Chapter 42: Vertically downward
"You're expecting too much from me. Julius looked a little helpless, "I'm not good enough to let you go in and out of the sewers at will...... You should be very clear about this. ”
Julius didn't become flirtatious because of Lei's touting, he also went to some more dangerous places with Lei, and encountered a lot of thrilling things, such as hordes of skeletons, and a group of insidious and cunning little fangs, these are all very tricky things, plus Lei is not a combat power at all, every time he is alone in the forefront, to eliminate these dangers one by one. It's not a deadly encounter or battle, but for Julius, it's a thrill, but it's just tiring.
"So didn't I say that I have to rely on my cleverness?" Rei's right hand stretched out his thumb and pointed at herself, "My nose and eyes are still quite sensitive, and if there is any danger that we can't handle, I will definitely not take you on the risk, so don't worry." ”
Redu said so, and Julius couldn't say anything more about it. And he's not really worried about his safety, he's just a little worried about Rei. Even if he encounters danger, he still has the ability to protect himself, because he was tortured by Lulunaka. Rei's words, except for "cleverness", don't seem to have any abilities that can get her out of danger.
Julius worries about how he can protect Leigh in a strange and dangerous environment, even though Lei's trust is immense.
"Be careful, okay?" Thinking of this, Julius couldn't help but say more.
"Of course, there is only one life, and I don't want to be left in the ground. Rei laughed.
Julius looked at Lei's smiling face, wondering if she had listened to him, for she seemed to be too casual - though she wasn't one to take other people's words for granted. Was it because she was too confident? Julius had a hard time understanding what was going on in Lei's mind. She does everything carefully, but sometimes she is frighteningly bold.
At this time, the speed of the platform suddenly slowed down. It seemed to be stuck in something, and it suddenly paused a few times, making Julius and Lei, who were standing on it, unstable for a while, although it would not fall like this, but this bump made people worry about whether it would suddenly break, and just stuck here, or just fall down, causing the people above to fall into flesh.
"What's going on?" said Julius, frightened, reaching out and pressing down on the wall around him to immobilize his body.
"I'm going to go through an intermediate exit, so it's a little uncomfortable to stop. Rei replied, "Don't worry, since I can come back alive and bring you here, then it shouldn't be a big problem." ”
The platform slowly descended, and finally came to a stop. In front of Julius and Leigh, an exit appears in front of them from the bottom up. As Rei said, this was an exit from the platform, and if you looked out from the inside, it was a dark space, quiet, except for the sound of water droplets, neither the bones of skeletons rubbing against each other, nor the small exhalations of tiny fangs.
Julius, with a torch in one hand and a sword in the other, stepped outside. Upon entering the space, Julius realized that it was quieter than he had imagined, and there was no wind.
Rei followed him, "I've been here before, and because it's quiet, I don't feel any danger, so I walked around and found that this is an enclosed space, only the platform behind us connects to it. ”
Julius didn't dare to take it lightly, and Leigh didn't say this to let him down his guard, but to make him not so nervous. "Is this an enclosed space?"
"It's not big, it's only half the size of a rat road, and it's only a few steps to the end, and there doesn't seem to be room to be hidden. "And it doesn't seem to have anything of value...... It looks like it was looted a long time ago.,I just don't know who it is.。 ”
Julius touched something at his feet, and he looked down and saw a skull, which had no mandible, and was attached to the ground, and his eyeless sockets were looking at Julius serenely.
Julius wasn't going to jump in fright at such a small surprise now, but his heart still skipped a beat, and the appearance of such a thing as a skull meant that there was such a thing as death here, no matter how long it had been gone, or if it still existed here. Luckily, the skull probably wouldn't be able to jump up and surprise Julius more, even if it could move, it wouldn't even be able to bite without its jaw.
"Did you have this when you came?" Julius picked up the skull and showed it to Lei. Rei didn't look surprised when she saw Julius's thing, "Yes, it was hanging on the wall, but I got it down, and it's a bit of a hassle to hang it, so ......" Rei shrugged her shoulders and stuck out her tongue, looking like a prank child.
Julius set the skull aside. There are quite a few table-like things in this space, with stone slabs on top and columns on the bottom. The skull was placed on a table made of unknown by him next to him, it felt as hard as a stone, and it didn't feel like metal, with his knowledge, he really couldn't figure out what kind of material it was, but it was still quite comfortable to the touch, and when his fingers slid on it, it seemed to be glued to it, and when he wanted to withdraw his hand, he wouldn't stick his hand to it.
The skull had a better place to rest, but it didn't seem to have any intention of thanking Julius, and there was darkness in its eyes, and nothing could be seen. If anyone could see it, they would probably just be mistaken for a madman, or a dangerous necromancer.
The place was not big, as Rei said, it looked like a place for people to live in, but it had long been deserted, knowing that Julius and Rei were here.
The two of them walked around for a while, and it didn't take long to walk through the place, which allowed Julius to roughly figure out the structure of the place. A very ordinary square space, with what looked like furniture, but there was basically nothing to take away, unless he was willing to take the skull with him. It looks like it's been ransacked, and I don't know when that happened. This place is also cool and damp, and dust is difficult to accumulate in such places, but water vapor is no worse than dust. The corners of the walls were covered with dark green moss, and there was a musty smell in the air that seemed to stick to the nose.
The two didn't waste much time in this place, because there really wasn't much to find here. Back at the platform, Rei stepped on the raised masonry on the ground, and the platform started again, moving down. This strange place disappeared before Julius's eyes.
"There really is nothing but a skull. Julius said.
"So we're going to go deeper and see if there's anything that no one else has ever found that we can find. "Maybe it's a little dangerous, but if there's a risk, there's a reward, right?"
Julius couldn't deny what Leigh said.