Chapter 314: The Tomb Robber (Part II)
The climate in the wasteland alternates with day and night, and it can be said that there is no pattern to it.
Chen Jing had seen this in other places.
But he had never seen a place like the one that was changing so quickly.
From the sun to the night.
This process takes no more than five seconds.
As Anu said.
This is the place where the legendary twin stars hang high.
It was different from the night sky that Chen Jing had seen in the wasteland.
There are no twisted star trails or stars as dense as grains of rice in the sky here.
In the dark night sky, only two cold and pale stars hung high.
They appear to be much larger than normal stars, almost larger than the real-world moon.
The kind of white light that seemed to make people cold to the bones was sprinkled all over the world, only reminding Chen Jing of a living celestial body that could make him gnash his teeth.
"Gejero ...... the dog"
Chen Jing couldn't help but curse in his heart as he walked towards Yegotos.
At this moment, Bai Aji had already flown back to the city with Anu in tow.
Under this sinkhole with a diameter of a kilometer in the desert.
Only Chen Jing and Jegtos remained.
"King, come and see this ......"
Yegtos squatted on the ground as if he was studying something, and when he saw Chen Jing coming over, he hurriedly got up and gave up his position.
"What's that?" Chen Jing frowned and walked over.
In fact, when the sand and dust dispersed before, Chen Jing realized that it might not be so simple to find the mausoleum.
Because under the bombed desert, Chen Jing couldn't see the location of the mausoleum at all, and at a glance, there was only a gray bedrock layer at the bottom of the pit.
But......
Jegtos found something interesting.
"It's a human skull, right?" Chen Jing squatted on the ground, gently wiping the sand on the rock formation with his hands, and the familiar outline became clearer, "How is it embedded in the rock......
"There's still one here." Jegtos pointed to the rock next to him.
"And?"
Chen Jing raised his hand and waved, and the deep space energy in his body instantly turned into golden holy light and left his body.
These golden holy lights condensed beside him into a balloon-sized ball of light, suspended in midair.
I have to say that according to "him", after gradually practicing the operation of energy manifestation, daily life has become a lot more convenient.
At least he can summon a large light bulb when he needs a light source.
Although he also has the ability to have similar "night vision" after becoming an old descendant, it is undeniable that as an ordinary human habit, he still subconsciously wants to get a light source.
Chen Jing followed Yegotos with an "electric light" and carefully inspected it under the pit.
There are many more corpses scattered here, and the closer you get to the central area, the more corpses there are...... There are human beings of old descent and there are polluted species, all of which are embedded in the rock formations by some kind of force.
The more meticulous the examination, the more details Chen Jing discovered.
In addition to the corpses embedded in this rock formation, there are also some relics of the deceased embedded in it, most of which are mutilated "relics" and ornaments, and there are many metals.
"This is the totem of [the Mother Buddha Temple]......" Chen Jing saw a familiar pattern on a black ring embedded in a rock formation.
Then, a hundred meters away, I found a palm connected to the circuit board.
It was supposed to be a bionic prosthetic from the Hanging City.
The board has the "Turing Workshop" logo on it.
"It seems that my initial guess was correct......" Chen Jing looked around, looking at the corpses embedded in the rock formation, and muttered in his heart, "This place should have been visited a long time ago......
"Definitely!"
At this moment, Chen Jing's voice also sounded in his mind.
"The giant rock formations scattered all over the desert, as well as the twin stars that never set in the sky, these characteristics must have been noticed for a long time, and some people even knew that the Black Pharaoh was buried here before they came......"
"Our location is not too far from the Polar Day, and if the people [of the Great Buddha Mother Temple] knew that this was the tomb of the Black Pharaoh, they would have come in droves to excavate it."
Chen Jing's brows were furrowed tightly, as if he had encountered some incomprehensible problem.
"But the corpses here look like they should have existed for a long time, listening to what Qiao Youning said, it seems that the temple has not determined the specific coordinates of the Black Pharaoh's mausoleum in the end......"
"Maybe some information didn't come back in time, so the temple didn't know about the mausoleum, and the people who could determine the location of the coordinates died." The "he" in his mind was still smiling.
That's when it happened.
Chen Jing heard Yegtos suddenly exclaim.
"King!! Why did that rock light up!! ”
Chen Jing subconsciously followed the sound.
I saw that about two hundred meters away from them, the rock formation, which had been extremely dark and embedded with countless corpses, suddenly emitted an extremely strong white light.
Like a double star hanging high in the sky.
In that white light.
The rock formations all seem to have turned into liquid.
The next second.
An irregular spherical object with a diameter of about one and a half meters slowly rose from the liquid rock formation.
It looks like some kind of mineral crystal, with many sections that have been cut flat.
Chen Jing took Yegetos forward to count them, only to find that there were thirty-eight cross-sections on this crystal, which was consistent with the thirty-eight allogeneic crystals that Qiao Youning said.
"This is the gate to the mausoleum?"
Chen Jing's mood at the moment was a little complicated, he didn't have the feeling that it didn't take any effort to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to get them, but he was a little inexplicably panicked.
Because he felt that it was all too abnormal......
This is obviously a mausoleum of the old king, but it gives Chen Jing the feeling that he is warmly inviting outsiders to go on a sightseeing tour.
"Why hasn't that smelly horse come back yet?" Jegotos suddenly looked up at the sky, his tone a little puzzled.
"yes, it's been almost twenty minutes...... Chen Jing didn't realize that something was wrong until then.
When Baiaji brought them here, it only took ten minutes to get from the walled city to the northern part of the wasteland, and that was when it couldn't carry people to full strength.
After sending Anu away.
It has no burden on its back, and it doesn't have to worry about outsiders.
It won't take you a few minutes to get here at full speed......
But now it's almost twenty minutes past, and I still haven't seen the shadow of Bai Aji.
"Could it be the old man, they want to come and see...... So Aji didn't come back in time......" Chen Jing muttered and analyzed.
"This crystal seems to be part of the Black Pharaoh's origin, and I can smell it." Jegotos said suddenly.
Hearing this, Chen Jing looked back at the alien crystal suspended in mid-air.
From the moment it appeared, the intense white light emitted by the rock formation became more and more dazzling, and this change in brightness has not stopped so far, even Chen Jing couldn't help but squint his eyes and feel extremely sour.
"They say it's the gate to the mausoleum." Chen Jing raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, only to feel the whirring wind in his ears, "How do you get this thing in?" ”
"I don't know." Jegtos also looked away, as if he couldn't look directly at this cold and dazzling light, "Or I'll split it and take a look." ”
"You're a bit reckless, boy, if you break it, won't you...... Well?? ”
Suddenly, Chen Jing, who was half-squinting, found that the white light in front of him had disappeared.
There were no signs.
Disappeared without a trace.
And Yegtos also turned around at this moment and looked at Chen Jing.
"......"
Chen Jing looked around with a dull expression, looking at these stone walls as tall as mountain peaks in disbelief.
"We're ...... Crossed?! ”
At this moment, Chen Jing and Yegtos found themselves inexplicably in a narrow and cramped alleyway.
On the left and right sides of the alleyway are gray stone walls that are nearly a kilometer high, and the two pale stars still hang on the black and misty sky.
And just as Chen Jing and Yegtos were in a momentary confusion, they both heard a strange voice at the same time.
The voice seemed to ring in my ears, and it was a young man speaking.
Chen Jing hears human language, even Chinese.
But in the ears of Jegotos.
The voice spoke the "lingua franca" of the old days.
"Welcome, grave robbers digging for me."
The second watch is coming~
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