Author: Reading hurts the eyes

"It seems that the palace is no longer here. Let's look for it somewhere else."

Although in Luo Zihang's impression, there was no danger in this black tower, firstly, it was just in case, and secondly, he had a strong temperament and didn't want to waste energy climbing the tower, so he suggested it immediately.

Unfortunately, when there is no danger, neither Professor Tian nor Monica will listen to his advice. Both of them have a strong interest in this black tower, which obviously has special significance.

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Luo Zihang persuaded again without giving up, "Aren't we anxious to find the water source? We can come back and study it slowly after we find it."

"We are not in a hurry now," Professor Tian retorted without looking back as he walked towards the black tower: "And there is a saying that 'the sharpening of the sword never wastes time in chopping wood'. Maybe there will be any clues in the tower?

We can also search from the top of the tower, which may be more efficient."

Having said this, Luo Zihang couldn't find a better reason to refute, so he had no choice but to follow them into the black tower.

After entering the black tower, Luo Zihang gradually remembered what this thing was for. It was something like an altar. There were six floors in total. Each floor represented a different class or existence of a Jingjue country.

The higher the floor, the higher the status.

The topmost layer is naturally the statue of Queen Jingjue. In addition to her statue, there are two layers that represent something special. One is the empty fifth layer, which represents Queen Jingjue's super imaginary number space.

The other ability is the fourth floor, where there is a half-human, half-snake monster statue with a black ball in the shape of an eye on its head. It should be the patron saint created by Jingjue Kingdom based on that strange snake.

Luo Zihang walked casually at the back of the team, while Professor Tian in front also deduced from the statues and murals on each floor the eye worship of Jingjue Kingdom and other clues that were not very helpful in finding the palace.

In fact, this clue is still very important in the original work, because it involves the curse of the ghost cave, but it is meaningless to Luo Zihang and their current situation.

Finally, the group of people arrived at the top of the tower and overlooked the entire city from the tower, but could not find any trace of the royal palace.

Because the entire Jingjue City blends in with the yellow sand in the desert, there is no special building anywhere.

However, there are other more special clues, that is, the outline of the entire Jingjue City is also in the shape of an eye, but this only proves once again that Jingjue Country worships eyes and does not have much meaning.

"It seems that the palace of Jingjue Kingdom was indeed built on the ground..." Professor Tian smacked his lips and sighed.

Luo Zihang glanced at him sideways. Since he had already guessed it was an underground palace, the so-called climbing the tower to look for clues was obviously an excuse to explore the black tower...

These academic fanatics are really hopeless!

Then the group of people returned to the ground and continued to search nearby aimlessly.

After some searching, I finally found a building that was higher than the other houses. Because like the other buildings, it was covered by yellow sand. It was not easy to spot it unless you looked carefully.

Several people wielded shovels and dug up the yellow sand accumulated at the door, then put on gas masks and walked in.

The stone hall is very grand, with 2,816 giant stone pillars, but the front door is blocked by yellow sand and there is no sand inside.

There is a jade eyeball enshrined on the ground in the deepest part of the hall. There are naturally red threads in the jade and blue pupils, which are clearly layered and almost look real.

Professor Monica Wada and even Acheng came up to study the eyeball with great interest. Only Luo Zihang looked up...

Because according to the records in the novel, there will be "snake eggs" that hatch that kind of strange snake above, but now there is nothing on the ceiling.

Luo Zihang silently withdrew his gaze and looked at the people who were still studying the jade eyeballs, but his main attention was still focused on the top.

"Huh? The groove in the center of the eye looks a bit familiar to me."

After a while, Acheng suddenly spoke, and then took out a strange-shaped jade pendant from his collar, which happened to match the groove in the jade eye.

Then, under the urging of Professor Tian and others, he pressed the jade pendant handed down from his ancestors into the groove.

With a soft "click" sound, the jade pendant stuck in perfectly. The jade eyeball that could not be moved no matter how hard everyone pushed and pulled it rolled to the side. The lower part was so bare that it was impossible to tell what the mechanism was before.

Fix it to the ground.

While others were marveling, Luo Zihang looked upward again.

This time, the ceiling is no longer empty. An "eyeball" covered with red threads is slowly emerging from the void.

"Don't worry about that stone anymore, get back! There's something going on above you!" Luo Zihang reminded loudly.

Hearing this, the others immediately looked up and saw the strange "eyeball". Monica, who was holding the jade eyeball and looking at it, was so frightened that she screamed and subconsciously threw the jade eyeball in her hand.

, fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Luo Zihang pouted, it seemed that this jade eyeball could not escape the fate of being smashed.

"Oops! You... you are treating you..." Professor Tian pointed at Monica, so angry that his whole body was trembling, and he even forgot about the weird scene above his head.

It was Junior Brother Zhang who understood the importance and dragged him and the others back to Luo Zihang.

"Brother Jie, what is this?" Acheng took out the assault rifle assigned to him before and pointed it at the "eyeball" above, "Do you want to shoot?"

"Farewell for now, let's wait and see what happens." Luo Zihang stopped his reckless behavior.

Half of this "snake egg" is still in the so-called imaginary number space. God knows what will happen after the shot is fired. It is better to wait until it falls completely.

"Speaking of which, how did this thing appear? I don't think the ceiling is cracked?" Acheng stared nervously upward and muttered out of habit: "Could it be that there really is some imaginary number space?

Right? Is Queen Jingjue not dead yet?"

"Not necessarily," Monica analyzed: "The imaginary number space may not be Queen Jingjue's own ability, but she has mastered how to use it."

"No matter what is going on, should we escape from here now?" Junior Zhang, who has the worst psychological quality, said tremblingly.

Luo Zihang immediately raised his hands and feet in agreement, but unfortunately Professor Monica Wada, who was the most decisive person, still disagreed.

"well……"

Luo Zihang sighed helplessly again. To be honest, he was already a little impatient with these two die-hards who refused to listen to advice.

At this moment, the "eyeball" above completely emerged from the imaginary number space, and then fell to the ground with a "snap".

Only then did everyone see clearly that this thing was not an eyeball at all, but a translucent flesh ball with a bluish-white substance on the outside and a large black mass in the middle.

The next moment, the giant eye-like flesh ball suddenly cracked open, and hundreds of entangled black strange snakes flowed out. These strange snakes were the same as those they had seen in Zagrama Mountain before, all covered in black.

The body is only a few tens of centimeters long, and there is a black sarcoma on the top of its head.

Piles of strange snakes squirmed together, and their bodies were covered with sticky transparent liquid, as if they had just hatched from eggs. They were indescribably disgusting, and everyone's scalps went numb when they saw them, and they couldn't help but take a few steps back.

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Luo Zihang lit the homemade incendiary bomb he had already held in his hand and threw it into the group of strange snakes.

Since the strange snakes were all entangled together, when one incendiary bomb was dropped, they were basically all set on fire. To be on the safe side, Luo Zihang threw two more, and now all the strange snakes were engulfed in flames.

Before they could launch an attack, they were all burned to a pile of coke.

"Do you want to continue?" Luo Zihang asked again.

Professor Monica Wada nodded firmly, and Junior Zhang also nodded after hesitating for a moment.

"OK."

Luo Zihang did not persuade him any more, but nodded his head as well, and secretly made a decision in his heart.

After that, he stopped paddling, and instead took the initiative to use his knowledge in Feng Shui to unlock the temple's mechanism for the team and open the way to the underground palace.

Everyone went down the black stone steps, and soon they came to a long corridor. On both sides of the corridor, there were murals related to the Jingjue people, including scenes of them sacrificing human beings to black people.

, the same steps as they used to summon the black snake before.

But before that, Professor Tian had already used his own experience to deduce that there was an altar for sacrifices above, so this only increased everyone's admiration for Professor Tian.

After passing through this not-so-long corridor, everyone encountered the same stone pillar mechanism as above at the end, but with a much smaller number and scale. Then Luo Zihang took the initiative again, and the brick wall at the end opened in response. Luo Zihang

He walked in first, followed closely by the others.

Everyone came outside and looked around with flashlights. Although it was an underground building, the surrounding space was huge. Although the carved beams and pillars had peeled off, they could still see the gorgeous atmosphere of the year. They really were in an underground palace.

They seemed to be in the main hall of the underground palace, because right in front of where they came out was a throne carved from jade.

A red jade eye is engraved on the top of the jade throne. The whole body of the jade seat is inlaid with gold and silver. It is engraved with fairy mountains, clouds, flowers, birds, fish and beasts. The base is a large piece of jade as white as goat's milk, with mainly black tones.

In the main hall, it looks particularly eye-catching.

There is plenty of air in the underground palace, which means that it is probably connected to the underground water. However, precisely because of the air circulation, the ancient objects in the underground palace were seriously damaged.

Except for the throne, which is relatively intact due to its material, the rest of the pottery, wood, iron, bronze, silk fabrics and other items have been severely eroded by the air.

Professor Tian looked at this dilapidated scene with distress and pity on his face, but he still quickly took out the archaeological tools and began to collect materials.

Luo Zihang walked to a collapsed weapon rack and picked up a weird-looking curved sword to see if it could still be used. As a result, the blade slipped directly from the hilt, and the hilt in his hand

With just a slight squeeze, it shattered into a pile of sawdust.

"Tsk!"

Luo Zihang patted the sawdust in his hand and smacked his lips regretfully. It seemed that he had no chance to show off his amazing swordsmanship.

Everyone walked around again and found a gap that was blown open in the front hall. It should have been done by tomb robbers a long time ago, or even the owner of the diary in Monica's hand.

Then they went around to the apse and found a cave nearby, from which they heard the sound of gurgling water.

Everyone who finally found a new water source was very excited and hurried towards the direction where the sound of water came from. Luo Zihang was no exception. After all, their water distribution has been limited recently, and everyone has been thirsty for a long time...

It's just that Luo Zihang always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he couldn't remember it after thinking for a long time, so he didn't take it to heart anymore.

After all, this kind of thing that he didn't deliberately remember was probably not dangerous.

Soon, they found a small underground lake in the cave. There was a convex land in the lake, like an island in the middle of the lake, only ten square meters in size. The flat lake was like a mirror, surrounding it.
To be continued...