Chapter 24: The Empty City Gray Tower

Fifty years before the Apocalypse, eleven fire meteors appeared in the astral spirit realm, falling in the middle of the Heavenly Damnation Forest.

Forty-eight years before the Apocalypse, eighteen more fiery meteors appeared, all of which fell in the Forest of Damnation.

From 47 to 20 years before the Apocalypse, new meteors fell every year, all of which were cities.

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Twenty years before the Apocalypse, the Throne of Damnation was born.

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Nineteen years before the Apocalypse, meteors fell more frequently, until the beginning of the first year of the Apocalypse, and falling stars began to appear in various small spiritual realms.

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- "Conjectures on the Creation of the Apocalyptic Calendar"

The white city wall stretches for hundreds of zhang, there are moss flakes, the sunlight is projected on the white boulders, reflecting a shallow black blood stain, the city gate has long disappeared, revealing the depression and emptiness in the city.

The huge walls were leaning, and some of them had sunk into the earth, and there were deep ravines in the walls, as if they had been caused by an earthquake. There were two words engraved above the city gate, but neither Metatron nor Luo Yuan knew each other, let alone Yun Lang.

The bluestone-paved ground inside the city is too broken to stand, and most of the buildings on both sides of the road are in ruins, all of which bear the marks of being burned by the flames.

It's an empty city, or rather, it's a ruin.

Walking among the rubble, Yun Lang and the others were full of doubts.

"How can there be a city here, is this part of the trial? Luo Yuan first raised questions.

Metatron frowned and shook his head: "This can't be a trial. I've heard from my teacher that there are many strange ruined cities in the Damned Forest, but I didn't expect them to be here. ”

"I seem to have heard of it too, and I didn't think there would be one in the Heavenly Pivot Realm. But what is the origin of these empty cities?" Luo Yuan thought for a moment.

"Who knows, let's go in and have a look. Metatron said indifferently.

Yun Lang was the first to act, and at this time he was in the city. Most of the houses have been reduced to rubble, and only a few large buildings remain, some of which are still in good condition.

Among them, a gray minaret ten feet high is the most well-preserved.

The tower has twelve floors, and on the top of the pointed tower is a huge jewel that glows reddish in the sun. Each layer of the tower has five horns, the horns are carved with the unknown Rui beast, there are beasts and birds, among them there is a kind of Rui beast, the momentum is magnificent, the python body and the dragon head, the body is around the white clouds, the fish scales and the unicorn tail, the lion whiskers are luan, the majesty is extreme, the image in the five beasts is the most grandiose.

There were many gray-black burn marks on the tower, many of the horns of the beasts were gone, and the tower itself was a little tilted.

The stone tablet at the entrance of the gray tower has three big characters written on it, although the three of them do not know each other, but it can be guessed that it should be the name of the tower.

When several people came to the door of the gray tower, they inexplicably felt a sense of peace and comfort. The gate was made of a kind of wood that few had never seen before, but it was as hard as steel to the touch.

Yun Lang guessed in his heart that this wooden door should be very heavy, but with a slight push from his subordinates, the wooden door opened with a simple creak, and he felt that this strange wooden door was actually a few points lighter than ordinary wooden doors.

Yun Lang was in a daze, and Metatron and Luo Yuan had already pushed the door in. There is no imaginary dust and dampness, the feeling in the tower is extremely comfortable, and the air is the same as the outside world, except that the light inside is extremely obscure, and several people can't even tell the difference between the inside and outside of the tower.

There are dozens of strangely shaped copper lamps on the ground of the first layer of the tower, and the sunlight outside the tower shines into the copper lamps in the tower, making these copper lamps emit a golden yellow light.

At this time, a few people observed some copper lamps again, only to find that they were a little different from ordinary copper lamps.

Ordinary copper lamps, whether used by nobles or commoners, should be composed of lamp holders, lamp bodies, and wicks, but the copper lamps here are different, they have no wicks, and the wick parts are all composed of strange beasts and birds.

Among them, there are Qingluan, but more are things that none of the three of them have ever seen. There are those that are shaped like flying cranes but only have one leg, there are those that are shaped like crows but are extraordinary and have two legs, and there are even those that resemble vicious dogs and are as strong as wild lions. But without exception, whether it is a strange bird or a strange beast, they are all surrounded by fire and fierce flames.

"These things, no, is this city really from other worlds?" Luo Yuan picked up a copper lamp and said in surprise.

"Perhaps, but what is the reason for this? What is the reason for the whole city to come to other worlds?" said Metatron, also marveling at the strangeness of the bronze lamps, and at the same time asking his own questions.

"Other worlds?" Yun Lang didn't understand what they were saying.

Metatron's gaze spread to the stairs of the tower, explaining: "Above heaven and earth, between the dome, there are not only one or two worlds like the Star Spirit Realm, just like this Heavenly Pivot Realm, although we can come here, but this is actually another world, another plane. ”

"Unlike the legendary supreme gods, who dwell above the clouds, the other worlds are completely outside the plane in which we live. Luo Yuan continued, "However, the fact that the gods inhabit the clouds is only part of the legend. Although the Temple of Light respects the goddess of light as the supreme god, and also worships many main gods and true gods, the world has never really seen it after all. Therefore, the truth of the legend is a matter of opinion. ”

After he finished speaking, he shook his fingers and smiled smugly.

Yun Lang ignored him and said to Metatron, who was also not interested in Luo Yuan's small actions: "These lamps seem to have some effect on cultivation, how about we take a few?"

Metatron smiled, first nodding and then shaking his head, and said, "Indeed, these lamps have the miraculous effect of calming and concentrating. But don't worry, we haven't seen the top of this tower yet, maybe there's something good?"

Luo Yuan saw that the two of them ignored him, coughed, and preemptively responded: "That's right, let's go up and have a look first, I think about cultivation all day long, Yunlang, will a girl like such a boring child like you?"

Hehe smiled, but Luo Yuan was the first to climb the stairs.

Yun Lang's obsidian-like eyes flickered for a moment, and he didn't speak, but a blue figure passed in his mind, the figure was extremely agile, and it gradually became clear, it was a smiling beautiful face, and he was ashamed before he spoke.

"Pig!" was Metatron's voice, "Yunlang, what's the matter with you kid, what's the matter, what's wrong with you?" ”

The sound of thumping footsteps disrupted Yun Lang's thoughts and allowed him to come back to his senses.

Regaining his spirit, Yun Lang climbed the second floor of the tower, and there were no surprises, it was still the various copper lamps.

A few people were a little disappointed, the third floor, still the same. It wasn't until the fourth floor that there was finally a change.

Climbing the fourth floor of the tower, the first thing that catches the eyes of several people is a beautiful and strange mural.

The frescoes are all over the ceiling and walls of this floor, and there is only a monotonous gray.

It was a sudden time, and the mortals and masters of the world were living or practicing as usual, and from the unknown spread a terrible monster, this monster fought against the strong in this world, slaughtered the weak mortals, and finally descended from the gods above the heavenly dome.

"And then?" the few men tried to decipher the mural, which had no literal explanation at all, but it ended at a critical moment.

"Looks like it's going to be this kind of stuff for the next few floors? It's boring. Luo Yuan was a little impatient.

The mural on the fifth-story tower, the gods and monsters have a fierce battle, the earth is cracking, the living beings are in ruins, even the wind is wailing, the vitality is gradually dissipating, the sun and the moon have lost their color, the stars are no longer shining, in the mortal world, there are the cries of the gods are wafting, and the surviving humans have gathered in this city of doom.

The mural on the sixth floor, in the city of the end of the world, you can see the meteor of the gods due to the fall every day, before the destruction of the whole world, mortals built this tower, which is the last legacy of the entire world civilization......

The mural on the sixth floor was finally missing, which made Yun Lang and the others extremely disappointed.

"Those monsters, could they be the demons of the abyss?" Luo Yuan asked.

Yun Lang didn't speak, he always felt that the monsters in the mural were fundamentally different from the demons of the abyss in some places, and he had only seen them once.

Metatron was thoughtful: "Unlikely, the several abyssal invasions recorded in the literature, although the threat is not small, are far from the level of destroying the world, let alone threatening the gods. But then again, I've never heard of anyone going deep into the abyss, and the abyss itself is like a bottomless pit, and only God knows what kind of terrible monsters are inside. ”

"Wait a minute, the last legacy of the whole world, then wouldn't we have sent it!" Luo Yuan said suddenly.

Near the stream, the sound of water gurgling, stirring up a thin layer of mist.

By the stream, the cool breeze gently blew Ye Xian's beautiful face, making her smile pleasantly and comfortably.

Her eyebrows are like two slender swords, extremely heroic, phoenix eyes are bright, but there is tenderness like water, there is a delicate and delicate nose on her fair and slender face, and her cherry lips are pink, different from the immaturity of the twelve-year-old Xue Yao, the seventeen-year-old Ye Xian has fully grown, showing all the beauty and charm of a young girl.

"Sister Xian Xian, what do you think I caught?" was still the blue skirt, Xue Yao's face was full of happy smiles, her hands were behind her back, and the girl's body was wet but she didn't care, revealing an aura that even Ye Xian was envious of.

Ye Xianjian raised his eyebrows lightly, pulled his long black hair behind his shoulders, swept his eyes like water and swept the restless swaying fishtail, and a meaningful smile hung on the corner of his mouth, but he did not debunk it: "Is it a rabbit?"

Xue Yao took out the fish a little proudly, and said with a smile: "Oh! Ha! It's not a rabbit, it's a fish! Sister Xian Xian, you are so stupid, I have so much water on my body, you can't guess." Hurry up, Sister Xian Xian, the grilled fish you made yesterday is delicious, I'm hungry, come and make it!"

Xue Yao is a girl who can make the atmosphere lively even if there are only two of them, and Ye Xian is both envious and happy about this.

Green smoke rose from the stream, and soon the smell of grilled fish spread.

"Sister Xian Xian, you said that Yun Lang would listen to me, is he the first to come to me?" Xue Yao asked Ye Xian with wide eyes while eating the oily grilled fish.

"Well, why are you asking me? Xue Yao, can't you guess it yourself?" Ye Xian looked at the innocent little girl and asked with a little teasing.

"Hmph, I guess, that fellow is sometimes shrewd like a monkey, and sometimes dull like a pig. Xue Yao pouted, and said with some complaints, "Whatever he wants, anyway, I know his direction, I'll find him myself." ”

Ye Xian played with taste: "Girls should be reserved." ”

Xue Yao was eating grilled fish, tilting her head and saying, "My brother told me that if you want to do something, you have to do it quickly, and it won't be like procrastination." ”

Ye Xian: "......"

Suddenly, Xue Yao stopped eating fish, raised her head and said with moist eyes: "Sister Xian Xian, I miss my brother and master." ”

-To be continued

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