Zuo Youdao was also frowning at the moment: "Could it be that we are going in the wrong direction?" ”

I shook my head: "No way, there is only one way to the underground, and since we went up the stone steps, we have always walked due west." ”

In fact, when I said this, I was very apprehensive in my own heart.

Obviously, it was going due west, why did it come to the east again?

Zuo Youdao's eyebrows became deeper, he picked up the flashlight and lit it up the way he came, put down the flashlight sullenly, and shook his head.

I asked him, "There should be a maze in this place." ”

Zuo Youdao told me with great certainty: "I have been opening the eye of heaven since I walked up the stone steps, and if someone arranges a formation here, I will definitely be able to sense it." ”

If it's not the Ecstasy, then there's only one explanation.

At the bottom of the swimming, there is also a staggered space similar to the Bohai Crypt.

At this time, Zuo Youdao turned his flashlight and hit the beam into the depths of the spiral road.

His face was very hesitant, and his snort seemed to be a little rapid because of apprehension.

Looking back, I have known Lao Zuo for so many years, and I rarely see him hesitate. He is not a good planner, but he is decisive, and in Liang Houzai's words, Zuo Youdao can often make the most correct choice in a split second, and almost never the slightest drag.

But this time, Zuo Youdao did hesitate.

It's no wonder that Zuo Youdao, not only him, but also my heart is very bottomless now.

If it weren't for being in the environment at that time, it might be difficult for you to understand how Zuo Youdao and I felt at that time, it was like standing on the edge of a dark abyss, you don't know how deep the abyss is, and you don't know what is in the dark depths, and now you have to make a choice, whether to jump down, or leave.

After pondering for a long time, Zuo Youdao turned back to me and said, "Withdraw first." ”

He spoke in a very reluctant tone, but I also knew that a temporary retreat was the wisest option.

The two of us climbed up the spiral staircase, and when we were about to reach the exit, I heard a strong wind outside the staircase, and the sound was whimpering, like a ghost crying.

But when we came, the space outside was empty, but the wind was not strong.

When we walked out of the ladder, Zuo Youdao and I were dumbfounded. The long and narrow stone staircase that ran through the darkness disappeared before, and now there was only boundless darkness before our eyes, and the hollow pillars used to hold the spiral staircase stood straight in the darkness, and the cold wind howled from the top of the head to the heels.

On the left, there was a path that followed the exit of the stairway and shone downward, and the beam of light just rubbed against the outer wall of the stone pillar and penetrated into the darkness.

In fact, I don't need to light, I can see by the ghost's eye that there is only such a hollow pillar standing up like a steel needle in a radius of 500 meters around us, and the rest of the place is empty black.

Zuo Youdao still didn't give up, so he changed the direction and shot down the outer wall of the pillar, but he saw that there could be no change in the scene.

I said, "Don't be busy, we can't get out." ”

Zuo Youdao was not as flustered as I imagined, he just exhaled a breath of turbidity and said sullenly: "Since you can't get out, you can only continue to go deeper." ”

I also replied in a muffled voice: "Hmm." ”

It was still Zuo Youdao who took the lead in front and I followed behind.

I estimate that there should be a lot of hot water wrapped around the periphery of this road, and the feeling of walking in it is similar to taking a sauna, and it didn't take long for me and Zuo Youdao's clothes to be soaked, so we could only drink some water with salt from time to time, on the one hand, to prevent dehydration, and on the other hand, to maintain the electrolytic balance.

But Zuo Youdao brought very little salt, and the water in the backpack was consumed too quickly, so it was estimated that it would not take long to be drunk.

It's been a full four hours since we entered the spiral staircase, and if the temperature continues to stay so high, the two of us will be doomed sooner or later.

The key stairway is also so long, and it is tantamount to a fantasy for Xu Blind to be above such a large volume and such a technically difficult project in just seven years.

If he didn't build this stairway, why is the air filled with the smell of the Chenghua years?

Probably because it was fate, when the water in the backpack was about to run out, the temperature suddenly dropped, and even the moisture that had been gathering in the air for a long time disappeared.

The hot flashes on the skin suddenly disappeared, and Zuo Youdao and I both breathed a sigh of relief.

But then, I sensed a strong evil qi pressing in front of me, evil qi, yin qi, and corpse qi mixed together, and I couldn't distinguish the main and the secondary.

Zuo Youdao paused and said, "This Qi field is not quite right." ”

"What's wrong?" I only knew that this evil aura was very strong, but I didn't feel anything strange about it.

I heard Zuo Youdao continue: "When I first entered the ladder crossing, I could feel this evil qi, it is said that we have been walking for so long, and the evil qi should gradually increase in the process of our deepening, but there is no change in the evil qi along the way, but when I get here, the Qi field suddenly becomes richer." ”

"In my senses, this evil aura seems to have appeared out of nowhere, and I haven't sensed it before."

Just as Zuo Youdao and I were standing in place and talking, the familiar sound appeared under our feet again.

Smack!

This time, the explosion was extremely clear, and its decibels were so high that it made people's ears tingle.

And this time I heard not only a sound similar to lightning striking metal, but also the sound of stones cracking.

As soon as this movement appeared, Zuo Youdao and I immediately looked around.

But this time, the old man did not appear.

After making sure there were no other anomalies around, the two of us continued to dig deeper.

After walking about five or six hundred meters, we finally left the spiral staircase and entered a very large space.

Walking in the narrow stairway just now, I have always had a strong sense of claustrophobia, but after entering this large space, I don't have that particularly transparent and relaxed feeling, on the contrary, this space gives us a stronger sense of depression than before.

This is an artificially built basement, the area of the basement is difficult to estimate, even by the ghost's eye, you can only see a large section of the roof beams and pillars and a large area of darkness 500 meters away, but this is only a large area, and the height from the ground to the zenith is only two meters...... It may be less than two meters.

When Zuo Youdao stood up straight, his hair was only two or three fingers wide from the zenith.

Walking in such a place, you will feel that the stone slab above your head is about to be pressed down.

Zuo Youdao hit the beam of light on one of the stone pillars, which was much thicker than the surrounding pillars, and carved a curly fire pattern with the technique of yang carving, and in the center of the pillar, there was also a huge "food" word.

This place is the first floor of the five-story darkroom, the dining room.

At first, I thought that this place should be a granary for storing grain, but the two of us wandered around for a long time, and we didn't find any traces of grain storage in this place.

It is said that the humidity here is not heavy, and the carved lines on the stone pillars have no signs of serious corrosion.

Zuo Youdao and I have been walking in one direction since we came in, and after twenty minutes, we finally arrived at the end of the stone room.

According to rough estimates, from the entrance to the end of the stone chamber, there is at least a full seven miles away, and such a huge stone hall does not know how Xu Blind Man built it.

To be honest, I don't believe that Blind Xu can make such a big project in just seven years, but the smell of Chenghua in the air reminds me all the time that this stone hall is Blind Xu's masterpiece!

At this time, Zuo Youdao suddenly said: "The corpse qi is moving, it's not right...... The tide of corpses is moving. ”

"What did you say?"

"I mean, there's a lot of evil corpses going on at our feet."

Hearing him say this, I subconsciously looked at my feet, but I could only see the bare bluestone slabs.

Zuo Youdao then said to me: "The corpse qi on these evil corpses is not strong, you should not be able to sense it. The strange thing is that in addition to the corpse qi on these evil corpses, there are also some Qi fields that do not belong to them. ”

I didn't understand the second half of the sentence, so I asked Zuo Youdao what he meant, but Zuo Youdao didn't intend to explain, just shook his head sullenly, and muttered to himself: "It's really weird." ”

As he spoke, Zuo Youdao picked up his flashlight again and shone it towards a stone pillar on the side.

When the light hits the top of the pillar, there is a dark red square spot near the center of the pillar.

The ghost eye is not visible in the dark, if it weren't for Zuo Youdao's light, I wouldn't have found the abnormality on the top of the column, but how did Zuo Youdao find it, he just raised the flashlight very decisively, and it was obvious that he knew that there was something there in the morning, so he hit the light.

I asked Zuo Youdao, "What is that?" ”

Zuo Youdao pouted: "I don't know, I also sensed that there was a stagnant evil qi around here, so I deliberately took a flashlight to shine it, but I didn't expect that there was really something on the pillar." ”

As he spoke, he took out his green steel sword and slammed it twice on the top of the pillar.

The dark red spot turned out to be a piece of cinnabar pressed on the pillar, and when Zuo Youdao knocked it like this, the cinnabar immediately shattered, and a figure carved on the pillar was revealed.

The whole carving is the size of a palm, but it is very delicately depicted, carved as an old man in a half-sleeved robe, the old man's beard and hair are fluttering, at first glance it looks like his head and chin are covered with a large area of fire, he raised one hand, made a sword finger shape and pointed into the distance, the other hand naturally hung down, five fingers together, tightly clenched fist.

As soon as I saw the half-sleeved robe on the figure, I felt a little familiar, and then I looked carefully at the gestures of his hands, and I was shocked: "Isn't this the legendary dryland immortal?" ”

(End of chapter)