Professor Dean's stubbornness has been an eye-opener for the little worm,—— no wonder others say "stubborn old man", this person is really getting older and more stubborn, the more stubborn the worm's mouth is about to wear out, Professor Dean just has to follow her and the turtledove to the sea of quicksand to find the underground city that can control the "Staff of God". Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In the end, Worm had no choice but to nod and agree to Professor Dean's request, but Worm thought about it carefully, Professor Dean's joining was a good thing for her and Turtledove, because Professor Dean was an expert in both symbols and philology, and they were going to explore a monument built before the Third World War, and they still needed this expert's help.

"Have you asked Zhang Lei? Does he agree or not to agree that you will follow us? ”

It wasn't that she felt that Professor Dean would be a burden, but that Worm felt that it was too inappropriate to let an old man of this age take the risk with him and the turtledove.

"I've already told Zhang Lei, and he agrees," Professor Dean seemed to have known that the worm would ask, "What's more, I'm not a child, do I need permission from others to do anything?" Don't worry, my body is still quite strong, and I won't drag you down along the way. ”

"Okay."

Professor Dean said that at this point, what else is there to be so long-winded about the worm, and the turtledove saw that the two of them had agreed, so he said to sit firmly, and then stepped on the accelerator, so the three of them began to move towards the sea of quicksand far away in the hinterland of the new empire.

……

The purge in the extralegal land seems to have consumed a lot of manpower and material resources of the new empire, not only forcing it to close many military bases, but also greatly weakening the patrol and control of the hinterland, so that the turtledoves arrived at their destination without much trouble,—— Shazao village on the edge of the sea of quicksand.

Shazao Village is a small and unremarkable village that Professor Dean has visited before, when he was a well-known scholar in the New Empire, leading a team to survey monuments in the New Empire's sphere of influence.

Now that I think about it, the reason why the New Empire allowed and funded Professor Dean's research is probably because they want to use Professor Dean's knowledge of various encrypted characters to find clues about the "Staff of God", after all, Roger's map was obtained from the New Empire, and Roger himself said that the New Empire has much more information than him.

However, Shazao Village has long been eroded by the harsh natural environment around it, and there are still many people living here when Professor Dean came here a few years ago, and now there are open doors and collapsed houses everywhere, and even half of the living people are not visible.

"Shazao Village used to be called Shazao Town, and most of the residents in the town lived by planting Shazao Town, but with the gradual seriousness of land desertification, the land that was too barren could not even grow Shazao, so the residents here had to leave their hometowns and go to other places to seek a way to survive, so the scale of Shazao Town became smaller and smaller, and it became what it is now."

Professor Dean speaks differently, in a way that makes it impossible not to believe it.

"Isn't that good," Turtledove jumped off the pickup, "we're not here to find someone to play with, no one has to worry about it, we can live wherever we want, we can do whatever we want, yes, yes, what should we do now?" ”

"Find the entrance to the underground city."

The worm spread the map on the ground with a "whoosh".

Despite studying the map hundreds of times along the way, the worm has never been able to determine where the entrance to the city on the map is, as the area is marked with the word "entrance", and there is no other hint.

Professor Dean was also clueless, he was just a student of symbols and words, not maps or puzzles, and he looked and looked and looked, and Professor Dean suggested that everyone should first wander around the neighborhood and maybe they would find the entrance to the city.

"It won't be so easy," Ikaruga shook his head, "Professor, didn't you say that you have been here with the personnel of the New Empire before, you think that even the New Empire can't find the entrance, how can we find it all at once, isn't it ......"

"Less."

The worm gently kicked the turtledove in the ass, telling him to stop talking about it.

……

After passing through Shazao Village, everyone continued to walk forward for more than half an hour, along the way in addition to the long yellow sand, it was a long yellow sand, not to mention animals, plants have not seen a few plants,—— turtledove's mood became more and more irritable, no wonder the people of the new empire could not find the entrance, such a large open area, if there was an entrance, it would have been revealed.

"Where the hell do you think this entrance is?" The turtledove grumbled as he walked aimlessly, "It can't be under our feet, right?" ”

"Don't move!"

The insect suddenly stopped the turtledove.

"What's wrong?"

As the turtledove spoke, he wanted to turn around to see what the worm was doing, but the worm raised his voice a little and shouted:

"I told you not to move!"

So the turtledove stiffened and stood there, not daring to take any more breaths.

"Don't move," said the worm to the turtledove, "and look at what you are at your feet." ”

With a million in his heart and a million incomprehension, the turtledove thought that he had guessed the mine, and he lowered his head and looked at his feet, but there was nothing at all, it was all a grain of sand.

"There's a small piece of quicksand there," said the little worm, pointing to the turtledove's right hand at a distance of five or six meters, "I can't see anything on the surface, but if you look closely, are there tiny grains of sand rolling in the middle in a slightly sloping arc?" If you step on it, you'll be swallowed up by it in an instant. ”

There is also quicksand in the land outside the law, and the turtledove naturally understands the horror of this kind of thing, and every muscle in his body is tense, thinking that he just looked ahead, and he didn't notice when he walked near a piece of quicksand.

"Professor, didn't you say that there is more than an hour's journey from Shazao Village to the Sea of Quicksand, how long have we walked, why did I come across quicksand?"

Turtledove remembers that Professor Dean had said before he arrived at Shazao Village that Shazao Village was not built on a sea of quicksand, otherwise wouldn't the inhabitants here all have to be swallowed up by quicksand? If not, how could the turtledove be careless.

"It seems that the Sea of Quicksand is expanding outward," Professor Dean chuckled in his heart, "It shouldn't be, why is it expanding?" ”

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