It literally disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Zhuge Liang just turned his head while expressing his dissatisfaction with Wu Liang, and when he looked back again, the shadows of Prince Chamu and others were no longer in his sight.

The most important thing is that the desert where they are now is quite flat, not even a larger sand dune can be found, and the terrain where Wu Liang and others are now is slightly higher, so Prince Chamu and others can't find it at all now.

There is no condition to hide from the sight of Wu Liang and others.

"..."

Everyone also looked puzzled.

This is not one person, but a dozen living people. How come they disappeared?

"Let's go over and have a look."

Wu Liang made a decision immediately.

This is not because we are worried about the safety of Prince Chamu and others. We are all adults. Since we dare to follow, we must be responsible for our own personal safety.

Moreover, even if something unexpected happened to Prince Chamu, Wu Liang would not be afraid at all.

Even King Shanshan's life was in his hands. Are he still afraid that he would be implicated in this matter later?

Not only was he not afraid, he didn't even feel any guilt in his conscience. It was not him who brought Prince Chamu out, but Prince Chamu who followed him here on his own initiative.

He mainly wanted to find out what happened.

After all, Prince Chamu told a rather strange rumor before, and that rumor was related to the desert at his feet. Although there were many unexplainable places in it, Wu Liang could only believe it or not.

No, because since he time traveled, he has seen many unreasonable things.

In this way, Wu Liang and his party spent another quarter of an hour turning back and arrived at the place where Prince Chamu and others had just disappeared.

There hasn't been a strong wind yet, and now there are relatively clear horse hoof prints left in the soft and flat desert.

There were a total of twelve people in Prince Chamu's party. In addition to riding horses, they also brought two carriages. The carriages also carried some supplies. Otherwise, these guys would not have been able to follow Wu Liang and others for three full days.

Because there were a large number of people, the horse hoof prints on the ground were a little messy, but it could still be judged that they had not changed direction and gone to other places.

Especially the ruts left by carriages.

When the carriage follows the team, it will leave two extremely clear parallel lines that will not be damaged. If there is a U-turn or change of direction, it will be clear at a glance.

However this is not the case.

In other words, before Prince Chamu and his party disappeared, they were still heading in the direction of Wu Liang and others.

Then.

All traces stopped abruptly at the place where Wu Liang and others saw them before!

Although the horse hoof prints on the ground look a little messier than the ruts, they are not significantly different from the previous marks. In other words, before Prince Chamu and others disappeared inexplicably, nothing happened that caused them to

Although they were panicking, they did not take any obvious actions such as resisting or escaping.

In this unnoticed situation.

They seemed to be evaporated instantly and disappeared into the desert.

"This... Young Master, is it possible that the rumors about that ancient city are true?"

Yu Ji's old face wrinkled up again habitually, and he asked nervously.

"How can I see it?"

Wu Liangzhong also had some guesses, but he also wanted to hear other people's opinions first, maybe they could provide new ideas, because he was still a little confused about some details.

"Without him, I'm just guessing based on the rumors about that ancient city."

Yu Ji shook his head again, frowned and said, "I thought that in the rumors, the caravan entered an ancient city inexplicably, and then the ancient city disappeared inexplicably when they left. From this point of view, the ancient city seemed to be a party with this ancient city.

A strange world that coexists with the desert but is isolated from it."

"So once someone accidentally steps into that ancient city, they will be out of this desert."

"And if you leave that ancient city, you will return to this desert."

"That's why the caravan experienced such a mysterious and mysterious adventure. As for the reason behind it, I can't figure it out for a moment. However, Prince Chamu and others have now inexplicably lost their traces in front of our eyes, and no one is alive.

The lack of corpses is connected with the things in the rumors. There may be some inevitable connection between the two. Young Master needs to be more careful. It is best not to get close to this place easily, otherwise we may even be connected.

He will also disappear inexplicably like Prince Chamu and others, and I don’t know if I will be able to come out by then."

After hearing these words, Yang Wanli curled his lips disdainfully and said habitually: "Old boy, there is no difference between you saying so much and not saying anything. I can make such baseless speculations in one breath.

Tell me ten versions, can you say something useful to the young master?"

But at this moment.

Wu Liang had a look of surprise on his face, as if he was deep in thought.

Parallel space?

Old boys of this era probably don't know the concept of "parallel space", but the sentence "The ancient city seems to be a strange world that coexists with this desert, but is isolated from this desert" is actually

The basic concept of "parallel world" has been put forward.

Of course, it only involves the concept of "space", and does not expand and extend into deeper directions such as time, matter, energy, etc.

However, for people in this era, it is quite rare to have such knowledge and conjecture.

And Yu Ji's words did provide Wu Liang with a direction that he had never considered before.

Because even in later generations, "parallel space" is just a concept and an idea, which usually only appears in film and television works and literary works. No one has ever been able to confirm the real existence of "parallel space".

In fact, this concept and assumption are not entirely the product of later generations.

As early as the 5th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher "Democritus" had already proposed the concept of "countless worlds".

In the 4th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher "Epicurus" proposed the idea of ​​world pluralism.

In the 1st century BC, the Roman Republic philosopher "Lucretius" pointed out on the basis of "Epicurus" thought that there are "other worlds" besides our "visible world".

, may also be inhabited by "other races of men and beasts."

In ancient China, it was not without similar concepts and assumptions.

Although the saying is borrowed from Buddhism, many ancient Chinese believe in the terms "Great Thousand Worlds", "Middle Thousand Worlds" and "Small Thousand Worlds", believing: ": A thousand worlds are gathered into one Small Thousand Worlds;

A thousand small thousand worlds gather into one middle thousand world, and a thousand middle thousand worlds gather into one great thousand world.”

These worlds coexist but are isolated. People in different worlds cannot perceive each other, cannot communicate with each other, and are completely unaware of the existence of other worlds.

And this concept is still very popular in later generations of fairy novels.

so……

If the rumored ancient city is regarded as a small "parallel world" and the concept of "parallel world" is used to explain the inexplicable disappearance of Prince Chamu and others, it can explain many details.

But does "parallel world" really exist?

Wu Liang had a big question mark in his heart.

Based on his own personal experience, he has now accepted the fact that there are various evil objects and phenomena in this world, but until he gets sufficient evidence, he is still not easy to accept the existence of "parallel space" because

The two are not the same concept at all.

But now the fact that Prince Chamu and others mysteriously disappeared before his eyes left him unable to explain.

then.

After Wu Liang pondered for a while, he turned around and said to everyone in the Hu army: "Dian Wei, Yang Wanli, you and I will have a good look around the area and pay attention to whether there are quicksands, pits and other dangers that are not easy to detect."

This is also one of the factors that may cause this to happen, especially the terrible quicksand.

If Prince Chamu and his party accidentally enter the quicksand area, they will indeed disappear mysteriously under the noses of Wu Liang and others without leaving any trace...

But if they encounter quicksand, it will always take a while to completely engulf Prince Chamu and his party.

Moreover, this process should not be that fast. Prince Chamu and his party also had the opportunity to call for help, and they should not disappear quietly like this.

In short.

Let's investigate first and then talk about it. Now, no matter how you guess, it's just talk on paper.

…

But the result of the investigation is... there is no so-called quicksand, and there is no so-called pit.

The area around here with a radius of 100 meters was an extremely ordinary desert. Wu Liang and others carefully explored the area and found nothing out of the ordinary.

Prince Chamu and his party quietly disappeared in front of Wu Liang and others in such an ordinary desert.

"Sir, a few living people have disappeared without any reason. From this point of view, this desert may be just like the rumors and more dangerous than imagined..."

Yu Ji obviously wanted to back off again, but this time he didn't say it explicitly. Instead, he frowned and turned a deaf ear to Wu Liang.

"Suppose, I mean suppose that the ancient city in the rumors really exists."

Wu Liang still said thoughtfully, "I guess the people passing by here want to enter. It can also be said that they disappeared mysteriously like Prince Chamu and his group. I'm afraid they also need an unknown opportunity to enter."

The people among them may not be able to come out alive like the rumored caravan, otherwise there might not be just such a rumor..."

"Brother Youcai means that Prince Chamu and his group may have triggered an opportunity that we didn't trigger?"
To be continued...