Chapter 980: Ghost Paradise
Just now, they were limited by the cover of the mycelial canopy, and they couldn't see the situation above the canopy at all, and at this time, they were already standing on the rattan bridge road network that was level with the canopy, and without the cover of the canopy, they had already seen the rectangular grotto hidden in the cover of the mycelium flower tree - on the stone wall closest to the canopy, a black cave began to appear, just located at the highest point of the vine bridge.
"It seems that our guess is correct, let's go first."
With that, Yue Guanchao walked to a high place, carefully walked through the branches and rattans, and looked at the cave on the stone wall.
The size of this cave is almost the same as the single-family door of the house, but there is no door frame and lintel, and it can be seen that there are scratches on the opening and closing of the mechanism inside, which is indeed artificially chiseled, rather than naturally formed.
Stepping into the cave, Yue Guanchao began to appear in front of his eyes a long and narrow tunnel, this tunnel is like a trapezoid, close to the exit of the cave is the narrowest, the deeper you go, the more loose and tall, the far exit of the place formed a bright light spot, hanging hundreds of meters away.
Knowing that there was no danger in the tunnel, Yue Guanchao nodded to Song Siyuan, and under her leadership, everyone else began to enter the cave along the rattan bridge.
The tunnel was about a mile or so, and when everyone walked out of the hundreds of meters, they already saw that the light spots in front of them were getting bigger and bigger, gradually forming a tall exit.
Yue Guanchao was the first to step into the light spot, and when the brightness in front of him returned to normal, he had already come to a certain valley basin, and before he could see the situation clearly, everyone followed his actions and walked in.
Another circular valley appeared in front of everyone's eyes, this valley was several times larger than the lake canyon they had encountered, surrounded by tall and steep peaks, and the cliffs on the top of the mountains were thousands of towers, and the endless peaks surrounded the round-shaped valley, thus forming an intermountain basin.
Like the previous one, the rock walls of these valleys are steeper and more vertical and unclimbable as they go down, and the surface is overgrown with shrubs, blurring the boundaries of the surrounding peaks, making the valley a completely isolated paradise that outsiders would not have been able to find unless they had found some mysterious mechanism.
In the valley, there is no longer a mysterious lake, but a large area of forests, lakes, shrubs, fields, and more villages scattered among the fields, and all kinds of residential buildings have begun to appear, these buildings are different from the square courtyards in the outside world, most of them are round houses, it looks like a circular granary is piled up with each other, forming all kinds of villages, and the longitudinal and horizontal are staggered.
On top of the surrounding mountain walls, there are many square temples hanging from the stone walls!
These palaces are of different shapes, like a delicate pavilion, distributed on the surface of the stone wall of the valley with the law of seven up and eight down, part of it is embedded in the mountain, the other part is protruding from the stone wall, countless gray tile eaves buildings are connected, and the middle is connected by plank road, flying pavilion and grotto, forming a special hanging wall building complex.
The strange situation was immediately discovered by everyone, no matter what the building, there were no traces of the use of living people, either the erosion of the wind and flowers, falling countless bricks and stones, or covered with dead leaves and cobwebs, overgrown with dead grass and vines, and the wall of the gatehouse was blown by the wind and shook the spider silk.
The fields are overgrown with debris, the grass is sparse with grain and seedlings, and the roads have been covered with dead vines, without any traces of movement, and even there are few traces of living creatures, and there is a depressed scene, as if it has been completely abandoned by the ghost people.
"Is this our hallucination? Where have all the ghost people gone? ”
Yue Guanchao pinched his arm, the tingling sensation came into his brain, he felt that this was not an illusion, he looked up at the sky, under the sun, the warmth on his body was obviously not an illusion, for a moment, he suspected that it was the ghost people who knew that someone was coming, and deliberately created a depression illusion for them.
Seeing that the sensations of the body are really transmitted to the head, it means that everything they see is real, if you add the fields that have spread with weeds, then they are more convinced that the ghost people have disappeared - the barrenness of the fields is definitely not produced overnight, even the rice grains and grains are wild into weeds, it can be seen that everything in this valley must have been barren for a long time.
"Then it's strange, the albino animals we see are all subconsciously subconsciously by the ghost people, and they appear frequently in the outside world, there is no reason to find here, but we don't see any ghost people, or say."
Song Siyuan's words changed: "Or do we not see the ghost people at all, they have become some virtual bodies that we can't see?" ”
This speculation shocked everyone!
At this moment, the breeze blew, startling the surrounding bushes, and it was even more obvious that something was whispering in the ears.
The current situation is really tricky, they originally thought that these ghost people had just lost control of the ghost artifact, and seeing the desolation and depression around them, the situation became even more serious, perhaps, the ghost people had been extinct for decades ago, and they didn't know why.
Then, the identity of the ghost people who stood on the high place last night is quite strange, perhaps, it is the resentful spirit of the ghost people who is guiding them to enter here.
While everyone was discussing, there was a sudden sound of walking in the distance, and a few footsteps sounded in their ears, and then quickly disappeared into the surrounding noise, and no trace could be found.
Yue Guanchao noticed that the voice was looking at everyone, and seeing that everyone else was also embarrassed, he knew that this was not his auditory hallucination, and became vigilant: "It seems that there are still some living creatures around us. ”
"Let's go, let's go to the nearby villages first, maybe we can find out the reason for the disappearance of these ghost people."
Yue Guanchao understood that there was no point in speculating for no reason at the moment, so it was better to go into the village in person to see, and everyone took advantage of the large number of people to cut the weeds all the way into the village.
Near the village, the decay of the village houses comes into view, the round mansions are mostly made of stone, smeared with yellow mud on the outside, and then covered with broken tiles, the houses that have been weathered and eroded have collapsed, and the houses of the single-family houses must have rotten doors and windows, and fallen tiles and bricks.
The courtyard with the courtyard wall is fine, but the roof is seriously broken, and the yard must be overgrown with weeds, and dead leaves are accumulated everywhere, and there is more sundries in half of the yard.
On the road, there are also thick dead grass and fallen leaves, and I don't know how many years have been accumulated.
When they walked, they could step on the white bones of domestic animals under the dead leaves, and the accumulated white bones of these chickens, dogs, pigs and dogs had been weathered and brittle at the touch of plaster, so they had to be careful.
"Quack Quack Hahahaha~"
Yue Guanchao approached a courtyard, and wanted to push open the door, but before he could get close to touch it, he saw the threshold creaking, and the voice was hoarse and noisy, just like some witch crying and laughing, gurgling and stinging ears.
In the end, the threshold could not support the door panel, and in the direction of everyone, it quickly slapped down with a bang, and the dull sound raised a layer of dust, and a smell of rotten mud and rotten grass was raised, causing people to take several steps back.
No one touched the door panel, but it took the initiative to break and collapse, which was more or less weird, they could even feel that behind the door panel, there was some invisible monster hidden, lurking in the grass waiting for them, at this moment, everyone stopped in place, and did not dare to step forward again.
"It's weird, is there really something we can't see, teasing us around."
Sun Daqiao touched his beard, his eyes were playful, and he clearly meant something, but he didn't want to say those words.
Song Siyuan took a long breath, kicked away countless dead leaves and approached the door panel, and looked carefully into the gatehouse, the courtyard walls on both sides had already collapsed, and the wind continued to pour into the gatehouse.
She glanced at the direction where the wind was blowing, and then looked at the fractures between the door panels and the threshold, and her mind stabilized for a while: "Be careful, these doors and windows are even more rotten than we thought, I think it's the wind." ”
"The role of the wind?" The crowd became curious.
"Yes!" Song Siyuan explained: "The two sides of the courtyard wall have collapsed, and the gaps on both sides will allow the wind to blow into the courtyard continuously, all concentrated in the gatehouse and the door panels, and at the same time, the location of the door panels is also close to the road, which will also be blown by the wind, which means that the inside and outside of the door panels can be pressured by the wind." ”
"If the door is not rotten, it is good to say, how much can the door panel resist the wind pressure before and after, after decades of weathering and erosion, the door panel has become rotten, not to mention the heavy push and pull, a slight wind and grass, can also make the door panel loose and collapse, the ingenious situation is here, the door panel on both sides of the wind pressure under the push and pull force, maintain a delicate balance, to maintain the original structure."
Speaking of this, she has already announced the answer: "Remember what I said, this door panel is the front and rear wind pressure, so it did not collapse, we all surrounded it just now, which is equivalent to a wind wall, directly blocking most of the wind blowing force, which is equivalent to saying that the wind pressure outside the door panel has not existed the moment we enclose it." ”
"At this time, the wind pressure outside the door panel becomes smaller, and the wind pressure inside the gate building remains the same, when the pressure is too large, the door panel will go from the front and rear balance to the imbalance, and the windy side will force outward, of course, the door panel will collapse outward, forming the situation we see falling forward."
Song Siyuan then picked up the piece of paper and let go for a short time, and the piece of paper was blown out from the gatehouse, almost in the same direction as the collapse of the door panel.
"Let's go, let's go in and have a look."
Yue Guanchao walked into the courtyard, swept through the useless weeds, opened the door of the house, the furniture and items that appeared in it were not much different from the houses in the outside world, but some of the shapes were very special, looking around, many utensils were not put away, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were messy on the desktop, tables, chairs and benches were placed at will, and there were also things in the bed and bedroom cabinets.
Yue Guanchao then entered the kitchen, lifted the stove pots, the food in it had been completely charred, black and sticky to the bottom of the pot, the firewood in the stove burned out, becoming a handful of old plant ash, as for the kitchenware, each was displayed in its place, and even, some food had not been bitten a few bites.
As they walked, they checked other houses, livestock and horse sheds, all of which showed signs of common use, and the situation was very similar.
Yue Guanchao pondered the current situation and explained: "I think that the things in these houses are still there, and there are traces of use, and even the food in the stove is there, which shows that the disappearance of the ghost people is not a collective escape, nor a natural disappearance, but at some point in time, they suddenly disappeared, or died collectively, only in this way can we explain that the things in the stove are still there." ”
"I agree."
Song Siyuan cast an approving glance at him: "These traces of use have not been destroyed, and the food in the stove has not had time to be processed, the ghost Fang people must have happened at that point in time decades ago." ”
Knowing this, it has already proved that the ghost Fang people left in a hurry, or rather, they disappeared too hastily, she turned her gaze to Ban Wan: "Class senior, can you feel the breath of these ghost Fang people?" ”
Ban Wan carefully felt these residual breaths and shook her head: "No, there is not even the breath of the ghost people here." ”
Song Siyuan asked, "Is this situation abnormal?" ”