"I thought it was hidden deep in the desert."
Silver Fox murmured.
Zhou Jinru glanced at her. In fact, this statement was correct. Even if it was between reality and dreams, it was still in a desert.
Kobayashi Zongxin warned: "Attention! We are getting closer to the Eternal City!"
The group of them stood still and didn't move, but the black city in the distance kept getting closer. In just a few minutes, they were already in front of them.
I don't know when, a road built of stone bricks appeared in the deserted desert, leading to the Eternal City.
Partridge, who was kneeling on the ground, stood up tremblingly, his voice filled with reverence: "Look, Lord Nightmare is calling us!"
He couldn't wait to walk onto the stone brick road. He ran a few steps with his thin legs, but found that he was being lifted up.
The skinny old man was just suspended in the air, waving his limbs randomly, but unable to move away. He shouted angrily: "You ignorant fanatics! How dare you act so arrogantly in front of Lord Nightmare!"
"Quiet, if you say even half a word more, I will pull out your tongue."
Mr. Four, who was wearing a mask, said a rather terrifying threat in a calm tone. Partridge immediately closed his mouth. It could be seen that this man was different from the other four. He had a terrifying aura of hostility in him. You must keep your word, and if you continue to speak, you may lose your tongue.
Zhou Jinru nodded with satisfaction, looked at the others, and said calmly: "Kelsey and I came late, so we don't know the specific situation. Now I have a question that I hope you can answer."
Xiaolin Zongxin nodded: "Please tell me."
"This man said he would bring you to the Eternal City. All he had to do was hold the map and recite a prayer after the sun disappeared. Why must he bring adventurers? Listening to his tone, more than one person has been here before. People, according to the rumors circulating outside, no one who has seen the Eternal City has been able to leave, this is a trap."
His subtext is that people like you can also be deceived?
Silver Fox crossed his arms: "First of all, we have already answered your question before. The Eternal City cannot trap us or kill us. This is the difference. Secondly, the conditions given by Partridge It is up to us to protect him as he enters the Eternal City, and there will be dangers along the way."
"Okay, it's no problem now," Zhou Jinru nodded at Kelxi and motioned for her to put the old man down, "I know you all want to go to the city now, so please be alert, although you won't die. , but it must be uncomfortable to be injured.”
Linlang glanced at Kelsi and looked at her husband, but said nothing.
Something's wrong!
It's very strange that Kelsey would trust that man so much!
The thing that mentions Partridge is definitely Mon3tr. There is no doubt about this, so Kelsey cannot be someone else pretending to be him.
In other words, a stranger now has her trust.
Zhou Jinru didn't mind their looks at all. He walked up to Partridge, squatted down patiently, and said seriously: "I'm sorry for what happened just now. Please don't mind."
"snort!"
The old man snorted and turned towards the stone road.
Xiao Lin Zongxin whispered: "Are you being too cautious?"
Zhou Jinru shook his head slightly: "Look at him, so many adventurers died here, how can it be that simple?"
"To be honest, your tone and manner are very similar to one of my friends."
"You can think of me as him for the time being, and maybe there will be less barriers between us."
Zhou Jinru was the second to embark on this road. Miraculously, every time he took a step forward, the distance to the Eternal City was decreasing at an accelerated rate, and the actual time spent was much less than expected.
But the closer he got to the black city, the heavier the depression in his heart became, as if he was not facing a silent city of ruins, but a war fortress.
"The rumored Eternal City is actually like this. Look at the crossbow carts on the city walls. How can they still be intact after so many years?"
Kelsey looked solemn and said in a serious tone: "This land has many secrets. I can feel that this city is still alive, it is not dead."
"I also have this feeling."
Linlang followed Kelsi half a meter behind, and the person walking at the back was her husband Xiaolin Zongxin.
Silver Fox held the detector in his hand and frowned: "The air composition is normal and there is no peculiar smell. There is no need for a gas mask for the time being."
"Could it be that our inability to see the city before was due to optical phenomena in the desert?"
"No."
Zhou Jinru and Linlang spoke at the same time, and the latter motioned for him to speak first.
"I have a special ability. No illusion can take effect. This city is not real."
After Linlang thought for a moment, she shook her head and said: "It is indeed not real. If it is through optical effects, I can see through it."
"That……"
"Dreams, or historical retrospection, haha, it sounds strange, but we are walking in a period of history."
Zhou Jinru is very familiar with these. He has experienced them several times, from the dream rituals of the Deep Sea Council to the dream simulations of Rhodes Island, and he is already familiar with them.
Sometimes dreams are no different from reality. The difference lies in the perspective of the person experiencing them.
"careful!"
Kelsey, who was following Zhou Jinru, suddenly shouted. Zhou Jinru had already moved before she made a sound. There was nothing in front of him, but his hand reached out in advance like a prophet, and he grabbed something with his five fingers. The ground was thrown onto the stone brick road.
boom!
The masonry is cracking!
A twisted monster gradually emerged, with no discernible human form, let alone what it was.
Zhou Jinru stepped on the twisted monster and let it struggle without moving at all.
"This is a twisted creature. It may have been a human or an animal in life. Free it!"
Partridge, who didn't know where he was hiding, came out and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Zhou Jinru looked at him, and the latter shrank his neck, as if he remembered the previous threat.
"Do you know what this is?"
"Of course I know! Lord Nightmare's Xue army and King Sargon's bodyguard led the war against the evil demons. In the end, the balance of the war tilted towards us, and the evil demon invasion was completely defeated!"
As the Rigoletto, Partridge proudly spoke of his glorious exploits that year.
Kelsey looked at him quietly: "This happened a long time ago. Those who experienced it personally have long been buried in the ground. History has turned into legends, and legends have turned into myths. Now the Sargon people only think that It was a heroic epic.”
After finishing off the twisted creatures with their own hands, they were only a few hundred meters away from the city gate, but at this moment, a low horn sound echoed under the gray sky.
