Cautiously, for fear of accidentally breaking the "ant" rope ladder, Ma Shuo slowly climbed down little by little.

Looking back at the surroundings occasionally, the all-stone cylindrical passage with a diameter of nearly two meters really has nothing to borrow from except for the ant rope ladder.

After descending about a hundred meters, Ma Shuo looked down at his feet, and the soldier ant was always three or four meters below him.

felt that for every meter that Ma Shuo descended, he also fell backwards by one meter. This allows the light of the Night Pearl to always shine around Ma Shuo, but it does not affect his every move.

This also made Ma Shuo couldn't help but admire: "Is the size of the brain also increasing? Otherwise, how can you be so smart?"

As he crawled downward, Ma Shuo felt an occasional faint stream of hot air coming up from below, as if it was the air exhaled by some giant creature. It was mixed with the inconspicuous smell of sulfur, which made him unconsciously fall into tension and vigilance.

But the call from consciousness became more and more obvious, and Ma Shuo had to continue to climb down.

When I felt that I was almost at the bottom, I subconsciously glanced at the top of my head again. At the very top of the passage, there was only a barely indistinguishable blue point of light, flickering in the darkness.

These ants are so powerful that the passage is completely straight for hundreds of meters, and the exit can still be seen.

"Whew!" Another more obvious warm air current, the smell of sulfur choked Ma Shuo couldn't help but cough twice. Look at the soldiers under their feet suddenly accelerated forward, and fell to a flat ground less than twenty meters away.

Seeing this, Ma Shuo no longer hesitated, and gently jumped back, twisted his waist, turned around, and bounced to the opposite side of the passage, and on the slightly rough cave wall, his limbs gently pushed again, and rebounded down for a distance of three or four meters.

In this way, three or four easily fell back to the ground, and when he looked around, his mouth suddenly opened in surprise.

This is actually an underground rock crack, although it is impossible to see where the edge is due to the light, but under the reflection of the night pearl, the rock surface with a radius of seven or eight meters on the upper and lower sides is faintly reflected with sparkles.

It's like the stars under the night sky, but what appears is a blue light like a night pearl.

Ma Shuo slowly squatted down and pulled out a flash of light in front of his feet. I took a closer look at it by the light of the night pearl, and couldn't help but pout and throw it aside: "Diamond, I thought it was a good thing!"

The substance formed by coal under high pressure in the ground is ultimately carbon, which has few advantages other than being hard enough. There was a little bit of disappointment, but it didn't affect Ma Shuo's mood.

In this case, Ma Shuo immediately stepped in the direction that called him. I don't know what it is, but it's very similar to the feeling given to him by the gold-eating ant beast spirit.

The soldier ants always followed behind, illuminating the way forward for Ma Shuo. Hundreds of worker ants climbed down the passage overhead, following the soldier ants to protect his safety.

Ma Shuo was also surprised to see this situation, but then he was completely relieved. Just follow along, maybe you can use them!

The rock was very cracky, and only the point where he came down was flat ground, and everything else was a heavily sloping ramp to the lower left.

Occasionally, I see three or two boulders propped up in the middle of the gap, so that the space that has gone through many years can survive and has not collapsed.

Thanks to Ma Shuo's good sense of balance, coupled with the fact that the soldier ants took the lead in exploring the way with the night pearl, and the worker ants occasionally formed a rope ladder, Ma Shuo could easily "go up and downhill" for a distance of more than 1,000 meters.

As the ambient temperature got warmer, the smell of sulfur became more pungent.

Although Ma Shuo didn't know where he was now, he could be sure that he was heading northwest, and that there was probably an underground magma river ahead.

Sure enough, after turning a corner, the heat wave suddenly hit the nose, and at another corner more than 100 meters ahead, a large area of orange-red reflection on the rock was clearly visible.

Smelling the extremely thick sulfur and scorching heat in the air, Ma Shuo unconsciously wrinkled his nose, turned back to the ant colony behind him and ordered, "Stay here, I can go over by myself." ”

After saying that, he walked to the light, and a group of ants were really obedient, and took a few steps back slightly and stopped following.

Ma Shuo, who heard the movement behind him, smiled slightly, and his steps couldn't help but speed up by two points.

The moment he came to the corner, Ma Shuo suddenly had a premonition in his heart that the thing that called him was not far away.

When he turned the corner, he took a closer look, and saw a cylindrical stone platform standing in the middle of the eastward river of magma flowing under the cliff in front of him.

A carapace covered with mysterious patterns in the shape of a black crystal floated in mid-air and slowly rotated.

The carapace seemed to be calling at imminent sight, but Ma Shuo forcibly observed left and right.

Except for his own area of six or seven meters, the rest of the place is almost vertical and smooth rock walls. The strange rock hanging above his head was like a long knife, and below it was a river of magma that reached thousands of degrees.

Look at the hole behind you, up and down, left and right, many red or green gems are inlaid in it. As the book says, the vast majority of gems come from magma regions.

But no matter how beautiful the gem was, it was useless now, and he wanted to find something that he could climb with, but his wish was completely shattered in an instant.

In desperation, he could only look at the cylindrical platform not far away again.

The platform is only more than three meters in diameter and less than four meters in diameter, but between them is a river of magma nearly ten meters wide. Without any tools, he can only jump by himself, and if he can't jump in place or goes too far, all that awaits him is death.

The scorching sensation through the soles of his shoes forced Ma Shuo to take a deep breath and take a few steps back. Bent down, his right leg suddenly exerted force, ran to the river like an arrow from the string, and jumped high.

People can't turn in the air, so they can only watch themselves jump to the highest point, and then fall at high speed along the parabolic trajectory towards the stone platform.

"Oh no! the strength is too great!" Seeing that he was about to fly past the top of the carapace, Ma Shuo suddenly twisted his waist and turned around to spread his limbs, increasing the area where he could withstand air resistance.

The upper body then pressed down suddenly, and at the moment when the whole body was about to fly out of the platform, the index fingers of both hands were instantly clasped into a claw-shape, and the brain instantly chanted "gloves out"!

"Bang!

The hands with golden gloves were able to grasp the edge of the stone platform, and the whole body was drooping underneath.

The body shook and rubbed off a few pieces of rubble, and "poof" fell into the magma river and disappeared.

Ten fingers turned over and rolled onto the platform with force, just squatting next to the carapace, and the cold sweat on his forehead was instantly evaporated by the high temperature. After such close contact, Ma Shuo really felt that the carapace in front of him was also a beast spirit.

It's just, where do you seem to have seen it in a trance?