Chapter Twenty-Five: The Black Ball of Mud
This is a stone tablet two meters high and half a meter wide, the stone tablet is black and black, it doesn't look like the material around it, and there is only a huge pattern on the stone tablet.
I am very familiar with this pattern, and it is shocking that it is the pattern of the water shape of the five artifacts carved on the gold plate!
I looked at the stele carefully, stroking the pattern, but there were even more doubts in my heart.
Why do these five artifacts need to be opened separately, the clues are first in the Great Khan's Mausoleum, and then the stone tablet is found in the Great Khan's Mausoleum, and then the artifact human soul is obtained in the overlapping ancient city, this Western Regions Taklamakan has an artifact water shape, is it Genghis Khan who opened these five artifacts? Or is it his descendant?
It is understandable to set up a formation and guard to protect the treasure, but why is it so troublesome, even the gold plate of the five artifact clues is in the Wuxi Ancient Cave thousands of miles away. But there are apparently other clues that lead to the discovery of five artifacts.
I had a terrible headache.
"Xiaoshuai, look behind the stele." Zifei said.
When I got behind the stele, there was a beige T-shirt on it. Zifei tore off the T-shirt, it seemed that who used blood to brush the stone tablet and used clothes to rub these words, thinking that it was mostly Lacey.
However, the stele is too high, and although the T-shirt is torn in half, it does not completely rub the text on the stele.
The text on this stele is again in the Paspa script, well, I don't know any of them.
"It's right to rub it down, take it back and translate it, maybe there will be a clue." I nodded.
Zi Fei said again: "When you were guiding the cultivation, we explored here, and there is no danger for the time being, but the door in the backyard can't be opened." ”
Zi Fei is talking about a stone gate on the wall behind this courtyard, the stone gate is not known how thick, the material is a bit like this stone tablet is black, and the surface is polished very smooth.
"What about going over the wall?" I asked.
Zifei shook her head lightly and said, "There is a ban on the wall, and you can't climb up at all, and you can't see the inside."
Oh? So weird? Isn't that a way out?
I stepped forward and gently touched the stone door, and the stone gate suddenly emitted a light blue light, and the light enveloped the entire stone gate, and there were dots of white fluorescence in the blue light.
I immediately took a step back and looked at the stone gate, Zi Fei was obviously taken aback, and then Zi Fei pulled me back hard, hiding behind the stone tablet.
"What are you afraid of?" I asked.
"What if the stone gate explodes, or if some youkai rush out?" Zifei said softly.
The light on the stone door slowly faded again, and nothing happened.
We boldly walked over again, I looked at Zifei, and put my hand on the stone door again, but this time there was no movement, but I pushed the stone door open with a little force.
Another yard.
There was also a stone monument in the middle of the courtyard inside the stone gate, and there was also a building behind the stone monument, and we looked back behind us, and then at the opposite side. It's like looking in a mirror, the difference is that we don't see our shadow.
So this is not a mirror, if there is a Zifei Xiaoshuai standing outside the stone gate, it is a mirror.
"Can't get in?" Zifei asked.
"No, I'm still with everyone."
Curiosity kills people, and Lacey has injured three of the four of them, and all of them don't know how to spell, and the result of the dispersion of power in this place may be the annihilation of the entire army.
Returning to the post hall and waiting for a while, when everyone woke up naturally, the boss stool Wan Camel including Lacey all withered, and it was good to lose a lot of blood and not die. It was all up to the master's ointment to work, and the blood loss was stopped by pulling out the yin poison, and now the three of them needed time to rest their bodies.
We basically agreed to send them out of the desert as soon as possible, and even if we couldn't get the artifact, we had to send them back to the city to recuperate first.
The backpack was streamlined again, I carried my backpack with Lacey, and Landmine also carried his backpack with the boss's stool, and the backpack of Ten Thousand Camels had fallen during the battle at the gate of the post station, and there was nothing in it anyway, so there was no need to take the risk to pick it up.
In order to be on the safe side, I drew a Five Thunder Gang (1) on the palm of my hand for everyone, even if I guided some of the second senior brother's mana combined with my own mana to write these five thunder gangs, I was so tired that I was sweating after the book.
After a break, I looked at everyone solemnly and said, "Okay, let's go." ”
In this way, we helped each other to the stone gate in the backyard, I gave Zifei the crossbow, I held the old squad leader's Colt in my hand, and even Wan Huo held a three-edged thorn in my hand.
Just in case anything was wrong with the door, after taking a few deep breaths, we held each other's hands and walked into the backyard.
Is this really a mirror world? It's exactly the same everywhere.
There was no danger in the courtyard, nothing to see and explore, and we went straight into the hall.
Finally, there was something different from the front hall, there was a big black ball of mud on the ground. The clay ball is smaller than a basketball, and it is about the same size as a bowling ball, so it stays quietly in the center of the room.
We stood at the door, about five or six meters away from the black mud ball, and we didn't see any reason for it after watching it for seven or eight minutes.
"Is it a bomb?" Wan Camel asked.
"Not really." Landmine said.
"This thing can't just be here for no reason." The boss stool said.
"We've never met before." Lacey said.
I thought for a moment and asked, "Could there be any bugs in there, like a hornet's nest?" Or something like a bone-eating corpse? ”
Lacey said to me, "It's the bugs, don't be afraid, you take out that spray can." ”
I pulled out a butane spray can and lighter from Lacey's backpack and handed it to Lacey, and Lacey and Lacey slowly approached the black ball.
"Be careful." Zifei said.
I didn't answer, and approached the ball of black mud with bated breath.
Up close, it doesn't look like gunpowder, it's just an ordinary mud ball, it's just very dry and cracked, but there is still some moisture, if it is completely dry and cracked, I'm afraid it will have already cracked into a few pieces.
After thinking about it, I picked up the thick trouser legs and put them on my calf, and they also strapped a dagger to them. He took out his dagger and slowly approached the mud ball, ready to poke it lightly first.
"Is this the of those ghost soldiers?" Wan Camel said suddenly.
I turned around and glared angrily at Wan Huo, and he suddenly said something that startled me.
"Wan Huo, you scared me." I said dissatisfied.
"This one is afraid." Wan Camel had an indifferent expression.
"Then you're coming!" I yelled.
"Wan Huo, shut up!" Lacey shouted at the same time.
The mine next to him gave Wan Hum a kick, and he obediently closed his mouth.
This ignorant one, I reluctantly turned my head and gently stabbed the mud ball with a knife.
Note (1) Five Thunder Gang - These five thunder gangs are a variant of the five thunder drawn by Master Mao for the patriotic ones in the first volume, but the power is greater than that of the five thunders, but it consumes mana to the extreme. The same is true and can only be used once. Even Xiao Shuai, who has several powers in his body, consumes a lot of money to write this talisman. This is Xiao Shuai's own cultivation is not enough, if he cultivates for a little more time and then writes this talisman, it will not consume so much.