Yue Guanchao was obviously not very convinced by his speculation, pinched his chin and frowned, and said, "It's possible that what you said is possible, but even if it is really Queen Shanshan who escaped with the people, wouldn't there be any casualties along the way?" There are hardly any casualties on the streets we see now, and it's a little strange to say that everyone survived after the fall of the Sand Sea King City."

His suspicions were already in his mind, and when they saw him say it at this moment, they all nodded in agreement.

Song Siyuan took a long breath: "Let's find the things in the building first, what if they are all hiding in the building?"

Yue Guanchao and the others walked into one of the houses facing the street, everything in the pavilion maintained the original appearance of a thousand years ago, in a state of decay and fragmentation, there was no problem at all, but there was still no trace of living creatures, even domestic animals or something had disappeared.

They looked for other houses one after another, and looked through the situation on a street, and the general situation was that similar items remained in their original state, and most of them had been damaged after thousands of years, but there were no traces of corpses, and there was no trace of domestic animals, which showed that the living people and animals in the entire Shahai King City were likely to have completely disappeared in the event of a disaster.

Standing on the street, Yue Guanchao narrowed his eyes and was full of doubts: "This is strange, could it be that these people have entered other places? Or is there a way out of the sinkhole? It can't be sent to the mirror world by Yu Pei."

Song Siyuan nodded at him: "There is this possibility, when we observed the surrounding situation just now, we have already checked the terrain of the sinkhole, except for the location where we came from there is an exit, the stone walls of the other parts of the sinkhole are all closed rock formations, at most there are some rock cracks, if they really want to escape, it must be through the route when we came, turning into some underground rivers."

"But"

She changed her words: "Judging from the direction we came, there seems to be no trace of people moving, and taking a step back, these underground rivers are formed by groundwater erosion, and when the sinkhole collapsed thousands of years ago, these rivers are estimated to have not yet formed, and even if you really want to go, you may not be able to escape."

Xu Xiake understood what Song Siyuan meant, and interjected: "That means that these people in Shahai King City must still exist in the sinkhole since they fell under the sinkhole, but we can't see them, if they are all dead, at least we can see the bones, if they are alive, there should be traces of activity, and now they are not alive, do you think it is a bit similar to the description of the living dead?"

Speaking of this, the little Taoist's face became more and more strange: "If they are really the living dead, does that mean that they are avoiding us, or are they slowly snooping on us in the shadows to see what we are doing?"

As soon as this sentence came out, everyone's footsteps towards the front stopped, when they walked into the city, there was indeed a sense of being spied on, and at this moment, Xu Xiake directly picked out this feeling, while looking at each other, the hairs behind them also continued to explode, as if there were ants crawling up the back of the brain cortex along the spine, only to feel the back of the head numb, cold swishing.

The people who can't get out of the city of Shahai King can't see anyone alive or dead, and they are completely between life and death. When they think of the legend of the living dead, they inevitably think a little too much.

Yue Erpao swallowed: "Don't scare us, these people you are talking about haven't even seen a single bone slag so far, if they are still in the sinkhole, where will they be?"

Crash!

After everyone stopped, there was no sound of footsteps, but at this moment some sounds of walking came from the corner place, as if something was rubbing the soles of their feet, obviously not with them, at this time there was already the sound of digging earth, and it was obvious that there seemed to be soil being dug out of the ground by something.

Realizing this, everyone's hearts immediately hung in the air, Yue Guanchao motioned for Keli to pick up the shotgun, and at the same time, several guys behind him also drew their bows and arrows, alerting the unknown objects in front of them at any time.

Everyone tiptoed to the corner, and the closer they got to the corner, the more apprehensive they became, as if a rabbit had jumped in their hearts, and the cooing made people feel uncomfortable. xь.

Yue Guanchao and Keli took a deep breath, picked up the shotgun and quickly turned the corner, and the moment they saw the unknown living thing, they immediately let go

Gas.

In front of the shotgun is a salamander!

This salamander has a black body, a blue-green mottled pattern, a three-part distribution of the tail of the skull, a narrow skull, a wide body, a slender tail, a body about one meter long, short and thick hands and feet with webbed membranes, a slender tail with tail fins, and a constantly waging tail when crawling close to the ground.

The appearance of the head is a bit close to that of lizards and baby fish, and the position near the gills is like the mane of a lion, covered with a layer of translucent erythematous membrane, and catfish-like whiskers grow on the side of its mouth, its eyes are round and slightly black, and its mouth is like a fish's mouth without any teeth, and it looks like the body is covered with mud, probably just out of a hole in the ground.

Animals are afraid of living people, especially in these sinkholes hundreds of meters deep, the salamander saw them, took a few steps back, and there was panic and fear in his eyes, and before Yue Guanchao could drive it away, he had already directly burrowed into the hole and disappeared into the ground.

He walked to the burrow and took a closer look, and the hole dug by the salamander had begun to seep water into it, as if it had dug a well and there was a puddle, and he saw it hide in the depths of the mud puddle with its tail swinging.

After a false alarm, everyone realized that the underground salamander was just burrowing and foraging, and they were a little relieved, it was much better than touching some big zongzi drilled out of the ground.

"How can there be salamanders here?"

Song Siyuan was very curious about this, they didn't see any living creatures when they came over, this salamander seemed to be deliberately trying to attract them over.

"That's normal," he explains, "because the rock formations under the sand layer are prone to these underground animals, but luckily we didn't encounter any black cloth bags or blood-sucking blankets."

This salamander, also called mud dragon, is a kind of small salamander that lives in the rock formation deep in the desert, the longest body length is no more than one meter, and lives on the fish, shrimp, snakes, and eels underground, and some plants and fruits.

They burrow in the river or in the silt, they are smaller, and they have a natural fear of species larger than their bodies, as long as they see animals larger than him, they will directly burrow into the burrows they have dug and escape through the burrows that extend in all directions.

Although this salamander has no teeth, its upper and lower jaws are extremely hard, and it can crush the bones of most small animals, and sometimes it will also prey on rats and rabbits that have fallen into underground rivers.

Keli swept the surrounding environment, and continued: "There is an underground river and a sinkhole rock formation, which is very suitable for the survival of this kind of creatures that like moisture, temperature, and light, plus there are probably fish and shrimp in the water nearby, it is normal for them to appear here."

"Where there are salamanders to live, at least it proves that this land is not a cursed place, there are living creatures to live in, so where did the people of Sand Sea King City go? I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the geology here."

"What is that place?"

Before they knew it, they had walked to the vicinity of the circular mandala, and at this time they had solved the problem of underground salamanders, and when they looked up, they had already seen the tall tower in the center of the mandala, which seemed to be a little unusual.