My backyard leads to wilderness

"What is this place?" Joyce asked.

"Uh... Maybe it's a robbery cave?" Zhong Ning said uncertainly. Along with the legend of the ancient city of Loulan, it is the extremely rich tombs here, and the group of tomb robbers that followed, such as the famous Swedish Stein , The Japanese Otani Guangrui almost evacuated the entire ancient city of Loulan when the flower growers were fighting and had no time to take care of it.Coupled with the later excavations by the Flower Planters archaeological team, the entire ancient city of Loulan is almost left with ruins left over from history, but there is no guarantee that there will be no other fish that slipped through the net in the Taklamakan Desert in Lop Nur near the ancient city of Loulan.

"Cave stealing? Ning, do you want to go down and have a look?" Even though he didn't know the specific meaning of the term, Joyce could guess it literally.

Zhongning hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly. To be honest, he was a little curious.

"I'll go ahead." Zhong Ning supported the edge of the robbery hole with one hand, probed around the bottom of the robbery hole, and jumped down very cleanly.The light at the bottom of the robbery cave is weak, and there must be other ordinary people there. To be on the safe side, Zhong Ning chose to use a more secure method of lighting.Taking out a flashlight from the interspatial ring, Zhong Ning turned on the switch. Miraculously, the battery has not run out yet!

So, what Joyce, who followed Zhong Ning down, saw was Zhong Ning who was looking around with a flashlight.

"Is this the tomb?" Looking in the direction illuminated by Zhongning's lights, Joyce saw the purpose of this place from the exquisite murals next to it.

"I think it's more like an altar." Zhong Ning said, and the object of the sacrifice does not seem to be a good person: "Generally, the murals in the tomb depict the deeds of the tomb owner's life, and most of them are praises. The style of painting will It won't be as dark as it is here, almost catching up with the depiction of the 18th hell. A lot of sacrifices are offered to the demon gods they worship, and the demon gods grant their wishes. This is more like an equivalent exchange than a simple Symbolic sacrifice."

Zhong Ning looked at the crowds of slaves and cattle, sheep and beasts on the murals, and continued to analyze: "Moreover, the image of this god seems to be a cloud of black mist. The slaves and the cattle, sheep and beasts paying tribute will see their eyes after touching this black mist. It will turn red, demon horns will grow on their heads, and their attack power will increase. These slaves who have been blessed with attack power have helped them defeat batch after batch of invaders. After the war, these slaves cursed by the demon god and The beast will be taken back by the demon god and turned into a corpse with shriveled skin and flesh."

"It sounds a bit like a wave of monsters controlled by a blood moon." Joyce frowned and said, "However, after the blood moon, most of the monsters will regain their sanity, and only a very small number of monsters will suffer backlash and become mummies."

Hearing this, Zhong Ning was a little lost. He remembered the matter that he was also controlled by Xueyue before, and after he woke up, there were mummies all over the place around him.Joyce and Zhong Ning had experienced the beast tide together, and he had obviously seen Zhong Ning being controlled by the blood moon, but out of respect for Zhong Ning, he did not express his doubts.

"Let's take a closer look inside." Zhong Ning said, he had a premonition that he could find the answer he had been looking for in this hidden altar.

The general altars are terrace-shaped buildings that go all the way up the stairs, and some even build top-notch buildings on them to represent closer to the gods in the sky.But this altar located in the ground is doing the opposite, all the stairs are constantly going downwards, the more you go down, the darker and colder the underground space is, and Zhong Ning, who practices the Yin and Cold Kung Fu, feels like this The environment made him feel very comfortable.

Joyce, who is the god of light, is certainly not afraid of such a cold environment, but such an environment still makes him not very happy.He tilted his head, noticed the obviously satisfied expression on Zhong Ning's face, and his doubts intensified.

The structure of the underground altar is surprisingly simple, it seems to be a long staircase leading to the ground, without any extra structures or mechanisms to confuse outsiders.It wasn't long before Zhong Ning and the two continued to move forward, suddenly!There was a burst of intense gunshots and continuous mournful wailing sounds.

Before Zhong Ning continued to look forward to see what happened, he saw three or four people at the bottom of the stairs, firing guns at the bottom of the stairs, while quickly retreating in their direction.Zhong Ning's flashlight swept over, but he saw that under the firepower of the crowd in front of him, there were actually a few people dressed similarly to them.

No matter how frantic a desperado is, they will not shoot at their companions for no reason. Obviously something happened to these people.Zhong Ning turned on the high beam of the outdoor flashlight in his hand, facing the people rushing towards them crazily, but the scene in front of him made Zhong Ning almost throw away the flashlight in his hand.But they saw that the eyes of those people turned red, and the top of their heads was surrounded by black mist, like two long devil's horns.The scene depicted in the mural he saw just now appeared in front of Zhong Ning like this!

"Joyce?!" Zhong Ning suddenly turned around and called out to Joyce.

Joyce obviously also saw what happened under the steps, and the suppression of the firepower of the firearms seemed to have no effect on these people who had been cursed by the demon god.The bullets burst into blood on those people, but it didn't affect their crazily bloodthirsty action in the slightest.Seeing that these red-eyed and black-horned demons were about to catch up to those normal tomb robbers, Zhong Ning made a move!

The cold spiritual power shot out from his palm, freezing the five enchanted people in place in the blink of an eye.Pity the tomb robber at the front, who was about to be pierced by the sharp claws of the demon just now, but was saved by Zhong Ning at the very moment, and was so frightened that he squatted down on the steps, I couldn't speak for a long time.

The person who had been the fastest and suppressed the most firepower saw Zhong Ning and his companions rescued himself and his companions, turned around and quickly bowed to Zhong Ning and said, "Thank you two seniors for saving lives. Seniors What ghosts and gods means, to freeze people like this!"

Zhong Ning only had the time to look at this person's face at this time. Isn't this person the leader who saw him playing the piano in the oasis before?Sure enough, if there is no benefit, no one will go to the sea of ​​death like Lop Nur in idleness.

Zhong Ning only nodded slightly at him, and said, "It's just liquid nitrogen."

"Is there such powerful liquid nitrogen?" The tomb robber obviously didn't fully believe Zhong Ning's explanation.

However, Zhong Ning did not intend to continue talking to him. Compared with these tomb robbers, Zhong Ning was more concerned about what was going on with the black mist.

So Zhong Ning jumped over the tomb robber and walked directly to the enchanted man who was frozen in place by him.Although their bodies were sealed in ice, the black smoke above their heads was still jumping like flames.Zhong Ning wrapped his right hand with spiritual power, stretched out his hand, and was about to grab a strand of it.However, the black mist seemed to have its own consciousness, and quickly avoided Zhong Ning's temptation.

The next second, the black mist suddenly penetrated into the demon's body, and all the possessed people who were still alive turned into mummies in the blink of an eye, and the black mist disappeared under Zhong Ning's nose.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhong Ning withdrew his hand after thinking about it.He turned around and asked the tomb robber next to him who shrank back in shock from the sight in front of him, "What did you do down there? How did you get tainted by the black smoke?"

"Senior, let's just go down this ladder to the end. There is a huge circular square at the bottom. Before we can do anything else, Lao Yang and the others have become like this!" the leader of the tomb robbers said.

"It's just like this? Think again, what is it that you didn't do, but 'Lao Yang' and the others did?" Zhong Ning continued to ask, Zhong Ning didn't dare to believe the words of these tomb robbers.

"No! Really not! We really just went down to the bottom. I just took out the candles from my bag, and I didn't even have time to light the lamp. My companion became like this!" The leader of the tomb robber said while repeatedly Wave your hands and say.

Zhong Ning looked at the apparently unlit candle in the hands of the leader of the tomb robbers, and nodded.He turned to face Joyce, made a questioning gesture to continue downward, and after getting his affirmative answer, he turned and stepped on the next step.

After walking down two steps, Zhong Ning heard the footsteps of more than one person behind him.

When Zhong Ning turned around, he saw that the three tomb robbers who had just narrowly escaped from death were following behind them like this.Zhong Ning shook his head inwardly, secretly thinking that these people really want money rather than life.

Keeping an eye on his back, Zhong Ning ignored the three little tails following him and continued down.He is a Nascent Soul cultivator and Joyce is a Dharma God. It makes no sense to be afraid of a few ordinary people.

The downward steps are unexpectedly long, and Zhong Ning has been secretly counting since he walked down just now.There are a total of 999 steps and a depth of about 150 meters. In ancient times, this amount of work was considered a super large project, let alone this huge altar.There is a greater probability that this project relies on the existing natural underground caves.Zhong Ning stood on the last step and held up a flashlight to observe this huge altar with a diameter of [-] meters. The bottom of the altar was painted with complex patterns, which were obviously some kind of magic patterns with special functions, while the top of the head was Very irregular unprocessed natural karst cave cave roof.

With only the flashlight, it is obviously impossible to see the whole picture of the magic patterns on the altar. Zhong Ning took a look at the tomb robbers behind him, and bought a flare from the system gold coin store, and aimed at a place on the top of the cave that could be stuck. Flares are fired from the small depression.In the next second, a dazzling light illuminated the entire altar.

Zhong Ning obviously heard a few gasps coming from behind him, but he couldn't help it, the scene in front of him was too horrifying.Just now the light was dim and they couldn't see clearly. Under the light of the flares, everyone discovered that the ground of the altar was covered with a whole layer of dark reddish purple crystals. There are huge two-meter-long steel needles, each with several thick white bones strung on them.

From this point of view, the composition of this layer of dark reddish purple crystals is obvious.

In the center of the altar, a high platform with a diameter of about 10 meters protrudes. The material of the high platform is obviously different from that of the surrounding ones. It is a kind of whiteness that is neither stone nor jade.Others may not recognize the material of this high platform, but Zhong Ning is very familiar with it.He was about to move forward subconsciously, but there was a pull backwards on his arm.