Chapter Twenty-Five: The Strange Temple
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"What a beautiful lake!" Rose couldn't help but sigh.
I looked at the buildings in the middle of the lake and said, "I'm more concerned about how to get up!" β
Rose pointed in one direction. "There's an entrance there."
"I saw it, but I guess it's unlikely that the lake doesn't have any monsters. And we haven't seen the so-called Babaru that the goblins are talking about! It's entirely possible that they're an aquatic monster, or simply an amphibian! "Speaking of which, I thought of the black water lake outside the Lost City again, although this one is obviously much clearer, but who knows if the monster likes clear water!
"What's that?" Rose suddenly noticed something white on the shore of the lake not far away.
The two of us ran over and realized that it was a skeleton, and it was the skeleton of some kind of large creature, and it looked like this guy was not much smaller than an elephant when he was alive. What scared us the most was that there were signs of fracture in many places on this skeleton, and there was a hole in the third part of the skull that was clearly caused later. I summoned Luck and let him compare. The monster that attacked the creature wasn't supposed to be as big as Lucky, but it wasn't much smaller. Given the size of this lake, it's not surprising that there are such a big monster.
"I think I saw the murderer!" I pointed to a monster emerging from the woods not far away. Saying that it is a monster is actually a thing that everyone is quite familiar with, but in reality it is extinct.
Rose looked in the direction I was pointing. "Oh my God! Dinosaur? Why is it so disgusting! β
The creature in the distance was clearly a Tyrannosaurus rex, but it was a little scary in size. There are no dinosaurs of this size on Earth! And this big guy's body is disgusting, it is actually flowery, the gray-brown skin is covered with yellow and red spots, and what is even worse is that there are traces of decay in many places. It looks like a giant toad!
"This is probably because of the mutated type evolved from the giant poisonous miasma in the forest, but it seems that it is also poisonous, otherwise it would not grow so bright." After we spotted the guy who looked a lot like a Tyrannosaurus rex, it quickly noticed us as well. "Oh no, it found us!"
"Wait!" The rose pulled me to move.
"What are you doing?"
"I've heard that the Tyrannosaurus rex's eyes have poor vision of immobile objects, and we stand still, and it can't see our ground." I didn't listen to her, picked her up and jumped on Nightshade's back and ran. "Why are you listening to me?"
"My sweet little fool, are you too much of an American movie? According to Longyuan's research, reptiles have good eyesight except snakes, and the larger the reptiles, the better the eyesight. Based on deep genetic analysis, we have proven that the Tyrannosaurus rex is much better than the eagle. Moreover, once the pupil confirms the target position, it can calculate the target distance, as well as the speed and direction of movement, within a thousandth of a second. β
"Are dinosaurs stupid?"
"Stupid doesn't mean slow response, and the circuit system behind the infrared automatic faucet in the toilet is not as intelligent as the ant. That thing can determine in a millionth of a second whether or not it needs to be drained. Dinosaurs don't have a high intelligence, but that doesn't mean it's slow! Common sense can sometimes kill people! β
"You're smart!" Rose patted me on the head and said, "It doesn't seem to have caught up." β
"It doesn't matter if he's catching up or not, I'm not running away."
"And what are you doing?"
"I wanted to run around the lake and see the entire perimeter of the building, so I could decide where to start."
"I thought you were scared away by a dinosaur!"
"Am I afraid of it? Are you lucky they're good-looking? Dragons are much more dangerous than dinosaurs. β
"Look over there." The rose suddenly pointed to the lake.
I saw a long dorsal fin in the lake in the distance slowly rising from the water, and then slowly submerged into the water. Judging by the size of the dorsal fin, the body of the monster under the dorsal fin will not be smaller than lucky, this place is really dangerous enough.
"I said the lake was safe!"
"You're right." Rose pointed to the temple again, "Do you see that place?" The side of the door. β
"I saw it, it looked like a sculpture, and it had been standing there for a long time."
"It's a creature." Rose raised the star pupil in her hand. "With this, you can see a slight shaking of its body as it breathes."
"It looks like it's not safe inside the temple either!"
"Then let's run around quickly and make sure the entrance!"
Thanks to Nightshade's speed. Otherwise, a hike around such a large lake would be a matter of next month. After a quick circle, the mutated dinosaur was already there. The biggest gain of turning around is that the only entrance to the temple is the front gate. But that strange door was actually standing in the water, was it the entrance to a harbor, and it was necessary to use a boat to enter?
"What are we going to do? Do you want to go into the water? "Roses don't seem to want to go into the water. Seeing that mysterious aquatic creature with a huge dorsal fin, who would want to swim in this lake?
"But we didn't have a boat! Or do we fly over? β
"It's a good idea, but you have to find out if it's safe first!" Roses are very cautious.
"Then I'll let the steel silver bee go over to the real yΓ n."
With a wave of his hand, a steel silver bee flew over, but as soon as it flew to the surface of the lake, a red light suddenly flashed on the top of the temple opposite, and a beam of light shot over, hitting the steel silver bee accurately, breaking it into a ball of mercury and flying back into the fire diamond. Rose and I were both scared, this thing's defenses are too perverted!
Rose found a stone from the ground next to her and threw it at it. As soon as the stone entered the water, it was attacked and smashed into countless pieces. According to this interception ability, no matter how many things pass together, they will still be shot down one by one, and besides, you can't be sure which target it will attack first. Therefore, the crowd tactic is definitely not going to work.
Summons Jing Jing Shi yΓ n to attack the opponent's attack. Crystal's Holy Shield plus magical defense can reach the strongest defense of any of the demon pets around me. However, the first attack of the red light blew Jingjing backwards, and the second attack was only separated by a second, and Jingjing's defense was breached. The third attack is again one second apart. I directly asked Bi Yue to block it and called Jingjing back. The attack power of this thing is too strong, and if you want to charge hard, unless each of my magic pets has the defense power of Jingjing, you have to think about it. Do you have to go underwater?
"Why don't we fly a little lower on the water?" Rose Tiyì.
I immediately sent a steel wasp flying against the water, and this time it was not attacked. Let the steel silver bee really go up, and the test results show that anything more than one meter above the surface of the water will be targeted! That is, only small ships or simply go under the water to avoid attack.
"If only I had known to use your space door to bring a tandem speedboat here!" Rose looked at the temple and sighed.
"I wish I had known what speedboat I was carrying! Bring in the Magic Light Cannon and blast out that damn launcher, or bring two Space Pumps and drain the lake! β
"Pumps?"
"You haven't seen that thing, I brought a few when the Temple of Light sneak attacked the Lost City, and as a result, the Blackwater Lake was drained in ten minutes."
"The area of this lake is more than ten times that of Blackwater Lake, doesn't it take more than an hour to pump?"
"So what? More than an hour is safer than going into the water, isn't it? β
"But now we don't have anything!"
"Then take local materials and make a raft out of trees."
"I'm afraid that the raft will withstand the attack of the monster in the water, and I think that the red beam weapon does not attack targets below 19 meters because the attack range of the monster in the water happens to be this area!"
"So what do we do?"
Rose thought for a moment and said, "Can your Earth Demon Pet freeze the surface of the lake?" β
"Frozen?" I looked up at the lake. "Such a large area...... I don't know! I'm afraid not. The force required to freeze such a large area of the lake is too strong, and it would be considered if my Ice Queen was as much as a dragoon. β
Rose said: "Freeze the entire lake with seals." Just freeze out a layer of ice that is big enough not to be overturned by monsters and not to be broken. β
"It's easy to say, it's not shipbuilding, it's good if the ice can freeze out, you have to be strong and big, how easy is it! Besides, if the ice is thin, it is not strong enough. Too thick will also create too much buoyancy to push the top above above a safe height, so the use of ice is possible. β
"Otherwise, let's build an ice bridge over the water, just run faster and don't give the monsters time to attack us."
"That's not going to work, as long as that monster is a little smarter, it will come to the front and wait for us in advance, and besides, there doesn't have to be only one water monster in the water. With the size of this lake, there are not many monsters of that size, thirty or fifty. β
"Then I can't help it!"
"Phantom?"
"Yes."
"How many times does it take to teleport to that temple with your teleportation?"
"Five or six times, almost."
I said to Rose, "This is the safest way to think about it, but I can teleport with you!" β
"Then you'll go in alone, and I'll wait here."
"No, I can't. You're not a main combatant like Shura Ziyi and True Red, how can I rest assured that I'm here to put you as an auxiliary mage, if so, it's better to take you to the bottom of the water safely! β
"Wait!" Rose interrupted me suddenly. "What did you just say?"
"I said I didn't walk from the bottom of the lake to leave you behind."
"Yes. We walked to the bottom of the lake. β
"Isn't it?" I'll look at the roses. "There are a lot of monsters in the water, so if you go down, you won't necessarily come up!"
"I don't mean walking through the bottom of the lake." Rose came over and took my hand and said, "What do you think about under the water?" β
"Silt!"
"And down there?"
"Below? That's the lakebed! "I suddenly reacted." You mean to make a hole under the lake bed? β
"That's what I meant."
I'll look at the temple over there, and then I'll look at the lake. Finally, I squatted down and pinched some dirt to feel the soil. "The soil is very strong, and if there is a rock support, penetrating the bottom of the lake is a problem, but it is guaranteed that there will be no leakage!"
"If it leaks, it leaks. Anyway, as long as it doesn't collapse, we're not afraid of water. Even if the water leaks, I believe that little monster can't get by, we are mainly to prevent being attacked by monsters, and we are not afraid of water! β
"That's a good idea, I'll start working right away."
Quickly summon Steel Claw, Pioneer, and Rose Vine. The task of burrowing in front was left to the Trailblazer, and the Steel Claw followed behind to clear the debris and straighten out the rocks. Finally, there are the rose vines, whose task is to grow constantly, with lignified branches to support the passages to prevent them from collapsing, and those roots are also good bindings. They hold the soil firmly in place, preventing water from seeping too quickly and destroying the passageway. It's a blessing to have a whole tunnel force.
Three hours later, a passage to the center of the lake was breached. The cross-section of the passage is a circular structure with a diameter of more than three meters. The branches of the rose vine covered all the walls in the passage, not to mention collapsing, not even a drop of water leaked, I really admired the ability of the three demon pets to make holes.
"Let's go."
The 13-meter-high passage is already very high for people, and we walked in it without getting in the way at all. After advancing as far as we reached the end of the passage, it was calculated that this position should be under the temple. But the problem now is that the temple seems to be floating on the water, and it doesn't really touch the lake bed. If we make a hole upward, it will inevitably penetrate the lake bed and cause a water leak.
"What are we going to do? The bottom of the temple is about 300 meters away from us, and we need to urgently ascend 3020 meters after entering the water, I can't guarantee that there are no monsters nearby! β
"That's just to hurry as quickly as possible."
I motioned for the steel paws to prepare, and asked Rose. "Ready? After a while the chase must be fast upward, and if you don't keep up I know if there is any ability to deal with this monster in the water. βοΌοΌ
"Ready." Rose lowered her mask and stood with me by the wall, and when we opened the passage, there would be a huge influx of water, and we would like to be swept away.
After confirming that everything was correct, he inserted the weapon into the wall to secure the two of us, signaling to Steelclaw that he could start. At my command, Steelclaw immediately stood up on his two hind legs and put his claws on the top of the cave. After several consecutive attacks, a crack began to appear in the roof of the cave. After a few more attacks, the whole body jumped up, and then I saw that the roof of the cave kept falling dirt and slag, and after a few minutes, black muddy water suddenly appeared. Then the water flowed bigger and bigger. Suddenly, there was a bang, and a large amount of water gushed out of the hole. Luckily we fixed ourselves to the wall, the powerful impact of the lake brought some strange fish down, the water blocked by the wall was bounced back and hit us like a gun, and my armor was clanged by all kinds of messy things in the water, it was hard to imagine that soft water could be so destructive!
When the water filled the passage, the high-pressure water column disappeared, and I pulled the rose and quickly rushed out of the hole. Steel Claw was already waiting for us at the entrance of the hole, and I grabbed the protrusion on the back of Steel Claw with Rose. The steel claw quickly swam upwards with force, and I really didn't expect the underwater speed of the steel claw to be so exaggerated. Fortunately, "Zero has no setting for diving sickness, otherwise it is estimated that we would have hung up because of blood boiling!"
We had just floated more than 100 meters when a huge black shadow suddenly appeared behind us, and the water monster really caught up! Look up at the temple above, it will take more than 100 meters to get there! Summoning the little dragon girl and Ayana to help speed up, both of them are water creatures, and they are also very fast. We quickly approached the temple, and seeing that it was only about fifty meters, I used the Avengers to aim at the bottom of the temple and hit the dragon tendon rope up. As soon as the dragon tendon rope hung on the temple, it immediately began to tighten, and with this traction, we didn't need the help of the demon pet. Put away the demon pet and soon rise to the bottom of the temple, loosen the rope head and quickly go around to the direction of the main entrance, and the monsters behind don't seem to dare to approach here, and they all run away.
Pulling the rose to swim to the gate, this close observation only to find that the gate is more than 8 meters high and is made of pure gold, how much does such a big door cost? Let's see if we can remove the door panel as well.
"Purple sun, look." Roses beckoned me over. I hurried over, but there was more than a meter of water at this gate, and it was very difficult for me to walk. Seeing me approaching, Rose pointed to the text by the door and said, "See?" β
"I see it, but I understand it!"
"Stupid!" Rose took off my helmet and tilted my face with both hands on either side of my cheek.
"Equation?"
The text on the door turned out to be an arithmetic problem, and each number and symbol was rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. The long string of numbers looks abstract, and some of the words seem to be uneven. At the very end of this string of numbers there is an equals sign, but it is also oblique, looking like two vertical lines. Rose followed the arithmetic problem all the way from the left to the right of the door, and finally found a circular groove on the side of the door on the right.
"Husband, give me the original gold."
I took out the gold disc and gave it to her. "This can't be the key, right?"
"Looks like it!" Rose took the original plate and compared it for a long time before loading the original plate, but the door did not respond. "Strange, why don't you move?"
Seeing the frustration of roses, I also began to study those arithmetic problems. Counting a penny from left to right, the number is 9.23. What does this number mean? That's right. "Didn't you say that this gold plate looks like a dial? The notch next to the equal sign is the number of counts, but the counts must be indicated by the time on the dial. β
"But this thing doesn't have a pointer!"
I looked up at the door and noticed that the pattern on the top of the door was strange. There is a motif in the middle of the door that is a clock, and the shape of the watch is exactly the same as our gold plate, but it has a walking needle. "That's maybe what we need."
"Golden bell dial?"
I flew straight and grabbed the dial, and with a slight pull, the dial was really pulled down, and it looked like it was indeed the key. Fall back to the ground and put the clock dial into the groove to replace my gold plate, then set the time to 9:23. When the dial is set to the correct time, the door suddenly clicks, and then the two doors retreat into the wall in two directions.
As soon as the door opened, the water poured into the temple, and the current carried us backwards into the hall, but fortunately the hall was only lower in the middle, and all around it was high above the water. When I climbed to the heights, I found that this hall was not like a temple but a villa vestibule.
"Why do I feel that something is wrong with the decoration here?" Rose also found a problem.
"I don't know, maybe it's the designer's bad taste!"
As the two of us spoke, the door behind us suddenly began to slowly close again. As the door closed, the room was dark, but when the last glimmer of light faded, the torches on the walls of the room suddenly lit up one after another, and the hall was lit again.
Syllable! A small hole appeared in the ground in the middle of the hall, and all the water was sucked in, and when the water drained, the hole closed again, and the room was dry again.
"Welcome, my guest." A loud voice that suddenly appeared startled us.
"Who are you?"
The voice didn't answer my question, but said to himself, "You've been the only guests to enter here for thousands of years, so let's play a game!" β
I was about to ask when my voice began to continue. "Give you 48 hours, start the clock now." A small lattice suddenly opened on the wall, and a clock came out. The top second hand began to move. "These clocks are available in every room, and they are controlled by a central center. Find the center within 48 hours to close all clocks, and if it works, we'll talk about the following. β
"What if we can't finish or refuse to play this boring game?" Rose asked.
The voice actually answered Rose's question. "Then stay here forever! Hahahaha........." The arrogant voice gradually faded away.
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