Zhou Wen summoned White Shadow of Poison and made it fly as high as possible. He flew close to the sapphire sky, hoping to avoid the nine-headed dragon's eyes and ears and successfully traverse the underground sea.
Zhou Wen kept staring at the sea and didn't notice the terrifying shadow. Suddenly, a blue light flashed on the game screen before the entire screen went black. The blood-colored avatar had died for some unknown reason.
"What was that?" Zhou Wen frowned as he looked at his phone, but unfortunately, he didn't agree. He only knew that it wasn't a nine-headed dragon, but something from the sapphire sky.
"Thankfully, we came in a strange vehicle. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to cross the underground sea." Just as Zhou Wen was about to restart the game, he heard Lu Yunxian, who had been in charge of watching, shout, "There's land ahead."
Zhou Wen and Lu Ning stood up and saw the direction the strange vehicle was heading in. Indeed, there was a silver beach. The sand there was smoother than any sand Zhou Wen had ever seen. It was like snow.
The strange vehicle stepped onto the beach, leaving two deep grooves in the sand as it continued forward.
Just as they crossed the sea, a white desert appeared in front of them. It was an endless expanse of snow-like sand.
Zhou Wen originally imagined that the strange vehicle would continue running for a while, just like in the underground sea. It would take at least an hour or two.
However, just as Zhou Wen sat down and was about to take out his phone to continue grinding, he heard Lu Yunxian's voice. "Young Master Wen, look. What's that?"
Zhou Wen, whose butt hadn't warmed up, had no choice but to get up again and look deep into the desert. From afar, he saw something that looked like a flag hanging on the sand.
The reason why it looked like a flag was because the flagpole of that thing was crooked, like a big snake that was not straight standing on the sand. There was a piece of animal skin or something else hanging on the top of the flag. It was tattered and black, and its shape was similar to a pair of trousers that had not been washed for hundreds of years.
Zhou Wen focused his gaze and vaguely saw a pattern on the tattered underpants. However, without Truth Listener, his vision was clearly inferior to Lu Yunxian and Lu Ning.
Lu Ning's expression changed slightly as she said in a strange voice, "I think I've seen the pattern on the flag in the stone palace that Lord Alcohol brought me to."
"What pattern? Are you sure you saw correctly? "Zhou Wen asked.
Lu Ning looked at it for a while. When the car got closer, she said, "There's no mistake. It's that pattern. A triangular anchor with a long-haired woman's profile drawn on it. Because the pattern was too strange, I only took a few glances at it, but it left a deep impression on me."
An anchor with a woman's side profile? Zhou Wen was alarmed. He had seen such things before, but he never expected them to exist in such a place.
"Yes, although I don't know who invented the anchor or who invented it, but according to some discoveries in history, this thing couldn't have appeared too early. At the very least, there had to be a big ship first, and then there was the anchor. Back in the Zhuolu Myth, I didn't hear of any large ships. The anchor symbol appearing there naturally left a deep impression, "Lu Ning added.
"Could that pattern have been carved after someone entered?" Lu Yunxian pondered.
"I thought so too, but the pattern was specially carved on a stone monument. Furthermore, it was placed on a stone table. It looks like it has experienced the baptism of thousands of years. It's almost blurry and can't be seen clearly. It doesn't look like it was carved recently. And on careful thought, it hasn't even been a hundred years since the dimensional storms began. The Zhuolu battlefield only appeared in recent years. Who could bring the stone monument in so early? Furthermore, it has to be the same architectural style as the stone temple. The materials have to be the same, and the age has to be the same. Isn't that a little too difficult? "Lu Ning said.
"It's indeed a little too difficult." Zhou Wen nodded slightly, but his gaze was fixed on the tattered underwear that was swaying in the air. At that moment, he saw it clearly. It was likely a piece of animal skin, but it had been severely torn. However, the anchor symbol on the flag was still intact. Apart from the size difference, the anchor symbol was identical to the woman's profile.
What's the meaning of this woman's anchor symbol? If this pattern already existed in ancient times, then who was its owner? Is it the woman on the anchor? Zhou Wen guessed inwardly, but he didn't have an answer.
The crooked flagpole wasn't a snake, but a black ancient vine. That was why it looked crooked.
"What's sitting under the flag?" Lu Yunxian said as he stared at the bottom of the vine flag.
Zhou Wen could only see a grayish-black shadow. It was as though someone was sitting there with a cloak draped over them.
When the strange vehicle got a little closer to the vine flag, Zhou Wen realized that it wasn't a cloak. It was just a strange beast robe made of beast hide. It looked like a cloak because it covered his head.
As for the creature inside the beast skin, it was unknown what it was. Right now, only its bones were left. Each and every one of those bones was sparkling and translucent like jade, giving off a flawless feeling. It was a stark contrast to the coarse beast skin.
Creak!
When it was less than ten meters away from the flag, the strange vehicle stopped. The puppet turned around and faced the skeleton in the beast skin. It bent its back slightly as though it was bowing.
"Why did it stop just like that?" Zhou Wen looked around in puzzlement. He was surrounded by white desert. He didn't see any stone palaces, cliffs, or Blood Threadworms. No matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like the place Lu Ning had mentioned.
Lu Ning wore a look of puzzlement as well. The three of them waited for a while. Seeing that the strange vehicle had no intention of continuing and the puppet had stopped moving, they had no choice but to jump out of the back of the vehicle and size up the skeleton and the vine flag at close range.
The tattered vine flag didn't have any words on it. There was only an anchor symbol. It didn't look special at all.
"This is the Zhuolu battlefield. Do you think this vine flag was the flag of one of the parties in the war back then?" Lu Yunxian asked.
Lu Ning shook her head slightly. "Although there are many versions of myths and legends, they are all different. The Yellow Emperor race's totem is said to be a bear, while others say it's a dragon. The Chiyou race says it's a worm, a cow, or a bird. However, regardless of the version, their totem has something in common. They are basically animals. There has never been a version where it's a dead object, much less something like an anchor. "
"That does make sense. Back then, it should have been a period of nature worship. There shouldn't have been an artificial totem like an anchor." Lu Yunxian also found his thoughts ridiculous.
Just as they were studying it, the motionless skeleton that looked like a dead object suddenly stood up. It gave the three of them a fright as they hurriedly retreated and summoned their Companion Beasts. They stared at the skeleton warily.
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