Chapter 59: A Glimmer of Life
The three of them ran around this mysterious and dark corridor for an unknown amount of time before they shook off Donnie, who had become the living dead. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"I don't want to be here for a moment!" Stern gasped and walked as he leaned against the wall.
"I know!" Anne glanced at him and said with a gloomy expression, she knew very well what Stern was thinking now, and she knew what what had just happened.
Stern stopped suddenly, grabbed Anne's shoulders with both hands, shook her vigorously and asked, "Tell me!" Where is the place where the Khmer people parked their boats! Where am I going? ”
"It's... I do not know... I really don't know..."Anne looked dazed, in fact, she had always been calm and on the verge of collapse, her mind was still immersed in the moment when Donnie suddenly came back to life and opened her mouth to bite Stern, and now she could only reduce her recollection of this sudden change by constantly moving forward.
Stern saw that he was also in a trance, so he had to stop questioning Annie, but the words changed: "That's right! Professor! In which direction did you run? Let's go find him! He must have known what was going on! ”
"What if... I'm not mistaken, he should have been ahead of us..."As soon as Anne heard the professor, her eyelashes lowered visibly rose again, obviously she also remembered that the professor was indeed the key to their escape from the temple of reincarnation, and of course, why the professor knew so well that Donnie would be resurrected, and whether there were still such terrifying living dead in this reincarnation city.
"Then hurry up, if you don't leave, it will be dark."
Stern watched as the light from the windows in the cloister had become dimmer, and it was estimated that it would be dark in less than two hours.
"Listen! It seems like there are footsteps ahead! ”
So Stern and Anne hurried forward, and after passing through the corner of a cloister, the light suddenly became much brighter, and it had become a wide and long passage with arcades, and the sides had changed from solid relief walls to sparse stone columns. Then a tall, thin figure staggered forward.
"Stop, Professor, we have something to ask you."
The back in front of him really stopped when he heard Annie's voice, and kept looking back in a panic. But when Anne and the others saw that it was indeed the professor and trotted all the way to him, the professor suddenly ran away as if he had seen a ghost. Anne shouted at the professor and chased after her, and Stern followed.
However, as they chased the professor through the vast passage like a cat and mouse, the professor suddenly turned around and disappeared into the garden on the left. When Anne ran to the place where the professor had disappeared, she found a huge garden in front of her, and the green in front of her was so green that the professor's figure could no longer be seen. In the garden, there are a variety of palmettos, palms, and plantains growing in an orderly manner. The scale is also very large, and as soon as she looked up again, she saw the corner of the magnificent reincarnation temple tower temple from afar, which still glowed with gold-like brilliance in the hazy rain, and the three-story tower base above was distributed one after another pointed tower temple.
"Stop chasing! I've found what we're looking for! ”
Stern held down Anne, who was about to rush into the garden to find the professor, and motioned for her to look back.
I saw that on the other side of the colonnade, a square platform about the size of a basketball court suddenly appeared, and the platform was stacked layer by layer, about ten meters high. Then a very wide stone staircase extends out from the middle of the stone platform, and at the end of the stone staircase is a wide water surface.
In order to see more clearly, Anne walked forward to the gatehouse in the center of the arcade, and suddenly a magnificent gray-white stone staircase suddenly extended outside the gatehouse, and on each side stood a row of bronze statues in various poses.
"Oh my God! This temple is much more majestic than what we see on the reliefs! ”
"Never mind whether it's majestic or not, I've seen the ship they left behind! Quick, let's go down and take the boat! ”
"What... What--Anne was dragged down the steps by Stern before she could finish speaking, and then followed the direction that Stern pointed out to her, and sure enough, she saw several boat-shaped black shadows on the water by the stone steps.
"Wait! But the professor is still inside! ”
"It's all this time, can you still control him? Don't you see he's crazy? "Stern is now terrified of this place, and he is only bent on finding the ship and leaving it.
"But no matter what, he's still a living person, and we can't leave him alone!" Anne shook off Stern's hand and said with her eyes on Stern.
Stern could see that Anne would not give up until she found the professor, so she had to compromise: "Well, it's still more than an hour before the sun goes down, and if we can find him within an hour, let's take him with us." If not, then we have to escape on our own, and we will go out and find the search and rescue personnel to come in and find him. I don't want to be in this place for a minute. ”
In this way, Stern, who had already walked a few steps down, had to walk back with Anne to the garden where the professor had disappeared to look for him.
"Where do you think the professor will hide?"
"I don't know, but I can tell that he should have been in the Reincarnation Temple for a while, and he is familiar with the route. It means that this place is not safe either. ”
Anne saw that the surrounding area was covered with all kinds of trees, and the area was very large, and it was not easy to find a living person.
"It doesn't seem like it's easy to find it like this, so let's call his name while we look for it!"
"No, when we started to find him, we could tell that he must have been stimulated in some way, indicating that he may be inexplicably wary of us, and that we would scare him away if we shouted like this."
"What then? This garden is so big that I don't know where to start! ”
Looking at Anne's anxious look, Stern couldn't bear it, although he wanted to leave Reincarnation City immediately. But if you just drag Anne, who can't abandon the professor, to go like this, I really don't know what Anne will think of him in the future. But now time is very short, and if you find a living person who can run around in this huge garden little by little, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
While Stern was wandering around the woods with Anne and thinking about how to find the professor as quickly as possible, his eyes suddenly appeared in front of him with a tall and straight tree trunk, and Kansa who was clearing the bushes in front of him to help clear the way to search, and at that moment his eyes suddenly lit up.
"I know where the professor might be hiding!" Stern suddenly walked under the trunk and said to Anne, "When I was looking for Kansa in the grotto, Kansa hid in the trunk of this great tree, although he didn't tell me any specific reason later. But I could tell that the professor might have come across something similar to Kansa in the temple of reincarnation, which caused him to go insane. So there's a good chance he'll be hiding in a tree hole somewhere, like Kansa. ”