Chapter 185: The World Under the Desert
What should the world look like under the dunes?
Is it also the endless soft grains of sand and the darkness that you can't see your fingers, people are buried in it and can't breathe, and they can suffocate to death in an instant? … In fact, it is more like a labyrinth, with winding tunnels and hundreds of staggered forks, sometimes open, sometimes cramped, some of which are life-threatening, and some of which are dead-end.
A slightly more open fork in the road, with bright lights around the walls, and it is unknown what glowing material is contained in the rocks. In the faint light, the woman who was prostrate on the ground finally woke up slowly.
Lin Luoran felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart.
She supported the ground with one hand and sat up slowly, the pain under her movement reminded her of what had happened before - the ruins suddenly collapsed, the ground under the feet of several people was sandy and turned into fluid, and even people with gravel were swept into the quicksand, which was much stronger than her "hurricane", and they were all caught up in it before they could react, and then lost consciousness.
As for the wound on his back, it should have been smashed by the Scorpion King when he went crazy with his big claw. Lin Luoran thought of the Scorpion King, and then looked around, the tunnel that flickered like gold dust, and did not see Wen Guanjing and the others, it seemed that the four of them had fallen to different places.
Lin Luoran resisted the urge to go to them immediately, threw a "Little Returning Pill" in his mouth, and held a piece of jade in each hand to replenish his spiritual power. After taking almost an hour to dissolve the medicinal power, she felt that there was no such tearing pain in her internal organs, and she also added a lot of spiritual power, and then she stood up.
There were seven or eight forks in the road that appeared in front of her, but they were less than two feet tall than a person, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, so that she didn't know which one to choose.
However, why is there a faint smell of blood coming from this fork in the road? Could it be that one of them was injured...... Lin Luoran was happy in his heart at first, but then found that his divine sense was only a few dozen meters away in this tunnel, and he couldn't detect anything that smelled of blood in the depths of the tunnel. Didn't she fall beneath the ruins, but deeper into the desert?
Lin Luoran made a guess, but he took the Zhao Sword in his hand, just in case he needed it from time to time.
She walked forward carefully, the tunnel was sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, although there was a glimmer, but there was also the sound of dripping water falling to the ground from time to time, and the puddle hitting the ground was the echo of emptiness, and there was no other sound, which really tested people's courage.
Lin Luoran walked forward for a few hundred meters, and finally saw what the smell of blood was from a distance—it turned out that the scorpion king had also fallen down together, across the middle of the tunnel, and there was no gap in the small tunnel.
This big scorpion can't die anymore naturally, and the smell of blood that Lin Luoran smelled was because there was a group of gophers that were a little smaller than a cat from the mouth of the scorpion king, gnawing at the flesh under the carapace. Lin Luoran felt deeply unlucky, and was about to turn back, when suddenly a flash of inspiration.
She remembered that Zhao Jian only cut a mark on the scorpion's shell in a hurry? Doesn't that prove that this is a hard thing...... The entire scorpion is about seven or eight meters long, if you get the scorpion shell down to refine the armor, it is estimated that everyone in the Lin family can have one! Lin Luoran's eyes lit up, and he really felt a little happy.
Seeing a group of gophers looking at him with a little vigilance in a busy manner, Lin Luoran spread his hands and simply sat cross-legged nearby to rest. She has no intention of competing with these gophers for food, and even in her opinion, this is still free labor, so there is no need to use it in vain!
Sure enough, as Lin Luoran expected, when she took the opportunity to recover her spiritual power, in less than an hour, these gophers hollowed out the inside of the scorpion with their sharp front claws and teeth, leaving only a complete large scorpion shell, which they really couldn't gnaw on, so they gave up.
But these gophers were obviously not satisfied, they abandoned the scorpion shells in place, and chose to attack Lin Luoran, who looked more delicious here-Senior Sister Lin was not a hard-fought scorpion king after all, and rewarded them with a few fireballs, burning the gophers in all directions, and soon disappeared into the intricate underground tunnels.
Only then did Lin Luoran put the scorpion shell into the space with great difficulty and placed it under the fruit tree, occupying the place where the elder grows. But what Lin Luoran harvested, in addition to the complete scorpion shell, also found the scorpion poison sac left by the gopher on the tail, this thing Lin Luoran didn't dare to throw around, took out the jade box and divided it, and then continued to hurry.
Since the forks are almost the same, you can only go down the tunnel in front of you. The phoenix hairpin in Lin Luoran's palm flashed with blue light, if there was a difference in the way ahead, the Zhao Sword could burst out and hurt the enemy at any time.
The sound of ticking water is not an echo, and the tunnel never seems to end. Lin Luoran didn't notice anything wrong at first, until she passed by the same place for the third time and finally found herself repeating the tunnel she had already walked.
Labyrinth? Lin Luoran took a look at the burnt rat skin on the ground, this is the place where she collects scorpion shells and burns gophers, no wonder she didn't find a new tunnel after walking for a long time, it turns out that she has been repeating in this area.
She obviously didn't relax all the way, and her consciousness kept giving out warnings, unless the place was so strange that it could not only restrict her sense, but also disrupt it...... Ordinary labyrinths only bully people's vision, could it be that these tunnels were originally used to deal with monks?
Lin Luoran simply withdrew his divine sense, only looked at the road with his eyes, and kept walking along the tunnel.
Sure enough, she had only walked for half an hour, and there was no trace of her before, and she seemed to have walked into another fork in the road.
In the empty and long tunnel, there is only the sound of dripping water and Lin Luoran's slight footsteps that can almost be ignored, if it is not for a tenacious and strong mind, walking for a long time with such an underground tunnel with only a ghostly light and can't distinguish day and night, it will make people go crazy.
Lin Luoran walked underground for two days in such an environment, and in such an environment, the watch had long since left, and she only deduced the time based on the maturity of the crops in the space.
In the past two days, except for the occasional encounter with a few gophers, or large ants and insects, she has not encountered any danger. She didn't know how big the ground really was, and could the Kalahari Desert be developed at all? How could there be such a place that had not been discovered...... Lin Luoran's fingers moved slightly, and a figure flashed on the smooth phoenix hairpin beads, and when he saw Lin Luoran stop, he quickly hid in the tunnel.
There was a smile on the corner of Lin Luoran's mouth, this little thing, after following him for almost a day, it was time to come out and make an appearance.
As soon as her mind moved, the whole person suddenly disappeared, and the beads floated in the air for a while, and finally fell to the ground, and the ashes fluttered inconspicuously.
After waiting for a long time, a furry thing poked its head at the bend of the tunnel, as if convinced that there was no danger, and finally crept out. It didn't seem to be in a hurry when it saw that there was no Lin Luoran in the same place, it shook its nose and sniffed, but it was still not sure that Lin Luoran was moving towards that fork in the road, so it scratched its claws and made its face and became anxious.
It jumped to Lin Luoran's original position three times and twice, and there was still a smell belonging to Lin Luoran in the space, a faint medicinal fragrance, it would definitely not smell wrong, but who was there in place?
The little thing lowered its pointed chin, found the beads lying quietly on the ground, and flexibly picked them up with its claws - it looked delicious, it was about to put it in its mouth and bite it, Lin Luoran's figure suddenly appeared, the beads disappeared without saying anything, a pair of hands with spiritual power flashed, and grabbed its neck from behind!
The little thing chirped, and Lin Luoran raised its look, "It's actually a fox?" ”
What is constantly struggling under her hands is really a green-skinned fox, although the coat color is rare and cyan is different from ordinary foxes, but Lin Luoran is conceited that she will not mistake a fox.
It turned out that it was this little thing that followed her for a day!
But who could tell her how there could be foxes alive in the tunnels under the desert? Lin Luoran felt that his head was as big as a fight, a gopher as big as a cat, an ant the size of an egg, and a big scorpion seven or eight meters long, this is the Kalahari Desert in Africa, not a place like a secret realm, how could there be so many unreasonable existences?
Of course, there is one more fox now...... What is the use of a fox, seeing how thin it is, even if Lin Luoran can't bear to slaughter it, he can't kill two catties of meat, so he can only let it go.
"Hey, I let you go, don't follow me, okay?" After holding it for too long, Lin Luoran felt that his brain was a little confused, and he actually spoke to a fox.
But what made her eyes almost fall off was that the green-skinned fox actually nodded, and couldn't stop telling her for mercy.
Forehead? Can you understand people? This is not a mortal thing!
Lin Luoran lifted his clear eyes and poked into its body, and the green fox seemed to sense something, and trembled uneasily.
"Well, I won't hurt you." Lin Luoran soothed its uneasy emotions, and he didn't know if the green fox really believed it, or if he felt hopeless to escape, so he really grabbed his little head and didn't move.
"Huh?" This green fox is really a little abnormal, there is a faint aura flowing in the blood veins in its body, but it is less than the aura of the old monkey at the beginning, and it seems that it will not have any powerful tricks, I don't know what it eats to survive in this underground.
Lin Luoran thought about it, or put it down, "Little thing, don't follow me anymore, do you understand?" "Such a fox, even if it is a little strange, Lin Luoran is not a pick-up of rags, she takes everything home, she still has business to do, and she has no time to tease this little green fox, so she can only let it go.
The green fox really could understand people's words, and was put on the ground by Lin Luoran, and there was no action to attack without his own strength, but after listening to Lin Luoran's words, it shook its head for a while, as if it was going to follow her.
Lin Luoran was angry and laughed, he simply ignored it, and still searched in the tunnel to hurry. The green fox followed closely behind Lin Luoran, not approaching, and was afraid that Lin Luoran would be too fast to abandon it, looking very pitiful.
Lin Luoran turned a blind eye, he ate when he should eat, and rested when he should rest, the little eyes of the green-skinned fox were dripping, and he disappeared into the tunnel in the blink of an eye.
Lin Luoran looked sideways, and finally left.
But just as she had rested for a while, and was about to leave, the green-skinned fox stumbled up in front of her again, and put something in front of her with his little paws in his hand, and jumped far away, looking at her with an expectant and wary look.
Lin Luoran looked down and saw that it was a piece of something similar to a tuber, and felt a little familiar, but she couldn't confirm it just by looking at it, so she simply picked it up and smelled it—a faint medicinal fragrance was indeed the one she knew, but who could tell her that when did this kind of thing like yellow essence grow into the ground of the desert?
This underground is amazing......