Chapter 7: The Ancient Altar

Ji Chen and the others supported each other and walked slowly out of the tree, while looking at everything around them blankly, and there was already a completely different scene in front of them, like a primeval forest, full of strange-shaped plants, strange boulders, and quagmires that could be seen everywhere.

It is no exaggeration to describe this place as deserted, and the entrance to it is long gone. What's even more speechless is that there is no road in this ghost place at all, and we can't tell the direction when we walk out.

Zhang Yue asked a little flustered: "What should I do, the exit seems to be gone, where should we go?"

Ji Chen looked around and pondered for a while before saying, "I'm afraid this is no longer the place where we came in, and we don't even know when we entered the island and how far we have traveled on the island. ”

Li Xue said with a slight cry: "I want to go back, I don't want to stay here anymore." ”

Ji Chen looked at Li Xue, obviously she was just frightened by what happened in that tree, and Sun Jian was helping her and comforting her. On the other hand, Zhang Lan was much calmer, although she could see that she was also a little nervous in her heart, but she did not show great panic.

Brother Kun suddenly came out of a bush and shouted, "There's a discovery over there." ”

Zhang Yue asked, "What did you find?"

Brother Kun frowned and said, "The specifics can't be described, but it's shocking, so let's see for yourself." With that, he parted the bushes behind him with his hands and went in again.

Everyone hurriedly followed Brother Kun and circled for about a few minutes, until after passing through a large shrub, Ji Chen suddenly saw several things like huge towers that suddenly appeared in the distance, leaning against the sky and soaring into the sky, which was very magnificent.

As the few people got closer and closer, Ji Chen finally understood what Brother Kun said, it turned out that these buildings that looked like tall towers from a distance turned out to be several stone pillars, a total of five in a pentagonal distribution, each stone pillar was roughly estimated to have a diameter of more than thirty meters, they were of different lengths, five or six hundred meters long almost reached the sky, and the short one was more than a hundred meters, towering in front of them. As the few people got closer and closer, Ji Chen found that the stone pillars were still carved with many bright red strange symbols. In the middle of the five stone pillars, there is a square the size of an international football field, and the square is also densely distributed with such symbols.

In the middle of the square, there is a large round platform about seven or eight meters high and about twenty meters in diameter, and the round platform is surrounded by five circles of gray stone sculptures. Ji Chen took a closer look and found that it was not a complete five circles, there seemed to be seven or eight sculptures missing in it, and there were about twenty or so left.

At a cursory glance, these stone carvings seem to be all carved animals, but the appearance of these animals is very strange, there are three heads, there are human-faced beast bodies, and there are beast-faced human bodies, he can't recognize any of them, these statues give Ji Chen a feeling more like the mountain demons and sea beasts recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

In the center of the round table was a pile of jet-black stone spikes scattered outward, and in the middle of the spikes was a room-sized red stone.

This stone is red all over, but it gives people a feeling of jade, there are many holes of different sizes on it, from the holes extend five iron chains with a thickness of more than two meters respectively upwards to wrap around the top of the five stone pillars, and dozens of thigh-thick iron chains down to tie the necks of those animal stone carvings.

I don't know if it's Ji Chen's illusion or if it's really the case, he seems to see that the stone in the middle of the round platform is faintly beating rhythmically like a heart, and it also exudes a strange light, and there is a feeling of giving up people's hearts.

The strange building in front of me shocked everyone, and they felt the urge to kneel. What is this earth-shattering building that suddenly appeared in a deserted place, who built it, and what is it for? A series of questions appeared in Ji Chen's heart. The building has a majestic, sacrosanct feel, as if it were an altar to the ancient gods, because of its existence, everything else here has become a filthy mortal. And the inexplicable and intense sense of mystery it exudes is full of curiosity.

Sun Jian couldn't help but say his hometown: "Forehead, a mother! Is this thing created by humans?"

"It's hard to say, but it doesn't seem to be a sign of people in this place at the moment. Ji Chen analyzed.

"Do you think a man can build a building like this?!" Zhang Yue shouted as he pointed to the building, his eyes crooked, his mouth crooked, and his expression exaggerated.

Sun Jian retorted: "That's not necessarily, the pyramids, the Great Wall, and so many breathtaking buildings in the world are not also created by human beings?"

"I'm not talking about the quantity of engineering, you look at its overall momentum and feel its sacred breath. Do you think humans can build such an appearance, but can give it such extraordinary charm? It's a miracle!" Zhang Yue added.

Ji Chen circled around the building for half a circle, and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more incredible he felt, looking at the shape and complex structure, as well as the mysterious pattern. He speculated, "I speculate that it could be an altar." ”

Sun Jian asked, "Sacrifice to the sky?"

Ji Chen shook his head: "I'm also guessing, I don't know the specifics." ”

Just as a few people were discussing, Ji Chen suddenly heard a strange cry from behind, and before he could turn around, he suddenly heard Brother Kun shouting: "Get down!", and before Ji Chen could react, he was kicked to the ground by Brother Kun.

Ji Chen got up and shook his head, and when he looked forward, he found a monster that looked like a wild man lying on the ground staring at him.

The monster was about the size of a child of five or six years old, with a swarthy body, a mouth full of fangs, and a tail full of sharp thorns behind it. Although Ji Chen was three or four meters away from it, he could still clearly smell the strong fishy smell coming from its mouth, and Ji Chen only felt that his stomach was tumbling.

The monster appeared quietly just now, and then attacked Ji Chen violently, but fortunately, Brother Kun reacted very quickly and kicked Ji Chen away directly, otherwise he would be killed directly by this monster.

Just missed, the monster was obviously very unhappy, and stretched out its tongue at Ji Chen, Ji Chen looked at it, and there was a mouth with four fangs at the front of its tongue! The mouth opened and closed twice, and intermittently let out a few "forbearance~forbearance~"

Ji Chen felt that the sound made by this monster was a little weird, and the monster pounced on him again, so fast that it almost reached him in the blink of an eye, Ji Chen couldn't react at all, and was pressed to the ground in a flash.

A trace of despair instantly surged in Ji Chen's heart, he was pressed to the ground by such a monster, and he was bound to die. But what he didn't expect was that the monster didn't attack him directly, but picked him up and threw him on the round platform in the middle of the altar.

It's just that Ji Chen didn't fall onto the round platform as the monster wanted, but hit the edge of the round platform and then fell on the square.

But this monster had great strength, and this fall suddenly made Ji Chen's chest surge, his throat was sweet, and he coughed up a pool of blood.

The monster saw that Ji Chen did not fall on the round platform, and made a sound of "forbearance~forbearance~", Ji Chen pricked up his ears and listened carefully, it was actually saying "people! people!".

The monster screamed twice and rushed towards Ji Chen again, but Ji Chen had no ability to resist at this time, so he could only watch it run over and pick himself up again.

Ji Chen couldn't help but want to scold in his heart, is this damn monster sick? You can't give Lao Tzu a good time, you have to throw me to death!

Just when Ji Chen closed his eyes and was about to die, he suddenly felt hit by something, Ji Chen was immediately knocked to the ground, got up and looked, it turned out to be Brother Kun rushing over.

At this time, Brother Kun was pressing the monster to the ground to fight with it, and Ji Chen just wanted to remind Brother Kun to be careful of the monster's tongue, but before he could open his mouth, he saw the monster squirting its tongue at Brother Kun's neck.

Ji Chen's heart tightened, but what made him strange was that the monster's tongue suddenly turned around the moment it touched Brother Kun's Adam's apple, and bit Brother Kun's shoulder.

Brother Kun's shoulder hurt, and he suddenly unloaded, and the monster took advantage of the situation to push Brother Kun to the ground, and then picked him up and threw him towards Ji Chen. No, it should be thrown on the round platform. Ji Chen saw through its intentions, so he rushed up and intercepted Brother Kun in the air.

Then the monster rushed towards the two of them again, but was suddenly hit by a big stone picked up by Sun Jian, and fell to the ground fiercely.

Brother Kun's eyes were quick, and he quickly bounced up from Ji Chen's arms, and rushed to the monster with the dagger in his back.

Ji Chen saw the monster struggle a few times, and then it kept twitching on the ground, and it seemed to be shouting in his mouth: "People, people......"

It was a long time before the monster seemed to be completely dead.

Then, a ray of milky white light suddenly appeared on the abdomen of the monster's corpse, floating in the air for a moment before directly burrowing into Brother Kun's body. It's just that even Brother Kun himself didn't notice this scene.

Zhang Yue rushed over and helped Ji Chen up and leaned against the round platform next to him, and then asked him how he was, Ji Chen replied with difficulty that he couldn't die.

Several other people also hurried to help Brother Kun over, although Brother Kun was injured in the shoulder, his physical fitness was stronger than Ji Chen's, so it was basically fine.

Ji Chen rested on the round platform for a while, feeling much better, and then said slowly: "We underestimate this island too much, there are too many things here that are beyond our cognition." ”

Zhang Yue also palpitated: "The animals here have become demons!"

Unexpectedly, Zhang Lan said very indifferently: "Maybe the creatures here are like this, we are a group of invaders who suddenly broke into their world, maybe in their eyes, we are monsters." ”

Ji Chen coughed: "Please, don't talk about monsters yet, we came in too hastily, we didn't have food, water, or equipment, now let's think about how to survive." ”

The corners of Sun Jian's mouth curled, and he smiled bitterly: "Damn, it's in vain that we treat this place as a tourist area, but I didn't expect this to be a forbidden place for life at all." ”

Ji Chen felt that he had almost recovered, so he stood up against the wall and said: "Everyone calm down first, this island is definitely not that simple at the moment, what we have encountered so far is probably just the beginning, we don't know where the exit is? ”

Zhang Yue pointed to the altar behind him and asked, "What about this thing?"

Ji Chen thought about the monster's behavior just now and said, "My intuition tells me that this altar is dangerous, and we'd better stay away from it." ”

A few people nodded, so they took the face altar as the coordinates and chose a direction to the east, hoping to find an exit and leave here as soon as possible.