Friends who have traveled well know that there is often a big difference between the visual distance perception and the actual distance. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 For example, on a few days when the PM2.5 index in Beijing is relatively good, you can see the West Mountain from the west gate of Tsinghua University. But in fact, it takes half an hour's drive from Ximen to Xishan, let alone walking.

So when Su Lan walked for a full hour and didn't reach his destination, he couldn't help but wonder if he had been trapped.

The sun has fully risen. The sky was cloudless, the sun was well exposed, and the ground was mostly sand and gravel with very little specific heat capacity, causing the surface temperature to rise rapidly, and the soles of the feet were quite uncomfortable, and the metal butterfly knife was attached to the buttocks like a soldering iron. Su Lan's mouth was dry, and she looked back at the woods in the direction she looked, and when she was wondering whether to give up, the wind carried the hot sand all over the world. Su Lan was caught off guard and ate a mouthful of sand, hurriedly covered her head and face with her arms, and stood in the wind for half a minute before the gale calmed down.

"Phew! What the hell weather! He spat out the sand from his mouth and lowered his hand to continue walking, only to find that the black spot had disappeared!

No way! Dune drifting? Impossible! In that case, shouldn't it be ......

Su Lan's worst prediction was completely confirmed, and when he turned around, the woods were gone.

Su Lan was in the mood for a dog.

O Nima! What the hell is this!

Uncontrollably, the fate of his own inability to find a way came to his mind: he was sunburned to death, or died of thirst, and his body was eaten by passing beasts, and became a puddle of bloody residue; Or it was buried in the sand, and a few years later field explorers found a dried corpse in the desert in the heart of Inner Mongolia......

Stop, stop, stop, stop!

Even if it's a dune drift, it won't go far in less than a minute. They should still be around.

Su Lan raised her head to identify the position of the sun, and then ran forward in the direction of her shadow. He remembered that he had come out of the woods facing the rising sun, which meant that the woods were in the west. As long as he didn't delay too long, the sun wouldn't move much, and sure enough, after he had been running for ten minutes, he saw the outline of a forest faintly appearing in front of him.

Haha I know!

Driven by ecstasy, Su Lan ran almost all the way over, and by the time he realized that something was wrong, he had already run more than half the distance. The "woods" seemed to be too yellow in color compared to the real plants, and he jerked to his feet, looked at them, and immediately recognized them.

This is actually the ruins of an ancient city!

The ancient city of Loulan? Not here! Su Lan quickly went through the geographical location in her mind, and she didn't think of any corresponding civilization. At this moment, the evil wind blew again, and there was a tendency to grow stronger, and the wind blew through the gaps in the ruins, and let out a piercing howl, like the howl of the devil. Su Lan felt that her head was about to blow up, so she decided to hide in the city first. Who knows where it will be blown if it stands in the wind.

It's just that this voice is really fucking crazy, and it can stay during the day, but it is forced to summon ghosts at night. Even if there are no ghosts, they can scare half of people's souls.

If I have the life to go back alive this time, I will definitely go to the temple to kowtow to Grandpa Buddha. Su Lan hurried forward and swore silently in her heart.

There is a stone tablet on the outermost part of the ancient city, which is engraved with the four big characters of "Mysterious Cave Fantasy World". Su Lan looked at it for a few seconds, and only came to the conclusion that this was a official book, and the glyph should be an inscription made before and after the Han Dynasty. On the back of the stele is carved a very creepy relief of the "snake", about the length of a python, with the same swollen eye-shaped scales on the head as a cobra, but at the front end there are scorpion chela and three pairs of appendages, and there is also a tail pin at the end of the tail. In particular, the head of the snake is facing the audience, and the scales on the neck are also vividly depicted, as if staring at you.

"What the hell, Totem?" An extremely uncomfortable feeling welled up in Su Lan's heart, and her right hand reached out to her waist to take out the butterfly knife and hold it in her hand. At this moment, the snake's head seemed to move, Su Lan subconsciously took a step back, and then the snake suddenly opened its mouth and bit itself like lightning!

Su Lan didn't even have time to react to defense, and the cerebellum didn't have the speed to deal with emergencies at all. If it weren't for someone pushing him away at the last shot, his life would definitely be reimbursed here. The person who saved him snatched the butterfly knife from his hand, Su Lan only saw the light of the knife flicker, and the seven inches of the basilisk made an arc-shaped incision, and the basilisk fell to the ground and continued to twitch, and the blood came out of the wound, dyeing the small vegetation at the foot of the stone tablet a little bit.

"Thank you...... Thank you! Su Lan hurriedly thanked her, her heart was beating wildly as if she had reacted, and she broke out in a cold sweat, and her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't recognize it because of her thirsty throat or frightened. The man twisted the butterfly knife back into its scabbard with one hand and turned his face to look at him. The blue-gray eyes had a kind of transparent clarity in the dirty yellow sand, which made people can't help but drown in his sight.

"Little ...... Small...... Mr. Ji? ”

"Just call me Xiao Ji like Mr. Zhao." Xiao Ji handed the butterfly knife to Su Lan, who took it in a daze, and before he could react to what to say, he asked lightly, "Su Lan, why are you here?" ”

"It's a long story...... Why are you here? Aren't you surrounded by those gun-wielding bad guys? I'm worried about whether you'll get out alone! Why didn't you look for us when you escaped? ”

"It's a long story."

"Then speak up and listen!" There were too many mysteries flooding into her mind, and Su Lan felt that she would go crazy if she didn't get an explanation.

Xiao Ji stared at the corpse on the ground, as if he hadn't heard his question.

Your uncle's. Su Lan, who had eaten a closed door, decided to change the question for the time being: "Where is this?" ”

"As you can see," Xiao Ji pointed to the stele, "the Cave Illusory World." ”

"What is this snake?"

"Creatures that have survived ancient civilizations." Speaking of this, Xiao Ji frowned, "It's going to change." You come with me. ”

Su Lan followed him on a piece of yellow sand and gravel, and came to sit on the edge of an altar-like stone platform in the center of the city, Su Lan noticed that there were several carved snake patterns on the edge of the stone platform, and couldn't help but say: "These snakes—"

Xiao Ji interrupted him: "When this storm passes, you can stay here and wait for Mr. Zhao and them." ”

"What about you?"

"I'm looking for something."

The wind blew up, drowning out the rest of Su Lan's questioning. In just five seconds, the ruined walls around them turned a completely earthy yellow, and nothing could be seen. I didn't realize it when I was dying just now, but now sitting here with him, Su Lan could clearly smell the bloody breath on his body. There was a knife mark on his left forearm, the wound was very new, presumably from the fight last night, and there were deep and shallow wounds elsewhere. I don't know if it's because of preconceived ideas, Xiao Ji's face looks like a dead person. Su Lan pointed to his left arm: "Doesn't it matter if you're alone?" ”

Xiao Ji pulled down his sleeves to cover the wounds and blood stains: "It's okay." ”

"You had this attitude ten years ago, if it wasn't for me and Zhang Xuan to save you, you would have died long ago. Anyway, you, why do you always have so many injuries, don't have nothing to do with yourself. ”

Xiao Ji clenched his fist and quickly let go: "I warned you before, you still came in." ”

“？” Su Lan reacted for three seconds, realizing that he was talking about what he had reminded him in Xishan before, and his emotions immediately came: It's okay if you don't mention it, I was about to ask you! "What do you mean by knocking me out and transporting me to Xishan before?!"

Xiao Ji asked rhetorically: "What happened after you left that prompted you to join this team?" ”

"This ......" Su Lan quickly relived the experience after that, and came to a conclusion that made him even more furious, "You knew it beforehand?" ”

Xiao Ji did not deny it.

"You!" Su Lan angrily wanted to pull his collar, and halfway through her hand, she remembered the messy injuries on his body and gave up trying, "One more thing, let me ask you: When my father and I rescued you ten years ago, it was clear that Zhang Xuan was also present, and later you were sent to her mother's hospital for treatment, why did she insist that she hadn't seen you?" ”