The mural depicts a huge toad monster, and Qin Zhibo guessed that this should be the god of toads, Satogua.
The god that the snake people first worshiped was Igg, the father of snakes.
You must know that whether in reality or in a certain ninja comic, snakes and toads are natural enemies and feuds.
What these snake people are doing is no different than being a gangster and becoming a snake rapist.
Therefore, the father of snakes, Yig, punished the snake people and cursed them. The snake people of Youxi began to degenerate.
The mural uses a format similar to the famous human evolution diagram to demonstrate the gradual degeneration process of the snake people.
The snake man's limbs degenerated step by step, from standing upright on two legs to walking on four legs, and finally turned into a somewhat familiar monster.
Qin Zhibo took a look and saw, isn't this the livestock raised by the Kunyang people, Gaiai Youxi?
Those degenerated snake people lost most of their intelligence and all language skills, and their limbs gradually degenerated. They were captured by the later Kunyang people and became livestock.
But not all snake people have degenerated.
There are still some snake people who have escaped the curse under the protection of Tsathogua, but the race's greatly reduced strength has made it impossible for them to live in Yuhiss.
So they entered a green world through an underground entrance in Youxi.
The mural depicts the appearance of that world in a colorful way. The sky there is different from the light blue and hissing red of Kunyang, but a green one.
Under the green is also a plain, but there are many tombstones on the plain.
Seeing this scene, Qin Zhibo immediately thought of the ghoul's lair in Dreamland - the Tombs of Xin.
The content on the mural shows that there is also a passage to the dreamland in Youxi.
Or Kunyang, Yousi, the Ash Space, and the Tombs of Xin. These places are respectively the waking world and the underground of fantasy and dreams, and they are also the areas between reality and dreams.
And Abyss Enkai is probably the boundary between the waking world and the dream world.
…
After reading the history of the snake people, Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi confirmed that there was no danger here, and their nervousness was finally relaxed.
The two found a slightly clean place in the temple, spread out a heat-insulating mat, and lay down on the ground to fall asleep.
Although they brought sleeping bags, this place is not absolutely safe. Lying in sleeping bags will limit the reaction speed in crisis situations.
In his sleep, Qin Zhibo refused to enter the dreamland and only wanted to get the best rest.
When he woke up again, his body's distortion had completely returned to normal.
He checked the time on his watch. It was already 12 noon in the outside world. The two of them slept for eight hours at a stretch!
Although Qin Zhibo felt that the fatigue on his body had not completely subsided, he could no longer rest.
Although those Kunyang people dare not go to Enkai, this is not Enkai, but Yousi.
Judging from the fact that the Kunyang people captured the degenerated snake people in Yousi, they did not shy away from entering Yousi.
Once they find that no one has left Kunyang through the exit, they will definitely send people into Youxi to search.
Qin Zhibo glanced at the stone ground two meters away. Koizumi Hongzi was curled up with her head facing the stone wall on the other side, still sleeping.
"Hongzi, it's time to wake up and set off."
"Meals can only be eaten on the road, we can't wait any longer..."
While Qin Zhibo was packing the insulation mat and equipment, he asked Koizumi Hongzi to get up.
But after everything was packed up, Koizumi Anko was still curled up in the same place motionless.
In the dim environment, Koizumi Hongzi's figure was lying on the stone ground two meters away. In a daze, Qin Zhibo felt that her lying posture looked like a coiled snake.
Qin Zhibo's heart trembled, and he took out the nuclear lighter. Under the light of the fire, everything seemed to become normal again.
"It's time for us to set off..."
There were tentative words in the dim space, but Koizumi Hongzi still had no reaction.
This gave Qin Zhibo a bad feeling.
He carefully lay down next to Koizumi Hongzi, and as soon as his hand touched her shoulder, he immediately felt the deathly warmth.
drink!
Qin Zhibo was shocked. If he hadn't seen the investigation point, he would have thought she was dead.
Without further ado, he quickly pushed and pushed him to wake him up.
"Wake up!"
Qin Zhibo shook Koizumi Hongzi vigorously, and the soft and boneless body turned around with a push.
It didn't matter what happened. Qin Zhibo was immediately startled by the scene in front of him.
Koizumi Hongzi’s face turned into a snake-man’s face!
The flat facial features are covered with patterns like snake skin, and the two nostrils with only round holes are breathing weakly.
Qin Zhibo:Will-5
Qin Zhibo was shocked by this sudden change, which was even worse than Xu Xian's discovery that White Snake was a snake.
But after all, he had an iron will and courage that was different from ordinary people. He did not scream in fear, but quickly woke up Koizumi Anko.
"Um?"
"What happened?"
Koizumi Hongzi got up sleepily after being shaken awake. The snake-like face quickly faded away and was replaced by that beautiful face.
"Hongzi, you couldn't be... turned into a snake, right? Or maybe you have the blood of a snake girl in your ancestors?"
Koizumi Hongzi's eyes were strange and she asked doubtfully: "What are you talking about? What kind of snake?"
"If that's the case, just now you..."
Qin Zhibo told Koizumi Hongzi exactly what he had just seen.
"Really?"
"But I didn't feel anything?"
Looking at the confused expression on Koizumi Hongzi's face, it is obvious that this matter has nothing to do with her personal consciousness and bloodline.
Then there is only one possibility left, that there is something weird in this place.
The spacious altar, the short and thick stone pillars, and the dark niches seemed to be alive at this moment, making a faint "hissing" sound.
hiss--
Hiss——
Their hearts tightened, and they looked around but couldn't see any living things. Fear and uneasiness spread in this short and wide space.
"Let's get out of here quickly! Now!"
Qin Zhibo and Koizumi Hongzi did not dare to stay any longer, quickly picked up their luggage, left the Snake Tribe's God Sacrifice Temple, and continued heading in the direction of Enkai.
…
Leaving the nameless city of the snake people, the two continued to head northeast.
Although I came to Yousi from Kunyang, the direction pointed by the metal coin has not changed.
Qin Zhibo took out some compressed biscuits from his backpack, and while gnawing on the hard biscuits with Koizumi Hongzi, they headed northeast.
Along the way, there were still no animals or plants seen on the desolate plains. This land shrouded in red light seemed to have been cursed by the father of snakes.
After walking from noon to 6pm outside time, the two finally arrived at the end of the plain.
The low mountain at the end of the plain is still a crack, and in the crack there is a passage that goes straight to the depths.
The metal coin points to the dark place deep in the rift.
Qin Zhibo put the searchlight on his head and entered it first.
Inside is a deep, lightless canyon. Walking in it seems to have entered another world beyond Kunyang and Youxi.
As he walked, Qin Zhibo smelled a pungent ore smell.
"Sulfur ore?"
Qin Zhibo squatted on the ground and identified a pile of broken ore beside the road. There were traces of artificial mining on the surface of these ores, although these traces were very old.
At this moment, Koizumi Hongzi, who was walking behind, seemed to hear something, her ears twitched, and she turned back to stare into the darkness behind.
"What's wrong?"
Qin Zhibo noticed Koizumi Hongzi's reaction and turned around and asked.
Koizumi Hongzi murmured: "There seems to be a sound behind..."
"sound?"
Qin Zhibo immediately lay down on the ground, put his ears to the ground, and listened.
Rhythmless mixed sounds followed the vibrations of the ground and entered the ears. Such large-scale and purposeful sounds could only be made by Kunyang people and their four-legged livestock in this quiet and desolate hiss.
"They're coming!"
"Who?"
"Kunyang people!"
Qin Zhibo quickly dragged Koizumi Hongzi and ran into the canyon.
The Kunyang people behind were even better in terms of speed, and their voices became louder and louder. After a while, their melodious and sonorous voices could already be heard.
"Outsiders, stop running away!"
"There is a dead end ahead. Come back with us. The council is ready to accept you!"
The Spanish language of the Kunyang people came from behind. Koizumi Hongzi ran and repeated it to Qin Zhibo, but received a sarcastic sneer from Qin Zhibo.
A race that cares so much about happiness and excitement in life actually tells outsiders, who are prey, not to run away.
This further proves that there is something in the canyon that they are afraid of.
And if you still tell such unsavory lies now, this race has indeed degenerated.
"Don't worry about him, just keep running!"
The two ran to a slightly spacious open space, but were still chased by the Kunyang people's sentries.
Seeing that something was not going well, Qin Zhibo immediately turned around and picked up Koizumi Hongzi. The magic ring in his hand immediately took effect, making the two of them invisible.
At this time, the sentry team of the Kunyang people also came to the open space. The leader, Hasaj, was riding on a Gaai-Youssi. He looked around, but found that there was no one there.
"The sound disappears here?"
"It should still be around here, look carefully!"
Khasaj ordered his men to disperse in all directions, while he himself was riding on a four-legged animal, holding a blue torch in his hand, guarding the only exit.
Qin Zhibo hugged Koizumi Hongzi tightly, not daring to move at all. Any slight sound might disturb these Kunyang people in this quiet environment.
Koizumi Anko also knew that she had entered the invisible state at this time. The two had had such contact before in the mansion of Smile Mask.
Unfortunately, this time the two of them were not traveling lightly, but had a lot of extra equipment on them.
As time passed, the half-eaten compressed biscuit that Koizumi Hongzi had in her pocket gradually slipped out of her pocket and fell to the ground.
The rule of the Lord of the Rings is that as long as anything leaves the wearer's body, it will lose its invisibility.
Half a piece of compressed biscuit suddenly appeared in the air and fell to the ground.
The sudden appearance of the compressed biscuits did not escape Khasajj's eyes. With his quick eyesight and quick hands, he immediately pointed the torch at the open space.
"What's there!"
Hearing the sound, other Kunyang people walked over to check and saw a hazy shadow reflected on the ground.
This is another shortcoming of The Lord of the Rings, being invisible does not lose its shadow.
Seeing that he had been seen through, Qin Zhibo stopped hiding and released the invisibility of the Lord of the Rings.
Two large living people suddenly appeared in the originally empty clearing, which shocked the Kunyang people, including Hasaj.
"Ouch!"
Taking advantage of the surprised moment of the Kunyang people, Koizumi Hongzi in Qin Zhibo's arms controlled the flames in the palm of his hand and threw it towards the faces of several Kunyang people around him.
Several flames, neither big nor small, bloomed on the faces of the Kunyang people. They were so frightened that they slapped the flames on their faces randomly and kept making sharp screams.
Qin Zhibo took out his Colt pistol again and poured bullets on the Kunyang people in the American Iai style.
Pia, Pia, Pia…
The six Kunyang people who approached were shot and fell to the ground, white smoke rising from the bullet holes in their bodies.
But at this moment, a blue ray flying from a distance brushed Qin Zhibo's cheek, leaving a black mark on the stone wall behind.
Although this shot missed Qin Zhibo, it gave him the feeling closest to death.
Qin Zhibo looked in fear at the direction where the blue ray was flying. It was none other than the captain of the Kunyang Sentinel Team, Hasaj.
He was seen holding a torch in one hand and a silver-white metal object in the shape of a pistol in the other hand, with the gun aimed at Qin Zhibo.
"That thing of yours is a 'gun', right?"
"...It seems so, but we actually also have guns, and they are more advanced than what you humans use."
Qin Zhibo could feel that he was not bluffing this time. The gun in his hand was indeed a much more advanced version than the gunpowder guns used by humans. It was somewhat like the laser gun in "Star Wars".
But in fact, the gun of the Kunyang people is more advanced than the laser gun. It emits a ray that can disintegrate particles, a weapon called a "disintegration ray gun".
This ray gun was not originally invented by the Kunyang people, but was a weapon used by a race called the Ancient Ones.
Just when Qin Zhibo was shocked that the Kunyang people still had such powerful weapons, those Kunyang people on the ground who had been shot woke up again, rubbed their wounds, and stood up again.
Khasaj smiled and said: "Since we already know that people in the outside world have invented the kind of gun you use, of course we must be prepared."
Qin Zhibo looked at the bullet holes in the bodies of those Kunyang people who were wearing metal vests.
hateful!
"Okay, don't struggle anymore."
"Being able to summon the indescribable is enough to prove to us the value of your existence."
"And the invisibility that made us invisible just now must be a kind of magic, right?"
"Are you magicians?"
Khasaj felt that he had the upper hand and began to talk endlessly, with a condescending and sarcastic tone in his tone.
"I still remember that 15 years ago in the human calendar, an outsider who called herself a witch broke into Kunyang and caused a lot of trouble to our sentry team..."
Finally, Khasajj told that history.
Hearing this, Koizumi Hongzi clenched her fists angrily and shouted questions in Spanish at Khasajj.
"How is that witch?"
"Huh?" Hasaj was stunned for a moment, "Are you interested in their fate?"
"It's not impossible to tell you, because they..."