CH 120

Chapter 120 – Temple of the Five Internal Organs 10

Xu RenDong was terrified but did not dare to slow down. The suction behind them was getting stronger and stronger and the sand under their feet kept sliding back. They couldn’t keep their balance at all.

Seeing the pipeline getting closer, the buffer slide gradually exposed its sandy surface. The exit of the slide kept rising into the sky.

The pipe was really about to fall!

After finally running to the edge of the slide, Lian Qiao grabbed the edge of the slide and at the same time reached out to RenDong: “Grab me!”

Xu RenDong held his hand without hesitation and took advantage of Lian Qiao’s strength to climb up the slide.

The unlucky guy wasn’t so lucky. He fell far behind and was still several dozen meters away from the slide. He had already lost his balance in the quicksand and most of his body sank into the sand, crying and struggling as he sank deeper and deeper.

Xu RenDong and Lian Qiao finally climbed onto the slide, gasping for breath in shock. They looked back and saw that the unlucky guy was being swept backwards wrapped in quicksand. He had sunk so much that only his head was exposed.

He was going to be buried alive!

Xu RenDong bit his lip but knew that he couldn’t save him so he turned around and focused on other things.

“The pipe is still going down.” He said to Lian Qiao, “Hold on and be careful not to slip off.”

“…En…” Lian Qiao replied but his eyes still followed the unlucky guy. At this time, the unlucky guy has been swept out a few hundred meters away, leaving only a tuft of hair on the top of his head left exposed outside. His body was probably already cold.

The disturbing “click” in mid-air continued but the frequency gradually slowed down. However the suction from behind has not diminished. The sand flowed back at a faster speed, almost like a tidal wave and was very choppy.

Xu RenDong glanced backwards and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He had thought that something might be making such a big move under the desert, causing the sand to run and the pipes to collapse. At this time, it seems that this is not the case.

The angle between the pipe and the sand surface was indeed gradually decreasing. Now it was close to 30 degrees, almost lying flat against the sand surface. And the weird suction that has been pulling them has also changed. Originally, it was dragging them to the rear but now it seems to be dragging them down, so that the two had to cling tightly to the wall of the tube so they didn’t slide down. .

“…The direction of gravity has changed?” Xu RenDong came to this answer after pondering.

Lian Qiao: “Not necessarily. Maybe the entire whole space has been reversed… But the direction of gravity is a relative concept so you’re not wrong to say this.”

Xu RenDong couldn’t help but be afraid for a while. Fortunately, they turned back in time and climbed up the pipeline at the critical moment. Otherwise, they must be just like the unlucky guy now, wrapped in the surging quicksand and rushing towards god knows where.

Death was death, and it was also a painful death. Xu RenDong felt chills just thinking about the feeling of hot sand pouring down his nose. Besides, for him, death is not the end. He had to go to the dark forest to suffer again.

Lian Qiao looked up and said thoughtfully, “The sound has stopped.”

Xu RenDong came back to his senses, only to find that the “click” sound that had just been hovering in the air had disappeared.

“What kind of sound was that?” Xu RenDong retrieved his memory, “I always felt it sounded a little familiar… like some kind of machine…”

“I also think it sounds like the sound of mechanical gears.” Lian Qiao touched his chin, “Could this be a hint of something?”

Xu RenDong looked around. The flow of the desert also stopped at this point and the pipe was no longer inclined. The change in the direction of gravity caused the entire desert to sink beneath them. At this point, the pipes became perpendicular to the desert again – the position of the slide where they were located was the dividing point. There was no sand above the dividing point and, below the dividing point, there was a flat sand surface.

Xu RenDong lowered one foot and tried to step on the sand surface. The touch from his toes told him that the softness of the gravel had returned to its original state.

Lian Qiao jumped down from the pipe, moved his limbs and said, “I’m exhausted from running just now, come down and rest for a while.”

He took out some food from his backpack and distributed it to Xu RenDong. Xu RenDong nibbled on the sandwich, still looking thoughtful.

“If the desert can suddenly flow, the only safe place is this pipe.” He reached out and knocked on the wall of the pipe, frowning at the hard and crisp metal knock, “But we can’t stay here forever. Where’s the door? “

Lian Qiao suddenly thought: “Would you like to climb up and have a look?”

Xu RenDong laughed: “How to climb? And even if I can climb up, wouldn’t I just go back to the previous door?”

“Well… if you say it like that, it makes sense.” Lian Qiao stretched his waist and sighed, “Looking at the hint, this instance has five levels. I’m so tired and don’t even have time to rest.”

“Then let’s rest for a while now. Anyway, this is a stable point and while we are here, we can also see if any new teammates will fall down.”

After speaking, Xu RenDong sat on the ground, leaning against the wall of the pipe and began to close his eyes and rest.

Lian Qiao’s eyes lit up and said coquettishly: “RenDong, can you give me a knee pillow?”

Xu RenDong: “What is a knee pillow?”

Lian Qiao: “Just let me sleep on your lap.”

Hearing that, Xu RenDong tilted his head and thought for a while. When he realized what Lian Qiao was saying, he knelt on the ground and made a “come” gesture.

Lian Qiao lay down with joy, resting his head on his lap and his whole body was rippling with excitement.

“Isn’t this awkward?” Xu RenDong knew that he was thin and had no flesh on his legs, so he always felt that this sleeping position would not be comfortable.

But Lian Qiao said with satisfaction: “No!”

Xu RenDong lowered his head and met Lian Qiao Liangjing’s puppy dog eyes. This perspective is very strange, it made Xu RenDong’s heart move and he had an inexplicable urge to kiss him.

…Unfortunately, his body was not flexible enough to bend down.

Xu RenDong was a little ashamed and turned away stiffly. To ease the embarrassment, he picked up mineral water to drink.

Lian Qiao looked up at him. From this angle, you can see that the beautiful Adam’s apple loosens up and down and there is a soft thud in the throat. Lian Qiao looked at it and 10,000 dirty thoughts appeared in his mind.

He also couldn’t help covering his face: no, no, no, no more, or I’ll be hard again.

However, although he knew intellectually that he couldn’t be emotional, emotionally he couldn’t help it at all. He quietly continued to peep through his fingers, while scolding himself with contempt: People are just drinking water with integrity, what are you thinking about, you pervert!

But having said that, RenDong is so beautiful…

Lian Qiao was fascinated by it, raised his hand unconsciously and touched his Adam’s apple in a daze.

RenDong drank half of the water and felt an itchy neck. Looking down, it was Lian Qiao who was touching him and he was shocked and spurted out a mouthful of water.

Most of the mineral water was sprayed on Lian Qiao’s face and Lian Qiao sobered up instantly, retracting his hand like an electric shock.

Xu RenDong: “…what are you doing?”

Lian Qiao: “…” Ah, ah, ah, it’s so embarrassing! How can you ask me!

An eerie silence spread between the two. Lian Qiao covered his face and didn’t dare to look at RenDong at all and could not wait to curl himself into a snail shell.

RenDong looked down and saw Lian Qiao’s earlobes that were so red that they were burning. His heart moved, as if he understood something.

Lian Qiao was covering his face to escape reality and suddenly felt his earlobe being pinched. He was shocked and quietly peeked at RenDong from between his fingers, facing a pair of eyes that were as bright as autumn water.

Get up.” Xu RenDong said.

Lian Qiao’s heart trembled. He saw the pair of soft lips that he had described countless times  mov slightly and softly spit out two words.

“I want to kiss you.”

Lian Qiao: “!!!”

Ah ah ah, can you restrain yourself a little bit! Even if you can restrain me,, I can’t restrain myself!

***

After an indescribably deep kiss, both were satisfied.

Xu RenDong was a little thirsty from his kiss and couldn’t help but pick up the mineral water bottle again and took a few sips.

“I’m thirsty too.” Lian Qiao leaned over and rubbed his furry head on his cheek affectionately, “Feed me.”

Xu RenDong smiled and brought the mouth of the mineral water bottle to his lips. Lian Qiao sucked the mouth of the bottle and looked very happy, like a puppy being fed. Xu RenDong couldn’t help rubbing his hair.

Lian Qiao squinted his eyes contentedly.

RenDong’s eyes were subconsciously chasing the mineral water bottle and suddenly he thought of something, reached out and took the water bottle in front of him.

Lian Qiao was taken aback: “What’s wrong? Is there something wrong with the water?”

No, he drank half a bottle just now and it was fine.

RenDong shook his head and said thoughtfully, “I have an idea.”

“You say it.”

RenDong said, “That clicking sound, could it be a clock? The second hand moves with this kind of clicking sound.”

Lian Qiao suddenly realized: “No wonder it sounds familiar, it turns out to be the sound of the clock running!”

“But the clock and the desert…” Xu RenDong didn’t finish his words before there was a sudden flash in his mind.

Clocks – clocks and deserts!

It’s an hourglass!

Yes, this desert is a giant hourglass! No wonder quicksand turned around after the clock clicked – that’s because the cycle is over and the hourglass is upside down!

RenDong had a vague picture in his heart. He took out a pen from his backpack, put it upright in the sand and turned the mineral water bottle across, next to the pen: “Suppose this is the pipe. This is the hourglass.”

He erected the water bottle little by little until it turned ninety degrees and was parallel to the pencil: “Look, isn’t this what we just experienced? All the sand leaked down, because the hourglass stood upright.”

Lian Qiao’s eyes widened and his eyes were full of surprises, “My target is worthy of being a Nine Level boss. He even knows this!”

Lian Qiao stretched out his hand and pointed to the level of the half-bottle of water: “So, the midpoint of this hourglass is where we are now… the stable point!”

RenDong: “Yes.”

“Then the door should be here?” Lian Qiao pointed to the position of the mineral water bottle cap and immediately denied himself, “No, it may be the other end. But it is also possible that there are exits on both sides. Maybe there will be branch routes here?”

Xu RenDong stared at the pencil. He looked at the mineral water bottle for a long time and sighed: “The question is, how do we get to these two ends? No matter how the hourglass turns over, the sand will always be below and the outlet will always be above. There is no leverage on the outer wall of this pipe and we can’t climb up. “

“Maybe you don’t need to climb.” Lian Qiao smiled and was about to explain when a familiar sound suddenly came from the sky.

Click.

Xu RenDong reflexively stood up from the ground. Lian Qiao took out a climbing rope, passed it through the lower end of the pipe and tied it in a dead knot. Then he turned over and jumped on the pipe.

Xu RenDong was still a little puzzled but Lian Qiao had reached out to him with bright eyes, like a little adventurer looking for treasure.

“Come, RenDong, come with me.”