As far as the eye can see, there are corpses everywhere.
Everyone can't count how many they can see in front of them. They just lie quietly on the desolate and cold sand and dead grass. The rotten corpse, the broken limbs, the silent bones, and the fur fluttering in the wind. .
The corpses are all over the place, and the eyes are dead, and this place is like a cemetery of living beings.
A few people did not speak for a long time. The desolate and vast mountains of ancient times were as silent as the earth. Under the dark and heavy night sky, this cemetery was quieter than people, mountains, and the earth. Several people looked at each other silently, as if they were talking about the fear they had experienced before their death, which made their souls restless.
"This..." Ke Xun finally made the first voice, with a slight hoarseness in his voice, he had to clear his throat, "This is the gate of hell?"
"Then where is the door?" Zhu Haowen moved the flashlight on the ground and turned to the mountains in the distance.
Because of the corpse of a fox that had been rotting for a long time, he suspected that its eyes moved.
Several people looked around for a while, but did not find the so-called "Gate of Hell". All they saw were corpses everywhere and the jagged boulder not far away.
"Are we going to stay here tonight?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran.
"I can't go back on the same road," Zhu Haowen said. "This place should be the place where the poster guides us to come."
Mu Yiran nodded slightly: "Yes, this should be the destination of our trip, so we will stay here tonight."
Shao Ling glanced around and pursed his lips.
It's really not a good feeling to guard the hundreds of corpses overnight.
As if he understood what Shao Ling was thinking, Mu Yi added: "We drove the car near that rock, there seems to be fewer corpses there."
The three cars carefully circumvented the corpse on the ground and drove slowly to the huge rock. This rock is several stories high and the area is about the size of four basketball courts. From a distance, it looks like a square high platform standing abruptly on the plain.
"Sky Burial Platform?" Ke Xunli looked up at the foot of the rock.
"You... don't scare me... " Wu You clutched his chest.
Everyone got out of the car at this moment and explored around this rock platform.
"If it's a celestial burial platform, there's nothing to be surprised about," Wei Dong said, "This can only mean that this is another hint given to us by the painting in Faith, and I hope we don't die like that painting. It's as bad as it gets."
Ke Xun was about to speak, but saw Luo Meng rubbing over: "Brother... You accompany me to urinate... I don't dare to go by myself."
Ke Xun: "..."
After saying hello to everyone, the two walked for a while, until they were about to lose sight of the people beside the rock and stopped, with their backs on their backs, and so on.
Luo Meng sighed: "I'm about to suffocate me. I've been suffocating for at least two hours, and I almost didn't have any problems. Brother, do you think this will affect some of my abilities?"
Ke Xun: "... Why are you still worried about this at this moment?"
Luo Ye: "I'm not making fun of it."
Ke Xun: "I will only obey you when it comes to your heart. Have you finished urinating, and leave after urinating?"
The two packed up and walked back, while Ke Xun swept the corpses far and near with a flashlight.
Luo Yao: "...Brother, I think you have a bigger heart than me. What's so good about these corpses? You even illuminated them with stage lighting effects. Do you want them to 'death and paralyze you'?"
Ke Xun: "..."
"You can shut up now," Ke Xun pointed at the rock in front of him, "you go back first, I'll take a look around here."
"Brother!" Luo Meng looked at him in shock, "You are too daring! You yourself?! Look among these corpses?!"
"Stop talking nonsense, or you can come with me, or go back first, and I'll walk around." Ke Xun waved at him impatiently.
"What if there is danger?!" Luo Yu was worried.
"Didn't you see your brother-in-law keeping an eye on this side from afar?" Ke Xun pointed with his chin to Mu Yiran, who was standing by the rock in the distance, looking here, "If there is danger here, your brother-in-law will first If you find one, go back quickly."
Luo Meng had no choice but to trot all the way back to the rock.
Ke Xun didn't walk around, he just flashed a flashlight, took this distance as the radius, took the rock as the dot, circled around the rock for a long time, and then returned to the side of his companions.
"What did you find?" Mu Yiran put his hand down beside his leg and gently re-insured the pistol.
Ke Xun came over and held his hand, rubbed it lightly, as if to relax him, and answered him: "There is indeed a surprising discovery - see, all these corpses, their The direction the head is facing is all pointing to this rock platform."
This remark really surprised everyone, and everyone flashed their flashlights at the wild corpses again, confirming that Ke Xun's discovery was indeed true - all these messy scattered corpses, whether they were beasts or birds, no matter their size Big or small, whether it's rotten flesh or dead bones, their heads are like magnetic needles attracted by magnets, all pointing at the rocky platform beside the crowd.
And those corpses that have not been completely decomposed, their wide eyes are also staring at the same direction, the same target.
Silent mountains, desolate fields, dead nights. Hundreds of thousands of corpses of different shapes all moved towards this abruptly standing square rock platform, and a strange and tense atmosphere suddenly permeated, dazzling the thirteen artists and everything in front of them. shrouded in it.
"The rock platform is weird." Qin Ci whispered.
"Will it be above or below?" Zhu Haowen asked.
No one knows the answer for now.
"Then, what are we going to do now?" Li Xiaochun asked nervously in a false voice.
"I suggest not to act rashly," Shao Ling said cautiously. "It will be bright in a few hours. We'd better investigate the top and bottom of this rock carefully during the day."
Everyone agreed with Shao Ling's proposal, so they still went back to the car, and each car guaranteed that one person was awake and responsible for the night watch.
I don't know how many people actually fell asleep that night. When the sky was getting brighter, Ke Xun's voice first exploded in the car: "Damn it! Where's the rock?!"
Everyone heard the sound and looked out of the car window, only to see that the rock platform that stood not far from the car last night had disappeared out of thin air! The place where it used to stand is now a gravel field.
Ke Xun jumped out of the car, looked up, and was even more surprised: "Lying—where are those animal carcasses?!"
The eyes are full of desolate gravel and dead grass, but there is no scene of corpses lying all over the floor last night.
"Could it be that what I saw last night were all illusions?" Wei Dong also walked to the side in surprise and looked left and right.
"Then when did this illusion disappear?" Ke Xun turned around to look at his companions who jumped out of the car, "Who was on the last night last night? Didn't you find that the rocks disappeared?"
"There was fog in the valley before dawn," Shao Ling said, "I was the last post. The fog was thick at the time, and the visibility was only two or three meters. For safety reasons, I didn't get off the car to check, nor did I think of the rocks. It will disappear, I think the rocks and the corpses are likely to disappear in the fog, that is, before dawn, and the illusion is likely to only appear at night."
"I don't think it's an illusion," Mu Yiran said, "or more strictly speaking, it's not an illusion. Because I touched the rock surface with my hands last night, it didn't look like a trick or a fake. It's solid and has the exact same texture as real rock."
"Ye Ran is right," Qin Ci continued, "Last night I also observed a wild yak's carcass up close. Although it has no vital signs, whether it is from its exposed internal organs or slender connective tissue In terms of tissue, as well as bones, epidermis, pupils and other details, it is a real 'living body', a substance that exists."
"Then, why did they disappear out of thin air?" Li Xiaochun scratched his head.
"I have a guess," Mu Yiran met everyone's gaze, "I think, maybe what appeared in this canyon last night was a situation from another world."
This guess shocked everyone on the spot.
"From the perspective of metaphysics," Mu Yiran didn't give everyone time to buffer their emotions, and continued, "This place belongs to the ancient Kunlun range in the "Shan Hai Jing", Kunlun Mountain, the ancestor of all mountains, which gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The place is still the valley of death and the gate of hell in the modern population. Whether it is aura or yin, it reached its peak last night in this place, which is very likely to trigger or reveal another corner of the world.
"And if it is explained from a scientific point of view, the ultra-abnormal magnetic field of the rocks in the valley and the intense and extreme storm weather last night are also very likely to cause space distortion, interleaving, superposition, and even displacement. If we compare the world we are in with other A world understood as the coexistence of multiple universes, then this short-lived 'travel' phenomenon is not impossible.
"Using the clues and hints given by "Schrödinger's Cat", our world is likely to be in a superposition state with the other world, so when we 'observe' it, it collapses into another world.
"I have a preliminary guess now that maybe the next action we are going to carry out is to carry out an act of 'observation' to open the entrance to another world."
"...It makes sense." It took a while for everyone to finally recover, and the experience of being in another world 'accidentally' last night made everyone feel a little bit afraid.
"Brother Qin, Xiaochun, Sister Cen, Qingqing, the four of you stay here," Ke Xun immediately made arrangements, "Qingqing helps Xiaochun make breakfast together, Sister Cen grabs the gun and observes the movement around, Brother Qin, you go Stand guard on the roof of the car, and pay attention to other people at the same time. The other people are grouped and go to four farther places to check, all carry their bags and guns, do not go too far, and ensure that they can always see Seeing our car, if Brother Qin finds that something is wrong, he will immediately notify everyone with a signal gun."
As he said that, he went to the trunk to look through the signal gun and binoculars that Mu Yiran brought and handed it to Qin Ci.
The members who have been born and died together for many times have long been tacit understanding. While Ke Xun arranged, everyone began to prepare at the same time. After quickly dividing into groups, each chose a direction and walked cautiously towards the distance.
Half an hour later, several groups of people came back one after another, but they found nothing.
"There is nothing but gravel and dead grass and a few dead animals," Shao Ling said, "and not all of these dead animals were headed toward the direction of the rock platform last night, which seems to be a very 'normal' death. state."
The same is true for other groups probed.
"I think we probably won't gain anything during the day," Zhu Haowen said. "Only at night will the 'superimposed world' appear, and all our actions can only be carried out at night."
Everyone agreed so, so the operation during the day was suspended. Everyone briefly used Li Xiaochun’s breakfast, and then began to unload the camping supplies on the car. The men set up four medium and one large tents. The tents are used to rest separately, and the big tents are used to gather together for meetings.
The ladies are responsible for laying blankets and distributing sleeping bags and other items to each tent. Finally, everyone piled up the collected hay and lit a small fire to boil water.
"It seems that we can only wait until the evening." Wei Dong tilted his head to look in the direction of the rising sun. The dazzling white light was like a sharp blade, slicing the cold air of the morning, and it made people feel like they were being covered by thousands of people. The painful illusion of being slashed by knives and being cut by ice picks in the body.
"After drinking hot water, we all went to the tent to sleep and make up for sleep," Ke Xun said. "I definitely didn't sleep well last night. If you keep your spirits up during the day, you will have the energy to deal with it at night. Let's arrange shifts, with two people per shift. Every three hours, Dongzi and I are in the first shift, Yiran and Carrot are in the second shift, Mr. Shao, Xiaochun, the third shift, Haowener Qin, the fourth shift, and the curator Hua and the ladies don’t have to be on duty. Get a beauty sleep."
Curator Hua: "..."
"Let's help with cooking," Wu You said, "Although I don't dare to hold a gun, it's okay to hold a kitchen knife. I promise that everyone will be full of meat!"
"Okay, the issue of food and clothing is the second most important thing after life and death, so I'll leave it to you." Ke Xun smiled.
Wu You looked at the box containing the ingredients on the ground and sighed in his heart.
Who knows how many meals we can live to go.