Chapter VIII Habitat for 10,000 People
In the incomparably faint green light, everyone stared closely at Qin Yang's figure walking in front of them, gathered into a round group, and rushed towards the deep environment in front of them.
"Be careful, as shown on the map, our goal is the opposite of the entrance, and we still have to cross the entire length of the ship, and according to our experience, we may also encounter something like the first level on the way. Qin Yang looked at the same long distance drawn on the map, and let out a long sigh, nervously paying attention to the new strange things that might appear nearby at any time.
Fortunately, this dark world will not stop Qin Yang's spiritual sense from radiating to the outside world, under the nourishment of the spirit core, the more powerful spiritual power has expanded Qin Yang's exploration field to an area of thirty miles, and now it can easily maintain a radius of twenty miles, which has played a great role in protecting the safety of several people.
Everyone didn't feel it as they walked step by step, and Qin Yang, who had been paying attention to the surrounding situation, was very surprised to find that it was completely different from the very flat wooden deck on the first floor, the ground on the second floor was completely built according to the natural environment, and above the wooden floor, there were rockeries and hills, and even a river that had dried up.
As time passed, the environment beneath the feet of the people changed from the plains at the beginning to a slightly rugged hilly mountain road. The stumbling under their feet quickly aroused everyone's doubts, and after Qin Yang explained a little, everyone had to express their understanding with shock.
"Brother, what do you say this place is for? Isn't there still a hunting ground or a farm on the boat?" He Danxue, who was close to Qin Yang, listened to the scenery near the city, and her heart was inexplicably more puzzled.
Faced with the situation in front of him, Qin Yang could only smile and express his unfeeling, building such a huge ship to set sail, but adding such a completely simulated natural building, this kind of behavior, I have to say, Qin Yang felt a very obvious strange feeling from it. Where did this ship come from, who built it, such a size, such a structure, with Qin Yang's current knowledge, even if Xing Weiyang gathered the power of the Tang Kingdom to build it, the time for completion would definitely be far away. And the biggest question is not here, what is the purpose of the owner of such a huge ship? What is the purpose of setting up such an environment? Is it really because his ass is so big that he has to rely on such a large ship to fit it?
On the way forward, Qin Yang was always paying attention to the changes in the surrounding environment, and gradually transitioned from the hilly area where he was just located to a more stable and comfortable plain area, and the dry waterways began to gradually become more numerous, and there were even some traces of dead plants on the land. Just when Qin Yang was full of doubts, an even more shocking picture appeared in his mind - although it was already very dilapidated, Qin Yang could still see that it was the appearance of a row of houses in the distance.
"It's actually a human settlement!" The moment this picture was transmitted to Qin Yang's mind, he just called out his voice, and the eight people walking behind him immediately cast questioning glances at him when they heard the words.
After Qin Yang took a deep breath, Fang Cai gave a little explanation to a few people about what he had just observed, and then he took the lead and ran towards a large bungalow about twenty miles away. The distance of twenty miles with the strength of a few people's feet is naturally nothing, and after a stick of incense, everyone relied on the faint light of the fire candle and the night pearl to see clearly the dozens of wooden houses in front of them that have rotted for many years.
Because they are in such a closed ring, there is not much dust on the top of these houses, but the decay of the wood does not change because of the closed environment. The darkened, slightly stinking timber highlights the extremely old age of these houses. After choosing a house close to him, Qin Yang stretched out his hand and gently pushed it and walked in slowly. As Qin Yang expected, all the breath of life in the house has long disappeared in the long river of time.
Compared to the dusty hole**, this place is really submerged in the world, the house is a very quaint one-hall three-span courtyard structure, the window paper has all been dispersed, leaving only a few white remains, the living utensils in the room have lost their original appearance, lost the breath that was once used.
"There used to be a family living here, and the houses outside were all the same, and the village should have been built according to a template rather than a natural cluster. Fiddling with a few broken crockpots in the room, Luo Qinglin said softly to Qin Yang, "In this way, I'm afraid this is an area where some people come to live here, but on a large ship, even if there are more people, just build some guest rooms, so why bother creating this kind of simulated environment that doesn't seem to have much value?"
Qin Yang grinned when he heard this, and asked softly: "Could it be that the great power of shipbuilding thinks that they won't have enough to eat along the way, and they have to bring people to farm." ”
As soon as Qin Yang finished saying this, Luo Qinglin put on an expression of "How could I know a fool like you" at him, and said mockingly: "You all know that others are powerful, and there is still such a phenomenon of not having enough to eat? Not to mention those inexplicable canyons and hills, you couldn't have planted on the cliff when you were a child." ”
"Uh......" The moment Qin Yang said that he knew that his brain was funny, Luo Qinglin was even more embarrassed when he complained like this, in order to divert this unexplained embarrassment, after going around the house twice, he walked directly outside the house, and with a wave of his big hand, he directly announced that he had officially embarked on the next journey.
However, continuing to go down did not make Qin Yang change the good mood of not seeing these houses, and after walking a few steps, a larger housing gathering area appeared in the detection range, and as far as the eye could see, it seemed that he could not see the end of these houses at all.
"How many people live here? Yan Wenqing stared at the number of wooden houses passing in front of him, and said in amazement, "Looking at the number of these houses, there must be at least four or five thousand people living at the same time, what is this ship for, could it be that they all came out to escape?"
"It's not more...... Qin Yang's voice only trembled slightly, and after just taking a few steps, he immediately probed a larger cluster of houses in the distance, and the grandeur of the scene immediately refreshed Qin Yang's nerves again-those houses just now were estimated to belong to the rural category, and what was now unfolding in front of him was a kind of outright city beyond his medical treatment.
The tall bell tower, the neat urban layout, and the well-planned building configuration, except for the absence of a single person, the entire building is full of elegant layouts that are very different from what Qin Yang usually sees. It seems that only in the story He Xuan told him when he was a child, Qin Yang has a very vague image of the Xuanlong Empire in the distance, in the story He Xuan told, the Xuanlong Empire on the other side of the continent is such a simple and elegant place that is incompatible with the mainland, but let alone He Xuan, Qin Yang feels that even a master like Xing Weiyang probably does not have the ability and energy to cross the entire continent to the Xuanlong Empire located in the northwest corner of the continent.
After a while, in the shocked eyes of everyone, a tall and majestic city wall appeared very clearly in front of everyone's eyes, although it still made people feel a little dark, but the number of night pearls left in the city was far more than the dirt road that Qin Yang and others walked all the way, so the lighting effect at this moment was also slightly better.
However, this kind of completely empty city with nothing left behind really made the nine people feel a sense of panic from the bottom of their hearts, the street wide enough to accommodate twenty carriages, the tall buildings of fifty people, and the countless shops - this should have been a symbol of an incomparably prosperous city, but now there are only nine creatures who have just broken in from Qin Yang. A kind of withering and sentimentality that has passed through time has blown through the hearts of several people in an instant, and the cold wind faintly blowing on the street is even more unsettling.
I don't know how many people once laughed and laughed in a huge city, and I don't know how many people once roamed far away in a huge ship. And now, without even knowing why, they have decayed in the long river of history.
Just when a few people were still sighing at the emptiness of the street and the dust of history, after suddenly stepping out, it was as if they had suddenly stepped on some red line, and a deafening sound sounded in the ears of the nine people.
"What's the matter, could it be that there are still many living people in this city?" He Danxue suddenly widened his eyes with a pair of watery eyes, and suddenly leaned over from the side and squeezed Qin Yang's hand tightly, and his small face was full of bloodshot in an instant.
Before Qin Yang could react and make a specific answer, with the sound of thumping steps, a large number of neat soldiers and horses with neat steps and heavy armor rushed out of the towering building for some reason. Although he didn't ride a horse, he was all in the configuration of heavy cavalry, and he could still walk like a fly with such heavy equipment on his back, and the eyes of a group of people in Qin Yang were about to pop out, this guy, even if he was a celestial-level master, he couldn't insist on running for a long time with those things on his back.
"What kind of thing is this, or is it a specially trained hoplite? There are still living soldiers in full armor here?" In disbelief, Yang Hao pulled out his big knife, stared at the infantry with wide eyes and uniform movements, and stabbed it twice, and after finding that it was actually besieged in an instant, he immediately turned around and shouted loudly, "This thing is a little too hard, hurry up!"