"It is enough to strengthen the perimeter defenses, lay barricades, increase the reserves of fixed machine guns and grenades, and take precautions as in previous years. A certain lieutenant said without thinking.

"If that's the case, why should Major General Rollin ask any more questions?" said a colonel, sneering:

"Do you think this event has something to do with the Beast Tide, but what kind of creature can cause a collapse of this magnitude?"

"Here's a picture for you to circulate. ”

Major General Rollin nodded, took out a black-and-white photo from the envelope, pushed it to the nearest officer, and passed it down step by step.

The corners of the photograph are badly worn, looking old, limited by technical or angle problems, and the shooting picture is a little blurry, but the background is vaguely recognizable as a desert, and there are two thick black water pipes that resemble earthworms erected and entangled in a strange posture.

The photographer seems to be hidden in the yellow sand, and the lower part of the photograph is filled with coarse grains of gravel.

"Is this a mutated earthworm, or is it performance art?" someone asked in disbelief.

"This is a photograph from 100 years ago, the person who took it is no longer alive, and he was able to sell it to a collector at a high price because the creatures in this picture are rare and rare. ”

"Do you think the creature in this picture is related to this incident?"

The officer, who was holding the photo, asked, and looked at it carefully, for fear of missing any details.

"This creature is called the Earth Dragon by the desert people, not to mention that the Federation people don't know it, even if it's the desert tribe, few people have seen it, it has lived in the underground all its life, it is an extremely mysterious existence, and there is very little information about it, so it is only proposed as a possibility for the time being. ”

Admiral Rollin pointed to several places in the defense map and continued:

"Granaries, energy, military reserves, and combat readiness rooms, please assign at least one company of personnel to each to strengthen the garrison, and make plan adjustments after the results of the investigation are obtained. ”

"We've fought off the beast tide many times, but we've never seen such a creature, and whether it's right or wrong, we can't take it lightly this time. Meeting. ”

The officers stood up and saluted, and as Admiral Rollin walked out of the room with his military cap on, Second Lieutenant James gave a silent glance at Officer Rice and turned to leave.

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......

In the cave, the sound of scraping the walls sounded monotonously and repeatedly, Yang Ji was holding a knife, pressing the handle with one hand and the back of the knife with the other, slowly polishing those cuneiform characters, Eli was tinkering with something from time to time next to him, probably a little bored, he chatted casually:

"Boy, you're not old and have a dull temper, so you don't have anything to ask me?"

"If you want to say it, you will tell me, and if you don't want to say it, it's useless to ask, and it may not be a good thing to know more. ”

Another symbol disintegrated, turning into blue dust scattered on the ground, Yang Ji wiped the beads of sweat on his head, and understood why he was left to help, because this monotonous and boring work is really not done by people, these knife-and-axe-like patterns seem to be protected by this layer of blue light, and there will be a slight rebound when it comes to tentacles, and each one has to spend a lot of effort to erase it.

"You're funny, and you're afraid of dying. In this way, for the sake of your help, I will ask you two questions, which should relieve your boredom, as long as you don't commit anything too secret, I can answer you, and I won't kill you. ”

Eli shook his chestnut curly hair and said with interest.

"Aren't you afraid that Mr. Jin will blame?" Yang Ji shook his head and rejected this proposal that actually made him quite excited.

Sometimes, language traps are traps, what if it was Mr. Kim who asked Eli to test him on purpose?

"There's nothing to worry about, he's not here, I just don't say no. ”

Yang Ji stopped what he was doing, looked at Eli, felt that he shouldn't be lying, and after thinking about it, he asked tentatively:

"Well, out of respect for Mr. Jin, I want to know who Mr. Jin and you are?"

"Respect?" Eli scoffed, thinking that it was just a hint he had given you to selectively remember something and forget something.

"Mr. Jin works for a noble person, his identity cannot be revealed, as for me, you must be able to guess a little, my full name is Siwa Eli, the young patriarch of the Siwa clan, you kid don't know how lucky you are to see us both at the same time. ”

Yang Ji listened, thinking that there was nothing lucky about this, he would rather not see either of them, and it would be a big trouble to see them.

You can answer a question, but there are many mysteries swirling in your head.

Why did the Siva take the risk of starting a war against the Federation? What did they call the beast tide? Who did Mr. King do? Why was he able to control such a large number of Earth Dragons?

"You kid, what do you think, what do you think? Eli urged impatiently.

"The second question, since I am involved in this matter, in order to be more prepared, I naturally want to know what secrets are hidden in this cave?"

Yang Ji's thoughts were spinning, and he decided to try to see if he could ask for some information that would be helpful immediately, otherwise he would die in vain if he didn't know it.

Hearing this, Eli's face changed, and he didn't answer the question immediately, he scratched his head with a little hesitation, and was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, this kid is also a dying person anyway, and the thing that Mr. Jin asked him to do, there is no possibility of survival, and he is a dignified young patriarch of the Xiwa tribe, and what he says is water that is spilled, how can he lose face in front of a dead man? So he was relieved:

"I'm afraid that I am the only one who can answer this question of yours on the entire continent, this should not be said, but since you asked ......"

Seeing this, Yang Ji "sighed" in his heart, it may not be a good thing to be able to tell himself so happily.

"I'll just be merciful to you. Eli touched his sideburns rather proudly and asked:

"Have you ever wondered why there is such a magnificent Siwa River in the desert?"

"Isn't this the third oasis? It's normal to have a water source. Yang Ji replied as a matter of course.

"You're a foreigner, and you know too little about the Infinite Desert. The existence of the Siwa River must depend on one or even several dark rivers with abundant water, but what you don't know is, where does this dark river come from?"

Eli remembered his childhood in the tribe, when he was held in the arms of the priest, his thin black fingers pointing to the river flowing in the night, his wrinkled face showing a look of ancient remembrance, and telling the legend about it for generations to come.

The Eye of Taurus, the origin and taboo of the Third Oasis.