Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 164 I, Ma Xuanhuang

"No, you are all mistaken. What we have to think about now is not dogs and undead." Wells raised his hand and gestured around, "What we have to think about is who built these steps and statues. Don't forget , this is the Earth 46 billion years ago, and no human has ever arrived here."

Fu Zhong's receiver uploaded a rendering of Xinghe's simulation. The fluorescent markers were only half done, and the rendering had already arrived. Xinghe never made mistakes.Fu Zhong glanced at the picture, he lowered his eyes silently, the deserted atmosphere made him look a bit gloomy.

"Who said that no one has been here? You are also mistaken, Americans. Do you think we are just the first batch of humans to come here? You think too highly of us." Fu Zhong raised his eyes and stared at Wells, The pupils were unusually pale inky, and the pale blue veins under the eyelids were clearly visible, and the light shone into his eyes, and the small patches of skin were as white as porcelain.

"What do you mean by that? I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out, who else has been here. It's a miracle, the gods once lived here, and this is their temple. Take a good look, those gods mocking us!"

Wells raised his finger and pointed to the skull of the Feathered Serpent on top, the withered yellow bones gave off a rotten smell.The empty snake's eyes were fixed on the ground, froze on a certain expression with a half-smile, as if he was about to grin and let out a weird laugh in the next second.

Fu Zhong stepped forward and grabbed Wells by the collar, the tip of his nose was almost touching the American, his voice was suppressed and flowed out of his throat: "Stop your stupid thoughts, Wells, now is not the time to drive you crazy , tell your god to get out of here! There is no god here, these statues are just some stupid guy's mystification. There are only us here, and we are human beings, and there are only human beings here!"

His eyes were large and beautiful, with well-defined eyelashes, and a small patch of skin under the eyelids had the sheen of mother-of-pearl, a color that had to be reproduced by a painter dipping his fingernails in oil paint.Wells was not as tall as Fu Zhong, and after being grabbed by his collar, he had to lift his chin and stand on tiptoe to meet Fu Zhong's gaze.Wells clutched the gun tightly in his hand, his eyes were wet and the lines on his face were crinkled together in pain.

"Oh God." He pursed his lips to make his voice sound less terrified, "May God bless us."

Shanhua came over and pulled Fu Zhong's arm, and Fu Zhong let go of the poor authentic mouse.Fu Zhong took a few steps back and looked up at the two statues—the source of Wells' fear: "When did you start believing in God?"

Wells shivered for a while. He put the gun on his back and rubbed a water bottle on his waist with old gloves. He said: "During the Vietnam War, I was once trapped in a tunnel. I was alone in the dark with a group of dead people. After living in the corpse for 36 hours, I saw with my own eyes a man’s head cut off by a barbed wire fence, and another man’s testicles were smashed to pieces. Damn authenticity! Damn war! So at a certain moment during those 36 hours, I Believe in God."

Fu Zhong indifferently faced Apche's head and the gorgeous feathers on Kukulkan's body, his expression was slightly remote: "You escaped after 36 hours, so you think it's because God favored you you?"

"Yes, God favors me. I can see him, and I can even feel the gold leaf on his clothes shaking in front of my eyes. God lives beside us." Wells folded his hands around his mouth, and he arched The body is a gesture of surrender.He is a fanatical religious element.

"God lives beside us." Fu Zhong's eyes lingered on the statue of God, "Walking in the market with human beings, God is in the world."

"These are the proofs." Wells suddenly opened his arms, wanting to hug someone. He ran under the Feathered Serpent God, "We have stumbled into the palace of the gods by mistake, and we can't go on. We are just a few A dog with night vision, look, the entrance to hell is ahead. We can't go any further."

Fu Zhong showed the picture of the receiver to Wells, and Wells opened his eyes wide. He probably will never feel more incredible than now.Fu Zhong pointed to the ground and said: "We are stepping on a pair of wings, and these wings are the badges used by the Beijing Time Bureau. Someone has been here!"

After he finished speaking, he ignored Wells' reaction, turned around and asked Shanhua to report the situation to the podium, then walked under the stone wall, took out a glass tube to collect some liquid seeping from the stone wall.

"The liquid was translucent dark red, viscous, and had a strong fishy smell. I had to wear a mask to feel better. I don't know what it is. It looks like blood, but maybe it's just the product of iron oxidation. Fu Zhong held up the glass tube and shook it under the waiting light, "The reagents mixed in the glass have no reaction, and the element composition is unknown. It seems that I need more sophisticated analytical instruments, but this can only be realized after I reach the ground. "

He reported the situation in detail to the recorder, and then put the glass tube in the box on his chest. This will be precious research data, and Professor Geng Shuming will definitely like it very much.

Shanhua tried to connect to the podium several times without success, the signal was intermittent, and finally completely blacked out. A prompt box popped up saying: "The fifth track is temporarily removed, all data is being backed up, please wait for the new track to connect."

"What's the situation? Why was the communication track suddenly removed?" Shanhua said. He kept changing his location and connection interface in an attempt to restart, but the screen never lit up. "This is not allowed, let alone we are on a mission."

"Podium, podium, this is 0578, Fu Zhong reports. Our communication track was cut off suddenly, the reason is unknown, please help the podium to restore it as soon as possible. Can you hear it? Please reply!" Fu Zhong pressed the walkie-talkie to call, But no one answered him.

There was noise in the earphones, and one or two human voices popped out from time to time. Fu Zhong listened attentively, while changing positions, took out the tools and prepared to restart manually.From the fragmented words coming from the earphones, he judged that there was a fierce quarrel on the ground podium. It seemed that Ji Yao was arguing with the artificial intelligence, and Fu Zhong was not sure if it was Ji Yao's voice.

"I advise you to leave here and go back the same way. The communication has been interrupted, don't you think there is a problem? How could the track be removed suddenly!" Wells said, "Really, friends, we have been together I can't wait any longer!"

He said holding the gun and ran towards the steps on the edge of the platform, Shanhua blocked him.Shanhua is tall and big, standing there like a brown bear, while the short Wells looks more like a panicked mouse, trying to escape in a panic.

"Don't you think about it, what's going on here?" Wells was blocked by mountain flowers, he took a step back and gestured excitedly, "We are completely isolated in this ghost place, who knows what's going on? What's hidden inside! That young and fledgling commander can only command blindly! He wants to abandon us now, just watch, maybe the team on the ground is ready to leave now, and he just wants to consume us to death here !"

"Shut up, David Wells! I respected you as a veteran before, but now I find that you have believed in God for so many years, but God's wisdom has not entered your mind at all!" Fu Zhong stepped over and locked Wells raised his hand and grabbed Wells' cheek, forcing him to close his jaw tightly and unable to say a word, "Now you start talking about Commander, this is not that, isn't it? Don't forget that he is all along the way. brought us here! I'm with him every day, no one knows his difficulties better than me, I promise no one understands better than me. There's no way he'll abandon us, I trust him, just like you It's like believing in God. God is in the world, and He is my God. So now please shut your mouth, coward, or you will wait for your God to save you."

"What's the relationship between you and the commander? Are you so confident that he will never give up on us? What's going on now that the orbit is suddenly withdrawn? Will he, a commander, not know the consequences of withdrawing from the orbit? Bastard, you should dump the stupid crap out of your head!" Wells, who had been a grumpy old-fashioned tough guy when he was on the ground, now had all that toughness in his loud rebuttal to Fu Zhong.

The sound of their quarreling gradually became louder, and echoes echoed in the ground, and they were vigorous and vigorous in all directions.Fu Zhong was trembling with anger, his eyelashes trembled, and the small light blue veins under his eyes now showed the color of enamel.

They stared at each other for a few seconds, and Fu Zhongyi forcefully folded Wells' face aside, leaving a deep pinch mark on the veteran's cheek.Fu Zhong pulled on the bolt, clattered, and said with his hands down, "His name is Ji Yao. There is a reason why he became a commander at a young age. It's not like you shrink back when you face such a small difficulty when you are old." .I know him like you know God. Your God is in the temple, and my God is in the world. We are not the same."

Fu Zhong took a step back, and suddenly there was a sound behind him. Fu Zhong suddenly turned around and raised his gun to aim. A bat flew up from the place illuminated by the light, flapping its smooth wings, and disappeared in a flash.

Another bat.Fu Zhong glanced around and waited silently for a few seconds, the surroundings became quiet again, the echo from the quarrel just now seemed to be still wandering in a deep place.Fu Zhong felt something was wrong, they were so loud just now that they didn't hear any movement around them, so how did this bat get startled?

He turned his head, only to find that Shanhua was standing aside, and Wells had disappeared.Shanhua said that Wells insisted on leaving, and he had already gone down the steps.Fu Zhong didn't speak, and didn't go to check. He was silent for a while, and simply nodded.

"He is not in the same way as us. He leaves whenever he wants, and may his God be by his side all the time. Oh, poor old man." Fu Zhong said, with sympathetic sadness in his eyes, and his expression It was hard every time before, "Chief Wei, do you trust him? Ji Yao."

"I believe it. I know what he is, and he and I are very good friends, and have always been. No matter how bad it is, you are still here, and he will not leave you. You should not be separated."

Fu Zhong smiled so faintly that it was almost invisible.A kind of misty melancholy suddenly rose in his heart, just like seeing the stars and red fruits falling all over the sky when returning home after crossing the mountains, and the face of his lover happened to be illuminated by the moonlight.He dare not look at the stars, because the stars are hidden in Ji Yao's eyes.

"What about you? What's your attitude?" Shanhua asked.

"I love him."

It is not because you believe that you love, but because you love that you choose to believe him.

Fu Zhong's voice is not loud, but there is an undoubted affirmation and gentleness, as if every word he utters is what he thinks in his heart.Shanhua knew the relationship between the two of them, he knew it a long time ago, and he was always full of expectations and blessings for Fu Zhong and Ji Yao.

Shanhua looked at Fu Zhong's hesitant expression, frowned and looked around, leaning against him with the same vigilance: "Is there anything strange?"

Fu Zhong raised his hand to make a silent gesture, and said softly: "I heard something strange... like the sound of birds flapping their wings when migrating... a lot... ...noisy. Getting closer, coming towards us."

a few minutes ago.

A huge red frame suddenly popped up on the screen, and the alarm sounded rapidly, short and long, which was an alarm of a temporary emergency.Galaxy made a sound, and it brought a sad news: "Alarm, alarm. An order came from the headquarters, because of the needs of the war, the right to use track 15 of the 'backtracking' plan is temporarily withdrawn. All connections that are using this track will be deleted Then randomly transfer to other tracks. The time span is too large, and the gap period is extended to more than [-] minutes."

"What kind of fucking shit order is this? My executives are still using this orbit to carry out their missions. They are in trouble now, but you say that the orbit has been temporarily recovered? Is this how the headquarters made decisions?"

"This has nothing to do with Xinghe, Xinghe is just fulfilling the established procedures. The central host of the Beijing General Administration has conducted precise calculations and evaluations, and the loss of embezzlement of track [-] is the smallest. Xinghe never makes mistakes. Xinghe only makes the most beneficial human Judgment."

"Fuck you for the benefit of mankind! I just said that your quantum brain is useless except for analyzing data! My executor is on a mission, and there is an American, do you understand? They are on a mission! If If the connection is broken, they can't come back, and I won't allow accidents for my executives! You stupid quantum brain! Find a way to terminate the transfer procedure! Now, immediately!"

"Sorry, Xinghe can't meet your request. The No. [-] orbit has entered the transfer process, and the operator is the central host of the Beijing Headquarters of the Time Bureau. 'Xinghe No. [-]' and its orbiting satellites have entered the recovery channel and cannot be terminated."

Correspondent No. 15 reported: "Location disappears, all connections are interrupted, and data backup and transfer are in progress. Repeat, all connections are interrupted! The satellite signal has been disconnected. Data is being transferred, and the estimated time is [-] minutes."

At this moment, unbeknownst to everyone on the ground, a secret change occurred in the entrance passage underground.Those spliced ​​prefabricated panels were split from the gaps under the control of some kind of mechanical force, and then more bombs were pulled out from the inside. These bombs were all flashing red and beeping—the countdown had already begun.The whole process is fast and accurate, leaving no room for breathing, and firmly stepping on the heels of time.

The monitoring platform instantly detected the change in the well, and a harsher siren suddenly rose from the ground, the galaxy flashed red, and everyone's earphones heard a roar like a flood: "A large number of activated time bombs have been found in the well. The linked blasting device is activated at the same time! The setting time is 1 minute! The initial estimated radius of the explosion range is 1.8 kilometers! The southeast wind is strong, and the radiation dust can spread for 16 kilometers! Alert! Alert! The countdown begins! Be careful!"

Xinghe packed up all the weapon arsenals, temporary houses, and computer screens, and the executives were protecting several experts and retreated to the periphery.Ji Yao commanded the formation to leave from different directions. He shouted at the sound of the siren and ordered Xinghe to release the plane, and all personnel were transferred by air within five seconds.The coordinate screen is pitch black, the "Galaxy [-]" satellite has entered the return channel, and related communications have also been transmitted from the coordinate instrument. The [-]th orbit has been completely withdrawn from the "backtracking plan", and the Galaxy host of the Beijing General Administration sent a distant apology notice .

"Due to the needs of actual warfare, we had to withdraw a track. We are working hard to reduce losses, and at the same time apologize to the people who are using this track. We are deeply sorry for this, and wish you all the best in your mission and everything goes well."

"War needs, what war needs! Fuck your mother's Time Bureau!" Ji Yao cursed, the wind roared above his head, and the roar of the plane almost crushed him.

"Where did the bomb come from? Isn't it already destroyed? Galaxy! Restart the positioning, call other orbits, I want to connect to their signal! All personnel retreat! Retreat!"

"Positioning restart failed, positioning restart failed. Data backup is in progress and cannot be changed. Commander, Xinghe recommends that you board the plane immediately and try to restart the coordinates after 3 minutes. This is the best solution obtained by Xinghe's data analysis."

"None of them survived the underground explosion! Those are my people, I said I will save them!" Ji Yao said to Xinghe in the smoke and dust with red eyes, "You won't understand, you will never become a person. Remove the counterattack Curve fluid shield, use EMP to disable these timers."

"Galaxy has tried it for the first time. EMP is invalid. These timers are not electronic devices, but mechanical gears."

As soon as the voice fell, a call came from the sky: "Commander, an explosion is about to occur underground, please retreat! Please retreat!"

Time is racing against each of them, although they all deal with time.

Down the well, Wells ran to the entrance of the tunnel with his gun on his back. When he jumped down holding the door, he saw hazy fog in the damp darkness, and red light flickered in his white vision.Wells stopped in place suddenly, because he was facing dozens of C-4 bombs that were about to explode in a second.

An incomparable blasting force gushed out from the ground through the soil layer, and all the bombs exploded at the same time, spreading radially around the well.The clods and gravels came all over the sky, the flames and thick smoke whizzed and mixed together, the ultra-low flying plane had to quickly pull up, but before Ji Yao came up, he was at the center of the explosion!

Ji Yao ran wildly in the turbulent explosion wave while pressing the walkie-talkie that had no signal for a long time. He climbed the branches of Begonia and jumped over the dead trees lying across, and shouted with all his strength: "Run! Run away! All the personnel on the ground retreat !retreat!"

The ending sound was very long, and Ji Yao could feel the voice changer tightening violently in his throat, spewing out sweet blood, and swallowing it into his stomach.He called Fu Zhongfu, but where did he flee to?Ji Yao didn't know.Now he doesn't even know where Fu Zhong is underground.

He has been chasing time for so many years, but in the end he still has not stepped on the heel of time.

Explosions happened one after another around me, and the earth couldn't help convulsing under the impact of man-made forces. At this time, the trees all over the mountains and plains shook their leaves violently and fell down in pieces.Ji Yao also saw a flowering wild hawthorn tree in front of him being blown up by the roots, thrown into the sky, then smashed down, and plunged into the soft soil beside him.It was still blooming, and it was blooming very brightly. The petals were flying in the pungent radiation dust and fell on Ji Yao's shoulder.

The violent southeast wind blows from the sea, kicking up the fine sand and dust on the outer beach, rumbling, like a palace carriage passing by after being startled by thunder.Ji Yao thought it was thunder, but he couldn't tell the difference, and he couldn't see the way ahead. The whole forest was shrouded in light yellow sulfur smoke and dust.

Huge cumulonimbus clouds moved across the sea, blocking the sun that was hanging over the mountain, and the sky suddenly turned gray, as if dusk had come early.Fog rose from the top of the snow-capped mountains in the distance, and the giant eagle fluttered its wings and rushed into the towering clouds, its hoarse cry falling like a waterfall.

At the last second, Wells called out the name of God and the motherland, and he shouted something else desperately, and the voice rushed up and passed into Fu Zhong's ears.Immediately after all the bombs exploded at the same time, Wells' iris was instantly illuminated into a bright orange.

The passage collapsed in an instant, and the entire underground cavern began to tremble violently, and Wells was completely submerged in the smoke and dust from the explosion and the huge rocks. Only the last voice of his life was still echoing dying in the darkness.

Both Fu Zhong and Shan Hua heard the explosion happening at the same time, and Wells' desperate cry was also torn into pieces by the sound waves.The standing point under their feet kept shaking up and down, similar to the vibration of the earth's crust when an earthquake came. There was a loud bang, and the stone wall where the steps were built was pierced by the shock wave. Large pieces of rock splashed and disintegrated, and the entire platform instantly tilted down. Soon there is also a tendency to collapse.

"Explosion and earthquake! Run away! Run away!" Shanhua shouted, grabbing Fu Zhong's arm and running to the other side of the platform, the stones and debris falling from the top slapped them mercilessly.Fu Zhong was hit on the back by a stone, he staggered suddenly, held back the severe pain and ran towards the bottom of the two statues while holding on to the increasingly crooked granite smooth slab. There was an exit, and a corridor was connected behind it , is their only way at this time.

The longitudinal wave of the earthquake is going crazy on the surface, but the transverse wave has not arrived at this time, and there is still time to breathe.But Fu Zhong felt that there was no time to breathe, because in the endless darkness on his side, suddenly there were overwhelming red spots, more and more and bigger, and finally formed a huge red wave hitting the corridor , the loud and noisy sound is like the spinning mill in Winchester during the industrial revolution, deafening.

It's bats. Hundreds of thousands of bats filled the cave in the eternal darkness. They stared at the blind and mutated eyes and screamed and walked around Fu Zhong. Their ugly teeth and faces were full of fear and fear. excited.

Fu Zhong covered the receivers on both sides during the attack of the sound waves, closed the glass helmet to protect his face, and quickly passed through the corridor.The blocking of the bat swarm forced them to slow down. Some bats hung on Fu Zhong's clothes and bit the helmet with their fangs.

Explosions sounded in all directions, and it was impossible to tell where the source was. I just felt that the surroundings were collapsing and collapsing, and the whole world was being bombed.The corridor under his feet shook violently, Fu Zhong couldn't stand still, and was about to fall several times, he tried his best to keep his balance.

The platform paved with black and white wings finally collapsed completely at this moment, hit the cliff, and shattered into several pieces.The two statues could no longer hold back their majestic faces, they were all cracked and then collapsed, and the Feathered Serpent God's feathers were scattered among the ruins.

Shanhua ran ahead, the corridor had begun to tilt, and several supporting columns below had been broken.After running for hundreds of meters at high speed, I finally saw the end. There was a wall at the end, and the height was hidden in an invisible place.Shanhua reached the finish line first, and at this time the corridor was already tilted badly, so he jumped onto the stone platform with all his might.After turning around, Shanhua found that Fu Zhong had slid down along the collapsed corridor, and he was still running desperately forward, stretching his hands, trying to grab the sleeve of time.

"Grab the rope! Fu Zhong!" Shanhua removed the wire rope from her body in the torrent of rolling stones and threw it down.

At the same time, the covered bridge had lost any support, and the whole fell down, and there was no support point under Fu Zhong's feet.He was suspended in the air, leaning hard on a falling rock, and after bouncing, he just grabbed the thrown rope and strangled it into his glove.

He swung away like a meteor, curled up to meet the impact of the stone wall with his side.Although he tried his best to protect his head, he was hit by the impact, and the strong dizziness made him panic. The receiver on the side of the helmet was smashed, and cracks appeared on the glass.After taking a few breaths, he tore off the bat that was biting his helmet, and then kicked down the smashed bat corpse.He tightened the wire rope, kicked off the stone wall and moved up quickly, Shanhua handed him the hand, Fu Zhong held that hand tightly, turned over and climbed to the edge of the stone platform.

The stone platform was relatively stable. They stood on the side and glanced back. There were no traces. Everything was falling into the abyss below. The depth was bottomless, and no echo could be heard.Only the skull was still hanging alone, firmly locked by the iron chain, dangling above the abyss.The iron chain was drilled deep into the soil, and it was unknown where it extended.

Fu Zhong suddenly remembered that there was also an iron chain under the well, extending to the bottom of the water, and the other was buried in the soil.Could this be a chain?Why did the skull of the giant snake appear here?What does the ghost face made of giant eagles with iron chains represent?

He can't figure it out, he will think for a long time, and he will definitely live until the day when the truth is revealed.

"The signal suddenly improved a bit just now, do you know what the last sound I heard was?" Fu Zhong said.

"What is it?"

"...Retreat." Fu Zhong stared down, with the blood of bats on his clothes, "The commander ordered everyone on the ground to retreat."

Shanhua looked up, but he couldn't see anything specific: "The top must have been damaged, so they would evacuate urgently. Why did the bomb explode in the tunnel suddenly, and wasn't it all destroyed when it came?"

"I don't know, maybe this is a trap." Fu Zhong said, he raised his eyes again, his eyelashes made his eyes clear, "We have to go to the ground. There must be an exit here."

"Follow the direction of bats. Animals are more sensitive than humans. To survive here, they must know where to escape."

Fu Zhong nodded, and the vibration of the ground under his feet slowed down slightly.His back was in excruciating pain, and he had been hit hard on the head just now, causing his brain to concussion.But these are not important anymore, he checked the equipment on his body, especially the collected samples.After confirming that it was correct, I decided to walk in the direction the bats left. They had no detectors and no positioning, and communication with the outside world was completely cut off, so everything was on their own.

When turning around, Fu Zhong noticed that the shape of the rock next to him was a bit strange. He stepped back and adjusted the large aperture to illuminate that area. It turned out to be another stone sculpture sitting on an old tree stump.Fu Zhong illuminated the face of the stone carving, only to find that it was a huge sheep's face, his eyes were squinted, he seemed to be asleep and awake, and the horns on his head were twisted to both sides.

It has a human body with a sheep's head, a huge genital body, and a piccolo pinned to its waist. This is Bolevit, the god of mountains and forests in Slavic mythology.

Bolevit sat on an old tree stump, facing the covered bridge, with his hands folded under his stomach, holding a skull in his palm.Fu Zhong could recognize it at a glance, it was the skull of a giant snake, also tied with iron chains, extending along the stone wall.