"Knife, is it time?" The bald man stared at Yu Zhenbang, who was walking aimlessly on the sand dunes, and asked the woman beside him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"It's almost there." The knife threw the cigarette in his mouth to the ground, and the short hair and dark skin made the woman as cold and sharp as her name suggested.

The bald man turned his head and waved his hand to the group of big men behind him, and immediately, the big men opened the door of the van and began to carry strange instruments from the car.

Yu Zhenbang, who was standing on the sand dune, noticed the movements of the group of people, and watched in amazement as they only took about ten minutes to build those strange instruments into a ring with a diameter of about two meters and erect it. Finally, the men removed a large box wrapped in black cloth from the last wagon and placed it in front of the arch. The box began to shake slightly as it was placed on the sand, as if there was some living thing inside.

The knife strode over to the black cloth box and ripped it off, revealing an iron cage and a ragged man inside. Maybe it was because the black cloth had been blocking the light for too long, and the person in the cage screamed and squatted down with his head in his hands, his hands looking dirty and thin. Yu Zhenbang stumbled down the sand dune, and he saw one of the big men in the group take out a long knife. Approaching the cage, Yu Zhenbang found that the person in the cage should be a beggar or a homeless man, not very old, but very sloppy and thin, he kept holding his head and couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"You guys, what do you want to do?" Yu Zhenbang faintly sensed something, but he didn't dare to confirm it.

The bald man removed the pendant from his necklace, which was a small glass bottle, and when he opened the cap, the bald man spilled the green liquid from the bottle onto the cage. When the green liquid touched the skin of the homeless man in the cage, it suddenly made a sizzling sound, and the homeless man let out an even more terrible scream. Those small wounds began to slowly expand on the homeless man's body as if they had grown on their own, and the red and green wounds had directly eroded away the skin, and even the bones under the flesh could be faintly seen. What made Yu Zhenbang shudder was that even though the wound quickly eroded the homeless man into a red and green fleshy man, he still did not faint but screamed more wildly, when the clothes on the homeless man's body were melted away by the green liquid, his whole body had no skin, and the pain of being melted away seemed to make the homeless man trigger a kind of magic, he actually stood up from the cage and grabbed the cage iron rod with both hands.

At this time, Yu Zhenbang finally saw the homeless man's face clearly, but this face was completely dehumanized, and his hair had already eroded away, and he didn't even have a scalp. This face is more like the face of the muscular model in the dissection room. His eyes were completely popping out because of the lack of skin, the entire whites of his eyes were bloodshot, and his pupils showed a green glow.

The homeless man shook the cage bar with both hands, and the once unbreakable iron bar seemed to be as fragile as a branch, and had begun to deform with a few pulls.

"It's coming out! It's coming out! Yu Zhenbang screamed, and when he turned around, he wanted to run, but he was grabbed by the collar by the knife next to him.

"Are you scared?" The corners of the knife's mouth curled up slightly, but there was excitement in his eyes.

The sand and dust suddenly rose at this time, and a strong wind blew from the sky, making people a little unstable. Yu Zhenbang looked at the slightly reddened sky and suddenly remembered something, and he looked behind him in fear. The same sudden wind, the same reddish sky, time stands still at this moment, just like that moment many years ago.

Not far away, the sand dunes were wriggling at a breakneck speed, like a huge bug. In an instant, the sand dunes were close at hand. Like writhing twists, the dunes twisted and peeked out of the sand with a huge monster. It was the size of five or six people hugging such a thick body, the whole body was blood-red, the body that poked out of the sand dunes was more than a meter long, the huge mouthparts of the head were wriggling and dripping downward, there was a strong sour smell, and the four tentacles protruding from the mouthparts had a small black sphere similar to an eyeball on the top.

Death Bug! Yu Zhenbang remembered an ancient legend that Abidan had told him in the Lop Nur Desert, that there was a death insect in this desert, that its mouth could flow acid that corroded everything, and its eyes could radiate an incomparably powerful electric current. All creatures that come across it will die, and it is the greatest master of the desert.

As soon as the big man with the long knife saw the death worm appear, he immediately approached the iron cage and stabbed into the homeless man's body, and suddenly the red and green liquid gushed out from the homeless man's body, and the homeless man raised his head and let out a violent roar, and his infinitely wide mouth seemed to have cracked the corners of his mouth.

The Death Worm seemed to be attracted by the gushing red and green blood, and pounced on the iron cage and bit it. The iron cage seemed to be tofu under the mouthparts of the Death Worm, and it swallowed it without even breaking its crisp sound, and half of the homeless man's body had been swallowed by the Death Worm like chewing chicken. After a few squirms, the whole body had completely entered the mouthparts and disappeared.

As soon as the surrounding big men waited for it to swallow the homeless man, they immediately took a whip from their waists and pressed a switch, and the crackling sound on the black whip and the electricity visible to the naked eye spread all over the whip.

"Up!" The bald man roared, and the men threw out their whips at the same time, and the whips rolled towards the worm of death as if they had eyes. With a squeak, the whip had all wrapped up in the Death Worm, and the electricity rushed to the Death Worm's body, causing it to tremble and begin to writhe violently, raising countless pieces of dust. The big men held the whip to prevent the death insect from moving, and the knife took out a knife from her waist, and also pressed a switch on the knife, and the blade was suddenly filled with electricity.

With a loud shout, the knife lunged at the Deathbug, leaping into its body and leaping from its tail to its body. With a stab, the knife bent its body and flew all the way, and at the same time, the knife in his hand also cut through the body of the death worm all the way to the head. Pulling out the knife and slashing it with a few swings, the knife cut off all four tentacles on the head of the Death Worm. Finally, the knife grabbed the blade of the knife with both hands and stabbed the death worm in the head. Electricity poured out of the blade and into the body of the death insect, and the insect's body shook violently, its head first froze, and then its entire body froze in place. Then, its body spreads from its head to its tail, and its entire body slowly becomes a transparent crystal. The crack began with the blade pierced by the knife, and it was very crisp as if the sound of crystal shattering came from the body of the worm. The whole body of the death insect was shattered like a huge crystal glass, it was so ugly and disgusting before it was born, but after it died, it became crystal clear, especially the small red crystals that were shattered, floating in the air were so beautiful that people were intoxicated, as if they were in a red galaxy.

Such a beautiful scenery lies in the fact that Zhenbang's eyes are indeed full of fear, and the death worm is only the beginning of everything. Yu Zhenbang knew that the death bug was not the most terrifying, as long as he used a gun to deal with it, just like when he and his comrades used a rifle to knock out the eyes on its four tentacles, the bug lost its power. The scary thing is the red crystals that those bugs turn into when they die, and they can open a door to hell.

Trembling, Yu Zhenbang felt that his eyes were hot, they were tears that he had not seen for a long time, and in a trance, he seemed to see the Uyghur beautiful girl standing in the same illusory galaxy again, with starry lights on her black waterfall-like hair, and her flawless face as smooth as jade. It had been firmly engraved in his mind, and even after all these years, it still pierced his heart so vividly. The pain in his heart slowly calmed down the originally frightened heart, and Yu Zhenbang wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, perhaps, this was arranged by God, so that he could return to that place again to find his lover.

The red crystals in the sky shattered into smaller crystal dust in the air again, like red brilliant fireworks blooming in the air, and when they fell, they formed a huge hemispherical dome, and some black outlines began to slowly emerge in the originally empty air, becoming clearer and clearer, this is a building complex that is encased in a transparent hemisphere formed by the red crystal dust formed by the death of the death insect. It can be seen to be made of large white stone and dark green wood, which is almost hidden beneath the green trees. In the desert where there is almost no grass, there is such an oasis, an invisible city that can only be opened by the crystal dust of the dead insects.

The mechanical ring that the Great Men had assembled before emitted a red glow, and it moved and rolled towards the city, stopping its movements before it reached the hemispherical dome, and the entire ring was attached to the dome like a magnet. The mechanical ring is made up of twelve mechanical bodies, and the entire ring glows red.

"It's a temporary gate that connects our current world to that city, allowing us to come and go freely between the two spaces. At the same time, it is also a timer, each piece represents ten minutes, a total of twelve pieces, which is 120 minutes, 2 hours. Every ten minutes that passed, one of the red lights went out. When all twelve are extinguished, the ring explodes and the gate disappears. So, you'd better be honest when you go in. The knife warned Yu Zhenbang.

Yu Zhenbang didn't answer, just stared at the city that had devoured his lover, his soul. Countless times he dreamed back, he was frightened into a cold sweat that couldn't be calmed down for a long time, and now, when he really stood in front of it again, his heart was extremely calm, yes, it was back again. There is a good saying, sooner or later, you have to pay it back sooner or later. And now, it's time for him to pay back.