Before Meng Zitao was in the palace, he did not find a water source, but he noticed that there were animal feces and some bones next to the palace, and it was not at the place where the stone bridge and the road leading to the palace bordered, which made him have a guess in his heart.

So, he took Shu Ze to inspect the side of the palace, and from time to time he also paid attention to the dangers around him.

It may be that Meng Zitao has a strong smell of male yellow on their bodies, or maybe those snakes were frightened by Meng Zitao's power, although they were eyeing the two of them, they did not attack, but a few snakes followed from a distance.

Of the other snakes, a small number were fighting the jackal, and the others were attracted by the people on the other side of the palace.

"There it is!"

Meng Zitao saw a pond not far away, his heart was happy, he guessed correctly, there is indeed a water source here, and it is still living water, water flows out of the ground, pours into the pool, through a ditch, into a well next to the stone wall.

In addition, there are traces of animal activity at the edge of the pool, which is obviously the underground fountain of life, relying on its jackal and snake to live.

When he got closer, Meng Zitao found that there were still fish living in the pond, which looked like tilapia, but some of them were bigger, and he didn't know what they relied on to survive.

Shu Ze was amazed when he saw the fish in the pond, and said with a smile that he really wanted to eat grilled fish here. But before he could finish speaking, he was pulled by Mencius Tao.

"Bang!" There was a loud bang, the water splashed, and Shu Ze, who was pulled away by Meng Zitao, saw a crocodile with sharp teeth, opened its bloody mouth, and bit it, if it weren't for Meng Zitao's quick movements, it is estimated that at this moment, he would have been missing some parts on his body.

When the crocodile saw that he had pounced on himself, he did not stop, climbed ashore, and rushed towards the two of them.

Generally speaking, crocodiles on land can't run fast, although there are special circumstances, but at most they are comparable to humans, however, the crocodiles here don't know if it's because they want to prey on snakes and jackals, they actually evolved their running speed, although they are not as fast as lightning, but they are much faster than ordinary people, if they don't concentrate, they will definitely not be able to avoid its culling.

It's just that this unlucky crocodile met Meng Zitao, who pulled Shu Ze behind him and pointed a sword at the crocodile.

A cold light flashed, and the crocodile was still running forward, however, it was only because of inertia, and after a few steps, the crocodile's head fell off, and after a few more steps, it fell to the ground.

"Why, why are there crocodiles here!"

From the crocodile attack just now, to the end of the crocodile, it only took more than ten seconds from beginning to end, and after a while, Shu Ze recovered from the fright, looking at the crocodile that was already dead and couldn't die anymore, he couldn't help but curse a few words, and wanted to go up and kick twice, but because there was crocodile blood all around, he couldn't get off his feet.

"Maybe it's intentional. ”

Meng Zitao walked to the edge of the pool and took a look, there was no crocodile suddenly rushing out of the water, maybe this crocodile was the only one. However, a crocodile can live for a hundred years at most, and this one does not look like an old dragon clock, if it is not a natural breed, who is stocked here?

Meng Zitao took a turn by the pool and said to Shu Ze, "I'll go down and take a look later." ”

Shu Ze exclaimed, "You want to go down to the pool?"

Meng Zitao explained: "Yes, maybe the pool leads down to the inside of the palace, and we can bypass the snakes and enter." ”

"But isn't it too dangerous?" Shu Ze disagreed.

Meng Zitao said: "It's also dangerous here, let's not wait for the snake to kill all the people inside." Besides, crocodile blood is sure to attract jackals and poisonous snakes, and it is just as dangerous to stay here. Don't worry, with my skills, I will definitely not encounter danger, if it is not too troublesome, we can rush in through the front door of the palace. ”

In the current environment, initiative is the best defense, and relying on others is unreliable.

Shu Ze smiled bitterly: "It's me who has burdened you." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand: "Do we still need to say this kind of thing between us? Besides, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't be able to find this place." Okay, without further ado, I'll go down first, you wait here, and I'll be back at once. ”

Meng Zitao sprinkled some realgar around, handed the gun to Shu Ze, asked him to be vigilant, took out the electronic products on his body, and jumped into the water with a sword.

There was indeed only one crocodile in the pool, and Meng Zitao did not encounter danger, and quickly found an entrance with a length and width of one meter at the bottom of the pool near the palace wall, but this entrance was sealed by something similar to steel bars.

Fortunately, these "steel bars" did not play much role in the sword in Meng Zitao's hand, and Meng Zitao only swung a few times before he could enter and exit.

Because he was worried about Shu Ze on the shore, Meng Zitao didn't check it, and went up to inform Shu Ze first, but he didn't expect that as soon as he turned around, a torrent shot towards him.

Meng Zitao took a closer look and found that it was actually a crocodile again, but the age of this crocodile looked like it was older than the one he had killed just now, and he didn't know if it was related to the crocodile just now. It's just that they have one end in and one end outside, what's going on, could it be that when the crocodile was small, it ran into the outer pool and didn't go in again?

These thoughts flashed away, and Mencius saw that the crocodile had arrived in front of his eyes, and opened his mouth, revealing sharp teeth.

Meng Zitao sneered in his heart, and directly stabbed the sword in his hand into the crocodile's mouth, and then twisted it hard, the crocodile was in pain, and kept struggling in the water, but after a while, it floated on the surface of the water and stopped moving.

Shu Ze, who had been on the shore, saw that the pool suddenly became turbid, and there was red blood spreading, and cold sweat broke out all over his nervous body, until he saw a black thing float out, he calmed down a little, and when Meng Zitao came out, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zitao, are you okay?"

"It's okay, there's an entrance to the interior down there, I'll go in and have a look later, you're still waiting here." ”

"Okay, be careful. ”

Meng Zitao returned to the bottom of the pool, entered through the entrance, this time there was no crocodile appeared, and there was no accident, after he surfaced, he found that this was a room with an area of more than 200 square meters, the smell was extremely strong, and there were a lot of white bones next to the pool, which were clearly animal bones.

Meng Zitao climbed out of the pool, picked up a few bones and looked at them, a hint of strange color flashed in his eyes, this is clearly the bones of the jackal, why did it appear here?

After that, he looked around and saw the bones of a crocodile on the other side, presumably a pair with the crocodile, and I don't know if it was old and dead.

As for why the two crocodiles only have one offspring, this is known from the fact that there are no hatched crocodile eggs not far away. The temperature here is so low that it is unlikely that crocodiles will hatch.

Meng Zitao returned outside and brought Shu Ze in, and some of the instruments on his body, he wrapped them in plastic bags, and there was no water.

After Shu Ze came in, he also found something unusual: "This is the bones of the jackal, how can it appear here?"

Meng Zitao shook his head: "Unless someone is often feeding the crocodiles here with jackals." ”

"You mean there's a grave keeper here?"

Shu Ze felt a little incredible: "But the environment here, can you live in the next person?"

Meng Zitao said: "We haven't seen it outside, but eating is indeed a problem. Or does he come here every once in a while?"

Shu Ze said: "It's possible, doesn't it mean that crocodiles can live for a year or even longer without eating?"

Meng Zitao nodded, put this question aside for now, and prepared to leave here first to see what was going on outside.

The two walked to the door, Meng Zitao leaned against the stone door to listen to the movement outside, and after a moment he raised his head: "It should be safe outside, I'll explore the situation first." ”

Opening the stone door, what appeared in front of Mencius was a wide corridor, and on the right side of the corridor, at intervals, stood a statue of a jackal head, a human body, and a Kehpash sword in his hand. The three statues are so vividly carved that they look like living creatures.

Stepping into the corridor, Meng Zitao felt a slight chill, and felt that the temperature had dropped by two or three degrees, which did not give him a good feeling.

After walking for a while, Meng Zitao didn't find anything like a mechanism, but he always felt that the corridor was very strange. At this time, he stood in front of a statue, looking at the vivid statue, and the feeling in his heart became more and more strange, as if the statue would turn into a living creature in the next second and attack him.

Meng Zitao shook his head, vigilant, he didn't feel any fluctuations from the statue, it was definitely impossible to attack him, the abrupt feeling just now, he doubted that there would be hallucinogenic gas in the corridor.

After looking at the statue for a while, Meng Zitao turned around and prepared to set off.

"Zitao, be careful!"

Shu Ze, who was standing at the door, suddenly shouted loudly.

Meng Zitao reacted extremely quickly, the moment he heard the sound, he rolled forward, and then he felt some sharp weapon cut behind his back, as long as it was two or three seconds away, he would be slashed by the Kehpash sword of the statue's siblings.

"Does the statue really move?!"

Meng Zitao was very suspicious, he could feel that this statue was not a living thing, but why could it attack itself like a human being? Could this thing be a robot, a robot thousands of years ago?

Even if it is a robot, what kind of power can it be used to support thousands of years, which is as incredible as the Arabian Nights for Meng Zitao and Shu Ze.

However, no matter how incredible it is, it is a fact that the statue launched an attack on Meng Zitao, and Meng Zitao must also solve it in order to find a way to solve this mystery.

So, the cicada wing sword in Meng Zitao's hand began to wave, and he was going to remove the hands and feet of the statue first, so as to facilitate the investigation.

However, to Mencius's surprise, the Kehpash sword in the statue's hand was broken without a single blow, which also caused the statue's anger......