Chapter 16: The Ancient City Underground
After calming Zhao Linglong, the two of them held hands and walked forward in this narrow passage one after the other, Yu Le stared at Zhao Linglong's back, forgot the existence of time for a while, and wanted to go down with her, I don't know how long it took Zhao Linglong to suddenly stop and let go of his hand. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What's wrong?" Amusement asked.
"This passage is at its end. Zhao Linglong said, and then she took a deep breath and strode out.
Yule followed, but before he could leave the passage, he felt a light appear in front of him, and Yule hurriedly quickened his pace and leaped into the light, and when his eyes adjusted to the light and saw everything clearly, he was suddenly surprised by what he saw.
Outside of this passage is a large and mysterious space, hundreds of meters above the head is the top of the rock cave, on which I don't know what exists, and at this time it emits a strong light that illuminates everything around it. However, it wasn't these things that surprised Yule, but a wall of the city that appeared in front of him at this moment.
"Why are there walls in such a place. Yule stepped forward and stretched out his hand, stroking the city wall carefully as he asked.
"I don't know. Zhao Linglong shook her head.
"Then let's follow this wall, since there is a wall, there will be a gate that can enter the city. Yule said.
"Hmm. Zhao Linglong nodded in response, so the two began to look for the location of the city gate along the city wall.
"It's too big. After searching for a while, the two finally found the location of the city gate, and Yule looked at the excessively large city gate in front of him and said in surprise.
However, before the words of the amusement could be heard, the city gate suddenly opened with a loud bang, revealing everything in the city for the amusement.
At the moment when the city gate opened, the bodies of the two of them suddenly tensed, and the eyes of both sides looked at each other for a while and nodded tacitly.
What greeted them was a ruined sight of the city, most of which had collapsed, and only a few ruins remained.
"I can't imagine that there is such a city buried under the sea of trees, and I don't know how long it has been underground. Seeing such a scene, Yu Le said.
"I don't know exactly how long. Zhao Linglong shook her head and continued: "However, I think the establishment of this city should be earlier than the formation of the sea of trees. ”
"Earlier than the formation of the sea of trees?" Yu Le was shocked when he heard this, and then turned to the legend of the founding of martial arts, and couldn't help but say: "Isn't that earlier than the birth of martial arts? Do you remember that there is a sentence in the legend that the sages led the human race to drive the demon beasts to the depths of the sea of trees, didn't the sea of trees exist at that time?"
"Nope. Zhao Linglong shook his head and said: "That's just a rumor, the demon beast was driven into the 100,000 Mountain, and the sea of trees is just a barrier established on the periphery of the 100,000 Mountain." ”
"So the city was built at the latest?"
"I don't know, who can explain these ancient secrets clearly, but what I don't understand is why Uncle Meng died here. ”
"You say... Could the ruins that the White Cloud City Lord said before refer to this place? Yule suddenly thought of a possibility and said.
"You mean, the ruins really exist and that Father they have come in. Zhao Linglong understood the meaning of amusement and said.
"Now that I think about it, there is only one possibility, so your Uncle Meng will appear here, and since he is here, does it mean that there is another exit to the outside here. You Le's eyes became brighter and brighter the more he spoke, and he suddenly looked back at Zhao Linglong and said, "In other words, we may be able to leave here." ”
Zhao Linglong looked at the elated amusement and suddenly a trace of loss flashed in her heart. She didn't understand what this loss was about. I should have been happy to hear that I could leave myself, but I ......"
"What's wrong?" asked Zhao Linglong, sensing Zhao Linglong's strange amusement.
"It's fine. Zhao Linglong shook her head to hide her inner thoughts and said, "I suddenly remembered why Uncle Meng died in that passage. ”
"Could it be that he was injured by the Lord of White Cloud City, and after escaping there, he died of his injuries?" Yu Le guessed.
"No, I examined the body, and although there were injuries, they were not fatal, and the date of death was recent. ”
"How is that possible, how can he survive without eating or drinking for nearly a year. ”
"Uncle Meng is the second master in Bear City after my father, he is a strong man in the martial arts realm, let alone a year, even if he doesn't eat or drink for three years, it's fine. ”
"Three years, and how the hell did he die?"
"I don't know, I don't think this city is that simple. ”
"So what the hell are we supposed to do?"
"Let's look at it separately, it's so big here, I don't know when I'm going to check it. After speaking, Zhao Linglong walked to the side without looking back.
"Hey... Exquisite. You Le looked at the back of Zhao Linglong leaving, shook his head helplessly, and said to himself, "What's wrong with her?"
After turning around, Yule suddenly found that there were patterns carved on the remaining walls of some buildings, which were outlined with simple lines, and the content was extremely abstract. After reading all the contents, Amusement generally knows the meaning of this picture, which tells a coherent story:
After a tribe started as a small tribe and grew through years of warfare, defeating enemies again and again, and finally conquering its own continent, the leader of the tribe established a city in the center of the continent as his imperial city.
The picture ends abruptly here, and Yule looks at the city in the painting and thinks for a long time, according to the results of his previous exploration, the city in this painting should be the city buried in the ground in front of him. Only, what is this continent?
According to the records in this painting, the city was built in the center of the continent, but the shape of the continent in this painting is not the same as the shape of the Emerald Continent in the amusement memory, the shape of the Emerald Continent resembles a slightly bulging crescent moon, while the continent in the painting is long strips. I don't know if this continent is the predecessor of the Emerald Continent, or if this city came to the Emerald Continent for some unknown reason.
Just when Yu Le was puzzled about the content of the painting, his ears suddenly heard Zhao Linglong's exclamation.
"Not good. Yu Le hurriedly ran in the direction of Zhao Linglong.
"Linglong, what's going on?" asked after coming to Zhao Linglong's side and being relieved to find that she was not abnormal.
"Look......" Zhao Linglong said, pointing to his front.
When You Le heard this, he looked forward and suddenly gasped, only to see that there were large and small graves in front of him, and he was afraid that there were close to 10,000 of them.
"How can there be so many graves here?" Amusement began.
"I don't know, but I think it's the people of the city who are buried here. Zhao Linglong replied.
"It seems that the disaster came too suddenly, and the people of the city did not have time to flee and die here. Speaking of this, Yu Le was stunned for a moment, and he and Zhao Linglong seemed to think of something at the same time, and said together: "No, if everyone is dead, then who is burying them?"
Yu Le suddenly felt a burst of creepiness and said, "This, there shouldn't be ghosts and gods here, right? Your Uncle Meng's death was also killed by ghosts." ”
"No way. Zhao Linglong shook his head and said: "Unless you can cultivate into a primordial god, if you die like a lamp, your soul will not stay in this world, and it is impossible for ghosts to arise." ”
"So what the hell is going on. ”
"Maybe there are survivors who survived the disaster. ”
"Survivors? Speaking of this amusement, he shuddered and said, "I said let's go somewhere else, it always feels cold to stay here." ”
"Okay. Zhao Linglong replied and continued: "How are you checking over there?" ”
"Nothing, just some quaint paintings painted on the walls. Yu Le said as he explained the content of the painting to Zhao Linglong.
"I'm too, and there's nothing to be found other than this grave. Let's go ahead and take a look, which is supposed to be the core of the city, and maybe find something. After listening to the words of Amusement, Zhao Linglong said.
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The two came to the core area and found that there was a huge palace standing here, although it had been destroyed by time, it could still be vaguely seen its majesty and atmosphere.
"This is probably the palace of the leader in the painting. Zhao Linglong asked.
"Well, let's go in and have a look, hopefully you'll find something. Yu Le said as he pushed open the gate of the palace, and to his surprise the palace was not as dilapidated as it looked, and there was not even much dust.
"It's so clean here, isn't it? Zhao Linglong frowned and said suspiciously.
"What's that? Someone's there. Behind the door, the sharp-eyed Amusement found a figure lying there on all fours, motionless, with something scattered around him.
Zhao Linglong hurriedly went over to check, and after looking at it for a while, she sighed and said, "It's okay, it's not a human, it's just a humanoid machine." ”
"Machine?"
"Well, I guess there's a lack of energy, so I'm not moving. ”
"Energy?"
"Well, that's it. Zhao Linglong grabbed the things scattered around the machine man and said: "Spirit stone, the crystallization of spiritual energy, it can provide energy for the machine man." It's just that why are there traps and spirit stones in this place?"
"Could it be your father who brought it? Yule looked at the scars on the trap man and said, "It seems that it has suffered a lot of sins before, can it be activated again?"
"I don't know, but it should be able to start, just put the spirit stone on. Zhao Linglong said as she put the spirit stone on the chest of the machine man.
I saw the organist's body tremble for a while, and the next moment, its eyes lit up.