Chapter 408: The Labyrinth of the Stone Chamber
It didn't take long for the red light to begin to grow more and more, and soon the figures of the three of them were enveloped in it, and then the surrounding mountain walls began to shake violently, and even seemed to collapse.
Su Qiubai's last impression was that his feet suddenly emptied, and then he lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he realized that he was in a place where he couldn't reach his fingers, and hurriedly tried to turn on the searchlight above his head, only to find that the light was broken.
Secretly cursing to himself, Su Qiubai had no choice but to condense a flame in his palm, which immediately illuminated the surrounding environment.
Su Qiubai glanced around and found that it was a simple stone room, which was almost empty, except for the murals on the walls.
It's a bit far-fetched to say that that thing is a mural, compared to the murals that Su Qiubai saw in the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum a few years ago, these look more like simple graffiti.
But even if the lines are simple, the plot on the mural is very vivid, Su Qiubai took a cursory look, and found that what was painted on it was a tribe's sacrificial rituals, and he was immediately not interested in taking a closer look. And on the floor of the stone chamber, a huge symbol is drawn, which fills almost the entire ground.
It seems that there was an ancient tribe living in the Qiyun Mountains thousands of years ago, but they didn't seem to have passed it down, maybe for some reason the tribe migrated, or even perished, which led to this area becoming a deserted place.
Su Qiubai walked out of this stone room, and after a short passage, he suddenly found that he had come to another larger stone room, the same emptiness, as well as the paintings on the wall and the ground, the difference was that three holes appeared in front of him.
Is this asking him to play a maze game? Su Qiubai thought speechlessly.
There must have been some use for these ancients to put so much effort into building such a place, and it is very likely that the symbols on the ground have other meanings, but he has not yet discovered the secret of this.
I picked a hole at random, and after walking through the corridor, it was the third stone room as expected. Like the previous stone chamber, there are also three openings.
It seemed that this was indeed a great labyrinth, and that the frescoes on the walls might point some point, so he had to peruse the frescoes on the walls every time he passed through a stone chamber, but unfortunately, there was nothing to be seen on the frescoes other than the daily life of this ancient people.
Su Qiubai took out paper and pen from his bag, drew the location of each stone chamber he passed, and in order to prevent repetition, he made a mark in front of each cave he walked through, only to find that some of the stone chambers were indeed the same.
He wasn't sure if Mossa and the others were in this place, and based on the circumstances, it was likely that they had been transported to different parts of the huge labyrinth, and they couldn't tell when they would meet.
After passing through more than 20 stone chambers, Su Qiubai suddenly found a mural with content. There was a story on it, and some of the scenes in the story he had seen had just seen recently.
The story is about a man of great status in this tribe, who gained great power with the help of the sacred relics in the tribe, and he became very violent and murderous because of this, and finally caused the anger of the people. So the man was sealed with mana, tied to a stake in the square, and prepared to be burned at the stake.
As the flames burned, the seal on the man's body somehow loosened, and driven by anger and hatred, he burned everyone within a radius of miles with the flames, turning many villages into ruins.
The more Su Qiubai looked, the more surprised he became, wasn't this exactly what he saw in that mirror world?
The later episodes made him understand why he saw this.
After the fire was over, the leader of the tribe found the man's body in the ruins, and his soul was still trapped in his body because of the seal, so he was not reduced to ashes in the fire.
After that, the leader buried his remains under the rift, so that he could never be reborn, and used him to protect the mountain.
This is how the trap came about, this man is trapped under the cliff, and every day he has to repeat the qiē he has experienced, so he will drag those who have strayed into this place into it, feel the pain with him, and finally kill them in the illusion. If Mossa hadn't woken him up, he didn't know if he would have survived in the end.
Su Qiubai glanced back and found that the holy object recorded on the mural, which made the person gain great power, was a red bead, because the lines were simple, so this thing was also a little rough, that is, a circle with a few vortices drawn in the middle, and I didn't know what its prototype was.
Since the origin of one of the traps was recorded here, perhaps the origin of the Phantom Forest would also be recorded, so Su Qiubai looked at the mural more carefully with curiosity.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to find a mural that told the story of the Phantom Forest.
At first glance, Su Qiubai was surprised to find that there was a great similarity between the two stories.
He was also a powerful figure, and the red beads of Tongguò gained power, and finally he was convicted of it, and was sealed as the undead who guarded the mountain.
It seems that the key to a qiē is the red bead, which seems to be something with evil power, although it can make people strong, but at the same time, it can also corrode people's hearts and lead them astray.
Seeing this, Su Qiubai's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, could this thing be the bloody glass? If it was, then it wasn't a good thing, and he had to stop Mossa from getting it.
After walking a few more stone rooms, Su Qiubai suddenly heard a sound of footsteps, in this empty place, it was quite terrible to hear this kind of sound, Su Qiubai had the heart to find a place to hide, but there was really nothing to hide in this empty stone room.
Fortunately, he soon discovered that the people who had arrived were Mossa and Muham, who seemed to have just joined each other.
After the three met, Mosa first asked Su Qiubai if he had found anything, and Su Qiubai shook his head and did not tell him what he had seen on the mural.
At this time, more than two hours had passed since they came to this labyrinth, and the stone chamber in front of them seemed to be endless.
Su Qiubai looked at the drawings he had drawn, and found that there were already more than forty stone chambers that he had walked through alone, how much effort did these people spend to create such a ghostly place? And what will this place be for?
In addition to this, he found that the stone chambers appeared to form a circular pattern, and their route at this time was to the center of the great circle.
"If you're not mistaken, Blood-Eyed Glass should be here, and this place can't be guarded by something, so we have to be careful." Mossa said.
At this time, he was getting closer and closer to his destination, and the expression on Mosa's face became more and more fanatical, and his originally cold eyes seemed to be ignited by something.
It seems that this blood-eyed glass has an extraordinary meaning to him, and if he really gets it, then the consequences he can cause will be unimaginable.
It didn't take long for the three's journey to the stone chamber to finally end, and when they came out of the last stone chamber, the three of them suddenly saw a glimmer of light in the darkness, and when they looked closely, they found that it was actually the light of the sky that fell from a high place.
The place where they were at this time was a vast clearing, and the ground seemed to have been artificially repaired, so it appeared very flat.
Su Qiubai took a few steps forward, only to find that this was actually under the abyss before, and that bit of heavenly light was shining down from the top of the abyss.
The entrance to the abyss, which was originally very wide, was only the size of a square inch of land, which showed how deep this abyss was.
The place where they are located is like a huge circular square, and there is a small lake in the center of the square, and then the light can be found that there is a high raised platform in the center of the lake, and the sky light also falls on the platform, which looks like a high-end exhibit at the exhibition, enjoying the glory of all people.
"If you see it, it must be Bloody Eye!" Mossa said excitedly.
Su Qiubai frowned, this is too conspicuous, right? I'm afraid that others won't be able to see it.
Mossa only had the things on the high platform in his eyes at this time, and he couldn't wait to walk towards the lake, even forgetting to consider whether there would be a trap here.
Su Qiubai just looked at this qiē from a distance, and didn't say anything to remind him.
After reaching the lake, Mossa looked around and saw that there was no bridge or road leading to the center of the lake, and the only way to go was to swim.
Just as he was hesitating whether to enter the water, a low roar suddenly sounded, and then the three of them only felt that the ground under their feet shook for a while, as if something big was about to come out.
Mossa had a bad heart and hurriedly stepped back. As soon as his figure left the lake, he saw that the originally very calm lake suddenly burst into a splash several meters high, and the water even splashed on Su Qiubai, who was standing far away.
Before the three of them came to their senses, they heard another roar, this time louder than the last time, and there were gravel falling down the mountain wall of the earthquake, and it hurt a lot to hit people.
After the splash cleared, a huge beast appeared on the surface of the lake, this monster had the body of a dragon-headed lion, and its body was covered with ice-blue scales, and it was shining with cold light. This is exactly the monster carved on the stone tablet that Su Qiubai saw when he entered the mountain!
It turned out that this thing was real, and Su Qiubai originally thought it was just a thing like the divine beasts imagined by the ancients.
Once the beast had settled on the surface of the lake, it began to glance around. Su Qiubai carefully held the Xuanyuan Sword in his hand, ready to watch for the monster to suddenly attack him. His worries were not unreasonable, if this monster was the same as the trap in front of him, and he was alone, then he would be miserable.