That's what it meant.

When the stone figures meet, the stairs leading to the God's Garden will appear.

Only during a certain period of the day when the sun is the strongest and the temperature is highest, the clouds and fog in the canyon disperse, and the stone steps leading to the bottom of the canyon are revealed.

"Let's go, let's go!"

Seeing the stone steps appear, everyone was excited, and their eyebrows were filled with excitement.

After many hardships and twists and turns, the road to the sunset was finally right in front of them. How could they not be excited?

Li Tiefeng rolled up his cuffs and tightened his trousers and shoelaces.

"We don't have much time, so let's go down now. The fog in the canyon will rise again soon. When the fog comes together, we won't be able to see anything."

Others followed him and took action, returning to the temple to pack their belongings.

The stone steps leading to the bottom of the valley were very steep and difficult, and they did not know how long the road was. For safety reasons, they had to lighten their load as much as possible.

"Keep two sets of tent supports and throw away the rest. The windshield cloth doesn't take up much weight and volume, so you can bring more."

Li Tiefeng commanded: "Place important items such as flints close to your body and be sure not to lose them. Look at what else you can throw away. Throw away all unnecessary items."

Everyone sorted the items, packed lightly, threw all unnecessary heavy items in the temple, and returned to the edge of the canyon with only necessary items.

The leader followed them slowly and leisurely. He had accompanied them all the way through the desert, and now he walked them to the edge of the canyon, but said he would not follow any more.

The leader said: "The land of sunset has arrived, and my mission has been completed. I will wait here for you to come back. The first person to come back with the jelly grass will get the reward that belongs to you."

"Just take the elixir and come back here. No need to return?" Lao Liang looked very happy that he didn't have to cross the hot desert again.

"Don't be too quick to be happy, we don't know what's under this canyon yet." Li Tiefeng looked at the deep valley bottom with a solemn expression.

There were eight people when we went down, and we didn't know how many people would be left alive when we came back.

The leader stood aside with his hands clasped, his face not very good, and suddenly he said something to them.

"Be careful, the devil lives in the Garden of Eden."

"...?"

The others looked at each other.

"devil?"

But before anyone else could ask questions, the leader turned around and left in a hurry, running to the temple, as if he couldn't avoid the canyon.

"Forget it, forget it, that old man is always so nagging. Let's go down quickly and wait until we really meet the devil." Seeing that the elixir was down here, Boss Hou simply couldn't wait any longer.

Xie Xingyin was puzzled as he looked at the back of the guide who was leaving in a hurry. The leader had obviously shown a lot of respect for the sunset land, kneeling and worshiping, but now he refused to go down with them.

The reason for this is most likely the "devil" living in the Garden of Eden.

In the records they had previously found in Humbaba's cave, the noble also mentioned the "devil". Although he did not specify what it was, it must have been a very terrifying thing. The noble said that their team suffered heavy casualties, and in the end

It took a special way to survive.

Time was running out, and everyone was unwilling to delay any longer, so they began to take action and prepare to go to the stone platform first.

The stone platform leading to the sky steps was only two or three meters away from them. If it was flat ground, there would be no problem in jumping directly.

But the stone platform in front of me is too narrow, about ten meters long, and the width of the protruding cliff is only about one meter. Just standing on it and looking at it makes me feel terrified, and if I am not careful, I will fall into the abyss.

No one dared to jump directly, so they took out the windshield cloth, twisted it tightly into a ball, and tied the two windshield cloths together to form a rope.

Li Tiefeng tried the firmness of the rope, and when he thought it was OK, he said: "...You guys hold the rope up there, and I'll go down and explore the way first."

The people above worked together to pull the rope. Li Tiefeng wrapped the rope around his forearm twice, and then slowly retreated to the edge of the canyon. With his back to the canyon, he climbed the rock wall with one hand and pulled the rope with the other, stepping on the cliff with his feet.

The wall slowly goes down.

The rocks on the cliff are surrounded by mist all year round and have a lot of smooth moss, making them slippery when going up and a little difficult to set foot on.

At a height of two to three meters, Li Tiefeng carefully climbed for half a minute before completing it.

Seeing that he finally landed on the stone platform smoothly, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and planned to replace the next person. "Who will be next -?"

However, after Li Tiefeng went down, he didn't know what he saw. As soon as he stood up, he took a deep breath and took half a step back, almost missing his foot.

The gravel fell with a crash and disappeared into the dense clouds. Fortunately, Li Tiefeng did not react slowly and adjusted his center of gravity in time to regain his balance.

The people above didn't know why the sudden situation occurred, and they all panicked: "What's wrong?!"

After a while, Li Tiefeng's response came from below: "It's okay, there are a few mummies here, be mentally prepared when you come down, don't be scared..."

Most of the people here are novices, and they have seen corpses countless times. A few mummies are nothing at first, but it is quite scary to be face to face with them without any precautions.

Everyone discussed it and soon followed the original plan, going down to the stone platform one by one.

Li Tiefeng was directing from below, and the rest of the people went down in turn.

Boss Hou was the heaviest, so he got off first, and the remaining six people worked together to pull him up.

As soon as the boss landed, his lover Lan Hui and the bodyguards they brought also followed closely. Then came the novice companion of the night watchman who died on the first night, and then Lao Liang.

Seeing that the six people had successfully descended to the stone platform, Xie Xingyin tugged on the rope and turned around to ask Lu Fen: "What will you do if I go down first?"

If Xie Xingyin leaves, there will be no one to help Lu Fen pull the rope when he comes down.

...How about asking the person leading the way to help pull me along?

Xie Xingyin looked in the direction where the leader was leaving and was about to say something, but Lu Fen seemed to know what he was thinking and patted him on the shoulder to reassure him.

"Brother, just relax."

Seeing how confident he was, Xie Xingyin hesitated for a moment and didn't ask any more questions. After all, Master Lu was much more skilled than him.

So Lu Fen was on top to help him pull the rope, while Xie Xingyin held the rope and stepped on the rock wall, carefully descending to the platform.

Under the platform was a bottomless abyss shrouded in clouds and mist, and the seven of them could only squeeze onto this small stone platform.

After landing, Xie Xingyin saw the ancient corpses Li Tiefeng mentioned.

There are many depressions similar to shrines on the cliff inside the stone platform, and there is an ancient corpse standing in each shrine.

These ancient corpses were dressed in armor, with exaggerated masks with green faces and fangs, and held a sharp spear in an attacking posture. They had been dead for an unknown period of time, and their fingernails were more than ten centimeters long, withered and yellowed and curled.

Even though they look scary, dead objects will not hurt people. They are obviously placed here to scare people. Fortunately, Li Tiefeng is quite brave. If Boss Hou came down first and faced these ancient corpses without any preparation,

Maybe he was so frightened that he fell off the stone platform.

Just when Xie Xingyin wanted to get closer and look at these ancient corpses, Lu Fen came down.

He almost climbed down the cliff with his bare hands, and there was an abyss behind him, which made people sweat. Fortunately, Lu Fen moved quickly, and Xie Xingyin didn't have time to worry about him. In the blink of an eye, he was

He had already bowed to the ground and stood still in front of him.

Li Tiefeng and the others in front were still testing the firmness of the stone steps. The stone steps were narrow and they could not walk past the people in front unless they moved, so Xie Xingyin and the others continued to amuse themselves by looking at these ancient corpses.

The shrine has been covered with gray-green moss, making it look quaint and old.

The ancient corpses on the cliff were so vividly preserved that they seemed to be wielding spears to hit them in the next second. The rest of the people avoided them and crowded on the other side of the platform.

Lao Liang was also a little scared:

"Aren't there just a few mummies? Why are you looking at them so carefully?"

Xie Xingyin said casually: "It's valuable, look at it twice."

These are relatively taboo in China, but it is not uncommon to see ancient corpses dumped abroad.

The unearthed mummies were given the names of various Egyptian princesses and princes, and were resold and resold for millions of dollars, and there were also various miraculous and evil stories.

The most famous of these is the mummy of the Egyptian princess Amanra, known as the cursed mummy.

Legend has it that this mummy was unearthed in the 19th century and was eventually resold repeatedly at high prices. However, everyone who came into contact with her was soon cursed and suffered heavy casualties. And the mummy’s final destination was a cruise ship bound for New York. She and the so-called Eternal

The unsinkable Titanic sank to the bottom of the sea together.

There is no way to verify whether the story is true or false, but these widely circulated legends have indeed caused the value of these special "antiques" to skyrocket. When Xie Xingyin was a graduate student abroad a few years ago, there was also a collection of two antiques in the basement of the professor's house.

Mummy corpses from more than a thousand years ago.

"Hey, foreigners are really weird." When Lao Liang heard that this thing was valuable, he immediately lost his fear. "We can only use it as a clue, but I haven't seen anyone drag out the body and sell it. Isn't this immoral?"

"

The ancient corpses in front of us have been dehydrated and air-dried, and are hidden in the middle of the cliff that reaches neither the sky nor the ground. They are quite well preserved, and even the skin has not peeled off. They are truly top-notch among the ancient corpses.

Lao Liang looked at them as if he were looking at a pile of RMB.

"Wipe your saliva, we can't carry it out and sell it."

Xie Xingyin shrugged as he spoke and took out a piece of cloth from his pocket.

Lao Liang thought he really wanted to wipe his own saliva, but he didn't expect Xie Xingyin turned around and started wiping the gray moss on the inner stone wall of the shrine.

After the layers of moss peeled off, the original appearance of the stone wall was revealed in front of them.

They were several stone murals with smooth and simple lines. Each picture only had a few dozen strokes, but the depictions were very vivid and easy to understand.

What is depicted on the mural is the story of these ancient corpses - they were once ten great witches who worshiped the evil gods of paganism. They wore gold masks and danced around the bonfire to worship the evil gods.

The behavior of these people offended the true God, so as a punishment, their bodies were placed here after their death. Their souls could not go to heaven or go to earth, but could only be imprisoned here forever and ever, as slaves to watch the gate.
To be continued...