Looking at the vague mark on the stone pillar, Chen Tao was stunned.
how can that be possible!
Grandpa actually told himself the route map under the Hall of the God of War Nakarosa a long time ago. Thinking of the strange letter in his mind, and then thinking about the bead that was also placed in the beast box by grandpa, Chen Tao's heart pounded. Jumping straight, the more I thought about it, the more frightened I became.
Could it be that grandpa had known that such a day would come?
To be honest, Chen Tao didn't believe these things at all, but everything that happened after that seemed to confirm it, as if his grandfather had predicted everything about Chen Tao.
First Heizigou, then the bead, and now this mark and route, each time saved his life at the most critical moment.
Grandpa, grandpa, who are you? Are you just making mistakes, or are you really good at predicting things?
Chen Tao didn't dare to think about it anymore, he was extremely horrified.
"Chen Tao, didn't you say you knew how to get out? Why are you still standing there? Let's go!"
Ye Rong was urging anxiously from the side, and the big bat with a grimace above his head hung in everyone's heart like the god of death. Not only is this thing extremely fast, but it is also highly poisonous. If you get bitten by it, even if it scratches your skin, you will die!
Chen Tao regained his mind. Now that the situation could not be delayed, he immediately pulled out the spear stuck in the ground. Haozi and Ye Rong were guarding him on both sides. The three of them maintained a stable formation and kept shuttling between the stone pillars.
"Stand still on the spot three to the left, five to the front, and walk diagonally one step behind the right!" Chen Tao silently recited the formula taught to him by his grandfather. Although he didn't know why he had to walk through these stone pillars like this, since his grandfather said so, There must be some reason for it.
"Taozi, why are you wandering around like this? You have to scurry around like a greedy snake on such a wide road?"
When Haozi saw Chen Tao leading them around, he immediately had doubts about the route Chen Tao said.
"Stop talking nonsense, just follow me!" Chen Tao was also confused. His grandfather had asked him to memorize this route by rote, and he didn't elaborate on the reason. What's more, at that time, Chen Tao only wanted to make a bunch of candied haws a day. Who knew that this string of formulas was actually the route forward for His Highness Nacarosa, the God of War!
"No, are you trustworthy? I don't want to be torn apart by these black-haired beasts with you, and end up like black feces and balls all over the floor! What the hell are you doing!"
"Play chess!" Chen Tao was not in the mood to talk nonsense with Hao Zi. He carefully recalled the formula his grandfather taught him in his mind, for fear of remembering a word wrong. Although he didn't know what secret was hidden in it, he absolutely believed that they would be able to get out by following his grandfather's formula!
"Playing chess? I'm talking about Taozi. Although I don't have much education, don't lie to me. How can you play chess like this? How long has it been since?" Haozi firmly grasped the rifle and stared at the top of his head without blinking. The big bat with a funny face doesn’t feel relaxed at all
"Do you feel that there seem to be fewer bats above your head?" Ye Rong held a rifle in her hand and was also wary of the bats above her head, but she took aim.
For a long time, no bats were seen rushing down.
"Huh???" Haozi smacked his lips and said strangely: "Not only are they missing, why don't these black-haired beasts come down?"
Chen Tao looked up at the dim roof of the palace. In the flickering light of the torch, although there were still many big bats with grimaces hovering above his head, they flew away as if they had not seen Chen Tao and others.
"No, look, those bats have never touched these stone pillars!" Ye Rong observed carefully and explained the strangeness in one sentence.
A flash of excitement flashed in Chen Tao's head. He looked at the big bats. At first glance, they were all circling and flying above them. But if you really pay attention, you will find that the flight trajectories of these big bats seem to have some kind of mystery.
All bats will choose to avoid certain stone pillars when passing by them, and turn around and fly elsewhere. Even the mummies on the stone pillars are better preserved than those on other stone pillars. It can be seen that over the past thousands of years, Although these ghost-faced giant bats feed on mummified corpses, they have never touched the corpses on these special stone pillars. And these stone pillars bypassed by bats are exactly where Chen Tao stays every time.
I see!
Chen Tao realized in his heart that these positions in Grandpa's mantra were the stone pillars that bats could not touch! These bats instinctively avoided these stone pillars for some unknown reason. Perhaps my grandfather discovered this hidden pattern and entered Tatunaan alive!
Haozi's face was full of surprise, "Taozi, you are so amazing. How did you discover the secret of these black-haired bats?"
Chen Tao grinned and thought to himself, if I knew, could I still tell you? Would I tell you this is what my grandpa taught me?
"Because I'm handsome!"
Chen Tao said something casually and concentrated on leading Haozi and Ye Rong to retreat according to the route in the formula. Without the intrusion of the Grimace Bats, the three of them felt a lot more at ease, but they did not dare to relax too much. After all, there were the bearded gang of murderous gangsters behind them, and they were much more dangerous than these Grimace Bats.
After walking for about ten minutes, Chen Tao and the others stood in front of the last stone pillar at noon, which was the last position in Grandpa's formula.
I originally thought that this mantra would end up as a passage or a stone door, but what I saw in front of me was also an square stone pillar, and the mummy on it had disappeared. Only four holes remain.
Chen Tao stuck his spear on the ground, held a torch and circled around the stone pillar, carefully inspecting the last stone pillar.
"Impossible, why is there nothing?"
Chen Tao scratched his head anxiously. There were location signals left by his grandfather on the first few stone pillars, but when it came to the last one, why was there no location signal?
Chen Tao didn't believe in evil, so he carefully checked around the stone pillar again. Since his grandfather left a complete formula, there must be a sign to go out, and he remembered it correctly, so it couldn't be missing.
Sure enough, when Chen Tao got into the square hole to check, he suddenly found a familiar mark on the inner wall of one of the square holes, with only two words on it:
Entrance!
Next to the mark, there is a baby's fist size
Small holes, square in shape, wipe away the surrounding sand and dust, and you can vaguely feel a circle of small gaps around the square hole when you touch it with your fingers.
Chen Tao bent over and looked at the square hole, then put his finger into the square hole and touched it. He found that the hole was no more than one finger deep, and there were some deep grooves inside, which seemed to be some kind of mechanism.
"This must be a mechanism to open the secret door. We still need a key!" Ye Rong looked at the square hole, and then looked at Chen Tao hopefully, as if waiting for him to take out the key.
Looking at Ye Rong's eyes, Chen Tao's head ached.
And a key?
He only knew that his grandfather Chen Tao entered Tatunaan and took away Tatunaan's key. And in the beast box that grandpa left for him, apart from the letter and the map, the only thing left was the bead! But now, the bead has been snatched away by the bearded man, so where is the key? Is it possible that the two torn pieces of paper can still be used to pry it open?
Chen Tao scratched his hair anxiously and frowned at the square hole on the inner wall.
Wait, this square hole!
Chen Tao handed the torch in his hand to Ye Rong and carefully marked the length and thickness with his hand.
Damn it!
Chen Tao's head buzzed, and the hairs all over his body suddenly stood up.
The size of this square hole is exactly the same as that of the beast box containing beads!
Could it be that the second key is that box?
What should I do? The box is still in my hometown in the ancient city. When I came out this time, Chen Tao didn't bring it with me!
Chen Tao's head was spinning rapidly. The box his grandpa left for him was still at home, but the one he brought out from Heizigou was exactly the same as the one his grandpa left behind. Maybe he could open it too!
Chen Tao's eyes flashed with heat, and he reached his back to take out his backpack, and his heart suddenly sank.
Oops! My backpack is still in the hands of Big Beard and the others!
"The key is in my backpack, but my bag is still in the hands of Big Beard and the others!" Chen Tao's face was a little ugly, and his brows were twisted into knots.
"What!" Ye Rong's pretty face froze, and she kept her mouth open for a long time without saying anything.
"Holy shit!" Haozi kicked the black sand on the ground hard, then slapped his head suddenly, as if he remembered something, and said, "I know where your bag is!"
"Quickly tell me where it is!" Chen Tao looked anxious.
"When I went to grab bags before, I saw your bag being carried by one of them. As for whether the things are still there or not, I don't know!" After saying this, Haozi regretted, "If I had known, I should have tied up your bag at that time. We grabbed it together, alas!"
"We must get the bag back. We can't get out without the key. Even if we don't get caught by these big bats with grimaces, we will still be trapped here alive!" Ye Rong bit her silver teeth, a trace of unwillingness flashed across her face.
"Now I can only bite the bullet and grab it back!" Haozi loaded the rifle with bullets and pulled the bolt with a click.
"Okay." Chen Tao clenched his fists tightly, "Follow me, we will quietly go around the Bearded group and act according to the opportunity!"
The three of them discussed it
Strategy, led by Chen Tao, circled back to the location where they last saw Big Beard and others.
Faced with such a large number of grim-faced giant bats and such ferocious attacks, Big Beard and the others were fully armed, but they could not withstand it after all. Returning to the previous place, they saw only bat corpses and human blood all over the ground. Big Beard and the others Suffering heavy losses, only about twenty of the original seventy or eighty people were left, and they were retreating in formation to the altar.
Ta da da da da...
The air was filled with a strong smell of blood and stench, mixed with the smell of gunpowder after burning bullets. There were constant gunshots all around, and bats kept falling from the air and falling into the pile of corpses on the ground.
Chen Tao and the others extinguished the torches and hid quietly behind a stone pillar not far from Big Beard and the others. After observing in secret for a long time, Chen Tao's eyes lit up.
"Found it, the backpack is there!"
(End of chapter)
