The world is vast and vast, and it seems that only these three directions can go.
Gray, silver and blood red, like three multiple-choice questions about colors.
The gray world is a group of men who make a secret livelihood; the silver world is very dazzling, but only a tree can be vaguely seen; the blood red world is terrifying and terrifying, making it prohibitive.
The two girls were the first to give up the blood-red option in their hearts.
"These three directions may not necessarily be multiple-choice questions." Gu Qingqing said.
"Can we still enter two worlds at once?" Wu You didn't understand.
"Maybe the options that we eliminated this time will appear next time." Gu Qingqing expressed her analysis.
And next time
Wu You put away the stunned expression and silently looked at the phone: "It's been an hour and a half, we have to hurry up."
"In this way, let's make a rough analysis," Gu Qingqing stared at the gray and silver sky, "According to what you just described, people in the gray world are doing things they don't want to be discovered by others. It's not what they can accept; and in the silver world, only a tree can be seen faintly, at least no other dangers."
"I also prefer this world." Wu You looked there, the silver world was still dazzling, and the huge tree shadows were a bit gorgeous.
The two could not analyze more clues, so they walked towards the silver direction.
The cowhide pocket on Wu You's body is very large, and the hourglass with the golden sand in it doesn't show anything at all.
"This cowhide pocket can obviously hold more than an hourglass." Gu Qingqing said, "If the world of quicksand we just experienced was the first world, then we have successfully obtained the thing of this world, which is the golden hourglass; the second The world is faced with a 3-to-1 problem, and we probably also need to get something from the second world that we put in a cowhide pocket to count as success. I don't think each world can be established by itself, and there should be a relationship between them. connected."
"You mean the second thing might have something to do with the golden hourglass?"
Gu Qingqing nodded: "It should be related, but the golden hourglass has many characteristics, it is difficult to judge which point the second thing is related to the golden hourglass, whether it is sand, gold, or the time represented by the hourglass, or the speciality of the hourglass. shape.
"What's even more puzzling is that we haven't grasped the characteristics of these three worlds that can be spied on. At present, we only know that the rectangular box that is finally fixed in the gray world is very important, but we don't know what those are; The tree of the silver world is just a huge shadow; as for the blood-red world…”
When Gu Qingqing said this, she noticed that Wu You, who was traveling with her, had stopped, turned around and looked in the blood-red direction with a slightly stiff posture.
Gu Qingqing wanted to go over and hold the other's hand, but was afraid of suddenly scaring her, so she could only wait silently at this time.
Wu You looked at it for a while, and then took his eyes back: "This world has also been frozen, and it has become some red stone mountains. That is a distant view. If you look closely, the red on the mountain is all the blood of those ghosts just now."
It still sounds scary.
Gu Qingqing was at a loss for a while, the two girls continued to move towards the silver world, side by side.
After walking for a while, Gu Qingqing also felt the silver light. It was white and bright, but not dazzling. It could even be said that these lights made people feel inexplicable joy.
"It's strange, I can't see that tree when I'm walking, obviously I saw a big tree shadow in the distance just now." Wu You turned around in place, and the two of them were already covered with sparkling silver. The spot is surrounded.
"Did you hear anything? Ding Ding Dong Dong." Gu Qingqing asked.
"I heard it, it's like a wind chime," Wu You felt that the ding-dong sound came from above, and there seemed to be some strange sounds of running water around him, "There seems to be a small fountain nearby."
"I think it's more like the sound of pouring water or wine into a cup with a pot." Having said that, Gu Qingqing stood still, and cautiously held Wu You, "We should have fully entered this world, It's just that I can't see the surrounding scenery for the time being."
Hearing this, Wu You also stood there, not daring to act rashly, and subconsciously protected the cowhide pocket on his chest.
Looking closely, they were surrounded by translucent silver light spots. These light spots changed from large to small and gradually disappeared.
The close-up scenery around them gradually became clear, and the two finally saw clearly that there was really a "fountain" here—the sudden appearance of the fountain shape shocked both of them.
This is a lion about the same size as the real body. The lion's body is covered in brilliant silver. From its open silver mouth, a snow-white milk-like liquid flows out and pours into the silver pool below.
This is a lifelike lion carved out of silver.
After confirming that the lion was indeed a sculpture, Wu You approached boldly, and even looked at the milk in the lion's mouth with a probing eye: "What are these white things? It smells like Mongolia. the kind of kumiss."
Gu Qingqing stood still, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Why does kumiss flow out of the lion's mouth? What is this place?" Although Wu You couldn't understand it, he subconsciously felt that this silver lion was just a speck of dust in this luxurious world.
Gu Qingqing touched her hair, untied a hair tie for tying her hair, squatted down, and tied it to the silver lion's left front foot.
"Qingqing, what are you doing?"
"I seem to have seen records about this silver lion. In order to test my judgment, we can continue to move forward. If my guess is correct, there should be other silver lions here." Gu Qingqing said.
"Go forward, there is silver light everywhere, where is the front?"
"Walk in a circle, we will walk in a big circle." Gu Qingqing walked forward in the direction the lion's head was facing.
Sure enough, after the two walked a few dozen steps, they saw another silver lion that had the same silver lion. This lion had no hairbands on its feet.
Snow-white milk still flowed out of the lion's mouth. The drink Wu You called "kumiss" gave off an alluring aroma at this time.
The two continued on their way, and then encountered the third and fourth silver lions. When they encountered the fifth silver lion, they found that the lion had a bean paste-colored hairband wrapped around its left front foot— Before Gu Qingqing tied the hair band here.
This silver lion was exactly the one they saw when they first came to this world.
The two circled in a circle and returned to the starting point.
"That is to say, there are a total of four silver lions in this place." Wu You looked at the world that gradually became clear around him, and found that these four silver lions were like guardians, guarding the treasure in the center.
The silver of the whole world seems to be emitted by this treasure. Although Wu You still can't see its panorama, the more this kind of feeling of a blind person touching an elephant, the easier it is to be amazed and amazed.
"What exactly are these four silver lions spitting out?" Wu You asked again.
Gu Qingqing stood beside the treasure and tried to look up, but her eyesight was limited by the silver light, and she still couldn't see the whole picture.
Gu Qingqing said: "You said it right before, these silver lions should be spitting out mare's milk."
"Why do lions spit out mare's milk? It's so weird."
"It's not just mare's milk. If we go to the center, we should also see four golden snakes. There will be four different beverages flowing out of their mouths, including mare's milk, rice wine, and honey..."
Wu You: "... Is this asking us to come here for drinks... "
Gu Qingqing: "Do you remember the tree shadow you saw from the silver sky just now?"
"Yeah, but the tree disappeared as you walked."
"We're under that tree right now."
Hearing this, Wu You was taken aback, so he dared to walk towards the center, and stretched his hand to the bright silver area in the center: "Oh my God, really, I have touched the bark, what a real texture and touch! But it's not like a real tree."
"Because this is a giant tree made of sterling silver."
Wu You looked down and saw a large silver basin not far from him, with a thin trickle on it, which just poured into the silver basin.
Wu You smelled it: "Qingqing, you are right, this is honey!"
I don't know if it was because the two recognized the silver tree, or because the surrounding silver fog would dissipate after a certain period of time. Now the world is gradually becoming clearer.
This silver tree is also able to show its full appearance. The trunk, which requires more than a dozen people to hug, can be divided into a bright and sturdy trunk, as well as shiny branches, especially those leaves and fruits carved with silver. It feels like a dream.
"Have you heard the music?" Gu Qingqing said.
"Yes, it was the sound of ding ding dong dong just now. Now the sound is getting closer and closer. It's like the kind of music in an ancient music box."
"Did you hear the trumpet inside?"
"What's the sound of the trumpet..." Wu You said as he raised his head and looked up, he could see something on the tree, and couldn't help but let out a scream.
"What's the matter?" Gu Qingqing's eyesight was not as good as Wu You's, so she couldn't see clearly at this time.
Wu You took a few steps back, her voice trembling: "There is a person in the tree! A silver person! I don't know if it's alive or dead..."
Gu Qingqing was stunned for a while when she heard the words, and after thinking about it carefully, she said, "Let's see if that person has wings?"
Wu You squinted his eyes and looked again: "Yes... it has wings, and it seems to be holding something in his hand... "
Gu Qingqing breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't be afraid, that's a silver angel playing a trumpet! It's also an ornament on this silver tree."
Then Wu You let go of his courage and looked up recklessly: "That's true, he's a bare-ass child with wings and trumpets."
Gu Qingqing: That's not a trumpet, that's a trumpet.
"This silver tree is too luxurious! Who the hell built this? What is this place? What book records this place?" Wu You was completely curious about this luxurious scene he had never seen before. Heart, "Although I'm not good at learning history, but such a luxurious tree should be famous in history!"
Whenever Gu Qingqing spreads knowledge to friends, his attitude is very pious and serious: "This is Mongolia, to be exact, the palace of the Mongolian Khan. The one who built this tree was a gold and silversmith from Paris. About these things I read it in a book called "East Journey".
"This book was written by a missionary named Rubruk, who was sent to Mongolia in 1253 by Pope Innocent IV of Rome and King Louis IX of France, and arrived at the Mongolian court, where he was received by the Mongolian state at that time. The interview with the Great Khan of Mongolia. Rubroek wrote a book about what he saw and heard in Mongolia, and this silver tree was mentioned in the book by Rubroek.”
Wu You listened carefully to every word of Gu Qingqing. Although this historical knowledge was very unfamiliar to him, it was impossible for anyone to be distracted by the current situation. Wu You quickly digested these contents and asked: "Has this Rubruk mission succeeded?"
Based on today's situation, obviously not.
"Mengge Khan's polite and sharp response to Rubrouk really made me see a kind of ancient oriental wisdom." Gu Qingqing carefully recalled the text that had been highlighted by herself—
"Menggothan said: Since God made our ten fingers stretch out of different lengths, He must also allow us to have different ways of doing things. God gave you the "Bible", did you read it in the "Bible"? Should a believer blame others for their mistakes?"
Wu You was a little stunned to hear this.
"I don't remember it so clearly, but that's probably the response. I had a strong interest in that history because I read "Journey to the East", and then I went to read "The History of Christians in China" and "History of Christians in China" Discoverer" and many works of Mr. Li Jingze in my country.
"Actually, long before Rubruk, an emissary of the Pope of Rome came to the Mongolian court. The emissary faced the Great Khan Guiyou, who directly returned to Pope Innocent IV. A letter, and in that letter there is this text - you Western peoples, you think you are the only Christians. You despise other peoples, how can you know to whom God should show mercy."
Wu You was completely stunned when he heard it, and after a long while he said, "This Mongolian Khan said such things in the letter, but then the missionary Lubruk went to the Mongolian court again after many years?"
"Yes, this kind of perseverance is admirable, so it is also treated by the Mongolian court. I remember Mr. Li Jingze once said that he was 'excited with amazing paranoia and amazing courage'." Gu Qingqing said.
"I suddenly remembered a painting that Ke Xun and the others talked about before, called Faith. Could our world have something to do with faith?"
The author has something to say:
Without a computer, I occasionally use my phone for voice typing.
Therefore, Ke Xun is often heard as "science", Yue Cen was heard as "Yuecheng" two days ago, and Gu Qingqing today was actually heard as "Good evening."