Under the biting cold wind, a wild and gorgeous heavy off-road RV is driving along a wet and old road.
Perhaps because of the heavy rain yesterday, the weather today is also very gloomy. The sun is deeply hidden by the clouds, and the color of the sky has changed from the previous blue to the color of water soaked by a dirty rag.
The gray and cool breath lingers among the lonely leaves and weeds, and a hint of cold wind blows between the swaying again and again.
On the desolate road, the dust is flying, and there is only loneliness and the sparse weeds and sandy rocks around. The powerful songs can be heard in the car speakers to stimulate people’s adrenaline.
Surprisingly, there is no one in the driver’s seat, but the car is driving along the road strangely.
In the reception area inside the car, the decoration is high-end, elegant and warm. The bottom is paved with top-grade marine teak flooring, which is polished with vegetable oil + glue anti-slip strips to create a better home atmosphere.
On the car seat, Amy, wearing a blue turtleneck sweater, jeans and white slippers, hummed the exciting song while wiping the car interior decoration leisurely. In fact, with her strong spiritual power, she can wipe it with telekinesis, but she has long been accustomed to cleaning at home.
As for Li Xiang, wearing a gray turtleneck sweater, sitting on the sofa, drinking hot black tea while leisurely flipping through his favorite classic suspense novels.
As for why the car is driving, of course, this car has an automatic driving function, 33 auxiliary built-in observation cameras on the entire body, super artificial intelligence assistance, and the combination of the three factors of the current research of Madripo Port on launching satellites, so that the couple can completely do without driving themselves.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the couple will still drive themselves. After all, the driving process is also a process of appreciating the surrounding environment. People who can’t calm down in this regard will find it very boring, but people who like this process like it very much.
The husband and wife did not drive the car themselves, mainly because this long stretch of road was too desolate and there was nothing to see around, so they simply let the intelligent assistant system drive the whole way.
"Believe me, dear, you have wiped the photo very clean."
"This is my favorite photo, and it will become our eternal memory."
Amy shook the photo in her hand that was wiped clean and placed in the frame. The photo was of her father and mother, her, Li Xiang, Li Ang, two little babies, and two big dogs.
The warm sunshine, the grass, the houses and trees that could be vaguely seen in the distance behind, showed a bright smile.
This is the happiest photo of her life except for the wedding photo.
It must be preserved forever.
"You know, we can extract the memory of that moment and save it."
"NONONO, memory is memory, this is a treasure, just like the one-to-one golden saint cloth toy you specially customized."
"Um, okay. "Li Xiang stopped talking immediately. No man could refuse such a gorgeous, elegant and noble armor.
He didn’t have the original version of the golden armor, so he ordered a replica.
"Sir, Madam, there are still three kilometers to the destination."
At this time, a gentle female voice sounded in the ears of the two. It was the artificial intelligence Veronica. Veronica was a strong artificial intelligence developed by the top computer team recruited by the headquarters. In this era, it is an invention that is absolutely beyond the times.
A large server was specially built at Madripo Port at a huge cost.
The performance of strong artificial intelligence is definitely the world’s top echelon in computing power under the support of large servers.
"Thank you, Veronica."
"You’re welcome, sir."
"Okay, leave the next thing to me. "Li Xiang put down the suspense novel in his hand, walked towards the driver’s seat, and switched from automatic driving to manual driving after sitting down.
Amy washed the cup of coffee that Li Xiang drank and put it in the tableware storage box, sat in the co-pilot seat, looked through the car window at the environment where the drizzle had begun to fall, and looked at it with interest.
This picture composed of drizzle, deserted roads, and gloomy weather also has a unique sense of loneliness and quietness.
As if catching Amy’s thoughts, the original exciting music in the car was automatically changed to melodious music that matched this dark tone and drizzle environment.
It added to the feeling of loneliness and desolation.
After a while, Amy suddenly said: "I like this feeling."
"Yeah~~ I feel very good too. In such an environment, reading a book must be very comfortable. "Li Xiang agreed.
The two chatted for a while and came to the destination along the highway. There was a small road at the kilometer. Li Xiang turned the steering wheel and drove along the small road.
After driving for more than ten minutes, they arrived at the destination.
There is a small town in the winding and bumpy area here. This town is called Bodie.
Bodie, located in northern California, was influenced by the American gold rush in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was once a prosperous town with a population of up to 10,000. However, in the early 20th century, as gold mines were discovered in other places, people left one after another.
Now this town is isolated from the outside world and seems to have few people.
The couple came here just because they were passing by. Before that, there was such a place in Veronica’s database. Since they were traveling all over the country, they might as well come here to take a look and take a look at the once prosperous town.
This place is covered with shrubs and weeds. You can see the original buildings left by the gold rush. The common feature of these buildings is that they are made of wood. At that time, people liked to use a kind of pine called Jeffrey pine to build houses, so they were particularly afraid of fire.
Most of the buildings have a gable roof structure, which is to avoidThe winter snow, and the domes, give the town a typical 1860s American look, although the buildings are now dilapidated.
At its peak, the town served as a bustling gold mining center with the amenities of a large town, including a Wells Fargo Bank, four volunteer fire companies, brass bands, railroads, miners and mechanics unions, several daily newspapers and a jail.
Bars, brothels, gambling halls and opium dens were all there.
At peak times, 65 saloons lined the main street, which was a mile long.
Murder, gunfights, bar brawls and post station delays were regular events.
Bodie had a Chinatown, whose main street was at right angles to Bodie’s main street with several hundred Chinese residents at one point, including a Taoist temple, and of course there was once a lot of opium in the area.
The gloomy weather, with drizzling rain, gave the town a veil of mystery and horror.
The couple’s arrival in this off-road luxury RV broke the loneliness and tranquility of the town.
In an empty area, Li Xiang stepped on the brakes and stopped, looked at Amy in the co-pilot, left the driver’s seat, picked up the coat on the hanger, put it on, took the umbrella, opened the car door and walked out, and then the car door closed automatically.
The couple walked along the road in the town, looking at the buildings in the town, as if they saw the former prosperity through these houses and buildings through the long river of time.
But the two did not see a single person.
From the observed details, although the town has lost a large number of people, there should be traces of living, but now there is no human breath and no sound of human activities.
The couple came to travel and liked to use spiritual power to perceive and explore the situation. After all, although it is very convenient, it will make the couple lose the excitement of exploring the unknown.
"Veronica, you said that ten years ago, there were more than 300 people living in the town, right?"
"Yes, sir."
Veronica said gently in the micro-earphone in her ear.
"I seem to smell a rotten smell." Amy suddenly frowned and turned her head to look at one of the houses in the distance on the left.
Both of them were injected with super gene serum, and it was an iterative and optimized version. Their physical fitness was no longer that of ordinary people. Their senses were optimized, including their sense of smell.
Li Xiang nodded and walked towards the house with Amy in his arms.
There was no feeling of fear. There was no way. The couple had an excellent son. The pendants on their necks contained the power of Li Ang. On Earth, any demon or monster who wanted to attack was equivalent to seeking death. (To read the violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Even if it was an ordinary person, the couple’s powerful spiritual power could solve it.
So when we first started planning our trip, we didn’t even consider the safety factor.
Coming to this retroIn front of the old western-style house, he gently reached out and pushed open the unlocked wooden door. A ray of light from the window let the two see the scene inside. On the sofa and the floor in the empty living room, there were several bodies that seemed to have died and rotted long ago.
Furniture covered with thick dust, old pancake frying pans, embroidered cans, and tattered kerosene lamps.
There were also pushed furniture and some messy traces, which seemed to be due to fighting.
The rotten stench made people sick. Amy frowned slightly, but she didn’t feel any discomfort.
Li Xiang walked over, looked around, and took a look at the moldy medicine on the table. He recognized it, shook his head and said, "They have been dead for a long time. They are all smokers."
"It seems that they died because of a fight for some reason."
"Let’s go to other places to have a look?"
Amy suggested, Li Xiang nodded, and the two left the house and looked for them one by one. There were no other bodies, but on the wide cross street in the center of the town, they saw a bulging earth mound on the ground and a metal object similar to a cross inserted in the center.
"Is this a cross vajra?"
Looking at the thing inserted in the center of the earth mound, Li Xiang was a little surprised, and then he heard Veronica’s voice.
"Yes, sir, according to the database, this is a cross vajra, one of the instruments of the Buddhist Tantric sect. According to analysis, there were hundreds of Orientals here in 347, and some of them should have brought related items and books."
Li Xiang and Amy looked at each other and remembered that they had indeed found a lot of items and books related to Buddhism during the previous search.
Now it seems that it should have been handed down from that time, otherwise it would be impossible for something related to Buddhism to appear here. []
"It seems that these people are dead and someone buried them."
"The rest of the people should have left too."
Amy was not sentimental or sad. She was still too young. As her vitality increased and she became healthier, she became more lively and cheerful without any burden or worry.
What’s more, these people have been buried, so what reason is there to be sentimental.
As for the extremely rotten corpse, she didn’t bother to pay attention to the few smokers.
She never liked drugs, because she had a brother who loved her but died of an overdose. She was sad for a long time.
She settled in Sedona because there were no drugs and no addicts. It was the best place for children to grow up safely. She swore that if her children lived in a gambling den in Chicago and took drugs with drug dealers.
She would definitely become the craziest mother in the world and kill all the drug dealers with a shotgun.
"Let’s go. I don’t want to spend the night here."
After witnessing this historic town, Amy and Li Xiang planned to leave. However, not long after they left, the couple’s footsteps suddenlySuddenly paused, looked at each other: "Did you hear it?"
"There are people?"
The two were a little surprised to hear footsteps, very light and a little messy. The couple smiled at each other in tacit understanding, and then walked towards the direction of the sound with umbrellas.
Walking along a street, passing by several wooden buildings, on a raised piece of land full of weeds in front, a small figure seemed to be carrying something and walked over with difficulty. As if sensing the gaze of the couple, it raised its little head and looked at the couple.
Although the distance was several hundred meters, Li Xiang and Amy still saw the child clearly. He had a messy blond hair wet by the rain, was about 1.4 meters tall, and wore old clothes that had been cut and patched and a pair of shoes that were too big for his feet.
The skin was sallow, and he was holding a fishing net and a bucket in his hands.
What surprised the two most was that the child’s eyes saw the strangers, very calm, without a ripple.
Has a unique temperament that is hard to describe. .
