ruins.
A ruin that spans the entire underground world.
When Zhou Li and his party walked through the dark forest and reached the underground center like a valley, the same emotion appeared in everyone's eyes.
consternation.
It is hard for everyone to imagine that in such a vast and lifeless world, there would be traces of civilization.
"This is···"
Zhou Li stepped forward and looked at the majestic collapsed building in front of him, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, "Castle?"
"Never seen this style before."
Eluma and Zhou Li stood side by side. She frowned slightly. As someone who had been exposed to the book of half-knowledge, she had dabbled in many architectural styles on the mainland, but she had nothing to do with the building in front of her. impression.
Jiang Qi held the spear, with only shock and confusion in his eyes. As a native of Dongfang Santing, he had never heard of such a hollow under the Huaihe River, and he couldn't believe that there were traces of civilization in such a vast hollow.
The endless ruins, the buildings with obvious unique styles, and the black paint all showed to Zhou Li and his party that there once was a glorious and splendid civilization here.
Stretching out his hand, his palm touched the black stone. Zhou Li felt the coldness in his palm, and the doubts in his heart became deeper and deeper. For some reason, after walking through the dark forest, he always felt as if he had forgotten something. And when he saw the ruins of this ancient building, he felt an inexplicable panic that made him very stunned.
what exactly is it?
"I'm going to take a look."
Zhou Li put down his hand, turned around, and said to everyone: "If you are worried, just stay here and I will create a barrier for you."
Eluma stood beside Zhou Li without any hesitation, and Torea also followed Eluma up as a habit. Jiang Qi recovered from the shock, looked at Zhou Li and the others who wanted to enter the ruins, and said, "I'll go with you too."
"Jiang Qi, I won't hide anything from you."
Zhou Li looked at Jiang Qi and said calmly: "I can feel that this ruins resonates with me, so you don't need to take risks."
After confirming, Zhou Li discovered that the panic was not fear or doubt, but an inexplicable yearning. He wanted to enter this ruins, but an inexplicable voice in his heart kept reminding him that there was something he wanted to know in the ruins.
"This is not an adventure."
I pulled the embroidery on the collar. It was a small willow leaf sewn with green and blue threads intertwined. Jiang Qi looked at Zhou Li, his tone no longer indifferent and calm as before, replaced by perseverance.
"I had a reason I had to go in."
Jiang Qi stared at Zhou Li and slowly said, "When I saw this ruins, the spirit of the court master spoke."
"Um?"
Zhou Li was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that the soul of the court master still existed in a place like this. "What did he say?"
"he told me···"
Jiang Qi hesitated for a moment, and then said: "He told me to think carefully about what I want."
Gently stroking the willow leaf embroidery with his fingers, Jiang Qi gritted his teeth and said directly: "I can feel that there is the aura of the Phantom Man in these ruins. If what the soul hints is correct, then there is a way to save the Phantom Man here. method."
Jiang Qi never thought about expelling the phantoms from the beginning, nor did he think about solving them. From the beginning to the end, this young general who always looked cold and cold only wanted to be rescued.
"Then let's go."
Zhou Li did not reject Jiang Qi. He glanced meaningfully at the willow leaves on Jiang Qi's collar, smiled, then turned around and walked towards the ruins.
The moment the four of them stepped into the ruins, they felt a somewhat disconnected feeling of astonishment, but this feeling was fleeting. Several people looked at each other, and they could all see that the other person had experienced the same thing as themselves.
There were no unnecessary words, but after cheering up, everyone became more careful. The scale of this ruins is far larger than everyone imagined, and it is also more damaged than expected.
The broken brick walls, the spatula that had rotted to the point where only a puddle of ashes was left, and the original wooden bed that could not be seen clearly. Zhou Li looked at the broken stone pot on the side and the earth that looked like a stove not far away, with a trace of sadness in his eyes.
It's like, I've been here.
A bold and crazy idea suddenly appeared, making Zhou Li feel an indescribable occlusion. He felt that he was very familiar with this place, as if he had seen every street and every house with his own eyes. But when he started to close his eyes and feel all this, the strange feeling in his bones brought him back to reality.
"This seems like a city."
Eluma gently wiped off the dust on the surface of the stone to reveal the text on it. Looking at the blurred characters, she frowned slightly and said softly: "The text on it seems to be in mainland Chinese, but... it's missing. There are so many that I can no longer see clearly.”
"This is a city."
Zhou Li raised his head, looked at the missing holes in the sky, and slowly said: "Those holes were supposed to be filled with glowing moss, artificially planted to simulate light sources. But after no one maintained it, the moss rotted and eventually dissipated. ”
"No wonder."
Jiang Qi on the side nodded, "I have been thinking about what kind of lighting this city uses. Now it seems that street lights cannot provide full coverage."
"Um."
Zhou Li nodded. He walked to a ruins that looked like a shop, leaned down, picked up the fragile cloth bag, and twisted it gently. The bag turned into powder and dissipated, "Looking at this situation, this ruins at least have Thousands of years of history.”
Thousands of years...
The moment he heard these three words, Jiang Qi was in a daze. He felt more and more unbelievable and inexplicable panic. The splendid civilization thousands of years ago had been washed away by the long river of time, and only this barren ruins were left.
"there is a question."
Zhou Li straightened up, looked around, and said, "Where are the people here?"
yes.
Not only Jiang Qi, but also Torea on the side was stunned for a moment. All they had seen along the way were the ruins of the city, including rubble, bricks, and various furniture or equipment, but they had not seen anything related to people.
You must know that bones are a material that is difficult to decompose, let alone in the underground world where there are very few decomposers. Therefore, it is very unusual that there are no body remains in this city.
Thinking of this, Torea suddenly became alert. Just when she raised her head to take a look at the higher place, a figure suddenly flashed in her eyes.
"who is it?!"
The moment Torrea's voice sounded, the spear in her hand was already thrust into the air. But when the spear penetrated deeply into the stone wall, she realized that there was only a broken stone wall in the air, and there was no figure at all.
"what's the situation?"
Everyone was shocked by Torea's sudden move, and they immediately took up their positions. However, when they looked at the place where Torea's spear had penetrated, they found that there was nothing. This left everyone confused, and Zhou Li looked at Torea and asked her, "Did you see something?"
For Torea, Zhou Li no longer has the bone-deep hatred he had when he was first reborn. He is even said to be one of the few people in the world who understands her. He knew that there was definitely a reason for Torea's sudden outburst. There was a high probability that she saw something that shouldn't exist.
"I... seemed to see someone."
Torrea frowned slightly, waved her hand, and the spear fell directly into her palm. She hesitated, as if she didn't know what she had just encountered, "The man glanced at me in mid-air, I subconsciously threw the spear, and he disappeared."
"Shadow..."
Zhou Li knew that in this weird environment, no clues could be ignored. He did not think that Torea was nervous and had seen something wrong. After all, this girl should be the most powerful professional in the world at present, and her observation skills would never allow the occurrence of wrong vision.
"I'm not so sure either."
Rubbing her eyebrows, Torea suppressed the doubts in her heart. It was just that she didn't fully see the other person's expression or posture in that glance, but she felt an inexplicable familiarity.
I... seem to know her.
"Let's go."
Taking a long breath, Zhou Li gently kneaded a piece of dust with his fingers and said softly: "Maybe there are all the answers deep in this ruins."
Everyone entered a road that looked like a main road. This road was surrounded by collapsed houses. There were also no remains in the houses, and the furnishings inside were kept as they were at the last moment before people disappeared. After observing for a long time, Zhou Li came to a conclusion.
"Everyone here disappeared suddenly."
Gently crushing the earthen jar with his foot, Zhou Li looked at the neat fragments and said in a deep voice: "If they were fleeing, these ruins are too clean, and the things in these people's homes have not been changed at all. Things fell. The locations are also where they are supposed to be.”
"So, these people disappeared suddenly without any signs or traces, right?"
Looking at the ruins full of traces of time in front of him, Jiang Qi could not help but sigh, "What has this city experienced..."
disappear suddenly.
The moment she heard these four words, Eluma suddenly fell into a trance. She felt as if she had seen something and heard something, but no matter how she recalled it, there were only four words in her mind.
what is it···
After a while, Eluma came back to her senses, and she began to think about what she had thought of and what she had forgotten.
After passing through the remains of a building that looked like a city gate, everyone suddenly saw a majestic but dilapidated castle appearing in front of them. On the huge broken stone door, there was a trace that penetrated and made people shudder.
tooth···
Just when everyone was wondering what kind of power and attack could make such terrifying marks, a look of astonishment appeared in Tolea's eyes.
She was impressed by the appearance of this penetrating mark.
"Moon Dancer..."
After a long while, Torea said these three words faintly. Suddenly, Zhou Li on the side seemed to understand something and said, "Yes, this is the penetration mark of Moon Dancer's mouthparts."
Yes, the person who caused such terrible marks was the messenger of the destroyed God of Death, Moon Dancer. During the Battle of Muqi, Moon Dancer and its army of dead ghosts continued to slaughter lives in Muqi. If Torea hadn't run out at that time and relied on her special physique to constantly deal with Moon Dancer, it might have been Muqi had already completely collapsed.
And now, the traces left by the terrifying monster appeared in front of everyone again.
"bring it on."
At this moment, a soft girl's voice sounded from behind the city gate.
"who is it?!"
Jiang Qi immediately raised his hand and waved, and a blue power spurted out, directly pushing the stone door open. Behind the door, everyone saw a girl with brown skin wearing a white dress. Her appearance was hidden in the shadows, and an indescribable aura spread around her. She seemed to be looking at everyone and said:
"bring it on."
"In the castle, there is the answer you want."
After saying these words, the girl disappeared from everyone's eyes. Without any warning, without even leaving any trace, she disappeared so abruptly, as if she had been cut out of space.
After the girl disappeared, Torea suddenly felt a heavy feeling in her chest, and a kind of sadness spread in her heart. She looked at the unclearly colored carpet behind the broken stone door, the dim hanging lamp, and the lifeless castle. Torea felt a chill in the corner of her eyes.
I cried?
Torea was stunned. At the moment when tears filled her eyes, she seemed to see the huge stone door standing neatly above the ground, opening it respectfully, and the door handle was shaking gently. The red carpet enjoying the dim light beside the stone slab immediately ran to its original position and spread itself out to welcome him. As the girl's gaze swept across, the originally dim purple lights suddenly changed colors, and warm orange colors spread throughout the castle. The originally gloomy and cold castle took on a completely new look.
The girl in a white dress, with skin as smooth as milk, was holding flowers, and her lovely appearance was even more delicate against the flowers. She looked at herself, tilted her little head, squinted her eyes and smiled happily, revealing her two small tiger teeth.
Torea stared blankly at everything in front of her, but when her tears dissipated, the dreamlike existence instantly turned into bubbles and exploded, and everything disappeared. The stone door is dilapidated, the lights have been dimmed, and the carpet has lost its color. The girl who always greeted him also disappeared.
Raising her head and looking at the broken tower that seemed to be connected to the underground world, Torea was in a trance. Her mind was clearly blank, but countless "memories" kept hitting her. She wanted to speak, but when the words came to her lips, nothing came out.
"Let's go."
Zhou Li walked forward, without looking back, and said calmly: "Here, there will be the truth you want to know."
"Torea."
