"Cave" is a very intuitive name, a cave in the earth.
Above the floating land is the blue sky, and below the floating land is the deep sky.
The blue sky hangs high above and can be seen everywhere. The sky is dark below, blocked by the thick and boundless earth, and is basically invisible.
The catacombs are an exception.
No one can tell how the cave appeared, only that it is connected to Youtian. The dangers that all tribes in the entire Floating Continent need to face come from Youtian.
On the contrary, there is a saying in the legend of Fulu - there were many stars above the blue sky. They fell from the blue sky to the deep sky, and in the process, they penetrated the earth, thus forming the underground cave. And above the blue sky, because of the death of stars, there is only one Tianshu star left.
Return to the catacombs. The danger from Youtian is a very concrete existence and is not nihilistic.
There is a slang saying in Fulu, "The ones who fall in the blue sky are star generals, and those who rise in the dark sky are star beasts."
The extended meaning is that people are determined to be good or bad when they are born. But leaving aside the extended meaning, it is an objective description in itself.
Star beasts are the greatest disaster in the floating land world.
People on the floating land believe that star generals are products of the blue sky, and star beasts are the crystallization of the deep sky.
Regardless of whether this statement is right or wrong, it has indeed become a consensus.
Along the way, he gained a preliminary understanding of the caves from Qinghuo Qiming. Jiang Wang also roughly understood why Qinghuo Qiming resisted coming to the caves - his adoptive father, the previous shaman of the Qinghuo Department, died. In the catacombs.
Jiang Wang also specifically inquired about the identities of those "coming from the blue sky" before him. The names may not be known, but the characteristics are easy to judge.
Lei Zhanqian is the chess master of the Red Thunder Department, which is the first in the Lei Department, Li Fengyao is in the Purifying Water Department, which is the first in the Water Department, and Fang Chong is in the Yuan Tu Department, which is the first in the Earth Department.
Jiang Wuxie is in the Fire Department, which ranks first in the Fire Department.
In addition, the chess master of Temubu No. 1 is a very ordinary-looking man. From Qinghuo Qiming's description alone, Jiang Wang could not match it with the monk in his memory.
But Jiang Wang focused on the first four people.
He also specifically asked about the location of the Water Purification Department, intending to contact Li Fengyao first, mainly to see if he could ask for a suitable military formation method to train the Qinghuo tribe, so that Qing, who had disabled the power of the totem, could Fire soldiers can also display extraordinary combat power in the game of life and death. The Shimen Li family's famous generals from generation to generation will certainly not lack military formations. He himself knew nothing about it.
The others had arrived at Fulu for a few days, and they must have been trying their best to improve the combat effectiveness of those tribal warriors in the chess game of life and death. Jiang Wang has only started to select people now, and he is already far behind.
However, Qinghuo Qiming stopped him very seriously.
Due to the constraints of the King's Power Contract, tribes cannot conquer each other during the game of life and death.
But as the chess master of the Qinghuo Tribe, Jiang Wang would definitely be killed to death as soon as possible if he entered the territory of another tribe.
Qinghuo Qiming repeatedly emphasized that this kind of thing will definitely happen.
Jiang Wang was not someone who couldn't listen to advice, so he had no choice but to give up.
The largest cave within the Qinghuo Department's territory is called the Wuzhi Cave. The most elite warriors of the Qinghuo Department are all here.
The location of Wuzhi Cave is about twenty miles away from the Fire Temple.
"The tribe needs strong men to take charge, and the chief cannot escape, so I can only bring you here." Qinghuo Qiming explained with a pale face.
This was nonsense, and nonsense showed the fluctuations in his heart. He needed something to talk about to distract himself.
"It looks very reliable," Jiang Wang said.
In front of you is a fortress made of black boulders, standing there like a silent beast. There is no doubt that it has a considerable degree of defensive capabilities.
"Yes, it's very reliable. But it's not because of this fortress." Qinghuo Qiming said, calmed down and walked forward.
A group of Qinghuo soldiers were guarding outside the fortress. Qinghuo Qiming stepped forward to communicate with them. Two strong soldiers walked to the side, turned the winch, and the thick stone door of the fortress was slowly pulled up.
Yes, the switch for the fort gate is on the outside. It looks more like a prison than a fortress. The soldiers inside don't seem to be protected, but rather "trapped".
Behind the stone gate is a shadowy corridor. Even every few steps in the corridor, there is a brazier. But its end still feels distant and vague.
Qinghuo Qiming swallowed: "Go in."
He stood still, apparently planning to let Jiang Wang take the lead. This is not at all in line with the etiquette of hospitality.
"Have you never been here?" Jiang Wang asked.
"Before... I always waited outside."
"Wuzhu protected you very well in the past." Jiang Wang said, stepping into the deep corridor.
The life span of people on the floating land is similar to that of humans in the current world.
In fact, Jiang Wang is younger than Qinghuo Qiming. But Jiang Wang has experienced too many things.
"Don't close the door yet. We'll be out soon." Before entering, Qinghuo Qiming specifically said to the soldiers guarding the door.
But the gatekeeper just shook his head and didn't show any mercy to Master Wu Zhu.
"Are you still going in?" Jiang Wang asked in the corridor: "How about you leave a token for me and I can go down by myself?"
Qinghuo Qiming glared at the soldier angrily for a long time, but thinking of Qinghuo's blazing temper, he could only grit his teeth and walked into the corridor.
Rumble~
After he walked in, the huge stone door quickly fell down again.
The long corridor is therefore even darker.
Qinghuo Qiming was horrified, but Jiang Wang's figure was still moving away, and even the footsteps were not disturbed at all. It was no longer possible to turn back, so I took a few steps to catch up with him.
"You don't know what's in the cave, that's why you can be so calm." Qinghuo Qiming found the topic and said, "The ignorant have nothing to fear."
"Maybe." Jiang Wang said.
He didn't protest because he knew very well that Qing Huo Qiming's words were just to comfort himself.
And it is true that the ignorant have no fear. If Jiang Wang knew that there were dangers that he could not deal with, then he would not choose to move forward at all.
The footsteps seemed a bit abrupt in the corridor, and the firelight illuminated Qinghuo Qiming's face.
The corridor is long and has an end.
At the end stood a door made of unknown metal, completely black. Only in the middle seam of the door, there is a flame pattern.
Jiang Wang stepped aside and remained silent.
Qinghuo Qiming took a step forward and pressed his hand on the metal door. The flame mark between his eyebrows lit up.
He let go and said in a tired tone: "Just wait for a while. Maybe the battle is not over yet."
"There will be fighting every day inside?" Jiang Wang asked.
"Not necessarily. But there are periods when the star beasts appear sparsely, and there are also periods when they are very dense. Generally, the closer to the start of the game of life and death, the more frequent the star beasts come. After the game of life and death, the density will drop sharply and last for a period of time. , that is the recuperation period for most soldiers."
"What kind of existence is the star beast?"
Qinghuo Qiming opened his mouth, closed it again, and remained silent for a while before saying, "I don't know how to describe it to you. You'll understand when you see it with your own eyes."
By this time, nearly an hour had passed.
Jiang Wang could still wait, but Qinghuo Qiming's face became increasingly ugly.
"I wonder what's going on inside." He began to mutter to himself.
The huge metal door was pulled open in the middle with a loud noise.
A one-armed young man stood just inside the door, tilting his head to celebrate the fire, but said nothing.
Behind him——
Dots of firelight, like a long dragon, entrenched in the long night.
