StarCraft: Everyone wants the Queen

Chapter 298 Door

"……it is good."

The sound of Shen Qingqing gritting her teeth came from between her teeth.

Ultimately, they exchanged the interstellar currency and a simple communicator for the intelligence they each needed.

Gagar fiddled with the quantum computer on his wrist, his eyes gleaming with a thirst for knowledge like a curious child.

Shen Qingqing, sitting on the beetle's back, urged him to tell her everything she knew.

Ghajar was a man of his word, and this time he held nothing back, even telling her how to collect the petals of the Mother Tree of Life and what the Mother Tree of Life feared.

"The Mother Tree of Life produces a red, sticky substance. If you apply that substance to your body, it will mistake you for part of itself and won't attack you. Oh, and you should be careful of the red worms inside the Mother Tree's flower buds. Those worms are extremely ferocious; they will eat people. Once they bite into your flesh, they won't let go, and the Mother Tree's sap has no effect on them..."

He went on and on, his mouth dry from talking, while Shen Qingqing listened intently as he recounted in detail everything that had happened on Anubis.

Suddenly, she seemed to understand something.

No wonder the Zerg prophecy also mentioned the coming of the Red Storm, and there had been Red Rain and Red Bugs in the mining area before, and um, there was also that so-called English-speaking Red God.

Everything seemed to have been foreshadowed, a conspiracy to lure her in, or just an unintentional coincidence?

She dared not think too much, fearing that this was indeed a huge conspiracy.

Just as Shen Qingqing was deep in thought, the jolt beneath her body suddenly stopped.

Following Gagar's gaze, suddenly, a huge pyramid stood tall in the jungle.

The forest was very dense, and the pyramids were not like the pyramids she had heard about on Earth, which stood in the desert, but rather stood in the jungle.

There is no Sphinx here, nor the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs; there is only a magnificent, massive, moss-covered pyramid, steeped in history.

"Here we are."

She used her hands to push herself up and flipped herself down, landing steadily on her feet.

Gagar, standing behind, placed his hand on the beetle's head, as if to comfort it.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we won't go in..."

"Are you comforting it?" Shen Qingqing shifted her gaze from the eerie pyramid to Gagar and the beetle.

"Pretty much. Beetles are terrified of going into the 'tower.' I've taken it in before,"

"Do you come here often?" Shen Qingqing asked casually.

If you come often, it would be best to have Gagar lead the way. Hmm, she still has quite a few trinkets she brought from Wangxing, which should be enough to pay her.

As she considered the potential costs of hiring Gagar as a guide, Shen Qingqing realized that it was no longer a story of adventurers traveling thousands of miles to Anubis in search of treasure, but rather of tourists who had decided to travel alone without joining a tour group.

Haha, it really feels strangely awkward.

Ghajar didn't answer her immediately. Instead, he looked at the moss-covered tower and muttered to himself, "It's dangerous here. I don't usually come here alone."

Come on, Shen Qingqing rolled her eyes inwardly. You don't dare to come on an adventure by yourself, but you dare to bring strangers to visit?

But his face remained expressionless, and even his tone was as nonchalant as ever, "How much? Or rather, what else do you want?"

No one can remain calm in the face of absolute money.

nobody!

In this regard, thanks to Wang Xing's strong financial resources, she didn't haggle much, but directly asked Gagar how much money he wanted.

She can give you whatever you want, and if she can't, she'll just try to fool you.

"It's not about money."

Gagar's voice drifted over, and hearing his slightly unfamiliar accent, Shen Qingqing suddenly remembered that this guy seemed to have never left Anubis since birth, and the money had expired.

“I’m not going. You can go by yourself. Besides, it’s really dangerous inside, and there’s no hidden treasure there. Just walk around the outside a couple of times.”

"Okay, okay, I got it. You go back and play with your friends. I'll just wander around outside for a bit and maybe leave." Shen Qingqing waved her hand dismissively.

Seeing that she didn't take his warning seriously at all, Gagar snorted and decided to ignore this suicidal adventurer and never pay her any more attention.

So he left without looking back, taking his Beetle with him.

"Are they really gone?" Shen Qingqing turned around and looked around, only to find that all that remained was dense, dark green vegetation. Apart from that, she couldn't even find a single hair of Ghajar's.

"Looks like I'll really have to go in alone." As he spoke, he looked up at the ancient tower.

"It looks no different from the pyramids. I just wonder if there are any mummies or murals inside."

Muttering to herself as she approached, Shen Qingqing braced herself with her hands on either side, used her elbows to propel herself into the air, and in a flash, she flipped herself up from the ground and knelt steadily on the first step of the 'tower'.

There are stone steps outside the tower, but it seems that the steps were not built with normal human body size in mind. Each step is exceptionally high, and even though Shen Qingqing is not short, it still takes some effort for her to climb them.

"Huff... Ahhh!... So tired..."

After half an hour, she finally managed to climb over the stairs to the top of the steps directly in front of the tower.

Then, with a thud, he collapsed onto the stone steps, exhausted.

"It's too difficult, really..."

"I only saw the stone steps that weren't very high, but I didn't expect them to add up to be so tall."

"I'm stupid, really."

Shen Xianglin Qingqing's chest heaved violently, and with barely suppressed gasps, she managed to utter these words.

After resting for two or three minutes, Shen Qingqing slowly got up from the ground, rubbing her bottom which was sore from being pressed against the hard stone steps. Finally, she saw the 'tower' gate she had been longing for.

But where is the door here?

Before me stood a thick stone wall, and above it, protruding stones resembling door frames were draped with ivy that looked like the tentacles of a deep-sea octopus swaying without wind.

The shadows cast by the drooping vines and the angled slope create the illusion that there should be a doorway here.

Clearly, the fake door had fooled her.

Even though Gagar knew the door was fake, he didn't say anything to warn them.

"I'm stupid, really."

She parted her lips slightly again, forcibly suppressing the "Holy shit!" that was about to escape her lips, and instead chose to quote a classic work to express her indignation and dissatisfaction.

The mechanical watch on his wrist flashed red, standing out conspicuously in the twilight as night fell.