Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Nightmare of the Xuan Palace

In the middle of a dim area there was a white spot of light, and as the point of light continued to expand, Stern entered a hazy white world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

He muttered to himself, "Where am I?" Am I dead? ”

Then slowly a strange world appeared before his eyes, first there appeared many people kneeling to the ground with their hands folded in front of him, they were dark-skinned, covered in sackcloth, and looked like Kansa, and their mouths were reading words that he did not understand.

"Is this heaven? So who are these? ”

Stern looked left and right and saw a row of huge stone pillars supporting a carved roof on either side, when the kneeling crowd suddenly gave way to a walkway in the middle in front of him, and he involuntarily walked along the walkway......

After walking like this for more than ten minutes, the crowd slowly lost sight, replaced by a line of soldiers dressed in rattan armor and holding short swords and spears, and behind them were rows of fierce and burly war elephants, and when they saw Stern walking in front of them, they immediately raised their long noses and let out a deafening low roar. Stern continued to walk forward step by step, until at the end of the column, he saw a tall city tower in front of him, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be an ancient temple similar to the Angkor Temple! There is an arched door at the bottom of the temple, which is very deep inside, the arched door is half submerged in water, and the two sides are sparkling, it is actually a city built on water!

Stern sighed, and five or six monks dressed in ornate robes and jewels around their necks and heads walked over, folded their hands, their eyes respectful, and reverently chanted incantations in their mouths, and sprinkled various petals on Stern. Then the monks gave way to a space, and Stern saw a tall hydra head suddenly appear on the water not far away, and when he looked closely, he saw that it was actually a beautifully carved and richly decorated wooden boat.

Stern was reluctant to see the strange head, but his body walked uncontrollably until he boarded and lay down on the ornate and menacing Hydra, which slowly swam towards the dark door......

In the hazy darkness, when his eyes could see things again, three familiar backs suddenly appeared in front of him, and Stern shouted out in a lost voice: "Annie! Is that you? Downey! Kansa ......"

The three backs in front of him did not respond

"What's wrong with you? You guys... Answer me quickly! ”

"Anne, where are we now?"

Stern shouted hoarsely, but no one answered.

After a while, Stern suddenly felt a whirlwind in front of him, violently shaking! The three backs in front of him suddenly turned their heads to face Stern, who were the three faces that Stern was most familiar with, and then they turned their heads and smiled at him for a moment, as if they were sucked by something, and their bodies quickly elongated and thinned, turning into three rotating shadows, which were gradually sucked into a dazzling bead not far away. Stern watched the change in front of him with a look of horror on his face, and hurried to the beads, wondering where they had been sucked up......

At this moment, behind the darkness of the bead, a human figure suddenly appeared, and he sat cross-legged behind the bead with his head bowed, skinny and shaped like a dead corpse. Stern slowly approached to take a look, and called out softly, "Who are you?" ”

When the man heard his shout, he slowly raised his head, and a strange laugh came out of his mouth, and when Stern looked closer, he was so frightened that he shouted, it was the missing Professor Morrill!!

"Ahh Ahh

"Sergeant, wake up! Wake up! ”

Stern woke up from that dream suddenly, unable to move, unable to open his eyes, his whole body seemed to be tightly wrapped in a cloth and unable to move, but his ears seemed to hear Annie's voice.

Stern couldn't turn his head, so he could only move his mouth: "Annie, is that you?" ”

"It's me Sergeant, are you awake?"

"Well, where are we? Why can't I move like I'm covered in something? After Stern finished speaking, he moved his hands and feet vigorously, but found that he still couldn't move.

"It's all the same, we're all wrapped in a cloth-like object, and we can't break free." It was Downey who spoke.

"Donnie, you're wrapped up too?? And what about Kansa? ”

At this time, Kansa also spoke a few words of Khmer and told Stern that he was on his left.

"Kansa, he should be a little next to you."

"That's... Did you find Professor Morrill? The last image of the nightmare that Stern remembered was Professor Morrill smiling eerily at him.

Anne responded, "We didn't find Professor Morrill, he shouldn't be here, we haven't heard him all the time." ”

"So how did we get to be like this? Are we still alive? ”

"I don't know, I just remember that when I was looking for the professor with Donnie, Downey and I were bitten by something unknown in the cave and then lost consciousness, and woke up to find that we are like this."

"That's right, yes, I guess we were bitten by some poisonous creature, injected with venom to make us unconscious, and then we were wrapped in something very tough like cloth."

Stern struggled to remember what had happened before he fell unconscious, for he couldn't remember anything because his head was filled with that bizarre dream. I had to ask them, "Can you open your eyes?" Can I move my hands and feet? How can I break free of this layer of stuff on my body? ”

"There's no way, we've tried for a long time, but it's wrapped too tightly to make it work."

At this moment, there was a rustling movement in the distance, as well as the clatter of rubbing against hard objects. Stern heard the voice with a chill, but at the same time, he quickly became a little familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere.

Donnie suddenly muttered, "Again... Here we go again, this time it can't be the professor! What the hell are they trying to do? ”

When Stern heard Donnie talking to himself, he asked him, "What?" Have you heard that too? ”

"I've heard of it! We all heard it before we were caught in a coma, yes! And it seems that Kansa and you heard it when they were dragged in, and this should be what came from that thing! ”

As the creepy rattle drew closer, Stern could feel a hint of danger approaching them.

"Did you see blood-red eyes before you fell unconscious? And monsters like hairy hands and feet? Stern suddenly remembered the blood-red eyes he had seen before he fell unconscious and the black hairy hands on the wall, and he thought that he needed to figure out what was holding them around right now so that he could find a way out.

"No, Downey and I didn't even see the way that thing looked and we were bitten and knocked unconscious."

"Spider" Kansa, who had not spoken, suddenly held back an English word.

"What? It's spiders that trap us? How can it be? Stern couldn't believe what Cansa had said at first, but he thought back to all the features he had seen before he fell unconscious—the sound of scratching walls, hairy claws, blood-red eyes—and the cloth-like stuff that had wrapped around them!

Oh, my God! If that thing was a spider, it would have to be a big one!

"Yes, it may be a spider, which is completely in line with the physiological characteristics of spiders! The spiders prey on us in the dark, paralyzing us with venom, and then spinning silk to wrap us in their nests! Anne exclaimed excitedly

"That's... So how big is this spider, so why don't we have to be sucked up by them with digestive juices! Donnie was terrified at the thought of being a spider.

The three of them were all frightened at the thought of being a huge spider, and the horror of this spider was no less than that of the giant eyed monster snake and the giant octopus underground, especially now that they couldn't move their whole bodies and could only wait to be eaten.

At this time, Anne suddenly asked Stern: "Sergeant, it is estimated that we are wrapped in the silk spit by the spider, and the spider silk is all protein, can you use a knife to cut this silk web?" We don't have knives. ”

"No, the knives are all in the bag, and on the legs, I can't reach them!"

Stern strained his hands, but it was still useless. Then there was another terrible sound of scratching the wall in the air, and the sound was already close to my ears.

"Ahh Yes! Help me! It hurts! Donnie suddenly shouted loudly without warning, as if in pain.

Anne anxiously asked, "Donnie, what's wrong with you?" ”

"My leg hurts! The spiders seemed to be biting me and were injecting digestive juices into my body! ”

Stern said anxiously, "Donnie, you hold on!" Wait for me for a minute and you'll be fine right away. It turned out that Stern touched the match he used to light the candle last night when he was trying to touch the dagger on his pants, which reminded him of burning cobwebs, which is much more efficient than cutting with a dagger.

Stern gritted his teeth and finally got the matchbox, and the next thing was to draw matches, which may be difficult for ordinary people, but for Stern it is simply a matter of handy, he is a special soldier, he has already trained flexible fingers, and he is very familiar with untying, and drawing matches is no exception.

I saw that his fingers nimbly struck a match with three or two clicks in a limited space. Then the fire began to grow, and the spider silk was crackled, and a burning smell spread.

Everyone else could smell the burnt smell, indicating that Stern was already starting to burn the spider silk and was starting to get excited.

Donnie said anxiously, "Sergeant, hurry up!" These pesky bugs seem to know that we're setting fire to their nests and dragging me out. ”

Stern was burned by the fire and his flesh hurt, fortunately there was a canvas dress outside, otherwise the meat would be scorched, he felt that the fire had increased a lot, and the cobwebs were burned a lot looser, and he heard Donnie say that he was going to be dragged away by the spiders, so he broke free of the cobwebs on his body with a force of his hand - with a stab, Stern finally broke free, and before he could look around, he rolled a few times on the ground to extinguish the fire on his body, who knew that this roll, rolled to the ground full of skeletons and white bones, and quickly stood up in fright.

Then he immediately searched the surroundings, and it was dark, but by the light of the fire he recognized two figures covered in cobwebs, and one that was being dragged by several large tarantulas with prickly legs the size of a basin, and Stern recognized that it was Donnie who was about to be dragged away by the tarantulas. Without thinking about it, he immediately took out his pistol and aimed at those big tarantulas, but the light was too dim, and the tarantulas were all black, and he missed it at all.

At the critical moment, Stern suddenly caught a glimpse of the white bones and cobwebs all over the ground, and a spirit picked up a white bone, rolled several layers of cobwebs, put it in the fire, lit it, and quickly aimed at the spiders and threw them over. One of the great tarantulas was immediately hit by the torch and immediately rolled on the ground, its long claws full of prickly hairs were burned by the fire and it was rolling and struggling, and after a few strokes it did not move, and the air was full of a scorching stench, and the others put down Donnie, who was wrapped in cobwebs, and fled into the darkness.

Stern then uses fire to unravel Donnie and Anne Kansa.

Everyone was able to see the light of day again, thinking that they were safe, and they were all so excited that they didn't even care about the surrounding environment of the white bones and black holes on the ground!

Who knew that at this moment, in the darkness in the distance, countless red eyes were staring at them! Several of these eyes are several times the size of others......