After the conversation with the Moonlight Elf ended, Jonah wrapped his robe tightly and lay down. Another night of restless sleep. Although he gradually got used to speeding through the endless sand sea at a high speed of fifty knots, the ghost Bahama felt like a parasite. The same insignificant human being woke up from his dreams again and again. He tried his best to hide his body in the corner of the narrow room, trying to find some safety in the dark night.
It finally dawned. Jonah didn't waste another minute. He moved the wooden frame blocking the door, allowing the sunlight to illuminate the small room and also illuminate the strange symbols on the floor. "Violently blast it open, right... then?" Just come." He raised his staff, Silapina. After a moment of meditation, "Boom." The Mushroom Farm Trident penetrated the floor like a red-hot iron spear. A large hole with neat edges appeared in the house. Center. "Whoosh..." The air was sucked in by the hole. The astrologer's apprentice took a step back warily and observed from a distance.
After a few minutes, the whistling caused by the flow of air disappeared, indicating that the air pressure in the cave and the outside world had reached equilibrium. Jonah slowly walked closer, lit the star array and approached the entrance of the cave. He looked down and saw a dark room below. The room. It was impossible to judge how big the room was from this angle. Jonah tried to shout. The echo seemed empty, indicating that this was a very empty open space.
The room was not too high. Jonah estimated that he would not be injured if he jumped. But climbing up would be a problem. He thought about it, took off his robe, twisted it into a bunch and tied it to the wooden storage rack. I tried it and the wooden frame didn't move at all. It can fully bear the weight of a person.
"Huh..." Yona put his hand on his chest and took two deep breaths, suppressing the fear in his heart. "Come on." He closed his eyes and used his legs to jump into the second floor room.
The wind howled behind his ears. The falling process seemed very long. But finally he landed safely with a plop. The astrologer apprentice immediately stood up straight and raised his staff high. He adjusted the output power of the star array to the maximum. The empty room was covered with It was illuminated. The light extended to all four walls of the room. Not a single obstacle cast a shadow... The room was empty.
Jonah breathed a sigh of relief. Then he felt a little disappointed. The room was visually estimated to be two thousand square feet in size. It had an irregular oval shape. There were no doors or windows. The ground was uneven and showed traces of manual excavation. However, it had not been properly repaired. .
"What is the use of such a room...?" Jonah said to himself. His voice echoed in the empty room. He accidentally startled himself. He walked towards a wall casually. Following the words on the wall, The details became clear. His expression gradually turned into surprise. "This is... a mural."
He stood in front of a wall and looked at the colorful murals in shock. It turned out that the shape of the room was not an oval, but a polygon composed of twenty-four walls. Each wall was different in width, but they were all very flat. Twenty-four exquisite murals cover every corner of the house. The one in front of Jonah uses charcoal to outline undulating curves in a yellow tone. With just a few strokes, the vast endless sea of sand is presented before his eyes. The painter's brushstrokes are very vivid. There is a black shadow walking through the khaki sand dunes. Jonah recognized the black shadow on the painting at a glance as the ghost Bahamas. In the mural, this giant beast has a huge The body, a head covered with bone spurs, four eyes, three pairs of strong legs, and a long tail. The appearance was not among any of the creatures he knew. But for some reason, it looked a little familiar.
"Is this what the Ghost Bahamas looks like..." the astrologer's apprentice murmured. There are several lines of small handwritten words in the upper right corner of the mural. The fonts are the same as the symbols on the floor of the room above. It seems that the creator of the mural is from the quiet room above. Master. One detail caught Jonah's attention. In the picture, two pairs of eyes of the ghost Bahamas shed tears at the same time. Red tears. Red water droplets representing tears were intermittently sprinkled in the long tail of the giant beast. I don't know what the author wanted to express. mean.
Jonah turned to other scenes.
Half an hour later, he finished reading all the murals. He returned to the center of the room thoughtfully. He sat on the floor and hugged his staff tightly. He fell into deep thought. Each mural on the wall represents a frozen moment. Twenty-four A complete story was told in an instant. The story of the ghost Bahamas. Although the words left by the painter could not be understood, the life of the giant beast had been imprinted on the heart of the astrologer's apprentice. The vivid picture directly shook his soul. According to time Sequence. The twenty-four murals tell in sequence:
1. A long time ago, there was such an era of magic. Traces of dragons could be seen in every corner of the continent. Different types of dragons ruled the sky of the world;
2. Giant dragons fight, play, and collect treasures. They leave endless legends behind;
3. Adult male dragons occasionally mate with aliens and give birth to various half-dragon monsters. Half-dragons are species abandoned by the dragon clan and souls abandoned by the dragon god;
4. The black dragon from the east is the overlord of the sky. It has a distinctive slender body and lightning-fast flying speed. It spits out flames from its mouth and the tips of its claws sparkle with thunder and lightning;
5. The black dragon came to the southern continent. It was attracted by the many treasures of the Golden City and stayed here for a long time;
6. The black dragon that dominates the continent flies over the endless sand sea. The first and only mother of the desert looks up from the ground;
7. The black dragon landed in front of the queen. The powerful creatures felt each other's power;
8. The queen worm becomes the companion of the black dragon. The whole desert trembles with their joy;
9. The war has begun. The golden dragon, silver dragon, red copper dragon, brass dragon, bronze dragon, red dragon, and green dragon from the west and the Chi dragon, Jiao dragon, Kui dragon, Ying dragon, yellow dragon, and black dragon from the east are divided into two. The war between dragons swept the world. Elves, dwarfs, cyclops and red demons, war ghosts, and tree elves participated in the battle as helpers for both parties. The sky was filled with fire and thunder. The lives of magical creatures disappeared like fireworks. Huge explosions Happened. The endless sea of sand overturned to the southwest. A large sand waterfall appeared from this;
10. There is no win or lose in the war. The sky lost the shadow of the dragon clan. The black dragon left and never came back;
11. The queen gave birth to a new life. The descendants of the dragon clan remained silent in her body for eight hundred years;
12. Finally, the Mother of the Desert gave birth to the first and only half-dragon sand-eating worm. On the day of birth, the first heavy rain in eight hundred years fell in the endless sand sea;
Thirteen. The half-dragon inherited his father's strength and wisdom, but lost the ability to fly. The powerful black dragon bloodline allowed him to consider himself a dragon, but he could only run with his head down in the desert and eat dirty yellow sand instead. the flowing clouds in the sky;
14. The half-dragon lost his mind. He ran aimlessly in the endless sea of sand. He shed blood and tears and chased the sun;
15. The half-dragon crashed into the tower where the astrologer lived. The astrologer was very angry. He summoned the power of the stars to punish the half-dragon;
16. The astrologer communicated with the half-dragon through the legendary artifact and decided to help the descendants of the black dragon regain the glory of the dragon clan;
17. The astrologer changed the appearance of the half-dragon's body and used its flesh and blood to carve out a mysterious array that can store the power of the stars;
18. The astrologer designed a complex star array that no one has ever seen. Tell the descendants of the black dragon that as long as they run on the desert according to the outline of the star array, one day they may accumulate enough energy to change the appearance of time and space and awaken the black dragon.
The power of flying to the place where our ancestors have soared for generations;
Nineteen. The final work could not be completed. The astrologer disappeared together with his tower. The half-dragon firmly remembered the huge star array, but did not know what the last part of the star array looked like;
20. The half-dragon cannot stop. Only by moving forward quickly can he swallow more yellow sand, absorb more nutrients, and strengthen his body. Only then can he move forward faster and get closer to his father's footprints faster. He
Break through the sand dunes, smash into the mountains. Crush all the obstacles on the strong road into pieces. Nothing can stop the powerful blood of the dragon family from moving forward bravely;
21. Year after year passed. The half-dragon used the endless sea of sand as a canvas and its own footprints as a brush. It painted the astrologer's huge star array over and over again. It kept trying the shape of the last part. But it never
success;
22. The lonely half-dragon runs alone. Horrible legends are born because of it. It has been too long. No one remembers its origin. Its name is filled with the deep hatred of desert people;
23. The ascetic monk came to the endless sand sea. He briefly accompanied the lonely giant beast. The monk resonated with the half-dragon. Therefore, he realized the supreme truth between heaven and earth and understood the mystery of survival and destruction;
24. The monk reluctantly bid farewell to the half-dragon. He returned to his own country to spread the truth. Before leaving, he painted to record the story of the half-dragon. He hoped that the next human who would be lucky enough to be its companion would understand its hundreds of years of sorrow and persistence.
It provides help that monks cannot provide. Helps the descendants of the dragon family to return to the sky.
In the last mural, the monk transformed his image into four faces. Jonah didn't know what it meant. Whether it meant the changes after "penetrating the entrance".
The true face of the ghost Bahamas was completely different from the imagination of the astrologer's apprentice. He did not expect that the nightmarish destroyer of the endless sand sea would have such a life experience. For a hundred years, the lonely half-dragon worked day and night, persistently drawing the incomplete star array over and over again.
Trajectory. Jonah stroked the rough skin of the giant beast beneath him. His heart was filled with the desolation he felt.
There were two other things that he didn't expect. First, that magical era that had never been recorded in any historical records really existed; second, that the first mentor Gilberto Gilberto actually played a very important role in it.
It can even be said that it was the first-generation mentor who single-handedly created the legendary ghost Bahamas. This deed has also not been included in any astrology books. The unfinished star array disappeared into the turbulence of time and space together with the astrology tower Amlysia... If
If I had known about this past event, I should have asked the first-generation mentor to complete this star formation in the illusion of the Well of Light...