Chapter 11: The Dark Vortex 8
Dark clouds once again covered the entire sky—
The darkness of night shrouded the land, and among the dark trees, only the crystal skull trembled slightly in the wrapped white cloth, and emitted a faint light.
The raindrops gradually intensified, the wind swept through the trees, the branches were teased back and forth, and a heavy rain was coming.
Katu ran to the tree where he was tied during the day, only to see the rattan that tied him scattered all over the ground, and the person was gone.
"Oops, he's still angry and wants to strangle Lei Tingting today, should we go back and see?" Kathu asked Lloyd, looking at the central villa in the distance.
"No, have you forgotten, Nicole is with Lei Tingting, there is Nicole, don't worry." Lloyd patted Kathu and motioned to move on to the mechanism, as the Crystal Skull's reaction was getting stronger.
Kathu nodded, and the two of them looked for a place in the dark that might have set up a mechanism......
The raindrops grew denser and crackled to the ground, but Lloyd and Kathu saw the crystal skull react stronger, but they couldn't find any clues.
Lloyd and Katou sat blankly under a tree, staring at each other helplessly, for the night was too dark and it was raining.
The raindrops fell to the ground, hit a fallen leaf, and split and splattered. Lloyd looked at the falling raindrops and listened to the sound of the raindrops hitting the ground and splashing around him.
"Lloyd, do you have any great ideas? Don't be in a daze, the rainstorm is coming, and if we don't find it, then we will have to miss this opportunity. Kathu became anxious, patted it, and pressed the tree next to it, hoping that if he was lucky enough to find some mechanism on it.
"Shhhh......h
Kathu stopped talking for a moment, fell silent, and looked at Lloyd.
Lloyd tilted his ears sideways and closed his eyes.
"Tick, tick...... Dripping "There was a place where the rain was not splashing, and it was heard by Lloyd.
Lloyd followed the voice, and Kathu followed.
After about ten paces, Lloyd stopped, closed his eyes again, and listened carefully to the hints of nature.
"Drip, drip, drip......" The frequency of water droplets splashing in this place in front of you is very low.
Lloyd pointed to the scattered ground covered with fallen leaves in front of him: "This should be it!" ”
Catou picked two branches and swept them back and forth, and in front of him there was a round, manhole-like iron mesh cover, covering a deep hole in the ground.
Lloyd and Kathu looked at each other and smiled.
Kathu took a sip, grabbed the metal mesh cover, pulled it up, and threw it aside.
Lloyd and Kathu stood at the edge of the cave and saw that there were still ladders to use.
"There are so many secret rooms in the central villa, they don't use them. And to build such a secret here, there must be some ulterior secret! Lloyd said to Kathu, glancing at the unknown cavern.
"Then we'll see what happens!" Kathu nodded at Lloyd, already grasping the staircase and starting to descend.
When I went down to a depth of 7 or 8 meters, there was a very deep tunnel in front of me, and the light emitted by the old light bulbs inside was very dim, still flickering, gloomy and depressing.
But this cave can still go down, Catou grabbed the stairs and whispered to Lloyd, "Lloyd, should we go down, or go into this tunnel in front of us?" ”
Lloyd looked down at the crystal skull on Kathu's shoulder, the light growing stronger.
"Just this tunnel in front of you, I see the reaction of this crystal skull, we should not be far from another crystal skull." Lloyd whispered, too.
"Good!" Catulliso stretched out his foot towards the tunnel in front of him, stepped on it, and pushed his hand harder, and easily entered the tunnel. Then he held out a hand to Lloyd.
The moment Lloyd let go of his right hand, he jumped at Kathu, who grabbed Lloyd's right hand and pulled it hard, and Lloyd safely entered the dark and narrow tunnel.
Lloyd and Kathu cautiously moved forward, for fear of touching some mechanism or alarm setting.
When the two of them walked slowly for more than 200 meters, there were 5 forks in front of them.
"It's up to you." Seeing this, Kathu smiled at Lloyd.
Lloyd crouched down and looked carefully at the dust on the ground, and sure enough, there were three forks in the road, which had been covered with thick dust because no one had walked for a long time.
The two adjacent forks on the left are not so thick with dust, and there are still human footprints.
"Can you go at both forks?" Catou looked at Lloyd and had already understood something.
"Looks like we're going to have to split up." Lloyd pointed back and forth to the two forks in front of him.
"Okay, then I'll pick this!" With that, Kathu walked into the fork on the far left.
"Beware! Calm down when you encounter something! Make a decision again! Lloyd reminded in a low voice.
Kathu had already stepped into the back of the fork and stretched out his right hand with a thumbs up.
Lloyd smiled and walked into the adjacent fork in the road.
The fork in the road where Lloyd was walking was a downhill slope, and there was muddy dirt in the middle, and there was an old, dim lamp every long way. In the depths of this tunnel, faintly a faint cry could be heard, very soft, very faint, and a little choked. In such an environment, this kind of sound is inevitably creepy.
Lloyd was holding on to the wall of the tunnel with one hand, and walked cautiously, when suddenly a palm-sized spider with a colorful pattern hung in the air from the front.
Gently, slowly, Lloyd squatted under the spider web that filled most of the space, and the flower spider didn't seem to be interested in Lloyd. This was a relief to Lloyd.
Lloyd continued along the tunnel, finally coming to the end of the tunnel.
At the end of the tunnel was a heavy, dilapidated iron door with thick chains, and in front of the door sat two security guards, probably because there was no network signal in the cave, these two security guards could only play cards in a boring manner.
"Looks like they're guarding something." Lloyd thought to himself, quietly looking at the two security guards.
Next to the two security guards were a number of empty bottles, some of which were still lying on the ground, and some of which were still dripping from the mouth.
When Lloyd saw that the fallen bottle was still dripping with wine, he knew that the two security guards had already drunk a lot, and what was locked behind this iron door? Lloyd decided to wait until they were drunk before acting.