"It's better not to go and find another place. I don't like that place." The prince hesitated to move forward.
Wu Dongfang frowned and looked at the stone building in the southwest mountain. This building is located on the south side of a tall mountain. Most of the main building has collapsed. The place close to the mountain is more sheltered from the wind. The buildings there are relatively intact. There are many The tall stone pillars look like the huge corridor in front of the mausoleum.
Overall, this place does not look like a palace, but more like a place of worship. The collapsed buildings on the outside are auxiliary buildings. The relatively intact area near the mountain is a huge passage, and the real main building here should be inside the mountain. .
"Is there a monster there?" Wu Dongfang asked. The prince's intuition and senses were relatively sharp. He didn't want to go over there and might have noticed something.
"That's not true." The prince shook his head.
"Are you sure?" Wu Dongfang confirmed.
"You didn't see any sheep under that pillar." The prince pouted towards the northeast of the stone building.
Wu Dongfang tilted his head and looked into the distance. After a closer look, he quickly discovered that there were several goats lying down under a leaning stone pillar. It should be 10 o'clock in the evening, and the goats had already laid down to rest.
If there is danger around here, the goats will not choose to rest here. Since they are resting around here, it means that there is no danger here, at least there are no hidden monsters.
"Let's go and take a look." Wu Dongfang stepped forward.
"This place is not as good as the place we lived before." The prince muttered and followed.
"Do you still have the nerve to say it?" Wu Dongfang glanced at the prince.
The prince stopped arguing. It wasn't because he was caught stealing wine and exposed his whereabouts. The two of them are still living leisurely by the sea.
Wu Dongfang used a copper knife to move the grass and moved forward. The vegetation in this area was very lush. It would be difficult to find this stone building if you were not very close.
"Slow down, there's a wild boar ahead." The prince ran in front of Wu Dongfang to control the speed.
After walking for more than ten meters, a female wild boar ran out of the jungle on the right with a group of colorful piglets. When she saw them, she turned and ran westward.
Seeing this group of wild boars, Wu Dongfang was even more relieved. Wild boars and goats were animals lower in the food chain at this time. They chose to live here, which meant that it was very safe.
Arriving outside the stone building, the prince stopped again, "I still feel something is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Wu Dongfang also stopped. It's not a bad thing to be cautious.
"There is so much food here, how come there is no owner?" The prince wondered.
Wu Dongfang nodded. At this time, the mountains and forests were full of goblins and monsters. They all had certain territories, one after another. The more powerful the monsters, the larger the territory they occupied and the better the conditions. There are pigs and sheep here, and there are dilapidated stone buildings to protect from wind and rain. It is a very good place. It would be abnormal if there are no goblins and monsters living there.
"We will observe outside for a while first, and then we will go in after dawn." Wu Dongfang discussed.
The prince nodded in agreement. Wu Dongfang reached out and hugged it, jumped up to a big tree that was several arms thick, and sat down on a branch at the top of the big tree that could accommodate people. It was late summer, the mosquitoes were fierce, and the wind was blowing. The top of a tree is a better place to spend the night.
"When was this palace?" Wu Dongfang leaned on a tree branch and looked at the building to the north. The big tree they were sitting on was located on the southern edge of the building.
The prince didn't answer. If he didn't answer, he didn't know. If he knew, he would never give up the opportunity to show off.
"There are no fields or walls around here. It shouldn't be a palace." Wu Dongfang said again.
"This is because you don't understand. People in the past didn't know how to farm. Even if they could, they only farmed very scatteredly." The prince stretched his waist.
"Have you ever seen similar buildings in the mountains?" Wu Dongfang ate wild sweet potatoes. Unlike today's sweet potatoes, wild sweet potatoes were small, astringent and not sweet.
"I've seen it, but never such a big one. The five tribes were separated only in the past few hundred years. In the past, there were hundreds of large and small tribes, and they lived in scattered places. This may be one of the larger ones. tribe." The prince said.
Wu Dongfang nodded and didn't ask any more questions. The same house was popular when people lived in it, but desolate or even gloomy when no one lived in it. The same was true for this stone building. It might have been lively back then, but now No one lived there anymore, it looked dead and gloomy.
After a simple conversation, Wu Dongfang and the prince fell asleep. In the early morning, the prince woke up first and said, "Send me down, I want to pee."
Wu Dongfang sent the prince down, jumped up on a tree branch and continued to sleep. The prince was done with it, and was looking for food around.
The sun rose and illuminated the earth. The sunlight dispelled the gloom of darkness, and the morning birds also dispelled the dead silence in the mountains. Wu Dongfang and the prince entered the area where the stone building was located from the south.
This place has been abandoned for many years, and there is no way to find it. The place without big trees has enough sunlight, and it is easy for shrubs and thorns to breed. The prince sighed as he walked.
There are many stone utensils here, but most of them are covered by thorns and vines. Wu Dongfang used a knife to cut off the vines clinging to one of the stone utensils, and found that it was a large stone millstone. The presence of the millstone indicates that this place is Many people had lived there before. Since it was a place where people lived, there was no danger. What he was most worried about was that this place was an altar, because there might be monsters hiding in the altar.
After passing through an area overgrown with weeds and thorns that stretched their legs, the two stepped onto a stone corridor close to the mountain. There was a flat stone roof above the corridor, supported by many stone pillars on the left and right sides.
Wu Dongfang frowned and stopped after stepping onto the corridor. He discovered something unusual.
Below the corridor is a stone road paved with stone slabs. There are fallen leaves remaining on the stone road. There are more fallen leaves near the stone pillars on both sides. There are fewer fallen leaves in the middle area of the corridor. This is normal if there are stone walls on both sides to avoid the wind, but the left and right sides There are stone pillars on both sides and there is no shelter from the wind, so this situation should not occur. In other words, the situation of more fallen leaves on both sides and less in the middle is probably caused by man-made factors.
While Wu Dongfang was analyzing the situation, the prince was looking up and sniffing.
"What did you smell?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"It seems to smell like someone." The prince said uncertainly.
"Is there anyone here?" Wu Dongfang asked loudly, in case there is someone living here, the two of them have already disturbed others.
"What are you talking about!" The prince was startled by him.
Wu Dongfang raised his hand to signal the prince not to speak, and listened carefully to the movements around him. After waiting for dozens of seconds, he found that no one answered. He shouted again, but still no one answered.
When Wu Dongfang was talking, the prince had already gone north along the stone road. After Wu Dongfang called out and saw no one answered, he took steps to follow the prince.
The remaining corridor is more than fifty meters long. At the end of the corridor is a stone building similar to a palace. There are walls on the east and west, but no wall on the south. There are stone pillars. The palace is very empty, without any utensils, only the central part remains. The skeleton of a python is more than ten meters long, which is not small, but it is not considered big at this time.
The prince ran over, smelled it, and then went to the snake's head. "Someone has been here before, and it was killed."
"How do you know?" Wu Dongfang stepped into the palace.
"Its inner elixir has been poached." The prince nuzzled at the snake's head.
Wu Dongfang walked over and took a closer look, and found that the python's skull indeed had a man-made sharp wound.
"This is not the end. There should be a passage leading to the mountain on the north wall." Wu Dongfang said.
"How do you know?" The prince asked puzzledly.
"Because there is no wall in front of the palace, how can people live in it in the winter?" Wu Dongfang walked to the west of the north wall, scratched the wall with a copper knife and walked eastward. On the way to escape, he had seen Qiyue using a piece of stone called Sky Mending Stone. Covering the entrance to the cave, he suspected there was something similar here.
From west to east, there are actually solid walls.
"They may not live here." The prince said.
Wu Dongfang didn't answer, looking around for any clues.
"Are we going to live here or not?" the prince asked.
"There are people living here. They don't want to be disturbed. Let's go." Wu Dongfang said. There are many fallen leaves left in this abandoned palace, mainly concentrated in the northeast and northwest corners. This seems reasonable, but in fact it is. The result of artificial covering, because there are more southeast winds in spring and summer, and the southeast wind blows to the northwest, the northwest corner is not sheltered from the wind, so there should not be too much accumulation of fallen leaves in the northwest corner, and even if there is, it should not be the same as the northeast corner many.
The prince peed at the base of the wall, turned around and followed Wu Dongfang, "How do you know?"
Wu Dongfang turned back and pointed at the fallen leaves in the northwest corner to speak. When he turned around and took a breath of cold air, a round arch suddenly appeared on the stone wall to the north. Standing in the arch was a young man with an extremely pale face. , white is weird, white is scary.
Wu Dongfang, who was facing north, had his eyes wide open, and the prince, who was facing south, also had his eyes wide open. When Wu Dongfang saw the prince, his eyes were wide open, and he guessed that something appeared behind him. When the prince saw Wu Dongfang, his eyes were wide open. He also guessed what happened behind him.
"What's behind me?" The prince said with a trembling voice.
"A man with his hands behind his back, what's behind me?" Wu Dongfang didn't look back.
"A woman with a knife..."