Chapter 17: Visions

For no reason, there was a flower in front of him, and in the next moment, he was no longer indoors, but sitting on the desert full of golden eyes.

The desert is still unusually hot, but the sun is not so scorching and deadly, the environment is still dry, but you can clearly feel the faint water element moving, and the air is still dull, but from time to time there is a breeze blowing, bringing some fresh air.

What's more, there are people, water, and trees, and what you see is a desert full of life.

The most striking thing is the lake in the middle of the desert, the lake is not big, the lake water is clear and transparent, exuding a burst of cool breath, more than a dozen tall trees with intertwined roots grow around the lakeside, shrubs and meadows are all over the trees, several peculiar herbivorous lizards wander on the grass, slowly tearing the fresh and soft grass blades, a leisurely appearance.

On one side of the lake is a piece of fertile soil, and it is impossible to see what plants grow on it, but from the regular layout of Qianmo, it can be seen that this is a farmland, and it must be artificially planted crops in it. The farmland is now golden, and the desert in the distance is in harmony, but the desert may symbolize death, but the ripe crops in the farmland must symbolize the future and hope.

On the other side of the lake, there are four familiar quadrangular cone-shaped buildings, the cone buildings are more than 30 meters high, and the golden outer walls look magnificent. It feels like a small village in the middle of the desert, formed around an oasis, and although it is in the middle of a cruel desert, life is still peaceful and rich.

Four building centers, and a ring of small facilities, some very simple, with sheds like counter-like stone platforms, there is no doubt that this is the place where items are exchanged on a daily basis. As you can imagine, people who live here will occasionally put things on the counter with things they don't need, waiting for interested people to exchange them for other items or even possible currency.

However, it can only be imagined, because there is no one here, and it is as if all the people are missing.

Suddenly, a tsunami-like cheer rang in my ears, coming from the entrance to the village, where the Shadow Squad found themselves.

The entrance is a flat, empty sandy area with three tall stone statues in the center, but nothing else. Under the stone statue, more than forty humanoid creatures knelt on the ground facing the statue, their hands raised to the sky.

These humanoids are clearly not human but some kind of upright walking lizards, their thick skin is covered with fine scales, which can effectively prevent the loss of water in the body, the forked tongue sticks out of the mouth from time to time, and can keenly detect the precious water sources in the desert, the yellow eyes have double eyelids, the inner layer of transparent eyelids can strictly block the invasion of foreign objects into the eyes, and the keratinized claws at the end of the lower limbs are hard and heat-resistant, not afraid of the heat of the ground.

A lizardman stands under a stone statue with a stone axe in his hand, and is the only lizardman standing in the field, with a herbivorous reptilian lizard at his feet, and a series of rhythmic roars coming out of his mouth. The kneeling lizardmen followed his rhythm and let out the same roar, and the cries became more and more uniform.

The stone axe slashed hard, and the head of the herbivorous lizard rolled to the side, and the lizard's cyan blood shot out like a fountain on its neck, accurately spraying on the three stone statues, and the roar of the crowd also reached its highest point at this moment.

The three stone statues stained with blood are also in the shape of lizardmen, but they are not the same in size or shape.

The stone statue in the center is golden, and the tallest, it looks like it is powerful and strong, one hand is held high, and in the hand it is holding a spear that burns with flames, of course, it is only a model, not really burning flames.

The one on the right is cyan, the cyan stone statue is thinner and shorter than the golden one, and its shape has a bit of a fluctuating shape, its two forelimbs wrapped around its chest and it does not hold anything, but it steps on a mass of stone carved into a cloud symbolizing the mist.

The stone statue on the left is as black as ink, and it is also the only stone statue that presents a sitting posture, the black stone statue is obviously thinner, and compared with the other two, the lines are also a lot softer, this should be a symbol of women, the stone statue holds one hand flat on the chest, on the spread of paws, holding a black thing, looking at the shape, it should symbolize the sand.

In fact, there is a fourth statue, and the fourth statue is light blue, and the other hand of the black stone statue is held on the chest. There is no doubt that the fourth stone statue is a baby, and even when it is held by a black statue, it still shows a posture of dancing hands, which is obviously full of vitality.

The lizardman with the stone axe bent down to smear his hands with blood on his chest, then knelt down like the others, raised his hands and chanted loudly, and the people behind him soon joined the chant, and the sound grew louder and louder, like the sound of a majestic tide.

The female priestess Kelly only then came back to her senses from the shock and amazement, and looked around, only these lizardmen were around, and the people of the shadow chasing team were gone.

Where am I? Where am the people? Why are they gone? And what about me? Why am I gone?

Yes, Kelly couldn't even find herself, and all she saw around was the fanatical lizardmen, as if she had become one of them.

The priestess was not alarmed, maybe she didn't know what panic was, she just felt her heart beating fast and her muscles tensed involuntarily, which should have been surprised, she told herself. Surprised, her first instinct was to walk around and explore her surroundings.

Fortunately, at this moment, Shuer's voice came from his ears. This voice, the priestess has been accustomed to hearing in the past few days, and she has not felt anything, but at this time, this voice is like magic, which calms her violently beating heart, and the urge to look around immediately subsides, and the whole person has settled down a lot.

"Don't move anyone, calm down, and if you don't want to be hit on the head and bleed and embarrassed, just sit honestly where you are. Sauer's voice was slow and calm, a little trick to soothe people with words.

"Especially you, give me a good lie on my stomach. This time he was not calm at all, and then there was a roar and whimper of a beast, which must have been his foot on the tail of the white wolf that wanted to run around.

"Moria, reassure this stupid wolf, it's probably biting the table leg as my leg, I'm afraid its teeth will burst. For some reason, Kelly suddenly felt like laughing, her tightened muscles had already returned to normal, and although she couldn't see it, she could already think of the white wolf holding the stone table leg and biting it.

"Eh, I'm a deer, you let me go and appease such a terrible white wolf?" Moria's reluctant voice came, and the sound of Suosuo's movement, "Okay, okay, big dog obedient, don't move, yes, that's it, really obedient, when you go out, I'll introduce you to a few little she-wolves in the forest, one by one is beautiful, and I guarantee that you won't be able to walk in a few days." ”

"Well done. The white wolf stopped making trouble, but Shuer's voice sounded so full of depression, "However, if you hadn't touched my head and said these words, maybe it would have been a little better." ”

"Hahahaha", the laughter of the rest of the team erupted, it seemed that everyone was still around, Kelly was more relieved, but what was it that she was seeing now? Could it be an illusion, but how could there be such a clear illusion?

Almost synchronized with the laughter of the shadow chasers, the dozens of people kneeling down also let out a mountain of cheers, at the same time, the ground began to shake slightly, not violent, but it was impossible to ignore, it seemed that the cheers were caused by the shaking of the ground.

Looking in the direction of the vibration, a yellow cloud of smoke rose from the sky, not the overwhelming smoke of a sandstorm, but more like the sand and dust raised by many people walking towards this side.

The crowd became even more agitated, and the axe-wielding man led them towards the outside of the village.

Soon, the sand and dust approached, and it was clear that it was a group of strange creatures.

Fish-like creatures.

The largest are three giant creatures that are 100 meters long and resemble whales, surrounded by dozens of fish of different shapes and shapes more than 10 meters long, and each fish is carrying a lot of things behind it, especially the three giant whales, and there is even a fence installed behind them, which is full of mountain-like items.

What's more, there's no water in the desert over there, and they don't swim in the water at all.

Half of them sink under the sea of sand, and the upper half of their bodies are exposed to the sand, and the sea of sand is like real sea water to them, allowing them to swim freely.

"Woo~~~" A long cry came from the largest giant whale in the middle, and the giant whale suddenly jumped up, most of its body drilled out of the desert, and crossed the sky like a swimming fish out of the water, and its huge body even blocked the sun.

This is like a signal, all the fish in the sand around them jumped up with the giant whale, and the sand particles fell from the air with their movements, as if a rain of yellow sand had fallen.

"Poof", the fish in the sand fell back into the sand sea one by one, obviously such a huge body, but when entering the sand, there was no expected violent earthquake, only very faint shaking, which can be called a miracle. However, the sand and dust that flew all over the sky were certainly indispensable, and the yellow smoke was billowing and scattering from the place where they landed, obscuring the sky and the sun.

Falling back to the ground, the three giant whales suddenly stepped out from behind the cargo and several lizardmen, although they couldn't see their appearance from a distance, they could see that they were waving vigorously to the people in the village, and they were still shouting something.

Cheers erupted in the crowd on the sand, dozens of people danced excitedly, and even many people hugged each other happily, and even the color of the scales on their bodies turned red.

"Wow, wow, wow", I couldn't hear what the axe-wielder shouted, and the lizardmen knelt down at the same time, holding up a handful of golden sand grains and lifting them above their heads, letting the sand particles pour water on themselves, and at the same time, the fish in the sand became slower and slower and closer to the crowd.

It all came to an abrupt end.

The light dimmed, and everyone found themselves back in the building, and what appeared in front of them was the expressions of surprise from their teammates.