The smell of the place was strong, and I was vaguely uneasy, and kept looking deeper into the tunnel.

In the field of vision of the quicksand of Qihai, the shape of the entire tunnel emerges little by little, and the picture in the left eye at that time is very strange, as if looking at a 3D three-dimensional painting, first the whole vision is becoming more and more blurred in the dark, and then gradually clear, and the outline of the tunnel is also highlighted in the dark.

The tunnel runs roughly in a parabolic shape, and Sun Luyuan and I are located on a gentle slope, and as the tunnel extends, the slope becomes larger and larger, and the last short section is almost perpendicular to the ground.

At the bottom of this parabola, there is another passage, which is too far away for me to see only a small part of it, but judging by the direction of the passage and the depth of its entry into the ground, it should be able to lead directly to the underground gale cave.

"I still don't have much confidence."

Sun Luyuan suddenly spoke, which made my heart tense for a moment.

I turned my head to look at him, and I saw that he was looking at me with his eyes open.

"Why did you stop?" I asked.

Sun Luyuan sighed: "Even if I exhaust all my strength, the spiritual rhyme I have saved may not be able to fill the gap in the earth shatter talisman. ”

I picked up my flashlight, sparked the light into the depths of the tunnel, and said, "Be confident, don't hold back until the last minute." ”

When the light falls on the ground, you can see a layer of greasy reflection, and you can also see a large number of hard mud blocks scattered on the ground.

After that, I looked out of the cave again, and the light fell on the huge vine branch, illuminating the tip of the vine branch in a snow-white color. I don't know if it's my delusion, but now that I see the vine branch, I vaguely feel as if it has risen a short distance.

I couldn't help frowning, and said to Sun Luyuan: "I'm afraid we can't drag it out any longer, how long will it take you to save rhyme?" ”

The afterglow of the flashlight was not enough to illuminate Sun Luyuan's face, except for his lips and a small piece of nose being illuminated, the upper half of his face was covered with shadows, I couldn't see his expression clearly, I only heard him say: "Fortunately, the spiritual rhyme in this place is relatively sufficient, with my current cultivation, at most an hour later, my dantian will not be able to accommodate more spiritual rhyme......"

Sand...... Sand......

Before Sun Luyuan could finish speaking, there was a very small cracking sound from the depths of the tunnel.

The two of us tensed at the same time, and immediately leaned down and looked carefully into the depths of the tunnel.

This is actually the sound we heard in the burial chamber, which at the time was not really heard, but now that we are closer to the source, we can discern the details of the sound, and it sounds like a snake walking through the sand.

The shattering didn't last long, and it didn't come any way near us.

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart and whispered to Sun Luyuan: "Hurry up." ”

Sun Luyuan seemed to hesitate for a moment, then nodded, and continued to condense his mental power, drawing spiritual charm from the surrounding soil.

All of a sudden, the environment became unusually quiet, and from time to time I looked into the darkness on either side of my body, and my heart was indescribably nervous.

Seriously, I've rarely been so nervous in the last six months.

In this extremely quiet darkness, I always have a strange feeling, I always feel as if there is a behemoth under my feet, it is so huge that even if I try my best to look around, I can't see its entire outline, I can only see a huge mouth in the dark, waiting for me and Sun Luyuan to fall.

To ease the tension, I lit a cigarette and took a long puff to keep the flame on the cigarette end bright.

Nicotine has no calming effect on me, only the tiny light of the fire, which can bring a little warmth to my heart.

The tiny rustling sounds came two more times, again briefly for a few seconds, and then the tunnel was quiet again, and each time they appeared, I felt the smell of grass that permeated the cave a little heavier, and the sound disappeared, and the smell faded a little more.

After more than half an hour, the spiritual rhyme on Sun Luyuan's body seemed to be about to be saturated, and the cycle of his condensation of mental power had become very long.

I picked up my flashlight and shone it on the vine branch, and it did rise some distance, and now the tip of the vine was almost touching the bottom of the chain.

In the whole environment, the most unsettling thing for me is the vine branch.

I tried to pat Sun Luyuan on the shoulder, the too strong aura sealed his senses, and now he can't feel the stimulation from the outside world, I patted it a few times in a row, and he didn't open his eyes.

After this, I removed my backpack again, and took out only the palladium compass and the bent sapper shovel from it, put the compass in my pocket, and the sapper shovel was folded and hung on my belt.

Now that there is an hour left before Sun Luyuan's mouth, there are still ten minutes left, and I can't drag it out any longer, so I packed up my things, leaned over, and pulled Sun Luyuan on my back.

The diameter of the tunnel was only about a meter, and I was carrying a person on my back, crawling forward with only knees and elbows on the ground.

Only a small area near the entrance was dry, and after leaving there, the knees and elbows began to slip, and the semi-curved floor was smeared with a thick layer of oil, which seemed to be pine oil, and gave off a very faint pine scent.

In order to stabilize my center of gravity, I could only free one hand to hold on to the road wall, and the remaining elbow and two knees moved slowly to allow my body to move forward steadily.

The mud that was scattered on the ground was hard, itching and sore to the bones.

My skin and flesh are relatively carriable, and my ability to resist pain is relatively strong, but I can't bear the bursts of itching, and it feels like someone is pinching a piece of itchy flesh on my body and squeezing it hard, making people want to cry.

But I didn't dare make a sound.

As soon as I left the entrance of the cave with Sun Luyuan on my back, there was a continuous "rustling" sound in the tunnel, and as I went deeper, the sound got closer and closer to me, and the strange smell of grass became more and more intense.

There was no wind in the tunnel, but the smell gave people an unusually transparent feeling in the nasal cavity, and when I breathed, my whole body was cold and transparent, and I had the illusion that I was shrinking into a narrow air duct.

Sand – Sand –

The sound almost reached the top of my head, and I didn't dare to breathe, and I tried my best to slow down my movements, moving little by little.

It's hard for me to hold my center of gravity now, because the slope below me is getting bigger and bigger, and my body has begun to slide slowly and uncontrollably.

Click!

Suddenly there was a sound of earth shattering overhead, and a wisp of dust pouring down with the sound.

My heart tightened, my hand was scattered, and I fell to the ground with a snort, and the grease was smashed by my body in a wave.

Click, click, click......

The thing above my head seemed to hear movement and began to writhe violently, and I lay on the ground and did not dare to move, only to roll my eyes upwards and stare at the small patch of hard mud above my head.

Little by little, the clay was opening up, and the dust was falling down and spilling on my hair and ears.

After only two or three seconds, a large lump of hard mud fell throughout, and I saw a handful of slender things burrowing out of the hole.

It looked like the short whiskers of tree roots, twisted into a ball, churning in the breach above the tunnel, looking like a pile of curling and wriggling earthworms.

As soon as they appeared, the smell of grass in the air became more and more pungent.

I stared at them as I dug my fingers into the mud beneath me, and I had enough strength on my arm.

The roots of his head squirmed for a while, and then suddenly came to a standstill.

As soon as I saw them freeze suddenly, a great uneasiness immediately surged over me, and I didn't dare to hesitate any longer, so I immediately pulled a handful on the ground, letting my body slide forward quickly along the grease.

As soon as I slid out of a distance of less than a meter, I heard the sound of earth cracking from above, and Sun Luyuan seemed to be hooked by something, and actually slid towards my back.

I grabbed Sun Luyuan's arm with my backhand and pulled it with all my strength.

I heard a few crisp sounds, snaps, something was torn off, and Sun Luyuan was pulled back by me again.

The slope on the ground was getting bigger and bigger, and our sliding speed was getting faster and faster, and I felt that I was about to enter the most steep part of the road, so I looked behind me with the vision of the quicksand of Qihai, and I could vaguely see that a few roots at the top of the tunnel were broken, but there were more roots climbing along the wall towards us.

In the next moment, I first felt my chest leave the ground, and then my back pressed Sun Luyuan's chest fiercely.

Now we had crossed the last gentle slope, which briefly threw us into the air.

I quickly turned around and stretched out two hands to protect Sun Luyuan's head.

Immediately after that, we started to fall rapidly, plummeting for a meter or two before my head hit the hard ground.

I didn't really feel any pain at that moment, I just felt a buzzing in my ears, and then my head was swollen and dizzy.

Now that we've fallen into the jitter slope, we're starting to slide down at a faster pace.

I breathed a sigh of relief and watched the slope below in the quicksand of the Qi Sea.

I could only see another passage under the ramp, but I didn't know what material it was made of.

A few seconds later, I took Sun Luyuan down the ramp, and at the moment of leaving the slope, I shrunk my waist, buried my head in my chest, and struggled to protect Sun Luyuan with both hands.

With a muffled bang, my back smashed into the hard passage, and Sun Luyuan's head also collided with the hard road wall, but it was not him who was injured, but my left hand.

Unexpectedly, this passage also extended downward at an angle, and it was also smeared with a thick layer of grease, and I didn't have time to stabilize my body, and began to slide down rapidly.

Gliding five meters down the passage, Sun Luyuan and I were once again thrown into the air, this time I couldn't catch him, he broke away from my hands and flew higher.

(End of chapter)