Duqi learned to swim when he was a child, but it was only half-baked, and the water below the waterfall was extremely chaotic, so he could only continue to rise and fall on the surface of the water, and drank several sips of lake water to barely get used to it. His eyes could barely be opened under the current, and he could only rely on his senses to struggle towards the calmer side of the current.

Finally, the hands reached out and touched the cold rocks on the shore, but the uneasiness in my heart was even greater. At this point, the smell of blood became even stronger, and he didn't care whether he was embarrassed or not, and climbed up the slippery rock with his hands and feet, wiped the water droplets from his face, and looked around in a posture of wariness.

Douzzi saw what seemed like a nightmare.

It is a huge rocky cavern, and the light in the cave is somewhat dim due to the water of the waterfall, but you can still see the corpses and blood on the ground. There were at least twenty or thirty corpses lying in his field of vision, and when he turned around, he could even find dead bodies floating in the pool.

Judging by the pungent smell of blood, it seems that these people did not die for a long time.

"I'll go!" Duzi couldn't help but retch, he thought he was used to seeing death, but this scene still made him sick to his stomach. After all, in the past he killed monsters, but now he sees the same humans as him.

In order to find out the situation, Duqi had to hold back his nausea and crouch down to look at the dead bodies. The victims' deaths were horrific, not only were their clothes torn and tattered, but their bodies were also covered with large and small wounds, and they could hardly find a good place. Judging by the shape of the wounds, it is likely that the creature that killed them was not human, but some kind of creature with sharp claws. But if you look at it from another angle, although the corpse is covered with wounds, it is basically intact, which means that this creature was not hunted for predation.

It was a simple massacre.

After the initial panic subsided, Dozi began to notice the extraordinary nature of the victims. Due to the dim light of the cave, he only noticed that these corpses were different from ordinary humans, the victims' skin was dark purple, the neck was slender and seemed to be covered by annular cartilage, and the body was also a little too slender.

"Huh? It seems that the structure of the bones is also somewhat strange. Duzi touched a corpse, and could clearly feel that their rib structure was slightly different from his own, "This pendant is also a little interesting. He pulled out a pendant from the corpse's chest.

It was a wooden totemic ornament carved with an animal that Duqi had never seen before, and several runes carved around it. Duzi didn't know the runes, but the pattern was a good reminder of what the player community was working on.

"Totem pendant: The Roland people revere their ancestors and believe that after death, the soul will transform into an animal and walk in the forest. The ancient Rowlanders carved totems and learned from them the truth of nature. ”

"Roland? Could these people be the inhabitants of the so-called Taoyuan? Duqi scratched his forehead, not quite understanding what this introduction meant, "Anyway, I'll have to be careful, the creatures that attacked might still be around here." He took out his sword and shield from his personal space, dressed himself and then examined the other corpses. Strange to say, the victims found almost nothing, not even weapons to defend themselves.

"Perhaps, it's an ordinary civilian who fled in a hurry." Guessing this, Duzi ignored the corpses on the ground, and cautiously walked towards the depths of the cavern with a lit torch in his left hand.

As we walked on, the cave grew wider and wider, until Dozi came across a large stone door. The gate is about ten meters high and nearly twenty meters wide, and is cast from some kind of huge white rock, and the surface is carved with various reliefs and patterns, but because of its age, most of them are blurred and unrecognizable.

"The descent, the deep caverns, and the artificial stone arches are pretty much exactly what the story describes." Dozi glared through the open stone door.

The rocky passage stopped, and it was pitch black in front of me, and it was almost impossible to see anything. A ravine was crossed, and a stone bridge was erected over it, which continued until it disappeared into the darkness. Du Qi walked to the edge of the cliff and leaned down to look, there was no bottom below, and there was a cold wind from the abyss blowing upward.

He stepped on the ground, and the dirt was still damp under his feet. "I see, I seem to know why."

Based on the information he knew, Duzi had filled out the explorer's story in his mind. Obviously, this so-called paradise has not been discovered for thousands of years, most likely because the entrance to the cave is hidden by a special method, and this method is probably related to the truth of nature stated in runes or pendants. When the entrance to the cave is opened for some reason, the lake rushes through the passage and the stone gate, and finally pours into the abyss beneath its feet. The explorer may have happened to encounter the opening time of the cave entrance and entered the underground world through the cave passage. As for why the waterfall is not mentioned in his story, Duzi speculated that the river may have been diverted due to time, and the waterfall happened to block the entrance to the cave.

"It is likely that those who died were killed because they did not anticipate the situation at the entrance of the cave, and their escape was hindered by the waterfall after that." Du Qi muttered in his mouth, and his movements did not pause at all, and he stepped onto the stone bridge without hesitation. Since he came, he had to enter the paradise anyway.

The stone bridge with no end in sight is a stunning piece of architecture that has stood for hundreds of years except for two ends perched on the edge of a cliff with no support in between. At least in Duzi's opinion, this is an extremely incredible thing.

The length of the stone bridge is more than a kilometer, and after the bridge is lowered, there is a very long deep passage that extends diagonally downward, and the temperature inside the cave is gradually dropping. Duzi even began to panic, the faint light of the torches could not dispel the darkness in front of him, and he could only hear his own footsteps and breathing, this claustrophobic environment made him feel more and more uneasy. Finally, just when he could barely hold on, a point of hope appeared in the distance, and the exit seemed to lie ahead.

Douzzi quickened his pace, crossing the last section of the passage in the shortest amount of time.

The point of light gradually enlarged, but his steps became hesitant. That kind of light does not give people warmth and hope like ordinary sunlight, and the faint blue light looks very strange in the dark, which inexplicably reminds Du Qi of the ghost movies he has seen. But success is just around the corner, and can he give up because of it?

So, Du Qi gritted his teeth and walked forward with a ruthless heart.

The imaginary accident did not happen, and although the last leg of the journey was nothing short of torture, the mental relaxation that followed was extremely comforting. "Whew...... It's finally out. Before he could finish speaking, his eyes widened again.

The scene in front of me is almost indescribable.

Duzi finally knew where the faint blue light came from, this was undoubtedly a cave deep underground, how could there be sunlight? Looking up at the top, there are countless points of light that emit a pale blue light, like dazzling stars.

When countless stars converged, they illuminated the entire space.

Duzi wanted to know what those starlights were, but the vastness of this underground space was beyond his imagination, not only could he not see the edge of the circle, but the cliffs outside the cave entrance also stretched upwards as far as his eyes could see. The "sky" seemed so far away from him that it was impossible to reach at all.

"You can't even use a map here?" Du Qi thought of his map system, but after calling out the window, he found that the interface was pitch black, "No way, it seems that this place can only rely on itself." ”

At this time, Duqi seemed to have discovered the hidden level in the game, and the previous anxiety had long been forgotten, leaving only curiosity about this underground world.