Chapter 14 Sand Ray
The team marched silently. The torches extended in the darkness and formed a bright fire dragon in the dark corridor. Everyone did not fall to the ground and followed the footsteps of the desert warriors. They had to go to another place, deeper in the underground temple. The desert warriors said that there might be some unknowable danger there, but in any case, it was much better than sitting there waiting for death and waiting for the pursuers to come to the door.
——They cut off the chains of the hanging basket and destroyed the mechanism, but Leo knew that even so, they might not be able to stop the witch and lackey. They obeyed Monroe Celte, and the bishop could not resist the female magician. The greasy, dirty magic power that seemed to be a sticky swamp made Leo palpitations. They seemed to be planning something. But the most urgent thing...
What about the traitor?
Li Ou found an excuse to walk behind, trying to find even a little clue. However, he was soon disappointed. He didn't find anything. The guy seemed to have noticed it and had no flaws all the way. Soon, Li Ou felt bored, and then waves of weakness followed one after another, as if waves were constantly hitting.
The effect of the medicine gradually faded, and he realized weakly.
The pain that was previously contained and the numb nerves were all regained their vitality. At this time, he rushed towards him, like a torrent of steel when a whole team of cavalry charges. He was unable to resist and could only let himself fallen willow leaves swaying in the wind and rain. In this overwhelming pain, the wound on his left hand was particularly heart-wrenching, his five fingers opened and closed uncontrollably, his fingertips were pale and swollen, like floating corpses soaked in the water. His feet were staggering and stumbled, and pieces of stone were kicked by unlimited feet, colliding against the surrounding walls one after another, like thunder in the dark silence.
Neanta, who was walking in front of him, heard the noise and hurried over to support him. "Thank you." He apologized weakly, and squeezed out an ugly smile. The traitor must have been sneering in secret, right? He looked up at the walker in the fire and thought to himself. Since that's the case, since he is already weak, then act a little weaker. He laughed loudly and sarcastically, I'm waiting for you.
"I deserve it." The cold snorted with disdain was particularly harsh.
Rava Joray pulled his son hard, "Shut up!"
"Why do you have to stop?" Sasha shook his father's hand. "Can't you even say it?" His words were fierce and his voice became louder. Leo felt that he was deliberately provoking the enemy. "Look at what we have become now? We followed them and became gerbils. We ran away in a hurry under the ground!"
"Shut up!" Rosie roared in a low voice.
This caused greater resistance. "White Devil, come, kill me!" Sasha waved his arm, "Do you gerbils know how to escape? I don't want to do this anymore! So, come, kill me! I've long wanted to be free!"
He should be glad that there are very few people in the team who can understand Valian. Otherwise, most people would never mind fulfilling his wishes. This is more convenient and quicker than the gods responding to his prayers.
"Sasha, what are you talking nonsense?" Rava Joray shouted angrily.
"I'm just saying what I want to say." Sasha shouted, "I've had enough, Father, I've had enough! Why do we have to follow them? Why are we good enough, but now we have become the targets of being chased by the Golden Scimitar, like mice crossing the street?" That's because the whole city is full of hostility, as if the hungry beasts that choose people to eat. "It's all because we meet them-this group of white devils! This must be the punishment brought down by the gods."
"The gods did not punish us," said the Desert Warrior.
"What is that?" Sasha asked loudly, "Is the will of the gods to let us hide and not see the sun all day long?"
To be honest, who would like to do this? But Li Ou would rather face monsters than face the sun. Everyone under the daylight had hatred, as if they were mortal enemies. He just wanted to stay well now, survive a few short days, and then leave here quickly. He had had enough of this place, the feeling of wandering in a foreign country, being bound by his hands and feet, and the deep-rooted beliefs here are still terrified.
"The time has not come." said the Desert Samurai, "Patient, and waiting."
Sasha shouted, "I just don't want to die!"
Everyone prayed like this, but very few people achieved their wishes. From this we can see that the gods did not do much work. "Mr. Li Ou, will he attract the enemy?" Nianta asked in a low voice worriedly.
"Maybe." He said, enduring the twitching pain.
Sasha was still cursing, and even his father could not stop the rebellious child, but everyone ignored it. In the cold and quiet dungeon, a little noise was more like a clear spring before him when he was thirsty. However, he was noisy like a traitor who deliberately provoked trouble. Could it be him? A child who was ignorant of the world? Leo still couldn't confirm, and of course he could not deny it. He still had to stare at the other party and pay attention to his every move.
The stone slabs under her feet turned into sand and soil. The collapsed dome, huge stones and gravel like golden waterfalls fell from the sky, occupying most of the hall in front of her. The boots stepped on the yellow sand, as if walking on the snow, creaking.
"Where are we going to go, can't we just rest here?" Sasha complained loudly, "No one can catch up."
"Calm the sound!" The desert warrior raised his hands and gestured to stop them.
"What are you doing? There's nothing around."
"Shut up!" The desert warrior suddenly roared and whispered. This was the first time that Leo was angry when he saw him. "Do you want to die?"
Sasha shrank into the corner like a wounded lamb, trembling constantly.
"What's wrong?" Li Ou broke away from Nianta's support and raised her feet...
"Don't move." The desert warrior's face was solemn, with nervousness and anxiety. "Don't move for the first time, don't move for the time being." He glanced left and right, staring at the huge pile of sand in the hall. "Don't talk, keep silent."
There was a terrible silence spreading in the darkness. This silence was different from the past. There was an indescribable look in the darkness, which made Leo's hair stand up. The gloomy breeze raised sand and gravel, and slight dust penetrated into his mouth and nose, everywhere. Leo felt that he was being monitored by an unknown thing that was cold and had no favors to him. The flames burst slightly, and his muscles were involuntarily tensed. At this moment, he forgot the pain of the wound and held the hilt of the sword.
However, until his whole body was sore and weak, there was no abnormality.
"Nothing." Sasha whispered disdainfully.
But the desert warrior was unexpectedly more cautious, and even... there was some fear? Isn't he a warrior of the gods? But if even he showed fear, then the unknown, unseen thing must be particularly dangerous. "Back back." He said urgently and unquestionably, "Get back to the surrounding walls without gravel."
"Do as he said." Leo ordered.
The boots stomp on the sand. The rustling sound is particularly harsh.
"What the hell happened?" Li Ou asked.
Without waiting for the desert warrior to answer, Leo heard the scream. It was more harsh than any lady's scream, and more terrifying than the banshee's wail, as if the source of hell. The scream passed through Leo's mind like a cold, sharp knife. But after that sound, it fell into silence. But the unknown thing was indeed around them, and it was getting closer and closer.
“What exactly is it?”
"Sand sea, the devil of the sea." Sasha said in fear. His back was tightly pressed against the cold wall, and his shrinking pupils stared at the pile of sand in front of him. "It's coming, it's coming."
The tumbling roll of sand and gravel indicates the arrival of the devil.
The thorny fins piercing the sand surface suddenly appeared in the fire, and down the golden waterfall, a wave of sand spread out. It swam effortlessly in the sand, unimaginablely, like fish in the sea, mocking the clumsiness of land creatures.
"We usually call it a sand ray." said the Desert Warrior.
It swam towards them quickly. "Stay on the rocks, don't go to the sand." Rava Joray yelled. Everyone was crowded on the rocks, facing the unknown, and even the knight's face was full of uneasiness. Everyone thought it was safe to stay on the rocks.
"Draw your swords," said the Desert Warrior. "They will jump directly onto these rocks and pull you down. Cutting them with the sword is much easier than avoiding them."
There was no sign of any sign that the dune long-tail lizard roughly shattered the ground, causing a huge sand explosion.
That thing, just like its name, was like a huge ray, with a flat body, a circle of spikes around its body, and a thorny tail swung in the air to maintain balance. A big mouth full of sharp teeth dripping with disgusting saliva jumped over Leo's head.
It jumped too high and too fast. Leo found that his body could not keep up with its speed at all, only the desert warrior's short spear left a shallow wound on its belly. While glad that his target was not himself, he looked behind him worriedly and uneasy. Who was its target?
The sand ray was greeted by a forest of guns and a sword tower, but it twisted its body as if it could fly, and it avoided most of the attacks. Several long swords hit it, which was deep enough to see the bones, but even the stunning brute force was unable to block it.
The sand ray crashed into the crowd close to the wall, biting the red dove Eugene who had no time to avoid it. His thighs were clenched tightly by the scimitar teeth, and blood splattered. He screamed shrillly, punched his fists, and struggled hard, but it was useless. The oval head bit him firmly and pulled him towards the gravel.
The knights tried to come forward to rescue, but its tail slapped heavily, and in the trembling and flying dust of the hall, it jumped up like a bow and arrow, passing through a sword net with its spoils, and sneaking back into the ground.
The arrival was both fast and sudden, and the ending was so abrupt. Many people almost didn't react, and the devil in the sea of sand had disappeared without a trace, leaving only strips of skin torn off the red pigeon Eugene's legs on the blood-stained rocks. This was a perfect hunter. Leo realized that, however, he did not want to avenge the red pigeon Eugene, let alone rescue him...
"Why don't you save him?" Lu Yuewu asked angrily. "We have to save him."
"Save?" Li Ou said with a sneer, "No, let him die."
"You..." Her eyes were filled with anger. "I misread you."
However, this time, she was the one who was wrong.
"We don't have such a partner." Leo told her. "How can a traitor call him a partner?"
On the ground where the red dove Eugene was bitten by the sand ray, and on the dragged sand surface, the silver glittering thing sprinkled all over the ground proved everything.
Chapter completed!