I traveled through time and became the Queen of Ancient Dian

After the dazzling light, everyone seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, and their bodies felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.

"Oh my god! What's going on?" Wumeng Tianlong uttered a few words with difficulty. He felt like he had been acupunctured and could not move. Even moving his eyeballs was difficult.

Reporter Zhang's scream turned into a slow-motion "Ah——", like an old record cassette, funny and weird.

"Help! I... don't... want to... turn... into... an... old... guy..." Li Gong remained calm, or perhaps he was terrified. His eyes were glazed over, and he muttered, "It's over, Barbie Q..."

Zhaoyang Ruyue took a deep breath and tried to stay calm.

She felt a strange energy seeping into her body, like an electric current, numb and tingling, yet with a hint of warmth.

Professor Jiang's face turned pale and his lips trembled, but he couldn't make any sound.

Wumeng Tianlong gritted his teeth and raised one hand with his athlete's physique and strong will.

"Hiss——" This simple action made him gasp in pain.

He suppressed his discomfort and began to carefully observe his surroundings, especially the totem pole that emitted a strange light.

He discovered that at the bottom of the totem pole, there were some fine lines that had been covered by soil and had not been noticed before.

These lines are complex and mysterious, like some kind of ancient writing or a star map.

"These lines... could they be..." Wumeng Tianlong narrowed his eyes, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind, "the key to controlling this power?"

He stretched out his fingers with difficulty, trying to touch the lines.

Just as his fingertips were about to touch the totem pole, the light on the pole suddenly became more dazzling, and an even more powerful force surged out... "Wait, this feeling..." Zhaoyang Ruyue suddenly grabbed Wumeng Tianlong's hand, her eyes full of horror, "It seems... the space is distorting..." The space distorted more and more, and the surrounding scenery began to become blurred, blending together like spilled paint.

"Oh my god, am I going to travel through time?" Wumeng Tianlong felt like he was sitting on a crazy spinning Disney roller coaster, his stomach was churning, and he was just about to perform a "fountain" stunt on the spot.

Reporter Zhang had completely given up struggling. He closed his eyes and muttered to himself, "Jade Emperor, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Tathagata Buddha... May all the gods bless you! I will never gossip again..."

Mr. Li, on the other hand, looked hopeless, muttering, "It's over. I haven't had time to buy my mom a new phone yet..."

Although Professor Jiang's face was pale, his eyes were extremely excited, and he said intermittently: "This... this is... a major discovery... unprecedented..." It seems that the old professor's love for academics has surpassed his fear for his own safety.

Zhaoyang Ruyue, however, suppressed her discomfort and stared intently at the patterns on the bottom of the totem pole.

Those lines flashed with strange light in the distorted space, as if telling her something.

"Wait... these patterns... I seem to have seen them somewhere..." Zhaoyang Ruyue's brain was working rapidly, trying to recall the symbols of the ancient Dian Kingdom that she had deciphered before.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind, and she pointed to one of the lines and said, "This... this symbol! I remember... it represents 'balance'!" She pointed to another line and said, "And this one, is 'energy'!" Zhaoyang Ruyue became more and more excited as she spoke, as if she had grasped some key clue.

"These lines... aren't decorations... but a kind of... code that controls this power!"

Wumeng Tianlong suppressed his dizziness and tried to get closer to Zhaoyang Ruyue, asking, "Password? What password? Do you know how to stop this thing?"

Zhaoyang Ruyue took a deep breath, pointed to a symbol on the top of the totem pole that was shining with golden light, and said in a firm tone: "If I'm not mistaken... just touch this symbol..." She stopped abruptly and turned to look at Professor Jiang, her eyes full of worry.

"Professor, you... don't come over here..."

Professor Jiang's eyes lit up as if he had seen some priceless treasure. He kept muttering, "Major discovery! Nobel Prize!" and completely ignored Zhaoyang Ruyue's dissuasion. As if possessed, he stumbled towards the golden symbol on the top of the totem pole.

"Professor, don't!" Zhaoyang Ruyue exclaimed, but it was too late to stop it.

Before Professor Jiang's finger touched the golden symbol, he was violently bounced back by an invisible force and fell on his back, his posture comparable to a classic scene in a comedy video.

"Ouch, my old waist!" Professor Jiang groaned in pain, rubbing his sore buttocks, looking like a tortoise that had been turned upside down.

His arm was also scratched by the gravel on the ground, and blood was oozing out.

"Professor, are you okay?" Wumeng Tianlong hurried over to help Professor Jiang up, with a look of both amusement and helplessness on his face.

"You're... overworking yourself, aren't you? You've truly earned the title of academic maniac!"

Although reporter Zhang was afraid, her occupational disease made her unable to help but take out her mobile phone and take a few photos.

Inner thought: If this is posted online with the title "Archaeology professor devotes himself to science and bravely explores mysterious powers", it will definitely go viral!

At this moment, Engineer Li, who had been unknown all this time, suddenly spoke: "Well... I... I seem to have found some... useful things..." He took out several peculiarly shaped detection instruments from a pile of archaeological equipment and fiddled with them carefully.

"Mr. Li, what...treasure do you have?" Wumeng Tianlong came over curiously.

Engineer Li hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "This is... the latest... anti-interference... detector... that can... shield... some... mysterious power..."

After some debugging, these detection instruments actually worked!

The distorted space around him gradually stabilized, and the sickening dizziness also eased a lot.

"Oh my god! Mr. Li, you are such a treasure boy!" Wumeng Tianlong patted Mr. Li's shoulder excitedly and almost knocked the honest Mr. Li to the ground.

With the help of these detection instruments, Zhaoyang Ruyue can finally focus more on studying the patterns on the totem pole.

She held a small detector and carefully scanned each symbol, muttering to herself as she translated their meaning.

"Energy...balance...protection...reincarnation..." The more Zhaoyang Ruyue studied, the more excited she became. She felt that she was about to unravel the secret of this mysterious power.

She pointed to a circle of lines at the bottom of the totem pole and said firmly: "I understand! These lines... are one... one..." She suddenly stopped, staring at one of the symbols, her face became extremely solemn... "This symbol... is..." "This symbol... is... a QR code?!" Zhaoyang Ruyue widened her eyes in disbelief, as shocked as if she saw aliens dancing in the square.

QR code?

On a totem pole from ancient times?

This is too outrageous!

Could it be that the people of the ancient Dian Kingdom had already mastered mobile payment technology?

Zhaoyang Ruyue felt like her worldview was about to collapse.

"QR code? Can I get a red envelope by scanning it?" Reporter Zhang took out his mobile phone excitedly, eager to try it out.

"Stop it!" Wumeng Tianlong grabbed her and said, "This thing might be some ancient mechanism. If it triggers a trap, we're all doomed!"

Professor Jiang rubbed his butt and walked slowly to the totem pole. He adjusted his reading glasses and carefully looked at the so-called "QR code".

"Well... this pattern... is indeed... a bit... strange..." He touched his chin and shook his head, just like an old fortune teller.

Suddenly, the "QR code" on the totem pole burst into dazzling light. After the strong light, the members of the archaeological team found themselves in a completely unfamiliar place.

"Oh my god! I traveled through time?" Wumeng Tianlong exclaimed and subconsciously touched his pocket. Fortunately, his cell phone was still there.

"The signal... is full!" Reporter Zhang excitedly raised his phone. "I want to post on WeChat Moments! I want to live stream!"

"Shut up!" Professor Jiang shouted, "We don't even know what's going on right now. Be careful!"

The surroundings were dark, and the air was filled with a pungent smell, like...

"It seems... to be... the smell of stinky tofu..." Mr. Li said weakly.

8

Strange Space: A Journey of Exploration

After the bright light, the world seemed to be muted, leaving only the buzzing tinnitus.

When everyone gradually regained their vision, they found that the surrounding environment had changed drastically.

The dim light barely outlined the strange shape, and the air was filled with a pungent odor, like stinky tofu that had been fermented for three months mixed with the smell of something burnt, which made people's heads hurt.

"Cough, cough, cough..." Professor Jiang covered his nose and coughed violently. "What the hell is this place? The air quality is terrible! It's even more irritating than the smog in the capital!"

"Oh my god! This smell! It's like a biological weapon!" Reporter Zhang pinched his nose, his face uglier than someone who'd been eating instant noodles for three months. "I'm suffocating! I want to go home!"

Wumeng Tianlong couldn't help but complain: "This smell is amazing! It's even more sour than my socks that haven't been washed for a month!" As he said that, he subconsciously smelled his feet. Fortunately, the difference was still very obvious.

"It seems... it seems... it's the smell of sulfur..." Engineer Li added weakly, his voice as small as a mosquito's hum.

Zhaoyang Ruyue suppressed her nausea and looked around. She found that the ground here was bumpy and covered with strange plants, as if she had arrived on an alien planet.

In the dim light, the shadows of these plants are distorted, like monsters with bared fangs and claws, which is creepy.

"This...this place is too weird..." Zhaoyang Ruyue's voice trembled a little, "We...could we have traveled through time?"

Just when everyone was about to be driven crazy by this eerie atmosphere, reporter Zhang suddenly pulled out a few bags from her backpack, which was comparable to Doraemon's pocket. "Luckily, I brought a mask and a high-intensity flashlight! You still have to rely on me in the critical moment!"

Everyone seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and took the masks and flashlights.

After putting on a mask, the world instantly becomes a lot quieter. Although you can still smell a slight stench, at least it won’t suffocate you.

After turning on the high-intensity flashlight, the surrounding environment became much clearer, and those strange-shaped plants did not seem so scary anymore.

"Reporter Zhang, you're amazing!" Wu Meng Tianlong couldn't help but give a thumbs-up. "What other treasures do you have in your backpack? Take them out and blind my dog ​​eyes!"

"Hey, not much, just some daily necessities..." Reporter Zhang raised her chin proudly, but suddenly, her smile froze on her face. "Wait... my phone... why is there no signal?!"

Zhaoyang Ruyue's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition came to her mind... She subconsciously grabbed Wumeng Tianlong's arm.

Zhaoyang Ruyue also quickly took out her cell phone, and sure enough, there was no signal at all.

Even the usually calm Professor Jiang was panicking. "What...what is going on? Are we...are we trapped here?"

"Calm down, calm down!" Wumeng Tianlong pretended to be calm and patted Professor Jiang on the shoulder. "It's just a lack of signal, no big deal! Maybe we just strayed into a signal blind spot. Come on, everyone, hold hands, don't get separated, let's find a way out together!"

However, Wumeng Tianlong's words did not provide any comfort, but instead made the atmosphere even more tense.