"Oh, and besides, where did you go to the 'sand ......' before, and where the slate is, does it still exist?" Xiao Wu asked.

“…… Well? What sand? The elder thought for a moment.

"You mean 'Shambala'?"

"Yes, there it is!"

"I don't hide it from you, of course it still exists! It's just that place, speaking of which, is a place that only those of us spiritualists can enter, and it's a ruin, and even spiritualists can't get into the innermost place, it's too dangerous. And also...... This is where the beast was once suppressed! ”

"There are many secrets hidden there—the secret realm of our Jidu people." The elder suddenly said with a straight face.

"Secret realm? ……”

"Okay, it's not too early, I'll arrange for someone to clean your room, and you can stay here for a few more days."

The elder stood up and said.

After Joyna and the others walked out of the temple, they saw Li Qing, who was waiting here as the elders had instructed.

"Hehe, I didn't expect you to be psionics!" Xiao Wu said to Li Qing, who was leading the way in front.

"Ugh! What have the elders told you? …… Something about us? Li Qing looked a little surprised.

"Elder, what kind of person is she? Why did she live that long? ”

“…… That's the secret of our people, alas~~ How can I know so much? Li Qing shook his head and sighed.

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In this small village, they were treated to the local delicacy – a roasted whole lamb stuffed with honey, potatoes, raisins, salt and spices, and other fruits.

That is the most authentic way for the locals to eat in the Guge Mountains, which covers an area of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

Joyna and the others also helped the villagers to collect firewood to make a fire, and they saw that the villagers had brought up a huge fat sheep from the river not far away, which had been slaughtered and skinned and washed in the river.

They wore the sheep with an iron bar, one from the neck to the middle of the two hind legs, and then began to load the lamb's belly, and when they had finished it, they sealed the sheep's belly with some iron bars through the cracks that had been cut, and began to roast it on the campfire.

They roasted and poured a locally brewed liquor on the sheep. When the flame touched the sheep, a burst of flame burst into flames for a long time.

This is the only way to make the lamb even inside and out, and the heat of steaming in the belly of the lamb will also penetrate the sheep soon after...... Soon, the aroma of roast lamb wafted through.

The fragrant smell of mutton, mixed with honey, salt, roasted potatoes, fruits and other foods, the roast meat was also "sizzling" with grease, and it was quickly served, and each person was filled with a large plate.

It was the best and most hearty food they had ever tasted in days.

The hospitality of these hermits to them is quite unusual.

Joyna and the others stayed in the village for one night, and did not leave until noon the next day. Before leaving, a villager ran to their car quickly, and it was the elder who had sent someone to deliver the map.

There are several solitary red circles on the map. Obviously, that was their destination, where spirit grass grew.

The car started quickly and they drove away from the small village......

They don't know...... After they were gone, the temple they had visited disappeared from the ground, leaving only the village.

This is actually an outpost on the ground of the Jidu civilization. And the humans who look like villagers are actually sentinels, guards of their clan.

Obviously, it is impossible for outsiders to detect what these people are guarding......

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At this moment, thousands of kilometers away from Joyna - the "Ancient Iron City". On the outskirts of the city, there are two figures on a dilapidated sand bike.

These two people are the "Iron Claw Tiger" and the spies who lurked in Daddy's camp and were later rescued by him.

They didn't know where they got a broken car, and they traveled thousands of miles to the ancient iron city in the Central Continent.

Along the way, the Iron Claw Tiger has already made up his mind - to earn the first pot of gold in his life on the black market in the ancient iron city!

He discussed with the spy: first, he would come forward to match him and find a buyer on the black market, and second, he would recommend him to do an errand under the "Faceless God of War" and hide it, so that he would live a fairy life in the ancient iron city without knowing it.

Of course, if the deal was done, he promised to give the spy a good sum of money.

This, of course, made the spy overjoyed, not only did he escape the fate of being imprisoned, but he was able to return here alive and become a rich man. All he had to do was help find a buyer and recommend that guy to join him...... The best of both worlds, how simple it is.

At this time, the Iron Claw Tiger was in the car, touching the strange mask on his chest with his hand, and clinging it tightly to his body, and his heart suddenly became a little nervous.

He's on the territory of a strange gang, unaccompanied—and he's got to be alone with the guy next to him.

He didn't know anyone here. He knew that this was the Central Continent, the Central Continent where gangs gathered! What if something happens...... He wondered if his life had been given here.

He was a little scared.

"Humph! Afraid of an egg! He gritted his teeth at the thought of this and threw his fist down on the car.

"Bang! When! ”

The Ironclaw Tiger himself was startled.

The door of the car actually fell and flew away, splashing a puff of dust behind the car, which frightened the spies who were driving.

"Ahh What are you doing...... It scared the hell out of me......"

"Hehe-it's okay, drive your car, I'm tired of this door."

"......" the spy was speechless.

The Iron Claw Tiger looked at his palm for a long time......

"This mask is really not for nothing, haha, Lao Tzu's strength has become so great. Hmph, look at which one of you dares to provoke me without opening your eyes! He muttered quietly.

"After the town in front, we will enter the territory of the ancient iron city, let's go to that town to rest today, I can take you to the "Red Heart" general tomorrow morning to report, and then you will officially join the gang. ”

"Okay, you're up to the cracks!"

Ironclaw nodded casually, he didn't care about that.

There is a brighter future waiting for him, how could he come all the way here, just to be a soldier.

So, their broken car stopped in front of a dirty hotel in the town.

There are very few people on this street, and they are basically passers-by, merchants, and the like.

Looking into the distance from the only street in the whole town, you can see something, and the ancient iron city is not far away.

After the "Iron Claw Tiger" got out of the car, he looked at the thing in the distance in a daze......

In the distance, you can see a huge, super-giant Ferris wheel-like structure.

Although it is dilapidated, you can still appreciate the former glory of this thing from the shadows that shade the sun.

This behemoth shimmered in the afterglow of the setting sun. That is the "Falling Star Ruins" of the ancient iron city, hundreds of years ago, that incomparably huge ruin, there is another name - it was once mankind's first space satellite city "Americas".

Hundreds of years later, the ancient iron city was named after it.

……

It used to be a giant fortress with a diameter of 115 kilometers and shaped like a large spinning top.

In pre-civilization times, its construction was comparable to legendary.

It has undergone a lengthy construction process of more than 170 years. Starting with a small ISS and expanding.

In the past 170 years, mankind has been constantly transporting building materials to it, countless aerospace projects have been docked there, and even in the last 30 years, because of the improvement of scientific and technological means, construction has also accelerated, and its construction volume is equivalent to the sum of all previous constructions......

And, mankind built the first space elevator in history specifically for it.

Although, after the development of people's technology, the construction of new space cities began in other places. However, its status has always been iconic in people's minds, because it has too many "first" titles.

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