Chapter 13: The Neon Zenith

Daylight brightened the battlefield of the past, and the dark red reflected dazzled the eyes. The purple world is as quiet as the red world.

Travelers walk down long bone-framed paths and see cliffs. He grabbed a rock on top with a grappling hook and kicked upwards, leaping several meters to a new land and air space.

That team, he has completely lost. However, the plan that the snake asked for was not meant to be with the team all the time.

He took a few breaths and continued walking, there was an empty island in front of him, and he needed to leap.

The soldiers said that the air roads here had been damaged by the civil war. And Buzi's rebellion put the National Assembly on hold of its attempts to maintain the road. Before leaving, he also said:

"There aren't many people in this area of Huolu, they all went to town, and we issued you a certificate that you need to put away, and you may check it when you get to the nearest town. But the town here is not a hanging garden, it can't be compared to the hanging garden, oh, oh, by the way, don't worry about the big birds on the ground, those are scavengers, they are raised by the state, don't worry about them attacking you! Also, my name is New Points. ”

Then he waved his hand and walked away to the place where he had returned, with the amusement and interesting knowledge that the traveler had told him about other worlds.

The lack of language makes communication difficult.

After separating, after a while, Gu Chuan suddenly thought that there was a road in Qiongqiu. The road in the new mouth is by no means a simple dirt road made of hooks and claws.

Although the ground was blood-colored, there was no smell of blood in the wind, and even the temperature was lower than the purple edge of the cloth before, so it was fresh.

The rocks in this area absorb more heat after they are dyed red. This phenomenon may also be the reason why the replaced country has not been completely cleaned up.

Although the comfrey has decreased, the sky is glowing with a beautiful near-reddish purple, reflecting the uninhabited islands high up.

Clothed in a purple-red glow, he walked alone on the dry path of blood, and disappeared on the other side of heaven and earth.

There are towns in Qiongqiu.

These towns are located in the interior of a large landmass, and the terrain is a complex interconnected cavern. Because of the strange changes in gravity, the structure of the town is different from the ground. Its trunk road is circular, and this ring resembles a cloister that circles the earth, and its center point is usually the center of mass of the landmass.

Walking in the circular corridor is like walking on the surface of the earth, even if from the North Pole to the South Pole, it is clear that they have circled the earth, and from the perspective of the outside world, they have been upside down from each other, but they are still standing straight on the ground.

In this area, known as the Fire Road, signs of civilization are already very evident. On land, there are tall windmills that I don't know why.

Most of these windmills are tower-type, and there are houses that can accommodate people, and the soldiers guarding this area of the fire road are not alert, and they hang a few notices on the windmills, so they hide in the houses and play a game of glass beads together.

It was the innkeeper who first spotted the traveler.

He opened the stone door and prepared to climb to the surface to dispose of the garbage and sewage, only to see the traveler trying to read the inscription.

The traveler only knew a hundred or so words, so he couldn't read anything, but he knew that the monument showed him how to enter the town, and he also told him how to go on the road ahead.

The boss threw sewage on the ground, alarming the travelers.

The sewage flowed down the rugged rocks, and the boss looked at the traveler's unusual attire, which Qiongqiu had not had, and asked knowingly:

"Explorer, where are you from?"

Gu Chuan pointed to the cloud wall and said in a broken Qiongqiu language:

"I can't tell, I'm from the clouds, and I want to go to Qiongqiu."

The boss was a little surprised:

"It's great to be able to speak our words."

He had expected to ask the local government officials about a little dragon who could read minds, but he didn't need to. He swept the floor, turned over the tiles, opened the door, and said:

"Would you like to come in and sit down?"

Gu Chuan entered.

The owner poured a glass of water.

Gu Chuan said:

"I don't have any money."

"Out of the way, the water is free, the comfrey is free, it's growing everywhere. However, there is a fee for accommodation. "But you can tell me about the anecdotes you've been through, and kill me a little boring." ”

"That's a good thing."

The young man smiled.

He is not shy about sharing stories.

The owner is also a storyteller and storyteller, and he can't wait to know what he has seen and heard from outside, so that he can share it with his future guests, so that he can win the attention of others and pass the time.

The structure of this hotel is also wonderful. Its dome is polished stone, which lets in a little natural light, glows reddish, and there are some glowing stones inside, and the chairs, tables, and tables are all polished stone.

There are also a few weird pipes, which the boss said he brought back from the hanging garden, which can emit light, but there is no "electricity" here, so it cannot emit light.

He also called himself an artist of stone carving, and boasted that he had once been famous and sought after in the hanging garden.

"Now that you've retired?"

Gu Chuan asked.

The boss said lazily:

"The hanging garden changed so fast that I couldn't understand it, so I left. When I left, the price of the hanging garden tripled, and I had to buy everything, and it was better to go to the countryside, and I didn't need money for anything, I could feed myself by cutting the grass directly, and I wouldn't starve to death. ”

The innkeeper was very sloppy about the Hanging Garden.

There are no guests and it is exceptionally quiet.

Gu Chuan picked something about the netherworld and talked about it, which made this person open his mouth wide in disbelief.

He didn't care what was going on in this person's mind, and he just asked:

"I fled from Bu Zi in a panic, the people over there seem to be fighting, and it has affected me, making me suffer a lot, what is the situation of the war now?"

Who knew that the boss looked at Gu Chuan twice and said:

"Yes, I heard that it's quite chaotic over there, but no one on our side cares about it."

Gu Chuan was taken aback:

"I heard that the original dynasty on your side has stepped down, and a new batch of people have appeared?"

He can say few words, and he can't say them accurately, and there are some of these words that he can only say but not write.

The boss sighed and said:

"That's right, there was a tax collector here, and not long ago there was a bit of a conflict and a nobleman hanged himself. I've been watching that guy for a long time! However, they also said that a local council would be formed...... You say it's not strange, you have to choose someone from us civilians who can manage people, and I haven't learned to manage people......"

"No one is born to be in charge of people! Maybe those school managers are worse than you! ”

The guests from afar laughed.

The boss's eyes lit up and he said:

"What you say sounds good, it makes sense, that's right."

He wrote it down on a piece of paper and said he could use it later.

"Boss, which do you think is better, the new kingdom or the old dynasty?"

After Gu Chuan said this, he felt that he was abrupt.

Who knows that the boss is not taboo, and preaches directly:

"When the New Kingdom troops came, they called up my hotel and used it, and they paid a lot of money. The new kingdom, I think, is better than the old dynasty. Because the old dynasty never pays. I couldn't tell them apart at first, but I saw that their armor was different, but then the New Kingdom announced that the whole of the Fire Road was doing well and was exempt from conscription, and I think it was better for the New Kingdom. Why do you care so much about this? ”

In the end, the boss also realized that something was wrong.

"I'm going to the Hanging Garden, and naturally I'm very concerned about what these people are like."

The traveler said.

"That's not too much." The boss said meaningfully, "Be careful, you outsiders, don't get involved with the rebels." There was an order from the New Kingdom. ”

"What order?"

"Any settlement that dares to accept an escaped xenosaurus will be razed to the ground. Anyone who takes up arms breaks their hands and feet, anyone who dares to harbor an alien dragon...... will be put to death. ”

The boss looked at the circular corridor outside the stone gate and said.

In the corridor, figures were in a hurry, and voices were scattered.

Several people pushed the door open.

Gu Chuan's expression did not move, he sat down on the chair steadily, looked back, and saw that it was the team sent by the snake. When the team arrived, they said they wanted accommodation.

The face of the team leader is painted with purple characteristics, and anyone can see the characteristics of this painting. He asked the innkeeper how much he should pay and when.

The boss said nervously:

"I don't dare to say much, just at the price of the twelfth week."

The Fire Road has a special 50-week calendar, which means the time it takes to travel around a certain empty island. It is still difficult for ordinary people to determine this time, and it is the local rulers who organize the observation and issue calendar notices.

The team paid, and the boss secretly breathed a sigh of relief, took them to their respective rooms, turned around, and continued to the out-of-town:

"But it really depends on the commander's thoughts! I heard that Bu Zi's commander was a kind-hearted man, unwilling to give the order to kill the prisoners, and did not carry out the order to destroy him, then I think Bu Zi's war is endless. If you don't harden it, you can't do it! ”

His words made Gu Chuan thoughtful.

The young man no longer dwelled on questions about the new kingdom or the old dynasty, but only asked:

"How do I get to the Hanging Garden?"

The innkeeper went around the kitchen, picked up the bucket, came back and said:

"It's simple, go up, go up as much as you can, and you'll be able to see the hanging garden soon."

In Qiongqiu, the concepts of front and back, left and right, southeast and northwest are uncertain, but the two concepts of upper and lower are very clear.

And this man's speech was strange to the extreme, and it was not the same as what the serpent had said, or what the young soldier had said.

The young man asked, bewildered:

"Up, why do you have to go up?"

"Because the Hanging Garden is an ancient land."

He still doesn't understand.

The cautious curiosity on his face satisfied the innkeeper. He said:

"I forgot, you outsiders who don't know much will say that we are strange here, but in fact it is not strange...... The old meaning is to fly high enough! ”

The land that once sat at the bottom of the world, after a long time, has reached the highest distance in the world and occupied the best sky. And now the land that is flying up, it will be difficult to catch up, and you can only succumb to it. It's just that movement is the truth that the world never changes, and collisions are bound to happen.

Occasionally, the sky would crash with a loud crash that shook it underneath.

However, there will always be many people who do not perceive this.

The boss said that when the elder dragon died, he hid in his house, and there were many voices outside, but soon, all the sounds disappeared, and he knew that everything was back to peace, and he was going to continue his original peaceful life.

"That's a good thing."

Said the young man.

The boss nodded.

It's just that the young man thinks that if he wants to live his life forever, he may not want to.

On the second day, Gu Chuan set off again.

The boss shouted at him from behind him:

"Go up!"

"Okay."

He answered, and then disappeared into the distance.

The beautiful morning light brightens the windmills. The wings swayed slowly, blowing a gust of crimson wind. Scavengers peck at the detritus of ancient life on the ground, and when you look up, you can see travelers throwing their hooks.

Gu Chuan originally thought that he might meet that team again, but that team was not on the same path as him.

He left the Elder's burial ground, and saw more land covered with something that might or may not be moss. Exposed metal veins are everywhere.

The color of the sky became extremely dark, and the sky seemed to become extremely low. There were no clouds, no fog, but standing on the top, I couldn't see the bottom clearly. Because everything will be covered like a cloud by the flying land.

The world is calm, and the sound of the wind is still ringing in my ears.

He walked upwards, relentlessly climbing the flying land.

Soon he saw a little light.

This bit of light, swaying from land to land, bit by bit, sometimes forms a long strip like the Milky Way.

"Is it a star?"

Although he clearly knew it wasn't.

In the Great Wilderness, he had seen the starry ecliptic of this world, which was a graceful pattern composed of many colored shapes.

To this day, he cannot be forgotten.

He thought as he landed lightly on a new piece of land.

When you get here, there are no more villages, but you can see a lot of traces of civilization, there are stone monuments, stone places, stone caves dug out, and even a few long ropeways that may be roads.

The ropeway is a long rope tied to the edge of two empty islands that are far apart, and is suspended in mid-air. He didn't know how to use the ropeway, so he just grabbed it firmly with his own hands and trudged through mid-air until gravity called, flew up with a grappling hook, and then he fell heavily to the ground.

Without the cover of comfrey, he fell a little painfully.

He turned, his calm eyes looking at the sky between the land and the land.

At that time, the sky was already extremely dark, and the morning sun rising higher was like a disc in the distant night sky, shining brightly in the void like stars.

He didn't see the ecliptic, probably because the sun was still too bright, or the air wasn't so good.

This was a bit of a disappointment for travelers.

The heights of Qiongqiu were cold, and the temperature was strangely lower than on the other side of the fire road. The gusts of cold wind were like a drowned fog on the snow-capped mountains of the plateau, making the young man tighten his clothes again.

He felt like he was climbing a mountain, a strange mountain of all sorts of shattered land.

And he was among the mountains, and the light above his head was the star that guided him.

"Okay!"

He screamed, stood up, drank a little water, and continued to take his heavy steps.

In the shadow of the mountains, in the shadows of the dragons that flew over the mountains.

By the time the climber looked up again, the light above him had already shone brightly. Red, pink, blue and white light flickered on the top of the mountain, forming a large and strange vein, writing the miracle of technological development that the people of Qiongqiu had only seen in the last ten years.

Hundreds of islands are connected by colorful lights, and an indescribable number of interconnected buildings are covered under a gray dome.

The sun casts a sparkling glow over the glassy dome.

"What's that?"

The flickering of neon made the young man so surprised that he was at a loss.

A small dragon-like dragon arrives with a patrolling soldier. In the distance, he saw the figure of the man who did not take the big road, but took the small road to climb the mountain.

He said:

"This is the Hanging Garden."