Chapter 286: Mysterious Territory, Ancient Palace
The time came to noon in a blink of an eye, and Shen Linfeng seemed to have walked around the army camp of the Celestial Empire. Although it has been abandoned for a long time, he can still imagine the scene that once bustled here.
On the training ground, horses galloped and dust flew up. The soldiers practiced wielding their swords and shouting.
The war horses in the stable neighed and were eager to try.
The fire was raging in the blacksmith's shop, and the shirtless man was beating with a hammer. Sweaty, but motivated.
However, after soberness. There were only grass all over the ground, rotting logs, and bare stone troughs.
Shen Linfeng didn't know why this was the case, and he didn't bother too much to understand. However, after more than a day of discovery, Shen Linfeng was even more convinced that there was no so-called cannibal in this maze at all.
Judging from the number of wooden houses, training grounds, stables, and blacksmith shops found by Shen Linfeng. There are at least tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in this wood, or bandits and robbers.
If there really are cannibals, then they can only be eaten by others.
Therefore, Shen Linfeng felt that it must have been discovered by the people stationed here after the townspeople around Huashan City entered the misty forest. They either drove them away or slaughtered them. Eventually, when it reached the ears of the townspeople, an exaggerated cannibal tribe was formed.
According to Xu He, the rumors of cannibalism began five years ago. Judging from the degree of decay of the logs and planks found by Shen Linfeng, this group of people will not leave the maze forest for more than two years, and the group of big trees in the "phalanx" that Shen Linfeng passed, judging from the growth of the scars on their trunks, these people have definitely stayed in the maze for more than five years.
In other words, when the cannibal story came out, these people were hidden in the labyrinth.
The theory of cannibalism was barely broken by Shen Linfeng. But the purpose of his trip is not to decipher the cannibals, but to demystify the peerless horse.
At this time, it was already the fourth day since Shen Linfeng set off from Huashan City. However, in addition to Xie Chuang and An Lu's pursuit, there is also the visible barren grass and vines. The rest, not to mention the good horses, he has never even seen the hoof prints of the good horses.
Shen Linfeng sighed in annoyance, Xiao Ying's whereabouts were unknown, and Xu and the others didn't know whether they were dead or alive. Now there are only three days left before the time given by the Transformation Forest, and the Transformation Forest deliberately handed over this team of people to Shen Linfeng when he set off. Now it's a good thing, not only did the good horse not be found, but even the people were lost.
But it was useless to be annoyed, at least he had three days left, and he still had to do his best for now.
Shen Linfeng jumped down from a stone trough, although he didn't know the exact location of the good horse. But he still wants to continue on his current path.
Before that, Shen Linfeng walked about ten miles on foot. During this time, he still found many logs and planks, and there were many more than he had seen before.
Although Shen Linfeng didn't care about who had lived here, he was still shocked by the size of this camp. I think he also went to the garrison camp in Qingzhou. But compared to what I saw today, it was nothing more than that.
At the end of the road are two pure white stone pillars with many round holes left on them. Shen Linfeng guessed that this stone pillar should be used to fix the gate. In other words, there should have been a huge wooden door in front of him.
Passing through the stone pillars, the road is flanked by some unknown trees. It was taller than the trees Shen Linfeng had seen before. Just after winter, it was already leafy, as if the leaves had never fallen.
The paved road is only more than a foot wide, and the dense branches and foliage on both sides have long blocked the top of the road from the wind. Not even the afternoon sun shines through.
The trunk of the tree that had not been trimmed for a long time grew messy branches, coupled with dense leaves, making it difficult for Shen Linfeng to see the situation in the distance of the road.
Layer by layer, he swept away the messy branches and leaves, and when he came out from under a thick branch, he was completely shocked by the sight in front of him.
A hundred meters away from Shen Linfeng, there is a pure white building. The site in front of the building is open, and the huge white floor tiles are closely connected. There are not too many weeds on the grounds, just a few trees growing in the crevices of each floor tile.
Shen Linfeng looked at the tall building in front of him, it didn't look like it was built up, but it looked like it was carved out of a huge white stone.
The walls are so smooth that each stone fits so tightly that it's hard to spot the cracks. The whole building is more than ten zhang high, and the style of its construction is also unseen by Shen Linfeng.
He walked along the wall to a stone door, about two feet high, with a large drop of water carved in the middle. There was a white round altar on each side of the door, and Shen Linfeng guessed that some kind of plant should be planted in these two round altars.
There was no mechanism set up in the stone gate, and Shen Linfeng pushed it open without much force.
The moment the door opened, a cloud of dust was swept up by the wind. In front of him was a long hallway, and at the end of it a stone door of the same size appeared again.
Shen Linfeng walked in slowly, and when he reached the center of the corridor, a passage appeared on his side. At the end of the two passages, there are two staircases that extend upwards.
An hour later, Shen Linfeng had basically walked around the building. The building is divided into three floors, and there are countless large and small rooms inside. Without exception, apart from the white walls and dusty floor, Shen Linfeng didn't find anything again. But there's one thing that is exactly the same in almost every room, and that's the pattern of flowers on the door.
Back on the first floor, Shen Linfeng continued to walk down the corridor. The stone gate at the end is still untrapped, and it is also not locked. When Shen Linfeng pushed it away, a dazzling ray of sunlight shone straight down.
On either side of the stone gate are two rows of houses, each with no windows and only a closed wooden door. Directly opposite Shen Linfeng was a two-story building, which was no different from the three-story building behind him.
Shen Linfeng walked from the left side, he came to the door of the house and pushed hard, but he didn't move.
Then, with all his strength, he pulled hard in front of him.
"Squeak!" the wooden door made an unpleasant noise.
When the door opened, Shen Linfeng only felt a flash of light in front of him. His eyes widened, and his body soared into the air out of instinct.
However, the result was very different from what he expected. There was no sharp weapon shot from inside the door, but a pile of rusty scimitars, bows and arrows, and spears fell out in a hurry.
Shen Linfeng turned over and landed, and the scimitar that fell out flashed brightly. This is especially true inside the house, where there are all kinds of weapons, but most of them have been damaged.