Chapter 214 – Bull’s Head

Twilight amiably shrouded “evil Luo Hai City”, there are countless starry lights in the city, in the mist if not hazy, as if the residents of the ancient city has lit candles, ready to meet the arrival of the night, but the city is dead silent, do not feel the slightest bit of life, just look at a few eyes, I have already out of a cold sweat. A cold sweat, legend has it that the residents of this city have inexplicably disappeared, and even if the later reincarnation of the Sect has been extinct for hundreds of years, how is it possible that there is still light in this city? Can accommodate tens of thousands of people in the city, and not half a bit of movement, it seems that it is either a “dead city”, or a “ghost city”.

Just when I was surprised, the rest of the people also climbed to the top of the green rock, they are the same as me, to see the existence of this “dead” and “life” two huge contrast of the ancient city, are half a day unable to speak.

Legend has it that the ancient city of “Pompeii” in the Roman era was also due to the disaster of volcanic eruption, destroyed in one night, and later archaeological excavations, found that the residents of the city at the time of their deaths, are still retaining the appearance of a normal life in the home before life, “Pompeii” posture, in the moment of the destruction of the forever frozen. The posture of Pompeii was frozen forever at the moment of its destruction.

However, the ancient city in front of us, in which all the inhabitants seemed to have evaporated, only the beehive-like “city of evil Rohai” stood brilliantly illuminated in the twilight, and it was so well preserved that it seemed to people that it had broken free from the shackles of time, and had never undergone any change in these thousands of years, and what exactly had happened to the city? Disaster? The mere thought of it is horrifying.

We would inevitably think that this city was a “ghost sting”, but after asking Ah Heung, we got a negative answer, that this devil’s lair really existed, and it was not a “ghost sting” created by the spirits of the dead.

We were about to discuss how to enter the city, suddenly heard the “wind-eroded lake” under the rock in the lake water turbulence, at this time the sky has not yet darkened, from a high place to look down, glassy and clear wind-eroded lake full view can be seen, only relatively fuzzy and hazy some of the “white-bearded old fish” and the two The “white-bearded old fish” and the two “mottled scow” have already won the battle, thousands of white-bearded fish, in order to help their ancestors, bravely hit the “mottled scow” with their bodies underwater.

“The white-bearded fish had a reddish echidna on the top of their heads, which seemed to be their strongest part, and their bodies were about half a meter in size on average, and they could make people spit out blood by bouncing their bodies in the water, although the pair of “speckled scaly fish” were fierce and tenacious. Although the pair of “speckled scaly” fierce and tenacious, by ten or eight big fish hit also do not feel how, but can not stand tens of thousands of big fish bombardment, coupled with the old fish to take advantage of the counterattack, “speckled scaly” can not hold back, had to leap back to the shore of the woods, the trees were knocked to the west and the trees were knocked to the west and disappeared in an instant.

Wounded old fish floated in the lake, it was “speckled scaly” bitten off a lot of scales, gills were torn off a large piece, its fish children and grandchildren gathered around, blocked its wounds with their mouths, “white-bearded fish” more and more, not a moment, it was once again formed a “fish formation”, “white-bearded fish” more and more, not a moment, it was again formed a “fish formation”. The white-bearded fish gathered more and more, and within a few moments, they formed a “fish formation” again, which was a large black mass, covering the surface of the “wind-eroded lake”.

When I saw the fish formation slowly sinking to the bottom of the lake, I thought to myself, “It seems that there must be frequent and intense conflicts between the white-bearded fish and the mottled scaly dragon. It seems that the “Spotted Jiao” only wants to drive these fish to extinction, rather than simply hunting for food, but the fish have the king of the fish in charge, “Spotted Jiao” although powerful, but it is difficult to take advantage of anything, is it possible that the conflict between them, just want to grab this rare “Wind Erosion Lake”? What is so special about this lake? This may involve a lot of ancient secrets, but we can’t afford to worry about this now, before the sky is still dark, we should enter the “Wicked Luo Hai City” first.

Shirley Yang asked me if I want to enter the city directly. The city is obviously a flickering lights, but it is surprisingly quiet, all kinds of signs of eerie, let a person daunted.

I said to Shirley Yang: “not into the tiger’s den, how to get the tiger’s son, since A Xiang said that there is nothing unclean in the city, I think we have lost thirty-six defeats, now there is nothing to be afraid of, except that this ancient city, indeed, from the inside to the outside of all permeated by a kind of evil, and seems to hide some unimaginable things, we can only see the strange, single-handedly straight into it! .”

So all the people with the remaining items, foraging for the road into the city, the big beehive like the ancient city, deep in the ground, barrel-like white walls, seems to be just a decoration, not too much of a military defense function, but the scale is very large, want to go around quite difficult, the city wafted a wisp of strange mists, the houses are all the honeycomb on the caves, inside the all-around, we are worried about getting lost, do not dare to venture into the interior, only in a few cave entrances Looked inside, the more we looked, the more we felt alarmed.

There is no half a person in the city, but seven or eight out of ten homes have been lit, and those lights are not what long bright eternal lights, are made of dried feces mixed with oil and grease from wild beasts and old fuel, seem to be just lit soon, and although the city caves are old, but never like a thousand years of monuments as dilapidated, some of the artifacts in the cave and the skin of the beasts are like a new, and even half of the skulls have been ground. There are even half-worn skulls and wine cups.

The time in this city really seems to be frozen, and its fixed time seems to be the moment when the inhabitants of the city disappeared. We discussed that it is very easy to get lost in the city in the darkness of the night, and that the streets of this “Wicked Lohai City,” including the main buildings of those political, religious, and sacrificial institutions, may all be in the depths of the big beehive, and that this city has thousands of doors and thousands of houses, and is much more than the ordinary city. Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households, but also in the ordinary city structure is completely different, now the most secure way, is to wait until dawn in the periphery to understand the structure of the hive, find a shortcut to enter the depths of the altar, never in the city recklessly blindly bumped into the time to play the son of a bitch naturally can not be ambiguous, but the time to be cautious should also never act rashly.

We intended to go to the city wall to spend the night, but when we passed a hole under the wall, fat man was like a hound that smelled a rabbit, sniffing his nose and said: “What smells so fragrant? Like whose family is stewing beef, fuck the Bull Demon King his sister’s, this can really scratch the fat master’s itch.”

Listen to the fat man said, I also seem to smell the cooking beef meat aroma, is from the cave house out, I am worried about the food is not much left, not enough to allocate, just in the wind erosion of the lake lake said can also deal with two or three days, that is to comfort everyone, in fact, there is not enough to eat a meal, at this moment smelled the meat aroma is naturally have to go in to see, at the moment and the fat man two people took the lead and drilled into the cave house, the inside of the stone kettle, there are indeed being boiled to Inside the stone kettle, there is indeed cooking yak meat, cooing hot, can be described as fragrant and delicious, five flavors and harmony.

The fat man swallowed his saliva, asked me: “Hu commander, we really think what to what, although the ghee sweet, but not as good as tsampa by eating, tsampa is good, but not as good as the yak meat anti-starvation, this pot of beef is for us to prepare, right? This …… can eat it?”

This is not half a shadow of the ancient city, but also cooking a pot of freshly cooked beef, it is difficult to use common sense to speculate, I remembered just when the youth insertion time, in that nine dragons cover the Jade Lotus “cow heart mountain”, eat the old lady’s fruit, this is also ghosts and such cloth ghost market? Are some frogs, earthworms into the blindfold, eat it will have a stomach upset, think of these, I can not help but hesitate, although the heart is very tempted to pick a big chunk of beef boiled thin to eat a meal, but reason tells me that these meat is not clear, or not to eat for the better, although it looks like beef, may be cooked in the pot is the human meat.

Uncle Ming at this time is also hungry in front of the back, with the fat man two people staring straight at the yak meat in the pot, this moment of effort, they probably have eaten several pieces with their eyes, I asked Shirley Yang on this pot of meat have any opinion?

Shirley Yang shook her head very dry, and confirmed with Ah Xiang, this pot of cooking yak meat, is indeed real, not mixed with a little fake.

Fatty heard A Xiang so, can no longer wait, not afraid of hot, reached out and pinched a piece of meat swallowed into his mouth: “I give up my life for righteousness, first for the comrades to taste, meat poison have medicine are first greeted on me.” He said as he ate, not finishing a sentence, he had already eaten seven or eight pieces of beef in his stomach, and could not be stopped even if he wanted to.

We waited for a while, see he finished eating really did not have any problems, at this time the fat man himself has built off half of the pot of beef, I think we can not observe anymore, and then wait for even fucking cucumber dishes are cold, since there is no poison, what do not dare to eat, so the people cross their hearts, rather die than starving ghosts, they all use paratrooper knives to go to the pot of beef picked out to eat.

As I was eating, I suddenly remembered something, and said to Uncle Ming, “At first light tomorrow, we want to go into the depths of that big beehive, what dangers are in there is unknown, and it is expected that it will not be peaceful either, you and Ah Xiang are safer to stay outside of the city, and come out to pick you up when we are done.”

Uncle Ming’s mouth is stuffed with several pieces of beef, want to speak can not say, a rush simply swallowed the meat in one gulp, choked and rolled his eyes for half a day, only then said to me: “We are a family sooner or later, how to say foreign words again? Although I and Ah Xiang do not have much ability, more or less can also help your favor …….”

In the past, when Uncle Ming said he wanted to marry Ah Heung to me, it was a private discussion with me and I never agreed to it, but at this time, Uncle Ming said that sooner or later we are a family, Shirley Yang heard it and immediately asked Uncle Ming, “What is a family? You and old Hu to climb relatives?”

Uncle Ming said: “Yes, I just see Hu’s character is not to say, the man should be married, the woman should be married, I am the senior naturally have to worry about them, my goddaughter married to him even if the lifelong trust, when I die, I can also close my eyes, counting on Ah Xiang’s real parents.”

I hurriedly interrupted Uncle Ming’s words: “For thousands of years, the blood of the Chinese working people has flowed into the sea, struggling and failing, failing and struggling again until the final victory, in order to overthrow the three mountains that are pressed on the Chinese people, I’ve revolutionized half of my life, but in the end, you still want to arrange for me to be arranged in an arranged marriage under the feudal system? Do you want me to suffer twice and make me suffer twice again? I am firmly against it, and I will revolt against anyone who mentions it again.”

Fatty just ate his fill, he was already in chaos, listening to us, immediately followed the coaxing, said to Uncle Ming, “Uncle Ming, my own uncle, you do not need to take care of Hu Ba Yi, give him a daughter-in-law, this is a good thing in the sky, but he is too rash to think that the pie is not fresh, why don’t you share Ah Xiang with me? My parents left early, so I’ll be considered as a substitute in your family, okay? In the future, I will take you as a real father filial piety, when you return to the throne, I guarantee that from the Tiananmen Square to give you howl to the Ba Baoshan, to Chairman Mao to ensure that a child does not take a break, to be more mournful on the …… just how fucking mournful.”

The fat man took Uncle Ming to play chow, I listened to almost all the beef in my mouth sprayed out, is at this time a cattle call from the depths of the cave house, interrupting the crowd’s jokes and laughter, the people in the house all heard, originally the yak’s voice in Tibet is not strange, but heard in this silent ancient city, coupled with the fact that we have just eaten the beef, it is enough to make people’s scalp numb.

I let Shirley Yang stay behind to take care of Uncle Ming and Ah Xiang, to the fat man waved his hand, the two copied the weapon, held up the “wolf eyes” into the depths of the cave house, when I came in I had a rough look inside, the structure and the rest of the cave house is similar, but it seems to be more of a stone door, due to the several cave house, there is no one inside, so after arriving here just casually look at the cave house. So after arriving here, I just casually looked around and didn’t pay much attention to it. When I walked up to the stone door, I felt that the situation was not right.

The stone door was slippery and greasy, there was a human handprint with blood, it seemed that someone’s hands were covered with blood, and when they left, they hurriedly brought the stone door with them, and when I touched it with my hand, the blood seemed to be fresh, and it hadn’t been left for a long time.

I nodded to the fat man, the fat man backed up two steps, sprinted forward, and used his shoulder to knock the stone door open, I followed and raised my gun to go in, but there was still no sign of anyone inside, only to see that the surrounding walls were covered with blood, and the stone cases and stakes in the center were all bright red, and seeing the piles of fresh yak meat, this is the slaughterhouse of the city, and there were a few bloody cowhides still steaming with hot air, as if they had been peeled off from the cows just now.

Fatty and I just ate boiled beef, at this time both feel a little nausea, suddenly realized that there is something on the head, violently raised his head, a yak two or three times larger than ordinary yak head, hanging upside down, no skin on the head of the cow, the two eyes are rounded, blood and flesh, two nostrils are still spraying, more than half of the cow’s tongue spit out the outside, even seems to be still alive, to Fatty and I let out a heavy muffled grunt.