Chapter 161: The Cycle Repeats

What exactly is it doing? I looked at the footprints and hesitated, thinking where I should go.

There may be some mechanism in the stone wall of that spire, but will these footprints really lead me to the Masked Man?

Or is it that if I go back to my original place, maybe they are all waiting for me outside, even if the masked man doesn't go out, I can find Jiang Yuchen and ask him to come over to help.

In the darkness, I saw the door, but the flashlight slowly moved again, looked towards the stone wall, and searched carefully, but what I saw was still the same picture, but I did not find the other door I had seen before.

From where I am now, there is only one door, the door is open, and when I make up my mind and walk over, I am not looking anywhere else.

The flashlight shot straight over, and I kept speeding up my pace, and finally found the exit, but when I hurriedly walked out and called Jiang Yuchen's name, I didn't hear anything.

The darkness enveloped me, and a second mysteriously disappeared person appeared, as if they had gathered in the darkness and abandoned me here?

I walked to the exit, searched all the way, but no one answered, and when I walked back into the huge cavern, I looked left and right a few times, thinking that they might have gone there?

In the dark, if you stay here alone, it's like looking at the universe alone, and the feeling of loneliness and helplessness is indescribable.

This feeling made me can't help but choose a place to run out, and I just longed to rush out non-stop, and see the end in sight.

But I also knew that I couldn't be so impulsive, because I couldn't bear the consequences of it.

Sitting here in despair, the flashlight unconsciously swept to the ground, and I suddenly saw a string of white footprints extending inward from where Jiang Yuchen was before.

I was shocked, but he also came in, but when he looked at other places, the footprints appeared out of thin air, and there was no warning in other places before.

The lights were flickering from side to side, and I saw that except for the figures on the murals, it was the footprints, and I looked down at the footprints, and my eyes did not leave them for a long time.

I believe and doubt, but the white footprints that appeared will be like the bloody handprints we saw before, it has a purpose and a direction.

Even if we follow it, we may not be able to find anyone else, but it will lead us to find the way to the entrance to the main burial chamber.

Glancing outside, the Masked Man had said it was a path leading to the main burial chamber, but if I had walked on my own, I was too confused.

People always need a lot of things to seek direction, because of horror, so they need to distract themselves, because of darkness, so they need to seek light and friends.

And now, what I need is a direction, a direction that someone is afraid of getting lost, who needs.

In the dark hole, I kept moving forward, moving the flashlight to the white footprints, walking in, and quickly penetrating into it.

When they returned to their original place, the white footprints were like a pillar of light in the mist, shooting into the darkness in the distance.

Walking towards the pillar of light, I saw the stone wall of the spire, where all the lines came together.

I hesitated for a moment when I walked to the place where the masked man was, but I still walked over with a bite to go.

In front of me, the stone wall of the spire is getting closer and closer, and the white footprints are getting denser and denser.

In front of the stone wall, there are three steps, on which are carved with delicate patterns, and at the left and right ends, there is a stone tribute plate.

When I got here, I shone my flashlight on the stone wall, and I was so close that I could see it clearly, but at this moment, I also saw that there were some cracks in the spire that were linked together, and the cracks were so dense that they covered almost all the corners of the spire.

There are no streaks near the confluence of the cracks, and various neurons in the brain are formed, creating a different kind of picture.

Reaching out and groping on the stone wall, I felt the cracks under my fingers, the tiny nicks, which seemed to have rules or no rules, just random links.

That is the thought, the direction that cannot be judged, and I am in it, and everything I see can surround me in a dilemma.

The stone steps in front of the mural are like a small offering table, but they are dedicated to another world, another person's brain.

Am I really going to get into this huge mind? Looking up at the other place, the stone wall was uneven, and at a glance, I found a very curved angle.

Stepping on the first step, I felt the strength of my whole body in my hands, and then I felt the stone wall slowly move, but when I looked around, I couldn't see any signs of cracking in those cracks.

No, the white footprints actually came from behind the cracks, where would they lead? With this in mind, I immediately took a second step, only to feel the whole stone wall tremble.

Taking a deep breath, I struck while the iron was hot, and immediately stepped over, and I felt that the stone wall in front of me suddenly collapsed backwards, and then the whole person rushed forward.

The stone under his arm also continued to crack into huge gaps, and then another dark secret door appeared nearby.

The secret door was cleverly designed, and I didn't know it would lead there, but when I fell through those cracks, I just felt like I was falling down.

In just a few seconds, I fell to the bottom, and when my hand subconsciously touched it, I touched a cold and biting thing.

It was very thin, and I only touched it for a few seconds, then quickly left, and turned the light in my hand to see that it was actually a skeleton.

Following this skeleton, I realized that the space here is not large, at least not as big as the stone cave in the back?

After shining around the area, I saw that there were a lot of skeletons here, and when I looked back at the place where I came, I saw that there was a cold stone wall, and on the stone wall, I once again found the mark left by Li Sansi.

I recall that in the stone cave, the disappearance of the mark and the reappearance here, I really don't know if it is accidental or inevitable.

I glanced at the skeletons nearby, and I didn't know what place it was, and how there were so many bones piled up.

The bones were piled up in a haphazard manner, with no pattern, and as I walked past them, I could see a few strange black insects through the cracks in the skeletons.

They crawled around in the dark, occasionally jumping into the aperture of my flashlight, startling me and quickly picking up my pace to get out of here.

After passing through these bones, I saw an exit, and Li Sansi's mark appeared at the place of this exit.

I looked into the cave, and there was no end in sight, and when I looked at the stone wall again, I saw that the stone wall was rugged, and it was not a road dug by hand.

The road, and the space behind it, does not seem to be connected to the tomb, but rather to be deliberately excavated.

Could it be that the clan tomb has been stolen and excavated, but looking at those bones, I think it is impossible, those people are not the burial attendants in the tomb at first glance, and it cannot be the main burial, because this is not even a tomb at all.

After ruling out this possibility, the rest of the little thing made me think deeply, and looking back at them, I couldn't help but stop.

Could it be that they are the craftsmen who repaired the tomb, I had heard Li Sansi say before, these people did not come back alive, could it be that they were buried here, or they had another purpose, when repairing the clan tomb, they secretly dug a passage and approached the main tomb from the inside.

However, why is it here, blocked by a stone wall, and they also died here, it seems that they have been dead for at least a few decades.

Obviously, there is only one stone wall apart, and as long as they can dig through this stone wall, they can see the stone cave and find hope.

But why didn't you do it in the end? Or did they die because of a certain situation when their project was not completed?

As I looked through the flashlight, I noticed that there were blackened spots on their bones, and even though it had been too long, I could still make out the approximate parts of those places.

The black spots on their throats were particularly noticeable, and based on this assumption, I ventured to think that they might have died of poisoning.

The stone wall that isolates this world and brings us back to the place where the craftsmen died?

However, looking at everything around them, and the entrance to the cave, I couldn't help but wonder why these people didn't go back after arriving here, and followed the hole they dug out to the outside, even if the tunnel into the tomb was blocked.

Could it be said? When they came here, the poison in their bodies began to attack, so everyone died here in the end.

No, I seem to have revealed something, first of all, the death of these people is not accidental, it must have been arranged, or is there some deadly venom in this place itself.

I came here with no discomfort other than doubt, so the possibility of lethal objects here was denied, and the last remaining result, which was that they were artificially designed.

However, there are many reasons for this result, such as whether their excavations were discovered by the current patriarch and chose to execute them in this way.

Or is it that from the beginning of construction, those craftsmen were destined to be poisoned, so they chose to dig a secret passage here, ready to escape, but whoever tried to dig here would be poisoned.

What was I missing out of these possibilities, I tried to recall, and my eyes involuntarily looked at the skeletons, and I felt a flash of spiritual light from the darkness.

It's a coincidence that these people died here together, and they were so close to the cave.

Among these people, will there be people with different intentions who have long been dissident, in order to survive, they will get rid of them together with the patriarch and lay the last stone for this clan mausoleum.

That's the only thing that makes sense, and looking at them, I think those people must have been annoyed when they saw this person taking off his mask when something happened.

Even after dying for so long, the power of that hatred seems to have never disappeared and has always continued here.