"What a weird material. Even if it's just this small piece, it still makes people feel delirious." Mr. Li said with some palpitations: "What the hell did Huo Yuanshan bring us to?"
"I don't know where Huo Yuanshan wants to go. If my guess is correct, this crack is the only way to get to that place."
Grandpa did not stop his movements and was still destroying the body of the stone statue.
"This thing is not an ordinary stone that can trap people's minds. Someone hid it here, knowing that if someone hits that place, they will definitely pass by here. I have been doubting it before, but now it seems that this The reach of stuff is much wider than I thought.”
Click...click!
It wasn't until the stone statue was smashed to pieces that the vague influence dissipated.
Returning to the place just now, what he saw in front of him still made Mr. Li's heart skip a beat.
The corpses of the previous Nazis were riddled with bullet holes and were almost beaten to pieces. Even the surrounding stone walls were devastated.
Several of Huo Yuanshan and Hong Laojiu's men were lying in a pool of blood, and they had been beaten into sieves.
Mr. Li couldn't imagine how they were going around in circles in the previous period.
The people on the ground got up in a daze, completely unaware of what happened to them.
Afterwards, Mr. Li also doubted whether everything he experienced at that time was true or false. The whole process is so weird and unpredictable. At that time, they passed by the crack more than once, but almost subconsciously avoided the entrance of the cave, never wanting to enter.
Mr. Li said that this may be an instinct.
When faced with unknown dangers, people's subconscious minds will most likely stay away.
Deeply trapped in it, their thoughts are no longer under their control, and the only thing left is the biological instinct of survival.
Come to think of it, the death of those Nazi German soldiers had a lot to do with this stone statue. Fortunately, grandpa discovered it in time, which saved everyone from disaster.
It seems that the stone statue has an inescapable magic power. Once people enter this snowy area, they will be affected by it. They can only move forward desperately, and eventually they will be trapped here alive.
Even if he returns to the crack, it will be of no avail. The closer he gets to the stone statue, the more disturbed he will be, and he will be trapped in it and cannot extricate himself.
Perhaps the German also discovered the strangeness of the crack, but was unable to get rid of the interference of the stone statue, and finally died in endless pain.
For Mr. Li, his grandfather has too many secrets that he cannot understand. Being able to stay awake in that kind of pain is definitely not something ordinary people can do.
"This place is really evil. Leave quickly to avoid causing more trouble!"
After experiencing the danger in the crevices of the rocks, no one wanted to stay for one more second.
When the crack came out, it was already bright outside, the storm had stopped long ago, and the scene outside had become different.
Mr. Li stared intently at the outline of a mountain not far away.
He had seen that mountain before, on the last page of the German's notebook.
Although Mr. Li couldn't read German, starting from that page, the handwriting on the back began to become messy and scrawled. The original owner of the notebook must have encountered something that made him so excited and uneasy.
Sure enough, Huo Yuanshan's next route verified Mr. Li's conjecture.
Without the interference of the stone statue, it only took them half a day to reach the top of the mountain.
A huge ice pit appeared in front of everyone without warning.
The pit is circular in shape, with a diameter of eight or nine meters, and the arc is so perfect that it is incredible that it is impossible to believe that this thing is naturally formed.
The bottom of the pit slopes downward, and it is bottomless. The further you look down, the deeper it becomes. It is so deep that people can't help but be afraid.
Chen Ze threw a piece of gravel underneath.
The gravel slid down quickly and soon disappeared. There was no sound of falling to the ground for a long time.
"This pit is at least a thousand meters deep, and it's already underground."
After a short rest, Huo Yuanshan directed the remaining people to drill nails at the entrance of the cave and install ropes in preparation for climbing down.
This is the final destination of his trip.
So many people died and everything was just beginning.
Mr. Li looked at the bottomless pit. This was not the first time he had seen such a place.
Before meeting Zhou Yaoting, Mr. Li was a carpenter mixed in with the crowd.
But no one would have thought that this young carpenter would be the descendant of a well-known machine builder in the industry.
The world only knows that they are inherited from the craftsman god Luban, but no one knows what they have been looking for for thousands of years.
The last time I saw this thing, it was a bronze plate among his master's belongings.
The copper plate was simple and thick, but incomplete. There are irregular fracture marks around it, which are obviously smashed from something.
There is a carving on the board, which is exactly this bottomless pit.
Mr. Li's father left unexpectedly, and he didn't have time to tell Mr. Li everything, and the bronze plate became a knot in his heart.
Everyone knows how many pots and lamas come and go.
As long as you have a mechanism craftsman on your side, you can survive even the most dangerous pit.
Lu Ban is the originator of craftsmen. There are thousands of craftsmen who know how to work in later generations, but there is only one lineage that can really be passed down by Lu Ban.
This lineage is hidden deep in the city and few people know about it.
Mr. Li rarely mentions his inheritance, but in Chen Tao's view, Mr. Li's life is enough to continue a legend.
After some preparations, everyone climbed down into the ice pit one after another.
"Follow me." Grandpa warned Mr. Li and Chen Ze, and climbed down first.
The ice wall is slippery and bottomless.
Everyone relied on the ropes in their hands to stabilize their bodies. If something happens to the rope, they will definitely escape death.
The wind gradually started blowing outside the pit. When people were underneath, the sound of the wind became distorted and strange to the ears.
Sometimes the waves are violent, like the roar of a chariot, and then suddenly they fall silent, and the sound of the waves is like an ancient whisper.
The sun rays slanted on the ice wall, penetrating the thick ice layer and making it difficult to see what was underneath.
Everyone went down, and as the depth increased, they became extremely careful with every step.
From the top of the head, only a round mouth as big as a basin was left, and the surrounding light became dim.
"Not enough rope!"
The depth of the pit exceeded the length of the rope, and everyone was hanging in mid-air, hammering nails into the smooth ice wall.
This process is much more difficult than imagined. It is difficult for a person to exert strength while hanging in mid-air.
The beam of the headlight swayed on the ice wall as the person moved. In the refracted light and shadow, Mr. Li looked at the bottom of the pit and suddenly felt a black shadow passing by.
He shook his head, thinking he was blinded.
Stab!
"No, get away quickly!"
There was a sudden noise above his head. Before Mr. Li could react, he felt his vision go black and a huge heavy object hit him directly.
As soon as his hand loosened, his whole body began to slide down very quickly.
It turned out that someone on top had lost his grip on the rope and slipped down, and he pulled Mr. Li down with him.
Losing control in an instant, Mr. Li's hands were groping randomly on the ice wall, and he grabbed the rope hanging next to him.
"Chen Ze!"
Grandpa called Chen Ze for help.
The ice wall goes down diagonally, and is surrounded by ice, so the resistance is almost zero.
Mr. Li fell too fast, and Chen Ze reached out to grab Mr. Li's backpack.
But the speed of his descent was so fast that Chen Ze couldn't hold on firmly and lost his grip in an instant.
"ah!"
The man who slipped down earlier screamed and disappeared into the darkness. Mr. Li's heart was raised, thinking that he might be in trouble this time.
Click!
There was a sharp sound in his ears, and an ice-breaking ax slammed down, and the tip of the ax dug into Mr. Li's back collar.
At the same time, two hands grasped Mr. Li's arm.
"Thank you...thank you."
After calming down, Mr. Li noticed that the person who rescued him was Chu Yuxuan.
"Thank you, Brother Chu, I owe you my life."
"The third master's words are worth a thousand pieces of gold. I will accept this favor."
She is a smart woman.
Mr. Li owes him a favor, which is equivalent to what the Spirit Alliance owes her.
Chu Yuxuan smiled, but glanced at the grandfather above him.
"Alliance Leader Chen, I have repaid you half of my life-saving grace."
After many twists and turns, everyone finally approached the deepest part of the huge pit.
Click!
Bang!
A flare pierced the darkness, instantly illuminating everything around it.
No one thought that there would be such a large space in this thousand-meter-deep underground.
It's like a huge square with huge width.
The jagged rocks on the dark black rock wall glowed with a dark light like black blood under the flash of the flare, as if you were in the hell of hell, making people feel chills all over their body.
Layers of gray-white ice lingered on the ground, like billowing clouds and mist. From a distance, it looked so gray that it was almost impossible to see the road underfoot.
At the far end is a towering inverted trapezoidal building.
The building is completely black, like a black mountain standing at the end of the darkness. It is thick and simple, and it is unknown how long it has been here.
The heavy and distant historical atmosphere in the darkness rushes towards the face, making people unable to help but worship it at just one glance.
Some people in the crowd swallowed their saliva, almost forgetting the purpose of their trip.
"Is it a blessing or a curse..." Peng Jinsheng touched his goatee, and the look in his eyes could not be concealed, "This is definitely not a good place. If ordinary people go in, they will never come back!"
"The aura alone can make people retreat three points away. A place like this is simply a miracle!"
Huo Yuanshan clenched his fists tightly, and Mr. Li could even feel that his voice was trembling due to excessive excitement.
"The only one who can be buried in a place like this is the God of Death." Xu Zixue's Mandarin was very stiff. Apart from the occasional exchange with Huo Yuanshan, Xu Zixue hardly spoke to anyone else along the way.
Click!
As he took a step forward, there was a strange crunching sound under his feet, as if something had been stepped on.
When he looked down, he saw that what was crushed was a broken bone.
"this……"
It turns out that the so-called "ice air" is actually ashes, which makes people take a breath of cold air.
In this wide field, there are densely packed skeletons everywhere, almost covering the entire area.
I don't know how long these bones have been here. They were broken into slag when touched. There was a layer of gray-white ash on the ground, which was caused by the weathering of the bones over time.
Occasionally, rusty armor and weapons can be seen among the bones. They are so rotten that they will break when touched.
This is not hell, but an ancient battlefield!
No wonder there is such a strong killing atmosphere
call……
There was a dark wind around for no reason, and a skull slipped from the pile of bones. The broken bones on the ground were cracked, creating a layer of gray smoke.
"Master, this doesn't look like human bones?" Peng Jinsheng's apprentice picked up a broken bone on the ground.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord." Peng Jinsheng recited the Taoist slogan, touched his goatee, closed his eyes and pinched his fingers, and muttered something:
"Birds can't fly, beasts are in danger and their flocks are dying. The land of war is the worst place for blood. Most of these bones are the bones of sweaty and bloody horses. They died here in battle. How sad... This time, you have to pay attention!"
