Chapter 1766 Historic Stone Gate
After entering the mountain, Bing Zhixie and Kun saw a large number of man-made traces, including broken pottery pots, scattered tiles, and collapsed brick walls that were turned into mud. , only the outline of the original house can be faintly seen. However, although there are many traces, they can only be found if you search carefully. If you don't search carefully, at first glance, it is just an ordinary mountain forest.
In the forest, monsters and beasts lurk in the dark forest. Bing Zhixie explores the path ahead, looking back and waiting for Kun and Pegasus to follow. Fortunately, the Silver Moonlight Dragon was there, which saved them a lot of difficulties and troubles. The roar and breath of the dragons are enough to scare away most of the monsters. Even if the monsters have never encountered a giant dragon, dragons always carry a natural intimidation.
Bing Zhixie made a preliminary judgment on the scale of the monuments here. In ancient times, there should have been an ancient city of medium or above, or a village group with tens of thousands of residents. He is more inclined to believe that there was a town here in ancient times. From the stone tigers and huge stone sculptures, he feels that there was a highly civilized ethnic group here, even far superior to the current Qianling tribe. What makes people curious is why this civilization did not continue or moved to other places?
Kun has never been here before, so she can't lead the way. Fortunately, she hasn't encountered much danger so far. The further we walked up the mountain, the more monuments there were. Bing Zhixie discovered an ancient wall buried in the soil at the foot of a slope. The wall was made of ordinary bricks and stones. There was nothing special about it. What was special was the fact that there was an ancient wall lying on top of the wall. There are many stone tigers in different shapes, standing, lying, squatting, crouching and ready to pounce, etc. This unknown ancient city should be a civilization that respected the evil tiger.
The mountains are large and the roads are difficult to walk. In order to find clues about the so-called "fetal demon", Bing Zhixie and Kun could only search on foot in the mountains and forests. After walking for a while, Bing Zhixie found a stone step appeared under his feet: "Hey, there is a road." He looked forward along the direction of the stone steps: "Let's go this way."
The stone steps are very simple. It is ancient and was made up of rough polished rocks and then spliced together. Due to the erosion of the years, the long stone steps have been deformed and twisted in many places, and many of the masonry has been overturned by vegetation. Bing Zhixie used the Moon Soul Blade to split the weeds and branches on the road, and walked along the stone steps up the mountain. After walking for a long time, they saw a very obvious ancient building ruins in front of them.
In the tall trees, a ruins made of bricks and stones appeared in front of the two people. The sizes of the bricks and stones were different, showing the originality of the ruins, but there were countless small brick and stone buildings in the ruins. The square stone pillars are formed, each one standing tens of meters high, showing its former magnificence.
Bing Zhixie passed under the square brick pillars and felt something in her heart. Each brick and stone seemed rough, but they were laid neatly, so that the length and width of the stone pillars were neat and precise. Difference. Kun saw such a tall building for the first time in her life. She snatched the spar lamp from Bing Zhixie's hand, stood under the pillar and looked up.
Bing Zhixie stepped onto the last section of the stone steps and passed through a broken arch that was also made of bricks. A large firelight shone forward in his hand, dispersing the surrounding thick fog. There are eight stone steps going down at your feet. In front of you is a flat land of dozens of square meters. Beyond that is a three-meter-wide road. There is a dry pool on the left side of the road and a collapsed building on the right side. A female deer was frightened by the fire and ran away without direction. Before she could get far, a javelin pierced her neck, pinning her to the ground as she continued to struggle and twitch.
Kun ran from behind to the front, pulled out the javelin on the ground, cut off the poisoned piece of meat with a short knife, cut the deer's neck to bleed and said: "There is food to eat."
Bing Zhixie ignored it, he Look, this place looked like a very small market in ancient times. From here, The architectural layout showed that he seemed to have seen thousands of years ago or more, vendors selling vegetables and melons spread a cloth blanket on the ground, selling freshly picked fruits, vegetables, sage and spices, wearing fine linen gauze and cloth. Women in skirts come here to buy the things they need for the day. It will be a very lively place until the end of the morning or in the evening. The pool surrounded by bricks and stones next to it was a source of water for ancient people to wash vegetables or drink water. He could imagine that many children would play by the pool. The stone tiger head with a wide mouth embedded in the wall in the recessed door above the water is the spit that guides water into the pool. It should be the symbol of this small market.
Bing Zhixie walked through the brick roads in the flats and markets. He could not see the excitement and prosperity of the past. What he saw was the ivy growing on the broken brick walls, but he could think about the past. The scene here. The two half-breasted and kind-faced goddess statues in front stand with their heads lowered on the outer wall of the market, as if they are guarding the residents here with their love. In the inner corner of a building, Bing Zhixie even saw a square-sized toilet. Ancient people would hide here for convenience when they were in a hurry while visiting the market.
Everything here seemed so harmonious and peaceful in the past, but now there is only loneliness and desolation. But these were not the focus of Bing Zhixie. He found that the buildings and even the remaining statues here included two different periods. The entire building is made of crudely polished natural bricks, but the tiger head embedded in the recessed door above the pool and the two stone statues of goddesses placed on the outer wall of the market are made of completely different stone materials. . This material is a special artificially mixed stone, similar to the slate material Bing Zhixie saw twice. Because of the passage of time, the difference between these two stone products of different materials is extremely obvious here. The natural stones are covered with moss and grass leaves, and are full of mottled traces of time. Even every brick has pores obviously eroded by rain. But a different kind of stone remains new over time. Although it still has the weather of the years, its preservation is much better.
Kun lit a fire nearby and began to roast the venison. Bing Zhixie decided to eat something first and wait until daybreak before going deeper. A night of no words and no danger. The next day, the very cold white sunlight shone in the dense forest, illuminating the ancient ruins in Micaijia with a hazy and primitive beauty of time. When I opened my eyes and saw such a scene, it felt like it was a lifetime ago.
After simply washing and drinking, Kun broke up the fire and continued to explore the ancient ruins. This historic site is not small, with many broken bricks and broken walls. The buildings from two different periods are mixed and alternated, making it look nondescript and very weird. As a winding stone path moves forward, both sides of the road are lined with tall black stone tigers. Bing Zhixie stopped and looked at it for a while. There was something strange about these stone tigers. None of them were intact. They were all damaged, especially the heads, which were shattered into pieces and beyond recognition. It would be easier to understand if it were just one or two statues. If they were all like this, it didn't look like the work of wild beasts. It should have been deliberately destroyed by someone.
Going forward, the road ahead slowly changed from gravel to square bricks. The square bricks are hard and well-preserved, and they feel very solid when stepped on. They are different from the gravel steps just now, and more like the style of another period. Kun, who was riding on Pegasus, was very curious. She asked Bing Zhixie: "Do you think the strangeness here has something to do with the 'fetal demon'?"
"It's very possible." Bing Zhixie said: "I don't know what a 'fetal demon' looks like. Anything strange and suspicious could be a 'fetal demon'. We are in a This historic site is full of mystery, and it is most likely related to the 'pregnant demon'."
Kun pointed to the front and said: "Look, there is... there is..."
Kun didn't wait. Thinking of the word 'stone statue', Bing Zhixie had already seen four guard-like statues on both sides of the road. At the end of the road, vines and vines form a high wall, connected with the mountain.
The four guard stone sculptures are made of the same material as what Bing Zhixie saw in the barrier lake, but they are not that big, only more than twice the size of an adult. Their form is wearing armor, holding a shield, and standing with a gun, much like the sentry guards in front of the door, standing in pairs, front and back. Sure enough, after Bing Zhixie used ice magic to cut into pieces the wall of vines in front of him, a cave more than five meters high was revealed.
The inside of the cave was dark and lightless. Bing Zhixie fired a fireball and shone in. The inside was flat and neat. The ground was paved with square tiles, all the way to the bottom. At the end was a stone door. There was no danger. Before Bing Zhixie could say anything, Kun jumped off his horse and took the lead in walking in. Bing Zhixie reminded from behind: "Be careful, I'll go in front."
Enter the cave, two rows of square brick paved roads extend forward, with flat dirt floors on both sides, and then on both sides There are some ivy-like plants growing against the gable. After walking for a while, the left and right mountain walls turned into artificially repaired stone walls. The top of the head was in the shape of a round arch. Except for the ground being paved with square bricks, the stone walls of the entire cave were one piece, as if entering a big city. At that time, the city gate was deep and thick, and the artificial stone cave was like a city wall built into the mountain. After walking a few dozen meters, we arrived at the end of the cave, in front of a three-meter-high stone door. The stone material of the stone gate is the same as that of the surrounding caves, but there are obvious traces and gaps of the door. The stone door surface is flat and smooth, with no unnecessary decorative patterns. On the left and right sides of the stone gate, there are stone sculptures of angels with left and right wings, close to the wall.
Bing Zhixie stood in front of the door and looked at it, thinking, what kind of door is this? What is it used for? What's behind the door?
Kun was not as brainy as him, so he stuck the javelin in the crack in the middle of the stone door and tried to pull it. However, after several attempts, the javelin broke and the stone door still did not move at all.
Bing Zhixie said: "Kun, don't bother, such a stone door should be organic..." Before he could say the word 'Guan', he heard some subtle noises behind him: "What is the noise?" Suddenly Looking back, I found that the hole through which I came in had suddenly disappeared. The Pegasus standing nearby pricked up its ears and let out an uneasy neigh. Bing Zhixie held the fireball in his hand and increased his magic power to shoot it forward. Wherever the fireball flew, I saw plants growing rapidly against the walls of the cave.
The two fireballs that flew out suddenly went out before they had time to explode. Kun asked in confusion: "What happened?"
The fire ignited in Bing Zhixie's hand again, but he immediately heard another voice. The voice was very thin, as if he was holding a basket of fried food. The same sound as the soybeans falling to the ground. It's so dense that it makes your scalp numb.
Kun became very nervous when he heard the sound: "Yes... it's Puqiu! It's the sound made by Puqiu, there are many Puqiu!"
Hearing her frightened tone and being very afraid of this kind of thing, Bing Zhixie quickly saw what the 'Pu Qiu' in her mouth was: "It turns out to be a tree flea."
Tree fleas are plant spores the size of a fist. Warcraft-like beast, a common first-order Warcraft in the forests of the southern part of the continent. During the day, they hang on trees and fall asleep due to photosynthesis. At night they will fall from the trees one after another and become awake. They live by parasitizing plants and occasionally mammals. They have mouths and can bite people, and the liquid they shed seeps into the human body, causing paralysis and poisoning. It can also be used as an anesthetic for medical purposes.
Although tree fleas are common and a few alone are not harmful to humans, it is hard not to be frightened when hundreds of thousands of tree fleas appear at one time. It's no wonder that Kun is so scared. For her, such a large number of small monsters may be impossible to deal with. As long as they are bitten by them, as the number increases, the body will become more and more numb, and finally become limp and let them devour her.
Countless tree fleas jumped over like a wave, and Bingzhixie saw a green wave. Kun is the number one warrior of the Qianling tribe and is never afraid, but he will be shocked when he sees this situation.
"Hide behind me." Bing Zhixie stretched out his hand to stop him and used magic: "Core burst!" A small flame ignited in the green wave, and then a second later, a huge The explosion came from the explosion of tens of thousands of tree fleas, causing countless tree fleas to make painful sounds of "sizzling".
Fire magic has always been the most effective against plant-type monsters, and Core Explosion is famous for its power and range. This explosion killed countless tree fleas, and the powerful impact rushed forward and backward into the cave. Bing Zhixie put up an ice wall to block the counterattack from the core explosion, and the tree fleas crashed into the ice wall and were smashed to pieces like cucumbers.
Bing Zhixie untied the ice wall and ignited the wall of fire in front of him. With a sudden movement of consciousness, his fingertips pulled the magic power, triggering the afterglow of the core explosion to burn into high-heat flames.
Seeing that the high-heat flames were about to drive away the tree fleas and burn them to death, suddenly streams of acidic water and venom spewed out, extinguishing the high-heat flames. The evaporating yellow smoke formed a large amount of poisonous gas, which quickly spread throughout the cave. .
Bing Zhixie watched the yellow smoke billowing over, gathered wind magic in his hands, spread out his feather robe, spread out the black feathers, rolled up the poisonous mist and gas, and then used wind magic to destroy it forward, forming a The huge cannon blasted towards the opposite side.
With a loud bang, the entrance to the cave was blasted open. It turned out that the plants inside the cave formed a connection with the plants outside the cave, and guided the tree fleas on the entire gable wall into the cave, blocking the entrance. But I don't know what kind of plants were there. Just a few seconds after Bing Zhixie opened the cave entrance, the plants quickly grew and completely sealed the cave again.
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(End of this chapter)