Li Huaishan and I reacted similarly, and as soon as the sound of running water appeared, his body trembled violently.

At first, the sound sounded clear, but gradually it grew farther and softer until it disappeared completely.

During this period, Li Huaishan and I kept shining the light forward, and at a distance of about 20 meters from us, we could also see a layer of greasy reflection.

As soon as the voice disappeared, I raised my legs and walked forward, but Li Huaishan pulled my arm on the side, as if he didn't want me to continue forward.

I turned to look at him, and he flicked his flashlight straight ahead, frowning at me.

It seemed that he could also sense that something was not quite right in front of him.

I patted him on the shoulder and gave him a reassuring smile and didn't stop long after that, moving on.

When I first got on the stone platform, due to the strong wind behind me, I could hardly hear any other movement except for the sound of running water just now, but when I walked ten meters further, the wind suddenly disappeared, and the most subtle sounds around me were infinitely amplified at this moment.

Droplets of water fell from a high place and smashed on the hard, damp ground with a crisp "click", and after the droplets were broken, the finer water particles fell to the ground again, making a large number of shattering noises again.

I know what my hearing is like, but in normal times, I can only hear the sound of water droplets, and the series of broken sounds behind it is absolutely impossible to hear clearly.

In this place, my senses seemed to be distorted by some kind of force.

I stopped, turned around and looked back, there was still Kun Qi surging around the stone platform, and the rapid movement of these Qi fields also proved that the wind there was still fierce.

Li Huaishan walked behind me, and when I turned around, I also saw the expression on his face, and he was staring ahead in a daze, his whole face seemed to be frozen.

Just now, I was just prick up my ears and listen to the sounds around me, and I really didn't pay attention to the scene ahead.

Seeing Li Huaishan's expression, I immediately turned around and shot the light forward, and through the miserable white beam, I saw that there was a very long stone staircase about ten meters in front of me, and those greasy lights were reflected from the surface of the stone steps.

In addition to the bright reflections, when the flashlight is cast on the stone steps, some black shadows appear on the surface of the stone steps.

From the angle from which I was standing, there were several shadows in which the silhouette resembled human faces embedded in the stone steps.

Li Huaishan finally couldn't hold back, and said behind me: "This place is so evil, let's go back." ”

As he spoke, his voice trembled a little.

I remember the last time I went to Chrysalis, he wasn't as nervous as he is now.

Without looking back, I asked him, "Scared?" ”

Li Huaishan stiffened: "I'm afraid of a bird, I just think this place is evil." ”

Since you're not afraid, let's move on.

I took a few steps cautiously towards the stone steps with my flashlight, and Li Huaishan hesitated for a moment, but finally followed.

The closer I got to the stone steps, the more slippery the ground became, and I was wearing old cloth shoes with hemp grains on the soles, which could have been non-slip, but now, I only felt that the soles of my feet were like a thick layer of lard, even if I relied on the strength of my waist and abdomen to forcibly stabilize the center of gravity, but every time I landed, the soles of my feet would still slide forward for a distance of one or two inches.

Boom!

There was a sudden muffled sound behind me, and I didn't have to think about it to know what was going on, so I leaned on the ground, stabilized myself with my knees and toes, and stretched out a hand to pull Li Huaishan, who had fallen to the ground, to my side.

Li Huaishan just fell, but now he kept panting, and there was a slow layer of water droplets on his forehead, I don't know if it was sweat or the moisture condensed on his face.

I raised my chin at him, "Can you still hold it?" ”

Li Huaishan raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, but did not speak.

I didn't say anything more, I put the flashlight in my mouth, used all my limbs together, and slowly moved towards the stone steps.

When I came to the stone steps, I realized that the shadows of the contours of those human faces were actually carved in palm-sized human faces.

The eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears look almost indistinguishable from humans except for a slight imbalance in proportion.

These faces are almost identical to those on the horse's belly, except for the eyes.

The faces on the horse's belly have a pair of round eyes, but the carved faces on the stone steps have no eyes, only a pair of black eye sockets, and when I stare at them, I feel as if a black chill can emerge from these eye sockets.

When I looked up at the top of the stone steps, the faces with hollow eyes were stacked layer by layer, and there seemed to be an invisible eye hidden in the countless black eye sockets.

Li Huaishan slowly raised his head almost with me, and at this time he hugged his arms vigorously and muttered, "I'm really panicked." ”

Indeed, standing at the bottom of the stone steps, we seem to be staring at by countless pairs of eyes, and that feeling can really make people's cold hairs stand on end.

But I knew very well in my heart that in this mysterious dungeon, what really attracted me was not these carvings, but what was hidden in the depths.

Thinking of this, I immediately settled down, and then leaned over and climbed the stone steps.

At first, I thought that the stone steps should be very slippery, but when I leaned over and climbed for a short distance, I found that the surface of the stone steps was rougher than I expected, and the soles of the cloth shoes with mille-feuille soles could also grasp the ground very firmly when I stepped on them.

Gradually, I grew bold again, straightened up, and quickly charged towards the top of the stone steps.

I didn't know what I was anxious about, but there seemed to be a voice in my heart urging me constantly: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

The bag made me trust my instincts, and I'm trying to use intuition instead of thinking right now.

When Li Huaishan saw that I suddenly began to rush, he shouted behind me: "If you are not, why are you going?" ”

I didn't bother to explain, so I only replied with two words: "Keep up!" ”

In the past, I heard Boss Lu say that the eighteen plates of Mount Tai have more than 1,800 levels, and in the early years, the entire eighteen plates have no place to rest.

I hadn't climbed Mount Tai, and I didn't know what the legendary Eighteen Pans looked like, but as I climbed higher, the more I felt that the stone steps in front of me were far more than 1,800 steps.

According to the feng shui books of the old couple, the vertical height of the eighteen pans is about more than 400 meters, so how high is the stone step under my feet?

As I rushed upward, I thought about these things in my heart, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong.

Before, Li Huaishan and I slid down the steel cable for a distance of more than 30 meters, but after entering the tunnel, the road we walked was almost straight, and I couldn't feel the slope extending downward.

Now that we had climbed the stone steps for so long, we were supposed to have climbed to the ground, but when I looked overhead, there was still endless darkness above me, and there was no top to be seen.

Although the situation in front of me felt extremely strange to me, the voice in my head continued to urge me, and I followed its guidance and did not stop for a moment.

To be honest, even I couldn't calculate how long I had climbed, until I finally reached the top of the stone steps when I felt a slight soreness in my calves.

What appeared in front of me at this moment was a square pool excavated by hand, and when I lit it with a flashlight, I could clearly see a small amount of water streaks raised by the pool in the slight fluctuations, and in the center of the pool, a huge bubble would float every seven or eight seconds, as if something was slowly ventilating deep underwater.

After about ten minutes, Li Huaishan finally climbed up out of breath.

In order to keep up with my speed, this guy put almost all his strength into it, and when he came up, he lay on his back on the ground, gasping for breath, and said to me, "This place ...... No...... It's not normal. ”

My gaze was still fixed on the pool, and I said, "The stone steps are too high." ”

Li Huaishan took a moment to calm his breathing before he said, "You also found out?" It's really weird, how can you say that this stone step is also four or five hundred meters high, why did we climb for a long time, and it was still underground? ”

I pouted: "Ergou, do you feel that since we climbed the narrow bridge between the tunnel and the stone platform, it is like entering another space." ”

As I spoke, I turned my head to look at Li Huaishan, who also looked at me with wide eyes.

After a few moments, I added, "We're in a space that's completely out of touch with the real world. ”

Li Huaishan swallowed his saliva and said to me tremblingly: "You say that...... It seems to be true. And...... And from the moment I climbed the stone steps, I had a strange feeling. ”

At that point, he didn't say anything.

I couldn't help frowning: "What does it feel?" ”

Li Huaishan thought for a while and said, "I can't describe it, it's just ...... It is...... It was the same feeling I had when I first saw the ghost gate, as if all the internal organs had been frozen into ice lumps in an instant. If not, you say, this place wouldn't be the underworld, would it? ”

I scratched my temple lightly and turned my gaze to the waterhole again.

As soon as he turned his head, a huge bubble fluttered to the surface of the water, and at the moment it exploded, there was a muffled sound of "bang".

There were so many bubbles floating up in front of you, but this one made a sound.

My heart tightened suddenly, if this place is really a netherworld mansion, then the water in this pool in front of me could it be the yellow spring water?

I don't think back, I think Li Huaishan's guess is probably unreliable, the reason why he felt uncomfortable when he first saw the ghost gate was mainly because his own cultivation couldn't withstand the yin qi on the ghost gate, but in this place, he could hardly sense the slightest yin qi.

Those kun qi that seemed to be calm, but implied manic power, had already filled the entire space.

(End of chapter)