Chapter 56: Forbearance
“…… I really didn't expect it! On the stone platform in the center of the hall, a black figure suddenly appeared, it was a thorn in a black suit, "The old K regiment that we can't find is actually a stone's throw away all along!" ”
Thorn tore off the black cloth covering his face, revealing his face. This human-like face has no skin, and the purple-black sinew is like dried beef jerky clinging to the skull. There are no eyelids in the part of the eyes, and the pale pupils are like snow stones, reflecting the cold light in the dim firelight.
The thorny mouth was cracked to the ear, with neither an upper lip nor a lower lip, two rows of scattered teeth like pins on a chainsaw, and the whole skull was as horrified as a dried skeleton. This mummy-like zombie face, the upper and lower jaws trembled slightly, like a harsh voice intertwined with metal sounded again.
"Since you have such prestige and status in this world, then the era of sea power should be your home world, right? Or maybe you've completed an epic saga in this world? Thorn muttered as if talking to himself.
"Hey, hey!" After being silent for a moment, without getting Xu Mo's answer, the thorn suddenly chuckled, "It's a pity that someone like you died here!" How about letting the old K-group join the Temple of the Gods? I can ask the head of the regiment to set up another position of deputy head for you, and the old K regiment can enjoy absolute autonomy in the Temple of the Gods! ”
A piercing laugh echoed through the hall, but Xu Mo seemed to have disappeared from here, and no one replied to the thorn's proposal.
The thorn stood still with a strange smile, only the pale eyes on the dry face slowly turned, and he looked down on everything around him condescendingly from the stone platform. After a long time, the thorn finally got a little impatient, the dried flesh on his face twitched slightly, and he slowly raised his hands and tore the cuffs on his arms, revealing two arms tightly wrapped in white bandages.
Thorn held his arm close to his mouth and bit open the bandage with his sharp teeth. As the bandage peeled off, a pair of slender arms glowing with jade were revealed. Compared to the shriveled zombie-like face, these jade hands were as beautiful as works of art, as if Venus had never seen a pair of soft wattles that the world had never seen.
Thorny's right wrist flipped upward, and a short dagger about half a foot long was added to his palm. The shape of this dagger is somewhat strange, as if it is a half-blade removed from scissors, and there are invisible wavy ripples on the blade. This is the stinging uniform, the large nano-laser scalpel he got in a high-tech world.
"You're smart, but it's useless, I'll have enough time to kill you before your companions get here again!" Thorn stuck out his tongue and licked his sharp teeth, revealing a bloodthirsty grimace.
After speaking, the thorn no longer hid his figure, but just froze in place, without the slightest movement, and even the chest rose and fell slowly, as if it had been petrified into a statue, and the central hall of the pyramid fell into a dead silence again.
Of course, Xu Mo hadn't left this central hall yet, and high-level reincarnators like Xu Mo and Thorn, as their combat professions deepened, the difference between them and ordinary reincarnators would become bigger and bigger.
The perception of ordinary reincarnators is still a relatively general sixth sense, while the perception of job changers is different, and with the differentiation of professions, the performance of different types of job changers in perception is also different. For example, a perceptual elder like Wood, who has strengthened his pupil power talent, if Ysera's dream aside, Xu Mo's stealth skill will not be felt by Wood, but as long as it is within his line of sight, he will see through it at a glance.
And the legal system transferors like Serna and Dinah, their perception is different from Wood's, and they have to rely on the fluctuations of legal elements in space to perceive the existence of the enemy. As for agile class transfers like Xu Mo, although the perception range is not large, and they can't use the law element to detect enemies, there is no job transfer of the same level who can sneak up on them at close range.
The agile job changer is very sensitive to the flesh and is the best sensor. Although there will be subtle differences in individuals, as long as the difference in abilities is not too large, once it gets close to a certain distance, the law body will naturally feel threatened.
After the treacherous appearance on the stone platform, Xu Mo immediately felt a great danger. Just now, the two of them hid their bodies at the same time, and the situation of quickly changing positions in the hall was completely broken with the appearance of the thorn.
At the moment when the thorn appeared, Xu Mo immediately reflexively forcibly restrained the pace of advancement, and the force was so great that it even broke the muscles in his legs. It was like a film with no follow-up footage, and it stood still in the running pose.
The young man could not tell whether the thorn had sincerely invited him to join the temple of gods, nor did he care whether it was true or not. Xu Mo only vaguely felt in his heart that as long as he opened his mouth, or even moved a little more, maybe the thorn would be able to identify his specific location immediately.
Sweat condensed into beads from Xu Mo's forehead, slid down his cheeks, dripped onto the sailor shirt on his chest, melted into the texture of the linen, and slowly seeped out a sweat stain. Xu Mo tensed his body, held the short spear behind his back with his right hand, slowly bowed down, and opened the five fingers of his left hand, gently supporting the ground, like a cheetah in a latent state. It's just that Xu Mo still didn't dare to turn his head to look at the thorn, so as not to be sensed by the other party's existence.
"Whew!" At this moment, a small blue-white flame suddenly rose in a corner of the pyramid hall, illuminating the dim pyramid hall, and the blue flame flashed and extinguished, as if it was an illusion in the minds of the two of them under tension.
"Whew, whew, whew!" However, this small blue fire that had disappeared seemed to have opened a Pandora's box, and the dim hall was lit up with blue-white ghost fires one after another, dyeing the entire hall with a blue and faint color.
"Phosphorus fire!" The thorn that stood still like a stone sculpture, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he didn't care about sensing Xu Mo's location anymore and observing the surrounding situation.
Just by taking a closer look, Thorn immediately noticed that something strange was going on in the hall. Not only the empty corners of the hall, but even the recesses in the stone walls were rising more and more fierce blue phosphorus fires. And in those finger-wide channels on the floor of the hall, a thick black liquid slowly flowed, as if it was black blood flowing in the veins.
"It's ...... Petroleum! Thorn squatted down and wiped the black liquid in the small ditch with his fingers, and his face immediately changed.
"It's finally here!" A wicked smile appeared at the corner of Xu Mo's mouth.
Before entering this central hall, Xu Mo had been troubled by the strange structure of the underground labyrinth. The corridors with stone canals in the inner concave have high edges and low centers, like dark chambers like cauldrons, and the whole shape is like an underground labyrinth like a large funnel. These tunnels and stone canals, which look like sewage systems, are actually the last traps and defenses of the pyramid.
The pyramid is the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, and when the designer built the tomb, he also deliberately left a complete set of sewage system. Originally, Xu Mo couldn't figure out the role of these corridors and dark rooms, until he was awakened by Wood's unintentional words.
Wood, a sentient transferee, felt a breeze in the central hall, but why was there wind in the labyrinthine hall deep underground? The dead pharaohs and the bronze statues of Anubis did not need to breathe, and the mausoleum designers were certainly not so kind to leave fresh air for the tomb robbers, so they had only one function, as a combustible gas for the flames.
Knowing this, Xu Mo immediately deduced that this pyramid must have stored items for burning. Judging from the preservation, the fine stone canals scattered throughout the underground labyrinth, it is entirely clear that this is oil. Egypt may not have a lot of timber, but there is definitely no shortage of industrial black gold – oil.
At the beginning of the micro-tremors in the pyramid, it is clear that the organs in the pyramid opened the ventilation ducts, as well as the "oil tank" at the top of the pyramid. Immediately afterward, gravity naturally directs the oil along the narrow stone canals into the large funnel of the underground labyrinth, so that the entire labyrinth is coated with this black liquid.
In the stone walls and stone troughs of the central hall, there should be phosphorus, whether it is white phosphorus, yellow phosphorus, or phosphine after the decomposition of the corpse, the ignition point is very low. Tomb robbers naturally carry torches when they enter a dark hall, and even if they don't carry torches, the temperature of the cold central hall will rise after ventilation until it reaches the ignition point of phosphorus.
The pyramid designers were extremely precise in their calculations, and the other function of this underground labyrinth was to delay the time of the tomb robbers, so that everyone did not have time to escape before the fire spread. It only takes ten minutes at most from the phosphorus fire igniting the oil to the entire underground labyrinth turning into a huge crematorium.
In such a short time, unless the trap is discovered in advance, otherwise, even with the speed of Xu Mo and thorn, he will not be able to get out of the intricate underground labyrinth.
"Good, good, good! It turns out that this is the reason why you dare to face me alone, worthy of the wise man who defeated Lute, you should have figured out this trap a long time ago! With a miserable laugh, he tore off his black shirt, revealing his skinny, iron-like chest, and roared with hatred, "I'll see if I'll be burned to death by the flames first, or if you'll be killed by me first!" ”
Thorn is not a stupid person, the moment he discovered the phosphorus fire, he completely understood where the vague worry in his heart came from. It's too late to escape now, let's not talk about whether Xu Mo will let him go, even if Xu Mo doesn't stop him on the way, he may not be able to escape from the range of the maze, and the thorn doesn't have Raphael's maze map in his hand.
As for the cunning and sinister old K, he guessed that he either had fireproof equipment on his body, or his own fire resistance was extremely high, and he was not afraid of fire at all. Only then did he have the capital to spend with himself until he fell into the flames.
Seeing that the ugly thorn of the evil ghost had regained its calm, Xu Mo's pupils shrank slightly, and he felt very troubled.
At the same time, on the other hand, the worries about Max and others in his heart have not diminished in the slightest. Although Max and the others had left the central hall for more than ten minutes, even with the guidance of Caesar and the map, they should have only completed half of the labyrinth, and they were still more than half the way to escape.
"Boom!" The phosphorus fire in a stone trough somewhere in the central hall rolled down from the gap in the stone trough to the ground, touched the oil in the stone channel on the ground, and suddenly rose into flames more than half a meter high.
The flames quickly spread along the stone canal, and the entire central hall was instantly transformed into a flaming hell. Xu Mo's face was cloudy and sunny under the light of the firelight. In his perception, the emaciated figure on the stone platform, even under the licking of the fire, remained unmoved, standing like a real statue.
"Whew!" The tongue of fire on the ground licked Xu Mo's sailor shirt, and a faint smell of burnt smell wafted out......