The next morning, when they set off again, Xue Hua sat on the back of the thunder beast, frowning and thinking about yesterday's question, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't think of a reason.

Suddenly, his eyes were drawn to a large sandstone pillar on the border of the oasis—a pillar that shimmered in the desert morning sun.

Then it occurred to him a sentence he had seen on that map.

"On all sides of the distant oasis, there are vast expanses of sand dunes and cliff abysses, which are covered with white mist and miasma, and anyone can get lost in these fogs, so where they lead is still unknown."

This is a digression that the mapper will mark under each area of the map, meaning that it is hoped that the lucky professional will be able to discover some of the secrets of these areas that no one has yet solved.

Xue Hua had read this digression about the distant oasis many times, and he hadn't found anything wrong before, because the terrain that the king worm scanned on all sides of the oasis was indeed the same as the one described in the digression.

However, when he personally stood on the back of the thunder beast and looked at the sandstone pillar that had appeared more than once in the field of view of the king worm from a horizontal position with his own eyes, he suddenly felt a slight incongruity.

The vast oasis is surrounded by vast sand dunes and an abyss full of white mist and poisonous miasma, and then at the junction of the oasis and the sand dunes, there is such an inexplicable stone pillar?

Isn't that too abrupt?

And it's the same as the stone pillars... How to say it... It seems a little too regular.

In general, shouldn't naturally occurring sandstone columns have uneven surfaces and tapering from bottom to top?

Why does the surface of this pillar look smooth and even reflective?

And most importantly, this stone pillar is as thick as it is up and down?

The more Xue Hua looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, so he decisively ordered the insect mother to change the direction of travel and move closer to the stone pillar.

The insect mother who received the order quickly led the swarm troops to open the way in the direction pointed by Xue Hua, and the thunder beast that Xue Hua was sitting on also changed its direction.

This change was quickly felt by the two girls who were sitting on the edge of the carapace on the back of the thunderbeast, shooting arrows at the group below.

They glanced at each other, and together they turned their heads to look at Xue Hua, only to see him leaning against a bone plate, frowning and thinking about something.

The two girls didn't bother Xue Hua's contemplation, but also turned their eyes to the direction where the insect swarm was traveling.

They also saw the red sandstone pillar.

"That pillar... It's weird, it doesn't look like it's natural......" Anne whispered.

"yes, but it looks like... Broken? Phonia blinked, a little curious.

Of course, her words were just unintentional, but it made Xue Hua's eyes light up violently.

Yes! No wonder the king worm never noticed the abnormality of the stone pillar, because it was broken!

Looking from the top of your head, you can see the fractured surface of the stone pillar, and because the fracture is irregular, it looks like a naturally formed sandstone tower, which is common in the desert and Gobi region, so the king worm did not pay much attention to it......

And most importantly, the stone pillar did not emit any psionic disturbances or anomalous biological fluctuations.

This is the most critical reason why the king worms will ignore it.

"Isha, has the king worm's map been scanned?"

Thinking of this, Xue Hua hurriedly asked the adjutant for the map recorded by the king insects when they searched the area before, and Isha quickly sent the map to the mind of the main nest.

Xue Hua followed the map to find the location of the stone pillar, and sure enough, he found that the stone pillar looked like a sandstone tower with an uneven surface from the sky.

Moreover, he found another large red stone bar next to the tower, half-buried in the dirt of the jungle floor, covered with vines and attached vegetation, and if you didn't look closely, you would only think that it was part of the natural bulge of the jungle floor, or the remains of a giant tree.

Seeing this scene, Xue Hua was even more convinced of his thoughts, and then he also thought of those huge human head stone statues that existed in the distant oasis region and even other areas in the desert in the previous life game.

Could this pillar be the same thing as the statues?

But he didn't find that kind of human head stone statue anywhere else in the world?

In any case, the pillar was by no means a natural formation.

As for what exactly it is, and whether it will have anything to do with what Xue Hua is looking for at the moment, then we can only wait until we get closer to see it to come to a conclusion.

......

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, and there is really no problem with this.

Even with the speed of the insect swarm, and even relying on the thunder beast to act as a forklift at the front of the line, by the time Xue Hua really got close to the stone pillar, the time had already shifted from early morning to the afternoon of the same day

And it wasn't until he really came to this stone pillar that Xue Hua found that the height of this stone pillar was far beyond his previous imagination, and at the same time, he also confirmed his guess - this stone pillar was by no means naturally formed.

Even after many years of wind and rain, even if the half-waist part of the stone pillar has been covered with moss and various wall-climbing plants, there are still vague traces of artificial carving and rest on the stone pillar.

Xue Hua summoned a monitoring king insect and asked it to lower its height to inspect the upper part of the stone pillar, and then he found that the stone pillar was covered with all kinds of exquisite flower carvings and various mysterious runes, large and small.

And even with Xue Hua's cultural relics identification skills that are not even a three-legged cat, they can be easily identified, and the carvings on them are by no means human craftsmanship.

The reason is simple, because all the "human" images in the exquisite ornamentation on the stone pillars have a "cat face".

It's the work of the cat people.

But new problems have arisen.

Cat people?

Shouldn't they have been corrupted by the energy of hell in the year of the demonic invasion and all went to hell?

The cat-people tribes that remain in the desert now are all just projections of the cat-people who have been transformed into demons.

In other words, they're just monsters.

The reason why they are still able to live together is only the traces of habit that their body retains on them.

It's like the Devils of Destruction.

But you have to say that the cat man projection can be carved, and such an unknown but extremely majestic stone pillar will be erected here......

No matter what reason you give, Xue Hua won't believe it.

And when it comes to cat people, he suddenly thinks of another question.

That's why there is no cat-man projection in this oasis?

You must know that in the game, there are cat people in the distant oasis, and from the news that Anne found out in the tavern, there are also many professionals who have encountered cat people projections in this oasis.

However, up to now, let alone a cat man, Xue Hua has never seen even a single cat hair.

And just when Xue Hua was puzzled about the purpose of this and the time of its establishment, the Guardian King Worm, who was close to the upper half of the stone pillar and carefully observed, made some discoveries.

From its field of vision, Xue Hua saw that below the fracture of the stone pillar, there were a series of small long holes with very neat edges, and the way these small holes were divided was very interesting, they were divided together in a very dense form, but sometimes the two pieces were separated by a long distance, as if someone had pierced countless long swords of the same width on it.

In addition, there are many deep scratches on the stone pillars, which crisscross and cover the entire upper part of the stone pillars.

The moment he saw these scratches, the first thought that flashed through Xue Hua's heart was.

- Could it be that the two sword immortals who accidentally crossed over here had a big fight here?