A scorching sun hung in the sky, and the scorching sunlight shone on the yellow desert, and the heat wave was rolling.

In the middle of the desert lay two figures, eyes closed, motionless.

Suddenly, the fingers of a figure moved, followed by a slight tremor of the eyelids, he slowly opened his eyes, the pupils of one red and one blue slowly focused, and the surrounding scenery slowly became clear from ghosting.

Ivo sat up suddenly, looked around in amazement, and the moment he entered the entrance to the secondary space, his consciousness seemed to have been hit hard, and he fell unconscious for an instant, and then woke up in this desert.

It looks like they're entering the ruins space.

Ivo found the sleeping Nafi, and originally wanted to wake her up with a big-eared scraper, but after thinking about it, it didn't seem right, and finally took a gentle way and artificially ...... Pinch people.

Nafei sighed, gradually woke up, and looked at the yellow sand around her in confusion, "Where are we?"

Ivo spread his hands: "It should be the secondary space where the ruins are located." ”

Nafei frowned and sat up, looked up at the sun, pinched her fingers and calculated something, and said for a long time: "The position of the sun is wrong, and it never moves, this sub-space is eternal day, the flow of time is very slow, and only three days here can be worth one day in the main world." ”

Ivo was amazed, "How do you know?"

"Every wizard is a learned scholar. ”

Ivo stood up and looked around, the yellow desert stretched to the horizon, as if it was endless, the desert was dead and silent, even the wind was silent, giving people a sense of despair.

Nafi was a little uneasy, but Ivo was calm, after all, he had been in the purgatory of the memory battlefield for a long time, and he had long been immune to the desertification environment.

Ivo suddenly looked in one direction, and in the air distorted by the sun's heat, there seemed to be a faint outline of a building a few miles away, and Nafi glanced at each other, and headed in the direction of the building.

Sweating all the way through the sun, after walking for nearly an hour, they approached the complex and opened their mouths in surprise to see a huge city made of sand.

The wide streets can accommodate five horse-drawn carriages side by side, and the buildings are made of yellow sand, which has an inexplicable power that keeps the sand together.

The two of them stood on the edge of the city, the buildings stretching out like yellow trees into the city, with no end in sight.

The city seemed to be bigger than the city of Lasses, but the difference was that it was empty, with only the wind and sand howling, and the atmosphere of dead silence everywhere.

"There is no one in the city. Ivo said casually, looking up at the sand huts by the side of the road, and found a feature: in the windows of each house, one or more bells were hung, but the hammers seemed to have been removed, and there was only a rustling sound after the wind blew.

The sound of thousands of dumb wind chimes is very much like a whimper, as if this sand city is crying in a low voice

Ivo shuddered, feeling the ominous aura of the ruined city.

"No, there used to be people living here," Nafi pushed open a house, pointed to the rotten wooden furniture in the house, and frowned, "but I don't know what happened, everyone left the city." ”

The two had no clue and decided to go deep into the city's interior.

After walking for two hours, the buildings on both sides were tall and low, and the monotonous earthy yellow color made people feel depressed, and they walked from the outer circle of the city to the inner circle.

The two of them stopped suddenly, and a very large square appeared in front of them, and a ten-meter-high sand sculpture stood in the middle of the square.

The sand sculpture is a burly half-human, half-beast man with a huge wolfhound head, erect ears, pupils dyed blue as the sky, human body except for the head, revealing a perfectly proportioned muscular upper body, intricate tattoos, a rudimentary dress that covers his thighs, leggings and sandals on his feet, a hunting horn curved like a bull's horn in his left hand, and a twisted spear in a wild style in his right hand.

Ivo was surprised: "Statue, which god is this?"

Nafi's face was confused, as far as she knew, there were four major gods in this world, the northern god system of Fliga, the Odin god system of the Odin continent, the heavenly god system of Muir, the natural god system of Carthage, Abraham had no specific faith, but there was no record of this god in the four major god systems.

Could it be the older ancient gods?

Ivo's eyes sharpened, and he caught a glimpse of a piece of sand-covered ground at the foot of the idol that was slightly raised, and he stepped forward and swept away the floating sand, revealing a black stone tablet embedded in the ground, on which were engraved many unknown words twisted like snakes, Ivo felt dizzy at a glance, and did not recognize a word.

"This is the script of the ancestors!" Nafei exclaimed, looking at the stone tablet.

"Ancestors?"

"Legend has it that the ancient gods created the world, and the first calendar year recorded in history was the ancient god calendar, also known as the First Age, which was the real ancient period, the first era of the world, and the race at that time was called the ancestors. Nafei exclaimed, "This is actually an ancestral relic?"

"Do you recognize these inscriptions?"

"I can only read a few words. Nafei pointed to her eyebrows, flipped through her memories of the ancestors' writings, read the inscription slowly, and let out a long breath, "I only recognize five words, Seth, Sand, Altar, Three, Temple, sorry, I can't understand the other thousands of words." ”

Should I take a linguist with me when I explore the ruins in the future?!

Ivo was at a loss, he knew too little about the city to decide what to do next, it seemed that the ruins had been abandoned for too long, it was difficult to say whether there were treasures or not, and he was a little hesitant that the night watch and the red-haired leader had probably already chased them in.

The space ring on his finger suddenly jumped slightly, Ivo's heart moved, opened the space ring, the brass disc was maintaining a frequency that was not fast or slow, flashing white light, he took out the brass disc from the space ring and held it in his hand.

The temperature of the brass disc gradually increased, as if a strange change was about to occur.

Ivo secretly said that this disc was really strange, and put the brass disc that was getting hotter and hotter on the ground, and the temperature of the disc quickly rose, and the air around it began to distort.

"Hum—"

Sudden mutations appeared.

Ivo and Nafi opened their mouths wide and looked shocked.

......

Looking at the city from above, it can be divided into three areas, the outer circle is bounded by the edge of the ruins, and the inner circle is edged by three wolfhound figures distributed in a zigzag pattern - Ivo and Nafi are located on the edge of the inner circle, and the three wolfhound statues are located in three directions, and the deepest area is the center of the city, which is shrouded in yellow sand, which is not real.

It's more appropriate to replace the inner ring and the outer ring with one ring and two rings, but our background is not a modern city, so forget it.

In front of the other wolfhound statue, dozens of Templars were there, waking up later than Ivo and in a different position than Ivo, but advancing quickly and reaching the idol at the edge of the inner circle.

Balzac looked at the inscription and frowned: "What kind of strange writing is this, and what age is this ruin?"

Norrington's mana was surging, and after trying the "levitation technique" again and failed, his face was irritable: "There is an inexplicable force that restricts the flying spell, and I can't fly." ”

Jones closed his eyes in front of the idol, and Norrington scoffed, "Do you know which god this is?"

"As long as it is a god, I must worship, and it is the duty of the believer. Jones's tone was firm.

"The knight who adheres to the creed of justice is the most troublesome. Norrington was impatient, "Balzac, what do we do next, will we explore the ruins or hunt down heretics?"

"Hum—"

Suddenly, the ground shook like an earthquake, the floating sand was shaken undulating and jumping, and in the depths of the inner circle of the ruins, three pillars of blue, red, and yellow rose from three far apart, which could be clearly seen from ten miles away.

The base of the huge wolfdog human figure made a mechanical click, the base slowly rotated half a circle, and the idol that was originally facing outward turned to the interior of the city, and the blue eyes shot out two blue rays, shooting towards the center of the city shrouded in yellow sand, like a blue bridge in the sky.

The statues of the gods in the other two directions also underwent the same change, and four blue rays converged in the center of the city that could not be seen clearly.

The sudden mutation caused the Templars to be on higher alert.

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound throughout the ruins, and from the yellow sand on the ground stretched out their withered and rotting palms, countless ghouls and skeletons crawled out of the ground and headed straight for the Templars, a dense crowd of corpses.

"Prepare for battle!" Although he didn't understand what had happened to the ruins, Balzac made a quick decision and made arrangements in an instant, "Jones, you lead a team to hunt down heretics, Norrington, you take people to check these three pillars of light, and I will take people to explore the center of the city and set off!"

The Templars were divided into three paths, and the blade light, flames, and holy light exploded violently, blasting their way out of the sea of corpses.

......

In the outer circle of the city, the red-haired female leader saw three pillars of light from afar, her eyes flashed, and she chose to go to the blue pillar of light, and the exquisite dagger slashed out the golden-red sword qi, and the undead who approached were shattered into bone powder.

......

The brass disc floated in midair, and a small hole opened under the disc to create a translucent shadow.

This is the projection of an old man, dressed in a luxurious bishop's red robe, and it can be seen from his wrinkled cheeks that he must have been a handsome man when he was young, his face was expressionless, as if a pre-programmed video message, and he said: "Lucky or unlucky, welcome to the ruins of the ancestors, the golden city, the hot city, the sand city Sandhiti!"

"By the time you see this image, the ruins have been activated, and the brass disc is not only the key to open the door, but also the ...... ......"At this point, the image fluctuated and quickly returned to normal, as if this information was deliberately deleted.

"The ghouls and skeletons, the guardians of the city, will awaken from their slumber, thirsty for blood, so that they will not stop chasing you. ”

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, a large group of ghouls and skeletons slowly approaching, Ivo was dripping into a cold sweat, there were so many enemies, he couldn't bear it.

The image continues: "There are three treasure troves in the ruins, and a large number of treasures are placed, but the treasure troves are sealed by secret arts, and the 'key' must be found to open the treasure house, unfortunately, I don't know what the 'key' is. ”

"That's right, I'm not the guardian of the ruins, I'm not the owner of the ruins, I'm just an unfortunate one who arrived before you, if you can receive this message, my body is waiting for you at the Altar of the Old Gods in the center of Sandhiti, I know the only way to leave. Sandhiti only opens on Day of the Dead, and time flows three times slower than in the Overworld, so you only have three days. Please come to me, I open the door for you to leave, and in exchange, I need you to do me a favor. ”

"Your faithful guide, Augusta. ”

Zi - the projection dissipates, and the brass disc falls to the ground.

Nafi was still shocked, and Ivo suddenly became angry and scolded: "Patronizing and listening to you, I almost forgot that the undead are approaching, you!"