"What's going on?" Zu An was in a daze as he saw the giant Taotie lingering around.
Pei Mianman glanced at the high platform not far away: "It must be afraid of this high platform, or there is some terrifying existence on the high platform that makes it afraid to approach."
"But there's nothing over there on the high platform." Zu An jumped directly into the air on his tiptoes, but didn't see anything.
"Let's wait a moment." Pei Mianman suggested. No matter what it was, even this giant glutton was afraid of an existence. It was probably not something they could deal with.
"Okay!" Although Zu An is usually careless, he is also a very cautious person at heart. Now that there is obvious danger on the high platform, he will certainly not rush there.
"I don't know when this guy will leave." The two were at the foot of the steps, and Pei Mianman frowned at the giant beast over there.
"Rather than it leaving, I'm more worried that it will rush over." Zu An roughly estimated the distance between the two parties, which was only about ten meters. This distance is almost as small for both practitioners and the gluttonous beast. It’s all done in one jump.
As soon as he finished speaking, the giant Taotie was obviously impatient, and he kicked off his back foot and rushed over.
Zu An: "..."
Why are you setting flags everywhere?
"Have you ever opened your mouth?" Pei Mianman was also quite speechless. It seemed that this was not the first time something similar happened along the way.
The two of them had no choice but to run up the steps.
But they had just run a few steps when suddenly bursts of ancient music came from the stairs.
Hearing the sound of the music, the giant Taotie, who was already menacing, hesitated and subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Where did this sound come from?" Pei Mianman was a little confused. There were no musical instruments around him, so why did the sound suddenly come out.
"It should have come from the stairs." Zu An said as he stepped on the stairs under his feet, and soon made another sound of music.
"How can the stairs make music?" Pei Mianman stepped on them in disbelief, and sure enough, another melody came out.
"I have seen some music stairs in my dream, and you can play various tunes when you step on them..." Zu An doesn't dare to use his hometown to talk about it now. After all, it is known that he was born and raised in Mingyue City. Pei Mianman is very fond of Mingyue City. I also know quite well that it is definitely impossible to fool him, and I can only push it into an illusory dream.
Pei Mianman already knew that he would dream of something magical, but he had no doubt: "The sound made by the steps was like wind chimes and like chimes, but unlike the pleasant melodies played by these instruments, these sounds were always gusts of wind. Array, it gives me chills down my spine when I listen to it.”
"If something is weird, it's better not to go up there anymore!" Zu An grabbed Pei Mianman.
The creepy music, as well as the giant glutton's hesitant patrol, revealed something strange everywhere.
But the giant glutton below did not let the two of them go. Although it did not dare to come up, it opened its bloody mouth and shot a long tongue directly at the two of them.
Even the skeleton warrior's hard-as-iron bones were shattered by its tongue before. How dare the two of them be careless and hurriedly dodge to the side.
However, the tongue of the giant glutton was like a spear, constantly poking at the two of them. Because the terrain was small and the space for shelter was limited, they were almost pierced by the opponent's tongue several times.
Zu An knew that this was not the way to go, and sooner or later he would be hurt by the other party's tongue, so he pulled Pei Mianman and continued walking up: "Now that things have come to a point, I can only go up and take a look first!"
Even if this giant glutton no longer attacks the two of them, it will always stay here, and the two of them will be trapped to death sooner or later.
Pei Mianman also hummed. In this situation, she would rather face the unknown risk than the disgusting Taotie.
The two of them walked up the steps, as if they were stepping on a piano, emitting various scale melodies, which echoed in this empty place, looking extremely strange.
"Have you ever felt that the air around here seems to be getting colder?" Pei Mianman crossed his arms and said with some confusion.
Zu An opened his arms: "Come here and give you a warm hug."
Pei Mianman spat: "You are always so immoral, I am talking to you about business."
Zu An also stopped smiling: "Yes, there might be something evil here, so be careful."
"There seems to be a stone tablet there with some words on it." Pei Mianman pointed to the top of the steps in the distance and said.
Zu An looked at it intently: "It's a pity that I can't see what's written on it."
It stands to reason that based on the two people's cultivation, this distance should not be a problem for them, but the air around the stone tablet seemed to be a little abnormal, making the fonts on it blurry.
However, as the two of them got closer, the blurred feeling lessened, and when they reached the last step, the fonts on it could finally be seen clearly.
It's a pity that those strange runes were still oracle bones. Zu An didn't recognize them at all. He tried calling Sister Queen a few times, but Mi Li didn't respond to him at all.
"Look back, turn back quickly, don't go up the forty-four steps!" Pei Mianman looked at the words on the stone tablet and read it slowly.
Zu An looked at her in surprise: "???"
"Do you know these words too?"
Pei Mianman shook his head blankly: "I probably don't recognize it, but I don't know why. I read it subconsciously just when I saw the layout."
"Forty-four steps. We just climbed up and it seems that there are exactly 44 steps in total." Zu An's face
The color is a bit ugly. The monument is too awkward to stand in. I could see it from below before, but I couldn’t see it clearly. I had to look forward to see it clearly.
But when we got there, it was too late to see clearly. It was obviously just to deceive people.
At this time, the melody on the steps turned into gusts of sinister wind, as if countless ghosts were wailing.
The two of them suddenly felt something strange moving under their feet. When they lowered their heads, they saw that the steps were made of countless skulls!
There were originally a row of brazier racks on both sides of the steps. Pei Mianman used black fire to light them. At this time, the normal flames shook for a moment, and then the color of the flames changed to a scary green.
"Let me go, what kind of rhythm is this!" Zu An swallowed.
As soon as he finished speaking, many transparent ghosts suddenly came out of the thickening fog around them, and they looked extremely ferocious, howling like ghosts.
"Ghost?" As a time-traveler with scientific education, the scene in front of him really subverted his common sense.
Pei Mianman quickly explained: "Under some special conditions, the immortal souls of the dead will form such evil spirits. Some classics refer to them as the underworld, but they are generally very rare..."
While she was explaining, those flickering ghosts were like sharks smelling blood. A group of them rushed towards the two of them, but more of them rushed towards the giant glutton. Obviously, the other party's size attracted more Much attention.
The Taotie ran away upon seeing this, but it had just chased Zu An and the two of them up the steps unknowingly. Although it didn't walk as far as the two of them, it still stepped on a few steps.
The surrounding evil spirits swarmed up and soon submerged its huge body.
The glutton roared again and again, waving its sharp claws in all directions, its bloody mouth biting everywhere, and even its sharp tail twitched in all directions.
It's a pity that those evil spirits are invisible objects, and its physical attacks directly pass through the bodies of those evil spirits and have no effect.
"嘤嘤嘤!"
At first, the giant glutton was howling angrily, but now it sounded more shrill and wailing.
Not long after, its huge body collapsed, and then the flesh and blood in some places disappeared, revealing dense white bones.
Based on this speed, it probably won't take long before the entire flesh and blood of its body will be devoured by those evil spirits.
Zu An and Pei Mianman had no time to be distracted at this time, because a small group of evil spirits also rushed towards them.
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There should be only one chapter today. Updates are not stable these days. I apologize and will add it later.
