Chapter 322: Footsteps

There was a deathly silence all around, and at this time, the four of them were in the dark underground stone cellar, located a hundred and ten meters underground.

There are a total of eight passages in the stone cellar, and at the end of the tunnel are blocked by a gray rock wall, and there is no exit at all.

The treasures of the Jiang family were originally buried in the stone cellar, but after more than a hundred years of treasure escape, these treasures left their original location and disappeared.

Jiang Rongzhan has already sent people to explore, there is an underground river under the Fox Hill Ridge, which flows in the north-south direction, from the nearby topography, the south is high and the north is low, and the underground river water flows to the north.

If the treasure is moved, it is very likely to be in the same direction as the underground river.

Therefore, according to his speculation, of the eight passages, the one that went north was the most reliable. But Jiang Rongzhan just guessed out of thin air, and no one could say what the direction of Bao Dun was related to.

After listening to Jiang Rongzhan's analysis, Yunkang still didn't have a clue, and couldn't help but feel a little anxious. It's useless to guess like this, and you can't guess the wrong place in the Year of the Monkey.

So he said to Jiang Mo, "Let me give it a try." He sat down cross-legged on the spot, his eyes slightly closed, his breath calm, and then probed his mind to a dark hole.

Yun Kang has the ability to refine qi at the fourth level, and he has been continuously strengthening his cultivation of his divine sense for a while, and his scanning range has exceeded five hundred meters.

It's just that he was in an underground stone cellar at this time, surrounded by gray-white stone walls, and the penetration of his divine consciousness was hindered, so the scope of his scans was greatly reduced.

The divine sense reached the end of the cavern, and then penetrated the stone wall layer by layer, stretching farther forward, and the place it probed was full of rocks, and there was no trace of treasure at all.

Yun Kang took a deep breath, adjusted his dantian breath, and then probed his divine sense into another passage hole.

After trying this several times, Yun Kang finally retracted his sense, slowly opened his eyes, shook his head and said, "It's useless, it's all stones, and I didn't find any treasures." ”

Even if you can't detect it, those treasures may have been dug up a long time ago.

Jiang Rongzhan showed a disappointed expression on his face, turned his head to look at Jiang Mo, and said, "It seems that there is really no more." ”

Jiang Mo's eyes flickered, staring at Yun Kang and asking, "Is there not even a trace?"

"Traces?" Yun Kang thought about it carefully, and seemed to be a little impressed.

He said to Jiang Mo: "The eight passages have been carefully examined, and the specific situation is not the same. Seven passages were more than 300 meters away, and the other was only 200 meters. ”

Jiang Mo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he asked, "What is the situation, why is it only two hundred meters?"

"At the 200-meter mark, there was an obstacle and I couldn't continue to explore. Yunkang replied.

He frowned, suddenly thought of something, and said to himself: "It seems that I have encountered a barrier, and I can't get past it no matter what." ”

He had this feeling before, immortal cultivators were not omnipotent, there were many substances in the world that affected cultivation, such as the divine consciousness could not penetrate asphalt and sulfur stones.

But the mountains around Fox Hill are all rock mines, and there is absolutely no sulfur stone, let alone asphalt.

Aside from brimstone and asphalt, what else affects the power of the divine sense?

Yun Kang thought about it in his head, then took out the talisman array disk from the Dragon Swallowing Ring and slowly approached a passage in front of him.

The pointer on the array disk shook slightly, and suddenly rotated with a "whoosh", Yun Kang bent down into the passage, and the pointer rotated faster and faster.

This passage is not too long, only more than a hundred meters, Yun Kang is holding the talisman array plate in his hand, bending down and walking in front, Jiang Mo and Jiang Rongzhan are following closely behind the flashlight, and Shen Mutong is carrying the oil lamp behind the palace.

Walked all the way to the end of the passage, and the pointer on the array disk stopped with a "click", and the direction pointed due north.

"There's something behind this stone wall. Yun Kang took the talisman array plate, raised his hand and touched the stone wall in front of him, which felt cold and hard.

The stone wall is grayish and white, and it is ordinary limestone.

Yunkang said: "The limestone is not very hard, so it should be able to be smashed open. He asked the three of them to step back, then stood still with both feet, and transported a true qi mass from the dantian, which instantly condensed in his hand, turned into a true qi ball, and slammed towards the stone wall.

"Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the stone wall in front of him was blasted open by the true air mass, and a large deep hole appeared.

The entire passage shook, and countless pieces of rubble fell, smashing them all over their heads.

After the gravel fell, calm quickly returned to the passage, and Yun Kang took a closer look at the deep cave, the stone wall was one meter thick, and it had been blasted open by the true air mass.

"Knock, knock, knock......"

Behind the stone wall seemed to be a hole in the ground, and there was an empty sound, Yun Kang's eyes became vigilant, he bent down and leaned over, shot a fireball in his hand, and slowly stretched into the hole to try it.

A faint breeze blew out, and sure enough, there was another hollow behind it.

Several people suddenly came to their senses, and Yunkang hit two more true qi masses in a row, completely breaking through the stone wall.

When the dust cleared, the four swept their flashlights over, revealing a circular rock cave in front of them.

The rock cave was only more than a meter high, Yun Kang took out two wooden sticks from the Dragon Swallowing Ring, made them into torches and raised them, then squatted down and slowly moved into the cave.

He reached out and touched the stone wall beside him, and it felt unusually smooth, as if it was a naturally formed stone cave.

Jiang Mo helped Jiang Rongzhan to follow in, Shen Mutong held the ancient knife in one hand, and followed at the end with an oil lamp in the other.

The four of them walked forward slowly, first through a passage that sloped downward, and then the passage became much narrower, and the four of them had to bend down and lie down in it, crawling forward.

Yun Kang held the torch in front and climbed forward for dozens of meters, and found that the stone road turned to the right, and after turning the corner, he climbed a few hundred meters, and the downward inclination became steeper and steeper, almost with his head down, and there was a feeling of congestion and swelling.

The worst thing was that he raised a torch, and the smoke and flames rose up and rushed straight to his face, causing him to cry.

Jiang Mo and Jiang Rongzhan pulled each other, moving forward with great effort, and after crawling for a while, they were so tired that they were panting.

The four of them climbed for more than half an hour, and suddenly two forks in the road appeared in front of them, both of which were exactly the same stone path.

Yun Kang took the torch and carefully inspected the two holes, only to see that the four walls of the stone path were smooth and clean, and there was no trace of the treasure dragging past.

Jiang Rongzhan was so tired that he was sweating, and the four of them sat down temporarily and rested against the stone wall.

Jiang Mo wiped his sweat and said, "These two stone paths are very suspicious, they are so smooth, they must have been chiseled by hand." ”

Shen Mouton took out a cigarette, snapped and inhaled, he touched the stone wall, and said: "It takes a lot of effort to dig it out manually, is it possible that the volcanic magma is the passage that washes out?"

Jiang Mo shook his head and said, "There is no crater near here, and it is not a volcanic area, so it is impossible." ”

The two were talking, and the passage on the left suddenly made a "knock" sound, Jiang Mo immediately closed his mouth and looked in the direction of the passage on the left.

Shen Mouton snuffed out the cigarette butt and whispered, "Listen, there is something inside, it seems to be the sound of smashing against the wall." ”

The four of them glanced at each other, and they all thought that the stone path under the ground was a little weird, but no matter what, they had to go over and take a look first and find the source of the sound.

Yun Kang took the lead in climbing in again, and the three of them followed behind without making a sound, the stone road in front of them seemed to be very long, and the winding passage turned around, as if there was no end to climbing.

The sound of "dong dong" was far and near in front of them, as if it was deliberately leading them to climb in one direction. Yun Kang stopped and couldn't help but say: "No, something must be wrong, I haven't reached the end of climbing so far, it's a few thousand meters." ”

He poked forward with his senses, but it was so gray that he couldn't see anything.

"Why don't we guess first, what is in front of us when we climb over, we can't be so stupid and crawl forward, and then we will fall into the tiger's mouth. Jiang Mo twisted his neck and said.

He was slender, 1.83 meters tall, hunched up and crawled all the way through the passage, and his neck was stiff when he was tired.

Yun Kang was a little depressed, this matter obviously has nothing to do with him, how could he get involved in a daze? Now the four of them are trapped in the depths of the ground, the stone path is halfway up, they are in a dilemma, and it is impossible to get out, it is really anxious.

Thinking about it, Jiang Mo was to blame for this, Yunkang couldn't help but mock: "Isn't this exactly what you like, life is like a roller coaster, and the picture is a thrill." Can you still frown in order to find the treasure?"

Jiang Mo's eyes narrowed, hehe Yile, and said: "Brother loves to listen to this, he has lived for several years, spring goes to autumn, and the old scenery is tired of seeing it, so he has to change his taste, so as not to go in vain in life." ”

At this time, Shen Mouton's eyes suddenly froze, raised his hand and "shhhhhh ”

Yunkang and Jiang Mo glanced at each other, immediately held their breath, and both pricked up their ears to listen carefully, the "dong dong" knocking sound had disappeared, and a series of light footsteps came from the passage in front of them.

Shen Mouton gasped, stretched out his finger and pointed to the passage, and suppressed his voice: "It's a woman......"

Yun Kang hurriedly shook his head, the footsteps sounded very trivial, like the small feet of a quail, how could a woman have such small feet.

The footsteps suddenly slowed down a little, as if hesitating to come. Jiang Mo hurriedly signaled to Yun Kang, and quickly extinguished the fire, this light was bright, once there was a conflict, they would definitely suffer a big loss in the bright place.

Jiang Rongzhan turned off the flashlight, the oil lamp and torch were also extinguished, a few sparks flashed on the torch's head, and a wisp of green smoke drifted in the passage, and it became pitch black in an instant.

The four of them squatted in the passage of the stone cave, their backs against the stone wall, tense and frozen.

Yun Kang gently held the torch stick sideways in front of him, and if someone ran over, he swept the stick over and immediately broke his leg.

Shen Mouton held the ancient knife tightly in his hand, and Jiang Rongzhan grabbed a hard backpack with both hands, raised it and pressed it on top of his head, which could not only be used as a defensive helmet, but also as a brick to beat people.

He was the oldest, and his physical strength was poor, so he didn't dare to take a breath at this time, and he was so suffocated that cold sweat broke out under his feet.

The four of them held their breath and waited for a long time, when there was the sound of rustling footsteps, gradually approaching them.

Yun Kang squeezed his eyebrows and scanned the past with his divine sense, but what he saw was pitch black.

He had never experienced this before, and he suddenly felt his scalp tingle, and the beads of sweat on his forehead flowed down uncontrollably.

The footsteps of the squirting suddenly stopped, and the other party seemed to sense the existence of a murderous aura, so he stopped approaching.

But the four of them had already noticed that there was an extra breath of breath in front of them, very close to them, and a hot stench of spewing out.

"Poof!" Yun Kang hurriedly shut up and held his breath, and a black shadow rushed over like lightning.

"Oh, I'll go, who farted so badly, I haven't for three years!" Jiang Mo couldn't help but scream, and Yun Kang immediately shouted: "Do it!"

There was a chaotic sound of ping-pong in the passage, and the wooden stick and ancient knife backpack in the hands of the four people smashed in one go, and suddenly hit people on their backs, and Shen Mouton's ancient knife waved, whirring with the sound of the wind. The blade slammed into the hard stone wall, making sparks and screeching sounds.

Jiang Rongzhan smashed a black living creature with his backpack artifact, and the thing squeaked and jumped around in front of him.

Shen Mutong pounced on it with all his might, grabbed a handful of wet fur in the dark, startled him, and shouted, "Fuck, it's a big mouse!"

The living creature was smashed, unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest, rolled twice on the ground, rolled its green and faint eyes, stretched out its claws and pounced towards Jiang Mo.

Jiang Mo saw a black shadow rushing over, and hurriedly threw the flashlight in his hand, and the whole person fell backwards and rolled hard.

With a "whoosh", two sharp claws cut deep blood marks on his neck, and blood gushed out and splashed on Yun Kang's face.

The living creature attacked Jiang Mo and immediately turned around and fled.

"I'll go, dare to step on my face!" Shen Moutong shouted, wielding the ancient knife and slashing out.

"Squeak!" the thing screamed, and Yun Kang hurriedly started a fire in the palm of his hand, only to see a black fox rushing out, and then fled into the deep hole, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Shen Mouton got up from the ground, spit out a few mouthfuls, wiped his face disgustingly, and found a few fox furs on the side of his mouth.

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