Although he was somewhat mentally prepared, Hua Zhenxing was still shocked and speechless. Ding Qi patted him: "The so-called opening of the portal is actually only at the moment of entry and exit, and no one else can see it. Opening the portal for you like this is a display.
I did it deliberately, let’s go in quickly.”
Hua Zhenxing foolishly followed Ding Qi into the secret realm. He turned around subconsciously and saw that the passage between the giant rocks had disappeared. All he saw was a rock wall, and where the "door" should have been, there was another gold-inlaid picture.
mural.
The mountain walls in this area have been flattened, and there is a plane about ten meters wide in the middle, extending diagonally on both sides. The content of the mural in the middle is two huge rocks, which is the hidden place of the gods outside the secret realm.
Door pattern.
Hua Zhenxing calmed down and said, "What is this place?"
Ding Qi looked into the distance and said, "It should be the legendary Kingdom of Gods. It's my first time here too."
Hua Zhenxing: "Who is kneeling here? Why did he die here? Where have the others gone?"
Ding Qi sighed and said: "This person died roughly fifty years ago, and no one else has seen it yet. Don't ask me first, let's take a look together. This place is very big, and it will probably take a long time to walk around."
Old Man Yang, who was watching from a distance, frowned and said, "I can't sense Xiaohua at all, what about you?"
Ke Mengchao asked something unexpected: "Is this Teacher Xiao Ding really here for the first time? He went in so easily, just like going to his own home, and he also brought Xiao Hua in. He is not a descendant of the secret realm here, let alone a secret realm.
Master, this skill is quite impressive!"
Mo Shangtong: "As things evolve, future generations always have things that their predecessors cannot do, and they have specializations in their professions. The more the times progress, the more so. At least in this aspect, that teacher Xiao Ding is older than the three of us.
They are all strong, this is their profession, and it is a profession that has never existed before. It is not like some people who always adhere to the laws of the previous king."
Yang Tehong: "Why bother some people? Just say Xiao Meng."
Ke Mengchao: "What year and month did this happen? You can't chew it off anymore?"
Mo Shangtong asked, "So, you yourself admitted that you were farting?"
Yang Tehong put her hands on her hands and smiled: "This is an interesting question, a typical Mo debate style!"
Ke Mengchao turned sideways and said: "The descendants can do what the predecessors couldn't, but that's it! The descendants must be able to do what the predecessors couldn't, otherwise! You just scratch my sore feet with the words 'Follow the laws of the ancestors', then what do you do?"
What if you don’t say anything else?
The way of a great university lies in the enlightenment and virtue, in the new people, and in the pursuit of perfection! To be new every day, to be new every day, and to be a new people. Although the Zhou Dynasty was an old state, its destiny was to be renewed, so a gentleman should do everything to the best... these
Can't you even smell it?
As small as a family or as large as a state or a country, as far as you and I can see, they have flourished and then declined, or even declined before they flourished. They have long since disappeared and are no longer seen, just like the crucian carp crossing the river, let alone one person? So we cannot say that future generations will win.
Rather, we should think more about how future generations can surpass their predecessors.
If we talk about facts, the examples are right in front of us. This is the so-called Kingdom of God. Where are the people in it today? Even if I farted back then, I had something specific to say! And you, you can’t chew the fart you caught.
It’s rotten, can it only smell farts?”
Yang Tehong interjected: "Old Mo, you pressed Xiao Meng's switch, and he turned on the sex mode... Why are you standing here arguing? Why are we here?"
Ke Mengchao: "Who am I? I really can't make sense! We are here for Xiaohua. Let's just say that Xiaohua's dream, if you dream it but don't realize it, it is just an illusion."
Mo Shangtong didn't get angry even after being scolded for a long time, and still said calmly: "That's right, you can't behave like a gentleman who only talks but doesn't do anything. Just talking and talking is not a real skill. You have to practice it."
.”
Ke Mengchao: "If you don't learn the lessons of your predecessors, you will go astray and go further."
Yang Tehong said in the tone of a leader summing up: "So don't worry about the predecessors and descendants here. I think we must follow the way of nature. Going in the opposite direction will lead to disaster."
The three old men quarreling like this is a scene that Hua Zhenxing has been used to seeing since he was a child. Not to mention how they bickered outside, Hua Zhenxing followed Ding Qi into the secret realm. This secret realm or the kingdom of God is indeed not small, and the overall appearance is like an olive.
Shape, more than 40 kilometers long from east to west, nearly 30 kilometers wide from south to north, with a total area of about 1,000 square kilometers.
It is completely different from the tribal legends outside. Forget about Wakanda, this is a dead world. The so-called dead silence does not mean that there is no sound at all, but a feeling. The air here is very fresh, and there is a gentle breeze blowing in the wilderness.
The vegetation is not as desolate as outside, but there is not a single person to be seen, and walking among it makes me feel inexplicably nervous.
The portal was located near the easternmost end of the secret realm. They walked down the altar-like platform, passed through the square and valley in front of the platform, and first arrived at the hillside where there were buildings.
Most of the buildings on this hillside are made of stones, and the indigenous residents outside rarely use stones to build houses. These stone houses are square or round, and the roofs are sloped. As for the roofs, they are basically
Straw curtains were laid on the wooden beams and wooden boards. Now they are basically decayed, but traces can still be seen.
There is a saying about the durability of wooden components: dry for thousands of years, wet for thousands of years, and not dry or wet for only a few years. If the wood is completely soaked in water, it is actually very difficult to decay, and it will even gradually turn into water-sinked wood, dry wood.
It can be stored for a long time if it is not eaten by insects. The biggest fear of wood is repeated exposure to moisture coupled with insect and moss corrosion, which will soon lead to decay.
It has obviously rained here. There are no tiles on the roof to prevent water, and the grass and wood structures have long since collapsed. There are no people or corpses in these buildings, but many daily furnishings and utensils are left behind. Hua Zhenxing found no fired bricks among the building materials.
, but pottery was found among the abandoned vessels, many of which were painted pottery.
The utensils here are made of wood, stone, bone, horn, pottery, and there are actually a large number of gold utensils, all of which are exquisitely made. The legendary Kingdom of God is full of gold, and this is true. But Hua Zhenxing
No ironware was found, not even bronze.
After walking around the building complex, Hua Zhenxing muttered: "When was this a relic from the Stone Age?"
On the gentle slope below the building complex, there are some fairly neat piles of rubble, half hidden among the grass. Ding Qi stopped and said: "To be more precise, it is the pottery and golden age. This building is not too big."
It's ancient, and can be traced back to hundreds of years ago. Let me test you, what can you tell?"
Ding Qi is worthy of being a teacher, and actually asked a test question on the spot. Hua Zhenxing looked back at the dilapidated and abandoned buildings, scratched the back of his head and said: "This building complex is not small. It feels like many people lived in it during its heyday.
.Some houses are very spacious, look relatively comfortable, and have exquisite utensils inside, but the small houses next to them are much simpler.
It is likely that some nobles once lived here, as well as the servants who served them. However, the place later declined, and the residents became fewer and fewer until they became extinct. Such houses, especially the roofs, need to be maintained, and the degree of preservation varies greatly.
, indicating that some houses have long been uninhabited, while others were abandoned at the end.”
Ding Qi smiled: "Your observation skills are okay, but where are the people here?"
Hua Zhenxing: "They should all be gone. The population is getting smaller and smaller, until it becomes extinct..." At this point, he shuddered inexplicably and felt that there was a sense of eeriness in the breeze.
Ding Qi: "The predecessors may no longer be there, or even the tombs may not be found, but what about the last group of people who passed away? Where are they?"
Hua Zhenxing was suddenly startled. He pointed at the piles of rubble among the grass and said, "They, they are right here!"
Ding Qi nodded and said: "Yes, the last group of people are buried here, but there is always the last person who is not buried. Where is he?"
Hua Zhenxing: "That's the person kneeling in front of the exit of the secret realm! He was the only one left here at the end. He wanted to get out but couldn't!"
Ding Qi looked at the hillside and said, "Let's go and look elsewhere."
After climbing over this hillside, there is a relatively high valley plain ahead. Looking at the flat shape of the land, some places seem to be the remains of farmland, and there are several abandoned villages. Those stone houses just now are already very old in Hua Zhenxing's eyes.
It's primitive, but compared with these village buildings, it's like a mansion.
The abandoned village buildings are the simplest ones with earthen walls and thatched roofs. A hole left in the earthen wall can be used as a door. There is not even a door panel. It is either decayed or there was no original one. Most of the utensils left in the village are made of stone.
There are very few pottery and a lot of wooden wares. Surprisingly, there are also a lot of gold wares scattered here.
The gold is real gold, but it's not as refined as what we saw just now, and it doesn't look too pure. Where is this place, and do even the lowest-level residents use gold as a weapon?
The two of them climbed another hill, looked across the wilderness at the foot of the mountain, and saw the outline of a city in the distance. It couldn't be described with the concept of a modern city. If I had to compare it, it was like a larger village. Judging from the scale, it could accommodate more than 100 people.
Ten thousand people. And the stone building complex they saw when they first came in can accommodate up to several hundred people.
Walking through the wilderness towards the city, no large animals were found in this dead world, and there were no birds flying in the sky. There were only some insects, scorpions, voles and lizards on the ground. The half-foot-long lizard seemed to be the largest species here.
.
None of these animals have horns, and I don’t know where the horny objects here came from, or perhaps there were once large mammals with horns, but they later became extinct... Hua Zhenxing guessed this as he walked.
The buildings on the outskirts of the city have been extremely ruined, similar to those in the villages. The closer you go to the center, the more exquisitely built the houses are and the better preserved they are. Many of them still have stone foundations, and various Japanese relics left inside.
The utensils are also more exquisite...
They finally came to the center of the city, where a stone wall surrounded a group of buildings, and outside the wall there was a circle of tall and lush trees.
Ding Qi said: "Xiaohua, have you noticed? We didn't see big trees along the way. According to my observation, at least we didn't see any trees over fifty years old. It should be that those trees were removed in order to obtain wood.
All the big trees have been cut down. But no one has cut down the trees outside the wall, which shows that this place is very special, maybe it was an area like the royal palace in the past."
Hua Zhenxing gave him a hand: "Teacher Ding, don't forget to come closer, these trees are poisonous!"
These trees grow very tall. The highest point of the tree crown is visually estimated to be fifteen or six meters. The hanging branches that are dragged to the ground and the horizontal branches that grow lower are intertwined. They are so dense that it is impossible to find any holes. The branches are all pointed.
The thorny, olive-shaped leaves are also covered with light white hairs, and green fruits shaped like crabapples hang on them, which seem to form another natural barrier outside the courtyard wall.
Looking at the piles of dead branches and leaves under the tree, there are also many rotten or semi-rotten fallen fruits, exuding a fermented smell similar to fruit wine. Ding Qi frowned slightly and said: "The smell is wrong, it seems to have a poisonous burning effect. What exactly is this?"
What kind of tree is it?”
Hua Zhenxing: "The local people outside call it the thorn-throated tree. Even if the white hairs on the leaves are scratched on the skin, it will cause unbearable burning pain, just like being burned. If it is pricked by the sharp thorns on the branches, it will be poisonous.
It’s more serious, so be sure not to be stained by its juice. If you swallow the fruit by mistake, it will kill you. Fortunately, it is only a biological toxin, which can be decomposed naturally and will not pollute the environment. Just stay away and you will be fine.”
Ding Qi groaned and said, "Planting it here should have a protective effect."
The wall made of stones is easy to climb over. Looking at other local buildings, there are no anti-theft and security facilities. It seems that there is no such concept. If the wall is a "palace", it must at least show that it is different from other places.
Different, so this circle of thorn-throat trees is equivalent to the "royal guard".
At this moment, Hua Zhenxing was suddenly startled, as if he heard the "system" prompt in his mind again.