Chapter 80 Chapter 80 “This Beast King is still a beast…
"Tianba, let's go." Jiang Qing was not overwhelmed by excitement. He grabbed the corner of Zhu Tianba's clothes around his neck and ran all the way.
The latter's limbs swung backwards in response to her movements.
Even Renata and the others were left behind by her. The four people who reacted quickly followed Jiang Qing's pace, but unfortunately, he ran too fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"He didn't even take us with him when he started the teleportation. What a shame." Ma Chengying complained a few words, and naturally thought that Jiang Qing had started the teleportation and left.
And the other side.
Jiang Qing lay on the ground for a while, feeling dizzy. He blinked his eyes with difficulty, and saw a picture of Zhu Tianba turned 180 degrees upside down.
Her posture was odd, with her arms and legs bent abnormally.
"Jiang Qing?" It patted the person on the ground with its claws and sat down beside him.
Jiang Qing tried to adjust to the surrounding light for a while, then rubbed his forehead with his hand: "Where is this?"
Facts have proved that when people are unlucky, they can fall flat on their faces.
She had only run a few meters from the First Academy's outpost when her feet slipped and she fell here.
Jiang Qing lay on the ground and did not get up immediately.
She first gently moved the joints of her hands and feet to confirm that they were only minor sprains and abrasions and nothing serious.
The fall just now was too sudden, it was completely a free fall. Fortunately, the sand beneath me was relatively soft, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.
She sat up on her elbows and looked around.
This seemed to be a naturally formed underground cave. Light filtered through the gap where she fell, forming a faint beam of light that barely illuminated the area within a few meters.
The air was filled with dust and a strange smell.
The depths of the cave were pitch black, and no one knew where it led.
"We seem to have fallen somewhere." Jiang Qing's voice echoed slightly in the empty cave.
Zhu Tianba's calm voice answered her doubts: "It is a historical site. It contains the remains of some kind of beast king and a huge palace."
The remains of the Beast King?
Jiang Qing raised his head and went through the memories.
During the tactical meeting, Team Lei did mention that this match would be held on a ruin. What was the name of the beast within the ruins?
At this moment, she really regretted not paying attention during the lecture and could not remember anything at all.
"Is there any danger?" Jiang Qing asked tentatively.
Zhu Tianba dug his claws into the sand beneath him and said, "The 'soil' and 'stones' here tell me that no living creature has been here for a long time."
Jiang Qing breathed a sigh of relief. She endured the pain in her ankle, stood up with the help of the cave wall, and looked around curiously.
The hole where you fall is very high and climbing up with bare hands is almost impossible.
With Zhu Tianba, she was not very worried about how to leave here.
In the past few hours, she has caused chaos in the arena. People from other colleges probably want to seek revenge on her, so it would be better for her to hide here.
What's more, we're already here.
She was also curious about what the Beast King looked like.
"Let's go in and take a look." Jiang Qing took a deep breath. The stale smell in the air made her lungs feel a little uncomfortable.
Jiang Qing carefully looked at this underground space in the dim light cast by the cave entrance.
Zhu Tianba took a few steps forward, his hooves stepping on the dusty ground, making a slight "rustling" sound.
It tried to discern the scent of sparkling gems in the air.
The stone slabs under your feet are laid neatly, and the gaps are filled with fine sand.
They walked slowly along the corridor, occasionally seeing some vague traces of murals on the walls on both sides, but time had eroded them so severely that they could only barely make out some rough outlines.
"The 'stones' here say that many creatures once revered this place," Zhu Tianba said, acting as an interpreter as they walked. "But they rarely came in, only worshipping from the periphery. The Beast King...it doesn't seem to need servants."
"Servant?" Jiang Qing seemed to be thinking about something.
"A king who likes to be alone?" Jiang Qing said softly.
The corridor is not long, and at the end is a half-open huge door carved from a whole piece of stone.
The door is engraved with complex patterns, with an abstract pattern in the middle that resembles a combination of the sun and a sandstorm.
This looks similar to the pattern of the temple that Zhu Tianba had seen in his memory before.
An even stronger ancient atmosphere emanated from the crack in the door.
Zhu Tianba sniffed with his nose and gently pushed the stone door with his paw.
"There are no restrictions, you can go in directly."
Jiang Qing took a deep breath and together with Zhu Tianba, pushed open the heavy stone door.
The scene behind the door made Jiang Qing hold his breath even though he was prepared.
It was an extremely magnificent underground palace with a towering dome, hidden in darkness, with no end in sight.
Countless huge stone pillars that require several people to hug together support the entire space, and the pillars are carved with intricate patterns similar to those outside the door.
In the center of the palace, there lay a skeleton that was so huge that it was beyond imagination.
Even if only the skeleton remains, one can still vaguely discern its majestic appearance in life.
A slender neck, a ferocious head, a huge body, and a long, connected tailbone.
The skeleton was a warm jade-white color, and under the faint light emitted from Zhu Tianba, it seemed as if it was also emitting a faint glow.
It lay there quietly, occupying most of the central area of the palace, with its skull slightly lowered, facing a high platform in the deepest part of the palace. Its posture was indeed as if it was in eternal sleep.
The interior of the entire palace was extremely clean, with no clutter or burial objects, only endless emptiness and silence.
"Is this... the Beast King?" Jiang Qing lowered his voice unconsciously, as if afraid of disturbing the peace here.
She felt a deep-seated shock, not out of fear, but out of awe for the scale of life and the passage of time.
Zhu Tianba's reaction was a little strange.
It tilted its head, and its amber eyes stared straight at the skeleton, especially at the skull, and the confusion in its eyes became even more intense.
"Jiang Qing," Zhu Tianba said with a hint of confusion, "I... seem to hear a very faint sound."
"Sound?" Jiang Qing immediately became alert. "What sound? Where did it come from?"
Zhu Tianba raised his paw and pointed at the Beast King's skull: "From there... it's not a sound heard by the ears, it's... directly appearing 'inside' me."
Jiang Qing frowned. She looked at the huge skeleton, then looked at Zhu Tianba who seemed to have some connection with the remaining consciousness. An idea gradually became clear.
"Oh, what did it say?" Jiang Qing asked expressionlessly.
"Hurry...go?" Zhu Tianba said uncertainly.
The next second, its mane suddenly stood up and it turned its head sharply towards the stone door they had come in from. "Something is coming, a lot of it, from under the sand."
Before it finished speaking, a dense "rustling" sound came from far away and surged in from outside the corridor like a tide.
Jiang Qing's face suddenly changed.
It is a common insect or scorpion-like social beast in the desert.
They were obviously attracted by the breath of living people, or the noise of them pushing open the stone door just now.
"Retreat behind the skeleton!" Jiang Qing made a prompt decision, pulled Zhu Tianba up and retreated to the depths of the palace, behind the huge skeleton of the beast king.
This skeleton is so large that it may be used as a temporary shelter.
Just as the two hid behind the thick leg bones, they saw that the dark tunnel entrance was like a broken dam, pouring out countless fist-sized sand scorpions with earth-yellow bodies, ferocious mouthparts and huge claws.
Their eyes flashed red and they moved swiftly, instantly covering the ground near the stone gate. Like a well-trained army, they swarmed towards the direction where Jiang Qing and Zhu Tianba were hiding.
The sheer number is mind-boggling.
These sand scorpions may not be strong individually, but with such a large number of them, if they are overwhelmed by the enemy at close range, the consequences will be disastrous.
"Tianba." Jiang Qing made a quick decision. It was not easy to create a large-scale ice field in the desert like in the oasis, so she decided to change her strategy. "Release ice spikes to block their attack."
Zhu Tianba reacted extremely quickly, his hooves stepped on the ground again, and an ice-blue light shone.
The sand scorpion at the front was caught off guard and fell all over the place when it stepped on the smooth ice surface. Its speed dropped significantly. The following scorpions collided with the ones in front, causing a small chaos.
Several sand scorpions tried to bypass the ice, but were pierced or blocked by sudden ice spikes.
These ice spikes were somewhat useful at first, but there were simply too many sand scorpions.
They seemed to have no fear. When the one in front fell, the ones behind would immediately step on their companions' bodies and continue moving forward.
The small area of ice surface quickly became rough under the scraping of countless scorpion legs, and the ice spikes were smashed by the claws of the fearless sand scorpion.
The effect of the barriers is rapidly diminishing.
Jiang Qing's forehead was covered with sweat. Her attack methods were more suitable for single combat or small-scale cooperation. Facing this kind of insect swarm tactics, she seemed a little weak.
It is possible to directly teleport Zhu Tianba out, but in this case, the plan to explore the palace will be temporarily unsuccessful.
Jiang Qing's gaze quickly swept across the entire palace, finally landing on the huge skeleton of the beast king in the center.
She suddenly remembered that before the chaos began, Zhu Tianba had clearly mentioned that the voice in his head told them to "run fast."
Could this be a coincidence?
The Beast King knew in advance that there would be a siege by a large army of sand scorpions, so he told them to run away quickly?
This Beast King is still a beast!
Jiang Qing immediately clasped his hands together and prayed devoutly to the remains of the Beast King.
After speaking a few words, he felt that the Beast King might not be able to hear his conversation, otherwise he would not have passed the message to Zhu Tianba instead of himself.
So she patted Zhu Tianba and asked it to join in the prayer.
Zhu Tianba blinked in a silly and cute manner, while releasing ice spikes to continuously attack the sand scorpions that continued to come, and at the same time, he imitated Jiang Qing and prayed in the direction of the Beast King.
Less than two minutes later, Zhu Tianba heard the voice again.
Although still as blurry as ever.
Zhu Tianba stopped moving, looked around the palace, and the next second, he ran wildly in one direction.
Jiang Qing immediately followed its footsteps.
Zhu Tianba pressed his paw on a stone painting, and a secret door suddenly opened.
Looking at the dark cave entrance, Zhu Tianba just turned his head to look at Jiang Qing, then went into the secret passage without looking back.
After the two entered, the secret door closed automatically, isolating the group of sand scorpions outside.
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