Volume 2, Lost in the Sand Sea Chapter 171, Rescue (II)
"Who are these?" Chen Tao looked at the strangely dressed corpses on the ground, these people obviously belonged to a common organization, each wearing the same style of modern black hunting suit, with a large hood on their backs.
Chen Tao squatted down and turned the face of one of the corpses onto it, judging from their appearance, these people did not have the obvious regional characteristics of Balohard, they should all be Han people from the mainland.
What made Chen Tao a little curious was that each corpse wore a silver wrench on the thumb of his left hand.
He removed the wrench from the corpse's left thumb and looked at it, revealing a strange string of numbers engraved on it, what appeared to be some kind of number.
"These people, it's weird....."
Chen Tao frowned and muttered, but Ballohad on the side suddenly said, "It turned out to be their ......"
"Commander Barlow, have you seen them?"
"Well, that was last month, and there was a big storm blowing at the time, and I saw a group of people entering the desert in the middle of the storm, and I didn't expect them to come here!"
"There were five or six tours into the desert, and in the last group I saw an enemy dressed in the same attire, and I never saw them again."
"Last month......." Chen Tao frowned.
Those groups must not be ordinary tourists, it is very likely that a group of organized mysterious forces, in order to hide people's eyes and ears and not cause unnecessary trouble, they entered the desert in batches to find Tatunan.
If you calculate according to the time Barlohad said, that time happened to be the third day after Uncle Long's men disappeared, and at that time, he and Uncle Long were on their way to Heizigou.
Thinking that the old cat that originally disappeared in Heizigou actually appeared in the desert, Chen Tao didn't have some doubts, could there be some kind of connection between the two?
The corpse has been here for at least four or five, and after the scorching sun, the corpse is already a little swollen and smelly, and the smell is really unbearable.
Seeing that there was nothing to discover, everyone continued to move forward along this road, and after walking not far, Chen Tao's face changed again.
There were a few corpses on the ground, which were also killed by bullets, but their clothes were not as neat and uniform as those people, but they were not strangers in Chen Tao's eyes.
Several of these people are a few of Uncle Long's men, and one of them, Chen Tao once met when he was in the Suzhou market. In addition, there are two corpses a little farther away, dressed similarly, which should be from Ye Rong and their side.
"Haozi!" Chen Tao called Haozi, looked at the corpses and said, "These are Uncle Long's people, they were killed by the group of people behind them in the retreat. ”
"It seems that Uncle Long's situation is even worse than I imagined......." Haozi squinted at Chen Tao: "Taozi, it's not that I speak badly, maybe we should be prepared for the worst." ”
Chen Tao had a calm face, his hand clenched his fist vigorously and said, "Things haven't reached the final step yet, Uncle Long, they must still be alive!" No more delay, let's go save them! ”
With the faint moonlight, the group shuttled quickly through the dense forest, and soon, the magic map ghost willow in front of them had gradually disappeared, and the surrounding artificial buildings had gradually increased, and finally only a large area of sand dunes and some remaining stone walls and stone pillars remained.
"We've left the Forest of the Necrons, and the Cave of Cal is behind the dunes." Balohad pointed in a direction ahead, "This is an open terrain, and there is a moat on that side, and we can go directly to the hinterland of the Cave of Kal. ”
On the previous road, Chen Tao once asked Balohad that the ancient city of Tatunaan was oval in shape, similar to an egg, with a total of seven gates. Chen Tao's position is on the side of the egg, and the location of the Karl Cave is in the large head part of the oval, in front of the Karl Cave, which is the temple where the legendary Tatunan kings are buried.
As for the corpse of the Great Wizard, it was buried under the main gate of the egg tip, and the two were separated by a city.
In other words, if Bruno wants to resurrect the Great Wizard, they must first go to the main city gate and dig up the remains of the Great Wizard buried under the road. The road was paved with boulders, and it would not be easy for Bruno and the others to dig up the body.
Bruno awakened the Great Wizard and released his soul from the box, but because he did not dig up the remains of the Great Wizard, the Great Wizard was still unable to leave Tatunan, and was finally sealed in Nakara's box by Chen Tao's grandfather, Chen Tao.
Although there were various indications that Bruno and O'Ranke had arrived at Tatunaan much earlier than Chen Tao and the others, it was not so easy for them to dig out the sarcophagus containing the remains of the Great Wizard from under the boulder in such a short period of time.
This is the main reason why Balohad wanted to enter the temple from the cave of Cal.
The moonlight shone like snow on the ground, and the sand dunes in the distance were covered with a silver gauze, and from here, the walls of the distant Tatunaan could already be seen.
Vicissitudes of life, heavy, this mysterious ancient city that has been sleeping for thousands of years has once again appeared in front of the world. Chen Tao looked at the majestic giant city, which was only a corner of the city wall, and the invisible sense of oppression and suffocation seemed to break through the shackles of time like a giant and step forward from the dusty history.
The shock from an ancient culture cannot be described in words, but can only be experienced when you face it yourself.
The crowd cautiously walked through the sand dunes and finally climbed under the walls into the moat.
The moat was seven or eight meters deep and five or six meters wide, and the river had long since dried up, and the river was full of silted yellow sand and gravel.
The torches were lit again, and the stone walls on both sides were high enough not to worry that the people above would see them. The group slowly moved forward against the stone wall outside, and the bottom of the river was rocky, and there were even a lot of corpses. There are people and some animals, and it seems that the underground of this river is not stable. The stone walls on both sides are so high that animals can't climb out if they fall in, and when the storm rises, they will be buried alive in the sand.
"Commander Barlow, this river is so high on both sides, how can we go up in a while?" Chen Tao looked at the high stone walls on both sides, and felt a little frightened, the Gar Cave was on the bank of the river, such a high place, and it was full of sand, unless he had wings to fly out.
"The moat is connected to the course of the Cave of Karl, and from there the river flows into the underground river, and there is a place to climb up." Balohad led the way with a torch in front, looking at his appearance, he was very familiar with this river, and it should not be the first time he has been here.
"The last time my father entered the temple from here, I didn't expect to return here."
Sure enough, after walking some distance, there was a fork in the river in front of them, and Balohad told the people to extinguish the torches, and the group turned along the fork in the road. Here the river begins to rise gently, and the steep rock walls on both sides begin to slow down.
Eventually, Balohad climbed up with the others in a very hidden place.
Looking at the messy boulders in the river, Chen Tao couldn't help but wonder if this place was specially cushioned by his grandfather and them in order to go ashore.
Crawling out of the river, Chen Tao was almost dumbfounded, staring blankly at the glorious hall in the distance.
"It's ....... Karl Cave? ”
For a long time, Chen Tao thought that the so-called Karl Cave was actually countless rat holes in the desert, but when he really stood in the Karl Cave, he found out that the Karl Cave was actually a temple.
These temples are not very high, and in proportion, they are dozens of generations smaller than the temples of the gods of the underworld and the gods of war that they have passed before, and they seem to have been specially designed for the rats in the cave of Karl. It is a continuous complex of low buildings, with elaborate carved ornaments on each wall, and many collapsed stone pillars around it, on which you can faintly see reliefs carved with mouse elements.
As the protector of Tatunaan's divine beast and the patron saint in the hearts of countless warriors, Gardong ruthlessly refreshed Chen Tao's three views again.
But after thinking about it, Chen Tao was relieved.
Each civilization has its own different culture, and Tatunan, as the most powerful country at that time, naturally did not avoid the protector beast in their hearts like other places. It is conceivable that at that time, in Tatunaan, these rats enjoyed such noble and luxurious courtesies, I am afraid that even the nobles of Tatunan could not compare.
Balohad slipped through the ruins with the group, hiding behind a collapsed wall, and saw a group of people dozing around a few fires in the distance, and a few others standing vigil.
"It's those weird people!" Chen Tao's eyes lit up, and the people in the distance were the same people he had seen on the road before, wearing black hooded hunting suits and wearing strange wrenches on his left thumbs.
"One....... Two....... Three....... Four ......." Haozi hid beside Chen Tao, quietly counting the number of those people in his mouth, "There are twenty-three people in front. ”
"Have you seen Uncle Long?" Chen Tao lowered his voice and asked Haozi, with a hint of anxiety in his voice, and his eyes carefully searched the group of people.
"No, what about you, Ye Rong, have you seen the person you want to save?" Ye Rong looked at the crowd in the distance with big eyes and shook her head.
Chen Tao did not give up, still stared at the place and searched carefully, his eyes swept over one corner after another that could be seen, and finally saw several figures tied to the statue under a dim stone wall.
It was so dark that the light couldn't shine through, and I could only vaguely see a few people tied up there, and a few people around there.
Looking at those people, Chen Tao's heart twitched fiercely, "Could it be that those people are Uncle Long!" ”