Chapter 25 Strange Temple

"What a beautiful lake!" Rose couldn't help but sigh.

I looked at the building in the middle of the lake and said, "I'm more concerned about how to get up there!"

Rose pointed in one direction. "There's an entrance there."

"I saw it, but I think it's unlikely that this lake doesn't have any monsters. And we haven't seen the so-called Babalu that the goblins talked about yet! It's entirely possible that they are a kind of aquatic monster, or simply amphibious. Class!" Speaking of which, I thought of the black water lake outside the Lost City. Although this lake is obviously much clearer, who knows if monsters like clear water!

"What is that?" Rose suddenly discovered something white on the shore of the lake not far away.

The two of us ran over and discovered that this was a skeleton, and it was the skeleton of some kind of large creature. It seemed that this guy was not much smaller than an elephant in life. What scares us the most is that there are traces of fractures in many places on this set of bones, and there are three holes in the skull that were obviously created later. I summoned Luck and asked him to compare it. The monster that attacked the creature was probably not as big as Lucky, but not much smaller. Considering the size of this lake, it's not surprising that there is such a big monster.

"I think I saw the murderer!" I pointed at a monster walking out of the woods not far away. Said to be a monster, it is actually something that everyone is quite familiar with, but it is already extinct in reality.

Rose looked in the direction I pointed. "Oh my god! Dinosaurs? Why are they so disgusting!"

The creature in the distance is obviously a Tyrannosaurus rex, but its size is a bit scary. There are no dinosaurs living on the earth with this size! Moreover, this big guy's body is quite disgusting. It's actually like a flower. The gray-brown skin is covered with yellow and red spots. What's even worse is that there are traces of decay in many places. It looks like a giant toad!

"This is probably a mutated type evolved from the giant poisonous miasma in the forest, but it seems that it itself is poisonous, otherwise it wouldn't be so bright." We found that it looked like a Tyrannosaurus rex. After the guy, it also quickly noticed us. "No, it found us!"

"Wait!" Rose pulled me to prevent me from moving.

"what are you doing?"

"I heard that the eyes of Tyrannosaurus rex have poor vision of immobile objects. We stand still and they can't see us." I didn't listen to her, picked her up, jumped on Yeying's back and ran away. "Why don't you listen to me?"

"My cute little fool, have you watched too many American movies? According to Longyuan's research, all reptiles except snakes have good eyesight, and larger reptiles have better eyesight. According to deep genetics Through analysis, we have proven that Tyrannosaurus rex is much more powerful than an eagle, and once its pupils confirm the target position, it can calculate the target distance, speed and direction of movement within a thousandth of a second."

"Aren't dinosaurs all stupid?"

"Stupidity does not mean slow reaction. The circuit system behind the infrared automatic faucet in the toilet is not as intelligent as an ant. That thing can determine whether water needs to be drained within a millionth of a second. The intelligence of dinosaurs is not high, but that does not mean It reacts slowly! Common sense can sometimes kill people!"

"You're the only one smart!" Rose slapped my head and said, "It doesn't seem to be catching up."

"Whether he catches me or not, I'm not running away."

"Then what are you doing?"

“I want to take a walk around the lake and see the outer structure of the entire building so I can decide where to start.”

"I thought you were scared away by a dinosaur!"

"Am I afraid of it? Are you lucky that they are good-looking? Giant dragons are much more dangerous than dinosaurs."

"Look over there." Rose suddenly pointed to the lake.

I saw a long strip of dorsal fin rising slowly from the water in the lake in the distance, and then slowly submerged into the water. Judging from the size of the dorsal fin, the body of the monster under the dorsal fin cannot be smaller than Lucky. This place is really dangerous.

“I said it’s not safe in the lake!”

"I guess you're right." Rose pointed at the temple again: "Did you see that place? The side of the door."

"I saw it. It seemed like a sculpture. It had been standing there for a long time."

"That's a creature." Rose raised the star pupil in her hand. "Using this, you can see the slight sway of its body when it breathes."

"It seems it's not safe inside the temple!"

"Then let's quickly run around and confirm the entrance!"

Thanks to Ye Ying’s speed, otherwise hiking around such a big lake would have been a matter of next month. After a quick circle, when I returned to the original place, the mutated dinosaur was no longer there. The biggest gain after going around in this circle is to confirm that the only entrance to the temple is the front door. But that strange door actually stands in the water. Is it the entrance to a port that requires a boat to enter?

"What should we do? Go into the water?" Rose seemed to not want to go into the water. Who would want to swim in this lake after seeing the mysterious aquatic creature with the huge dorsal fin?

"But we didn't bring a boat! How about we fly over?"

"This is a good idea, but you have to test it first to see if it's safe!" Rose was very cautious.

"Then I'll ask the Iron Silver Bee to go over and experiment."

With a wave of his hand, a Steel Silver Bee flew over, but just as it flew onto the lake, a red light suddenly flashed from the top of the temple opposite, and a beam of light 'shot' over, accurately hitting the Steel Silver Bee and smashing it into a ball. The mercury flew back and merged into the fire diamond. Rose and I were both frightened, this thing's defense was so perverted!

Rose found a stone from the ground nearby and threw it over. As soon as the stone entered the water, it was immediately attacked and broken into countless pieces. According to this interception ability, no matter how many things go together, they will still be shot down one by one. Besides, you can't be sure which target it will attack first, so the human sea tactic is definitely not feasible.

I summoned Jingjing to test the opponent's attack power. Jingjing's holy shield plus magic defense can achieve the strongest defense among the magic pets around me. But the red light's first attack knocked Jingjing back. The second attack only took 1 second, and Jingjing's defense was broken. The third attack was separated by one second, so I asked Ban Yue to block it and call Jingjing back. The attack power of this thing is really too strong. If I want to charge hard, unless each of my magic pets has the defense power of Jingjing, I can't even think about it. Does it have to go through the water?

"How about we try flying lower on the water?" Rose suggested.

I immediately let a Steel Silver Bee fly over the water, and this time it was indeed not attacked. Let Steel Silver Bee experiment with rising, and the test results show that objects more than one meter above the water will be targeted! That means that only small ships or simply passing under the water can avoid being attacked.

"I wish I had known how to use your space door to bring a two-person speedboat here!" Rose sighed as she looked at the temple.

"I wish I had known what kind of speedboat I would bring! Just bring the magic light cannon to blow out that damn launcher or bring two space pumps to drain the lake!"

"pump?"

"You haven't seen that thing before. The last time the Temple of Light attacked the Lost City, they brought a few of them, and they drained the Blackwater Lake in just ten minutes."

"The area of ​​this lake is more than ten times that of Blackwater Lake. Doesn't it take more than an hour to pump?"

"So what? It's safer than going into the water for more than an hour, isn't it?"

"But now we don't have anything with us!"

"Then use local materials and make a raft from trees."

"I'm afraid the raft can't withstand the attack of the monster in the water. I think the red beam weapon doesn't attack targets below 1 meter because the attack range of the monster in the water happens to be this area!"

"Then what do we do?"

Rose thought for a moment and said, "Can your magic pet freeze the lake?"

"Frozen?" I looked up at the lake. "Such a large area... I don't know! I'm afraid it won't work. To freeze such a large area of ​​​​the lake requires too much power. If I have as many ice queens as dragon cavalry, I can consider it."

Rose said: "You don't need to freeze the entire lake. You just need to freeze an ice layer that is big enough not to be overturned by monsters or broken."

"It's easy to say. It's not about building a ship. It would be good if the ice layer can be frozen out. You have to be strong and big. It's not that easy! Besides, if the ice layer is thin, it will not be strong enough. If it is too thick, it will produce too much buoyancy. Putting it above the safe height, so using the ice is out of the question.”

"How about we build an ice bridge across the water and run faster so that the monsters don't have time to attack us."

"That won't work. As long as the monster is a little smarter, he will wait for us in advance. Besides, there may not be only one water monster in the water. With the size of this lake, it is not difficult to have thirty or fifty monsters of that size. Many."

"Then there's nothing I can do!"

"phantom?"

"exist."

"How many times will it take you to teleport to that temple with your teleportation?"

"Five or six times is about right."

I said to Rose: "After much deliberation, this method is the safest, but I can't teleport you with you!"

"Then you go in alone, I'll wait here."

"No, you are not the main combatants like Shura Ziyi and Zhenhong. How can I rest assured that you are an auxiliary mage here? If that is the case, it is better to take you underwater to be safe!"

"Wait!" Rose suddenly interrupted me. "What did you say?"

"I said leaving you here is not walking across the bottom of the lake."

"Yes, we will walk across the bottom of the lake."

"Isn't it?" I looked at the rose. "There are swarms of monsters in the water, and you may not be able to get back up if you go down!"

"I didn't mean to walk through the water at the bottom of the lake." Rose came over and took my hand and said, "Think about what is at the bottom of the lake?"

"silt!"

"What about below?"

"Down below? That's the lake bed!" I suddenly realized. "You mean to dig under the lake bed?"

"That's what I meant."

I looked at the temple over there, then at the lake, and finally squatted down and pinched some soil to feel the texture. "The soil is very solid. If there are rocks to support it, penetrating the bottom of the lake is not a problem, but there is no guarantee that it will leak!"

"If it leaks, it will leak. As long as it doesn't collapse, it's fine. We're not afraid of water. Even if it leaks, I believe the monsters can't get through the small crack. We mainly want to prevent being attacked by monsters, and we're not afraid of water!"

"What a great idea. I'll start work right away."

Quickly summon Steel Claw, Trailblazer, and Rose Vine. The task of digging holes in front was given to the pioneers, and the steel claws followed behind to clean up the debris and tidy up the rocks. Finally, there is the rose vine. Its mission is to keep growing, using lignified branches to support the channel to prevent collapse, and the roots are also good fixators. They can hold the soil tightly and prevent water from seeping too quickly. Wash out the passage. So lucky to have a full tunnel force.

Three hours later, a passage leading directly to the center of the lake was drilled through. The cross section of the passage was a circular structure with a diameter of more than three meters. The branches of the rose vine covered all the walls in the passage. Not to mention collapse, not even a drop of water leaked out. I really admire the ability of the three demon pets to dig holes.

"let's go."

The 3-meter-high passage is already very high for people, and it doesn't bother us at all when walking in it. After advancing not far, we reached the end of the passage. According to calculations, this location should be under the temple. But the problem now is that the temple seems to be floating on the water. It does not really touch the lake bed. If we dig holes upward, it will definitely penetrate the lake bed and cause water leakage.

"What should we do? The bottom of the temple is still about 300 meters away from us. After entering the water, we need to float up 300 meters urgently. I can't guarantee that there are no monsters nearby!"

"The only thing we can do is hurry up."

I signaled Steelclaw to get ready and asked Rose. "Are you ready? After a while, you have to move up quickly. If you don't keep up, I don't know if you have the ability to deal with this monster in the water."

"Ready." Rose put down her mask and stood beside the wall with me. Once the passage was opened, a lot of water would pour in, and we didn't want to be washed away by the water.

After confirming that it was correct, he inserted the weapon into the wall to fix the two of us, and signaled to Steel Claw that he could start. After receiving my instructions, Steel Claw immediately stood up on its two hind legs and put both claws on the roof of the cave. After several consecutive attacks, a crack began to appear on the roof of the cave. After a few more attacks, his whole body jumped up, and then he saw dirt falling from the top of the cave. A few minutes later, black muddy water suddenly appeared, and then the water flow became larger and larger. There was a sudden bang, and a large amount of lake water gushes out of the cave. Fortunately, we fixed ourselves to the wall. The strong impact of the lake water brought down some strange fish. The water blocked by the wall bounced back and hit us like a gun. My armor was caught in the water. All kinds of messy things were clanging against each other, thinking about it, it's hard to imagine that soft water can have such a destructive power!

When the water filled the channel and the high-pressure water column disappeared, I pulled Rose and quickly rushed out of the hole. The steel claw was already waiting for us at the entrance of the cave. Rose and I grabbed the protrusions on the back of the steel claw. The steel claw swam upward quickly and hard. I really didn't expect the underwater speed of the steel claw to be so exaggerated. Fortunately, "Zero" has no setting about diving sickness, otherwise we would probably have died because our blood was boiling!

We had just floated more than a hundred meters when a huge black shadow suddenly appeared behind us, and the water monster really caught up with us! Looking up at the temple above, it’s still more than a hundred meters away! Summoned Little Dragon Girl and A Di Na to help accelerate. Both are water creatures and are very fast. We quickly approached the temple, and seeing that it was only about fifty meters away, I aimed the Avenger at the bottom of the temple and hit the dragon tendons up. As soon as the dragon's sinew rope hooked the temple, it immediately began to tighten. With this traction, we don't need the help of the magic pet. He put away his magic pet and quickly ascended to the bottom of the temple. He loosened the rope and quickly walked around to the main entrance. The monsters behind seemed not to dare to approach here, and they all ran away.

I pulled Rose and swam to the gate. This close observation revealed that the gate was over 8 meters high and made of pure gold. How much does such a large door cost? See if you can remove the door panel as you leave.

"Look, Ziri." Rose waved me over. I walked over quickly, but there was more than one meter of water at the gate, so it was very difficult for me to walk. Seeing me approaching, Rose pointed to the writing on the door and said, "Did you see it?"

"I saw it, but I couldn't understand it!"

"Idiot!" Rose took off my helmet, pressed both my cheeks with her hands and tilted my face.

"Formula?"

The text on the door turned out to be an arithmetic problem, and every number and symbol was rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. The long string of numbers looks very abstract, and some characters seem to be uneven. There is an equal sign at the end of this string of numbers, but it is also slanted and looks like two vertical lines. Rose followed the arithmetic problem from the left to the right of the door, and finally found a circular groove on the right side of the door.

"Husband, give me the original gold plate."

I took out the golden disc and gave it to her. "Isn't this the key?"

"It looks like it!" Rose held the original disk for a long time before putting it on, but the door didn't respond. "Strange, why doesn't it move?"

Seeing Rose's frustration, I also started to study those arithmetic problems. Counting from left to right, the number is 9.23. What does this number mean? correct. "Didn't you say that this gold plate looks like a dial? The groove next to the equal sign shows the number, but the number must be displayed using the time on the dial."

"But this thing doesn't have a pointer!"

I looked up at the door and found a strange pattern on the top of the door. There is a pattern in the middle of the door that is a clock, and the shape of that watch is exactly the same as our gold plate. The difference is that it has moving hands. "That might be what we need."

"Golden clock dial?"

I flew up and grabbed the clock dial. With a gentle pull, the clock dial was really pulled off. It looked like it was indeed the key. Falling back to the ground, I installed the clock dial into the groove to replace my gold plate, and then set the time to nine twenty-three. When the dial was set to the correct time, the door suddenly "clicked", and then the two doors retreated into the wall on both sides.

As soon as the door was opened, the water outside immediately poured into the temple. The water flow carried us backwards and rushed into the hall. Fortunately, only the middle part of the hall was relatively low, and the surrounding areas were above the water. After climbing to a higher place, I realized that this hall looked more like the vestibule of a villa than a temple.

"Why do I feel like there's something wrong with the decoration here?" Rose also discovered the problem.

"I don't know, maybe it's the designer's bad taste!"

While the two of us were talking, the door at the back suddenly began to slowly close again. As the door closed, the room fell into darkness, but when the last trace of light disappeared, the torches on the walls of the room suddenly lit up one after another, and the hall regained its light.

Snapped! A small hole appeared on the ground in the middle of the hall, and all the water was sucked in. When the water was drained, the small hole closed automatically and the room became dry again.

"Welcome, my guests." A sudden loud voice startled us.

"Who are you?"

The voice did not answer my question but said to itself: "You are the only guests who have entered here for thousands of years. Let's play a game!"

I was about to ask a question when the voice started to continue again. "I give you 48 hours, start counting now." A small grid suddenly opened on the wall, and a clock stretched out. The second hand above starts to move. "These clocks are in every room, and they are controlled by a center. Find the center within 48 hours and shut down all the clocks. If we can succeed, we will talk about the following things."

"What if we can't finish or refuse to play this boring game?" Rose asked.

That voice actually answered Rose's question. "Then stay here forever! Hahahaha...!" The arrogant voice gradually faded away.