Chapter 51: Purgatory Reunion (3)

The moment he saw the oasis among the vast yellow sand, Qi Leren exclaimed excitedly: "Look, the oasis is here!"
The local guide said with a smile: "Yes, that's right there. If you continue to move forward, you can reach a nearby tribe in an hour, not far from the underground Ant City."
These words encouraged the tired Qi Leren. He came to this oasis on a camel, picked up the spring water and washed his face, only to feel that the whole body's heat was dissipated.
The illusionist also jumped off the camel, filled the water pouch, and drank it.
Qi Leren glanced at his camel and found that it picked up a piece of white paper from the water, and chewed with his mouth, like a slice of fresh vegetables. The Qi Le people curiously snatched this piece of paper from the camel's mouth, which was about to be soaked with water. The text and patterns on it had been soaked and could not be identified.
It's just vague, as if something was drawn.
The soaked paper broke in his hands, breaking into pieces of water-saturated fibers. The camel picked up the paper from the ground and continued to chew it. Qi Leren sighed helplessly and took the camel The rope, pulling it, walked towards the illusionist who was already greeting him.
The three continued to move forward. The locals who were familiar with the desert had a lot of words at the end of this journey. They chatted with two travelers who paid a lot of money for him to lead the way. From the mouth of the local, Qi Musicians have a new understanding of the current situation of the underground ant city.
"Queen of Dragon Ants has recently recovered her health? Didn't she say she has been seriously ill before?" Qi Leren asked strangely, recalling the contents of the materials.
"Beginning to return to the light," said the locals. "This is the case for every queen. This state will not last for about a month. In this month, a new queen will be born. During this time, the situation in the underground city of Ants is chaotic. Demon swarms from all over the place, and the tide of the monsters this month will be extraordinarily turbulent, so you must be careful. "
Qile people know the tide of the demon. In the underground ant city, there is such a catastrophe every month. This group does not exist rationally, and it does not know where the terrifying creatures came from the ground cracks, attacking the inhabitants of the underground Ant City in a frantic way. However, the area of ​​the underground Ant City cannot isolate this group of creatures. Battle this group of creatures in January.
The three men walked all the way forward, and Huangsha finally turned into a Gobi. At dusk, the open fields were full of wasteland, which made Qile people who came to the desert for the first time bemoaned.
He was following the path of Ning Zhou, walking towards him, every step closer to him. He will find him, not too far away from this day.
"In front of the Valentin tribe, you can rest there, they are very polite to outsiders," said the guide.
Qi Leren thought his words were a little weird, and he couldn't help but ask, "What about you? Don't you go?"
"I? I don't care, I'm afraid they won't welcome me, nor will our tribe welcome them. They are foreign, they don't look the same as our locals, we are not intermarried for generations, and there is no in-law relationship." Pouting disdainfully, "you can buy some food there, if not, let's go straight."
The Valentin tribe, Qi Le people remember the name, Ning Zhou mentioned in the letter. He lost his camel in a storm and came alone to the Valentine Tribe ...
He didn't say more, but even just a name makes people nostalgic.
"Forget it, time is tight, let's go directly to the underground Ant City." Qi Leren said.
So the three continued to walk forward, through the wind-eroded hills next to each other, and while standing on the hills, Qile people overlooked the Valentin tribe in the distance. On the Gobi in the sunset, the Valentin tribe was quiet. , As if a land in the desert.
The illusionist stopped suddenly.
"What's wrong?" Qi Leren asked.
"During the dinner time, there is no cooking smoke." The illusionist narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the distant tribe. "No one is active. I am afraid that tribe is in trouble."
Qi Leren's experience is not as rich as that of the illusionist. He just didn't think of this question just now: "What happened?"
"Let's go and see." The illusionist said.
The three walked down the hill and arrived at the lower Valentin tribe. The closer they got, the more strange the situation became. When they came to the village, the sight of the three made them all fall into. In silence.
This tragedy is no longer on earth, but on earth. There were gnawed bodies and blood on the ground. The rotten bird was startled by the people, reluctantly flew away from the rotten corpse, landed on a wooden fence outside the tent, and observed them with malicious eyes.
The frightened leader covered his mouth with both hands and prayed eloquently. The illusionist and Qile people searched in the tribe without seeing a living person. The old man, child, man, and woman all became unrecognizable. The corpse and the sheep in the fence were all dead, so that only a little fur remained.
It turned out that the quiet tribe in the setting sun was already a cemetery with only corpses left.
The tragedy here makes Qi Leren scare to stare at the corpse and take a hard look. He already knew that such tragedies are being performed almost every day in the nightmare world, but he witnessed the killing of a tribe that was not long ago After the tragic situation, his heart could not be relieved.
"This kind of death is not like the devil's handwriting. Demons usually don't slaughter villages, unless they are low-level irrational demons, but such demons would not be so destructive. Probably the demons, underground In the end of the demonic tide in Ant City every month, many demons will flee to the ground to plunder the nearby tribes. They are like a group of beasts. They eat up all the places like locusts and are more cruel than demons. " The teacher said.
"What to do with the corpse?" Qi Leren was sickened by the sky, and asked hard.
"There is nothing to deal with. If this happened outside the Jinghai Desert, the nearby Holy See might send someone to investigate the situation and clean up the corpses, but here ... this is the site of the Queen of the Dragon Ants." Standing The illusionist in the wind looked back at the deserted village like a sun, and said gently, "Let Fengsha bury here."
"Will there be survivors?" Qi Leren asked.
"I don't know, maybe there is. But an ordinary person, even if they escape to the underground Ant City, may not be able to live a good life ... Let's go, we should set off." The illusionist has mounted a camel and urged Qi Le people.
Qi Leren looked at the dried blood that had soaked into the sand grains under his feet, and deep sorrow and sorrow came to his heart, blocking him from speech.
The camel looked at him kindly, and raised his cheek with his nose. Qi Leren's eyes were slightly moist, leaning back and hugging the camel's thick neck.
"Let's go." Qi Leren also mounted a camel and walked towards the underground Ant City in the distance.
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The entrance to the underground Ant City is shaped like a crater, but there is no lava under the crater, but a huge hollow, 500 meters deep. The entrance cannot be climbed and must be parachuted. In a deep darkness, the bottom of the cave illuminated by fluorescent plants on the rock wall is an underground lake. It is said that the water in it has existed for millions of years, the water is clear, and there are still self-luminous fish.
This cave is called Dragon Breath Cave, and the origin of the name is no longer available, but it is certain that there are no legendary creatures like dragons, but it is full of bats.
The guide and they broke up at the entrance of the cave. The illusionist and Qi Leren jumped into the underground lake. After climbing up, they handed over the parachuting equipment to the masked person responsible for recycling on the boat, and took the boat to the shore.
The underground world and the world on the ground are very different. Qi Le, who came here for the first time, curiously looked at the surrounding environment. There are not many light sources here, and basically the fluorescent plants on the wall. If it is not his broken shell, his vision will improve. After a lot, I'm afraid it will be very painful in the dark environment.
"What if someone is too dark to see?" Qi Leren asked, "Can you use an oil lamp or torch?"
The illusionist said funnyly, "Of course you can, but if you have to hold a torch and tell others 'I'm a weak chicken', don't blame others for coming up to provoke you. There is no courthouse to maintain order."
Along the underground passage, Qi Leren compared his map and judged his position. He had a good sense of direction. He walked around in a dark place for a while without even knowing the northeast and southwest. The illusionist who had to make a short cut, grabbed his hair and snatched the map, and quarreled with Qi Leren because of routing problems.
The illusionist insisted that as an old driver who had been to the underground Ant City many times, it was impossible to get lost. Qi Leren retorted that they had walked the same place three times just now.
In the end, the illusionist surged in anger, offering the famous "You do what you do". Qi Leren really was not polite with him, took him for ten minutes, and walked back to the main road smoothly.
This face-to-face incident caused the illusionist to say nothing during the later part of the journey. After arriving at the underground city of Ant City, the illusionist opened his mouth and said that he would take Qile people to find a place to live. .
Qi Leren rushed to find Ning Zhou, but did not agree. Under the introduction of the illusionist, he found the contact person Celia in the ant city under the trial location. This contact person who had been stationed in the underground ant city all year round gave him a lot. With help, he got the required information and rushed to Purgatory day and night ...
On the 28th day after completing the mission of the Holy Sister, Qi Leren arrived in Purgatory, triggering the second step of the mission.
At this time, purgatory was under urgent martial law, and the whole country was blocked and banned.