That kind of distance was not enough for me to see everything in sight so clearly, but at this moment when I looked back, I saw among the burned and collapsed ruins in the distance, there seemed to be eight big horses pulling a car.
The ancient car was rotating rapidly around the ruins like lightning.
Eight horses and an ancient car seemed to be flying in the clouds and mist. They seemed to be illusory shadows, but they also seemed to be real. I stood in the distance of the ruins, feeling confused and unable to distinguish what I saw.
.
I immediately turned around, hoping to get a wider perspective, but the moment I turned around, the cart pulled by the eight divine horses disappeared immediately. The dead village was still a dead village, the ruins were still ruins, and the surrounding area was completely plunged into nothingness.
A bit of lifeless silence. I stopped and observed it for a long time, but nothing changed.
I thought about it and continued to walk into the distance and then rested. Anyway, this dead ruin made me realize that it might not be completely silent. I would wait until daybreak to search carefully to see if it was possible.
What will be discovered?
I didn't sleep well that night, and I didn't dare to sleep soundly. Every time when my eyes were so sore that I couldn't help but close them, I always felt that the carriage pulled by the eight divine horses was always echoing in front of my eyes, as if I was breathing.
It would rush forward. I can't say whether this feeling was dangerous or not, but it made me feel uneasy. I repeated it many times, so I simply turned over and sat up, looking at the ruins in the distance until the sky got bright.
Unfortunately, at dawn, the weather turned gloomy and strong winds blew. This place would not be like a desert where the wind would make you unable to see anything, but the dust in the sky still affected your vision and actions.
The wind was quite strong. Carrying a heavy backpack and walking against the wind felt like I was stuck in the mud and walking backwards. The wind blew away some of the sand covering the ruins. When I got close to the ruins, I felt like I was walking against the wind.
The fire was very violent.
A problem arises. If the fire was caused by nature, it would not be possible for it to burn for such a long time on a building with a brick-and-earth structure. However, the fire that was once caused in the ruins was so severe, it can only mean that the fire was
Not only was it man-made, but combustion aids such as gasoline and kerosene were probably borrowed at the time. When the fire broke out, the village was already empty, and all the people who needed to move out had moved out. It was already a dead village. Under such circumstances,
Some people set fires, why?
Thinking of this, I became even more careful. I remembered that the approximate location where I saw the illusory eight-horse carriage last night was deep in the ruins, so I started to walk slowly towards the ruins against the wind. After dawn, the ruins
It was completely normal, and I couldn't catch the slightest bit of strange aura even with all my concentration. The village was small, and the area of the ruins was also limited. After walking along the path between the ruins for a while, I roughly reached the center.
The ruins of a collapsed courtyard appeared in front of me. I don't know who lived in this courtyard in the past, but looking at the ruins, I can imagine that this courtyard was probably the largest residence before the village was destroyed. Half of the ruins have been
Covered by years of wind and sand, at a glance, it looks like a huge tomb.
The wind was so strong that I couldn't bear it. In desperation, I temporarily squatted on the back of a ruin to take shelter from the wind, hoping to wait until the wind calmed down. I squatted still trying to observe the surrounding situation, and it took me more than half a minute to wait.
At 1 hour, the strong wind finally slowed down a bit, but before I could stand up straight, I saw something flying over from the confusing flying sand and dust.
what is that?
I vaguely saw a bird flying rapidly through the wind and sand, flying to the top of the largest ruins. The line of sight was not clear, but I could still tell that it seemed to be a bird I had seen before.
Phoenix.
Its golden color was covered by the wind and sand, turning a bit gray, but its dignity and grace could not be hidden. It flew in the sky like the king of birds. This phoenix flew around the ruins for two times.
Circle, once it swooped down, it was no longer visible. I opened my eyes wide to observe, but it was indeed invisible, which meant that it must have fallen into a certain corner of the ruins.
This kind of bird is very keen and is rarely caught. The people in the Western Regions must have unique secret skills in taming them. I was surprised because there are only a few places where phoenixes can be found. In my impression, they will not survive.
In such a desolate area. Thinking to myself, I immediately stood up and ran towards the ruins. I carefully walked around the ruins, but I didn't find the phoenix. It seemed to disappear after flying down.
Already.
I stopped and wondered if the bird had just flown away from the blind spot of my sight, but I refused to give up and kept searching carefully. Finally, on the leeward side of the ruins, I saw a very inconspicuous thing.
.
It seemed to be an eave-like thing made out of mud. It was tightly attached to the corner of the ruins. It was about twenty or thirty centimeters high. There was only a small hole left in the eaves because the wind here basically blew in one direction.
It moves, so this side of the ruins is always in the leeward position when the wind blows. Coupled with the peculiar structure of the mud "eaves", it is difficult for dust and sand to be poured in.
After a quick look, I figured it out, so I used a stick to pull on the facade of the eaves. Sure enough, behind the thin layer of sand, there was a small hole. The hole was very deep, and a stick more than one meter long could be inserted into it.
I couldn't find the head. I judged that the phoenix just flew in from here?
I pulled away all the soil around the "eaves" and knocked out the dried mud. The hole was very small, so I started digging along the hole. The dried soil was as big as a huge one.
It was like an ant nest. After digging for a while, it suddenly collapsed. After all the loose soil was cleared out, the small hole in the ground immediately widened a lot. If you dig it again, you can probably get in.
I didn't dare to move rashly. After finishing the hole, I lay down and observed it for a while. However, the bottom of the hole was like a winding tunnel. The tunnel extended for five or six meters and then turned at a right angle. The light shone through and the visible range was limited.
Unless you go there in person, you won't be able to see the specific situation.
I didn't feel any danger, but that uneasy aura seemed to be floating all the time. I didn't want to take too many risks, but the purpose of this trip was to seek some information. After hesitating again and again, I slowly held the stick as a weapon.
stick and jumped down from the hole.
The passage under the cave was completely dug by man. It was very rough. I followed the passage through a 90-degree turn. I found that the passage was very tortuous and had constant turns. Maybe the terrain and excavation had to be taken into consideration when digging.
The difficulty level. After slowly walking around two or three corners, a relatively wide space suddenly appeared in front of me, about sixty or seventy square meters.
When the light of the flashlight shines into this space, it immediately reflects something.
The four walls of the entire space are all covered with murals. But at a glance, I felt very strange, because these murals were incredibly crude, as if they were graffiti by someone who didn’t understand painting at all. The content of the murals was also
It is quite simple, with only one theme, a carriage pulled by eight divine horses.
Various carriages appeared in the mural in strange postures. But I did not continue to observe, because the moment I saw the mural, there was a fluttering sound in the space. Immediately afterwards, two phoenixes came from
They flew up in a certain corner of the space. They were very panicked, but they didn't want to leave here and flew around the space like dragonflies touching water.
I smelled a faint fragrance. The fragrance was not unfamiliar, it was very light but very nice. After a brief recollection, I remembered this smell. I had smelled it when Qingqing took me into the cave in the barren mountain.
been.
The smell was refreshing, and I felt much more energetic. But when the two phoenixes were flying and rising, I saw that there were many messy patterns on the ground in this small space. Those patterns looked like a flower in bloom.
flower, all the lines slowly converged from the surroundings to the center of the space. The ground here looked like translucent jade. Although it was a bit blurry, I could still tell that underneath the lines, there seemed to be a faint golden wave.
Things are constantly moving.
The golden light makes those lines shine with mysterious light. In the middle of the lines, there is a person lying quietly.
My pupils suddenly shrank, and I subconsciously swung the weapon in my hand. But in just a tenth of a second, I suddenly realized that this person had been lying there, motionless, and it looked like a corpse.
I can't tell how long this corpse has been there. The clothes on it have been rotted into pieces. The reason why the village was built in this place is because there is water underground, so the space is not absolutely dry. The body is covered with patches of
A mold spot the size of a copper coin looks like a piece of moldy rotten wood.
It was definitely a very weird scene, an old corpse like rotten wood, lying in a field of light, sacred, but also faintly evil.
Involuntarily, I thought of Su Xiaomeng's story, the unknown underground tomb, the series of murals, the lifelike ancient corpses, the two unlucky shepherds, and a series of strange things that happened afterward.
I wanted to confirm the appearance of this ancient corpse, so I slowly came closer. Two flying phoenixes flew past my head and hovered above the ancient corpse. The space was not big to begin with.
, even though I walked very slowly, within a few steps, I was already very close to the ancient corpse.
I could vaguely see that under the black mold spots on the face of the ancient corpse, its skin was still intact. I suspected that if I stretched out my hand and pressed it, I could feel the elasticity of normal skin. Its hair and beard were like a piece of
The messy grass is at least dozens of centimeters long.
Suddenly, I stopped in my tracks, because there was a sudden roar in my ears, as if I heard a shrill roar of a horse. Immediately afterwards, the golden light in front of me and the light of the flashlight dimmed to the extreme, and an ancient car seemed to emerge from the void.