"Who are these people?" Chen Tao looked at the strangely dressed corpses on the ground. These people obviously belonged to a common organization. Everyone was wearing the same style of modern black hunting clothes, and there was a Big hood.
Chen Tao knelt down and turned the face of one of the corpses upward. Judging from their appearance, these people did not have obvious regional characteristics like Balohad and others. They should all be Han Chinese from the mainland.
What made Chen Tao a little curious was that each corpse had a silver thumb ring on its left thumb.
He took the wrench off the left thumb of the corpse and took a look at it, and found a series of strange numbers engraved on it, which seemed to be some kind of number.
"These people are very strange..."
Chen Tao frowned and muttered, but Balohard on the side suddenly said: "It turns out it's them..."
"Commander Barlow, have you seen them?"
"Well, that happened last month. There was a big storm at the time. I saw a group of people entering the desert during the storm. I didn't expect them to come here!"
"At that time, five or six tourist groups entered the desert. In the last tourist group, I once saw an enemy wearing the same attire. I never saw them again after that."
"Last month..." Chen Tao frowned.
Those tourist groups must not be ordinary tourists. They are most likely a group of organized mysterious forces. In order to cover up others' eyes and avoid unnecessary trouble, they entered the desert in batches to look for Tatunaan.
If calculated according to the time Balohad mentioned, that period of time happened to be the third day after Uncle Long and his gang disappeared. At that time, he and Uncle Long were on their way to Heizigou.
Thinking that the old cat that originally disappeared in Heizigou actually appeared in the desert, Chen Tao couldn't help but wonder, is there some kind of connection between the two?
The corpse had been here for at least four or five years. After being exposed to the scorching sun, the corpse was already swollen and smelly. The smell was really unbearable.
Seeing that they found nothing more, everyone continued to move forward along this road. After walking not far, Chen Tao's expression changed again.
There were a few more corpses on the ground, also killed by bullets. However, their clothes were not as neat and uniform as those of those people, but they were not unfamiliar at all in Chen Tao's eyes.
Some of these people were Uncle Long's guys, and one of them, Chen Tao, had met at the Suzhou Market. There are also two corpses a little further away. They are dressed in similar clothes. They should be from Ye Rong and the others.
"Haozi!" Chen Tao called Haozi, looked at the corpses and said, "These are Uncle Long's men. They were beaten to death by the group behind them during the retreat."
"It seems that Uncle Long's situation is worse than I imagined..." Haozi squinted at Chen Tao: "Taozi, it's not that I'm being harsh, maybe we should be prepared for the worst-case scenario get ready."
Chen Tao had a sullen face, clenched his fist hard and said: "The matter has not reached the final step yet, Uncle Long and the others must still be alive! We can't delay any longer, let's go rescue them quickly!"
With the faint moonlight, the group of people quickly shuttled through the dense forest. Soon, the Devil's Willow in front of them gradually disappeared, and the surrounding artificial buildings gradually increased. In the end, only large stretches of sand dunes remained. and some remaining stone walls and columns.
"We have left the Forest of the Undead, and the Caer Cave is behind the sand dunes." Balohad pointed in a direction ahead, "The terrain here is open, and there is a moat over there. We can walk through the river. Directly to the hinterland of Gar Cave.”
On the way before, Chen Tao once asked Balohad that the ancient city of Tatunaan was oval in shape, similar to an egg, with a total of seven gates. The position where Chen Tao and the others came out was on the side of the egg, and the location of the Gal Cave was at the large end of the oval. In front of the Gal Cave was the legendary temple where King Tatunaan was buried.
As for the body of the great wizard, it was buried under the main city gate at the tip of the egg, separated by a city's distance.
In other words, if Bruno and the others want to resurrect the great wizard, they must first go to the main city gate and dig out the corpse of the great wizard buried under the road. The road was paved with huge boulders. If Bruno and the others wanted to dig out the body, it would not be easy.
Back then, Bruno awakened the Great Wizard and released its soul from the magic box. However, because he did not dig out the Great Wizard's body, the Great Wizard was still unable to leave Tatunaan, and was eventually killed by Chen Tao's grandfather, Chen Tao. Sealed into Nakara's magic box.
Although there are various indications that Bruno and O'Ronker arrived at Tatunaan much earlier than Chen Tao and the others, in such a short period of time, they wanted to dig out the sarcophagus containing the great wizard's body from under the boulder. , it’s not that easy either.
This is also the main reason why Balohad wants to enter the temple from the Caer Cave.
The moonlight shines on the ground like snow, and the sand dunes in the distance are covered with a layer of silver gauze. From here, the city wall of Tatunaan can be seen in the distance.
Vicissitudes of life, heavy, this mysterious ancient city that has been sleeping for thousands of years has once again appeared in front of the world. Chen Tao looked at the majestic giant city, which was just a corner of the city wall. The invisible oppression and suffocation felt like a giant breaking through the shackles of time and stepping out of the dusty history.
The shock from ancient culture cannot be described in words. It can only be experienced when facing it in person.
Everyone carefully crossed the sand dunes and finally climbed into the moat from under the city wall.
This moat is seven or eight meters deep and five or six meters wide. The river has dried up long ago. The river is full of silted yellow sand and gravel. When Chen Tao jumped from it, he stepped on a stone and almost lost his life. The foot is crooked.
Everyone lit the torches again. The stone walls on both sides were high enough, so there was no need to worry about people above seeing them. The group of people moved forward slowly against the stone wall on the outside. The bottom of the river was jagged with rocks, and there were even many corpses. There are people and some animals. It seems that this river is not peaceful underground. The stone walls on both sides are so high that animals cannot climb out if they fall in. When a storm breaks out, they will be buried alive in the sand.
"Commander Balo, the two sides of the river are so high, how can we get up in a while?" Chen Tao looked at the high stone walls on both sides and felt a little scared. The Gar Cave is on the bank of the river. It is such a high place, and there are all the things on it. It's sand, and he can't fly out unless he has wings.
"The moat is connected to the river channel of Gardong. The river flows from there into the underground river. There is a place to climb up there." Balohad held a torch and led the way. Judging from his appearance, he was very familiar with this river channel. , probably not the first time here.
"My father and the others entered the temple from here last time. Unexpectedly, I came back here again."
Sure enough, after walking for a certain distance, there was a fork in the river ahead. Balohad asked everyone to extinguish the torches, and everyone turned in along the fork. The river began to rise slowly here, and the steep stone walls on both sides began to gradually slow down.
Finally, Balohard led everyone to climb up in an extremely hidden place.
Looking at the messy boulders in the river, Chen Tao couldn't help but wonder if this place was specially set up by his grandfather for the purpose of landing.
Climbing out of the river, Chen Tao was almost dumbfounded, staring blankly at the glorious hall in the distance.
"Is this...Gar Cave?"
Chen Tao had always thought that the so-called Jiaer Cave was actually countless mouse holes in the desert. But when he actually stood in the Jiaer Cave, he discovered that Jiaer Cave was actually a temple.
These temples are not very high. Proportionally speaking, they are dozens of generations smaller than the Temple of Hades and God of War that they passed before. They seem to be specially used to provide life for the rats in the Gal Cave. This is a continuous group of low buildings. Each wall is carved with exquisite patterns and decorations. There are many collapsed stone pillars around it, and reliefs with mouse elements can still be vaguely seen on them.
As Tatunaan's national guardian beast and the patron saint in the hearts of countless warriors, Jialdong once again refreshed Chen Tao's three views without mercy.
But after thinking about it, Chen Tao felt relieved.
Every civilization has its own different culture. As the most powerful country at the time, Tatunaan would naturally not avoid the sacred beasts that protect the country in their hearts like other places. It can be imagined that in Tatunaan at that time, these mice enjoyed such noble and luxurious treatment, which was probably not even comparable to the nobles of Tatunaan.
Balohad led everyone to sneak in quietly from a ruins. Everyone hid behind a collapsed wall. From a distance, they saw a group of people dozing around several fires, and several others were standing there. While keeping vigil.
"It's those strange people!" Chen Tao's eyes lit up. Those people in the distance were the ones he saw on the road before, wearing black hooded hunting suits and wearing strange thumbs on their left thumbs.
"One...two...three...four..." Haozi hid beside Chen Tao, counting those people quietly in his mouth The number, "There are twenty-three people in front."
"Have you seen Uncle Long?" Chen Tao asked Haozi in a low voice, with a hint of anxiety in his voice, and his eyes carefully searched the group of people.
"No, what about you, Ye Rong, have you seen the person you want to save?" Ye Rong looked at the crowd in the distance with big eyes without blinking, and shook her head.
Chen Tao did not give up, and still stared at the area and searched carefully. His eyes swept through visible corners one after another, and finally saw several figures tied to statues under a dim stone wall.
That place was too dark, and the light couldn't shine through. I could only vaguely see a few people tied there, and several people guarding the area.
Looking at those people, Chen Tao's heart tugged hard, "Could it be that those people are Uncle Long and the others!"
