Chapter 304 The First and Last Land

  After obtaining the ability to resist the cold and communicate from Maien, Chen Jicai looked at them again.

After traveling to this world, he discovered that people like Cassian and O'Gar with silver-white skin were tall and tall, and not long after they ate the food, their bodies became much stronger, and their thin faces became more beautiful. When you look up, you are quite handsome.

  However, Chen Ji really couldn't tell whether they were male or female. The 12-year-old "boy" had good facial features, and his appearance was the type that could kill both men and women.

  Including other villagers, it is difficult to directly tell whether they are male or female.

   "Are you Cassian? I finally came to your world. My name is Chen Ji. We talked before."

  Chen Ji looked at Cassian. Among the villagers, he was the shortest, but he was also as tall as Chen Ji. The others were all over two meters tall—according to the proportion of the earth.

   "Master Chen Ji!"

  Cassien greeted him respectfully, but he didn't know any etiquette, and he only learned it under the leadership of the village chief Ogar.

  Chen Ji smiled, introduced Zhou Wan and Mu Xiaoxiao to them, and handed them gifts.

   O'Gar and the others who received so many gifts were terrified, and they didn't know how to react, and they were very excited.

  They didn't know what these gifts were, but given the barrenness of the village, anything with color was extremely precious, let alone food inside the gifts.

   "Take it."

  Chen Ji said to them: "These things are nothing to the world I live in."

   After a pause, Chen Ji looked around and said, "The earth where I am is rich in supplies, much better than here."

  He finally had time to look around.

but.

   There is really nothing to see.

  The world is shrouded in complete darkness, without any light.

  The ground is sandy land, and within the range seen by the light, it is all gray and black. There are no large rocks, flowers, trees, birds, animals, fish or insects.

  No one is alive, and no one is dead.

   Coupled with the low temperature that he felt when he traveled just now, Chen Ji suspects that the temperature here has dropped to minus one hundred degrees.

   All the gifts he brought have been frozen.

  Zhou Wan is so familiar with this environment that she has some psychological shadows. Fortunately, Chen Ji is by her side, and Mu Xiaoxiao is also there, which is different from the previous apocalypse.

  Mu Xiaoxiao was very quiet, she didn't take the initiative to speak, and kept paying attention to the surrounding environment and the silver-white people in front of her.

"Earth…"

  Cassien couldn't help asking: "Master Chen Ji, is the earth on top?"

  He pointed to the gray-black wall next to him.

   "This is the Tongtian Altar you mentioned?"

  Chen Ji didn't answer him first, walked to the altar, stopped suddenly, and asked, "Can we touch the altar?"

"ah?"

  Ogar and others were stunned by this question.

  They have never thought about why they cannot be touched, and they have no concept of religion or sacredness.

   It was Cassian who answered Chen Ji, "Of course, Mr. Chen Ji, you can touch it...but the altar keeps dropping dust, and the door can't be opened."

  He described the condition of the altar.

   "There are still doors?"

  Chen Ji was very interested in this altar, and it was only when Cassian came near it that he could get in touch with him.

  Zhou Wan and Mu Xiaoxiao followed him, and Ma Yien followed quietly, and came to the side of the altar wall.

  Cassien and the others looked at them curiously, and waited for Master Chen Ji's question.

   Zhou Wan brought a kerosene lamp over, and now she is holding it in her hand, and the light illuminates a distance of more than ten meters.

  In Chen Ji's field of vision, he couldn't see that the gray-black wall was round. It was like a huge wall extending upwards. When he stretched out his hand to touch it, the wall dropped debris.

   "Why is it called an altar?"

  Chen Ji turned his head and looked at them.

  Village Chief O'Gar took the initiative to say: "The Lord Guardian told us... He once said that if there are enough red crystals, the door of the altar can be opened, leading to the highest place in the world, and seeing the greatest existence."

   "The greatest existence?!"

  The three of Chen Ji asked at the same time.

   Maien looked at him, feeling a little dazed.

   "We don't know what it is...we haven't seen red spar, only blue and white."

  Ogar shook his head.

  Zhou Wan looked at Chen Ji curiously: "Could it be the **** who created this world?"

  Because there are gods in Astana's world, real gods, that's why she guessed so.

"Hard to say."

  Chen Ji asked O'Gar again: "How much do you know about this Tongtian Altar?"

   "Aside from these, I don't know much about it... I only know that it is very big, beyond the scope of the village."

   "How old is your village?"

   "It will take about an hour to walk, and you will come to the edge of the village."

   "Edge? Haven't you been outside?"

   "No, Lord Guardian said that there is nothing outside the village, let us stay in the village... As for the edge of the village, there is also a wall like the altar."

  After some inquiries, Chen Ji finally got a general understanding of the situation in this world.

  The village is very small.

  The villagers never go out, and they can't go out at all. The edge is surrounded by a wall. The area they live in is like an upside-down bowl, and it is very small, not much bigger than a small town.

  The history of the village is only more than a hundred years.

  The size of the village is only so small.

   No wonder Astana would guess that this is the land abandoned by the gods.

  Mu Xiaoxiao also guessed that this is a life restricted area set up by a strong person, people inside are forbidden to leave, and people outside are also difficult to enter.

  It is equivalent to a secret realm in Xianxia novels, but this secret realm is too miserable.

   "Master Chen Ji!"

  Cassien pointed to the sky and asked curiously: "Is the earth on it? The village chief told me that there are many towns on it!"

   O'Gar felt embarrassed.

  Chen Ji smiled and said: "The earth is not on this, but another world, completely different from here."

  He didn't know how to explain the concept of "world" for a while. The place where Cassian and others lived was only a small village, which was more isolated than the villagers in the mountains.

  The only variable is the guardian, who may explain a lot of knowledge to the villagers.

  Cassien nodded obediently.

  Although he still has many questions, it's not the right time to ask them.

   "Can I visit your village?"

   Chen Ji asked, there was nothing to see around.

  The most important thing in the village is probably the altar and its guardian!

   "Of course, Mr. Chen Ji is going this way!"

   Cassian said happily, and made a gesture.

   But to be honest, Chen Ji doesn't know how they recognize the way. The ground is covered with black sand, can they be identified by footprints?

   A group of people walked to the village, and several villagers were very happy.

  Although he is a villager, Chen Ji finds it weird no matter how he looks at it.

With the help of the kerosene lamp in Zhou Wan's hands, they could see their tall, silver-white bodies walking on the black ground. It seemed that they were walking fast because of eating food, and they didn't look at their faces exposed to the extreme cold. What a strange expression.

   This cold resistance alone is enough to see the strength of their bodies.

  The empress who was hiding with the dagger was always wary of them.

   "Where is the riverbed where you mine?"

  On the way, Chen Ji asked a question.

   Cassian shook his head, saying that he had never participated in mining. When he was born, there were very few spars in the riverbed, and he didn't need too many people to dig.

"over there."

  O'Gar pointed in a direction, and said with a sigh: "The spar can no longer be dug out. I suspect that the guardian is just because..."

  He suddenly closed his mouth, and Cassian couldn't help asking him: "Grandpa Village Chief, what happened to the Guardian?"

  O'Gar didn't answer, and Cassian didn't ask further questions.

  Chen Ji, Mu Xiaoxiao, Zhou Wan, the three people from the normal world looked at each other, probably guessing what the village chief wanted to say.

   But the three of them didn't say anything.

   "Mayen."

  Chen Ji stretched out his hand, and grabbed the girl who was following behind, who hadn't said a word for a long time, and told her to follow closely.

  The girl's eyes were confused, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

  Chen Ji held her little hand tightly.

  After walking for a while, a little light appeared ahead, which was very eye-catching in the dark night.

   "The village is here, ah, they are all waiting for us at the entrance of the village!"

   Cassian said happily, and took the initiative to run into the darkness, shouting while running: "Uncle and aunt, Master Chen Ji has come from the earth!"

   It's a blessing that he can run in the dark without falling.

  Chen Ji continued to walk forward, and soon after seeing a gray-white gate, villagers walked out one by one. After seeing Chen Ji and the others, complex expressions of surprise, joy, and curiosity appeared on the silver-white face.

  Prove that these villagers are not "monsters", but a race of wisdom.

   "Welcome Lord Chen Ji, Lord Zhou Wan, and Lord Mu Xiaoxiao to our village!"

   It was still the village head who took the lead, and more than a hundred villagers welcomed Chen Ji and the three of them together.

After welcoming the three of them, O'Gar made a special introduction: "Her name is Maien, which is exactly the same as the 'Maien' taught to us by the guardian. She can also speak our language...but she looks like us. no the same."

   Everyone's eyes fell on the white-haired red-eyed girl, looking at her curiously and surprised.

  Chen Ji couldn't help asking: "What does 'Mayen' mean in your language?!"

  Same as before, no one can answer, they just learn from the guardian, and don't know what Maien represents.

  The girl seemed a little lost.

  Chen Ji shook her hand, "It's okay, let's ask the guardian, he will always know!"

  All the secrets are hidden in the altar.

  …

  Chen Ji followed them into the village. After everyone came in, the gray-white door behind them was pushed shut by two villagers. With a bang, the heavy door was firmly closed.

  Mu Xiaoxiao glanced back and said in a low voice: "Be careful, this place is closed."

   "Well, the outside of the village is a closed world, and the village is also a fortress... It seems to be to resist the enemy?"

   Zhou Wan whispered.

  Chen Ji also noticed it.

  This village is a gray and white round fortress. The gate is several meters thick, but just two villagers pushed it shut just now, and the force is so strong that it makes the scalp numb.

   "Master Chen Ji, is our village strange?"

  Cassien asked curiously, "What is a fortress? Is the enemy the one who should be killed?"

   "..."

   It was quiet enough to speak just now, but Cassian still heard it.

   "It's kind of weird."

  Chen Ji smiled at him, "But it's cold outside, and it's normal for the village to be built like this."

   Like an igloo on a northern ice sheet.

   Cassian nodded sharply: "It's too cold outside, and it keeps consuming our physical strength. It's much better to go back to the village, and the physical exertion is much less!"

   "?"

  Chen Ji was surprised again.

   These villagers are not really robots, are they? Use physical strength to resist the cold, but also accurately detect the remaining energy in the body?

   This village is getting weirder and weirder.

   Walking less than a hundred meters forward, Chen Ji came to the place where there was light in the village, the only light source, a holy white fortress that radiated light.

  The fortress is round in shape, with a smooth surface, engraved with many patterns that are not known to be decorative or practical, making it look holy and delicate, both like a **** and a science fiction work.

   "... Maien!"

  Beside Chen Ji, the girl holding his hand yelled out in a daze, and the clear voice spread around, allowing everyone present to hear it.

  Mayen.

   After calling out this magical name, the villagers all looked at her.

  Chen Ji stood still, and after a while, he pointed to the altar and asked her, "Is this Maien? Or is the guardian inside Maien?"

  The girl shook her head, took his hand and walked forward to the silver-white altar door.

   These two doors are carved with patterns, patterns, and figures, which have a sense of history and civilization, and seem to be ancient and long-standing myths.

  The most important thing in the pattern is a man carved in the center. He looks handsome, and he can't distinguish between men and women. There is a paragraph of text beside him.

   "What's written on it?"

   Chen Ji asked.

  O'Gar hesitated, "I can recognize some...but not all."

  The guardians taught them characters, but they rarely use them or read them, and even lost a lot of memory of characters due to dormancy.

  Chen Ji looked at the others, and the villagers shook their heads, expressing that they didn't know either.

  Only Mai En read out softly:

   "Leave our blessings at the first and last place, and sing our epic poem—Mayen will last forever...May, Yi, En."

   She read softly.

  The last Maien was added by her, and it is her memory of this passage.

   "What do you mean by the first and last place?"

   Zhou Wan couldn't help asking.

  The girl looked at her blankly, her slender body shook a few times, took half a step back, and almost fell to the ground.

  Chen Ji was so frightened that he hurriedly supported her, but the girl looked at the door again and shouted: "Maien...Maien..."

  The voice trembled.

   I was scared, as if I saw something I shouldn't have seen.

   "Mayen?"

  The villagers looked at each other.

  They don't know what Maien represents, but every time they read it, they will find peace in their hearts.

  But why does this strange earthling whose name is Maien attach so much importance to "Maien"?

   "The answer is in there!"

  Mu Xiaoxiao couldn't bear it anymore, she stepped forward, stretched out her hand and patted the door of the altar.

  The gate remained motionless.

  The guardian inside the altar did not respond to the movement outside the door.

  (end of this chapter)