"Hallucination, this must be an hallucination." I took a deep breath and tried to calm down my heart, but I heard Shuiyue sucking in cold air and kept mumbling: "How is it possible? How is it possible here?
Is there such a thing?"
I quickly asked her what it was, but Shuiyue shook her head and said: "I can't tell you about it because it is a taboo. I can only say that it exists in everyone's heart, but
Usually people can't see it, but once they see it, there will be disaster. It represents ominousness, evil and disaster. It will appear when the night comes. It shuttles through everyone's heart. Only the eyes of a tiger can see it.
."
There was a huge shock in my heart, and I almost screamed. When I was in Henan, Li Dalongtou left me a letter, and it ended with this sentence.
"It will appear when the night comes, and only the eyes of a tiger can see it." This is a special warning to me. I have never understood what it means. Could it be that the black shadow just now is the one in this sentence?
"It"? Shuiyue said, it shuttles through people's hearts, representing the unknown, evil and disaster, but why is it so similar to the black shadow I saw in my dream? Could this be a sign of what is going to happen to me?
Something ominous?
I quickly told Shuiyue about the black shadow I saw in my dream. After hearing this, her body stiffened suddenly, and I felt her hands on my face trembling.
"You mean, you said you saw such a dark figure in your dream?"
I nodded, and she said to me in a serious tone that she had never seen before: "I finally understand why your grandfather didn't stop you from coming here, because you have been completely involved. Unless all the mysteries are solved, otherwise
You can't escape at all. Wang Fo, you must remember the next sentence. You must keep the ring ring left by your grandfather close to you. Don't lose it or give it to others. It belongs to you now.
amulet."
"Then can you tell me, what exactly is that 'it'?"
Shui Yue shook her head and said, "It's better that you don't know. If you really want to know, just wait until you see your grandfather before asking him. I think he will be able to give you the most satisfactory answer.
"
Although Shuiyue didn't tell me, I still heard some hidden things. Could it be that the old man had the same experience as me?
We continued walking forward, and this time we didn't encounter any accidents. About twenty minutes later, we finally walked out of the stone forest.
When the ancient stone city was placed in front of us, several people couldn't help but get excited. This place is a kind of magic, and it is also the biggest secret of the entire Qinling Sacred Lake. The dragon chasers used to hide something here.
, I feel that we are very, very close to there.
The monkey and the fat man kept urging them to move forward. After the ghost-faced sore stopped causing trouble, the fat man's spirit became much better. It seems that he has gained wisdom through every experience. Now he is not as flamboyant as before. Otherwise, given his character, I'm afraid
I had already rushed forward.
We haven't seen Lu Jinghong since we entered here. This guy's efficiency is too high. No wonder he is so highly regarded by Fourth Master Zhang. Having such a good hand can probably save him a lot of trouble.
We trotted all the way to the stone city and found that the buildings here were very regular. The format of the buildings was very simple. They were built in a circle, just like yurts, but they were arranged very neatly.
The buildings are getting taller and taller, and we can vaguely see a huge castle-like building in the deepest place, estimated to be dozens of meters high. I think that should be the most important place here.
Perhaps because of the passage of time, most of the buildings have collapsed, and those that are still intact are crumbling and very dilapidated.
We walked into an ordinary building. The layout inside was very simple. The beds, tables and chairs were all made of stone, and it looked completely primitive. It is estimated that this was the place where the ancestors first lived, but it was not there later.
Knowing what happened, he moved to the cave outside, and this place became a forbidden area. Only people with relatively prominent status at that time could come here.
We searched the entire building and found nothing, but we found a small hole at a corner.
The monkey jumped down first. I was a little amused. He must have been wondering if there was any treasure inside. We also followed him down to check it out. We found that this was not a separate hole, but a cellar-like place.
Deep in the depths there is a tunnel that is more than one meter long and wide and is completely man-made. It is pitch black inside and looks very far away. It is unknown where it leads.
We did not enter rashly, but returned to the ground and checked several nearby buildings. We found that not every building has such tunnels, some have them and some don't, and the proportions are very even.
We couldn't guess what these tunnels were used for, and we didn't have the energy to guess. Now our minds were still focused on the largest stone castle in the middle. After finding nothing special on the outside, we headed straight there.
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The closer we get, the bigger and grander the stone castle becomes. When we get closer, we can hardly believe that such a large-scale building could be built at that time.
Judging from the outside, this stone castle alone covers an area of tens of thousands of square meters, with a length and width of a hundred meters. The top is round, and there is a corridor more than two meters wide around it.
It is supported by countless huge stone pillars. However, the layout of the stone castle is a bit weird. In addition to a taller main door in the middle, there are also many stone doors in the surrounding areas, all of the same size, and they seem to exist independently.
After observation, we all agreed that this stone castle did not belong to a certain person, but should be a place equivalent to a temple. It was probably a place where theocratic personnel such as wizards at that time lived, carried out activities and worshiped. Of course,
For people at that time, divine power and royal power were actually symbiotic, and the peak power of a tribe generally combined these two powers.
We walked into the stone castle from the main entrance in the middle, and faced a huge hall. It was very wide but also very empty. Apart from the two huge stone platforms in the middle and deep, there were only two huge stone sculptures with different shapes.
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These two stone sculptures are like giants with three heads and six arms that we have seen before. They are located on both sides of the stone platform in the depths. Each of them is more than three meters high. The stone sculptures are different from the previous murals. We can clearly see what they look like, with wide foreheads.
It has a huge mouth and a somewhat ferocious face. It is not as majestic as ordinary stone sculptures, but it looks a bit weird.
There are also backward portals on both sides of the stone platform, which should lead to the depths of the stone castle. We discussed it and decided to split up. Fatty and Axue entered the door on the left, and Monkey and Shuiyue and I entered the other.
door.
"Nagua, this place seems to have some promise. Not to mention the underworld weapons, we might even encounter divine weapons. If we can get one or two of them, then we don't have to worry about it in the future. This time we will recruit someone.
You have to highlight the highlights and make sure not to miss them. When we meet, we want to see who has the money!"
"Hey, Mud Monkey, after hearing your tone, you still want to compete with Mr. Gua and me? Although Mr. Gua and I are still in some bad health, the work at hand has not been left behind. You just wait to admit defeat."
"It's just talk without practicing tricks. Since you said so, we brothers will just wait and see."
Walking into the stone gate, there is a passage about 20 meters long. There are many symmetrical stone gates on both sides, all open, and there is nothing inside. I estimated in my mind that even if this passage ends, we will only remove this stone gate.
We have walked less than half of the way to the fort. I wonder what will happen behind it?
I never thought that when we pushed open the huge stone door at the end of the passage, what appeared in front of us was no longer these gray-brown rocks, but an extremely dense forest.
The woods in the stone castle? It makes people feel weird just thinking about it. The three of us looked at each other, and no one could figure out what this strange layout meant.
"What kind of tree is this? Why does it look familiar to me?" the monkey couldn't help but ask.
I looked left and right before finally confirming it. "It seems to be a locust tree." I said.
"It should be said to be a ghost locust tree." Shuiyue corrected my judgment. She said that there are two types of locust trees that are commonly seen now. One is the flowering locust tree, also called the fragrant locust tree, and its flowers can be made into
It is delicious. The other kind is the non-flowering locust tree. Its branches are relatively hard and it is also called the smelly locust tree. Its flower buds can be used as medicinal materials, but they will not bloom. But there is actually a third kind of locust tree.
, it is this ghost locust tree, also called "ancient locust tree". This type of locust tree is relatively rare. Its biggest feature is that it has a particularly long growth cycle and lush branches and leaves. At the same time, it is also regarded as an unknown thing.
I asked her what this unknown word meant. She asked me to take apart the word. Obviously, I could only get two words: "wood" and "ghost".
"The locust tree is often considered a ghost tree. It is said that people who die next to the locust tree will have their ghosts linger and become harmful things. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, no one will use the locust tree as a coffin.
Locust trees will be planted next to where the dead are buried, and even if a locust tree grows next to someone's grave, it will be regarded as an ominous sign."
Shuiyue said, especially this kind of ghost locust tree, because it has a long growth cycle, it is considered to be something that often brings out ghosts. There are many legends about the ghost locust tree, but without exception, it is very weird. I don’t think it is so big.
There will definitely be some abnormal situations in the forest of ghost locust trees. She told us to be careful next time.