278. To Each His Own Thing (5)
"Uncle Junior, are we going to the basement?"
"No, it's just a secret passage that leads to the cavern behind this rock wall. ”
"Ah, isn't there any other way to the cavern over there? You have to go through this underground passage? it's dark enough...... And go further down......"
"With me here, what are you afraid of?" Having said that, at this moment, Zhao Feng was already a little more convinced of Gao Ran's fear of the dark. But on the face, he still said seriously:
"In the beginning, in order to protect the foundation of the sect, the ancestors did not set up any other ground access from the beginning. Only take this one and only underground secret passage!
"In this way, not to mention the mechanism that opens this passage, it is difficult to detect it at all unless it is in the know, and even if it is perceived, I am afraid that there will be no return!
"On this path, once a non-disciple of this sect enters, it will inevitably cause a commotion of the 'holy blood' stored in the cave on the other side, and then the holy relics will be sensed, and then all our disciples will sense that an outsider has broken into this forbidden place!
"Moreover, once this 'Holy Blood' stirs, it will immediately trigger a mechanism due to its vibration, causing the entrance of this secret passage to close by itself, blocking the thieves inside!
"In this way, even if the trespasser can destroy the stone slab at the entrance by himself and escape, he will definitely not have time to escape the disciples who are still staying in the valley who have come to chase him one after another in response to the call of the holy relics!"
"Wow! Your ancestors are really vicious enough! Be ruthless to your own people, and even more ruthless to your enemies! Could it be that this is the true essence of the medical valley?!"
Zhao Feng listened, but only glanced at Gao Ran, and his eyes were full of shameless contempt and disgust for her who was embarrassed to separate herself from other disciples!
"Let's go!" Zhao Feng shouted angrily, and walked down the steps leading to the ground step by step. Although there are also a few night pearls sporadically inlaid on the rock wall of the secret passage, the light is still too weak, and if you don't want to bump and fall, you still have to be careful when you go.
"Eh, Uncle Xiaoshi, you slow down! I'm afraid ......" Gao Ran hurriedly followed Zhao Feng, for fear of losing him, but because he always ignored her, she deliberately said this to him endlessly and repeatedly, just to give herself courage!
In her opinion, the more frightened she was, talking to herself out loud was a good way to be courageous!
So, Gao Ran kept repeating the same words, chattering like chanting scriptures, and in the end, even she herself was dry, and Zhao Feng still didn't respond to her half a sentence. If it weren't for the fact that he could still hear his footsteps walking in front of him and see his faint visible figure, Gao Ran really suspected that he was still in front of him?!
However, she no longer had the strength to continue speaking so loudly! She couldn't help complaining in her heart: "The design of this cave is too strange! Why is the distance between the cave chambers so far? Isn't it just a rock wall? But how can this underground secret passage be built with twists and turns, undulating heights? and it is still so long!"
The more Gao Ran thought about it, the more creepy he felt, and he couldn't help but take a few quick steps and grabbed the corner of Zhao Feng's clothes!
Zhao Feng was dragged by her like this, he was stunned for a moment, and then stopped, but he tilted his head slightly, as if he didn't want to turn around to look at her, but just wanted to sense her breath at the moment, and then stopped paying attention to her, and continued to stride away but let her continue to drag the corners of her clothes. It's just that because he deliberately changed his steps and strode forward, Gao Ran could only follow half-run and half-walk all the way in order to keep up with him.
Although she knew in her heart that he was clearly teasing her, who made her not dare to stay too far away from him at this moment?
Finally, in the state that Gao Ran was already numb to dragging Zhao Feng all the way like this, only knowing how to follow closely and following, but he didn't have the energy to think about other things, I don't know how long it lasted, it seemed to be a long time, and it didn't seem to be long...... In short, just when she only felt that her body and mind had been tossed and almost exhausted, she finally saw the light in front of her that was obviously stronger than this secret passage!
At this moment, she was so glad that the exit was not blocked by another stone slab! Otherwise, she was afraid that she would have been defeated by the darkness before she reached the end! She would have thought that she would never be able to go any further! Even if in fact, the exit was not far from her!
So, it was thanks to the unblocked light that she saw the hope she wanted in time! Otherwise, she would have almost given up......
After leaving the secret passage, Gao Ran immediately quickly looked around at the new environment around him, and then he understood why the light of the cave here was significantly stronger than the light of the previous cave: because, the previous cave was surrounded by rock walls, and the rock wall was not transparent to light, which would naturally greatly reduce the scope of the bright light of the night pearl embedded in it; And its almost white color, so that no matter how faint the light emitted by the large and small night pearls embedded in the surrounding stone walls, it can easily illuminate a large area due to the reflection and re-reflection between the stone wall itself and the stone wall.
It's so bright, it's easy to see things clearly! But it also has its flaws: it's almost all the same color all around, and the borders of the gaps are unusually smooth and flat! In this way, if you don't distinguish carefully, it's easy to get lost in it, and you can't tell the difference between the east, the south, the north, and the west! And if you stay a little longer, you may not even be able to tell whether you are standing upright or upside down!
"This place seems to have the power to confuse people's minds! If you stay for a long time, you will easily become troubled by gains and losses, and if you are serious, you may even lose yourself, become delirious, hallucinate and hallucinate, and even start talking wildly......
Zhao Feng listened to Gao Ran's analysis that seemed to be talking to himself, and smiled unconsciously, but he didn't tell her how much of her speculation was close to the truth?
He just walked straight towards the most dazzling place in the white expanse that was almost all about to merge.
When Gao Ran saw it, he naturally had to hurry up and follow him! Otherwise, once he fell, he might really get lost here, and he couldn't advance or retreat!
At this moment, she didn't dare to be distracted to think about anything more, just concentrate on following Zhao Feng closely, don't lose it! I don't know if he did it on purpose? At this moment, he walked faster than ever before! So that she no longer had a chance to pause and breathe, so she could only trot all the way and try to keep a distance of only one step from him!
"It's here!"
Zhao Feng suddenly stopped again, and Gao Ran, who followed closely but didn't have time to react at all, also bumped into him again!
But this time, Gao Ran didn't dare to scream and cry out in pain as loudly as before. I don't dare to complain about him anymore.
It's just because, since entering this cave, Zhao Feng has stopped joking with her. His rare seriousness also made her dare not be as uninteresting as before. What's more, from the moment she came in, she instinctively felt very uneasy here! She didn't dare to stay too far away from Zhao Feng at all! She didn't dare to take the risk of being thrown by him to make fun of him casually......
Gao Ran, who knew that she was already passive but powerless, had no choice but to endure the pain of her body caused by such a sudden and powerful collision silently at this moment, and on the other hand, she didn't wait for Zhao Feng to call her, she had already walked up from behind him very consciously and stood beside him.
Then, Gao Ran saw that the original unusually bright light source was actually emitted by a thing that looked like a sphere that would glow by itself, but was sealed in the faintly translucent "ice stone", and the light it emitted was not only not covered up, but even more dazzling because of this "ice stone"!
"It turns out that the strange stone that built this cave is still translucent! Although I can't see the true face of the things inside, I can still see its rough outline...... Looking at it this way, this strange stone really looks like ice, but it is not ice...... Eh, Uncle Xiao, what do you call this strange stone?"
"'Ice stone' is neither ice nor ice. As soon as the words fell, Zhao Feng seemed to have expected what Gao Ran would ask him next, and before she could speak, he took the initiative to explain: "You don't have to think nonsense! This stone has existed here since ancient times! It is not where the ancestors found it! Moreover, before the ancestors discovered this cave, this cave had already been built into what it is now!"
As he spoke, he motioned with his eyes to Gao Ran to look at the luminous body enshrined and sealed in the stone altar again.
"And the one that shines is the 'Holy Blood.'" It has existed here for a long time! It was not cultivated by the ancestors themselves! The only thing the ancestors did was to discover its use and use it for their own purposes!"
After listening, Gao Ran was no longer surprised. For a moment, she even had a strange feeling: "Could it be that my crossing was not an accidental encounter caused by an extremely accidental natural force? Could it be that everything in this cave was left behind by a civilization that came from another time and space that was completely different from this time and space, but far more advanced than my time and space, just like me? Could it be that my accidental crossing was caused by some kind of 'sequelae' caused by the unnatural interference of that civilization?"
"Little girl, why aren't you surprised at all? Could it be that you already know what I said?" or ......" As soon as the words came to his mouth, Zhao Feng felt that it was unlikely, so he stopped talking.
It's just that Gao Ran's reaction after listening to him was really too abnormal in his opinion! This aroused his great interest.
You know, it was himself, and when he first came here and heard about it from his master, he was amazed!
He didn't believe it, if Gao Ran hadn't known about it a long time ago, then why was she so determined? Not only was she not surprised and panicked, but she was also thinking about something with a worried brow. She is so calm, even he is ashamed of himself! This is definitely not normal! Especially when she is such a sick little girl who is afraid of the dark!