Chapter 227: Heart of Illusion, Floating Island
The night came quietly, like a thick layer of flannel covering the earth. There was not half a star in the sky, nor a glimmer of light. Without light, it seems that the temperature of the wind has become cold, and the wind mixed with sand particles slaps the vehicle with a monotonous "thump" sound.
The headlights of several cars shone out in front of them, and the lights flickered in the dark yellow desert, and the straight light was quickly distorted by the wind and sand. Three three-wheeled motorcycles with mechanical uniwheels on the front feet and mecha tracks on both sides galloped in front of the armored engineering vehicle, bringing up a cloud of flying dust. Due to night lighting, the exploration radius is limited to a radius of three kilometers.
The explorers were whispering to each other in the wind, and from time to time there was the sound of whistling wind and staccato sounds in the light.
When Qin Hao arrived at the original lake, Liu Zihan and the others had already driven a three-wheeled motorcycle around the lake several times, passing on the newly discovered discoveries through Guangxuan.
Qin Hao guessed correctly, the outline of this lake has indeed shifted, and unlike his impression, the current lake has almost no edge line, only an irregular pit that seems to be bottomless, and the edge of the pit is covered with a layer of quicksand. With the wind, the surrounding quicksand rolls down towards the round hole in the middle, and you can really hear the sound of "swish".
When Qin Hao closed his eyes and pressed the light to calculate the depth of the pit, he found that the quicksand did not seem to have stopped flowing, and the sound of the flowing sand particles did not come up again after falling into it, like a wide open mouth, so he could only give up.
What surprised him even more was that the few grains of lost sand in the container in his pocket were beating violently, as if they were about to jump into the pit. Affected by this, his body unconsciously slid forward more than two meters in the blink of an eye, approaching the edge of the quicksand.
Even more urgently, as he got closer and closer to the quicksand pit, his body slid forward faster and faster. It was as if a huge magnetic field had sucked itself in.
He yelled at the team, then threw the container containing the Lost Sand at the team behind him.
After losing the Lost Sands, he easily escaped at the edge of the quicksand, while the other team member with the Lost Sands quickly slid towards the quicksand pit.
Under the illumination of the chariot's headlights, Qin Hao's team ran in the opposite direction to catch the Lost Sand.
At a distance of about 700 meters from the Quicksand Pit, the effects of the Lost Sands became less apparent. Qin Hao tried and tested it several times, no matter where the Lost Sand was installed, it seemed that it was about 300 meters away from the quicksand pit, and he would be attracted to it. At a distance of 100 meters, it will be sucked in at once.
You can't go to the floating island suspended in the middle of the quicksand pit and you can't take the lost sand with you. After being attacked by the sand lizardmen, Qin Hao was undecided about which team members would go. No one knows what's on that floating island, so the best solution is to go together.
Qin Hao was ready to abandon the lost sand for the safety of his teammates' lives. Just as he dug a pit half a meter deep and dumped the lost sand into it. Tuan Tuan covered his mouth in his pocket, rolled over and laughed, "Sheets!" Stupid! ”
"Huh? Lord Tuantuan, do you have a better way? Qin Hao's face softened, he heard the sound of the strings in Tuan Tuan's words, and his heart was full of surprise, like a stormy wave rolling up, teasing Tuan Tuan with his fingers and begging.
"Humph! I'm a group that everyone loves. Tuan Tuan covered his mouth and chuckled, enjoying Qin Hao's flattery. Under Qin Hao's begging and begging, she took out a piece of emerald green bamboo from her breast pocket and handed it to Qin Hao, "No, put the sand in it." ”
"Didn't open your mouth?" Qin Hao took the pillar with a happy face, but found that it was a complete bamboo knot.
"Well, oh... Then I'll come", Tuan Tuan stretched out his chubby little hand to take the lost sand, and pressed the sand grains towards the jade-like bamboo knots one by one. Under Qin Hao's surprised gaze, those gray-white lost sands were sealed in the green bamboo.
Qin Hao cautiously came to the quicksand pit 101 meters away, and the team members behind him
Line up in turn, ready to answer at any time. 109.106.103.101...Along with the meter reading, Qin Hao gently lifted his toes. 100 meters! Tuan Tuan laughed in Qin Hao's arms, rolling around the green bamboo, as if nothing had happened.
When he took another step, the green bamboo chirped softly, and it could be seen through the translucent bamboo wall, and the lost sand was beating wildly, trying to break through the green bamboo confinement.
Not to be outdone, Cuizhu rose up layer by layer of dark green magic arrays into the sky, extending in all directions. Tightly tied to the green bamboo. No matter how the lost sand is tossed, the green bamboo outside has not changed in the slightest.
After the problem of the lost sand was solved, they came to a place more than ten meters away from the abyss of quicksand, felt the sand wash over their bodies like a torrent, and slowly pushed towards the pit.
Under the illumination of the searchlight on the roof of the car, there is a huge floating island in the middle of this quicksand abyss with a radius of more than 1,000 meters, which makes a sky-high roar and then rotates counterclockwise. From a distance, this equilateral triangular inverted pyramid island is filled with a sense of sacred ritual.
Circling around the quicksand abyss, there seems to be no way to the floating island. At this time, the night was dark, and only a few headlights emitted a strong light in the wind and sand, shooting into the distance. Qin Hao shook his head at everyone and drove the car backwards to a safe distance. The five male Geen were assigned the order of duty and waited for dawn in the sea of sand.
Those sand lizard people may have been really frightened, they didn't take advantage of the night to attack Qin Hao and them.
When the wind and sand are accompanied by a ray of morning glow jumps up the sand sea and hangs on the horizon. Qin Hao and the others had already eaten breakfast on the siege vehicle, and they were nervously discussing how to board the Hanging Island.
The yellow sand bathed in the morning glow, covered with a layer of pink, makes the quiet sea of sand also active, like a girl with affection running shyly into the distance.
The quicksand abyss I saw last night now does not appear to be round, but an oval that approximates a circle. Several streams of sand rushing forward poured into it like a river, forming a series of dark red yellow sand waterfalls at the entrance of the cave, accompanied by the sound of "sizzling" with the wind.
I don't know how much yellow sand this quicksand abyss swallows up, but if you look closely, those oval edges are slowly smoothed out, gradually forming a rough seven-pointed star pattern.
Qin Hao stood on the roof of the car, looking at the hole of the seven-pointed star through the telescope, his face gradually becoming solemn. It wasn't the first time he'd seen the seven-pointed star pattern, and it wouldn't be the last. But it is certain that every time I see the seven-pointed star, there is a very strange situation.
"The entrance to the cave is a seven-pointed star pattern." Qin Hao glanced at the expedition members and said in a low voice.
When his gaze looked at the floating island, the unbelievably huge eye he had seen last night was gone, replaced by the sky island in the shape of an inverted pyramid. When looking down, you can only see the underside and sides of the floating island, but you can't see what is above.
Qin Hao adjusted his focus vigorously, and through the layer of mist that tightly wrapped around the white veil of the floating island, he could only vaguely see that there were no big trees or buildings on it, and the soil in the middle was obviously different from the four types, as if this place was more like a plantation.
"Plantations? Psychic grass? Dream Scar? Two Raw Dew... Lost Sands... Mask... Mask Man", Qin Hao's mind was spinning rapidly, he muttered, filtering all the things in his mind, connecting them, looking for ideas.
Such a picture appeared in his mind: not long ago, this place should still be the same as the fantasy he saw when he entered the door, there were mountain springs, lakes, plains, hills, precious medicinal herbs planted everywhere, and on the floating island in the center of the lake, there was a psychic grass carefully cultivated by Dream Scar growing in the wind. The aura condenses here, forming a precious and abnormal yin and yang dew.
A masked man coveted the treasures and sneaked in, and succeeded in stealing the Dream Scar. It's just that I don't know what mechanism I encountered, the abundant spiritual power here passed quickly, the mountain springs and lakes dried up, and the plains and hills also turned into deserts and ge
Wall. The Dream Sand in the masked man's hand also turned into Lost Sand.
What Qin Hao touched them led to the leakage of spiritual power, and those sand lizardmen still had no clue why they were terrified when they saw them. Maybe the root of everything is on that floating island.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak... Bang bang", on the sand dunes on one side, the fort was building a metal cable-stayed gun according to Qin Hao's requirements. The 1,500-meter-long cable-drawn rope gun was gradually approaching its finished form in the hands of the fort.
One end was tightly bound to the engineering vehicle, and the other end was coiled on the three-wheeled tracked vehicle, and Qin Hao drove towards the floating island. When he was close to the quicksand abyss for three hundred meters, Qin Hao drove the car to the maximum, and the transformation furnace frantically devoured the spars, erupting with a deafening roar.
Under the worried gaze of the team members, the yellow sand flying in the sky enveloped him and pushed him down into the abyss below.
By inertia, the three-wheeled tracked vehicle "flew" for 300 meters and then fell headlong downward. It was too late, it was too soon, Qin Hao held the metal cable-stayed rope gun and pressed the trigger towards the huge floating island directly above.
"Puff puff... Boom Boom Boom...", the metal drawstring flicked off his side and flew towards the floating island. With a burst of thunder, the rope spear stabbed into the bottom of the floating island.
"Drive!" Lu Fei, who was in charge of observation in the project, shouted to the front, "Boom! With a loud roar, Lu Yu stepped on the accelerator of the engineering vehicle to the end. The original silk rope of Songta Tower instantly stretched straight.
"Speed down! Speed down! Speed down! Keep it up! The battery screamed loudly, accurately estimating the friction, using the kinetic energy of the engineering vehicle to offset the reverse friction of the quicksand, but it couldn't pull out the rope spear gun that Qin Hao had entered.
When Qin Hao proposed this crazy plan, they opened their mouths wide in shock and didn't react for a long time. Until Qin Hao said all his thoughts, they could only think about it. Now, several of them have beads of sweat on their faces. But he didn't dare to slack off.
Qin Hao relied on a few hooks on his body, riding a simple sliding hook, sliding forward, and gradually approached the bottom of the floating island.
Cold, icy and biting cold was Qin Hao's first feeling when he touched the floating island. Those cold rock walls were smooth and translucent, exuding deep and vigorous spiritual power. Qin Hao's location is in the middle of the floating island, the color of the rock is blue-gray, the bottom is dark blue, the tip is black-gray, and the spire is dark black. Below is the bottomless pit of quicksand abyss.
The top of Qin Hao's head is pale yellow, and above is a layer of milky white. The upper part of the field is not visible because of the visual relationship. Qin Hao turned sideways, and the "lightning and thunder" pierced deep into the rock wall, and the anti-gravity hook on the magic robe was tightly attached to the smooth rock wall, climbing upward against gravity at an angle close to 120 degrees.
Under the watchful eyes of the team in the distance, Qin Hao grabbed the edge of the floating island with both hands, jumped forward, stretched out his right leg again, and rolled up hard.
The pungent smell of blood spread. Qin Hao touched a slippery thing in his right hand, which exuded a dark brown color in the sun, and gently put it on his nose and sniffed it. The heavy earthy smell is followed by a heavy blood.
In the middle of this floating island is a silver-white circular building, surrounded by seven paths, dividing this land of more than 100 square squares into seven parts. The land is close to desertification, and there seem to be traces of a magic circle on its edge. And the dark brown liquid came out of the middle of the buildings in the middle.
The noonday sun came, and Qin Hao walked forward along this withered land. When I passed by the building, it was full of corpses, and it looked like the sand lizardmen I had seen in the desert. They seemed to be arguing over something when someone sneaked up on them.
Qin Hao saw the corpses of those sand lizardmen covered with dark purple patterns all over his body, and even a little swollen, as well as the way they attacked wildly, tearing each other, and devouring each other, and remembered those corpses at the gate of the Medicine King Valley. 2k reading web