Because we kept looking at the stone steps leading to the bottom, but we didn't notice the stone wall, after Xia Mengyao said this, we found that the stone wall was carved with patterns, people, flags, beasts, and wind and sand. It's just that those people and beasts look very weird, and after watching it for a long time, I remembered a scene - a funeral. Yes, the men and beasts in the pattern are like funerals.

And at the front of the pattern there are two strange-shaped characters, Xia Mengyao called them: Underworld. "It's a path to the netherworld," she explains. ”

Crazy sneered and said coldly, "Do you think I'm going to believe your nonsense? As he spoke, he walked down. Xia Mengyao hurriedly shouted, "Don't go down!" The madness turned a deaf ear, walked straight down, walked about seven or eight meters, and suddenly disappeared in the darkness.

"Let him go," Liu Xuyang said extremely unhappily: "Don't listen to the old man, the loss is in front of you, leave him alone, let's go!" ”

Xia Mengyao looked at the bottom of the stone steps and hesitated. I asked her what the "underworld" meant, and was it really the netherworld? Xia Mengyao said that it may or may not be, but whether it is or not, people don't go down. I thought to myself, the key has been found anyway, and there is no point in us going down, so why risk our lives? However, I remembered Zhong Ling'er's words again, since we came in together, we must go out together, although we don't have much friendship with the crazy man, but he is the guide we invited, and we should be responsible for his actions and lives. In a word, you can't leave him behind.

"I'll go down and have a look." I said to Xia Mengyao and Zhong Ling'er, "You go out first." ”

"Don't go down!" Xia Mengyao used a flashlight to shine on the place where the madness had just disappeared and said, "Look, the footprints suddenly broke from there, don't you think it's weird?" ”

I looked closely, and sure enough, the footprints disappeared from there, as if the person did not go any further, but the footsteps did not turn back, as if the person suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Xia Mengyao said: "This is very likely to be the junction of the human world and the underworld, so it is best not to go down unless it is necessary." ”

"Then you can't go up?" I asked.

Xia Mengyao said: "This depends on the creation of the people who go down. ”

I never believe that this is the junction between the human world and the underworld, those two words are nothing more than scaring people, maybe we can find what we need below. Besides, if the madness goes down, Xue'er will most likely go down, I can't leave them alone, there are centipede spirits on it, who knows what monsters will be down there? In case you encounter a powerful one, I am afraid that I will not be able to deal with it alone. I've even been to the ghost market, so I'm naturally not afraid to go to this so-called underworld.

Liu Xuyang urged to return impatiently, I called Zhong Ling'er aside, quietly stuffed the key I found from the zombie's mouth into her hand, shook her hand heavily, and whispered: "I'm going to go down and see, if I don't come up, don't come to me again, continue to look for the remaining six keys." ”

Zhong Ling'er looked at me and asked softly, "Do you really want to go down?" I nodded. Zhong Ling'er said decisively: "Then I'll go down with you." I hurriedly said, "No, you can't go down." Zhong Ling'er said resolutely: "I promised Lele that no matter where you go in the future, I will accompany you." She said as she shoved the key into my hand again. Now that she has made up her mind, I have to let her go to the top of the stone steps, and tell Yu Feng and Mu Lanlan to go back immediately, what else does Yu Feng want to say, I preemptively said: "Brother Yu Feng, you don't need to say it again, protect Sister Lanlan well." Then I glanced at Mu Lanlan and resolutely walked towards the bottom of the stone steps.

"Knives!" Xia Mengyao suddenly screamed. I looked back at her, and she looked at me and said, "You listen to me once, don't go down." I smiled at her and said nothing more, since I had chosen this path, I would not give up halfway.

Zhong Ling'er followed behind me, knowing that this time it was very likely that there would be no return, but she did not hesitate, very calm, without the slightest fear or hesitation.

After walking down for about six or seven meters, we all slowed down, and the footprints of Crazy and Cher disappeared here, I used a flashlight to shine in front, and there were no footprints in front, but the stone steps are still there, so where did the footprints go? I stood on the step where the footprints disappeared and stopped, Zhong Ling'er came up and stood beside me, we looked ahead, I persuaded Zhong Ling'er to go back again, don't follow me, but Zhong Ling'er still said the same thing: "I promised Lele, no matter where you go in the future, I will accompany you." ”

I looked at her and asked, "Tell me, where did Lele go?" Zhong Ling'er said: "Go where she should go, don't ask again, if there is fate, we will meet again." ”

She ...... Are you okay? I stared at Zhong Ling'er closely, trying to see a hint in her eyes, Zhong Ling'er was thoughtful, a trace of imperceptible sadness flashed in her eyes, and she said softly: "It's okay." ”

I took a deep breath and forcefully said, "Let's go down." ”

"Okay." Zhong Ling'er said and stepped forward.

I glanced back and saw Yu Feng and Xia Mengyao who were standing above and looking at us, and suddenly, I found a stranger standing among them, an old man, who was looking at me with a sly smile on his face. My heart sank, who was that? When did he show up? Do they know about his existence? I was about to go up to take a look, but I heard Zhong Ling'er exclaim in surprise, and her body suddenly fell down. I was taken aback and rushed to catch it, but I was empty. There seems to be a black hole below, which drowned Zhong Ling'er at once.

"Ling'er!" I screamed, and without any further flawless return to see who the old man was, and jumped without thinking.

The body descended rapidly, and then the body sank, and was blocked by something. Two lightning rays shone at me, so that I couldn't open my eyes at once, so I had to block my eyes with my hands, and I heard one of them say in a deep voice: "Don't move, don't be nervous." ”

I felt that I was surrounded by a cloud of fine sand, and my body was slowly sinking, and when I heard what I had just said, my heart tightened again, and it seemed to sink faster! And the person who spoke seemed to be crazy, and I shone a flashlight at him, and sure enough, it was him. However, when I saw his condition, I gasped.

It's all sand down here, very fine sand, to put it simply, quicksand. Like a swamp, when a heavy object falls on it, it slowly sinks and is buried by quicksand, and the madness is now only with its head exposed. There was also a head next to him, it was Cher, and the sand was already in her mouth, so she had to purse her mouth tightly and not dare to say a word.

And my condition is not much better, the sand is up to my chest, and I am still sinking slightly, and I guess it will not be long before the quicksand will bury my whole body.

Suddenly, I noticed that there was one person missing, and hurriedly asked, "Where is Ling'er?" Where's Ling'er? "As soon as I got excited, I sank an inch or two. I heard Zhong Ling'er say behind me: "Little knife, I'm here, don't move, don't look back at me." I was so anxious that I asked, "Are you okay?" Is the quicksand drowning you? Zhong Ling'er said very calmly: "I'm fine." ”

"Talk as little as possible, maybe you can live a little longer." ”

I'm trying to calm myself down, how can this be? It's obviously a stone staircase on it, why did you fall down when you stepped on it? Isn't it a stone staircase, but empty? But why does it look like there are stone steps? Is it a trick? Later, when I discussed this issue with Zhong Ling'er, I realized that in fact, the stone steps we saw were not real stone steps, but a kind of shadow. The shadow was the appearance of a stone staircase, which was very realistic, and the light was weak at that time, so people mistakenly thought it was a stone staircase. It's actually a trap for people to step on the air and fall into the quicksand below, where they slowly lose their lives.

The area of this quicksand is not large, only eight or nine square meters, but it is enough for the people who fall from it to sink in it.

I regret it, I shouldn't have come down, because if I don't come down, Zhong Ling'er will be fine. It doesn't matter if I die, but if it affects her, I'd rather die ten times and be wiped out than see this outcome.

It seems that this time, it is really a catastrophe. There are still a lot of things that I haven't said in my heart, and I want to say them here, otherwise I will regret it for the rest of my life. I whispered, "Ling'er? Zhong Ling'er replied softly, and I asked, "Tell me honestly, where did Lele go, and was she seriously injured?" She...... Dead? ”

"She's not dead." Zhong Ling'er said: "She is still alive. ”

"But where is she? Why go? ”

Zhong Ling'er paused, still the same sentence: "She was a little injured and went to a quiet place to recuperate." ”

As we said this, our bodies slowly sank a few more inches. The madman glanced at us a few times and sighed helplessly.