System: Infinite Evolution into Qilin Bloodline

Zhang Hao and the others fell from the yellow sand to the ground, where there were bones everywhere and stone tablets more than ten meters high all around.

These stone tablets are arranged in a specific way, surrounding a circular stone platform with a diameter of about 20 meters in the middle.

Zhang Hao and the others fell right on this stone platform.

"Ouch, that hurts so much, Fatty! Luckily, these bones are already rotten, otherwise Fatty would probably be turned into a hedgehog by now."

After cursing and swearing, the fat man got up from the ground and went to help the others.

Wu Tianzhen looked around and said, "This should be an altar, and the bones on it were left by the people who made sacrifices."

"Where are the archaeological team members? They all fell down together, how come they've all disappeared?"

After Xie Xiaohua fell, she discovered that all the members of the archaeological team had disappeared.

"It was their people who triggered the mechanism that made us fall. Their people also came down, and they've disappeared. They're probably hiding somewhere."

"Tianzhen, come quick and take a look! There seem to be ancient characters here!"

Suddenly, Huo Xiuxiu's voice came over.

Zhang Hao, Wu Tianzhen, Fatty, and Xie Xiaohua heard the call and ran over. When they saw Huo Xiuxiu, she pointed to a stone tablet next to her and said, "It's right here!"

Fatty raised his flashlight and shone it on the spot Huo Xiuxiu pointed to. Wu Tianzhen leaned over to take a look: "This is the altar of the Gumo Kingdom. They have sealed something terrible under the altar. Only the blood of the descendants of the Gumo tribe can open the altar. Once opened, the sealed terrifying being will be resurrected."

"Giggle..."

Just then, a strange laugh echoed from the altar.

Suddenly, a huge black shadow swept over everyone's heads and landed on a stone tablet.

The fat man quickly turned his flashlight around and shone it in the direction of the stone tablet. He saw a giant owl, about half the height of a person, standing on top of the stone tablet, its eyes wide open, staring at Zhang Hao and the others.

The fat man, seeing that it was an owl, said nonchalantly, "Damn, it's just an owl!"

When Xie Xiaohua saw the owl, she frowned: "Fatty, it's been so long since we last met, how come you haven't improved at all!"

"Xie Xiaohua, what are you saying? Tell me, what other sayings are associated with owls?"

As the old saying goes, it's not the howling of the night owl that's scary, but the laughing of the night owl.

“I know what Xiaohua is going to say. The legend goes that if the night owl laughs at midnight, the King of Hell will come at dawn. If they laugh, it means someone nearby is going to die, and the night owl will have meat to eat.”

"I've heard this explanation before. There's even a scientific explanation online. It's said that when a person is about to die, their body secretes a substance called cadaverine, and owls are attracted to this smell. So, when an owl hoots, it means someone is about to die."

The fat man shuddered upon hearing this: "Xiaohua, don't scare us. We're all young and strong, how could any of us possibly die!"

"Hum..."

"Do you smell blood?"

Wu Tianzhen suddenly said something out of the blue.

As soon as he finished speaking, a strong smell of blood wafted over.

Following the direction of the smell, Zhang Hao looked and saw a wounded corpse that had appeared on the altar at some point.

Fresh blood gushed from the wound onto the altar, flowing along the patterns on the altar and forming intricate designs.

"Let's go over and have a look."

Zhang Hao hurried back to the altar, and was shocked when he saw the corpse clearly.

The deceased was none other than Wang Xing, a member of the archaeological team.

I thought she was a formidable character because she was so arrogant before, but she died as soon as she entered the desert, and her wounds were cut open and she was left on the altar to bleed.

Suddenly, Zhang Hao remembered the inscription on the stone tablet: this was the altar of the Gumo Kingdom, and a terrifying monster was sealed beneath it. Only the blood of the Gumo people could open the altar and revive the monster.

Doesn't that mean Wang Xing is a descendant of the Gu Mo tribe, and that she was brought here to have her blood used to open the altar?

"Boom..."

Before Zhang Hao could even remind everyone of this, the sound of machinery turning filled the air, and the circular altar was immediately divided into eight equal pieces.

The eight stone slabs split in the middle and then fell downwards.

"Quickly, stand in the very center!"

Zhang Hao jumped directly into the center of the altar, landing on the very center of the disc.

Hearing Zhang Hao's reminder, the others also jumped up.

After everyone jumped onto a disc in the center that was less than a meter wide, all the stone slabs on the altar fell down, revealing a bottomless black hole.