Chapter 365: Far Cry
The air is fresh and the sky is clear. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoBattlestar floats in the clear blue sky, with white clouds passing by, mysterious and far-reaching.
It has been almost twenty days since the professional team came to this strange plane, and there is only one thing they have to do every day, which is to choose one of the many sacrificial altars and hunt the demonic beasts guarding above.
The oath was vivid, and everyone held back their strength to cultivate hard, trying their best to reach a higher level of martial arts. Day after day, they fought with all their might, and their martial arts improved by leaps and bounds, which was completely different from when they first entered.
During this time, they searched for forty or fifty large and small sacrificial altars on the mysterious plane, nearly half of them, and stumbled upon traces of the activities of the Storm Corps in one of them, and found the bodies of several disappeared members.
Due to the time difference, hundreds of years have passed here, and these people have long since been reduced to white bones, only the faintly visible fragments of clothing are engraved with team marks, telling the desolation of the time.
In addition, they found many traces of humanoid activity. Judging from their weapons and armor, it is clear that they are outsiders with a certain civilization, and their size and appearance are very different from those of humans. These humanoids are supposed to be warriors, and they all died here in the end, becoming one of the victims.
The crowd was amazed and even more uneasy, and in the middle of the battle, they often wondered if they would become one of them. Seeing that the signs were wrong, He Jinshui immediately patted his chest to reassure everyone, saying that he must bring everyone back intact. Based on what he discovered, he came up with a bold conjecture that this plane was a transit station for several chaotic planes, and that the portal should be open to more than one plane, and that Neo was only one of them.
Judging by the fact that the island is deserted, it is clear that they are the only survivors at the moment. An inadvertent discovery made them feel frightened and even filled with inexplicable fear. The sacrificial altar here can be changed at any time, and once a certain Guardian Monster is killed by them, the altar will be completely refreshed the next day. The shape of the Dharma Altar will change, the surrounding terrain will change, and the monsters guarding it will also change, as if there is no end to it, and it will regenerate when killed.
He Jinshui once led the team back to the Dharma platform where Medusa was, and found that the town guard boss had turned into a bloodthirsty minotaur, and everyone easily killed this bloodthirsty minotaur, which was completely different from the power of Queen Medusa before. Then they stayed here and watched carefully how things were changing.
When the sun set that day, the earth trembled violently, and the pyramid-shaped altar began to sink with a bang, and the ground around it cracked to form a bottomless moat, until the entire altar collapsed and covered.
Then the meteor on the horizon crossed by, instantly rubbing and heating, burning most of the shell in the atmosphere and hitting the exact location of the original Dharma Altar, and then the embers of this meteor began to burn violently, and the surface dried up and fell off into a new sacrificial Dharma Altar, and the Guardian Demon Beast came out of the ashes that fell off.
"This is obviously the ability of the Lord of Creation!" He Jinshui's body began to tremble, his heart sank to the bottom, and a bad premonition rose in his heart: "Could it be that the enemy we are about to face, the king in the mouth of those demonic beasts, is really a god?" No, it can't be like this!"
After returning to Battlestar, everyone's faces were very ugly, and they started talking about it.
Bai Mei said first: "I said, it's really so strange here, it turns out that the entire island was dug out the day after tomorrow, and it is by no means a natural formation, and Zhun Bao is a ghost made by that king." ”
Red Sleeves also said with some concern: "There are demonic beasts everywhere here, from time to time you kill me, I will kill you, every visitor who came here before died here, it's terrible." ”
"I think this is a huge meat grinder, a dueling arena, and some special purpose is achieved through the survival of the fittest, otherwise these monsters will not regenerate. The old gun nodded.
Sniper Bow frowned and said, "We haven't found a way out yet, there must be some important things that we have missed." ”
Everyone talked about it, but they couldn't come to any conclusions, and finally had to clean up their dinner. Due to the danger and the uncertainty of life and death, everyone was in no mood to speak, and they chewed absentmindedly in a quiet state.
He Jinshui witnessed the whole process of the comet impacting to form the sacrificial altar, and his heart was very uneasy, very irritable, and he had no appetite at all. He hugged his legs and blew the wind, and sat alone on the edge of the Battlestar looking down at the vast earth beneath his feet.
"Was this trip to the Atlas really a mistake, or was I in too much of a hurry?" he muttered to himself.
At this time, the sun was slowly setting, and half of the sphere had already set below the horizon, emitting a golden red light in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyed the earth under his feet into a golden patch.
At his feet was a huge lake, and the breeze blew on the surface of the lake, stirring up ripples and spreading into the distance, like the scales on the body of a big fish.
He suddenly noticed a bright light flashing somewhere in the middle of the lake, and the light gradually flickered and blinded, faintly coming with strange energy fluctuations.
"Come and see, what is that?" He Jinshui said curiously, pointing to his feet and saying loudly. This light is getting brighter and brighter, reaching through the sky to form a huge pillar of light through the clouds, the bright light flickering is mysterious, red, purple, blue, changing various colors from time to time, as if it has become a spotlight searchlight in the modern city, illuminating the clouds in the sky.
"It's so pretty!" Schumpeter complimented, and then said with wide eyes and a blank expression, "But I don't know what it is!"
"I don't know what it is, but I'm sure that thing came out of nowhere!" Sniper Bow spread out his homemade simple map, pointed to one of them, and said seriously: "I mapped the terrain around here in the morning, and there are lakes and waters within a radius of dozens of miles, which are full of all kinds of terrifying strange fish, and there should be nothing in this location." ”
"Not good, very bad!" Nalga frowned, shook her head, and said, "I can clearly feel that there is an evil aura spreading underneath, which makes me feel very uncomfortable. ”
"Would you like to go and see?" Schumpeter asked.
"Then let's go and take a look!" He Jinshui saw that everyone showed a curious look, and even he himself was a little itchy, feeling that if he didn't figure it out, he might not even be able to sleep well.
Under the control of the otaku's mind, the Battlestar slowly descends, taking in the scene of the lake at his feet. It turned out that the thing that emitted light came from the middle of an island, and it was not very real from a distance.
The island is not big, only a few football fields. He Jinshui consulted everyone's opinions, leaving the monkey Xiaobai to take care of Roy, who woke up from a coma but couldn't walk, and took the rest of the adventurers to this mysterious island.
When everyone landed on the beach, the sea breeze blew and the smell was fishy, as if there was something indescribable on the island, which was very uncomfortable.
Jumbid looked at his feet curiously, grabbed a handful of sand and pinched it vigorously, and then bit it with his teeth, suddenly revealing an unbelievable look, jumped up happily and roared: "Damn, I said why is it all black here, it turns out that the whole island is made of obsidian, even sand." Damn, we're rich!"
Everyone was taken aback, and they grabbed it and checked it carefully, and sure enough, it was so!
Walking on the soft fine sand, all the way up the island, the whole island is exposed. There is not a single tree except for the reefs and rocks, and the golden light reflected in the setting sun makes the whole island light as if it is burning.
At the highest point in the middle of the island stands a temple, made of dozens of huge obsidian stones, which appear rough and simple, even a little rudimentary. The roof of the temple is an octagonal cone inlaid with a large luminous gem from which the luminous pillars previously observed. It is bathed in the setting sun, changing color and emitting a variety of different lights.
"Let's go, go up and have a look!" He Jinshui waved his hand and took the lead in walking towards the temple. Before they could get closer, a fishy smell of the sea wafted over, and everyone looked at it and found that the rock wall of the temple was wet, as if it had been soaked by water from the inside out, which confirmed the sniper's statement that the island had risen from the bottom of the water.
"Something is wrong, something is wrong here!" Nerga shook his head, feeling a throbbing in his heart, and becoming more and more uneasy. She clenched her fists as if she were facing a great enemy, gritted her teeth and said loudly, "Everyone be careful, the evil aura here is very unusual, and my blood is about to coagulate." There's got to be something horrible in there!"
"I'll go to the front, everyone follow, keep the formation and don't get scattered!" He Jinshui didn't dare to slack off, his whole body instantly turned into metal, he took out the glowing gem in his arms, and walked in first.
Everyone followed behind nervously, and invariably took out the weapons on their bodies, clenched them tightly in their hands, bent their waists slightly to maintain a high degree of vigilance, and then followed them step by step towards the temple, pulling out long shadows under the light of the setting sun.
After entering the temple, it was extremely empty and unusually wide, and it could easily accommodate 1,800 people.
There are no idols of the gods in the temple, but there are five statues of giants, each with an eyeball missing from its eyes, and the holes of these eyeballs are sometimes rounded, but in various strange irregular shapes.
"I think I've seen it there!" He Jinshui pinched his chin and said thoughtfully.
A bright light flashed through his mind, and he snapped his fingers and suddenly realized, "Why did you forget this, prism! These holes are exactly the same shape as the prism in my hand." ”
He then found three prisms, brown, cyan, and red, and embedded them in the statue of the giant in their corresponding shapes. With each embedded, the giant statue glows brightly and then buzzes. When he had placed all three of the prisms, a loud sound echoed through the temple.
After a while, nothing happened, and the glow of the giant dimmed, and the three prisms fell from it together and fell to the ground.
"It's a pity, there should be two prisms missing!" He Jinshui took back the prism with some regret, thinking thoughtfully.
The crowd went around to the back of the giant statue and found that the rows of overlapping stairs connected far into the sky, and they could not see the end at a glance.
"What's the situation?" Schumpeter said loudly with wide eyes, "From the outside, this temple is only the size of a palm, but how can it be so vast inside!"
"Blinding, it must be blinding!" said the old gun.
"No, these are all true!" Ashin shook his head and said, "It should be a special effect caused by the plane distortion"
"Such a high staircase!" said Redsleeves, holding his head high and dizzy, "You said that if you follow it all the way up, can you pluck the stars from the sky?" ”
"Dream pull down, it's really enough to reach the star, it won't crush you to death if it shakes!" Bai Mei said angrily. The brother and sister have been fighting secretly over Roy's affairs for the past two days, and as a result, they have become more and more stiff, and they have no good looks at each other.
"Look, there's a monster there!" said the sniper, pointing to a vague shadow halfway up the stairs.
"Go up and have a look!" Nalga felt a lack of breath, as if his strength was about to be drained, and the evil power was on it. She choked and pulled out the holy sword red lotus, and strode towards it.
"Slow down, be careful!" He Jinshui hurriedly followed, and said dissatisfiedly: "This girl is personally involved in danger at every turn, and she is born to be the life of a thug!
"Is this!?" everyone stared ahead with wide eyes and a look of surprise.
I saw an open space above the stairs, on which sat a huge humanoid monster sitting and feasting. Its size was so huge that it was already five or six long when it sat on the ground and half straight at the waist, and if it stood up, it would probably exceed ten zhang, or even more than an ordinary dragon.
It looked like a lion-faced human body, covered with golden hair, with a long tail, thick limbs full of explosive power, sharp slaps and sharp claws flashing with cold light, constantly grabbing the pieces of meat and bones on the ground and chewing non-stop, making a piercing sound of bones shattering.
"Something is wrong!" The sniper bow shuddered, pointed at the monster's feet and trembled and said, "He eats all the flesh of those people." ”
"What?" the crowd was taken aback and rubbed their eyes vigorously. I saw white bones scattered on the high platform, fragments of limbs flying sideways, countless heads rolling down, and each deceased had a groan of pain on their faces, as if they had experienced the most painful thing in the world and were tortured to death.
Under the gaze of everyone, the monster swaggered as he ate and drank, grabbing the huge wine bottle next to him and drinking it all from time to time.
The smell was so foul that the red liquid tumbled out, and everyone almost wanted to gag! )