Chapter 145: Into the Mist
The space formed by the dream butterfly wood is in the depths of the underground passage, and when he saw the fog that was scattered throughout the passage, like a swallowing mouth, Jing Guantian asked the old man Yan Daoru and the others to go back, and if they went on, it was estimated that these people would be in danger.
Seeing Yan Mingyu leave with a pouting face, Jing Guantian didn't pay much attention to it, but tightened his clothes and walked towards the mist.
Originally, listening to Yan Daoru and their words, he thought that this should be the kind of very weird and dangerous space that 'seems to be a person driving in a fog, can't tell the direction, and gets lost while walking', but who ever thought that things seemed to be a little different from what he imagined.
After walking for a long time, he found that there was no change in his surroundings, and the surrounding area was still the same tunnel as when he came, and others might think it was very strange because he couldn't see the road in front of him, but Jing Guantian was different, he had eagle eyes, so although the surrounding area was foggy, he could still see that the "wall of the tunnel next to it" was the wall "before he entered the fog". Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised in his heart.
In this way, I don't know how far I walked, and suddenly there was no road ahead, and at the same time, at the end of the tunnel, there was a very clear downward staircase.
"Staircase?" He frowned, hesitated, and walked down the stairs.
Just as he stepped on the stairs, an accident suddenly happened...... But seeing a layer of 'thick white clouds' suddenly rise behind him, the 'passage behind him' was tightly concealed in the blink of an eye.
βhatββοΌβ He was startled, and instinctively, hurriedly lifted the clouds and tried to walk back to the previous tunnel.
However, he pulled out more than ten meters in a row, but he didn't even see the 'shadow of the previous corridor'...... Yes! Not only did he not see it, but there were no walls in the place he expected to be walls, and there was only a vast fog as far as the eye could see.
His expression couldn't help but be a little gloomy, knowing that 'he had just stepped on this downward staircase' was less than a meter, and he didn't expect that he couldn't go back after a single step.
After a long while, he took a long breath and said to himself, "Calm down, didn't I have been mentally prepared for this before I came?" β
After calming his mind, he turned and headed back...... This time, there were no moths, and after he walked through more than ten meters of white fog, the staircase was clearly presented in front of him again; In fact, it can be regarded as Jing Guantian's mental tenacity, if he changes to others, why is he in a panic, regardless of the direction, crazy search for the path in the white clouds, it is estimated that he has long been lost in the white clouds and can't find this staircase.
With no choice but to descend the stairs...... This staircase is not very long, about a few dozen steps. Soon after, he came to the exit of the stairs.
Looking up, he saw that in front of him was a stone house with a crystal luster.
Out of caution, he did not choose to enter the stone house in the first place, but looked up and down the room in front of him with confusion in his eyes...... But I saw that the layout of this room was very regular, it was a square space, and there was a stone door on each of the four stone walls.
The reason for its crystal luster is that there is a stone pillar in the center of this stone house, and near the base of the stone pillar, there is a kind of crystal ore similar to quartz. But other than that, the house was empty and empty.
He observed for a long time, but he didn't see a reason, so he couldn't help but step into the stone house.
Unexpectedly, the moment he stepped into the stone house, there was a sudden boom, and the stone door behind him closed automatically.
He couldn't help but be slightly shocked in his heart, but fortunately he was already mentally prepared, so he immediately adjusted his mentality, and after thinking about it for a while, he changed into Wang Yang's perspective eye chip and began to look into the space behind those stone gates.
Wang Yang's clairvoyant eye does have the ability to see, but the environment here seems to have a strong shielding effect on 'Wang Yang's clairvoyant eye', and he didn't see a reason for it for a long time, so he could only vaguely see that those 'environments behind the door' seemed to be similar, and they were all the same boxy stone houses as here.
"Are they all the same? It seems that you can only choose one direction at random. He sighed secretly, and immediately chose the stone gate directly opposite, and walked forward.
With a clattering sound, the stone door slowly rose upward, and the situation behind the door was completely presented in front of him...... Sure enough, as he had observed, the structure was the same as the stone chamber he was in, empty and unfurnished. The only difference is that there is no stone pillar and crystal mine in the middle of this room, but instead of a stone statue, which seems to be carved with a monster in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", of course, many of the monsters recorded in books like "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" are described very abstractly, so it is difficult for him to determine what this monster is.
Since he didn't recognize it, he didn't think much of it, and continued to walk in the direction he had set for 'the stone gate directly in front of this stone house', and it is worth mentioning that before leaving, he kept an eye on it and marked a wall with a mark.
As the stone door opened, Jing Guantian didn't expect that 'this stone room' was suddenly 'different from the previous one', and he saw a terrible bright red in his eyes...... However, the walls of this stone room are covered with bloody bloodstones, and these bloodstones are connected to each other by blood lines, forming inexplicable runes, and the situation is very weird.
His pupils shrank slightly, and he suddenly began to lose his calmness...... Because he saw a corpse lying quietly in a corner of the house.
The man was unrecognizable, with multiple festers and bones on his body, and he could only vaguely tell that he was wearing a guard's outfit.
"Guards?" He took a deep breath and stepped into the room. I went to the corpse and took a closer look.
"It seems that this person should have died of a very corrosive liquid, probably more powerful than strong acids such as aqua regia and sulfuric acid, otherwise it would not be so unrecognizable...... He was wearing the clothes of a guard, could it be the security guard that Old Man Yan Daoru and they arranged to be on duty here. He said to himself as he observed.
Then he pulled away one of the corners of his clothes, and found that the 'corroded skin inside' was not as bad as he imagined, and he couldn't help but be stunned, thinking, "What's the matter?" Judging by the injuries on his face, the strength of this liquid should make his intestines rot, right? Why did he corrode a little epidermis, wasn't his face corroded to become like this? Wait a minute...... This...... This is...... Pierced through the heart with a sharp weapon? Could this be the cause of this man's death? But since this man has already died through his heart, why should he corrode his face with strong acid? It's also so incompletely corroded. This scenario...... Could it be that this strong acid is not a liquid spilled, but saliva...... Could it be a wound to his face...... Bitten by some kind of monster? Because the monster's saliva is corrosive, it looks as if his face has been burned by strong acid from the outside, but in fact, it is the effect achieved after the bite? β
Guessing the cause and effect, he couldn't help but feel a slight pang in his heart, raised his eyes to look at the blood-red runes on the wall, and his intuition told him that the appearance of this monster was absolutely inseparable from these runes, and it was these spells that summoned this monster. Thinking of this, he saw a slight sweat on his head.
(End of chapter)