Ming Nan walked quickly and kept climbing down along the faults of the cliff. Only then did I realize that the so-called shortcut was actually a vertical downward path.
This can indeed save several hours.
The temperature of the underground copper sea is extremely high, and the sea breeze blowing out makes me feel dry in the mouth and difficult to breathe. Under this strong wind, no one dares to approach those old antiques without the aura of yin and yang.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief when I heard the sounds of the chase behind me getting smaller and smaller. Now I followed Ming Man and concentrated on taking this so-called "shortcut".
After all, this road is close to the Copper Sea. If you are not careful, you will fall and be shattered into pieces. You will not even be able to become a ghost by then.
However, Ming Nan took me all the way down, climbing along the cliff to a depth of hundreds of meters, and then suddenly turned a corner and continued forward along the cliff.
The road was only about 20 centimeters wide. One side was a vertical mountain wall, and the other side was a boiling sea of copper. We pressed our bodies against the mountain wall and kept moving forward. Looking around, there were red lights everywhere, and the heat wave was overwhelming.
, almost roasting people dry.
Fortunately, this section of the road is not very long, and after half an hour we reached a hot flat land.
The surface temperature of this land is more than 40 degrees. Staying here can feel the heat wave brought by the Copper Sea in the distance. Standing from our position and looking left and right, one side is the red light emitted by the Copper Sea, and the other side is
But it was so dark that you couldn't even see your fingers.
Ming Nan told me that this is the so-called ninth district.
In fact, some time ago, the Ninth District was still a dark abyss world, and the Copper Sea has not yet spread here. However, recently the Copper Sea has become violent and the strong wind has blown, and the general area of the Ninth District has been swallowed up by the Copper Sea.
The strong winds continue to blow, and the copper sea continues to erode. In a few days, the ninth district will completely cease to exist.
In District 9, there used to be more than twenty old antiques living here, but now they have all moved away and entered a safer area. Only Bone Maniac, for some unknown reason, has always stayed here and never left.
He seems to be very interested in the Copper Sea and Gangfeng here.
After entering the tenth area, the feeling of being steamed disappeared. I looked around curiously and saw many traces of human activities, as well as piles of rotten metal.
Ming Nan explained it to me and said: "This is the second battle of life and death, the battlefield garbage that was thrown down. Thousands of years of erosion and oxidation, without ghost inscriptions for reinforcement and rust prevention, have rotted into this state.
, is something without any value at all.”
I understood that those neat and poorly repaired magic weapons were actually picked out from the garbage, repaired with ghost writing, and carefully maintained before being placed in the warehouse.
There are many of these garbage dumps, ranging from as big as a skyscraper to as small as a small garbage dump, scattered in many locations in the 9th District.
We walked along the garbage pile for a long time before we saw a metal house with lights on. Standing at the door of the house was a skinny man, leaning on a cane and looking at the copper sea in the distance.
This man is a bone lunatic.
After hearing our movements, Madman Bones glanced back, and then continued to look away in the direction of the Copper Sea. From his position, he couldn't actually see the Copper Sea, he could only see the steaming red light hanging in the distance.
In the sky, the red ones have a unique flavor.
Ming Nan led me quickly closer, and then stopped in front of the metal house. He said loudly: "Madman! Zhang Wuxin is here!"
The Bone Maniac didn't even look back and said, "I understand, don't disturb me while I enjoy the scenery."
I sneered, the Ninth District was almost gone, and this guy still had time to look at the scenery. He really didn’t know what to say. This guy was pretending to be mysterious, and he just wanted to attract my attention.
But I didn’t have much time, and I didn’t want to waste it on such a meaningless thing, so I said loudly: “Mad Bones, if you called me over, you couldn’t just come here to see the scenery, right?”
Bone Maniac turned around and said with a smile: "Look, the red clouds here are so beautiful. When my brother and I stood on top of Yudu City, we also saw such red clouds."
I said angrily: "Your brother is dead. Yes, he did die in the hands of Tianzi, but have you ever thought that without Tianzi, even you wouldn't be able to survive!"
The Bone Maniac said calmly: "Yes, I understand this."
I sneered and said: "Everyone in the Endless Abyss hates the Son of Heaven and hates why they let you live for so long, but you shouldn't be. You are the purple-robed priest under Emperor Shun, and you were once a living person!"
"I don't have much time, and I don't want to listen to those sad stories you tell me. In a word, you use this method to attract my attention and want me to come to District 9. Why on earth!"
The Bone Maniac laughed: "Well, since you are quick to talk, I am too lazy to hide from you. I asked you to come here because I want you to know that the abyss world is about to disappear."
I said: "I know this! The Ancestor of the Corpse moved away from the Ten Thousand Demons Pit, and Mohuitou Villa left the junction of the Abyss and the Ten Thousand Demons Pit because they were worried that the destruction of the Endless Abyss would affect them. Now the old antiques in the Abyss world are trying their best to leave.
, also because of this matter!”
After finishing speaking, I looked at him impatiently: "If you only have this little information, you have really wasted so much of my time!"
The Bone Maniac tilted his head and glanced at me: "You know quite a lot. But the destruction of the Endless Abyss will affect the living world, do you know?"
I replied coldly: "It is precisely because of this that I came here to find you. Tell me, what do you know?"
The Bone Maniac laughed, stretched out his hand to open the door of the metal house, and said: "The visitor is a guest, there is no reason to let the guest enjoy the air outside, please!"
The structure of the metal house looks very solid. It is made of copper slurry from the copper sea mixed with metal weapons. This alone makes me hesitate. If the bone lunatic has malicious intentions and I am trapped in it, I will have no choice but to
Quietly waiting for the sea of copper to submerge this place.
Seeing my hesitation, Bone Maniac grinned: "What? Don't you dare?"
I laughed: "Don't dare? Is it possible that a copper house can trap me?"
Without waiting for Ming Nan to dissuade me, I stepped in without hesitation.
To be honest, it's not that I'm reckless, it's just that this copper house looks like a cage, eerie and scary, but I have the real fire of the sun in my hand, which can burn steel and melt iron.
If you are really trapped, it is not difficult to escape.
After I entered, the Bone Maniac also laughed and ducked into the Copper House. Only Ming Man was guarding the door, not only able to deal with me in the Copper House, but also to monitor outsiders.
There is a bed, a table, and two chairs in the copper room. There are also some broken magical instruments that are in a mess and are being repaired.
The bone lunatic threw those magic weapons in the corner, stretched out his hand and said to me: "Please!"
I sat on the chair and felt warm and warm, not as cold as I thought. I guess it was caused by the strong wind blowing and the copper ore was about to melt.
When Bone Maniac saw me sitting down, he stared at me carefully for a while and said, "Zhang Wuxin, how is Emperor Shun doing?"
I said calmly: "Fortunately, he has been lying in the ice coffin for thousands of years, but the ice coffin melted and he has escaped. I don't know where he is at ease recently."
The Bone Maniac sighed: "I knew he would be safe and sound."
He suddenly said seriously: "Zhang Wuxin, we are all living people, so I won't talk nonsense to you. The sea of copper spreads, the strong wind invades, everyone wants to leave the abyss world, leave the Ten Thousand Demons Pit, and run to the ground to follow the living
People are vying for territory. But no one thought that the Sea of Copper would invade all the way to the surface of the earth."
When I saw him talking about business, I didn't glare at him. Instead, I asked carefully: "This place is dozens of kilometers away from the ground. What evidence do you have for saying that?"
The Bone Maniac sneered: "Evidence? Have you seen that big tree? It is evidence!"
"The underground world is not a monolith, but there are passages and spaces everywhere. The endless abyss we are in is an underground space, and the underground world where the Twelve Cities of Fengdu are located is also a huge space. You understand what I say.
?"
I nodded to express my understanding. The space where the underground world is located is the Mohorovich discontinuity between the crust and the mantle. Although there is no definite evidence for the underground space of the endless abyss, it should be similar to the underground world.
There are indeed countless cracks and passages in these huge underground spaces that connect to the surface world, otherwise there would be no oxygen left.
The bone madman continued: "It is true that the copper sea cannot reach the surface world, but the strong winds can. These strong winds can blow away the yang energy of the living, can take away the yin energy of the dead, and can dissipate the three souls and seven souls.
It can also cause the body to perish. Once the Copper Sea riots, the Gangfeng will first affect the Twelve Cities of Fengdu and the Ten Thousand Demons Pit, and then it will follow the surge of air and directly enter the Yang World."
"This is a natural hazard. It's very difficult for manpower to intervene to solve it. It's very difficult. At least you can't solve it now."
I was a little displeased with what I heard. If I couldn't solve it, why did this guy try so hard to call me over?
The bone madman seemed to notice my displeasure and snorted: "I don't expect you to solve this matter. Zhang Wuxin, let's make a deal! You help me give something to Emperor Shun, and I will tell you about winning."
How about destiny?"
As soon as I heard the words "win destiny", my eyes immediately lit up, and I whispered: "What is it?"
Bone Maniac opened a secret compartment under the table and took out a thick copper block. He flipped it casually, and I realized that the thing was a book composed of countless copper pages, and the pages were all covered with dense ghost writing.
symbol.
"In the Dayu Dynasty, I was one of the one hundred and eight little purple-robed priests, and I was also the official responsible for geological disasters. My colleagues and I managed the huge dynasty, and there were never any problems."
He gently touched the copper book with his hand and said softly: "In this book, I have recorded all the geological information about the underground world, and it is also where I fulfill my responsibility as a purple-robed priest. With this book,
The Dayu Dynasty has an extremely thorough understanding of even the underground world!"
At that time, the Dayu Dynasty ruled almost the entire earth, and even the distant Alps and Antarctica were haunted by purple-clothed priests. They controlled the earth and soared in the sky, but because of the death of people, they never touched the earth.
Now Madman Bone has used his thousands of years of records and knowledge to finally incorporate the earth into the knowledge system of the Yu Dynasty.
I said softly: "The Yu Dynasty has been destroyed, the Wen Dian has disappeared, and not many people even know the ancient runes."
Bone Maniac smiled and said: "I know, Ying Tianming already said it when he came. But I gave this book to Emperor Shun, his old man. As long as his old man is still there, the ancient runes cannot be lost!"