Chapter 42: The Tunnel of Death
Two days have passed in the blink of an eye, and today is the last safe day, and Darui is trying to sense the pulse of the earth, hoping to liquefy his spiritual power as soon as possible, so that he can subdue the angry rock ghosts outside the woods. And Hagrid is also practicing hard, he is now a level 4 warrior, and with the explosive strength of the giant bear when he transforms, he can easily take down a rock ghost.
Suddenly out of the woods, Hagrid was sure to lead Silky through the rock ghosts and back to the Two Realms River. As for Dari, he doesn't care. Embarrassment......
In order to make better use of the giant bear's transformation, Hagrid practiced very hard for the past two days, and almost every night he returned to the wooden house with injuries all over his body, and fell to sleep on the ground. Sheri was so busy that she had been severely overdrawn in the past few days, and she had tried her best to heal Hagrid's injuries. But the next day, Hagrid would still come back with a full body injury......
"Boom"
Several giant trees as thick as one person were broken in the middle, making a loud noise, which means that there are three-eyed demon wolves guarding in the distance, otherwise such a loud noise would have attracted groups of demonic beasts.
Suddenly, a two-meter-square rock shattered, and Hagrid let out a sigh of relief, pleased with the power of his punch. At this moment, a black hole was revealed under the shattered rock.
Grabbing the torch standing next to him, Hagrid shook it inside, but he couldn't see the bottom of it, the hole was crooked, like a tunnel.
Seeing this, Hagrid hurriedly ran back and called Darry and Cyli over, and they came to the entrance of the cave together.
"Hmm...... It seems that this is supposed to be a tunnel, and it was dug by hand, and you see, there are a few rudimentary steps here, which can never be a monster or a natural formation. Dary calmly analyzed.
As soon as he heard that it was dug up by hand, Hagrid immediately became interested, "Interesting, let's go in and have a look, maybe we can find something good." The people who can come here are generally masters, and it would be a pity not to go in and have a look. ”
Darui was also a little moved, plus tomorrow was the deadline for evacuation, and another day of training would not have much effect on improving his strength.
"What do you mean, Silky?"
"Of course you went, hmph, whenever you ask me that, you have an idea in your heart, but you still pretend to ask me, it's really ......" Silky was a little angry and a little helpless.
Darry scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and Hagrid was smiling wickedly, with a sense of schadenfreude.
Silky glared at him when she saw it, "What are you laughing at, you're not much better than him, huh!"
The smile on Hagrid's face stiffened, and Darry walked over and patted him on the thick shoulder, and the two of them really felt like they were in the same fate......
The magic flare slowly floated into the tunnel, and the three of them were still the same, Hagrid in front, and Silky and Darry followed him, slowly walking in. Descending the humble steps, the feet were hard stones, pitted, and uneven. It's no wonder that with such a simple tunnel, who would bother to pave the way.
Although the road is uneven, the height of this tunnel is not short, with Hagrid's height of about 2.5 meters, he can walk upright with only a slight bow of his head. This made Darry very strange, and he became more and more curious about the purpose of the people digging this tunnel.
As she was walking, Silly suddenly let out a scream, and one fell to the side without standing firmly. Dari hurriedly reached out and grabbed her, looking down to see Silky's expression of pain, her left foot slightly raised, and she didn't dare to touch the ground.
"What's wrong, Sri? You twisted your foot?"
"Yes...... Ahh ”
Darui quickly looked down, and sure enough, next to Silky's injured foot, there was a round pit the size of a sea bowl. Silka accidentally stepped on it and twisted her foot.
Hagrid panicked and heard the sound, and as soon as he saw that Silky had twisted her foot, he immediately reached out and rubbed her. When Darry saw this, he reached out and knocked away his dishonest hand.
"Don't use your hands and feet, Silky is a therapist herself, do you still need your rough rubbing? ”
Hagrid was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but Darry ignored him, gently helped Silky to sit down, and took off her shoes and socks.
Silky's face turned red, and being grabbed by Dary's foot like this made her whole body weak, and she forgot about the pain in her foot. In the end, it was Dari who reminded her, and she reacted, and panicked to cast a healing spell, which healed the twisted muscle.
Seeing that Silky was fine, Darry relieved himself, and then swept his gaze to the big pit that caused Silky to twist her feet. I looked closely, not wanting to see something shocking to him.
"Do you see the shape of this pit like a horseshoe print?"
"Oh, I heard you say that, it looks a bit like a horseshoe print, but I've never seen such a big horse's hoof. Hagrid said in surprise.
Darui's face was a little ugly, and he said in a low voice: "It seems that this tunnel is not simple, we have to be careful, although this place has been sealed for a long time, there may be some danger." Hagrid, you'd better get your weapons out. ”
Hagrid nodded, now in the Sealed Demon Cave, anything can happen, so there can't be a little sloppy. Because of the terrain, Hagrid took out his double-edged axe and walked ahead more and more carefully.
In this way, I walked inward step by step, and walked for ten minutes on the 200-meter tunnel. The tense atmosphere enveloped the minds of the three of them, and there was a feeling of being out of breath.
Suddenly, Hagrid, who was walking in the front, exclaimed, and his body stopped.
"There are so many dead people, there are so many dead people here. ”
The three of them quickened their pace, and the light of the flare increased, instantly illuminating everything in front of them.
I saw that more than ten meters in front of me was the end of the tunnel, where there grew a small golden tree, at most one meter long, with three golden leaves growing on it, which looked like it was made of gold, which was very beautiful.
And just near the golden tree, in this more than ten meters long tunnel, there were no less than twenty human corpses lying horizontally, and their whole bodies were blackened, like charcoal.
Hagrid's face was grim, and he squatted down and touched the corpses with his axe, but he didn't expect a "poof" sound, and the ashes flew up, and the corpses turned into black ashes and scattered all over the ground.
"These people were burned to death, and the fire was so powerful that it actually charred the whole corpse. ”
Dary looked at it and shook his head, "No! these people weren't burned, you look at the rocks around you, there are no signs of the flames on them. In an environment like this, which is all rocky, if there is a fire, the traces can often remain for hundreds of years. If these people had been burned to death hundreds of years ago, the tunnel would have collapsed long ago. ”
Hagrid and Silky nodded, apparently agreeing with Darry's statement, but how to explain the charring of the corpses.
Dary couldn't think of this for a while, so he walked among the corpses and carefully examined his surroundings. It was found that there was something wrong with the placement of these corpses, and more than twenty people were crammed into a space of less than ten meters, which was obviously too crowded. It stands to reason that in the event of a fire or any other calamity, the first instinct of human beings is to flee.
Although the entrance to this tunnel is sealed, it is more than a hundred meters from the entrance to the end, and they can run around completely, even if they die, they should not all die together. Now it's like someone piled them together after the fact.
Thinking of this, Darui carefully scanned the corpses, and suddenly found a well-preserved dried corpse not far from the small golden tree. Unlike other corpses that have been charred, this corpse can also show facial features, and can generally identify as a man.
"Hagrid, Silky, come and take a look, this dried corpse is very different, and it is still very well preserved. ”
Hagrid immediately ran over and was surprised to see the dried corpse so well preserved that even its clothes were faintly visible.
"It's unbelievable that this guy hasn't been charred. Judging from the degree of dryness he had, and the clothes on his body, he would have been dead for more than twenty years at most, and definitely not a hundred years. ”
Darry nodded, "It's only about twenty years?" ”
As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the dead man's clothes, but Hagrid grabbed him.
"No, everyone else is dead, how can you touch his things again, I don't agree!"
(Today's second chapter, there is one more chapter at nine o'clock...... )