Tan Yue said softly: "Why don't we go down and take a look."
Qin Heng nodded in agreement.
He let Tan Yue sit on him, and the whole dragon got stuck on the rock wall of the vertical cave, slowly rubbing down.
"Huh?"
The light coming from the hole flickered on something. Tan Yue curiously stretched out his hand and touched an iron shelf.
"Qin Heng, there are signs that someone has been here."
The cave was very deep and long. The two of them moved down no matter how many meters. An hour later, Qin Heng finally landed on the ground. Even though he has the body of a sub-adult dragon, it is a bit too much for him to exercise with such high concentration for such a long time.
Tan Yue took out a flashlight from the system space and turned it on. The iron shelf that I touched earlier was revealed in its entirety when the light illuminated it - it was a long ladder. When the flashlight was shined upward, the ladder stretched upward infinitely, with no end in sight.
If someone wanted to go down the ladder, it would probably take a lot of effort.
"Is it really possible for a wolf cub to be in a place like this?" Tan Yue hesitated.
Qin Heng stood aside and looked at her without commenting. Whatever Tan Yue wanted to do, he would be by his side to protect her.
"This place looks like it was built by people. Why don't we go in and have a look." She made a decision. As the saying goes, "I've come here because I've come here." If I don't explore it before leaving, I always feel like it's a bit of a loss.
So the two of them walked along the winding cave for a long time. Since there were many forked roads in the cave, Tan Yue took out a pen and paper and drew a map as he walked. Her perception of distance may not be accurate, but her rigorous and meticulous personality prevents this map from making errors in the general direction.
At this time, there was bright light coming in from the front. The light was blue and looked strange and abrupt in the dim cave.
She was already tired from walking around for a long time. Now that she saw the light, Tan Yue quickened her pace. Qin Heng followed him vigilantly to avoid any unexpected danger.
The light is in the cave ahead.
It was a huge crystal growing on a twisted and huge tree. This cave is very tall. The vertical height of the cave is about 100 meters. When converted into the number of floors of a building before the end of the world, it is about 33 stories high. The trees grew meanderingly inside, their roots deeply rooted in the ground, and their crowns reaching the top of the cave, growing upright.
The glowing blue crystal was embedded in the middle of the huge main trunk of the tree.
When Tan Yue saw this crystal, he was so shocked that he forgot to breathe for a moment.
She walked towards the crystal uncontrollably, and halfway there she noticed resistance coming from the corner of her clothes. Qin Heng bit her clothes and shook his head at her.
Tan Yue patted his head comfortingly and walked forward firmly.
As she got closer, she could feel the wonderful fluctuations coming from the crystal, which reminded her of the order that made up everything in the world, the universe, the stars and the sea, and the origin of everything.
This crystal is definitely not simple.
She reached out and touched it like a man possessed. The moment her hand touched the crystal, the shadow of a woman with silver curly hair transformed into it. Tan Yue held her breath again. She felt the divine quality from this portrait.
This woman might be the ancestor of Ghost Island, the ancestor who gave the islanders bloodline strength generation after generation.
The vision of the woman smiled slightly in the crystal, and then disappeared.
[What is your confusion? 】
The woman's voice sounded softly in her mind.
A scale is reflected in the crystal. It looks like it is made of brass, but its workmanship is extraordinary, like a delicate handicraft, and it also has a divine quality on it.
Tan Yue blurted out involuntarily: "I was thinking, which is more important, the lives of the hundreds of thousands of survivors in S city, the lives of the wolf cubs, or mine."
Different images appeared on both ends of the scale. On the left is a magnificent city overlooking the thumbnail, and on the right are two handfuls of light, representing the wolf cub and Tan Yue's soul.
Tan Yue held her breath.
The ancestors of Ghost Island, can you give her a real answer?
The balance undoubtedly tilted to the left.
"..."
Although this result was not unexpected, it did not satisfy Tan Yue and only made her silent.
Tan Yue stood for a moment and said to Qin Heng, "Let's go."
Suddenly, just as he was about to turn around, Tan Yue saw a piece of clothes flying past from the corner of his eye.
"Wolf cub!" She blurted out, turning the flashlight to the brightest and shining it in the direction where the corner of her clothes disappeared.
The wolf cub's clothes were even more tattered. When he saw that he was discovered, he fled to other forks in a panic.
"Chase!"
"Roar!"
Qin Heng carried Tan Yue and flew out like an arrow leaving the string, and staged a drama of you chasing and me escaping in the narrow and winding entrance. The wolf cub was already exhausted, and now it was even more difficult to escape the joint pursuit of Tan Yue and Qin Heng.
"Let me go!" He struggled violently.
"Roar!" Qin Heng spit out a mouthful of fire into the air, scorching the wolf cub's hair, and then the child stopped.
"You bad guys! Despicable! Shameless! Greedy! You won't even spare me a child!" The wolf cub's eyes were red, he stared at Tan Yue with hatred, and growled.
Tan Yue couldn't help shouting back: "We never thought of sacrificing you! It was you who kept running away!"
"woo woo woo woo!"
At this time, the little wolf's voice sounded. Only then did Tan Yue notice that the wolf cub was holding a little wolf in his arms. Even though he was too busy taking care of himself, he never thought of abandoning his companion - the child of the wolf mother.
The wolf cub lowered his head and kept comforting the frightened cub. He obviously didn't believe a word of what Tan Yue said.
"If you weren't here to catch me, why are you chasing me?" he asked.
Tan Yue explained earnestly: "There will be a cold wave soon. If you don't come with us, you will freeze to death. I will pick you up and stay with us."
The wolf cub shuddered, raised his head, and met Tan Yue's "look at it" eyes.
"Then you... won't arrest me and release the restraint?"
Tan Yue laughed: "I won't catch him."
The wolf cub's eyes widened: "Then how do you get out?"
"I have my own way. Now, what we have to do is to welcome the cold wave. Let's go, and I will take you back to our cruise ship. There is heating equipment inside, so it is very warm."
The wolf cub was still a child after all, so he couldn't resist the temptation and agreed to go with them after a few words of coaxing.
However, a biting chill hit him at this moment.
Tan Yue frowned: "System, didn't it say that the cold wave won't come until the morning?"
[Host, it’s already morning. 】
"How can it be?"
[The host spent 4 hours communicating with the ancestors of Ghost Island. 】
A chill rose from the soles of her feet. It turned out that she had been in that mysterious state for a full four hours. In her feeling, the time had only passed for a while.
She raised her head suddenly: "Qin Heng, we have to go up quickly. Without my cards, Director Liang and the others will freeze."
