The fifty-seventh volume, the fifty-fourth chapter, the amazement everywhere
The water was not ordinary water. It was bitingly cold. The temperature in the water was at least around minus 100 degrees. However, it strangely did not freeze. Instead, it still maintained the fluidity of the liquid. At the same time, the water had a protective effect on the body.
The huge erosion effect forced Zhang Tie to swim under the water while replenishing the consumption of body-protecting battle energy.
The pipes in the pool are like a maze, very complicated, connecting pools of different sizes and sizes. Zhang Tie can see one every few minutes when he swims. There are strange crystal-like black holes at the bottom of those pools.
The sand seemed to be used for planting something. In several of the pools, Zhang Tie also found that among the black sand there were some withered and broken roots that could be as thick as two people holding each other, soaked in the water.
, I don’t know how many years have passed, but with a gentle touch of my hand, those roots turned into powder floating in the water.
The density of the water is very high, several times greater than mercury, and the water pressure at the bottom of the water is very high. When you swim in it, you can't go fast even if you want to, and every step forward and swimming takes time.
With a large amount of physical strength, if it were an ordinary warrior under that water, not to mention being crushed by the huge water pressure, even if he wanted to move, he would be unable to move.
Swimming in such a maze of water pipes, following Tang Mei turning left and right, if it weren't for Tang Mei, Zhang Tie wouldn't know where he was going to swim.
The two of them swam underwater for almost eight or nine hours before entering the bottom of a larger pool through the maze-like network of pipes again.
In other words, this is no longer a pool, but like a lake, because as far as Zhang Tie can see, the bottom area of this lake is tens of thousands of acres, and it is more than a hundred meters deep. The entire lake is full of strange
Water, the water in those pools should flow from this lake. The black sand at the bottom of this lake is thicker, and the broken rhizomes are thicker. Those many rhizomes can make all four
With five people hugging each other and swimming in such a lake, Zhang Tie felt as if he was walking in a primeval forest with only tree stumps left.
"Where are we going?" Zhang Tiechuan asked Tang Mei.
"To the other side..." Tang Mei pointed forward, Zhang Tie nodded, and the two of them swam towards the opposite side of the exit.
Just when he was halfway into the lake, Zhang Tie suddenly saw a huge skeleton among the black sand and broken roots at the bottom of the lake.
The white skeleton is more than a hundred meters long. It looks like the skeleton of a snake, but under the skeleton, there are limbs lying on the ground, and the head of the skeleton is like a cow. At the same time, above the "cow head"
, and a pair of long deer-like antlers.
Seeing this skeleton, Zhang Tie was stunned for a moment. Even though he had never really seen what a dragon statue looked like, when he saw this skeleton, Zhang Tie's mind suddenly imagined that this skeleton was not a skeleton.
At that time, when it was still alive, there was no doubt about what it looked like. It was a dragon, a real dragon, the dragon among the Chinese totem symbols.
As a member of the Chinese ethnic group, when he saw the true symbol of the existence of this totem for the first time, Zhang Tie was so shocked that he did not calm down for a long time.
Tang Mei was not surprised by this, but Zhang Tie swam directly to the side of the keel, touched it with his hand, and took the keel into the Black Iron Castle. Then he continued to swim towards the other side of the lake.
This dragon bone is also a treasure in Zhang Tie's eyes, and it is of great significance.
After reaching the other shore, the two people came up from below and came to the surface. Zhang Tie first revealed a pair of eyes from the water and quietly looked around at the situation on the shore.
This lake is in a huge space within the belly of Buzhouzhi Mountain. There are some similarly damaged buildings on both sides of the lake. Each of those buildings is forty or fifty meters high, like an enlarged snail shell, with pointed roofs.
There is also the main body of this spiral building, with faint runes flashing on each building, and many buildings have been shattered, like glasses hit by a huge hammer.
It was badly damaged.
There was a gate in the direction where Zhang Tie and the others swam out of the underwater pipe. The gate was tightly closed, and the shore they swam to was facing a strange forest with trees in it.
Very tall, each tree is over 100 meters tall, just like a skyscraper after another. The reason why Zhang Tie can still tell that those things are trees is because all the trees almost fall in the same direction or
Leaning, many fallen trees revealed the tree roots entangled below and the large sinkhole-like holes in the ground.
This strange forest seems to have suffered a catastrophic fire. All the trees have been burnt black, and many trees are completely broken or tottering. There are only a few trees that can still stand upright.
The exteriors of the trees were burnt black, and many were severely carbonized. Not a single tree survived in the entire forest, which was as silent as a cemetery.
The most important thing is that Zhang Tie found no traces of the gods' war puppets or the collapsed corpses, whether in the damaged buildings or inside the destroyed forest.
It should be safe here for now.
Zhang Tie jumped out of the water and stood on the shore in an instant. Tang Mei also jumped out of the water gently, landed on the ground, and stood next to Zhang Tie, looking at the fallen dark forest,
Tang Mei frowned slightly, shook his head, and softly uttered three words, "What a pity, I didn't expect it to be like this..."
"What's the pity?"
"According to historical records in the Wa Palace, these trees are very precious Celestial Sandalwood trees, which have many miraculous effects. I originally thought that one or two Celestial Sandalwood trees in this forest should still be alive, but it looks like they are.
Not a single one survived!" Tang Mei said with regret.
"Where are we going now?"
"Today we will find a place to stay in this forest, rest and recover, and then we will pass through this forest tomorrow. At the end of this forest, there should be a passage leading to the top..."
"Okay!" Zhang Tie nodded.
From the moment he entered the core area of Shanxu, Zhang Tie fought continuously with almost no rest. The more than ten hours just underwater were not easy. Although Zhang Tie could continue to persevere, but considering the future
We may face more fierce battles, and it is necessary to recover now.
Outside the mountain ruins, it should be dark by now.
After deciding to find a place to spend the night in this forest, the two of them walked into this forest, looking for a suitable place to stay.
There is no soft soil on the forest floor anymore. Maybe there used to be soft soil here, but now, the ground is hard. The entire forest floor looks like it has been put into a brick kiln or a porcelain kiln.
Like those that have been fired for a long time, they have been completely solidified and become extremely hard. On the ground, those places that look like soil slopes are actually as hard as iron, even those at the roots of fallen trees.
The irregular lumps of dirt in the giant pit, which you think should be soft, are also as hard as granite.
The terrifying high temperature, like a terrifying magic, has completely turned this forest into a land barren of grass.
The fallen giant trees were like a messy city wall lying in front of Zhang Tie and Tang Mei, or like the high-rise buildings and ruins that had collapsed after a horrific earthquake. The two of them could only fumble through the gaps between the fallen giant trees.
, go over or around each obstacle and move forward.
After walking for a while, Zhang Tie discovered that there was a huge tree hole more than one meter high in the middle of the trunk of a broken and fallen tree in front of him, and that the tree hole was surrounded by other big trees that had fallen or broken.
The tree trunk and branches blocked it, forming a blind spot in the line of sight. It was relatively hidden and could not be seen from a distance. He pointed at that place, Tang Mei nodded, and the two of them walked towards the tree hole.
Taking a closer look, the tree hole is actually very wide. The entire tree hole twists and extends into the trunk of the tree for more than 20 meters. The opening is considered small. On the back of the opening, that is, inside the tree hole, there is
It is a lightbulb-shaped space, enough for two people to rest inside.
"Ha, this place is nice. If you warm yourself by the fire in it, the light won't shine through..." Zhang Tie got in first, and Tang Mei also held up her skirt and followed Zhang Tie in.
The precious gold secret Tianli Sword in Zhang Tie's hand has completely become a tool for chopping firewood at this time.
The heart of the tree inside the tree hole has not been completely carbonized, but is very hard, almost like gold and iron. Zhang Tie held the Tianli Sword in his hand without stopping, and the sword shined like a sword in the blink of an eye, right there in the tree hole.
On both sides of the inside, two places were cut out for people to lie down or sit and rest. The wood that was cut out became pieces of firewood and scraps.
Zhang Tie piled the firewood together, flicked his finger, and a spark flew into the firewood. After a while, a fire was born in the tree hole, and the bright fire light dispersed in the tree hole.
In the darkness, the entire tree hole suddenly became warm and made people feel at ease.
Gathered around such a fire, the severe cold brought by the cold water slowly disappeared.
"Brother, won't you bake a few more potatoes?" Tang Mei blinked and said to Zhang Tie.
Hearing Tang Mei's words, Zhang Tie was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and then he took out a few potatoes from the Black Iron Castle and threw them beside the fire.
As the fire light rose, a mysterious fragrance slowly appeared in the tree hole. The mysterious fragrance was very special. Zhang Tie just took a gentle breath and felt that his brain suddenly became clear.
The internal organs felt refreshed, and the mental strength and fighting spirit were greatly nourished...
"Ah, what does this smell like?" Zhang Tie was surprised.
"This is one of the effects of the sandalwood. Unfortunately, the sandalwood has been around for too long. After being destroyed, the trees have died. The remaining effects of the sandalwood are less than one-tenth.
, if the wood is cut from the surviving sandalwood and used to grind it into incense, and then light it for use, the fragrance of the sandalwood can even promote the cultivation of the first-level powerhouse of the God Emperor, and it will be more effective for ordinary god generals and
For magic weapons below the level of god general, there are more benefits..." Tang Mei said with a regretful tone.
Thinking that this forest was filled with such precious things, Zhang Tie finally understood why Tang Mei was so sorry. This thing was simply more precious than the elemental crystal.