Chapter 198: The Second Map Fragment
Mu Wan had just put away the storage bag when she heard a "rustling" sound coming from the cave walls on both sides.
Could it be that there are giant blue ants hiding behind the cave walls?
She unleashed her senses, through the walls of the cave.
I don't know if I don't see it, but I'm shocked when I see it - there is quicksand on both sides!
There is a trap!
Mu Wan stretched out her arms and retreated. In the blink of an eye, she withdrew more than ten zhang away.
Before the figure was established, I only heard that the place where she was standing just now suddenly collapsed with a "boom", revealing a large hole with a diameter of more than eight feet.
Looking at the dust in front of her, Mu Wan broke out in a cold sweat. In the Ancestor's Secret Miscellaneous Books, there is a mention of this mechanism made of quicksand. When she noticed that the soil was dry and soft, she thought to herself that this was the right place to set up such a mechanism. Therefore, as soon as she found that there was quicksand behind the cave wall, she reacted quickly.
Needless to say, the person who set up the mechanism must be the skeleton just now! Cremating that skeleton is the same as activating the mechanism!
Damn it! Mu Wan couldn't help but curse softly: "You deserve to be buried in the anthill!" ”
I don't know if there are other organs, she doesn't dare to act rashly, so she can only spread out her divine sense and investigate carefully.
Naturally, she probed the bottom of the cave first, and couldn't help but gasp - the big hole was only one zhang deep, the top was big and the bottom was small, less than three feet square, and the surrounding sand walls were full of half-foot-long iron nails. Each iron nail was about half a foot long, and the pointed tip of the nail was jet black, obviously quenched with poison.
And, there was already a victim at the bottom of the cave.
It should be that the ground of the anthill is very dry, and this hole has always been closed. As a result, the bodies of the victims were well preserved.
This is a strong man who does not look more than thirty years old. He lay on his back at the bottom of the cave, his body pierced by dozens of iron nails. Dark complexion due to poisoning.
It can be seen that he struggled before he died. Because there were two terrifying bloody holes in his right arm, and a small piece of iron nail next to him was bent to varying degrees.
On the ground next to his right hand, Mu Wan saw a line of crooked blood characters: The one who killed me, Yan Nan Fuyi.
Well, that last word is certainly not "one". The victim should have died of poison, and it was too late to finish writing.
This is also a ruthless character. Mu Wan sighed. He whispered, "Don't worry." The people who killed you didn't make it out of here alive. ”
Don't think about it, that skeleton is also this kind of poison, and nine times out of ten it is the murderer "Yannan Fuyi". It's just that Mu Wan thinks it's strange that the skeleton itself was poisoned? Is it harmful to others and ultimately to oneself?
Immediately. Mu Wan patted her head. Shake your head. Secret Dao: Probably because I read too many idle books in the Sword Domain, I, like Xiangxiang, am getting more and more gossipy. Whether the skeleton is the murderer "Yannan Fuyi". What do you have to do with me! Instead of wasting energy on irrelevant things, it is better to think more about how to get out of the anthill safely.
As a lesson from the past, Mu Wan had no intention of cremating this benevolent brother. However, the storage bag around his waist is still intact and can still be removed.
Mu Wan carefully inspected the surroundings, and after finding nothing abnormal, she decisively used her divine sense to pick up the storage bag.
No, as soon as her consciousness touched it, the storage bag shattered.
The contents "jingled" all over the bottom of the cave. The bodies of the victims turned into powder, as if they had been made of sand.
Mu Wan immediately held her breath and swept quickly across the bottom of the cave.
Well, most of them are jade bottles the size of Sheng Dan medicine, a few magic weapons, and some pieces of clothing and the like. It is indeed a long time since these two men died. Because the clothes are in pieces, just like the storage bags. There is also no trace of aura on the jade bottle, magic weapon, etc.
Out of a large pile of things, none of them worked!
Mu Wan was about to retract her gaze, when suddenly, she saw a corner of brown and yellow animal skin in the rag.
It's familiar!
With a move in her heart, she grabbed it through the air.
Another piece of map!
Mu Wan happily took out the map fragments she had obtained from the skeleton earlier and pieced them together.
Two pieces of the same size, they can really fit together.
Obviously, the map is missing a piece of about the same size.
Mu Wan quickly browsed the remnants of the patchwork. Although she had seen a lot of maps of Donghuazhou in the Sword Domain, she really couldn't tell what was drawn in the map based on this fragment of the map, which was only two palm-sized pieces. Because the image is marked with a body of water.
White was happy. Mu Wan pursed her lips and decided to put it away first. Maybe she'll ever come across a third fragment of the map.
Jumping up over the big hole in the ground, Mu Wan continued to walk forward - it had been two hours, and then he went back, so it was a waste of time. What's more, seeing this large quicksand mechanism, she concluded that this place should not be far from the exit!
I don't want to, I walked for another half an hour, and she still couldn't find the end with her divine sense!
What the hell! Mu Wan was a little discouraged and sat on the ground.
Something must be wrong! The giant blue ants go out on the ground to feed during the day and return to their nests after sunset. They can't crawl that far every day. She pursed her lips, quickly recalling in her mind what had happened along the way.
However, she couldn't figure it out.
Counting the time, it should be dawn outside. Therefore, Mu Wan decided to find a bunch of blue giant ants first, and then follow them out of the anthill.
On the way here, there were several groups of giant blue ants. Mu Wan chose the closest group, and among them, she chose three slightly larger ones, which were marked with divine sense.
Next, she just had to wait quietly.
Taking advantage of this gap, Mu Wan returned to the space, added wood spirit stones to Xiangxiang, and inspected the situation in the night.
The former's Wood Spirit Stone has not been completely depleted. She filled it up in advance; The latter was still asleep, but his brows, which had been tightly locked, were relaxed, and his face returned to normal. It doesn't seem like a big problem.
After coming out of the space, Mu Wan sat cross-legged and closed her eyes to recuperate.
After more than an hour, the group of giant blue ants finally moved.
Surprisingly, the blue giants didn't follow the anthill at all, from the exit to the ground. In other words, for the blue giant ants, the exit is next to the habitat - there is a small deep depression in the ceiling above their heads, and everyone lines up, takes turns, digs with powerful jaws, and in less than a pillar of incense, digs out an exit passage that only allows two blue giant ants to pass through at the same time!
After opening, the outermost two first poked out the two tentacles on the top of their heads out of the hole, as if they were scouting the situation outside. After a while, the two of them retracted, tentacles touching tentacles, probably exchanging information. Eventually, they crawled out as fast as they could. The blue giant ant in the back followed closely behind.
I see! So, I'm going to dig my own holes too? Mu Wan opened her eyes, got up, took out the night pearl pinned to her waist, raised it high above her head, and looked at the top of the cave.
Well, the roof of the cave was full of potholes, but she couldn't see any deep depressions in this area.
Mu Wan stood on tiptoe and reached out and knocked on the place on her head. It's rattling and hard.
It dawned on her - no wonder she couldn't even see the shadow of a giant blue ant in this area!
It seems that this big anthill was not dug by the blue giant ants. A long time ago, a large underground cave was dug here, and then it was abandoned for some unknown reason. Later, the underground burrow was occupied by the blue giant ants in sections and became an anthill.
Why don't you take the opportunity to explore this abandoned underground cavern? Mu Wan thought about it, and finally decided to go down the cave. She was eager to see what the end of the cave looked like.
After taking a pill of Bigu Dan, Mu Wan continued to move forward.
The blue ants were out, and the underground caverns were empty. So, Mu Wan simply urged the "Eight Steps" and ran along the cave.
After another hour, she finally saw the end of the cave.
Nothing, just a bare gray-blue stone wall!
It's terrible! Mu Wan shook off a handful of hot sweat, and did not give up to probe behind the stone wall with her divine sense. As a result, the back is real. I don't see anything famous.
Someone was so angry that he kicked the stone wall hard.
The stone wall stood still. Instead, a large piece of sand and soil fell and sprinkled her head and face. A lot of sand fell into the mouth.
"Bah, ......" Mu Wan hurriedly avoided it.
What's next? Mu Wan looked back at the deep crypt passage, hesitated for a while, and stomped her feet to make a decision: go to the other side to have a look!
Since this end is a dead end, then the other end must be the exit and entrance. She'd be going to see what was going on with the entrance to this large, gut-like underground cavern!
Crazy, I'm definitely crazy!
Swallowing a handful of combination pills, Mu Wan turned around and ran back.
As a result of this curiosity, she ran for more than sixteen hours, with a few short breaks in between—the place where she had first fallen was not the halfway point. On the other side, further!
Fortunately, this trip, she did not run in vain. Running and running, I turned a corner, and suddenly there was a bright snow in front of me, and a bright hole appeared!
Outlet! Finally saw the exit!
Mu Wan ran sweating profusely, like a bun that had just come out of the cage, steaming. As a result, a cold, steam-rich wind poured in, and she couldn't help but shiver: "Yawn! ”
It's cold!
Retracting from the corner, she swallowed another combination pill, held the Qingyun Sword tightly in her right hand, leaned her back against the cave wall, and closed her eyes to recuperate.
The cold wind that blew in contained aura, and it was much thicker than in the giant array. Obviously, the outside is the hinterland of the cultivation realm.
What the hell is going on, for fear of attracting high-level monks or demons, she doesn't dare to use her divine sense to investigate, so she can only rest first and recover to her best state.
After a quarter of an hour, Mu Wan opened her eyes, raised the Qingyun Sword, and slowly walked towards the entrance of the cave.
She also released her senses, but only dared to probe near the entrance of the cave.
However, what she found challenges her imagination - there is a world of ice and water outside!
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