Lin Sanjiu slid down the slope. The moment her feet touched the ground, an indescribably pungent stench assaulted her face and head. The stench was thick and sticky. It was like a thorn that pricked her throat. Even Lin Sanjiu couldn't help the sourness in her stomach.
The tunnel was so dark that she couldn't even see her own fingers. She could only hear the faint voices of the duoluozhongs above her, adding to the silence. Lin Sanjiu covered her mouth and nose. She activated her hypersensory and waited for a while. When she couldn't sense any signs of human activity, she called out her [Ability Polishing Agent].
Lin Sanjiu immediately understood the source of the stench when she saw the silver light.
All the tunnels seemed to be connected to each other. They formed a single stretch under the sand. Countless narrow tunnels meandered out, dividing the originally spacious space into many thin strips. Thousands of Inanimate Humans probably lived and worked in these tunnels. Their urine, faeces, sweat, body odor, and the smell of insect remains mixed together in this space along with the countless statues of Gods of various sizes.
Enduring the stench, Lin Sanjiu picked up a palm-sized statue of a God with two fingertips. These Inanimate Humans were made from different materials. Even the statue was made from sand mixed with some kind of glue. It was inevitable that the statue was not very accurate. Instead of a long-nosed old man, it looked more like a young woman.
Lin Sanjiu furrowed her brows and threw the sand idol away. After all, the sand was not very firm, so it would break into pieces when it hit something. She scanned the area with her silver light and found that there were layers upon layers of statues made from all kinds of materials. Some were made of grass, some were made of wood, and some were made of stone.
However, none of them looked like the long-nosed old man.
Lin Sanjiu kicked away a few statues that were stacked on top of her. Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! The silver light circled around the countless statues below. Every one of them was carved into the shape of a tall woman in red. If one did not look at the bean-sized head that was disproportionately small compared to the body, it would be quite pleasing to the eye.
Lin Sanjiu picked up an arm-length statue made from twigs and converted it into a card. Then, she walked deeper into the tunnel in the pungent air. The tunnel was so deep that it seemed to have no end. However, it was connected to each other. Not only would it take her a long time to walk, but she would also soon lose the direction she came from.
Fortunately, Lin Sanjiu knew that no matter where she went, she would still be on top of the sand when she exited the tunnel, so she wasn't in a hurry. After walking for a while, she saw that every tunnel was filled with the statues of deities and the traces left behind by the Inhumans. She didn't want to waste any more time. She used her hypersensory to sense the airflow in the tunnel and walked toward the nearest direction where a breeze blew from time to time.
Just as she approached the ramp that led to the outside world, she suddenly stopped. She slowly raised the [Ability Polishing Agent] and narrowed her eyes.
She raised the [Ability Polishing Agent] and narrowed her eyes. Amidst the scattered and broken statues, there was a vague human figure lying on the ground. Both of his legs were buried by the statues. The man was short and muscular. There was a black hole in the center of his chest. Even though he was lying face down, Lin Sanjiu could still see the statue underneath him through the hole.
Lin Sanjiu walked forward and pulled the corpse over. The silver light flashed across his face, and she was shocked. A long nose that looked like it was about to fall off hung limply from the corpse's face. Like the rest of his skin, it was wrinkled and covered with greyish white hair.
"Huh?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked. She stood up abruptly as if she couldn't believe her eyes. With the help of the silver light, she looked at the corpse again.
No matter how she looked at it, she felt that the corpse was too similar to the old man that Jujube had described.
"Could it be that the duoluozhong outside weren't lying?"
Puzzled, Lin Sanjiu kicked the corpse back. She stood up and walked to the edge of the ramp. According to Jujube, this desert was supposed to be the territory of Old Man God. Now that he was dead, the fleshly men and duoluozhong had lost control and escaped, and all his idols had been replaced with the appearance of another god. Things couldn't be any clearer.
But no matter who killed the Old Man God, why did that God just casually leave these idols and flesh men behind?
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself as she climbed up the ramp. The fresh air and the faint starlight shone in front of her, causing her internal organs to scream in desperation. She wanted to get out of this stinky hole as soon as possible. Suddenly, she felt the rope on her back loosen and something heavy slid down her back.
She quickly turned around and reached out to grab the elder brother's body. However, due to the dim lighting, her hand was empty. She didn't manage to grab anything.
After being tied to her body for a long time, her body had adapted to the weight. Lin Sanjiu had almost forgotten that she was still wearing a human's body. Perhaps the bumpy ride had loosened the rope, and the elder brother's body rolled down the ramp. He landed on the ground in the hole with a loud thud, and a pungent smell filled the air.
For a split second, a thought flashed across Lin Sanjiu's mind. "Forget it. I'm not going to pick him up."
Her elder brother was still alive, and he seemed to be hiding a lot of secrets. However, she really didn't know what to do with this half of his body.
After hesitating for a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu sighed and climbed down the ramp again. She took out the [Ability Polishing Agent] again.
"Well, it seems like you have to follow me for a while." Lin Sanjiu picked up the rope and smiled at her elder brother. "I don't know if you would rather stay here or —"
Before she could finish her sentence, Lin Sanjiu swallowed the second half of her sentence. She stared at her elder brother's face.
Amidst the bright white light, the elder brother did not seem to notice her at all. He could not turn his neck, so he twisted his eyeballs into the corner of his eye sockets, leaving only a pair of bloodshot white eyeballs. Lin Sanjiu followed his gaze, and her eyes fell on the dead body of the old Djinn Deity.
She rose to her feet doubtfully and went to Geddes Deity's side again.
The corpse looked the same as before. Other than the fact that he had died a more tragic death, Lin Sanjiu couldn't even tell that he was a god. After thinking for a while, Lin Sanjiu crouched down and placed her hand on the corpse.
The [Planar World] was activated, and Geddes Deity's corpse disappeared. At the same time, Lin Sanjiu felt something hard in her palm.
Before she could look at the card, she heard a thunderous roar from outside the hole, "Posthumans! Posthumans! Come out! Where are you?! "It was Jujube.
Along with his roar, the ground above them began to shake. It was as if Jujube had finally removed his disguise and was walking on the sand. The yellow sand fell from the top of Lin Sanjiu's head and face. She wiped her face and quickly put away the [Ability Polishing Agent] and Geddes Deity's card. She carried her elder brother's body and retreated to the slope.
Logically speaking, it was impossible to dig such a hole under the quicksand. It was probably Geddes Deity's ability that allowed him to create a territory under the layers of sand. Now that the god who created the hole was dead, Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long he could last under Jujube's footsteps. Fearing that she would be buried under the yellow sand, Lin Sanjiu grabbed her elder brother with one hand and climbed up the slope with the other.
Fortunately, she reacted quickly. Just as Lin Sanjiu climbed onto the sand and retracted her leg, the hole behind her collapsed with a loud rumble. Countless grains of sand fell into the hole, causing a cloud of choking yellow dust to rise into the air. Like dominoes, one cave collapsed, and the other caves all over the desert also collapsed into a cloud of dust one after another. It was like a sandstorm had appeared on the flat ground. For a moment, nothing could be seen except for the thick dust fog.
Lin Sanjiu choked and couldn't speak. She coughed violently for a while before she finally opened her eyes.
When she opened her eyes, she saw a pair of sky-high calves with muscles bulging out from squatting.
"Why did you take so long?" Along with his ear-piercing voice was a puff of stinky wind blown by the jujubes.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't blame him for stepping on the hole. If she complained about a hole she stepped on, it would make Jujube doubt her ability. As she panted, she tied half of her brother's body to her back and asked, "It's too big down there. Why did you come out? Where are the duoluozhongs? "
"They're all dead," Jujube answered calmly. It was only when the dust settled a little that Lin Sanjiu realized that the gaps between his toes were covered with yellow sand. It seemed that he had stepped on a viscous liquid on the ground. As he walked on the sand, layers of sand clung to his toes, causing them to be stained with a pungent reddish-brown stench. "I think those meatmen and duoluozhongs must be a trap set by another false god. One of them seemed to be able to find me just by smelling my scent. Just to be safe, I stomped them to death. "
Lin Sanjiu swallowed dryly.
"If I came out earlier, those meatmen might not have died..."
"You killed them too early," after some time, she heard her own cold voice, "The original god here was killed by another god. That duoluozhong didn't lie."
Jujube was stunned. His face darkened, "Killed by who? That statue — "
"The statue has turned into this god," Lin Sanjiu said as she threw the statue of the god she had transformed into a card.
As soon as the statue landed on the ground, Jujube straightened his body. His angry voice echoed from the sky, "It's Sanduria! She's the one who ruined my plan again! "
He seemed to be really angry. He paced back and forth a few times, causing the ground to shake. Even the plants and corpses on the sand were crushed. After a while, Jujube crouched down and yelled at Lin Sanjiu, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Come with me to find Sanduria. I don't care what you do, but you have to kill her posthuman helper! "
Lin Sanjiu was stunned as if she had just woken up from her daze. She quickly put her hands behind her back and avoided Jujube's sight. "Okay," she answered hastily.
In her palm was the card of the old man she had just summoned. However, it wasn't one card, but two.
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