But soon, I gave up this guess.
If we really ran into the volcano, then the previous caves, especially the cave with the underground river, would be even more impossible to exist.
According to Cui Hao and I’s previous analysis.
This place is the structure of Zhongtong. To be precise, it is a huge cylindrical shape dug out from the top down.
These original works are layered in the center, with partitions between the top and bottom.
It seems that each level is independent, but if you look carefully, you can see the chain bridge in the Death Gate above from the underground river at the bottom.
When I think about the weird scene I saw at that time, I feel cold in my heart.
"There is that underground river underground. If there is really magma above it, then this river has been dried up long ago. How can it still flow here from beginning to end?"
Thinking of this, I feel even more confused.
But if you want to know the answer, then you can only move forward.
I speeded up and led Zhang Xu forward quickly.
However, after walking for nearly half an hour, I realized something was wrong.
Zhang Xu suddenly turned around, with a bit of uncertainty and fear in his voice.
"We two, are we two lost? Or are we running around in circles and something hit a wall?"
He kept shining his flashlight on the surrounding walls, doubts and panic flashing in his eyes.
"We have been walking along the stone wall. With this stone wall as our reference, we should not get lost. But if we don't explain it this way, the underground space is really too big. This But inside the mountain, what kind of manpower and material resources can hollow out the entire mountain?"
I shook my head and denied his suspicion.
"No, it definitely can't be hollowed out. I think it's possible that a ghost has broken into the wall here. It's the same thing we encountered before, and it was confused by something."
I felt the temperature on the wall, and then carved a mark on the wall with my dagger.
"In this way, we will continue to move forward. If we can still see this trace after a while, then it means that we have walked back. If we can't see it, it should mean that we have been moving forward."
After saying that, I immediately took Zhang Xu with me, suppressed the fear in my heart and continued to explore along the wall.
But in fact, I always felt vaguely uneasy.
I don't know why, but I have a vague hunch. Even if we continue to move forward, we may not be able to successfully get out.
In other words, we should never see the mark I carved again.
I speed up and try to get out of here as quickly as possible.
Zhang Xu also followed behind me, constantly checking the surrounding environment.
We walked forward again for nearly ten minutes.
But this time, we found nothing.
We are not slow.
At least it was twice as fast as the careful exploration just now.
This means.
Based on our ten minutes, at least we should have gone full circle again.
Logically speaking, it would return to the place where I carved the mark.
But when I groped for the wall, the path was empty.
Although the wall is uneven, there are no traces of the cross I carved on it.
Zhang Xu's face was quite ugly.
"What should we do? Are we lost underground?"
I reassured him not to worry and tried shouting behind me.
"Cui Hao, Wang Wangyang, can you two hear me?"
Both of them are quite clever, especially Cui Hao.
You know, we've been walking for nearly an hour.
Cui Hao must have sensed something was wrong.
You must know that we have a mechanical warlock Wang Wangyang here. Cui Hao realized something was wrong and brought Wang Wangyang to find us two.
Maybe we will successfully crack the formation here and rescue us from this ghost wall.
However, after I shouted a few words, there was no response from behind.
Just the moment I was ready to give up.
Suddenly, there was a crashing sound dozens of meters behind me.
"what sound?"
Like a frightened bird, Zhang Xu quickly turned around, took out the dagger and looked behind him.
I asked him not to be impulsive.
I pulled Zhang Xu behind me, then immediately lowered my body and silently took a step in the direction of the sound.
"Be careful. Let's go there cautiously this time. I'm afraid that if we make any noise again, we will alert that thing."
Zhang Xu nodded at me and followed me silently.
I even took off my shoes.
I could clearly feel the edges of the stones on the ground, but at the same time, the two of us barely made any sound.
Just after we walked ten meters forward.
I suddenly noticed a gray-black figure appearing in front of me.
It's just that this figure is currently hidden in a white mist, and it's impossible to see what he looks like.
"Who are you?"
I sternly accused the figure.
The moment he heard my voice, the man seemed to be frightened and jumped up suddenly, turned around and ran back.
"Don't leave."
I immediately followed him, and at the same time I grabbed Zhang Xu and followed him, for fear of being left behind by this guy.
We made many twists and turns, but in the end we lost the pursuit of this dark figure.
The speed of this thing is too fast, giving us no chance to catch up with him.
We chased him around a corner. After he turned the corner, he disappeared in front of us in an instant.
"Cui Hao, Wang Wangyang, are you two?"
I asked uncertainly into the darkness ahead.
But the two people had disappeared, and there was no trace of them at all.
I walked forward cautiously with the dagger in hand.
Zhang Xu seemed to be frightened and kept swallowing his saliva.
The sound of him swallowing saliva was very clear to my ears, which greatly affected my judgment.
"If you're scared, then just stand here and don't move. I'll give you a rope. Just hold me while I go to the front to check the situation."
After saying that, I tied the rope around my own waist and gave him the other end.
Zhang Xu shook his head, quickly walked to the team and accelerated his pace.
"I'll stay with you, let me stay here alone. If I really encounter something dangerous, I won't even have a place to call for help."
I nodded and said no more. I led him forward and once again passed through the long stone tunnel.
But now it's completely different from just now. It's extremely quiet here, and we can only hear the sound of our two feet rubbing on the ground.
As we continued to move forward, we actually reached the end, where we were blocked by a stone wall and there was no exit at all.
"how so?"
Zhang Xu stared in front of him in disbelief and knocked on the wall hard.
This wall is obviously sealed, unlike when we passed through the tunnel before, the stone wall could be opened and closed at will because of the mechanism.
This wall was obviously originally here.
Zhang Xu stared at the stone wall in front of him in disbelief, then turned to look at me.
"What should we do? We actually reached the end, but it was a one-way street without any forks at all. So where did the figure we saw in the tunnel go?"
I shook my head, feeling uneasy rising in my heart.
I pulled Zhang Xu and led him back.
"Don't worry about it for now, let's go back first."
After saying that, I immediately quickened my pace and quickly led him towards the dark passage ahead.
At this time, I already felt vaguely uneasy.
Zhang Xu may not have noticed, but I have been paying attention to the direction we came from.
The direction the two of us just headed was along our return path.
But now, instead of reaching Cui Hao and the others, we were stopped by this stone wall.
This situation is too weird.
I shook my head, shaking off the uneasiness in my mind.
"Let's go, don't waste time."
But as we moved forward, I suddenly heard bursts of footsteps behind me.
The sound of footsteps gradually approached, and as we walked forward, the sound became closer to us.
But every time when we looked back, neither of us saw the owner of these steps.
Zhang Xu was so frightened that he turned his head to look behind him again and again. He was even so frightened that he held my hand tightly and did not dare to move.
"What's going on? Is there anyone behind us?"
After saying that, he suddenly gritted his teeth, turned around and took a step back.
"I don't believe it. Can people be scared to death?"
As he said that, he took out the dagger from his body and didn't listen to my stop at all. Instead, he speeded up and walked back along the way he came.
Soon, we came to the passage ahead.
There was still no one in the passage, but when we just turned the corner, there were still distinct sounds of footsteps.
No matter whether they are living people or dead bodies, it is impossible for them to be so fast and disappear in front of us in such a short period of time.
I simply lay down and observed carefully on the ground.
But I still didn't see anything.
Since there is no one here all year round, there is a thin layer of dust on the ground.
I clearly saw the footprints of the two of us on it, but as we walked further, the footprints in front of us became blurry.
It was as if something had wiped it deliberately, and it was impossible to see where we came from.
besides.
Next to our footprints, we didn't see any other patterns except the patterns of the shoes on our two feet.
"What the hell, could it be that there was no one in this passage just now?"
Zhang Xu was nervous and kept kicking the dagger in circles, trying to find the owner of the footsteps just now.
"If you have the guts, don't hide. You will hide in the dark and scare people, right? Come out if you can, and we will confront you face to face."
