In the Clouds: Mulan Line

Chapter 27
The reason is that the anaconda's sand boat hit these black stones. The principle of the sand boat is to rely on the black crystal sand to repel the yellow sand, and the repelling force is limited. According to the amount of black crystal sand used, the sand boat can fly up to a height of one meter .

At this height, it is inevitable to hit some black stones with a height of more than one meter.

"It... just accidentally bumped into these rocks, why do you say we don't want to live anymore?" Amu Boa was a little depressed, he felt that Wu Nan had been talking a little bit since he entered the desert.

"Hmph, what do you know! These black stones have the divine power of the God of Mechanisms left. If you knock down these stones, you will offend the God of Mechanisms. At that time, we may all die!" Wu Nan said angrily.

Is it so exaggerated?

Amu Boa didn't believe it at all in his heart, it was just some stones, and what he said was the scraps left after the god of mechanism smelted weapons, this was just a legend to deceive children.

Although there are gods in the sand sea, many of the legends about the gods were added by later generations.

"Forget it." Golden Ring Snake gave Amu Boa a wink, and said in a low voice, "Follow the old guy's wishes, he will do whatever he says."

"But avoiding these black stones is also troublesome." Amu Bo was a little annoyed. There were too many stones, and the sand boat was too big. You might not be able to avoid those turning around. The amount of large black crystal sand is used to increase the height as much as possible, which is another big waste.

"Be patient, after all we still count on him to lead the way."

The Golden Ring Snake was talking, when suddenly her eyes were attracted by something in the distance.

"Huh? What is that?"

Despite the words of the Golden Ring Snake, everyone followed the reputation, but found that there seemed to be some towering black stone buildings in the distance.

People glanced at each other, and when they got closer, they found that these black stone buildings were far bigger than they imagined, not one or two, but a large area, but these buildings were dilapidated and collapsed.

The thick foundation stone slab was deeply buried in the yellow sand, and the part exposed on the ground was more than one meter thick and three meters square.

Such a stone slab might cost [-] catties a piece.

There is also a black pillar on the stone slab, which is so thick that three or four people can hug it. Such a magnificent pillar has also been broken, leaving behind a rough rock section.

For thousands of years, wind and sand buried these broken foundations, and then they were swept away by strong winds, exposing them again, and so on, I don't know how many times.

"What kind of place is this? Is it a palace? Could it be a palace left by an ancient country?"

The anaconda is a little excited. As adventurers, these ancient ruins can most arouse the blood in their bones.

Especially the royal palace, if it is really the ruins of the royal palace, it means that there may be royal treasures left here that have not had time to take away.

"There are so many boulders, and I don't know where they were moved. What a huge project!"

"There are murals here." Baili Shouyue said suddenly, and everyone walked over and saw a collapsed stone wall. If this stone wall was standing, it should be as high as a two-story building. The patterned giant python has a black sarcoma on its head, with horns on the sarcoid. The giant python opened its mouth wide, and its sharp teeth were like spears, and some of the teeth pierced bloody corpses .

It is not accurate to say that the corpse is actually. Seeing the distorted expressions of the people pierced by the snake teeth, the blood is flowing, and they are obviously still alive.

They are all living people. This is a mural of a python eating people.

And under the body of the boa constrictor, there were also a large number of white bones crushed.Some were human, some were beasts, some had dried flesh and blood on their bones, and some had parts of their bodies mutilated in the gaps between the bones, leaving only a painful, struggling life.

In some murals, tripod patterns, stone carvings and other ancient paintings left over from history, it is not uncommon to see bloody scenes such as tigers eating people, snakes eating people, and blood sacrifices of living people. However, this mural is completely different from those.Whether it's the distorted and painful expressions of those who were eaten, the snake's ferocious body, the black tumors on its head, or the black and red python patterns on the snake's body that seem to sink in after a long time, they all give people an indescribable darkness , A sense of depression.

It seems that this is a painting made by demons that only exists in hell and has been moved to the world.

"This painting makes me very uncomfortable." Baili Shouyue said, his perception is sharper than ordinary people, and seeing this painting, the visual impact he endured is stronger.

Hua Mulan didn't care. She said: "There is no such big snake in the world. It's just an imagination in some religious myths. Everything in the painting is made up by people. Just treat it as fake."

"Of course I know this, it's just..." Baili Shouyue gently touched the paint on the mural, especially the blood, and the black and red python patterns, which were so vivid that it was so vivid that it was hard to imagine what it might have experienced. It has been eroded by wind and sand for thousands of years, but it looks like someone just painted it.

"Is this mural really an ancient painting? Rather than a painting within the last year?"

"It may be some kind of special pigment. Many ancient countries in the cloud have technology beyond our imagination. Maybe they have developed a pigment that will not fade after a hundred years of wind and sand."

"Don't move around!!" Wu Nan suddenly yelled, "Are you looking for death? This mural was made by ancient gods and demons, and it contains the power of gods, so it can not fade for thousands of years. If you move the paintings of demon gods recklessly, it will give us bring misfortune."

Baili Shouyan stopped immediately: "Sorry, I didn't know that such an ancient mural would bring danger."

"Uncle Wunan, why do you always say these things are ominous, calamity, etc. What's the matter? It's just an abandoned palace left by the ancient country in the cloud." Amu Boa said disapprovingly, hearing Wunan say these things, his ears were so cold Cocooned.

"What did you say!?" Wu Nan glared at Amu Anaconda.

"Originally, you keep talking about the God of Mechanisms. If there is a God of Mechanisms, why doesn't he protect his followers? I know that there are people in the 36 countries in the cloud who are good at making mechanism puppets, but they will also be destroyed." country yet?"

Behind Amu Bona, a burly man said in a low voice.

This shout was bare-chested, revealing his tendons. Because of the sun, he had a thin layer of sweat on his body, and he looked shiny, like metal soaked in tung oil.

This big man is called Kui Niu, and he is Amu Anaconda's right-hand man.

This completely angered Wu Nan: "You all go away! Don't follow me! Your disrespectful attitude to the gods will kill me!"

Kui Niu wanted to refute a few words, but was quickly stopped by the anaconda: "Okay, okay, you just pretend that we didn't say anything, you are right, this is the relic of the god, it is the painting of the demon god, we are right The gods are disrespectful. I apologize here. It’s okay. You see, my name is 'Anaconda', and my sister's name is 'Snake'. They are both related to the boa constrictor on the mural. The gods should also forgive us. .”

Although the anaconda is soft-spoken, it gives people a feeling of "you have the final say when you are older, and I don't have the same knowledge as you".

Hua Mulan couldn't help shaking her head, she didn't realize it before, this anaconda is quite cheap, he feels uncomfortable, so even if he apologizes, he has to disgust you.

Wu Nan stared at Amu Boa and Kui Niu bitterly, apparently knowing their true thoughts clearly.

Seeing that Wunan was about to erupt again, the Golden Ring Snake quickly came out to smooth things over and said, "Uncle Wunan, calm down, my brother is just talking nonsense, and as for that stupid Kui Niu, you see, he doesn't even have anything in his head. Muscles, don’t bother with him. Besides, you just said that the Black Sand Sea is dangerous and weird, which is true, but haven’t we entered the Black Sand Sea yet? We are only on the periphery of the Black Sand Sea.”

"What do you know?" Wu Nan said angrily, "There are many false rumors about the Black Sand Sea outside, saying that the Black Sand Sea can move, but in fact it doesn't mean that the Black Sand Sea can move, but its entrance is uncertain. In other words, we may walk into the sea of ​​black sand in a daze without knowing it!

And even if you don't enter the Black Sand Sea, just the periphery of the Black Sand Sea is very dangerous. I'm doing it for your own good, lest you lose your life in a daze. "

"The outskirts of the Black Sand Sea are also dangerous?" Hua Mulan asked in surprise.

"Of course, otherwise you would think why this place is called a Jedi."

"How did the entrance of the Black Sand Sea move? Will it suck us in?" Hua Mulan asked again.

"Like I said, I don't fully understand the Black Sand Sea. In short, when you see the Black Sand Sea, you will understand... eh? What are you doing!?"

While Wu Nan was talking, he suddenly noticed a thin man squatting on Kui Niu's shoulder, staring intently at the mural, to be precise, he was looking at the snake's eyes.

This thin and small man is another capable subordinate of Amu Boa - mandrill.

"It's nothing." The mandrill smiled, jumped off Kui Niu's shoulder, and while Wu Nan turned around, the mandrill whispered something in Amu Boa's ear.

Although the voice was very low, Baili Shouyue moved his fluffy sharp ears, but he could hear clearly—"Boss, I saw the snake's eyes just now. Although they were covered by paint, I could still see them clearly." , that is actually a bloodstone."

"Bloodstone?" Amu Boa glanced at Snake Eye without leaving a trace, "It's so pure red, and it's bigger than an egg, are you sure?"

If it is really a chicken blood stone with such an exaggerated appearance, it is simply a priceless treasure!

It is incredible that this kind of thing can stay in the desert for hundreds of years without being poached by people.

"With my eyes, gold the size of a grain of rice is mixed in a boat of yellow sand, and I can find it at a glance. Do you think I will see it wrong?"

"Good job, I just said that there are treasures in this palace! I was thinking about whether I could get rid of this damn old man and search for it."

"Boss, if you want me to say, it doesn't matter if you don't go to the Black Sand Sea, it's far away and dangerous, anyway, what we want is a treasure, with this bloodstone, we will get rich."

"Yes! We will pretend to give up going to Heishahai for a while, and we will return here when the time comes."

The anaconda and the mandrill were communicating quickly, but at this moment, Wu Nan suddenly turned his face, and he stared at the anaconda with a frightening look in his eyes: "What are you discussing?"

Seeing Wu Nan's gloomy gaze, Amu Bo's heart skipped a beat, and he said with some guilt: "I didn't discuss anything, it's just that the mandrill told me that the black crystal sand on the sand boat was running out, and asked me what to do."

"Really..." The corner of Wu Nan's mouth twitched, and he stared at the anaconda and mandrill, as if trying to find a flaw in their expressions.

He intuitively felt that these people were lying.

Although he has no evidence, this does not prevent him from making a judgment: "You people, immediately! Immediately! Get out of here in your sand boat, and don't follow me anymore!"

Wu Nan cursed directly, and Amu Boa also became angry.

As for the mandrill, Kui Niu, and the other dozen or so sons of Sha Hai who followed Amu Boa, their hearts were filled with murderous intent when they heard Wu Nan's words.

This old guy, I really thought that I couldn't do without you. If I didn't treat you as an old horse that knows the way, I would have cleaned you up long ago!The identity of the castle owner is not easy to use here, this is not Mingsha City!
However, although Amu Bo was extremely upset, he managed to bear it, and said with a smile: "Since Uncle Wunan doesn't want us to follow, then we just leave, just as there is not much black crystal sand left on the sand boat. gone."

The anaconda was also unambiguous, and directly led the people to leave.

The team of more than a dozen people, talking and laughing, evacuated towards the sand boat in the distance.

They made up their minds, after Wu Nan left, they went to fetch bloodstones, and then they went back home instead of going to Heishahai.

Just when they passed by Baili Shouyue, Baili Shouyue suddenly raised his head to look at the sky, and said thoughtfully: "The wind is blowing..."

"Isn't it normal for the wind to blow? When is there no wind in the desert?" The Golden Ring Snake Girl said with a charming smile.

"But this wind...has the smell of blood." Baili Shouyue stuck out his tongue and tasted the wind.

Bloody smell?
Golden Ring Snake raised her eyebrows and looked at her brother.

The anaconda paused, and he sniffed the air, and there was indeed a bloody smell.

"How is this going?"

Amu Boa's expression changed slightly, and he lightly pressed the scimitar on his waist.

He looked at Wunan, the desert was barren, and there were abandoned ruins thousands of years ago, where did the smell of blood come from?
But Wu Nan didn't understand. He had seen too many weird things because he strayed into the Black Sand Sea before. He couldn't be sure what happened. He just felt uneasy instinctively.

"Go! Get out of here immediately, and leave the scope of the ruins!"

Wu Nan opened his mouth and said, in fact, Wu Nan didn't need to open his mouth, those people brought by Amu Boa had already started to retreat in an orderly manner.

This bloody wind added a sense of spookiness to the abandoned palace.

But at this moment, there was only a soft sound of "咻", followed by a scream, and people turned their heads to look, but saw a horrifying scene!
A blood hole appeared in the perineum between the legs of a son of sand sea and in the head at the same time!
Blood spurted from below, brains rushed from above, and then his whole body seemed to be brought out by a huge force, flying into the sky!
Then, the son of the sand sea was fixed in midair by an invisible force. He covered his neck with his hands and struggled desperately, but he couldn't make a sound.

In just a few seconds, he rolled his eyes, completely breathless.

died!

Everyone looked at the body in the sky in shock, what is it?
They couldn't even see what it was that had hit him, it was just hell.

"It seems that he was pierced by an invisible thorn." Baili Shouyue said suddenly, if an invisible long thorn pierced the dead from the perineum to the heavenly spirit, it would create such a scene, It also happens to fix him in mid-air!

"Snake...snake teeth!!" Wu Nan woke up like a dream, with a look of fear on his face, "This is the scene painted on the mural, he was eaten by the snake god! Because of your offense, the God of Mechanism is angry! It's over , It's over, we have nowhere to escape, we are all going to die! We are all going to die!"

Before Wu Nan finished speaking, he heard another scream, and another son of Sha Hai was impaled. The invisible snake teeth just pierced his chin, from the chin upwards, through the skull!
The son of the sand sea was lifted from the ground by his head, and flew into the sky.

Hua Mulan's expression suddenly changed, and she suddenly pulled the armor beside her: "Be careful!"

"Bang!!"

The sand where Kai had just left suddenly exploded, and a round sand hole appeared!

Seeing this scene, Kai's scalp was numb. How could he not know what this sand hole meant? If Hua Mulan hadn't pulled him away, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

"Can you feel the appearance of snake teeth?" Kai asked.

"Don't ask, let's go!"

Only then did Kai realize that Wu Nan had already run away.

Of all the people, Wu Nan ran the fastest!
This old bastard, just now he clearly said "there is no way out", "we are all going to die" and so on, but when everyone was desperate, this guy ran away without saying a word.

Everyone came to their senses and fled in all directions. Hua Mulan also rolled extremely fast and caught up with everyone: "Follow Wu Nan, maybe it's safer."

Only then did Kai see that Baili kept the promise while running and put down a round device. After the device was deployed, it would emit a halo of halo, covering the nearby sand sea and palace ruins.

This is another mechanism that Baili Shouyue carries with him - the eye of observation.

It can assist Baili Shouyue to explore the surrounding environment.

Kai suddenly understood that although he was in an extremely dangerous environment right now, his two teammates had their own means. Baili could rely on the eye of observation to give early warning, and Hua Mulan seemed to have a keen intuition for danger.

He was a little lucky to have teammates like them, otherwise, they might have died here like those sons of Sand Sea.

There was another scream from behind, but Hua Mulan and the others ignored it and rushed out of the ruins of the palace as quickly as possible.

Wu Nan ran wildly all the way. If you say that Hua Mulan, Kai, and Baili kept the contract, they were all experienced fighters, and their physical fitness was far beyond that of ordinary people.

But they were surprised to find that they could barely keep up with Wu Nan.

Running in the desert is not easy, the sand is soft and slippery, it is difficult to exert strength at all, but Wu Nan runs like flying on grass.

It's hard to believe that this middle-aged man who usually smokes a hookah and naps on a camel can run so well.

After running for an unknown distance in one breath, Wu Nan finally started to slow down.

(End of this chapter)