"Mama, why are you in such a hurry?" As soon as Gong Xiqiu opened the curtain, he was grabbed by a hand and pulled in. His body subconsciously wanted to fight back, but he could identify the person's identity based on his strength and suppressed his instinct.

"You came to play with me today?"

Alas, he was so idle that his bones were almost stiff.

If it weren't for Mama's unfinished business, he would have packed his bags and gone to find his brother and nephew. It would be more meaningful than wasting time here. As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Tang hit him on the back of his hand. Gong Xiqiu reached back his hand like lightning.

: "Hey, you hit someone!"

Shen Tang said seriously: "Let's talk about business."

Gong Xiqiu said "Oh" in response, but acted lazily and casually. He picked a place to sit down and said, "Say."

Shen Tang pointed to the picture on the ground and asked him if he had any impression.

Blindfolded Gong Xiqiu: "..."

He pointed at his eyes, indicating to the other party that he was still injured and could not see the picture on the ground. Shen Tang had no choice but to grab his hand and draw on his palm with his fingers. Gong Xiqiu tilted his head, and his braids fell down.

A few of them, looking very attentive.

“The first picture is impressive.”

Gong Xiqiu is talking about nuclear radiation warning signs.

Shen Tang asked him: "Where have you seen it?"

Gong Xiqiu pretended to think seriously and said: "I have seen so many places! There is one place, Mama, you also know! On Xian Yujian's back! If it hadn't been for this picture, I wouldn't have bothered to care about this kid.

There are also some documents and materials in the clan, but the origin of this picture is related to a force called the Society of Gods. Did they come into contact with Mama? "

"...Aren't you also a member of the Society of Gods?"

She is the only outsider who co-authored???

Gong Xiqiu suppressed the frivolous smile on his lips and shook his head: "How is this possible? The gods will have a deep hatred for the ancestors of the Gongxi clan. Although there are only a few members of the clan left and all the ancestors are buried underground, as a member of the Gongxi clan, I

I can’t do anything that goes against my ancestors. If I die tomorrow, my soul will go to the gods, and I won’t be surrounded and beaten by my tribe? It doesn’t make sense!”

Shen Tang and Gu Chi looked at each other.

"...deep hatred? What hatred? What hatred?"

Gong Xiqiu hooked his hand at her.

"It's a long story. I'm thirsty."

Shen Tang threw the unused water bag into his arms, and Gong Xiqiu didn't give in. He moistened his throat and continued to talk.

"Because the Gongxi clan migrated several times in history, the earliest clan annals were originally lost during this process. The subsequent clan annals were revised by later generations based on their memories. There should be eight or nine chapters revised in the memory, and many of the contents are contradictory.

Some are simply judged to be fabricated legends... There is a saying that the history of the Gongxi tribe can be traced back one or two thousand years ago. At that time, all the tribesmen lived in an isolated world with abundant crops. Here, they had no worries about food and no food.

Worry about drinking, don’t worry about wearing..."

Shen Tang couldn't help but complain.

"Is this place called 'Yin Dian Garden'?"

Hearing these three words, Gong Xiqiu turned his face: "Hey, how does Mama know? Did you regain any memory?"

Shen Tang: "..."

Gong Xiqiu continued: "However, 'Yin Dian Garden' is just one of its other names. The mainstream name recognized by the clan annals is 'Taoyuan'! According to the mythological clan annals, at that time, the heaven and earth changed, and the Yin and Yang realms were out of balance.

The ghostly death energy belonging to the underworld permeates the world, and living people polluted by ghost energy will turn into ghost puppets, feeding on living people, causing countless deaths and injuries..."

Shen Tang frowned and said, "Ghost energy?"

Gong Xiqiu nodded: "Well, that's what the family history said. It also said that ghost cholera has lasted twelve years in the world, and all life in the world has been almost extinct. There are only a few uninfected people, animals and plants. Seeing that the world of heaven is about to become the underworld, our ancestors

After praying to heaven, God was finally moved. The gods took action and took all the survivors to an isolated place. This place was the "Peach Garden". The gods planted a sacred tree as the core of the "Peach Garden". This tree can isolate the outside world.

Ghosts are intruding. If the ancestors have something to worry about, they can pray devoutly under the sacred tree, and the gods will hear it..."

Gu Chi listened with great interest.

"What happens next?"

Shen Tang interrupted Gong Xiqiu: "No, I remember you said a few years ago that your family met your benefactor on the road to exile after being convicted more than two hundred years ago. The benefactor gave you a coffin, and I will be placed in this coffin.

Inside. In order to thank your benefactor, your ancestors withered the statue of their benefactor after living in seclusion?"

Is this the origin of the gods worshiped by the Gongxi clan?

Gong Xiqiu said very naturally: "I have already said that the family records were lost and damaged during several migrations. The contents are all supplemented and revised by later generations. It is inevitable that some personal understanding and speculation will be mixed in... It may be true, or it may be all true.

It is false, or it may be half-truth or half-false... About the records of 'Taoyuan', the tribesmen don't really believe it, and they all treat it as a story."

Shen Tang: "..."

This reason is too real.

"How did your ancestors become enemies with the ancestors of the Gods Association?" Gu Chi brought the topic back to the distant topic, hoping that these two strange confidants would have a casual chat. Who knows where the topic would go?

"This is a longer story. A few days after God saved our ancestors, he said he was going on a long trip to deal with the ghosts. Once he left, he never came back. And God saved too many survivors, and they...

The ancestors and the gods, with the ancestor as the leader, lived in peace and harmony for many years. However, during this period, people were born, animals were born, and the "Peach Garden" had limited space. In addition, the seeds that the ancestors brought to the "Peach Garden" were invaded by ghosts.

Contamination, production reduction from generation to generation, food shortage in 'Taoyuan', and conflicts soon broke out."

"The ancestors of the Gods Association used force to gather a group of people and tried to use force to feed others as food. The ancestors strongly opposed it. A war broke out between the two sides. The ancestors and the others were defeated and escaped from Taoyuan with the survivors who had no support.

'."

Shen Tang: "Didn't you say that the ghost atmosphere outside is uninhabitable?"

Gong Xiqiu said: "The ancestors are not stupid. They quietly took away many branches of the sacred tree. The ghost energy in the outside world has become much thinner than at the beginning. We can barely survive. But - it is also the influence of the ghost energy. After a while,

, the babies born were either premature or deformed, with two heads, half a head, three hands, etc. The ancestors prayed to the gods and managed to survive."

Gu Chi asked: "What about the people who stayed in Taoyuan?"

Gong Xiqiu recalled carefully: "There are not many records about this in the family history. They just said that after a hundred years, 'Taoyuan' finally couldn't support it, and people escaped one after another. These people were scattered all over the mainland, and they multiplied and multiplied to become what we are today.

people."

Gu Chi joked: "According to this myth and legend, we were still a family thousands of years ago? Does your family history describe what society was like before the great disaster?"

In this regard, Gong Xiqiu just shook his head: "If this part of the ethnographic records is true, the relevant documents should be in Taoyuan. Our ancestors escaped with nothing, so it is not easy for them to retain so many records.

"

Shen Tang made a decision.

"Look back, you accompany me to the Gongxi tribe's land."

She wanted to see those clan records with her own eyes.

Gong Xiqiu knew her plan, but he still couldn't help pouring cold water: "Mama, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that I don't remember much of the contents of the remaining books in the clan. On the night when the clan was exterminated, 90% of them were destroyed.

The Geng Kingdom snatched it away. Among the 90%, 50% were records after the last migration of the Gongxi people. They were all records within two hundred years. There are only a few unique volumes in the collection that can be traced back to one or two thousand years ago. There are also

I don’t know how many of them were fabricated and modified by later generations...I’m afraid they are of little use.”

Shen Tang said sadly: "Then I have to go and see."

Gong Xiqiu asked her: "Mama is in trouble?"

Shen Tang concealed the details of his time travel and only said that these three pictures existed in the wrong era, and Gong Xiqiu did not get to the bottom of it: "So, according to what Mama said, that myth and legend may not be a legend, but a reality? Ancestor

Are you not lying? However, the Gods Society should not have so-called 'nuclear weapons' in their hands. What can exist for thousands of years and still be used..."

Gong Xiqiu's complaints were very accurate.

But Shen Tang was still worried.

"Maybe it will be created again later?"

Gong Xiqiu shook his head, he was very optimistic: "Impossible. If the Gods Association has a treasure that can kill eighty or ninety thousand people with a wave of hands, how can it hide its head and shrink its tail for so many years?"

Shen Tang: "Well, that's true..."

Although the myth of the Gongxi people is consistent in all aspects, it is not empirical evidence after all, nor is it authoritative. Shen Tang would rather find ruins or related unearthed cultural relics. Even if there is only one, it can prove that there was indeed a modern civilization.

Maybe we can also figure out the reasons for the collapse of civilization.

Ghosts, puppets, feeding on living people?

Good guy, it can’t really be a zombie apocalypse, right?

Shen Tang scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed.

Gu Chi was very curious about the new vocabulary that suddenly popped up.

"What are zombies?"

Shen Tang said: "They are just the living dead."

She looked at Gu Chi and there seemed to be a strange light in her eyes: "You don't still want to write a novel about zombies, do you? Stop it, I don't even know where the novels you owe have been arranged."

Regardless of digging or burying, he is simply a eunuch in charge.

Gu Chi is a bachelor: "As long as you live long enough."
To be continued...