Huh... Huh... .
Su Lie controlled his emotions through breathing. Although the experience just now made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave and the chill in his heart was still coming out, he had calmed down and began to analyze the current situation.
"It shouldn't be a teleport..."
This was the first conclusion Su Lie made after calming down: "A key is needed to enter the 'tomb'. Even an alien god cannot teleport me directly to the 'tomb', let alone reach the restricted area and enter the ruins deep inside."
"So, it's possible that this is an illusion, and the enemy is able to access my memory and present it?"
"It is indeed possible. Being able to communicate without any obstacles in Xingdu is probably related to spiritual or mental abilities."
"Since this ability exists, it is not impossible to dig out the memories and even secrets in my heart."
"Just what's the purpose of doing this?"
At this moment, Su Lie suddenly discovered that the light around him began to dim. Even the radiance of his own star energy seemed to be suppressed by something and gradually dimmed, and the star energy was disappearing.
Then he heard a soft sound from behind.
Click, click, click—
The sound seemed to be made by rough objects rubbing against each other. Su Lie's scalp immediately tensed up, and the following picture emerged in his mind: the sarcophagus behind him was slowly opening!
His breathing became heavy and his emotions were becoming tense, but Su Lie was not visibly panicked. He was about to turn around to check, but then he remembered that he was almost crushed by fear just by looking at the symbols on the sarcophagus.
If I face what appears in the coffin now, will I have a mental breakdown
This is no longer about courage, but the distance in life height. After all, the person lying in the coffin may be one of the most powerful gods in the universe behind the Kraft Gate.
Whether it is the three major pillars or the title of 'God Devourer', they all support Su Lie's point of view.
He controlled himself in time and did not turn around, but a picture emerged in his mind.
There was nothing special about it, it was as ordinary as the sarcophagus that could be seen everywhere in a mass grave. Now the coffin lid was opening little by little, and inside the coffin was a darkness so thick that it was almost tangible. The darkness was wriggling silently inside, and wisps of dark breath were floating faintly.
Su Lie's breathing became heavy, the blood vessels under his skin bulged slightly, and beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead. There was a voice in his heart that was reminding him and screaming.
leave here!
Su Lie groaned, clenched his teeth, and was about to take action.
Any action we take now is better than doing nothing.
But no matter how powerful his will was, his body seemed to be disobedient and did not move at all.
Move!
Get moving!
Su Lie roared in his heart, but it was of no use. His body seemed to be filled with a large amount of lead and he couldn't even move a finger.
The terrible thing is that the images in his mind are still changing and still emerging.
Su Lie saw a hand sticking out from the open sarcophagus. It was a pitch-black hand that seemed to be made of pure darkness. In the palm, unspeakable darkness was flowing silently.
In the darkness, eyes opened one after another. These eyes were of different sizes and shapes, like different creatures.
s eyes.
They stared at Su Lie, vaguely and densely, all revealing a strong desire, as if they had set their sights on a desired prey!
Su Lie's chest was heaving, sweat was pouring down, his eyes were bloodshot, and his neck was swollen and turned red.
He tried his best to make himself move, but at this time, he couldn't move at all.
In his mind, he 'saw' the dark hand with eyes all over it but one finger missing reaching out to him.
It kept getting closer, and around it, circles of ripples spread out and the space bulged, as if the hand was penetrating time and space and reaching out to him.
But at this time, Su Lie was unable to stop it from approaching.
The hand was getting closer and closer, and finally, it was behind Su Lie.
Su Lie could only move his eyeballs. He forced himself to look down and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a black finger extending from behind his neck.
His scalp suddenly felt tight and numb.
at this time.
In his mind, the hand suddenly clasped down and the fingers closed one by one.
He was caught!
at the same time.
Su Lie heard a sharp, fear-filled scream coming from the darkness.
The darkness in his eyes flickered, and thin rays of light appeared. The light was like a crack. The next moment, the darkness shattered, like a torn black curtain, shattering and dissipating.
Then Su Lie saw the hall full of fallen stone tablets again, and saw Tianyang not far away from him. He breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had regained control of his body.
"Dad?"
Tianyang saw that Su Lie's hair was wet with sweat, his breath was weak, and he was actually extremely exhausted.
He quickly took out the 'energy storage ball' and told Su Lie how to use it. He heaved a sigh of relief as he watched his father inhale wisps of star essence and his breath gradually stabilize.
After recovering most of his star energy, Su Lie pushed the 'energy storage ball' back to Tianyang. Just as he was about to speak, his Juque suddenly tightened.
Tianyang noticed that he was acting strangely, so he followed his gaze and saw that a figure had appeared in the hall where they were.
He was an old man, but very tall, more than three meters tall, but thin. He was wearing a very loose black robe with many strange and evil symbols on it.
He had white hair and his skin was wrinkled like tree bark. He covered his face with his hands, so his face could not be seen clearly.
Snap.
Something dripped from his hands, it turned out to be drops of blood. Only then did Tianyang notice that the old man was not covering his face with his hands, but had inserted his hands into his eyes.
He seemed to have seen something he shouldn't have seen, so he planned to dig out his own eyes, but it seemed too late.
At this time, the old man's skin quickly turned gray, and then the flesh fell off in pieces, and his face quickly melted away, like a candle thrown into a fire.
His eyeballs, his teeth, his nose, his lips, and everything on his face kept falling to the ground and melting into blood. Finally, his robe opened up, and heads of different races and creatures rolled out one after another.
Those heads, those faces, without exception, showed expressions of fear.
Then the heads, the robe, and the old man's body faded and disappeared like foam.
Tian Yang, who witnessed this scene, couldn't help but look at Su Lie.
Lie looked confused and didn't know what had happened.
But at this moment, they both heard a soft cry at the same time, and saw a small figure leaning against the door at the entrance of the hall, covering its mouth with its small hands, its big eyes full of disbelief, and then a series of beautiful sounds like music were emitted.
It was obviously a language that Tianyang did not know, but he naturally understood what the sentence wanted to express.
"You killed the nightmare old man? How did you do it?"
The figure leaning against the door was the little girl I had met near the temple before.
Tianyang exchanged glances with his father, then asked, "Did you use the stone tablet to warn us?"
The little girl finally reacted then. She screamed and her figure disappeared inch by inch just like before, as if erased by an eraser.
Tian Yang shouted quickly: "Don't go, we have no ill intentions!"
So after the figure disappeared for the most part, it began to reappear little by little. The little girl bit her lips lightly, her eyes rolling, as if she was struggling and hesitating. After a moment, she nodded and said, "Yes, it's me."
"Behind this hall is the Nightmare Courtyard, where the Nightmare Old Man lives. He will trap every living being that appears here in an inescapable nightmare. He will dig out the deepest fear in your heart and turn it into reality."
"You will be killed by your own nightmares, but now, it is the old nightmare who died. How did you do it?"
Tianyang looked at Su Lie. He didn't know how the so-called 'nightmare old man' died, nor did he know what terrible and horrible things that thing had witnessed before he died, which made him dig out his own eyes, but still couldn't escape.
Su Lie had some guesses, but now was not the time to discuss them. He looked at the little girl and said, "What's your name? Can you tell us what happened here?"
The little girl nodded gently: "My name is A-Li, this is not a place for communication, the preacher may appear at any time."
"Preacher?"
"You have also seen it. It is the thing with a human body and a leopard body. It can make all the residents of Xingdu become believers. It can control the believers and make them do anything."
The little girl who called herself A-Li waved her hand: "Follow me. I will take you to the shelter."
Tianyang looked at his father, Su Lie nodded, and the two left the hall and followed A Li into Xingdu. They passed through empty streets, through buildings that were either standing or collapsed, and finally, they came to a tall tower that was still mostly intact.
But Ari did not lead them up. Instead, she went into a staircase that extended downwards. When they reached the bottom and came out of the gate, the view in front of them suddenly became clear.
They came to a platform where houses were built with bricks, stones or wood.
Inside and outside the house, there are all kinds of 'people' moving around. Some are practicing fighting moves, some are preparing food, and some are making simple weapons.
Some of these 'people' had vertical eyes on their foreheads, two heads and four arms, and a human head and a beast body. They were similar to the 'frost people' Tianyang had seen before, except that these 'people' were not mummies. Their skin was shiny, their eyes were bright, and there was no frost on their bodies or faces.
As soon as they saw Tianyang and the other man, they all exclaimed: "There are no holy patterns, they are invaders!"
Ahri quickly opened her arms and shouted, "They are invaders, yes, but at the same time, they may also be our saviors."
"I saw with my own eyes that the old man from Nightmare died in their hands!"