Compared to the cities we left, the space within the "open door" seemed very empty, and the area was much smaller than the others.

The slope of the gentle steps is so small that if you don't look closely, you won't see much of a difference.

It wasn't until the four of us had traveled a few kilometers and looked back that we could see the height of the terrain we were at!

Although the slope is not very shaky, the construction of the steps allows us to walk all the way, so that we are leaning forward all the way.

This structure reminds me of the construction model of the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty, which had many ground buildings in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The emperor's coffin is parked under the treasure roof of the sealed soil, and the three feet three are measured along the diamond wall, which is the position of the emperor's coffin. The reason why it is so accurate is because the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were confident that their dynasty would be immortal for thousands of years, and there were guards of the imperial tomb, and they were not afraid of any tomb robbers.

Before leading to the Vajra Wall, there was a road that sloped upwards, and everyone walked forward with their heads bowed as they passed through it. Just like we are going up now, the purpose of this construction is to show the majesty of the emperor, so that no one can look directly at the emperor's mausoleum.

Of course, this association of mine has nothing to do with the ancient city where we are located. The fundamental emperor of the Han Dynasty, a thousand years ago from the Qing Dynasty, was not as pretentious as the Qing emperor, and would not be bored to build anything to show the upward slope of the emperor's might.

The halls on both sides of the steps are not next to each other, but only one every 100 meters, and the halls on the left and right are not opposite. Rather, they were built in a staggered manner, and the areas separated by each other were empty and empty.

Inside the open hall, they are all the same furnishings. A long table on which the skulls of various animals are placed. An incense burner case is placed in front of the table.

The fat man was sharp-eyed, and found a lot of candlesticks at the door of the main hall, some of which could still be lit.

Along the way, the fat man and I lit all the candlesticks that could be lit. Although there are not many of them, the candles lit are sparkling. However, brightness gives a person an innate sense of security. I suddenly felt that my surroundings were not so gloomy and compassionate.

After lighting the candlestick in the nearby hall, the fat man returned to us and said, "Xiao Su, do you know what it means that this candlestick and the incense burner are combined?" ”

I shook my head, not knowing what he was trying to say.

The fat man explained to me with great interest: "The ancients believed that lighting candles and burning incense can lead to yin and yang, and they have connected to the netherworld. This combination of patterns is also in line with the belief of the legendary "Inner Earth", and they should use this combination to understand with the Netherworld. ”

Of course, what the fat man said was just a feudal superstitious statement, and if I had heard this explanation before, I would have scoffed at it.

But now, after all I've been through so much weirdness and unbelief, I've come to believe a lot of things I didn't believe before.

A combination of a candlestick and an incense burner

, placed in the sacrificial city of this "Inner Earth", in ancient times, they might really get in touch with the Netherworld in this way.

We proceeded very slowly, very carefully according to our observations, and hardly missed any corners. I understand him, although Master Liu is a masterpiece of a generation, but after all, he is flesh and blood, and after such a long period of missing contact, even if his life is not in danger, there may be physical injuries. Perhaps, in some corner of this city, you will find Master Liu's figure.

We searched all the way, lit the candlesticks all the way, and groped our way forward.

This time, we walked for nearly forty minutes, and the halls on both sides were still the same as the structures we had just entered the city. Looking back, it looks like we're standing on top of a small hill. As you look ahead, the steps gradually slow down, and the road ahead becomes a street with no slope.

As we walked forward, we analyzed the situation in front of us. The fat man said, "Don't you think that there are many factors in this underground world that we are familiar with. Like, this stone road has no end! ”

"And the downhill when we go down here!" Yiyi added.

After the two of them finished speaking, I seemed to have found some problems, but the problem seemed to be clueless, and it seemed that I could express some problems, so I said to the two of them, "I found a problem. As Yiyi said, when we came down from the Gobi Desert, we passed through a stone road that seemed to lead to the Netherworld. And now, we're starting to go up again. This model doesn't look like reincarnation. We went down to the Netherworld, went through the baptism of various gates, and finally began to go upwards! ”

My logic is not very clear, but fortunately, the fat man and Yiyi and I have developed a tacit understanding and can understand what I want to express.

After I finished speaking, Xiao Qian, who had never spoken, suddenly said: "I... When I was little, I lived. The place to live, too, is this. Such a structure! ”

I don't know why the second uncle asked Xiaoqian to follow us, our experience reminded Xiaoqian of a lot of things before she was eight years old. Perhaps, this is the main purpose of the second uncle to let Xiaoqian follow us, so that she can recover her memory!

There seems to be some kind of invisible diaphragm between each city here, and if you are in a certain city, you can only see the scenery in this city, and the scenery in other cities, whether it is an ancient building more than ten meters high that we have seen before, there is no shadow here at all.

Every time Xiao Qian thinks of something before she was eight years old, she will fall into a state of headache. I told her not to think about it anymore, and she nodded obediently in agreement.

Our discussions have not been of any real help to our current situation. It's all conjectures that can't be verified, and we don't have a clue about the mystery and weirdness of this city.

What we can do now is to move on, there is no way back!

After the stairs were completely gone, we walked along the familiar ones with several other castles

The street is the same road, and a few kilometers ahead.

Finally, a different structure appeared in front of us, and directly in front of us, a deep pit suddenly appeared. Under the trance of the flashlight, I roughly estimated the depth of the pit, which should be at least ten meters deeper.

The bottom of the pit was covered with dark red dirt-like dirt, and I don't know what it was.

As soon as the fat man saw the huge pit, he began to sniff his nose. I said in my heart, this kind of dog-like habit of this thing, you have to sniff it everywhere!

So I asked him, "That, Erlang God's assistant, how is it, what do you smell?" ”

The fat man took a sip of me and said, "Your grandmother's is the Howling Dog!" Do you know what this dark red rust thing is underneath? ”

"What is it?" Yiyi also asked curiously.

"It's blood! The smell of blood is very strong! ”

The fat man replied.

After he finished speaking, I shone the flashlight again to the bottom of the pit. The pit is like the ground has collapsed, and it has the shape of a square. The side length is about five meters, and if according to what the fat man said, there is blood underneath, then how much blood must be this creature! The whole pool of blood!

I asked the fat man, "Are you sure it's really blood down there?" Could it be some red rock powder, sprinkled at the bottom of this pit! It's not that I don't believe in your business ability, after all, this pit has existed for thousands of years, and there is a possibility that your nose will deviate! ”

The fat man shook me with a flashlight and said with certainty: "Xiao Su, I tell you responsibly, what I smell is the smell of blood." You've seen my sense of smell, and I can smell the dead breath on Xiaoqian's body! ”

Yiyi also said: "Su Mo, I believe in my senior brother's sense of smell. You may not know, but my brother has a very good nose since he was a child. The ear guy and their "earth explorers" have a nickname called "Shunfeng Ear", and my senior brother has the same name as them on the rivers and lakes, called "Perspective Nose", this is a rare time for me and my father, and my brother to get together for dinner, my father described it to me! I believe my father's words, he will never lie to me! ”

After listening to Yiyi's words, I silently recited in my heart, "through the nose", which sounded a little awkward, and always felt a little obscene.

Although I thought so in my heart, I couldn't say it, otherwise the fat man might really give me a set of obscene actions.

This sudden appearance of a deep pit in the pool of blood made us start to be nervously vigilant. My pistol was thrown out in the "Hugh Gate", and I couldn't find it.

Yiyi's black donkey's hooves have become my new weapon, and the location of the blood pool pit is just in the gap between the two sides without the main hall, and if you want to continue through the deep pit, you need to pass through the corridor of the main hall from the empty place on both sides.

The location of the blood pool pit is in the middle of the gentle road. The large halls on either side are noticeably larger than what we have seen along the way.

I asked the fat man for his opinion, and the fat man used a flashlight to trance the pit, and then took a look at the giant pit

The gap between the main halls.

From my position, the width of the road between the cracks was about two meters, and in the words of the fat man, the builder of Bagua City had the foresight to know that there would be a big fat man like him in the future.

The appearance of the giant pit blocked our way, so we had to change the route to the gap between the main hall and the deep pit!

Just as we were about to get there, the fat man suddenly stopped! I was at the end of the line, with Yiyi and Xiaoqian in the middle.

I asked him why he didn't keep going.

The fat man turned around and said with a straight face: "We have to be vigilant, the width of the street before, if there is any emergency, we can still use it." This has entered this path, and if there is any danger, we can only replenish some blood for this blood pool pit! ”

Don't look at the fat man, he often says something out of tune on weekdays, but every time he comes to such a critical moment, he will become a leader-like existence.

We have two pistols, one for Xiaoqian and one for Fat. Put it in the hands of me and Yiyi, I'm afraid that if there is an emergency, it will be a waste of bullets!

According to the fat man's advice, we are all cautious when passing through the gap passage. I kept an eye on the situation in the deep pit, and it was not until I had completely passed through the gap passage that I breathed a sigh of relief.

We had already skimmed the two halls, and I was continuing to walk forward, when the fat man in front of us suddenly turned around and shone his flashlight at the place where the long table was placed in the middle of the halls on both sides!

I subconsciously followed the light of his flashlight and saw the scene that made my heart beat faster!

(End of chapter)