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"A real ancient city?"

Chu Ge couldn't understand, "What does this mean? You mean a very well-preserved ancient city where you can see the whole picture clearly?"

"No, 'alive' means literally, a city that seems to be still in operation, with countless residents living in it."

Yun Qianhe sighed and said, "I know you won't believe it. In fact, the expedition team members who saw this city for the first time couldn't believe everything that appeared in front of them. Our intuitive judgment is that our own Suffered a large-scale mental attack, so that the phenomenon of mass hysteria occurred.

"Or, is this some kind of large optical illusion, like a mirage?

"The problem is, no matter how we test our own brains, and try to use various instruments to detect the energy fluctuations of the ancient city, it still stands there, like a crystal building, resplendent, crystal clear, extremely gorgeous and prosperous castle."

"Well……"

Chu Ge couldn't help but interrupted, "Senior Yun, how are you sure it's 'alive'? I mean, it's like a beautiful coral, but it's actually a dead thing. Maybe this city is just a living thing. It looks splendid, but in fact it is already empty, filled with bones that have been covered in dust for hundreds of millions of years?"

"This is the most incredible place."

An indescribable brilliance appeared on Yun Qianhe's face, and he said solemnly, "We found a living resident in this city."

"A living ancient man?" Chu Ge was taken aback.

"should be."

Yun Qianhe said, "We are only observing from a long distance, and neither dare nor get too close to the ancient city. In addition, the observation of electronic instruments is always subject to various interferences, and the resulting image is very blurred, so we can only use the naked eye observe.

"According to the naked eye, there are ancient people in the streets and alleys of this ancient city, as well as the rows of buildings. They should be a little bigger than us, but not so huge that they are monsters. And Like us, they walk upright, have a head and limbs, and look a lot like some kind of primate.

"It is not surprising that if they were our creators, it would be quite natural for them to create new life in their own image, just as we humans create robots and often make robots our own. look.

"but,

Outside the bodies of these ancient people, there are circles of shining halos around them, so that their forms are hazy and indistinct, just like hundreds of neon light strips wrapped around their bodies, so we did not observe their Details, don't know exactly what they look like. "

Chu Ge listened fascinatedly, was deeply attracted, pondered for a moment, and said: "Have you not approached this ancient city, tried to contact the ancient people, and see their true colors clearly?"

"We tried."

Yun Qianhe said, "Of course, we know we shouldn't do this - if the other party is really a super civilization from the ancient times, it is very likely that they have power comparable to gods and demons, and our existence to them is likely to be like a wriggling The ants of the other party can yawn and trample us to death without any reason at all, not even any emotional fluctuations.

"However, our thinking at the time was that if the other party is really an ancient super civilization, they must have a hundred times more advanced observation methods than us. Since we can all observe the other party, the other party must have observed us long ago.

"If the other party wants to destroy us, or prevent us from approaching, they can do so at any time. Even if they don't want to hurt us, they can find a way to hide their cities—even humans today have invented optical invisibility camouflage Well, the ancient anti-gravity aircraft obtained by the Celestial Organization also has the function of invisibility. There is no reason why the ancient city does not have it.

"So, since we can see each other alive, it means that the other party does not want to kill us, and is even willing to communicate with us.

"With this in mind, we decided to take a risk and contact each other."

Chu Ge said: "Have you succeeded?"

"No."

Yun Qianhe's expression became more and more strange, as if he was trapped in a chaotic memory maze and could not find a way out, "I am one of the first group of explorers who ventured close to the ancient city, and I have made all the psychological preparations along the way. , even if the ancients suddenly turned me into a big fat bug, I wouldn't feel too strange.

"However, when we were about one kilometer away from Taikoo City, and we could touch the circle of light lingering outside the city with our hands, this magnificent and beautiful Taikoo City suddenly looked like a fortress piled with sand and gravel. Collapsed, annihilated, gone with the wind!"

"What?" Chu Ge was surprised.

"No one would believe that scene if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes."

Yun Qianhe said, "It's like a beautiful woman instantly turning into a rotten bone, like a wonderful dream returning to the cold reality in an instant, those crystal-carved pavilions and criss-crossing roads in the sky, all turned into crystal clear gravel , poured onto the ground like mercury, and disappeared along the cracks of the ground without a trace. In less than ten seconds, there was only a barrenness left before our eyes, and not even half of the bones of the ancient people were left."

Chu Ge didn't know how to respond.

"I know, now you must be more and more suspicious. What we see is a mirage, or some kind of spiritual force field left over from the ancient times, a treasure that can create large-scale illusions, like some kind of... ancient holographic video."

Yun Qianhe said, "The problem is that we have not only seen this ancient city once, but have seen it appear in different places in the cave world more than a dozen times."

"Why?"

Chu Ge's eyes widened, "What does this mean? What do you mean by 'appearing in different places more than a dozen times'?"

"Ever heard of the 'ghost ship'?"

Yun Qianhe said, "The legendary battleship is full of heroes and treasures, and has countless glorious achievements and moving legends. After sinking into the bottom of the sea, it was coerced by the power of unwillingness and regret, and returned to the surface of the sea.

"The ancient city we are talking about is somewhat similar to the ghost ship, like a ubiquitous 'ghost city', or in other words, the soul of a certain ancient city.

"In the few years since the first observation of it, more than a dozen different expedition team members have found its traces at more than a dozen different coordinates in the cave world, and each time it is so crystal clear. , resplendent and resplendent, like never falling, never collapsing, and naturally never decaying.

"The problem is, every time our people try to get close to it, it quickly crumbles and disappears, like a flower that is too shy to be touched and dies in an instant.

"No one knew what the appearance of the ancient city meant, until one of us, a mathematician and a map enthusiast, accidentally connected a dozen coordinates of the ancient city, drew a circle with these coordinates, and Found the center of the circle—we were at the center, and found a new cave."

"... A cave within a cave?" Chu Ge felt more and more strange.

I almost got goosebumps all over my body.

"Sounds scary, doesn't it?"

Yun Qianhe said, "We sent a large number of aircraft to fly over the cave to explore. Before the aircraft crashed, they sent back blurry images and a lot of messy data that contradicted each other. , hiding the remains of a crumbling city or temple.

"We speculate that the ruins of the temple hidden in the cave in the cave are the real ancient city, and the 'ghost cities' we saw before are just some kind of projection—not in the optical sense, like a mirage projection, but some kind of, some kind of projection that has a body, you understand?"

Although Yun Qianhe spoke a little mysteriously, Chu Ge could still understand what he meant.

"So, have you explored the hole within the hole?"

Chu Ge asked, "It sounds like that is the origin of everything, where we can find the ultimate answer needed by the carbon-based intelligent life of the earth, the world of cultivating immortals, and the world of fantasy and demons."

"No, the ghost city that has appeared more than a dozen times in a row has already frightened us."

Yun Qianhe shook his head and said, "Besides, the world in the cave itself contains a large number of relics, wreckage and lost technology, which can allow us to study it for at least several decades. As the saying goes, 'you can't chew as much as you can', we originally planned to proceed step by step. First study the secrets around the world in the cave, and after further improving your strength, enter the 'cave in the cave' to explore."

Chu Ge heard his overtones: "'Originally'?"