Chapter 36: City Gate
Seeing Guyu's stunned expression, Dachuan and Laota couldn't help but touch it with their hands.
However, their arms passed through the wall directly, as if passing through the air.
Well, it doesn't seem to be passing through the air at all.
Because this city wall does not exist at all.
What I see is an illusion, but in fact, there is only air here.
"Why is this happening? Everything seems so real, but there is nothing in fact!"
Xiao Man'er asked puzzledly through the thick city wall with her hands.
Such doubts exist in everyone's mind here.
Thirteen people walked into the mystical city of light and shadow. Everything looked so real, with ruins. Although it was broken, it was still very exquisitely carved. Everything was so clear, but it could not be touched.
The huge hollow plate carrying the illusory ancient city slid in the smooth and diluted mud, and soon returned to the previous stone dam again. This time the remaining twelve people stepped up.
A group of people were amazed in the face of this mirage-like ancient city, and could not guess why this was the case.
The volume of this ancient city cruising area is still too thick and too large compared to Guyu's infrasonic hearing. Guyu cannot hear the huge guy under his feet thoroughly, so naturally he can't guess why this situation occurs.
Mr. Ling gave a guess, believing that this may be because the plate under his feet is a huge hollow magnet, so it can form a certain magnetic record, leaving such a phantom, and it may even be that this magnetism affects everyone's brain here, thus forming this illusion.
In other words, the ancient city I saw was actually just something that everyone imagined in their minds and did not actually exist.
Everyone prefers the former, that is, the phantom of this ancient city comes from some kind of magnetic record.
Then the question comes again.
If it is a magnetic record, it proves that the ancient city actually exists and still exists, because this magnetic record in natural environment is difficult to preserve for thousands of years.
However, they compared the map recorded by Pizi Temple to prove that they were already above the blood pool, and this was their destination, but they never saw the real ancient city.
Fortunately, this did not have a big impact on Mr. Ling and his team.
Dachuan has started working, and asks his subordinates to start scratching the powder on the hard ground here with utensils. Go back and compare the soil to know if this is Kunlun Ruins.
They needed to take different layers of powder, but the ground here was extremely hard, and they lost almost all their tools, more than twenty people, only three had daggers.
I can only rely on three dagger shifts to replace people and work to get rid of the soil, so the speed will naturally not be faster.
Fortunately, the ground under the phantom of the ancient city was extremely dry. They went to the dock to pick up firewood several times and prepared to spend the night here at night.
The dry ground and the warm bonfire will allow them to make up for their previous sleep.
As for the food, only some grassroots and bark fill the belly.
What's even more troublesome is fresh water. The water in the mud is red and fresh, so they dare not drink it.
After discussing with Gu Yu, Mr. Ling concluded that he would take a break here for at most one night and would set off tomorrow and find a way to return to a place with tamsui within half a day and completely walk out of the bleeding pool within two days, otherwise they might all die here.
When the expedition team collected soil samples, Guyu was wandering around in this huge ancient city phantom.
His purpose is very simple, that is, to find traces of Jack Sheng appearing here.
Since Lao Ta and Hua Lao are sure that Jack Sheng is indeed here, there will definitely be some clues.
If not, then it was Laota or Hua Lao who lied, or Jack Sheng ran away halfway and turned to the Thai area.
This can also explain why Jack Sheng appeared in Thailand and Shu at about the same time.
As dusk fell, Gu Yu and the three of them hiding beside the fire and chatting, were secretly lying on the Snickers.
That's right, this is the last inventory of Laota.
In addition to the Snickers, they also have drinks, which are not many, but can barely moisten their throats.
All of this is thanks to Lao Ta's belt bag. Gu Yu envies this equipment very much and decided to make such a belt bag after going back this time, no matter what, it will be bigger than Lao Ta's.
In fact, Gu Yu was not very worried about Tamsui's problem, because Ruomu's root was still in the waterproof pocket of his windbreaker.
If it weren't for not wanting these people to know Ruo Mu's secret, Gu Yu would have taken it out and squeezed it out long ago.
To collect red clay, only Dachuan and others were enough, but Mr. Ling was doing nothing.
He looked at Gu Yu and the other three gathered a little far away, thinking in his mind:
"This Guyu can always predict the opportunity. If it weren't for calling someone to check the background of this Guyu on the way, let alone Dachuan, I would have suspected that he had been here before.
However, it is now very certain that he has been here, even in Shu, for the first time, but why can he know that there is a 33-meter-long stone road pier hidden under the mud pond?"
Mr. Ling was becoming more and more curious about Guyu, and he couldn't help but walk slowly to Guyu and the other two.
Xiao Man'er faced Mr. Ling sideways. When she saw the other party walking towards this side, she quickly whispered:
"Wipe your mouth quickly, Mr. Ling is here."
When Mr. Ling arrived, the three of them had already begun to discuss their strengths at the pile of rocks.
"Oh Lao Gu, look at this stone, it's so dark."
"Yes! Yes! Still bright."
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Xiao Man'er has no words, so she has to copy and paste:
"Yeah, black and bright!"
When Mr. Ling heard such an idiotic polite comment, he had no expression, but said lightly:
"This piece of gravel should be a piece of fragment of the city wall. It's nothing strange. Are you interested in going to the main entrance of this city of light?"
This is an invitation, and this kind of behavior is really rare for Mr. Ling.
Gu Yu was stunned and subconsciously said:
"Isn't this the main entrance? Such a big gap!"
Mr. Ling shook his head and said:
"Of course not. Ancient cities must have the city name carving and arches above, but there is not here, so this is not the main gate."
Guyu was also wandering around and looking for Professor Jack Sheng’s traces, and naturally accepted the invitation.
Lao Ta and Xiao Man'er made excuses to rest on the spot.
Mr. Ling and Gu Yu walked side by side, walking towards the side around the outer periphery of the city wall.
"Mr. Ling, you came here from all the way, really just to compare the soil?"
"Yes, but this is worth it. Once you find the location of Kunlun Ruins, you can revolve around Kunlun Ruins and restore most of the lost history. Whether it is Kong Sheng's burning of books, or Qin Emperor and Qing's burning of books, too much truth is buried in the long river of history.
By the way, my name is Ling Dongjie. You are not my student, just call me my name."
Guyu smiled and said:
"That's great! Or I'll be nervous when I call you sir. I won't fall in love with school since I was a child. My name is Guyu, your name is Winter Solstice, we all have twenty-four solar terms, haha!"
As they spoke, the two had walked hundreds of meters along the city wall of light and shadow. Only then did Gu Yu realize that the gap just now was really not the city gate, but just a collapsed city wall.
Because he saw the real city gate.
Chapter completed!