Chapter 61: The Temple of Ruins
Xie Feichen's wrist turned, seemingly casually waving at random, the whip of fire was long and short, and the trajectory was unpredictable, but every time it hit a black hair ball, coupled with the vigorous scourge action like the wind, in the blink of an eye, a small half of the black hair ball was dead.
Seeing that something was wrong, the leader of the hair group screamed, took the lead in making a trick, puffed up his black hair like a needle rain sprayed out, and the rest of the black hair group followed one after another, and for a while, the needle hair shot all over the sky like a split head rainstorm and overturned the entire field.
Here it comes!
The reason why Xie Feichen, who had been on guard for a long time, used the fire whip was to open the distance to avoid this move, and his body after blessing the "Light Spirit Technique" suddenly threw himself into the sand pit dug next to him, although it was a shallow pit that could only cover his body, it was enough for him to avoid most of the black hairs flying in the air. As for the scourge, it was even more lightly sparkled with flames under his feet, and a cloud of smoke rushed out of the distance, leaving only a series of charred footprints on the sand.
Burst Flame Ball!
Before the black hairs on his head were thinning out, Xie Feichen raised his head and raised his hand to use the power of the Saloman snake with all his might, and for a while, the fiery flame power continued to pour out of his body, and the surrounding heat continued to gather around him, forming a small swirl out of thin air.
The second law of thermodynamics!
Xie Feichen muttered in his heart, and in his palm, a basketball-sized fireball was suspended, and at the same time, it was compressing and condensing little by little.
Dark red, dark red, orange, pure orange......
By the time the flames were shining with gold, the fireball had shrunk to the size of a fist.
It's to the limit!
When Xie Feichen felt that the highly compressed flame power in his hand was about to get out of control, he hurriedly threw the fireball with a wave of his hand, and spun it to the center of the black hair ball, and at the same time, the scourge on the other side spewed out a pillar of fire and hit the fireball.
Bang!
With a loud bang, the power of the flames, which could no longer be suppressed, burst violently, and a scene like an explosion of a high-energy grenade suddenly occurred in the field, and a huge wave of air entrained with sand crackled and fell on the surrounding sand like raindrops.
After the shock wave disappeared, Xie Feichen, who was buried in the pit, got up and shook off the shallow sand covering his body, and saw that the black hair masses that were affected by the explosion were scattered around by the shock wave, most of them were scorched and blackened, and only a small part of them who might be far away from the explosion still had a breath left, but they were immediately given a mending knife by the scourge that rushed up.
Xie Feichen summoned the "Ten Thousand Dao Refining Form Record" and tried it, and found that these black hair balls didn't seem to be able to be included in the book, as if this magic weapon didn't think that these black hair balls reached the standard of [alien beasts], and had no reaction to them, just like cats and dogs in the real world.
"Is it that none of the creatures in this world can be included, or are these black hairy masses too weak to meet the standard?"
Xie Feichen sighed and muttered, "I only hope it's the latter!" ”
After eliminating this group of black hair groups, Xie Feichen let the scourge fight draw gourd rush in again to seduce again, and easily repeated the process, although the two groups of companions did not return to arouse the vigilance of the remaining black hair groups, but it was too late, and only a few remnants were left in Xie Feichen's hands for long before they were all finished, so the group of black hair groups that occupied this place had all disappeared.
At this point, Xie Feichen had the leisure to look at this architectural ruins.
The site is dominated by a huge hall in the center, surrounded by buildings of different sizes, which are connected by corridors and structures, forming a large group of buildings. The black hairballs only occupied the outermost part, and since the area where they lived was covered with wreckage and garbage, and filled with a lingering smell of rancidity, Xie Feichen had to continue walking inside, also to find out if he could find any useful information.
These buildings are made of boulders of different sizes, all with a kind of gray bone white, reflecting a strange but smooth curvilinear architectural style, different from any type of building Xie Feichen has ever seen on the earth, although it inexplicably gives people a sense of cold and rustic vicissitudes, but it is undoubtedly a product that requires relatively developed construction technology to build, and it is impossible to come from the hands of a group of black haired groups that are no different from wild beasts. And judging from the laws of evolution on Earth, the creatures with such characteristics as the black hair ball probably won't be the aborigines of the scorching desert area, and should live in a colder area.
The interior of the building is crawling with strange and unfamiliar plants, most of which look like ferns, some green, while others are horribly fungal pale and extremely luxuriant. But as Xie Feichen curiously walked down the corridor towards the depths of the hall, these plants gradually became scarce, and occasionally found to be the remains of withered and dead deaths, as if some force had stopped them from climbing inward. On the contrary, some stone reliefs of unknown meaning gradually increased, most of them were not some specific things, but strange images similar to geometric curves or pictographs in mathematics, and most of them were at least three or four people high.
In addition, Xie Feichen also found murals of obscure colors on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor, some of which were indistinctly weathered and etched, while others were still clearly recognizable, obviously not works of the same era. Because he was afraid that there would be danger inside, Xie Feichen did not release the possession of the Shaloman snake, raised his hand to summon a small flame to send out a faint light to dispel the surrounding darkness, and looked carefully.
These frescoes reflect the history of a race that resembles an upright walking snake race, with a snake-like head and scales, but also two arms, two legs, and a tail, which are supposed to be the builders of this architectural complex, who migrated to the area from unknown distances, and then multiplied, grew stronger, and spread little by little. In these murals, conquest and sacrifice occupy a large part of the chapters, sometimes with other snake people, sometimes with some huge monsters of different shapes, Xie Feichen even found in some of the murals a hostile image similar to humans.
"There are humans in this world too?"
Xie Feichen was skeptical, because although these murals were lifelike, they were not realistic after all, and he was not sure how far the human beings constructed by these simple lines were actually from the human beings he knew.
On the other hand, it can also be seen in the murals that these snake people seem to believe in the gods, more keen on blood sacrifices, most of the prisoners of war will be brought to the gods to be brutally tortured and sacrificed, whether it is a foreign race or the same race of snake people, cruel, bloodthirsty, harsh, undoubtedly a dangerous race.
In the mural, Xie Feichen also saw the figure of the black hair group, which only appeared in the middle and late stages, belonging to the slaves and pets of the snake people, and the snake people also have another much more dangerous pale two-legged long-horned monster as a foot force and tool, that is, the wizards in the snake people use living captives and dead corpses to refine and synthesize monsters with witchcraft.
Just as Xie Feichen was fascinated, the mural came to an abrupt end, and there was a blank behind, as if the history of the entire snake people group had ended in an instant.
"Did the whole family move away, or did it ...... Experienced force majeure and became extinct in a short period of time? ”
With a question in his heart, Xie Feichen put this question behind him, no matter what trouble this group of high-level reptiles encountered, as long as they would not reappear in this place right now. Seeing that he had been walking for more than ten minutes but had not yet reached the end, Xie Feichen simply continued to go deeper, preparing to investigate the situation inside, so as not to have any accidents during the break, and by the way to see if he could find something valuable.
The further he walked in, the darker the surroundings became, Xie Feichen thought about it for a few seconds, dispersed the flames in his hand so as not to be a target for the monsters that might exist inside, and turned to explore the surroundings with his dark eyes.
A moment later, a large altar appeared in front of him, very similar to the one on the fresco, with mottled blood that had long since dried up, and had not subsided for an unknown amount of time, apparently seeping into the depths of the stone over the years. Behind the altar, a tall and majestic stone statue of a snake man stands, which is probably the god worshiped by the snake people, but unlike ordinary snake people, this snake god has no feet on the lower body, and it is completely a pure snake body.
"Huh?"
Xie Feichen sighed softly, in his dark eyes, this stone statue was surrounded by a faint layer of milky white aura, permeated with a trace of blood red, but the light was very faint, just like the residual light of the old-fashioned incandescent lamp after the power was cut off, which could be dissipated at any time.
The moment Xie Feichen stepped into the altar room, a faint fluctuation swept over in an instant, and he felt bad, but this fluctuation was too subtle and fast, and it dissipated before he could react, but the aura of the god icon flashed several times at an extremely fast frequency like the Morse code.
Xie Feichen's muscles tensed suddenly, and he raised his vigilance to the extreme, paying attention to his surroundings, ready to deal with changes at any time.
One second, two seconds, three seconds...... After about half a minute, there was no change in the room, and the fluctuation just now seemed to be just an illusion, but Xie Feichen did not dare to relax his vigilance, and remained calm.
Hiss!
The sound gradually intensified, and a faint blue light and shadow quietly condensed in the corner of the room, and the half-virtual and half-real figure became more and more stable.
Some variant of the ghost? The temple's defense mechanics? Is that fluctuation just now a detection of identity?
Xie Feichen, who was half a psychic, sensed the familiar aura, a few thoughts flashed through his mind, and he instantly thought about whether the other party was "feeling the extinction of the race and offering the treasures of the snake people buried deep in order to continue to benefit the society", or "killing a scaleless tailless and tailless erect ape who dared to break into the sacred temple", which of the two plot developments was more likely, and the next second, a fireball suddenly condensed in his hand and smashed towards the blue figure that already had the distinctive characteristics of the snake man.
Strike first!