What Stern didn't expect was that he took a gun in anger and forced the professor to ask the professor about the real purpose of finding the reincarnation temple, but he accidentally learned the news that there was a ship in the reincarnation temple, but Stern was originally thoughtful and did not easily believe what the professor said. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause if there is a ship in the temple of reincarnation that can take them out of this place, according to the professor, unless there are still people living in it, how can there be a ship there? Needless to say, it is estimated that it is another trick by the professor to lead them to continue to the temple of reincarnation.

"How is that possible? The temple of reincarnation has long been reduced to a ruin by the time of the fall of the Angkor Dynasty, how can there still be a ship? Professor, don't talk nonsense to fool me! ”

"Is it true, you can ask Anne, if you don't believe me, you should always believe Anne!"

Before Anne could react to the professor's great shock at Stern's offer to exchange the treasure for it, she looked bewildered when she heard him suddenly mention herself.

Stern believed Annie, but seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, he took the initiative to ask her, "Annie, what does the professor mean when he says that the temple of reincarnation is upstream of that river, and he also said that there is a boat there that can carry us out of this place?" ”

"It's... Theoretically, yes, because my professor and I found a picture in the drawings of French soldiers in World War II where Khmer soldiers drove the natives to pull a wooden boat to the upper reaches of the river. If the events recorded in the reliefs are true, then it is possible that they left wooden boats carrying building materials or other things at the temple when they built the temple. ”

"How can you be sure that there will be a ship there based on a single drawing? Even if there were, hundreds of years have passed now, and the ship is estimated to be rotten! ”

"Actually, not necessarily, tropical hardwood boats are generally more resistant to corrosion, and they don't rot so easily. Moreover, the predecessor of the Angkor Dynasty also had a predecessor of Suchenla, plus they owned the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, Tonle Sap Lake, so it stands to reason that their shipbuilding technology should be relatively mature. And they are located in a tropical country, and the production of corrosion-resistant tropical hardwood wood is large, so I guess if there is such an ancient ship in the temple of reincarnation, it should not be so easy to rot. Anne gave her opinion. However, she did not give a positive answer to whether the reincarnation temple has the boat mentioned by the professor.

"Humph! Annie, don't you explain to the professor anymore, don't you realize that the professor is already obsessed? Just one relief drawing is true! ”

"Sergeant, you don't believe me?"

"Anne, show him those relief drawings, and let me tell you slowly!"

Anne handed the drawings to Stern one by one, and when she got one of them, the professor suddenly stopped: "This is it!" Tell me what you see? ”

"All I saw was a patch of grass painted on it, and a couple of tornadoes on the grass. What do you want me to do here? Stern had only glanced at the scribbled and simple drawing, and couldn't figure out what to show him.

"No, that's not a tornado at all! That's the serpentine monster we just saw when we walked through that barren grass! That's the Naga they raised, a patron god in Hindu mythology! ”

"What?" Stern looked surprised

Is there really a snake with seven heads? It's amazing! Anne sighed in disbelief.

"I didn't believe it at first, but just before entering this palace, I happened to glance back, and I vaguely saw the huge creatures in the distance raising their upper bodies! I thought, isn't this just the right fit for the mural? A large meadow, a few upright serpentine monsters, this is the patron saint of the Brahmins! They must have gathered some kind of snake branch from some remote place and kept it here as a naga in their temple! ”

"That is exactly the curse of the Sanskrit word of the stone lion statue, 'Naga sucks its blood'!" Anne exclaimed

Stern seemed to have thought of it, and he said coldly, "Maybe they've taken me as their food!" That's why we have to get out of here as soon as possible! Otherwise, it won't be long before we will be drained of blood by them one by one! ――”

At this moment, Donnie's shout suddenly came from the entrance of the grotto: "Sergeant, let's run!" The serpentine monster in the grass is chasing after you! ”

In the darkness, he saw a figure running from the door into the cave, and Stern thought to himself that this was too bad, they were now in a cave where they couldn't see their fingers, and it would definitely be a disadvantage for them to fight such a giant snake in such a place. But now he weighed the pros and cons and thought it was better to find a place to hide first. Stern turned on the last tactical light he was carrying to guide Donnie and Kansa in his direction, and then he looked around to see which direction it was better to run.

But as soon as the light shone on Donnie, who was running towards him from the door, he found that Kansa, who was guarding the door with Donnie, was gone!

Stern had a sense of foreboding, and he immediately asked Donnie, "What about the others in Cansa?" ”

"Kansa? Didn't he run after me and with me? Donnie looked back after speaking, only to find that there were still living people behind him except for the roots hanging everywhere.

Donnie ran up to Stern, gasping for breath and saying, "We just ran here together!" Why don't you see anyone else all of a sudden? ”

Stern looked around from the doorway again, but there was no sign of Kansa. Stern thought to himself that, according to the professor, the grotto was originally a perimeter of the ruins of the palace, and that there was only a large winding cloister that had been occupied by a large number of tree roots from the roofs. Since the cave is completely enclosed, there is no light in it. So if they run from the cave door to where they are, they can only go straight away, and they can't turn somewhere else! Unless Kansa doesn't keep up at all! Either that, or something happened halfway through!

"Professor, where are you going—sergeant! The professor ran away! ”

Stern was thinking about whether to go to the door to find Kansa, when he heard Anne suddenly tell him that the professor had run away!

Stern looked back and saw that the professor was gone, he asked Anne what was the matter, and Anne told him that he was at the time when Downey rushed to call for help, and she looked out for fear that something had happened to Downey, and within two minutes the professor fled into the cave without untying the rope.

Stern thought to himself that the professor must have some ulterior motives, and had not answered his questions directly when he had just been cross-examined, always trying to lead them to think elsewhere. Could it be that this reincarnation temple really has some secrets buried for thousands of years?

"Sergeant, what shall we do now?" Anne's face was very uncertain, and the professor left the group alone, nowhere to be found. On the other side, Kansa was nowhere to be seen, even though she was calm by nature, but now the situation was changing so quickly that she didn't know what to do.

"Anne, we don't know anything about this grotto, I don't know why the professor left suddenly, and Kansa doesn't know what happened to him, we can't just leave him behind. In this way, you and Downey will follow the footprints left by the professor when he fled, and you will mark the way and don't go too far until I go out and get Kansa back first. ”

With that, Stern took out a few glow sticks from his backpack and bundled them together and a few candles for Anne to barely use as lighting.

The three of them parted here, with Anne and Donnie following the Professor's trails to the depths of the cavern in search of the Professor, while Stern went to Kansa with the tactical lamp and the last pistol on his body.

For the first time, human activity appeared in the dark thousand-year-old caverns, bringing artificial light sources, in which there was only one ray of light and gradually separated into two moving light sources in opposite directions. A little darker was the fluorescent beam in Anne's hand, moving slowly and dimly. The brighter one was the beam of light from the tactical lamp in Stern's hand, and everywhere the light went, all he could see was a scene of a cave that had been ruined for thousands of years and entwined with vines. Outside the cave, a bright moon emits a soft moonlight, swaying on the thousand-year-old ruins occupied by various plants and trees. The moonlight shined through the sparse foliage of the ancient trees rooted in the cavern, and from time to time it cast a shadow on the two figures who were rapidly moving through different locations in the ruins.

On the outskirts of the ruins, several huge black shadows were wandering left and right in the tall grass, whining terribly, never entering the cave, because they knew that there was a mysterious power in the cave that they feared......