Chapter Twenty-Three: The Sealed Eye of the Earth (Part II)
The further down I went, the more neat the stone path became, and the stairs began to appear under my feet, and the texture of the tunnel stone became very strange, it was a black rock that I had never heard of, the surface was very smooth, showing a warm wax, and the flashlight light actually felt transparent.
The angle of inclination of the road also began to increase, and just when I thought that the next section of the road was likely to become a straight up and down tunnel similar to the Yeling Tiankeng, there was a sudden 90-degree sharp turn in front of me, and after the corner, the vision in front of me suddenly became wider, and there was a faint blue light permeating.
At the end of the road, there was a huge underground cave in front of me, the size of a football field, full of stalactites, both the top of the cave and the bottom of the cave were occupied by the tall milk pillar forest, and there were clusters of green light floating between the stone forests, like ghost fire, but the color was different, which was the source of the ghost light in the cave.
I have seen the magnificence of the underground ruins of Fengyang, and I have also seen the magnificence of the Hell Tree, but these giant underground stalactite forests shrouded in blue fluorescence halo in front of me, thus exuding a dreamlike atmosphere, made me have an illusion at this moment, as if I was experiencing an aesthetic dream, not reality.
After a short period of confusion, I immediately came to my senses, and sighed in my heart, how nice it would be if such a beautiful place was not related to the eye of the earth! It's a pity that so many previous experiences have confirmed that wherever it is related to the Eye of the Earth and the prehistoric gods, you must not be confused by its appearance, otherwise you won't even know how you died.
I grasped the apocalypse, raised my vigilance in my heart, and saw that there was a track on the ground of the stone forest that was not quite the same as the surrounding rocks, which was obviously caused by frequent passing, and I suddenly had a plan in my heart, and walked quickly into the stalactite forest.
Strange to say, the light clusters floating in the stone forest and emitting a clear halo seemed to be conscious, and after I walked into the stone forest, they all avoided and made way for it. I don't know what these light clusters are, and I don't dare to touch them at will, so I can only ignore them for the time being.
Soon I was deep into the stalactite forest, surrounded by man-high stone pillars, with almost zero visibility, and for some reason, I always felt that the blue light around me had become blurred.
Is it the light clusters that have become faint? I wondered in my heart that in this case, the blue light would be completely dimmed in a few minutes, and when there would be no light source, I would rely on a flashlight to walk through the stone forest where I couldn't see my fingers, and if there was any danger hidden in it, I would definitely suffer.
Thinking about it, I hurried to my pace, but after a few minutes, I froze in front of an extremely thick stalactite column.
The trail that I regarded as a signpost came to an abrupt end, and the first thing that came to my mind at this time was that this stone pillar had a mechanism, or an illusion, but when I checked it closely, I found that it was not, it was a real stalactite pillar.
This puzzled me, and after searching left and right to no avail, I had to exit first, but when I turned to look for the track, it was gone.
I panicked in my heart, just at this time the light that permeated the stalactite forest was even more foggy, and everything I saw in front of me was blurry, so I turned on the flashlight.
Under the light, no, the situation is not right, the flashlight light is hazy in my eyes, I damn it, it's not that the light clusters are getting weaker, but my eyes are becoming blind a little bit!
This strange turn of events made me lose my bearings in an instant, and the last glimmer of light disappeared completely after a while, and I was blind......
I lost my sight, and fear rushed over me like a tidal wave, and worst of all, I heard voices approaching around me.
Dada, dada, dada......
It was like the sound of horses' hooves moving, and when I thought of the legends I heard on the road, I immediately had an eerie image of a human and horse skeleton in my mind. My grandmother, is the legend true, there is really a human skeleton, and I met it in such an unfavorable situation?
I wanted to run at once, but I couldn't see it, and I had just run a few steps before I hit a stalactite, and I almost fainted, good fellow.
I was dizzy, the crisp sound of horses' hooves was still approaching, I struggled to stand up, my back against the stalactite I had just hit, my hands clenched the apocalypse to make a defensive gesture, and I waited in horror, my heart was about to jump out of my throat.
Dada, dada, dada......
In my senses, the sound of horses' hooves kept approaching, but I waited for a few minutes and nothing happened. I wondered in my heart, it stands to reason that with the distance between that voice and me, it should have been in front of me a long time ago, how could there be no change at all, and what is even more strange is that the voice gives me the feeling that it is still close, this is impossible!
People always have an instinctive fear of the dark, because the dark represents the unknown, not so much that we are afraid of the dark, but that we are afraid of the unknown, and now this strange unknown is even more terrifying, and waiting in this situation is more torturous than any kind of torture.
After waiting for a long time, I couldn't bear it any longer, and shouted loudly: "Daoist, where are you?" ”
There was no response, only my echo in the huge cave, and under the reflection of the surrounding stone walls, it became extremely strange, almost like the roar of the devil, and it was impossible to hear that it was my voice.
The piercing echo made me shudder, and at this moment, I finally realized what it means to call the heavens and the earth to be ineffective, what to do, what to do?
Sou......
Just as my heart was almost broken, a sound of breaking the sky sounded directly in front of me, and I reflexively swung my sword to block, and the apocalypse did not feel a collision or force, but I heard a terrible howl.
It was a woman's voice, very ugly, and it had a chilling tone.
Someone!
I was shocked, could it be that someone was cut by me? If you think about it, no, if I cut someone, I can't feel it at all, unless I cut it......
Ghost!
As soon as this thought arose, I felt goosebumps all over my body, and hurriedly returned to the sword to protect my chest, almost at the same time, there was a cold feeling above my head, and my heart was suddenly shocked, and I hurriedly swung my sword to the top of my head, but I didn't expect that there was a sound of breaking the air in front of me.
I was suddenly shocked, and I said in my heart, I don't know what one thing in the stone forest?
Since my eyes couldn't see, although I could hear the general direction of danger, I couldn't react precisely, and my hands and the apocalypse were defending the top of my head, so I couldn't react effectively at this time, so I had to dodge sideways by feeling.
As I reacted, I sensed an icy chill grazing my left rib, presumably nailed into the stalactite behind me, but I didn't hear a sound. At the same time, the apocalypse that slashed at the top of his head also pounced, but a terrible voice came from above again, this time the voice was a male voice, which was also extremely gloomy.
At this time, I didn't know how I was ambushed, the track of the line that was clearly visible on the ground of the stalactite forest must have been deliberately left by the lame horse, my blindness, and these unknown things that attacked me at this time must have been a trap set by him.
Damn, this is really unlucky, if I can catch up with the Taoist priest and the lame horse, and follow each other, I will definitely not fall for this bird, what can I do now?
As my mind turned, I rolled to the ground, stumbling and groping in all directions, and the apocalypse in my hand was even more reckless and slashing to prevent the inexplicable thing from getting close, but this was not a long-lasting solution after all, and it was impossible to grope my way out of the stalactite forest without being able to see.
Just as I was struggling, a turning point came.
Slowly, I saw a lot of shadows in the darkness in front of me - there were many shadows, very blurry, I didn't understand what it was, but my heart suddenly rejoiced, I could see things, didn't it mean that my eyes were returning to normal?
Sure enough, as time went by, the shadow became more and more obvious, and a hazy outline began to appear around me, and then I realized that the shadow I had just seen was actually the shadow of me waving the apocalypse, and the outline that appeared at this time was the surrounding stalactite forest.
The joy of seeing my eyes is indescribable, and if it weren't for the danger I was in at this time, I would have cried out loud to express the joy of regaining my sight.
However, the strange thing is that although I can barely see things clearly, the world I see at the moment is a little strange, how to say, everything around me has turned into black and white, just like the black and white TV more than 20 years ago.
I couldn't comprehend this change, but at this time I couldn't think about it, because I saw countless hideous-looking transparent figures floating in the stalactite forest, all of them shrouded in a thick black gas, and their expressions were vicious, surrounding me, but I hesitated because of the apocalypse in my hand.
Although I had guessed that there was more than one terrible thing around me just now, I never expected that there would be so many powerful ghosts watching around, and if it weren't for the magical apocalypse in my hand, I am afraid that these terrible ghosts would have been torn to pieces.
I pressed the sword in front of me with one hand, leaning against the stone pillar, vigilantly staring at the group of powerful ghosts in front of me, and with the other hand pulled out a few talismans from my backpack, which contained both thunder talismans and evil talismans, I had already used them in the town of Suo Nether, and the evil charm could even clean up those powerful resentful souls in the town of Suo Netherworld, and it was naturally not a problem to deter these powerful ghosts in front of me.
Just as I was about to take out the evil charm from these talismans and stick it on my body, a strange sound suddenly came into my mind, and I froze, and suddenly had a strange feeling in my heart, and I actually had the urge to throw away the evil charm in my hand.
I was horrified, and before I could figure out what was going on, the strange sound sounded again, and although I still couldn't understand it, I had a kind of realization in my heart that I understood the meaning of the strange sound, and it was actually for me to put away the talisman.
I'm a good girl, what kind of fairy is this? Knowing the meaning of the voice, I didn't know what to do, and at this moment, I noticed that my newly restored vision was beginning to blur again, and I was startled, and hurriedly put the talisman back in my backpack.
Sure enough, the blurred vision returned to normal again.
Although I still have doubts in my heart, but this time I already know that the recovery of my vision is not really restored, but something is helping me, she is afraid of the evil charm, it is likely to be a spirit, which reminds me of ghost eyes, could it be that the kind ghost among the ghosts here looks at me and is handsome, so he helps me?
As soon as this thought came to mind, I quickly shook my head, and said in my heart that this is all mess.
I regained my eyesight beyond I expected, and I found myself able to see through things, and with a single thought, I could see through the dense stalactite forest around me to the corridor where I came.
This is something I never expected, so that the stone forest labyrinth is not a threat, and I slowly walked towards the other end of the stone forest while guarding against the ghosts around me with a sword in one hand.
The ghost's attack on me did not stop because of fear, at least more than twenty ghosts attacked me in the process of my progress, but without exception, all of them were cut into black smoke by the apocalypse, the Dao Gate artifact is worthy of being a Dao Gate artifact, even if a person like me who does not have a half-point cultivation foundation can deal with these terrible things.
Under the shock of the apocalypse, it didn't take long for me to walk out of the stalactite forest, and after I walked out of the stone forest, all the ghosts stopped, just watched from a distance, and did not chase out.
I was relieved, but strangely enough, the sound of horses' hooves, which had been haunting my ears all this time, was still ringing, and it was still approaching me, but I couldn't see anything. At this time, I could already hear the loud roar from the depths of the cave and the shouting of people, obviously it was the Taoist priest fighting with the lame horse, and in a hurry, I didn't care about the sound of the horse's hooves, and quickly ran in the direction where the sound came from.
In fact, the cave should be full of stalactites, but the stalactites in it have been artificially cleaned, and there are still stone piles left on the ground, I don't know if it was done by a lame horse.
When I finally arrived at the place, I found that there were many carcasses of flesh-winged bats scattered on the ground, all of them without exception, and the flesh-winged wings on their backs were all sucked dry, and the death was terrifying.
At a glance, I saw the Taoist priest who was fighting with the lame horse, he was emitting this red light all over his body at this time, and he had obviously been forced to the point of cultivating at the expense of the secret method, and then looked at the lame horse on the other side, at this time he was completely indescribable.
I saw a pair of huge fleshy wings more than two meters long growing on his back, which were exactly the same as the wings of a meat-winged bat, and a pair of extremely long fangs also grew out of his mouth, which looked like a giant humanoid bat.
And next to their fight, there was a very large crater that resembled a volcanic eruption, and on it there was a stone lid that resembled a straw hat, carved from a strange gray stone, and densely covered with runes, and I gasped after just one look.
The rune on it is a curse that I am familiar with, so under the straw hat-shaped stone cover, is it the eye of the earth?