Part 51 Ghost City Appears

Early the next morning, Uncle and Yako left the horse farm, and walked all the way to the depths of the dense forest in the direction judged by Miko. The two of them wanted to walk on the trees, but the woods were very wide and dense, and it was easy to get lost if they walked between the trees for a long time. The two of them had to walk along the dirt road in the woods. After a day and a night of rain, the road surface has long been washed away by the rain, muddy and slippery. Miko is used to exploring all kinds of terrain and roads, so naturally it doesn't matter. It's a bitter uncle, and he splashed a lot of mud spots in a white dress without taking a few steps, and he has to go forward one foot deeper and one foot shallow.

After walking for a long time, Miko suddenly raised her hand to signal her uncle to stop, and she flew up to grab the trunk of the tree, and jumped up to the top of a tree, and then jumped from one tall tree to another, and jumped out of several trees one after another. The uncle thought that he had noticed something unusual, and he also lowered his body and looked around to make a state of alertness. After a while, and seeing nothing unusual in the woods, Miko jumped back to a treetop and said to her uncle, "Come up." The uncle jumped up to him, and when he stood on the tree, he realized that there was a tall mountain all around.

The uncle said: "I thought there were no mountains around Jiwu County, but I didn't expect to be covered by these forests. Sure enough, it is a place where you want to be poor, and you are even more on the tall wood. ”

Yako said, "Take a closer look." ”

The uncle was a little puzzled, and after carefully identifying it, he still didn't see anything unusual.

Miko pointed to the high slope in the distance and said, "That's the west, the direction we came." ”

Uncle looked at Miko in surprise: "You mean, we are not going higher and higher, but have been going down?"

"It should be. Because I had been walking in the woods, I only noticed the traces along the way, but I forgot about the changes in the terrain. This also confirms my speculation yesterday that people are on the ground. Yako replied.

"Where does the end lead?" the uncle stood on the treetops, looking at the end of the path that disappeared into the woods, "that Langya Minglang doesn't know if he's keeping up." ”

"He seems to have gone back. Miko said, pulling her uncle and jumping off the tree.

"Did he go back, didn't follow us?" Miko's tracking skills were naturally unquestionable, but Uncle still didn't believe that Langya Minglang would give up following them.

"I think I left before dawn. Maybe it's a new order. Yako said and continued walking.

At the end of the forest was a cemetery. It was nearly dusk.

There are headstones and graves that you can't see at a glance, I don't know how many there are, there are words and there are no words, big and small. In the dimming twilight, the shadows are mottled. The two stood at the edge of the junction of the woods and the cemetery for a long time, and then one walked into the cemetery lined with graves, and the other flew up to the nearby woods. When the two of them returned to their original places again, they already had their own answers in their hearts.

"The dates on the tombstones are all concentrated after Wei. Uncle said.

"The tombstones are arranged in a ring. Yako said.

"The names on the tombstones are all men. Uncle said.

"The tombstone has thirty-two floors from the outside to the inside. Yako said.

Just as the two of them exchanged the results of their observations word by word, suddenly the afterglow brightened. The two turned to look, and the cemetery behind them was brightly lit up for a moment, and every tombstone was hung with red lanterns at some point. Dark gray shadows began to appear in the lights, and the shadows were still moving, back and forth, floating around, was it a ghost?

The two of them were stunned by what they saw. The killer never believed in ghosts and gods, but all this came so suddenly in front of him, the two couldn't help but say in unison: "Ghost market!" Sure enough, the originally dead and silent cemetery suddenly turned into a lively market. Each grave seems to have become a shop, and the lanterns are the signs. Ghosts float from one grave to another.

Miko picked up a small stone and slashed at the nearest ghost, seeing that the stone passed through the ghost shadow and missed. The two glanced at each other, and their eyes invariably showed a determined look. The two looked at each other and nodded, deciding to go into this ghost market to find out. Miko pulled out the large meteor rope and wrapped it around her wrist, and her uncle also clenched the shadowless fan. The two sighed and strode towards the cemetery.

The two cautiously stepped into the cemetery, only to find that there were still black tombstones and graves around, and there were ghosts and ghosts in the city. Could it be that what I saw just now was an illusion? Miko jerked a few times into the air, and there was the whirring wind sound brought by the flying star rope, and there was no other sound. The two retreated again, and the brightly lit ghost market in the cemetery reappeared. Stepping in and disappearing, retreating and reappearing. A few back and forth, the two looked at each other helplessly.

"So, you stay here, and I'll go in. You see what's changed. The uncle said and entered the cemetery again. After a while he came out and asked Yako. Miko said that when he stepped in, he disappeared into the light and could not be seen at all.

"It doesn't seem to be a ghost city, it's probably a trick. Let's split up and see. Uncle said.

The two entered the cemetery and wandered around in the dark all night, almost getting lost several times, but they did not find the mystery. The two of them were really tired of walking, and rested against a tombstone with their backs. Looking at the white belly of the fish gradually rising in the sky, the uncle smiled bitterly: "I got up early in the morning, and I didn't even catch up with the evening set." ”

Uncle felt that his eyes were very bright, he opened his eyes, and found that the sky was bright, and he had slept for so long? He looked up at the sky, and the sun had not risen very high, why was it so bright. As soon as he looked at Miko, he saw that Miko was stroking the surface of a tombstone.

"Miko, what did you find?" asked the uncle.

"Touch it. Miko motioned for him to come over and touch the stone tablet as well.

The uncle reached out and touched it, only to find that the surface of the stele was unusually smooth. He looked at Yako, who said, "The direction we came in before was that the front of the tombstone was facing outward, and we only looked at the words on the tombstone, but we ignored that the back of the tombstone was so smooth. ”

"No wonder it's so bright early in the morning, it turns out that it is due to the reflection on the back of the stele. "Uncle checked a few tombstones and found that the backs were all smooth and abnormally smooth, as Miko said.

"Yesterday's ghost market must have been a refracted image. ”

"You mean, yesterday's ghost market was the result of reality?"

"Mirage?!" the two said in unison.

"But where do these realities come from?" Miko said, looking around the cemetery.

"Since it's not a ghost, it's much easier. Find something to eat and rest first, and then go shopping in the evening. The uncle pulled Miko out of the cemetery.

Where there is a forest, there are naturally birds, and the two caught a few turtledove pheasants, and did not dare to make a fire, so they dug a pit in the ground, plucked the pheasants and put them on the wet mud, buried them in the soil, and simmered them and roasted them. The two of them took another nap.

It was just after noon that the two walked into the cemetery again. Walking around the cemetery, I finally came to the center of the cemetery. There are three huge cemeteries sitting side by side. Looking at the tombstone style, it looks like an ancient tomb. Each cemetery covers an area of half an acre, and in the middle of each cemetery there is a large pool, and each pool is connected to each other. The structure of the cemetery pool is indeed peculiar, and it is connected. Although the cemetery was cleaned, even the water in the pool was as clear as a mirror, and there was not a single fallen leaf, which did not look like it had been exposed to broad daylight for a long time. There were no sacrifices in front of the tombstone, and then looking at the words on the tombstone, the uncle recognized that the words were engraved by birds and insects, but he didn't recognize what it meant. Seeing the bird and insect seal again, the uncle felt a burst of joy, the bird and insect seal was like a line, and he always unconsciously threaded a lot of clues.

Miko squatted beside the pool, put her hand into the water, and as soon as she reached into half of her palm, she immediately pulled it back, exclaiming, "This is mercury!" Hearing Miko's call, the uncle immediately came over, and the two broke a branch, slowly stretched into the water and pulled it out. There are two marks on the branches, one is a colorless watermark and the other is a silvery-white mark. It turns out that beneath the surface of the water is mercury.