She rubbed her eyes in disbelief and looked up again.
Two high cliffs surround each other, enclosing the entire sky.
A dazzling Milky Way cuts across the middle of the sky, like mercury pouring down the ground, or like a giant waterfall rising from the sky. It is shocking and at the same time can't help but awe.
The soft starlight pours down from the high sky, illuminating the entire valley bottom.
"Xiao An, look!" Mu Yunhan pushed Mu An, "Tell me you're not dreaming!"
Mu An opened his mouth in shock: "This doesn't mean it will always be dark. Why can we see stars now..."
He covered his mouth again in surprise.
Mu Yunhan laughed: "Not only can I see it, I can also hear it."
She stood up and looked around, trying to find her companions.
However, it was quiet around and there was no one else, only her and Mu An.
"Should we shout or light a torch?" Mu An took out a torch and was eager to try it.
This valley is not too small, and there are many shrubs and grasses in the middle. Maybe there are people like them hiding in other places.
Mu Yunhan said cautiously: "Don't be anxious."
She carefully looked at the stone bricks under her feet, and on the other side of the stone beast stood another stone beast.
"I think some mechanism may have been triggered just now. Let's not light fires casually or talk loudly. These may trigger the mechanism."
Mu Yunhan saw a record in a priest's handbook, saying that there was a mechanism that was controlled by sound, and also by light, hot and cold.
She found it unbelievable and told it to Gu Fenglin as a legend, but he firmly said that since the ancestors said they existed, they must exist, and they cannot deny their existence just because they have not seen them.
So at this moment, she felt that it was entirely possible for such a weird and terrifying mechanism to appear.
Mu An frowned: "Sister, look at these two stone beasts, they are really weird."
The stone beast has a sheep body and a human face, tiger teeth and human hands. It has two big eyes under its armpits, making a ferocious look about to pounce. One of the animals has a huge mouth open, and the other has its mouth tightly closed, indicating that it is entering but not exiting.
"This is Taotie." Mu Yunhan said.
Most people display lions, unicorns, and braves at their doorsteps, but the Taotie stone beast displayed here is obviously not a good sign.
I don’t know what the Taotie’s armpit eyes were made of, but they seemed to be rotating, staring at the two of them closely, which made people feel chilly.
When Mu Yunhan saw Mu An staring at the stone beast, he took two steps forward to block his view and whispered: "While you can see clearly now, hurry up and look for clues."
With so many people disappearing suddenly, it's impossible to leave any clues behind.
The two siblings worked separately. Mu Yunhan searched for clues around the stone beast, while Mu An searched along the rope.
Mu Yunhan saw a few messy footprints next to another stone beast.
There is a pair of footprints with longevity patterns on them, and they belong to Gu Fenglin.
The other pair of shoes has a lotus pattern on them and is small and delicate in shape. It is obviously a woman's.
Another pair is ordinary, without any markings, and belongs to a man.
Mu Yunhan was inspired and wanted to follow this trace to find it, but found that other than that, there was no trace anymore.
It was as if these people just circled around and then disappeared out of thin air.
"Sister!" Mu An ran back with his back hunched, his eyes full of horror: "Look, do we look like we are standing at the bottom of a pot?"