Pirates of the Skeleton Scepter

The Sea God Temple still looks majestic and majestic from a distance, but when you get closer, you find that apart from the bright appearance, the inside of the temple is full of ruins and dilapidated.

It's no wonder that the Sea God Temple has been abandoned for hundreds of years, and the prosperity of the past has long been a thing of the past.

Irean ordered everyone to search around, but Jiang Liu was very interested in the murals carved on the broken pillars of the temple.The images of many gods are depicted on it, the age is too long, most of them are blurred.

After turning around a few times, everyone found nothing, but Leo found some clues from the courtyard.

"There are traces of people going down here." Leo said, pointing to an ancient well, and the mouth of the well has traces of being worn by ropes.

The ancient well is located on the west side of the courtyard, and the courtyard is just in the left eye of the skeleton.The devil's left eye was another very ominous sign.

Irean threw a stone into the well, and there was a dull echo, it was a dry well.

Joe got some rope and fixed it to the mouth of the well.Leo went down the dry well first, followed by Joe, Ji Li, Jiang Liu, and Urian, and Irean stayed in the last.

There is a hole at the bottom of the well that allows a person to pass through. Leo held up the torch, and by the light of the fire, he observed the environment inside.

The inside of the cave was pitch black, and the place where the light of the fire fell could be seen as a straight road made of bluestone bricks. The surrounding walls were very simple, with only some lamp stands, which seemed to be used to place torches.

These lamp holders will appear at intervals. After walking for a long distance, there will be a fork in front, and at the entrance of each fork, there will be a mummy that has already decayed.

"Fuck, what the hell."

Ji Li muttered in a low voice, it was indeed a very unlucky thing for a corpse to suddenly appear in the empty passage, not to mention that the three mummies were all very strange.

The first had a sharp arrow piercing through its chest; the second had a sickle-hook shaped like an ax stuck in its skull; the third was completely shattered, and the bones looked like they had been run over.

"This seems to be a hint." Jiang Liu looked at the three mummies and said slowly.

"Well, it's also a kind of warning." Irean touched his chin and said flatly: "They announced the fate after entering the gate. If I guess right, there are traps on these three roads. If you want to pass To the next destination, we must pass through these traps.”

"How, which one to choose?"

Elaine's voice sounded very relaxed, as if he was asking whether he would have chicken or fish for dinner.

"..."

"Yourien, you choose."

The throat of the boy who was named rolled down uncomfortably, and after seeing clearly the death condition of the mummy, he shook his head violently.

"I-I don't know..."

"Jiang Liu?"

"I-I don't know..."

"auspicious?"

"Boss, don't ask me, I won't choose, it's too evil."

"Joe?"

silence.

"Leo?"

Still silent.

"Okay, I'll choose." Irean shrugged and pointed to the nearest road. "Just this one."

Leo remained silent, raised the torch and was the first to walk into the passage, and the others got in one by one.Jiang Liu glanced at the mummy shot by the arrow at the entrance, and prayed that he would not turn into a hedgehog.

After walking for a while, Leo at the front suddenly stopped.

"Pay attention to your feet." He held up the torch and looked forward. There were small stone slabs on the bottom of the passage, which were probably equipped with a crossbow mechanism. "Don't step on the black slate." He said something succinctly, and everyone noticed that the slate here is divided into two colors, one is dark blue, and the other is close to black.In the dark passageway, there is really no difference in the color of the two stone slabs, unless the eyesight is particularly good, and you stare at the slate very carefully.

"Black? I can't tell the difference." Ji Li scratched his head and asked doubtfully. D_A

"Follow me, walk on the stone slab I stepped on." Leo gestured, "Try not to make a sound."

After speaking, he raised the torch to illuminate the road ahead, without looking at his feet, he directly stepped on one of the stone slabs.To be honest, Jiang Liu was really in a cold sweat at this time, and he didn't know if other people saw it clearly, but he really didn't see the difference between this stone slab and the others.If you step on the wrong one, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Just thinking about it, Leo had already walked several steps away, and nothing happened.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen if you follow Leo." Seemingly aware of his worries, Irean patted Jiang Liu on the shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile.

Jiang Liu took a deep breath, followed in the footsteps of the others, and stepped onto the stone slab... After walking a dozen or so steps nervously, Jiang Liu gradually relaxed.As Elean said, Leo is indeed very reliable.

"Haha, it's really all right." Auspicious laughter came from behind.

Jiang Liu felt someone pat on the shoulder, and when he turned around, he saw Ji Li's smiling face.

"I said doctor, you should walk faster, what if you walk too slowly and you can't see the wrong step in front of you?"

"I do not……"

"Ouch, hurry up! The kid in front has gone a few steps."

Jiang Liu looked forward, and he was only a few steps away from the opposite side, and You Rui'an just stepped on the last stone slab.When Geely interrupted him, Jiang Liu really didn't remember where to go.

He was hesitating and did not dare to step down, when Ji Li behind him urged him again.

"You better go."

He pushed Jiang Liu from behind. This force caused the unprepared Jiang Liu to lose his center of gravity, and he took a step forward with his right foot and hit another stone slab.

Oops!Jiang Liu was panicked, thinking about it, how could he be so unlucky, he obviously prayed not to become a hedgehog, now it's all right, he's really going to become a hedgehog.It's all because of that damned auspicious person who was urging himself to do something.

There was a light "click" sound, and a small hole appeared on the opposite wall. Before Jiang Liu could react, a crossbow arrow shot straight at him.

It was really lightning, just as the arrow was about to hit Jiang Liu, a hand flew across the sky like lightning, and grabbed the arrow with one hand. The movement was almost within a fraction of a second, and Jiang Liu Didn't see the opponent's movements clearly.

Seeing that it was Leo, Jiang Liu was not too surprised, but suddenly he felt a series of vibrations under his feet.

"Run!"

Someone slammed into his back, Jiang Liu was a little dazed, and from the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Irean pulling Yurian and quickly running towards the end of the passage.And Ji Li, the culprit who caused him to step on the mechanism, also ran through him to the front.

Soon, a row of small holes appeared one after another on the opposite wall, dozens of white lights flashed, and the arrows seemed to have eyes, and they all shot towards the river with a "swish swish swish".

These arrows were fired from something unknown, and the speed was too fast, and there was no way to dodge them.Jiang Liu only heard a low curse from Leo next to his ear, then hugged himself and lowered his head abruptly, narrowly dodging the arrow attack.

His movement is bound to step on other stone slabs.In just a few seconds, the arrows shot over densely like rain. Leo didn't dare to stagnate. He rolled on the spot while hugging the river, and then jumped high, kicking against the wall to borrow his strength. Flipping to a safe area like lightning, the whole movement was completed in less than a second, clean and neat.

The rain of arrows stopped soon, and Jiang Liu looked at the passageway full of arrows behind him with lingering fear.If it wasn't for Leo to turn back, he would be [-]% dead!

"Leo!"

Irean let out a low growl, put down the torch and ran over quickly.I saw him carefully grab Leo's shoulder and turn him over.

With the light of the fire, Jiang Liu saw several arrows sticking out of Leo's back.When the mechanism was activated, it was Leo who stood in front of him and protected himself...

Jiang Liu couldn't tell what it was like, he grabbed Leo's hand tightly, and felt something hot in his eyes was about to flow out uncontrollably.

"How are you?" Irean asked while separating the clothes on Leo's back with a dagger. The arrow shot out with great force, but only a small half of it sank into Leo's body.

"I'm fine, pull out the arrow."

Irean held an arrow on his back, paused for a moment, and then pulled it out forcefully——Jiang Liu felt Leo's body twitch for a moment, and his back also started to throb. It should be very painful. pain.

The drawn arrow was thrown to his feet. Jiang Liu took a look. The arrow was cross-shaped with a small hook on it, which could firmly grasp the flesh and blood, so that the arrow was covered with Leo's blood. It looks very frightening.

After pulling out several arrows in a row, Leo didn't even hum, but his face was very ugly.Jiang Liu quickly used silver needles to prick his wound a few times, and then applied a good medicine to bandage it up.

Everyone continued to move forward. After walking for a while, the passage gradually became wider. On the contrary, the surrounding walls became rougher and rougher, the ground was potholed and there was even some water. The whole passage looked more like a sudden cave.

The cave was very humid, and the soil under his feet seemed to have been soaked in water, making it extremely muddy.The deeper you go into the cave, the more difficult the road becomes.

"Be careful, it's slippery in here."

Irean reminded him aloud, but before he finished speaking, Julian slipped on his feet and rushed directly into the muddy puddle.

"Bah, bah!" The boy crawled out of the quagmire in embarrassment, wiped his face, and suddenly touched a cold object with the tip of his nose, which made him yell out in fright. "what!"

Irean took the torch and looked at it, and found a giant stone snake half buried in the mud, with only one head exposed.The snake's head was carved ferociously and ferociously, and what Julian encountered was the snake's wide open mouth.There was only one eye on the snake's head, and it stared blankly at Julian. Its jaw was open, revealing a row of fangs, making it look very uncomfortable.

You Rui'an ran back cursing, but after being frightened, he didn't dare to go ahead, and followed Jiang Liu closely.

Irean looked around and found that there were many such stone sculptures buried in the surrounding mud one after another, all depicting the image of snakes without exception.An ominous premonition enveloped his heart.

Soon, they came to the end of the cave.What appeared in front of everyone was a huge stone gate. Two giant snakes entangled with each other coiled around the door frame, carved so vividly that they seemed to jump down and bite people at any time.

"Damn it, there's no way out." Ji Li rushed up and kicked Shimen hard, Shimen remained motionless.

Irean frowned and glanced at him, then turned around with a torch and walked around the stone gate.

"Let's all look for it, there should be an agency here."

Irean carefully observed the giant snake statue on the stone gate, feeling unspeakably strange in his heart.These snakes are huge, with only one eye on the top of their heads; upon closer inspection, the lower bodies of the two snakes are intertwined, which means that the engraving on the door is a giant double-headed one-eyed snake.

"There's something here!"

Julian seemed to find something in the corner.

The crowd quickly gathered around and found something piled up in a corner of the cave, the bulge was about as high as a hill, and when the flames shone, they saw that thing reflected golden light, shining piece by piece, like gold coins piled up into a hill.

Ji Li's eyes lit up, and he jumped up with a loud cry. "It's gold!" However, those objects were not the golden mountains he imagined. When Ji Li's whole body fell into some kind of soft and cold net-like object, he realized that he had been deceived.

——These are not gold, more like some kind of scales wrapped together!

Jiang Liu weighed those translucent objects with scales attached, put them under the tip of his nose and sniffed them, and said in surprise, "This is snake skin!"

Just at this moment, Julian made a new discovery. He waved a torch and pointed at the cave above his head and shouted, "Look, there are many holes in it."

Irean shuddered in his heart, he and Leo looked at each other, and their expressions changed at the same time.

Leo quickly pulled Jiang Liu back to him, his eyes fixed on the cave above his head, as if he was guarding against something terrible.And Irean quickly ran back to the stone door, eagerly looking for the mechanism to open the door.

Seeing the performance of the two, Jiang Liu knew something bad was about to happen.He quickly pulled Julian back to his side, and asked softly in Leo's ear.

"What's wrong?"

"This is the serpent's lair."

"!"

"Before "it" is alerted, we must find the mechanism to open the door and leave here as soon as possible!"

Hearing these words, the expressions on everyone's faces were not good-looking.Suddenly, Ji Li seemed to be frightened and sat down on the ground.

"Come, come, it's too late—snake!"

He pointed to the cave above his head and shouted, only to see a huge head poking out of the cave, pointed and triangular in shape, with a slender evil eye growing on the top.

The giant snake quickly swam down the mountain wall, its head alone was as huge as an adult!The snake was very close to Jiang Liu and the others, and its scales reflected a brown-golden luster under the firelight, and each piece could be seen clearly.

Leo gestured for everyone to stay still or yell. Now that the giant snake has not launched an attack, it must not be alarmed. D_A

Everyone didn't dare to show their anger. After a stalemate for a while, the giant snake slowly coiled into a ball, and the snake's head kept staring at Jiang Liu and his party.

Leo held the knife with one hand across his waist, and at the same time slowly stepped back to keep a distance from the giant snake.

While Irean took advantage of the giant snake's attention being attracted by Leo and the others, he continued to carefully search for the mechanism on the stone gate.Soon, he found that there was a slight seam where the snake was wrapped around. The stone there was very light in color, as if it had been filled in later.

Irean lightly pressed the stone slab, and the slate made a crisp "click" sound, and it sank into the huge stone door.

Such a sudden sound in the extremely quiet space immediately alarmed the giant snake.It turned its head abruptly, "sisi" spit out a bright red letter from its mouth, and the long and narrow pupils on the top of its head were aimed at Irean this time.

Oops!

Yi Liean groaned secretly, and did not dare to act rashly at this time.Suddenly, a series of dull sounds sounded from the other side of the door, which was the sound of the mechanism starting.

This time it was the serpent's turn to be confused. It shook its head, and its eyes wandered between Irion and the giant gate, hesitating.

"Chhhhhhhhh-"

The giant door slowly opened to both sides, and soon a passage was revealed.

"Move to the door, slow down, and be careful not to disturb the snake."

Irean was standing by the door, and he quickly moved to the entrance of the passage step by step. However, Leo and the others were in a somewhat unfavorable position. Although they were facing the passage, they were more than ten meters away from each other.

Leo gently pushed Jiang Liu, and whispered, "You go first."

Jiang Liu nodded, stepping back carefully step by step.Just when he was about to reach the entrance of the passage, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his ankle.

His legs gave way, and Jiang Liu screamed and fell to the ground.

For a moment, the giant snake seemed to have received some kind of signal, and the wind rolled in, and the snake's body suddenly arched and gathered strength, and then it rushed towards the river like lightning.

Jiang Liu bit his shoulder before he could dodge. He only felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, and his body was entangled and turned around several times.

He opened his mouth to breathe heavily, a layer of blood mist soon appeared in his eyes, and the scene in front of him gradually became blurred. He only saw the golden scales of the giant snake swaying in front of his eyes, and then a silver light flashed. Liu felt his eyes darkened and gradually lost consciousness.

At this moment, the giant snake suddenly threw Jiang Liu away with a strange cry.Jiang Liu fell heavily to the ground, and the cold fresh air gulped into his lungs, choking him to cough violently.But fortunately, he finally saved his life.

Soon someone pulled him up from the ground, Jiang Liu looked up, it was Irean.The opponent's face was very solemn, and with a strong hand, he dragged Jiang Liu into the passage.

Jiang Liu's body was still a little weak at this time, he looked back, and saw a vague figure fighting the giant snake... The silver hair was fleeting in the golden scales of the giant snake - it was Leo!

Jiang Liu's face turned pale with shock, and his mind suddenly cleared up.Leo didn't know when he rode on the giant snake's neck, and his weird black long sword was inserted into the one-eye on the top of the giant snake's head impartially.

"Bang——" the giant snake turned over in pain and slammed into the mountain wall. It successfully knocked Leo off, and then it turned around and bit Leo viciously.

It was too late and then too fast, Leo was not afraid of the danger, he lowered his head and dodged the attack of the giant snake, grabbed his black long knife with one hand, and then pulled it back violently, the blade crossed the giant snake's eyes, the giant snake The snake was so painful that its whole body was bent, its body twisted and rolled crazily, and its huge tail hit the mountain wall, almost shattering the entire cave.

Jiang Liu was thrilled to see this scene, and Yi Lie'an didn't have time to watch the theater, so he quickly ran into the stone gate with him.

"Leo-"

"He's buying us time."

Irean held him back and strode forward.There was a faint fire coming from ahead, and it didn't take long before they caught up with Qiao and the others ahead.To be precise, there is no way in front of the passage, just like the situation in the cave before, they were blocked by the mechanism again.

But this time they were trapped in a square passage, and the surrounding walls were empty and smooth, and even the joints between the stones could not be seen.

"Fuck! What the hell kind of place is this!"

Ji Li angrily kicked the wall to vent his anger, and Irean was also tired from running at this time, so he leaned against the wall and sat down to rest.Suddenly, following his line of sight, he noticed some strange protrusions on the ground.

These protrusions are scattered and scattered, and at first glance there is no pattern at all.Irean narrowed his eyes, stared at these protrusions carefully, and suddenly thought of something.

He jumped up from the ground suddenly, and at the same time told everyone to stand aside!

"These are some letters!" Irion turned around and pointed out his discovery excitedly. "This is the language of the ancient elves. Four names are written in the four corners of the four corners!"

After he finished speaking, everyone turned their heads to look at the four corners of the passage, but unfortunately, except for Irion, no one knew the ancient elf language.

"The ancient elf language is regarded as the language of the gods, and there is a lot of mystery in it. You see—" he pointed to the protrusions and said, "These letters that make up the name are connected with each other, and there are only five letters in total. After different permutations and combinations, they became four different names."

"What are the names!" Jiang Liu was eager to know the answer.

"Snake, Otto, Jura, and Meneste—corresponding to the snake god, sea god, sea nymph, and warrior."

"Isn't this the character in the siren story?" Ji Li interjected curiously.

"That's right, what's the point of this story?"

"Gems." Ji Li and Jiang Liu said in unison.

"The gemstone of the siren is called "Tears of Moonlight" in the ancient elf language, and it happens to be composed of four letters." Elaine stood up, looking confident.

"The mechanism here is just a word guessing game. As long as you spell the 'Tears of Moonlight' correctly, you should be able to reach the next destination."

"Are you sure? Will it be dangerous if you step on the wrong stone?" Ji Li asked anxiously. Obviously, the mechanism that would shoot sharp arrows when he stepped on the wrong stone slab left a deep shadow in his heart.

"Try it, and then you'll know."

Irean stepped on the protruding letters on the floor following the spelling of "Tears of Moonlight", but there was no response. "Strange?" He walked again in the same order as before, but there was still no response.

Irean became angry now, and stomped his foot hard.He just stepped on the last letter at this time, and when he stepped down, he heard a grunt, and the mechanism started!

Irean originally thought that there would be a secret door behind the wall, so when the floor under his feet was suddenly empty, he fell down without any precautions.

Joe and the others were also defenseless.

"Damn, what the hell is this place!" Cursed Ji Li rubbed his ass and got up from the ground.

With the help of the faint firelight, Irean looked at the surrounding environment. His position was leaning against a wall with some strange patterns engraved on the wall.Irean also noticed some small grooves protruding from the wall that contained some kerosene.

That's great!The torch has almost burned out, and the flame is very weak. I don't know how long it can last.With these lights, they will not be plunged into darkness for a while.

Irean lit these ancient "lamps" one by one, and the layout of the stone chamber quickly became clear.Only then did everyone realize that what they were in was not only a secret room, but also a sealed tomb.

The tomb is very large. On the east wall are two giant snakes intertwined with each other, and a huge sarcophagus is placed in the center.

Seeing the sarcophagus, Jiang Liu and Urian were taken aback by surprise.Jiang Liu found that this sarcophagus was very different from the oriental coffin.The sarcophagus is not a standard rectangle, but has two pointed ends, somewhat similar to a rhombus.The surface of the sarcophagus is uneven, and the raised parts have heads and limbs.

Irean told him that this is a human coffin, the coffin is made in the shape of the dead, what image is carved on the sarcophagus, and what is lying in the sarcophagus.

Jiang Liu stared at the sarcophagus for a long time, and his heart felt trembling. It is impossible for ordinary people to grow into this appearance. The thing lying in the coffin is obviously huge. The stone carving on the head part is worn out, but it can still be seen that it is a With a blue face and fangs, a very terrifying face.

"That thing makes me feel uncomfortable." Urian tugged on La Jiangliu's sleeve and said in a low voice.