In the rumors of the Futuling Forbidden Land, the Futuling Forbidden Land is where the snake lady lives, whether she is a demon or an immortal, we have not seen it.

What we see is a Futu Pagoda standing in the valley in the dust of time, surrounded by moss, deep canyons, and barren villages in front of us.

"How can there be a village here?" This is the doubt for all of us.

Since I was a child, I have the impression that the forbidden land in the north of Futu Ridge is full of poisonous miasma and thorn bushes, and even there are half-meter-long mountain centipedes and mandrills that eat children, and adults have repeatedly said that it is a barren land that cannot be developed, and I never thought that there would be people living here.

In this vast expanse of mountain villages, almost all the houses have collapsed to the point of disappearance, most of them are mud walls made of grass and soil, and they are covered with roofs made of tree branches.

"I'm afraid there are no fewer people living here than the villagers in Futuling." Zhu Yaoguang looked at the barrenness in front of him and said.

Mr. Chang said: "Futuling is already a wild place, but I didn't expect that there is such a place where people once lived in the forbidden land that no one dared to set foot in. ”

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty literati Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring", it is described that a person strayed into a beautiful paradise, in which there is no class and exploitation, no hunger and war, it is a peaceful and pure land, and the people in it say that the ancestors in order to avoid the riots of the Qin Dynasty, took the villagers to find this pure land, did not go out of the valley for hundreds of years, self-sufficient, and finally formed a paradise.

And the barren village in front of us is a mountain away from our Futu Ridge, but the villagers of Futu Ridge, who have existed for thousands of years, have never had the slightest rumor about a village in the forbidden land.

Was it once a paradise?

Chen Jixian said: "Look at the village here is still very intact, and it has not completely collapsed in the wind and sun, maybe it happened in a hundred years." ”

I said, "It can't be in a hundred years, although on the surface the extent of the destruction of the village is only a few decades, but this is a forbidden land, and the reason why it can be called a forbidden place must be something unusual, and these dead grass are enough to prove everything, and the houses made of mud do not show any architectural structure of any age." ”

"How can you be so sure that this village has existed for more than a hundred years? The Qing Dynasty was heavy in taxes and miscellaneous taxes, warlords rose in the past hundred years, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was experienced. Wang Cong said.

I said: "If it happened in a hundred years, the people of Futuling would not not know anything about it, especially the older generation, I have been with the old lady in the village since I was a child, he is over 100 years old, if he knew that there was a village in the forbidden land, he would definitely tell me." ”

Chen Jixian said: "In this way, there is something in this forbidden land that preserves the deserted village very completely. ”

Mr. Chang seemed to suddenly think of something, he said: "I have heard such rumors, in ancient times, there was a village in the village to eat a hundred family rice Xiucai won the champion, the emperor rewarded him with a fixed wind pearl, this champion returned to the hometown in order to repay the villagers, in the village built a fixed wind tower, put the jewel in it, hundreds of years, no house collapsed, even the inside and outside of the house are spotless. ”

Chen Jixian looked at the vast village below and the mountains around the village, which can be said to be a basin, if it rains heavily for so many years, it will definitely collapse the earthen houses below, but these villages are indeed guaranteed to survive, although they cannot be protected by the wind beads as Mr. Chang said, but the village is so quiet in the deep mountains and old forests, it is indeed very strange.

"Boss, it seems that no one lives in it at all, this barren mountain and wild mountain comes out of such a deserted village, we are afraid that we will not find anything when we go in, if we don't go out of the forbidden place before dark, I am afraid there will be variables." Wang Cong said.

Chen Jixian said: "Guo Huaiyi and Jiang Cheng haven't been found yet, they want to see people alive and corpses when they die." ”

Chen Ji walked straight to the deserted village below, and we glanced at each other behind him, and had to follow.

I looked at the position of the sun overhead, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was dark after seven o'clock in Futuling, and we still had two hours to stay at most, and the remaining two hours to return, otherwise once it was dark at night, even if we had realgar on our bodies, we might not have encountered anything evil.

According to the rumors of Futu Ling, the people who entered the forbidden land have not heard of anyone who can come out intact, and perhaps it is because of curiosity that people have a desire to explore that people will stay here for a long time.

We followed Chen Jixian into a half-collapsed earthen house, where the wooden bed had collapsed to the ground in the wind of time, half covered by mud, and there were some dilapidated clay bowls and rice jars next to it, and there was nothing special to see.

The scenes we have seen along the way are all like this, these earthen houses are originally very simple, the facilities inside are naturally very simple, and there are traces of collapsed stoves at the door of each house, indicating that people have really lived here before.

Mr. Chang said: "In so many houses, there is not a single skeleton in sight, no traces of clothes, and even no candlesticks and spiritual tablets for ancestor worship. ”

I looked around the village and said: "There is no ancestral grave woodland, maybe it is really like Mr. Chang said, the people who live here are temporarily relocated, otherwise it is impossible for such a large village where no one dies, the ancients paid attention to entering the soil for safety, people will be buried when they die, we have not heard of a sky burial or other methods of burying the dead in this place." ”

Based on what we see alone, it is impossible to speculate what happened hundreds of years ago or more.

"Goo~" At this time, my stomach suddenly screamed, I haven't eaten since the morning until now, I haven't eaten after walking the mountain road for a day, and when I touched my stomach, I remembered that I had always carried the little Zhoutian compass with me.

The Little Zhou Tian Compass has the function of time reproduction, as long as I use the Little Zhou Tian Compass, I can see what happened in the past!

"Brother Yang Hao also has a compass? What a strange compass, I've never seen it before! Mr. Chang saw me suddenly take out the compass, and his face showed a hint of surprise.

"This compass of mine is an ancestral treasure, no one else can use it except me, don't be afraid to see it." I said as I flicked the pointer on the compass. "First of all, let's take a look at what happened to Liu Wei and them here ten days ago, my compass was also affected by the magnetic field outside the forbidden land and could not be used, but it did not affect its other functions."

In the changing light and shadow, the light and shadow of the deserted village moved forward day and night, until we saw the figures of Liu Wei and Lao Zheng appearing behind us, pointing guns at us.

Chen Jixian and the others were obviously taken aback, they stood in place and did not dare to move, looking at the figures of more than a dozen people in the inspection group standing vigilantly around with guns.

"Come out!" Lao Zheng's light and shadow pointed somewhere and shouted.

We looked in the direction of Lao Zheng and looked at the deserted village, but we didn't see anything unusual.

Suddenly, the faces of all ten members of the inspection group changed drastically, and the muzzles of their guns were all pointed at the place where Lao Zheng's muzzles were pointed.

Ten of them shot at the same time, the bullet passed through our bodies and hit the back, I took a few steps behind with the little Zhou Tian compass, and I couldn't see anything where the bullet passed.

Then the ten men shouted and looked around, and they retreated as they shot, and soon ran into the ravine where we had come.

"What the hell is going on, what do they see?" Wang Cong was obviously frightened by the light and shadow he had just seen.

Chen Jixian said: "It is possible that everyone was hallucinating, and they were still safe and sound when they escaped from the forbidden land. ”

"Then let's get out too, sir, this is really not the place we should be." Wang Cong said.

"Let's see what happened here before." I said.

Since I am sure that this deserted village must have existed more than a hundred years ago, I dialed the pointer to the unprecedented time scale, and directly crossed the hundred years to see the light and shadow of the past, I can feel that several people have been here in the past hundred years, it may be Lao Xiucai or it may be Guo Blind, but I can't be sure at which point in time they came, it would be too energy-consuming and we wouldn't have so much time.

The light and shadow of a hundred years ago basically coincide with the scene we see now, and there is not much change. I moved the needle on the compass forward again, and suddenly I felt a little sleepy and overwhelmed.

Although the Xiao Zhoutian compass is a sacred artifact of the Daomen, it is not something that ordinary people can use to infinitely explore what happened in the past, and I don't know what era it is when I move the pointer forward.