Stealing Game

Chapter 83 The Tengu Eats the Moon

The weather was surprisingly clear after the storm.The clouds that have not dissipated seem to be made of silk, weaving the sky full of stars into it, and spreading the brocade all over the sky.

I couldn't fall asleep all the time, and when Li Yuanmeng sat up, I turned and looked at him.

"Look, the stars are coming out!" Li Yuan pointed to the night sky.The crown of bright stars intertwined was reflected in his eyes, and all of them paled.

I blinked.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand towards me.When the moon was just rising, Li Yuan broke a brick because of the pain.The fragments tempered by wind and sand for thousands of years cut his palm.The blood in his palm was like a broken piece of moonlight, and it was like offering blood to that moonlight.

I use my strength to stand up.The moonlight was cold and his hands were hot.

"Are you sure we're going to find that temple now?" I looked at him, expecting an impossible answer.

Li Yuan shook his head: "I can't keep you here."

It meant that he had to go.I sighed, and my helplessness was immediately concretized by the cold.

"Let's go then," I stomped my feet, "I won't be able to leave after a while."

Li Yuan stood there without moving.

"Why are you so grumpy?" I glared at him.

Li Yuan opened his mouth and looked away.I raised my legs to leave, when I heard him say that he would give me the pants.

"What?" I thought I had heard wrong.

"If you're cold, I'll give you the pants. Anyway, I won't freeze to death in Antarctica."

I was stunned and didn't know how to react for a while.Even if Zhou picks skin, he can't even pick up other people's pants.

We pushed for a long time, and Li Yuan choked out: "I'm wearing long johns." His jade-like face was already reddened by the moonlight, but embarrassment made it even more colorful.

I wrapped myself in the luxurious jacket contributed by Li Yuan, which exudes a sense of comfort and fashion, and took another look at his ripped old man's shirt.Under this glamorous exterior, there is such a nostalgic interior.

I couldn't help laughing.Li Yuan didn't wait for me to finish laughing, he straightened his neck and took off his outer pants and handed them to me.Ordinarily, wearing only long johns would not look good no matter what, but Li Yuan was still slim.But no matter what, we are going to meet up with 279 and the others, this look is indecent even for Li Yuan's figure.I can ask him to give me long johns, but I don't want my face either.

Li Yuan's face was burning fiercely, but his eyes were extremely serious.

"Put it on quickly, it will be colder in the middle of the night."

I was choked by his persistence.In the end we both turned our backs on each other.Li Yuan donated his long johns and kept his outer trousers.I put his long johns into his trousers.

Needless to say, wearing an extra layer is a lot warmer.Li Yuan stared at me, then removed the bandage from under the old man's shirt.The dry strip wrapped around my neck with his body temperature and blood.

Now Li Yuan is satisfied, and we are finally on our way.

The endless yellow sand holds up a grand moon.The stars were fading, but still surprisingly bright.

Faceless dunes undulate like waves.Time can't change this desert, the sand of thousands of years has not been finished yet.It was so thousands of years ago, and it will be the same after thousands of years, but we are just passers-by.

How can the desert be more merciful to passers-by.The wind blowing from different directions didn't have any kindness, they all seemed to be armed with weapons, and they greeted me in different ways.I put at least two catties of smuggled sand in my boots, and was blown up and down by the wind, and then I just stuck to Li Yuan's body.

In the cold desert, Li Yuan is like a moving warm baby.The moonlight scalded the steel and poured it into his bones.Those immortal stars refused to open their eyes.

If it weren't for the brilliance of the stars and the moon, the darkness would seem infinite.But those celestial bodies are no less threatening than darkness itself.The silent wilderness made me uneasy, so I looked for the moon to order songs from the heater.

Li Yuan looked up from time to time to confirm the North Star that guided the pharaohs 4000 years ago.I teased him for a long time, but he refused to open his voice.Later, the two of them chatted one after another, staring at the stars, and exposed the past to the sun.

We walked and walked, and some weird boulders appeared among the cookie-cutter dunes just before the zenith of the moon.Those black stones are divided into two rows in an orderly manner, arranged on the road guided by the North Star back then.

"It doesn't seem to be formed naturally." I came to the spirit.

Li Yuan nodded. "You stand behind me, let's go and have a look."

When I took a closer look, those dark boulders were sunken deep on both sides of the dry river, and the part exposed to the ground was as high as two people.There are indeed traces of artificial carving on it, but nature took over as early as thousands of years ago, and now it has been weathered so that it cannot be seen clearly.

Based on the general outline, I think these boulders were likely to be stone statues a long time ago, and even the nameless gods that we have never seen the real face are unknown.

Along the way, except for this group of gods, we did not see any signs of human activities.The two rows of stone statues are stretching, but the Polaris is sandwiched between them, as if inviting us, or asking us, to walk past them.

I stared at the endless huge stone statue, and my heart beat faster and faster.But he couldn't tell whether the clamoring emotions were fear or anticipation.

Li Yuan walked to the riverbed to have a look, and said to me, "I'll go down to have a look first, and you can come down again if the porcelain is solid."

"No, I'll go. If there's mud at the bottom, I won't be able to drag you up if you sink in." I met Li Yuan's disapproving eyes and said, "Don't babble, we don't have time to waste."

Fortunately, the river bed was also covered by countless layers of wind and sand.I stood firmly on the ground and took a few steps.Only then did Li Yuan feel relieved, and he let go of his hand after lightly landing beside me.

In fact, the difference between the river bed and the shore is not too big, but the half-buried stone statues on both sides tightly blocked us inside, like a deep canyon, and the sky is narrow when you walk in.

The moon has not yet climbed to this height.Walking among the thin and tall stone statues, only a few stars can be seen above the head, and the outdated Polaris is the brightest one.In addition, not even light can enter the river, which is full of ominous feeling.It was like being in a coffin, and the stars were the astrological charts that adorned the lid of the pharaoh's coffin.

Li Yuan didn't show any fear at all, and I didn't want to show weakness, so I could only bite the bullet and continue walking.

My vision was so poor that I accidentally tripped over it, and I had no food in my stomach, so I leaned over to the side.Li Yuan reacted quickly and picked me up, but instinctively, I had already put my hand on the edge of the river bed.

The touch under his hands is not like the fertile soil deposited by the Nile River, but cold and smooth.It is the lower half of the stone statue exposed.I was startled and wanted to withdraw my hand.Suddenly there was a wolf howling from all around.The shrill howl pierced through the giant statue's dense bones, and the chill crawled all over his body along his spine.

The fog filled the air, and it was so thick that it couldn't be smashed.It is really shocking that there is fog in the arid and barren desert.

Looking up, a full moon climbed above the Stone Statue Canyon at some point.The full round of the moon seemed to be torn apart by something, and turned into a wound in the sky, and the precious moonlight brilliance was splashed out.The brilliance of light is like the beating heart of a seriously injured person who is about to die, but it is only in vain to make the blood leave the ashen body faster.

The dripping moonlight poured down along the river bank, dyeing the ubiquitous fog with color.There was a sudden sound of galloping, like countless boulders rolling down from the sky.

Shocked, I looked at Li Yuan, hoping that this was just my hallucination.In Li Yuan's equally astonished eyes, my luck was also washed away by the roaring river.

"Run!"

Before I finished speaking, Li Yuan pulled me up and ran away.

The roaring river swallowed us in one gulp.The river is so high that it can wet the moon.

Fortunate to bathe with the moon, the feeling of suffocation is so familiar that I can't raise my vigilance.The difference is that this time Li Yuan is also involved in this story.At this moment, we are like a small boat, backtracking on the long-abandoned and forgotten river.

Li Yuan quickly calmed down.After surveying his surroundings, he even attempted to climb up to a floating "island" as he floated past it.I have always only been an audience member in this kind of small theater, and I never thought I could add to the show by myself.After being surprised, I followed Li Yuan up to the floating island.

This is actually a big golden ship.The ship is loaded with a dazzling array of gold and silver, as well as some familiar minerals.I didn't dare to touch my finger.It stands to reason that it is impossible for this kind of boat to float on the water.In fact it did not float.Several boats were connected by ropes around, and the golden boat was dragged, pretending to be erected on the river all the way.

Among the full offerings was an altar that could only be seen by looking up.On the lotus-shaped altar is a statue of a god, whose face is still half-hidden in the white mist while holding a pipa.I didn't expect to see the true face of this god for a long time, so I was not very disappointed.

The stone statues on both sides of the river should have been erected after the river.The well and pool of water in the temple that Li Yuan and I saw in the evening may be a mine itself.And this ancient river channel may be transporting minerals as sacrifices to the gods [whose name cannot be called directly].

Li Yuan stood between the sacrifices, looking at the statue.His eyes were cold and distant, like frost falling on a stone in a long night.The full moon hangs high above the forested stone cliffs.In the cool mist, Li Yuan, the sacrificial offering, and the idol were not so clearly visible.

The huge stone statues with solemn expressions on both sides of the river watched us two people from other worlds entrained in the sacrifice, and they were also carried by the Nile towards the direction of the Big Dipper.

But water also has its end.The river suddenly broke.

　There is a description in the ancient Egyptian funerary text "The Book of the Gates": "Anubis swallowed his father", so the moon will disappear completely.

　　In fact, it is about lunar eclipses. Many ancient civilizations used myths as a way to explain nature.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)