Chapter 4: Scorpions

"Nine-Tails Spell Spirit...... What's the point of putting it here. Fan Li used the spirit to illuminate the surroundings, and at the same time, Jia Lan and Zhang Xin also turned on their flashlights to shine around, and a statue vaguely appeared in front of them, and everyone gathered their lights on this statue.

It is a statue of a woman with long hair and a shawl, and a light armor that exposes her arms, thighs, and abdomen. However, Fan's eyes were not on the armor, but on the disc behind her. There was a disc behind the woman, and surprisingly, the disc did not make contact with her back, but was suspended in mid-air. Ten long knives were arranged radially on the disc, and the effect was that from the front, it looked like a sun was rising behind a woman.

Fan Lifu knew the statue, and it felt familiar. There are notches of the nine-tailed spell spirit here, which will remind him of the apocalypse and Qin Ziyang, if this woman is the apocalypse, then this disc is the magical weapon in the story.

He leaned closer to the armor and stared at the carvings on it, and found that none of them had been seen by himself, and there were no rules, no traces of dynasties, and they were imaginative, as if they had been fabricated out of thin air.

Fan Li glanced around and found that there was nothing new in the temple except for this statue. A door was facing the back of the statue, but it seemed to be locked, and there was a large disc on it with something intricately carved on it.

"This should be the opening and closing of the door." Zhang Xin lowered his head and asked.

"That's right, but I've rarely seen such a switch, I once saw a remote tomb in the Warring States period in my grandfather's records have a switch like this, but his old man didn't want me to know, he just said that it was remote, and he didn't tell me where it was." Fan Li saw some ancient incantations at the top of the door, which were also words that he couldn't read, which were similar to the words on the statue.

"I seem to understand something. Can we twist the disc and point one of the disc above our head and the door will open? Fan Li looked at Jialan, she just nodded, no objection.

"But how?" Fan Li half-squatted down to take a closer look at the notch on it, it didn't matter, he let out a bird-like cry with joy, only to feel Jialan's slap on his back.

"Are you sick today?" Jialan said angrily. "It's taboo to make a lot of noise in the tomb, didn't grandpa teach you?"

"It's the temple......" Fan Lifu muttered quietly. I discovered the secret above, you see these intricately carved patterns. Have you ever seen something magical? ”

Hearing this, Jialan and Zhang Xin were obviously interested, and they also wanted to experience that kind of "magical thing", but they came to the side of the disc and looked at it for a long time, but they didn't find anything magical.

"Don't sell it, open it for me."

"This is the Eight Dragons Playing with Pearls, this should be a painting puzzle. You see in this pile of intricate glyphs, there are eight dragons in a circle and snatching a ball, I've seen this kind of painting. It was in Macho's room that he received the will of God and painted five paintings, one of which was the Eight Dragons Playing with Pearls.

"I think it's a centipede, huh?" Jialan said.

"yes. But the centipede has a native name called Tianlong, and I remember that painting vividly, and the dragon's movements in this carved pattern are exactly the same as those eight centipedes, isn't that suggesting something? Fan Li said and twisted the end of the Eight Dragons Playing with Pearls to the top of his head. I only heard a creak, and a burst of ash drilled out of the crack in the door, and Jialan pushed it hard. Another chamber appeared in front of him.

"Sure enough, if I'm not mistaken, there may be clues to the other three paintings below, but now there is a problem, I used to think that Ma Qiao was evil, because of the influence of demonic energy, like flying leaves, but this obviously shows that his paintings are very unusual, then I am curious about the gods in his mouth."

"Who do you think this god is, could it be the statue? If you say that the apocalypse is Qin Ziyang, then this god should be Qin Ziyang. ”

"She's probably not that strong, but maybe." Fan Li smiled at Jialan, and turned the flashlight to the front, this room has a lot of space, the floor is a boxy cement slab, and there is a small platform in the front, which looks like it is sacrificing something.

"Wait." Jialan said as she took off her bow and arrow, and pointed an arrow in front of her, and where the arrow came, the wooden arrow and the floor fell and disappeared from view.

"So wicked? Are these traps? Fan Li patted his head, and at this time Zhang Xin drew his pistol and prepared to shoot.

"Wait, you're limited in ammunition, so I'd better do it." Fan Li raised his right hand as he spoke, and the blue light rushed up the back of his hand, converging into a crossbow in his hand. He shot a few arrows, shooting all the floors in front of him like a machine gun, and after about twenty minutes, a stone path appeared in front of him, and the stone slabs around them fell to the bottom, and this path should be real.

Fan Li walked over tremblingly, looked down, and found that there was a big pit below, and a group of scorpions were pouring out from all directions, which should have been disturbed.

"This place shouldn't be very old." Zhang Xin looked at the black scorpions and said.

"Not necessarily, what if the owner is planning to let these scorpions breed on their own? Perhaps there is a procedure whereby one group of scorpions gathers in this place and another group goes outside to hunt. ”

"But scorpions aren't real social animals."

"I don't understand social animals, I just understand magic powers." Fan Li stepped on the dangling path as he spoke, and Jialan took a step ahead of him.

"I don't want to walk like this, and I get goosebumps all over my body at the thought of falling and dying."

"No, you're an elite agent of the 'Ant Nest', you should be trained, even if there is an abyss below, you should be fearless." Jialan looked back at Zhang Xin, who was staring at the scorpion under the big pit and broke out in a cold sweat.

"That's different, I hate these things from the bottom of my heart."

"Come on, don't look down." Fan Li stretched out his hand towards Zhang Xin, Zhang Xin took a deep breath, estimating that he was doing a complex psychological struggle in his heart, and finally courage prevailed, so he stretched out a hand to Fan Li.

They walked the path as if they were walking on thin ice, but fortunately the distance was only three meters long. Fan Li stared at the small platform in front of him, and found that it was full of extinguished residual incense, but there was no tribute around, could it be ...... The people who are coming here are tributes? A terrifying thought popped up in Fan Li's heart, I hope not.

"Here." Fan Li followed Jialan's gaze and saw that there was something like a door behind the altar, but the carving on the door was a hideous monster, the tiger was not like a tiger, and the cow was not like a cow.

"Let's see how to open it, I really don't want to stay in this room for a minute." Zhang Xin said while wiping sweat with his sleeve.

Fan Li stared at this door, and found no place where he could set up a mechanism, could it be that the person who designed this door didn't want people to enter? He searched the altar again, and even checked the soil layer around the edge of the incense, but found nothing strange.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Xin asked.

"There's no switch here." Jialan replied instead of Fan Li. "In our experience with soul thieves, this door shouldn't be an exit."

"What!" Jialan's words made Zhang Xin very puzzled.

"If the exit isn't here, then why design a path, and design a trap like this, could it be that the exit is under that big pit?"

"Huh?" When Fan Li heard Zhang Xin's words, he looked at him and Jialan with wide eyes, and then walked to the scorpion pit and looked carefully at the scorpion below.

"What are you doing standing there, come back quickly," Zhang Xin warned before Jialan could say anything.

"What if it's really Qin Ziyang who designed all this?" Fan Li looked back at them. "I suddenly found that the scorpions here are very familiar, I seem to have seen ......them from there," Fan Li jumped into the big pit after speaking, accompanied by the cries of Zhang Xin and Jialan. The scorpions below are so dense that jumping like this will definitely trample a few to death, but Fan Li never expected that just when he was about to fall into the big pit, the scorpions under his feet would rush to the side like lightning, leaving an open space.

"Fan Li!" Jialan and Zhang Xin had already walked to the edge, and they were puzzled to see Fan Li standing there safe and sound.

"You...... How do you know! Jialan was surprised and delighted, looking at Fan Li looking up at herself with a smile, she really wanted to draw her bow and arrow and shoot him down.

"I have seen such scorpions in Tengger's research base, and I felt a little familiar at the beginning, they will not bite people without receiving orders, because they are not scorpions in nature, but developed by Qin Ziyang. Look! Fan Lifu squatted down and chased away the scorpions under his feet with his hands, and the scorpions faded to the side like a tide, revealing a cut on the floor, which was also a group of scorpions.

"Scorpion Protector ......," Jialan whispered when she saw it.

"That's right, I don't think it's Qin Ziyang who built this place, but she transformed these mechanisms."

"It's really sweating for you, can you talk to us before you make a move next time, otherwise we think you really don't want to live." Jialan also jumped down after speaking, and Zhang Xin trembled and lay down along the edge.

"It's okay, these scorpions won't hurt people." Fan stooped down to look at the place where the scorpion had gushed out, and it was pitch black.

"We're not going to run down where they came out to their nests, are we?" Since coming down, Zhang Xin's eyes have not taken off those scorpions lying lazily on the side.

"Probably not, Qin Ziyang just did something for the organs here, she must have encountered some difficulties." Fan Li stared at the carvings under his feet. "She once said that she had no connection with the magic energy of Youdu, which may be true, but it is a lie to say that she has not been to Youdu."

"Do you think Qin Ziyang has been to this place?"

"And Rampa has been here, too. Lan Pa's purpose in coming to the Hidden Capital may be to seal the spirit here, but what is Qin Ziyang here for? (To be continued......)