Shirley Young asked me if I was going straight into town. There are obviously lights flickering in the city, but they are surprisingly quiet, and the strange signs are daunting.

I said to Shirley Yang, "If you don't go into the tiger's den, you will get the tiger." Since Ah Xiang said that there is nothing unclean in this city, I think we have been defeated thirty-six times, and there is nothing to be afraid of until now. It's just that this ancient city is indeed full of evil from the inside out, and it seems to hide some unimaginable secrets. ”

So they took what they had and searched for their way into the city.

The ancient city like a large beehive, sunk deep underground, and the barrel-like white city walls seem to be just decorations, without much military defense function, but the scale is very large, and it is quite difficult to get around. There were strange wisps of mist floating in the city. The houses here are all caves on beehives, and the inside is full of directions, and we are afraid to get lost, so we dare not rush in, but we only look in a few holes, and the more we look, the more terrified we feel.

There was not a single figure in the city, but seven or eight of the ten houses were already lit, and the lamps were not permanent lights, but ancient fuel made from the dried dung of wild beasts mixed with grease, and it seemed that they had just been lit. Moreover, although the cave is ancient, it is by no means as dilapidated as a thousand-year-old monument, and some of the utensils and animal skins in the cave look like new, and there is even a half-polished skull wine cup. Time in this city really seems to freeze, and the moment it freezes seems to be the moment when the inhabitants of the city disappear.

We discussed it, it is easy to get lost in the city in the dark, and the streets in this evil Luohai city, including those main buildings of politics and religion and sacrifice, may be in the depths of the Great Beehive, this city has thousands of doors, and it is completely different from the ordinary city structure, the safest way at the moment is to wait until dawn to see the structure of the beehive on the periphery, find a shortcut into the altar in the depths, and never recklessly stumble in the city. Naturally, you can't be vague when you should be a bastard, but you must not act rashly when you should be cautious.

We were going to spend the night in the wall, but when we passed a hole under the wall, the fat man, like a hound, sniffed at the rabbit and said, "What smells so good?" It's like who's stewed beef. the Bull Demon King and his sister, this is really scratching the itch of the fat man. ”

Listening to the fat man say this, I also seem to smell the aroma of boiled beef, which came from the cave house, I am worried that there is not much food left, not enough to distribute, just now in the wind erosion lake said that I can deal with two or three days, that is to comfort everyone, in fact, it is not enough to eat. At this moment, when you smell the aroma of meat, you naturally have to go in and take a look, and the two of you and the fat man took the lead in the cave house, and in the stone kettle inside, there is indeed yak meat that is being cooked, and it is steaming hot, which is really fragrant and delicious, and the five flavors are harmonious.

The fat man swallowed his saliva and asked me: "Commander Hu, what do we really want, although the ghee is sweet, it is not as good as the tsampa jing, although the tsampa is good, but it is not as hungry as yak meat." This pot of beef is for us, right? This one...... Can you eat it? ”

In this ancient city where there is no half a human figure, there is still a pot of freshly cooked beef, which is really difficult to guess with common sense. I remembered that when I first joined the queue, I ate the old lady's fruit in the Niuxin Mountain covered with jade lotus, which is also a ghost market with ghosts and the like? It's all a trick of frogs and earthworms, and you have to make a stomach trouble if you eat it? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but hesitate, although I really wanted to pick a large piece of beef that was boiled and boiled to eat, but reason told me that the origin of these meats was unknown, and it was better not to eat them, although they looked like beef, maybe the pot was cooked with human flesh.

Uncle Ming was also so hungry at this time that his heart was close to his back, and he stared directly at the yak meat in the pot with the fat man, and after a while, the two of them had probably eaten several pieces with their eyes.

I asked Shirley Yang if he had any opinion on this pot of meat, Shirley Yang shook his head very crisply, and confirmed with Ah Xiang that the yak meat cooked in this pot was indeed not fake.

When the fat man heard Ah Xiang say this, he couldn't wait any longer, and he wasn't afraid of being hot, so he reached out and pinched a piece of meat and swallowed it in his mouth: "I will sacrifice my life for righteousness, taste it for my comrades first, and the poison and medicine in the meat will greet me first." He said while eating, and before he finished a sentence, he had already eaten seven or eight pieces of beef in his stomach, and he couldn't stop it.

We waited for a while, and saw that there was really nothing wrong with him after eating, and by this time the fat man had already made half a pot of beef, and even the daylily was cold. Since it was not poisonous, there was nothing to eat, so everyone made up their minds and would rather die than starve to death, so they all used paratrooper knives to pick out the beef from the pot and eat it.

As I ate, I suddenly remembered something, and said to Uncle Ming: "Tomorrow at dawn, we will go into the depths of the big beehive, and we don't know what dangers there are, and it is not expected to be peaceful." It's safer for you and Ah Xiang to stay outside the city, and we'll come out to pick you up when we're done. ”

Uncle Ming was stuffing several pieces of beef in his mouth, and he couldn't speak if he wanted to, so he simply swallowed the meat in a hurry, choked and rolled his eyes for a long time, and then said to me: "We are all a family sooner or later, why do you say anything outside of sight?" Although Ah Xiang and I don't have much skills, we can help you somewhat......"

In the past, Uncle Ming said that he wanted to marry Ah Xiang to me, and he discussed it privately with the two of us, and I never agreed. At this time, Uncle Ming said that sooner or later he would be a family, and Shirley Yang heard it and immediately asked Uncle Ming: "What family?" Do you want to climb relatives with Lao Hu? ”

Uncle Ming said: "Yes, I don't have to say anything about Brother Hu's character, the male should get married, and the female should marry, and I, the junior, will naturally have to worry about them." Even if my goddaughter marries him, even if she has a lifelong trust, I can close my eyes when I die, and I am worthy of Ah Xiang's biological parents. ”

I quickly interrupted Uncle Ming's words: "For thousands of years, the blood of the Chinese working people has flowed into the sea, and they have lost their struggles, and they have fought again and again until they have achieved the final victory, in order to overthrow the three mountains that have pressed down on our Chinese people. I've been fighting for half my life, and in the end you still want to arrange an arranged marriage for me under the feudal system? Do you want me to suffer twice and create two sins? I am resolutely against it, and whoever mentions me again will rebel. ”

The fat man just had eaten enough, he was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and when he heard us say this, he immediately followed and coaxed and said to Uncle Ming: "Uncle Ming, my own uncle, you can take care of Hu Bayi and tell him a daughter-in-law, this is a good thing for pies in the sky, but he is stunned that the pies that fall are not three fresh." You might as well give Ah Xiangyun to me, my parents left early, can I go to your house and plug in the door? In the future, I will treat you as my father, and when you return to the throne, I promise to howl you from ** to Babaoshan. Promise ** that if you don't stop for a word, you can mourn as much as you want...... Just how sad. ”

The fat man made fun of Uncle Ming, and I almost squirted out all the beef in my mouth when I heard it, when a cow moo came from the depths of the cave house, interrupting everyone's laughter. Originally, the sound of yaks was not strange in Tibet, but to hear it in this quiet ancient city, and we had just eaten beef, it was enough to make people's scalps tingle.

I asked Shirley Yang to stay and take care of Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang, and waved at the fat man, and the two grabbed their weapons and went into the depths of the cave house with wolf eyes. When I came in, I had a cursory look inside, and the structure was similar to the rest of the cave houses, except that there seemed to be more stone doors, and when I walked to the stone gate, I felt that the situation was wrong.

The stone door was slippery and greasy, and there was a bloody person's handprint, as if someone had blood on his hands, and hurriedly took the stone door when he left. When I touched it with my hand, the blood seemed to be still fresh.

I nodded to the fat man, who took two steps back, sprinted forward, and slammed the stone door open with his shoulder, and I followed with my gun raised, but there was still no one inside. I saw that the walls around were covered with blood, and the stone cases and wooden stakes in the middle were also bright red, and on them were piles of fresh yak meat, and a few bloody cowhides were still steaming, as if they had just been peeled off the cow. This is the slaughterhouse in the city.

The fat man and I had just eaten boiled beef, and we both felt a little sick at this time, and suddenly I noticed something on my head, and suddenly I looked up, and a bull's head, which was two or three times larger than an ordinary yak, hung upside down. There was no skin on the cow's head, its eyes were wide open, its flesh was dripping with blood, its nostrils were still breathing, and most of the cow's tongue was spit out, as if it was still alive, and it let out a heavy muffled snort at me and the fat man.

The fat man raised his gun and wanted to fight, but I hurriedly saw that although the bull head was very weird, it didn't mean to hurt us, so I stopped the fat man first and took a closer look at what was going on with the yak head.

Yaks are skinned when they are alive, and then slaughtered, this kind of behavior we have seen in the murals of the temple of reincarnation, which is not surprising, as an ancient heritage, symbolizing the release of the soul first, so that you can eat it with confidence.

There is a large wooden pen in this slaughterhouse, which can be retracted and moved on both sides, so that the cattle can be sandwiched in it, and no matter how much brute force it has, the butcher can slaughter it at will.

The body of the yak's head was sandwiched in the bloody wooden pen, the skin of the cow's body had not been peeled off, the tail of the ox was still twitching, and in front of the empty cavity of the headless cow, there was a heavy axe that cut off the head of the cow. The bull's head was hung in the air by the rope, and the bull's eye was still turning, as if it had just been cut off, and time here suddenly froze and no longer passed, and the yak was always fixed in the moment before its signs of life were about to disappear.

It is common in the biological world for the body to be separated, and the signs of life do not disappear within seconds or even minutes. After the head of the chicken is cut off, the headless body of the chicken can run on its own for a long time. In ancient times, when a condemned prisoner was beheaded, when the head hit the ground, if someone called the name of the condemned prisoner, his head would react, because the nerves were not completely dead.

But it was only a matter of a moment, from the time the fat man and I found this yak head that was not yet dead to now, it has remained between life and death, has it just stopped for thousands of years? Not only this unlucky big yak, but also every grass and tree in the entire Evil Luohai City, including the lit lights, the unfinished works, the slaughtered yaks, the boiled beef, and the undried bloody handprints on the stone gate, were all frozen in those last few seconds, and there was not even half a figure in the entire empty city, is this qiē related to the disaster that destroyed the evil Luohai City? What kind of catastrophe is that that has such terrifying power?

Thinking that what we just ate may be a pot of beef that has been cooked for thousands of years, I can't help but feel a little sick to my stomach. The phenomena in this city are really incredible, it is safer to evacuate outside the city first, and wait until tomorrow after dawn to enter the beehive of the main city. So the fat man and I called Shirley Yang and the others, took our things and walked back the way we came.

I glanced up at the sky, night had already fallen, but the light in this city was still the same as when I first found it, as if it was in the twilight, although there were many lights, but it looked very hazy, and perhaps even the light of the ancient city when it was destroyed was forever. If Ah Xiang hadn't confirmed, I would have thought it was a ghost town.