The morning sun was not shining, the sky was gray, there were some dark clouds, and it looked like a cloudy day.

Li Changjing could never have imagined that the so-called array cave would actually be at the bottom of the town, and the entrance happened to be built in a small courtyard behind Bai Yueling's house.

At this time, this small courtyard was already overcrowded, surrounded by a large group of people, except for Li Changjing and Lu Li, the rest were all members of the Bai family.

Bai Yueling fastened an armed belt around her waist, and then pinned a dagger with a black blade, a bundle of ropes, two flashlights, and a sturdy cloth bag, and then said to Li Changjing: "Brother Li, I'm ready, let's go down." ”

Li Changjing didn't rush to agree, thought about it, turned to Lu Li and said, "Brother Lu, I want you to go down with us, what do you think?" ”

Lu Li was stunned for a moment, of course he didn't care about himself, but this array was extremely important to the Bai family, and if he wanted to go in, he would definitely have to ask for the consent of others, so he looked at the patriarch Bai Xu who was standing next to him with an inquiring gaze.

"It's okay, let's go down together, one more person is considered to be one more point of care." Bai Xu nodded and agreed.

So Lu Li also asked for a dagger, pinned it to his waist, and stood with Li Changjing and Bai Yueling in front of the entrance of the cave that was more than one person high.

"Dad, let's go down." Bai Yueling first waved her hand at Bai Xu, and then said to Bai Tianhua: "Brother, you take care of your father above, and after we find out the situation below, we will come up as soon as possible." ”

Bai Baihua snorted, "With me leading someone to guard, the Zhou family will not dare to come over and make trouble." Stay safe, don't stay down there for too long, and come up as soon as there is any danger. ”

Bai Yueling waved her hand and said nonchalantly: "Don't worry, I haven't walked a thousand times below, but I have also done it eight hundred times, and I am very familiar." As he spoke, he tightened his belt and was about to enter the cave.

At this moment, Bai Tianhua suddenly shouted: "Xiaoling, why don't you go down another day......"

"What stupid thing are you talking about?" Bai Yueling glanced at him strangely, "Is there any difference between going down today and going down another day?" It is important to find out the cause of daddy's poisoning as soon as possible. ”

Bai Tianhua hummed and stopped talking, but his face was faintly ugly.

"Let's go." Bai Yueling turned on a flashlight and walked into the cave first, followed by Li Changjing and Lu Li.

At first, the entrance of the cave was led inside, but after walking seven or eight meters, it immediately turned down, and there was an artificially built concrete ladder on the side, which spiraled and fell down in a winding shape, looking a bit like some civil cellars in the northeast.

The three of them walked down the stairs, about twenty meters, and soon reached a spacious underground cave.

The cave was dimly lit, and there was a faint gray mist floating in the air, which greatly hindered people's vision, and the scene five meters away was no longer recognizable, and they had to rely on flashlights to move forward.

"Be careful, it's dark here, there are obstacles everywhere, don't trip your feet." Bai Yueling walked in the front, leading the way and reminding at the same time.

"Miss Xiaoling, it's so dark here, you usually come in alone, won't you be afraid?" Lu Li couldn't help but ask.

"Of course I was scared at first, but after walking a lot, I wasn't afraid." Bai Yue said with a relaxed expression: "It's like if you walk home at night, even if there is no light at home, you still won't be afraid, right?" ”

"Although it makes sense, if you are born with little courage, it is still difficult to eliminate the fear of darkness."

"What, a big man, he's still afraid of the dark." Bai Yueling turned her head and glared at Lu Li, revealing a very disdainful look.

Lu Li ignored her, but got closer to Li Changjing, frowned, and said, "Brother Li, I always feel that there is a strange smell in the air, I don't know if you smell it?" ”

Li Changjing's heart moved, he sniffed carefully, and didn't smell anything, but he knew that Lu Li's senses were very sensitive, so he asked, "Is this smell harmful to the human body?" ”

"Probably not." Lu Li shook his head, "It's just that this smell is very strange, like the body odor of some creature, which makes people very disgusted." ”

As they spoke, the three of them had walked forty or fifty meters, and soon reached a platform made of concrete.

After getting on the platform, Bai Yueling pointed to the wall in front of her with a flashlight, and suddenly a black and bright light was immediately refracted back.

"Is this the Scorpion Stone?" Lu Li looked at the walls inlaid with jet-black shiny black stones, and exclaimed, "So many quantities, it's appropriate to calculate them in tons, right?" ”

"That's just a small part, and there's more to the walls inside." Bai Yueling said proudly: "Although our Bai family has picked a lot of them over the past few hundred years, it is less than one percent here. ”

Li Changjing stared at the wall covered with scorpion stones and did not speak. In fact, his eyesight is now more than ten times sharper than before, and he can see some scenes that ordinary people can't understand.

For example, the large number of scorpion stones in front of him are emitting a layer of mist-like gas at this moment, colorless and odorless, and they are being slowly sucked into the deepest part of the cave by a strange suction.

But Bai Yueling didn't seem to have any sense, walked to the wall, pulled out the black dagger from her waist, "slammed" the ground, inserted it into the wall, and then cut it slowly like sawing wood, and cut it off a piece of scorpion stone the width of chopsticks from it in a short time.

"The hardness of the scorpion stone is actually not very high, but it is similar to ordinary stones, my knife is made by my father at the invitation of Yang Jingtian, a forging master in the northwest, and I can't say what materials are used, but it is very easy to cut the scorpion stone."

Bai Yueling cut four or five pieces of almost large scorpion stones and put them into a cloth bag, about thirty or forty catties, then pinned the knife back to her waist, clapped her hands, and said, "Okay, these scorpion stones will stay here for the time being, let's go deeper and take a look, to see if the cause of my father's poisoning is inside." ”

So the group of three continued to walk inside.

As we went deeper and deeper, more scorpion stones appeared on the surrounding walls, all of which looked to be naturally formed, some of them were exposed, and some of them were submerged into the walls, only a little bit of them were exposed. At the same time, a very uncomfortable feeling began to appear out of thin air.

Li Changjing and Lu Li's faces changed, and they all stopped.

Bai Yueling turned around and said strangely, "Why don't you leave?" ”

Li Changjing's face was very solemn, and he said softly: "Brother Lu? ”

Lu Li nodded, and said in a trembling voice, "I think, I have already found the cause of Patriarch Bai's poisoning." ”