The scorching sun was hanging in the sky, and the scorching sun burned people's throats. It felt like their whole body was about to be scorched, and even the hairs on their bodies were curled up.
Chen Tao followed Suoke and his party, always worried about Haozi and Ye Rong, as well as Uncle Long, whose life or death was uncertain. He remained silent along the way, and walked around every stone hill or pillar he passed, hoping that Can meet Haozi and the others who are separated.
Suoke was a cheerful person and talked a lot. He spoke Chinese very well. Seeing that Chen Tao was always anxious and angry, he couldn't help but comfort him:
"You don't have to think too much. I'm as worried about them as you are, but it's useless to worry. We can only pray to Hades to be lenient. Lord Barlow is the pride of our guard army, and Tatunaan will protect him. Yes, with him here, your friends shouldn't be in much danger, and not long has passed since we separated. They should be looking for us as well, as long as they can return to the main line again. , we will definitely be able to find them again!”
"I hope so!" Chen Tao prayed secretly. The complexity of Maka Lost City completely exceeded his imagination. In less than half an hour, more than 20 people disappeared quietly and could not be found.
There are more and more corpses and skeletons on the ground. Many of them were trapped here alive. People lose themselves in the illusion. They really wander around in this oven-like maze. In the end, they don't fall to death and starve to death. Just being sunk to death.
It is unknown who these people are. Judging from the number of bones around them, it is estimated that there are no less than tens of thousands of people who died in this Makami City.
What is the concept of tens of thousands of people? The combined population of an ordinary small town is only four or five thousand, and a better one is ten or twenty thousand. And the number of people who died in Makama City is at least three or four from big towns. population.
Many corpses kept walking or climbing postures, or showed other weird death postures. On his face, which was as tanned as dried meat, the remaining flesh had been torn apart by the sand and wild beasts.
These corpses date from different times. There are modern people wearing short clothes and long trousers, and there are also ancient corpses wrapped in robes and armor. There are scattered bandits with guns and cannons, as well as modern troops wearing military uniforms and well-armed.
Tourists, tomb robbers, desert bandits, warlords, hook-nosed foreigners, Americans, Germans, Soviets, and even Japanese.
Corpses and skeletons are scattered messily around the stone hills and stone pillars. Walking inside is like walking in a corpse city. Looking at them, they are all corpses with hideous dead looks. The more terrifying they are, the more terrifying they will be. Creepy.
In the open desert, it is difficult to preserve corpses. The skin, flesh and bones will be gradually eroded by the wind and sand. Most of the ancient corpses that died here have become white bones, leaving only a few scattered pieces of armor and rusty remains. The broken sword was still stuck in the sand and turned into slag when touched. In recent years, the body has been dried in the sun, and the clothes on the body are wrapped in rags. Occasionally, a gust of wind blows, and the rags sway in the wind like ghosts, as if summoning spirits.
Time is further away
If a person dies, there will be nothing left. When a person dies, it is like a lamp going out. If he is born on the loess, and dies in the loess, nothing will be left.
Sauk said that most of the people who died here, except those tourists and explorers who accidentally broke in, came for Tatunaan. This is the natural defense fortress of the Tatunaan people. I don’t know how many countries’ armies were destroyed here back then. Their bones could be piled up into a mountain.
They, the descendants of the guard, guard here day after day, year after year, not only to protect Tatunaan, but also to prevent anyone from accidentally breaking in and losing their lives.
Ke Ren is such a strange creature. The more you don't let him do anything, the more excited he becomes. If you let him go and let him do it, he will no longer be interested.
Even though Sok and the others have been preventing all of this, there are still people who sneak into the Maka Lost City and can't stop them. But more people are for the treasures under the Holy City. This powerful and mysterious country buried under the desert has been attracting people with ulterior motives for thousands of years, like a bottomless abyss with no end.
Sok said that there is a legend circulating in the desert that all those who have been to Tatunaan will one day bring more people here.
This is Tatunaan's curse.
The guards are not living Bodhisattvas. For those who break into Tatunaan with greed, since they are seeking death, the guards will never let them get out of here alive. If they entered accidentally, as long as those people did not disturb the Holy City, they would not care about anything else.
Such things as corpses can scare people half to death if they encounter one or two of them randomly, but if they see too many, people will become numb.
Chen Tao poked at a corpse on the ground with his gun. The man died not long ago, not more than a month ago. The corpse was blackened and swollen by the scorching sun. The skin and flesh all over the body were swollen and seemed to be about to burst. The face had completely lost its human appearance. There was an extremely unpleasant stench all over the body, which could not stop rushing into people's noses. Disgusting.
This man should have committed suicide. He was still holding a handful in one hand, with a big hole in his head, and his brains and blood had been dried out.
Chen Tao endured the churning in his stomach and pulled off the man's backpack. Regardless of the blood stains on it, he reached out and opened the zipper.
Inside the bag are some adventure items, a wolf-eye flashlight, a fire stick, a first aid kit, a walkie-talkie, as well as some compressed biscuits, beef jerky and other food.
Suoke carelessly took out all these things and distributed them to others, and then searched through the pile of mummies. There is a shortage of supplies in the desert, so they are probably used to searching dead people for their belongings.
Chen Tao did not participate in Suoke's search. Instead, he frowned and looked at the body on the ground seriously.
This man didn't dress like a local, nor did he look like an ordinary tourist. If his guess was correct, this man was probably the same group of people who captured the old cat from Balohad's mouth.
This group of people arrived earlier than Uncle Long and the others, and even set up a trap to bury them.
Wow, if the red-haired young man Balohad was talking about is really Yan, then he must be well prepared this time.
"Brother Suoke, you said before that you once saw an old cat being taken away by a group of people. Can you tell me what those people looked like?"
"What are you asking them for?" A strange expression flashed across Sok's face.
"To tell you the truth, one of my family members is in their hands. I am here just to rescue him." Chen Tao said seriously.
"Well..." Suoke nodded, and finally said something that made Chen Tao a little confused.
"Those people are so weird!"
"Very weird?" Chen Tao was puzzled.
"Yes, it's very weird. It's so weird that it makes people a little scared. If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, we wouldn't have believed that it was something a human being could do." Suok's expression became a little serious, "Especially ......that person!"
"that person?"
"Well, he's back again." Suok raised his head, with an inexplicable emotion in his eyes, looking at the end of the Enchanted City without saying a word.
"Are you talking about a follower of some great wizard?"
Seeing Suoke's heavy expression, Chen Tao instantly thought of the great wizard who was considered taboo by them and whose name was not even worthy of being mentioned.
"Little brother Chen Tao, these were originally taboos on Tatunaan, but you saved us. According to our Tatunaan tradition, you should be respected and protected, so it doesn't matter if I tell you these things. "
"You don't know that Tatunaan has disappeared for thousands of years, and we, the descendants of the guard, have also been guarding here for thousands of years!"
"Generation after generation of guards have stayed in this desolate desert, not only to prevent outsiders from entering the Holy City. But also to stop them!"
"Them?" Chen Tao asked with a frown.
"Yes, them!" Suoke looked serious, hesitated for a long time with a sullen face, and finally sighed deeply.
"I don't know what happened that year. It's been too long. It's been too long. For thousands of years, we have been looking for the real reason why Tatunaan was buried. Whether it was a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, Als When Prince Te went to war, Tatunaan was so powerful, but who would have thought?"
"On one side are the enemies who are constantly invading, and on the other side are their homes that suddenly disappeared. They were supposed to be victorious warriors, but in the end they all became homeless wanderers. The Prince of Ulster searched almost all over the desert. God bless you, I actually found a living person.”
"living people?"
"Yes, he is not a Tatunaan, but a messenger from the east, and the only one who survived that disaster."
"The messenger was once rescued by the Holy Girl, and later returned here with his disciples, saying that he wanted to marry the Holy Girl as his wife. The Holy Girl was the king's daughter, a noble princess of Tatunaan. But at that time, In order to unify the desert, the ambitious king needed a pure girl to sacrifice to the gods to pray for victory in the war.
victory. But he never expected that he would actually listen to the great wizard's slander and want to sacrifice the princess to the God of War as a saint. You know, once she becomes a saint, she can only stay in the temple for the rest of her life. She is not allowed to get married, nor can she leave the temple for even half a step. "
"Wait a minute, what's the name of that messenger!" Chen Tao was shocked. How could the messenger Suok mentioned look so much like Qian Shu Hongde!
"I don't know either, his name has been forgotten." Suoke shook his head.
From the look on Suok's face, it didn't look like he was lying, but Chen Tao had an inexplicable intuition that the messenger he was talking about was definitely Qian Shu Hongde!
"Then is your saint's name Natysha?"
Suoke was stunned and looked at Chen Tao in surprise: "How did you know?"
Sure enough!
Chen Tao clenched his fists tightly. It turned out that the old boy Qianshu Hongde wanted to see the saint of Tatunan. No wonder he said that the woman named Natisa was in the Holy City.
But.......
Didn't Qianshu Hongde say that he never came back until he died? Why did he become an envoy from the East and come back to propose marriage!
"What a cunning old fox!" Chen Tao silently greeted Qian Shu Hongde in his heart, and then asked:
"Then who is this great wizard?"
Suok gritted his teeth and snorted: "That person is a devil. He holds divine power. Not only is he greedy for the princess's beauty, he also turns the king into a puppet!"
(End of chapter)
