Chapter 20: Rain

"Ahhhh Su Lan screamed violently and sat up. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

His vision was a little blurry and clear, he saw Zhang Xuan sitting beside him and smiling at himself, reaching out and grabbing her arm: "Are you dead too?" ”

"Where do you think you are? Yama Temple? Zhang Xuan's expression was a mixture of relief and banter, and at the same time he pulled out the forearm that was held by Su Lan. Su Lan looked at her intact hands, confused: "Didn't I fall from a tree and be bitten to death by insects?" Did you get me out? Why don't I have any injuries on my body? ”

"Do you hear the rain outside?" Zhang Xuan asked.

"Of course I heard it, crackling, like the sound of rain hitting the tiles of a bungalow." Su Lan said, "So what? What happened after I was inundated with bugs? ”

"Thanks to this rain."

"Huh?"

"Many parts of this forest are shrouded in a poisonous mist, and people will hallucinate when they inhale it. Before we knew it, we all got hit, but luckily the rain broke the fog in time, otherwise we would have gone mad to death. ”

Mr. Zhao did mention the poisonous mist in the woods before, but such a realistic illusion was too ...... Su Lan shook her head, stood up and moved her legs and feet, there was no problem, and she wandered around to check. They are in the center of a large hall, and the architectural style is very similar to that of the ruins of the ancient city, but both the brightness of the paint on the walls and the wear and tear of the building materials are much better than those in the Gobi, it is like going back in time, allowing him to see the old appearance of the ancient city.

Su Lan walked outside the hall, watched the raindrops continue to fall from the eaves, was stunned for a while, and Susan, who was sitting at the door, said, "Look." ”

Su Lan looked in the direction Susan was pointing and saw a row of trees engraved with ancient characters: "How can there be so many such trees here?" ”

"This should be an important religious place for the Suduan people, so the surrounding sacred trees are densely planted." Susan's left index finger aimlessly scratched the small puddles that had gathered in the uneven areas of the steps, forming one fine ripple after another, "I can finally breathe a sigh of relief." ”

"yes." Su Lan felt a little tired from standing, so she sat down next to Susan, "Anyway, is your injury better?" ”

Susan's tone was light: "That's it. ”

"......" Su Lan thought for a while and felt that such a serious injury with a broken arm and broken leg bones was definitely not something that could be healed in ten days and half a month, not to mention the harsh environment they were in, if Susan returned to the civilized society alive, I don't know how many sequelae would be left, but now they couldn't even think about whether they could get out alive. The two sat silently and watched the rain for a while, after which Susan said, "Aren't you going back to the temple?" ”

"It's a little stuffy in the hall, so I want to come out and breathe." Su Lan subconsciously said, "That's right, Susan......"

"How?"

"I always felt that this place was a little familiar, and the building structure was almost the same as the ruins on the Gobi Desert outside. So, will there be a -"

Su Lan was interrupted by Zhang Xuan, who ran out, in the middle of her words: "Su Lan, come and see!" ”

"Look at what? - Hey! Slow down! Before Su Lan could stand firmly, Zhang Xuan grabbed her wrist and dragged her into the hall, almost stumbling on her head. Looking at her excited appearance, Su Lan had never seen her so excited since the reunion in the Summer Palace, "Have you found the clues of Mr. Zhao and Lao Qiao?" ”

"Almost. Heck, just come and see it! Zhang Xuan dragged him all the way to the innermost end of the main hall, and pointed to a mark in the corner of the bright mural on the wall, "Look, is this symbol the code agreed upon by Mr. Zhao originally?" ”

Su Lan looked at the scribbled "S" on her finger, and said slowly: "This is indeed a mark left by people, but it was left by Xiao Ji, not Mr. Zhao." ”

Hearing the word "Xiao Ji", the smile on Zhang Xuan's face obviously became reluctant: "Mr. Zhao, aren't they looking for Xiao Ji, maybe they have already found him and are with him now-"

"Second," Su Lan interrupted Zhang Xuan's words, "this handwriting is obviously not left in the past two days, so it can't be the mark that Xiao Ji gave us the way this time." The notebook left by Xiao Ji is not in my hand, and I can't compare this handwriting with his, so I can't tell if this is really a mark left by Xiao Ji or just an S written by a stranger. ”

Although she said that, Su Lan had a very bad premonition and felt that this was the mark left by Xiao Ji.

Ten years ago, Xiao Ji left a mark on his companion back then.

If that notebook is now in Su Lan's hand, Su Lan can confirm whether this is Xiao Ji's handwriting through handwriting. If the answer is yes, then Xiao Ji is obviously not an outsider, and he definitely has his own purpose in joining this team.

Could it have something to do with his serious injury and disappearance ten years ago?

Why did he know about Su Lan and his father's plan in advance, and warned Su Lan in advance that he didn't want Su Lan to join the team?

"What are you thinking, your expression is so tangled." Zhang Xuan's voice interrupted his increasingly confused thoughts.

"Ah...... I forgot the words suddenly, I'm sorry. Su Lan laughed dryly, took two steps back to see the entire mural clearly, and then frowned tighter, "Sure enough, it's the same." ”

"What's the same?"

"Murals. This hall is exactly the same as the one we met in the ruins of the ancient city. Su Lan said and pressed Zhang Xuan's shoulder, and said with a serious face, "Listen, Zhang Xuan, I don't know where you and Susan got so much confidence, I think that as long as there are many sacred trees, it is safe." In my understanding, the most sacred thing about this tribe is a monster mixed with snakes and scorpions called Yuba. In order to curry favor with them, those people can even kill and sacrifice their own people, let alone us intruders. This place is so similar to the ruins, if a monster escapes like then, do you think the three of us can settle it? ”

As if to reflect his words, Su Lan's words had just fallen when he heard a miserable scream from Su San outside the hall. Su Lan's brain buzzed, and before the body could react, she saw a giant Qiba crawling in from the main entrance, with Susan's body on the right pincer. Su Lan watched Zhang Xuan, who was getting closer and closer to them, but she didn't react, and yelled, "Shoot it!" ”

"I lost my gun while running in the mist!" Zhang Xuan's voice trembled throughout.

"Holy!" Su Lan saw that Yu Ba's snake head shrank back, and quickly grabbed Zhang Xuan and rolled to the side, and the next second where they were standing just now was bitten by Yu Ba's poisonous fangs.

It's over, it's over, it's really going to be wiped out this time......

Su Lan, who was forced to the corner of the main hall, watched the Grim Reaper wielding a scythe as if he had cut his neck, and subconsciously closed his eyes and waited for death. At this moment, he was suddenly dragged to the wall from behind, thinking that he would hit the wall, but he stumbled and fell into the secret door, and the next second Zhang Xuan was also caught and tried to resist, but he was dragged off his joint and thrown aside by the person three or two times. The man closed the secret door with his back to them, and the three of them immediately fell into the darkness where they could not see their fingers. Su Lan unscrewed the butterfly knife and held it in his hand, and the light of the flashlight lit up in the next second. The two people who saw the faces of the people who came were not calm for a moment.

It's a small season.