Chapter 62: Clues to the Wasteland
The beasts were silent before the fight, their eyes were sharp, and they didn't need any commands, and when the murderous aura was just on the head, they pounced on it and bit it, and instantly rolled over the giant fight, and the heat wave was forested, and after a while, all the fierce ghosts rushed in to join the struggle, and a black shadow was darker than the night.
The stone house silk giant beast resisted and was also scarred, and those ghosts were eager to tear it apart, but after so many years of maintaining the order of the wasteland, the silk spirit monster was not so easy to bully, just when it was about to break out of the encirclement with a long roar, the left half of its face was suddenly eaten by the black shadow on the side of the ambush directly opened its mouth, and its eyes fell to the ground, and the strange thing was that it shined brightly, blooming like a jewel with dazzling light, and the ghosts around it were frightened to retreat several meters away.
The silk beast was also able to breathe for a moment, and no ghost knew that its eyes would light up in this wasteland, but at this moment it made them feel a little uncertain and frightened, and the silk giant beast did not think so, and picked up its eyes like a meteor across the night sky and fled, this was the first time it escaped in battle.
After dawn, it was Xiao Qingqian who woke up Xiao Qingqian again, she still woke up in a big white cocoon, this time it was in that Pansi Cave, she vaguely remembered what happened last night, but was she swallowed by the stone house silk giant beast, why did she return to this hole?
Xiao Qingqian struggled to crawl out of the big white cocoon, and saw that there were three other big white cocoons next to him that looked like they were made of fresh viscose silk, Xiao Qingqian guessed that it should be them, and peeled them off one by one to wake them up, and after that, Xiao Qingqian decided to return to the wasteland to find the stone house and understand what was going on. However, the blind man was seriously injured, and his whole body was covered with bruises and scars, and it is not difficult to imagine the scene of his demonic fight last night, Xiao Qingqian helped him out of the Pansi Cave.
It's still the hole where they went out before, and at a glance it's still the same wasteland, but there is no wind at the moment, and it's not as breathy as yesterday, they are unhurriedly moving along the route they walked yesterday, and sure enough, the stone house is still there, and when they see the target appear, they speed up their pace.
To their surprise, the stone house became dilapidated, but Shimen still said the same thing when he saw them: "To cross this road, the man must leave a leg, and the woman must stay overnight." ”
"Hey! What the hell is going on, how did you make yourself look like this, and weren't we devoured by you, why did we appear in the Pansi Cave again? Xiao Qingqian suddenly said the confusion in his heart, as if everything that happened last night was a dream.
"That's your fate, otherwise you would have been eaten." The stone gate was broken, and he said leisurely.
"So, you gave your life to save us last night?"
When General Guo heard Xiao Qingqian say this, he immediately retorted: "It can't wait to eat us, how can it save us!" ”
Xiao Qingqian didn't believe it, if Shiwu really treated them ruthlessly, they would never have survived to this day, she lowered her voice and pleaded: "Shimen, just tell us what is going on." ”
"Don't ask, you can't get out of this wasteland, only by staying by my side and letting me stop those black shadows and ghosts for you, you can survive." Shimen swears.
"Impossible, we have to get out and there's nothing to stop us."
"I've been guarding this wasteland for thousands of years, and I've had enough of loneliness, why is no one willing to stay with me, he is like this, and so are you." Shimen said with a little sadness, as if he was recalling something.
Xiao Qingqian sniffed out the smell of a story, "Who are you talking about?" ”
"He is a young mage, who escaped from the wall like you, he was seriously wounded, and he was sheltered by me, I thought he would stay with me forever, by my side, but he chose to leave me, and he did not say goodbye."
"You should know that he won't stop moving forward when he escapes from there, and so are we, this young mage is the one we are looking for, let us go, let's follow in his footsteps."
"Okay, I can let you go, and if you look for him, tell him I'm still here waiting for him."
"I'll bring it for you."
As soon as Xiao Qingqian's voice fell, he saw that the stone house began to transform, the stones moved into a formation, floating up and down left and right, the wind rose in an instant, the color of the sky and the earth changed, and two white lights flashed, and the already tattered stone house did not expect that it could still be set out in a formation, Xiao Qingqian was amazed, but he did not expect the stone house to suddenly stop moving, and the stones also fell.
"What's going on?"
The stone house didn't answer, it did wear a lot of loss after two or three consecutive fights last night, and it couldn't show its true body during the day, and now it didn't have enough strength to set up a formation to take out the key to open the wasteland enchantment, so it chose to stop, and the only way now was to repair the stones, or gather the nine hundred and ninety-nine stones needed for the array. "As you can see, these stones are in tatters, and they can't be put out of the array."
"And what do you need us to do?" Xiao Qingqian was the first to respond.
"You can help me pick up some rocks."
"Okay, hey, by the way, what kind of rocks do you want?"
"It's just a stone, and you'll have to pick up at least three hundred of them."
Xiao Qingqian was ready to do it without complaint, but General Guo and the Evil Devouring Monarch complained, even such a trivial matter as picking up stones still has to be done by people, it is really too much.
"Don't complain, just pick up some stones, go quickly, and the blind man will stay where he is and rest when he is wounded, and wait for us to come back."
However, not everywhere in the wasteland is rocks, and there are even fewer stones similar to those on stone houses, and I don't usually pay attention to them, but now it's not so easy to really find. Xiao Qingqian lowered his head and bent down to look for a long time but didn't find a few pieces, General Guo also picked up two pieces in his hand halfway through, not to mention the Evil Eater, he had never been too lazy to do it, and he didn't pick up a single one, so it didn't work, Xiao Qingqian summoned the two of them over and proposed to carry some big stones over the mountain on the other side of the wasteland, otherwise I don't know when I would find it like this.
"If that's the case, it's better to call the stone house directly to the mountain, and we will carry as much as we want for him, and how many times it will take to pick it up and go back and forth." The Evil Eater suggested directly.
"It seems to make sense, then let's go back and discuss it with the stone house, anyway, it's not that it can't be moved." Xiao Qingqian accepted the suggestion of the Evil Devouring Monarch, and the three of them began to walk back. When they went back to say this idea, the stones scattered on the ground did not agree, because it said that this was already a half-formation, and it would lose spiritual power if they changed back to the appearance of a stone house, and only by patiently picking up the stones could they get the key to open the wasteland, otherwise it would not be so easy for them to leave when it got dark.
It's really half lazy and can't steal, the three of them have to obediently pick up stones, whether it's a big stone or a small stone, anyway, if they find it, they will bring it back to the stone array, the more they pick up the form of the array, the more obvious the formation, the faster they move, but before they can find enough three hundred stones, the formation formed by the stone house began to rotate again.
The breath of the entire wasteland was different all of a sudden, like the eve of a storm, full of uncertainty, the Evil Devouring Monarch had returned to the stone formation, and used his own formation to bless the five elements and six formations of the stone, Xiao Qingqian and General Guo were still looking for the stone in the distance, and they didn't count how many pieces were missing, but looking at the formation in front of them, it was estimated that it was about the same, and the dark clouds above the stone formation were swirling and shrouded, and the middle seemed to open the eye of the sky, a terrible formation.
Seeing this, Xiao Qingqian ran back with the stone in her arms, the closer she got to the stone, the more violent the gust of wind became, she couldn't see what the Evil Devourer was waving, but she saw the blind man standing on the side, the wind blowing his clothes and hair wantonly, especially his long hair that exploded and flew in mid-air, and at the same time put on an expressionless face, which made people shudder to look at.
Finally ran back to the front of the formation, Xiao Qingqian threw the stone into the formation, and asked directly, "How is it?" ”
He replied, "It's not enough! ”
"How much is it missing?"
"Fifty-eight!"
"Good!" After speaking, Xiao Qingqian ran out of the smoke again, and just happened to meet General Guo coming back with a stone, "There are still fifty-eight pieces left, hold on!" ”
"Hey."
With the increase of stones, the momentum in the array became more and more unstoppable, after three trips back and forth, Xiao Qingqian did not pick up the stones again, a large cloud of black gas suddenly appeared in the array, and the astrolabe in Xiao Qingqian's pocket also vibrated violently, she took out the astrolabe but couldn't help but hold it tightly, after a while, the sky and the earth instantly darkened, and the black shadows and ghosts that accompanied the black sky came out at the same time, and General Guo was holding the stone and rushing back.
In front of this situation, everyone has no bottom in their hearts, and they don't know what to do next for these black shadow ghosts, and the stone house in the formation suddenly shouted: "Come to the stone formation!" However, the wind was so fierce that people couldn't open their eyes, they couldn't get close at all, and they couldn't even get in, and the surrounding black shadows and ghosts began to gradually press, and this time I don't know who their target was.
At this moment, a loud roar came from the array, and the momentum reached its strongest, Xiao Qingqian was directly shocked, and the eyes in the dark clouds seemed to explode all of a sudden, followed by the two white lights in the array, and the sky seemed to be torn apart, and the sky was bright again in an instant, and all the chaos stopped in an instant, and a key with light fell from the sky and slowly descended in front of Xiao Qingqian.
"Come here, grab the key and open the door." As he spoke, the stone formation vanished, and then transformed into a stone house, like the one they had first seen before.
Xiao Qingqian picked up the key, feeling cold, it was carved in stone, she slowly walked to the stone door, inserted the key into the stone hole and twisted it gently, with a mechanical "gurgling" sound, the stone door was opened, and the inside was no longer the same as when they pushed open the stone door before, but it was still the appearance of a wasteland, from a wasteland into another wasteland.
The two white lights just now were the eyes of the stone house silk giant beast, and they were also the key to summoning the stone door key, and they were the key to leaving this wasteland. Last night, when fighting with all the powerful ghosts, one of the eyes of the silk giant beast was bitten out, and it could still be put back after repair, and when Xiao Qingqian and they were about to leave, the silk giant beast decided to give this eye to Xiao Qingqian, in order to help her avoid the ghosts and find the young mage, of course, it did not tell Xiao Qingqian that this was its eye.
The four of them walked into the stone gate one by one, and at the end, Xiao Qingqian turned around and said, "Thank you for the stone house, huh...... I'll bring it for you, if you say you, I'll bring it for you, but I've been entrusted with taking that young mage out of the astrolabe, so you may not be able to wait for him to come back. ”
After speaking, the stone door was immediately closed.