withering day

Han Mo and Shui Hanjiang walked at the back of the team, and when they were about to approach the ruins, Han Mo stopped suddenly, and Shui Hanjiang looked at him suspiciously, and stopped too.

"What's wrong?" Shui Hanjiang asked.

Han Mo shook his head, with a trace of confusion on his face, and said, "I don't know, it's just that there seems to be something wrong, and suddenly it feels very familiar, and...and I feel that there is something staring at us in the dark, making us I'm a little creepy." Han Mo said the last sentence so that he felt horrified.

"Huh?" Shui Hanjiang immediately looked around vigilantly. They also had a lamp in their hands, but the lighting range was limited, and nothing could be found within the visible range. He didn't have the feeling that Han Mo said.

"Could it be that you have watched too many horror movies, and you are a little scared when you come to this kind of place?"

Han Mo rolled his eyes at him and said, "I never watch horror movies...I mean it, this place is really weird..." He said it seriously.

"It's indeed a strange place, but they haven't seen anything wrong after staying here for so long, so there shouldn't be any major problems. Let's just pay more attention and escape in time if something goes wrong."

"Well, that's the only way it can be."

The people walking in front suddenly found Han Mo and Shui Hanjiang stopped behind, and Shen Mingxi yelled at them: "Hey, what's wrong with you?"

Shui Hanjiang replied: "It's nothing, Xiao Mo almost fell down, it's all right." After saying that, he and Han Mo chased after him.

After walking for a few more minutes, everyone finally arrived at the site of the ruins. It is not an exaggeration to say that the ruins here are the most well-preserved of all the ruins. Less than one-third of the ruins were destroyed or collapsed. It is the main hall in the middle, which is even more intact, but there are many traces of time.The coverage area of ​​the positive relics is also very large, and it is circular. The damaged places are all around the periphery, and the buildings in the center are well preserved.There are a lot of lights placed in the ruins, so that they can see the face of the ruins clearly.

Apart from buildings and ruins, there is nothing else in the ruins, it is empty.

"Why do I feel very similar to the layout of Lahaier City?" Han Mo whispered to Shui Hanjiang.

Shui Hanjiang didn't speak, but he could tell that the layout of the entire ruins was very similar to that of Lahaier City, especially the ancient city of Lahaire City, which was all circular, and some of the criss-crossing main streets were almost Consistent, even the architectural style is somewhat similar.

Chu Yue frowned, and asked Wang Ziwen, "Is this place always empty? Why is there no furniture in the building?"

"It was like this when we explored here. There was nothing left outside these buildings, not even some tools commonly used by humans, and there is not even a single bone in the entire ruins. It seems that everyone Evaporated." Wang Ziwen replied.

"Maybe they abandoned this city?" Han Mo said suddenly.

"This is not impossible, but so far no clues have been found within a few kilometers. However, there are many strokes left in the palace in the middle, but most of them are blurred and unrecognizable, and only a few of them can be displayed. something."

Walking while talking, they slowly approached the big palace in the middle.

Before one of Han Mo's feet reached the steps in front of the palace, he suddenly felt the chill, as if there were ferocious monsters hidden in the darkness, staring at them like prey, with a murderous look and a sense of crisis hit the heart.He involuntarily tugged at the corner of Shui Hanjiang's clothes.

"Huh? What is this?" Shui Hanjiang was planning to turn around to talk to Han Mo, but found a strange mark under his feet.The floor, which was originally made of white marble, has now been stained with a layer of dirt over the years, but this does not affect its visual sense. The only thing that makes people somewhat puzzled is that there is a small pool of black stains on the slightly yellowed floor , and it feels a little sticky when you step on it.

Squatting down, Shui Hanjiang stuck some with a paper towel, then put it in front of his nose and smelled it.

"Ahem..." A pungent fishy smell rushed into his trachea instantly, making him feel dizzy for a while, and he almost couldn't help but vomit it out.

"What's wrong?" The other people who were walking in front heard Shui Hanjiang's movement, turned around and asked with concern.

Shui Hanjiang was still a little overwhelmed, he just pointed to the pool of smudges under his feet, and almost fell down when he stood up, but fortunately, Han Mo helped him in time.

Wang Ziwen looked at the spread of things on the ground suspiciously, then took the tissue with the things in Shui Hanjiang's hands, and put it in front of his nose to smell it.

"Ugh..." His reaction was stronger than Shui Hanjiang's, and he ran to the side and vomited.The others looked at each other in blank dismay, especially the girls, who didn't dare to approach the smudge, and moved away nervously.

After a long time, Wang Ziwen calmed down, wiped his mouth with a new tissue, his face was very ugly, but at the same time he was very puzzled: "What the hell is this, really... I have been here a few times before, and I obviously didn't find anything. This stuff is really disgusting."

"Are you sure there are really no creatures here?" Shui Hanjiang's expression was not very good, the thing was really disgusting, "It feels like the feces of some kind of creature, and it seems to be new..."

This sentence made everyone terrified, and they all looked at Wang Ziwen.

"We used life detectors to check before, and we didn't find any signs of life in the ruins, but we didn't know it after we got out of the ruins. You must know that this underground space is scary, and the ruins are only sitting in a small area, and there are other places. No one knows what, it is very likely that it was left by creatures from other places."

Shen Mingxi trembled all over, and said cautiously: "I just hope it's not some terrible creature..."

They stayed in place for a long time, until everyone confirmed that there was nothing unusual around them, and then they continued to walk into the palace.Fortunately, there was only one puddle of that disgusting thing, and after reaching the palace, no other traces were found.The central palace of the ruins is also very huge, larger than the International Trade Center in Qinshui City, but unlike the buildings outside, there is nothing else, just an empty building.

Although the palace looks intact from the outside, the roof has been seriously damaged. There is a big hole in the sky. If you don't look from the inside or dress down from the palace, it's hard to see. There are only ten people in the empty palace. There are many beams and columns, and many patterns are carved on the columns, but it is also blurred due to the age; it is strange that the floor in the palace is not marble, but a material similar to artificial tiles, which is somewhat slippery. , but also left a lot of marks, as if it had been hit by a heavy object.

Wang Ziwen brought Han Mo and others to the wall of the palace, pointed to the mottled wall and said: "This is the mural, many of them can't see clearly what the painting is, only some can be vaguely analyzed."

Han Mo looked at those strokes carefully, some of them had been completely pushed down, leaving a pile of debris, some of them could barely make out some outlines, and only a few of them could distinguish the things on the paintings.

Walking around the walls of the palace, Han Mo sighed slightly. Indeed, as Wang Ziwen said, most of the murals can't be seen clearly, and only a small part can be barely recognized.In addition to the murals, there are some scattered words carved on the wall. Maybe it was too hasty and messy at the time, but even if it is not messy Korean ink, I can’t understand it. This belongs to the text of the previous civilization.

"Some of these characters can be deciphered. In fact, they are very similar to some ancient characters of the Xia Kingdom. The above roughly means that on a certain day in civilization, a disaster suddenly strikes without warning. Many people are forced to leave their hometowns to find shelter..."

Listening to Wang Ziwen's explanation, Han Mo's heart suddenly fluctuated. He gently stroked the blurred murals and words, feeling a little dazed.

"What else did you find here?" Xiang Xin asked.

"In addition to these murals and texts, the biggest discovery is some super technology, but those things have long been secretly brought back to the National Research Institute, not here, the rest of us are trying to find some new clues and explore bigger space area."

"Can you take us to the laboratory where super technology was discovered?" Shui Hanjiang asked suddenly.

"Come with me, of course."

Everyone followed Wang Ziwen to the back of the palace, only Han Mo stood there alone, staring at the wall in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.Shui Hanjiang patted him lightly before he could react. He didn't look at Shui Hanjiang, but murmured something to himself. Even though the distance was very close, Shui Hanjiang couldn't hear clearly.

"what are you saying?"

Han Mo seemed to be taken aback, then shook his head: "It's nothing... let's go..." After saying that, he chased the direction where everyone left.

There is a very modern building behind the palace, but it has been almost destroyed. It looks like a tall building, and the material of the building is shocking reinforced concrete, which is exactly the same as the main material of modern buildings.But it feels a bit weird. Since the human science and technology of the Yan civilization is so advanced, why should they build "old-fashioned" buildings like palaces on the basis of building stronger cement buildings?

The building has been razed, but an underground passage is still intact, and light is emitted from the passage. Wang Ziwen said that the temporary residence of the scientific research team is inside.

When I went down to the underground laboratory, there was nothing left, only some tables and chairs brought by the researchers themselves, with scattered paper materials on them.Han Mo looked around. This laboratory is not very big, only about [-] square meters, and the internal structure is also very modern. The floor is a kind of silver-white metal, and the walls are white lime. As for the material inside the walls, this I don't know.

"When we first discovered this place, there were some scattered instruments and equipment stored here, but most of them were no longer able to function, but we still moved all the Dongyi out."

Shui Hanjiang walked around the laboratory, and suddenly said in a deep voice, "Look, there's that kind of thing here too!"

Everyone looked at his pointing, and sure enough, there was also a pool of strange stains on the clean floor that had been cleaned by the scientific researchers, exactly the same as what they saw in front of the palace before.

"That's not right! We didn't find it when we cleaned it up...could it be that there were really unknown creatures breaking in?"

Not only Wang Ziwen, Han Mo and others also frowned. This is not good news, because no one knows what this creature is?Is there any danger?

After resting in the laboratory for a long time, but did not see other researchers appearing for a long time, Wang Ziwen couldn't sit still, and was about to use the communicator to ask what was going on on the ground, but for some reason, the electromagnetic interference underground was worse than the previous few days. What's more serious, he can only hear the sound of "sizzling" electricity, and the signal cannot be transmitted.

"I'll go over to the elevator and have a look. You guys are waiting for me here, don't wander around!" Wang Ziwen put down the communicator and said to everyone.

"Why don't Shui Hanjiang and I accompany you, or we don't feel at ease if you are alone." Han Mo said.

Wang Ziwen shook his head and said, "No, I'm still very familiar with this place, and I still have a gun on me, so don't worry... You guys didn't bring any weapons when you came down, so be careful when you wait here , I don’t know if that unknown creature is nearby.”

"Okay, then be careful, if you have any problems, just yell, and we will rush over."

"Okay." After finishing speaking, Wang Ziwen tidied up his backpack, and then left the ruins with a lamp. The light gradually became weaker as he moved away from the ruins, and was finally completely covered by darkness.

After Wang Ziwen left, Shen Mingxi heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Then what are we doing now? Just staying here? It's so boring!"

Han Mo rolled his eyes at him: "We're not here for tourism, everyone try not to go out and wander around, I always have a bad feeling... Let's take a look in the laboratory and see if we can find any clues."

"Everything has been moved out by them, where is there any clue..." Xiang Xin shook her head.

"No! There's still something here!" Chu Yue's voice came from a corner of the laboratory.

Everyone hurriedly gathered around, Chu Yue and Dai Li were standing by a wall, this wall was no different from other walls in the laboratory, they were all white, but I don't know if it was because it was too long , There is a place on the wall where the wall skin has fallen off, exposing the green bricks inside, and the green bricks seem to be still movable.

Shui Hanjiang stepped forward, tapped the wall lightly, and found that the back was empty, making a crisp sound.Everyone was surprised for a while, and then Shui Hanjiang increased the strength in his hands, and some damaged walls began to fall down, revealing a complete blue brick.

"This should be pasted on the back." Han Mo was a little puzzled.

"It should be, the surrounding walls are fine." As he spoke, Shui Hanjiang slapped around the green bricks, making a thick and dull sound, which was solid.

Shen Mingxi became a little excited, and urged: "Hurry up and play with the blue brick to see what's inside, maybe it's the clue we're looking for!"

"Should we wait for Wang Ziwen to come back..." Some people hesitated.

"Let's open it first." Han Mo finally decided.