God's Descend

Jiang Yunan later recalled this day countless times.

The sky and the earth fall, and the rivers flow against the flow.He saw a ruined building on the sea and pearls in the sky.

The tail feathers of the sacred bird Phoenix turned into arrows in the flames, winding into the last flame in the wilderness, burning up the aura of heaven and earth.

With a dragon's breath, in the ancient Central Plains, in the barren land, the last god fell.

The outskirts of Tongzhou County, Henan.

This place is also seven or eight miles away from the nearest township. In June, it was contracted by a foreign upstart boss, and a large piece of abandoned land was in urgent need of development.I didn’t know what was dug up in the morning, and I stopped work for a long time to wait for the arrangement of the superiors. The workers were also happy to relax, and gathered around the guardrail of the site in groups of three or four to explore their brains.

There were some yellowed withered grass growing on the pitted muddy ground around, and there was no human habitation from morning to noon.

A few workers had just had lunch, and were lazily yawning while carrying shovels. The foreman was addicted to cigarettes, and just reached into his trouser pocket to feel for a cigarette.

"beep--"

The sound of the car roared from far to near, and suddenly a black SUV had stopped at the only slightly clean place next to the construction site. Even so, the body had splashed a lot of mud and sand.

The foreman stood up abruptly, and stuffed the cigarette case into his pocket: "Wu, Secretary Wu! Why are you..."

Secretary Wu got out of the car shyly, nodded towards the person, and stood aside without saying anything, as if waiting for someone.

Three minutes later, a taxi stopped in front of them.The moment the car door opened, the foreman heard the sound of fare settlement inside.

"...This is," he asked the secretary in a low voice uncertainly, "is this sent by the city bureau?"

But Secretary Wu greeted him enthusiastically with a smile on his face: "Hey! You are Professor Jiang, right? I am the secretary of Tongzhou County, and I have worked hard. How about I take you to the town for a rest?"

The knuckle hand resting on the car door paused, a young man stepped out of the taxi, and the moment he got out of the car door with his head down, the pendant on his neck slipped out from the collar of the sweater. natural amber.

He stuffed the pendant back into his neckline, shook hands with Secretary Wu, and immediately pulled it back, with just the right amount of politeness and alienation.

"No, I'll take a look at the scene."

Secretary Wu looked at him calmly.

The professor Jiang sent from above is about 25 or [-] years old. Among men of this age, his figure and appearance are considered to be very outstanding.It is hard to imagine that he is already a famous professor in his professional field.

"Oh, okay, Wang Gong, take us to the place where we dug things up."

The foreman smiled attentively: "Our muddy road is not easy to walk, you two nobles should be more careful-hey, we are here! It is the front, where people are surrounded in front." He quickly stepped forward and yelled to drive away Workers watching the excitement, "The scene has been stopped in the morning according to the order of the superior. Professor Jiang, do you think I will find you a flashlight to go down and have a look or..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that Professor Jiang with a cold expression had stepped over the guardrail with long legs and walked straight in.

Jiang Yunan flashed a flashlight around the wall, and the wet soil from the ground stuck to the stone wall, mottled the unclear murals, and looked like a brick red layer on the rock wall Ze.

He took out his handkerchief to wipe off the dirt on the wall, and he narrowed his eyes slightly to take a closer look, when suddenly Wang Gong behind him exclaimed "Yo".

"Hey, this—the one engraved on it looks like a bird?"

Jiang Yunan looked back fiercely, his eyes were like torches, and Wang Gong trembled.

Wang Gong didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. He watched Professor Jiang step forward slowly, holding a flashlight in one hand, caressing the murals on the rock wall with the other, and sliding his slender fingertips slowly through the grooves.

His eyelashes were drooping, and he seemed to be very absorbed in watching. After a long while, a half-smile expression appeared on his face.

"... There is a phoenix in the alchemy point, and it is in the court of the hill." He said softly, "Okay, so it is hidden here."

The second half of his sentence was extremely soft, as if he was talking to himself, but with a bit of gnashing of teeth.Wang Gong didn't hear clearly, and asked casually, "What?"

"It's nothing," Jiang Yunan smiled, "I said you guys here are quite outstanding."

It sounds a bit strange that this sentence has no beginning and no end, but Jiang Yunan didn't have the slightest intention to explain, and started studying the murals on his own.

After wiping off the soil, there are many birds, beasts and phantoms on the rock wall. There are flaming big birds coming from the stars and cutting the moon, singing and singing, and a hundred birds pay respects to the phoenix.In an instant, the heavens and the earth toppled and the rivers flowed upstream, the earth trembled and cracked, and the fiery red magma surged in the deep cracks, like a melting sun.

He stared intently at the mural, his eyes pierced through the potholes and rock walls, through the torrents of time and thousands of years of clouds and smoke, and glimpsed the long and deeply buried past.

……

I am real, you are unreal.

Jiang Yunan sat in a pile of gold and silver, looking down at the mountains in the distance.

It seems that someone is laughing, and the voice is low, as if resonating from the chest——

"Jiang Yunan," he said, "where are you from?"

On the distant horizon, the setting sun is wrapped in the last afterglow, and winter is approaching.

Jiang Yunan's throat was tight and he was speechless for a long time.

"It's okay, I'll wait until the day you're willing to say it." The adult man stood up, his pale golden hair fell down with his movements, and the tip of the hair brushed Jiang Yunan's arm, Jiang Yunan retracted violently like an electric shock With a smile on his lips, the man picked up a pure gold crown studded with precious stones, and bent down to put it on his head.

"...Before that, you have to live well."

Outside the cave full of gold, silver and treasures, the first ray of darkness descended from the sky, and the endless night was coming.

"...tick tock."

——The sound of water dripping on the stone pulled his sanity back from the memory.

Jiang Yunan wiped his fingers clean with a handkerchief, and smiled gently: "... Was there a sound of water just now? There is a source of water here, take a look."

Wang Gong walked about ten steps ahead, and the dark cave could see that the entrance of the cave had become bigger under the light of the flashlight.Sure enough, a naturally formed stone pool appeared not far ahead, and a ray of sunlight shone in through the hole where the water dripped.

Jiang Yunan looked at the puddle that was not very clear, as if he had discovered something novel, tilted his head and smiled with interest.

Professor Jiang has been down for an hour.

Secretary Wu wiped the sweat off his forehead with a towel, squinted his eyes and glanced at the ground again, thinking whether to send someone down to have a look, when he saw a halo of light flashing in the dark hole.

It's a flashlight.

Jiang Yunan walked out with Foreman Wang, and suddenly came out of the cool and dark underground, his eyes turned white for a while under the sunlight in the afternoon.

"Hey." He beckoned for someone to come over.

That's actually a gesture used to give orders.Jiang Yunan, a young academic professor, is familiar with this movement as if he has been in a high position for a long time, or he should be born like this.

Secretary Wu felt a little strange for a moment, and walked forward with a calm smile: "What did Professor Jiang discover?"

"Major discoveries have been made, and traces of the life of intelligent creatures have been discovered."

"...Intelligent creatures?"

The young professor slightly raised his lower eyelids, and did not explain, but only curled his lips into a pleasant smile: "Stop construction, protect the ruins. I will report to the higher authorities immediately... I trouble you to prepare, there may be a scientific research team over here."

Wang Gong hesitated for a moment, and before he could intervene, the workers who were watching the excitement shouted: "...Stop construction? Oh no, how can this be stopped as soon as we say it? Do you know how much money we will lose if we are idle for a day? Do you have any instructions from your superiors? Without our boss telling us..."

"I'm sorry I didn't make it clear," Jiang Yunan interrupted him with a gentle smile, and his tone was not in a hurry, and he didn't appear to be angry at the other party's disrespect, "I have already hired a lawyer to negotiate with your company on the way here. This piece of land will be in my name, and your salary today will be paid as usual, and all the lost funds will be borne by me alone. Is there any problem?"

The migrant worker was stunned: "No, no problem..." After finishing speaking, he stared away and walked away, cursing in a low voice, "Where the hell did this upstart come from?"

Secretary Wu: "..."

"Professor Jiang... did you buy this land?" Secretary Wu scratched his head, "Is it government funding?"

Jiang Yunan smiled slightly: "It's my own funds."

Wu Yanli was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but think of his previous gesture of beckoning people around.When this land was bought last year, he asked about it. Although this land has been abandoned for a long time, the size and terrain of the land is not a small investment.He still knows the income level of a professor, and he may not be able to afford such a huge sum of money even if he does not eat or drink for ten years.

"Where is Professor Jiang from?"

Jiang Yunan glanced at him with a half-smile, and said something in Sichuan dialect.

"Sichuan."

"Hey," Wu Yan rubbed his hands, "Not bad! Sichuan water and soil support people... It's quite hot this season, isn't it? I think the temperature in Sichuan has reached a new high this summer, and it is said that it can be made on the ground. Egg pancakes..."

"Sorry, I was joking just now," Jiang Yunan patted him on the shoulder, "I'm a native of Beijing."

Beijing.

Wu Yanli's heart suddenly became clear.In the Vanity Fair at the foot of Tianzi in the capital, there are too many clans, large and small, who are not famous, and the people who randomly pick out a side branch are all rich people that they dare not even think about.

He took another look at the young and promising Professor Jiang, and suddenly felt a little more contempt and admiration in his heart.Money, money is good.

Jiang Yunan over there came back from the phone call and nodded at him: "The experts sent by the research institute will arrive tomorrow, please take care of Secretary Wu."

The conditions of the guest houses in the suburbs of Tongzhou County are actually not very good.Wu Yanli asked again and again, but Jiang Yunan said it was all right, so he just stayed.

The stars and the moon were covered by dark clouds, and the night almost turned into reality.Thick and sticky darkness spread from the window to the small room, and the young man on the bed breathed lightly and evenly, apparently having slept soundly for a long time.

The air conditioner hummed, struggling to blow out weak air.The noise made the sound of the birds flapping their wings outside the window covered.

Birds constantly flew out from the distant mountains and forests, gliding through the endless night with a clear goal, and landed on the window sills and roofs of the small guest house.

The moon shines through the dark clouds.

Jiang Yunan opened his eyes violently, and his strike was as swift as lightning, but he only tore off a feather of the huge black bird in front of him.

"——喈!"

The big bird with red eyes and black body raised its head and neighed, and the birds outside the window flew up at the same time, and the pupils of the birds shone strangely in the dark night.

This scene is actually bizarre and weird. Hundreds of birds gather around the dusty three-story building, circling and flying silently, like a grand and dangerous opening ceremony, or some mysterious sacrificial ceremony .

"Hush," Jiang Yunan smiled and raised a finger to his lips, "Be quiet. Disturbing people's dreams, is this what Queen Mother Xi taught you?"

"However," he changed his voice, narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Chang Xi is so impatient, is he doomed? I haven't found out where your lair is yet, so you came here yourself..."

"...Go back and tell your master, what I said back then still counts now."

The big bird fell silent immediately, spread its wings and flew away to announce the news.Jiang Yunan actually felt that he saw a trace of resentment in those red bird eyes.

He glanced at the large area of ​​birds still staying outside the window, closed the window without hesitation, went back to bed and turned off the light.

The weather in early September gets a bit chilly after midnight.Jiang Yunan leaned against the head of the bed, with a thin quilt draped around his waist.He played with the amber pendant on his chest with his cool fingertips, and a deep furrow formed between his brows.

"We're going into the mountains..."

The author has something to say: let me tell you about the timeline: entering the mountain for archeology is after the protagonist first traveled to the ancient world. In 1998, when the scientific expedition team went to Qinghai Altun no-man's land, it was sent back to the present world after the death of the dragon. Since then, it has been searching for clues of ancient ruins, and returned to the ancient world again.

This current chapter is very short, and will soon enter the prehistoric chapter.Please collect it~