When Xue Hua came to his senses, he was standing in a long and narrow canyon, with a bright blue circle of light under his feet and the "polished spine" in his hand.
There is still darkness all around here, but Isa has helped him release the king insects used for warning and some of the newly hatched insect swarms.
Due to the sudden incident, Xue Hua had no time to recover the insect swarm, so now he had to use resources to temporarily hatch it.
Fortunately, although he could not recover the insect swarm over there for the time being, he could still contact the mother insect over there from the main hive mind.
So he asked the insect mother to try to follow him from the teleportation circle he had teleported over, but was told that the teleportation circle Zerg units could not be used at all, and there were obviously some racial restrictions.
With no other choice, Xue Hua had to let them move freely first and explore around the lost city. When he got what he wanted from the ruined temple not far ahead, he was thinking of ways to pick it up.
they......
The ruined temple that Xue Hua mentioned was actually a huge temple that covered a very large area and had a luxurious and graceful appearance. Although the decorations on the temple looked a little shabby, they could not conceal its majestic aura.
This place was obviously very prosperous before, but now it is deserted and no one cares about it.
However, whether it is luxurious or dilapidated, it has nothing to do with Xue Hua.
Xue Hua, who finally found the real owner after a series of explorations and adventures, now just wants to grab the things there and go home quickly...
"Master, it has been detected that there is a large amount of spiritual energy gathering in the sky above the building. These spiritual energies are maintaining the operation of a huge spiritual energy matrix. Judging from the rules of spiritual energy fluctuations, this spiritual energy matrix should be the one that causes the sunlight to be blocked.
Prime culprit."
"Sure enough, we are still here!" Xue Hua couldn't help but sigh after hearing what Isa said.
He is a little confused now.
What is the connection between the game world of the previous life and this world?
Why are there so many things in this real world that are so similar to the world in a game?
Are the game designers of Glass Slag all time travellers?
Or is it that he has time-traveled into the mind of a game designer?
"Hey... forget it, I don't think about this anymore, it gives me a headache..."
Xue Hua shook his head, took out his staff, and pointed forward lightly. The insect mother beside him immediately led the insect swarm towards the temple.
He found a random cockroach, climbed up on it, and wandered behind it.
The insect mother and the insect swarm quickly searched the temple inside and outside, but found no trace of any psychic artifacts and encountered no obstacles.
Of course, this is normal, and Xue Hua didn't expect that godly old cat man to just leave those things in the temple waiting for him to pick them up.
But the moment he walked into the temple with the staff in one hand and the "spine" in the other, the gemstone ornament that had returned to his inventory at some point was once again removed from his inventory without his consent.
It flew out of the inventory.
Xue Hua couldn't help but roll his eyes when he saw this, and cursed the Holy Contract system in his heart for being a cheat. This inventory is like a vegetable garden, and anyone can flip it in and out...
However, since this gemstone followed him into the lost city, its performance was very different from the harmless behavior it had in the oasis before. Not only could it move in and out of his inventory space at will, but it was also specially designed to give it to humans at critical moments.
He shows the way, which can be called a model of "task assistant plug-in"!
It would be better if there was an automatic pathfinding and automatic transmission function...
Emmmmmmm...how do you feel like you are seeing a dark-style domestic web game~
Xue Hua was talking nonsense in his mind, but his energy was always focused on the movement of the gemstone patterns.
He saw this thing floating beside him, and suddenly shot out a colorful light curtain on the steps of the temple not far ahead. In the light curtain, the rickety figure of the old cat man Dopodok appeared again, and this time,
It seems that it is no longer a simple image.
Because the old cat man actually looked directly at him!
"I know you are surprised, but you don't have to be surprised...I am still just an image from the past, but at that time, I had already seen you coming...
If it knew that the double torture of endless pain not only did not defeat me, but even made me rise to the height of the ancient sages at the last moment, I wonder if it would feel very sorry?
But it was too late. Although I had seen through the fog in front of me, I could not continue walking.
Because, I am indeed dead..."
Dopdok's image was silent for a while, and then seemed to let go of something, looking up at Xue Hua again with a smiling cat face.
"Follow me, good young human, and I will lead you to what you seek and tell you the story of this temple and the city outside."
The old cat man turned around and "floated" towards the temple without hesitation, as if he was not worried at all whether Xue Hua would follow.
"This old guy..." Xue Hua rolled his eyes, feeling a little unhappy, but in the end he followed him obediently.
As Dopudok walked in front, he told Xue Hua the story of this temple and the lost city in a slow tone.
“After the era of cat people passed, the Desert of Aranok ushered in a new master—human beings.
Humans are very adaptable to the environment, and their reproductive capabilities are almost as strong as cat people.
But most importantly, humans are incredibly creative.
When cats lived in the desert, we would only make tents out of animal furs and build simple huts out of dry grass and mud.
We mine iron ore to forge weapons and tools, but we never thought that the stones we throw away are also precious.
We hunt animals, gather berries, and search for water, but we don’t know the role of seeds or how to dig wells.
Human beings know all this that we don’t know.
So young people, your civilization is far more brilliant than ours...
And since you are here, it proves that human civilization has been prospering to this day.
But human beings are not without their flaws. Your biggest flaw is your lack of unity.
No matter what time it is, there are always differences among humans... Maybe it's because you have so many ideas that you can't unify your opinions.
The city outside is the product of human differences...
I wandered through the ruins and found some records that recorded the origin of the city.
When humans rose in the desert, divisions arose within the human race.
This disagreement ultimately led to the birth of two kingdoms.
One is Lugaoyin, which is built by the sea and is famous for its business.
The other one is the ‘Bailam’ built in a mysterious place deep in the desert.
This kingdom is very mysterious because it worships the snake god, who has been living in seclusion in that mysterious place for hundreds of years.
Although there are differences between the two kingdoms, they have not yet reached the point of fighting each other.
So countless years passed between the two in peace.
Until the last king of Bayramu succeeded to the throne.
This king was very ambitious. He believed that there could only be one king in the desert, so he wanted to conquer Lu Gaoyin.
In order to gain the support of his subjects, he deceived his subjects and said that the snake god wanted to have a quiet and cool desert, and Bairamuhe should become the lord of the desert.
So his subjects supported him.
However, Lu Gaoyin was too powerful, and prosperous commerce supported this huge kingdom, which was already known as the Pearl of the Desert at that time. They had the best warriors, the sharpest scimitars and the strongest armor in the country.
In a head-on confrontation, Bairamu has no chance of winning.
So the king of Bairamu thought of an ancient evil method that could turn all those participating in the ritual into powerful 'gods' who were half human and half snake.
He forced most of his subjects to participate in this ritual, and then successfully transformed himself and most of the humans in Bairamu into half-human, half-snake monsters under this temple.
However, when the king wanted to lead his subjects to attack Lugaoin, they found that they could no longer move under the sun.
The scorching sunlight is like a sharp sword of judgment to them, slashing their skin and flesh, and their scales fly away.
So the king came up with another idea. He used a disc that had been turned into a sacred object that had been worshiped by the snake god for hundreds of years in the kingdom to build a huge array that could cover the entire Alanock Desert.
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This magic circle has no other effect except that it can turn the light emitted by the sun into the opposite darkness.
After the formation of the magic circle was completed, the ambitious king once again prepared to lead his subjects on an expedition.
However, it is a pity that they still failed to step out of this canyon this time..."
When the old cat man said this, he suddenly stopped talking, turned to look at Xue Hua, and then gestured forward.
Xue Hua was stunned and quickly looked up, only to find that he had followed the old cat man to the depths of the temple at some point.
And on the ground not far in front of him, a huge golden giant snake statue was coiled on the altar, looking at him with cold eyes...