Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Top of the Firmament
Elder Xiao Chen nodded earnestly and said,
"I know you may not believe it, and no one who hears this for the first time will believe it, but when I later relayed the news to the alliance leader, he couldn't believe it was true, let alone you.
But what I'm saying is true, that is, there is a dome like the sky that hangs over it, and it is impossible to see what is going on inside. ”
Long Yun said: "What about later? Did you go in later?"
Elder Xiao Chen said, "We don't dare to rush in, because the dome gives people a mysterious and unpredictable feeling.
Then one of us was bold, and he went in and inquired, and he was half outside and half inside, and we asked him what was inside, but he did not answer, or perhaps the dome cut off the sound from within, and we could not hear any of his sound from outside.
Later, I only saw the lower half of the man's body shaking outside the dome, breaking out in a cold sweat.
Seeing this, I ordered everyone to hurry to pull him out, but it was too late, and at this moment, his body seemed to be pulled by something, and finally the whole person was sucked in. ”
When Long Yun heard this, he joined the gods, and what Elder Xiao Chen said was beyond his imagination. He didn't expect his father's death to be related to such a bizarre event.
He hurriedly asked, "What about later?"
Elder Xiao Chen picked up the teacup, swallowed a sip of tea and continued:
Seeing this, our group was very panicked, and later in order to investigate the situation inside, and in order to rescue the companions inside, I thought of a way.
I sent some ropes to the nearby villages, and we formed a 'death squad' of ten people, and we tied ropes around their waists and let them go into the dome to investigate, thinking that if there was anything unusual inside, let them pull the ropes quickly inside, and we outside would pull them out at once.
Originally, as the captain of this mission, I was going to go in with them, but they stopped me, and they said that I was the leader of this mission and could not risk my life, so I stayed outside.
I didn't expect the ten of them to be gone, you must know that several of them are my apprentices!"
When he said this, Elder Xiao Chen's voice trembled, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Seeing Elder Xiao Chen's sad look, Long Yun couldn't bear to disturb him, and accompanied him to look at the raindrops outside the window and was silent.
After a long time, when Elder Xiao Chen's mood recovered, Long Yun continued to ask:
"Aren't they tied with ropes, so why are they going and never returning?"
Elder Xiao Chen came to his senses and continued:
"Even though they had ropes tied to them, I didn't expect it to turn out like this!"
Long Yun said: "What happened later?"
Elder Xiao Chen said, "After they entered, everything was as usual, and the ten ropes were slowly pulled into the dome little by little, until the ropes were all used up, but there was still nothing unusual inside.
We waited outside for a long time, and then I realized that something was wrong. The area covered by this dome was only 100 meters at most, but the ropes we prepared were at least 200 meters each, and all of them were pulled in, and I had a vague sense of foreboding, so I ordered everyone outside the dome to quickly pull the rope out.
Outcome...... As a result, when I pulled it out, I found that the rope was empty, and there was no shadow of half of the person, and the rope was all kept as it was, and the knots tied on it had not been opened, and they were still tied around the waist.
When I saw the empty ropes, I was so sad and indignant that I wanted to go into this dome even if I died, but I was stopped by a crowd......
If it wasn't for the stupid solution I came up with, they wouldn't have died! Coming up with this solution was the stupidest decision I've ever made in my life, and I killed them. ”
As he spoke, the old man in front of him was already in tears and heartbroken.
Seeing this, Long Yun hurriedly comforted:
"This can't be blamed on you, Elder Xiao, no one knew the situation of this dome at that time, if it wasn't for ten people to go in first to explore the way, but dozens of you rushed in together, then the situation would definitely be even worse,"
"You don't need to comfort me, these ten people are suffering because of me, this is an indisputable fact, I really feel sorry for them, the youngest of them is less than twenty years old!"
Elder Xiao Chen slowly stabilized his emotions and continued, "However, there are indeed too many strange things about that dome, and later we wrote down the situation here, and the Flying Eagle passed it on to the Beast Hunting Alliance headquarters.
The leader of the alliance received the news, and he didn't believe it for a long time, if it wasn't for my personal seal on the letter, he would have misinformed the news.
When he personally brought someone over to check, he was also shocked. Later, he sent people to get hundreds of cattle and sheep, drove them into the dome, and then guarded outside the dome for half a month, but not a single cow or sheep came out of the dome.
And what's even more strange is that in the few days they stayed, they found that this dome has become bigger and is constantly expanding outward, although the speed is very slow, but it is accumulating over time, do you know how big this dome is now?"
Long Yun shook his head and asked curiously, "Is this dome still there?"
Elder Xiao said, "Of course it's still there, and now it's grown to a thousand zhang square, and the nearest village to him has been completely swallowed by it." ”
Long Yun was surprised: "A thousand zhang can see the square, has the time of the past ten years suddenly become so much?
Elder Xiao Chen said, "Since then, the Alliance Leader has ordered that no one should approach that dome, and now it has become a forbidden place. However, over the years, there have also been some good deeds and curiosity seekers who did not listen to the ban, broke in, and never came out. ”
Long Yun said: "After so many years, so many people have entered, is it really only my father who has come out of that dome alone?"
Elder Xiao Chen replied, "Yes, your father is the only one who came out, we were very excited when we heard the news, and we wanted to ask your father what was inside, but at the end of the news, it was said that your father died after returning to the village after coming out.
This also made this matter even thicker, and then our entire Beast Hunting Alliance stopped asking too much about this matter, and slowly, we forgot about it, leaving only the top of the sky still there......"
Hearing this, Long Yun finally understood the ins and outs of the whole incident, all of this was too unbelievable, and there were still many doubts in the middle.
Thinking of this, Long Yun asked again: "Then why is my father's file only briefly mentioned this matter, and does not mention the whole thing?"