"Do you really think that Lost Valley is a place where you can come and go casually? Do you really think that you are traveling by yourself? Do you want to give you a tour guide?" Nine Wings sat on his iron pier, "Think we bats are idle?"
"You don't want the main city anymore?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't think you plan to separate me. Travelers and hyenas don't trust me." Jiu Yi looked at the prick of his index finger, shaking it up and down, and the silver light was dancing on the prick. In fact, it still looks very imposing.
"You find a safe place to send us out," Ning Gu said, "I still mean what I say."
Nine Wings didn't speak, but seemed to be thinking.
After a long time, he finally said: "To be honest, I don't even know why I want half of the main city, and I can't even get there."
"You can turn half of the main city into a valley of lost paths," Shouxi said beside him, "you don't need to go up."
"It makes sense." Nine Wings tapped lightly on the dog's mask with its finger pricks.
"Deal?" Ning Gu asked.
"Deal," Jiuyi said, looked at Lian Chuan and added, "I believe in travelers, not hyenas."
"Whatever." Lian Chuan said.
Jiu Yi jumped off the iron pier, and hooked his fingers at them: "Come with me, I will tell you an absolutely safe way."
Ning Gu glanced at Lian Chuan, but Lian Chuan followed Jiu Yi without saying a word.
"Where are you going?" Ning Gu asked.
"Of course it's the Black Iron Wasteland," Nine Wings said, "Do you still want to go directly to the main city?"
"Okay." Ning Gu nodded.
Nine Wings led them into a tunnel, walked around for half a day, and finally stopped in front of a cave: "I won't take you there, you can see for yourself, I don't want to go there."
"Why." Lian Chuan asked.
"There's a grave over there," Jiu Yi said, "the person I don't want to see is buried."
"Who?" Lian Chuan asked again.
"Why tell you?" Nine Wings glared at him.
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"What does he mean?" Jiu Yi looked at Ning Gu.
"How do I know?" Ning Gu said, "If you don't tell me, don't tell me, let's talk about the way first."
"Here." Nine Wings walked into the cave.
The entrance of this cave is not big, it looks like the size of an ordinary trading hut, but after entering, it is found that this is a huge cave hall, and there is no other entrance to enter and exit.
But Lian Chuan could feel the tiny air flow, at least there was a hidden hole in it.
After having the previous experience of the sudden disappearance of the cave, Lian Chuan has been paying attention to the movement behind him after entering the cave.
"This is... what?" Ning Gu was not vigilant at all, just staring at a huge thing covered with a thick black cloth in the middle of the cave.
"You are very lucky. If you can see this thing, the entire Valley of Lost will not exceed..." Nine Wings thought for a while, "It will not exceed..."
He probably started to count in his heart, but he didn't continue this sentence for a long time.
"Open it." Lian Chuan said.
"No more than a hundred people." Nine Wings said.
Ning Gu didn't believe it, and he probably didn't believe even Chuan, but nothing could be seen from his face.
Even when Jiu Yi went over and pulled a corner of the black cloth and pulled the cloth away, Ning Gu looked at what was in front of him with his mouth half open in surprise, Lian Chuan was still expressionless.
This is an indescribable shape. It is three people high. The main body is four upright columns. Between the columns, from top to bottom, there are countless curved circular pipes connecting each other. The pipes are of different thicknesses. Small bulging cavities are regularly distributed, with different shapes and sizes.
The whole thing emits a faint blue light, which seems out of place with the black iron world of Lost Valley.
It doesn't look like Nine Wings at first glance.
"What is this?" Ning Gu asked again.
"The map of Lost Valley." Lian Chuan said.
"Map?" Ning Gu was stunned.
"That's right, the map," Nine Wings circled around the huge thing, his face full of intoxication, "Does the three-dimensional map look like an ant nest?"
"What is an ant nest?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know." Nine Wings replied simply.
"Then what do you think?" Ning Gu was puzzled.
"The person who made this said it looks like," Nine Wings spread his arms, "like a huge ant nest."
Sure enough, it wasn't made by Nine Wings.
"That's not right, isn't your place big at the top and small at the bottom?" Ning Gu pointed to the four vertical holes that were irregular but could still be seen to be about the same size up and down.
"This," Nine Wings pointed to one of them, "When I made this map, my hole hadn't collapsed, and it became what it is now after it collapsed."
"Why did it collapse?" Ning Gu couldn't help touching the cave wall next to him, "It's all black iron."
"Fool," Jiuyi laughed, with a sharp metallic sound, "The main city is collapsing, and of course Lost Valley is also collapsing. Even the ghost towns can't hide. Where is it not collapsing? The whole world will collapse... "
"Where do you go?" Lian Chuan interrupted Jiu Yi's generous speech.
Nine Wings stretched out his index finger, the finger prick popped out, and continued to extend for a while, then pointed to a hollow near the center and tapped lightly: "We are here."
The percussion made a thin "ding", which echoed in the cave, light and long.
Lian Chuan glanced at it, and slowly circled around the map.
"Go along this tunnel," Nine Wings pointed along the pipeline. "Here, take the three-way road to the left. Don't make a mistake. The other two roads lead to Misty Ridge..."
Ning Gu stared at the three-dimensional map. Because it was three-dimensional, the positions of many tunnels and caves overlapped each other. He stared at the tip of Jiu Yi's finger, and couldn't see clearly where Jiu Yi was pointing to several times.
"Don't go down this one, just go down and chant the vertical hole. If the poet wakes up, Qi Hang may not wake up, but if Qi Hang wakes up, the poet will definitely wake up," Jiu Yi said, "For half of my main city , stay away from the chanting shaft."
"This tunnel..." Ning Gu wanted to be sure again.
"Continue." Lian Chuan said.
Okay, it seems that Lian Chuan can remember it.
Thinking that Lian Chuan was able to draw all the paths they traveled before, Ning Gu felt that he should be fine, and with Lian Chuan's personality, if he didn't understand, he would not allow Jiu Yi to talk endlessly.
Ning Gu immediately felt relieved.
As soon as one relaxes, his mind slows down. Not only did he not remember the routes Jiu Yi said behind him, but he also forgot everything Jiu Yi said before.
"Let's go." Lian Chuan finally turned around in front of the map, and said when he passed by Ning Gu.
"Remember?" Ning Gu asked.
"There's nothing you can do if you can't remember," Jiu Yi said, "The deal doesn't include guaranteeing that you will find the right way out."
"No one will stop us on the road," Ning Gu said, "like the old blind man last time."
"Blind man?" Jiu Yi tilted his head and thought for a while, "Oh, you said Da Jiong, as long as he is not within the range of the chant vertical hole, he won't touch him."
Nine Wings drew a circle on the map: "He's only here."
"Da Jiong?" Ning Gu didn't understand, Lian Chuan said that the old blind man was from the training department of the main city, and it stands to reason that he should have a name that is not such a bat.
"Sparkling," Jiu Yi made a sparkling gesture with his hands in front of his eyes, "who cares what he's called."
"Why can't he leave the chanting vertical hole?" Lian Chuan asked.
Jiu Yi turned his face coldly: "This is not in the transaction, why should I answer you after asking so many questions?"
"Understood." Lian Chuan said.
"Know what?" Nine Wings asked.
"He lives by the spiritual power of a poet." Lian Chuan turned and walked out of the cave.
Lian Chuan was probably right, Jiu Yi cursed a few words behind him, probably to cover his map, or he would chase him out and scold him.
Ning Gu followed Lian Chuan and walked halfway through the tunnel before asking in a low voice: "Really?"
"Guess." Lian Chuan said.
"Did you guess right?" Ning Gu asked.
Lian Chuan didn't answer.
"Have you remembered the route?" Ning Gu remembered the key points of the trip.
"Well," Lian Chuan looked back at him, "The exit is far from the main city."
"The city guards can't get there, right?" Ning Gu wanted to confirm.
"The city guard doesn't know about this exit," Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu was stunned: "It means that if you know this exit, you will go? Isn't the city guard only deployed on the periphery of D area? The Black Iron Wasteland is no longer the territory of the main city."
"I was supposed to go out within a day." Lian Chuan said, "Anything can happen now."
Ning Gu frowned, no wonder Lian Chuan wanted to find Jiu Yi, only Jiu Yi knew which exit the main city didn't know.
In other words, Nine Wings is going all out for the half of the main city, and actually told the hyena such a secret...
What made Nine Wings think that he could bet on him destroying the main city
Probably because of Nine Wings' orders, when they went all the way to the exit, except for ordinary bats, they didn't meet Nine Wings' personal guards, and there was no black ring.
Ning Gu followed behind Lian Chuan. The excitement he had felt when he saw the map before had slowly faded away. For some reason, he couldn't tell what it was like to be able to go back to the ghost town.
When he came out, he didn't think about when he could go back, but now he was anxious to go back, but he started to resist again.
He is afraid.
Fear of not knowing.
Also afraid to know.
The Lost Valley is very big. Although I have seen the map, Ninggu still doesn't have a clear concept.
How big is the main city, how big is the Lost Valley, how big is the Black Iron Wasteland...
What about ghost towns
He was a little tired, he had never walked so boringly, non-stop, non-stop, for such a long time, Lian Chuan didn't know why, and didn't pull him to fly forward.
At the beginning, there were all kinds of people around. It was lively when there was no car, but there were also many things to see. There were people who were whining in the corner who didn’t know what they were talking about. The trading cave was smashed by a small piece of glass. People, and bat fighting that can be heard several tunnels away...
Chaotic and dark, like a ghost town, yet completely different.
After all, whether it is Nine Wings or a poet, it is different from the leader.
head...
Now I don't know where I have gone, how far I am from the exit, there is gradually no sound around, no people, no goods, no laughing and cursing, nothing.
Only the footsteps of him and Lian Chuan.
Moreover, Lian Chuan's footsteps were very soft and fast, but if he didn't listen specifically, he couldn't hear them at all.
Probably the hyena's shoes are more advanced than his, with no sound and not tired.
"I'm tired," Ning Gu stopped, "I'm not leaving."
Lian Chuan also stopped and turned around.
"How far is it?" Ning Gu asked.
"Twenty is so far away." Lian Chuan said.
"Are you sure?" Ning Gu was stunned.
"Maybe farther away." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu didn't speak, just sat down on the spot, leaning against the tunnel wall for two seconds, then leaned to the side and lay down.
"Go ahead and rest," Lian Chuan turned around and continued walking, "There is a small cave."
"I can't get up." Ning Gu couldn't get up.
For a traveler, this kind of hustle and bustle is simply torture. He has the urge to find an exit and run out to live or die.
Lian Chuan came back again, stood beside Ning Gu, and looked down at him.
Ning Gu looked a little scared: "What are you doing?"
Lian Chuan didn't answer, and when he bent down and reached out to his feet, he didn't give Ning Gu any chance to retract his legs to escape.
Ning Gu rushed out of the tunnel directly by his ankles, and when he came back to his senses, he was already lying on the floor of the cave hall at the other end of the tunnel, and even maintained the posture of lying on the ground before.
"Rest here." Lian Chuan said.
"You!" Ning Gu pointed at him, "If you do this again without saying hello, don't blame me for being rude to you."
"You're welcome." Lian Chuan sat down.
Ning Gu almost wanted to punch his chest twice, to let out the blocked breath.
He turned his back to Lian Chuan, he didn't want to scold anymore, he was really tired.
"Are you hungry?" Lian Chuan suddenly spoke.
Amazing.
Ning Gu didn't want to talk to him at first, but Lian Chuan would take the initiative to ask him if he was hungry. He couldn't help it, and looked back at Lian Chuan: "Hungry."
Lian Chuan took out a box of rations from his coat pocket and threw it in front of him.
"Where did it come from?" Ning Gu jumped up from the ground, grabbed the box and looked at it, the small green, white and yellow cubes looked extremely delicious.
"The tavern," Lian Chuan said, "I got it."
"It was stolen." Ning Gu looked at him.
"Don't give it to me." Lian Chuan said.
"Eat, eat, eat," Ning Gu quickly opened the box, took a piece of yellow one and put it in his mouth, "What kind of taste is this? Ghost town can't make so many flavors, I haven't tasted this kind of one yet."
"Banana." Lian Chuan said.
"It's delicious. If there's anything good about the people in your main city, it's probably the food." Ning Gu said, "It's better than us."
Lian Chuan wants to say that not everyone can eat it. I don’t know how the bats got this kind of ration. Of course, the training department will throw experimental bodies into the Lost Valley, and the ration is not something that cannot be delivered.
But he didn't say this, Ning Gu suddenly squatted in front of him with the box in his hand.
"You take one piece," Ning Gu said, "You should eat two pieces of your food, but I'm really hungry, and I feel that your appetite is not as good as mine..."
"I don't eat." Lian Chuan said.
"You're welcome, and I'm not being polite to you either. I'll eat two yuan, and you eat one piece," Ning Gu said, "After all, it's yours. In our ghost town..."
"Don't eat." Lian Chuan said.
"Don't eat it." Ning Gu took back the box, sat down beside him, and stuffed the two rations into his mouth in one go.
Then she turned her face and chewed at him.
Maybe it's because of eating, that Ning Gu's mood has picked up.
He lay down comfortably on the ground and patted his stomach: "Lian Chuan, who made the three-dimensional map you said just now?"
"I don't know." Lian Chuan looked at him.
"The person Jiuyi said he didn't want to see, that grave," Ning Gu thought for a while, "could it be the person who made the map?"
"It's possible." Lian Chuan said.
"Could that person be from the main city?" Ning Gu turned his head to look at him, "I don't think that thing looks like something from Lost Valley."
"Well," Lian Chuan tilted his head back, leaning against the cave wall, "that light..."
"Yes!" Ning Gu raised his arm and pointed at him, "I don't even think about it unless you tell me, is that blue light the same weapon as your hyena team... cleanup team?"
"En." Lian Chuan responded.
"But that person should not be Qi Hang, and Nine Wings' attitude towards Qi Hang is not very good." Ning Gu frowned, "It's not that Da Jiong, he is not dead... You said, apart from homeless people, there are still people in the main city. How many people have entered the Valley of Lost?"
"I always thought you didn't want to do anything." Lian Chuan said.
"How come, I like to think about things the most," Ning Gu smiled, resting his arms on his pillow, looking at the ceiling of the cave, "Did you know that the wind in the ghost town is very strong, every day, every moment, it is blowing... I especially I like to think about things in the wind, what I think, when the wind blows, it will be gone, no one knows."
Lian Chuan turned his face to the side, thinking is not a pleasant thing for him, he must think less, the more he thinks, the more doubts, doubts are the most dangerous, and doubts will shake all beliefs.
"But where did the wind come from? Where did it blow to?" Ning Gu asked.
"I don't know." Lian Chuan answered truthfully.
"They all said that the world will be destroyed, and it has been destroyed many times. The Black Iron Wasteland is collapsing, the main city is collapsing, and the ghost city may also be collapsing. Why?" Ning Gu said softly, "Collapse and collapse, then what are we?" ? Why are we here? What are we doing?"
Everyone is used to the life in front of us, we come, we go, we live this way because we live this way, the world is like this because the world is like this...
But why
"Lian Chuan, let me ask you." Ning Gu said.
"Ask." Lian Chuan looked at him.
"If one day the world is destroyed and collapsed," Ning Gu said, "what do you want to do most?"
"Watch."