The moment the body in Chen Qing's hand fell to the river, all the small fish swimming in the water hid in the corners. There was no fish in the vast river.
The old man frowned and seemed a little angry.
"Hey, old man, you're fishing, why are you so eager for quick success?" Chen Qing waved his hand and handed the bright red little thumb-sized figure in his hand to the children beside him.
When the child saw the exquisite doll, he liked it very much. He jumped up and down and looked at the old man with worry after taking it.
"well."
The old man sighed, eyes wide open, and glanced at Chen Qing beside him for the first time: "No reward for no merit. Are you just going to give this gadget to my grandson?"
Chen Qing tilted his head and looked over the child: "Just take it. Didn't I disturb your fish? This is considered compensation."
He turned around with a smile, and without waiting for the old man and the child to say anything more, he took Jiang Wan's hand and walked all the way to the ancient building.
When they walked to the ancient building, the old man's eyes fluctuated a little.
But he just stared at it for a while, then closed his eyes and returned his attention to the river.
Yes, as he said, those small fish started to eat the corpse.
He happily threw the fishhook downstream of the corpse.
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The moment Chen Qing stepped into the ancient building, he saw that the sky and the earth changed color at the same moment. The sky was covered with loess, and the earth was filled with yellow sand.
The whole world turned yellow, and every household in the ancient building had its doors and windows covered. The sand and stones hit the doors and windows, making a sound like falling rain.
They frowned and used a screen at the entrance to block the incoming sand and gravel particles. Jiang Wan looked back and saw that the door had been tightly closed when she came from behind.
If you want to push, there will be a repulsive force coming from the outside world.
If it is pulled, the latch on the door is already firmly locked. In other words, they were trapped in this earth building.
Chen Qing lowered his head. The yellow sand under the screen was about four to five centimeters thick. He picked up the soil and wiped the blood from his hands with the yellow sand on the ground.
Looking up again, he saw a few pairs of bright eyes among the doors and windows of the residents.
They were inquiring about these strange two people, curious about why someone could enter from the outside when the sky was filled with yellow sand.
Chen Qing frowned and turned to look at Jiang Wan: "Has there ever been such a big sandstorm in history?"
She shook her head, looking a little puzzled: "This is just the back room. It's not strange to see any weather."
"Yeah..." He was silent for a moment, lowered his head and hesitated, and then said to Jiang Wan: "It's not surprising that anything appears in the back room.
But what if the dust storm appears because we move in? "
Chen Qing closed his eyes and recalled the subtitles he saw at the entrance: "Time cannot be noticed, and visitors should not leave footprints.
No trace of it can be found upon questioning, and everything is tied together by a thread.
Records are for things that are real and timeless and can always be trusted.
Listen, only those who have numerous records and are at the forefront will live. "
He said softly, his eyes scanning the earth building.
What to record? Ask for anything.
Who is the visitor, yourself? Still referring to these aboriginal people.
These dozen words did not name any taboos or taboos.
Why, because you won’t die no matter what you do here?
Chen Qing frowned. The yellow sand on the ground seemed to stop after it reached his ankles.
This is excellent, at least it won't bury the two of them alive.
He tried to lean his body out of the screen. In the yellow sand, it seemed that there was something placed in the center of the earth building.
Chen Qing frowned slightly, and for some reason, he instinctively felt that the yellow sand was dirty.
Even though his hands are stained with blood, he doesn't feel uncomfortable...
As he thought this, he couldn't find anything under his feet from the corner of his eye.
He said "Huh?" and moved his gaze back to the feet where he was standing before. He looked there and saw yellow sand and stone grains.
What's missing?
He was silent, where was the blood?
What about the gravel that was dyed bright red by itself?
He frowned, but couldn't tell what the problem was.
He sighed and asked Jiang Wan: "Will you wait for me here for a while? I think there seems to be something in the center of the earth building, and I want to go and have a look."
She frowned slightly, seemingly dissatisfied: "Why don't you wait a moment? This sandstorm seems to be getting smaller."
He turned around after listening to Jiang Wan's words. It is true that the falling dust in the sandstorm had become much smaller, but he always had a feeling when he saw the shadows in the sand.
If you wait until the weirdness subsides, the thing will disappear.
He remained silent, but shook his head behind him. He hesitated for a moment, covered his head with his coat, and entered the open space in the middle of the earth building against the sand and dust.
He walked forward about six or seven steps, and at a position about four meters away, there was a shrine in the middle.
There are three plates of fruit offerings placed in front of the shrine. In front of the offerings is an animal head, and in front of the head is a clay sculpture.
The clay statue was worn out, half of its body had turned into smoke and dust. The statue on the left half was good, but the color and paint had fallen off a lot. It looked like it had a history of at least a hundred years without anyone taking care of it.
On his right side, where the statue was shattered, there were densely packed tendril-like objects. Those things were small, but filled the gaps of the statue. They were squirming like some kind of worms, or maybe The limbs of the statue, which is about ten centimeters long, have at least a thousand tendrils.
Chen Qing frowned and looked at the niche where the statue of the god was placed. The shrine had faded, and one of the legs of the table was broken off, and it was leveled with red bricks.
He frowned and took two steps forward.
He walked, but just after taking two steps, he felt an itching sensation on his back.
The feeling came from the skin, maybe it was the gravel getting into the clothes?
"Hiss." He bared his teeth, but did not dare to move the clothes he held up with his hands. He walked closer to the shrine, and at this moment he heard the sound coming from the shrine.
The sound was rustling, like the skin was rubbing. He looked at the god, and its red lips seemed to be open.
"Finding the answer."
It spoke softly, but the voice didn't seem to come from in front of it.
"Remember the history of the past, leave your footprints, and let the world sing about you..."
It whispered, and the sound in Chen Qing's ears became stronger.
"Sing its true lies! No words from outside time can be trusted!"
He was talking, and when the syllables in his words reached the last word, the whole world seemed to have entered a deathlike silence.
The wind and sand, the children, everything fell into silence.
He turned around blankly, always feeling that he had forgotten something.
He walked to the screen, where Jiang Wan was standing waiting.
"how's it going?"
Chen Qing shook his head: "I can't tell." He paused for a moment, then pointed into the wind and sand and said: "There is a shrine in the center of the earth building.
The shrine seems to be contaminated..." He looked at the other party and found a document in Jiang Wan's hand.
It might be a bit abrupt to call that thing a document, but it was just a piece of paper clipped to a hard board.
He pointed at the thing in Jiang Wan's hand, looking a little curious: "Where did you get this thing from?"
She was stunned when she heard this, and followed Chen Qing's gaze to her hand. In her hand, she was holding the document.
"I don't remember..." She hesitated and shook her head, but in the next moment, her eyes stayed on Chen Qing's hands. She frowned and asked Chen Qing, "Isn't this the same thing in your pocket?" ?"
He lowered his head and put a folder of documents in his pocket.
"I seem to..." He was silent, and Jiang Wan across from him also realized it.
"We've all forgotten something."
He hesitated, but the words about the shrine were still clear in his mind.
“What happened to me in the dust after He finished speaking?”
He murmured softly, and after the wind and sand in the sky stopped, some residents opened the door.
They looked horrified at the yellow sand pouring into their home. They brought brooms and cleared away the yellow sand.
They saw the outsider at the screen again, his face pale but with some unspeakable resentment.
Chen Qing looked around and saw that the people living on the second floor of the earth building seemed to have men in their families and were armed. Most of the people living on the first floor were women, children and the elderly, and most of the resentful looks came from this.
He reached out and picked up a handful of yellow sand, and threw it to the child not far away with a calm expression.
"what you do!!!"
After throwing the yellow sand in his hand, the child's parents rushed to the child's side in an instant. Her lips were trembling and her face turned pale. His fingertips seemed to want to touch the child, but he hesitated for a long time and did not dare to reach out.
It wasn't until she looked at Chen Qing with extremely terrifying and resentful eyes that she pushed the child away with a broom, rushed back home and locked the door.
"There's something wrong here," he muttered, as if the itch on his back was getting worse.
After being stunned for a short time, the child rushed back to the door, shouting and beating on the door and windows.
But the woman inside the house seemed to be deaf. She locked the doors and windows tightly and allowed her child to scream outside.
Chen Qing smiled and walked towards the child despite the pain in his body.
"Oh? Are you locked out by your mother?"
His words were heard by the child, who turned his head and his eyes were filled with bright red bloodshot eyes.
He looked at Chen Qing and said in a very sharp voice: "It's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"
With a ferocious look on his face, he grabbed a handful of sand from the ground and tried to throw it back.
But Chen Qing saw that the situation was obviously wrong, how could he let him complete it so easily.
He raised his hand and grabbed the other person's arm, but after stopping the throwing sand in his hand, the child's expression changed into a smile.
"I will never...never let you rob my family's house."
He whispered, the yellow sand clenched in his hands slowly leaving along the palm of his hand.
As soft as water, it evenly covered their entire arms.
