reincarnation train

Early the next morning, Wu Xiajiu came out of the tent. When he saw Shi Shangzuo, his face turned dark again, and he felt a dull pain in his left cheek. , the face turned black again, no, you can't bite the place where there is not much meat.

A certain person who didn't know that he was being slandered followed behind Wu Xiajiu step by step, like a big dog who had irritated people. He didn't know how to please, so he could only wander around awkwardly around his master.

He almost turned around and hit his nose again. Because of his straight nose, Wu Xiajiu sighed, "What are you doing?"

Shi Shangzuo was a little listless, and he clenched his hand into a fist and stretched it out in front of Wu Xiajiu, "Here you are."

"What?" Wu Xiajiu was puzzled, and saw a peppermint candy lying in Shi Shangzuo's open hand, his eyes lit up instantly, his fingers moved unconsciously, and he looked up at him, "Where did it come from?" ?”

Shi Shang said, "It's in the department store. I happened to see it at that time, so I grabbed it."

"Why didn't I see it?" Wu Xiajiu tilted his head, looking distressed.

"I saw it when I was looking for Mucang. When I get back to the car, I'll take you there." Shi Shangzuo passed his hand forward again, "Do you want to eat?"

Wu Xia endured and endured for a long time, but he still couldn't hold back and took the mint candy, pretending to be careless, peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed it into his mouth, saying vaguely, "You like candy."

Under Wu Xiajiu's watchful eyes, Shi Shangzuo took out another one from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth slowly, "Yes, yes-------what you like, do you like it?"

Wu Xia kept silent for a long time, just fiddled with the candy in his mouth, and sometimes there was a bulge on the left cheek, and sometimes there was a bulge on the right cheek.

Just when Shi Shangzuo was concentrating, he whispered, "...do you have any more?"

Shi Shangzuo: "Yes, yes, yes!"

So, when Professor Zhou and Fang Zi came over, they saw Wu Xiajiu's face, with a bulge on each side. Fang Zi couldn't help saying that your face is so round, and Wu Xiajiu ignored him in a good mood.

The work of unearthing the pattern went smoothly. After all, it was the only meaningful clue discovered in recent days. In order to find the ticket to go back as soon as possible, everyone cooperated very well.

Professor Zhou roughly drew a map of the ruins on the paper, and marked the location of each pattern found on it. After all the surveys were completed, Fang Zi looked at the paper and said, "Teacher, you see that they are all connected together. It’s not what the pattern looks like.”

At that time, Wu Xiajiu and others were also standing beside Professor Zhou, but Fang Zi was the first to react. Wu Xiajiu thought, it seems that this little house is not full of food.

Professor Zhou nodded approvingly, and the tip of the pen slid to outline the pattern, "This pattern looks complicated, but it is actually composed of countless small patterns. As long as you find the rules in it, it will not be difficult to draw it."

"What about after drawing it?" Someone asked in confusion.

"Coincidence." Wu Xiajiu said suddenly, causing Professor Zhou to look up at him, and said with a smile, "See?"

Wu Xiajiu clicked four highly overlapping positions on the paper, "The position of these four ruins should be the center, or the support point. If we can find out the secret of the pattern..." Maybe something will happen.

Fang Zi scratched his head without a clue, "But how should I find it?"

Wu Xiajiu played with rolling candy wrappers, listening to the sound of plastic, "Smear some blood on it." Facing the surprised eyes of the previous few people, he said innocently, "It's like this in novels."

Fang Zi thought to himself that the teacher would not agree to such a thing without scientific basis, but the next moment his teacher pushed his glasses and said, "I'll try it."

Fang Zi: "..."

He hurriedly stopped the old professor who was eager to try, and he and the other three volunteers went to the overlapping ruins, reluctantly let out some blood, and carefully smeared all the patterns, but after waiting for a while, they did not see this place There was no reaction.

"Teacher, this method won't work." Fang Zi said pitifully, holding his fingers.

Wu Xiajiu frowned and looked at the pattern and said, "It's been in disrepair for a long time, so the reaction is slow."

As soon as the words fell, Shi Shangzuo held Wu Xiajiu's hand, "Hush, there's some movement..."

The surrounding sand was trembling. At first, I thought it was caused by the wind, but gradually, the sand particles jumped on the ground, as if there was something violently shaking under the ground.

"what!"

Someone exclaimed, "This place has sunk." He pointed to the place under his feet that he had just avoided.

"Get out of here!" Shi Shangzuo yelled loudly, and at the same time pulled Wu Xiajiu to run outside, Fang Zi and others also reacted and quickly followed behind.

When all the people ran away from the ruins, they stared dumbfounded at a huge city slowly rising from the ground, and countless sand particles fell down like a waterfall. The wind and sand rolled up and roared in everyone's ears , This silent desert had earth-shattering sounds for the first time.

"What are you looking at?" Shi Shangzuo's voice was a little blurred in the wind and sand.

Wu Xiajiu withdrew his focused gaze and said, "Is there... anyone in this city?"

Shi Shangzuo seemed to be smiling, but he didn't seem to be smiling. The wind and sand blew in an instant, and Wu Xiajiu had to squint his eyes, and people were blurred.

The person on the opposite side pulled him in front of him and covered his face with his arm, "It's not a person."

Wu Xia didn't speak for a long time, when he looked at the rising city, he suddenly felt an unspeakable fear, the hairs on his back stood up, as if there were countless pairs of eyes in that city looking at him , looking at them greedily and longingly.

When all the cities appeared and the wind and sand gradually calmed down, Wu Xiajiu found that there were also people around who were still in shock, staring at the city.

"What's the matter, why this expression?" Tang Yunsi asked in bewilderment when he found that Wu Xiajiu's expression was wrong.

Wu Xiajiu: "...Why do your eyes look like a rabbit?"

Tang Yunsi touched the corners of his eyes and said, "Sand got in just now, and I rubbed it for a long time." Then, he looked at the city that appeared on the desert in shock, "I just read the beginning, and went straight to the end Yes, tsk." There was regret in the voice.

At this time, Fang Zi shivered like a frightened little animal, pulling Professor Zhou over, "Does the city wall have eyes?"

Tang Yunsi glanced puzzledly, "No."

Shi Shangzuo had already opened his backpack at this time, and took out useful things, "Take your weapons, and return to the train as soon as you find your ticket. As long as you keep your breath, you won't die."

Tang Yunsi also realized something, took one with an ugly face, took a deep breath and said, "I have a bad feeling."

This premonition lasted until they walked in front of the city, and a feeling of desolation and vicissitudes instantly rushed over their faces when they saw it closely. Streets, houses, stalls, hanging silk fabrics, bowls and pots on the ground, pottery, etc., except that there are no people and there are sand everywhere, everything is very well preserved.

Professor Zhou said with deep regret, "If this was discovered in modern times, what a sensation it would be. This is a precious cultural heritage."

Fang Zi swallowed his saliva and said, "Teacher, don't say it's a sensation, don't you think this place is weird? It feels...it feels like there were people living here before..."

Wu Xiajiu said quietly from the side, "Are you sure it's a human?"

Fang Zi choked, and was about to say something when someone suddenly yelled, "Ticket! Is this a bus ticket?! Look, my name is written on it!" "

The man looked crazy in surprise, clutching something tightly in his hand, the exposed corner was transparent, reflecting light in the sun, Wu Xiajiu subconsciously looked at the train door knocker on his wrist, the material seemed to be the same.

Without waiting for everyone to investigate carefully, the man suddenly reacted, swiped the ticket in his hand to the door knocker, and then ran frantically towards the way he came with vigilant eyes.

No one moved, the figure of that person gradually disappeared, someone suddenly squatted on the ground, and when the sound of panic discussion came, they realized that the person suddenly found his ticket under the city wall, it was just a flashing object Attracted, when I went to look at it, there was my name and room number on it, and then there was the scene just now.

Shi Shangzuo said, "Do you still remember what the train rules say?"

"...Every passenger's ticket may be with you, please pay attention." Wu Xiajiu said with a strange expression, "So that's what it means..."

Shi Shangzuo: "Jiujiu, your expression seems to have missed a hundred million."

Wu Xiajiu took out a candy and stuffed it into his mouth, trying to calm down, "I am!"

Shi Shangzuo patted his head to comfort him, "The ticket is in Loulan, but he was luckier than us and found it before us."

At this time, Fang Zi and Tang Yunsi couldn't control the sand around them, "There is no one here, should we go in and look for it?"

"Go in." Wu Xiajiu said with sugar in his mouth.

This city is very large, and everyone dispersed as soon as they entered. The group of people who followed Professor Zhou before were also looking for it now. After finding his ticket, he left with a shame on his face.

Fang Zi watched him leave the city, "I'm so envious."

Wu Xiajiu looked up at the sky, "It's getting dark..."

In the process of searching, they tried to open the houses on the side of the street, but the doors of these houses were obviously not locked, but they did not move at all. Can't help but want to stay away.

Tang Yunsi asked, "Are we going out tonight?"

Shi Shang said, "It's better to go out, but I can't go out now."

"Why?" Fang Zi and the others looked puzzled.

Shi Shangzuo beckoned, asking them to follow him around the side of the house and look at the gate of the city.

"What is that?!" Someone exclaimed in horror.

I saw something blocked outside the tall city gate at some point. I thought it was a dark brown wall at first, but the "wall" that was constantly swimming and changing its posture told them that it was a living thing. things.

"Snake." Wu Xiajiu spit out a word slowly, and just after he finished speaking, a ferocious snake head happened to be on top of the tall city wall.

"Scary! Did this snake grow up on hormones?!" Fang Zi and the others almost gasped, and just after the snake's head hit the city wall, the sound it made also attracted the attention of other people in the city. In the meantime, the city that had gained some popularity before became more and more silent in an instant.

The head of the snake is in the shape of a triangle, with scales standing up on both sides of the head, which adds a touch of ferocity. Its eyes, yellowed like light bulbs, stare quietly and coldly at the people in the city. inside.

Fang Zi trembled, "Is it smelling?"

Wu Xia said for a long time, "...I'm drooling." He pointed to the water stains that spread from the city wall under the snake's head.