After separating from his Shortaxe friends, Chris continues to lead the team forward. Marina and the others, under the guidance of Chris, continued to walk into the depths. The underground river is like a middle vein, flowing quietly around them wherever they go, and occasionally there will be strange, disturbing sounds in the water.

Man is a creature that adapts easily to the environment, and they are accustomed to the sounds coming from underground rivers when they first come here. Occasionally, a few fish would swoop out of the water and bite at the nearest person, but it only made Eko and them lift their spirits, and they didn't dare to relax.

They soon came to a passage with a spiral staircase. The passage goes vertically down, and there are drips of water in the hollow above, but there is no way to go up. The ladder spirals downwards to lead to deeper ground. As for the underground river, just behind them, there was no river to flow further. But at the end of this terminus, there is a gap in the underground river, and the river slopes down along the gap, like a drain, to drain the water of the underground river. It's just that the water of the underground river seems to be endless, and there is no sign of drying.

"We're almost at the end of our trip. The axe, who had descended the spiral staircase at the rear, said to Marina in front of her, "If you go any deeper, you'll have to go on your own." ”

"It's a safe journey. "Could it be that if we get to the place we said we had agreed upon, if we go a few more steps, we will encounter all kinds of dangers?"

"Yes. Hatchet's answer was straightforward, "You'll understand when you get down there why I'm only going there and not going any further." ”

Soon, Marina understood the meaning of the Axe's words, and he was right.

After leaving the spiral staircase, Marina feels like she has arrived in another world. A place as spacious as a square, with a cistern surrounded by passages...... In other words, if this is the case, it should be called a reservoir. It was so big, like a lake, that the passage they walked was like a line that circled the lake. Around the lake, there are pipes that go around in a circle, and the water in the pipes flows continuously, and it seems that this is the real end of the underground rivers.

"Is this the underground lake...... Marina exclaimed, "I thought I was used to it, but there was something more exaggerated than I thought." "They were not far from the lake, and if you looked down from the edge of the passage, you could clearly see the dark water. The surface of the water sparkles in the light of the fire. Lulunaka didn't dare to take another step closer to the water, and Marina and Eko weren't stupid enough to forget what had just happened.

"It's not the fabled underground lake, it's just a reservoir. This is the center of the middle level, and all the underground rivers flow here, and from here they flow out and into every river. "Don't ask me how it flowed back, I just know that the underground river has never dried up, and there's only one reason for that." ”

"I heard that there are some creatures from ancient times in this reservoir, and they are the ones who regulate and underground the river. At this point, Lulunaka did her part, "I've heard someone tried to go into the lake, but ......"

Lulunaka glanced at the reservoir, the water was calm, but occasionally something unclear would jump out of the water. "I don't think it's a great idea to swim here. She said.

"That's right, those who go down will probably be gnawed until only a skeleton remains. "And then there's something ......."

As he spoke, something crawled out of the reservoir. Not far from them was a passage flooded by shallow water, where water from the reservoir could be reached up close and could also be used as a place to enter the water, if anyone wanted to go down. There, a miserable white skeleton crawled up, its clothes reduced to tattered strips of cloth, revealing a terrible body of bones. It was not only humanoid skeletons that climbed up, but also short skeletons with bent bodies. This small skeleton of bones is probably a small fang, or it may also be a dwarf.

There were eight skeletons crawling up from the water, and the bones were dripping with water droplets, and there was a green glow flickering in the eyesockets that had no eyeballs. Their skeletons made a kala sound, and they staggered like babies who had just learned to stand, then their steps steadied and they noticed the Hatchet and the others not far away, located above.

They were just a short distance away from them, and there was a sloping ramp.

The hatchet gritted his teeth, "There are so many floats, more than usual." ”

"The water level here has also risen and it's very easy for them to come up. Chris was at the front, and by this time he had quickly stepped back and pulled out a small hammer. There's nothing more stupid than using a dagger against a skeleton, and the seasoned Chris has prepared a weapon that is easy to carry and can deal an effective blow to the skeleton. A small hammer with an awl on the front can break any part of the skeleton with a single swing.

There is no need for the Hatchet to prepare more weapons for this, his axe itself is a heavy piece of iron, as long as it can hit a skeleton, the power is no different from that of a hammer. "It's hard to outrun these tireless things now, and they don't have a sense of territory, they just keep chasing you until you die or they shatter. ”

Eko held his shield in front of him again, his sword didn't do much for the bone racks, but it was better than nothing, better than nothing—the skeletons had rusty weapons in their hands. If he was skilled in combat, his shield could easily knock skeletons apart.

Marina held the magic book in her hand, and the skeletons not far away had already rushed towards this side, and several of them fell because of the slippery ground, trampled by their fellow people behind them, and then got up and continued to rush this way.

Marina took the magic book and pointed her finger at the skeleton running this way, "Frozen!"

The skeletons that were running at the front froze in place, a layer of ice slag visibly emerging from their bones, spreading across their skeletons until they froze in place. These skeletons, which had just crawled out of the water, were stained with water on their skeletons, which made Marina's spells work very well. If it were a living human or a tiny fang, her spells would only make them feel cold and stiff. The skeleton at the front of the runner froze in place, and the rest continued to run this way.