Looking at the somewhat vague mark on the stone pillar, Chen Tao was stunned.

How could it be!

Grandpa had already told himself the roadmap under the Great Hall of the God of War, thinking of the strange letter in his mind, and then thinking about the bead that was also placed in the beast box by his grandfather, Chen Tao's heart was pounding, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

Could it be that grandpa already knew that there would be such a day?

To be honest, Chen Tao didn't believe in these things at all in his heart, but everything that happened after that seemed to be confirmed, as if his grandfather had already expected everything about Chen Tao.

First the sunspot, then the bead, and now this mark and route, each time it saved his life at the most critical time.

Grandpa, grandpa, where are you sacred, are you crooked, or are you really like a god!

Chen Tao didn't dare to think about it anymore, and his heart was terrified to the extreme.

"Chen Tao, didn't you say that you know how to get out, what are you doing in a daze, let's go!"

Ye Rong was anxiously urging on the side, and the big grimace bat above her head hung in everyone's hearts like a grim reaper. This thing is not only extremely fast, but also contains highly poisonous, as long as you are bitten by it, even if you scratch a little skin, you will be cold!

Chen Tao retracted his mind, and now the situation cannot be delayed, he immediately pulled out the spear inserted in the ground, Haozi and Ye Rong protected both sides, and the three of them maintained a stable formation and kept shuttling between the stone pillars.

"The left three and the first five stop in place, and the right and back steps diagonally!" Chen Tao silently recited the mantra that his grandfather taught him, although he didn't know why he walked through these stone pillars like this, but since his grandfather said so, he must have his reason.

"Taozi, what are you wandering around, you have to run around like a snake on such a wide road?"

Haozi saw that Chen Tao was taking them to stop and go, and he immediately had doubts about the route Chen Tao said.

"Don't talk nonsense, just follow me!" Chen Tao was also confused, his grandfather asked him to memorize this route by rote, and he didn't elaborate on the reason for it. What's more, at that time, Chen Tao only thought about a string of rock sugar gourds every day, how did he know that this string of mantras turned out to be the forward route of His Royal Highness the God of War!

"No, are you reliable or not, I don't want to be torn alive by these black-haired beasts with you, and finally become this black dung egg all over the ground! What the fuck are you doing! ”

"Play chess!" Chen Tao was in no mood to talk nonsense with Haozi, and carefully recalled the mantra his grandfather taught him in his mind, for fear of remembering a word wrong. Although he didn't know what secret was hidden in it, he absolutely believed that by following his grandfather's mantra, they would definitely be able to get out!

"Playing chess? I said Taozi, although I don't read much, don't lie to me, you play chess like this? When is this all gone! Haozi held the rifle firmly, staring at the big grimace bat above his head without blinking, not letting up at all

"Do you think there seem to be fewer bats overhead?" Ye Rong had a rifle in her hand, and she was also wary of the bat swarm above her head, but she took aim

For a long time, no bats rushed down.

"Hey???" Haozi smacked his lips and said strangely: "It's not just less, why don't these black-haired beasts come down?"

Chen Tao looked up at the dim roof of the hall, in the flickering light of the torches, although there were still a lot of big bats with grimaces hovering overhead, they flew away as if they didn't see Chen Tao and the others.

"No, you see, those bats haven't touched these pillars at all!" Ye Rong observed carefully, and explained the strangeness in one word.

A spirit flashed in Chen Tao's head, and then looked at those big bats, at first glance, they were all hovering and flying over them, but if you really pay close attention, you will find that the flight trajectory of these big bats seems to have some kind of trickery.

All bats will choose to avoid some stone pillars when they pass by, and directly turn around and fly to other places, even the dried corpses on the stone pillars are better preserved than those on other stone pillars, which shows that in these thousands of years, although these ghost-faced bats feed on dried corpses, they have never touched the corpses on these special stone pillars. And these stone pillars that were bypassed by bats were exactly where Chen Tao stayed every time.

I see!

Chen Tao had an epiphany in his heart, these positions in his grandfather's mantra are those stone pillars that bats will not touch! The bats didn't know why, and instinctively avoided the stone pillars. Maybe it was the grandfather back then who discovered this hidden law and entered Tatunaan alive!

Haozi's face was full of surprise, "I said Taozi, you are really a god, how did you discover the secret of these black-haired bats?" ”

Chen Tao grinned, and said in his heart If I knew, I could tell you? Will I tell you that this is what my grandfather taught me?

"Because I'm handsome!"

Chen Tao said casually, and took Haozi and Ye Rong to retreat according to the route in the formula. Without the infestation of the ghost-faced bats, the three of them were a lot more relieved, but they didn't dare to relax too much, after all, there were the bearded bandits who killed people without blinking, and they were much more dangerous than these ghost-faced bats.

After walking for about ten minutes, Chen Tao and the three of them stood in front of the last stone pillar at noon, which was the last position in the grandfather's formula.

I thought that this mantra would end up being a passage or a stone gate, but in front of me was also an ashlar pillar, and the dried corpse on it was gone. There are only four hollows left.

Chen Tao stuck his spear in the ground and circled around the stone pillar with a torch, carefully examining the last stone pillar.

"Impossible, why nothing?"

Chen Tao scratched his head anxiously, there were position signals left by his grandfather on the first few stone pillars, but when it came to this last one, why was it gone?

Chen Tao didn't believe in evil, and carefully checked around the periphery of the stone pillar, since his grandfather left a complete formula, there would definitely be a mark of going out, and he was not mistaken, it was impossible not to do so.

Sure enough, when Chen Tao drilled into the square hole to check, he found a familiar mark on the inner wall of one of the square holes, and the information on it was only two words:

Entrance!

Next to the marker, there is a baby the size of a fist

The small holes, boxy, wipe away the surrounding dust, and you can vaguely feel a circle of small gaps around the square hole when you touch your fingers.

Chen Tao looked at the square hole with his waist, and then put his finger into the square hole and touched it, and found that the hole was no more than a finger deep, and there were some deep grooves inside, which seemed to be some kind of mechanism.

"This must be the mechanism that opens the secret door, we still lack a key!" Ye Rong looked at the square hole, and then looked at Chen Tao with a look of hope, as if waiting for him to take out the key.

Looking at Ye Rong's eyes, Chen Tao's head hurt a little.

And a key?

He only knew that his grandfather Chen Tao had entered Tatunaan and had taken away Tatunaan's key. And in the beast box that Grandpa left for himself, apart from the letter and the map, only the bead remained! But now, the beads have been snatched away by the beard, where is the key! Could it be that you can still use those two pieces of torn paper to pry it open?

Chen Tao grabbed his hair anxiously and frowned at the square hole on the inner wall.

Wait, this square hole!

Chen Tao handed the torch in his hand to Ye Rong, and carefully compared it with his hand, this length, this thickness.

it!

Chen Tao's head buzzed, and the hairs on his whole body suddenly exploded.

The size of this hole is exactly the same as the beast box with the beads in it!

Could it be that the second key is the box?

What can I do, the box is still in the hometown of the ancient city, this time, Chen Taoke didn't bring it with him!

Chen Tao's head turned quickly, the box left by his grandfather was still at home, but the one brought out from the sunspot ditch was exactly the same as the one left by his grandfather, maybe he could open it!

Chen Tao's eyes flashed with a touch of heat, and he touched his back with his backhand to take out his backpack, and his heart suddenly sank.

Worst! Their own backpacks are still in the hands of the bearded them!

"The keys are in my backpack, but my bag is still in the hands of the bearded men!" Chen Tao's face was a little ugly, and his brows were twisted.

"What!" Ye Rongqiao's face stiffened, and she didn't say anything for a long time with her mouth open.

"Holy!" Haozi kicked the black sand on the ground hard, and then slapped his head sharply, as if he remembered something, and said, "I know where your bag is!"

"Tell me where!" Chen Tao looked anxious.

"When I went to grab the bag before, I saw that your bag was carried on one of them, and I didn't know if the thing was still there!" said that Haozi regretted a little, "I knew that I should have grabbed your bag at that time, alas! ”

"The bag must be retrieved, we can't get out without the key, even if we stay here and don't get caught and killed by these grimace bats, we have to be trapped here alive!" Ye Rong bit her silver teeth, and a touch of unwillingness flashed on her face.

"Now I can only bite the bullet and grab it back!" Hiroko reloaded the rifle with bullets and pulled the bolt with a click.

"Okay." Chen Tao clenched his fists tightly, "You follow me, let's quietly go around to the bearded them and act when the opportunity comes!" ”

The three of them discussed

The strategy, led by Chen Tao, went back to the place where they saw the bearded man and the others for the last time just now.

In the face of such a large number of big, such a fierce attack on the big grimace bats, around the bearded they are fully armed, after all, they can't resist, and then back to the previous place, only to see the bat corpses and human blood all over the ground, the bearded they have suffered heavy losses, the original seventy or eighty people are now only twenty or so, and they are retreating in formation to the altar.

Dada......

The air was filled with a strong stench of blood and foul smell, mixed with the smell of gunpowder after the bullets burned, and the sound of gunfire was incessant, and bats were constantly falling from mid-air and sinking headlong into the pile of corpses on the ground.

Chen Tao and the three of them extinguished the torches, quietly hid behind a stone pillar not far from the bearded man, and secretly observed for a long time, Chen Tao's eyes lit up.

"Found it, the backpack is there!"

(End of chapter)