Just now, they were limited by the cover of the mycelium canopy and could not see the situation above the canopy at all. Now they were standing on the vine bridge road network that was level with the canopy. Without the cover of the canopy, they had already seen the fungus hidden in the canopy. A dark cave began to appear on the rectangular grotto hidden by the silk flower tree - on the stone wall closest to the tree crown, just located at the highest vine bridge.
"It seems that our guess is correct. Let's go explore the road first."
After that, Yue Guanchao walked to a higher place, carefully walked through the branches and vines, and looked at the cave on the stone wall.
The size of this cave is almost the same as the single door of the house, but there is no door frame and lintel. It can also be seen that there are scratches from the opening and closing of the mechanism inside. It is indeed man-made and not formed naturally.
Stepping into the cave, a long and narrow tunnel began to appear in front of Yue Guanchao. This tunnel was shaped like a trapezoid. It was narrowest near the exit of the cave. The deeper you went, the wider and taller it became. A bright light spot formed at the far exit, hanging in the air for several seconds. A hundred meters away.
Knowing that there was no danger in the tunnel, Yue Guanchao nodded to Song Siyuan. Under her leadership, the rest of the people began to enter the cave along the vine bridge.
The tunnel was about a mile long. When everyone walked out a few hundred meters, they saw the light spot in front of them getting bigger and bigger, gradually forming a tall exit.
Yue Guanchao was the first to step into the light spot. When the brightness in front of his eyes returned to normal, he had arrived at a certain valley basin. Before he could see the situation clearly, everyone followed his movements and walked in.
Another ring-shaped valley appeared in front of everyone's eyes. This valley was several times larger than the lake and canyon they encountered. The surrounding tall peaks were extremely steep. The cliffs on the top of the mountains were thousands of towering. The endless peaks surrounded the ring-shaped valley. From this Intermountain basins are formed.
The stone walls of these valleys are the same as the previous one. They become vertically steeper as you go down, making it impossible to climb. There are lush shrubs on the surface, which blur the boundaries of the surrounding peaks, making the valley a completely isolated paradise. If not for some mysterious mechanism, , it is impossible for outsiders to find here.
In the valley, there is no longer a mysterious lake, but a large area of forests, lakes, shrubs, fields, and villages scattered among the fields. Various residential buildings have begun to appear. These buildings are different from the square courtyards in the outside world. Most of them are round houses. , it looks like circular granaries piled up on top of each other to form various villages, criss-crossed and criss-crossed.
There are many square palaces hanging on the surrounding mountain walls!
These palaces have different shapes, like exquisite pavilions, distributed on the surface of the stone wall of the valley in a seven-up and eight-down pattern. Some are embedded in the mountain, and the other part protrudes from the stone wall. Countless buildings with gray tile eaves are connected with each other, with plank roads and plank roads in the middle. The flying pavilion and the grotto are connected to form a special cantilevered building complex.
A strange situation was immediately discovered by everyone. No matter what kind of building it was, there were no traces of living people's use. Either it was eroded by the glory and countless bricks and stones were dropped, or it was covered with dead leaves, spider webs, and overgrown with dead grass and vines. The top of the gatehouse wall The wind blows the spider threads, shaking them.
The fields are overgrown with debris, the grass is full of grain and seedlings are sparse, and the roads are covered with dead vines. There are no traces of any movement, and there are even very few traces of living animals. It is a depressing scene, as if it is completely occupied by ghosts. Fang Ren abandoned it.
"Is this our illusion? Where have all the ghosts gone?"
Yue Guanchao pinched his arm, and a tingling sensation spread to his brain. He felt that this was not an illusion. He looked up at the sky. Under the sun, the warmth on his body was obviously not an illusion. For a moment, he suspected that Guifangren knew someone. To come, deliberately create the illusion of depression for them.
Seeing the physical sensations truly transmitted to their heads, this means that everything they saw was real. If we add the fields with overgrown weeds, it makes them even more convinced that the Onikata people have disappeared - the desolation of the fields is definitely not Over time, even the rice grains turned into weeds, which shows that everything in this valley must have been barren for a long time.
"Then this is strange. The albino animals we saw were all made unconscious by the Oni Fang people, and they appear frequently in the outside world. It makes no sense to find any Oni Fang people here, but not see any Oni Fang people."
Song Siyuan changed the subject: "Or are we unable to see the Guifang people at all? They have become some incorporeal body that we cannot see?"
This guess shocked everyone!
At this time, the breeze blew by, causing the rustling of the surrounding bushes, and what was more obvious was that something was whispering noisily in his ears.
The current situation is indeed difficult. They originally thought that these Guifang people just lost control of the Guifang artifact. Seeing the desolation and depression around them, the situation became more serious. Perhaps, the Guifang people did not know because of it decades ago. Why did it become extinct?
Then, the identity of the Oni Fang people standing on the high ground last night was quite strange. Perhaps it was the ghosts of the Oni Fang people who were guiding them to enter here.
While everyone was discussing, the sound of walking suddenly sounded in the distance, and a few footsteps rang in their ears, and then quickly disappeared into the surrounding noise, and no trace could be found again.
Yue Guanchao noticed the voice and looked at everyone. Seeing that everyone else had expressions of embarrassment, he knew it was not his auditory hallucination and became vigilant: "It seems that there are still some living things around us."
"Let's go and visit the nearby villages first. Maybe we can also find out the reason why these ghosts disappeared."
Yue Guanchao understood that there was no point in making unwarranted guesses at the moment. It was better to walk into the village and see for himself. Taking advantage of the large number of people, everyone cut the weeds and walked into the village.
Approaching the village, the decay of the village houses comes into view. Most of the round houses are made of stone, with yellow mud smeared on the outside and covered with broken tiles. The houses that have been eroded by weathering have collapsed. The single-family houses must have collapsed. It’s the doors and windows that are rotten and the tiles and bricks are falling off.
The walled courtyard was fine, but the roof was badly broken, and the yard must have been overgrown with weeds, dead leaves accumulated everywhere, and half the yard was filled with debris.
The roads are mostly covered with thick dead grass and fallen leaves that have accumulated over the years.
As they walked around, they would occasionally step on the bones of domestic animals under the dead leaves. The numerous bones of chickens, dogs, and pigs had been weathered and were as brittle as plaster, so they had to be careful.
"Quack, quack, hahahaha~"
Yue Guanchao approached a courtyard and wanted to push open the door. Before he could touch it, he saw the threshold creaking. The sound was hoarse and noisy, just like some witch crying and laughing. The creaking and squeaking stung his ears. .
Finally, the door panel could no longer be supported by the threshold, and it was quickly knocked down in the direction of everyone with a loud bang. The dull sound raised a layer of dust, and the smell of mud and rotten grass was raised, causing people to take several steps back.
The door panel broke and collapsed without anyone touching it. This was somewhat strange. They could even feel that there was some invisible monster hiding behind the door panel, dormant in the grass waiting for them. At this moment, everyone stopped in place. , and didn’t dare to step forward anymore.
"It's strange. Is there really something invisible that we can't see, teasing us around?"
Sun Daqiao stroked his beard and looked at him playfully. He clearly meant something, but he was unwilling to say those words.
Song Siyuan took a long breath, kicked away countless dead leaves and approached the door panel. She looked carefully inside the gatehouse. The courtyard walls on both sides had collapsed long ago. Wind was constantly pouring into the gatehouse. Standing at the threshold, she could feel the whistling wind. The weeds seemed like someone was moving around, and they kept rustling.
She looked at the direction where the wind was blowing, and then checked the fractures between the door panels and the threshold. Her mood temporarily stabilized: "Be careful, these doors and windows are more rotten than we thought. I feel it is the effect of the wind."
"What is the role of wind?" Everyone became curious.
"Yes!" Song Siyuan explained: "Both sides of the courtyard wall have collapsed. The gaps on both sides will allow the wind to continuously blow into the courtyard, all concentrated on the gate tower and door panels. At the same time, the door panels are also close to the road. Here It will also be blown by the wind, which means that both the inside and outside of the door panel are subject to wind pressure."
"It would be okay if the panel door is not rotten. This door panel can withstand the wind pressure from the front and rear to some extent. After decades of weathering and erosion, the door panel has become extremely rotten. Not to mention heavy pushing and pulling, the slightest disturbance can also cause the door panel to loosen and collapse. The clever thing is here, the door panel maintains a delicate balance under the push and pull force of the wind pressure on both sides, so as to maintain the original structure."
When she mentioned this, she was about to announce the answer: "Remember what I said, this door panel did not collapse because of the wind pressure from the front and back. We all surrounded it just now, which is equivalent to a wind wall, directly blocking the force of the wind. Most of them were removed, which means that the wind pressure outside the door panel no longer existed the moment we surrounded it."
"At this time, the wind pressure outside the door panel becomes smaller, while the wind pressure inside the gate tower remains unchanged. When the pressure is too high, the door panel will shift from front to back balance to unbalance, and the side with stronger wind will exert force outward, which of course will cause the door panel to lose its balance. It collapsed outwards, creating the forward collapse we saw."
Song Siyuan then picked up the piece of paper and let go briefly. As expected, the piece of paper was blown out from the gatehouse, almost in the same direction as the collapse of the door panel. This situation was seen by everyone, and her explanation was in line with the situation.
"Come on, let's go in and take a look."
Yue Guanchao and the others walked into the courtyard, raked through the useless weeds, and opened the door of the house. The furniture and items inside were not much different from the houses in the outside world, but some shapes were very special. Looking around, many utensils were not put away, and the pen and ink Paper and inkstones are scattered on the table, tables, chairs and benches are randomly placed, and there are things in the bed, cupboard and box.
Yue Guanchao then entered the kitchen and opened the pots and pans on the stove. The food inside had been completely charred and blackened to the bottom of the pot. The firewood in the stove burned out and turned into a handful of old plant ash. As for the kitchen utensils, they were placed separately. In terms of location, even, some of the food didn't take more than a few bites.
As they moved around, they checked other houses and livestock stables. They all showed signs of normal use, and the conditions were quite different.
Yue Guanchao pondered the current situation and explained: "I see that the things in these houses are still there, and there are traces of use, and even the food in the stove is there. This shows that the disappearance of the Guifang people is not a collective escape, nor is it a natural death. , but at certain points in time, they suddenly disappeared, or died collectively. Only in this way can we explain that the things in the stove are still there."
"I agree."
Song Siyuan cast an approving look at him: "These traces of use have not been destroyed, and the food in the stove has not been processed. Something must have happened to the Guifang people at that time decades ago."
Knowing this, it proved that the Guifang people left in a hurry, or in other words, disappeared too hastily. She turned her gaze to Ban Nu: "Senior Ban, can you feel the aura of these Guifang people?"
Ban Nu felt the remaining breath carefully and shook his head: "No, there is not even the breath of Guifang people here."
Song Siyuan asked: "Is this situation very abnormal?"
