Ancient Country Returns to Ruins: Strange News from the Western Regions

  In the darkness, countless green lights twinkled and moved towards us. If I were in a different mood, I would have sighed at the awe-inspiring power of nature's creation, but now all that was left was fear and trepidation.

  Xiao Lao saw the situation was not good and loudly shouted: "Quickly leave, this thing is bloodthirsty, absolutely do not let it sting you."

  I helped up Fuma, and we were preparing to run to the next ear room. Karamay ran to the door first, but suddenly stopped, staring with wide eyes at the doorway for a long time without going in.

  "Why don't you go in?" Lao San asked anxiously.

  "Look at this, why is this room so dark?" Karamay looked at us in puzzlement.

  "I helplessly said: 'Of course it's dark without a light, which room isn't dark? Don't waste words, hurry up and go in.'"

  They still stood at the door, looking inside, none of them seemed to want to go in. "But this isn't just ordinary darkness, come and see for yourself." Karamay wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

  I ran to the door, shone my flashlight inside and said: "It's dark, so what? A flashlight will light it up..." Before I could finish speaking, I also discovered that this room was indeed a bit strange. Inside, it was murky and seemed like a huge black hole. Other rooms without lights would still be visible with a flashlight, but the light from my flashlight was swallowed by the darkness in this room, making it impossible to see anything inside. It was still pitch black. I stretched my hand into the room, and it felt as if my hand had been cut off.

  The horse looked back and saw that the scorpion was almost upon them. "This house is too strange, let's run back," he said.

  We rushed quickly to the ear chamber of the great king of Daxia, and the scorpion's feeling was extremely sensitive. Seeing that we had changed direction, they also changed direction and pursued us relentlessly from behind.

  We had just returned to our original ear chamber when we were stunned, only to see Ah Quan crawling on the coffin of the King of Da Yuan with a sinister smile towards us.

  Lao San suddenly became furious and said: "You stinky girl, how dare you show up?"

  Xiao Lao sighed and said regretfully, "Bao Cai younger brother, I still can't take good care of your daughter." Lao San took out his knife and was about to rush towards A Quan, but Fu Ma grabbed him and shook his head: "Forget it, let's..."

  Let's hurry up and run away, no need to fight a meaningless battle, the scorpion is coming soon.

  A'qiu let out a low, mirthless laugh and swiftly opened the king's coffin lid. The king was still inside, occasionally twitching and convulsing. She gazed at us coldly, her hand grasping the black-gold dagger on the king's chest.

  "No!" I shouted, "She's going to let out the drought demon."

  Xiao Lao panicked: "A Long, stop her quickly. If the drought demon is released, none of us will be able to get out alive."

  As we were speaking, Lao San had already seen through Ah Quan's thoughts. Just as she placed her hand on the dagger, Lao San swung his cleaver and chopped off Ah Quan's head with one blow. Her body slumped down beside the coffin, covering us all in fresh blood.

  Karamay shouted: "It's bad, we've been tricked."

  Xiao Lao seemed exhausted and said, "Either we are eaten by the locusts or we are eaten by the drought demon, she has forced us into a dilemma." Fu Ma looked at A Quan with a hint of sadness in his eyes, but remained silent.

  All we could hear was the "rustling" noise getting louder and louder, with thousands or even tens of thousands of human-faced centipedes gathering in the ear chamber. Countless faces crawled back and forth in front of us, a scene that made our hair stand on end. The few of us wanted to rush into the green-eyed female corpse's ear chamber, but found that the door had closed again for some unknown reason.

  Lao San cursed loudly, and we retreated to the corner of the wall. The centipedes didn't pay attention to us either, all gathering on Ah Quan's corpse to start devouring frantically. In less than ten minutes, what was once a living person had been devoured into bare bones by them.

  We stood by the corner of the wall, watching all this happen, and everyone was terrified. After the scorpion finished its biting, we were next on its list.

  Fu Ma's wound was still bleeding profusely, he chuckled softly: "I didn't expect that in the end, not even a complete corpse might be left, brothers, the scorpion's target is me, you guys hurry and leave."

  Lao San patted the shoulder of Fu Ma: "What are you talking about, we've been tricked by Ah Quan since early morning. Now our bodies smell of blood, where can we run to?"

  "It's good if brothers can die together." I laughed loudly for a few times to cover up my own fear.

  The scorpions began to gather and launched an attack on us. Karamay suddenly had an idea: "Let's try using fire, didn't you say that the scorpion spirit was burned with fire before?"

  Xiao Lao hastily nodded: "Right right right, let's give it a try."

  Lao San looked around, took off his clothes and lit them with a lighter. He threw the burning clothes into the scorpion pile and shouted: "You want to eat me? I'll make you into braised scorpions!"

  We thought the scorpions would scatter and escape when they saw the fire, but instead they kept crawling towards it as if they had seen food. The scorpions that were burned by the fire didn't turn into the "red-roasted scorpions" mentioned by Lao San, but rather changed from their original light brown color to a golden yellow, with their entire body looking like it was covered in a layer of armor.

  Xiao Lao rubbed his eyes, as if the end of the world had come, and slumped beside me. I quickly helped him up, and he said weakly: "It's all over this time. This is a Golden Scale Human-Face Scorpion, it attacks living people."

  Lao San said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "This thing can even evolve?"

  Karamay shouted: "What else are you saying, hurry up and run!"

  We rushed back to the pile of corpses, with scorpions hot on our heels, only a few meters away. Karamay gazed at the room like a black hole and gritted his teeth: "Anyway, we're all going to die, might as well make a desperate bid." Then he took a leap and vanished into the darkness.

  Lao San shouted desperately several times, but no one responded. Seeing the scorpions almost crawling up to my feet, we looked at each other and nodded towards each other, then everyone rushed towards that dark room.

  I had a very long dream, and I didn't know how much time had passed when I opened my eyes to hear someone whispering softly beside me. Everything around me was pitch black, like being in the midst of a thick, dark fog. There was a faint light on my left side.

  I rubbed my eyes and said: "Who's there?"

  "Old Three's familiar voice came through: 'Second Brother, you're awake, are you okay? You've been unconscious for half a day.'"

  Lao San held up a fluorescent stick and looked at me, Fu Ma and Karamay helped me up, Xiao Lao smiled at me from the side, "What is this black fog? Didn't we use light to dispel it before? How can this one emit light?" I asked in surprise.

  "This is the aura of the demon." Xiao Lao said with profound meaning, "The demonic energy in this ear chamber must have been used to seal the Rakshasa Ghost Queen before, but now it has been polluted and driven into this room."

  "The true Ling Qi is white or colorless, depending on the strength of the person's spiritual power, with colorless being the highest level." Karamay interjected a sentence, Xiao Lao was slightly displeased, puffed out his cheeks and didn't speak.

  I heard a mess of things and said: "What's with this upper and lower thing? Are you guys filming a martial arts movie and using internal force?"

  Xiao Lao chuckled and said: "You know, it's actually a bit similar to that one."

  I don't have time to care about what's going on inside, I look around and say: "The scorpion didn't come after us?"

  "Run into this room and there won't be any scorpions chasing after you, but that doesn't mean they won't come after you. Those golden-scaled human-faced scorpions aren't to be trifled with." Xiao Lao replied.

  "How come you didn't keep running?" I suddenly remembered that they had been carrying me while I was unconscious and couldn't run.

  "This is not a house at all. Look around, there are no boundaries everywhere, it's all black and dense. We walked for half a day and returned to the original place," said Fu Ma.

  I wrinkled my brow in dismay: "Another house with no door, what can we do?"

  Xiao Lao suddenly leaned his face close to mine, startling me. He said mysteriously, "When we go out, it'll have to rely on you. From the moment you came in, this dark energy has been gradually fading away. The fog around you has all disappeared, otherwise how could light penetrate?"

  Lao San had been silent all along, and now he narrowed his eyes to look at me: "Second Brother, what's your origin, that you can actually resolve the ancient Mi Huang's power?"

  I could only smile wryly: "Old Three, before I came with you guys, I didn't even know what 'Mingzhu's power' was. Alright, no more nonsense, how do we solve it, Old Xiao?"

  Xiao Lao shook his head: "I don't know either."

  I almost spat out a mouthful of old blood: "How am I supposed to relieve myself? Can't just spit out the air, can I?"

  Karamay suddenly seemed to think of something and said, "Breathe it out? Ah, right, Junyang younger brother, actually when you breathe, you are purifying this black fog. Although your abilities are still sealed, but your own bloodline can purify it."

  Xiao nodded in agreement, and Lao San hastily said: "Second Brother, quickly take a few deep breaths."

  I walked to the edge where the fog was thicker, took a deep breath and exhaled for a while. The surrounding darkness really faded a lot. Xiao Lao happily said: "It's true that Jun Yang is a lucky star."

  Lao San urged impatiently: "Second brother, don't stop, hurry up and breathe."

  I feel helpless, when did I ever stop breathing? In order to purify this black air quickly, I'm making an effort to do deep breathing exercises. I reckon if I practice for a few more days, my lung capacity will be amazing. Because I was breathing too urgently, my brain is dizzy and my stomach is full of bloated gas. Unintentionally, I let out a fart.

  "Third brother covered his nose and complained: 'Second brother, I asked you to purify, not pollute.'"

  I suddenly farted after that, and the dark fog dissipated a bit. Karamay smiled and said, "Jun Yang's little friend's farts are quite useful, come on, do a few more."

  I was so embarrassed that I couldn't speak, and the few of them were laughing loudly beside me. I helplessly raised my head to look up, but as soon as I did, a pair of eyes emitting green light stared at us from above.

  I calmed down and took a closer look, and it seemed like there was a human face above our heads.