Chapter Eighty-Three: The Giant in the Blood Pool
The entrance to the dark alleyway gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression, like the mouth of an abyss monster, as if taking a step into it will fall into the belly of the monster, and the indescribable sense of danger makes everyone tremble, and every step towards it seems extremely difficult, and the emotion of fear torments many people...... Including Chen Xian.
Ever since he could remember, he didn't know what fear was since he was a child, because he knew his physique very well...... Like a mortal who has been completely rejected by death, he can heal himself even if his body is destroyed extendically, the word death is too far away for him, he has never felt fear because his life is threatened, but at this moment he is really afraid.
Of course, it was not so much that he was afraid, but that his body had an instinctive reaction of biological fear, and when he sensed the danger coming from the depths of the alley, his hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and his heart rate also rose rapidly, and the whole person's physical state became a little strange, like a machine running at high speed under high pressure...... He could even hear the adrenaline in his body.
The leader of the way into the alleyway was Mr. Skeleton, followed by Chen Xian and the old man who wanted to kill the Meishan God.
"How can it be so strong...... "While Chen Xian was walking in the laneway, he was also secretly analyzing in his heart, no matter what the origin of this ancient life that lived in Meishan, its strength was beyond everyone's imagination, and it could easily suppress everyone with the breath it exuded, and under its breath, it seemed that even the air had become a solidified liquid, and every time he breathed, he would have a feeling of chest tightness and breathlessness.
"Familiar breath...... I think I've seen it somewhere......." Mr. Skeleton muttered, as the alleyway was so narrow that his body could only shrink to the level of a normal person, leaving a blood-colored footprint on the floor tiles with every step, "this ancient aura...... Not a ....... that this life can have"
Hearing Mr. Skeleton's muttering words, Chen Xian couldn't help but glance at him and hurriedly asked.
"Have you seen it?"
"It's just a ...... An analogy. Mr. Skeleton said distressedly, "Its breath feels very familiar to me, as if it came from the same place, don't you think its breath is similar to mine?" ”
Chen Xian wanted to say that the degree of similarity is not high, because no matter how you feel it, the breath of this ancient life is more aggressive, like some kind of highly contagious virus, which can incorporate everything it touches into its own breath and become a part of its own extension to the outside world, if you really want to talk about similarity....... The only thing that is similar is the ancient element in the breath.
It's like the mold that grows on old wooden furniture, and you can smell the smell of decay over time.
The roadway is long.
From the entrance to the position where Chen Xian was at the moment, there should be a distance of about fifty meters, and they want to reach the end...... There may still be a long way to go to reach the pool that the old man Meishan said, and with the flashlight shining through, you can't see where the end of the roadway is, so you can imagine how long this underground roadway is.
In the process of moving slowly, Chen Xian also took the time to observe this underground passage with traces of artificial construction, the walls are paved with a layer of shiny black stone bricks, and many totems of unknown meaning are engraved on the bricks, unlike traditional religious totems, the structure of these patterns is extremely simple, most of them only have a few abstract and simplified lines, and those lines are winding and twisted as if the walls are crawling with worms.
At the same time, as the crowd continued to go deeper into the alleyway, far away...... In addition to the sound of water, there was a very dull heartbeat, and the ubiquitous sound was made by the god Meishan.
"It's almost there."
Chen Xian said in a low voice, slowly following behind Mr. Skeleton, with his consciousness as the leader, the black light parasites hidden in his body were also summoned by him, constantly turning into hair-thick strips of metal wires drilling out of the surface of the skin, like antennas erected on some kind of mechanical device, they extended from Chen Xian's body of different lengths, and there was no overlap between them, and the top of each wire strip was "connected" to the stone wall of the roadway.
Looking from the front, Chen Xian seemed to have a dense black metal mesh growing on his body, isolating everyone behind him from the back of the alleyway in an almost airtight attitude.
In this defensive posture, no matter what kind of attack is coming directly in front of him, Chen Xian has absolute certainty that he can block it, at least he will not expose the person behind him in an instant, even if it can only block the moment.
Perhaps because he felt Chen Xian's slightly heavy attitude, the people who followed him even became careful about breathing, especially Li Daosheng, an outsider who broke in halfway, and there was only one question hovering in his mind at this moment.
It's really a life-and-death moment, can Chen Xian be reliable?
After all, he is an outsider, not to mention that he has clashed with their team under Meishan...... Can Chen Xian really keep me, an outsider, regardless of his previous suspicions?
Li Daosheng thought about it carefully, but no matter how he thought about it, he could only comfort himself, Chen Xian was not the kind of person who was cautious, not to mention that he couldn't rely on others now, he could only rely on Chen Xian and the skeleton.
"What are I doing in Meishan when I have nothing to do....... Isn't this cheap......." Li Daosheng muttered softly, complaining about his IQ as if talking to himself.
If you don't come to Meishan, then you will definitely not fall into the current situation, you can avoid being beaten by Chen Xian at the bottom of the mountain, and you can not come to this ghost place....... As soon as he arrived here, he was deprived of all his abilities, and in an instant, he changed from an extraordinary person to an ordinary mortal, could this place be a little more torturous?
"Don't talk, it's coming."
Suddenly, Chen Xian's voice came from the front, and Li Daosheng stopped his voice in an instant.
Before they knew it, everyone had marched to the end of the alleyway, and about twenty meters in front of them was the exit.
At this distance, Chen Xian could clearly hear many sounds.
The subtle sound of running water.
The sound of a dull heartbeat.
There is also a sound similar to the sound of animals moving and jumping in the water.
Walking to the exit, Mr. Skeleton stopped first, glanced back at Chen Xian, and motioned for him to come over and have a look.
Listening to the increasingly deafening heartbeat not far away, Chen Xian quietly walked up to Mr. Skeleton and poked his head out with extreme caution.
Outside the exit is a huge underground space, but eighty percent of the area is flooded with blood-colored liquid, and the remaining twenty percent looks like a platform, and there is a row of seven steps about 100 meters wide at the very edge, and at the bottom is the pool mentioned by the old man Mei Shan, which is also the widest area in this underground space...... The liquid in the pool had a strong fishy odor, and the whole was a shiny dark red, not like ordinary blood, but seemed to be mixed with other substances.
There were many burning golden oil lamps on the surrounding stone walls, and although I didn't know what the fuel was in those dazzling lampshades, I could smell from the smell of burning...... It's a lot like some kind of animal fat.
Although there is no sunlight in the underground deep here, under these hundreds of golden oil lamps, the entire underground space is still as bright as day, and even looks a little golden, especially after Chen Xian noticed that the bricks laid on the wall were gold bricks...... I can only sigh that the people who built this place in the first place are really rich.
Of course, compared to this splendid and expensive underground space, Chen Xian was most surprised..... It was the "man" who sat in the pool of blood.
Its limbs are so well proportioned that it barely differs from that of a modern human, but its exposed body alone is nearly ten meters tall, completely like an enlarged modern human...... It is like a corpse scorched by fire, the skin exposed to the air is charred black, and some skin tissues even have carbonization, and wisps of glittering golden light can be vaguely seen in the cracks of the carbonized skin, like blood swimming in its body.
"This ...... It's the god of Meishan??! ”