withering day

"Little Mo, what are you doing?" Shen Mingxi's roar woke up Han Mo from his confusion, and instantly scared Han Mo into a cold sweat.Unknowingly just now, he sank into a sluggish state, unable to remember anything in his mind, but fortunately Shen Mingxi pulled him back in time.

"What is this?" Shen Mingxi looked at the black pattern on the wall in doubt, and asked curiously.

Han Mo still had lingering fears, and it was too late to stop Shen Mingxi from looking at the pattern, but soon he was surprised to find that Shen Mingxi was not affected by the pattern at all, and he still said carelessly: "What the hell? This thing looks so weird Yes, could it be that the former owner of this room was a fanatic of a certain religion?"

religion?Han Mo's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect that this weird pattern looked like a totem of a certain religion.

"Are you... all right?" Han Mo was still a little puzzled, wanting to make sure whether Shen Mingxi was affected or not.

"What can I do?" On the contrary, Shen Mingxi was in a daze.

"No, nothing."

Han Mo still didn't tell Shen Mingxi what happened just now, it was a bit weird to say that.He quickly changed the subject: "Why are you here? Does that computer have any clues?"

Asked about this, Shen Mingxi's tone immediately became a little excited, and hurriedly said: "The group of scientific researchers are really useful, and now they can roughly operate that computer, but they haven't found any useful information yet. , After all, none of the text above can be read... The strange thing is that we didn't find the battery and charging port on the computer at all, how does that thing keep running. "

"Maybe there is some special new technology, after all, the technology of this Yan civilization is much higher than ours."

"Luo Zhan said that he couldn't find anything for the time being, and was about to go to the central area. I'm here to tell you to go down." Shen Mingxi suddenly remembered the business.

"Is there a camera?" Han Mo asked suddenly.

Shen Mingxi froze for a moment, although he took out something that Han Mo could barely recognize from his backpack, and handed it to him: "Here, I got this from Luo Zhan and the others, you can call it a Polaroid, the location is good You can get the photos immediately without developing them, which is definitely the first choice for traveling.”

A cold sweat broke out on Han Mo's forehead, but in this situation, this ancient camera is the best choice.He took a photo of the pattern with the camera, and after a few minutes, he got a clear picture. Sure enough, these researchers have good things on them. The quality of this picture is better than those Polaroids on the market. Hundreds of times higher.

Under Shen Mingxi's eyes of "Want? No way", Han Mo had no choice but to return the camera to him, leaving only the photo.

When the two came out of the house, everyone else was ready and started to move towards the midline area.It is very simple to go to the area where the central white tower is located. No matter which area they are in, they only need to go up the golden road on both sides of the stream. According to Luo Zhan's estimation, the central area and the outermost three circles The height difference can reach more than 500 meters, that is to say, as long as you stand on the White Tower or even in the area in front of the White Tower, you can put the whole city in your eyes, and everyone can use this to find people who arrived one step ahead of them, or Find clues to leave.

Starting from the inner three circles, going up is a long golden staircase. So far, no one has been able to know what materials are used to construct these staircases. They look a bit like stones, but Luo Zhan said that these staircases are harder than Stone is several times higher, almost equal to steel.However, it is not steel or other metals, which is very puzzling.

Climbing up the stairs, the central area is getting closer and closer, and the colors of the buildings on both sides are also changing, from cyan to green, then yellow, orange, and finally they reach the gate of the red palace.The scarlet gate was closed as tightly as the city gate, but there was a hole underneath, and the water gushed out from it.

Jiang Xiaoxue looked at Han Mo, and asked suspiciously: "Is there any key needed here? Try the Eye of Shangri-La to see if it works."

Han Mo didn't say anything, and was about to take out the Eye of Shangri-La, but the stupid Yan Wei pushed the palace door open a gap, then turned his head and patted his own head: "I didn't expect... The door is not locked..." That kind of simple feeling makes people want to laugh.

With the majestic beginning, the palace gate was quickly pushed open by everyone. The moment the palace gate opened wide, Han Mo felt a chill behind him. The cold wind blowing from the palace made him shiver. All felt frozen.

Shen Mingxi yelled as if he had seen a ghost: "Why is it so cold?" The others also felt that the temperature dropped several degrees in an instant, and subconsciously tightened their clothes.

Compared with the splendor on the outside, the dim light inside the palace makes it look gloomy. In the empty hall, there are no other decorations except for the pillars carved with dragons and phoenixes.The center of the palace is the area where the White Pagoda is located. The towering White Pagoda is in the shape of a circle, starting about ten meters above the ground and gradually changing from a circle to a square, just like a modern skyscraper.But what is strange is that there are no openings on the surface of the entire white tower, just like a whole closed space.The light above everyone's heads was too dazzling, and they couldn't see what was happening on the top of the White Tower. They could only vaguely see that the White Tower was facing exactly the position of the light source.

"This palace doesn't look like a place for people to live in. It doesn't even have a room." Luo Zhan looked around and said.

Indeed, whether it is the first relic or the second relic, the central palace does not have any furnishings or rooms. It seems that these palaces are not built for people to live in, but have some special function.

"Let's go to the White Pagoda first." Han Mo said as he walked towards the White Pagoda.

The bottom of the White Pagoda is very large, occupying one-fifth of the area of ​​the entire palace. There are still eight openings facing the eight gates of the palace, and water gushes out from each opening.There are many strange symbols engraved on the body of the tower, which look different from the characters of the Yan civilization.Except for the eight openings with flowing water, Han Mo didn't see any other doors and windows, and it seemed impossible to get in unless he could go against the current.

Han Mo reached out and touched the body of the White Pagoda, and a scalding heat made him shrink back. He looked at the White Pagoda in surprise, and said to everyone: "This pagoda is obviously so hot, why is it so hot when you approach it? Can't feel the heat it emits at all?"

Shen Mingxi also reached out to touch the body of the tower, his whole body was trembling, and he quickly took it back: "Yes, the temperature of this tower is very high, why is there no heat emitted, and the whole palace is still so cold? This is unscientific! "

Others stepped forward to try one after another, and it was as they both said.Han Mo squatted down again and stretched his hands into the water. To his surprise, the water flowing out of the hot white tower turned out to be icy cold, which instantly dissipated the burning sensation he felt just now, and even the coldness continued to spread. to the bone.

"This place is so weird!" Han Mo murmured in his heart. Suddenly, he saw a familiar symbol on the tower. In shock, he took out the picture of the pattern that he had taken in the orchard house before. It took a long time to find the corresponding symbols on it.

After careful study for a while, he found scattered identical symbols on the tower one after another. Sure enough, there was some connection between this tower and that mysterious pattern.

"Do you feel that the light is getting darker, and... it's getting colder?" Jiang Xiaoxue asked in a low voice, while rubbing her hands constantly, trying to warm her body up as much as possible.

After she said this, everyone else felt that the originally dim vision in the palace became even more blurred, and an inexplicable cold rose from the soles of their feet.Han Mo seemed to have noticed something, looked at the watch in his hand, then looked up at the light source in the sky, and said, "It's six o'clock in the afternoon, it should be getting dark soon... You see, the light source is getting dimmer gone."

Everyone looked up, just as Han Mo said, the light source was slowly dimming, the dazzling feeling gradually disappeared, and a red circle hanging high above their heads began to slowly fade from the left position to white.

"Will it be dark here too?" Everyone was a little dumbfounded, but the current problem was to find a place to live.People can't live in the palace, or they will freeze to death at night.

After leaving the palace, everyone felt that the temperature rose instantly. Although it was still lower than when they first arrived in Shangri-La, after experiencing the low temperature test in the palace, they felt that the temperature outside was much cuter.After closing the gate of the palace, they began to walk down the stairs. There are many buildings below, and they can find one or two to live in at will.

They didn't go too far, Han Mo and the others chose to find three relatively spacious houses in the area around the third district, planning to spend the "night" here.There were a total of eighteen people in the group, and they were divided into three groups of six people and lived in three houses respectively.

Han Mo, Shui Hanjiang, Jiang Xiaoxue, Xiang Xin, Shen Mingxi, and Yan Wei were divided together. The house they chose was also a three-story building. The first floor was still just the living room and kitchen, and the second floor was the room. There are three, two on the third floor, two girls live together, and the other boys are just right for each other.There are a lot of furniture in the house, the TV lighting is also complete, and there is electricity supply, and even a hot water system, and it is extremely joyful for the two girls to be able to take a bath.

The dinner of several people consisted of the fruits picked in the orchard and the dry food that had not been eaten. Although it could not be said to be rich, such a comfortable feeling was the most rare.After eating, Jiang Xiaoxue and Xiang Xin went to take a shower first, and the four boys lined up for finger-playing games.The honest and honest Yan Wei ranked first, Han Mo ranked second, Shui Hanjiang third, and Shen Mingxi, with a mournful face, came last.

The light outside the window was completely dimmed. Han Mo walked to the balcony and looked up at the sky. The light source had lost its brilliance, leaving only a round pale, which reminded people of the moon in the outside world.If the shining state during the day was the sun before, then the current state is undoubtedly the moon.It's just that this place is still different from the outside world. There is the moon, but there is no starry sky. Except for the glowing circle, there is endless darkness all around.The white tower in the center still stands tall at the highest point of the city, only a black outline can be seen.

"We've been trapped in this underground space for a month..." He sighed lightly, not knowing what happened to the outside world, how withered it was on the first day.

"Yeah, I don't know when I can go out." Shen Mingxi lay on the sofa and said quietly, "Or, can I go out..."

"If you go out, you can definitely go out. Don't forget, you are the executors of the apocalypse." Han Mo is not worried about the guess that he will be trapped here forever, unless the apocalypse he sees is not true.

"Apocalypse, Apocalypse... Speaking of Apocalypse, Xiaoxue's current body has no signs of weakness before. Does it mean that if she stays here, she can prevent Apocalypse from destroying the world?" Shen Mingxi suddenly sit up.

It's not that Han Mo hasn't thought about this question, but if he can go out, he will definitely not keep Jiang Xiaoxue here. It feels too weird to him, and he doesn't know how many dangers are hidden.And if Jiang Xiaoxue was to live alone in this empty country for the rest of her life, it was impossible for her to be willing.

"If I could leave, I would rather leave immediately. Here..." Han Mo did not continue, staring at the black shadow of the White Tower not far away, the strange pattern on the photo and the mysterious figure on the tower flashed before his eyes. The symbol, the inexplicable feeling in my heart is getting closer and closer, it seems that it won't be long before I can really discover what it is.

At this time, Jiang Xiaoxue and Xiang Xin had already washed and came out of the bathroom, and Yan Wei's replacement went in.

In a daze, Han Mo seemed to see a pair of scarlet eyes staring at them in the darkness in the distance. They looked like the monsters he had encountered before, but when he fixed his eyes, he found nothing. Cold sweat broke out on the back of his head. If it was an illusion, but there was no light in the whole city except for the three houses where they were located, there was no condition for visual errors. If it is really those monsters, why did they not sense them in advance? Dangerous breath?

"It's so boring! There's no difference between having a TV and not having a TV!" Shen Mingxi was about to go crazy, the TV that was turned on was just a piece of pitch black, not even snowflakes, and the signal lights were all on.

Shaking his head, Han Mo put aside all the chaotic thoughts in his head. Suddenly, he felt a trace of coldness fall on his face, and he reached out his hand to touch it, and it was a drop of cold water.Looking up at the sky, the originally bright "full moon" turned hazy at this moment, as if covered in a layer of mist.

"It's raining?" Han Mo was a little dazed, obviously in the underground space, why is it raining?

Shen Mingxi jumped up from the sofa and rushed over: "How is it possible? Why is it raining here?" But when he saw the raindrops reflected under the light and heard the sound of the rain gradually becoming clearer, his eyes were filled with surprise. Not weaker than Han Mo at all.

"It's really raining?" Jiang Xiaoxue and Xiang Xin, who had dried their hair in the room, came down from upstairs, also surprised.

There was a patter of rain outside the house, gradually changing from drizzle to light rain, then to moderate rain, and finally to heavy rain, and there was even a rumbling thunder from the sky.All this made them forget that they were in the underground space, and seemed to return to the outside world, the rainy day outside.