Judgment Day [Unlimited]

That's what it meant.

When the stone men meet, the stairs leading to the garden of the gods will appear.

Only during a certain period of the day when the sun is the strongest and the temperature is the highest, the clouds and mists in the canyon dissipate, and the stone steps leading to the bottom of the canyon are revealed.

"let's go!"

Seeing the appearance of the stone steps, everyone looked excited, and their brows and eyes were full of excitement.

After all the hardships and twists and turns, the road to the land of sunset is finally in front of them, how could they not be excited.

Li Tiefeng rolled up his cuffs and tightened his trousers and shoelaces.

"We don't have much time, so let's go down now. The fog in the canyon will rise again soon, and we won't be able to see anything when the fog comes together."

The others followed him into action and went back to the temple to pack their luggage.

The stone steps leading to the bottom of the valley are very steep and dangerous, and they don't know how long the road is.For safety reasons, they must carry as little weight as possible.

"Leave two sets of tent brackets, and throw away the rest. The windshield cloth doesn't take up much weight and volume, so you can bring a little more."

Commander Li Tiefeng said: "Important items such as flints should be placed close to your body, and you must not lose them. You can see what else you can throw away, and throw away unnecessary things."

The people sorted out the items, packed lightly, threw unnecessary heavy items in the temple, and returned to the canyon with only the necessary items.

The guide slowly followed behind them.He accompanied the people all the way through the desert, and now he sent them to the edge of the canyon, but said that he would not follow.

The guide said: "The land of sunset has arrived, and my mission has been completed. I will wait for you to come back here, and the first ones who come back with the jelly grass will get the rewards that belong to you."

"Just take the elixir and come back here, no need to go back?" Old Liang seemed very happy that he didn't need to cross the scorching desert again.

"Don't rush to be happy, we don't know what lies below this canyon." Li Tiefeng looked at the deep valley bottom with a dignified expression.

There were eight people when they went down, and I don't know how many people will be left alive when they come back.

The guide stood aside with his hands folded, his face was not very good-looking, and he suddenly said a word to them.

"Be careful, the devil lives in the Garden of Eden."

"...?"

The others looked at each other.

"devil?"

But without waiting for other people to ask questions, the guide turned around and left in a hurry, and ran to the side of the temple, as if he couldn't avoid the canyon.

"Forget it, that old man is always talking like this. Let's go down quickly, and we'll talk about it when we really meet the devil." Seeing that the elixir was here, Boss Hou couldn't wait any longer.

Looking at the back of the leader leaving in a hurry, Xie Xingyin was puzzled.The guides clearly showed awe to the land of the sunset, knelt and worshiped, but now they refused to go down with them.

The reason for this is most likely the "devil" living in the Garden of Eden.

In the records they found in Humbaba Cave before, the nobleman also mentioned "devil".Although it didn't specify what it was, it must be something very terrifying. The nobles said that their team suffered heavy casualties, and finally survived in a special way.

Time was running out, and everyone didn't want to delay any longer, so they started to take action and prepared to go to the stone platform first.

The stone platform leading to the sky steps is only two or three meters away from them.If it is flat ground, it is no problem to jump directly.

But the stone platform in front of me is too narrow, about ten meters long, but the width of the protruding cliff is only about one meter.Just standing on it and looking at it makes my heart jump, and if I am not careful, I will fall into the abyss.

No one dared to jump directly, so they took out the windshield cloth, twisted it tightly, and tied the two windshield cloths together to form a rope.

Li Tiefeng tested the strength of the rope, and when he felt that there was no problem, he said: "...You are pulling the rope on it, and I will go down first to explore the way."

Several people above pulled the rope together, and Li Tiefeng wound the rope twice around his forearm, and then slowly retreated to the edge of the canyon.With his back facing the canyon, he climbed the rock wall with one hand and pulled the rope with the other hand, stepping on the cliff wall and slowly descending.

The rocks on the cliff are surrounded by mist all the year round, and a lot of smooth moss has grown on it, so it is easy to slip when going up, and it is a bit difficult to stay on.

Li Tiefeng carefully climbed to a height of two or three meters for half a minute to complete.

Seeing that he finally landed on the stone platform smoothly, everyone was relieved and planned to replace him. "Who's next—?"

However, after Li Tiefeng went down, he didn't know what he saw. As soon as he stood up, he took a sharp breath, took half a step back and almost missed his foot.

The broken stones crashed down and disappeared into the dense clouds. Fortunately, Li Tiefeng reacted quickly and adjusted his center of gravity in time to regain his footing.

The people above didn't know why the sudden situation happened, so they all tightened their hearts: "What's wrong?!"

After a while, Li Tiefeng's response came from below: "It's okay, there are a few mummified corpses here, be mentally prepared when you come down, don't be scared..."

The people here are basically no novice, and I don’t know how many times I have seen the corpse.A few mummified corpses were nothing, but it was quite scary to be face-to-face with them without warning.

Everyone discussed it, and soon followed the original plan, going underground one by one to the stone platform.

Li Tiefeng commanded below, and the rest went down one by one.

Boss Hou was the heaviest, he got off first, and the remaining six people pulled him together.

As soon as Boss Hou landed, his lover Lan Hui and the bodyguards they brought followed closely behind.Then there was the novice companion of the Night Watchman who died on the first night, and then Old Liang.

Seeing that the six people had successfully descended to the stone platform, Xie Xingyin tugged at the rope, then turned around and asked Lu Fen, "What will you do if I go down first?"

If Xie Xingyin left, there would be no one to help Lu Fen pull the rope when he came down.

...Do you want the guide to help pull it?

Xie Xingyin looked in the direction the guide was leaving, and was about to say something, but Lu Fen seemed to know what he was thinking, and patted him on the shoulder to reassure him.

"Brother, don't worry."

Seeing his confidence, Xie Xingyin hesitated for a moment and didn't ask any more questions, after all, Young Master Lu's skill was much stronger than him.

So Lu Fen helped him pull the rope on top, and Xie Xingyin dragged the rope and stepped on the rock wall, carefully descending to the platform.

Below the platform was a bottomless abyss shrouded in clouds and mist, and the seven of them could only squeeze together on this small stone platform.

After landing, Xie Xingyin saw the ancient corpses that Li Tiefeng was talking about.

There are many depressions similar to shrines on the cliff inside the stone platform, and there is an ancient corpse standing in each shrine.

These ancient corpses were dressed in armor, with exaggerated masks of blue-faced fangs, and held a sharp spear in their hands to make an attack.They didn't know how long they had been dead. Their nails were more than a dozen centimeters long, withered and curled.

Even though it looks scary, dead objects can't hurt people, so it's obviously used to scare people here.Fortunately, Li Tiefeng's guts were not bad. If Boss Hou had come down first and put his face against these ancient corpses unprepared, he might have been so frightened that his feet gave up and he would have fallen off the stone platform.

Just when Xie Xingyin wanted to get a closer look at these ancient corpses, Lu Fen came down.

He almost climbed down the cliff with his bare hands, and behind him was the abyss, which made people sweat in his heart.Fortunately, Lu Fen moved very quickly, before Xie Xingyin had time to worry about him, he had bowed to the ground in a blink of an eye, and stood in front of him.

Li Tiefeng and the others in front are still testing the firmness of those stone steps.The stone platform was narrow, and the people in front couldn't walk across without moving, so Xie Xingyin and the others continued to look at these ancient corpses for their own amusement.

The shrine has been covered with gray-green moss, which looks simple and old.

These ancient corpses on the cliff are so vividly preserved, as if they will be brandishing spears to beat them in the next second.The rest avoided them, crowding on the other side of the platform.

Lao Liang was also a little scared:

"Aren't there just a few mummies? Why are you so careful?"

Xie Xingyin said casually: "It's worth money, take a second look."

These are relatively taboo in China, but it is not uncommon to dump ancient corpses abroad.

The unearthed mummies were crowned with the names of various Egyptian princesses and princes, and sold back and forth for millions of dollars, and there were all kinds of mysterious and evil stories.

The most famous of these is the mummy of the Egyptian princess Amara, known as the cursed mummy.

Legend has it that this mummy was unearthed in the 19th century and was resold repeatedly at high prices in the end, but those who came into contact with her were soon cursed and suffered heavy casualties.And the final destination of this mummy was a cruise ship bound for New York. She sank to the bottom of the sea together with the Titanic, which was known as unsinkable.

There is no way to verify the authenticity of the story, but these widely circulated legends have indeed made these special "antiques" soaring in value.When Xie Xingyin was a graduate student abroad a few years ago, a mummy more than 2000 years ago was also kept in the basement of the professor's house.

"Hey, foreigners are really strange." Once Lao Liang heard that this thing was valuable, he immediately lost his fear, "We can at most throw away some light objects, but we have never seen anyone drag a corpse out and sell it. Isn't this wicked? "

The ancient corpses in front of us have been dehydrated and air-dried, and are hidden in the middle of the cliff where there is no sky or ground. They are quite well preserved, even the skin has not peeled off.

Lao Liang looked at them as if he was looking at a pile of RMB.

"Wipe your drool, we can't recite it and sell it."

Xie Xingyin shrugged his shoulders and took out a piece of cloth from his pocket.

Lao Liang thought he was really going to wipe his saliva, but Xie Xingyin turned his head and began to wipe the gray moss on the stone wall inside the shrine.

After layers of moss peeled off, the original appearance of the stone wall was revealed in front of them.

Those are several stone murals with smooth and simple lines.There are only a few dozens of strokes in each picture, but the depiction is very vivid and easy to understand.

What is depicted in the murals is the story of these ancient corpses during their lifetime—they were once ten great witches dedicated to pagan evil gods, who wore golden masks and danced around the bonfire to sacrifice to the evil gods.

The behavior of these people offended the true god, so as punishment, their bodies were placed here after their death, and their souls could not go to the sky or go down to the earth, but could only be imprisoned here for eternity as slaves of the gatekeeper.

"Golden mask? It's pitch black and I thought it was iron..." Old Liang leaned over to look curiously.

The ancient corpses wore black masks with green faces and fangs. It could be seen that the workmanship was quite exquisite, but they had been oxidized and blackened, and the original hair material could not be seen.

"It's gold, but it's not pure gold."

The metal of gold is strong and will not rust.But the metallurgical technology of that era was immature, and the extracted gold contained more impurities. These weak impurities were oxidized, and the gold mask appeared black.

As soon as he heard that it was a golden mask, Lao Liang couldn't help reaching out to touch it, but before he could touch it, his wrist was held down.

"Don't touch it, this mask is a bit evil." Xie Xingyin said in a deep voice, "Look at those murals, these people were peeled off their faces when they were young, rubbed with special hemostatic medicine, and then put on the mask. New growths came out The skin and flesh of the mask will stick to the mask, and the mask will grow on its face over time - if you don't want to tear the skin off, don't touch it."

"Hiss—" Lao Liang couldn't help being speechless, "It's all like this, can you still live?"

"Of course, more people died. The few people who survived by chance are the messengers of the evil god."

"Hiss, the evil god is indeed an evil god." Lao Liang said, "Our Jade Emperor and Tathagata Buddha would not do such immoral things."

Lu Fen was also looking at those ancient corpses, not knowing what he was thinking, and suddenly pulled out the spear that was clutched in the mummy's hand.

The spear is made of special ore, which is hard enough and will not rust. Hidden in this stone wall, it has never been exposed to the sun and rain, and it is still sharp after thousands of years.

Lu Fen pulled the spear out of the mummy's hand, and then gave his saber to Xie Xingyin for self-defense.

"The bottom of the rift valley is in a low-lying area, which will gather nearby underground rivers. If I guess correctly, there will probably be rivers and primeval forests below." Lu Fen wiped the dust off the spear and carried it on his back.

"——so the road ahead is likely to be more dangerous than the one we came here. Brother, you should be more careful after you go down."

Old Liang blinked his eyes, seeing that they all had weapons, but he was empty-handed, so he asked, "What about me?"

Lu Fen patted Lao Liang on the shoulder, and smiled kindly at him: "Come on, try to run as fast as possible."