After receiving the report from Tianyang, Lida and other personnel arrived quickly. She sent a storm team to send the wounded to the base vehicle, and the others joined the Tianyang and Kunlan teams to continue exploring.
There was no more harassment from the black people along the way. Tianyang noticed that as they continued to move forward, the terrain tended to extend downward and the rift was shrinking. However, the cliff on the opposite side was still towering, giving everyone a feeling of moving underground.
In the Falcon chariot, Tianyang looked at the holographic model in front of him. If it was not possible to see from the model that the rift closed and connected at the end, he would have doubted whether the convoy would drive directly into the abyss.
But as the terrain gradually went down, the black fog became thicker and thicker, and the visible distance of the headlights was greatly reduced, which forced the team to reduce speed again and again, for fear that they would accidentally hit the horizontal fault again, which would be disastrous.
Finally, they saw the left end of the rift, where the earth closed in. At Lida's command, the convoy began to turn and explore the other side of the rift.
Not long after that, Tianyang suddenly heard the driver next to him say "Huh".
"Captain, look ahead."
Tianyang looked out from the car and saw stone pillars appearing in front of him. These stone pillars were unusually thick and tall, with slightly twisted shafts. They did not look like they were man-made, but rather formed by weathering or some other natural causes.
“Stop moving forward.”
Rita's voice was heard over the in-car public communication channel. The convoy stopped, the doors opened, and the exploration team members jumped out one by one.
With the help of car lights and individual lighting, he observed the stone forest in front of him.
Wherever the light fell, there were towering stone pillars. They were densely distributed in the area, and it was unknown how far they extended.
Everyone looked towards Lida, and the bald lady stroked her forehead and said, "This place is not conducive to driving, let's explore on foot."
"Intelligent weapons are in the front, the Ascendants are in the middle, and the soldiers are in the back."
After the concise command was issued, the intelligent weapons of each team entered the stone forest first and went deep into the boundless darkness ahead.
Tianyang came to Yanbing's side and saw him holding an electronic board. The screen showed the images sent back by the Queen's onboard camera.
The queen was approaching a stone pillar. When she got closer, she saw that there were some holes of different sizes on the pillar.
The big ones can fit a fist, but the small ones can only fit a finger. I don’t know how they are formed.
After the intelligent weapons had opened up some distance, the exploration team entered the stone forest, keeping a distance of about 100 meters from the five or six Queens in front.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
When passing by a stone pillar that required seven or eight adults to hug together, Tianyang suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the pillar.
And he was not the only one who heard it, many people around him heard this strange sound.
"It should be the sound of the wind, right?" Sean whispered, his tone full of uncertainty.
The Qionglong next to him immediately denied it: "I didn't feel any wind. It's impossible that the wind is blown out of the stone pillar itself."
As I just said, a whistling sound suddenly came from the holes on the surface of the stone pillar next to it.
Tianyang felt the flow of air and his hair lifted by the wind. He raised his hand and pressed his palm on one of the holes on the column.
Sure enough, a strong airflow blew out from inside, passed through his palm, and blew away into the distance.
"What the hell!"
Qiu Long said in shock: "How can wind blow out of this pillar
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Kun Lan thought for a moment, "Perhaps it's because the inside of this pillar is hollow, and there are passages leading to all directions."
"It is connected to a huge space underground, and gas is discharged from that space from time to time, so this phenomenon is formed."
Tian Yang pondered and said, "It's not surprising that there is a huge space underground. It's not surprising that the pillars are hollow and connected to the underground."
"But why is there gas in the underground space? Could it be methane? But that doesn't make sense. The airflow that just blew out didn't have any bad smell."
Kun Lan spread his hands irresponsibly: "Then I don't know, I'm just guessing."
Lida said from the front: "Never mind these pillars, let's keep moving forward."
Just as everyone was about to take a step forward, Yan Bing suddenly shouted, "There's something going on ahead!"
He held up the electronic board, Tianyang walked forward, and saw on the screen that figures appeared in the stone forest ahead.
Those figures were of strange shapes, some looked like humans, some looked like animals, but most of them had twisted, weird, and indescribable outlines.
They surrounded the stone pillars, made gestures of worship, and did not move for a long time.
Lida whispered, "Could it be a dead body?"
Without waiting for a response, she asked the operators on her team to approach some of the shadows.
The other intelligent weapons stopped moving, and Tianyang and others unconsciously moved closer to the operator.
The soldier carefully controlled a Queen forward, gradually getting closer and closer. When a wrinkled hand was seen in the camera, the shadows suddenly moved stiffly and strangely.
Then they turned their heads in unison and looked towards the camera.
On the electronic screen, you can see that these are all mummies!
Yes.
Whatever creatures they once were, now they are mummies.
But how could the mummy move
Suddenly, Tianyang saw some slender black shadows flashing by the sides of these mummies in the picture.
Unfortunately, he was too far away to see clearly and didn't know what it was.
At this time, under Rita's order, the reconnaissance queen stepped forward, but the mummies near the stone pillar did not respond at all.
"Strange, why aren't they moving?" Kun Lan asked.
Lida tapped her forehead and said, "It's best not to move. There's something strange going on here. Everyone, be careful."
"You, deconstruct this mummy and see what's inside."
The bald lady casually pointed at a mummy on the screen.
The operator nodded and directed the Queen to move forward. A sharp blade popped out from a mechanical arm and she easily freed the inhuman corpse.
In the corpse, strange bones were found and the muscles of the corpse were found to have become fibrotic. Apart from that, there were no other abnormalities.
But the absence of abnormalities is the biggest abnormality.
After all, the mummy moved just now, and that kind of neat movement was obviously not caused by the wind, but was obviously controlled by something.
"Ignore them, keep going forward and pay attention to your surroundings."
Rita gave new orders, and several Queens continued to move forward, and Tianyang and the others also moved forward.
Soon, they saw the corpses surrounding the stone pillar. Except for the first circle of mummies, the other mummies would also look at them neatly when Tian Yang and his team approached.
But apart from this action, there is no other
Tianyang also quietly communicated with the black fog, using it to "see" a farther scene.
He saw that even the zombies in the distance were looking towards the team. Tianyang didn't know how those mummies could sense humans in the dark.
At this moment, he felt the ground shaking slightly, as if some huge monster under the ground turned over.
He was not the only one who felt the vibration, even the soldiers behind him noticed it.
The sudden vibration made everyone stop, for fear of awakening some unknown existence in the darkness.
As the lights flickered, everyone looked at each other and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Tianyang tightened the "Moonlight" in his hand, and put his other hand on the handle. He observed his surroundings vigilantly, while maintaining contact with the black fog and monitoring the situation nearby.
Not sure if it was an illusion, Tianyang suddenly felt that there was a subtle fragrance in the air.
He took a breath unconsciously, trying to identify the smell, then he felt dizzy and wanted to lie down on the ground and sleep.
Plop, plop—
Muffled sounds rang in his ears, and Tianyang saw that soldiers were falling to the ground all around him.
Even Yan Bing was no exception. He shuddered and immediately activated and manifested the star energy.
The silver flames illuminated the surroundings, dispelling the darkness and the dizzy feeling in the body.
Tian Yang yelled, "Be careful, that scent may have a hypnotic effect. Don't breathe it in too much, if you do, you can use Xing Yun to dispel it!"
He flashed to Yanbing's side, pressed lightly on the carotid artery in Yanbing's neck with two fingers, and felt the strong beating, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
At this moment, from the large and small holes on the stone pillar in front of Yanbing, black lines of varying thickness suddenly shot out.
Tianyang didn't think about it or hesitate. He unsheathed the Moonlight Sword, and a sword light danced out like a full moon, crushing the black lines shot towards Yanbing one by one.
Snap, snap, snap.
After crushing those things, Tianyang looked at the ground and found that they were tentacles.
These things have suckers, barbs, and mouthparts.
Although they were strangled, they did not die immediately and were still wriggling desperately on the ground.
Especially those mouthparts, which were unconsciously making sucking movements, which made Tianyang feel cold all over.
He suddenly knew where the mummies around him came from. It was very likely that those things had their blood sucked dry by the tentacles on the ground.
These tentacles come from the stone pillars, but no one knows whether they are independent individuals or come from a certain creature.
If it is the latter, this creature must be very large...
While Tianyang was thinking, similar tentacles shot out from other stone pillars.
Kunlan and the others took action one after another to protect the soldiers who were lying unconscious on the ground, so that they would not be sucked to death by the tentacles.
"Let's get out of here first."
Rita shouted, and the bald lady kept moving her hands, releasing orange fireballs, light blue ice cones and invisible wind blades, bombarding the many tentacles sticking out of the nearby stone pillars.
Tian Yang immediately lifted up the Flame Soldier and casually released the Crescent Sword Qi, dyeing the tentacles that emerged from the stone pillar again into gray-blue one by one, and silently annihilated them.
Others followed suit, carrying or hugging the fallen soldiers, and without caring about the intelligent weapons that had penetrated deep into the stone forest, they retreated from the stone forest in an orderly manner under the firepower cover of Lida and other elemental hearts...
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