The Dead Zone: Maya Stela - C86

Instead, he began to pay attention to this matter.

In front of him, there was a stone bridge in the shape of an arch. The fence on both sides of the bridge was high and tall.

My old man looked left and right, feeling that something was different. He clapped his hands. This bridge isn’t even finished yet!

The first part of the bridge looked like a half-finished product compared to the flying bridge. All the parts were solid, and the joints of the bridge had never been polished.

The Song family and Lin Yemao had already recovered, so he could just bring them up in one breath. The Song family’s health is good, now stand up and watch with my father. Lin Yemao trembled and said, “First… Don’t go over there, let’s see what’s going on. ” Lin Ren lay paralyzed on the ground, gasping for air. Suddenly, his breath caught. My father saw that he was in a bad state and was about to pat him on the back when Lin Yemao regained his composure and stared at the top of the mountain.

My father was shocked and walked over to cover his eyes. Gritting his teeth, he said, “What’s wrong? What did you see? ”

Having lost the support from above, Lin Yemao immediately gasped like a fish on the verge of death, his whole body shaking. My father looked at the Song Family helplessly. “Don’t look! If I’m not right, immediately cover my eyes! ” He raised his head and two golden diamonds appeared in his eyes. The bright and gorgeous radiance filled his vision, but the two diamonds were not on his head. He clearly remembered that as long as he walked to the top of the bridge, at such a close distance, he would definitely be able to protect the pair of diamonds that were staring at him lovingly.

His vision suddenly turned black, and the warm feeling disappeared without a trace. Anger welled up in his heart, and my father slapped away that sinful hand, preparing to continue his pursuit of that star. His vision went black again, and someone shouted in his ear, “Wake up!”

These four words had grabbed my father by the ears and drilled into his brain, immediately causing his scalp to tighten and his head to be pushed down.

“Alright, alright, I’m awake.” My father could only beg for mercy.

The Song family heaved a sigh of relief and asked, “Is this thing really that good?” “It’s just two shiny yellow diamonds …” Diamond? ” The corners of Song Jia Lou’s mouth twitched, “Did you faint? There are diamonds here? “Where did the East Han come from?” “It’s very strange anyway.” My father shook his head and said, “I didn’t notice it before, but now I realize that there might be something strange on that bridge.”

“That’s not possible. You don’t even need to guess to know that something is weird.” Song Family corrected him.

The Song Family was a very restrained person. Although they were curious about what my father saw, they couldn’t thank him for raising their head to look at this.

My dad described what he saw. The Song family frowned. “If you raise your head, you will be lured to the bridge; if you don’t, you will have to walk the Yellow Springs road. The former would be careful and not get into trouble, but the latter might get into trouble if they don’t do something with their thick waists. ”

My dad thought for a while and said, “We can’t cross the bridge anymore. I’m guessing there’s something in the water that we can’t cross, like a water beast …” The Song Family took out three cotton swabs from their bag and threw one out. The waves didn’t rise up on the surface of the water, and white smoke rose from where the swab touched the water.

The Song Family member turned around, his expression was very ugly, “It’s not that there’s something in the water, it’s this water, it’s not normal water.” He waved the remaining two cotton swabs around. “It’s highly corrosive. It’ll be gone after this.”

My father began looking for other forks in the road.

Ever since they left, they had always followed the proverbs of the heavens, which meant that no matter what they did, they would always give them a way out. This wasn’t a tomb, and those who didn’t come in would all die.

Lin Ren groaned, lowering his eyes and not daring to look up. He thought for a while and asked, “If there is pressure on both sides of the bridge, will it be alright?” “If it’s to make sure that you have to go down there and you can’t leave any escape routes, I guess you have to get to the middle before you get into trouble.” However, the water is only as wide as two sides, and the distance between the two ends is not very long. ” The Song family said, “It’s the same if you walk to the middle and jump two steps closer. Do you want to pick a high point and use the rope to climb over? “We can’t tie the rope!” You can use a telescopic rod. ” My father calculated. “We don’t even need ropes. We can go through with the retractors.”

Stretch rod?

Dad looked at me and said in surprise, “Don’t tell me that your configuration doesn’t have a retractable rod? “Isn’t that a standard match?” Which pole is like a fishing line? ” I describe the pole in our bag.

“Yes.”

The penetrative power of the pole isn’t strong, but its ability to bear weight isn’t weak. In the face of the flat-bottomed fire oil swamp, which was previously filled up, it is useless.

I compared the length of the sword with that of our father. I don’t know how long the sword in our hands can bear the weight, but it definitely can’t be this small.

Thinking about it this way, it’s obvious that there is a huge gap between our dad’s bag and ours. The most obvious point is complementarity. Except for the essential food and weapons in our bags (and my pistol is missing, which is still on my mind), the medical supplies, everything else is something you don’t have, and my dad’s kind of thing is more like a standard, a backpack multiplied by three, and as for the package I got back after I lost it, it’s a lot more mixed up than the three of us combined, but it’s not much, so it won’t be too overweight.

My father coughed and went on:

However, the further they went, the more depressed they felt. The next bend in the road was suddenly lit up and the temperature rose as they looked ahead of them. There was another oil pool in front of them, and the oil was burning vigorously, causing their faces to turn black.

“Did we turn back, or was there an identical one up ahead?”

My dad looked around.

If they did come back, other than the Wall-Hitting Ghost, there would be another route they had taken before, which was a circular point with lines on both sides. If they didn’t come back, then there wouldn’t be any other route, unless they were deliberately deceived.

The trick of the Wall-Hitting Ghost was nothing more than the use of the same environment and the same cycle of alternating scenes. With Lin Ren, who was familiar with the art of the Mysterious Gate’s evasion, they were not worried at all, but the burning path of fire was a new path. The soaring fire dragon had merely blocked their path, and there was no second piece of rubber clothing for them to walk on.

Right now, the simplest method was to wait for the oil of fire to go out before stepping on the ashes. However, this method had many drawbacks. If they were wrong, this was not the so-called Wall-Hitting Ghost, but a real other oil tank. The combination of the two sides of the burning air could easily suffocate them here. That was the best way to make up for the loss. Even if the air was still strong enough to breathe, it would still be impossible to advance further in. It would be even more troublesome to enter deeper, and retreating would be much more difficult than now.

The oil pool in front of him had no intention of extinguishing.

When I dragged the two of them from the first fire tank to the edge of the pool, my dad carefully recorded the route in his mind. At first, he didn’t see the pool, but after circling an arc, he saw the second pool in the opposite direction. In other words, they walked in an octagonal pattern.

In this so called “8” shape, the pool was the intersection point in the middle, while the two pools of oil were distributed at the top of the top two. From the looks of it, there didn’t seem to be any problems.

My old man wrote in his head.

The other scenario was that he would change his direction without realizing it. In fact, if he didn’t change his direction, then he would be moving in the form of a ‘0’. All in all, he did not know!

My dad has a headache, I’ve met the Wall-Hitting Ghost before, but then there was a senior leading me, and I’ve already determined it was the Wall of Ghost Fighting. As long as I figure out how to get out of it, I won’t even be able to confirm anything and can only guess.

“En!” Lin Ren Zhi suddenly replied. He pushed the wall with his hand and said doubtfully, “According to what I’ve said, both the front and back is a dead end. If we want to leave, the only option is to go to heaven.”

The Heavens?

The corner of my old man’s mouth twitched. Lin Ren said, “It should mean going up. There is a way up here?”

My dad looked up. The top wasn’t low, and the flashlight was black too. I couldn’t tell if there was any other exit. However, even if there was, it would still be a problem how to go up.

Lin Ren replied: “Sky Stairway.”

This is the second time I have heard of the word “Heaven Stairway”. It was the so called Heaven Stairway, where Elder Li had lost his life.

“Business!” Can you come over for a bit? ” Just as my father was about to continue, a voice came from the other side of the tent. I looked up to see Grandpa Li holding a bowl and smiling at us.

It was then that I became aware of my hunger. It had been a long time since I had last seen it, and it was time for me to eat. I walked over to grab some rice and passed by Elder Li. It wasn’t something to eat, but there was a strong Chinese medicine smell coming from it.

Because of my body, I took Chinese medicine for a long time when I was young. That bowl of dark brown soup was my nightmare. At this moment, the bowl by my nose is much thicker than the one I drank before. I can’t help but mourn the professor who drank it.

Wei Yuting and I were helping to pack up. When they saw that I had handed over a large piece of beef and biscuits, they said, “We’re not needed here for now. Elder Li and the rest are saying that we should head back first.” He added, “Professor Li is already awake. This is none of our business. They’re telling us to leave quickly and not to miss what happens next. ”

I was confused and confused by his “Elder Li” and “Professor Li”. When I heard the last sentence, my ears couldn’t help but prick up. “What’s next? What’s next? ”

With a puzzled expression, he said, “I’m not too sure either. I can only say that they told us to hurry up and leave.”

I thought to myself, this doesn’t sound right. If it was in a comic book novel, it would be considered a dying word. I knew it was bad luck, so I didn’t say it.

Wei Yuting said, “And… I think they mean, we can’t be of much help here anymore, the seniors are all awake. ”

This sentence was a little cryptic. But now that they’re awake, the next thing to do is to go back on the search for the document. We can’t help them next.

As for the story my father told me, I couldn’t tell you how much I wanted to hear it all. Ever since I had heard the version of what it was like to have my name on the mountain, I had felt goosebumps all over my body from listening to stories, especially when my father said before he told them, “Your name does exist.” It was a frightening example.

When I went to bid farewell to my father, he was still drinking his soup. After hearing my words, he paused for a moment before saying, “It’s fine if you don’t want to listen.”

I thought about it and said, “Dad, how about you condense the core content and tell me about it? Let me see what happens in the future. ”

My father thought for a while, then put down the bowl very seriously and said, “That’s fine.”

This surprised me. No one knew my father’s personality better than I did. In the past, it would have been like reading a brick book. The reason was because there was not much detail. Looking at my father in front of me, there was actually a few strands of white mixed in his stubble.

My father took a sip of water and said, “Actually, most of the conversations I had with you were made up by me. The truth is that so much time has passed, so who would remember it so clearly?”

Me: “…”

“But most of the progress is not wrong.” The old man said, “This is only just the beginning, we have already shed a layer of skin, and then we were forced to break the middle finger and thumb on the left. We’ve only been nurturing it for a few days now,” the old man said, shaking his left hand and lifting up his pants leg.

There were crisscrossing scars from the whip wounds, and there was even charred flesh at the edges.

Burning was different from other kinds of wounds, it was not difficult to recover from it. As long as one was able to endure the initial infection, there would not be any major problems in the future. However, in terms of recovery from external injuries, it was harder to recover from than bone injuries.

The whip scar was very deep, and there was a white scab around the scarred area. Seeing this, I was alarmed, but my father quickly covered the scar and said, “You’re my son, so I don’t really want to show you these places. So, don’t look at the scars on my back and the scars on my chest. But I showed you the scar today because I hope you’re not like me. These are the costs of my lack of caution and the tuition I’m so proud to pay. The words of the Sky Spill Martial School were not wrong, but the one and only Gate of Life might not be something that you could see with a single glance. Some occur only when you make your own choices in a given situation, using the right quick approach to the situation in front of you. It doesn’t matter if you’re covered in wounds, but I don’t want you to lose your life. ”

“Mission and life are always the latter.”

Pop looked me in the eye as if I were going to die for a mission in the next second. I said to myself, I’m not so stubborn. If the quest wasn’t completed, they could wait until the next time. If they lost their lives, they would lose everything.

The look in his father’s eyes disappeared in a flash. He picked up the bowl and took another sip. “Why aren’t you leaving?”

The corner of my mouth twitched, and I asked, “Didn’t you say to tell me about the center?” This is the center. ” The old man said, “I thought about it just now and felt that since you won’t go to that place, there’s no point in explaining things to you in detail. What I just told you is already central. As long as you understand it, that’s enough. As long as you know what it is that a man can’t do. ” After saying that, he drank some water and impatiently chased me away.

What did I mean by meeting up with Wei Yuting and the other two? The three of us who are inexperienced can only drag our feet here. Elder Li wrote a letter to “The Top,” about our formal induction application, which is in the pocket of our pants. We finished our last meal, packed the rest of the bags, and followed the original route back to the surface of the sea.

This time we did not go in for a night. When we went up, the sky was full of stars, and the water was foggy. John’s cell phone was glowing on it, gently swaying in the waves like a firefly on the sea.

However, the moment they got closer, not a single trace of this feeling remained. As John watched the action movie, Wei Yuting spat at him and turned to look under the sea.

It wasn’t just near the sea. A small yacht bobbing in the water brought with it not only wonders, but also terror. When we were all settled, John whistled and sailed back.

We landed at daybreak. I immediately began to think about my dad, not knowing what was going on next. After staying here for two days, he rushed back to the country on his plane.

Wei Yuting wrapped up the letter Elder Li had given us, and we sat on the train, ready to give the letter to ‘Upper’.

This letter should be the tone for the rest of our lives. It has nothing to do with the Maya stone monument. After some discussion, we decided not to go to Shanghai, but to the place where we signed the contract — — Professor Song’s home.

Speaking of fate, the three of us were brought here by the Song Family. He and my dad should have been close friends for a long time, and now we are here. What do you mean by ‘Song Ping’s contact information’? No one answered even after calling more than ten times. This kid was expected to train in a dark place just like us.

We had to walk around for a long time before we found him at the institute. Then, after waiting for two days, we notified the person who brought us. Coincidentally, I was quite familiar with him.

It was the other of my father’s three partners, Professor Lin Ren.

Professor Lin Ren, in my father’s opinion, is a not very bold but very knowledgeable old man.” In my mind, it should be a meticulously bespectacled, middle-aged elite who didn’t seem to be working underground at all. He looked like a high school gym teacher. He was dressed in casual clothes, and on the outside he was wearing a military green down jacket. When we arrived at his hotel, we were nibbling on a sweet potato.

Seeing us coming over, he waved his hand and smiled, “Just call me Uncle Lin.”

He slapped his head as if he remembered something. From behind, he pulled out a small bag and handed it to us. “The weather is a bit cold, let’s go after dinner.”

Inside the bag were three sweet potatoes, apparently of the same family as the one in his hand. A strong feeling of goodwill rose in my heart.

Sweet potato is glutinous and sweet. In the evening we sat at the round table. Uncle Lin held the juice in his hand and said, “This is my first time taking someone else with me, so I don’t know what to do. If you have any questions, you must ask them. I will try my best to answer them.”

We all said OK. Uncle Lin said, “Just nice, let’s talk while we eat.” This was a hotel room, so he didn’t need to worry about leaking information.

Uncle Lin said, “I’ve read Professor Li’s writing before. All of you have direct experience, and have not received too much damage. It seems that the three of you have pretty good physical fitness and cooperation. I also have a certain understanding of what you’re going to do next and the reason for doing it.” If you don’t understand our intentions, you can ask me. ”

We shook our heads, holding our juice glasses as we listened to Uncle Lin.

Uncle Lin said, “If nothing unexpected happens, the three of you will become a group and we will need to act together. Just like how soldiers on the battlefield never act alone, you must know how to complement each other. Complementing ideas when considering; working with each other when acting, and being closer to your brothers than you are to your brothers. ”

Can I not be close? These two people are friends to me, and these two people are also male and female friends to each other. This is a physical relationship between you and me. Sometimes, standing next to him, he felt like a light bulb.

“I don’t know if you understand why you chose this.” Uncle Lin said, “Every year, there will be many excellent archaeological students that graduate, but among so many excellent people, why? — Your ancestors all worked in this field.”

“The ancestors of this place do not refer to their parents,” Uncle Lin said with a smile as he was about to speak. “I know that your father does not like to do this sort of thing.” When I was young, my father told me that your grandfather complained everywhere. Ancestors here are the first seniors who have been involved in this branch of the archaeology we need since the founding of New China. The people who are executing it now are all descendants of that group of people from back then. ”

“Why? Because it’s safe, the materials we’re looking for also have the value of ancient artifacts, so we need to sign a confidentiality agreement. As for the children of ordinary families, although their professional knowledge was up to standard, their family composition was not up to standard, so it was relatively dangerous. After all, the danger factor of this branch is hundreds of times higher than the main branch, so the sacrifice rate is too high. ”

Uncle Lin paused before smiling embarrassedly, “But now, this rule is about to be broken. After all, the number of people in each batch is getting smaller and smaller, and there are only eleven of you in this generation. In terms of numbers, we are far from the seniors at the start, but the number of historical remains waiting for us to explore is as many as the stars. ”

“Every generation will definitely die, and not many will live their lives until the end. Since you have all signed an agreement, you should know that it is for life, even though there is no need to be busy when the time comes. However, they had all been inside for too long. Some of them weren’t used to it when they came out. Every generation, even more people died before they came and got married and had children. But if they were married and had children and died, then the other half would allow their children to engage in this profession even less, and very few would continue to study archaeology, and without the prerequisites, it would be even more impossible to participate in it. ”

I think that’s to be expected. My parents are no different from both sides. Those who have participated in it know how dangerous it is, and they would rest here for a long time after making a mistake. No one wants to send their children down into the abyss. The Son of Love is the property of all living things.

I think my father thought the same before, so he never said a word about letting me into this circle. In the end, I was caught off guard and was led to this road of no return.

Uncle Lin said, “The place we’re going to tonight is not that difficult. And I’ve been there before. “This could be considered a public teaching area. The mechanisms inside could be triggered repeatedly, so it was specially used as a teaching place.”

When I heard this, I cursed. There was even a teaching department in this industry. It was really an eye-opener.

However, it made sense when he thought about it. The three rookies were like three useless trash. One of them was dragging the other three, not just going to kindergarten. If he wasn’t careful, something might happen.

Uncle Lin sipped a mouthful of fruit juice and said, “Wait a moment, go and pack up your equipment. This time, I’ll come over and give you the bag sent by the organization.” Although Maya has already sent you a copy, it is of a different nature. For most of the rest of the day, he would still need to use the items distributed by his own country. If there are any damages after you come out, you can ask me for compensation. If I can’t get through at work, you can make this call. ” “She handed him a piece of paper with a number written on it. The name on the back was Jin Ya.

Why did he record the number into his phone? Looking at the screen, he said, “Beijing?”

“Uncle Lin nodded his head and said,” This is the chief equipment officer’s number. You must call me Aunt Jin. ” Aunt Jin? Was she the daughter of Jin Qinghui’s grandfather? “Is it Aunt Jin?” “You know him?” Uncle Lin was stunned for a moment before he nodded his head, “That’s right. Your Wei family and the Jin family are old friends.”

What was more exciting: “As expected, your own country is the best! Hehe! “Uncle Lin, you don’t even know this? Last time, when I lost something between the left and the upper echelons, they gave me a second-hand item. It didn’t contain anything at all. Tsk tsk.”

I helplessly listened as he brought up this matter again. On second thought, though, it was always fun to get something new.

Uncle Lin said, “Are you talking about the one you left at the foot of the 36th mountain? “I probably can’t take that out anymore. It has already collapsed.”

I didn’t really care, but the second time round, I didn’t have the warmth of a guest. But Uncle Lin said, “But you don’t have to be too sad. We have more things of our own than inside, and they are also more delicate and useful.”

After we ate and drank to our heart’s content, I went back to the house and Uncle Lin threw us each a big bag. I saw that the bag was at least 1.5 meters long, belonging to the mountaineering bag, which could be separated up and down, with a waterproof double layer of shark skin in the middle, and three shark skin scabbards sewn close to the tailbone from top to bottom. The three knives were placed from top to bottom, and the blades were silvery white, flashing under the light.

With a grunt of admiration, I unzipped the waterproof layer and separated it into several more partitions, also separated by shark skins, and divided them into medicine, food, and gadgets. There were also three folded black racks beside him.

Wei and Wei Yuting’s bags were filled with two pieces of tarpaulins and a pin. I looked around and saw that the three of them were grouped together into a tent.

Except for food, which is standard, the other tools are complementary. That means we’re all going to be tied together for the rest of the day.

Uncle Lin was waiting for us outside with three bags. When he saw us come out, he naturally nodded and said, “My main target is the Mysterious Gate Escape Armor, but I don’t really understand the way of mechanism. If you guys have a different opinion, please point it out.”

He took a taxi to the corner of the ravine. Originally, the taxi didn’t want to take us, but in the end, it was due to the double fare that gave way. We drove from the city to the suburbs without stopping, heading in the direction of the countryside. The latter half of the journey was on a mountainous path and it was very bumpy. Wei Yuting seemed to have fallen asleep while curled up in her embrace. I also felt a little sleepy. What do you mean by just looking at the scene on both sides?

Our tools lay at our feet, and our feet and legs didn’t move all the way to our destination. I shook my feet and stomped my feet, feeling a numbness that went straight from the soles of my feet to my legs. My whole body shivered from the cold, and my breath turned to ice.

Uncle Lin paid the driver and the taxi drove back cautiously. Seeing how sleepy we were, Uncle Lin smiled. “Endure it for now. The road ahead is not difficult. We have a place to stay in the village. We’ll go when we wake up.”

As for the equipment we just got, they are all placed in the hotel, not that we aren’t allowed to use them, the difference is there, no matter how convenient it is, it’s still a consumable, but now the guy on our back wants to follow us for the rest of our lives, so naturally it’s important to adapt to the latter.

I was almost awake from the cold air. When the wind blew, the leaves on the mountain not far away rustled.

I kept feeling that there was a weird atmosphere around me, and I knew that it was my mind playing tricks on me.

Wei Yuting was already awake. She looked at Uncle Lin full of energy and asked, “Uncle Lin, do we have to bypass the village?” No need, “Uncle Lin shook his head.” The underground floor of this village is the entrance to the place we want to go. Actually, not all of the temples are under the mountain range. Most of them are under the ground, so we don’t need to do anything to determine the location. Naturally, there will be colleagues who are familiar with the Jade Marrow Heart Sutra who will be in charge of selecting the location. ”

Jade Marrow Heart Sutra.

I think, isn’t this the systematic summary of the monarch’s tomb and Feng Shui’s gains and losses during the thousand years between the Han and Tang dynasties that the Imperial Advisor Zhang Zian analyzed? I remember I had a classmate in college named Zhang Ziwei who read this book every day. According to him, this book was an “index”, which meant that after reading it properly, he would rely on it to make a fortune. Now, he had no idea where it went.

A cold wind blew and I sneezed.

Uncle Lin led us inside. The village was quiet without a single light. It was easy to understand in the country, but the strange silence seemed to remind me that it was like a dead village.

Uncle Lin told us that because of the remote nature of the village, most of the young people in the village had chosen to go out to work. Although it was the Spring Festival, there weren’t many young people in the village. Thus, at present, most of the people still breathing in the village were old people, so they naturally could not feel any anger.

It’s not that I can sense it with my special abilities, but it’s just that there’s dead silence around me. He could not hear any animals as if he was being cleared up. There was only the faint rustling sound of leaves in the distance, as if there was a layer of gauze.

The village didn’t look far, but it wasn’t close either, with rows of fields on either side. We walked in circles until we came to an iron gate courtyard with a pair of brand-new couplets pasted on it. Uncle Lin calmly turned the key and opened the door. In the front yard, there was a date tree with bare leaves, and beside a stone table, there were two low wooden chairs. Three rooms faced the main entrance. He opened a door and pressed a light switch. Inside was a large shared bed. The four of them had enough sleep. I was just wondering if I could tell Uncle Lin that the relationship between the two of them hadn’t developed to the point of sharing a bed (although I felt that there were special circumstances), but if I were to tell him that the young woman and the three men had slept in the same bed for the night, it would seem somewhat inappropriate. Uncle Lin pulled a piece of cloth from the wall. Previously, I thought that it was a window, but now I found out that there was a wall behind it.

Uncle Lin took out three thick mattresses and four large quilts from one of the cabinets. After he was done, he smiled apologetically at Wei Yuting and said, “Can we use this to block them for the time being?”

Wei Yuting kept saying that she was fine. I slept between Uncle Lin and Wei Yuting, who were laughing obscenely under the curtain.

When I was hit, my feet were freezing and I quickly tucked into the blanket to warm up. Uncle Lin opened the curtain, but it was still dark outside. The three of them stared at each other in a daze. Uncle Lin said, “The villagers have no idea that there’s something here. If we wait any longer, there should be farmers getting up. We have to hurry over. That place is still quite a distance from here.”

I wiped my face with the running water in the yard, fully awake, and wrapped my face in the collar of my overcoat as the wind blew against it, making it ache. He said, “Didn’t you say it’s in the village?”

As Uncle Lin walked, he explained, “They are in the village, but the village is in the back. Uncle Lin explained,” They are in the village, but the village is in the back, and there are no longer people in the village.