"Damn, what's going on, why can't this earth-based ability be activated, what's wrong?"

Yang Qian sat cross-legged under a sand dune, took a first-order brain crystal, and stared intently at the bleak earth-based gene fruit, originally wanting to guide the evolutionary energy in the brain crystal to activate the earth-based ability fruit on the gene god tree, and then control the earth-based ability, but to Yang Qian's surprise, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't activate the earth-based gene anymore, like an invisible barrier blocking Yang Qian's behavior.

At this time, the sun was in the sky again, and the sullen breath in his heart, accompanied by the scorching air that seemed to suffocate people with a breath, made Yang Qian's heart restless, and he punched the ground with a displeased face.

The inability to activate the earth attribute gene made Yang Qian very annoyed and frustrated, and after thinking about it, only the Five Elements Theory could explain this phenomenon.

The attributes of the five elements are born together, gold gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, and earth gives birth to gold; But the five elements are mutually restrictive, gold overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes gold.

At the beginning, Yang Qian was lucky enough to kill the Killer Willow in the town, absorbing the essence of the Heart of the Murder Willow, so that Yang Qian's wood ability was activated, so that he controlled the wood ability in the Five Elements, and the control of the wood ability gave Yang Qian the opportunity to have the ability of the Five Elements.

According to the Five Elements Theory, Yang Qian guessed that although he had the ability to devour genes, not all of his abilities could be successfully activated, just like the earth abilities that already existed in his body but could not be activated, and if he wanted to activate the earth abilities, he must follow the law of the five elements.

If you want to activate the earth ability, Yang Qian must first control the fire ability, because wood makes fire, wood is warm, fire lurks in it, drills wood and makes fire, so wood makes fire; According to the scorching heat, it can burn wood, and after the wood is burned, it will turn into ashes, and ash is earth, so the law of fire and earth can activate the earth-based ability, so in the middle of the wood and earth-based abilities, Yang Qian must control the fire-based ability first.

Chaos is divided into yin and yang, yin and yang are the five elements, the five elements give birth to all things, and all things are in the world, Yang Qian is very curious, if he has the opportunity to control the ability of the five elements, will he really be able to evolve yin and yang at that time?

Thinking of this, Yang Qian's eyes showed a look of enlightenment, so he simply stopped asking, got up and continued to walk in the vast desert, although the previous brain crystal did not activate the earth ability, but turned into a large amount of energy stored in the body, supporting Yang Qian's life activities, although he felt hungry in his belly, but he did not feel sleepy and powerless.

Originally, Yang Qian had already planned, after taming Xiao Hei, let him carry him all the way east to leave this desert as soon as possible, and then figure out how to return to H County, but the plan could not catch up with the change, Xiao Hei's death disrupted Yang Qian's plan, without Xiao Hei's travel, Yang Qian walked on his own two legs in this vast desert, slow as a turtle crawling.

With a muffled sound, a two-finger-long desert lizard jumped out of the sand pile on the side, like a grasshopper that was good at jumping and shot at Yang Qian, but it hit a thin air barrier that Yang Qian laid in front of him, and was trampled to death by Yang Qian after landing.

Not all animals will evolve into mutant beasts with amazing combat power after mutation, most of the animals in the last days have maintained their original habits, and only a small number of animals have mutated and evolved, but the number of animals in the world is so large, although only a part of the animals are mutated, the number is also very large.

Suddenly, Yang Qian let out a light "huh", rubbed his eyes as if he didn't believe what he saw, in the distant desert in front of him, the air fluctuated violently, and the scorching sunlight was refracted when it passed through the air, and some crooked earthen buildings suddenly appeared in mid-air.

"What is this, is it a mirage?" Yang Qian's eyes were full of surprise, for this phenomenon that he had only seen in textbooks, now that he could see it with his own eyes, Yang Qian felt very fresh.

"Can't be wrong, since there is a mirage scene, I am afraid that there should be an ancient silk city in the distance ahead, it seems that this desert should be the Taklamakan Desert where the South Silk Road passed through in ancient times, but I don't know how far away that ancient city is from me." This time Yang Qian finally understood where he was, thinking of the ancient silk city Yang Qian decided to explore, for unknown things will always arouse people's curiosity, Yang Qian is no exception, and the direction of the mirage scene does not deviate much from Yang Qian's route.

In ancient times, people had limited knowledge and often thought that there were ghosts in the desert, and when people were thirsty in the desert, they suddenly saw a big lake, which was filled with clear blue water, which seemed not very far away.

When people happily rushed to the great lake, there was always a distance between the blue lake, the so-called "unattainable", in Arabic called this phenomenon "the devil's sea", this devil's illusion was not until the early 19th century, the French mathematician and hydraulic engineer Menchi debunked.

Yang Qian really felt what it meant to be "hopeful but unattainable" at this time, and felt that the ancient city seemed to be close in front of him, as if he could be reached by walking a few steps, but no matter how Yang Qian walked, the ancient city still had no tendency to enlarge, and it seemed that every time Yang Qian took a step, the ancient city was also retreating.

Yang Qian has never been a person who admits defeat easily, the resilience in his bones is destined for him to live a different self in the cruel end times, Yang Qian himself didn't know that he had walked for a few hours, and finally saw the ancient silk city below at the top of a hundred-meter-level sand dune, Yang Qian looked at the scene in front of him with a surprised face.

Behind the huge sand dunes was a relatively flat and wide sandy area, but it was an ordinary sandy land, but now it was inlaid with large and small earthen buildings, most of which were dilapidated, with crooked earthen walls falling to the side, and the beams and pillars of many houses were submerged in the yellow sand, revealing only a small section.

The spectacular thing is that the scene of the mirage has not disappeared, the inverted phantom of the ancient city is projected on the canopy, with the line of heaven and earth as the axis, the phantom and the ancient city want to be symmetrical, this scene is magical and spectacular.

Yang Qian's mind condensed a weak air barrier under his feet, and then Yang Qian jumped, the air barrier that was originally used for defense was like a skateboard at this time, Yang Qian's body slid down the sand ridge elegantly, dragged out a long salon, and stood on the edge of the ancient city.

Perhaps it was the previous big sandstorm that raised a lot of yellow sand, and this ancient desert city buried deep underground was able to see the light of day.

Yang Qian walked into the ancient city, although the ancient city has gone through more than 2,000 years of wind and frost, most of the houses are not prototypes, very dilapidated, even the worst slums in the world are much better than here, often a house in the ancient city only one wall stands alone, but standing on the sand dunes overlooking the ancient city, you can still feel the prosperity and vastness of the ancient city.

At this moment, Mai walked in the houses, strolling on the streets of the ancient city, Yang Qian suddenly had an illusion, feeling as if he had traveled to more than 2,000 years ago, the streets beside him were crowded, the ancients in burlap clothes were endless on the streets, and his ears seemed to hear all kinds of strange cries of the ancients, all kinds of vendors were spread on both sides of the street, and the streets were bustling and lively.

Although the ancient city has experienced cold and summer, it is dilapidated, but the face of the year is still recognizable, some houses are very large, and there are left and right suites in it; Some houses are smaller, with rows of single rooms; Some buildings resemble the traditional Turkestan large living room, with traces of brick stoves and earthen kangs faintly recognizable; Some buildings are the same as those in the Central Plains, with beautiful carvings on the beams and columns.

Among these ruins, Yang Qian found a lot of ancient relics, including bows and arrows, shields, spears and other ancient weapons, Central Asian styles, and Chinese characteristics.

Yang Qian picked up a spear from the sand, the brown body of the gun was full of cracks, and the head of the gun was even more rusty, Yang Qian grabbed the handle of the gun and shook out a beautiful gun flower, but how did the weapon more than two thousand years ago withstand Yang Qian's tossing, and the gun body broke with a "boom".

Yang Qian threw away the broken spear, and when he was secretly bored and wanted to withdraw from the ancient city, the faint sound of rustling in his ears made Yang Qian vigilant, and Yang Qian listened intently, and only a very small abnormal sound just now was rapidly becoming louder.

I don't know when it started, many black spiders as big as a basin suddenly crawled out of the corner next to the house, and they roared in unison towards Yang Qian, and shot out spider silk.

"Holy!"

Yang Qian scolded in a low voice, his face changed drastically, and he jumped up on the wreckage of the building on the side, and countless spider silks that fell into the air covered the place where Yang Qian was standing, and it was obviously colorless and transparent spider silk that flickered under the sunlight.

Yang Qian's face became extremely ugly, these basin-sized spiders knew at a glance that they had undergone mutation and evolution, just imagine that the spider that was originally only half the size of a palm turned into a basin and appeared in front of you, how terrifying and terrifying it was, but Yang Qian was not an ordinary person, and he quickly calmed down after the initial surprise.

Yang Qian stepped on the earthen walls one by one, leaping over the ancient city, the spiders on the ground chased in the direction of Yang Qian, shooting out overwhelming spider silk to envelop Yang Qian, many missed spider silk fell on the wall and passed through, seeing this, Yang Qian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he completely put away his contempt for spiders.

If that spider silk is shot at an ordinary person, I am afraid that it will be enough to pierce the body of an ordinary person, and Rao does not dare to test the spider silk with Yang Qian's physical strength.

"Ho!"

Yang Qian jumped off the earthen wall, and the three oncoming spiders crawled towards Yang Qian quickly, Yang Qian dodged the three spider silks that shot at him, and rushed to the spider quickly, the bone knife in his hand slashed heavily on the spider's back, and the green blood splashed everywhere, and the three spiders twitched and stopped moving.

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