The firelight flickered, and the shadows danced.

Zhang Jiabao had been walking in the passage for nearly ten hours. At first, in order to strengthen his courage, he kept chanting aloud "Fighter of the Soldiers", but he heard an infinite echo coming from a distance, which was very strange. I walked silently, and slowly got used to it.

The road is generally upward, but the slope is not too steep, and there are not many bumpy places, so it is not difficult to walk. Now that I have walked sixty or seventy miles, I don't know how much I have risen, and how far I am from the ground? Zhang Jiabao thought to himself.

To his peace of mind, there was no sign of any creature on the road, not even a single grass or mouse. It's not like the bottom of the abyss, and strange poisonous insects the size of a palm appear at every turn.

But here's the problem.

Zhang Jiabao brought a dozen torches with him, each with a bush branch as a handle, and the top was wrapped unhurriedly with a ball of thatch moistened with lizard grease, half of which was tied head-up and half head-down on his back. Such a torch can burn for more than half an hour.

This passage is not like the abyss, at least there is a little bit of light, once there is no torch to light the way, it is difficult to move an inch. I don't know how long it will take to reach the ground, so Zhang Jiabao didn't dare to rest, he was really tired of walking, so he put out the torch and sat for a while, and then continued to set off.

Still, the last torch was used, and most of it was burning at this point. Zhang Jiabao quickened his pace, and then ran.

The torch burned more and more, and the face was hot. He knew that the grease on the thatch had been completely burned and that the thatch had begun to burn. This torch is coming to the end of its mission, and it is only a return to the light.

Zhang Jiabao ran wildly.

The fire grew smaller, and then only red sparks could be seen, and the ashes of thatch drifted on his face with some warmth. Eventually, that little bit of spark disappeared.

"It's so dark...... "I couldn't see anything, and Zhang Jiabao became blind.

He tried to set the bush branch ablaze with a fireball, but as soon as the fireball was extinguished, the flames on the branch would not last for two breaths. As for using the fireball technique to light the way, it is unrealistic, and maintaining the magic for a long time will make Zhang Jiabao dizzy.

I had to walk by touching the rock wall, there is a bend in this passage, there is no light source, and if you don't walk against the edge, you may hit the wall at any time. Raise your feet high at every step, and throw a stone in front of you every time you touch it, and listen to the sound to find the way. If you can't hear the echo, you light up the fireball and look at it. After a few times, Zhang Jiabao couldn't perform the fireball technique even after trying his best. He felt so sleepy that he wanted to sleep, but where did he dare to sleep? Maybe he was eaten by a creature that happened to pass by in his dream.

Zhang Jiabao poked the ground with a bush branch to explore the way, he didn't dare to touch it directly with his hands, he always felt that there was a big mouth of a giant beast in front of him. After walking for a while, he began to shed tears, but simply stopped and began to cry. The strange thing is that after crying, I was not so afraid, wiped away my tears and continued to walk.

I don't know if it's an illusion or what, Zhang Jiabao feels that it's getting hotter and hotter. After passing a bend, I finally saw the light, red, and the shape of the passage mouth appeared in front of me. Probably to the ground, he ran to the front in ecstasy, only to find that the red light did not come from the sun.

"...... is this?" Zhang Jiabao was stunned as he looked at the scene in front of him.

It's a huge cave. In a piece of red light, I saw that the pillars and stones stood in a forest for its engine, and the forms were different, like ghosts scratching their heads and making gestures; on the dome, thousands of stalagmites hung upside down, different in length and thickness, like animal teeth, like strings of ice edges, and the tips of the stalagmites fell from time to time, like yellow milk hanging pulp; the wall stones were staggered and arranged, like the door screen in the imperial palace that did not know how many times to enter and exit. This space is dozens of zhang high, the radius is unknown, and what illuminates half the sky is the slowly flowing magma.

Zhang Jiabao felt like he had walked into the mouth of a prehistoric beast, and it was like being in hell.

But finally not blind. Walking around the cave, I didn't find any creatures, but I found five openings that led to other places, and one of them actually led to the southwest. It's not that the sun and moon Beidou asked Zhang Jiabao to judge the direction, but he has always kept in mind the direction when he came in, and which way he turned a few corners halfway, and at this time he can still roughly distinguish the southeast and northwest.

The five openings are quite far apart, and the most likely one is to the southwest. Zhang Jiabao remembered what his senior brother said and entered this cave. Now it is not as wide as the passage just now, at first I entered it by standing, then I walked by squatting, and finally I had to crawl forward on my stomach. And the red light of the magma could not reach, and everything around it turned dark again.

"No, how did this road go down?"

However, at this time, the space can no longer accommodate turning, and it is difficult to climb back backwards. Zhang Jiabao would rather believe that the southwest direction that his senior brother divined was the most correct and safest. On second thought, the reason why this small passage descended may have been due to the fact that it was in the interior of a high mountain.

After climbing for a while, the trend of the acupoint and the road took a sharp turn, and the acupoint wall also became wet, Zhang Jiabao tried to use his elbow against the acupoint wall, but he still couldn't stop the fall caused by his weight. Fortunately, the mud shell on his body has not yet peeled off, otherwise he would have been rubbed by the rock wall and his skin and flesh would have been broken. But there was no mud shell to protect the "little Tintin", so he had to arch his butt as much as possible so that he would not be injured. At the same time, he also unravels a treasure coin, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

I saw the light, accompanied by a gust of hot wind. At the end of the cave is a cluster of lush tree branches, forming a natural barrier at the entrance of the cave. Zhang Jiabao grabbed a branch and stopped falling, and the momentum of his body swayed the branch. When I looked down, I saw clumps of green leaves covering each other, each leaf at least the size of a basin. Except for seeing a red light between the leaves and feeling the heat coming up, I couldn't see anything.

Zhang Jiabao climbed down the branches, touched a thick branch, and wanted to hang it with both hands. Unexpectedly, he overestimated his grip, and there were water droplets on the branch, and his hand slipped and fell down.

Just as he was holding the treasure money in his hand and thinking about which direction to teleport, a giant bird with a two-foot pointed beak and two feet wide wings flew over and held him in his mouth.

This hard beak clamped Zhang Jiabao tightly, and there were dense fine teeth in his mouth. However, he was protected by a mud shell and did not feel pain. He didn't use the money to escape immediately, but to see where the bird was taking him.

The giant bird flew away from the boundary of the magma lake with Zhang Jiabao, and he was a little glad that the bird helped him pass a level. He also saw everything around him, not land, but a strange underground world.

In the center is a huge tree with a diameter of thousands of feet, and countless dragon-like branches grow on the trunk, stretching thousands of feet high, and constantly dividing countless branches, spreading hundreds of thousands of miles of dark green, like an umbrella covering the sky, carrying the dome of the underground world.

Giant trees and vines hang down like ladders descending from the sky; the ground is full of trees, and there are many strange flowers and plants, which are unheard of; among them, there are steaming springs, and among them, there are giant beasts bathing in them, and there are thousands of biological communities, like human lizards, like running dragons, or heavy, or smart, with long necks and huge bodies, some wearing thorn armor, and even more beasts with fangs and claws that live on blood......

Although there is no sun and moon in this underground world, there are many lava spills on the dome, and the red waterfall reflects one side, and falls on the ground to form a staggered vein, which becomes fertile ground for vegetation to grow after cooling. And in the space through which the scorching waterfall flows, the central giant tree also avoids its glow and grows around. On the banks of the magma river, there are no living creatures, only birds can pass.

"Could it be that this is the place where the remnants of antiquity live?"

Just as Zhang Jiabao was amazed by this place, the giant bird brought him back to its nest, a giant nest three feet square between the branches of the central giant tree.

"Poof!"

Zhang Jiabao was thrown in the nest, and there was a hay paving under him, but it didn't hurt. The giant bird arched him sideways with its pointed beak. Hearing the sound of "squeaking", Zhang Jiabao looked back and saw that it was a few young birds as big as wild geese, their fur had not yet grown, and the red meat was vaguely exposed.