, the experience of King Luo Dian on the mural is like his own absurd dream, and in a blink of an eye, a thousand years have passed in a trance.

The chronological narrative is very much in line with my reading habits, with scenes of wars and scenes of kingship...... The mural is coming to an end, and the back of a man in black who appeared on the picture suddenly reminded me that this mysterious man in black, when we saw it together last year, we realized that something was wrong, it seems to be an extremely important figure in the life of King Luo Dian, and there is no face in the mural several times, is he really the 'Miao God' that King Luo Dian has obtained the ability to predict the future?

"No one knows what the prehistoric space that King Luo Dian once entered looks like, judging from the legends that have been circulating in the area of Niuerling for a long time, King Luo Dian got the prophetic ability from a mythical figure, if you follow this line of thought, this man in black ......" Lao Lin stopped halfway through his words.

This is a novel discovery for me, turning my head to look back at the mural, I noticed that two of them appeared in the face of the man in black half side and half back, close to the past still can't see the face, in the two different murals, I was surprised to find that the man in black touched his nose with two fingers, and for a moment his heartbeat accelerated sharply, this habitual action looked extremely familiar, that is......

"The prehistoric space is not a secret that we modern people can grasp and crack, the only passage has been completely destroyed after Gu Guangming entered the ultimate gate, Gu Guangming did not die in the end, and may leave traces of his shuttle in the future or in a piece of history," Lao Lin said, looking at the mural with a hint of helplessness and melancholy in his eyes, "I can't say who this man in black is, but Gu Guangming must be maintaining that the history of our world cannot be broken." ”