dark moon

Chapter 111 Illusion
My eyes blurred for no reason, and the next moment, I was no longer indoors, but sitting on the golden desert.

The desert is still extremely hot, but the sunlight is not so deadly. The environment is still dry, but the weak water element can obviously be felt moving. The air is still dull, but a breeze blows from time to time, bringing some fresh air.

More importantly, there are people, water, and trees here. What everyone sees is a desert full of life.

The most eye-catching thing is the lake in the middle of the desert. The lake is not big, and the water is clear and transparent, exuding bursts of cool air. More than a dozen tall and intertwined trees grow around the lakeside. There are shrubs and grasses scattered between the trees. A strange-looking herbivorous lizard was wandering on the grass, slowly tearing at the fresh and soft grass blades, looking leisurely.

On one side of the lake is a piece of fertile soil, and no plants can be seen growing on it, but from the regular layout of the streets, it can be seen that this is a farmland, and it must be artificially grown crops.The farmland is now golden, complementing the desert in the distance. However, the desert may symbolize death, but the ripe crops in the farmland must symbolize the future and hope.

On the other side of the lake are the very familiar four-sided cone-shaped buildings. The cone-shaped buildings are more than 30 meters high, and their golden outer walls look majestic.It gives the impression that this is a small village in the center of the desert, formed around an oasis. Although it is in a cruel desert, life is still peaceful and rich.

In the center of the four buildings, there is also a circle of small facilities, some very simple stone platforms with sheds like counters. There is no doubt that this is a place for daily exchange of items.It is conceivable that people living here will occasionally put things they cannot use on the counter, waiting for interested people to exchange them for other items or even possible currency.

However, one can only imagine that because there is no one here, everyone seems to be missing.

Suddenly, tsunami-like cheers suddenly sounded in the ears, coming from the entrance of the village. The people of the Shadow Chaser team found themselves at this entrance.

The entrance is a flat and empty sandy land, with three tall stone statues standing in the middle, and nothing else.Under the stone statue, more than 40 humanoid creatures kneeled on the ground facing the statue, raising their hands to the sky.

These humanoid creatures are obviously not humans but some kind of lizards that walk upright. Their thick skin is covered with fine scales, which can effectively prevent the loss of water in the body. Their forked tongues stick out of their mouths from time to time, allowing them to keenly explore the desert. The precious water source in the world, the yellow eyes have double-layered eyelids, and the inner transparent eyelids can strictly prevent foreign matter from invading the eyes. The horny claws at the end of the lower limbs are hard and heat-resistant, and are not afraid of the high temperature of the ground.

A lizardman stood under the stone statue with a stone ax in his hand, and he was the only lizardman standing in the arena. He stepped on a herbivorous reptile lizard, and let out a series of rhythmic roars from his mouth.The kneeling lizard people followed his rhythm and made the same roar, and the calls became more and more orderly.

The stone ax struck down hard, and the herbivorous lizard's head rolled and fell to the side. The lizard's green blood shot out from its neck like a fountain, accurately spraying onto the three stone statues. The crowd's roar also reached its highest point at this moment.

The three stone statues stained with blood are also in the shape of lizard men, but they are different in size and shape.

The stone statue in the center is golden and the tallest. It looks powerful and strong. One hand is raised high, holding a spear burning with flames. Of course, it is just a statue. , not really burning with fire.

The one on the right is cyan. The cyan stone statue is thinner and shorter than the golden one. Its shape is a bit erratic. Its two forelimbs are hugged in front of its chest and it is not holding anything. It is just stepping on a mass of sculptures under its feet. into stones symbolizing clouds and mist.

The stone statue on the left is as black as ink, and it is the only stone statue in a sitting position. The black stone statue is obviously thinner, and compared with the other two, the lines are also much softer. This should be a symbol of women. The stone statue has flat hands. He raised his chest and held a ball of black stuff in his open paws. Judging from the shape, it should symbolize sand.

In fact, there is a fourth statue. The fourth statue is light blue and is held in front of the chest by the other hand of the black stone statue.There is no doubt that the fourth stone statue is a baby. Even if it is held by the black statue, it still shows a dancing posture, obviously full of energy.

The lizard man holding the stone ax bent down and smeared the blood on his chest, then knelt down like the others, raised his hands and chanted loudly. The people behind him soon joined the singing team, and the voices became louder and louder. The bigger it gets, the sound is like the majestic tide.

Only then did the female priest Kelly recover from the shock and surprise. She looked around and saw that there were only these lizard people around, and no one from the Shadow Chaser team had disappeared.

Where am I?Where are people?Why are they all missing?And what about me?Why am I missing too?

Yes, Kelly couldn't even find herself. All she saw around her were the fanatical lizard people, as if she had become one of them.

The female pastor was not panicked. Maybe she didn't know what panic meant. She just felt that her heart was beating fast and her muscles were involuntarily tense. This should be surprise, she told herself.Surprised, her first reaction was to walk around and explore her surroundings.

Fortunately, at this moment, Xiure's voice came to my ears.The female pastor had become accustomed to hearing this voice in the past few days, and she had never felt anything about it. But now the voice seemed to have magic power, calming her violently beating heart, and her urge to look around also subsided. The whole person felt much more settled.

"No one moves, calm down. If you don't want your head to be bruised and bleeding, just sit where you are." Shuer's voice was slow and calm. This is a little trick to use words to soothe people. . "Especially you, just stay down and lie down." This time, he was not calm at all. Then there was a roar and whimpering of a beast. This should be him stepping on the tail of the white wolf that was trying to run around. Come on.

"Moria, please calm down this stupid wolf. It is probably biting the table leg as if it were my leg. I'm afraid its teeth will break." For some reason, Kelly suddenly felt like laughing, and her muscles had already tightened. He returned to normal. Although he couldn't see it, he could already picture the white wolf holding the stone table leg and biting it in his mind.

"Eh? I'm a deer. You want me to appease such a scary big white wolf?" Moria's reluctant voice came, along with the sound of rustling movements, "Okay, okay, big white wolf?" The dog is obedient. Don't move. Yes, that's it. You are so obedient. When I get out, I will introduce you to a few little female wolves in the forest. They are so beautiful one by one. I guarantee you that in a few days. I can’t walk anymore.”

"Well done." Bai Lang stopped making trouble, but Xiure's voice sounded full of depression, "However, if you didn't touch my head and say these words, maybe the effect would be better."

"Hahahaha", the other people in the team burst into laughter. It seemed that everyone was still around, and Kelly was even more relieved. However, what did she see now?Could it be an illusion? How could there be such a clear illusion?
Almost in sync with the laughter of the Shadow Chasers, dozens of people kneeling in worship also let out overwhelming cheers. At the same time, the ground began to shake slightly. It was not violent, but it was impossible to ignore. It seemed that the cheers were caused by the vibration of the ground. rise.

Looking in the direction of the vibration, a cloud of yellow smoke rose from the sky. It was not the overwhelming smoke of a sandstorm, but more like the dust raised by many people walking towards this side.

The crowd became even more excited, and under the leadership of the axe-wielding man, they marched towards the outside of the village.

Soon, the sand came closer, and it was possible to see clearly that they were a group of strange creatures.

Fish-like creatures.

The largest ones are three giant creatures that are hundreds of meters long and look like whales. They are also surrounded by dozens of fish of more than ten meters long with different shapes. Behind each fish is carrying a lot of things, especially There were even fences installed behind the three giant whales, and they were filled with a mountain of items.

More importantly, there is no water in the desert over there, and they don't swim in water at all.

Half of them sink under the sand sea, and the upper half of their bodies are exposed. The sand sea is like real sea water to them, allowing them to swim freely.

"Woo~~~" A long cry came from the largest whale in the middle. The giant whale suddenly jumped up, and most of its body emerged from the desert, streaking across the sky like a fish out of the water. Its huge body even Blocked out sunlight.

This was like a signal. All the fish in the surrounding sand jumped up following the giant whale, and sand particles fell from the air one after another with their movements, as if there was a rain of yellow sand.

"Poof", one by one, the fish in the sand fell back into the sand sea. Although they were such huge bodies, there was no violent earthquake as expected when they entered the sand. There was only a very weak shaking. It can be said that It's a miracle.However, the dust flying all over the sky is definitely inevitable, and the thick yellow smoke billows everywhere where they land, blocking the sky and the sun.

Falling back to the ground, a few lizardmen suddenly came out from behind the cargo on the backs of the three giant whales. Although they couldn't see their appearance clearly from a distance, they could be seen waving vigorously to the people in the village, and still shouting loudly. Shout something.

Cheers erupted from the crowd on the sand. Dozens of people danced and jumped excitedly. Many people even hugged each other happily, and even the scales on their bodies turned red.

"Wow wow wow wow", you couldn't hear what the leader of the axe-wielding shouted. The lizard people knelt down at the same time, holding a handful of golden sand above their heads, letting the sand pour on themselves like water. At the same time, the sand The school of fish in the water is getting slower and slower, and it is getting closer and closer to the crowd.

Everything came to an abrupt end.

The light dimmed suddenly, and everyone found themselves back in the building. What appeared in front of them were the expressions of teammates who could not hide their amazement.

　Tomorrow, it will be on the shelves. . . . . . .I would like to ask again, please try your best to contribute the first order tomorrow, thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)