Chapter 40: The Mirage (2)

The stars in the sky are like a painting, shining on me, my heart is beating faster, and my adrenal glands are desperately secreting. I love it so much, it's like holding an astronomical telescope and looking at the stars in the distance.

"How can the moon be angry?"

Dink looked back at Rich with a puzzled expression. Patience says:

You see, the moon in your hometown is fiery red, like a wrath.

Dink was also puzzled:

The moon in my hometown has always been this color and has not changed, so it's hard to say if I'm angry or not.

I'm familiar with that fiery moon, a bit like an enlarged version of the life essence.

I asked Dink:

Will your moon be cloudy and sunny?

Dink recalled:

No, it's just that the day is different, and the direction will change. It's still a lot different from the moon in other places outside.

I kept my doubts and continued to ask him:

How long have you lived in your hometown?

Dink said very sincerely:

I've lived in my hometown for 10 years, so I haven't been back for more than 10 years. When I was 10 years old, my family moved to Haishi. Because we have to study, we are like this in the Phantom Village. So now the people living in the village are all old people. The Phantom Village belongs to the Mysterious Village. It's still an unsolved mystery, and the mantra for entering the Fog Country is something that all of us in the Phantom Village will be born with. But we can't teach anyone else, we can't describe it, we can't write it. When I was a child, I didn't understand the wonders of the Phantom Village, but it was only after I moved to Haishi that I slowly realized the differences and differences between my hometown and my new home, just like two worlds. As for the real feelings, let's go in first, and if you don't understand, I can explain to you at any time.

The three of us continued to walk forward, and through the meager haze, like a hazy veil, we saw the shadowy blue-tiled house not far away. It's like a huge painting. I couldn't help but say:

Dink, your hometown, it's very special, how do I feel like I'm walking into a painting now?

Dink Commentary:

Yes, it may be the congenital geographical environment, I also found that our home is at this temperature and sunshine all year round, and it has never rained, so I was very surprised and surprised to see the rain for the first time in my new home. I even wonder if our village is frozen, nothing has changed except day and night, and what is even more strange is that although there is no rainfall, there is a constant supply of water in our village.

I also asked my parents about this, and they said that they didn't know either, that it was like this a long time ago. If it is tagged earlier, it is even less clear.

I said to Dink:

Listening to your description makes it easy for me to think of a supernatural natural phenomenon: "mirage".

The "mirage" is a spectacle of refraction and reflection that occurs in an environment of immobile air and atmospheric pressure.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, then your village, is the space frozen, but time exists, I didn't expect that there is such a supernatural place on the starfish.

I'm going to take a good look at your village.

Dink and Rich glanced at each other, the two of them had a tacit understanding, and they were both thinking in their hearts: "How can this woman have such a problem as insomnia! It seems that tonight is not to think about a good rest." ”

The picture before me is getting clearer and clearer. In the distance, it seems to be a building with blue tiles, but now I can see the pattern clearly, and it turns out to be a building like the Forbidden City Museum, simple and elegant, and natural.

I was stunned by what I saw, how could such a natural antique escape my eyes. I told Dink:

Your village is a national treasure. Every old house is priceless!

Dink was a little nervous. Said:

The village cannot be visited by outsiders. Bringing you in this time has broken the rules of the village, and I don't know if anything bad will happen......

I suddenly don't know how to answer his words, this kind of thing, it shouldn't be useful to say thank you, right?

There was no squeak all the way to break the deadlock, and he sincerely admired:

It's a paradise, how could I let anyone outside of us know about a fairyland-like place!, don't worry, Dink, we're sure we'll rot in our stomachs.

Dink softened a little.

The village is not large, about 100 households. We had been talking and talking for more than half an hour, and we had come around and found a water source. I asked:

Dink, this water source is supposed to be for daily drinking, right?

Dink responded:

Yes, drinking upstream, irrigating downstream.

I found that the water here is not the same as the water outside. At a time like now, it is dark everywhere, but the water is transparent, and if you look closely, you can see that the whole flow is a thick jade belt.

I say:

I want to see what is going upstream.

The three of us went upriver to see where the water was heading.

We walked along this stream for a long time, about an hour, and still didn't see the source. It's just that the buildings are becoming fewer and more desolate, and on both sides of the river there are patches of flame-like flowers that cannot be named. It's kind of weird in the middle of the night.

Dink said:

The name of this flame-like flower is "Spark". It is a naturally growing wildflower. Use less hemostasis and more blood activation. It seems that only our village will have it.

Rich looked closer, and up close it looked more like a fire, I don't know if it was an illusion or what, the sparks seemed to be jumping. He raised his hand to touch it, and when Dink saw it, he exclaimed:

You can't touch it!

With a shout, the frightened Fu retracted his hand. Dink breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

This spark requires special gloves to pick. Moreover, the ancestors of our village said that this kind of flower can only be used by people in the village and cannot be sent out.

We passed through one sea of sparks and flowers, and then came to another sea of flowers, this sea of flowers is a vast white one, overgrown with mandala flowers, and it also has a name called "Dark Flower". It is extremely cold and extremely hardy.

I was stunned to see the endless beautiful and elegant white flowers. The result was Dink pushing his shoulders forward. But Tang Chen walked with his head down, and the mandala Hua had a very seductive and pulling effect, and staring at it all the time would lead to hallucinations.

I don't know how long I walked, but finally the sea of flowers on both sides disappeared, and a big toad stone statue of the sky appeared that swallowed the sky, and the stone statue was dark as a whole, without any light. It opened its mouth to the fullest, facing the sky, as if it was going to swallow it all.

Dink's excited cry came from the other end:

We're almost there!

This side has not yet woken up from the confusion just now. Tang Chen dragged him to the water's edge, took out the water cup from his bag and filled it with water, and poured it thoroughly on his head and face.

Hearing a cry of surprise from Dink, she looked back and saw Dink dancing in front of a dark stone statue while waving in this direction. She guessed it should be a good thing.

Before he woke up, Tang Chen poured him several times in a row. It finally woke him up......

I dragged my tired, drenched rich over to Dink. I asked:

What is it about Dink that makes you happy like this?

Dink said cheerfully:

I found this place, the old ancestral hall.

I was puzzled and asked him:

Isn't the ancestral hall from your village? Why are you so happy to find it? Is it hard to find?

Dink explains:

The old ancestral hall is not for everyone to go, although our village is small, but it is also divided into several surnames, I know the following: Ding, cold, fire. These three surnames, in the past, the old ancestral hall only allowed the surname Huo to worship during the New Year's Festival, and other surnames could not be found at all. One time I came here alone to play and stumbled upon this dark stone statue. Just climb up and play. I don't know where I touched it, but the scene in front of my eyes suddenly changed......

There was a very magnificent building in front of me, and I couldn't help but walk in. It was full of jumping flames. Directly opposite the door, there was a bottle of rune marks carved from unknown materials on the altar, which was the same as Tang Chen's collarbone. This incident lingered in my mind. Later, I fell asleep in the ancestral hall. I heard from my parents that I found it in the river in front of my house, sleeping on a huge lotus leaf. That's when I went to the old ancestral hall. It's been almost 20 years now. I've always found this incredible, especially after meeting you. I think I'm about to find out.

The three of them stood in front of the dark stone statue of the Sky Swallowing Toad and began to touch all kinds of things. The sky-swallowing toad is four-legged, one meter high, one meter five wide, and one meter six long, and its body is fat. It's surprisingly big, and it can swallow at least all three of us at once. I searched for it but to no avail. No traps or secret doors were found.

After searching for an hour and not finding what we were looking for, the three of us simply sat down in front of it and rested.

Dink doesn't give up. He hadn't sat down for a minute before he got up and continued his search. Five minutes passed, and he stopped looking, but climbed straight up.

When his leg inadvertently touched the open mouth of the Sky Swallowing Toad, he noticed that the leg was weakened, and he was so frightened that he quickly stretched it back, and the leg returned to its original appearance. He tried to put his leg in all the way again, and the part that had been put in was completely blurred, but there was no pain, and the presence was clearly felt, and Dink shouted to me and Rich, who were resting on the stone steps:

I found it, jumped into its mouth!

As Rich and I saw with our own eyes, Dink jumped into the Sky Swallowing Toad's gaping mouth and vanished.

We nervously looked at the mouth of the swallowing toad and saw nothing. We glanced at each other, climbed onto the stone statue, and jumped into the open mouth of the Sky Swallowing Toad......

It's like a process of closing your eyes and opening them again, and what you see again is a piece of light, which is a bit like the blazing light of the virtual and real world.

I calculated the time, and it should have been past eleven o'clock in the evening. It's unscientific to be as translucent as daytime. As far as I have experienced the virtual and real world, there is no such thing as science and unscience.

In the contrast of the strong blazing light, I saw a very magnificent "ancestral hall". The whole "ancestral hall" is a red wall and blue tile, and when I got closer, I saw that the lintel was written "Suotu" in elven characters.