"When we arrived, the inhabitants of Baramu and their kings, who had turned into clawed vipers, were sealed up in the dungeon under this idol.

The sleeping guard you met outside was the one who sealed it all here.

The entire area, including the city of Bharamo, was sealed off by him, and only those with his permission were allowed to enter it.

However, the Sleeping Guard's seal has a flaw, and that is that when any outsiders appear in the area, his blockade of the artifact in the Temple of the Claw Viper will be invalidated.

I made a deal with him with the last hint of my own, and he gave me permission to hide beneath it and assimilated me and the last of my people into the area.

That way, we won't touch the seal.

But you are not my clansman, and your entry will still invalidate the seal of the holy relic.

You must have seen the effects of that artifact by now......

If you don't want this desert to be shrouded in endless darkness forever in the future, if you still want to get your hands on those two things, you'll have to go down to the dungeon, kill the awakened clawed vipers, find the shrine that makes the artifact work, and destroy it.

At the same time as you destroy the shrine, the two items you want will automatically appear in front of you. ”

The old cat man turned around with his hands behind his back and looked at Xue Hua quietly, waiting for him to make a decision.

Xue Hua rolled his eyes, he had come here, did he have any other way to go?

"Okay, I'll go down, but before I do, I have some questions for you......"

“... I know what you want to ask......"

However, hearing his words, the old cat man shook his head.

"But you shouldn't have asked me that... I, like thousands of my people, am just slaves enslaved by it.

It does all sorts of brutal ... Experiments, using the blood of the race to control us.

It wasn't until the last moment of my life that I realized that we couldn't escape its grasp after all.

Because our blood has been thoroughly studied by it......"

"At least tell me what it is and what it looks like, right?" Xue Hua continued to ask unwillingly.

"It's... There is no way to describe it... There is no fixed form, it can be anyone, or anything. ”

The old cat man lowered his eyelids, and seemed a little reluctant to recall that past.

"Shapeshifters?" Xue Hua was stunned.

“... I do not know... Okay, that's the end of the topic, it's time for you to go down, and I should rest in peace......"

The old cat man's face showed a hint of exhaustion, and his figure became lighter and lighter.

"This will be the last time you'll see me... So after going down, everything is up to you.

Also, I have a reluctant request......"

"Uh... You say. ”

Xue Hua found that the old cat man's voice had become more and more ethereal, almost dissipating into the air.

"My children, the hope of our race... Of course, they're probably just a pile of bones now... But I want you to take them out of here and bury them in that oasis.

That's where they really call home......

They... Just in... Village's... South ......"

After the old cat man said the last sentence, his entire body turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated into the air.

At the same time, the jewel ornament that had been floating above his head also shattered into dust in a "click" sound.

The leader of the catmen, who bravely led his tribe to escape from slavery, but ended in tragedy, finally disappeared from this world completely.

Xue Hua stood in place for a long time, and finally sighed softly, and in the mind of the main nest, issued an order to the swarm of insects left in the ruins of the city, telling them to go to the south of the ruins of the cat-man village to find the remains of the cat-man cubs.

When he found them, he collected them, stored them carefully, and when he went out, he buried them in the vast oasis.

After finishing the old cat man's last wish, Xue Hua walked to the golden giant snake statue with his staff, and asked the supervising king worm to scan the base of the statue, and sure enough, he found a very deep tunnel underneath.

However, the tunnel had collapsed and was filled with rubble and dirt.

But Xue Hua only needs to know that there is indeed space underneath, authentic or something, even if it is still good, he doesn't plan to use it.

Just kidding, with the digging efficiency of the swarm, repunching a tunnel is even faster than walking through the previous tunnels.

With the efforts of more than a dozen cockroaches, a tunnel large enough for four or five people to pass side by side quickly went deep into the underground palace of the temple.

And Xue Hua only needed to sit on the back carapace of one of the cockroaches and move forward.

More than ten minutes later, with a muffled "bang", the cockroaches in front smashed open a stone brick wall, and a huge underground palace appeared in front of Xue Hua's eyes.

He followed the swarm into the palace through a breach in the wall, holding the staff in one hand and stuffing the seeping man's spine back into his backpack with the other, and took out a torch and lit it.

The insect swarm continued to pour into the dungeon from the hole behind him, and began to reconnoiter in the passages around the palace under the arrangement of the worm mother.

Xue Hua held a torch and looked at some of the murals carved on the walls of the underground palace with great interest.

Most of these murals are composed of snake patterns, and the content is almost all related to snakes, and even the stone bricks on some steps are carved with snake-shaped lines.

Even the stone bricks at this foot are covered with carvings like snake scales.

"I really like to play with snakes......"

Xue Hua looked at the snakes all over the wall, and couldn't help but feel a little itchy on his scalp.

He's not very afraid of snakes, but with so many snakes staring, even a professional snake slaughterer has goosebumps, right?

"Juggernaut, the swarm's scouts have been attacked, and the attackers are suspected to be some variant of the basilisk, and they are all living targets rather than energy projections."

"How's the strength?" The corners of Xue Hua's mouth twitched, and his heart was here.

"According to the individuals that have appeared so far, the average psionic level is less than 0.5, but they have very strong physical strength, so even if the psionic level is low, their combat effectiveness is still not to be underestimated.

Isha suggested that they plan their tactics against their psionic level 3.0 opponents. ”

"Hmm... It makes sense, so let's do it, let the worm mothers be careful, these things don't seem to be so easy to deal with. ”

Xue Hua frowned, observing the local battlefield where a group of jumping insects surrounded and killed four or five sharp-clawed pit vipers in the mind of the main nest.

These clawed pit vipers look like monsters with heads and tails but human bodies on their upper bodies, their upper bodies erect, with human-like chests and arms, but with sharp white claws on all the fingers of a pair of hands.

These monsters are stupid, and it can be said that their IQ is basically a little stronger than the monster projection, but their physical strength is really strong, and they can rush to the target from a long distance in an instant, a bit like the paladin's charging skills.

The number of jumping worms besieging this group of clawed pit vipers is about fifteen, and they are very ferocious and tactical, and the first seven or eight jumping insects have been attracting the attention of the clawed pit vipers, buying time for the rest of the jumping insects to carry out flank attacks.

However, although these clawed pit vipers were stupid, they did not have a sense of battle, and the jumping insects organized several very threatening attacks, but they were either dodged or defused at the last moment.

Moreover, these clawed pit vipers are also very strong in attack and defense, and their bodies are covered with a layer of cold and slippery snake scales, and this layer of scale armor that looks inconspicuous at all can actually make the claws and fangs of the jumping insects that have been upgraded to level 10 go back in vain.

- It's not that you can't bite through, but you will slip away.

Their weapons of attack are the claws of their hands and the venomous fangs of their mouths.

While toxins do nothing to swarms, the weapons in these guys' hands can easily pierce the stratum corneum armor of the jerboas.

Several jumping worms have already been injured by them, and one of them is even quite badly injured.

Seeing that the jumping insects couldn't attack for a long time, Xue Hua's brows became more and more wrinkled.

It seems that this place is not a good place, so it is better to be vigilant.