Free Web NovelChapter 150: Chapter 140: Desert Flower
Not long after Tang Mo and Jingjing finished their preparations, the last petal of the Desert Flower slowly unfurled.
The blood-red petals seemed to be plated with a layer of fuzzy golden light, causing anyone who saw it to momentarily forget what they were even trying to do.
A masterpiece of uncanny workmanship was thus revealed to all.
It was not something any artist could create; it was a great work of art bestowed upon humanity by the universe itself.
"Quick, down we go! The thing underneath should have appeared by now!"
Lin Shourong was the first to react. He grabbed Lin Yu and jumped into the quicksand, and the two of them were instantly swallowed by it.
"Let’s go."
Ah Bin’s sickly expression was swept from his face. Without giving Lisa a chance to respond, he grabbed her hand and followed close behind, their figures disappearing into the quicksand.
"We should go down too." After everyone had vanished from sight, Tang Mo appeared at the edge of the quicksand, holding Jingjing.
She had felt the power of the spiritual strangulation below before. She had estimated back then that if she went down by herself, she would only have a thirty percent chance of withstanding it.
The other seventy percent meant being churned into mincemeat.
But now, under this massive spiritual power Protective Shield, she wasn’t worried at all. After all, this Protective Shield was more than ten times stronger than her own power.
Jingjing had been in and out of this passage so many times it was as familiar as its own home, so it felt no psychological burden whatsoever.
With calm expressions, the human and the beast stepped into the quicksand.
The moment her body sank into the quicksand, Tang Mo personally felt the pull of that spiritual power.
An immense suction force tried to rip the spiritual power from her body.
However, this pulling force was nothing special when compared to the combined spiritual power of Tang Mo and Jingjing.
Tang Mo only had to slightly stabilize her own power to descend steadily, barely affected by the immense force.
But even so, seeing how lazy and comfortable Jingjing looked in her arms under this same force, she couldn’t help but feel it was unfair.
’It’s enough to drive a person crazy, comparing themself to a beast.’
Tang Mo timed it. After about three minutes, her feet landed smoothly on solid ground.
"Who are you?"
"What are you doing here?!"
The moment Tang Mo landed, two different voices shouted simultaneously.
Lin Shourong had never seen Tang Mo before. To meet a strange woman here at such a critical moment, one could only imagine his shock.
Lisa and Tang Mo, however, were old acquaintances. Both Lisa and Ah Bin had assumed Tang Mo had died long ago in that accident in the desert. Neither of them expected this thin, weak-looking girl to be so hard to kill.
Lin Yu, standing behind Lin Shourong, lowered his head slightly, pretending not to know her.
He wasn’t surprised at all that Tang Mo had appeared here. He had understood long ago that she was no simple character. freēwebnovel.com
’I knew exactly what she was after, staying at my home for all those days. But in the end, everything is a matter of fate.’
In his eyes, although Tang Mo was a bit cold, she was a good person.
’As for the things here, everyone will just have to rely on their own abilities.’
"Lisa? Ah Bin?"
Tang Mo looked at Lisa and Ah Bin, a surprised expression on her face.
"What are you two doing here? I’ve been looking for you for so long. I thought you had already..."
Tang Mo said this without the slightest blush or flutter of her heart.
"You’ve been in the desert all this time?"
Suspicion rose on Lisa’s face, her eyes filled with scrutiny.
"Not exactly. I went back to restock on supplies, and when I came back in, I somehow fell in here." Tang Mo glanced at her backpack and said no more.
Lisa also fell silent. Of course she didn’t believe Tang Mo’s words. She clearly remembered her asking the guide about Sand Town before; her objective was definitely not that simple.
But since they had all met here now, there was no point in discussing it further.
Lisa couldn’t possibly discuss this with Lin Shourong, either. They were only in a temporary partnership, with no trust to speak of.
Tang Mo hadn’t expected her excuse, riddled with holes, to fool anyone. It was just a temporary pretext for everyone, to keep the atmosphere from becoming too tense.
"Enough nonsense. Let’s hurry inside."
Lin Shourong was in no mood for pleasantries. One more person meant one more unexpected risk.
He silently walked towards the secret chamber, and Lin Yu naturally followed him.
Lisa followed Ah Bin and also started to walk inside, but after only three meters, she was blocked by a force.
"What is this?"
Lisa’s head hurt from hitting an invisible wall, and she unconsciously reached out to touch it.
"There’s nothing here?"
Ah Bin had already passed through the spot Lisa’s hand was touching. Seeing this, he also placed his hand where Lisa’s was, but he felt nothing but empty air.
"It’s a spiritual power barrier. It seems only people with a Spirit Attribute superpower can pass through smoothly."
Ah Bin quickly came to a conclusion. The energy of that spiritual power barrier wasn’t strong. Any Spirit Attribute Superpower User whose Spirit Attribute Value was higher than their other attribute values could pass through smoothly.
"Well then, be careful."
Lisa was helpless. She could only step back and urge Ah Bin to be careful.
Tang Mo couldn’t be bothered to watch them play out their sappy melodrama. Cradling Jingjing, she walked right to the front to investigate the secret chamber for herself.
Although this was also a secret chamber beneath the quicksand, it was completely different from the man-made one in Sand Town that she had stayed in.
Compared to the artificial traces of that chamber, this place was simply a natural underground cavern.
Neither the floor nor the walls were particularly flat or smooth. It was like a mysterious passage left behind after a shift in the earth’s crust.
After passing through a long, narrow passage a dozen or so meters ahead, Tang Mo took a right turn and finally saw the secret chamber full of Crystal Stones that Jingjing had described to her countless times.
’No! To say it was filled with Crystal Stones is fundamentally incorrect.’
’This secret chamber is built entirely out of Crystal Stones!’ freeweɓnøvel.com
As far as the eye could see, there were white Basic Crystal Stones, with specks of blood-red and light blue embedded among them.
"Are these the Crystal Stones mentioned in that watch-mail?"
Lin Shourong, Lin Yu, and Ah Bin followed close behind into the secret chamber. Seeing what it looked like, anyone could tell that these energy-filled stones were no ordinary things.
"Why are there such large chunks missing from these two sides?"
Everyone examined the secret chamber carefully and soon discovered that large chunks seemed to be missing from the east and west sides, as if they had been artificially expanded outwards by a dozen or so square meters.
And the missing areas just so happened to be where the specks of blood-red and light-blue Crystal Stones were embedded, giving off an indescribably bizarre and strange feeling.
Tang Mo silently gazed at the ceiling. ’What? I don’t know a thing.’
