A desert lizard emerged from under the sand and searched around, trying to find the beetle that had been burrowing so fast. It turned its two turret-like eyes in the scorching sun, searching carefully.

Suddenly, it heard some strange noise, plunged back into the sand, and disappeared.

Twenty Ifrit chariots lined up, rolling up waves of sand that swept the sky and the ground, slowly pushing them from a distance, and rushing towards the ruins of the city of Bauda.

Each chariot was flanked by four heavily armed warriors, armed to the teeth with swords, bows, crossbows, and lightning forks, and the car's magic firing scanned around for any possible threat.

Behind them were four large trailer-mounted transporters, loaded with many alchemical materials.

Overhead, more than thirty light flying carpets whizzed through the low altitude, dispersing the sand curtain that had just been rolled up by the convoy. Then, fifteen heavy flying carpets slowly revealed their figures.

Two flying carpets of gunboats, one on the left and one on the right, escorted the flying carpet in the center in the direction of Bawuda.

Sitting on the flying carpet are Sahil and George. Sahil was the overall commander of the operation, and George was responsible for technical direction and instant messaging.

The commander of the Alibaba Regiment, Letifa, the ice-blooded witch, and the commander of the first battalion, Calafate, sat in the main camp, and the commander of the second battalion, Sanguido, was responsible for the escort and logistics of the investigation team.

The investigation team consists of four elite members: Dark, Ralbin, Riley, and Altaïr.

Their main mission is to enter the ruins of Bauda and find the entrance to the Menzaro Underground Library, searching the four floors of abandoned buildings one by one, looking for fragments of the Commentary on the Passage of Heaven or the Commentary.

The light flying carpet that led the reconnaissance sent back a message: there were still two kilometers to go from the ruins of Bauda.

Duck said: "One horse and two kilometers away, why can't we see anything?"

Altaïr had been much more honest since he had been repaired by Duck and George, and replied honestly, "Captain, it's a low-lying basin, so you can't see it here." You have to walk all the way from the ground to the edge of the earth to see it. ”

"The Edge of the Earth?"

"Yes, the Broken Lands, the abyss of terror. ”

Duck opened the com: "George, George, the ruins of Bauda, what's going on? Is there an image ahead?"

George was silent for a while, and then said, "You'd better come up and take a look, you can't see it when you sit in the car." ”

As he spoke, the convoy stopped, and the transport team behind also stopped, and the elite soldiers of the Alibaba Regiment commanded their subordinates to start carrying equipment, building communication towers, and setting up tents.

The medium-sized carrier flying carpet fell, and Duck and the others on the chariot were connected to the command flying carpet.

Now, Duck and the others are condescending. When they saw what was below, they all lost their voices.

The endless stretch of sand spreads out like a huge piece of golden satin. In the middle of the golden satin is a huge, deep black hole—a bottomless abyss.

Ralbin was taken aback: "This, what's going on? How can there be such an abyss in the desert?"

George said, "This is the original city of Bauda, which has sunk into the ground. ”

Riley, the alchemist, said, "The bedrock underneath here is not solid, so Farrug was able to build an underground library here. But after that, with the change of climate, the change of the water table and the increase of sandworm activity, the underground bedrock was destroyed and began to settle. More than fifty years after the beginning of the settlement, Farug had to abandon the city. The entire population moved to another city, Nehr. The whole process lasted for about a hundred years, and in the end, such an abyss was formed. ”

Ralbin exclaimed, "Nehel, the legendary ghost city, the mirage city in the Dead Fire Desert, the ghost city Nehel, which has disappeared for hundreds of years?"

"Mind you, Mr. Larbin, our target now is the ruins of Baouda, not Nehr. ”

Riley turned the conversation back in the right direction and said, "Farrag is an avid seeker of alchemy, and he has ordered his alchemists to secretly study many crazy artificial lifeforms and constructs. He relied on these aliens who would not betray to sit on the throne of the Yongjun until his death. I suspect that the subsidence of Bauda and the proliferation of giant antlions are directly related to Farouge's original research. ”

Altaïr said: "I know that there are a lot of xenos down there, and there are also ruins of cities left over from the Faroug period, but the xenos were made by him, and this is the first time I've heard of this kind of thing. ”

"Because he wears the hat of a 'virtuous king', he is a shame for His Holiness, but the Burcas of the Muslan Sect may not all buy it. My sources are the Holy Avatar Corps of Um Lim Harbor, Kanhala City and Dorihachi City Holy Mosque. ”

Altaïr chuckled in his heart, the support of the three most important cities of the Pearl Path at the same time was something to be reckoned with.

Sahil said: "We will clean up the xenos on the surface of the ruins, the key is under the surface, you have to rely on yourself." ”

Duck said, "Understood. You clear the surface of the xenomorphs, and we strike. ”

"No, it's sneaking in. ”

"Infiltration?"

"Yes, the stratigraphy is complex, the xenomorphs are intelligent, we are attacking head-on to attract their attention, and you descend from the other side of the ruins in a light flying carpet. ”

"Isn't it okay to give full play to the advantage of firepower and hit the door openly?"

"The ground down here is crispy, like a multi-layered shortbread, and a rash use of heavy fire attacks might give it—" Sahil made a gesture with his palms together up and down, "and shoot it solid." What I was looking for became a crumbled sesame seed in the pie filling, and I couldn't find it again. ”

Riley said: "The biggest difficulty right now is the terrain. We had at hand a full set of construction drawings for the design of the library provided by Najmuddin and Ussalem, but as the strata subsided, it became a pot of porridge, and we can only roughly infer the situation inside based on the location of the settlement. ”

George said: "We will set up a ground-penetrating device on it, build a super-powerful psychic tower, if there are obvious fluctuations, relatively powerful creatures appear, we will notify you in time, those cats and dogs, you have to deal with it personally." ”

As soon as George finished speaking, six light flying carpets whizzed by, swooping down towards the huge black abyss, instantly turning into six white dots and disappearing into the abyss like a demon's mouth. This is the vanguard reconnaissance force.

Moments later, the scout captain sent back the image.

At the bottom of the abyss, there was a thick black mist, which even sunlight could not penetrate. Dozens of tentacles more than ten meters high are like a dense forest, sticking out of the mist and pointing to the sky.

Wherever the carpet flies, the tips of the tentacles point there, like sunflowers turning with the sun.

Duck asked, "What is this?"

Altaïr said, "The tentacles of the rotten water monsters can suck blood. A group of alienated slimes connect and share their prey. They are very greedy, whether they are flying or crawling, as long as they are entangled, they will die. But there are also advantages, where they are, there will be fewer miscellaneous monsters. Only those with thicker carapaces, or spell shields, that they can't bite will survive. ”

"What about us?"

"Put a little slime powder on your body, they'll be honest. Just keep your distance. ”

As he spoke, a second wave of flying carpets whizzed by, dropping cryo bombs.

Duck said: "Why is it a water attribute, isn't it better to attack with fire or thunder?"

Riley said, "Because the bottom of the black abyss is not water, it is viscous black oil. ”

"Oil?"

"The corpses of animals and plants that died in ancient times were corrupted and fermented under high temperature and high pressure to form black oil. Later, it was rediscovered with the fracture of the strata. Therefore, we must not use fire and thunder and lightning, otherwise we will not be able to go down to a sea of fire. ”

"Be careful, brothers, get ready to go!"