Chapter 44: There Are Someone Here

The two of them agreed and let Julius go ahead. Julius did not procrastinate, picked up the torch, bent over and climbed into the pipe. After he entered, Rei climbed in as well. The two of them pressed their feet and heads together and headed deeper into the pipe.

After entering the pipe, Julius realized that the pipe was not as narrow as he had imagined, but the entrance was relatively small, and after climbing some distance, the pipe widened, allowing Lei to climb side by side with him. The two of them can even crawl forward on their knees with their upper bodies straight, but this posture is really inconvenient to move, so the two of them simply continue to use their hands and feet together, which can be much faster.

The pipe does not go straight forward, and after climbing a certain distance, there may be a downward slope, or it may become a corner where you need to turn left or right. After entering the pipe for a while, there was a strange movement around me, which sounded like the sound of metal rubbing.

"Did you hear that?" asked Julius, who was beside him. Lei held up his finger in front of his mouth, signaling Julius to shut up and not speak, and he honestly shut up. Lei leaned her head against the edge of the pipe, leaned against it and listened, and after a while, she whispered to Julius, "We're in a big space. ”

Her voice was so small that Julius barely heard it. He frowned upon hearing Rei's words. He and Rei were obviously in a small pipe, why did she say that they were in a big space now? Rei wouldn't be joking with him at such a time, so why would she say that?

"Do you mean where we are now?" asked Julius, in a low voice. Lei nodded, not responding to Julius silently. She continued to crawl forward, and Julius hurriedly followed.

After climbing for a while, Julius felt the wind blowing in front of him. How can there be wind in such a place? He wondered, but Lei beside him didn't say anything, and he could only continue to be silent and continue to climb forward with her. Strange things were happening, and his sense of unease was getting stronger.

Rei stopped, then reached out to block Julius. She reached forward and gestured for Julius to look ahead. Julius saw that there was a gap in front of him, as if he could jump from this pipe. That's where the wind must have flowed, but Julius didn't just hear the wind, it seemed to hear human voices. It sounded like a conversation, and it sounded like Julius and Rey could understand it, but it wasn't really there.

Hearing people's voices in a place like this doesn't make people happy at all. At this time, both Lei and Julius were thinking about the same thing, if there was really someone below, would the other party be friendly or malicious?

None of them dared to bet on this possibility, and it was better to be careful with strangers after staying in the rat and sewer passages for a long time. There may not be a good thing about the encounter, and it may be a bad thing.

The two of them crawled over lightly, and found that the gap could be crossed and continue to the front, and the two of them could jump from here to a new place. The two of them lay on their stomachs, their heads poking their heads into the gap, and looking down.

Julius finally understood why Rei would say they were in a large space. Compared to the space below, this small pipe is only a part of it, and it can indeed be said that the two of them stayed in this space. The pipes they are on should be located above this space, overlooking below.

The space below was a little different from the sewers that the two of them usually saw, there were a lot of light sources that illuminated the whole space, and the light also made the space below look bigger - without these light sources, Julius probably wouldn't have been able to know the size of the space below, and as for Rei, she would have known it a long time ago.

Those light sources weren't flames, they were something more exotic. It was supposed to be some kind of magic, the ball of light was a small white orb that stuck to the walls around the space below, all over the place, making it look less eerie down there. The white light doesn't hurt the eyes, and it doesn't seem to have temperature, but the light is more conspicuous and feels more comfortable.

Julius had faintly heard human voices just now, and it wasn't his delusion. There were indeed people walking around down there, and there were sounds of conversation. The two men in black robes were not far below Julius and Lei, very close to the gap.

There were quite a few strange devices down there, and the two of them were standing near them. The reason why those behemoths are devices is because these things are "moving". It's not that they have feet to walk on, it's that they make sounds. The cylindrical torso takes up most of it, and beneath the torso are numerous tentacle-like tubes that connect the ground to their bodies. Compared to the person in the black robe below, it looks like a giant, and just standing there, it has an overwhelming presence.

The devices appeared to be still functioning, with a slight vibration and the occasional roar. Julius didn't know what they were, but there was no doubt that the devices were in operation, and they appeared to be made of metal. The metal exterior looked a lot like the useless scrap metal that Rei had collected. However, what Rei has is something that doesn't seem to be of much use other than hardness, and the device below, if it is just to see it move, is probably worth a lot of money - at least it can be used, although it is not known what it is used for, and the two people in the black robe below should know.

The conversation between the two was not loud, but in this quiet space, only the slight movement of the strange device, and the occasional roar, allowed Julius and Rei to hear what they were saying.

"The reservoir above has risen again, what's the problem?"

"I don't know, but it's not a big deal if the reservoir rises, right?"

"Wouldn't you have any worries about something that shouldn't have happened in this season?"

One of them, the black-robed man, looked a little anxious, pacing back and forth as he spoke. Listening to the voices, the two below are both male, one young and the other a little old. It sounded a little nervous, it was the old voice.

"There shouldn't be anything wrong with this thing, right?" asked the old black-robed man, "if something goes wrong, then the reservoir doesn't matter...... Because we will all die here, and everything after death has nothing to do with us. ”