Chapter 17 Illusions
The eyes were blurred for no reason. In the next moment, I no longer stayed indoors, but sat on the golden desert.
The desert is still extremely hot, but the sun is not so vicious and fatal, the environment is still dry, but you can obviously feel the faint water element moving, and the air is still dull, but a breeze blows by from time to time, bringing some fresh air.
More importantly, there are people here, including water and trees. What everyone sees is a vibrant desert.
The most eye-catching thing is the lake in the middle of the desert. The lake is not big, the lake water is clear and transparent, exuding a cool breath. More than a dozen tall trees with mixed roots grow around the lakeside, and shrubs and grasslands are everywhere among the trees. Several strange-shaped herbivorous lizards wander on the grass, slowly tearing the tender and soft grass leaves, looking leisurely.
On one side of the lake is a fertile soil, and there is no sign of plants on it. However, from the regular layout of the fields, you can see that this is a farmland, and it must be artificially grown crops. The farmland is now golden, and it is complemented by the desert in the distance. However, the desert may symbolize death, but the ripe crops in the farmland must symbolize the future and hope.
On the other side of the lake are four very familiar four-sided conical buildings. The conical buildings are more than 30 meters high, and the golden outer walls look majestic. It gives people the feeling that this is a small village in the center of the desert, formed around an oasis. Although it is in the cruel desert, life is still peaceful and rich.
The four building centers, and there is a circle of small facilities, some very simple stone tables with sheds that look like counters. There is no doubt that this is a place for daily exchange of items. It is conceivable that people living here occasionally put things on the counter with things they cannot use, waiting for interested people to exchange for other items or even possible currency.
However, I can only imagine that because there is no one here, everyone seems to be missing.
Suddenly, tsunami-like cheers rang out in my ears, which came from the entrance of the village. The people of the Shadow-Zhunting Team found that they were at this entrance.
The entrance is a flat and open sandy land, with three tall stone statues standing in the middle, except for which there is nothing left. Under the stone statue, more than forty humanoid creatures kneel on the ground facing the statue, holding their hands high towards the sky.
These humanoid creatures are obviously not humans but some kind of upright lizard. Their thick skin is covered with thin scales, which can effectively prevent the loss of moisture in the body. The forked tongues are sometimes extended out of their mouths, and can keenly detect the precious water source in the desert. The yellow eyes have double eyelids, and the transparent eyelids on the inner layer can strictly block foreign objects from invading the eyes. The keratinized claws at the ends of the lower limbs are hard and heat-resistant, and are not afraid of the high temperature scorching on the ground.
A lizard man stood under the stone statue with a stone axe in his hand, and was also the only lizard man standing in the field. He stepped on a herbivorous crawling lizard under his feet, making a string of rhythmic roars. The kneeling lizards followed his rhythm and made the same roars, and the screams became more and more neat.
The stone axe slashed down hard, and the head of the herbivorous lizard rolled to the side. The lizard's blue blood shot out from the fountain on its neck, accurately spraying onto the three stone statues. The roar of the crowd also reached its highest point at this moment.
The three stone statues stained with blood are also the shapes of lizard people, but they are different in size and shape.
The stone statue in the middle is golden and tallest, and it looks like a powerful and strong feeling. It is held with one hand high, holding a spear burning with flames. Of course, it is just a shape, not really burning with flames.
The one on the right is cyan. The cyan stone statue is thinner and shorter than the golden one. Its shape has a erratic smell. Its two forelimbs are wrapped around its chest and don’t take anything, but it just steps on a ball of stones carved into symbolic clouds.
The stone statue on the left is as dark as ink, and it is also the only one that shows a sitting posture. The black stone statue is obviously thinner, and compared with the other two, the lines are much softer. This should be a symbol of women. The stone statue raises its chest with one hand and holds a ball of black things on its spread claws. Judging from the shape, it should symbolize sand.
In fact, there is also the fourth statue. The fourth statue is light blue, and is held in front of the chest by the other hand of the black stone statue. There is no doubt that the fourth stone statue is a baby. Even if it is held by the black statue, it still shows a dancing posture, obviously full of vitality.
The lizard man holding a stone axe bent over and covered with blood from his hands, applied it to his chest, and then knelt down like others, chanting loudly with his hands. The people behind him quickly joined the singing team, and the sound became louder and louder, like the sound of a majestic tide.
The female priest Kelly came back from shock and surprise at this time, and looked around and saw that there were only these lizard men around, and the people from the Shadow-Chasing Squad were gone.
Where am I? Where is the person? Why is it gone? And what about me? Why is it gone?
Yes, Kelly couldn't even find herself. All she saw was the fanatical lizards, as if she had become one of the lizard men.
The female pastor was not panicked. Maybe she didn't know what panic meant. She just felt her heart beating very fast and her muscles were tense. This should be surprising. She told herself this. In surprise, her first reaction was to walk around and explore the surrounding situation.
Fortunately, at this moment, Shuer's voice came to his ears. The female priest had been used to hearing this sound these days and had no feelings. But at this time, the sound was like magic, which calmed her violently beating heart, and the urge to check around was immediately calmed down, and her whole body was much more stable.
"No one should move, calm down. If you don't want to be hit and your head is bleeding and you are in a mess, just sit there honestly." Xiu'er's voice was slow and calm, which was a small trick to soothe people's hearts with words.
"Especially you, lie down obediently." This time I was not calm at all, and then there was a roar and sob of wild beasts. It should be that he stepped on the tail of the white wolf who wanted to run around.
"Moriya, please comfort this stupid wolf. It is probably biting the table legs as my legs. I am afraid that its teeth will collapse." For some reason, Kelly suddenly felt like she wanted to laugh. Her tightened muscles had already returned to normal. Although she couldn't see it, the scene of a white wolf holding a stone table legs and biting it.
"Hey? I'm a deer. You ask me to comfort such a terrible big white wolf?" Moria's voice came reluctantly, and there was a serene movement. "Okay, okay, the big dog is obedient, don't move, yes, that's it, really obedient. After you go out, I will introduce you to a few little female wolf in the forest. Each one is so beautiful. I guarantee that you will not be able to walk in a few days."
"Good done." Bailang stopped making trouble, but Shuer's voice was filled with depression. "But if you didn't touch my head and say these words, maybe the effect would be better."
"Hahahahaha", the laughter of the others in the team burst out. It seemed that everyone was still by my side, and Kelly felt more at ease. However, what are you seeing now? Is it an illusion? How could there be such a clear illusion?
Almost in sync with the shadow-seekers, the dozens of people kneeling and worshiping also made a series of cheers. At the same time, the ground began to vibrate slightly, not violently, but it was impossible to ignore it. It seemed that the cheers were caused by the vibration of the ground.
Looking in the direction of the vibration, a yellow smoke rose from the sky, not the overwhelming smoke of sandstorms, but more like the sand and dust that many people walked towards this side.
The crowd became even more excited, and led by the axe holder, he went to meet outside the village.
Soon, sand and dust approached, and then we could see clearly that it was a group of strange creatures.
A fish-like creature.
The largest are three giant creatures that are 100 meters long and look like whales. There are dozens of fish with different shapes of more than ten meters long. Behind each fish, there are many things, especially three giant whales, with fences installed behind them, and objects like hills are piled up.
More importantly, there is no water in the desert over there, and they are not swimming in the water at all.
Half of them sink under the sea of sand, and the upper half of their bodies are exposed to the sand. To them, the sea of sand is like real sea water, allowing them to travel freely.
"Woo~~~" a long chirping sound came from the largest giant whale in the middle. The giant whale suddenly jumped up, and most of its body penetrated out of the desert, crossing the sky like a swimming fish coming out of the water, and its huge body even blocked the sunlight.
This is like a signal. All the fish in the sand around them leaped up with the giant whales. The sand particles fell from the air with their movements, as if a rain of yellow sand had begun.
"Puff", the fish in the sand fell back into the sea of sand. Although they were such a huge body, there was no expected violent earthquake when they entered the sand. They only had a very faint shaking, which could be called a miracle. However, the dust splashed all over the sky was bound to be indispensable, and the yellow smoke rolled in the place where they landed, covering the sky and the sun.
Falling back to the ground, several lizard men suddenly walked out from behind the cargo on the back of the three giant whales. Although they couldn't see their appearance clearly from afar, they could see that they were waving hard at the people in the village and shouting something loudly.
Cheers broke out in the crowd on the sand, dozens of people were excited and danced and jumped, and many people even hugged each other happily, even the color of the scales on their bodies turned red.
"Wow wow wow wow wow", the axe-carrying person in the lead shouted a few words. The lizards fell to their knees at the same time, held up a handful of golden sand and raised it over their heads, so that the sand and water would pour it on themselves. At the same time, the fish in the sand became slower and slower and closer to the crowd.
Everything came to an abrupt end.
Chapter completed!