After turning around the mountainside, the terrain beside the road has become very steep. The valleys formed by the mountains are a hundred feet deep. If someone walks on it, if something unexpected happens, there is a danger of slipping and falling.
Pei Shuang told everyone to watch the road carefully, but his speed did not slow down at all, and he even stepped up a little faster, because the spies said that the distance was not far away, and they could see a watchtower just ahead.
Pei Shuang had already seen the watchtower standing on the roadside in dilapidated condition. When he got closer, he saw that the condition was even more terrible. The entire building had almost collapsed, and only two remnants of the original stone tower could still be vaguely seen. appearance.
Pei Shuang paid little attention to this dilapidated watchtower. Police posts like this built outside the city were very common in plateau areas. He continued walking along the road, and after about a dozen steps, a half-collapsed city gate appeared in front of him.
Pei Shuang glanced at the spy, who immediately approached him and said, "General, this is it."
"Can you go in and explore?"
"No, no, the little one just climbed up the city wall and looked inside, and then hurriedly went back to report the news." He said and pointed to the broken wall on the left side of the city gate. Half of the stone wall there collapsed, which was just right for climbing up. To the city wall more than one foot high.
Pei Shuang waved his hand to signal the spies to retreat, and then said to everyone: "Leave a few people at the gate of the city to meet the troops behind, and the rest will go in with me to take a look."
After that, he walked into the city gate.
The three grim-faced Taoist priests looked at each other, nodded and followed.
The grim-faced Taoist priest couldn't help but look around as he walked. There were scattered gravels in his sight. Many of the surrounding stone houses had collapsed, and it looked like a ruins.
The grim-faced Taoist priest was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, he understood the principle that "people need food, and houses need people." That means that houses that have not been occupied for a long time are particularly prone to collapse. One of the reasons for this is because the house has lost its vitality and the temperature difference between day and night is large. Second, because the house is unoccupied, the damage that occurs cannot be repaired in time, which will lead to increasing damage and eventually collapse.
However, the above situations mostly describe wooden houses or adobe houses, and the houses in this city are all made of stone. Like the common stone houses in the plateau area, they are built with stone walls and roofed with stone. The structure is very stable. So nine and a half of the ten rooms collapsed?
Could it be that there had been wars or natural disasters such as earthquakes here?
He Siniang couldn't help but sigh at the side: "This Bacho City is so dilapidated, as if it had been plowed by the flames of war."
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded: "I don't know what happened before to end up like this."
"It's actually about the same as saying it's a war." Pei Shuang walked in front without looking back, but responded to the two of them: "But it's much worse than a war, but this should only be an outer city where civilians live. When you enter the main city , and let’s see if there are any other clues.”
The grimace-faced Taoist curled his lips, feeling annoyed at Pei Shuang's pretentiousness, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only close his mouth and keep walking forward.
As he continued to go deeper into the city, the grimace Taoist gradually figured out the general layout of the Bacho City.
The entire city is divided into the inner city and the outer city, separated by a city wall in the middle. The city wall is three to four feet high and is currently running across a hundred steps away from everyone. However, due to its high degree of obstruction, the appearance of the inner city cannot be seen from the outside. Only a few pointed towers can be vaguely seen. The top of the tower is exposed.
The outer city is where everyone is now. They are basically stone houses and private houses. They were mostly civilian residences in the past.
One thing worth mentioning is that from the results of everyone's investigation, it can be seen that the outer city is laid out in a semi-circular shape, with the inner city guarding the middle. The entire city is a semicircle, and behind the city is a hundred-foot cliff like a knife or an axe. Look It looks like a city embedded under the cliff.
It is rare to build a city under a cliff. The grim-faced Taoist priest was slightly stunned. If a huge boulder fell from the top of the mountain, would it kill a whole city?
While thinking, everyone had already reached the inner city gate.
This city gate has also disappeared, leaving only a solitary doorway across the city wall. The doorway is about two feet high, and its scale is much more impressive than the outer city gate.
Seeing this, Luo Laoqi snorted and said disdainfully: "The walls inside are built higher than outside, for fear that the people will eat them."
Upon hearing this, the grimace Taoist priest hurriedly poked Luo Laoqi, then winked in the direction of Pei Shuang, and whispered to Luo Laoqi: "You idiot! Don't be so weird, be careful that trouble comes from your mouth!"
Luo Laoqi understood. Although his face was angry, he still kept his mouth shut.
Pei Shuang had already passed through the doorway, but before he could take two steps forward, he suddenly stopped as if he saw something.
Everyone hurriedly followed, and were stunned by the scene in front of them.
Not far in front of the doorway, I saw many skeletons lying in various directions. At a rough count, there were more than ten. These skeletons have different postures, and most of them are badly scattered. There is no skin or flesh on the bones, only dryness and paleness due to weathering, which shows that they have been exposed here for a very long time.
"It can't be Lao Hai, right?" The grim-faced Taoist whispered in He Siniang's ear.
He Siniang turned her head and whispered: "Are you suffering from occupational diseases again? Why is Lao Hai so stupid that he comes here?"
"Why does it sound like I'm scolding myself?"
"Oh, I really admire you. These corpses came from a strange place, but you still have the time to argue."
Everyone was shocked and puzzled. They didn't see any bones along the way from the outer city. Why did more than a dozen of them appear as soon as they entered the inner city? Where did these bones come from?
As soon as Qiu Laohua saw something strange, he immediately came to Pei Shuang's side and said flatteringly: "Sir, it seems there is danger here. Why don't you go to the outer city first and wait for the spies to search..."
Pei Shuang waved his hand to interrupt Qiu Laohua, and then turned his gaze to Wu Nansheng, who seemed to have noticed something and was reaching out to gesture with the skeleton.
"Mr. Wu, what are you doing?"
Wu Nansheng took back his hand and replied: "It's nothing, I just feel a little strange."
"What's strange?"
Hearing this, Wu Nansheng moved forward, pointed at the bones and said, "Although these bones are in a state of decay, there is a mystery hidden in their distribution. I feel like this is a formation."
"Oh? What formation? Come on, tell me!"
"This seems to be a 'Twelve-ray Demon Subduing Formation', which is a supreme formation used to subjugate and eliminate demons in primitive Bon religion."
The so-called "original Bon religion" is actually the original belief rooted in the plateau area before the systematic evolution of Yongzhong Bon religion. Its branches are very complex and there are many gods, including the Eight Yang Yao and the Four Yin Yao. They are collectively known as the "Twelve Sun Gods".
Some people died, but not completely...
