291 Totem? (1/2)

Zhou Wen summoned the White Shadow of Poison, getting it to fly higher and cling towards the sapphire sky. He hoped to avoid the nine-headed dragon and successfully pass through the underground sea.

Zhou Wen kept staring at the surface of the sea but didn't discover the terrifying shadow. Suddenly, a blue light flashed on the screen and the screen turned black. The blood-colored avatar died mysteriously.

What was that? Zhou Wen frowned as he looked at his phone. He only knew that the item wasn't from the nine-headed dragon but from the sapphire sky.

Thankfully, we came on the strange vehicle. Otherwise, crossing the underground sea would have been extremely difficult. Just as Zhou Wen was about to restart the game, he heard Lu Yunxian, who was in charge of observing upfront, shout, ”Land ahoy!”

Zhou Wen and Lu Ning stood up and saw that in the direction the strange vehicle was heading, a silver beach had indeed appeared. The sand there was whiter than any sand that Zhou Wen had seen before, like snow.

The strange vehicle touched shore and the wheels left two deep tracks on the beach as it continued forward.

As soon as they crossed the sea, a white desert appeared in front of him. It was as white as snow.

Zhou Wen originally imagined that the strange vehicle would continue on for a little while—at least an hour or two—just like how it was in the underground sea.

However, just as Zhou Wen sat down and was about to take out his phone to continue challenging the instance dungeons, he heard Lu Yunxian's voice. ”Young Master Wen, what do you think is that?”

Zhou Wen, who hadn't even gotten comfortable, had no choice but to get up again. He looked deep into the desert and saw a flag-like object sticking out from the sand in the distance.

The reason it only looked like a flag was that the flag shaft was bent. It looked like a snake that had not lifted its body up straight. There was a piece of animal hide hanging on the top, black and tattered. Its shape resembled enlarged pants, ones that hadn't been washed for centuries.

Zhou Wen focused his gaze and vaguely saw a symbol on the thing that looked like a pair of pants. However, without Truth Listener, his vision was clearly inferior to Lu Yunxian's and Lu Ning's.

Lu Ning's expression changed slightly as she said in a strange voice, ”I think I've seen the symbol on the flag before when Lord Alcohol took me into that stone temple.”

”What kind of symbol is it? Are you sure it's the same?” Zhou Wen asked.

Lu Ning looked at it for a while longer, and when the vehicle got closer, she said, ”There's no mistake about that. It's that symbol. It's a triangular anchor. There's also a long-haired woman's side profile drawn on it. As the symbol looks very weird, I took a few more glances back then. It left quite a deep impression on me.”

A ship anchor with a woman's side profile? Alarmed, Zhou Wen never expected to see it in such a place, having seen them before.

”Yes, although I don't know who invented ship anchors or who the inventor is, according to history, it can't have appeared recently. There must be large ships built before an anchor is needed. In Zhuolu myth, there are no stories with huge shops. So to have an anchor appear there naturally left a deep impression on me,” Lu Ning added.

”Could it have been carved after someone went in?” Lu Yunxian pondered.