Although the staircase is connected to the stone wall, the surrounding fog is very rough and the visibility is very low, making it feel like you are walking on top of an attic in the sky, which is quite unreal......

As we descended, the fog did not get thicker than we thought, but gradually dissipated, lurking beneath our feet and overheads.

Whether you look up or down, it is all white, but the outline of a circle of wide stone steps is faintly visible, which is vague.

Occasionally, you can see a few torches stuck in the stone wall, these torches are very simple, and the flames on them are beating sickly, emitting a faint yellow light.

Zhou Tianming took down two of them and handed them to the enthusiastic eldest sister and Xiao Maruki respectively.

I calculated the time, according to the height of the mountainside of more than ten meters, we have walked down for more than ten minutes, it stands to reason that we should have entered the ground, but this stone step has been bending downward, there is no shadow of end at all.

Just thinking about this, the sharp-eyed little pill suddenly pointed ahead and shouted.

"Look, there's a fork in the road!"

Looking in the direction of her finger, there was a fork in the road below us that had never been seen before, and there was not just one, but three!

They also spiral, spiraling downwards and dispersing the previously wide stone steps into four connected but distinctly different paths.

As the stone steps diverged, the space under our feet became narrow and cramped, and the downward slope became steeper, almost vertical, forcing us to march in columns and tremble.

Faced with a sudden fork in the road, everyone hesitated.

The old man in Tai Chi said that there are eight of us, so it is better to work in groups of two and two, look for them separately, and then come here to meet. Zhou Tianming objected, believing that once separated, it was very likely that they would fall into a trap and should act together.

Orange Cat and Maruko didn't seem to be able to make up their minds and frowned. The enthusiastic eldest sister said that what Zhou Tianming said was reasonable, and said that they had said yesterday that they would act together, and now if they are separated, won't it become a repeat of the mistakes of the past?

The old man in Tai Chi seemed to be a little unhappy, muttering in Korean in his mouth, and communicating with the Korean guy he brought, not knowing what he was talking about.

I couldn't help but wonder. Last night, it was clear that he proposed to everyone to act together, but at this moment he suddenly changed his mind, and it seemed that either there was something to hide from us, or he found some new clues that he was unwilling to say.

From this point of view, it is not unreasonable for Zhou Tianming to suspect them.

But the old man in Tai Chi has already explained that he is here to find the old lady and Dragon Ball, they are private detectives in South Korea, and their purpose is different from anyone else, why do they have to act alone?

I looked at the fat man and said it was safer to walk together.

As for the choice of path, I advocate continuing down the main road from which I came, and first probing to the bottom to see where it leads. If this road doesn't work, it's a big deal to turn back and explore them one by one.

"No matter how deep you go down, the final path is definitely the ocean......"

Zhou Tianming also means this. He analyzed that this secret passage is not only on the island, but also probably has an exit in the sea.

"If you think about it, those who are missing are unaware, and even if they don't resist, if they pass through the mountains and beaches, there will inevitably be a risk of being detected by us, and it is much easier to take the waterway......"

So, we ignored the three staircases that stretched in other directions and followed the main road all the way down.

As we walked, the fog gradually became thicker, and the stone steps under our feet widened again, and the three mysterious forks disappeared at some point, and the four roads merged into one again.

"No, we've been here!"

Zhou Tianming stopped suddenly, and he pointed to the two empty iron rings on the wall to show us.

"I took these two torches, and you see, the traces of smoke are still there, and we are back again......"

If you look closely, there are indeed two less torches on the wall, and these two torches are in the hands of the enthusiastic eldest sister and Xiao Maruko respectively. But it was half an hour ago, and we walked back again.

The orange cat frowned: "This ...... How did you come back again? Could it be a ghost hitting the wall?! ”

Zhou Tianming glanced at the orange cat and said that it is a folk saying that ghosts hit the wall, and there should be a magic circle here, so that we can't go out, we can only go back and forth.

"So what do we do? Heading back? ”

Maruko is obviously not a person who has studied formations.

"I'm afraid it's futile to go back......"

Zhou Tianming said: "If my guess is correct, if I continue to go down, I should encounter those three forks in the road again, and then let's go separately and see which road is the exit." ”

The old man in Tai Chi Fu complained, saying that he had already advocated going separately, but we did not agree and delayed the work.

Zhou Tianming snorted coldly and stopped talking, he led the way in front and led everyone to continue to face down.

Sure enough, after walking for more than ten minutes, there were three forks in the road in front of us again, exactly the same as last time.

With the lesson of the last time, everyone divided into teams in pairs, and the old man in Tai Chi was naturally in a group with the young man he brought, I and the fat man could not be separated, the orange cat and Xiao Maruki all the way, Zhou Tianming with the enthusiastic eldest sister.

The two Koreans had long been reluctant to act with the large army, so they immediately walked to the side along a fork in the road, and the orange cat and Maruko also chose one and waved goodbye to us.

Zhou Tianming asked me and the fat man, saying do you want to take a fork in the road or continue to go down? I said you take a girl, you choose first. Zhou Tianming thought about it and decided to go to a fork in the road. I went on with the fat man.

Zhou Tianming took two steps, turned back, and told us not to go deep alone when encountering things, and to retreat if you can retreat to report to him first, and let him decide the next step of advance and retreat.

He should have been well-intentioned, but his tone of voice was domineering, like a decent senior brother, and we were just his followers or miscellaneous junior brothers, which made me particularly unhappy to hear.

Don't talk about the three groups of people who went to the fork in the road, just talk about me and the fat man who continue to go down.

Along the way, I kept an eye on the torches on the wall, worried about going around again.

Fortunately, the two iron rings on the wall, even the traces of the torches that had been withdrawn, never reappeared, and the stone steps under our feet did not widen, and even the fog gradually dissipated as we continued to go downward.

The further down I went, the more I suspected that we were in a formation. Because according to the distance, this place has already entered the depths of the sea, and it is unlikely that there will be a tunnel that can be built for such a long time.

I don't know how long we walked, but just when we were almost desperate, the stone steps under our feet finally stopped extending, and in front of us, a wall appeared......