Chapter 1: Ninety Thousand Years
Kunlun Mountain, located in China, was known as the first sacred mountain.
There were some lofty mountain peaks that were covered by snow and ice all year round.
There was a canyon several kilometers deep in there.
After several months of exploration, a professional expedition team of seven people formed by China finally stepped into this place, but at this moment, they did not have any joy. On the contrary, everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them, they could not say a word.
In the canyon, several pure wooden huts and an evergreen tree that was about to collapse somehow still stood tall.
In front of the evergreen tree, bluestone tombstones were erected one after another…
Counting them down, there were exactly twelve!
Some were extremely vicissitudes, some were clean and abnormal.
Accompanied by the heavy snow like goose feathers, there was a strange breath in the air, everyone felt cold as their hair stood upright.
"Oh my god, there's still a human's village in this kind of place? And who made the tombstone here?"
After a long time, a young woman wiped her cheeks full of scars and exclaimed unconsciously, don't look at this woman's youth, she was a famous professor of history and archaeology of Qinghua University.
As her voice appeared, everyone was awakened.
"There are words on the tombstones!"
Another young man exclaimed, with a pair of glasses, his body was trembling slightly. He was a professional outdoor extreme sports enthusiast, swimming on the edge of life and death all year round, it was unknown how many weird things he had seen, but the scene before him still made him unable to calm down.
"Hurry up and see what's written on it!" Someone suggested.
At this moment, the extreme sports enthusiast rushed over.
His hands trembled slightly.
However, when he really got closer, his breathing became more and more rapid, "There are some ancient characters on this, I don't know any of them, Professor Xu, you should come!"
After speaking, he took a few steps back.
Then an old professor in his seventies or eighties took out a magnifying glass with trembling hands, his body seemed to have enormous power as he rushed towards a tombstone.
The young woman at the beginning also followed.
Professor Xu! He was a famous archaeologist, 76 years old this year. In addition to his archaeological accomplishments, he also had great accomplishments in history.
Even the internationally renowned woman was a student of Professor Xu.
Next to the bluestone stele, Professor Xu had fiery eyes, holding a magnifying glass in one hand, and taking out a clean soft cloth to carefully clean the stains on the stele.
The other expedition members next to him were slightly pale as they asked, "Professor, what's written on it?"
"Yes, read it out!"
"This is an unbelievable place; it feels like we have discovered an amazing thing!"
Several people urged him.
Huh?
As for Professor Xu, after slowly recognizing the words above, his pupils shrank sharply, he could not believe it.
It was the young woman who followed him instinctively, speaking word by word, "The flying birds that used to be kept have long escaped from their cages and traveled to the sky, it is difficult to find a trace and died away from home."
"What does it mean?" The young woman could not understand.
The people next to her also could not understand…
After inspecting the first tombstone, Professor Xu's expression became more strange, and he immediately began to look at the second tombstone.
"The herb-gathering kid who once fell into the canyon, from young to mature, to old age, met someone and fell in love with her during the period, but did not give birth to any offspring, raised many wild animals, not for appetite, just for company!"
The young woman continued to read.
The third piece…
"An evergreen tree that was once planted casually was broken by wild animals, to survive, it stood against wind and snow, it did not fall. Now it grows a hundred meters high, the tree is rotted by a wormhole, and it's crumbling…"
Hu, hu!
When this text was read, everyone on the expedition team seemed to feel that the surrounding atmosphere became much colder in an instant.
A breeze blew, the evergreen tree on the bluestone stele seemed to have become more and more withered. Under the blow of the breeze, a few yellow leaves fell from time to time.
The fourth piece…
"I once separated the heaven and earth with Pangu, created human with Nüwa, and explained Buddhism with Tathagata."
The fifth piece…
"I have personally visited the age of mythology and watched the fight between gods and Buddhas in the sky."
Sixth piece…
"I have seen the rise of the human race, killing each other for power, blood flowed into rivers."
The twelfth piece…
"Spring goes, spring comes, flowers go, flowers bloom, and I have lived for ninety thousand years."
These ancient characters were vigorous and powerful, full of traces of years.
With those old sayings being constantly deciphered…
In the gorge, all the expedition team members stood quietly, their eyes changed from hot to dull.
At this moment, they seemed to have hallucinations, they saw that in front of a newly erected tombstone, a man in white clothes stood proudly with his hands behind his back. There was no sadness or joy on his cold face, he was indifferent. Those deep eyes did not even look at the tombstone, instead, he raised his head slightly and looked towards the sky.
"I know, I know… Hahaha, it turns out that those are not legends, but facts! Here is the evidence, here is the evidence… there are real people who can live forever, when I engaged in archaeological studies before, I accidentally discovered many traces, such as the Pyramid of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, the Colossus of Rhodes, have traces of a person…"
Just as the atmosphere was about to freeze, Professor Xu suddenly yelled, as if he was in madness, and said something that everyone could not understand.
Then, he stood up and promptly ran towards the best-preserved cabin next to him.
Creak!
He pushed the door open.
In the middle of the cabin, there was a simple coffee table!
And on the coffee table, there was a gray cup with white smoke emitted out of it slowly.
The other expedition members followed, seeing this scene, their hearts jumped to their throats.
"Someone…"
"There must be someone here just now."
"Who? Come out to me! Don't pretend to be a ghost!"
They shouted loudly, however, even after a long time, there was no response.
Everyone rushed out of the cabin.
Suddenly, someone discovered the abnormality under the evergreen tree.
"The bluestone tombstone disappeared?"
The stone monuments erected before had turned into pieces of rubble, full of traces of time.
"That evergreen tree has also withered, when we first came, it was obviously not like this."
The evergreen tree, without any green leaves, with dry branches, was about to break at any time under the wind and snow.
Rumble…
Just when these people were at loss and fear, in the gorge, the small wooden house that had been standing in unknown years collapsed without giving out any sign.
Hu, hu, hu!
The heavy snow was accompanied by the cold wind.
This gorge seemed to have passed thousands of years in an instant…
The bluestone monument disappeared.
The evergreen tree withered.
The wooden houses underneath, after they collapsed, were buried deep in the snow.
In a day, the canyon was completely sealed off.
China sent a large number of national treasure-level archaeologists, but they still found nothing.
As for the seven expedition members, all of them looked blank, especially Old Xu. When he was carried on the stretcher by the doctor, he kept repeating, "This is impossible, this is impossible…"
The snowy land was vast and hazy.
The years passed…
Nothing was left.
"Alas!"
Just after the last helicopter left, there seemed to be someone sighing in the canyon, with a deep voice, that voice was full of vicissitudes of life.
"It's another 90,000 years! I wonder if there will be similar flowers in this period of time."
At the same moment.
Kunlun mountain, on the ancient road, a man wearing a long gown, slowly walked past, attracting countless tourists.