Everyone looked surprised when they looked at the childish little girl in front of them.
Everyone seemed unable to believe that there were normal people in this dilapidated city... Only Chen Boxu frowned slightly.
The old man looked at the little girl doubtfully, then at Chen Jing, hesitantly smoking a cigarette without saying anything.
"We did come in through the River Styx."
"That's the River Styx made by the ancient gods! How did you break in?!" The little girl raised her hands and gestured with excitement, "I have tried for so many years and still can't run out! You can take me out! !"
"How many years have you been trying?" Chen Jing noticed this key sentence, and his expression couldn't help but become confused, "How many years have you been here?"
"A long, long time!"
The little girl scratched her head, as if trying to remember something.
"Judging from the big hourglass in Xiacheng District...it's probably several thousand years old, right?"
"For thousands of years?!"
If there are still residents in this decaying underground city who have been cautiously reproducing thousands of years ago, then Chen Jing probably wouldn't be so surprised, but the problem is... ethnic reproduction and individual survival are completely different things.
Although there are many long-lived creatures in this world, such as Jegertos and others, this little guy does not look like a person who has lived for thousands of years, with his immature face and ignorance. His expression is also difficult to associate with an immortal species.
"What's your name?" Chen Bofu asked coldly.
"Mona." The girl replied, as if she wasn't too wary of everyone. Her eyes were rolling, looking at everyone present curiously.
"You asked us to go to the altar just now, saying those monsters didn't dare to chase after us..."
Chen Bofu casually put out the cigarette butt and walked to Mona with a rare kind expression.
"Where is that altar? Can you take us to see it?"
"Okay!" Mona nodded without hesitation, then turned around and jumped up and ran to the front to lead the way, "Hurry up and follow!"
…
Follow Mona through these decaying, lifeless streets.
No one saw any more creatures along the way.
It seemed that they had killed all the remaining humanoid beasts in the city.
The streets were eerily quiet.
Except for the strange squirming sounds of the city that can be heard from time to time, the only thing left is the tinkling sound of the little girl Mona.
A cast-iron ornament hung around Mona's neck. A thin black chain circled around her neck covered with scarlet tattoos. The pendant was hidden on the chest of the dusty robe. It would emit sounds as she ran. A tinkling sound.
soon.
Under the leadership of Mona, everyone arrived at the edge of the city.
"It seems that our estimate is correct." Chen Boxu put his hands behind his back and turned around to look around, "Most of the underground city has been destroyed, and only the area of the city we just walked through is still barely intact. "
"Did the Ancient God destroy it?" Wei Nan asked cautiously.
"It may not have been destroyed by the ancient gods."
Chen Jing raised his eyes and glanced at the "city buildings" that were crawling like mountains of scarlet flesh, and his mind was filled with "his" voice.
"Although I don't know much about the Western Continent, I don't feel like this place was destroyed by Xi."
"you sure?"
"Oh, every old creature has different methods. Just like you, if you were to destroy this city, no matter what method you use, you will leave your traces, but there is nothing here...the feeling that this ruin gives me It has nothing to do with Xi.”
As he said this, "he" couldn't help but marvel at the old man's sharp eyesight.
"Didn't the old man say before that he feels that the changes here come from another ancient source? I guess he can also tell that it is definitely not Xi's fault that this place has been polluted into such a dead state."
Right now.
Mona has led everyone to a huge pit.
The opening of the cave is roughly circular.
The edges look jagged and irregular.
The stone walls inside the cave, including the ground around the entrance, showed a black color, and the surface seemed to be covered with a layer of glass-like material, instead of turning into a piece of flesh and blood like an alienated city.
Standing at the entrance of the cave and looking down, everyone found that the internal space was in the shape of a funnel.
The bottom area is the smallest, only about fifty meters in diameter at most, while the diameter of the part near the cave entrance is up to five hundred meters.
Chen Bofu squatted at the entrance of the cave, raising his hand and stroking the cold surface.
"It seems like something gushes up from below...magma or flames..." Chen Bofu said softly. His skinny palms seemed to be able to feel the energy of thousands of years ago through this black and hard rock. High temperature, "The original seance ceremony may be more complicated than we imagined..."
"Is this the place where the ancient gods were summoned?" Yan Que also came up curiously.
"It should be." Chen Jing helped the old man answer. Although he had not seen the so-called divine ritual, in this vertically downward cave, almost all Chen Jing could smell was Xi's breath!
"This is where the ancient god came from."
Hearing this, Chen Jing couldn't help but look at the little girl Mona beside him, and saw that she was already sitting leisurely on the edge of the cave, dangling her feet freely, without the slightest fear that she would accidentally fall from the entrance of the cave nearly a thousand meters high. Go down.
"Mona, when the divine trance ritual in Paradise City was launched, were you at the scene?"
"over there."
Mona raised her hand and pointed at the area of the city where everyone came from. There was no trace of fear on her face. She seemed to have no fear for the ancient god who destroyed everything, only a kind of heartfelt gratitude.
"The Old God destroyed this city and killed those who had been oppressing us... Mona is grateful to Him!"
"Is it also responsible for the changes in this city?" Chen Jing asked calmly.
"no."
Mona sighed and lowered her head to look at the cave swallowed by darkness.
"It's other things... they ran out of the altar after the ancient gods came..."
After saying that, Mona raised her head and glanced at everyone.
"Want to go down and take a look?"
"Where to get off from?" Wei Nan squatted aside and said with a frown, "There's no ladder or anything here..."
Mona said nothing.
He jumped directly from the hole.
Wei Nan was stunned when he saw it.
"Damn it, is this little girl so brave?" Wei Nan said loudly, then did a few warm-up exercises, turned over and jumped down with Mona, still mumbling and complaining, "At least this It must be over a thousand meters, that little girl is really not afraid of being thrown to death..."
Afterwards, Qiao Youning and Yan Que also jumped down.
When Chen Boxu was about to jump off, Chen Jing gently grabbed his arm.
"grandfather."
"What?"
"Why do I feel that you look at Mona strangely?"
Chen Jing was a little confused.
Thinking of the way the old man looked at the little girl before, I felt something was wrong no matter how much I thought about it.
If it was just vigilance or caution, Chen Jing could understand it, but the old man's eyes clearly saw something strange...
Surprised, puzzled.
These can all be found in the eyes of the elderly.
"It's not a big deal. I'll tell you when I get down."
Chen Bofu smiled, grabbed Chen Jing and jumped down from the cave entrance.
"I just didn't expect to see this kind of creature in my lifetime..."
(End of chapter)
