According to Ballohad, the god Dokarna had taught King Tatunan a way to summon his army, so that the rats in the cave could help the Tatunans fight.

And this secret is known only to King Tatunaan himself, and is secretly taught by the previous king, and no one else is qualified to know. In the ensuing wars, with the help of rats, the Tatunans won many battles, became more and more courageous, their territory continued to expand, and their national strength became stronger and stronger.

Later, King Tatunan took the appearance of the rat god Dokarna in his dream as a totem and made it into a mask for the guards. Think that it can bless the victory of the war.

After listening to Balohard's story, Chen Tao couldn't calm down for a long time. Although he doesn't believe in Tatunan's prayers to the gods in the story, these mysterious legends and stories are an alternative expression of a culture from the perspective of a vanished ancient desert culture. Chen Tao does not deny that there is a great deal of deification in it, but these stories alone can make people have infinite imagination and yearning for the Tatunan who disappeared under the sea of sand.

"It turns out that this mask has such a mysterious origin." Chen Tao nodded, looking at the mask on Balohard's chest, he always felt that something was wrong with this mask.

This feeling is very strange, this mask makes Chen Tao feel very familiar, but there is still a faint resistance in his heart, it is obviously next to his head, but he just can't tell where he has seen this thing.

"Does that way to summon rats really exist?" Chen Tao smiled and asked Balohad with some puzzlement, "Is it passed on to you now?" ”

Unexpectedly, Balohad shook his head and sighed: "Alas, the method of summoning the army of rat gods has been lost......."

"Lost?" Chen Tao was stunned, "How could such an important thing be lost?" ”

Balohad rubbed the rat head mask on his chest and said lightly: "This matter is our regret, and it is also a gap that can never be filled in the hearts of all Tatunan's descendants. ”

It turned out that the throne of Tatunaan had passed to the last man, the king who was swallowed up by the sandstorm. At this time, Tatunan's position in the desert was basically solid, but the last Tatunan king was ambitious, not satisfied with the strength at this time, and wanted to dominate the desert, break this deadlock, and become the real overlord of the desert, which was simply to the point of madness.

So he sent his three sons to lead the three main armies of Tatunaan to launch a war of annexation against the remaining countries. In the face of the powerful Tatunan, some of the surrounding small countries chose to submit, as Tatunan's vassal states survived, and some of the more powerful medium-sized countries had to form an alliance, for a time Tatunan and the alliance formed a stalemate of confrontation, the two sides often have wars, but it has been a stalemate.

It was at this time that the unprecedented catastrophe struck Tatunaan, and the entire holy city, along with the royal family and civilians in the city, was swallowed up by the storm and buried forever under the yellow sand.

His three sons were on a war abroad and lost Tatunan's dissipation

The eldest son and the second son were killed in battle, and the younger son, Prince Ulster, returned to Tatunaan with the rest of the army, only to find that everything was long gone. And the secret about summoning the army of the rat god disappeared forever with the death of the last King Tatunan.

Chen Tao looked at the mask thoughtfully, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, only to feel that his scalp was numb for a while, and the top of his head was obviously a scorching sun, but he felt a cool breath extending down the roots of his hair to the soles of his feet.

He finally knew why this mask was so familiar! The hideous and ferocious mouse face in the mask continued to magnify in Chen Tao's mind, gradually overlapping with a strange face in his memory.

The Dementor Rat King!

Chen Tao didn't have a surging chill in his heart, the legendary golden rat god with a golden body and a touch of fiery red hair at the center of his eyebrows, could it be the ugly and murderous dementor rat king!

Thinking of the strange scene he experienced on the cliff of Heizigou, the strange crowd wearing the mask of the Rat King, the strange golden palace pulled behind him, could it be the temple used to sacrifice to the Rat God Dogarna?

But how is this possible!

One is the Loess Plateau and the other is the desert hinterland, and there is a difference of 108,000 miles between the two, and no matter how coincidental it is, the two places cannot be linked.

Don't.......

Chen Tao's eyes widened, and a lightning bolt struck his mind.

Qianshu Hongde!

The only thing that can connect these two places is the haunting Qianshu Hongde!

On the stone carvings in the tomb, Qianshu Hongde once mentioned that he went to the Western Regions and brought back tens of thousands of troops, and finally was able to fight against the cultists and kill the monster that his senior brother Hao Yu Gongshen had become.

In the petroglyphs depicting the war in the cave, Chen Tao did not see the so-called army, only countless small black dots, and in the corner of one of the paintings, there was also a mouse depicted.

The petroglyphs and murals that accompany the burial, each stroke has an extremely deep meaning, and it is impossible to paint there for no reason, not to mention that these things appear in more than one picture.

Thinking about his messy hallucinations and weird dreams during this time, Chen Tao had a bold idea in his heart.

Could it be that Qianshu Hongde brought back not an army, but the method of summoning rats to help him fight?

As soon as this thought appeared, Chen Tao's heart seemed to grasp a line hidden in the darkness, and everything seemed to have a little eyebrow!

There are all kinds of indications that Qianshu Hongde has been to Tatunaan. And he brought back the method of summoning rats to fight from Tatunaan, and used it to help him defeat the cult, which eventually led to his mission.

According to Balohad, that method is known only to King Tatunaan, but Qianshu Hongde is an outsider, not to mention how he got into Tatunan, even if he entered, how did he get this method?

It was noon, and the sun was burning in the throats, so Ballohad found a few strangely shaped stone pillars for everyone to hide in the shade, waiting to escape the heat of noon

Day again.

Chen Tao squatted under the stone pillar by himself, and he didn't bother to care about the crowd around him, Haozi ignored him several times, grabbing his hair and thinking about all this.

He tried to connect all the information he knew, whether it was the scattered dreams or the exact information he already had, and it seemed like this.

In order to deal with his senior brother Hao Yu Gongshen and Hao Yu Gongshen's cult followers, Qianshu Hongde went to the Western Regions alone, lived and died several times in the desert, and was finally rescued by a woman.

This woman should be a person with a certain identity and status in Tatunaan, she brought Qianshu Hongde into Tatunaan, and it seems that a lot of things have happened with Qianshu Hongde.

Eventually, Qianshu Hongde got the way to summon the army of the rat god Dokarna, and used it to destroy the cult and kill the monster that Hao Yu Gongshen had turned into.

How many years later, grandpa accidentally saved Uncle Long and Uncle Wang, and Uncle Wang had a road map to enter Tatunaan, so grandpa took them into Tatunaan, and finally took the key to open Tatunan, and quietly left these things to Chen Tao himself.

Then, the missing guys under Uncle Long who were originally in Heizigou appeared here for some reason, and Uncle Long also followed, and also cooperated with the Ye family.

These are just Chen Tao's preliminary guesses, about Tatunaan, Chen Tao can only come up with such a little bit of things at present, and he doesn't dare to guarantee that his guesses are correct, there are many doubts, there are mysteries everywhere, if you want to really figure it out, it is definitely not something that can be done now.

But one thing is for sure, in all these things, Qianshu Hongde is definitely the most crucial person.

Chen Tao touched the beast box in his arms, this thing was originally placed in the coffin with Qianshu Hongde, and a picture in the stone wall petroglyph clearly drew that Qianshu Hongde had used this box.

It was clear that this strange beast box was not only one of the keys to Tatunaan, but also an extremely valuable thing for Qianshu Hongde. But in addition to a pile of useless sand, there was only a large string of tadpole reptiles.

Wait a minute........

Chen Tao had a stirring spirit in his mind, those ghost drawing talismans Chen Tao had asked Professor Weng Tian of Zhonghai Immortal to translate, and there was a string of strange spells inside.

Could it be that this spell is a secret method to summon rats out to fight?

Chen Tao felt that he was going crazy, could it be that if you recite a series of incantations, those rats will be able to listen to your command?

But after thinking about it, in the petroglyphs, Qianshu Hongde was holding a beast box in his hand, and there were countless rats under his feet, I wonder if he really did this!

Thinking that the secret of the Tatunan people summoning the army of the rat god was very likely to be in his hands, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little excited in his heart.

How do you pronounce that string of ghost talismans?

The more Chen Tao thought about it, the more chaotic it became, and he didn't think about it for a while, so he had to give up.

Anyway, he took the box with him, and he went over to Ye Rong to ask him.

"That, Miss Ye.......

”

Chen Tao called Ye Rong's name, and when he looked up, the whole person couldn't help but be stunned.

"Huh? What about people? Chen Tao stood up from under the stone pillar.

"Ye Rong!"

"Haozi?"

"Balohard?"

After calling for a long time, no one answered, and they were not seen.

That's not right! Why are they gone?

Chen Tao had a bad premonition in his heart, and he was busy turning around several times, and he looked around every stone pillar and stone mound, not to mention people, not even a shadow.

Although Balohad only brought some people, but with Chen Tao and the three of them, it was not one or two, so many people could not see any of them.

But these people are all gone!

(End of chapter)