ghost market

This room in front of me is very strange, and I mean everything.

The reason for saying this is not because of the psychological impact caused by the weird incident that just happened, but the facts, the facts composed of the visual information fed back by the eyes.Whether it is the space shape or the interior layout; whether it is the decorative material or the color light source, there is almost no place in this room that does not make people feel weird and incomprehensible, just like a glass of chili juice, soy sauce, milk and vinegar. coffee.

It is not appropriate to use this weird drink as an example to illustrate. In fact, what I saw was far weirder and more abstract than such a weird enough drink.Take the spatial shape of this room as an example.OK, this is a mistake.I shouldn't try to explain it, because I don't know the language to express it clearly.I suspect that it is impossible for human language to explain such a spatial structure clearly, because although its components are still within the range of geometric figures we know, the way these shapes combine with each other is not what we usually see. Even in ways imaginable.The only adjective I can come up with is "twisted harmony".

Yes, although the spatial structure here is strange, it has a natural sense of harmony.I don't understand the source of this feeling, but I can clearly feel it, just like I don't understand the principle of orchestration used in Dvořák's symphony, but I can still feel the melody of the track.

This is another civilization.

It, once existed on our planet, and before our civilization.Or maybe, they are still there today...

For a moment, my mind was filled with many flashing pictures, with places.There are also people.The deep mountains of Sichuan, the dense forests of Shennongjia; the tomb of the three-eyed giant, the ghostly ancient city shining with green light; the bald blood man, Professor Mo, Jiang Wei, David Liu, the wild man Shang, the blood man Secretary Du...everything They are all closely related to this civilization, but to this day, my understanding of it is still in the hazy stage.Although we have already seen three ancient cities.Although we have gone deep into the savage tribe, although we have begun to master some of the holy words... There are still many "thoughs", but there is only one "but", that is the unknown, a large number of unknowns.

I was stunned by the unknown puzzle that suddenly popped up in my mind, but it didn't take me long to free myself.During the recent period, I have become accustomed to looking for rules in a daze, and also used to groping for directions in confusion.To us.The most important direction in this ancient city is to find the godfather alive, and then bring him back alive.Now, at least half of that goal has been accomplished.

I turned to look at my godfather.He is still in a coma, and Xiaoqian is taking care of him.In addition to wrapping up the wound he hadn't bandaged just now, Xiaoqian also dragged his godfather's body to the edge of a platform not far away, so that his upper body had a place to lean on, which was good for stopping the bleeding.I have to say that the current Xiaoqian really impresses me.Speaking up.We were able to finally escape from the Sand Pirate's lair because she persuaded Uncle Carter to come to rescue us.

I walked over to her.He planned to help her lift her godfather's body up again.But before I took two steps, my steps suddenly became rapid, and then turned into a sprint, and I crossed a short distance in the blink of an eye, and rushed to Xiaoqian's side.She was taken aback by my actions, immediately put down her godfather and gripped the pistol tightly.But he didn't know where to aim, and seemed a little at a loss.

I didn't pay much attention to her actions, my sight was firmly attracted by one thing, and I couldn't take care of others for the time being.It was on the platform that the godfather was leaning on.The platform is roughly an equilateral triangle, but without corners.The part that should be the corner is neatly cut off, so strictly speaking it should be an irregular hexagon.The height of the platform is less than one meter, and the length of each sideline is about two meters.The countertop is flat and about ten centimeters thick.Below the countertop is a pedestal with the same shape as the countertop, and each side is vertically intersected with the ground, which looks like a short pillar.

There are a lot of strange things on the platform, all of them have strange shapes and do not know their functions.The thing I saw was surrounded by these strange things, standing quietly in the very center of the platform, as if it was out of place with these strange things with flamboyant personalities.In fact, the styling of this thing is indeed one of the most generic on the platform.It was just a ball, a ball that looked a lot like a stone and glowed slightly red.

There are red rays of light everywhere in this spiral tower, and this orb is not conspicuous in such an environment.Moreover, its size is not very large, and its diameter seems to be about forty centimeters.The material of the main body is basically the same as that of the platform, so it is really difficult to attract people's attention.If I hadn't accidentally seen a few fleeting runes on its surface, it would have continued to be buried, or hidden, in this room full of weirdness everywhere.

Stone orbs flashed with runes.

The only thing I can think of for such a thing is the "Philosopher's Stone".Although, the stone ball in front of us is not as big as the one we have seen before.

Ever since I saw the layout of this ancient city, I have been looking forward to seeing the so-called "Sage's Stone" again.In that case, we can not only verify whether the rune that suddenly appeared in Xiaoqian's brain came from this kind of thing, but also get more things from it after confirming the answer.Whatever it is, it must be very important information for us.It's a pity that the flat-topped pyramids standing around the fish scale avenue don't have the kind of boulder balls we've seen before, and I didn't find anything similar in other places, so I had no choice but to put this Hope is suppressed in the bottom of my heart.Unexpectedly, just when I was about to forget it, I found a suspicious thing on this platform.You can imagine how excited I was when I saw it.

"Big wood, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoqian squatted nervously for a while holding the pistol, seeing that I was just standing in front of the platform and staring blankly at the countertop without any other movements, so she stood up cautiously.

"It's okay, I'm looking at this thing." I pointed to the stone ball in the center of the table, frowned and asked, "Look, does this thing look like the 'Philosopher's Stone' you have encountered before? I just seemed Saw a few runes flash across its surface."

Xiaoqian's expression became tense when she heard the words, and she hurriedly turned her head to look at the stone ball on the platform.After a while, she shook her head and said, "I'm not sure. The last time I saw those stone balls, they were on the top of the pyramid and I couldn't see them clearly. I didn't even know I ran into them while running away. so……"

I nodded and didn't speak, but my heart became anxious.In fact, we now have a very simple verification method.According to Uncle Carter, as long as a person with the blood of the holy race touches this kind of thing, it will cause a corresponding reaction.Both Xiaoqian and I can do this, so as long as one of us touches the stone ball in front of us, we can immediately know whether it is the "Sage's Stone".

Having said that, I don't want to do it, at least not right now.This mysterious ancient city is full of things we can't understand. It is too dangerous to touch things that we don't understand. No one knows what the result will be, and we don't know whether this result is acceptable to us.Moreover, apart from the already sacrificed Arslan team, I haven't seen other teammates yet.Even if you decide to take a risk and verify it, at least you have to get the team together.In this case, even if something happens, it is always better for everyone to get together than to be scattered everywhere.

I frowned, and decided to temporarily abandon the research on this thing, and instead walked towards the entrance where I came in, intending to see if I could see other members of the team.Seeing me walking towards the door, Xiaoqian naturally put aside the matter of the stone ball, knelt down and wanted to continue treating the wound for godfather Xing Zhong.However, she just squatted down, but immediately jumped up again, as if she had been stabbed by a needle.Immediately afterwards, she raised the pistol as quickly as possible, aimed straight at the corner of the edge of the platform, and shouted:

"Big wood, there's something in there!"

When I heard the sound, I hurriedly turned around and jumped over, and after a closer look, I saw a small black shadow flashing away at the bottom corner of the platform, and quickly disappeared on the edge of the platform.I raised my legs and chased forward.As soon as I walked around the platform, I saw a flat and slender black shadow sliding forward on the ground at an extremely fast speed, like a black lightning bolt. The bottom corner of the wall disappears.

This is...a door? !

I stared at the place where the black shadow had just disappeared and frowned, feeling uncertain.Because the spatial layout of this room is very weird, no matter if it is the ceiling, the ground or the walls, it is full of geometric figures interlaced in strange ways.I can't see any door-shaped traces on such a wall at all, even if I find a gap where the black shadow just disappeared.This gap is too small, maybe less than a millimeter.At such a scale, I can hardly imagine any slender, strip-shaped creature passing through it, unless it grows as thin as a strand of hair.

etc!hair? !

I just toyed with a big clump of hair.I know that clump of hair is just part of a long hair.It once reunited into a humanoid body, wearing a black robe and holding a sharp knife. It first brutally assassinated Arslan, and then attacked the godfather.It's weird, it's bizarre, it's unbelievable.But it's true.I cut off the head of this "black robe hair man" with my own hands, and the severed part is still on the ground beside the wall.And what about the rest of it that I just couldn't find anywhere?Can it get through this less than one millimeter gap?

My eyes continued to extend along the gap, inspecting the weird wall in front of me almost inch by inch, trying to find some kind of trace that could be regarded as a door.

At this moment, the door opened. (To be continued..)