Chapter 5 Holy Land
Mid-Autumn Festival in August, people and moon are reunited.
He had heard this sentence when he was a child, but had never clearly experienced the meaning of it. Or perhaps he had realized this proverb more deeply than many people, although it was from some opposite direction.
Later, I saw in some books that every full moon night, some strange things often happen in the world, such as werewolf looking at the moon, and ghosts wandering. For example, fathers and mothers will go home, and the family will be harmonious and reunited... Well, that is really a terrible world.
However, the strange things seemed to be unrequited to him - at least in the first sixteen years of his life - as if all the adventures that young people should have were secretly hiding beside each other, waiting quietly for one day when he walked into the forest and gave him a big surprise, and then he came to another world.
This was the first full moon after he came here.
It was not August 15th, but everything seemed a bit extraordinary. The reason was that Xiaoxue seemed very excited, and there was something wrong with Storm and Ryuga. She howled at the forest very violently since the morning, and there were also wolf howlings from afar, one after another, and it stopped at noon, as if everyone was in contact with something major. Xiaoxue smiled brightly all day, and said something to Tang Yi from time to time, but unfortunately she couldn't understand it.
After living here for more than twenty days, Tang Yi basically knew that in this forest where all kinds of beasts live, the wolves that live in a very powerful animal can be regarded as a kind of animal with considerable power. Strictly speaking, their individual power is only medium among beasts. If they pick up the Damascus sword, Tang Yi can knock down one or two of them, but the advantage is that they have the strongest power among the group creatures. If they are a little more ferocious, most of them will be alone.
Not far from the cave, there lived a strange and fierce leopard. He was agile and had a sharp teeth. There was a huge reptile on the side near the stream. It looked like a giant lizard seen in the animal world, with a scary green all over his body. Tang Yi had seen these two ferocious beasts once, and once, there was a storm by his side. When he met the leopard in the woods, the storm immediately took a fighting posture.
He let out a fierce roar, and the leopard didn't seem to be in a fight and walked away calmly. Once, Xiaoxue took him to the stream and met the giant lizard on the road. Xiaoxue pulled him away and ran away. She returned to the grass and stopped. The giant lizard did not follow him. The two giant wolves were probably the first-level leader in the wolf pack, so they were also alone. When some small gray wolves appeared, Tang Yi saw them with respect to Storm and Fury.
Tang Yi saw such a large-scale response incident like today, for the first time in twenty days. What does it mean? In the evening, this doubt showed signs that it was about to be revealed.
“Ah…remember…”
After dinner, Xiaoxue was flirting with the two words she had learned recently, pulled him up and walked out. The two giant wolves stood at the entrance of the cave and roared again. Then, there were echoing one after another, like a huge wave of waves, echoing in the sky under the setting sun, and it was amazing. Then, they walked into the woods.
The night fell quickly, but there were fluorescent spots in the forest. It was early spring and late summer, and the weather began to warm up. A large number of strange fluorescent insects wandered in the woods. They passed through the deep jungle, and from time to time, gray wolves from all over the place joined in. At first, they looked at Tang Yi with fierce eyes, and then calmed down after the storm and anger were expressed. Tang Yi, who was still unclear about the forest, walked forward by Xiaoxue, but occasionally fell down. Fortunately, Xiaoxue was extremely strong and responded with agility. When she felt that Tang Yi had signs of falling, she came over to support Tang Yi, and sometimes even picked him up in the waist, which made Tang Yi very embarrassed.
The number of wolves gradually increased, and it was like countless tiny tributaries constantly pouring into the rivers from time to time, rushing towards the destination. The full moon like a jade plate rose through the gaps of trees in the bright night sky. The wolves were like pilgrimage teams, changing their usual ferocity and moving quietly and smoothly in the forest. Only the giant wolf, as the leader, occasionally issued a call and spread far into the woods. It seemed that they had deliberately avoided the wolves, and no other beasts appeared along the way.
It was about three hours later that Tang Yi regretted more than once why he didn't bring the flashlight. Although there was not much power left, it was a waste to put it there. It was time to use it. Fortunately, Xiaoxue, who ran and took care of him, was not tired at all, showing that the energy between the two was huge, otherwise he would really feel guilty.
The destination is a special open space in the jungle. This open space is as big as a football field, full of small mounds of uneven heights, with grass-colored greens and countless luminescent insects dancing around it, and it seems like a fairyland in the forest. But when he got closer, Tang Yi discovered that these were not ordinary small mounds at all, but ruins of countless artificial buildings. After a long time, they were covered with green grass and turned into what they are today.
It is hard to imagine that there would be such a complex in the primeval forest. Even though it had been transformed into ruins for thousands of years, Tang Yi could still roughly guess the glory of these buildings, the huge plane or circular arched sky, and the thick stone cylinder with a diameter of more than two meters. The height of the buildings that needed to be supported by such cylinders was simply unimaginable. Tang Yi found the face of half a stone statue that had been weathered so hard that it was hard to see clearly. He guessed in his heart that this might be the remains of a temple in ancient times. But many years ago, the civilization here had developed to such a level. I don’t know what the world outside the forest would be like now.
Thousands of gray wolves had arrived at this open space at this time. The wolves were quietly wandering in the open space. On a small earth platform more than two meters high in the center, Storm and Nori were squatting on it, examining the ethnic group below like the chairman of the meeting. Xiaoxue excitedly pulled Tang Yi to the small earth platform in the center. Tang Yi then discovered that there was a door here.
After too long, the door has become ruins. When it was intact, it would not be like this now. However, even though the beams and pillars around it collapsed, a dark entrance of more than two meters high was still exposed, enough for several people to move side by side, and a mostly disintegrating step stretched into the ground crookedly.
There is something underground!
Seeing the entrance of this cave, Tang Yi immediately realized that the reason why Xiaoxue brought him here like a treasure was to let herself see this underground thing!
Realizing this, he immediately wanted to go outside to pick a few tree trunks to make torches and go down to explore it. But at the same time, he was a little worried about the wolf pack. They worshiped this place like a holy place and would they have any opinions on their behavior. However, Xiaoxue immediately answered his doubts, because before Tang Yi decided, Xiaoxue took his hand and entered the dark hole with a familiarity.
They were still groping down. There were no forests, moonlight and fireflies as lighting. After just a few steps, they began to turn dark. With Xiaoxue's careful support, they walked down layer by layer.
Xiaoxue seemed to be quite familiar with the environment here. Under her guidance, she had gone down about fifty steps. Tang Yi found that the things in front of her seemed to be becoming clear, and a faint light radiated from the front. After a while, she finally came to the ground.
This is an underground hall that I don’t know how tall or large it is. A soft light comes from the front, and what you can see is the pile of scattered gravel and moss covered with it. Tang Yi walked forward under Xiaoxue’s leadership, and the silver light came from behind a tall pile of ruins in front. At this moment, it was blocked by the pile of stones, and it looked like the light scattered behind the stage curtain.
The pile of stones was about four meters tall. The two climbed up and saw such magical things behind them.
It was a huge egg-shaped object that emitted soft silver radiance all over the body. It was about two meters high, and its body was covered with crystal clear short tentacles, floating like a living thing in the air. Xiaoxue pulled Tang Yi, then happily rushed down from above and rushed into the giant dome.
The giant dome was obviously sponge-like elastic, and it sank under Xiaoxue's impact. Then it fell to the ground on one side. Xiaoxue looked completely unsurprising, but naturally climbed up the dome with the furry tentacles, and sat on it and waved to him. It was obvious that it was not the first time she had come to play with the giant dome. Seeing her playing on the sponge-like spherical luminous body, Tang Yi couldn't help but think of the cartoon "Tongcat".
"Haha...ah...ah...Idiot..."
The happy Xiaoxue waved her hands on the light ball. Tang Yi smiled and walked over, reaching out to touch the giant dome, but saw that the tentacles on the surface seemed to feel his hand sinking like waves, as if touching the coral reef in the sea. He couldn't help but feel very interesting, and then reached a little more, and finally touched the surface of the dome. Then, he was stunned!
pulsation……
There was a pulsation on this giant dome like a heart leaping. When Tang Yi reached out his hand, he could even clearly feel the signs of life flowing in it!
After a brief contact, the giant dome rolled gently to the side. Xiaoxue rolled and changed positions on it, laughing and refused to come down. Then, the giant dome rolled again. With every gentle roll, Xiaoxue ran and jumped on it, as if she was playing a game with an old friend.
That's right, it's just a game! It's this egg that's playing with Xiaoxue. This egg not only has life, but also has wisdom. Tang Yi suddenly realized this.
The giant dome obviously did not contain malicious intentions. Thinking of this, Tang Yi stopped thinking about what this creature was. Of course, it was impossible for him to run and play with the rolling like a circus performance on the giant dome. Looking at Xiaoxue's happy appearance, he sat down on the ground beside him and picked a leaf hanging on his body. After a while, the melodious music began to echo.
Chapter completed!