Chapter 59 third quarter

Danny looked back at me in surprise: "What's the matter, Yi? Why are you so suspicious?" I pointed to a place not far in front of Danny, and said, "What do you see?" Danny looked down, and when he raised his head again, the puzzled expression on his face couldn't be more complicated: "Why is this stronghold floating on the water?" Yes, more than ten meters below Danny's feet is the water surface that is still falling. If you don't look carefully, the turbid and yellow water surface is almost exactly the same color as the surrounding sand surface!

Right in the center of the receding swamp, there are many thatched houses built. These thatched houses are not very high, and the muddy and gray walls show that they have experienced the baptism of wind and frost for a long time.But on the water surface around the house is green grass. There are hundreds of these low thatched houses, tall and short, compactly packed together, with wisps of cooking smoke rising from the small chimney on the roof, it seems that the residents living inside are cooking dinner. But this vibrant pastoral scene is displayed on a swamp, and what is most incompatible with the surrounding environment is the color that hangs over the thatched cottage.

Now is the time when the sun is just setting and the sky is full of colorful clouds, but what hangs over this thatched cottage is a layer of dim blue mist, and the whole village is shrouded in this layer of halo. The farther away this layer of blue is from us, the more blue and dim it appears, and it is already a little blurry in the distance. The longer you stare, the more you feel that the atmosphere here is weird and cold, with a spooky aura that is extremely incompatible with the surrounding environment. Danny obviously sensed the weird atmosphere, and climbed back to the dune again, asking, "Why is this here?"

My mind was spinning rapidly, and I ignored his words until Danny touched my arm and asked again, and I said, "Remember what the chief once said?" Danny looked at the scene in front of him suspiciously, and murmured, "You mean..." "Many years ago, Polipolipu was an oasis, the largest oasis in this desert, with a radius of more than a hundred miles, where there was a rushing river called Tuotuoye River, just It looks like a winding and stretching python. Towering trees grow everywhere where it flows, and even the vines on the branches are as thick as human thighs. There are countless zebras galloping, swimming in the river Fish..." I repeated in the tone of the old chief.

"You mean this is the oasis that existed thousands of years ago?" Danny opened his mouth wide. "The town of the ancestors that has disappeared for more than a thousand years?" I nodded and said, "I think so. Didn't he say that this oasis has always been here, and many kind people have seen it!" Danny mumbled to hell, then was too surprised to speak. I stretched out my hand and pointed in one direction: "Yes, I can confirm now that this is that place!" "Why do you..." Danny swallowed the words in the middle of his mouth, because he looked in the direction of my finger and already understood the reason for my saying so.

While we were talking, the door of a thatched cottage not far from us suddenly opened, and a man in strange attire came out. The chief didn't lie, the clothes the man was wearing were indeed a bit like Mongolian clothing, but they were quite different. Although it was also a long robe, the open front was on the back, just like what we often wear in the kitchen now Their double-breasted aprons are almost the same, and what is tied around their waists is not a belt, but an extremely delicate straw rope. Of course, the biggest difference is the pattern on the clothes. To be precise, it should not be a pattern, but like a colorful poisonous snake coiled around its body, but its poisonous mouth that spit out the letter is not seen.

Danny swayed, as if he was going to squat down to hide, maybe because he saw that I was not moving, so he didn't squat down immediately, but just stared at the man blankly. The man is not tall, and he should be of the same race as the African blacks, or the same race as the Teda people, but his face is not as dark as the Teda people we have seen, but has a special Brown-red, and then against the blue light, the whole face emits a gloomy luster. His eyes are big and bright, we are more than a hundred meters away from him, and we can still feel the brilliance from his pupils.He came out and walked towards us on the grass, and he still didn't stop when there was no grass. He walked on the muddy water, and there was no sign of sinking at all. Qiu Qianzhang!

He walked to a place less than 50 meters away from us, and suddenly raised his head. When his eyes swept over us, he didn't stop at all, but stared blankly at the sky, with unpredictable light reflected on his face. Danny didn't know what he was looking at, and he followed his gaze. After looking for a while, maybe he didn't find anything, and then looked down at the man in surprise. The man just stood on the ground like this, looked up for more than a minute, then lowered his head and sighed, turned and walked back. Not long after he walked back to the hut, the setting sun had completely sunk below the horizon, and the rosy glow in the sky was slowly dissipating, and the village in front of us seemed to be only visible in the sun, and it was slowly dimming. , After a while, there was no trace, leaving only a large muddy and desolate puddle!

"A mirage!" Danny said in surprise. I nodded and said, "Perhaps this rainstorm made us see this spectacle!" "Then that person just now...was a Teda man from a thousand years ago?" Danny's tone of voice changed a bit, maybe he couldn't believe that this extremely real image was actually a scene from a thousand years ago, " But what is he looking at?" I looked up at the fading clouds in the sky: "Danny, do you know what you can eat in the desert? We might have to stay here overnight until dawn!" "Here?" Danny asked with lingering fear, "Aren't you looking for Ningxue?"

"It's going to be dark soon, we can't go in blindly anymore, and, I think there may be a secret that you and I want to know are hidden here!" "It would be the best if we can find mice and rabbits. If it doesn't work, we can only find some hedgehogs and poisonous snakes to satisfy our hunger." Danny shrugged his shoulders and said, "If not, sand and soil are said to be edible!"