Chapter 50: The Living in the Dead City
The beautiful notes of the guqin are mixed with wisps of grievance, and even people like Wushuang who do not move the timbre are moved by the sadness in the sound of the qin.
"Brother, what are you going to do? We can't go inside! there's not enough time!" Lan Caidie reminded him.
Wushuang said: "Let's go, since we are here, we have to find out, we are about to enter the rainy season, Jingyu is a mountainous area, and it is raining heavily, so we can't say when we will have the opportunity to come in next time." Moreover, there is air circulation in this ancient city, which means that there is also another exit. β
"Huh...... My brother is worthy of being the leader of a generation, okay, since my brother is insistent, then my little sister will accompany you to a ghost gate!"
Lan Caidie took out her red handkerchief and shook it in front of her, only to see a beautiful flower butterfly in the handkerchief flying towards the dark end of the city.
There was silence in the ancient city underwater, and there was not a trace of life, except for the beautiful notes in the ears that lingered erratically. The sound was so special, that Musou couldn't think of any other instrument that could play such beautiful notes.
In ancient times, Goguryeo was influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, so it was very similar to the people of the Central Plains in terms of architectural style and living habits. The streets of the ancient city are also full of taverns, teahouses, blacksmith shops, tailor shops and so on. But the faΓ§ade of these deals is still there, but the house is empty.
I'm afraid that there is no one inside, and what Wushuang wants to see more now is the corpses that have rotted into white bones lying all over the ancient city. Now it's so weird, where did the people in the whole city go? How did the ancient city sink hundreds of meters into the ground? Where did the inhabitants of the ancient city go? Did they all move away in one day after getting the bad news? But the furnishings in every house in the ancient city were intact, and even the jars used by the Goryeo people to pickle kimchi were not taken away.
The Koreans are the ancestors of today's North Koreans and Koreans, and they couldn't live without kimchi. It may be that Koreans have a better life and can marinate dried fish or bacon and the like, but they are also inseparable from kimchi jars, which are a kind of inheritance of Korean culture. The kimchi jar hasn't moved, so where can they go?
Wushuang and Lan Caidie walked deeper and deeper, and the two of them had been walking through the ancient city for half an hour, and there was still no end in sight in this ancient city. The streets of the whole ancient city extend in all directions, and there are two-storey shops of various colors on the left and right, which is a complete ancient city. It is not difficult to find many post houses where the officers and soldiers in the city or the power managers were located at that time.
At the intersection of several once bustling streets is a spacious courtyard with high walls and a large courtyard in front of which are two large stone lions and an animal skin drum. This should be the yamen.
"Go in and have a look. Wushuang said.
The two of them have also been gone for a while, not to mention the figures, not even a ghost, so they are a lot more courageous, no longer as restrained as just now, and strode straight into the yamen of the ancient city of Goryeo.
"Huh...... Hehe......" Wushuang smirked to himself.
"What are you laughing at, don't scare your sister!"
"I'm laughing, Lu Haotian used to have a dream when he was a child, that is, he could rule a city, like an emperor, he said that if there was really one day, there must be a big photo of himself hanging on the city tower. I really regret not taking him down, isn't this preventing others from fulfilling their dreams. β
Lan Caidie couldn't hold back her joy, and she just wanted to laugh while holding the cherry mouth, but suddenly she stopped her mouth, grabbed Wushuang's arm, and turned off the flashlight.
"What's wrong?" asked Mushuang.
"There's something in the yamen!"
"How do you know?"
Cai Butterfly replied: "My butterfly sues me." β
"Butterflies? Where are your butterflies? Can they talk?"
"Shhhhhh
Sure enough, there was a commotion in the lobby, as if someone was searching for something. The movement was not small, and the chairs fell to the ground when they pushed the case. It seems that the owner of the house also knows that this is a lost underground ancient city, and there is no one in the ancient city who is so bold now.
The first thing that came to Mushuang's mind was the corpse of a Goryeo woman who jumped into the reservoir. Why didn't this female corpse stay well, but turned over the cabinets here? Could it be that she also became a thief and wanted to sell a few antiques upside down? Thinking of this, Wushuang pulled out the dagger, and he knew that Lan Caidie's kung fu was definitely not as high as Ma Fuxiang, and if he really ran into that guy, he would have a fight.
A colorful butterfly flew out of the yamen lobby with no fingers in her hand, and the butterfly circled around the top of the blue butterfly's head and landed on the hair tie on top of her head. Wushuang was curious, and wanted to touch the butterfly with his hand, but saw that the blue butterfly had a butterfly-shaped hairpin on the top of its head, where is the flower butterfly that can fly?
The skill of this red silk gate really lived up to its name, and Wushuang was dumbfounded and shook his head again and again.
"Good brother, what are you touch......ing? Hehe...... If you have an idea, let's get out and talk about it. Lan Caidie covered her face with her Qianqian jade fingers and whispered softly.
"What else did your butterfly say?" Wushuang asked her.
"There's an old thief inside, he's looking for the seal of the city guard in the ancient city. β
"Huh, that's what it sues you?"
Lan Caidie said, "Haha...... Here's what I guessed. But don't worry, the two brothers are not ghosts inside, and my sister took him out. β
"Don't worry, I'm afraid that this old thief is weird! My sister thought, the water in the reservoir has just been emptied, and we have come down, and we haven't met a single person along the way, just imagine, how can it be so coincidental? At the same time as we came down, a thief followed in? What did the third grandfather do? He could watch a thief follow us down? Besides, even if he came in through other entrances, how could he go straight to the yamen? Could it be that he stepped on it in advance?"
He wanted to see what the old thief inside was going to do before making a decision, but he didn't expect that the old thief who was rummaging through the cabinets in the yamen was deaf and clear-sighted, and as soon as they approached, they were noticed.
"Who? Is it a human or a ghost? If you have the ability, you can come out! What kind of hero is hiding in the shadows? I can tell you, I am a thief and a thief, and I know how to use the secret arts! Just you little devil, don't even think of taking out my Five Finger Mountain!"
Wushuang said secretly, it seems that this old thief is not more courageous than himself, he obviously said this to give himself courage. Like himself, he doesn't know whether people or ghosts are in the shadows. It's just that when he came out, he directly reported the name of the thief, didn't that fall into my arms?
"Dare to ask the top man in it if he eats food or eats wild hair?" Wushuang tested him with jargon, and the meaning of his words was to ask him, whether you are a thief from outside or a thief from a local.
"Huh, since they are all here to Hezi brothers, let's come out and see them!" The old thief in the house was also shocked when he heard it, the other party was not very old when he heard the voice, but he was very familiar with the rules in the rivers and lakes.
Lan Caidie's ancestors also belonged to the thief door, so she could also understand the black words between the northeast beards, and when she saw that the other party reported that the door was her own, she turned on the flashlight and took Wushuang's arm and flashed out from behind the door.