Volume 2, Lost in the Sand Sea Chapter 103, Under the Ruins
What the hell am I ......
At the critical time, the flame of the lighter was extinguished, Chen Tao scolded his mother in his heart, and hurriedly kept playing the rotor to light it again, but the evil wind just didn't stop, and I didn't know if it was a trembling hand or the wind blowing, and strings of sparks came out of the flint, but it couldn't be hit.
Vaguely felt that something on the ground had climbed up, and out of instinct, Chen Tao threw it directly with a handful of sand without thinking about it.
"Phew! Who the hell am I! ”
As soon as he heard this voice, Chen Tao immediately breathed a sigh of relief, clicked on the fire, and said to the figure in front of him
"Haozi, is that you!"
"! Taozi, you're not dead! Haozi rubbed his eyes with both hands, "I don't know which one killed a thousand knives just now, and the sand sprayed into my eyes!" ”
"It's windy here, it's probably being blown up, come, I'll help you!" Looking at Haozi's appearance, Chen Tao couldn't help blushing for a while, but fortunately, he couldn't see in the sand in his eyes. At that moment, he put the lighter on the stone next to him, and took out the kettle and gave Haozi a flush.
"Ahh......h
There was a groan of pain in the darkness.
"The true god of the desert is above, and I, Takji, am still alive."
It turned out to be an old man in Takji!
No wonder the things in the sand pile just now were so big, it turned out that there were two big living people buried.
Seeing a bright light ahead, Takji also touched it.
"What is this place?"
"I don't know, just now I found out that Ye Rong was gone, so I looked for her everywhere, but I didn't expect that when my feet were empty, people fell down."
Haozi pulled out a glow stick from his back waist and broke it hard, and the surroundings suddenly lit up.
"Where's our Ye Rong beauty?"
"It's so deep at the bottom, I guess I fell under the stone steps, let's go, let's go find her."
"The matter of heroes saving beauty, I will not let it go!"
The three of them leaned against the stone wall and carefully descended the stone steps. The staircase was longer than they had imagined, leading to the darkness below.
"It's supposed to be some basement or something, and now we can't get out of it, so we can only go inside, maybe there can be some exit."
Chen Tao looked at the glow stick so that he could see the situation under the stone steps as clearly as possible.
At the end of the stone steps was a tall stone wall, which seemed to be carved something, and when Chen Tao and the others approached, they found that it was actually a huge face with a human head, and the face was carved with strange patterns, as if wearing a mask. On the head of the stone statue is a crown of hair with a unique shape, and on closer inspection, each hair is a long snake spitting letters. What's even more surprising is that this stone face actually has three eyes. The eyes of the human head are closed, and there is a vertical eye on the forehead, and a stone bead is inlaid in the place of the eyeball.
Underneath the human face, there are two strange giant beasts entwined, a bit like two large lizards, but on closer inspection, they are not.
Haozi took out the wolf's tooth flashlight and shone at the bead, the stone bead was crystal clear, and the seal was surrounded by a layer of pale green fluorescence.
"Damn, this is a pearl of the night! It's a pity that it's lost its luster, but it's such a big one! Haozi's eyes lit up, and he was about to get a flashlight with his wolf teeth.
"God forbid, God forbid!" Takji knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, "This is the goddess Nakara, who controls the undead messenger in the desert, that bead can't move, we will be punished by the goddess!" ”
Haozi looked disdainful, "I don't believe you this!" He was about to step forward, but was stopped by Chen Tao.
"What can you do if you take it, you can't get out and you still stay here. Besides, now we are dangerous and unpredictable, and that thing weighs more than ten pounds, to say the least, can you hold it? ”
"It's a pity, it's a pity that such a jewel is about to be blown into stone if you put it here!"
Chen Tao shook his head, turned to look at the other side of the stone steps, but saw a glimmer of light in the sand in the distance, and there was a person next to him.
"It's Ye Rong!" Chen Tao rushed to Ye Rong in a few steps and helped her up.
Ye Rong estimated that she had rolled down the stone steps directly, and the person was still unconscious. I checked her body and found that there was nothing serious, so I was relieved.
"Hey! Wake up! ”
It seemed that Chen Tao's shout had an effect, and Ye Rong slowly opened her eyes,
"Where is this?"
"I didn't know, the stone hall above had collapsed, and we were all buried under the rubble."
Ye Rong rubbed her head and stood up, digging out a flashlight from the sand.
"Gotta find the exit quickly, or we'll all die here."
Directly opposite the stone wall, there is a stone staircase below, but this section is significantly wider than the two sides.
Down is an open underground palace, a thick pillar firmly supports the top of the hall, everywhere there is yellow sand and collapsed stone statues, every stone and pillar around is carved with strange ornaments, the cold wind blows, the whole hall inside and outside are full of cold, the back of the neck of the person who looks at it is cold.
"This should have been a temple in the past, but now it's so dilapidated."
In the center of the hall was a tall stone statue, exactly like the giant face on the stone wall, except that the eyes of this stone statue were open.
The old man of Takji bowed to the stone statue three times, and the words in his mouth were recited, but everyone could not understand what he was saying, so they ignored him.
The three of them walked around the main hall, but they disappointed everyone.
There seems to be only one exit from the entire hall, and this time, everyone is afraid that they can only wait here to die.
Several people gathered under the stone statue and cleaned out all the things on their bodies.
Two wolf-eye flashlights, a dagger, three glow sticks, a lighter, half a pot of water in the kettle, and a few packets of dried meat.
"With this little thing alone, we won't last three days."
"I can't imagine it, the person was not saved, but he was trapped here first, I knew that I would call the mountain ghosts and them to come......" Chen Tao leaned on the edge of a fallen stone pillar, and couldn't help but regret his recklessness in his heart.
"As the saying goes, it's better to die than to live, at least we're alive now!" Haozi waved his hand: "If you look for it again, maybe there will be another way out!" ”
"We've found everything we can find, we've broken into the temple of death, and even the true gods can't bless us!"
Ye Rong looked at her watch, five hours had passed since everyone hid in the ruins of the ancient city to when they fell into the temple, and the storm outside still hadn't stopped, but the sound was much quieter.
"The storm has weakened, so we'd better conserve our strength and wait for the storm to stop before we find a way out."
"Get out? How to get out, is it difficult to dig by hand! Haozi grabbed a handful of yellow sand and howled up to the sky, "I can't imagine that I, Li Haoyingming, will die in such a place at a young age, God is jealous of talents!" ”
"Hey, I said, old man, does it work for you to worship her, and she won't jump out and take us out if you worship her again."
Takji didn't say a word, and kept kneeling towards the stone statue,
"Where are we now?" Chen Tao ignored Haozi, who was complaining, and walked to Ye Rong's side and sat down.
"That's where we started to encounter sandstorms, and if we were in the right direction, we would be here." Ye Rong took out the map, and fled in a panic before, everyone's direction was chaotic, and looking at the compass in her hand, she could only estimate an approximate location.
"It doesn't seem to have deviated very much, it's not far from where Uncle Long and they disappeared......"
I don't know how long it took for Chen Tao to wake up from his slumber, when did he fall asleep?
Looking at the time, it was already noon. After a night of rage, the sandstorm outside finally stopped.
Rubbing his somewhat swollen and aching head, Chen Tao got up from the ground. Since entering the desert, those strange dreams have appeared more and more frequently, and Chen Tao has a faint feeling in his heart that it seems that it is not by chance that he will come here this time.
There was a voice in my head that seemed to guide me step by step into the depths of the desert.
Hiss........
There was a sudden rustling sound in the darkness, as if something was crawling.
Chen Tao immediately became alert, grabbed the dagger in his hand, and pushed Haozi beside him with the other hand.
"What are you doing, you're looking at the beautiful women, don't ....... Woowoooooooooo
Seeing Haozi muttering non-stop, Chen Tao hurriedly covered his mouth, the rustling sound around him became louder and louder, Chen Tao was sure that there must be something around!
Ye Rong and Old Man Takji also seemed to sense that something was wrong around them.
Takji pulled out an Ingisha knife from his boots, gritted his teeth, and said:
"When there was a sandstorm, the animals on the ground were terrified, and no one cared about anyone. When the sandstorm has passed, you may find the wolf and the yellow sheep hiding in the same room, and then the wolf should show its teeth, and the yellow sheep should stick out the horns on their heads......"