northernbook Chapter 165 Discovering the Unlucky Guys Who Were Wiped Out
Chapter 165 Discovering the Unlucky Guys Who Were Wiped Out
"Shirley, can you control them?"
Ji Haobo turned to look at Yang Xueli. Since her bloodline could control the Dapu Ghost Worm, it should also be useful to Jingjian Ahan.
"This... seems impossible, doesn't it? I don't have that feeling of controlling the Dapu Ghost Worm."
Yang Xueli shook her head with a slight frown, and the others immediately drew their guns and fired.
After they killed the snakes, Ji Haobo found a few more under the corpse and backpack. They jumped up but were killed by the force of the impact before they could bite him.
Then they found several more bodies ahead, all of them with East Asian features, and some dead snakes nearby.
Ji Haobo pulled open the shirts of the group and, sure enough, found a red phoenix pattern on the back of one of them.
This guy ran the farthest, killing quite a few Pure Vision Agamas along the way, but in the end he still succumbed to the deadly poison.
"Master Bo, is he the Wang family member you mentioned? He's really impressive. He was bitten more than ten times and still managed to run this far. He must have awakened his bloodline."
Looking at the phoenix pattern, Old Hu couldn't help but sigh to himself that it was good to have bloodlines; even in death, one could hold on a little longer than an ordinary person.
"His awakening level was probably average, otherwise he wouldn't have died so easily."
Ji Haobo shook his head dismissively. This group of Wang family members hadn't even entered the city yet, and they were all wiped out at the entrance. They were really unlucky.
Judging from the miserable state of these people, there should have been many Pure Land Agamas around, but the group did not encounter any of them until they passed through the canyon.
"Haobo, the ancient city of Jingjue is just ahead. Where are we going to find the Ghost Cave?"
Looking at the ancient city in the darkness ahead, mostly buried by yellow sand with only some dilapidated roofs exposed, Yang Xueli couldn't help but feel confused.
They came here this time to see if they could close the Ghost Cave, because Ji Haobo's Heavenly Coffin Blessing could block the curse;
But it couldn't dispel the curse on the clansmen. This thing is like a virus; the difficulty of prevention and treatment are completely different.
"To find the Ghost Cave, you must first find the royal palace or temple. The Ghost Cave is not open-air, but underground."
As Ji Haobo spoke, he leaped into the air and appeared at a height of several tens of meters, scanning the area below. He quickly spotted the rooftop of a palace complex.
"Come on! Everyone, follow me."
Walking along streets buried in yellow sand and over rooftops with broken bricks and tiles, the group wandered around for an hour before finally arriving at the palace complex, which was only partially visible.
Fatty Wang suddenly stared at a palace wall and cursed in surprise:
"Damn, there's a hole there. Could some bastard have gotten there first?"
"You're making a big fuss over nothing. It's normal for handwriting to have leaked out and for someone to have come by."
Old Hu rolled his eyes, waved his torch at the cave entrance, and couldn't tell how big the space inside was, but it had been filled with a lot of yellow sand.
Ji Haobo went in first, and after scanning the space, he found that apart from sand, there was nothing else in the more than 100 square meters of space.
"There must be a passage leading to the next level. Everyone, look around and see if there's anything unusual about the sand on the ground."
The others weren't fools either; they knew this palace definitely had more than one floor, with at least one or more layers beneath the yellow sand.
The group took the shovels from Ji Haobo and spread them out to poke around, testing whether the yellow sand could be shifted.
In the end, it was the human detector that came to the rescue. Fatty Wang walked to the side, and before he could even put down his shovel, the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed.
"Holy crap, help..."
Everyone quickly turned to look, only to see that he had disappeared with the flow of yellow sand, but no one was too worried.
Because after a large chunk of the surrounding yellow sand disappeared, a stone staircase leading to the next level was revealed in the middle.
"Brother Bo, come quick! I'm afraid of the dark..."
The sound of Wang Pangzi screaming like a pig being slaughtered came from below, which meant he was definitely fine.
After descending the seven- or eight-meter-high stone steps, the group discovered that the area here was larger than the area above, and there was also some sand.
However, it only accumulated around the bottom of the stone steps, and there was only a thin layer of it in other places.
Compared to the empty space buried by yellow sand above, this place not only has some stone carvings, but also a small altar that is more than a meter high and is engraved with various runes and eye patterns.
In the center of the altar, on a stone pillar more than half a meter high, there is a white jade eyeball the size of a basketball.
This thing is extremely realistic; the pupils and blood vessels on the eyeballs are incredibly lifelike, enough to startle anyone at first glance.
Sure enough, Fatty Wang found the fallen torch and relit it. When he looked up, he saw the eyeball on the altar and was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
"Holy crap, a ghost eye, such a terrifying ghost eye..."
His sudden outburst startled Old Hu, who nearly dropped the torch.
As Ji Haobo walked over, looking at the stone sculptures, he noticed the small altar on the sand pile.
"What the hell are you yelling about? You almost scared the crap out of me! Open your eyes and look, it's just a jade eyeball!"
Old Hu lit a torch and looked through what he called a "ghost eye," only to find it was a large jade stone. He immediately burst into angry curses.
He was really frightened just now. After all, it was pitch black here, the torchlight was limited, and the surroundings seemed a bit eerie. Wang Pangzi's sudden scream could really scare someone to death.
Not to mention him, even Yang Xueli and Laura were startled and glared angrily at Fatty Wang.
"Uh...you can't blame me for that. These big eyes are just too realistic. How could I not be startled when I looked up and stared into them?"
Fatty Wang felt he had incurred the wrath of the crowd and awkwardly tried to defend himself.
"Give me the jade pendant around your neck."
When Ji Haobo came over, he examined the jade eye and found that there really was a groove, so he didn't bother to complain.
The others, who were confused, gathered around. When Fatty Wang saw the groove, he understood.
"Damn, the mechanism here actually requires the jade pendant that Fatty has been carrying for decades to activate. What a coincidence!"
As soon as the jade pendant was placed in, it was twisted slightly, and a vibration was heard around it, but nothing else seemed unusual.
Just as the group was about to ask what was going on, Ji Haobo suddenly looked up.
A gigantic, blood-red eye phantom appeared above, and as the crimson light flashed, it transformed into a drop of blood several meters in size and fell down.
The moment it landed, it revealed a large number of Pure Vision Agamas inside, as well as a snake-headed, human-bodied creature curled up inside.
Before the others could draw their guns, Ji Haobo frowned, took out the Demon Blade Flowing Fire Thousand Blades, poured his blood and qi into it, and threw it over.
"boom…"
The boundless blue karmic fire bloomed like a blue lotus flower, looking extremely dazzling, but in an instant, it turned all the unconscious group of people to ashes.
This didn't surprise him, but what puzzled Ji Haobo was the purpose of this thing's appearance.
He found it hard to believe that the Queen of Jingjue had orchestrated it, as there had been no danger along the way from the canyon, as if he had been given special permission to pass.