The sky gradually turned into a golden wave, and a few gray dark clouds clinged to the horizon, connecting with the maze below. Suddenly, a fire rose from the dark clouds, and gradually bloomed towards the surroundings, and the entire sky was dyed with an orange halo.

Balohad stood on top of a towering stone hill, the silver rat mask on his face glowing.

"Where is the entrance?" Chen Tao stood beside Balohard, following Balohard's gaze into the distance.

"It's about to appear......." There was an inexplicable glint in Balohard's eyes, Chen Tao couldn't see the expression under his mask, and could only look at the sky in the distance together.

The fire clouds in the sky burned thicker and thicker, and suddenly a beam of golden light pierced everything, like a golden arrow piercing through the clouds, and then, an incredible scene appeared in Chen Tao's eyes.

The sun shines on the maca maze, the stone mound and sand pillars in the whole maze are glowing with a faint golden light, the whole maca maze is like a layer of gold in an instant, the height is staggered, the natural stone mounds of different shapes are like alive, mottled and gorgeous, like a dream.

In this golden light, a golden light can be clearly seen, like a swimming dragon in the area of the endless stone hills.

"That........ That's it! Ye Rong's eyes were filled with a layer of small stars, as if women had a natural love for this shiny thing, and exclaimed in surprise that she kept shooting this wonder with her camera.

The golden thread stretched from the stone mound under his feet to the end of the labyrinth, and Balohad and his men suddenly knelt down, raised their hands high, and then crossed their chests, and solemnly bowed to the distant sky, chanting words that Chen Tao did not understand.

Chen Tao couldn't bear to disturb this sacred moment, and heard Ye Rong say that Balohad was worshipping the gods in the distance, which was the highest etiquette of the Tatunan people, and it was something that every Tatunan person must remember.

After the worship, Barrohad beckoned one of his subordinates, and the two explained something, and then took some people, including that Soke, and Chen Tao into the mysterious Maze of Maca with Chen Tao, while the rest of his subordinates guarded it to prevent anyone from breaking in.

The sun had risen, and there were no insects or birds chirping in the desert morning. Except for the occasional whining of the wind, there was no sound.

The group walked among the scattered stone mounds and sand pillars, with thin yellow sand under their feet and hard sandstone Gobi below, rustling on them. Barrohad told Chen Tao that thousands of years ago, it was the largest oasis in the desert, and that the Tatunan people had lived here for generations, but for some reason, since the holy city was buried by a storm, the oasis here has become more and more desolate, and finally became what it is now.

"You three follow me, it's not as safe here as it used to be!" Balohad made out the surrounding stone mounds and beckoned Sock to be on guard.

"It's not just the Holy City that's cursed, it's the whole of Tatunaan. When Prince Ulster returned from the war, he led his soldiers to pass through the Maze of Maca,

only to find that the whole labyrinth had changed, and they paid an extremely painful price to get out. ”

"I think...... It's quiet here, isn't it? Isn't it just a big rock mound that is naturally blown and can jump up and eat us? Haozi turned her head and looked around.

"If it were that simple, there wouldn't be so many people trapped here." Ye Rong said: "No matter what, let's be careful." ”

"We're just on the periphery of the Maze of Maca now, the route that used to be no longer there, I can only take you on one that can pass through the Maze of Maca, but that doesn't mean it's safe."

Chen Tao nodded, pulled Haozi over and said, "You kid is a little bit safe, don't run around without saying a word." ”

"Hey, it's okay, don't worry about it, just take care of yourself!"

"........" Chen Tao was speechless for a while.

Haozi, this kid is too restless, and he talks with a hippie smile, Chen Tao has nothing to do with him, anyway, the words have already been said, and it is his business to listen to it or not, so he doesn't care about him anymore.

The sun rises higher and higher, the temperature around it slowly rises, the blazing sun shines on the earth, at first glance, the whole line of sight is a layer of ripples, in the maze, people are like in a blazing oven, hot heads are about to explode.

At this time, the group had already gone deep into the interior of the maca maze, Chen Tao licked the chapped skin, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip of water, and looked up at the scorching sun. The dazzling sunlight couldn't open his eyes, and Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic for the underground river, although there were man-eating grimace bats and huge car-like monster insects, at least they didn't have to suffer from the scorching sun.

This tastes unpleasant!

It was like a pot of soup in my head, and my head was full of paste. There was nothing left in his mind but to follow Balohard.

At this time, Chen Tao finally understood the horror of this maca maze, once people get lost here, even if they don't starve to death, they will be sunburned to death.

"How long do you have to go?" Chen Tao asked.

"The Maze of Maca is much bigger than you think, and we're not even halfway there." Balohad was probably hot enough, and the rat head mask on his face was taken off by him, and it fell on his neck like a tag, and the sun shone on it, shining brightly.

Chen Tao looked at his silver mask, with pointed ears and fangs, a hideous face, and a strand of gold thread at the center of the rat's eyebrows, which extended to the top of the mask. Compared to the masks of the others, the mask of Balohad is noticeably more elaborate and mysterious.

Chen Tao looked at the fierce rat head in the mask, and a sense of familiarity surged in his heart.

"It's strange, how does this mask seem to have been seen somewhere......."

Feeling a little puzzled, Chen Tao couldn't help but ask, "Why are you wearing such a strange rat head mask?" ”

Balohad reached out and touched the mask on his chest, his eyes serious and reverent: "It's a long story, you."

The foreigners regard the rat as an enemy, which is the four evils, but for Tatunaan, the rat is the god of war Nakarosa's divine soldier, and it is the god who blesses Tatunaan from the victory of the war and the relief of the country. ”

Then, Balohad told Chen Tao a mysterious legend about the Tatunans and rats.

It is said that the god of war, Nacarossa, had a powerful god under his command, named Kani Doga, whose real body was a golden holy rat, the size of an adult giant wolf, and his whole body was golden. On its head, a strand of fiery red hair stretches from the center of its eyebrows to the back of its head, and the Tatunanans revere it as the god Dokarna, which means, king of hosts.

It is said that this god Dokarna is the ancestor of the rats of the desert, and when Tatunan still existed, the king had a temple built specifically for him in the holy city. On the outskirts of the holy city of Tatunan, there are many large and small earthen bags, which the Tatunanans call the Cave of Jar, which means the palace of the mouse. When people pass through the cave of Karl, they can often see a large group of rats coming and going in and out of it, and they are not afraid of people at all. There were even golden or silver rats inside, larger than hedgehogs. It was regarded as a god rat by the Tatunans at that time.

Legend has it that before the founding of Tatuna'an, it was a small desert tribe with less than 1,000 people, but it was blessed with a huge oasis in the desert, which caused several surrounding tribes to be really jealous and often came to attack.

One year, several tribes united and tens of thousands of people besieged Tatunaan, intending to annex Tatunan and carve up the oasis in one fell swoop. The coalition forces stationed their troops near the then Cave of Kar and surrounded Tatunaan.

At that time, Tatunaan had less than 5,000 troops, and the king knew that it would be difficult to resist the tribal alliance, so he thought of the god rat in the desert, so he set up sacrifices and burned incense to ask the god rat for help, in order to help Tatun Naan survive this disaster.

I didn't expect this trick to work!

That night, the god rat, who had been golden all the time and had a touch of fiery red hair at the center of his eyebrows, gave a dream to King Tatunaan, claiming to be the god of war Nakarossa's god of war, Kani Doga, and inspired King Tatunan to pray sincerely and come to help, so that he could prepare early, and before sunrise, send troops to fight, and he will definitely win.

King Tatunan awoke from his dream, knowing that he had been helped by the Rat God, and obeyed what the Rat God said in his dream, and gathered his men and horses overnight to prepare and attack the tribal army before sunrise.

The coalition forces were outnumbered, and they did not expect Tatunan to attack overnight, but they were caught off guard and tried to ride their horses and armor in a hurry, but found that the saddle, the armor, the bowstring, and the chain that tied the armor, and all the knots used to tie things were bitten by rats.

At this time, King Tatunan led a large army to rush into the camp of the coalition army, but the coalition army was unable to resist and was defeated by the Tatunans.

A ray of sunlight pierced the sky, and the sun slowly rose.

The cheering Tatunans, in their horror, saw a huge mouse with a golden glow half-standing on top of the mound in the distance, surrounded by hundreds of rats.

King Tatunaan immediately knelt down, and everyone was facing into the distance

The rat kept bowing. The remnants of the coalition army were all horrified when they saw this scene, thinking that Tatunan had the help of the gods, and they were frightened one by one, so they dropped their weapons and retreated in embarrassment.

In this battle, the coalition army suffered heavy losses, several tribes collapsed, and King Tatunan took the opportunity to sweep through several surrounding tribes and established the most powerful country in the desert, Tatunan.

King Tatunan was very grateful for the help of the Divine Rat, so he built a large hall for the Divine Rat in the Holy City for worship. Since then, the Tatunans have revered these rats for generations, and have made the cave a sacred place and sent special troops to protect it. Both kings and commoners worship rats and revere them as gods, hoping to be blessed by them.

The supplies for the worship of rats include fragrant flowers, food, clothing, and bows and arrows. Even the Tatunans dismounted and saluted any place in the desert when they saw a rat or a rat's burrow.

If you don't worship, or if you collide with the rat god, you will incur disaster.

(End of chapter)