In order to keep warm at night, the Varolan army buried bonfires and charcoal fires in the ground, filled them with two layers of shallow soil, and dug two vents to keep the charcoal fire hot, so that the ground became a simple version of the marching floor heating insulation, and the Valoran coalition camps were built around the eight pyramids.

Once upon a time, the Shurima Desert at night was extremely dangerous, and the desert at night belonged to the bloodthirsty creatures of the desert, such as the two-meter-long, extremely poisonous sand scorpion; Sand lizards, which crawl faster than galloping horses and like to eat fresh blood; There is also the behemoth that can hide deep in the desert caves, the desert viper, the largest desert viper is said to be tens of meters long and can swallow camels alive......

However, the species that pose the greatest threat to humans in the desert are not ranked in the top three, and the most threatening species to humans in the desert and can rank in the top two are the most numerous, mainly group-dwelling, ubiquitous sand wolves; The other is the "Death Bug", which has always been the number one desert beast.

"Death bugs" are very dangerous, they often lurk in the deepest part of the desert soil, with a huge body of more than 10 meters, a long tentacle extends from the depths of the soil to the surface of the desert, it can sense the vibration of creatures walking in the desert by its antennae, and camouflage into the shape of a plant with honey to attract animals, when the small animals approach their latent mouthparts, the mouthparts under the tentacles will break through the ground, open the mouthparts covered with dense fangs to devour the creatures in front of them. If it is a larger creature, such as a human, camel, horse, etc., this mouthpart will first shoot out a corrosive liquid, seriously injure the opponent, and then hold these large creatures with their mouthparts, drag them into the depths of the desert where the body is located, and slowly chew it.

Although the Shurima Desert was terrifying, it was not a forbidden area for humans, and there would be many adventurers who entered the Shurima Desert to explore and search for rare species, furs, desert specialties and other materials, since the Shurima Desert was occupied by the Void Monster, it has completely become a Jedi, not only can humans no longer enter, even the indigenous creatures of the desert have been wiped out, the "Death Bug" that was once the first in the desert has disappeared, and the second sand wolf, because of the largest number and huge population, It has become the main ration of the Void monsters, and now it is almost extinct, and the situation encountered by other creatures is similar to that of the sand wolf clan.

The scarcity of desert species was also the biggest problem encountered by the Valoran coalition after entering the desert, in addition to the heavy food and grass they carried with the army, they also needed to hunt some prey around the garrison area, so as to maintain continuous logistical replenishment, extend the distance of the march, and also improve the diet of the soldiers.

It's a pity that now the extinction of the original ecological species in the Shurima Desert has made the 1.5 million Valoran coalition troops feel heavy, which also makes them more vigilant against the void monsters in the desert.

At this moment, Zeros, the garrison of the Valoran coalition army, made full use of the height advantage of the eight pyramids, each pyramid has two huge searchlights set up at the top, each searchlight can reach 5 kilometers away, 16 searchlights move at the top of the pyramid at all times, with the campfires every ten meters around the camp, perfect warning of any wind and grass around the camp.

Zelos hadn't rested at the moment, and on a marching table in front of him, there were seven or eight topographical maps of the Shurima Desert, and several powerful and powerful figures were accompanying Zelos to discuss strategies against the map.

"General Zeroth, if I'm not misjudged, we should be in the Emperor's Mausoleum! It was thousands of years ago, the imperial tomb of the mighty magic empire, the Shurima Empire. A young man with a strong look pointed to an older map.

"The Emperor's Mausoleum? It shouldn't be far from the ruins of the Shurima Empire! Ike, thanks to the rubbings of the ancient maps provided by your War College, our march went so smoothly. Zelos looked at Ike with a smile and nodded in thanks.

"No, no, this is all the credit of the academy tutors and Senior Brother Chen Yin, it has nothing to do with me, I am just a leader." The shy Ike waved his hand repeatedly, a little embarrassed.

"Brother, you are eccentric! I'm working hard these days, why are you just praising him?! A handsome girl in military uniform pursed her lips angrily, and began to roll her eyes at Zelos with some unpleasantness.

The young general's opening made Ike even more embarrassed, and he hurriedly echoed and said, "Uh-huh, yes! General Zeloth! Miss Irelia has been studying these ancient maps with me every day for more than ten days, and we were able to surpass the marching speed of the other four teams and arrive at the "Emperor's Tomb" first, Miss Irelia has made a lot of contributions! ”

Zelos just smiled, he knew his sister too well, let her carry a weapon to someone to fight her must have cheered, let her sit quietly and study the map, she must not have been able to sit still for five minutes.

Seeing that Brother Zelos had been smiling and silent, the righteous Irelia's momentum gradually faded, and her neck shrunk, but she still didn't forget to quietly move to Ike's side.

"Stinky guy, I want you to talk too much! It's exposed! Irelia grumbled softly, raising her elbow and smacking Ike's waist hard, but Ike grinned in pain but didn't dare to scream.

This scene was seen by everyone, and laughter filled the entire camp.

"Hehe, young, it's so nice." Li Qing, a blind monk dressed in a white monk's robe, said with a smile.

After the burly man with unkempt hair beside Li Qing heard his emotion, he immediately touched Li Qing with his shoulder and said, "Master, master, look, I'm right, right?" I told you last time, I feel that these two people have an adulterous relationship, and you even taught me a lesson! ”

"Udir!! What did you just say? Isn't it looking for death? ”

Irelia, who had good ears, blushed instantly, and she took the weapon her father had left for her, the Sword of Inheritance, from her back, and swung the scissor-shaped sword to pounce on the dodging "Beast Spirit Walker" Udir.

"Wait, Irelia, don't do it! There are camping tents around here, so don't destroy important documents!! Ike hurriedly chased after him, and rushed out of the tent with the two of them.

"It's nice to be young!"

Li Qing repeated this sentence again, his gaze looked at the sky, as if he had traveled through thousands of years, in the long river of time, he recalled the time when he first practiced in the monastery, and the figure that remained in his memory and could not be erased.

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Ionia is most famous for its natural art and the prosperity of its towns, as well as the prevalence of magic and martial arts, among which, the highest temple of martial arts practice is the "Shuoji Temple", and the highest temple of magic practice is the "Hilana Monastery" and the "Hall of the Stars".

There were occasional academic and technical exchanges between several major factions, and the young Li Qing, as the most outstanding descendant of the generation of the "Shuoji Temple", met Soraka of the "Hall of Stars" at an academic and technical exchange meeting, and the two admired each other after fighting. After the exchange meeting, Li Qing often went to Presti alone to meet with Soraka.

At this time, the first Ionian War broke out, the Noxian army landed from the north of Ionia, pointing straight inland, the first thing on this march route is the "Shuoji Temple", the Noxian troops are forward, like a bamboo, in just two weeks have been killed into the interior of Ionia, when Li Qing learned the news and returned, the "Shuoji Temple" has turned into a scorched earth, Li Qing fell into madness, crazy search every corner around the smoky temple, trying to find any living person, In the end, Li Qing found the corpse pit left by the Noxians, he scraped the dry and hard ground with his hands, grinding his fingertips until blood was dripping, and he dug up one after another the corpses of the monks in the temple......

These exhumed corpses were carefully placed by Li Qing on the firewood pile, and as the raging fire ignited, Li Qing's eyes fell into a dead silence, a bloody light flashed, and his fingers were deeply inserted into the depths of his eyes.

Li Qing blamed himself for the destruction of the "Shuoji Temple", he blamed himself for being infatuated with the red dust, so when the First Ionian War ended, Li Qing threw himself into the faction of the ascetics who could not marry for life - "Shilana Monastery", at that moment, he buried his heart and love deeply, and all that was left was the hatred for Noxus, as well as the grinding of his body and mind!!

In the past few decades, Li Qing has participated in three Ionian wars, stabbing countless Noxian invaders, during which he also met his current apprentice, the wild man "Udil" with the power of the four beast spirits, but he never met Soraka again.

When Soraka got three prophecies for the victory of the Valoran continent at the cost of burning life force, she called on the people of the whole continent to abandon their original hatred and unite all countries to fight against the invaders outside the territory, although Li Qing did not express an opinion on this, but his heart was resistant, until Soraka turned into stardust in his arms, and Li Qing's heart, which had been sharpened to an extremely hard point, finally melted.

When Zelos, the commander of the three armies of Ionia, in order to resist the invasion of the void, after Ionia issued a recruitment order and a conscription order, Li Qing took Udir and the monks of the monastery, along with the priests of the Hall of Stars, into the Ionian expedition.

After that, Li Qing only had one belief left, that is, to live in accordance with Soraka's legacy and dedicate all his strength to the eternal survival of this continent.

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At two o'clock in the morning, the tomb of Shurima Emperor was unusually quiet, the military tents of the Valoran coalition army were densely packed and orderly distributed around the eight pyramids, and from time to time there would be a group of night patrol sentinels between the tents, and the 16 searchlights at the top of the pyramid shone far and near, so that there was no dead end in the whole camp, and the whole scene was like the first dozen nights after entering the desert, everything seemed so calm, and it seemed that this night would pass so peacefully.

At a depth of thousands of meters in the Shurima Emperor's Mausoleum, countless huge "death worms" were twisting more than a dozen hard tentacles, approaching the ground little by little. If this scene is seen by the adventurers of the Valoran Continent, I am afraid that they will be frightened and go into cardiac arrest.

As a native species in the Shurima Desert, it is also the most dangerous beast, the name of the "Death Bug" resounded in every corner of the Valoran Continent, according to legend, this creature has a strong sense of territory, and there will only be one "Death Bug" within a range of more than ten kilometers, if more than two appear at the same time, they will fight each other for the territory, the winner lives, the loser dies, so every "Death Bug" that people see with their own eyes is a boss-level creature that can be used to reach more.

It is said that there was once a team ranked in the top ten in the adventurer's guild, the captain and vice captain all have quasi-hero-level combat power, and the more than 30 team members under his command are also elite-like existences in any country's army, such a team encountered a "death bug" with a body size of more than 20 meters in the Shurima Desert, and after a hard battle, except for the most powerful adventurer captain who escaped with serious injuries, the rest of the team members were wiped out and became food for the death bug.

However, at this moment, the scene under the tomb of Emperor Shurima completely subverted people's perception of the "Death Worm", this so-called territorially strong creature that could not coexist was like a well-coordinated army, working closely with each other to quickly drill into the earth, and slowly approached the Valoran coalition army stationed in the Emperor's Mausoleum above their heads.

Time passed little by little, and it was about four o'clock in the morning, which was also the time when the human biological clock was most likely to fall into deep sleep, and the time of vigilance and alertness was the lowest, and the closest tentacle to the Valoran coalition camp was less than four meters above the ground.

At this time, the tentacle seemed to have touched something that made it feel pain, the muscles contracted suddenly, and the sharp mouthparts under the tentacles also made a painful sound of "sizzle ~ sizzle ~" "sizzle ~", after getting its reminder, the tentacles of the rest of the "death bugs" began to bypass the land directly below those human camps, and began to drill up quickly between the passages and roads between the camps.

"Huh~" The first person to perceive a change under the ground was the blind monk Li Qing.

Li Qing is a warrior monk and ascetic, he has long been accustomed to sleeping in clothes, plus he has been blind for more than ten years since he self-mutilated, and his ability to perceive the outside world is all concentrated on his ears, just when the tentacles of the "death worm" under the ground touched the charcoal fire buried in the ground under the marching camp, and the moment he cried out of pain, Li Qing had already turned over and got out of bed.

He quickly pressed his ear to the ground, and almost instantly, his face changed.

"All on alert!! Enemy Attack!! Below ground!! ”

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