Chapter 678 He comes from history (four thousand words)
"Sound... there seems to be a sound inside the door!"
In the desolate mountain forest, the sun shines slantingly, probably because of the red clouds on the western horizon, which makes the dark green forest turn red.
The entire team tensed up instantly, clenched their weapons, and their bodies seemed to freeze. At the same time, they focused their gaze on the huge and dilapidated door in the mountain recess.
The door was not closed perfectly, because over time, there was a gap as big as a fist between the two doors. At this moment, there were bursts of frightening banging sounds coming from it.
The sound of the impact was loud, as if a beast was rushing against the prison door and was about to break out. As the impact continued, the dust covering the surface of the huge metal door began to fall.
"Hula la..." The dust filled the air, and pieces of earth and rocks peeled off from the surface, top, and surroundings of the gate, fell down, and hit the ground, waking up the people in the queue.
"careful!"
"Back off!"
Short syllables sounded, and everyone retreated and gathered together. They didn't stop until they were a hundred meters away. They looked at each other in shock, and then the hands holding the weapons became more nervous.
"Fire! It seems to be burning inside!" Suddenly, someone in the team exclaimed.
At this moment, the crashing sound had disappeared, and instead a thick gray-black smoke filled the air from the crack in the door, spitting out like wolf smoke and rising into the air.
If you look carefully, you can still see the red light of the flame through the crack in the door, and even the metal door begins to heat up.
Shirley, who was wearing strange robes, and Rune, who was holding a broad sword and wearing armor, stared at this scene nervously, not knowing what to do. Faced with this strange situation, even the two-headed dog shrank.
Then he closed his mouth.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Finally, with the sound of impact, the ancient metal door began to deform, and the gap in the middle became wider and wider. Suddenly, they saw four large hands that looked like metal structures protruding from the cracks in the door, and held down the two sides of the door.
side and start pulling.
After all, it was old and the surrounding fixtures had long been damaged. So, under the horrified eyes of Shirley and others, the heavy metal door was slowly pushed open.
Then, thick smoke obscured the field of vision, and the four big metal hands disappeared into the thick smoke.
Then, a strong wind blew, the smoke quickly dissipated, and a strange scene was finally revealed in front of everyone.
I saw a sea of fire inside the gate, and what was burning were countless bones and skeletons... They were obviously human bones, which had been burned out, but at least I could still see their general appearance. The most amazing thing was the burning sea of skeletons.
In the middle, there was a figure standing.
There was an invisible breeze surrounding the man, pushing away the flames and thick smoke. He was standing there quietly, his hands hanging casually on both sides, wearing strange clothes, his face hidden in the green smoke, and two sharp eyes piercing him.
He came out and seemed to be looking at all of them curiously.
"Ah!" The older woman in the team covered her mouth, her eyes widened, and she whispered in shock.
Others had similar reactions.
They all felt chills all over, and sweat ran down their backs.
His eyes were full of tension and fear.
This scene was too weird. Such a person actually walked out of the ancient ruins that had been sealed in dust for countless years. No matter who he was, it was difficult for him to calm down.
Be silent for a few seconds.
Finally, the figure in the door slowly walked out, and his face was revealed... Cheng Lin walked out slowly, looking at the people present, and a smile that he thought was appropriate appeared on his originally slightly sentimental face:
"Don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm."
After a pause, he looked up at the sky that was obscured by the jungle. He saw blue-black smoke drifting diagonally into the sky. In the warm sunshine, unknown birds started to fly and circled in the mid-air.
Cheng Lin realized that he was walking out of the mountain, nodded secretly, and then asked:
"Excuse me, can any of you tell me where... you are from?"
As he spoke, Cheng Lin sighed silently in his heart, thinking that these people were probably "human beings" in the "post-civilization era", that is, the descendants of those humans who had survived the "Era of Catastrophe".
If we calculate from the age of the human race as a whole, we can probably be called their "ancestor".
"He is also the only ancestor who is still alive." Cheng Lin silently added in his heart, and then thought of the burning bones behind him, and felt a little sad in his heart.
Yes, although there was no circumstantial evidence, he could almost imagine what happened that year after leaving home.
When he came to the end of the dry river and saw the mountain of bones piled up behind the metal gate, he had already guessed something.
There are an unknown number of those bones, they are densely packed and piled up like mountains, and a large number of them are facing the direction of the door. It is obvious that they did not die "naturally", but more like they were imprisoned here.
Perhaps in those difficult years, because the population was too large, some people finally chose to abandon the majority and enclosed them with metal doors. Then countless people died inside because of lack of food or electricity and the dissipation of oxygen.
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Of course, this is not necessarily the truth, it is just Cheng Lin's speculation.
With a sigh in his heart, Cheng Lin retracted his gaze and looked at the "juniors" in front of him. As for the language, he had already heard their conversation when he was inside the door and successfully "understood" it. This was obviously a deduction procedure.
The automatic translation is very considerate.
However, Cheng Lin also discovered that their language seems to be somewhat related to English. Well, considering the situation at that time, there is indeed a high possibility that English will be retained as the world's lingua franca and derived from it.
"You...you...are..." In the forest, someone from the exploration team asked tremblingly.
"Who do you want to ask me?" Cheng Lin chuckled, raised his right hand, and tapped his forehead with his fingers, as if he was embarrassed. After thinking for two seconds, he deliberately made a distressed look, "Sorry, time...
...it's been too long, I...many of my memories are a bit messy, hehe, I hope you can understand, it's like a person who has been sleeping for too long, suddenly wakes up, and his brain is like a puddle of mud... If
You can provide enough information that I think I will recall more."
After hearing his words, the exploration team fell silent again. These people looked around in shock.
After all, the words of this mysterious man are terrifying to think about.
Finally, Shirley from the team came out. She tried hard to control her nervousness. She first performed a strange etiquette towards Cheng Lin - she clenched her right fist and knocked on her chest three times in sequence, and then said:
"We... are the pioneering exploration team of His Highness Nolan, the third prince of the Far South Territory and Lord Kingdom under the Kingdom of Dipispo."
Cheng Lin chewed on these words and gathered the clothes and equipment of these people. He thought that after the Catastrophic Era, human society had obviously regressed greatly.
Well, it sounds like we have returned to the age of feudal lords, well... considering the changes in the times, the population has dropped sharply, which is not enough to support the scale of industrialization, and it is not difficult to understand that we have returned to feudal lords.
Nodding, Cheng Lin smiled, and then showed a somewhat complicated smile in the gaze of these people:
"They are all names I have never heard of... It seems that times have indeed changed a lot."
Hearing his words, Shirley looked at the others, clenched her fists, as if to cheer herself up, and then leaned forward, eyes burning, and asked: "You...haven't heard the name of the kingdom?"
Cheng Lin calmly looked at the girl who looked a bit mixed-race, nodded, and said sincerely:
"That's true. Well, I wonder if your history still records... catastrophes?"
He mentioned this word deliberately. Sure enough, after hearing him say this, these people all changed obviously. The older woman in the team wearing a patterned robe came out, nodded, and said in a gentle voice:
"There is, in the history of the kingdom, a period of catastrophic era recorded. As for earlier, there is a legend of a prehistoric civilization... Do you really not understand this?"
Cheng Lin listened carefully, and then nodded under their nervous gazes:
"I think I roughly understand the situation. If I'm not wrong, the era I live in should belong to what you call... the Catastrophic Era."
The era I live in...the era of cataclysm...
Hearing these two words from Cheng Lin, everyone present changed their colors. The young man holding a strange copper pipe even blurted out: "Impossible!"
"Oh? Why?" Cheng Lin looked at him with interest.
The young man simply said: "The Era of Catastrophe has ended for a thousand years! It's impossible for anyone to survive! And... and the language at that time must be different from now. You..."
Cheng Lin shook his head and interrupted: "Learning a language is not difficult for me, especially since it has only been a thousand years and the language has not fundamentally changed."
"But..." The young man continued to argue, but was interrupted by the tall warrior "Lu En", "Qi Lin, stop talking."
Then, he stepped forward and looked at Cheng Lin seriously and cautiously, his eyes burning:
"According to legend, the strong men in the Era of Catastrophe have powerful abilities far beyond our imagination. It is precisely because of this that they were able to survive those difficult years... I don't know your origins, and I can't tell whether your words are true or false.
, but... no matter what your identity is, you must be a truly strong man..."
After a pause, Lu En said: "I don't know, what exactly do you want to do?"
What to do? Good question, I also want to know what I should do.
Cheng Lin muttered in his heart, and at this moment, a voice appeared in his mind:
[Congratulations on completing the mission (1)]
[Mission (Part 2): You walked out of the ancient "ruins" and met a prince's subordinates by chance. You were curious about this unknown era. You decided to follow them and take a look at the prince's territory.
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really……
Cheng Lin sighed in his heart, raised his right hand and tapped his forehead calmly, pretending to be thinking, and then said with some confusion:
"I...don't know...but if you don't mind, I would like to meet your lord."
Lu En and Shirley looked at each other, as if they were not particularly surprised by Cheng Lin's request. After two seconds of silence, they both said in unison: "Okay!"
Seeing Cheng Lin laughing, Shirley glanced at the gradually dissipating firelight inside the pushed-open metal door with a hint of palpitations. She hesitated for a moment, but ultimately did not choose to go in and take a look.
In contrast, this strange, powerful man who claims to be from the "Era of Catastrophe" is obviously more worthy of attention.
"We are about to return now, please come down the mountain with us."
After the agreement was completed, the tense atmosphere quietly relaxed a lot. Of course, the more important reason is that Cheng Lin's almost harmless appearance and gentle attitude always make people put down their guard... Of course, no one doubts Cheng Lin.
strength.
Although they have never fought, just being able to forcefully push open the heavy door is enough to show their strength.
Especially... I don't know what the four hands that pushed open the door are.
Naturally, they would not know that those were the psychic puppets that Cheng Lin had mobilized from the spirit world. After using them, he had already taken them back. Well... the last time he fought with Selicis in Europe, all those puppets had been collected.
It was destroyed, so the scrap copper and iron could only be recycled. In a short period of time, only two puppets could be made to use as coolies.
With Cheng Lin joining the team, the atmosphere in the entire team suddenly became weird.
Shirley and others were not easy to talk to, and they didn't dare to talk to Cheng Lin. Cheng Lin also knew what was going on, and deliberately stayed a few steps behind them, keeping a distance from each other.
However, compared to the members of the exploration team who were tense and alert at all times, Cheng Lin looked much more relaxed.
Walking almost leisurely in the mountains and forests, admiring the scenery in the mountains.
Not to mention, in reality, I am used to seeing desolate winters, and now that it is midsummer, I feel better.
The gate of the "Ruins" was originally located at a low level, not very far from the foot of the mountain, so when the warm and bright sunshine gradually faded and the red sun set in the west, everyone successfully descended the mountain. However, this did not mean that they had entered that place.
The "ultra-southern territory" under the jurisdiction of His Royal Highness the Prince.
After asking a few questions, Cheng Lin learned that at a normal pace, it would take two days to return to the territory.
This gave him a headache. No one liked sleeping in the open air. Furthermore, it was really uncomfortable for Cheng Lin, who was already accustomed to flying with a sword, to walk slowly. But if he left with a sword... it wouldn't be appropriate at all.
After thinking about it, the sky also turned dark. The soldier named Lu En looked at the gradually darkening sky, exhaled and said:
"Let's camp here, it's more open."
After walking for such a long time and in the sweltering heat, even the people in the team were not ordinary people, but they were still tired - especially when they had to be constantly on guard against the "mysterious man" who fell behind them.
At this time, almost all Hengyuan in the team were sweating profusely, and heat was coming out from the gaps in their armor.
"Okay, there is a stream nearby, I'll go get water."
A young man dressed as a warrior said.
"I'm with you." Another person also said.
Others skillfully began to clean the ground nearby, collect dry firewood, and prepare for camping.
Cheng Lin looked at this scene and frowned slightly: "Are you going to spend the night here? Or are you just eating?"
The older woman named "Dark Blue" explained gently:
"You have to eat dinner, and you really have to spend the night here."
After a pause, probably guessing what Cheng Lin was thinking, "Deep Blue" said again:
"We don't want to spend the night in the wild, but... this area has not been developed yet, and there are many ferocious beasts around. If we travel at night... even if we are not weak ordinary people, the danger will increase, so..."
"That's it?" Cheng Lin blinked and said.
"Deep Blue" was stunned for a moment, then said calmly, "Yeah..."
Immediately, she saw Cheng Lin laughing:
"If you're just worried about the dangers at night, then I guess that's not a problem."