Chapter 38: Wounds of Time

"What did you find?"

"This." Kristina pointed to the ground, and we swam over quickly. I saw that there was indeed a strange square on the ground under Kristina's feet. There is a rectangular hole in the ground. There are three protruding round surfaces in the hole, and there are some strange words on each surface. However, the strangest thing is that the round surface is still rolling, almost like a wheel display. After I released Panong Jialan and looked at it, I shook my head. The things on it were not dragon texts at all.

The thing kept turning, but nothing happened around us. After a few minutes, the thing suddenly stopped. The text displayed on the three scrolls was exactly the same, but we didn't know what it meant. Since it stopped spinning, we couldn't stay by it all the time, so we had to scout around. We finally gave up the search after an hour because we couldn't find any clues other than the words.

"We can't wander around here, let's leave first to find some clues?" Jin Coin said: "Besides, this is not necessarily the place where Ni Lin is placed. Maybe we guessed the wrong place, or this is just such a spell room, isn't it? What important mission location."

"It's also possible." I thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back first! It's useless for us to bump around like headless chickens here."

"Okay then!" Zhen Hong took out the teleportation scroll and unfolded it, but the scroll did not flash. "Strange, why didn't you respond?"

I put away the other familiars, leaving only Aina and taking the lead to swim through the passage I came from: "Don't bother, maybe there is a seal prohibiting teleportation here." There are many areas where teleportation is prohibited in the game, it's really red I didn't think there was anything strange, so I put away the scroll and swam over after me.

With Grandma pulling me along, I was not slow, and soon we arrived at the gate where we came from. Originally, I was worried that this door would be a problem for us when we went back, but I didn't expect that this thing was actually an automatic door. When someone approaches, it opens on its own. Exiting this door is the narrow passage where we came from. We continued to swim forward and soon arrived at the place where we started filling the water. After this gate is an area with less water, so I put Aina away first, walked to the door and took a look, and sure enough, there was an obvious lever on the wall. It seems that this place doesn't want to seal us in at all. All the doors have simple switches.

After getting everyone ready, I pulled the handle. The gate opened in front of us with a bang, and the water in the passage immediately rushed out from under the door. Fortunately, we had inserted our weapons into the wall to secure ourselves, otherwise we would definitely be taken out by the current.

After the water drained out, we pulled out our respective weapons. Kristina pulled me. "Ziri, did you notice something was wrong?"

"Huh?" I looked around confusedly, and then suddenly understood. "Yes! Why is there no water?"

"Water?" Jin Coin looked down at his feet and said in confusion: "You opened the door. Of course the water will flow out! Is there anything strange?"

So red that I finally understood. "No. This building is in a swamp. When we came in, there was knee-deep water on the ground. Even if we open the gate now, the water level will at most be the same as before. How could it all flow out? ?”

When Zhen Hong said this, Jin Coin also understood. Even if the water here flows out. At least the water level shouldn’t drop downwards! While we were asking doubtful questions, the gate in front had been completely raised, and the passage outside appeared in front of us.

"Isn't this the way we came in?" Zhenhong asked, looking at the passage in front.

"It doesn't look like it to me either." Jin Coin walked out first. This place looks similar to the passage when we entered, the same low and narrow place. But there is one big difference between them, and that is the preservation situation. The passage when you came in was completely covered with moss, and all the writing on the walls had fallen off, but the walls of the passage in front of you were brand new, as if they had just been repaired. The colorful murals and texts on the walls indicate that it was built no more than a hundred years ago.

I went out and 'touched' the top of the steal. "That's not the way we came in."

"How are you sure?" Kristina asked me.

"The passage we came in from has been soaked in water for tens of thousands of years. It has already been soaked. When we opened the door, the water in the passage just poured out along the ground and did not wet the top of the passage. Look, the top is obviously dry. It's completely transparent. It's impossible to do it for less than three to five weeks. How long have we been there? It wouldn't have dried so quickly even if it was baked on fire, right?"

Zhenhong folded her hands in front of her chest and said: "If this is not the way in, what about the way we came in? There was only one entrance and exit in the room just now, and this passage is completely straight. If there is a curvature, it would be You can set up hidden branch roads, but how to hide the straight passage?”

Kristina said: "There is a possibility that the secret room just moved as a whole after we entered it, but we have been in it and did not feel the vibration. So this is unlikely. But this is the magical world. Also This possibility cannot be completely ruled out."

"No matter what, let's go out first!" Jin Coin said, "It's too uncomfortable to hold it in here!"

"Agreed." Kristina immediately followed the gold coins and walked out, and I had no choice but to follow.

As we move towards the mouth of the passage. The light became brighter and brighter, and the rumbling sound of water could still be heard vaguely. It felt like something was wrong. It's so quiet in Longyuan Forest that it makes people feel hairy. There's no reason why we couldn't notice such a huge movement when we came in? Besides, the light is wrong! It's very dark in Longyuan Forest. Now that we are still in the passage, we can already feel the obvious light at the entrance of the cave. This is too abnormal.

Jin Coin and Kristina, who were walking in front, arrived at the entrance of the cave first, and then the two of them stood there motionless. Zhenhong walked over and pushed the two of them away: "Get out of the way, don't block the entrance of the cave!" After Zhenhong went out, she also stood at the entrance of the cave, and the result was that the hole was completely blocked.

I walked up behind them and pushed them all aside. "Why are you still standing? Are you stupid?" I said as I walked out of the passage, and I was also stupid. "How can this be?"

I was actually standing on a mountainside, with the passage entrance behind me, and a large expanse of vibrant grassland at the foot of the mountain in front of me, while the ground further away was suddenly interrupted. It became a downward cliff. Did we run to a high ground?

"What is that?" Zhenhong suddenly pointed into the distance and asked.

I raised my eyes and looked dumbfounded. There is an island floating in the sky in the distance. Although it cannot be seen clearly, the green thing is indeed an island, but it is still a long way from the ground and is completely suspended in the air. But after seeing it, I was even more surprised, because from here it should be on the same level as us, so are we also on a floating island? Or is it that the terrain here is relatively high?

"Follow me." I shouted and summoned Ye Ying to jump up. Then let Yeying fly high, I need to understand the surrounding landforms.

As we climbed higher and higher, I became more and more amazed. The place we just walked out of turned out to be a floating island. The entire floating island is roughly equivalent to the area of ​​​​the inner city of Beijing. In the center of it is a small hill, and the passage we walked out of is located halfway up the mountain. There is a large lake on the other side of the mountain. The water flows along a small river to the edge of the floating island and then turns into a waterfall. It cascades down like a silver ribbon and falls directly into a larger lake below. in the lake. The rumbling sound of water we heard in the channel before was the sound of this waterfall. Poetry clouds flow down three thousand feet. That was an exaggerated metaphor, but the waterfall in front of me really flowed down three thousand feet, and its momentum was not much worse than that of the Milky Way.

The beautiful floating island hangs quietly above the green river on the ground, and the mist scattered by the silver-white waterfall sets up a rainbow bridge on the lake. It looks really breathtakingly beautiful. There are many floating islands like this in the distance. There are at least five or six within our sight range.

In addition to the floating islands, the ground here is also extremely beautiful. Large playgrounds and forests appear alternately, and silvery rivers criss-cross various terrains, creating a paradise. but. What about our city?

I activated Star Pupil, and I couldn't see a single player within my sight, let alone the city. There are no traces of civilization nearby. All you can see are plants and animals, a completely natural world without any artificial traces.

Zhenhong took out the teleportation scroll and tried it, then said to me: "Zi Ri. We must have been teleported to some terrible place!"

I first activated the teleportation ring, but the result was that the coordinates of the teleportation array could not be found, which meant that there was no open teleportation array within the country where I was located. Long Yuanlin is in China. If this is still China, it is impossible to find a teleportation array that can teleport. It can only be said that this is not within the scope of China. But this is not a big deal. Even other countries shouldn’t have teleportation arrays, right? Or is this a public area? But are there such beautiful public areas on earth?

I activated the Ring of Love just to give it a try, and not to mention, it actually worked. "Husband." Rose's voice came out. "What's going on?"

I sent the image I saw to Rose through the Ring of Love: "We entered the Longyuan Forest. When we came out, we found that the surroundings had become like this. Help me locate my position with the Ring of Love."

"No, I can talk to you. I can even summon you back, but I can't find your coordinates."

"Can't find the coordinates?" I looked around in confusion. "No one should know about such a large area! Am I not on earth?"

Rose's voice said: "Have you forgotten that the Ring of Love cannot be transmitted across planets? Since I can summon you back, it means you are still on Earth. Do you want me to call you back now?"

"Not yet. Kristina and Zhenhong are all by my side. What will they do if you call me back?"

"Then you think of a way first. If it doesn't work, go and ask Mother Earth to bring them into the space gate. Then I summon you back, and won't they follow you back?"

"Well, let's investigate here first, and we will notify you when necessary."

After cutting off contact, the four of us began to search the area together, but the result was that the more we looked, the more confused we became. Regardless of the size of the plants here, none of them are recognizable to us. Many plants look similar to the plants we often see. But looking up information is not something we have seen at all. The same goes for plants and animals. In just half an hour we discovered at least 300 new species, and half of them were large creatures. According to general rules, there will be more types of small creatures, but most of the creatures we found are large creatures, and they are all new species. This can only mean that all the creatures here, at least most of the creatures, are things we have never seen before. of.

"I seem to have seen this thing somewhere before." Jin Coin said while stabbing an aquatic creature with his sword.

I looked at the creature she had caught. This thing is almost a foot long. The body is gray-white. If you don't look at the head, it looks like a catfish, but the catfish's head is flat, like a duck's mouth, but this guy's head is drop-shaped, and there is a human face on the front. In addition to ears, there are many organs on the human face.

"This thing seems to be called a human-faced fish, right?" I took the creature and looked at it. It was already dead after being stabbed with gold coins. It's as soft as noodles now.

I immediately remembered the gold coin when I was reminded of it. "By the way, I remembered it. I saw it in the Wordless Heavenly Book. This human-faced fish is one of the materials for puppetry."

"Puppetry?"

"Just make a little doll, and then use it to 'control' the actions of a player or NPC. But the effect of 'control' depends on the level of puppetry and the level of the maker compared to the level of the person being 'manipulated'. For example, I definitely can't control someone like you, but I can still interfere."

"So you know puppetry?"

"Of course. Not all Taoist spells are fair and honest. In my opinion, there are actually more evil spells in Taoism than serious spells."

"Although this fish is a bit ugly, it is quite useful. Why don't we catch some and take them back?" I asked, looking at the gold coins.

"good idea."

I've always been like a wild goose, so since this human-faced fish is an important commodity, I can't let it go. First, I opened the space door, and then asked the evil spirit knight to come out to help replenish the fish. I ran in to find Mother Earth to discuss borrowing her garden, and asked her to help me open several large ponds in her garden. I'm good. Bring some live human-faced fish back to breed. Fishing for the best is a one-and-done deal. I still attach great importance to sustainable development.

Catching fish was originally a very simple matter. But the Evil Ghost Knight ran into trouble soon after he was busy. The surface of the lake, which had been calm just now, suddenly began to roll. Suddenly, the water surface exploded, and a large, terrifying-looking fish floated out. This guy's head is at least as big as a six-story building with three units, but the body at the back is very short. The whole body combined is not as big as his head. Its head is shaped like a manta ray, but there is a row of tentacles on its forehead, and I can't figure out what they are.

"Lake monster?"

Jin Coin was very surprised and said: "Damn it, how can there be a giant fish in a place like this?"

"Do you know this thing?" Kristina asked.

Jin Coin nodded: "This is something from the prehistoric era. It should have been extinct long ago. I didn't expect to still see it."

I'm not interested in monsters. In my eyes, there are only two situations: useful and useless. "Gold coins. Does this thing have any use value?"

Jin Coin shook his head: "This is a harmful beast. It is completely useless except for eating meat."

"Can you eat meat? How does it taste?"

Jin Coin said angrily: "You'll know if you bite it."

"Does that mean it's of little use?" I summoned the tank as I said that. He pointed at the strange fish and said, "Blow it."

A magic crystal cannonball accurately hit the strange fish. In fact, the guy opened his mouth to catch it. It probably took the cannonball as food. With a bang, the monster was blown to pieces, and flesh and blood flew everywhere. I randomly found a piece of meat hanging on a tree, brought it back and asked Scott to help process it. Not to mention, the taste was absolutely great. Scot is an undead in the game and cannot eat, but since he got a real body, he has become obsessed with eating. He has become obsessed with cooking and has become an army chef in our game.

Although the meat taste is okay, this strange fish has little use value in general, and the human-faced fish is much more useful. Thanks to the relatively large space of my Phoenix Dragon Space and the Garden of Mother Earth, I usually want to put some 'messy' junk in it. It came in handy today, because I actually found something inside. I didn’t even remember when I put the fish and the boat in!

Although the human-faced fish is a material, it is actually a ferocious beast. It has some combat power, but its level is not high, so it is relatively easy to catch. The number of human-faced fish in this lake was scary. There were a lot of them before we got in, and after a while we had thousands of them. After filling up a pool, I didn’t catch any more. It’s useless to have too many anyway.

Because it is a big fish, it is impossible to distinguish between categories. There are many strange and weird things being pulled up along with the human-faced fish. Jin Coin actually knew several of these creatures. Later, I simply called all the magic pets out and we all studied together. Not to mention, I was able to identify most of the species after brainstorming. As these species were confirmed, we began to be more and more surprised, because the things here are all extinct creatures in the prehistoric era, which means that these things should not exist at all, let alone appear in such large numbers.

In order to prove that it was not the special circumstances of this lake that preserved a small number of rare species, we flew to several nearby waters to salvage some. It turned out that all waters contained a large number of creatures that should have been extinct.

When we were puzzled, suddenly there was a strange cry in the sky, which sounded three-quarters like a dragon's groan and seven-quarters like a duck's quack. We followed the sound and saw two giant beasts rolling in the sky and falling down. We were frightened and ran away.

With a loud bang, the two monsters crashed into the sand beside the lake, then rolled and fell into the lake. It seemed that they were not injured at all. They started fighting again as soon as they hit the water. They fought all the way from the lake to the ground, and then rolled all the way into the woods and started biting and scratching each other.

Banon Juanlan, who was summoned by me, tremblingly pointed at one of the two monsters and said: "No, no, no... no way?"

I glanced at Banon Juanlan strangely. "Possessed? Why are you stuttering when you speak?"

"No, no, no..." Banon Juanlan slapped herself in the mouth anxiously before she returned to normal and said, "I'm scared! I don't know which generation this ancestor is from, but he's still here!"

"Ancestor? What do you mean?"

Banon Juanlan pointed at one of the monsters and said, "Look at that creature with scales all over its body. Does it look similar to our giant dragon clan?"

"What you said is true. That guy's body is similar to yours, except that the wings on his back are much smaller than those of the dragon clan, and the structure is different, and the proportions of the neck and head are not quite right. The neck feels too long, the head is small, the tail seems a bit short, and it looks much uglier than a giant dragon."

Lucky came over and asked: "Bannong Juanlan, do you know this thing?"

Plague also said: "What ancestor are you talking about? Is this thing an enemy of our ancestors?"

Banon Juanlan smiled bitterly and said: "What enemy! You little guys who have forgotten their roots. This creature is called the Archosaur, and it is the ancestor of our dragon family."

"What?" All four of my dragon pets were stunned by this move.

As a fairy dragon, Crystal attaches great importance to her image. She immediately pulled Bannon Flail and asked: "How come our ancestors are so ugly?"

"That's right!" Lucky said, showing off his muscles: "You see, I am so beautiful, how can I be the descendant of that kind of thing?"

Banon Juanlan smiled and said: "I'm not lying to you, that is really the ancestor of the dragon. Just like the relationship between humans and apes, our dragons evolved from this ancestor dragon."

Not only were the four dragon pets this time, but we were also dumbfounded. It is truly a wonder that the ancestors of the giant dragon clan look like this!