The end of the world starts with failing the exam

Chapter 151 The Decline of the Royal Court

Outside the oasis, Chen Jing did not dare to stay.

Although he didn't know what was hidden in this oasis.

But his intuition told him.

Compared to staying in the desert without shelter, an oasis is obviously a safer choice.

"I don't know what happened to the old man and the others..."

Chen Jing carefully stepped into the jungle with his bag on his back, only to feel that the temperature inside was obviously much cooler than outside.

The air is filled with the fragrance of a plant, and from time to time you can hear rustling sounds coming from the dense forest.

That sound reminded Chen Jing of the beetles he saw in the mountains when he was a child.

Buzzing and fluttering wings.

It's annoying.

While marching towards the golden building, Chen Jing kept his vigilance to the highest level, paying attention to the surroundings as much as possible.

Chen Jing knew that Zhao Puxian was in this secret realm.

However, it is currently impossible to determine his location.

So... all I can do is pray.

He prayed that he would never meet the Sangmenxing halfway.

Even if Bai Aji is still there, the cooldown time of the Yellow King's Holy Grail is refreshed.

Chen Jing didn't think he could resist the ancient cyber madman Zhao Puxian.

I fought with the old man and was not injured until the end.

Could this be a joke?

As a person who is very self-aware, Chen Jing knows that the gap between himself and Zhao Puxian is like a chasm. If he accidentally meets that Sangmenxing, he will probably die in one encounter.

"Hiss-hiss-hiss-"

Suddenly.

Those fluttering insects hidden in the jungle flew over, with a sound similar to the noise of electricity, and approached Chen Jing at an extremely fast speed.

It was only then that Chen Jing was able to see them in full.

A beetle indeed.

But it looks like it's made of gold.

There is also a weird eye protruding from the abdomen.

It was like an eyeball that had just been dug out of someone's eye socket. There was still a lot of scarlet nerve tissue behind the vitreous body.

When Chen Jing saw them, the beetles also turned their eyes one by one and stared at him with strange eyes.

Fortunately, these weird bugs had no ill intentions toward Chen Jing. After a brief observation, they fluttered their wings and flew away.

"What the hell..." Chen Jing looked a little shocked.

Because without the protection of the Holy Grail and Baiage, he is no different from ordinary people. If these bugs really like to eat meat... He seems to be unable to resist, and he may not be able to outrun them.

Seeing those weird beetles flying away, Chen Jing hurriedly quickened his pace, intending to reach the giant building as quickly as possible.

There is an opportunity for him to advance to Sequence 2.

After promotion, you will inevitably gain other abilities.

By then, maybe we won’t have to worry as much as we do now.

……

"finally reached……"

When Chen Jing walked out of the oasis jungle, almost three hours had passed.

Along the way.

People are on tenterhooks, and all the plants and trees are soldiers.

It can be said that his mental state has never been so tense.

But fortunately, he was lucky.

Apart from the occasional strange beetle he encountered along the way, he never saw any other living creatures.

Outside the jungle, in the center of the oasis, is a dark gray square.

Chen Jing's current location is at the edge of the square.

This square is roughly in the shape of an equilateral, ordered square.

Every three hundred meters or so.

There will be a pyramid-like object standing on the edge of the square.

These objects are visually estimated to be about ten meters high and six meters long on a side.

It doesn't look like it's built with bricks.

Instead, it looks like a whole.

There is no gap in the smooth surface.

Chen Jing didn't know what it was used for.

But he did recognize the totems on the surface of the pyramid.

Because those weird yet beautiful patterns are exactly the same as those on the Yellow King's Holy Grail.

"Could it be that the ruins of the Huangwang Courtyard outside are fake..."

Chen Jing turned back to look at the weird giant building, a trace of doubt flashing in his eyes.

"Could this be true..."

The giant building just a few hundred meters away from Chen Jing seemed to be made of gold.

Compared to the previous beetles, the golden color of this building is obviously much darker...as if it has been oxidized.

But don't know why.

Chen Jing always felt that it was... dead.

It seems that in these immeasurable years, its life has passed away quietly, leaving only this decayed and silent corpse, exuding a chilling aura of death.

"Is this a palace or a church?" Chen Jing was a little curious.

The giant building in front of me is very similar to Gothic architecture in the real world.

The slender and twisted flying buttresses are like the tentacles of molluscs, tightly wrapping around the main body of the building from bottom to top. The ferocious and sharp pointed arches are more than a hundred meters high, with countless yellow indentations engraved on them. The king’s totem…

The entire building looks like the remains of some giant creature. The dozens of decorative spiers on the top of the building are as cold as iron nails. The straight spiers seem to be able to pierce the sky...

"Hush-hush-"

Hearing this familiar noise of electricity, Chen Jing instinctively looked back and saw the bushes in the jungle shaking constantly, as if those weird beetles were about to fly out in groups again...

Chen Jing is no longer afraid of those beetles, because the uneventful experience along the way is enough to prove that those beetles are harmless to humans, at least they will not attack him.

Accompanied by the dense electric sound emitted by the insect swarm, hundreds of beetles flapped their wings and flew out of the forest, and along with them appeared the Sangmen Star that Chen Jing least wanted to see...

"Zhao Puppet Immortal?!"

At this moment, Zhao Puxian, who was being besieged by a swarm of beetles, seemed to hear Chen Jing's exclamation.

He turned back to look at Chen Jing.

"You know my name?"

The golden mist used to hide Zhao Puxian's face has disappeared at this time. His facial features are as rigid as a plastic model, and it takes a lot of effort to make a human expression.

He looked at Chen Jing doubtfully.

"you know me?"

As he asked, he waved the long sword in his hand and lightly chopped down the golden beetles that surrounded him like a swarm.

to be frank.

Chen Jing was already a little desperate at this moment.

Because the last thing he wanted to meet was this Sangmen Xing.

Judging from Zhao Puxian's previous performance, it would be an understatement to say that he was decisive and ruthless. But meeting him alone now... wouldn't it mean that he was dead?

"Don't run."

There was a trace of murderous intent in Zhao Puxian's electronically synthesized voice, and the weird accent made Chen Jing feel pressure he had never felt before.

"If you run away, I will kill you."

"If I don't run away, will you still kill me?" Chen Jing asked tentatively.

Zhao Puxian thought about it seriously, raised his hand and swung his sword to kill more than a dozen golden beetles, and then said categorically.

"Of course I'll kill him!"

The first of five updates today!