A carefree soldier king in the city

Chapter 516 Desert

Father Frodo replied, "Don't worry, everything is ready. Bufan, who are these two?"

“Oh, they are my wives,” Chao Bufan replied.

The two women greeted him in unison: "Father."

Father Frodo smiled and closed his head, then said, "Extraordinary, then let's go!"

The eastern part of the ancient L country was a vast, barren desert. Due to the harsh climate, it was a desolate and uninhabited place.

Chao Bufan and the other three appeared like ghosts deep in the desert. As soon as they appeared, Chao Bufan immediately looked around and asked, "Father, is this the place?"

Father Frodo replied, "According to the Bible, God's treasure should be right under our feet."

As he spoke, Father Frodo took out a palm-sized compass, opened the top cover, and the needle inside immediately spun back and forth before pointing to their right front.

“The entrance is just ahead,” said Father Frodo. “Let’s go take a look.”

After walking a short distance to the right, the group stopped. Father Frodo said, "The entrance is right here."

As he spoke, Father Frodo punched in front of his feet, and then a loud "bang" was heard, and the wind and sand filled the air, with dust flying everywhere.

After the sandstorm subsided, a huge crater appeared at the site of the explosion.

The four walked to the edge of the pit, peered down, and saw that it was pitch black below, but there was another space.

"Father, are you sure this is the place?" Chao Bufan asked, puzzled.

Father Frodo replied, “If the Bible is correct, then this is it.”

Chao Bufan nodded, then said to Yifei and Xiaomin, "You two be careful, and you absolutely must stay close to me."

The two women simultaneously murmured "Mmm," and then Chao Bufan said to Father Frodo, "Father, let's go down now!"

A grain of sand contains a world; a leaf contains a universe.

This is not a passageway as you might imagine, nor a so-called underground cave, nor some underground secret chamber. This is entirely a vast world, with sky and earth, mountains and water, except that the sky here is gray and the sun is nowhere to be seen, but it is definitely not night.

Upon arriving here, Chao Bufan wondered if he had stumbled upon a world within the Nine Directions Great World. However, the scene before him truly astonished him, as were He Yifei and Lin Xiaomin. Father Frodo, on the other hand, showed little change in expression.

Looking around, the ground was littered with corpses, countless in number, including swords, spears, halberds, longbows, and arrows. Due to the passage of time, these corpses had long since weathered away, and it was easy to see that this place had once been a battlefield where no less than a million soldiers had fought fiercely. One can only imagine how brutal the scene must have been.

“This was once the largest ancient battlefield in Europe, a place where, thousands of years ago, the Persian Empire, the Islamic Empire, the Greek Empire, the Macedonian Empire, and the ancient L Empire fought for control of a sacred land,” Father Frodo explained.

Lin Xiaomin exclaimed in surprise, "I learned about this battlefield in 'The History of Foreign Wars,' but I never expected to see it here. This is unimaginable."

Father Frodo, with a calm expression, said, “This war involved the most countries and the most people, and it was also the longest-lasting war, with tens of millions of dead and wounded. In the end, the countries involved in this war could not keep up with the manpower, material resources, and financial resources, and eventually they made peace. And what you see before you is the legacy of that war.”

Upon hearing this, Chao Bufan nodded and then said, "So, we've arrived at an ancient European site, Father. What does this have to do with our treasure hunt?"

Father Frodo shook his head solemnly and said, "I don't know either."

Chao Bufan nodded, then tilted his head back, closed his eyes, and released his divine sense to sense the surrounding situation before saying, "Let's go ahead and take a look."

The four of them flashed and appeared in a desert.

As soon as they appeared, Lin Xiaomin asked, "Bufan, how did we end up back in the desert again?"

Chao Bufan said, "This desert is not that desert."

As they were talking, He Yifei suddenly pointed ahead and said, "Look, there seems to be light over there."

Everyone looked up and saw a striking silver-white palace not far ahead, appearing as if it were embedded in the desert. The palace, situated in the desert, with its exposed silver roof tiles, resembled a silver island.

"Go and take a look. You all stay close to me."

Chao Bufan threw down a sentence and then strode forward.

As they approached, all four were awestruck. It was a magnificent palace-like building. The silver-white glazed tiles shone brightly under the gray sky. The double-eaved roof with its silver-white glazed tiles was exceptionally splendid. The white bronze doors and the platform, along with the fine white jade floor, shone with a warm luster.

Such a massive palace building exudes an ancient atmosphere.

"Where is this place?" Lin Xiaomin asked in surprise.

“This is a statue of a deity that Jesus Christ’s followers built for him when he was sent here by God,” Father Frodo said with a devout expression.

Chao Bufan's expression was extremely solemn. He carefully surveyed his surroundings and finally turned his gaze to the palace in front of him. After a moment, he whispered, "Everyone be careful! It seems like something is about to come out of there."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sky suddenly turned pitch black, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. This omen came too suddenly, like a light in the dark being suddenly blown out.

The darkness was profound, and the desert shrouded in darkness appeared even more mysterious and distant, its secrets unknown. Only the silver-white palace emitted a faint glow, as if desperately breathing in the darkness.

"Why did it suddenly get dark?" Lin Xiaomin asked, puzzled.

It's not that she talks too much, it's just that she hasn't seen much of the world, so she finds it all rather baffling.

Something's definitely fishy when it happens so suddenly!

As darkness fell, Chao Bufan, He Yifei, and Father Frodo frowned and became highly vigilant, while Lin Xiaomin looked puzzled.

This is the gap.

"boom!"

Just as Lin Xiaomin was speaking, a deep rumble suddenly reached everyone's ears. At almost the same moment, the four of them felt the ground beneath their feet tremble, and from the darkness in the distance, countless eerie screams rose and fell.