What appeared in front of him made Chen Tao stunned.
There is a very huge space in front of it. The originally dry river changes its course in front and flows downward into the rock cracks on one side.
What made Chen Tao collapse was that the narrow rock crevice collapsed!
In memory, Qian Shu Hongde walked out from this place, all the way to the river under the God of War Hall.
The dilapidated canoe that came when they came was the tool Qianshu Hongde used to cross the river.
The collapse of the rock crevice is very serious. Even with large-scale excavation equipment, it is estimated that it will take most of a day to dig, not to mention that Chen Tao and the others are unarmed now.
If we rely on manpower, people will be lying here before the river can be dug.
"What should I do?" Haozi looked at Chen Tao in confusion.
Chen Tao was also a little confused, but he quickly calmed down, looked at the footprints on the ground and said, "They went ahead. There seems to be a road here."
This place has a large space, and the river passes through it, but there is more than one crack.
Sure enough, not long after walking in this direction, a larger crack in the mountain appeared in front again, which looked like a large cave.
There are countless black vines extending out from the crack, one by one piercing into the rock crevices. It seems that those black vines have completely withered.
This crack made Chen Tao feel familiar. When he thought about it, his eyes widened.
Everything in front of me gradually overlapped with a certain picture in my mind.
This crack actually appeared in the mural!
Could it be...
"Taozi, what are you doing?"
Chen Tao suddenly quickened his pace and walked quickly towards the crack.
He wanted to verify the answer in his heart.
The flashlight swept across the uneven stone wall, and some rough carvings could be faintly seen.
There are two small stone caves one punch deep on the left and right sides of the stone crevice. They are not covered by black vines and are empty inside. I don’t know what they were used for in the past.
Chen Tao took a look into the crack. It was dark inside and the space seemed very large.
Chen Tao threw a stone in, and the echo echoed for a long time.
I don't know why, but since seeing this crack, Chen Tao has had an extremely strange feeling in his heart.
This depth and darkness made him feel familiar, but not sure, as if he had been here before.
Uncontrollably recalling some strange things in my mind, not specific things, but some small scenes.
It's like when you glance at an oil painting, only one little flower remains in your mind, and the rest only leaves a vague impression.
You don't even remember anything except that little flower.
Chen Tao rubbed his forehead, and Haozi and the others behind him had already followed.
"No, don't go in! You can't go in, you can't go in!"
Just when Chen Tao was about to step in, Balohard suddenly shouted.
His expression was very frightened, his eyes were wide open, his hair was messy, and he still looked a little crazy.
The three of them were surprised by Balohard's change. Liang Shaokai pushed Chen Tao's arm.
"Isn't this girl crazy?"
Balohard's reaction made Chen Tao feel a little strange, but at this point, they had no other choice.
The only way to get out is through this crack.
"No, no! I won't go! You can't pass, you can't pass!" Balohard screamed again, struggling to run back, but was held down by three people.
"I can't hold him anymore, Liang Shaokai, tie him up quickly!" Balohad's strength was so great that Chen Tao and the other three couldn't completely control him even though they tried their best.
"Okay!"
Liang Shaokai responded, pulled out a bright gold rope from his cuff, and tied up Balohard in three strokes.
"Ah! You can't go in, someone will die! I don't want it, I don't want it!"
Balohad struggled, spit and snot spraying all over his face.
"Pick him up. At this point, we have no choice." Chen Tao asked Haozi and Liang Shaokai to help pull Balohard up from the ground. The three of them surrounded him and walked towards the crack step by step. Went in.
Woo...
As soon as their feet stepped into the crack, a dark wind suddenly blew out from the depths, making everyone feel cold and their bodies trembling uncontrollably.
Even Balohad, who had been struggling, calmed down and no longer dared to move. He just trembled all over and muttered words that Chen Tao and the others could not understand.
Chen Tao used an engineering shovel to push aside a few black vines hanging in front of the stone cracks. Perhaps because they were dead, he heard a click and the black vines broke.
Looking down, I saw there were several broken black vines on the ground, some of which had been stepped into the sand.
"They did go in..."
Chen Tao didn't stop. He held the flashlight tightly with one hand and the engineer shovel with the other hand. He held it in front of him in a defensive posture and entered the crack first.
Perhaps there has been geological movement, the cracks seem to have expanded, and there are still some gravels on both sides and on the ground.
Walking in this kind of crack gives people an indescribable feeling of oppression, as if the stone walls on both sides will close up again and crush you at any time.
Not long after walking forward, some rough and weird carvings began to appear on the stone walls on both sides. They looked like some kind of symbols or some kind of strange writing.
Chen Tao took out the mobile phone in his pocket. The screen was already shattered into pieces, but he managed to take a few photos.
These things may be of some use.
After walking forward for a while, the space suddenly opened up.
They seemed to have entered another world, and the front became extremely wide. What was even stranger was that there were some broken and collapsed artificial buildings here.
Those buildings had been here for who knows how many years. They had collapsed beyond recognition, leaving only some large boulders. If it weren't for the carvings on them, Chen Tao would have thought that these boulders collapsed and fell down through cracks.
What Chen Tao couldn't believe was that in the center of this space, there was actually an extremely huge black hole!
The black hole was as big as a basketball court and was bottomless. The end could not be seen under the light of the Wolf Fang flashlight.
An indescribably thick giant vine rushed straight from the black hole to the top of the stone. The extremely thick vine branches pierced the rock formation and spread out in a spiral shape, like a blooming flower of hell.
Compared with that giant vine, Chen Tao and the others are not even as small as a sesame seed.
"Is it possible that the devil willows in the Forest of the Dead grew out of here?"
The footprints on the ground disappeared at this point. It seemed that Yan and the others should have walked from here as well.
In a place like this, Chen Tao's eyesight was better than theirs. He looked around carefully. The stone walls were covered with thick black vines.
Bang bang bang!
Chen Tao used the shovel to chop one of them several times. The shovel surface was shaken and buzzed, and the sound reverberated and amplified in the surroundings, as if a big drum was set up in his ears.
"It's empty inside, but it's quite strong. You should be able to crawl through it."
"Then what should he do?" Liang Shaokai pointed at the tied up Balohard.
"Forehead......"
Chen Tao rubbed his temples and held Balohard's shoulders with both hands.
"Lord Barlow, I know you can understand me. We don't know where this place is and what dangers we will encounter, but we have no choice. If we want to get out, we can only take a risk."
"You are the leader of the guard army and the backbone of the brothers. Brother Suoke has left. You must get out alive. The brothers outside are still waiting for you!"
Chen Tao's words were very serious. The only guard left was Balohad. If he made any mistakes again, the guards would disperse.
"For...Tatunaan!" Balohad murmured, his cloudy eyes slowly became clear, and there was a hint of determination in his eyes.
Seeing his change, Chen Tao took a deep breath and signaled Liang Shaokai to untie the rope from Balohard's body.
Kaka...chacha
Several people climbed up a black vine that was as thick as a person's waist. Following the growth of the vine, they climbed bit by bit towards the main trunk in the center of the black hole.
The feet clicked on the cracked vine bark.
This is the main part of the Devil's Map and the Ghost Willow. The vines underneath are very thick, and the thickest diameter is even close to three meters. Chen Tao and the others are not worried that they will suddenly fall.
"What the hell does this smell like? It smells so bad!" Liang Shaokai couldn't help complaining not long after climbing up the vine.
When he was in the Cannibal Valley, the stench that hit his head was still fresh in Chen Tao's memory. Even a rotting corpse that had been exposed to the sun for a week in the dog days smelled much better than that smell.
"Um?"
After climbing for a while, Chen Tao's attention was suddenly attracted by a few hairs mixed in the vine bark.
The hairs are dark gray and look like human hair.
Chen Tao pulled out a few hairs from the cracks. He always felt that these hairs made him feel a little uncomfortable.
Are there any living things living here?
"Don't look down there, you'll be lost."
Barrohard, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
"Old man, are you okay?" Liang Shaokai's voice came over.
This sentence of "old man" interrupted Chen Tao's thoughts. Liang Shaokai also had no choice but to call Balohad "old man". Chen Tao wanted to laugh when he heard this, but he didn't.
"Commander Barlow, where is this place?" Seeing that he was more awake, Chen Tao asked the question that everyone was most concerned about.
"I haven't been here either. This is Tatunaan's forbidden area. Legend has it that the huge hole is connected to hell. As long as a person looks at it, his soul will be sucked in."
Chen Tao naturally does not believe in the so-called hell, but this place in Tatunaan is really weird. What happened is so unbelievable that it cannot be explained by common sense. At least it is impossible to understand it with the current level of human development. of.
But there is always something wrong with people. The more things you are not allowed to do, the more you can't help but want to try them.
Climbing on the vines, your eyes can see deeper into the black hole.
Chen Tao couldn't help but take a look and saw that it was pitch black underneath, as if it was connected to the deepest part of the earth.
All that can be seen clearly is the thick and scary black trunk, which extends to the bottom of the black hole. It is impossible to imagine where this thing grew from.
Chen Tao stopped, his attention seemed to be completely attracted by the darkness below. He tried hard to open his eyes wide, trying to see clearly what was in the depths of the darkness.
Somehow, the flashlight light shone in the darkness and gradually turned into blurry shadows, like countless black clouds rolling.
Chen Tao's eyes turned red uncontrollably, his pupils shrank sharply, and the expression on his face gradually solidified...
