"When we arrived, the residents of Bailamu who turned into clawed vipers and their king were sealed in the underground palace under the statue of the god.
The Deep Sleep Guard you met outside is the one who sealed all this here.
This entire area, including Bairamu City, has been sealed off by him, and only those with his permission can enter.
But there is a flaw in the Deep Sleep Guard's seal, that is, when any outsider appears in this area, his seal on the sacred object in the Clawed Viper Temple will become invalid.
I used the last bit of insight I had gained to make a deal with him, and he gave me permission to hide things down here and assimilate me and the last of my tribe into this area.
This way, we won't touch the seal.
But you are not one of my tribe, and your entry will still invalidate the seal of the holy object.
You must have seen the effect of that holy object by now...
If you don't want this desert to be shrouded in boundless darkness forever in the future, if you still want to get those two things, you must go down to the underground palace, kill the awakened clawed vipers, and find the user.
The altar where the relic functions, then destroy it.
When you destroy the altar, the two items you want will automatically appear in front of you."
The old cat man turned around with his hands behind his back and looked at Xue Hua quietly, waiting for him to make a decision.
Xue Hua rolled his eyes. Having come this far, does he have any other options?
"Okay, I will go down, but before that, I still have some questions to ask you..."
"...I know what you want to ask..."
However, after hearing his words, the old cat man shook his head.
"But you shouldn't ask me this question... I, like thousands of my people, are just slaves enslaved by it.
It conducts various cruel...experiments on us, using the blood of the ethnic group to control us.
It wasn't until the last moment of my life that I realized that we cannot escape its grasp after all.
Because our blood has already been thoroughly studied by it..."
"At least tell me what it is and what it looks like?" Xue Hua continued to ask unwillingly.
"It...is indescribable...has no fixed form and can be anyone or anything."
The old cat man lowered his eyelids, seeming a little unwilling to recall that past event.
"Deformer?" Xue Hua was stunned.
"...I don't know...Okay, this topic is over. It's time for you to go down, and it's time for me to rest..."
There was a trace of exhaustion on the old cat man's face, and his figure became lighter and lighter.
"This will be the last time you see me...so after you go down, you will have to rely on yourself for everything.
In addition, I have a merciless request..."
"Um...you said."
Xue Hua found that the old cat man's voice had become increasingly ethereal and ethereal, almost dissipating in the air.
"My children, the hope of our tribe...Of course, they are probably just a pile of bones now...but I hope you can take them out of here and bury them in that oasis.
That is their true home...
They...are...south of...the village..."
After the old cat man said these last words, his entire body turned into a wisp of misty smoke and dissipated in the air.
At the same time, the gemstone ornament that had been floating above his head also shattered into dust in the sky with a "click" sound.
This cat-man leader who bravely led his tribe to escape slavery, but ended up in tragedy, finally disappeared from this world.
Xue Hua stood there for a long time, finally sighing softly, and issued an order to the insect swarm left in the ruins of the city in the main hive mind, asking them to go to the south of the cat village ruins to find the remains of the cat cubs.
After finding them, he collected these remains and stored them carefully. After he went out, he buried them in the vast oasis.
After fulfilling the old cat man's last wish, Xue Hua walked up to the golden giant snake statue with his staff in hand and asked the Supervisory King Insect to scan the base of the statue. Sure enough, he found a very deep tunnel underneath.
However, this tunnel has collapsed and is filled with gravel and soil.
But Xue Hua just needs to know that there is indeed space down here, and even if it is authentic, he has no intention of using it.
Just kidding, with the excavation efficiency of the insect swarm, re-building a tunnel is even faster than taking the previous tunnel.
With the efforts of more than a dozen cockroaches, a tunnel that was spacious enough to accommodate four or five people passing side by side soon went deep into the underground palace of the temple.
Xue Hua only needs to sit on the back carapace of one of the cockroaches and move forward.
More than ten minutes later, with a muffled "bang" sound, the cockroaches in front smashed open a stone brick wall, and a huge underground palace appeared in front of Xue Hua.
He followed the swarm of insects into the palace through the breach in the wall. He held a staff in one hand and stuffed the visceral spine back into his backpack with the other and took out a torch to light it.
Swarms of insects continued to pour into the underground palace from the hole behind him, and began to investigate the passages around the palace under the arrangement of the insect mother.
Xue Hua held a torch and looked at some of the murals carved on the walls of the underground palace with great interest.
Most of these murals are composed of snake patterns, and the content is almost all related to snakes. Even the stone bricks on some steps are carved with snake-shaped patterns.
Even the stone bricks under your feet are covered with carvings like snake scales.
"I really like playing with snakes..."
Xue Hua looked at the snakes all over the wall and couldn't help but feel his scalp itching.
He is not very afraid of snakes, but with so many snakes staring at him, even a professional snake butcher would have goosebumps, right?
"Master, the scouts of the insect swarm are under attack. The attackers are suspected to be some kind of mutant basilisk. They are targets rather than energy projections."
"How is your strength?" Xue Hua curled his lips and thought, this is coming.
"According to the individuals that have appeared so far, the average psychic level is less than 0.5, but they have very powerful physical strength, so even if their psychic level is low, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
Isa suggested that they plan their tactics against an opponent with a psionic level of 3.0."
"Well...that makes sense. Let's do it this way and let the insect mothers be careful. These things don't seem to be that easy to deal with."
Xue Hua frowned and was observing a local battlefield in the main hive mind where a group of springtails surrounded and killed four or five sharp-clawed vipers.
These clawed vipers look like monsters with snake heads and tails but their upper bodies are human. Their upper bodies stand upright and have human-like chests and arms, but all the fingers of their hands have sharp white tips.
claw.
These monsters are very stupid. It can be said that their IQ is basically just a little bit better than the monster projection, but their physical power is indeed powerful, and they can rush to the target from a long distance instantly, a bit like the charging skill of the Paladin.
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The number of springtails besieging this group of sharp-clawed vipers was about fifteen. They fought fiercely and very tactically. The seven or eight springtails in front had been attracting the attention of the sharp-clawed vipers, and they were fighting for the remaining ones.
The springtails fight for time to launch a side attack.
However, although these sharp-clawed vipers were stupid, their combat awareness was not limited. The springtails organized several very threatening attacks, but they were either dodged or resolved at the last moment.
Moreover, these sharp-clawed vipers are also very powerful in attack and defense. They are covered with a layer of cold and slippery snake scales. This seemingly inconspicuous layer of scales can actually upgrade the springtails to level 10.
The claws and fangs returned in vain.
——It’s not that it can’t be bitten through, but it will be slipped open.
Their attack weapons are the sharp claws on their hands and the venomous fangs in their mouths.
Although the toxin has no effect on the insect swarm, the weapons in the hands of these guys can easily pierce the cuticle armor of the springtails.
Several springtails have been injured by them, and one of them was even seriously injured.
Seeing that the springtails were unable to attack for a long time, Xue Hua's brows became more and more frowning.
It seems that this place is not a kind place, so it is better to be vigilant.