Princess Zhenyuan looked around and asked in a deep voice.
"Something's wrong."
Zhu Youji spoke calmly and said slowly, "The surroundings are too quiet, and even the sound of the wind and sand has disappeared. Judging from the exploration time of the exploration team just now, it should be time for the wind and sand to change and adjust, but until now, the surrounding wind and sand have Nothing has changed.”
"has a problem."
"Huh?" Yu Xi reacted quickly, her expression became serious, and she said: "Mr. Liu, do you mean that we have fallen into an illusion?"
"Mirage?" Princess Zhenyuan thought of the overlapping illusions that could be seen everywhere in the Lost Desert.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out."
Zhu Youji was still very calm and said with the same tone: "Just after exploring ten rooms, the exploration team discovered 6 magical items. Going deep into the middle of the street, we also explored many houses, but found nothing. "
"The only few items that appear are weathered as soon as they are touched. Don't you think there is a problem?"
"Mr. Liu, you mean that everything we just explored is real, and now everything we explore is just in place in an illusion?" Princess Zhenyuan understood what Zhu Youji meant.
"That's right." Zhu Youji nodded slightly, stretched out his hand, pointed at a house covered by yellow sand, and ordered: "Ding Xiu, chop at that house."
"Okay." Ding Xiu didn't hesitate, he drew out his machete, activated his Qi, and slashed in the air. The sharp blade flashed and struck directly into the yellow sand house.
The house buried by the yellow sand was only slightly distorted and returned to normal.
This reaction made everyone in the exploration team shrink their pupils.
They actually entered the illusion without any sound or notice?
this……
"The mirages here are even more powerful than the outside world. They even have no flaws. If you don't pay attention, you will fall into them. I now suspect that most of those asymmetrical houses are fictions." Zhu Youji looked at it. In this scene, he slowly expressed his judgment.
"Mr. Liu, how should we get out of this illusion?" Princess Zhenyuan asked.
"The essence of illusion is that the folding of space creates a change. Mirage reflects the scenery of other places. The same is true for the illusion here. Since the exploration team in front can obtain items, it means that everything they just explored is real. of."
"But when we got deeper, an illusion appeared."
"This shows that we are going the wrong way."
Zhu Youji gave his own judgment.
Later, Zhu Youji took out the book "The Book of Qualitativeness" left by Cheng Yasheng.
"The determination cannot be moved, and it is still tired of external objects..."
Zhu Youji recited the sentence softly, and a series of pale golden Confucian and Taoist characters emerged from the bamboo scroll, like holy light, lingering around Zhu Youji, wandering in circles, exuding a faint Confucian light.
In an instant, the surrounding scene gradually became fragmented under the illumination of Confucian light, as if a cracked mirror gradually revealed its original appearance.
The surrounding houses covered by the yellow sand gradually became empty, the street beneath them turned into a path covered with corpses, and the castle they headed towards turned into a bottomless sand pit, in which yellow worms were swimming, round and round. The shape of the serrations exudes a cold light.
This is not a castle leading to ancient ruins at all, but an abyss leading to hell.
Many members of the exploration team turned pale in an instant, feeling like they were behind closed doors.
If Zhu Youji hadn't reacted quickly, even if they stopped, they might have walked directly into the pit and become food for many worms.
"Mr. Liu, you saved our lives!" Gao Gao said sincerely.
"Even me, an old explorer, has fallen into the trap... If we step into the deep pit, it may be difficult to come out."
"Be careful and you will never go wrong." Zhu Youji held the "Book of Qualitativeness" in his hand, re-identified the direction, and continued: "Because of the illusion, we took the wrong path and left the ancient ruins by a small path. This path It’s a dead end, we have to go back to the ancient ruins and start over.”
"Yeah." Yu Xi said softly, but felt a little scared in her heart. Her special ability was extremely taxing, so even she couldn't use it for a long time.
Who knew that as we went deeper, our lives would be hanging by a thread so quickly?
Death is not terrible, death is inexplicable and unclear, which is the most terrible thing.
This is how the ancient ruins of the Lost Desert died.
From the chaotic direction at the beginning, all upside down, left and right, to mirages, desert storms, to night demons, sandworms, sand monsters, mutated sand monsters and other monsters, everything in the lost desert is refreshing the rainy day. Cognition.
Although Yuxi is familiar with all kinds of books, reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles. Knowledge is important, but in the lost desert, the experience of survivors is more important.
This time, the former leader of the adventurer team personally led the team, and so many dangers occurred.
Without expensive help, even if their group could reach the ancient ruins, they would probably suffer heavy casualties.
The treasures they had just discovered so smoothly had caused many people to relax their vigilance, but this time their lives were hanging by a thread, which sounded the alarm all over again.
Danger is all around you, and you may die at any time.
"Let's go, turn back." Zhu Youji continued to lead the team, walking along the path covered with corpses in the direction of the ancient ruins.
Under the influence of the illusion, they had just escaped from the ancient ruins by a small path, which was equivalent to going in the opposite direction.
Now I need to go back again.
In about a stick of incense, Zhu Youji and others re-entered the ancient ruins and saw the mobile team of Zhao Heng and others again.
"You...didn't you enter the castle?"
"How...how did it appear from behind?"
After Zhao Heng saw Zhu Youji and others, he looked a little nervous and pulled out his sword directly. He seemed to be identifying the identities of Zhu Youji and others. If he found something wrong, he would take action at any time.
"Zhao Heng, what do you want to do?" Princess Zhenyuan raised her eyebrows, stared at Zhao Heng, and said coldly.
"Princess... Your Highness, how can you prove that you are real? And the other mutated sand monsters are pretending to be?" Zhao Heng forced himself to speak and asked.
"What did you say?" Princess Zhenyuan became even more angry. She rotated her palm slightly, and an invisible golden flame immediately rose in her palm.
Seeing the golden flames, Zhao Heng immediately put the sword back into its scabbard, cupped his fists and saluted: "Your Highness, this subordinate made a mistake, please punish me."
"Humph." Princess Zhenyuan snorted coldly, raised her hand, removed the golden flame, and ordered: "Get out of the way, we want to go in."
"Yes, give way." Zhao Heng quickly ordered his team members to make way.
Zhu Youji and his party re-entered the ancient ruins and started exploring again.