Chapter 265: City of the Dead
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When the mysterious golden gate opened in front of us, I was ready to see a magnificent golden city, but the result surprised us all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
For, behind the golden gate, there was a dead and dark empty city, full of ruined walls, broken tents, decaying and crumbling houses, and between the rooms and the streets, there were countless graves.
A few of us looked at each other, and we couldn't imagine that it took so much effort to find a city of death and a cemetery in the end, but who did this city of death surrounded by golden walls and gates, and countless tombs?
What kind of secrets are hidden in this city of the dead, and what will we face if we enter this city?
This series of questions flashed through my mind, and then Zhang Ye suddenly spoke: "Do you know why I just said that I found the trace of Da Kui, it is because of here. ”
He said and stretched out his hand to point to the corner of the city gate, we looked down, and saw that the place he pointed to, there seemed to be traces of explosion, Zhang Ye silently picked up a piece of shrapnel from the ground, and said: "If I am not mistaken, this shrapnel is the glorious bullet on Da Kui's body." ”
I was surprised: "No, you can even recognize this, but I remember that he seems to have used that glorious bullet in the Taishan Underground Palace." ”
Zhang Ye smiled slightly: "That guy will always have an extra one hidden in his body, he is timid, so he will not leave only one back road, and ......"
He pointed to the piece of shrapnel with a red rag residue hanging on it, and said: "Only Da Kui will tie a red cloth to the real glorious bullet, for the sake of auspiciousness, he has not used it once for more than ten years, but today, if this is really his glorious bullet, it means that he is really desperate this time." ”
"But there is no trace of a fight here at all, and there are no corpses left, just such a little clue, if Da Kui used the Glory Bullet, what about others? Even if it's blown up, there must be a corpse, right? Lao Pan frowned and analyzed, but as he spoke, several of us shivered at the same time, and subconsciously looked back at the black water.
If there is a way to eliminate the traces of corpses here, it is undoubtedly to throw them into this black water and ensure that there are no traces at all.
"No, there is not a single figure here, and when we get here, the golden gate is also closed, if someone has been here before, then there is only one way to go here, and that is to enter this gate, so I think they went inside, but then the gate was closed again. So don't dwell on it here, go in and check it out, and you'll know the truth. And I think that this time we are afraid that we have stumbled by mistake and found the right party, this should be the dungeon under Wolf Juxu Mountain, which is our ultimate goal this time. ”
Lu Haikong's words made us temporarily dispel our random conjectures, and immediately walked towards the gate, but it was dark inside, not even a little light, and a cold wind blew out from inside, cold to the bones.
But in any case, we had to go forward, and we entered the city gate, and we had only gone a few steps when we saw a stone monument standing in front of us.
This stele is more than three meters high, mottled and dilapidated, illuminated by land, sea and air with flashlights, we all got up, and saw that the stele was densely written with many words, but none of the --- I knew were crooked ancient characters, and it was obviously not Chinese characters.
Lu Haikong seemed to know these words, he looked down from above with a serious face, and only said to us after a while: "What is recorded here is all the secrets of this underground city, but it seems that only half, according to this stone tablet, this was once a very prosperous city of the Xiongnu, of course, the so-called prosperity at that time could not be compared with the Han Dynasty at all, but the Huns lived and worked here in peace and contentment, but one day, a group of demons fell from the sky and killed all the people here......
He looked at the stele and narrated slowly, as if time had been reversed, and he said that the stele recorded that those demons had descended from the sky, trampled on their homes and lands, killed their people and relatives, plundered their cattle and sheep and grain, and burned their houses and tents.
It was a terrible group of demons, who had completely destroyed the city, and after they were gone, the survivors of the city found the high priest, and the flames of anger were blazing, and they used their lives to leave the most vicious curse on those demons, and cursed them with the most cruel punishment, cursed them with the exhaustion of their lives, cursed their flesh to rot, cursed their children to be cut off, cursed them to never turn over.
This terrible curse took the lives of ninety-nine living people to complete, but the moment the curse took effect, the wind and clouds changed color, the sky collapsed, the earth broke, and the entire city was forced into the ground dozens of meters underground.
Such a city disappeared from the world, and all the people in it died, and it was a full year before anyone discovered what had happened in the city and knew the whole thing from the tablet of the high priest in the city.
Thus, there was this underground cemetery, but when the cemetery was built, a very special underground river was discovered, which did not contain any life and had the power to corrupt everything.
So they called the river: the River of the Damned.
At the end of the stele, those who come to this cemetery are told to be careful not to touch the river of damnation.
The content of this stele ends here, and it can be regarded as an explanation of this mysterious place, but there are more doubts in our hearts, who are the people in this city and the demons they are referring to?
Was it those Han soldiers who had fought against the Xiongnu for many years, or was it another nomadic tribe?
Also, since this city disappeared inexplicably after a curse, what about this golden gate, and those golden puppets, golden bulls, and dark iron ore?
It seems that Lu Haikong is right, this stele probably only explains half of the problem, and the remaining half is up to us to find and discover by ourselves.
We looked at the stone tablet and continued to walk, in the endless darkness ahead, there was not the slightest light, there was no permanent lamp outside, not even a trace of ghostly fire, I thought to myself, maybe this is called the real eternal sleep.
But walking through this ruined city, walking among the ruins, looking at the large and small graves buried on the spot, although there was not even a tombstone on them, I gradually felt uneasy in my heart, as if our arrival disturbed these sleeping souls.
We walked carefully through every street, like walking through a tomb, going farther and farther, but this city is really big, criss-crossed, extending in all directions, but for us at this time, the bigger the city, the greater the ideological and spiritual pressure brought to us, because we don't know what kind of secrets are buried in this city, and we don't know how long it will take to reach the end of this city.
Looking up, there was endless darkness in all directions, and it seemed to be the sky at a very high place, and it was also pitch black, and I knew that it should be the mountain wall, and this city was completely under the Wolf Juxu Mountain.
It's just that I have another doubt in my heart, if it is said that before us, that is, it is suspected that Da Kui and some people have come in, then why have no traces have been found until now, at least, there is a black rumbling here, if someone really comes in, there must be a little light, right?
At this moment, Lu Haikong, who was walking in front, suddenly exclaimed, I was taken aback, I didn't know what was happening, but then a few flashlights lit up, and I saw a black shadow in the ruins in front of me, which looked several meters high, and seemed to be some kind of building.
Ansari then struck out, throwing two cold fireworks, and there was a light in front of us, through which we could see clearly, it seemed to be the center of the city, in a small square, in the middle of a ruin, stood a giant dome several meters high.
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