Behind him, there was the sound of a swarm of ants crawling, and from time to time there was the sound of stones cracking. I didn't dare to look back, I just blindly pushed Liu things to run fast, there seemed to be something burning on my back all the time, and I felt that as long as I took a little slow, I would be touched and swallowed by that cold and disgusting body.

It's only a few tens of meters, but it feels so long, and when we run into the light and climb up, it feels like we've run to the end of our lives.

Standing on our heels and looking around, we found that we had returned to square one after this chase, and three thatched huts and a square appeared in front of us.

Liu Dongxi gasped for breath, and rushed to the grass house in the middle without having time to say hello.

I looked back and saw that a lot of flesh and claws had come out of the shaft we had just crawled out, and a whisker of flesh was swaggering out of it. I stepped forward, split my eyeball in the middle with a sword, and turned to follow quickly.

Liu Dongxi kicked the door open, and I followed, rushed into the room, and hurriedly turned around and pressed the door tightly.

I don't know what kind of wood this door is made of, and the golden wood grain faintly emits a warm feeling. I leaned my back against the door and looked at the furnishings.

The most conspicuous thing is a huge stone ball, on which countless people, gods, dragons, snakes, and monsters are entwined and circulated, and it is impossible to count how many layers have been carved open-grained, and it is lifelike.

The stone ball hangs underneath and extends upwards to the roof, which is probably the chimney seen outside. The rest of the place was a pile of rotten things, and the walls were filled with hollows, and I don't know what had been stored.

The whole house, except for the stone ball, is like an ordinary college men's dormitory!

After Liu Shifu came in, he didn't care about me anymore, lying on the stone ball, looking around and looking at what was still muttering in his mouth from time to time. I was in pain all over my body when I ran all the way just now, and I didn't bother to take care of him, so I sat on the ground against the door and watched him toss.

I know that this stone ball may be the Danding mentioned in the notes, of course, now I only see the Ding but not the Dan, Liu Dongxi naturally wants to find a way to open it. I'm not as selfless as Liu Shi, and I'm actually still worried about the monsters locked up outside the house.

There wasn't any movement outside, but I just couldn't hold back and wanted to open the door and take a look. I know it's a stupid idea, I've seen horror movies before, at least half of the people who open the crack in the door and look out are dead under the claws and fangs that pass through the crack in the door, but I just can't restrain this thought, I just want to open it and take a sneak peek, just like a child advises himself: "Just look at it, just look at it." ”

I didn't hold back.

Then I saw a monster right next to the shaft we had just drilled. The whole shape resembled that of a giant ant, with a long clump of antennae flickering around on the top of its head, pincer-like mouthparts rattling, and six arthropods sharp and powerful, like a six-legged steed, unconsciously striding in place, splashing pieces of rubble. The turquoise eyeballs were still throbbing in their chests, as if they were transporting life, as if they were thinking about something.

But where did the one chasing us go?

At this time, Liu Dongxi called me, and I gently closed the door and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Liu Shixi looked a little dazed, "Brother An, I don't think this place can be wrong, I went to both sides just now to take a look, those two rooms should be full of alchemy materials." He pointed to the small doors at both ends of the room, and then pointed to the countless small holes in the wall, "That should be the place where the books were stored back then, but I can't open this Danding, I looked inside, it seems that there are such layers of openwork all the way to the end, and there is no place to make a fire." ”

I took a closer look, and I don't know what material this ball is made of, it is not gold or stone, but it is a blue-gray color. It is carved with all kinds of monsters, most of them have never seen it, the carving is excellent, each of them is angry, the posture is vigorous, as if you can get up from it at any time, from the gap to look inside layer by layer dense I don't know how much.

Such a thing, it is said that it is an alchemy furnace, but it is not like it at all, is it a fire from the ground below? Is that still alchemy? It's no longer a baked dan!

I looked underground, and there were intricate lines on the ground facing the stone ball, and these lines were surrounded by layers, but in the middle was a slit the width of a palm, like a keyhole. I lay down again and looked at it carefully, and felt that there was a door, and I guess there must be such a key.

I said to Liu Shixi: "It seems that there is a key to open this Dan furnace, what does it say in the note?" ”

Liu Shixi spread out his hand, "I didn't say a word." ”

I said, "It's no longer a problem, let's split up and look for it!" ”

Liu Shidong also came over to take a closer look, nodded and said, "It should be like this, let's look for it." ”

I went to the door again and looked at the monster, and found that it was no longer there, so I guess it couldn't find us, so it went somewhere else. After putting the bolt back on, I saw that Liu went to the house on the left, and I turned around and went to the right.

The two houses are connected to the middle house, and when I push the door, the light inside is much darker than in the big house, and I can barely see clearly. I took out the police pass and turned on the flash and took a look around the room, this room against the wall is a shelf of two stones, on one side of the shelf there are boxes, on the other side of the shelf is a cloud of blurred things, it is estimated that it is the alchemy material that Liu Dongxi said.

I leaned over and took a look, the box was the size of a shoe box, very heavy, probably made of stone, smooth inside and out, very well made, there was some powdery stuff in it, I don't know what it was. I didn't sniff and poke it in a way, but put it back in place very carefully. It was all about the same box, and I checked them one by one, and there was nothing in shape that was suitable for making keys.

So I turned to the other side, and the shelves on this side were disgusting, the things on them had long since lost their original shape, and most of them were lying there like a dead and rotting animal.

I turned my eyes around the room, and there was really nothing else to search for, so I could only look for it on this shelf, and I endured my nausea, and covered my nose and pulled the light inside these things. I don't know how many years these things have been on this shelf, some of them release a slip of gas when they poke them, and some of them can even bleed! For a moment I felt like I was in the potions lab at Hogwarts, wielding a short sword from ancient times to slash potions that might be even older than it, and roaring: Hand over the key!

Nothing was found, and the key still didn't know where it was hidden in what form,

I began to think about the fact that maybe the key wasn't so logically hidden in this house, and that it was impossible for us to find it so easily. It should follow its owner like any other key.

Like a bolt of lightning piercing my mind, I suddenly realized that the key I had been looking for had always been in my hand!