What the hell...
At the critical moment, the flame of the lighter went out. Chen Tao cursed in his heart, and hurriedly turned the rotor to light it again, but the evil wind just wouldn't stop. He didn't know whether it was because of his shaking hands or the wind, and the flint came out. A series of sparks came out, but they couldn't be struck.
Vaguely, he felt something crawling on the ground. Out of instinct, Chen Tao threw a handful of sand over without thinking.
"Bah! Who the hell am I!"
Upon hearing this sound, Chen Tao breathed a sigh of relief, lit the fire with a click, and said to the figure in front of him.
"Haozi, is it you!"
"F*ck! Taozi, you're not dead!" Haozi rubbed his eyes with both hands, "I don't know who killed Qian Dao just now, the sand even sprayed into my eyes!"
"It's windy here, I guess it was blown. Come, let me help you!" Looking at Haozi's appearance, Chen Tao couldn't help but blush. Fortunately, he couldn't see the sand in his eyes. Immediately, he put the lighter on the stone aside and took out a kettle to rinse Haozi's eyes.
"Ah..."
A groan of pain came from the darkness.
"By the God of the Desert, I, Takji, am still alive."
It turns out to be old man Takji!
No wonder the thing in the sand pile was so big just now. It turned out that there were two big living people buried there.
Seeing a bright light in front of him, Takji also touched it.
"What is this place?"
"I don't know either. I just found out that Ye Rong was missing, so I looked for her everywhere. Unexpectedly, she fell down as soon as my feet were empty."
Haozi pulled out a fluorescent stick from his lower back and broke it hard, and the surrounding area suddenly lit up.
"Where is our beautiful lady Ye Rong?"
"It's so deep down there. She probably fell under the stone steps. Come on, let's go find her."
"When a hero saves a beauty, Master Hao, I will do my part!"
The three of them carefully descended the stone steps, leaning on the stone wall. This staircase was longer than they imagined, leading all the way to the darkness at the bottom.
"It should be some kind of basement. Now that we can't get out from above, we can only go inside. Maybe there is some way out."
Chen Tao held the fluorescent stick high up in order to see the situation under the stone steps as clearly as possible.
The end of the stone steps faced a tall stone wall. Something seemed to be carved on it. Chen Tao and the others walked closer and found that there was a giant face with a human head on it. There were strange patterns carved on the face, as if he was wearing a helmet. A mask. The stone statue wears a unique hair crown on its head. If you look closely, each hair is like a long snake spitting out letters. What's even more surprising is that there are three eyes on this stone face. The head has closed eyes, and there is a vertical eye on the forehead, with a stone bead inlaid in the eyeball.
Underneath the human face, there are two strange giant beasts entangled, a bit like two large lizards, but upon closer inspection, they are not.
Haozi took out the Langya flashlight and shined a light on the bead. The stone bead was crystal clear, and there was a layer of light green fluorescence around the seal.
"Damn, this is a luminous pearl! It's a pity that it has lost its luster, but it's so big, it's awesome!" Haozi's eyes shone, and he was about to get the flashlight with his teeth clenched.
"True God bless, True God bless!" Takji knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, "This is the goddess Nakara, the messenger of the undead who controls the desert. The bead cannot be moved. We will be punished by the goddess!"
Haozi looked disdainful, "I don't believe you!" After saying that, he was about to step forward, but was stopped by Chen Tao.
"What can you do if you take it? If you can't get out, you might as well stay here. Besides, we are in unpredictable dangers now. That thing weighs more than ten kilograms at least. Can you carry it?"
"Indeed, it's a pity that such an orb would be blown into stone if left here!"
Chen Tao shook his head and turned to look at the other side of the stone steps. He saw a glimmer of light in the sand in the distance and a person lying next to him.
"It's Ye Rong!" Chen Tao rushed to Ye Rong and helped her up.
Ye Rong probably rolled down the stone steps and was still unconscious. I checked her body and found that there was nothing serious, so I felt relieved.
"Hey! Wake up!"
It seemed that Chen Tao's shouting had an effect. Ye Rong slowly opened her eyes.
"where is this place?"
"I didn't know either. The stone palace above collapsed and we were all buried under the ruins."
Ye Rong rubbed her head and stood up, digging out the flashlight from the sand.
"We have to find an exit quickly, otherwise we will all die here."
Directly opposite the stone wall, there is another section of stone stairs going down, but this section is obviously wider than the ones on both sides.
Down there is an open underground palace, with thick pillars firmly supporting the roof of the palace. There are yellow sand and collapsed stone statues everywhere. Every turning stone and pillar around is covered with strange patterns. The cold wind As it blew through, the entire hall felt cold inside and out, and those who looked at it felt chilly on the back of their necks.
"This should have been a temple in the past, but now it is so dilapidated."
In the center of the hall is a tall stone statue, which is exactly the same as the giant face on the stone wall, except that the eyes of this stone statue are open.
The old man Takji bowed three times to the stone statue and muttered something. Everyone could not understand what he was saying, so they ignored him.
The three of them walked around the hall, but the result was that everyone was disappointed.
There seems to be only one exit in the entire hall. This time, everyone may have to wait here to die.
Several people gathered under the stone statue and cleaned out everything on their bodies.
Two wolf-eye flashlights, a dagger, three glow sticks, a lighter, half a jug of water in the kettle, and several packages of dried meat.
"We can't survive three days with just this."
"Unexpectedly, I couldn't save him, but I was trapped here first. If I had known, I would have called Shangui and the others..." Chen Tao leaned against a fallen stone pillar and couldn't help but feel Some regret my recklessness.
"As the saying goes, it's better to live than to die. At least we are still alive and well now!" Haozi waved his hand: "If we look further, there may be other ways out!"
"We have searched everywhere we can, and we have broken into the palace of death. Not even the true god can protect us!"
Ye Rong looked at her watch. Five hours had passed since everyone hid in the ruins of the ancient city and then they fell into the temple. The storm outside still did not stop, but the sound was much quieter.
"The storm has weakened. We'd better conserve our strength and wait until the storm subsides to find a way out."
"Get out? How can you get out? Are you still digging with your hands?" Haozi grabbed a handful of yellow sand and looked up to the sky and howled, "I never thought that I, Li Haoying, would die in a place like this at such a young age. I am so jealous of Yingcai. ah!"
"Hey, old man, will it help if you beg her? If you beg her again, she won't jump out and take us out."
Without saying a word, Takji kept kneeling down to the stone statue.
"Where are we now?" Chen Tao ignored Hao Zi who was grumbling and walked to sit next to Ye Rong.
"We encountered sandstorms from here before. If we go in the right direction, we should be here." Ye Rong took out the map. She had fled in a panic, and everyone's direction was confused. Looking at the compass in her hand, she We can only estimate a rough location.
"It doesn't seem like the deviation is very severe. It's not that far away from where Uncle Long and the others disappeared..."
I don't know how long it took before Chen Tao woke up from his drowsiness. When did he fall asleep?
Looking at the time, it was already noon. After raging all night, the sandstorm outside finally stopped.
After rubbing his aching head, Chen Tao got up from the ground. Since entering the desert, those strange dreams have appeared more and more frequently. Chen Tao has a vague feeling in his heart that it is not a coincidence that he will come here this time.
There was a voice in my mind that seemed to be guiding me step by step into the depths of the desert.
Hisssssssssssssssssssssss.....
Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the darkness, as if something was crawling.
Chen Tao immediately became alert, holding the dagger in his hand and pushing Hao Zi beside him to wake up.
"What are you doing? You're just watching a beautiful woman get excited. Don't... ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooovt..."
Seeing Haozi muttering incessantly, Chen Tao quickly covered his mouth. The rustling noises around him became louder and louder. Chen Tao was sure that there must be something around!
Ye Rong and the old man Takji seemed to have noticed something was wrong around them.
Takeji pulled out an Yingisha knife from his boots, gritted his teeth and said:
"When there's a sandstorm, all the animals on the ground are frightened, and no one cares about anyone else. After the sandstorm passes, you may find wolves and gazelles hiding in the same room. At that time, it's time for the wolves to fight. Teething, if it is a yellow sheep, it is time to stretch out the horns on its head..."
