Chapter Eighty-Seven: Shilan Desert Tomb (6)
Huo Xiang carried Wan Yanjing behind his back again, and approached the stone pillars with the Night Pearl.
When he saw the monsters imprisoned in the shape of pillars, his face changed slightly.
"Have you ever seen this kind of mouse-headed mantis splicing monster before?"
The forms of the monsters vary, some have more eyes, some have more heads, but without exception they are all strange appearances of common animals after mutation.
He had seen it.
In his original world, these mutated monsters kept appearing in the news, books, and videos.
The source is no longer traceable, and the end suddenly broke out one day decades ago.
The monsters of the sea tore the ship apart and gnawed away, then climbed ashore in search of fresh flesh.
This was followed by a riot in the jungle and mountains, where plants grew wildly and beasts deformed and twisted.
It was not until the establishment of the city's safe zone that the erosion of terror slowed down.
Children from ordinary families have to learn how to fight against xenomorphs at an early age, and how to live longer under those mutated products.
Huo Xiang had never left the safe zone, but that didn't mean he didn't know anything about it.
Today, these monsters appear in the dungeons of another world.
What's the connection, and what exactly is his crossing all about? Can you go back to the original world?
How did the monsters of Middle-earth come about, were they born in their own land, or were they summoned from his world?
Wan Yanjing squinted, her gaze swept over those monsters, and she understood the reason for the change in Huo Xiang's expression.
She had also seen these deformed monsters, in her dreamsโin Huo Xiang's former memories.
She didn't know the answer to the password on the stone door switch, but Huo Xiang knew it before her amnesia and was familiar with it, so she followed the instinct of those memories and turned the switch to the right place.
Huo Xiang has a deep connection with this underground palace.
But these can't be known to Huo Xiang now.
So she calmly replied to him:
"I've never seen it."
In some ways, she didn't lie, in the current world, monsters only exist in scripts and legends.
The ground of the ear room is still fine dark red lines, and there is no feeling when you step on it, only by squatting on the ground and holding the night pearl to take a closer look, you can find these small differences.
Huo Xiang looked around, not even the top of his head.
"What are these lines? It seems that there is a similar pattern on the carriage at home, is it a special decoration? โ
"It's a rune!"
Huo Xiang was surprised: "Runes? What's the use? โ
"The rune is from Beiji. The people of Beiji use special materials and glowing sand to draw patterns, and then embed the unique source stone of Beiji in the tattoo eye, which can achieve some special functions. โ
"For example, drawing runes on the wheels of the carriage can make the car run more smoothly, and drawing runes on the clothes and armor can play a certain defense, most of them can only be used for some inconsequential gadgets in daily life, if you want to ......"
After Yan Jing explained this, some strange things that she had been ignoring suddenly appeared.
Why did you end up here?
Did they really come in by accident?
The novelty of the rune is quite sought after by the dignitaries and nobles, and because of the scarcity of rune masters and rune materials, there is no market, so that this thing is worth a lot of money when it is speculated, and a palm-sized short-term low-level rune can be auctioned for thousands of taels of silver on the black market.
On the carriage driven by Lao Xu to pick her up, there were runes that could accelerate.
But in fact, Wan Yan Jing has always felt that the rune is flashy, after all, although the rune can turn decay into magic, so that the shoddy carriage can instantly become a high-end expensive car, but there is the silver two that bought the rune, it is better to make a hard wood and ask the master craftsman to rebuild a good car.
More than function, it is more a symbol of the status of dignitaries.
Although Wan Yanjing doesn't pay special attention to runes, she has also become accustomed to the rune facilities in her life for so many years.
After all, although this thing is expensive, King Wuxuan, as the first king with a different surname in Qin, has to have this idea.
But now that she thought about it, the seemingly ordinary pony carriage far exceeded her expectations.
Just like when the strange man of Tushan came, Lao Xu did not run or escape, but hid in the carriage for the first time.
For example, this car can even hide the living corpses and unidentified gray fog in the deserted grave.
When she was about to rest the night before, Lao Xu first proposed to let her stay alone in the caravan.
Does he know something?
What is the purpose?
Wan Yanjing didn't think that Lao Xu was trying to harm herself.
Before she saw Huo Xiang, she was still suspicious of the carriage, wondering if it was because of the carriage that she was pulled into this strange world.
But Huo Xiang came without being in the carriage, which shows that the carriage was not the reason for stepping into this realm.
The carriage is more about protection, and if Lao Xu really wants to harm her, he will not leave the carriage for her.
Knowing little about Lao Xu's past also corroborates her inference.
However, now is not the time to speculate on these, although the attainments of the rune masters who make the carriage are exquisite, they are far from being able to be achieved by the rune masters from outside the Northern Hebei Dynasty, but they are far from being compared with the runes that are all over the tomb palace.
Covering the entire underground palace with runes, what a huge stroke.
Even after hundreds of years, the burial chamber is dry and spotless.
"This one is quite clean." Huo Xiang muttered quietly.
But soon, this opinion of his was quickly slapped in the face.
Walk through the transept to the next vaulted tomb entrance, step in, and the stars shift.
When you look inside the door, it is clearly a similarly arranged collection room.
After entering, the scene was turned upside down.
A strong fishy smell rushed Huo Xiang's throat and tumbled.
The silk mesh is knotted, the rocky mountains are rugged, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of paste that makes it impossible to settle down.
Looking back, the arch they came to had become a mottled stone wall, and it was as if the door had never existed.
The low whistling was sharpened by their intrusion, and there was a shuffling sound from where the pearl could not be illuminated, as if some behemoth was crawling through the mud with its tail hanging down, and was coming to their place.
"Quick! We ran to the left. Wan Yan whispered in a hoarse voice.
Huo Xiang closed his eyes and stepped into the soft and sticky mud, and the splashed mud splashed onto his calves.
Holding his breath and carrying Wan Yanjing to the left, the smelly mud covered his ankles, and he didn't know what the ingredients were.
Maybe it's the psychological effect, Huo Xiang feels that his feet are itching.
There seemed to be worms in the mud, and they could climb up his feet, and their whole body was very itchy.
"Run! Run! Run! โ
Although it was extremely uncomfortable, his speed was not slow, and the muddy resistance did not consume him much.
It's just that the unknown monster behind him is faster, and when it is particularly close, the light reflected by the pearl can even shine on the shadow of the unknown monster behind him, and a monster phantom with dozens of legs is stretched on the stone wall.
Huo Xiang gasped for breath and followed Wan Yanjing's instructions all the way around, but the scenery around them did not change much, and they kept wandering around in the cave.
Sometimes it's a tunnel two or three people high, sometimes it's a big hole with no roof in sight.
In addition to the multi-legged monster that had been chasing after him, there were many chaotic creatures that were split in half by Huo Xiang.
"Fuck, it's a monster's lair!"
Huo Xiang snorted, and in the next second, he had to stand still.
"Why don't you leave?" Wan Yanjing's arm around his neck tightened.
"Can't you see such a big rock in the way, how can you go?" Huo Xiang was a little strange, but he didn't have time to think about it at this time.
He turned around and saw the full extent of the multi-legged monster.
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(End of chapter)