I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

Chapter 464: 9th Floor Demon Tower Ghost Fire Beetle

Being cautious and on guard against strange snakes that might be hiding in the corners, the group arrived at the black tower safely.

Looking at the gap on the top of the black tower and the climbing rope hanging from the gap, everyone's expression changed.

"Damn it. Someone got there first..."

The fat man cursed, his tone full of disbelief.

Xu Bayi looked solemn.

Is there any third party coveting the things in the Jingjue Ancient City?

Friend or foe?

"Everyone, be careful."

Xu Bayi was confused and had no idea what to do, so he could only remind everyone to be more careful.

Then he took the lead and descended into the black tower along the rope left by the previous group of people.

"Safety!"

Xu Bayi called out, and everyone came down one by one.

The black tower was buried in the sand, so what everyone entered was actually the top floor.

The top floor was a circular space with a diameter of about ten meters. In the center was a black stone statue, made of the same material as the stone statues everyone had seen outside. However, it was a sculpture of a goat.

The walls around are covered with densely packed ancient characters in strange shapes.

"These are ghost cave texts. Let me see..."

Professor Chen turned on his headlamp and looked carefully at the scribbles on the wall.

"Let's wait and see, Professor Chen. We have to catch up with those people."

"Ok."

Professor Chen and his student Xiao Wu picked up their cameras and started taking pictures.

Xu Bayi and others went down to the next floor through the hole that was destroyed by humans on the floor.

The next level is similar to the previous one, with a stone statue in the center and ghost cave writings on the surrounding walls. However, there are more murals, and the stone statue has become a faceless stone man.

There was still a hole in the floor.

The fat man looked at the hole in the floor with disdain. "These people are too unskilled. They only know how to destroy things with brute force..."

After taking a look and finding no useful clues, Xu Bayi led everyone down to the third-to-last floor.

There is another black stone statue in the center.

The fourth floor, the fifth floor, the sixth floor, it's still the same.

It's just that the statues and the contents on the walls kept changing. The statues became more and more exquisite and tall, with noble postures, and the contents of the murals became richer and richer.

Of course, each floor is larger than the previous one.

"...This is most likely the legendary Nine-story Demon Tower."

As they were walking, Yang Xueli suddenly spoke.

Nine-story demon tower?

"It is a mysterious sacrificial site in the ancient Western Regions, similar to an ancestral hall. This tower should have nine floors, symbolizing the nine levels of hell believed by some ancient Westerners. Those stone statues should be the masters of hell."

The fat man scratched his head and asked, "Why is the owner of the first floor a goat?"

"Because the first floor is the lowest, the animal world. You know the six realms of reincarnation, right? That's probably what it means. This nine-story demon tower is just the opposite of an ordinary tower. The most noble beings are at the bottom, and the lowest are at the top. In fact, when the entire tower was built, the main body should have been deliberately built underground."

"I see. The ancients were really convoluted."

Sure enough, when the group went down to the ninth floor, there were no more holes in the floor and no other exits, and they could not see the group of people who had entered before.

In the center of the room, which was about 20 meters wide, stood a carefully carved goddess statue, with gorgeous clothing and an exotic look. Although her face was covered by a hood and a mask, her features could not be seen, but judging from her figure and posture, the original figure of the statue must be a stunning beauty.

The crowd was amazed.

"This craftsman is really amazing. Even though we can't see her face, we can still clearly feel that this is a super beauty."

The fat man looked at the sculpture, which was like a work of art, with admiration.

Yang Xueli explained: "Legend has it that the Queen of Jingjue was the most beautiful woman in the Western Regions at that time. She was extremely beautiful and gorgeous. It seems that she was not exaggerating."

"It's a pity that such a beautiful woman has such a vicious and cruel heart that she could do such a thing as using human heads to cultivate corpse turtle kings."

"Hey, hey, you're wrong. The one who nurtured the Corpse Turtle King was the Queen Mother of the West..."

"Well, that's about right. These two girls weigh about 800 kilograms each."

Xu Bayi looked around and said, "Everyone, look carefully to see if there is any trap."

Everyone began to look carefully.

After looking around, they found nothing. Finally, a sharp-eyed guy noticed something.

"Eye."

Everyone followed his gaze and found that there was a slightly raised eye-shaped mark on the forehead of the stone mask of the Queen of Jingjue.

When I shone a light on it, I saw that there were indeed signs of being touched.

Everyone looked at Captain Xu, waiting for him to make a decision.

Xu Bayi stepped forward, took a deep breath, climbed up the statue, touched the statue's eyes, and then pressed them.

Click click click.

There was a sound of mechanism turning inside the stone statue, and everyone's eyes lit up: There's hope!

Boom!

With a muffled sound under the feet, the ground suddenly shook and everyone was startled.

Then, as the Nine-story Demon Tower shook, the goddess statue in front of everyone began to slowly rotate along with its base - no, it was the entire ground of the ninth floor that was rotating!

"Everyone, be careful!"

Yang Xueli reminded.

Suddenly, two screams came from above my head, filled with fear and immense pain.

Everyone's face changed - Oh no, something happened to Professor Chen and Xiao Wu!

These two people were taking pictures at the back and were a step behind the crowd. Unexpectedly, they met with an accident because of this. If they had known earlier, they should have left someone behind to look after them!

Xu Bayi was about to go up to check the situation when he heard a strange noise, like some insects flying.

Then, more than a dozen balls of red light were seen flying down from the holes in the ceiling.

It flew towards the crowd like a will-o'-the-wisp.

After seeing the true face of the red light, Xu Bayi's face changed.

"Keep your voice down! Don't let this thing touch you!"

Feeling the shock and fear in his shout, everyone instantly realized that this sudden red light was not to be trifled with, and the attacking moves that had been prepared were changed to dodging.

After the donkey rolled over to avoid a dive by the red light ball, everyone could see clearly that the red light was actually a group of beetles with translucent bodies like crystals, the size of a thumb, and their abdomens were flashing red light like fireflies.

It's just much brighter, almost as bright as a candle.

"Old Xu, what is this?"

"Fire beetle! If you get touched by it, your whole body will be burned to ashes in an instant!"

"Is it really that serious?!"

"I lied to you, I'm an ass!"

More red lights flew out from the hole, and fire beetles also flew out from the cracks in the floor of the room.

A fire beetle flew towards Wu Tianzhen from behind, but Wu Tianzhen himself was completely unaware of it.

"careful!"

The guy next to him pulled him back, and the fire beetle narrowly flew over his head.

Two more fire beetles flew over.

Seeing there was no way to avoid it, Zhang Qiling swung his sword and the blade accurately cut the two fire beetles in half in mid-air.

Bang!

However, after the fire beetle exploded, a ball of red flame suddenly ignited on the black knife and quickly spread towards Zhang Qiling's arm.