endless route.

Chapter 333 103. Shocking scam

Everyone swam to the edge of the lake, left the lake and stepped onto the shore. After walking along the dim forest for a while, they arrived at the mountain path and squatted in the bushes on the roadside to observe the front.

Just in case, Zheng Yun asked them to extinguish all the lanterns, and dozens of people hid in a dark place where the moonlight could not reach, with all means ready for use at any time.

First find out who the other person is.

Then decide what to do next.

If people from Ming's military camp want to enter the mountain, then their own people will show up and try to ask about the situation. If Ming's enemies want to go back to the mountain, that is another way to deal with it.

After some preparation.

The mountains are completely silent.

The wind sounds suddenly and slowly.

The mountain road shook slightly.

There seemed to be the sound of horse hooves approaching.

Zheng Yun asked Ji Dao to keep listening to the sound, and he began to study the plant species in this mountain forest.

This ancient battlefield must have a historical prototype. He wanted to know where this place was on the endless route, or where this ancient battlefield dream was based.

Plants are important clues.

After all, he is a college student in the Department of Biology. Although it is impossible to know the distribution and characteristics of plants in all places on the Endless Route, he knows some general classification methods.

In fact, this classification method is also common sense among explorers. Kedster and others know it well. There are also relevant manuals everywhere on ocean cruise ships to let tourists know more about it.

Through these classifications, he can roughly make some judgments, such as how far away from the earth this place is.

Zheng Yun dug out a plant and observed it carefully using the moonlight cast from the gap. He had never seen a plant like this before, but he could roughly see the characteristics of the plant.

This place seems far away from the earth.

Just in case, Zheng Yun dug up a few other plants, and after observing again, he came to the final conclusion that the location of this ancient battlefield is very far away from the earth.

At least five or six foggy seas have been crossed.

It should be somewhere on the Eastern Route.

But whether this place has something to do with the ancient city of Nanze, Zheng Yun can't draw a conclusion yet, because there are mountains here, which are not around the ancient city of Nanze.

"Master Xian, they are moving a bit slowly, and it will take some time before they arrive. Why don't you, Master Xian, take a rest first."

Jidao patted Zheng Yun's shoulder gently, squatted behind a tree and looked around, always staring at the end of the mountain road.

Zheng Yun nodded and looked up.

This mountain path is very careless and has obvious traces of artificial development. It must have been opened recently. It is by no means an old road with a long history.

But the width is quite wide.

Big enough for a carriage to pass through.

After waiting with bated breath for a while, the sound of horse hoofbeats in his ears became clearer and clearer. Even Zheng Yun could tell that there were a lot of people coming ahead, at least forty or fifty riders.

They are really slow.

The horse is walking, not running.

"Master Immortal, the sound of the horse's hooves is a bit strange. It may be some kind of fairy horse. I can't tell the origin, but the person coming here is probably a detective from the Ming Dynasty military camp. Riding into the mountain to check the sentinel?"

Ji Dao could not directly tell the breed of the horse from the sound of hoofbeats, but as we all know, only humans can ride horses. Since the sound of horse hoofbeats was confirmed to be that of horses, it was most likely that they were ridden by humans.

And the background at this moment is that the Ming army camp is confronting the evil things in the mountains. The evil things in the mountains are hanging the body of Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty's millions of soldiers are approaching the city, on the eve of the decisive battle.

under these circumstances.

It is reasonable for the military camp to send out exploration cavalry.

Moreover, Tanqi is generally very cautious and cannot run around in the mountains. Instead, he travels quietly through the mountains and carefully records what he sees along the way.

It's reasonable to go slowly.

Something would be wrong if it was too fast.

"Be careful."

Zheng Yun shook his head and whispered, they just entered the ancient battlefield and just looked at the surrounding environment. Who knows what the situation is here, maybe their guesses are wrong.

"it is good."

Ji Dao glanced around.

Of course he had to listen to Master Xian's arrangements, but his mood was relatively relaxed. After all, their lineup was extraordinary.

If it were placed in ancient times, their posture at this moment would not be much worse than that of the real Jianxian Division. Even if they had to fight against the Ming Dynasty military camp, these dozens of them would not necessarily lose.

"It's a little weird."

Zheng Yun turned around and looked at the mountains behind him, his brows frowning more and more, feeling that this place seemed a bit familiar.

Suddenly he looked at the bright moon above his head.

Each planet on the endless route is in a different position in the vast starry sky, so the night sky of each planet is completely different, and the Milky Way seen is also unique.

Stargazing is the best way to determine the position of the planet. There is a department under the Supervisory Immortal Division dedicated to stargazing, but there is no comparison map at the moment, so it is impossible to lock the position through stargazing.

Zheng Yun didn't intend to use this method.

He just stared at the moon.

As he looked at it, his pupils suddenly shrank, because he finally realized the problem. The size and brightness of the moon above his head were very similar to the real moon.

The true moon here refers to the earth's only satellite, the moon above the earth's head.

Most planets on the route have satellites. There are one, two, or even three or four, and there are even more than one sun, so there is a saying that the stars change in two rounds.

Zheng Yun grew up in Fuen City, E-02. There are actually satellites on this planet, but they are very small and dim, and almost impossible to see with the naked eye.

The huge blue planet above Foun City is a planet that blocks the light of most satellites.

Therefore, Zheng Yun had never seen the moon when he was a child. When he was studying historical poetry at school, he was somewhat unable to learn it, and he could not understand that the ancients were so obsessed with the moon.

Later, he returned to earth to worship his ancestors.

He just saw the moon for the first time.

After seeing the full moon hanging in the sky, he realized the meaning of the moon. It is unique. The satellite of any planet can be the moon, but it is not the moon.

Only the earth moon is the moon.

Not only is it the subtle influence of culture and history, but there is really a feeling, a feeling that comes from genes.

When bathing in the bright white moonlight, all human beings can feel that deep in the body, the genes of the ape-man ancestors millions of years ago are producing happy emotions.

When the moonlight fills the valley.

You don't have to worry about wild beasts attacking you.

This feeling does not matter to the residents of the earth, but to these 'strangers' who have returned to the earth for the first time, it is so clear that the pores of their bodies feel comfortable.

At this moment, Zheng Yun suddenly discovered that the moon above them at this moment also made people feel the same.

The size and shape are also similar.

But this can't be the earth. Why is there an earth's moon hanging overhead and pouring moonlight?

"Jidao, do you think there is anything wrong with the moon?" Zheng Yun suddenly turned his head and asked Jidao.

"moon?"

Ji Dao subconsciously glanced up, stared at it for a moment, and then shook his head with a puzzled expression: "Master Xian, I don't know much about astronomy, I just feel that the moon looks familiar."

"I almost forgot, you've never seen the real thing."

Zheng Yun sighed softly. This kid Jidao has been in the Heavenly Palace all his life and has never been to the earth. He only passed by it once when he came to the ancient city of Nanze and didn't have time to take a closer look. "Is this the moon of the ancestral land?"

Ji Dao reacted immediately after hearing this.

"I suspect this is probably the world in those auspicious patterns." Zheng Yun came up with another conclusion.

There are auspicious pictures all over the ancient city of Nanze, including various auspiciousnesses, such as auspiciousness in the mountains, auspiciousness in the sea, auspiciousness in the valleys, etc., which are all terrains that are not found in Nanze.

On the porcelain vase that he and Ji Dao found inside the ancient city wall, they drew an auspicious picture of the mountains. It said: The rays of light rise in the mountains, and the deer flee in fright.

Zheng Yun had never seen other auspicious pictures along the way. They were discovered by the Gubo archaeological team from the Taoist temple ruins. There were eight in total, and each auspicious pattern was different.

But at this moment Zheng Yun was suspicious.

The ancient battlefield they were in was very similar to the auspicious picture in the mountains. There were mountains and water, and there was a high possibility that there were deer in the mountains.

Because from just now until now, they have been able to hear some 'horse hooves', walking very slowly in front of them, not far from the mountain road.

Those sounds shouldn't be deer.

But since horses can appear here, why not deer? These plants around you can also be eaten by deer.

The most important thing is that although there is no moon in the auspicious pictures, the ancients have an unwritten rule that in ancient paintings drawn anywhere, the moon will mostly be the earth's moon.

Zheng Yun didn't know the origin of this rule. His adoptive father seemed to have mentioned it before. This detail had a deep allusion and involved an ancient mystery, which was only later agreed upon as a custom.

Facts have also proved that this is indeed the case. Even the ancient painters of Fuen City recorded the mountains and rivers around Fuen. The moon painted in the paintings was also the moon on the earth.

So if the ancients wanted to draw a moon on an auspicious chart, it would most likely be the earth's moon.

Then that's all.

This place is very similar to the auspiciousness in the mountains. Zheng Yun can even directly conclude that this is the auspiciousness in the mountains.

Because the moon above them is the Earth Moon.

And the vegetation in front of me is not the earth.

There could not be a place where the plants on the far side of the Eastern Passage and the moon on Earth could exist, unless it was painted and was just an ancient landscape.

"Auspicious pictures? Then the reason why Nanze Ancient City has posted auspicious pictures everywhere and placed auspicious porcelain vases on the city walls is so that the whole city can often see this auspicious picture?"

"As long as they watch too much, they will dream of the auspiciousness in the mountains in their dreams? Isn't this just a 'drama'? So this is how the ancients controlled dreams?"

"It's broken, Master Xian. If only one person from the entire ancient city can influence Qili Guimeng, then we don't have enough people. It would be troublesome if we collect Guimeng but can't use it."

Ji Dao tried to understand, but the reasoning process was confusing, and when he finally came to the conclusion, he was full of sorrow.

The eight characters haven’t been written yet.

He just worried about using it.

"Probably so."

Zheng Yun shook his head and said nothing more.

Because he actually doesn't know.

The surviving explorer mentioned before that consensus can affect dreams, and the auspicious chart is a kind of consensus.

This part can indeed be applied. There are auspicious pictures everywhere in the ancient city of Nanze. The people already have this consensus, but how can the consensus be transformed into the strange dream of the ancient battlefield?

This is also what puzzles Zheng Yun the most.

Qili Guimeng only dreams about nightmares. Everything that appears in the dream is terrifying and evil. However, this auspicious image in the mountains is not scary at all. Why does it appear in the dream?

Could it be because scary evil things need a place to scare people, so Qili Guimeng would just steal one out?

I'm afraid it's not that simple.

The ancients carefully crafted as many as eight kinds of auspicious pictures, each of which is different. If Ji Dao's theory of "similar tricks" is used, then this auspicious picture must have some purpose.

It might be something like eight formations.

Each auspicious picture represents a method, and the ancient people of Nanze would use different auspicious pictures in different situations.

Because the most important thing is the content in the picture.

The sun rises in the mountains.

The deer fled in fright.

What exactly is the glow in the mountains in the first half of the sentence? Does it represent some kind of magic or method?

Most likely.

I had guessed before that the glow in the mountains was some kind of natural disaster, but now that I thought about it more carefully, I found that it was probably magic, a kind of magic that existed deep in the auspicious map.

The generals who entered the ancient battlefield could not turn into evil beings with magical skills like the Yin soldiers. They could only enter the dream unarmed, and their combat effectiveness was the same as reality.

Just like myself and Ji Dao.

If this is the case, it doesn't matter whether they can enter the dream or not. Since there is no difference between the dream and the dream, why bother to come in? Just treat the dream as a support.

It's obviously not that simple.

When the ancients sprinkled the sky with strange dreams, they must have made preparations in the dream, and they would definitely let the generals and the strange dreams cooperate with each other.

Burying a magical technique deep in the dream, which can be used by anyone who enters, is a very good solution.

Generals who originally did not have magical powers can use them in their dreams without any restrictions, which is enough to scare the enemy to death.

The principle may be similar to Guixi.

The auspicious picture is paired with some popular rumors, such as when the sun shines in the mountains, bathing will turn you into an immortal, creating a consensus in the hearts of the people in the city that whoever is illuminated by the glow will become an immortal.

Qili Guimeng is a dead thing after all. It cannot imagine the insidiousness and cunningness of human beings. If everyone has this consensus, then it can only copy it for the sake of the authenticity of the dream.

Just like 'people who are stabbed by a knife will bleed' and people who are cut by a sword will feel pain', this consensus is the basic rule.

Qili Wei Meng cannot change the basic rules. Once they are changed rashly, the frightening effect of Wei Meng will be reduced.

If Qili Guimeng changes it to "people will bleed out if they are stabbed with a knife," the frightening effect on modern people may be enhanced, but it will definitely be weakened on the ancients.

Once this consensus is reached, "When the sun rises in the mountains, you will become an immortal by bathing in it", it will become a basic rule in the dream, just like being stabbed and it will hurt. It will turn from false to true.

The most unexplainable deception is that even you think it is true. You can deceive Qili Guimeng into believing it, but even with Qili Guimeng's IQ, you can only follow it stupidly.

Use this method to create gods, ghosts, and celestial beings.

All the people in the dream can become immortals in the rays of light. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city all have the opportunity to become immortals.

Once you become an immortal, why don't you kill your enemies to pieces? Two hundred Yin soldiers transformed into gods, ghosts, and evil beings were so terrifying. If hundreds of thousands of people became immortals, would it be a big deal?

It’s really unimaginable…

Although this is just Zheng Yun's guess, Zheng Yun feels that this possibility is extremely high and that ancient people could do such a thing.

Just fabricating rumors involving gods and ghosts to deceive the people in the city was not a big deal in ancient times.

It's just that this scam is shocking.

The ancients who came up with this method were really geniuses.

In order to create this kind of consensus, we actually had to deceive hundreds of thousands of people in the city and make hundreds of thousands of people believe it.

No wonder all the military households in the ancient city of Nanze, it is estimated that the designers of the dream could not bear to do this to ordinary people.

But the eight auspicious pictures are not as convenient as the ghost seal.

The auspicious picture deceived Qili Guimeng and made Qili Guimeng spin around. Guimeng thought he was frightening the ancients, but in the end he was used as a wedding dress for the ancients.

Guixi, on the other hand, robbed it openly and directly from Qili Guimeng. Guimeng also frightened himself severely, but the evil objects it transformed became enemies.

These are two routes.

But the result is almost the same...

(End of this chapter)