I never lost the smell of perfume, but the road became more and more strange, and it was gradually moving away from the city, through the daytime market, and closer and closer to the desert. Eventually, we came to the edge of the desert, and in the distance, there was endless darkness.

There used to be buildings, but now there are only a few stone slabs buried in the sand, and they don't know how long they have been buried in the desert or what they used to be.

Among the ruins of the stone slabs, I found the source of the smell.

"That's it."

There was a huge gap between the ruins and stone slabs in front of him, and there was a faint light from underneath, "His smell is here, but it's a little strange......"

"Strange? What's the blame? ”

"His scent became very light. Moreover, it seems that there is still a bit of the taste of the king worm, the taste of the forty-two own king worms. ”

"The smell of perfume has become lighter, and the smell of king insects has become stronger, so it won't really be killed, right? Sure enough, the king insects that are close to the initiative are very weak. Du Youlan looked around and continued: "But it's strange to say, this place looks like a place to live, if it were you, you were brought here, and said that it was the residence of the stupid old seven, would you believe it?" ”

I shook my head, "I don't believe it." ”

Du Youlan nodded, "That's right, so do you think he'll go in?" ”

"Just because you don't believe it doesn't mean you won't go in. If it were me, but since they were all here, I would inevitably want to go in and have a look. I think that's what he thinks. ”

"So what?"

"So go in." So, I prepared to get between the stone slabs.

Du Youlan pulled me, "Hey, so brave? His breath is about to disappear, maybe he's dead, do you really want to go? ”

"I don't believe he died so easily, chased by Mina for hundreds of years, and died here so inexplicably? Besides, even if the stupid old seven kills forty-two, he can't kill me. ”

"You're so arrogant. Forget it, I believe you. ”

I feel that the stupid old seven can't kill me, and there is no special reason, it's just that the golden heart has never given me a signal of danger from beginning to end. I don't quite believe that Forty-Two will be killed like this, but the smell of his perfume gradually disappears, which really makes me feel strange, obviously just chased all the way, so far away, can still be clearly captured.

So, I wanted to find out.

Du Youlan and I got into the gap between the stone slabs, which began to narrow, but as we went deeper, the space gradually became wider, and the light, which was not very obvious, became clearer and clearer as the distance progressed, and the light was actually golden.

"Do you smell it?" At this time, Du Youlan suddenly asked, "There is a smell of 'happiness' here." ”

"What do you mean?" I don't understand.

Du Youlan glanced at me, and suddenly revealed an expression that I had never seen before, but it looked like an ordinary girl, it was the joy of a simple girl, "I smell the smell of gold." ”

"Gold smells?"

"Young man, you are still young, I am more sensitive to this than you."

"...... like this"

At first, I didn't think so, but it immediately turned out that Du Youlan, an elderly woman, really can't compare with me in terms of "knowledge".

It really tastes like gold.

Behind the cracks in the stone slabs is a tunnel, and at the end of the tunnel is a huge palace-like space, full of statues, humanoid statues, the scale of a life-size one. And here, everything I saw in front of me was made of gold, not only the portraits, but also the walls and stairs on the top and bottom, left and right, and the steps around it......

This reminds me of the tea stall owner's shaking of his head when he said gold, "I really think the scale is small." ”

Du Youlan shuttled between the golden statues, her nails were long, tapping lightly on every statue she approached, and then she looked back at me, "It's all gold, this guy, he's very rich." ”

"I don't care if he has any money or not, but I care more about who these things are now?" I looked at a golden statue in front of me.

It is a statue of a middle-aged man, dressed well and wearing a watch.

But he was strange.

What's so strange about it? I can't actually say it, if I have to say it, maybe it's the expressions, they all look like the most ordinary moment in every normal person's life. Or should it be described as real?

I don't know how this statue is made, but this lifelike expression, if you exchange gold for human skin, it is a living person.

"Zora, come over here."

Du Youlan called out to me, and I realized that when I looked at the statue, she had already walked far away from the bureau, on the other side of the group of statues.

"What's wrong?" I walked over.

"I found an acquaintance, you see, who is this?" Du Youlan pointed to a statue beside her.

It was a statue of forty-two.

Speaking of which, there is also the smell of perfume around the statue, but it is very light, very light.

Looking at the statue in front of me, I suddenly realized something.

Turning his head to look at Du Youlan, "No, these are not statues. ”

"What's that?"

"It's people, oh no, maybe not all."

"Oh? How do you know. ”

I turned my gaze to the hand of the forty-two statues in front of me, there was a mark there, like a wound just left, "He asked me to smell the smell of his king worm before, it was to cut his own flesh and blood, and the palm of this hand has a gap, you remember I said, there is also a faint smell of king worm here." Forty-two years ago, he had just scratched his skin here, and he deliberately left a smell. He must have known that he was about to become a golden statue, or perhaps he thought that we would probably be here, so he hoped that the moment he became a statue, he would keep the wound and let me know where he was. ”

"Heh, he really trusts you."

"Now this is not the most important thing, what is important, who turned him into gold? Silly old seven, is he more than just the ability to become sand? His snake eyes ...... "Thinking of this, I don't know why, my golden heart suddenly jumped!"

It was this beating that made me instantly realize that I should do something, so I instinctively turned around.

My gaze, weaving through the countless statues, finally locked on the figure at the end of the statue, at the entrance.

It was him, stupid old seven, who appeared.

"My snake eyes have never turned themselves into sand." He seemed to be responding to my question about Du Youlan.

Then, Silly Lao Qi walked around the statues and walked straight towards us, "It seems that you know a lot about snake people, so you might as well tell you that my eyes will make people gold." Have you heard Medusa's story? My ability is worth more than hers. ”

"yes, then why did you turn into sand today?"

"That's another secret, you don't need to know."

"Okay, but since you appeared, it seems that you are willing to communicate with me, so if I ask a question, you probably won't object."

"You can ask, but before asking, we have to make it clear, I have no grievances with you, and the previous thing was really a misunderstanding. I just want to kill him, now that I've done what I need to do, you and he just met, can't you want to avenge him? I don't think so. So, you don't have to be my enemy. "He spread his hands, as if to make me feel that he was not a threat to me at all.

But the afterglow swept to each of the statues around it, recalling the golden heartbeat of that moment just now......

I understand that the person in front of me is actually very dangerous.

……