Chapter Forty-Seven: A Place That Makes People Feel Palpitations
The moment he saw Yancheng, Liu Qingyou was shocked.
The first thing that struck him was the tall and heavy city walls.
The walls were fifty or sixty meters high, the width of the top was more than ten meters, and the width of the bottom was thirty or forty meters.
I don't know what kind of material it is made of inside, but the outer part of the city wall is covered with huge stones.
The stones were cut quite neatly, they were all more than three meters long, and the thickness was about half a meter.
I don't know how wide it is, but I don't think it's going to be that narrow.
I don't know how such a big stone was built into the city wall.
Liu Qing's divine sense sensed the past and found that every stone had runes on it, and he didn't know who carved it.
In some places, there are patches of brown marks that look like bloodstains, some at the bottom of the wall, and some in the middle.
But it looks like the traces have been formed a long time ago.
For such a large city, all the stones built on the city are engraved with runes, and the project is very huge.
However, compared to the construction of such a tall city, the carved runes are nothing.
Before this, Liu Qing had only seen such a tall and heavy city wall in film and television works.
But the effects presented in the film and television works are made by computer special effects, and there is no such tall city wall in the real world.
Looking at the tall and heavy city wall, Liu Qing felt that this was definitely not used to guard against human beings.
In terms of the scientific and technological productivity of this world, such a wall is by no means something that human beings can overcome.
Humans don't need to build walls that high, not even half the height.
It's not like a city that mortals can build.
With such a big piece of stone, he couldn't figure out how the existing technology could get it up.
He landed on the wall and looked down.
There is a moat outside the city wall, and I don't know how deep that moat is, but the width is twenty or thirty meters, and I don't know how much labor it took to dig out such a wide moat.
Inside the city wall, there is the brightly lit capital.
When you look down in the air, you can feel that it is a large castle.
Now that I landed at the head of the city, the feeling was even stronger.
Of course, the area of this city is not as large as the metropolis with a population of tens of millions before Liu Qing crossed over, and it is not as prosperous.
But this is the largest city that Liu Qing has seen since he crossed over, and it is also the most prosperous city.
However, judging from the architecture of the city, it is still a very backward city in terms of productivity.
None of the buildings were higher than the city walls, most of them were one-storey, only a few were more than two floors, and the highest was only five or six floors.
From the far side of the city, there are two places where the lights are the most brilliant, and the buildings there are noticeably taller than the surrounding buildings.
One place, a little north of the center line of the city, is a city within a city, a large complex of buildings.
Although Liu Qing has never been to the capital, he can understand at a glance that it is the palace of the Great Qianguo.
Another place is three or four miles away from the palace, a little smaller than the palace, but not too small, there is a hill, and the complex is built around the hill, and some are built on the hill.
The buildings are not that dense, but each building is also hung with a lot of lanterns.
Looking at the complex carefully, Liu Qing inexplicably had a feeling of palpitations.
The feeling was stronger than the palpitations he felt when he faced the rising sun when he first became a god.
"There's something out there that could destroy me!"
Liu Qing thought so in her heart.
That place is not difficult to guess, that is the Dao Palace of the Great Qianguo.
Liu Qing had never been to the capital, but he had heard those who participated in the imperial examination talk about the capital, and knew that the Dao Palace was the second largest complex in the capital after the imperial palace.
As for the history of the existence of the Dao Palace, it is far more than the Imperial Palace.
Before the founding of the Great Qian, the Taoist Palace existed.
No one knows when the Dao Palace began to be established, only that there have been historical records since the existence of the Dao Palace.
Before the Great Qianguo, there were many dynasties in this land, but every emperor of those dynasties was recognized by the Dao Palace before ascending the throne as emperor.
The rise and fall of one dynasty after another, there have been many wars during the period, but the war has never affected the Dao Palace.
They are above the regime.
Liu Qing had also heard that there were countless countries like Daqian in this world, and each country had a Dao Palace, and they all had a transcendent status in their respective countries.
I didn't pay much attention to it before, and I thought it was a religious organization that would fool people.
After all, the few Taoist priests from the Dao Palace who have seen it are tricks, and they can't see anything strange at all.
Liu Qing has also seen hundreds of land temples built with their permission, but he has not seen a real land god exist.
And his own land god seat was also bought for 10,000 taels of silver, which made him more inclined to this so-called Dao Palace as a gathering place for a group of liars.
But now the palpitating feeling coming from that place made Liu Qing understand that people are really capable.
I also realized one thing - in this world, the gods also have natural enemies.
You'll have to hide from the Dao Palace a little later.
Fortunately, in a place as big as the capital, that is, that Dao Palace, made him feel dangerous.
Just bypass that place.
Liu Qing got off the city and flew low in the city.
At this time, although it was the middle of the night, there were still many people in the city who admired the lanterns, both men and women.
In some groves, there are even some unsightly things going on.
Lantern Festival night was originally a high incidence period for that kind of thing.
Liu Qing was not in the mood to pay attention to those, so he only went to look for the left waiter of the Ministry of Rites named Cui Hao.
He has never been to the capital, he doesn't know where Cui Hao's home is, he doesn't know Cui Hao, and he doesn't even know where the Ministry of Rites is.
But this did not prevent him from looking for Cui Hao.
casually found a family, saw a person who was sleeping, used the dream technique to copy the panoramic view of the street near his house, and then asked him for directions, and raised his hand to give a silver ingot: "Excuse me, do you know where Cui Shilang is?" ”
The first one to ask, I don't know where Cui Shilang's house is, and I don't know who Cui Shilang is.
That at least means that Cui Shilang is not in this area.
Then he moved a few miles away and asked another person with a dream.
After using the dream technique a few times, I finally found someone I knew, and told me the approximate direction and distance.
Then Liu Qing flew to that area, and used the dream technique to copy the scene of that area to ask someone.
The man pointed to a large house with a high wall on the left:
"Isn't that his house?"
In this way, Liu Qing found the mansion of Cui Shilang, the chief examiner of this subject, and then found Cui Shilang, who was already asleep.
It was an old man in his fifties and sixties, and there were two teenage girls sleeping next to him.
"It's a beast!"
Liu Qing scolded while using the dream-making technique on the old man.
In the dream, he incarnated as a saint enshrined in the Temple of Literature, and asked the sanctimonious Cui Shilang:
"Cui Hao, I heard that you are the chief examiner of this year's examination, let me ask you, how prepared are you for the questions of this year's scientific examination?"