Chapter 220: Meteorite Mirage (2)

"Okay, beauty."

Diwu Zeyi whistled. With a handsome face paired with a frivolous tone, he looked at what originally should have been the handsome youth, but at this moment had changed into a sexy and capable beauty.

"Everyone rest assured. With me here, there won't be any danger on this trip." After Chen Ran finished studying the map, he spoke confidently to the three.

Feng Xiao complimented: "Dr. Chen is richly experienced. If he says there is no danger, presumably there is no danger."

"Still better to be careful." The capable beauty reminded, and immediately walked to the trunk, taking out the weapons inside.

The capable beauty and Diwu Zeyi both equipped themselves with Automatic Rifles. After thinking for a bit, they also issued a Pistol to the two cultured men.

Just like this...

The capable beauty, the unreliable Diwu Zeyi, the arrogant Dr. Chen, and the brainlessly complimentary Assistant Feng. This strange combination that looked at a glance to have many problems walked step by step towards the ancient Loulan ruins.

Diwu Zeyi was in front, the two cultured men in the middle, and the beauty brought up the rear. The four were not standing in the same straight line.

Slowly feeling their way into the broken walls and debris, after walking for about twenty minutes, Dr. Chen suddenly stopped and curiously looked at a flower on the ground.

This flower was extremely brightly colored.

In a desert where not an inch of grass grew and yellow sand filled the sky, it swayed with the wind, its vitality tenacious.

"This flower might possess research value." Saying this, Dr. Chen reached out his hand, wanting to touch it. Just as he was about to touch it.

A snake popped out from under the flower, opened its mouth, and bit towards Dr. Chen's palm.

At the critical moment, only a gunshot was heard, and the poisonous snake's head was beaten to a pulp.

Diwu Zeyi put away his Gun and said speechlessly: "No bro, you a grave digger... uh, you an archaeologist, what plants are you researching?"

Seeing Chen Ran paralyzed on the ground in fear, Diwu Zeyi continued outputting: "Have you read Ghost Blows Out the Light or adventure novels? As long as this kind of plot appears inside, it's specifically to kill you group of handsy bookwo... uh, intellectuals."

"Doctor, are you alright?" Chen Ran was supported up by Feng Xiao. He also wasn't annoyed at Diwu Zeyi's words, and very solemnly expressed his thanks.

Seeing this, the contempt in Diwu Zeyi's eyes faded. He secretly thought that although this bookworm was arrogant, he didn't lack the attitude he should have. Therefore, he looked somewhat highly upon the bookworm.

The few continued walking deeper.

Very quickly they came before a strange building. This seemed to be a collapsed palace building, its top presenting a triangular shape.

On the triangle, there was a round hole the size of a bowl mouth. Besides this, there were also patterns. In the patterns, a group of slaves knelt and bowed towards the round hole.

Seeing this, the three looked at Chen Ran, as if saying: Please begin your performance.

Chen Ran carefully sized up the patterns, as well as the round hole penetrating the building.

After thinking for a bit, he said: "Let's tentatively regard the round hole as The Sun. After all, according to numerous global research documents, what humanity believed in earliest was all The Sun."

"Look, the mountain in the pattern is similar to that mountain range ahead." Chen Ran pointed at the mountain range opposite and said.

"You don't need to give a lengthy speech. Tell us the answer directly." The capable beauty suddenly interrupted, simply because Dr. Chen telling them this was no different from playing the lute to a cow.

"No rush." Chen Ran felt the Cigarette Case from his pocket, pulled out one, and lit it: "Listening more has no harm."

As he spoke, he looked at his Watch: "On the pattern, from the distance between the round hole and the mountain range, it can be deduced that it's probably around 4 PM. Right now it's 3:30. We still need to wait here for half an hour."

"Um, Doctor, why do we have to wait half an hour?" Feng Xiao asked.

"The round hole corresponds to The Sun. In other words, as long as we wait until four o'clock and align the round hole with The Sun, there should be a discovery."

Time passed very quickly.

At four o'clock, the four adjusted their orientation to determine their standing position, just able to see The Sun [inlaid] within the round hole.

"There's nothing here?" Diwu Zeyi looked around in bewilderment.

Chen Ran didn't speak, but looking from this angle, he looked towards a part of the mountain body, and then pointed at a spot and said: "The ray of The Sun passing through the round hole imprints exactly there. Which of you go take a look if there's anything there."

Hearing this, the capable beauty climbed up to the position Chen Ran pointed like a cheetah, pulled out a Dagger, gently brushed aside the sand, and very quickly a metallic material resembling a mirror appeared.

This small hill was exactly blocked from the sunlight by the palace. Only the sunlight passing through the round hole shone onto the [Mirror].

The light ray was refracted by the [Mirror], shooting towards a small hill not far away that was also blocked by the palace.

Just as Chen Ran wanted to speak, he was interrupted by Diwu Zeyi: "I understand this."

Very quickly, Diwu Zeyi climbed halfway up that small hill, brushed aside the sand, similarly revealing a thing resembling a [Mirror].

The light ray was once again refracted by this [Mirror]. Just like this, when the ninth [Mirror] presented itself before everyone's eyes.

The light ray refracted onto a spot on the ground.

The four arrived at the light ray's final position.

Without needing Chen Ran to speak, the capable beauty and Diwu Zeyi took out Entrenching Shovels and started digging the sand on the ground.

After digging for about ten minutes, Diwu Zeyi looked at Feng Xiao: "You there, only knowing how to be a bystander, you also come down and dig."

Diwu Zeyi returned to the ground and sat with Chen Ran on a rock smoking.

"Doctor, this Meteorite should be very valuable, right?" Diwu Zeyi smiled, showing two rows of pure white teeth.

"Vulgar. This thing aids our country's aerospace research. How can it be described with money?"

"Put away your act. Humans die for wealth and birds die for food. You think I accompanied you to this place where birds don't poop just for that little bit of money? What I want isn't much either. Later if we find that legendary Meteorite, just cut a piece for me. I heard this thing is sold by the gram abroad."

"Dollars!" Diwu Zeyi excitedly made a money-counting motion towards Chen Ran.

...

Not long after, a pit of about two meters was dug out on the ground by the few. At the bottom of the pit was a stone slab, and strange patterns were carved on the stone slab.

When the refracted sunlight fell right in the middle of the stone slab, the ground started to tremble. The next moment the stone slab contracted, and the four fell down.

Dropping into the palace Basement, immediately the oil lamps in the Secret Room automatically ignited, illuminating this Secret Room.

"Tsk tsk tsk. That's why it's said the wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated. Look at these oil lamps; they can ignite after experiencing hundreds of years, and it's even auto-fucking-matically igniting."

"There's nothing to be surprised about. On the periodic table of elements, there are metals that Self-immolate in the air. Presumably, the wicks of these ancient lamps are all doped with this kind of metal."

Chen Ran originally didn't want to pay attention to the unreliable Diwu Zeyi, but considering that this guy seemed to be not very controllable, he patiently explained.

The four sized up the Secret Room, and were very quickly attracted by a half-meter high platform in the middle of the Secret Room.

They only saw that in the middle of the platform, a strange stone was as if being worshipped, emitting a faint light under the illumination of the lamp light.

"Finally found you!" Feng Xiao excitedly danced with his hands and feet. Disregarding everything else, he rushed towards the platform in the middle.

"Danger!"

Chen Ran widened his eyes and shouted. The other two observed coldly from the sidelines. However, everything was too late. Feng Xiao had just run halfway when a giant python ten-odd meters thick drilled out from the darkness, and with one mouthful, took Feng Xiao...

Swallowed him into its belly!

Chen Ran, Diwu Zeyi, the beauty, and... Feng Xiao, whose face was first full of shock, then his eyes turned stern.

The expressions of the four looking at the giant python that suddenly appeared were extremely ugly.