"So that's it..." Jiang Bai understood.
The story of Escape from Yuling itself is not complicated, but it has been too long and there has been no official explanation, so it has become a historical mystery.
It's just that this mystery is a mystery to some people, but to those in the know, it's not at all.
For a moment, Jiang Bai felt a little pity for Wan Liangji.
If he could have known the truth here earlier, would he not have died here?
Speaking of which, where is Wan Liangji's body?
How did he avoid so many fools and soldiers and enter here?
"Have you ever met an adventurer from Liyue?" Jiang Bai asked these researchers.
Hearing this, the researchers looked at each other in confusion, and finally the most prestigious among them took the initiative to speak.
"If you are looking for the adventurer named Wan Liangji, he is in the open space over there."
Because he was tied up, he couldn't make the movements that his wife did and could only use his chin to indicate the direction.
"We saw that he hadn't come out in the morning, so we wanted to go in and call him, but when we went in we found that he was not breathing..."
"Although with the presence of seals and crystals, the harm caused by the dirty energy here to people is greatly reduced, the damage is still there. His health was not very good before, and I am afraid he has reached his limit..."
"Well, we want him to leave this underground place, but he is too stubborn and unwilling to listen to us, so we can only let him..."
Hearing the familiarity in these words, Jiang Bai paused and gave them a complicated look.
He walked to the location pointed by these fools. This location was the farthest corner from the crack in the cave. Wan Liangji's body was next to it, and there was a tent next to it.
Although this adventurer named Wan Liangji is only in his fifties, most of his hair is already gray. His years of adventure life have left him in poor health. In addition, he suffered many injuries when he was young, and these injuries have not been completely treated. The healing turned into a hidden wound that continues to affect his body.
He had his eyes closed and the expression on his face was very calm, as if he had quietly lost consciousness in his sleep.
Jiang Baizai carefully inspected the state of the body and found no external injuries. It seemed that he died of natural causes.
Yelan also walked over, her eyes falling on the deceased adventurer.
Judging from the traces around him, this adventurer has obviously been living here for a while and has never even gone out.
And I'm afraid he didn't enter here alone, but with these fools.
She walked into the tent next to her and looked around.
The tent was a bit messy. A pair of muddy boots were placed casually by the door. There was a sleeping bag on the left side. The sleeping bag was a bit messy. There were some clothes piled on the wooden boxes next to it. One of them was made of stones and wood chips. A simple desk was set up with ink and some books on it.
Several pieces of paper filled with words were sandwiched in the book. She took out the paper and began to read the records on it.
It was a diary of some kind, except there was no date written on it.
[...It has been a few days since I came to Dun Yuling. Even though I have been here many times, it is still difficult to imagine what kind of star can make such a huge dent in the solid rock. Moreover, the star it smashed is still... Not completely, just fragments of it.
The real star fell on the current layered rock abyss. Compared to the abyss, which is like the eye of the earth, Dunyuling, which is just a small basin, seems a bit insignificant.
But even if it is insignificant, to me, this place is still huge, huge, and impossible to explore in a few months.
Unfortunately, these records are so old that I don't know whether I should believe their authenticity.
Are there really stars falling from the sky? If what hit here was just a fragment of the star, why did it fall so far away?
Shouldn't Lingjuguan and Qingxupu be closer?
I hope that this trip can find some evidence about the stars. Only real evidence can ensure that what I write is correct, and will not let my book become a toilet reading that is criticized as a fabrication...
…
I have been here for a week. Five hundred years have passed. The ruins here have been visited countless times by the stolen treasure group, and nothing of value has been left behind.
But even so, I still found some ancient papers from the buried ruins.
This should be a diary written by the residents here a long time ago. It has been so long that many of the handwriting cannot be read clearly, and the paper has become very fragile. I read it carefully and finally found some fragments about the past.
Five hundred years ago, huge changes took place here. A gray mist shrouded the city. Some people's temperaments changed drastically. They attacked everyone at sight like monsters. Some people fell ill directly. There were also dark monsters appearing silently in the city. .
I think this should be the reason why the residents evacuated from here. It was too dangerous and it would be life-threatening to stay here.
It's a pity that there are no more parts of this diary, and I don't know whether the person who wrote it evacuated or died in the disaster.
But from a historical perspective, this is a disaster that has been eliminated.
I should have thought of it a long time ago. Something big must have happened to turn a once prosperous city into ruins, and the dark disaster that swept everywhere five hundred years ago was undoubtedly the most likely possibility.
But, what exactly is this dark disaster? Where did it come from?
Why did it sweep all countries five hundred years ago when it never happened in the more distant past?
I originally came here to research why this place was suddenly closed. After getting the answer, I should leave, but once my curiosity arose, I couldn't control it.
I want to know what the dark disaster is, why it appears, and why it will not appear again.
If we learn more about it, when this dark disaster occurs again, our current people will not be as helpless as the former residents here.
…
I've been here for another week and sadly I didn't find anything this week.
But surprisingly, I met a group of fools.
This group of fools is different from the soldiers I have seen before, more like scholars.
When these fools saw that I was stationed in the Yuling Tomb, they came forward to talk to me. Several of them were very knowledgeable and could actually tell a thing or two about the strange events in the abyss.
But the abyss has been sealed, and it is said that a lot of weird black mud has appeared in it. This black mud not only affects people's health, but also affects people's sanity and even the environment. It is very evil.
