Chapter 169: The Sacrificial Hall
For Song Rui and Tao Ran's request, Yu Ji was happy to help them, so he told them the information about the twin flowers and the location of the secret room.
Naturally, the old scalper is next...... Well, the working hours of Lord Crab.
I don't know what evil this crazy crab only did in his last life, he met Song Rui, the big demon king, and was treated as a mount, not to mention, he was also responsible for digging sand and planting melons...... It's actually super crying inside, really!
"Big man, over here!" Song Rui and the contractor generally commanded the wild crab to dig here and there, and he couldn't dig up the secret room.
You must know that its claws are extremely sharp, so to speak, if the wild crab does its best, it is not impossible to leave a scratch on the stone cliff between the grassland and the desert. The stone wall here is as soft as tofu to it, so when it digs, it will accidentally cut off a stone, and then it will be punched by Song Rui, and after a while, it will be full of bags, and it will be aggrieved in its heart.
After half an afternoon of hard work, the entrance to the secret room was finally dug out, and the big man was very tired, and he felt that he was not so tired from catching ten desert sharks!
The Desert Shark is a level 8 beast with an extremely strong bite and extremely rapid tooth growth. Although the Desert Shark has a much lower catch level than the Wild Crab, a pair of ten will definitely bite into pigskin! So the idea of the big man is obviously bragging in his heart!
Song Rui and the three of them stood in front of the door of the secret room, which should have come down through a tunnel, but the tunnel had been completely destroyed by the invasion of wind and sand, and it was submerged in the yellow sand.
Judging from the traces, the tunnel is not too wide, and it looks like three or four people are in parallel, and the door of the secret room is also in a simple and concise style, except for the same relief of twin flowers, there is no superfluous decoration and carving.
"Where is this going to be?" Tao Ran took off the sand crystal beads in his hand and handed them to Yuji, "Yuji, come on." ”
Yuji nodded, took the beads, and cleaned the fine sand in the center of the gate, revealing thirteen small holes, which were arranged in a circle, just the size of the beads.
After the beads were put in, Yu Ji took a few steps back, and there was no other operation, Song Rui and Tao Ran only heard a rumbling sound, mixed with the creaking sound of the mechanism, and the door slowly opened.
It is true that the mechanism does not use any advanced skills, and the production is not very fine, or it can be said to be quite rough, and there is no secret passage inside, just a simple hall for sacrifices.
However, this is only to prevent children from getting involved, so it doesn't need to be very elaborate.
Yuji took the lead in entering, and the lobby adhered to the consistent style of village architecture, simple and simple. The interior is also empty, with only a circular altar in the center, and in the center of the altar is a twin flower.
Although the lobby is simply decorated, it has a heavy sense of solemnity, which is even more pronounced than the Underground Palace of Nitros in the Far North, although it has a much longer history and more architectural heritage. Perhaps the solemnity and heaviness here come from the demise of countless lives - disappearance, being sent to the altar, the flower of illusion can be re-'descended', and being entrusted with thoughts and feelings by relatives, and then disappearing again, returning to the invisible. The whole process is like a cycle of human life, and all kinds of complex emotions seem to be rubbed into the air and into this lobby.
Although the twin flowers are quite dangerous plants, there are no protective measures around the altar, and Song Rui is not sure whether this design is because of the control of the villagers over the twin flowers, or the confidence in their own strength, or the incomprehensible reverence for soul and life.
"The Twins are in there?" Affected by that sense of solemnity, Song Rui unconsciously lowered his voice, "If it is still dormant, how can it be awakened?" ”
"This ...... I don't know very well. Yuji is also a little confused, she is not responsible for taking care of the twin flowers in the village, and her understanding of this kind of flower only comes from the oral description of the elders, and it is only a few words, and there is no information that can be used.
"En......" Song Rui walked forward, he wanted to confirm if the twin flowers were still dormant, "I'll take a look, you guys stand here and don't move." ”
"Dash...... Da ......" The heel of his shoe landed on the stone floor of the lobby, making an empty echo, which inexplicably made Song Rui a little nervous, he coughed and walked forward again.
The altar is round in shape, and when you get closer, it is quite large, about the size of a football field, and there is a place in the center that is not covered by a stone platform, which is the habitat of twin flowers.
Song Rui walked up to the altar and looked towards the center, only to see that there was nothing on the soft sand inside, no vines, no big flowers, not even a single dead branch seed.
Song Rui didn't give up, and walked a few more steps towards the center, and here, suddenly a very slight rustling sound came into his ears, and he immediately stopped and listened carefully.
There was indeed a very slight sound coming, as if something was crawling under the sand, the movement changed from slow to fast, Song Rui squatted down slightly, trying to judge the source of the sound.
"Is it a snake?" Song Rui knew that there would be snakes in the desert, the most famous of which was Jiaokui.
Jiaokui is a venomous snake, extremely venomous, this snake walking is very distinctive, not sliding way to move, but with the weight of the body to the ground pressure, generating the power to move, so there are often snake-like traces on the sand. But the snake usually walks on the surface of the sand, not the inside of the sand, and even if it can walk below the surface of the sand, it will not be as fast.
"What is it?" Song Rui slowly stroked his right hand towards the sand in front of him, and he happened to walk to the edge of the altar at this time, close to the sand in the center.
At this moment, the rustling sound suddenly became sharp, and then it stopped suddenly. In less than half a second, the sound of breaking the air sounded, and a turquoise vine broke out of the sand, accompanied by a violent scream of friction against the air, and stabbed straight at Song Rui's throat with the turbulent flow of air.
Song Rui saw that the situation was not good, his upper body immediately leaned back, his left hand took advantage of the momentum to press the ground behind him, and his right foot bounced up, his toes tightened, and kicked towards the middle of the vine.
The vines obviously didn't expect Song Rui to react so quickly, and when they were kicked in, the vines trembled, obviously a little injured.
But Song Rui's heart was also tight, the power contained in this tiny vine was much greater than he imagined. He only felt that the moment his toes were touched, it was like stepping on a wire with his bare feet, and a tremor faithfully transmitted throughout his body, causing his bones to stiffen for a moment.
It was impossible to tell who had the upper hand in this encounter, and Song Rui did not fall in love with the first blow, but retreated sharply, his left hand and right foot at the same time, and a backflip to avoid the possible attack of the vines. After standing up straight, he stepped back under his feet, and in an instant he came to the edge of the altar, and posed in the direction of the altar, with a solemn expression.