Duzi had learned to swim when he was a child, but he himself was not interested in this sport, and in the end it was only half-baked. The huge impact of the waterfall caused the water to flow very fast in the area below, and even if he struggled to tread the water with both legs, it only allowed him to keep rising and falling on the water and drink several sips of the lake water before he could barely get used to it. The current made it almost impossible for Duqi to open his eyes, and he could only suppress the uneasiness caused by the smell of blood, and struggled to rush to the slower side of the water by relying on his senses.

Finally, his hands reached out and touched the cold rocks on the shore, but the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense. The smell of blood in his nose was very strong, and Du Qi didn't bother to pay attention to whether he was embarrassed or not, and climbed the slippery rock with his hands and feet, wiped the water droplets from his face, and then looked around in a posture of wariness.

Dozi saw what seemed like a nightmare.

The place where he was a huge rock cave, and the light in the cave was a little dim due to the water of the waterfall, but his strong eyesight still helped him see the corpses and blood in front of Lin.

Duzi swore that he had never seen such an exciting scene, with at least thirty corpses piled up in a confined space, and even dead bodies floating in the waterhole when he turned around.

Judging by the pungent smell of blood, it doesn't seem that these Rao have been dead for a long time.

"I'll go!" Thinking that he had choked on several mouthfuls of water in the pool, Du Qi couldn't help but retch, "This world is really ...... I've only been in my twenties, and my whole person is about to sublimate! If it was in the past, I am afraid that I would not have been able to withstand this kind of impact for a long time. ”

Du Qi endured a slight discomfort and crouched down to look at the dead bodies carefully. The death of the victims was extremely horrific, their eyes were round, and their faces were distorted in an extremely strange way, as if they were greatly frightened. In addition, all of Rao's clothes were torn and tattered, and his body was covered with large wounds, making it almost impossible to find a good place.

"Judging from the shape of the wound, it should have been caused by some kind of sharp claw, and the incision was not very regular, so it should not be a sharp weapon. That is, most likely, some kind of beast. But there were no signs of being bitten by large pieces on the corpse, wasn't it for predation? ”

Not for predation, which means it may just be a simple massacre, out of interest or for some other reason. In nature, such creatures are often even more terrifying.

Dozi fumbled through the corpse's clothing, trying to find something useful, but stumbled upon something unusual. Due to the dim light of the cave, he has not been able to notice some details, and when he looks closely, he finds that the corpse is not quite different from ordinary humans. Their skin is somewhat dark purple, their necks are slender and appear to be covered with ring-shaped cartilage, and their bodies are somewhat slender. From the muscles on their bodies, it is certain that this slenderness is not due to hunger, but to the structure itself.

"In addition to the neck, it seems that even the structure of the body bones is a little strange." Du Qi touched the body of a corpse, the ribs of these victims seemed to be more flattened, there was almost no space between the bones, almost connected into a plate shape, "This pendant is also a little interesting...... Hey? Am I stupid? He pulled out a pendant from the corpse's chest, suddenly patted his head, and muttered softly.

It was only at this time that Du Qi suddenly remembered the existence of torches in the space he carried, and when he lit the fire, the dim space suddenly became much brighter, and even the air was no longer so oppressive.

It was a wooden totem-like ornament carved with some kind of 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. Ancient Roland carved totems and comprehended the truth of nature. ”

"Roland? Could these people be the inhabitants of the so-called Taoyuan? Du Qi scratched his forehead, not quite understanding whether this introduction had any deeper meaning, "Anyway, I'm a little more comfortable, the creatures that launched the attack may still be roaming around here. He took out his sword and shield from his personal space, dressed himself and then roughly examined the other corpses to make sure that no key information had been missed, and then got up to leave.

Strange to come, these victims could hardly find anything on them, not even weapons for self-defense

"Perhaps, they are all ordinary civilians who fled in a hurry." Guessing so, Duzi ignored the corpses on the ground and walked heartily towards the cavern with his torch in hand.

As we continued to move forward, the cave grew wider and wider, until a large stone door appeared in front of me. It was actually a magnificent gate, about ten meters high and nearly twenty meters wide, and it seemed to be made of some kind of huge white rock. Because of the age, most of the carvings on the gate have been blurred, but the images of several of the sculptures can still be recognized, which are several strange creatures, light and seemingly with some divinity, probably the gods worshipped by the Rolands.

"The lake descends, the deep caves, and the artificial stone arches...... And so on, there are differences, but the main points of the story are almost all the same. Duzi's eyes widened as he looked at the stone gate that had been opened for some unknown reason, and after that it was darkness.

The rocky passage stopped here, and then the brightness of the torch, you could see a ravine in front of you, and there was a stone bridge on it, and it continued until Zheng Duqi, who had disappeared into the darkness, walked to the edge of the cliff and leaned down, there was no bottom below, and the cold wind from the abyss was blowing upward. In that dark world, it seems that even the wind carries an ominous character, making people's hairs stand upside down.

When I stepped on the ground, I felt that the soil under my feet was still very wet, but there were no obvious traces of underground water flow around me. After a little thought, Du Qi roughly completed the story with the information.

Obviously, this so-called paradise has not been discovered for thousands of years, most likely because the entrance to the cave was hidden by a special means. As for how to hide from the outside world, Duzi boldly guessed that these Roland people probably knew how to use runes, which they called natural truths, just like the players, and the pendant was the best proof of this. With the power of runes, the Rolanders can freely open and close the huge stone door in front of them, and when the entrance of the cave is opened for some reason, the lake water rushes through the passage and finally pours into the abyss beneath their feet, forming a passage between the world under the rain and the outside world. The explorer may have happened to encounter the opening time of the cave entrance and entered the world of Linxia through here. As to why the waterfall is not mentioned in his story, Duzi speculated that the river might have been diverted for some reason, and that the waterfall had just blocked the hole, or that he had simply misremembered.

"I guess something must have happened in the underworld to cause those Roland people to flee in a hurry, but they were brutally killed when they saw that they were about to escape, which is really pitiful." Du Qi muttered in his mouth, and his movements did not pause at all, and he stepped onto the stone bridge without any reaction. He had a feeling that there were more secrets hidden on this continent than people thought.

Duzi had never heard of a race like the Rolands, so where did they come from? Could it be that humans lived here long before they came to the New World? So what caused the Roland people to close themselves underground?

The first impression of the Roland people on Duzi was that of a race to be reckoned with, not to mention the huge stone gate whose operation was unknown, and the stone bridge under his feet alone was enough to be amazed. Along the way, there were no supports in between, except for the two ends of the stone bridge on the edge of the cliff, which is not at all the proper structure of this type of building. However, the fact that this stone bridge, which is more than a kilometer long, can stand without any support, at least in Duzi's opinion, is an extremely incredible thing.

I walked to the end of the stone bridge with trepidation, and after getting off the bridge, there was an extremely long deep passage, which continued to extend diagonally downward, and the temperature in the cave continued to drop. The triple pressure of darkness, silence, and cold made Du Qi a little panicked, the fire in his hand was constantly flickering, and the faint light emitted by his efforts could only dispel the darkness in front of him, and only the sound of footsteps and breathing was in his ears. Dozi wanted this to be over soon, or he would probably suffer from claustrophobia as a result.

Finally, just when he could barely hold on, a point of hope appeared in the distance, and the exit seemed to lie ahead.

Douz quickened his pace and crossed the last section of the passage in the shortest amount of time. But the light gradually enlarged, but his steps suddenly became hesitant.

The light not far away did not bring warmth and hope to people like ordinary sunlight, and the faint blue light looked very strange in the darkness, which inexplicably reminded Du Qi of the horror movie he had watched. He remembered that he had forgotten in a panic that this was an underground world connected by a passage, and how could there be sunlight? That kind of light must come from other objects.

He remembered a species of deep-sea anglerfish he had seen in the animal world, with a square, lantern-like fleshy protrusion on its head that glowed to attract prey.

But success is just around the corner, how can you give up because of a kick in the door? Du Qi gritted his teeth and walked forward with a ruthless heart.

The unexpected accident did not happen, and although the last leg of the journey was torturous, the mental relaxation that followed was extremely comforting, as if a tired marathon runner had finally crossed the finish line.

"Whew...... It's finally out. Du Qi patted his chest and breathed a long sigh of relief, but before he finished speaking, his eyes widened again.

The scene in front of me is almost indescribable.

Duzi finally understood where the faint blue light came from, this was undoubtedly a cave deep underground, but when he looked up at the top, which was almost immeasurably high, there were countless pale blue points of light, like bright stars hanging in the night sky

When countless stars come together, they illuminate the entire space.

Duzi wondered what those starlights were, but the vastness of this underground world was beyond his imagination. He was sure that the word world was not an exaggeration in the story, and that not only could he not see the edge around him, but he could not reach the end of the cliff beyond the entrance of the cave with his hand raised his hand and continued to follow the cliff outside the entrance.

The "emptiness" seemed so far away from him that it was impossible to reach at all.

"You can't even use a map here?" Duzi thought of his electronic map system, but when he called up the window, he found that the interface was also pitch black.

Even so, he did not appear depressed, even a little happy.

At this time, Duzi is like a player immersed in the game, and the underground world is a hidden level that no one knows about, and he will be the first to explore this mysterious area.

At this time, the previous anxiety has long been left behind him, and only the curiosity of this underground world and the endless desire to explore are left.