Chapter 879 - 840: The Millennia-Old Corpse Beetle
As soon as Zhao Rong started to speak, before he could finish his sentence, corpse beetles crawled out from the cracks in the stone and swarmed towards the group of five like a tidal wave.
When the three women and the assistant saw the dense swarm of corpse beetles,
they felt extremely terrified and said,
"Oh my god, if someone with a fear of clusters saw this many corpse beetles, they would be scared to death..."
Lili took out a torch from her pocket, lit it, and threw it towards the swarm of corpse beetles, saying,
"You pestilent corpse beetles, I’ll burn you all to death with fire..."
Meanwhile, Yu Lan took out a freezing chemical from her pocket, attempting to freeze all the corpse beetles,
and said,
"You terrifying bugs, I’ll turn you into ice now..."
Even more daring, Xuelian pulled out her personal flamethrower...
She lay on the ground and sprayed wildly at the corpse beetles, saying,
"I refuse to believe that my flamethrower can’t eliminate you corpse beetles..."
The assistant also picked up rocks and tiles from the ground and threw them towards the swarm of corpse beetles, saying,
"Now, I’ll throw rocks to crush you all to death..."
However, despite all the efforts of the three women and the assistant, they couldn’t manage to destroy even one corpse beetle.
Seeing this, Zhao Rong was shocked and said,
"This isn’t good, could it be that these corpse beetles are ancient insects,
intended to protect the ruins of the ancient Loulan city, preventing outsiders from approaching?"
Suddenly, Lili noticed a number of animal skeletons not far away,
and she said fearfully to Zhao Rong,
"Brother Zhao Rong, this is bad, let’s hurry and run. If these corpse beetles swarm us and surround us, we’ll be eaten to skeletons..."
Yu Lan suggested urgently to Zhao Rong,
"Brother Zhao Rong, let’s quickly take a helicopter and escape now..."
Xue Lan said in great fear,
"The helicopter is too slow, let’s quickly take a rocket to escape..."
Terrified, the assistant pulled out a military shovel from his pocket and started digging while saying,
"Instead of trying so hard to escape, it’s better to dig deep and accumulate supplies..."
At this moment, Zhao Rong led the three women and the assistant as they ran, saying,
"The speed of these corpse beetles is really too fast,
if we were to buy a helicopter or other means of escape in the Paradise Shopping Cart,
it’s evident that there’s not enough time,
what we must do now is find a big rock and climb onto it,
then spread insecticide around,
that way, we can ensure our safety for a while..."
After hearing Zhao Rong’s words, everyone immediately followed behind him in a frantic escape.
But they hadn’t run far before they suddenly stepped into quicksand.
The rate at which the quicksand buried them was incredibly fast,
and it seemed like Zhao Rong and his group of five were about to be completely buried.
When Lili was caught in the quicksand, she looked at the surrounding quicksand that was burying her, and said in despair,
"How unlucky, instead of being eaten by those corpse beetles, we’re stuck in quicksand,
and might suffocate to death..."
Yu Lan attempted to grab a nearby poplar tree, and she said,
"Everyone, imitate me and grab the poplar tree branches not far away...
otherwise, we will surely be swallowed by this quicksand..."
Xuelian desperately stomped her feet into the quicksand, saying,
"Hopefully this quicksand will stop at the last moment and won’t cover our mouths and noses...
that way, we can still breathe and survive,
then slowly crawl out from this quicksand..."
But the assistant, because of his frantic struggle, was the first to be buried in the quicksand.
When Zhao Rong saw that the assistant was buried by the quicksand,
he immediately, in great pain, said,
"I never thought that the first one to die in our team would be the assistant..."
But before Zhao Rong could finish his sentence, he suddenly heard the assistant’s voice coming from beneath the desert,
he said,
"Brother Zhao Rong, Miss Lili, Lady Yu Lan, Lady Xue Lan, don’t be afraid of this quicksand...
Because, below the quicksand is literally a palace..."
Upon hearing that the assistant said there was a palace below the quicksand, the three women immediately dived down into the quicksand, saying,
"Oh my, could this be real, this is too amazing,
there’s actually a palace beneath the quicksand?"
Lili, while diving beneath the quicksand, conjectured and said,
"I think, there must be an ancient tomb beneath the quicksand, not a palace..."
Yu Lan, letting her imagination run wild, said,
"Could it be that we can enter the ancient Loulan kingdom from beneath this quicksand to find out the truth?"
Xue Lan suddenly thought of the Egyptian pyramids,
she connected the ancient Loulan city with the Egyptian pyramids and said,
"It’s possible that we might directly enter the Egyptian pyramids from beneath this quicksand..."
By this time, Zhao Rong had already reached the bottom of the quicksand and fell into a vast space.
He looked at everything before him in amazement and said,
"I never thought we would actually arrive inside an underground palace..."
Lili looked at the torches and the long corridor inside the palace before her,
and she said in disbelief,
"Brother Zhao Rong, as long as we follow this corridor, we will definitely reach the destination and discover the secret of the disappearance of the ancient Loulan city..."
Yu Lan felt revitalized and said,
"I originally believed that I would certainly die in this quicksand,
but I never expected that when I reached the bottom of the quicksand, I would enter another strange world..."
Xuelian, judging the palace before her, shook her head and said,
"Brother Zhao Rong, assistant, although you say that this place before us is a palace,
but I think it’s an ancient tomb,
and the road we’re traveling on is the corridor...
As long as we follow the corridor, we will definitely reach the center of this ancient tomb..."
Thus, Zhao Rong led the three women and the assistant along the corridor toward the center of this ancient tomb or palace.
However, they were unexpectedly surprised when,
about five hours later, they suddenly saw a point of light.
Lili pointed at the point of light, incredibly surprised, and said,
"Brother Zhao Rong, it’s possible that we’ve been walking inside this palace for five hours and have come out onto the surface again..."
Yu Lan judged that the point of light was sunlight coming from the exit,
she said,
"Brother Zhao Rong, even though the journey was perilous,
we still reached the exit, arriving on the surface..."
Xuelian took a long breath of relief and said, yearning for sunlight and fresh air, along with delicious fruits,
"Hopefully, the world we’ve arrived at is not a desert, but an oasis, with delicious cantaloupes and raisins, and fine wine..."
The assistant was also hopeful that the place they reached would have beautiful women, saying,
"I don’t expect anything else, I just hope that when we show up later, there are many beautiful women for me to choose from..."
