This mountain pass is in the shape of a trumpet. From our current position to the bottom of the real mountain pass, it is estimated that it is only about two hundred meters. The mountain pass is narrow, and due to the obstruction of two black mountains, it is dark inside, which makes people feel fearful.
Liu Dong was still walking at the front, but he quietly took out the folding ordnance shovel from his backpack and held it in his hand. Judging from the cautious way he walked, he should be full of knowledge about this mysterious place he had been to before.
Afraid. Of course, the last situation he told about what happened in this mysterious place also made the rest of us extremely awed.
When he came to the entrance, which was as narrow as a doorway, Liu Dong stopped and said: "It's too dark in here, and my flashlight has almost no effect if I shine it in. The last time we entered, we were forced by a big sandstorm. Who?
Are there any cold fireworks? Put them in and take a photo."
At this time, I agreed, took out two cold fireworks from my backpack, walked forward and handed them to Liu Dong. The moment I touched Liu Dong's hand, I shuddered. Liu Dong's hand was extremely cold. It was really frustrating.
I thought it was very strange, but I didn’t think much about it.
Liu Dong took the cold fireworks, folded one and threw it into the entrance. A cold white light illuminated a distance of about ten meters. Strangely, although the mountain pass was narrow, it was very spacious inside, except for the black rocks on both sides.
, the ground turned out to be a layer of white material, which looked like sand. In addition, there was not even a blade of grass or any other color, only black and white rocks and white sand.
I asked Liu Dong in surprise: "What is that white thing?"
Liu Dong stared forward and said casually: "That's the white sand."
"White sand?" I said confusedly. I was just about to ask Liu Dong what the white sand was about. He had already crossed the mountain pass quickly and walked forward. I quickly followed him as soon as I saw it, and everyone behind him also
He followed up step by step.
The moment we crossed the mountain pass, I suddenly felt that the temperature change was extremely abnormal. It should be said that the temperature seemed a bit low outside the mountain pass. The sun was blocked by the mountain peaks. Although the desert clothes we wore were relatively thick, it still felt
It's a bit chilly, but as soon as you enter the mountain pass, the temperature rises suddenly. It's like entering a room with full air conditioning from the outside in winter. It feels very stuffy.
As everyone entered the mountain pass, they were a little surprised by the temperature and the white sand-like material underground, and started talking about it. Liu Dong then turned around and said: "This is nothing to be surprised about. The temperature is extremely high. One of the reasons is
Because the iron ore body absorbs heat from the sun, and this valley is located between two mountain peaks, it is relatively closed and difficult to dissipate heat, so the temperature inside is high all year round. The second reason is the white sand on the ground. I went up
I did a test last time and found that these things are all made of weathered limestone. As for why there is only a sand layer made of limestone in this valley, I don't know."
Liu Dong's explanation made everyone suddenly realize that the iron ore absorbing sunlight and the limestone emitting heat is the reason for the extremely high temperature in the valley. The wonders of nature are indeed beyond human expectations.
When we came to the location of the first cold firework, we walked forward for a while, and Liu Dong broke off the second one and threw it forward. This time we found a creepy thing. It was a human-shaped thing, with a body all over it.
The snow-white humanoid figure was sitting quietly on the white sand ground not far from us, motionless.
This discovery shocked us all and we all stopped. Only Liu Dong continued to walk forward, seemingly turning a blind eye to the white figure in front of him. Minister An quickly called him to remind him of the white figure in front of him.
Liu Dong stopped suddenly and turned around to look at us with a strange expression. There were very complicated emotions in his eyes, which seemed to include resentment, sadness, and something strange that could not be explained.
His expression made us all a little scared, wondering what was going on. At this time, Liu Dong's face suddenly calmed down, and he slowly said: "It is a friend of mine who discovered the ancient city of Jingjue a few years ago.
, he died here.”
After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the white humanoid thing, and then knelt down in front of the thing.
We all looked at each other and rushed over.
When we came to Liu Dong's side, we saw clearly that the human-shaped thing turned out to be a corpse. Perhaps due to the occasional wind blowing in the valley, the body was stained with lime sand.
Liu Dong, who was kneeling in front of the human figure, had tears streaming down his face. He took out a brush from his arms that he might usually use for exploration and research, and gently wiped the lime sand on the body.
As the lime dust fell, everyone discovered a terrifying phenomenon, that is, the skin of the humanoid corpse was no longer white, but turned black and blue, and even glowed blue under the illumination of cold fireworks and flashlights.
At this time, Professor Liu Baiheng squatted down, took out a magnifying glass and carefully observed the muscles of the corpse. After looking at it for a while, he stood up and said with disbelief: "It's strange, he died in an extremely weird way, the muscles
It was only slightly dry, not rotten, and judging from the black and blue color of the muscles, he died of poison."
Others gathered around to take a look at this, but Liu Baiheng quickly stopped him and said, "Don't touch his skin with your hands. If my guess is right, his whole body has been penetrated by this powerful poison, otherwise several years will have passed."
, his skin has long since rotted away in such a hot and stuffy environment.”
His words shocked all of us. How did this person get poisoned? What kind of poison was he poisoned? And what made the poison so powerful? I am afraid that only Liu Dong can explain it to us.
But at this time, Liu Dong was still weeping and wiping the white ash from the body. We all knew his mood and could only stand aside and wait for him silently.
The brightness of Leng Yanhuo gradually dimmed. Liu Dong finally wiped off the white ash on his body, then controlled his emotions, took out a skin bag from his backpack, put the whole body in it, and murmured: "
Xiaozhuo, wait for me. Wait for me to take you out of this damn desert and take you home."
An Tong walked up to Liu Dong at this time, patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Old Liu, this is your most proud student Zhuo Lin? Don't be too sad. When we go back, we must take him with us.
.”
Liu Dong nodded numbly, then cheered up and said: "Lao An, comrades, last time I was suddenly attacked by something at the Triangular Temple in Jingjue Ancient City, and I fainted. I was killed by Zhuo Lin, Xiao Yi, Pang
Of course, there was a guide who rescued me. When I woke up, I was already on the edge of the desert, and only the guide was left with me. He, Zhuo Lin, and Xiao Yi Pang Ran all told me about the misfortunes they encountered while escaping from the ancient city of Jingjue.
I heard it. According to his description, Zhuo Ran was attacked by an unknown creature and died immediately. The guide, Xiao Yi and Pang Ran desperately escaped from the mountain pass into the desert and were attacked by drifting sand. Only the guide was carrying me.
, the two of us escaped with our lives after falling behind. Seeing Zhuo Ran’s body, I can confirm that Jingjue Ancient City did appear not far ahead, but this place is also extremely strange and dangerous, and the invisible unknown creature does not know
What is it, everyone must be careful."
We all nodded solemnly, looking at the horrific corpse in front of us. We could imagine that the so-called unknown creature must be extremely powerful and dangerous. Each of us had weapons in our hands, because there was no heat.
Weapons, basically what everyone has in their hands are ordnance shovels and military daggers. My daggers are already on the clock tower of the City of Time, so I also took out the folding military shovel from my backpack and held it in my hand.
.As for the God-killing Miao Dao, just before starting the mission, instructor Shui told me not to expose the sword to the eyes of these experts unless absolutely necessary, so until now, it has been wrapped in a thick canvas and carried on my back.
Behind me, it has never been opened.
At this moment, the second cold firework had almost lost its light. For some unknown reason in this black valley, several of our flashlights turned out to be very dim. Perhaps they were used underground for too long and the batteries were exhausted.
It's almost all used up.
Liu Dong asked me if I still had Leng Yanhuo. I nodded, took out two more cigarettes from my backpack and handed them to him. Liu Dong nodded at me, then folded one and threw it vigorously in front of me. Leng Yanhuo drew a
A dazzling light and shadow fell on the ground about ten or twenty meters away from us.
The bright white light suddenly illuminated a large area. Seeing the situation in front, we all, including Liu Dong, stayed there. A few meters in front of where the cold smoke fell, there was a black mountain wall. That is to say
, we are actually in a dead end. The mountain wall is integrated with both sides, without even a single gap, and it rises high, almost at the same height as the mountain.
Minister An looked at Liu Dong dumbfounded and said: "This... what is going on?"
Liu Dong looked at the mountain wall in disbelief and murmured: "How...how is this possible? This valley is clearly connected from north to south, how could it...become like this now?"
All of us were immediately dumbfounded, and several experts even looked at Liu Dong with a strange suspicion.
Liu Dong looked at everyone with a wry smile, then took a deep breath, calmed down, and said: "I...I'll go over and have a look." After that, he walked straight forward, and several other experts including An
Tong Ze stood there, watching Liu Dong walk towards the stone wall step by step.
Suddenly Fei Yifan said: "Yunlong, you and I can follow. I always feel that this stone wall is very abrupt. It doesn't look like it was formed naturally by the mountain, but it looks like it was made artificially."
I said "Oh" blankly. At this time, Fei Fan was already walking forward, and I quickly followed him.