I was just surprised for a moment by the short size of the house in front of me, but my steps did not slow down because of this.
I arrived at the corner of the house at a very fast speed, but when I looked around, it was completely empty. Xiao Liuzi was nowhere to be seen, and there was not even a single footprint left on the ground.
"Liu Zi, Xiao Liu Zi!"
I tried shouting twice, but just like when Xiao Liuzi called his dad before, I didn't get the response I deserved.
In this underground fortress, at the bottom of the cliff a hundred meters below, there was such a shrunken and silent town.
This was already very weird, but now Xiao Liuzi disappeared in the blink of an eye, which made me feel that the town in front of me was even more weird.
I didn't want anything bad to happen to Xiao Liuzi, so I called while walking on the street.
Suddenly my steps stopped abruptly, because I suddenly had a strange feeling of being stared at.
"who?!"
I shouted loudly and turned my head suddenly, but I saw nothing. Except for the low and silent houses, I couldn't see any living figures.
For a moment, I thought it was the monsters above who were following me, or maybe Brother Leopard.
But when I looked back, I rejected this idea directly.
Because none of them, including the crazy Leopard Brother, could avoid hiding their brains. If they were really following me, I would have already locked onto them at a glance.
Since it can't be the monsters above, what kind of weird existence could it be?
Could it be Xiao Liuzi? Is he playing hide and seek with me?
Although he is a child of twelve or thirteen years old, he will never be stupid enough to play such a low-level and childish game regardless of the time and the occasion.
So, could it be the fleeting figure I just saw?
maybe.
I stood there for a long time, and after making sure nothing strange happened, I turned around again and walked deeper into the town.
As I walked, I seemed to see a silvery white light reflecting into my eyes from the corner of my eye.
The light was strong, as bright as the light from my headlamp.
When I felt the light, I couldn't help but feel happy, thinking that I must have met another living person, maybe Liu Baye.
Even if it wasn't Liu Baye, it would be Erbao and the driver Wang Ge, or maybe Xiaoliuzi's father.
Immediately, I turned my head with joy and looked in the direction of the white light.
As I turned my head to look, the dazzling white light became even more intense, and it stung me so much that I couldn't open my eyes.
I subconsciously took two quick steps in that direction, until after passing through the low wall of a house, I finally saw clearly the source of the silvery white light.
The silvery white light did not come from the lighting in other people's hands, but from a small river.
It was a small river about one meter wide. It hugged the small town and stretched out at both ends with no end in sight.
These are not the important points. The important thing is that the liquid in this river is not water, but silvery mercury.
This is actually a mercury galaxy!
Everyone knows that mercury is poisonous, but in the ancient times, mercury had an antiseptic effect.
What's more, in the underground palace after death, mercury is used as rivers and gold and copper are mountains, to represent his great achievements and fertile land during his lifetime. The First Emperor is one of them.
Of course, there are mostly legends about the mercury-filled rivers and lakes in the First Emperor's Mausoleum, which cannot be fully believed.
The mercury in front of me is as quiet as a mirror, without any ripples or waves, so I can't tell whether the river is flowing, and I don't know its depth at all.
When I saw the low town, I might have thought that some people were forced to build such a residence underground in order to escape the war at that time.
But the moment I saw the Mercury Galaxy, I had to admit that the town was not for living people to live in, but an out-and-out underworld city.
Could it be that a certain lord of a city is buried here. He was the lord of the city during his life and became the lord after his death. This mercury river is the moat of this city.
At that moment, I fell into deep thinking. If this was really a tomb, then maybe Liu Baye and the others should have come here for this.
If that's the case, Liu Baye and the others should be nearby, but why didn't I see half a living person, or even hear the slightest sound.
I just feel like there is no other living person besides me in this weird town.
It was so weird and so quiet, which made me want to find Xiao Liuzi as soon as possible, hoping that he was still alive and had not encountered any accidents.
This underground town is huge, with endless sights in all directions. I just thought it might be a small town, and maybe I underestimated its size.
On the other side of the Mercury River, rows of low houses criss-crossed the emergency room, stretching into the boundless darkness as if there was no end.
I had no intention of crossing the mercury river in front of me, because the direction where Xiao Liuzi disappeared was not on this side.
Although I was shocked by what I saw in front of me, I had no time to take in its grand scale. I needed to find the missing Xiao Liuzi as soon as possible.
"Liu Zi, Xiao Liu Zi!"
I started shouting again.
I shouted and turned around to leave the Mercury River, but at this moment, I actually saw a figure deep among the houses on the other side of the Mercury Galaxy.
The figure was so far away from me that the headlights couldn't illuminate the person's face clearly.
But even so, I recognized the saber connected to the chain in his hand at a glance.
That was Xiao Liuzi. I didn't know why he suddenly appeared in the opposite direction. It really made me feel surprised.
He suddenly raised a hand and waved at me twice, and then disappeared from my sight again.
After searching for so long, I finally found the trace of Xiao Liuzi. I didn't care about the direction. I immediately crossed the Mercury River in one step and walked quickly in the direction where Xiao Liuzi disappeared.
This time, I may have been lucky. When I felt where Xiao Liuzi disappeared, I discovered his figure again, and saw him sneaking into a low house.
Even though I saw someone, I didn't rush to shout, because in my opinion, shouting was in vain, and it would be better to take action quickly.
When I arrived at the door of the low house, I hesitated for a moment, and then I quickly walked in.
The house was very short, and the door was even shorter. I almost had to bend down completely to enter the house.
After entering, he could only move forward with his body curled up and half squatting in a strange posture.
My headlight was obviously adjusted, so I should have a clear view of the pitifully small house in front of me.
But what puzzles me is that when I am in the house, the light from the headlight cannot cover the entire house at all.
It feels like there is an unknown presence in this house that can swallow the light.
I saw Xiao Liuzi. He was hiding in a corner of the house, curled up and half squatting in a strange posture like me.
Although the distance between him and me was only three or four meters, it was still blurry and I couldn't see his appearance clearly.
"Small……!"
I was about to shout, but suddenly I felt something was wrong.
It is said that Xiaoliuzi is just a child of twelve or thirteen years old, and his height is only about 1.3 meters tall. The height of this house is enough for him to stand with his head held high.
My intuition tells me that the person hiding in the corner is not Xiao Liuzi at all!
"You are not Xiao Liuzi, who are you?!"
As soon as I finished speaking, the huddled man in the corner suddenly moved and made a noise from his mouth. Apparently he wanted to talk to me.
But just when that person opened his mouth and was about to talk to me, a cold light flashed through my peripheral vision.
"careful!"
The person in the corner suddenly shouted at me.
