Chapter 3 Hanging Garden
The cylindrical comfrey suspended on the land had already grown more than two meters, and when a person fell into it, it was as if he was buried in the sand, and the light could not penetrate the interior of the filamentous accumulation.
The source of the strange sound was also in the comfrey, and the two of them pricked up their ears and listened carefully, but they still couldn't separate directions. The sound of the rustling around them was like the wind blowing the sand, and the more the sand blew, the closer they became, and soon it was an unbearable distance.
At that time, Gu Chuan suddenly felt something warm blowing in his ears. He continued to close his eyes, still trying to stay still, pretending to be a lifeless stone.
But the sound of the grass still ringing in his ears, while the sound of foreign Chinese languages disappeared. Immediately after, the soft organ of something alive reached the tip of his nose and gently touched the wings of his nose on either side of him, as if to pinch his nose.
The atmosphere was tense to the extreme. He continued to hold his breath, not exhaling a single breath from his mouth and nose. The hands that were retracted into their clothes clenched the dragon's heart horns.
Fortunately, the organ of the hand did not really pinch his nose, but moved down his chin, and soon reached his chest, turned around, and continued down. At that time, something resembling a fingernail or scales, made a sizzling sound on his clothes as it pushed through the comfrey.
His body remained still, allowing it to touch his lower abdomen...... And his hands were on his abdomen, tucked into his sleeves.
The man's hand touched his abdomen, but he didn't move.
The trapped man seized the opportunity and immediately burst out, pulling the dragon's heart horn out of his sleeve like a cloud, and poking his backhand at the hand covering his abdomen. The moment it touched it, the thing took a step back and no longer leaned against him. He didn't miss the opportunity, and immediately stood up on the ground and hugged the body of his imaginary investigator, trying to subdue this person.
It's just that when I hugged it, it was like hugging a pillow without hard materials. The pillow broke out of his circle like a rope the moment he couldn't react, wrapped around his back, and tightened him...... Then, there was a sound of that Chinese of strange words.
Zai Yan didn't know where the changes around him were shocked, so he stood up synchronously, knocked the comfrey open, and smashed his fist at the location where the sound was initiated.
But the body of this thing was slender and flexible, and the long shadow flew through the comfrey, and the hand that carried the sword only hit Gu Chuan.
Before the hit, Zai Yan barely regained his strength, but failed to step on the comfrey root, his feet slipped, and his body was unbalanced. Gu Chuan held on to Zaiyan, knowing that they had been discovered, and it was pointless to hide any longer, so he took two big retreats, almost slippery, retreating backwards and regrouping his posture.
"How?"
"No problem, I just don't know what the enemy is like."
When the two of them stood back to back in the comfrey, the boundless filaments were removed, and the distant morning light and the shadows of the land fell on them at the same time, outlining the shape of everything in the sky.
They saw for the first time the inhabitants of this new world.
The inhabitants gathered in all directions, stepping on the middle of the comfrey, and waved their hands at them condescendingly. One of the tall-looking men began to speak slowly and methodically in a way that the two explorers did not understand, but the explorers did not dare to act rashly, as the group of inhabitants had sharp weapons in their hands and aimed them at both of them.
The glass eyes of the screed spun slightly.
And Gu Chuan's eyes widened in surprise.
Not because of their strange shape, but because of ...... It's like myself to the extreme.
Standing in front of them was the same group of people, a group of people who were extremely similar to the few alien races on the banks of the Sunset River, or on the Great Wilderness.
In other words, as far as the race is concerned, there is no difference, they are all two eyes, fleshy, covered with skin, with legs and feet, normal teeth, normal pupils, and even the shape of the hair and head are relatively similar.
The only difference is in the dress-up. Their faces and naked upper bodies were painted with a dozen different textures with a black fuel.
There is a simple one, which is the three horizontal bars on the chest. And the complex ones are like water bottles pouring down from the sky. According to the inherent customs of human beings, what is contained in it must be the ancient knowledge and spiritual yearning of this race.
Other than that, the striking feature is the symmetrical horns that they insert into their hair and tie up, like some kind of barbarian civilization that uses the body of a prey as a sign of triumphant bragging.
Compared with gear people or toeless people, they are too ordinary, but Gu Chuan can't settle down. His hand was hidden in his sleeve, and he secretly approached his head with the dragon's heart horn, and a dimension of the world revealed by thinking flowed down his nerves to his brain.
At that time, the chief kept an eye on them, and said slowly:
"They don't look like the people of the Hanging Garden, are they also explorers from other places? Shall we kill them on the spot? ”
I don't know where it came from, but I replied:
"It may be, Respect the Sun, but they don't look like people from the south, or they came through the Netherworld, no...... Wait a minute...... You're eavesdropping on us, aren't you? ”
The chieftain, who was called the Honoring Sun, stepped back.
The last half of the sentence was not asking for respect, but asking for the use of Longxinjiao Gu Chuan.
The first time the dragon's heart horn was detected, the young man was surprised for a while.
He suppressed his nervousness and looked around, trying to find the speaker, but he never saw the speaker. At that moment, he even thought that the leader was a schizophrenic, but his eyes quickly caught a glimpse of a shadow that flew behind the leader's back
It wasn't the one standing on the comfrey, so he hadn't noticed it.
The thing was slender, soft, but swift, and so, as he grabbed it, it swept past him.
It looks similar to the behemoth that wraps around the island not far away, it is a long-legged snake, but it is slender, and its body diameter is no thicker than a human thigh. When he appeared now, the serpent was wrapped around the body of the leader-like man.
The serpent spat out words, but did not spit out letters, and a shadow resembling a human tongue could be seen in its accidentally open mouth.
"If you hear and understand the words, and if you want to live, please raise your hands and signal that you have given up your resistance. We are also curious about explorers from other places. ”
When the snake saw the two hesitating, he said again:
"It won't hurt you, we can assure you. But if you're going to do something unusual, we might have to fight back. ”
Gu Chuan relayed this to Zai Yan and asked:
"What are we supposed to do?"
Zai Yan glanced at the sharp weapons they were holding, and the strange treasures on them, and then looked at the jellyfish Mengsheng who was whirling in the distance, and said:
"They are highly educated...... So I listen to you. ”
"We don't seem to have many options."
Gu Chuan smiled and raised his hand.
Then, Zai Yan also raised his hand.
The snake wrapped around the man smiled contentedly, and a cold look flashed in his eyes:
"Take them to the dungeon, locked up with the guests who have come from elsewhere to explore the world."
As long as the group was not searched, the two explorers in protective suits could remain silent, and the young man was even somewhat looking forward to conversing with the civilized humans of the place.
Know that direct conversation is always the best means of getting information. Perhaps, he will be able to hire or find a group of like-minded followers in this new world, as he has previously attempted, to better carry out the next journey with them.
The only problem is just the risk of exposure.
The young man followed the group of aliens with heavy thoughts.
The location of the alien's lair is simple.
The nest is not built outside, and if it is, it will naturally be discovered by explorers who have been patrolling the air.
Then, as a matter of course, it will only be built on the interior of the floating land.
Lifting a protruding rock, a quiet path emerges in the slanting sunlight. A group of people dressed in paint embraced the two captured explorers and went all the way down in the flickering firelight.
The shadows of the people cast on the illuminated rock walls, like black and white paintings on the stones.
After a short while, the firelight was replaced by a glowing stone.
The cut of the stone is smooth, close to the surface of ice, and the red light from the stone surface illuminates the ground in a dim red. Along the way, all the buildings they saw were made of stone, the doors, possibly the plumbing, and even the steps.
This group of people who painted on themselves carved a world out of the stone, which made Gu Chuan suddenly think of the residence of Lady Otong in the past.
And what surprised them even more was yet to come
A few more steps inside, Gu Chuan felt that his feet were loose, as if he could jump to a height of five or even ten meters as long as he jumped.
The feeling of lightness immediately made him realize that it was a faint force of gravity. The gravity on the surface of the floating island is different from the gravity inside the floating island.
In the depths of the cavern, this group of aliens and even everyone floated in the air, landing at intervals to borrow strength, like astronauts leaping on the surface of the moon. A few aliens walked straight past them before they stopped and began to walk normally.
This is a gravitational dividing line, probably because the location is related to the distance from the center of mass.
The relationship between this group of aliens is clearly harmonious. People will greet each other as they pass by, and they will also talk calmly about their family affairs. Someone asked about the existence of Gu Chuan and Zaiyi, and someone replied that these were the two strangers they had caught, and they might become guests of the elders, so they couldn't wait for them.
This made Gu Chuan feel a little relieved.
The leader of the squad, Nari, does not have a high status here. He met a few people who were leading the way, and they had to talk and nod their heads on an equal footing. This means that there may be a lot of squads like this in their lair. Squads may have been formed for some kind of collective hunting purpose.
But soon, he learned that his conjecture was wrong.
After the gravity was meager and the snake swam away from Jingri's body. It floated in the air, and asked the leader of the squad that was walking by:
"Gu Yun, is there any change in the direction of the hanging garden?"
The Hanging Garden is obviously a place name, or a country name to refer to a region, like the English Island in England, which is still a place name after all.
The leader named Gu Yun stopped:
"There's something really going on. Recently, the messenger from the Hanging Garden sent a notice to the surrounding villages with heavenly ears, saying that we, those who surrender will not be killed, but ......"
"But what?"
Gu Yun said:
"But with the exception of the dragons, any dragons will be killed on the spot once they are identified. They gave a list of alien dragons, saying that whistleblowers are rewarded and forgive all past sins are equivalent to citizens. ”
"Am I in there?"
"You're twenty-one."
The serpent said casually:
"Oh, that's true, it's normal, you don't have to think about it. Tempted by the Black Elder, they killed the innocent successor Tianqing. At that time, Tian Qing was the size of your arm, how could you commit the sins they kept saying? During the Battle of the Six Islands of Zhongtian, he seized the great Tianzhui again. Tian Droop, Tian Droop, that is the highest elder of our dynasty, and also my direct ancestor! During the great collapse, Tianzhui saved at least 10,000 people, and repelled hundreds of dull wild dragons in the later Xiadi Basin before he became the monarch, and finally worked hard for half his life before abdicating to become an elder. But when they openly kill Celestial, it is as if they are executing an inconsequential prisoner. They have completely forgotten their honor and respect, and are left with only vain madness. ”
Gu Chuan heard it, they were fighting.
"There's word from Qibianyu that they're under surveillance."
"Be brave and step up the investigation...... The people of the Hanging Garden cannot defeat us, it is only a matter of time before they lose and we win, and we will eventually return to the Hanging Garden. ”
At the same time, Gu Chuan could see that the status of Jing Ri was not high, but the status of this snake here was extremely lofty.
Moreover, its race can probably be called Allosaurus.
In this purple celestial realm, this group of humans close to him, as well as the beings known as Xenosaurus, are mixed together. But now, out of some kind of antagonism, they are fighting a war.
This battle may have been fought for a long time, or it may have only been fought for a short time.
And they used to fight against those huge strange beasts. The wild dragon is most likely the name they called the group of dragon-like creatures.
Unfortunately, the explorers have broken into this dissenting world.
The captured young man fell into deep thought.
And the serpent noticed that he was listening.
The snake looked at him with a smirk, and said irrefutably:
"You're a bit of a weird ability. I'm sorry for you to stay in the dungeon for a while, and then I'll report to the elders, and if the elders wish, the elders will receive you solemnly. ”
The soldiers who grabbed the two forced them to turn, and together they went deeper into the grotto.
As they went, by the light of the stones, they saw that their prison was also in the stones, and that the gap in the stones was very small, and there was a stone door.
Zai Yi secretly asked him in his heart:
"What do you hear?"
Gu Chuan organized his language for a while, trying to state the information he had just obtained, and before stating, he said:
"I suddenly wondered if my luck was good or bad......"
You can always encounter a troubled world that is about to happen.
In other words, chaos is always the norm in the world.
Therefore, wherever you go, you can always see a corner of strife.
The soldiers dressed in colorful paintings opened the door of the cell, and Gu Chuan and Zai Yan did not resist and were thrown into the cell together. The stone door slammed shut.
There are other people in this stone prison, or people who are not. Together, they raised their eyes and looked at the two new prisoners.