Chapter 13: Ancient Books, Flesh, and Villages
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The Holy City is surrounded by a ring of walls, and it is about half a day's distance from the cloud stream - if you go faster.
But in order to ensure that our group still had enough physical strength to reach the city wall, we still chose to swing slowly past.
It is said that the walls are thousands of meters high, ranging from tens of meters wide to hundreds of meters long. The team leader didn't quite know what the wall was built to protect against.
However, it seems that the city wall is quite complete, and there is nothing broken, and the ground from the beginning of the cloud stream is also very normal, and there is no sign of war, which seems to be probably a lonely.
What kind of imaginary enemy needs to build such an exaggerated wall?
I can't imagine it. My farm only fences a few times to prevent sheep or something. Although it didn't work.
We encountered butterflies several times along the way, which led to several stops and rests. By the time we approached the walls, it was already two days later.
The walls rise to the sky. Stand under the city wall, look to the left, you can't see the head, look to the right, you can't see the head, look up, you can't see the head. At this time, shock is the only feeling in my heart.
The walls were made of strange materials, not masonry, not wood, not metal, but rather ...... Meat balls. The walls are somewhat translucent, and you can see through the epidermis the hidden blood vessels and other tissues in the depths. If you look closely, you can also see pieces of three-dimensional textures, which is very special.
This wall is alive. This feeling is the kind of life force that belongs to living beings, and it is completely different from ordinary dead things.
It's not animal meat or plant meat, but it does feel like it's a wall of flesh that has coalesced together.
The walls are very solid, and the texture to the touch is like touching some kind of hard metal.
But if you don't see the city gate, how do you get through?
I looked at the leader.
At this time, the leader unpacked his bag and was rummaging for something, when a companion was helping him unfold the opening of his bag.
After a while, the leader rummaged through and pulled out a book.
Curious, I leaned over and saw that it was full of unintelligible words. The font is very flowery and thin, like a string of knotted rope, which makes the book look very advanced.
The pages are somewhat yellowed, but it does not interfere with reading. The leader quickly flipped to the page he wanted, and began to recite a language I didn't understand.
It was so weird that I had a hard time imitating it. This is probably the password to open the passage or something.
But when the leader finished chanting a long string of ropes in unknown languages, I was surprised to find that nothing had happened.
The walls didn't open a hole for us to pass through, as I expected, and there wasn't anything like a hidden gate out of thin air.
The team leader closed the ancient book, threw it away, and re-carried it, as if it was finished.
I saw him walk straight to the city wall, pressed his hands on the city wall, and the part that was pressed immediately reacted, and began to fluctuate like water waves, spreading to the surroundings, stretching dozens of meters away.
After a few breaths, the fluctuations stopped, and the walls within the range of the fluctuations seemed to become extremely transparent, and we could even see the situation on the other side of the wall at a glance.
"Alright, let's go." The leader put on his detached hood and plunged headlong into the otherwise solid city walls.
The walls that had been impregnable seemed to have become soft, and they would fall apart with a touch of your hand.
Everyone in the team entered the flesh wall, and I followed closely with the black cat in my arms.
The texture of the walls became strange, like a puddle of rotten things, and the slimy feeling of touching the skin made me a little sick.
Fortunately, there was no danger other than nausea, and soon I passed the walls without any problems and came to the other side.
Well, it's not that smooth. The body was covered with strange translucent flesh, and the slimy ones couldn't be thrown away. The rest of the companions weren't as embarrassed as I was, because they had cloaks or cloaks that could keep them in the way.
As far as the eye can see, I'm the only one who is so embarrassed.
I looked down at the black cat, and she was clean and tidy, and she didn't have any dirt at all.
Damn, what kind of racial talent is this.
Just when I was wondering whether to take a bath with the black cat that was suspected of having a clean aura, the team leader spoke.
"We're officially in the Holy City now." He said. "But it's still an outer city, and it's still a long way from the inner city. Let's walk a little bit to the center and find a village to rest for the day. ”
I raised my hands and feet in agreement, and my situation was in dire need of a shower.
So we just passed through the city wall and continued to rush towards the center of the holy city, and the city wall behind us gradually returned to its original color and solidity soon after we left.
After walking for an hour or so, the sun was setting in the west, and we finally saw a village.
The team leader first went forward to negotiate with the village chief, and then came back to say that the other party agreed to our temporary stay in the village, but we could not provide spare houses.
So the team entered the village, chose a vacant land that the village could not use for the time being, and began to set up camp.
I exchanged a few light bulbs for some water and asked the villagers for directions, trying to find a place to take a bath.
As a result, there is no place to take a bath in the village, and if the body is dirty, it is usually cleaned by scrubbing the body with a moist cloth in one's own home.
I had no choice, so I found a raised rock in the village and hid behind it to take a shower.
As for the paste attached to the clothing...... I can only shake it as much as possible, but I can't go into the city and change it directly. If you wash your clothes here, you won't be able to dry up the next day.
Back at the village camp, the kind Samaritans in the team helped me set up a tent every day. I thanked him, and then I lay down to sleep.
After another tiring day, I felt like my body was a little overwhelmed.
After lying in a daze for a while, I fell asleep.
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