Outside the elevator door is a narrow stone road with cliffs on both sides, bottomless.
The stone path leads straight to an irregular platform.
The platform is about thirty square meters, and is also surrounded by cliffs. Fourteen giant spotlights fixed in a ring project light beams, pointing at fourteen huge stone tablets.
Nothing else.
So, the truth of fate lies in these stone tablets?
Li Liang hesitated for a moment and walked out of the elevator.
As soon as he set foot on the stone road, he was shocked to find that the stone road and the platform formed a peninsula that plunged into the abyss, and the surrounding area seemed to be boundless void.
Theoretically, this is underground, and even if there is a "bubble"-like space, it cannot be too large, otherwise it should collapse easily.
But at this moment, he felt like he was standing in a dark wilderness.
The wind blew gently from nowhere, and he vaguely heard vague noises, like there was a lively market in the distance, with countless people talking loudly.
Li Liang took two steps and turned around and looked up.
The elevator door opens directly into the vertical stone wall.
The stone wall maintains its natural ruggedness without any trace of artificial excavation. It goes deep into the darkness up and down, left and right, and there is no end in sight.
The dying group, or Old Billy walked out of the elevator slowly, his lips moving: "More than nine hundred years ago, I woke up here. At that time, the platform, spotlights, and elevators already existed. I just Later, the house on the ground floor was renovated.”
"Where is this place?" Li Liang heard his voice trembling.
"I don't know," Old Billy spoke with difficulty. Because he was too old, his mouth always moved unconsciously. "Well, they have never been able to find records about this place. It seems that, well, this place does not exist at all."
Li Liang nodded.
Although it was dark and strange here, facing Old Billy, he felt an inexplicable sense of peace of mind.
"Can you?"
Looking at the trembling old Billy, he was worried that a gust of wind would blow the old man into the abyss next to him.
"Ho ho, I've walked this road for more than nine hundred years, it's okay," Old Billy waved his hand gently.
Li Liang no longer hesitated, turned around and walked quickly along the stone road, but the more he walked, the more shocked he became.
Human's instinctive sense of space tells him that everything around him is indeed empty.
The wind blew in one direction without blowing back, and the vague noise became clearer. It seemed that as soon as "dawn" came, he could see the roar of gongs and drums and the sea of people in the distance.
The stone road is not long, less than 100 meters.
Soon, Li Liang stood on the platform and looked at the stone tablets.
The stone tablet is not integrated with the platform, but stands seven or eight meters away in the abyss. The surface is pitted and mottled with vicissitudes of life, as if it has existed since ancient times.
Li Liang randomly chose a stone tablet and looked at it. The spot of the spotlight illuminated a circular area, and he could see clearly what was on the stone tablet in an instant.
It was a carved pattern.
In the middle is an old-fashioned loom-style machine. There is a vaguely depicted little man standing in front of the loom, and another man standing on the side, tilting his head and pointing at the loom.
In the lower left corner of the pattern... is carved a human ear.
The entire carving style is simple and primitive, as if ancient people carved it out bit by bit with a not-too-sharp chisel. The faces of the two little figures are blurred, almost like stick figures.
Hold……
A cold sweat crawled up his back. Li Liang staggered back two steps and muttered: "This is impossible."
He turned to look at the other slab.
It is also a carved pattern.
A silhouette of low buildings is carved on the top, represented by high and low rectangles, and some windows are carved. Below, a row of little people are carved, holding strange-shaped sticks in their hands.
Below are five people, four together, and one standing alone, with densely packed small "badminton balls" carved around it.
Not a "badminton", that's a maintenance drone.
Donggu District.
Li Liang ran to the other stone tablet like crazy.
This time, he breathed a sigh of relief. This picture must have nothing to do with him.
Because there are many women engraved on it.
If short hair represents men, this pattern depicts a large number of long-haired villains.
Upon closer inspection, his expression changed.
A six-pointed star is engraved on the top of the pattern.
Below is a group of women surrounding two men, and on the other side, a smaller man stands with another small male.
The smaller one has two pigtails carved on his head... representing a little girl?
so……
The six-pointed star represents Zhenjie Fort. This picture depicts the scene where the group reached an agreement with Li Xiaozi?
Li Liang ran back to the previous stone tablet and took a look, then returned to this one again. After comparison, he found that there was a horizontal bar above the head of the villain representing him, and there was a horizontal bar under the feet of the villain representing the group.
These stone tablets represent the fate intertwined between him and the group.
At this time, Old Billy had just stepped onto the platform, pointed to a stone tablet on the far left and said, "Destiny starts here."
Li Liang quickly walked to the stone tablet and looked up.
The pattern is carved with a vertical well, and a long strip is carved horizontally below, connected to an irregular circle, like a table tennis racket.
A lying figure is carved on the top of the strip, with horizontal bars at his feet.
"Me," Old Billy's old voice came from behind.
Li Liang walked to the next stone slab.
A small man with horizontal bars at his feet is shaking hands with a tall woman, and a factory-like place is depicted behind him, with silhouettes of chimneys and large equipment visible.
“The first person I met who had a profound influence on me, her name was Mata Hari, taught me how to be a commercial spy.”
Another slate.
The little man with a horizontal bar under his feet was trapped in a place like a hotel room, with a series of numbers carved into the space.
"The most dangerous moment I encountered, when my identity was about to be exposed, I made that call, and the person who answered the phone saved me and became my second teacher in how to lead an organization."
Next slate.
"During that great religious movement, I took the opportunity to create .RD."
Next.
And the next one.
The eight stone tablets are engraved with the eight most important moments of the group, or describe scenes, such as the fifth stone, where the group is drinking with another person.
Or it guides the direction, such as block 6, which uses outward arrows to remind the group to stay away from the Zhenjie Fort.
Ninth block.
sewing machine.
Block ten.
In Zhenjie Fort, the group reached an agreement with Li Xiaozi.
The eleventh piece.
Li Liang saw himself.
There are several unrelated patterns engraved on the stone tablet.
A poker with the King of Hearts, a pure nun with her legs clamped, a little girl, a short man with a frog face, a strong man in a windbreaker, and an old man in a long coat holding a book.
These people form a circle, and the little man in the middle has a horizontal bar on his head.
Block 12.
Next to a cone-shaped garbage mountain, the little person representing him is surrounded by a rectangle, and a line connects the two little people on the other side from one end of the rectangle.
It was Massey who saved him.
Block 13.
Donggu District.
Block fourteen.
The scene here is depicted again.
This platform into the abyss.
However, this time he and the group appeared on the platform at the same time.
He stood in front of a stone slab. Behind him, a group of people knelt on one knee, and behind the group, densely packed people were carved.
Li Liang turned around.
Old Billy knelt down with difficulty, his shoulders shaking, making a whooing sound, and his expression was smiling.
But Li Liang knew that Old Billy was crying, but he was too old to shed tears.
Old Billy spent nine hundred years waiting for Godot.
Different from that absurd drama, Old Billy finally waited for Godot.
At this moment, at this moment.
