Tofu was obviously not happy either, but when he saw that I and Zhen Rui insisted, he reluctantly nodded and agreed, saying that he would simply leave the corpse fairy to me, and take care of it in case something happened, so he said to the corpse fairy: "Wood, can you follow Chen Xuan?" ”

The corpse fairy tilted his head.

Tofu gestured at me, repeated it a few more times, and then listened to the corpse fairy for a while before squeezing out a few words: "No...... Old...... Suspend...... Fierce ...... "Damn, I suddenly felt that this corpse fairy is so stupid on weekdays, it must be pretending!" But seeing its serious refusal, I was choked up and speechless for a while. At this time, everyone was in a bad mood, so I stopped and said to Tofu: "Okay, I'm notorious now, let it follow you, and take care of it if something happens." ”

After everyone finished discussing, they rearranged the equipment, during which Ouyang Xuan kept silent, expressing dissatisfaction with this decision, I didn't pay attention to her, while packing up the equipment, while telling the tofu some precautions, the desert environment is not as good as other places, lest he cause something wrong, I said, he plucked out his ears, and said: "Annoying, why don't you usually see you so verbose, don't make it the same as life and death, make me feel weird." Then he changed the subject, stared at the corpse of the big insect not far away, and said, "What do you say this is?" ”

Zhang Wen on the other side answered: "We've seen this thing before, but you may not have noticed it. ”

"Seen?" I recalled, after entering the desert, the poisonous scorpion and poisonous snake had never encountered such a huge and strange insect, I couldn't help but shake my head and asked, "What do you mean?" Zhang Wen pushed his glasses and said that it was not surprising that we didn't remember.

In the palace when we came, the golden throne had all kinds of strange beast patterns on it, and because it was too complicated, the rest of us only looked at it in general opinion, and focused on Woo Duo. In that golden throne there is such a bug-like thing. Since Zhang Wen has always been very interested in the culture of other countries, he observes more nuances than the rest of us, and also observes some details that we don't care about.

At first, he saw a bug-shaped thing on the throne, with many strips scattered under it, shaped like a spindled jellyfish, and thought it was a jellyfish, and he kept wondering: how can there be something resembling a jellyfish on it? As the old saying goes, the vicissitudes of the sea can become a mulberry field, but this Tengger Desert, looking up, is also a large grassland and mountains, and the eight poles of the jellyfish can't be beaten, what's going on?

He didn't think much about it, and at first thought that some of the aliens on it were like Huhu Duo, a kind of deified totem, something imaginary. But then I saw the whole picture of this big bug. Immediately affirmed, the jellyfish on the golden throne is the big insect in front of you!

I was secretly surprised and said, "Aren't those things made up?" Could it be that there is really a zài? ”

Zhang Wen shook his head solemnly and asked me, "Do you think the dragon is a dragon?" ”

Tofu said: "Of course it's zài, I've seen it with Lao Chen!" After speaking, we talked about the scene of our battle with the evil Jiao in the tomb of the ghost king Yulong. Hearing this, Zhang Wen asked rhetorically: "But that's Jiao, not a real dragon." We Han people regard dragons as ancestors and claim to be the descendants of dragons, but who has ever seen a dragon? We worship dragons for thousands of years, and there are countless legends, patterns, words, and cultures about dragons, but who has really seen them with their own eyes? ”

I understand the meaning of the text, sometimes what people have not seen is not necessarily not the same as not existing. And Yaofang is an ancient country where divine power and royal power coexist, and it worships shamanism, which in turn is a religion of all things worshipped. It can be seen from the totem poles before Tong Guò that their totem is Hu Duo, that is, their main god, and the rest of the totems around the totem are also some gods, but they do not belong to the main god of Yaofang.

These seemingly fictitious totems, just like dragons, no one can say whether they are true or false, and now, the things in the totems are impressively in front of our eyes, and it is still surprising that its identity is broken by Zhang Wen's words.

At this time, Tofu also packed up the equipment bag, so he carried the backpack to the corpse fairy, snapped the buckle, and continued to use the mobile package. He clapped his hands and said; "Anyway, they're all dead, it's useless to think so much, I'm curious about what this thing survived on, you said that there were no fish or shrimp in the water, could it be that after so many years, I grew up drinking water?"

Ouyang Xuan interjected in an unkind tone and said, "Have you forgotten those suicide zongzi?" Maybe it grew up eating those rice dumplings. Tofu disagreed, saying that he had used a probe shovel to shoot those zongzi, and it turned out that those were soft zongzi, and the soft zongzi was the air to put it bluntly, how to eat the air?

While discussing, everyone decided to go into the water. At this moment, as soon as I looked down at my feet, there was a dark abyss under my feet, and although I knew that there was water below, it still made people feel frightened. The water was at least fifty or sixty meters from where we were, and we didn't have the courage to jump straight down, so we made an iron chisel and used it as a nail, threw the rope downward, and fell into the darkness. Tofu puts on gloves and heads down the rope. We smashed two ropes in total, and a group of six people went down the ropes. The corpse fairy doesn't have to worry about us, it's like a sucker, up and down freely.

I followed behind Tofu, about five or six meters apart, I estimated the height, I estimated that I was about to enter the water, at this moment, Tofu suddenly let out an exclamation, followed by a series of me cāo, I cāo, I cāo......

I wondered, my heart said you're a weak flesh, a second shot otaku with no energy at all, who are you you? After shrinking a few meters down, I found that the tofu had stopped in place, and I asked, "What's going on?" ”

Tofu turned up the light on his head to the maximum, pointed down, and said, "Look." I followed his gaze and couldn't help but say, "I'm cāo!" "I finally know why Tofu is so excited, because the water is gone.

The dark groundwater that had nearly drowned us before had vanished without a trace, leaving only the wet mountain walls.

Tofu's face is blue, you know. Ouyang Xuan was in a bad mood before, and said what kind of chisel to hit, anyway, there is water below, so it's good to jump down directly! Fortunately, everyone was more reliable and ignored Ouyang Xuan's venting, otherwise, if they really jumped down, wouldn't they have to fall into a ball of ketchup?

The rest of the people also noticed the change at this time, and it was needless to say that they were surprised, especially Ouyang Xuan, whose face turned white with fright, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Fortunately, the rope was long enough to hang down to the bottom, about two meters above the ground, and it was no big problem to jump.

When everyone went down, they only felt that the surroundings were extremely humid, and the air in their noses had a unique smell of water vapor.

Zhang Wen was surprised: "Why is the groundwater gone?" ”

Zhen Rui pondered and said, "This place is a sinkhole, and the groundwater must have poured up from other channels before, but now it has receded. ”

I felt that something was wrong, saying that it was less than an hour since I and Tofu were attacked, and now we came down, so much water, even if the underground river is retiring, it is impossible to drain it in such a short time? "If it goes at this rate, does that mean that this place has been in a state of rising water and ebbing tide for thousands of years?

If this is the case, those big stone pillars that support the stairs, no matter how strong they are, and there is a way to wear them with drops of stone, I am afraid that they will have collapsed long ago in the past thousand years.

What the hell is going on?

Before I could figure it out, Tofu suddenly said, "Wouldn't it be better if there was no water, don't worry about turbulence now, let's hurry up and find that gate quickly." "This kid, Tofu and Ouyang Xuan don't have to act alone, everyone immediately walked towards the previous turbulence area in the direction of the original plan. However, due to the perennial accumulation of water in this place, the exposed ground here is very slippery, and if you are not careful, you will fall on all fours.

In the process of moving forward, we will pass by some large stone pillars with a foundation from time to time, and if we look closely, we can see that these stone pillars are built with large gray stones one by one, and it is not easy to complete such a project more than 2,000 years ago.

During this time, there are occasional remnants of the ground, some of which were left over from the past, and now only a few broken stones remain. According to the map scene described by the jack-of-all-trades, the huge gate should be open on the mountain wall, and there is a large totem pole in front of the door, and I have a vague bad feeling in the direction of the previous turbulence, and I have a vague bad feeling that the location of the gate is about the same as the direction in which the turbulence was swept away, so the gate may have been destroyed by geological movement or groundwater.

I guess we're going to be in vain this time. Of course, I didn't say this guess, and in the dark, everyone went as fast as they could, towards the southeast of this sinkhole.

Even if it was to go, it took about ten minutes to get to the end, Tofu was bent on solving it as soon as possible and going back early, so he kept rushing to the forefront, at this time, he shouted: "See, see, the gate is there!" ”

Faintly, on the black mountain wall, a yellow thing stood out, and a little further on, the thing became bigger and clearer, and it was a golden gate. , Tofu said; "I'll be obedient, wasn't this place particularly rich in gold production in ancient times?"