I don't know why, as soon as I think of Old Man Shi's words, I feel very uncomfortable. But now, I am not far from the end of the abyss, and I can't go back.

I don't know who Old Man Shi is, but Lu Fangding's arrangement of Old Man Shi here at this most critical moment is enough to explain a lot of problems. A person like Old Man Shi shouldn't joke with me casually, and he won't talk about it.

After thinking about it for a long time, I looked back again, and Old Man Shi seemed to have finished cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, and was sitting there smoking. The dry tobacco pouch was extinguished, and it seemed that his wrinkled face could still be seen.

It's worth it when Old Man Shi casually said a nonsense, I can only comfort myself like this.

I turned my head, stopped looking back, and walked forward. The road under your feet is relatively flat, and you can occasionally see cigarette butts left on the ground. As I thought, before that, Lu Fangding and his subordinates had been in and out of here more than once.

After walking like this for about twenty minutes, the temperature seemed to be a little cooler, and the humidity of the air increased significantly. In my experience, there should be an underground water system nearby, and it is not clear whether it is a dark river or an underground lake.

Sure enough, after a maximum of ten minutes, I heard a slow sound of water, the terrain changed a little, and the rocks under my feet were like a huge tiger skin cake, cracking one by one of different depths, and a stream of water flowed through here, the water was very slow, but not clear, like very thin milk, with a faint milky white.

The water flows from east to west, and I tried it on the side, and the water is relatively shallow, not up to my knees. But the cracks in the thousands of ravines under the water could not be observed, I walked a few steps slowly, and my feet were solid, but I felt something under my feet shake violently, making me lose my balance and almost fall into the water.

The light of the miner's lamp is very transmitted, and through the faint milky white water, you can see a black shadow where you just stepped on it. I pulled out a small crowbar and pulled it under the water for a while, and by the touch, I felt like an iron cage underneath.

Iron cage ....... I remembered that when I was exploring under Ta'er Lake with Xiao Mao, I also found a lot of iron cages under this slow and not too deep water. Those iron cages are supposed to be used by the Zhangxiong people for some kind of activity or sacrifice, and the cages are full of monkeys.

I didn't think much about it at the time, and I guessed afterwards that the monkey in the iron cage might be a very cruel living sacrifice. After the sacrifice is over, the iron cage is placed directly in the water and used as a stepping stone.

I unbuckle the buckle from my belt, hook the hook to the cage, and pull it up hard. The cage was stuck very dead under the water, and it took a long time to loosen the cage.

The cage was so heavy that I guess it would be hard to lift it completely out of the water. With the buoyancy of the water, the cage was lifted up by me for a small half, and at the moment when the cage came out of the water, I looked very carefully.

Inside the cage, there was a ball of fur that seemed to have been soaked for hundreds of years. As soon as I saw this mess of fur and the bones wrapped in it, the answer I wanted to confirm was confirmed.

This iron cage is a relic of the Zhangxiong people, who must have been active here a few years ago, and held primitive and solemn living sacrifices with a bloody atmosphere.

The cages, along with the monkeys inside, were eventually sunk into the water, flattening the undulating waters.

Lu Fangding is guarding this abyss, it seems that it is not unreasonable, there are traces left by the Xiangxiong people here. Moreover, I immediately noticed that this abyss is not the same as Ta'er Lake, the nameless ancient city, and the old road of the Huyang River, those places were once the places where the Zhangxiong people lived, but Lu Fangding guarded here, indicating that this place is different.

I looked ahead, and everything ahead was still shrouded in darkness, with no end in sight.

But I believe that in the darkness that I can't see through for the time being, there must be some answer I want to know.

I pulled myself together and kept walking. The people of Lu Fangding have passed here more than once, and there must be a way that can pass smoothly. I groped as I walked, and finally walked across the waters in front of me.

After crossing here, the terrain becomes rugged again, the undulation is particularly large, and the terrain is faintly inclined downward, and the slope is about twenty or thirty degrees. After a hundred meters, the slope increases sharply, and it is a bit unstoppable to walk on it.

When I walked to the bottom of this steep slope, a familiar aura that made me feel extremely frightened suddenly permeated from front of me, like a tidal wave.

I will never forget this kind of breath in my life, as long as there is a slight, it will be keenly captured by me.

This is an extremely dangerous aura, as if one more step forward will lead to a catastrophe and no place to be buried.

This kind of breath is the same as the breath I sensed in the underground space of Ta'er Lake.

The gate, the space of the gate everywhere! Although I haven't seen a gate yet, with this breath alone, I can be sure that at the end of this abyss, there is a space full of gates.

At this moment, a thought popped into my head, go forward or retreat?

It was as if I was standing in a cloud of mist, and I couldn't possibly know what lay ahead. One step at a time, you may fall into the abyss, or you may gain something.

I'm not a particularly adventurous person, but after being involved in this big event, I understand a truth, many things in the world have what kind of effort and what kind of gain. To paraphrase a very vulgar saying, if you are reluctant to have children, you can't trap wolves.

Sensing this breath that makes every pore feel cold, I suddenly remembered Bao Weigong again. The old man who was dying had been in and out with me through a gate in the underground space of Taer Lake. He can enter and come out, which means that inside the gate is not a completely forbidden place.

Spelled !!

I suddenly made up my mind not to see for myself, and some of the truths may never come to light.

I made all the preparations, put all the things on my body in place, and I didn't bring much with me, but it was absolutely fine to support me for a week.

When I was ready, I took a firm step. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and the most difficult thing is actually this first step, as long as the first step is taken, it will be much easier later.

I walked forward step by step, about ten meters at most, and the slope became larger again, and the slope of about 30 meters long had not yet reached the end, and my heart was pounding.

In the light, I could see gates standing at the end of the slope. The majestic and heavy gates are like rolling mountains, and each door has been precipitated in time for a long time.

I was not mistaken, it was indeed a space full of gates. As far as the eye can see, there are gates everywhere, and the number is difficult to estimate.

Being here is like being in the vast universe, a door is a star.

My hands were a little shaky and my feet were weak, and although I was mentally prepared, I had the feeling of a gambler waiting for the cards to be opened at the thought of walking through the door in person.

I walked to the bottom of this slope, the bottom of the slope is connected to the space full of gates, and standing at the end of the slope, the nearest gate in front of me may be less than 20 meters.

That's when I stopped abruptly. It may be that all the attention is focused on the gate and the rest of the situation is ignored. Just as I was about to continue my steps forward, I suddenly noticed a person squatting less than three meters in front of me!

This man is completely integrated into the darkness, like a piece of black coal falling into ink, and it cannot be found when it falls in. This man was well hidden, and I didn't find out about this man until I was so close to him.

I found the other person, and the other party must have discovered me a long time ago, and when the light hit this person, the other party didn't move, looking up at me.

When I could see this man's face clearly, it was as if there was a golden hoop on his head, and his brain seemed to ripple in the cranial cavity.