Mirror: Twin Cities - Chapter 5

Take off, but was buried alive after all.

“God… That was, that was Lao Er’s hand!…” Seeing the scar on the back of his hand and recognizing his familiar companion, Sheng exclaimed, “They…they are all dead? Just now, the avalanche, Didn’t they escape the avalanche just now?”

“The lovebirds can detect the arrival of outsiders from hundreds of miles away and startled. If the Zhuniao flies, then the traveler is safe; if the blackbird flies, then it is a snow burial.” Sumo continued to kick his feet away. In the snow, a dozen hands were exposed under the snow, his posture twisted strangely, touching his toes, “Their luck is far worse than you.”

Na Sheng looked at the hands of those suffocated companions on the snowy ground. He was shocked. He turned his head subconsciously and couldn’t bear to look at it. After a long time, he asked in a low voice, “It’s you…you saved me in the snowstorm?”

However, as soon as she turned her head, she saw the answer.

—The monstrous waves caused by the avalanche are still surging above her head!

She screamed just as she was about to exit, when she suddenly realized that the snow wave that hit her was actually condensed in an instant. It was like tens of thousands of horses galloping down the mountain, but one of the angry horses that caught up with her was about to trample her to death, but was frozen in the air by inexplicable power in an instant, and solidified into an ice sculpture.

What kind of power is that! … She had an incredible look in her eyes, and turned her head to look aside that strange puppet master. However, Somo turned his head and didn’t answer her question head-on. He just said indifferently: “It’s just a meal.”

After walking a few steps, he reached the top of the mountain and stood for a long time, as if feeling some familiar breath in the wind. Na Sheng only felt cold, looked at the corpses all over the snowfield, and shrank for a moment. He wanted to walk to the only companion now, but he was inexplicably afraid of him, and he hesitated for a while.

The long night and snow storm have passed, and the sky is slightly bright.

Sumo stood on the top of the Muztag Snow Mountain, the goshawk hovered over his head, and the sky blew his long soft hair. He closed his eyes and stood facing the west for a long time. Suddenly he raised his hand and pointed to a place on the ground under his feet. He seemed to be talking to himself. He smiled slightly and said in a low voice: “Yunhuang, I’m back!” “

Second, the corpse under the ice

Standing seven or eight feet lower than him, Na Sheng looked up at the young puppet master, and found that the blind man’s always blank eyes flashed with lightning-like sharp light, shockingly shocking.

She tried to trek through knee-deep snow, stepped onto the last snow ridge, and stood side by side with Somo. The wind above the top was so violent that she couldn’t open her eyes. However, when she stood still, followed his hand and looked towards the ground below her feet, she suddenly involuntarily blurted out softly.

The sun has not risen yet, but the dim light of the dawn has enveloped the earth. Standing on the top of Ten Thousand Ren, overlooking the land underfoot, the mysterious new world reveals its true face at dawn, showing strange and beautiful colors: cyan, blue, and sand are interlaced, like a huge blanket woven vertically and horizontally. , Shop towards the end of the sky. There seems to be a huge lake in the center of the continent. In the morning light, it seems as if scattered pearls have been sprinkled by the gods, emitting a bright light.

Cloud shortage. That is the wild land that has been passed down by people in Zhongzhou for many generations?

“That’s Yunhuang? That’s Yunhuang!” The Sheng cried out in surprise, so many days and nights of fatigue disappeared, she rubbed her eyes, clapped her hands and jumped, “Suma! Suma! Is that Yunhuang!” We… we finally arrived!”

The puppet master heard her yelling and laughing, but a faint sneer flashed in his eyes—Yunhuang, where is the legendary Taoyuan of those Zhongzhou people? That was just another chaotic Zhongzhou. This Dongba girl is so happy too soon…

However, he only said: “It is only after the previous heavenly fault that we have truly reached the cloud shortage.”

“Tianque?” Na Sheng was stunned, remembering the old legend said: After Muztag Snow Mountain, it is the only entrance to Yunhuangzhou: Tianque. Only after passing that mountain can we truly reach the land of legend. When she thought of the dangers ahead, most of her joy was removed. She stood on the top of the snow-capped mountain with a bitter face, looking at the continent close at hand, took a breath, and tried her best to cheer up: “Tianque? Where is Tianque? ?”

Su Mo stood on the top of the mountain, although he could not see with his eyes, he seemed to know Yunhuang Continent well. He pointed his finger at a certain place under the mountain, and his expression suddenly changed uncontrollably, “Do you see that Jinghu Lake? There is a white pagoda in the center of the lake—it is the center of the entire Yunhuang Continent…Tianque, in it Zhengdongfang.”

“Where are there any towers…that is, how can you see them when you stand here?” Na Sheng followed his fingers and muttered, his eyes patrolling the ground. Suddenly, her eyes froze, and her eyes widened unimaginably—

At the end of the world, there is a thin cloud in the morning, and behind the cloud there is a glow of sunshine. However, in the cloud group at the end of the sky, there seemed to be a cloud slowly drooping, like a rainbow, touching a large area of ​​clear water on the cloud wasteland. In the morning light, the white drooping cloud glowed softly, shining through the earth for hundreds of miles.

Na Sheng looked at the falling cloud between the sky and the earth in the extreme distance, stammered and almost bit his tongue: “What, what! You, you say, that is… Is that a tower?!”

“Have you seen it? That is the Garan White Pagoda known as the “heart” of the Cloud Desert State…” Hearing the incredible tone of the girl, Su Mo lowered his head and smiled, with a lot of emotion in his smile, “How many years… It is still here. How many people and countries have fallen, only it is still there.”

“Why, how could there be such a high tower?… How much effort would it take to build it!” Standing on the top of Wanrenxue Peak in the gradually brightening sky, the Sheng completely forgot the cold on his body and stared dumbfounded. The magnificent scene in front of me murmured, “Sure enough…The people who live in Yunhuang are all immortals, right? Such a tall tower can’t be made by Zhongzhou people.”

“The White Pagoda of Garan is on the Jinghu Lake in Yunhuang Island, with a radius of 30,000 hectares. The holy city of Garan, the capital of the Kongsang people, is in the center of the lake.” As if recalling the data he remembered in his head, the puppet master hugged the puppet. In his arms, facing the cloud and low road, “The white pagoda is 64,000 feet high, and the base covers an area of ​​ten hectares. It occupies one-tenth of the area of ​​the capital—about 7,000 years ago, it was the greatest in the history of Kongsang. Emperor: Xingzun Emperor Xihua, who founded the Piling Dynasty, obeyed the advice of the chief commander and sacrificed to heaven with the blood of nine hundred virgins, and then buried six sides of the white pagoda pedestal, driving 300,000 people for 70 times. It was only in the year that the Tongtian White Pagoda was built in a place known as the center of the Yunhuangzhou Island.”

“Ah? Why do you want to build it so high?” Although Na Sheng was fascinated by this spectacle, he couldn’t help asking, “It takes a lot of effort to even climb up? It’s not really capable of skyrocketing.”

“Those Kongsang people have always thought they have the ability to reach the sky.” Su Mo suddenly sneered, sarcastically, “Later, when it was built to 64,000 feet, a collapse occurred and nearly 10,000 craftsmen died. Xing Zun. The emperor was furious and killed the two hundred supervisors under the master craftsmanship, once again sacrificed to the heavens with 1,800 virgins, and sent additional manpower to start work—this time exceeding the original height, reaching 70,000 feet. As a result, it collapsed again, falling down to six thousand feet, or returning to its original height… This happened five times in total. No matter how many creatures were sacrificed, the white pagoda of Garan could only reach the height of sixty-four thousand feet.”

“Hey, it seems that God only allowed them to be so high-the emperor is really stubborn.” The first surprise passed, Na Sheng finally felt cold again, holding his shoulders and shaking in the snow, “made so What’s the use of high?”

The puppet master’s hollow eyes looked at Yunhuang Earth, with a mocking light in his eyes: “Kongsang’s Da Si Ming said: The higher the white pagoda is built, the closer it is to the place where the heavens live. Then the Si Ming and the priest Prayer is easier to be heard by the emperor.”

“Oh, but it seems that the emperor didn’t like them being too close…” He was shivering, but Na Sheng still couldn’t help laughing, “What do you mean by’empty mulberry’? Yunhuang turned out to be the same as Zhongzhou. There are also national ones?”

“Of course-do you think Yunhuang is really the Peach Blossom Spring?” Su Mo shook his head and sneered. He turned around, facing the Eastern World when he came, and raised his hand to point to the land of Zhongzhou, “Yi Tian Que As a boundary, Yunhuang and Zhongzhou are separated on both sides… But Tianque is like a mirror, and Yunhuang and Zhongzhou are like two images inside and outside the mirror—but now Kongsang has also been subjugated, right?”

“Don’t say anything. Besides, I think I’ve come here in vain!” Na Sheng became depressed, jumped his feet to warm his body, and pouted, “Tianque Tianque, which one is Tianque!”

“I told you, it’s the mountain in the east of the White Tower.” Sumo replied.

Na Sheng lowered his head and looked at the ground at his feet, distinguishing the position with the white pagoda as the center. He patrolled the ground for a long time, and finally fell not far in front of him, and suddenly jumped up: “What? You said that hill is the sky.” Damn it, shouldn’t the Tianque be higher than this snow-capped mountain? Hey, did you remember the direction wrong, how could this small soil **** be the Tianque?”

“Tianque was only a thousand feet tall…” Su Mo was too lazy to pay attention to her, and only said, “Don’t underestimate this small slope. There are no fewer dead people there than on this snow-capped mountain. You can go there alone, Even if you are good.”

“…” Seeing the lush green hills under the snow-capped mountains, the girl suddenly felt a strange oppression