There is something strange about this ruined city.
Wu Ming also knew very well what Zhao Sida meant. When the Tree of Life mobilized all the surrounding mimic creatures, it only left the patrol network here. This means that there must be someone in this dilapidated city covered by demonized plants that allowed the Tree of Life to do this. reasons.
According to the usual plot development, there is either some secret or some treasure hidden here.
Wu Ming is more inclined to the former, feeling that there should be some secret buried in this city.
Long time and past disasters have turned most of the buildings here into ruins. Many of them have both animal characteristics (a soft and warm skin that feels soft and warm to the touch, or red fruits with beating hearts in the shape of a heart) and other features. Demonized plants with seed plant characteristics (with roots, stems, leaves, flowers, etc.) grew wildly here. Wu Ming and the others walked through the dense demonized jungle for more than an hour. Elizabeth also had various strange shapes on her hands that she tentatively called It's a food thing - a fruit with strange lines that makes people feel that if they eat it, they will gain strange abilities and be unable to swim for the rest of their lives. A few ghosts know if it came from a muscular man with a style like an American comic hero. Pulling off the blond hair, the green bananas have become as soft and sticky as jelly, and there are some leaves that look relatively normal, with only the veins looking like specimens.
Perhaps feeling Wu Ming's gaze, Elizabeth turned her head and handed out a glowing leaf: "Huh? Brother, do you want to try it too?"
"No... I just feel that the thing in your hand has a strong sense of familiarity. You can keep it and eat it..." Wu Ming waved his hand and declined Elizabeth's kindness. Fortunately, what happened to this girl after eating these things? Nothing happened, otherwise Wu Ming should seriously think about whether Brother Tiandao in his world has finally gone crazy.
Closer to home, according to Wu Ming and the others, they wandered aimlessly in the Demonic Jungle for more than an hour, and what they got was not just the demonized plants in Elizabeth's hands that she crunched as snacks.
These buildings, most of which have been reduced to ruins, probably do not belong to any era from the beginning of human history to the modern era. Each building itself is a whole, and there is no trace of construction or module assembly or welding. It is probably directly poured with cement-like materials because it is planned to take samples to investigate and analyze its material composition and structure through eating. Zhao Sida was stopped by Wu Ming's death remonstrance, so the specific composition materials are unknown. However, judging from the fact that some of the remains of the buildings here are still strong even after being damaged, the strength of the materials used during pouring is obviously very high.
This city seemed not to be used for people to live in from the beginning. What Wu Ming and the others found along the way were temples and temples that looked like they were used for worship. These buildings were classified according to their size. Arranged in sections.
Judging from the images returned by the stealth probe, the city is roughly divided into four areas. Except for the rows of tall towers in the central area, the buildings on the outermost edge are the lowest and simplest, and most of them look like shrines. But there are empty small buildings inside. The buildings in the second circle of the city are temples and altars. Their scale is probably dozens or even a hundred times that of roadside shrines, and their various functions are also more complete than shrines. Many, the differences in architectural uses have also begun to clearly differentiate. Some temples have incense burners and huge copper bells, some temples enshrine a huge stone statue with most of its upper body destroyed, and some temples have destroyed carvings. Most of them seem to be reliefs praising the achievements and authority of a certain god. There are even piles of bones left behind after sacrifices beside the altars of some temples.
As for the area closest to the city center, Wu Ming has not yet reached that area, but judging from the arrangement of the buildings, there must be some temple areas with larger buildings there.
What makes Wu Ming feel strange is that these buildings used to worship or worship some kind of illusory idols and metaphysical existence are either empty, or only destroyed stone statues and murals are left. The things that were once worshiped and worshiped here are unknown. Why is long gone.
Wu Ming tore off the vines with one hand and opened up a path forward while analyzing the existing clues: "You can't see any shrines in the area of small temples and altars, and you can't see any scale in the larger buildings. Small buildings, the distribution of buildings here is likely to be carefully planned according to scale. Small-scale buildings cannot enter the inner circle of the city. The city's hierarchy is very strict..."
"This kind of planning and hierarchy has been fixed from the beginning." Zhao Sida calmly waved the long knife hidden inside as a skeleton after removing the outer shell of her right hand, and filled in the gaps in Wu Ming's analysis: "Each building's The scale and floor area fluctuate within a certain constant value. The distance between the temples is obviously calculated and vacated. The same is true for the outer shrines. They are neatly arranged while still leaving space between them. There are very subtle gaps, and the total area of these gaps is actually very large. If these gaps can be used well, more buildings can be built by slightly compressing the distance between buildings... But these gaps are used in an almost wasteful way between buildings. The space is free, but it always maintains a distance that is 'just right' to prevent new buildings from joining..."
"It can only be that the designers were convinced that the city would not undergo new changes when the city was first established. There would only be so many shrines, temples and shrines, and no new shrines would be built. That’s why it’s designed like this…”
Wu Ming looked at the neat rows of temples and the neatly arranged shrines on the periphery. For some reason, he had a very ridiculous idea in his mind and muttered: "Why do there always seem to be people who go to visit people's graves and see rows and rows of them?" The feeling of a tombstone..."
"And all the things that were enshrined have disappeared. The idols that were supposed to be enshrined are only ruins and wreckage with no specific image." Zhao Sida ignored Wu Ming's deviation, and her eyes flickered as she knew some secrets. With a vigilant red light, he continued to analyze the situation. In the organization's documents, it was recorded that several times the action team found that there were no temple buildings that did not belong to the human architectural style and that did not worship idols.
"The danger level has been raised to level three. Manager Wu Ming, please be careful - there may still be legacy from the Gods here."
"The Age of Gods?"
"Well, in the age of mythology, it is said that humans were still ignorant and the gods still walked with mortals."
