Chapter 40: The Strange Stone Statue

Shirley did not care about Pan Liang since he was able to follow behind her.

After walking for a while, she saw a light in front of her. She thought that she had run across other people, so she carefully approached them.

When she got closer, she realized that it was a room.

After entering the room, she found a lot of scrolls inside. She put away all of them despite not knowing their purpose.

She did not have a storage device, so she gave them to Pan Liang. Pan Liang subconsciously took over the scrolls and stuffed them into the system space.

At this point, Pan Liang seemed to have turned on the follow mode, following Shirley all the time.

Shirley wanted to see what Pan Liang could do now.. She reached out to his face and said, “Give me the money.”

Pan Liang raised his hand slightly and then put it down again. Shirley felt as if someone was staring at her, so she looked up abruptly.

She saw Pan Liang staring at her with wide eyes. She then withdrew her hand awkwardly.

The next moment, she noticed that his eyes closed again.

“You b*stard, you’re really infuriating. I didn’t expect you to be sleeping when you came in with me. What’s the use of having you as a familiar?”

Shirley complained for a long while before she continued to collect the items in the room.

Finally, she spotted a piece of parchment on the desk with a half-drawn pattern on it.

She took a good look at the parchment, which seemed like a map. However, the map was so detailed that she could not believe that it was a map.

There were some labels and a picture of a key on the map. Not knowing what those meant, Shirley handed the map to Pan Liang without bothering about it.

Finally, she looked at the lamp on the desk. “This lamp has been on for so long. It must be a treasure. I shall take it away.”

After that, the light in the room disappeared.

Third Brother Wolf followed her into the room. He glanced around but found nothing.

“Is there nothing in the room? I guess so. Otherwise, the room wouldn’t be so clean. Let’s hurry up and chase after her. There seems to be a fork in the road ahead. If we don’t hurry up, we’ll lose her.”

After some distance, Shirley took a turn and met someone else.

However, once she turned around, the road behind her disappeared.

Pan Liang disappeared at the same time.

There was only a wall behind her. She took two steps back in fear. After that, she tried to touch the wall to see what was going on.

Pan Liang came out of the wall. Shirley pushed him away and touched the wall.

“How can this be? The wall is real. Can we go back?”

While Shirley was panicking, Pan Liang felt something strange here. He opened his eyes.

He saw a huge space that was about the size of a football field.

Many explorers were happily collecting the things on the ground. The golden light was so bright that it almost blinded their eyes.

However, Pan Liang felt that something was wrong with these things.

When Shirley walked over, her eyes instantly lit up. She wanted to run over to collect the gold and silver treasures on the ground, but Pan Liang stopped her.

“Don’t go over. Something isn’t right there. Look carefully at the things on the ground.”

Shirley observed the things on the ground. Although they looked like gold, they were very similar to other things on the ground.

They were actually rocks even though they were gold in color.

If Pan Liang had not stopped Shirley, she would have immediately fallen into an environment like these people as soon as she touched the golden rocks.

Although they were not in the environment now, they could not get out either. The entrance just now had become a wall. Despite having touched the wall for a long time, Shirley still did not manage to go back.

“What should we do now?”

She remained rational. Pan Liang had thought that a money-grubber like her would risk everything to snatch the gold on the ground.

“Anyway, we’re not in a hurry now. Let’s see what’s going on with these things first. Don’t touch them. I just find these things creepy, especially the huge stone statue in the middle.”

Shirley was a little confused. “Stone statue? What stone statue? Why can’t I see it?”

With that, Pan Liang was even more certain that there was something fishy going on here. There was a five-meter-tall stone statue in the middle of the space, but Shirley said that she could not see it.

Pan Liang reached out and pulled her. “From now on, stay by my side and don’t touch anything here.”

Only when he saw many familiars screaming anxiously did he make sense of the situation.

The environment inside could only confuse people from this world. None of the humans or animals from other worlds would be confused by the environment here.

Apparently, these familiars had discovered the stone statue in this space. Quite a number of animals were roaring at the stone statue in the middle.

At this moment, Pan Liang actually hated the fact that he was a human. If he were also an animal, he would probably be able to sense that something was wrong with this stone statue.

“Oh, right. I have a little poodle. I wonder if its perception is the same as a human’s. I should summon it over.”

Initially, Pan Liang controlled the little poodle to look for the mysterious woman. When he could not find her, he asked the poodle to follow him. It should be outside the tunnel now.

Soon, the poodle arrived here. Pan Liang’s consciousness shifted to the poodle. Then, he saw the stone statue emitting a strange red aura, which was connected to the people who were picking up gold.

The statue seemed to be extracting something from those people.

Through the little poodle’s eyes, Pan Liang saw that those people had become very weak. Their eyes were deeply sunken as if they were going to become mummies.

When his consciousness returned to his original body, all these phenomena disappeared again.

“It seems that I’ve also fallen into the environment. I don’t know which one is real.”

“Shirley, look at these people. What do they look like?”

At this moment, Shirley had already fallen into a state of bewilderment. A red aura was constantly approaching her, but it was blocked by a white light.

This white light came from the standard magic staff. According to the system, the standard magic staff had many functions, but none of them were very effective. Breaking evil was one of its abilities.

Pan Liang decided to make the little poodle attack first.