Chapter 214 X-ray
The yak head without skin suddenly started moving. Fortunately, the fat man and I were mentally prepared in advance. The fat man raised his gun and wanted to hit him. In a hurry, I saw that the bull head was very strange, but it had no intention of hurting us. So I stopped the fat man first and took a closer look at what happened to the yak head.
When yaks are alive, they are stripped off and then slaughtered. We have seen this in the murals of the Temple of Reincarnation. This is nothing strange. As an ancient heritage, it symbolizes the release of the soul first so that the body can be eaten with confidence.
It turned out that there was a large wooden bar in this slaughterhouse that could hold the cow in the middle, and both sides could be retracted and moved in a telescopic manner. In this way, the cow was stuck in it, and no matter how powerful it was, it could not be used, and the butcher could slaughter it at will.
The body of the yak head was sandwiched in the bloody wooden railing. The skin of the cow's body was not peeled off, and the tail was still twitching. In front of the empty cow's cavity without a head, a heavy axe to cut off the cow's head fell. The cow's head we saw was hung in the air by a rope, and the cow's eyes were still turning. It seemed that the moment the cow's head was just cut off, the time here suddenly solidified and never passed, and the yak was always fixed - the moment before its signs of life were about to disappear.
The body and head are separated, and the signs of life have not disappeared within a few seconds or even minutes. It is very common in the biological world. After the chicken's head is cut off, the headless chicken body can run on its own for a while. In ancient times, a death row prisoner was beheaded. As soon as the head landed, if someone called the death row prisoner's name, his head would still react, because the nerves had not yet died.
But that was only a moment. From the time when my fat man and I discovered that this yak head was not dead yet, it has been maintaining this and that between life and death. Has it been like this for thousands of years? Not only this unlucky big yak, but also every tree and grass in the entire "Evil Luohai City", including the lit lights, unfinished works, slaughtered yaks, cooked beef, and the undried bloody handprints on the stone gate, were frozen in the last few seconds, and there was not even a single figure in the entire empty city. Is this all related to the disaster of destroying the "Evil Luohai City"? What kind of disaster is that that has such a terrifying power?
Thinking about what we had just eaten, maybe a pot of beef that had been cooked for thousands of years, I couldn't help but feel a little nauseous. The various phenomena in this city were really incredible. It would be safer to retreat outside the city first, and wait until dawn tomorrow before entering the main city like a beehive. So Fatty and I called Shirley Yang and others, and took things and walked back the same way.
I looked up at the sky and night had already arrived, but the light in this "Evil Luohai City" was still the same as when I first discovered it. It was as if it was in the dusk and dusk. Although there were many lights, it looked very hazy and dazed. Perhaps even the light at the time of the destruction of the ancient city would have stayed forever. If A Xiang hadn't confirmed it, I would have thought this was a ghost town.
As I walked, I briefly told Shirley Yang about the situation in the slaughterhouse. Shirley Yang thought that this place was not as simple as losing outside the track of time. For example, the cooked beef cooked in the pot is indeed cooked and delicious. After eating it, it will not reappear itself. Everything in the city is fixed at a certain time. If it is not affected by external forces, it will never change. The sky outside has changed from darkness to darkness, and the time of the watch is also normal, which means that the time around us is still the right one.
There is another thing that is often passed, and it is also the easiest to be ignored. Things in "Evil Luohai City" are not static. It can only be said that they permanently retain a specific form, and are by no means the reason for the solidification of time and space. Therefore, the confusion caused by time and space can be temporarily eliminated, but it is impossible to know the reason for the formation of this phenomenon. For the sake of the name, the eternal moment in "Evil Luohai City" is called "X-ray", a mysterious ancient city that is completely stuck on "X-ray", and "X" means unknown.
If you want to unravel the mystery of "X-ray", you must figure out what happened to "Evil Luohai City" at the last moment. You still need to wait until dawn to go into the city to see if there are any changes before you can further confirm. Perhaps in the depths of the beehive castle, you can find the answer to the truth.
I was overwhelmed by the strange things in this ancient city, and I couldn't touch my head at all, and even wanted to go crazy. After listening to Shirley Yang's analysis, I found that her thinking was very clear. It seemed that people were more dead than people, and they had to throw away goods. But maybe I was just a leader in my life, so I didn't have the brain to be a staff officer.
We climbed back to the green stone beside the "Wind Erosion Lake" from the outside of the city wall, and looked back at the "Evil Luohai City" in the night. It was quietly trapped underground, still flashing with countless lights, but the light in the city was still as dark as at dusk. It seemed that tomorrow morning, the city would still be like this.
After running back and forth, Uncle Ming and A Xiang were both overdrawn. Since there were "spotted dragons" appearing in the mountains and forests, we did not dare to go down the rocks, so we had to find a shelter place on the green rock to rest, ready to rest until dawn, so we went into the main city to find out.
So I took turns to watch the night. The next day at dawn, I found that Shirley Yang had already woken up and was focusing on the "Bible Map" we found in the "Reincarnation Temple". The clouds above our heads were very thick, and the sunlight shone through the gaps of the clouds was not enough. The valley surrounded by dangerous peaks was very dark. The "Evil Luohai City" under the rock seemed to be completely isolated from this world, still the same. The lights in the city were flashing, but they were surprisingly quiet. The whole city stayed on the "X-ray".
Shirley Yang said she had a premonition that if the secret of "X-ray" could not be found today, I am afraid that everyone would never be able to leave the valley behind this "Door of Disaster", and this place was simply in a "desperate situation".
I know that Shirley Yang's map was very damaged. It was a Portuguese priest who stole the secrets of the "Reincarnation Sect". He wanted to dig treasures, but before he could make a journey, the priest was killed due to religious conflicts. We could not tell whether the terrain drawn in the picture was the "land of the great republic bird" or the "Phoenix Divine Palace". So I asked Shirley Yang if there were any new discoveries now?
Shirley Yang said: "Comparing with the nearby terrain, it can be concluded that the Bible map is the map of the Phoenix Temple - the Evil Luohai City. However, with the best efforts, the drawings secretly drawn by the Portuguese priest were restored less than 30% of them, and they were one in the east and one in the west, and they were not connected to each other... But if time permits, I can complete the missing parts of the map based on the environment here."
If we have a map of the ancient city, even if there is only a part of it as a reference, it will definitely be a great help to us. I cheered up and woke up the fat man, Uncle Ming, and Axiang one by one, and distributed the few leftover food to everyone for breakfast. After eating this meal, I had no reserves. Apart from going to the lake to fish, I had to go to the city to cook beef and eat it myself.
When I entered the city again, Uncle Ming discussed with me again. It would be better to cross mountains and rivers to find a way out. Since that ancient city is so strange, why bother to take risks?
I pretended not to hear it, thinking to myself, Fatty, Shirley and Yang, how much effort did I put in to find the root of the "phoenix courage"? After finally getting here, how could I give up easily? I would rather die in front of the formation and after the formation, I immediately took a few steps and entered the city first.
Except for the things we touched, the rest of the things did not change, and even the faint mist in the city was still the same. The fat man went straight to the slaughterhouse and cut a few large pieces of "fresh" yak meat to set aside.
Last night, I wanted to wait until dawn to see the structure of the tall "beehive" and then go straight to Huanglong, but the light in the city was still dim. Looking up under the "beehive", I looked up and saw that the lights in the main city were like hundreds of fireflies quietly attached to the beehive. The atmosphere gave people a sense of pressure and urgency.
The "big hive" exposed on it is only half a piece, and the larger part is deeply trapped in the ground. According to the values of the Demon Kingdom, important power institutions should be underground. So we walked around the city and found the largest cave to enter the inside of the "hive". The caves inside are so dense and complex, they are like honeycomb ant nests, which inevitably makes people wonder whether the residents inside are humans or insects.
I remember that from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when the whole country was digging deep holes and accumulated grain, it rushed to reactionaries abroad and maliciously attacked and said that our leader was the "gray" family, otherwise why would the whole country dig holes? I have also dug such "civil defense" facilities, but compared to the underground "Evil Luohai City", it seems a bit small. Maybe many of these caves exist naturally. Otherwise, with the manpower and equipment at that time, it would be hard to imagine making such a project.
We found the largest passage to go underground. There were lights in the passage and the caves on both sides. Every time we walked forward, Shirley Yang wrote the terrain on paper with a pen. She drew sketches very quickly. She did not waste too much time on the way, so she drew a simple and practical roadmap.
From time to time, I use the "wolf eye" flashlight to shine on the cave houses on both sides. Most of the cave houses without lights are empty. In some caves and some wet places, many deer beetles are gathered, and even with a butt stock, they cannot be beaten to death. The deeper they go, the fewer the number of cave houses will be, but the larger the scale will be.
At the end of the underground of the city, there are two large stone doors hidden invisible. There is also a door hole on the left and right sides of the passage. Two blue and white gems are embedded on the door holes. They shine in with a flashlight. In the hole on the left, there are dozens of square meters square and the dome is very high. There is a stone statue of ghost head in the depths. The ghost head has ugly faces and hideous patterns are carved with a row of seven-star ladybugs. There are faint butter lamps in the four corners. On the ground in the middle, there are black cows and white horses, two steamed offerings, and the things in the door hole on the other side are similar.
Shirley Yang found the "Bible Map". One of the fragments contains two places, "Ice Palace" and "Fire Palace", which are exactly the same as here. However, the map should be marked with the big stone gate at the end of the passage, which belongs to the damaged and lost part. Only on the edge of the defective Bible Map, can you see a pattern similar to animal bones. Remember that in the "Black Tiger Xuantan" of the Reincarnation Sect, there are similar figures in the lowest level of the crystal brick. Are these bones related to the disappearance of all humans in the "Evil Luohai City"?
With all kinds of questions, I pushed open the stone door at the end, and as soon as I entered, I felt a chill that penetrated my heart and lungs. I thought that the evil spirit in this hall was heavy, yin and cool, completely different from the environment on the upper floors. What I saw in my eyes was a temple with pearls and treasures. However, although there were many lights in the hall, they were very dim and the hall was deep, so I couldn't see clearly what was inside.
At this time, Shirley and Yang and the fat man followed me into the stone gate. I was about to walk forward, but suddenly I felt something was missing. When I turned around, I found that Uncle Ming and Axiang were standing outside and did not follow in. I greeted them, "Let's go, what are you waiting for?"
Axiang hid behind Uncle Ming and whispered to Uncle Ming quietly. Uncle Ming looked panicked when he heard this. I felt even more and more strange, so I walked back and asked them what the hell was.
Chapter completed!