A call came from the alley, and the young guard blinked, then slowly walked forward, his foot missing.
The very experienced old mercenary behind him immediately turned around and cooperated with the eldest lady A Li to reorganize the three-person battle formation.
"Wait! Uncle!"
After all, Old Tobacco Pipe was experienced. At this time, he knew the importance of obeying orders, so he stopped immediately.
But when he stopped, he also heard the screams of the young guard.
His body was peeled off inch by inch, and the skin, flesh, blood, and bones were disassembled into several distinct groups.
The veteran watched this scene in silence, he could do nothing. This is the cruelty here, human life is really fragile here.
When Lao Yandou heard the screams, he realized that something had happened. He asked, "What happened? Who happened to be in trouble?"
"It's Xiaoxiao." A Li's voice was low, and then she added: "There are only three of us left now, but there are at least a hundred steps waiting for us below. We must not take it lightly anymore, otherwise no one will survive.
go out."
Of course Lao Yandou would not lose his temper at a critical moment, but when he heard that the young guard named Xiaoxiao had an accident, he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.
Continuing downward, the three experienced people soon arrived in front of the altar.
Different from the magnificent altar as imagined, the altar dedicated to the Lord of the Past is actually just a very small shrine. Its shape resembles a miniature temple. There are many golden-armored guards standing at the entrance, but each of them looks different.
It's so small and small that it makes people feel very childish.
But when A Li arrived here, she looked solemn and said: "It's bad, we are late."
Lao Yandou didn't understand. He had never gone down before, so he just stood there silently and motionless.
The old mercenary frowned and said, "I saw a tree."
‘Tree?’ Lao Yandou was stunned: ‘Isn’t it a small shrine?’
A Li then said: "What I saw is also a tree."
Then after the two of them finished speaking, they both looked at the old pipe.
Lao Yandou knew something was wrong. Either these two people were deliberately trying to trouble him, or it was really possible that what he saw was different from the two of them.
Then Old Tobacco suddenly had bad thoughts. He scratched his head and said, "What I saw is also a tree."
A Li was stunned for a moment: "Describe it."
Old Tobacco Pipe: "...well...it's just...a very tall tree."
"What color?" asked the old mercenary.
"Um...white?"
"You hesitated." A Li frowned.
"Isn't that white?"
"Don't you know it yourself?" The old mercenary had already guessed that Old Tobacco was lying. He said in a deep voice: "Brother, what you saw should be a small shrine, right?"
Lao Yandou's eyelids twitched and he asked hurriedly: "Huh? How did you know?"
A Li suddenly looked gloomy and said, "That would be a big trouble... We might all die here."
Lao Yandou suddenly felt his scalp numb, and he asked cautiously: "How do you say it?"
"Those guys who worship the Lord of the Past are a group of freaks who are many times smarter than us. They especially like to experiment and play with space art, so after coming down from the entrance of the altar, we must keep the four of us looking only in one direction.
Make sure they don't get separated, but Xiaoxiao was distracted just now, so he died..." A Li explained in detail.
"Then what?"
"Then there is the altar part. We found the blueprint for this kind of worship consciousness from an ancient book called "Zhalan Ancient Scripture", but in the process of practice, we found the guidance to complete the worship to the Lord of the past to ignite the path of the forerunners.
It's not that easy, they made modifications and used similar methods."
"Similar means? Are you referring to the different altars that the three of us saw?"
"Yes, in fact, there is only one altar, and it is usually the only one. When the four people came down, they all saw the same thing. The ridiculous death alarmed them, so now the rules have changed, and only one person can complete the offering.
, and once it fails, everyone will die." A Li made the rules very clear.
But Lao Yandong was a little confused and asked: "Wait a minute, what exactly are they you are talking about?"
"I don't know." A Li answered simply.
Lao Yandou was stunned: "Ah? I don't know?"
A Li asked in a deep voice: "Is this strange? An ant was trampled to death with someone's boots. Does it make sense for other ants to study who trampled it to death? We are here to complete the sacrifice and maintain the stability of the bunker world.
I’m not here to explore the mysteries of archaeology. Uncle, you’d better stay as alert as possible and learn to manage your curiosity at the same time.”
Lao Yandou was stunned for a moment when A Li said this. Although this metaphor is a bit hurtful, it is indeed very direct and appropriate.
After thinking for a while, he asked: "Then is there anything I need to pay attention to?"
After thinking about it for a while, A Li said: "The time in the bunker world is out of order, so you may become very old after entering the temple, and of course you may become young and powerful, but no matter what, you will not be what you are now, so
You have to make sure that you can get the tribute as soon as possible after entering."
Old Tobacco Pipe nodded. Although he still has a lot of curiosity and confusion, he has learned to be obedient.
"continue."
"The next steps are very simple. You just need to go through the temple and place the tribute on the altar at the innermost part of the temple." A Li said simply.
But the old pipe doesn't think it's really that simple.
"Your description is a bit similar to putting an elephant in a refrigerator. It's too general. Are you not going to tell me what I will encounter when I walk through the temple?"
"This is random." A Li said: "They are just so unreasonable. I might as well make you think that you only need to open the refrigerator door and put the elephant in."
"Well...it's still a psychological tactic." Lao Yandou laughed, and he didn't know whether this sentence was teasing or self-deprecating.
A Li didn't care about Lao Yantong, she said: "You'd better hurry up, Lao Tong and I are waiting for your good news here."
Lao Yandou took a deep breath and nodded: "Okay then... you can't catch the tiger's cubs if you don't enter the tiger's den. If you don't enter the tiger's den, you'll be safe. I'll give it a try."
but……
"Well, how should I get in?"
A Li rolled her eyes and said, "Just keep staring at it."
The old pipe-smoker was stunned for a moment and said: ‘Is it that simple?’ When it reached his lips, he swallowed it back. He knew it was that simple.
Space... time... things that humans could only accept to set up and obey at first are actually played out by some mysterious power here. It is simply a naked mockery.
Old Tobacco calmed down his mind, holding the strange pottery jar in one hand and pressing the gun on his waist with the other.
His eyes were focused on the shrine that looked like a temple.
It is really small, but it is also very delicate... It can even be said that it is a bit lifelike. Of course, if it is not so small...
After staring blankly at the shrine for a long time, the little thing in front of him was still so small. Lao Yandou felt that he had been tricked, so he turned around and asked: "I said you..."
Before he finished speaking, Lao Yandou was stunned.
Where is this?
The neatly trimmed fir trees on both sides of the wide avenue paved with white marble stand upright like two rows of tireless loyal guards.
There is also a crystal clear artificial water channel under the metasequoia tree, which is empty and contains no fish or anything like that.
'Oh, is this the space distortion that the young master said? It's interesting...' Lao Tobacco searched his brain and found that he could use it to explain everything he saw now, which was probably the former Taosawa Mingchi and
He briefly talked about "space warp".
However, space warp is a vector acceleration technology based on the existence of space. It is the most cutting-edge space navigation technology that humans can currently master. It is mostly used in pioneer-class exploration starships to open up unknown galaxies.
The place where the old pipe is now is the bonding layer between space and time - the bunker.
As one of the three-dimensional foundations that make up the entity of the universe, the "bunker" is more like a chaotic material realm affected by powerful spiritual power. No one can describe it completely, but it can be determined from some very rare ancient books.
Necrontyrs who have overheard the Whispers of Chaos in their sleep describe the Bunker World as a remnant of the universe before the Big Bang, upon which all reality of time and space depends.
It can basically reproduce how powerful the Shangyuan civilization was before the Big Bang.
But just like A Li said just now, there is no need for ants that are accidentally trampled to death by humans to find out what actually trampled them to death, because the cognitive barrier between them is not something that ants can break. Instead of wasting
If you don't have time to think about a more concrete and greater reality structure, it is better to use your own tentacles to find a safer way.
Taiji City is a group of ants who seem stupid, but have actually found a safe path.
After gathering his thoughts, Lao Yandou was about to walk forward, but he almost tripped over his own pants and fell to the ground.
Only then did he notice that he had turned into what he looked like as a child.
To be specific, he was probably seven or eight years old.
It was still a bit difficult to hold the pottery jar with one hand at this age. The old pipe, which had turned into a small pipe, quickly hugged Ging Jing with both hands. He took a deep breath and laughed at himself: "It's true that the more you live, the less promising you are, and you have turned into a small pipe.
You’re a little brat, I don’t know who is so naughty and thinks it would be fun to do this?”
After muttering to himself, the little pipe began to walk towards the temple not far away.
But when we got to the steps of the temple, the small pipe was a little too big.
If he were in his previous state, he could easily climb up the more than a hundred steps in front of him. But he is a child now, and he is holding a tribute that must not be broken in his arms, facing each of these steps.
The height of the steps was more than 30 centimeters. Not only did the little pipe have a big head, but it also made me dizzy.
But what could he do if he didn't climb? Xiao Yandou's ambition did not diminish at the same time. He gritted his teeth, set his heart, and began to climb up hard.
…
While Lao Yandou was experiencing a fantasy journey that resembled Alice in Wonderland, Su Yao, who was in the broken royal city of Coibo, finally found her good brother Zhong Chuqi who had been missing for almost ten years.
The reunion between the two was not as warm as expected. On the contrary, Su Yao thought there was some danger approaching at first, and almost strangled Z to death when she turned around.
There was no luster in his skinny eyes, even if he saw Su Yao again.
He shrank his body, knowing that he was familiar with Su Yao, but Su Yao knew that he didn't seem to know him for a long time. This sunny boy who once had unlimited glory was not as good as he is now even after the baptism of the "Mengliang Battle"
Down and out, he almost changed into a different person, with sadness written all over his body.
"Do you still remember who I am?" Su Yao half-knelt in front of her brother.
Z, who was shrinking, looked at Su Yao blankly. It was not the first time that his eyes stared blankly at Su Yao like this.
This is not the first time that Su Yao has tried to awaken his dusty memory.
The two looked at each other, and Su Yao knew that he had forgotten.
He doesn't remember anything.
The people he tortured in this royal city were neither humans nor ghosts...it was he who destroyed it.
But Su Yao, who had already been hard-hearted, didn't feel any guilt at all. He just accepted a fact in his heart. But he didn't want to give up completely. He felt that since Z was still alive and could even take the initiative to find him, it proved that his subconscious mind
There is still a line there.
Sure enough, after the two looked at each other for a long time, Z seemed to suddenly remember something. He stood up suddenly and said: "Don't go! Don't go there! Come back! Come back!"
He hurriedly stretched out his hand forward, as if trying to grab something.
But Su Yao was empty, nothing at all.
Z said and ran forward, Su Yao followed immediately.
After the two of them ran out of the museum-like building one after another, z disappeared out of thin air.
For a moment, Su Yao felt a chill running down her spine and thought to herself: 'Is this an illusion?'
wrong!
This idea was immediately rejected by Su Yao. He had done enough homework before coming here. The Koibo people quietly broke down the cognitive barriers and mobilized the whole country to build an ecological spaceship that could accommodate the next royal city.
The target of the spacecraft is the dark star with a revolution period of 190,000 years - Coibolis.
This dark star is pulled by two star systems. Every 190,000 years, it enters the solar system from the orbit close to Jupiter, and then escapes from the solar system close to the orbit of Mars.
Every time this escape happens, it happens to be when the distance between Earth and Mars is the furthest.
Nearly ten thousand years ago, the Coibo people invented and built aircraft that could fly using gravity slingshots, and made a desperate move to migrate their civilization to the dark star.
But the reason why a dark star is called a dark star is because it is a planet that travels alone in the absence of darkness most of the time. It is not like the pampered Earth, let alone the honest and powerful Jupiter. It can escape and stay in the dark star.
Wandering within two star systems and being the offspring of two stars at the same time.
In order to preserve the fire of civilization during this journey that lasted hundreds of thousands of years, the Coibo people had to keep their civilization in a safer place.
This place is the "bunker".
Maybe it's some kind of inheritance... maybe genetic memory compilation technology is real.
Isn't the literal meaning of "bunker" a concept that exists for safety?
This is not an illusion.
Zhong Chuqi did find him again, but now Su Yao himself has lost him.
Just when he fell into melancholy, Jiu'er ran over from a distance. Apparently she was lost after returning from the super-dimensional space. After the two reunited, Jiu'er fell into Su Yao's arms, and she was frightened.
Su Yao comforted her and asked, "Have you seen anyone else?"
Jiuer was shocked when he heard this: "Did you see it too?"
Su Yao frowned and nodded: "Well, I found the little cook."
Jiuer was shocked again: "Ah?! Really? Where is he?"
Su Yao shook his head: "I lost you."
Jiu'er suddenly felt lost again. Although her relationship with Zhong Chuqi could only be regarded as average, she loved the house and Wu. After learning that Zhong Chuqi had been secretly working for Su Yao, Jiu'er couldn't help but care about him.
Su Yao asked: "Who did you see? Is it O or Zun Peng?"
Jiuer shook his head with a solemn expression: "No... to be precise... I can't even be sure whether she is a human being..."
Su Yao was a little confused, but he didn't ask any more questions: "Let's go, take me to see."
"Um."
The two of them immediately walked towards the direction Jiu'er came from.
Walking through the broken streets, in the center of the ruins, there seemed to be a woman crying in a dark corner.
Her voice was very quiet, and you would not be able to hear her voice if you didn't get closer and listen carefully. There was also a golden human-shaped body in front of the woman, which should be some kind of unfinished work of art.
The woman with her back to Jiu'er and Su Yao was wearing fluffy and tattered thick clothes. When she cried, her body trembled and she kept murmuring: "Ah, that's it... what if it's not...
…What if it’s all a lie…We’re all wrong…Isn’t it…Isn’t it…”
After listening for a while, Su Yao found that she repeated it several times and said the same content.
Jiu'er said in a deep voice: "I have been observing her around here for a long time before I went to find you. She has been crying and mumbling...it feels very abnormal."
Of course this is not normal.
In a broken royal court that may have existed for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, there is actually a humanoid creature, and she is still crying. This is weird enough in itself.
Su Yao took a step forward and asked tentatively: "Excuse me, why are you so sad?"
Unexpectedly, the woman with her back to Su Yao immediately turned her pale face away. She seemed to not want anyone to see her clearly.
It's like she already knew someone was nearby.
She stopped crying and murmured to herself with sobs: "What if it is... what if it's not a lie... what if we are all right... will things get better... it's really ridiculous
The smell of despicableness...ah...the smell of despicableness..."
"The smell of despicableness?" Su Yao repeated this sentence, and then suddenly remembered something. He took another step forward and said, "You are the incarnation of that adult, right? Is that so?"