In the room, Tianyang closed his eyes with a painful expression.
Beads of sweat the size of beans gathered on his forehead, slowly flowed down and dripped onto the ground.
I don’t know how long it took.
He suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were red and he kept gasping for breath.
After a long time, his emotions gradually calmed down.
Tianyang rested for a while, washed his face, and his mood returned to its usual calm.
Looking at his still red eyes in the mirror, he smiled bitterly: "Sure enough, the pain of the past is not so easy to overcome."
Just now, he opened the memories of his mother Nan Fei's death.
It was like cutting open a wound that had already healed, at least on the surface.
Then turn out the flesh and blood inside.
The pain is difficult to feel and describe for those who are not involved.
Even though Tianyang has reached the Heavenly Rank, even though he has experienced many things.
But this spiritual practice still caused him great pain.
No wonder Lin Jianping wrote in his notes: There are only a few people in ten thousand who can face pain and overcome it.
People always have an escapist mentality, even the strong are no exception. When faced with a past that they cannot bear to look back on, many people will choose to forget and escape.
The first step to becoming a strong person is to face the pain head on, tear open your own wounds, confront it, fight against it, and surpass it!
This is the hardest step!
It is also the most critical step!
Only by taking this step can you hope to fulfill your "heart of a strong person".
If it were in the past, Tianyang might have given up, but now, he has received revelation.
The "heart of the strong" can bring a firm will, and may be a trump card he can use to fight against the gods when they revive.
He also has many people protecting him.
He had no choice but to take this path and fulfill his "heart of a strong man".
Become a truly strong person!
But today, he was very tired.
This kind of fatigue is mental, and Tianyang paused the practice of "The Heart of the Strong".
Lin Jianping wrote in his notes that even if you have to face pain, you should not forget to regulate your mind.
Make it resilient.
And relaxation is the only way to restore resilience.
The expeditionary force rested in the canyon for two days, and finally, humans set off again.
After advancing more than 200 kilometers along the route, a ruin appeared in front of the expeditionary force.
What can be observed in the ruins of a city is that it has several dried-up rivers, which passed through the city and ensured the daily water supply for the residents.
The ruins are huge, and it is not difficult to imagine that this place was once extremely prosperous.
Likewise, judging by the city's remaining buildings, it does not appear to have belonged to the Dark Empire.
But it was built earlier, like the 'Upside Down City', by the residents of the Reverse Realm before it fell.
The route required passing through ruins. Lin Jianping did not rashly lead his troops forward, but instead cautiously sent out a team to explore.
Lieyang Castle took on this task.
Tianyang led the team personally, and he was accompanied by Silver Knights such as Chiying and Yinmeng.
With the addition of two hundred soldiers, the team was not large, but not small either.
Enter the ruins.
Like the Reverse World No. 127, this city ruin also has no defensive fortifications such as city walls. This shows that before sliding into darkness, this world was safe enough and did not need city walls to protect the city.
but.
There are rolling hills everywhere.
The whole city is built on hilly terrain.
This results in stairs and overpasses everywhere in the city.
Like a maze.
All that remains of the original road are now cracked rocks and dry loose soil.
Dead trees, as hard as rocks, lined the road or lay across it, blocking it.
Walking in it, I didn't see any signs of life. It seemed that even the black people didn't want to settle down in such a place.
When exploring the ruins, you will occasionally see stone sculptures half-buried in the ground.
At first, Tianyang thought that the ground cracked, causing the statue to fall.
After seeing a few more, he discovered that these stone sculptures were deliberately buried in the ground.
This should be a local custom.
After walking for half a day, they did not find any danger. Tian Yang saw that the soldiers were tired, so he asked everyone to rest in a relatively large square.
He walked to the other side of the square and found that there was a high fault. The fault was steep and smooth, about seventy or eighty meters high, with some broken fences on the edge to prevent people from accidentally falling.
Looking down, there should be a river below. The river has been dry for who knows how many years. In the black fog model, Tianyang saw a lot of smooth rocks on the riverbed, and the two men's pants had traces of scouring.
Connecting the urban area on the other side of the river is a metal arch bridge. Over the years, it has not collapsed, which shows that its quality is very good.
However, there are many gaps on the bridge deck, making it difficult for vehicles to pass through, but it is possible for people to pass through.
On both sides of the bridge stand two massive stone sculptures. The sculptures show obvious signs of wear and tear and have been severely eroded by wind and rain.
But you can still barely see that they are stone statues of gun-wielding guards. These two stone statues, like guardian gods, protect this arch bridge.
On the other side of the arch bridge, there is a similar stone statue, but only half of one of them is left, and the upper body is missing.
"Master Tianyang, please eat something."
Nemu's voice rang out.
The silver knight held his beloved sword 'Xiao Lou Ye Yu' and handed over a box containing a variety of food.
This is the standard food for the expeditionary force.
Each box of contents is vacuum-packed and can be stored for a period of time.
When eating, you just need to simply heat it up and you can eat it.
Even if there is no condition to heat it and the food is eaten directly, it still retains a good taste.
These things are so much better than just food bars.
At Tianyang's current level, it wouldn't be a big problem even if he didn't eat or drink for a few days, but he still maintained his eating habits.
There was no need, and he didn't want to go without food and water.
He smiled and nodded, taking the food box. The box was slightly warm, obviously having been heated up.
While Tianyang was eating, Yinmeng collected some exploration robots and fed the data they scanned into the system, synthesizing a three-dimensional map, which was then transmitted back to the main expeditionary force.
In this way, Lin Jianping and his team in the base vehicle can also grasp the situation of the ruins.
"I'm afraid this arch bridge is no longer passable." After finishing the work at hand, Yin Meng said as he looked at the metal arch bridge spanning the urban areas on both sides.
Tianyang cast a questioning look at her, and Yinmeng said softly: "Although it still looks relatively intact, after so many years, it should have been damaged in many places."
"It's fine if no one is walking on it normally, but if someone is walking on it, the extra weight will crush it."
Tianyang nodded. He hadn't paid attention to this issue just now, but after listening to Yinmeng's words, he felt that it made sense.
"We can pull the cable bridge over
. "Tianyang said.
Yin Meng looked at him and said, "I thought so too."
After a while, several soldiers fixed one end of the cable bridge with tools, and then used a flying vehicle to bring the other end to the other side. After it was fixed, Tianyang crossed the "river" first.
His figure flashed twice, and then he reached the other side using the cable bridge.
After everyone came over, the team continued to move forward.
After they walked across a high platform, Tianyang had someone fire a flare into the sky. With the help of the light, they could see a series of undulating buildings below.
Although most of the buildings are now only ruins, it is still not difficult to see that the city has a neat layout, with roads on the ground and overpasses in the air, crossing the rails for trains.
The tracks pass between floors and overpasses, apparently built to avoid the rolling hills.
Looking at the broken overpasses and incomplete railroad tracks, Yin Meng sighed softly, "How majestic and prosperous! This is a metropolis with a population of tens of millions."
For Tianyang and Yinmeng who came from behind the gate, a population of tens of millions was simply unimaginable.
A super fortress like Fort Glorious only has a population of a million.
The area of this city in the opposite world should be equivalent to seven or eight Glory Castles.
Even the "metropolis" in the 127th Reverse World is inferior to the city in front of us.
"Look there." Yin Meng suddenly pointed in a direction.
Tianyang looked in the direction she pointed and found a magnificent building there.
The building is located on a high platform, which is at least fifty meters above the ground, with huge steps leading up to it.
On both sides of the stairs, there is a statue standing at regular intervals.
Because it was too far away, Tianyang couldn't see the specific image of the statue clearly, but it was generally in the shape of a human being, so it should be a stone sculpture of a person.
It looks like a group of never-sleeping guards protecting this platform and the buildings on it.
Look at that building again.
Different from the tall buildings and towers in the city, the pyramid-shaped building looks more like a temple.
In front of it, on the high platform square, there is a huge brazier.
Of course, there was no spark in the brazier now.
At the entrance of the pyramid building, there stood two thick square stone pillars, on which seemed to be some symbols carved.
Also because of the distance, Tianyang could not see clearly.
"Let's go and take a look." Tianyang pointed to the pyramid-shaped building on the high platform.
Yin Meng didn't object.
Firstly, the platform and the buildings on it are still intact. If the things inside are also not damaged, then they are worth recycling and can help people better understand this city and the Reverse World No. 2.
Secondly, this platform and building are more magnificent and huge than other buildings. It is obviously the center of the city and has extraordinary significance.
Looking around, under the light released by the flares, black fog was spreading among the dilapidated buildings.
A faint, shrill whistle could be heard in the city, but it was unclear whether it was caused by the wind blowing through the ruins or by some creature.
In short.
Coming here, the atmosphere of the city ruins is not only dead silent, but also vaguely eerie and cold.
Whether it is Tianyang or Yinmeng, anyone who has some exploration experience in the adverse world will not feel unfamiliar with the atmosphere.
That means.
The danger lurks in those dilapidated buildings and in the sobbing wind...