Noon.

Huang Taiyi and Merlin set off early in the morning.

The ecology of the desert is close to normal, but the average temperature is still relatively high, and I don't know if it is because the remnants of Amunla's power have not yet been dissipated.

Unexpectedly, not many bodies were seen.

I thought that corpses would be everywhere, and there should be no creatures in the desert to dispose of corpses.

This may prove that at least the part of the road to the pyramids is safe.

"There are no troops arranged."

Merlin wrapped his cloak tightly around his body and face, revealing only his eyes.

"It's hard to arrange troops in this kind of place, just like the innkeeper just said, even the jailers who work in the prison can't adapt to the desert environment so easily."

The Imperial Taiyi is also the same dress, the standard form of travel.

It doesn't seem wise to start a large-scale conflict in the desert, no matter which side it is, and it's already difficult to fight, let alone arrange troops.

At this point, you have to think about what's good for whom.

There may be somewhere there are people with abilities related to sand and soil, but so far no traces of battle have been found, and it seems that everyone is on their way, and the enemy is just a scare setting.

Will it be so?

Since there was no sign of any enemy, we had no choice but to hurry without distraction.

Strictly speaking, it's not that there is no road.

Of course, there is absolutely no way out of it, but there are some traces left after passing by.

In order to confirm the next route, it is necessary to stop for a moment and have a bite to eat.

"There are probably two directions ahead, and it seems that they can be both, and there is a possibility that neither side will be chosen...... Probably not. ”

Huang Taiyi stretched out his hand and swiped left and right, and after comparing the positions, they were roughly separated in two directions.

The nearest road to the Circle Prison is, of course, straight.

It doesn't seem to make much sense to go around in circles.

"There are a lot of pyramids in the direction on the left, and something that looks big, and there is nothing in the direction on the right, it seems that it will be easier to walk, and there is a wall in the middle to separate, which is obviously a choice between the two."

Merlin stretched out his scabbard and flicked the "wall" that served as an isolating one.

In fact, it is not a wall, but some roughly connected markers such as barbed wire and iron piles, which make no sense to cross or not, and cannot be used as obstacles.

"The meaning of the other side is clear at a glance, what should I do?"

Huang Taiyi saw that many people had chosen a direction that had nothing.

It was true that it was just an endless desert, and nothing suspicious appeared other than that, and the place where the pyramids were located looked like a heavily guarded fortress, so that few people chose this side.

"No matter how I think about it, the more I can't see the situation, the stranger it becomes, and I want to go to the pyramids."

"I feel the same way."

At least where there are pyramids, you can be sure that there is an enemy, and where there are no things, you don't know what suspicious things will pop up.

Others have taken a similar view and chosen the same direction.

When they got here, they were already panicking, and even those who were also heading towards the prison site stopped shouting to form a group now.

Emperor Taiyi and Merlin hurried as hard as they could, stepping into the area where the pyramid was located before night had completely fallen.

It's still not quite the same as I imagined.

I didn't see any lined up army, but it was more lively......

That's what the prison looks like, right? Although Huang Taiyi has not seen a real prison a few times.

Many of the guys, presumably prisoners, were chained and dragging huge stones, and they were building a very large stone monument that it was still impossible to tell what it was.

The scene was not completely defenseless, and many of the prison guards in charge of the construction overseers patrolled back and forth, occasionally whipping or scaring the slowing prisoners, but there was nothing else.

Anyone who was about to pass by here was treated as if it didn't exist.

The presence of these people was confirmed at a great distance, and they all felt dangerous at first, and some teams even chose to return directly.

But soon someone noticed that the jailers had no desire to fight, so they tried to sneak by.

It turned out very well, and they passed through the area of the pyramid in this way.

It's absolutely weird.

Are those just backgrounds that can't be interacted with?

If you think about it, you know that it is absolutely impossible, and since it exists, there should be some reason.

"Do you want to ask those people before you go to the pyramids?"

Huang Taiyi hesitated a little and made a suggestion.

He found that no one seemed to approach the prisoners and jailers, probably because he was too vigilant, and he was already thankful that the other party did not trouble him.

"The biggest target, okay?"

Merlin compared the size of the pyramids, and found that one of them was unusually large and had a very strange black color, and the other pyramids looked very ordinary.

"That's it."

At the same time, Huang Taiyi found that the materials for the construction of the stele seemed to have been transported from the largest black pyramid, which meant that it should be equivalent to a center or something.

I feel like if I don't get this thing done, the ghost knows what's going on, and the more I look at it, the more I feel like I have to figure out what's going on.

Still ignored.

Considering the possibility that talking to the prisoner would trigger some mechanism, the Emperor made it clear to Merlin in advance, and waited until he was close to the largest black pyramid before trying to find someone to talk to.

By this time, it was almost dark.

Perhaps it was the illusion peculiar to the desert, and Huang Taiyi actually felt that the black pyramid gradually blended with the night and became unrecognizable.

The jailers and prisoners have also returned to the pyramids, and it should be time for the end of work.

Trying to talk, the prisoner didn't dare to speak at all, the jailer just pointed to the black pyramid, and didn't do anything else, asking anyone the same.

"Do you find it strange?"

Huang Taiyi asked suddenly.

"Huh?"

"Considering the temperature difference, it's normal to come out and work at night, or is there something here at night?"

"This ...... I don't know. ”

Merlin tilted his head in confusion as he heard this.

"Here we are."

The "main entrance" of the Black Pyramid has been reached.

I don't know if it's a door, but it's an entrance "guarded" by two huge statues, and there is only a tunnel inside, lit with torches lit on both sides for lighting.

The statue should not come to life, and the emperor walked into the tunnel very cautiously.

The back door was not closed either.

A light that is not very bright is still light after all, and when you look out from here, the night that has completely fallen is a little dark...... Excessively?

"Strange, why is it so dark? Can't even see the stars? Wasn't it so dark just now? ”

Huang Taiyi glanced at the sky from a distance and had such a premonition.

The flag that I just said "something seems to be happening".

"Is it safe to do this only if we do?"

Merlin didn't understand at all, and after thinking for a few seconds, he decided to leave the matter alone for the time being.

The structure inside the pyramid is not complicated, and you can basically judge the main passages and the steps upward, although there are branches on both sides, but it is decided to climb to the top first.

Generally speaking, the boss will be in such a place.

But...... It doesn't seem to be the same as I imagined......

Not only does it not look like a boss's room, but it looks like a place to save blood from the hotel.

Very lively.

"Here...... is the very top of the pyramid...... Probably? ”

Merlin also began to wonder if he was on the wrong track.

And what Huang Taiyi can think of in his mind is places like business hotels.

The guy who doesn't know if it's the boss or what position is also dressed strangely, wearing a black doghead mask and an equally black bodysuit.

"Hello."

The black kobold took the initiative to greet the two.

"We're on the wrong track?"

Merlin glared at the kobold, seemingly very kind.

"Ah...... Wait a minute, I still have some work, I'll explain it to you when I'm done. ”

As he spoke, the kobold stepped onto the huge square vent and leaped into the darkness.

In an instant, it became one with the darkness.

"This guy...... It's not that simple......"

Huang Taiyi stood at the window and looked out, and the strings that were slightly relaxed in her heart tightened again.

Kobold is "blending into the darkness" in the truest sense of the word.

Not in a rhetorical way.

Looking into the night from here, you can feel that the aura of the kobold has become incomparably larger, as if it is everywhere in the entire canopy, but at the same time, it is impossible to determine the exact location.

He is supposed to have abilities related to "darkness".

It seems that there is more to it than that.

There was a violent shaking sound from a long distance, not like a simple earthquake.

"That...... Look over there! ”

Merlin immediately ran to the window on the other side of the room and let the Imperial Lady look at it.

Although the darkness made the vision strange, I could still vaguely see something huge moving, like a living mountain, its shape was not very certain, it was constantly deformed as it moved, it seemed to be slow, but in fact it should be very fast.

That direction seemed to be a fork in the road on the other side, and sure enough, there was something hidden in the seemingly safe area.

"The temperature, the sand, and the darkness...... These three abilities ......"

Huang Taiyi is still at the stage of speculation, but if these three abilities cooperate with each other, they can indeed turn the desert into a desperate sea of death, an all-round net of heaven and earth.

Maybe this pyramid is the safest place to be now? In this case, it is necessary to consider the intention of doing this kind of thing, and it can't really be a place to provide archives, and in reality, it can't be archived.

"I've been waiting."

The kobold's figure reappears in the window.

"It wasn't for long."

When this sentence blurted out, Huang Taiyi suddenly had a sense of déjà vu when he saw his girlfriend panting from a distance and trotting all the way over on a date day.

Well, it's not a sense of déjà vu, because I've never experienced it, at most I've only seen it in animation.

Kobolds shouldn't have much to fight.

But you must not let your guard down against this person.