As a race that extremely worships the abyss, the Evil Luohai people did not start yearning for the endless abyss only after plundering the power of the snake god.
They already had this custom a long time ago.
This can be seen from the style of this ancient city. Although there is an eyeball symbol at the highest point, the real core of the ancient city is at the deepest level.
However, it is also not easy to go deep into the ancient city, and the difficulty is even higher than finding the highest point.
After all, if you want to get to the commanding heights, you can climb directly along the neat buildings even if there is no road.
But if you want to get into the depths of the ancient city, it’s really hard to do without a road.
Especially as it gets darker as you go down, even without the weird wisps of fog, it would be easy to get lost.
"How should we get down?" Just when Chen Ziyan was thinking about this, Shirley Yang next to him suddenly asked.
Although she was not as comprehensive as Chen Ziyan thought, she also saw that it was not that easy to do it.
"Although this city looks very symmetrical, I think there should be a very slight tilt angle. For example, the street in front of us feels flat when standing on it, but it actually slopes downward. We
If you can find the right path, you can go down there." Chen Ziyan thought for a while and said.
Although he had a deep impression of Erluohai City, his understanding was very general, but he still knew some basic architectural knowledge.
He didn't think that there would be special portals between each floor of this ancient city, so he came up with this answer.
Hu Bayi agreed with this and said: "I think Master Chen's words are reasonable. As long as we find the right path, we can find the altar."
"Lao Hu, how do we find this road?" Wang Kaixuan asked from the side.
He was not questioning what Chen Ziyan and Hu Bayi said, but simply wanted to know what to do next.
You can't just touch your upper lip with your lower lip and let it happen by itself.
That's not adventure, that's dreaming.
"Keep searching in these houses. Everything in this city remains the same, which means there must be clues left." Chen Ziyan answered him helpfully.
This is the only way he can come up with. Their familiarity with Evil Luohai City is limited. Although it cannot be said that they are blind, it is not much different.
When the others heard what Chen Ziyan said, they also nodded.
They all know that there is no other better way now, and the safest thing is to search nearby.
No one knows the specific situation here now, so when exploring, safety must be the first prerequisite.
After making a decision, the group continued to explore the passing houses one by one.
The layouts inside these houses are basically the same, so after getting familiar with them, the progress will become faster.
And just after they entered a new house, Wang Kaixuan, who was the first to enter, suddenly let out a light sigh, sniffing like a hound that smelled the scent of a rabbit, and said:
"What smells so good? It smells like beef stew. This really tickles the fat man's itch!"
After working so hard for so long, he was already empty. When he suddenly smelled such a strong aroma of meat, the glutton in his stomach was immediately teased out.
In fact, there was no need for the fat man to remind him. Everyone else also smelled the attractive aroma after entering the room.
"Let's go and take a look." Chen Ziyan sniffed and raised his eyebrows subtly.
Although he knew that this scene was in the original plot, he didn't want to encounter it now.
Wang Kaixuan agreed with this proposal with both hands and feet, and immediately followed the smell of meat towards the source. When he entered the next room, he saw that there was a pot of cooked yak meat in the stone cauldron.
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The flames are burning under the stone cauldron, and the steam is gurgling on the stone cauldron. It can be said that it is fragrant and delicious, and the five flavors are harmonious.
Seeing the delicious and delicious beef stew, Wang Kaixuan couldn't help but swallowed his saliva and said: "My dear, this is simply a tempting crime. Could it be specially prepared for us?"
Although they carry plenty of supplies, those things cannot be compared to this.
Hu Bayi rolled his eyes at this guy: "What are you thinking about? Regardless of who this is prepared for, you can't eat it, okay?"
After finishing speaking, Hu Bayi looked at the beef stew in front of him with twinkling eyes. In such a strange ancient city, such a pot of freshly cooked beef stew suddenly appeared. It is really difficult to guess with common sense.
He couldn't help but think of the deception he encountered when he was in Ganggang Yingzi, in the Niuxin Mountain where nine dragons covered the jade lotus.
It’s hard to say that the fragrant pot of stew in front of you is actually made of gravel, and the meat becomes rotten.
Although the others were also a little hungry, they all knew that on such occasions, food of unknown origin must not be eaten, so they remained silent.
Moo——
At this moment, a cow's cry suddenly came from the depths of the cave house.
This cow moo immediately attracted everyone's attention, and they subconsciously looked towards the place where the sound came from.
The cry of yaks is not uncommon here, but hearing it here, especially with a steaming pot of beef stew in front of you, is as weird as it sounds!
Chen Ziyan winked at the others, asking them to get ready, and then waved to Wushuanggui and Huahu behind him.
The two puppet armors immediately stepped towards the depths of the cave house. Wushuang Ghost rushed in front of him fiercely, and Huahu was one step behind him, preparing to respond.
When Wang Kaixuan saw this scene, he couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "Oh my goodness, this damn thing can arm-wrestle with that striped dragon."
Although he was not standing in front of the Wushuang Ghost, he could still see how terrifying the Wushuang Ghost's indomitable momentum was. Wang Kaixuan felt that the Wushuang Ghost now was like a galloping car.
No one paid attention to Wang Kaixuan, because after the two puppet armors started charging, they quickly followed behind with weapons in hand.
There is a thick stone door deep in the cave house, but in front of Wushuang Ghost, this stone door is just a decoration, and it does not stop the footsteps for even three seconds.
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"Master Chen, look!"
After Wushuang Ghost knocked open the stone door, Chen Ziyan planned to follow it and take a look.
But before he could enter, he was grabbed by Hu Bayi.
Looking in the direction Hu Bayi pointed, Chen Ziyan saw a distinct bloody handprint on the crooked stone door.
Besides this bloody handprint, the entire stone door was coated with a layer of sticky substance, making the stone door look greasy.
Chen Ziyan clearly saw that blood was still flowing underneath the bloody fingerprints on the stone door. Apparently the blood on it was still very fresh.
After his eyes stayed on the stone door for a while, Chen Ziyan said to Hu Bayi: "We'll talk about it later. Let's go in and take a look first."
Then he took the lead and walked into the stone gate. The first thing he saw when he came inside was that everything was red.
Except for Wushuanggui and Huahu, who came in first, there are no other people here.
But compared to this, Chen Ziyan and the others were more concerned about the dripping blood on the surrounding walls.
In the center of this room is a stone table. In addition to the same bright red blood stains, there is a pile of fresh yak meat on it, and there are several bloody cowhide on the wooden pile next to it.
It can be clearly seen that the yak hides are still steaming, as if they have just been peeled off the cow. This place is like a slaughterhouse hidden in the house.
After seeing the things inside, the others were fine. Although they felt a little breathless, they were all well-informed people and could bear it.
On the other hand, Wang Kaixuan, who is usually the boldest, felt a little nauseous. He was very glad that he didn't really eat the beef stew, otherwise he would have to vomit it all out.
At this moment, Chen Ziyan suddenly felt like there was something above his head. When he raised his head, he saw a cow's head that was two or three times larger than an ordinary yak hanging upside down.
There was no skin on the cow's head, and its flesh and blood were completely exposed. It looked bloody, but its eyes were wide open, its two huge nostrils were still breathing, and most of the cow's tongue was spitting out. After seeing Chen Ziyan look over,
, actually let out a heavy groan at him!
Eye——
This muffled groan attracted the attention of others. When they saw such a terrifying but vivid bull head, they didn't know what to say for a while.
A cow's head has no skin and can still make sounds. This is exactly what you would see in a horror story!
After a brief silence, Shirley Yang said: "It is an extremely ancient custom to peel off the skin of the yak while it is still alive and then slaughter it. It symbolizes releasing the soul first so that the body can be used with confidence."<
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After being stunned for a while, she suddenly thought of the information she had seen in the information on the Reincarnation Sect, and said it out.
But what Shirley Yang doesn't know is that this is actually an ancient custom that has not been passed down even by the Reincarnation Sect.
After taking his attention away from the cow's head, Chen Ziyan discovered that there was not only one cow's head on it, but a large wooden fence next to it. The wooden fence could be freely retracted in the front, back, left, and right, and the yak was caught in it, so
It looks like it has only one head.
After Chen Ziyan saw the wooden fence, he thought the cow head in front of him would make a sound because it had only been skinned and was not actually fatally injured.
But after he saw the situation inside the wooden fence clearly, he knew that he had thought wrong, because under the light of the searchlight, he could clearly see that the yak's body was indeed trapped in the wooden fence, but the body of this big guy was
The chest cavity was so empty, and there was a heavy ax stuck between the bull's head and its body.
Just by looking at the depth of the heavy ax's chop, you can tell that there are not many connecting parts between the bull's head and its body.
Continuing to look upward, I found that there was still a rope hanging on the cow's head. Obviously, there was this reason why the cow's head had not detached.
Weird!
The scene in front of them gave them the feeling of these two words!
Although there are many cases where signs of life are temporarily retained after the body and head are separated. For example, after a chicken is decapitated, its headless body can still run on its own for a while, but a situation like this is extremely serious.
A rare, even impossible thing.
After thinking about it, Chen Ziyan could only attribute the key to the problem to this ancient city.
Yes, this is a city that is between life and death, and it is acceptable to have such a yak in between life and death.
"It seems that the time of this ancient city has really been fixed at a certain point in time." Shirley Yang looked at the still staring bull head and said with emotion.
Everything in this ancient city seemed to be telling this, whether it was the lit lights, the unfinished bone products, the immortal cow head in front of them, and the cooked beef seemed to be telling them this.
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"Let's find a place to spend the night first and explore again tomorrow." Black Glasses hesitated for a moment, but still expressed his thoughts.
Now he felt that if he continued walking, he might encounter some weird things. Although he knew that ghosts were not afraid of the light, he still wanted to wait until daylight before doing anything.
No matter what, sunshine can bring some psychological comfort to people.
Wang Kaixuan agreed with Black Glasses' words and nodded repeatedly: "I also think what Glasses said is right. The most important thing we lack now is time. There is no need to wander around this ghost town at night. We can do things again during the day tomorrow." Yes, a ghost town.
Now Wang Kaixuan has determined that they are in a ghost town.
"No, not everything here is fixed at a certain point in time." At this moment, Chen Wenjin, who had been silent, suddenly said such a sentence.
Seeing everyone else looking at her, she stretched out her white wrist, pointed at the watch and said: "Although everything we see proves that the time here seems to have been completely frozen since ancient times, the hands of the watch have not.
Being affected, this shows that time is always passing, and another point is..."
Speaking of this, she pointed to the crooked stone door: "Everything here is not static. It can only be said that it is permanently retained in a specific state, so I think we can temporarily rule out the freeze of time and space.
Guess."
Chen Wenjin felt that if time and space were truly frozen, then after they destroyed the original appearance, everything here would automatically return to its original state instead of continuing as it is now.
"Huh -" Chen Ziyan took a breath and said: "No matter what is going on here, let's find a place to rest first."
He did not take a position on Chen Wenjin's analysis because he knew that the problem here was far more complicated than imagined.
It can be heard from the words of Black Glasses and Wang Kaixuan that they are now strongly wary of continuing to explore, although he can refuse the proposal and continue to lead everyone in the exploration.
But some things really shouldn’t be rushed. Proper rest is more conducive to relieving emotions.
And he really doesn’t know what to do next. If he continues walking in such a daze, he will probably encounter more situations like the yak in front of him, so it is better to sort out his thoughts before talking about anything else.