More than twenty minutes later.
Richard, who had been waiting at the edge of the grass for a long time, finally waited until Jasmine and her group walked out of the grass.
It can be seen that Jasmine and her party look a little embarrassed, their clothes are damaged to varying degrees, and there are some purple scars on the exposed skin, as if they have been whipped. The most miserable among them was Hulk, whose clothes were as tattered as a beggar's, his left shoulder was bulging several centimeters high, and his neck was a little crooked.
However, this is obviously not too tragic.
After walking out of the grass, the first thing Jasmine did was to round her arms and slap Hulk hard.
"Snapped!"
There was a crisp sound, and a slap mark suddenly appeared on the right side of Hulk's face, with five distinct fingers.
After watching it, the others didn't feel pity for Hulk at all. On the contrary, they felt incomprehensible hatred.
Su and Xizhe were more restrained and just glared at Hulk. "One-Eyed", "Camel", and "Wood" kicked Hulk directly and unceremoniously. Especially "Ice Cube", who was trembling and kicking Hulk repeatedly. He didn't know whether he was cold or angry.
Hulk's behavior at this time was like a primary school student on Earth who didn't do his homework and was caught by the teacher. The expression on his face was full of guilt. He lowered his head deeply, covered his face with slap marks, and allowed himself to be beaten and kicked without saying a word.
Seeing this, Richard immediately guessed that Jasmine and her group must have made many mistakes while crossing the grass, and the culprit of the mistakes was definitely Hulk.
It is completely conceivable that after Hulk made many mistakes, Jasmine and her group were attacked by the Devil's Devouring Vine. They obviously had great strength but did not dare to take action - they could only let the Devil's Devouring Vine take action, and finally waited for the Devil's Devouring Vine to slow down. Slowly calm down, it will definitely be as frustrating as it is.
I was so aggrieved and endured it all the way out of the Devil's Devouring Vine area that I naturally vented my anger.
After thinking about this, the corner of Richard's mouth twitched slightly. He was very considerate and did not ask Jasmine out loud about the details of crossing the grassland. He stretched out his hand and pointed not far ahead: "That's the core area of the ruins, right?"
Looking in the direction that Richard pointed, he saw a huge pit with no visible edges.
The huge pit was like a dry lake or a basin. The edge was as steep as a cliff. The angle was nearly 70 degrees. It was vertically downward for hundreds of meters. The ground could not be seen, as if it was bottomless.
Jasmine looked at it and nodded in response: "Yes, that is the core area of the ruins. Okay, I have already wasted a lot of time. Don't waste any more time. Follow me and enter quickly."
After speaking, Jasmine took the lead and left.
"good."
Richard took steps to follow.
Jasmine moved very quickly, but she did not fall from the nearest place to the bottom of the giant pit. Instead, she kept moving forward to the right along the edge of the giant pit. After walking a few hundred meters, she stopped on a dark black ground. Down.
After looking around, as if to confirm something, he nodded and said: "Well, this is it. It is the safest way to enter the core of the ruins."
After saying that, Jasmine lightly stepped on the inner wall of the giant pit, like a weightless feather, falling quickly downwards.
A group of people, including Richard, followed.
As he followed, he descended nearly two hundred meters along the inner wall of the giant pit, which was almost equivalent to falling from the top of a seventy-story building to an underground garage, and finally touched the ground.
The moment he touched the ground, Richard's eyes flashed and he realized that the ground was a little warm, as if he had stepped on charcoal that had not been completely extinguished.
Warm core area
This ancient ruins is indeed a bit mysterious.
Richard's thoughts were spinning in his mind, and then he noticed that the ruins of the building that had disappeared before appeared again around him.
Compared with the building ruins on the ground outside the pit, the building ruins at the bottom of the pit look more complete. They have not completely collapsed, and some pillars, low walls, stone doors and other parts are preserved.
But looking at it, you can see that these architectural parts are very simple - so simple that there are no patterns, depressions, protrusions or curves, and they are completely boxy. This made him think of the Pravda buildings he had seen in Pompeii - they were also extremely simple and boxy, like coffins.
Coincidence
Richard thought, and while thinking, he and Jasmine walked deeper into the ruins of the building.
After walking like this for more than twenty minutes, we arrived in front of a strange building complex.
The main body of the building complex is a stone pillar with a diameter of more than five meters and a height of more than 30 meters. The top is slightly pointed and towering like a mountain peak.
There are more than a hundred similar stone pillars scattered on the vast stone floor with a radius of nearly a kilometer. The overall look is a bit like an altar filled with candles, which once again strengthens the original sense of mystery in the core area of the ruins.
After reaching this point, Jasmine became obviously cautious and her speed slowed down again and again. When she got closer to the interior and the center, she stopped completely and looked at the front carefully.
When Richard looked around, he saw eight stone pillars directly in front of him enclosing a space of several tens of meters in radius. The eight stone pillars look slightly different from the rest of the stone pillars. The surface is engraved with dense lines. These lines extend from the top to the bottom, then extend to the ground, and finally gather at a point in the middle of the ground.
At that point, there was a stone platform more than one meter high. There seemed to be something on the top of the stone platform, but it was shrouded in black air and could not see the details clearly.
But it's clear that whatever's there isn't simple.
"call-"
Jasmine stood more than twenty meters away from the "Eight Stone Pillars Space", took a deep breath, turned her head to look at Richard, and said loudly: "You have to be prepared. What you have to face next may be The most dangerous part of this expedition.”
"The most dangerous part?" Richard moved his eyebrows and asked, "What will happen?"
"According to the intelligence, once I approach a certain range, all the stone pillars here will be activated, and then the entire area will be covered by a terrifying energy storm. And the closer to the center of the energy storm, the more terrifying the power. By then, everyone must Only by cooperating with each other and using magic defense can we survive.
If you can't hold on, unless you retreat to the edge at an extremely fast speed, you will definitely be severely injured, torn or even shattered by the energy storm, and even the body will not be left behind. "
"So serious?" Richard's expression became serious.
"Of course, I will never joke about such a big thing." Jasmine said, taking another breath and asking aloud, "Our people are all ready and waiting for you now. So, how are you preparing? Already?"
Richard turned his head and found that Jasmine's men were indeed approaching, with strong mana fluctuations emerging from his body, as if they would release spells at any time.
Li Cha pursed his lips and said nothing. Since he had come this far, there was no reason to back down. As soon as he thought, a large amount of free energy elements surged out of the magic source in the body, and the body surface was wrapped in golden energy. The "First Armor" state was turned on, and he was ready to release more defensive spells at any time. He nodded and responded: "I can do it."
"Okay, let's get started!"
Jasmine said, after finishing her words, she took a step forward.
"Ta! Ta! Ta!"
One step, two steps, three steps.
Jasmine's steps were slow, steady, and heavy.
The moment he fell on the third step, he seemed to sense something and quickly said: "Be careful!"
Then issued an order: "Defend the energy storm!"
"Swish, swish, swish!"
The moment they heard Jasmine's order, the entire team, including Jasmine, quickly flashed an orange light, covering their entire bodies. After that, these rays of light connected with each other to form an almost integrated defensive shield, which was obviously very well prepared.
but…
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
The group of people stayed in place, maintaining defensive spells and waiting for three seconds, but found that the surroundings were quiet and unchanged.
this…
The group of people couldn't help but be stunned. You looked at me and I looked at you. The atmosphere suddenly became weird.
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