It probably didn't expect me to suddenly shoot back to the pistol, and it didn't even react when the torch flew over its head.

And I had already rushed at it when I threw the torch, and now I was in front of it, and a sword stabbed out and struck it right in the heart.

The monster in front of me was different from the previous ones, it was not only thick, but also very strong muscles, when I took out the sword, I was not strong enough, I couldn't pierce its chest, I felt it want to retreat in a hurry, and immediately added a force to my hand, and forcefully pushed the green steel sword forward more than a foot away, the blade pierced its chest, and pushed out of its back.

It was pierced through the chest, and immediately fell to the ground and died, and before dying, it glanced at me, but I couldn't see what was in its dark eyes.

Liu Shangang came to me at a trot, looked at the corpse on the ground, and asked me with some surprise: "Didn't you say that you didn't care about it, why did you suddenly do it again?" ”

I took out a handkerchief from my backpack, wiped the blood stuck to the sword, and then smiled at Liu Shangang without saying anything.

Liu Shangang asked Liang Houzai again: "What are these monsters?" ”

Liang Houzai was silent for a moment, and only said one word: "People." ”

His words also intrigued me, and I looked at him and asked, "People?" ”

Liang Houzai nodded: "This is my speculation, after the soldiers on the ancient battlefield fell underground, they should not have died completely, and the sensitivity also said, some of the soldiers in the Western Queen Mother Country are women." In other words, after these people are trapped underground, they can reproduce, and the descendants of these people have multiplied from generation to generation in this lightless environment, and after three thousand years of evolution, they have become what they are now. ”

I immediately laughed: "You can't evolve like this in 3,000 years, and the formation of stable genes will take at least a million years of accumulation." ”

Liang Houzai said: "If you rely on natural selection alone, 3,000 years is really not enough, but there are other incentives here, such as magnetic fields. In the beginning, when we were training in Zone 1, I didn't feel like a human being just because of the magnetic field. ”

Liu Shangang also made a contemplative look, and he muttered on the side for a long time, and then asked Liang Houzai: "But since those who fell into the ground can survive, why don't they dig a hole and get out?" ”

Liang Houzai sighed: "Do you think that there was a kind of mountaineering pickaxe you used in the Bronze Age?" In such a deep underground, it was basically impossible for the living people at that time to come in and get out, and the night mound at that time had not yet been converted into an underground tomb, who knows what the night mound was like back then...... Oh, I see, no wonder the ancestors of the Yuxian lineage made the stone that suppressed the night demon into a stone gate, and the original messenger put so many evil spirits into the fourth district. ”

I didn't speak, just waited for Liang Houzai to continue.

I only heard Liang Houzai say: "Placing evil cults in Area 4 can prevent the monsters here from going out." The function of the mural is to awaken the consciousness of the leader's daughter, so as to suppress the night demon, so it can't be too far away from the night demon, but if it is placed in this dark space, it is easy to be damaged by these monsters inside, so it was made into a stone door, and the mural is outside, the monster cannot destroy it, and it is convenient for future generations to repair and maintain it. Vaa comes here every year, in addition to knowing what happened to the Jizo Tomb during the year, he should also have a duty, that is, to maintain the murals, and his duty may also come from the commission of the Soul Village, after all, it is the Spirit Village that erects this stone gate. And the monsters here should have existed a thousand years ago. ”

I thought for a moment and said, "But how can you guarantee that the evil corpses outside won't harm the murals?" ”

Liang Houzai: "I estimate that the evil corpses in Area 4 may not enter the forty tunnels at all. Before we came, there were more than 2,000 demons in Area 4, and until we cleared them out, we didn't find a single demon entering these tunnels. There is no difference between the Qi field in the forty tunnels and the Qi field in District 4, and I think it is probably because the ancestors of Yuxian made other arrangements here that caused the evil to be confined to a specific area. ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a moment, made a pensive look, and then asked me, "Brother Dao, do you remember those little holes in District 4?" ”

When we entered Area 4 before, we did see countless caves in the main tunnel through Area 4, and these caves appeared on the stone walls of the tunnel, arranged irregularly, and evil corpses and evil spirits also came out of those holes.

I nodded, and Liang Houzai said, "There may be something in those caves that attracts evil spirits, so that they can live in them all year round, and they will only come out when the living pass by." This also seems to explain why when Dorjee enters here every year, there are no evil spirits coming out to harass them, but the monsters in the cave are originally people, and after they go out, they will also be attacked by evil spirits. ”

Listening to Liang Houzai's words, I kept nodding my head.

But looking back, even if Liang Houzai's inferences were all correct, these speculations didn't seem to have any practical significance for dealing with the night demon next.

I couldn't help frowning: "Anyway, if we want to wake up the chief's daughter, we have to take the night demon out of this place and let it see the murals on the stone gate, right?" ”

Liang Houzai said: "At present, it seems to be like this. But everything is not absolute, I think, if the Soul Village is really connected with the Mindu clan, and has spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build such a Jizang tomb, then there is reason to believe that the Yuxian ancestors who built this place originally knew about the reincarnation of the night demon for three thousand years. Maybe they've made some kind of arrangement here a long time ago, and it will come into play when the Daredevil's consciousness is completely free of suppression. ”

I pursed my lips and didn't speak.

Did you make some kind of arrangement? So what kind of arrangement is that? And how do we find it?

At this time, Liang Houzai added: "The fact that the ancestors of Tunmeng spent so much effort to protect the murals also proves from the side that they know a lot about the night demons. ”

I directly said the question in my heart: "What kind of arrangement did the ancestors of Tunmeng do back then, why did Uncle Liu go to the library and didn't find any information related to the underground tomb?" ”

Liang Houzai: "Maybe all the information is implied in that map." When I heard Dorjee mention that there is light coming out of the spring, I wanted to ask you, is there such a spring marked on the map? ”

I immediately responded, "No." ”

Liu Shangang also took out the map from my backpack and handed it to Liang Houzai.

Unfolding the map, there is nothing on the map except for the stone monument and the layout of the Bagua-shaped buildings on this side of my stone gate.

However, on the map, there are some old and blurred handwriting.

Liang Houzai looked at the handwriting very hard and frowned: "Maybe it has been marked, but it can't be distinguished now." Well, then let's boldly speculate that the ancestors of the Yuxian lineage did not mark such a spring at all. But why is that? Because isn't this spring important? If it wasn't important, why did Siddhartha's disciples draw this spring again? ”

Liang Houzai's thinking was too jumpy, and I couldn't keep up with his rhythm, so I waved my hand to interrupt him and said to him: "Needless to say, the reasoning process can be said." ”

Liang Houzai nodded quickly and said, "I think that spring, like the mural, is also one of the keys to awakening the leader's daughter, and the night demon is worried that we will find the spring, so he managed to seal the spring inside." ”

Listen to him, the night demon has now broken free from the suppression?

I thought that Liang Houzai's words might not have been finished, so I motioned for him to continue.

Liang Houzai: "Just now we found rotten fish bones, which means that there are fish and water here. Since Siddhartha's disciples were able to open up a spring, it also means that there is a water source underground, and the water source is connected to the spring. If you find a water source, you can find a spring. ”

This time he finally got to the point, and I immediately nodded: "Find the fourth stele first, determine where we are, and then find the water source." ”

Liang Houzai also nodded at me in agreement.

Liu Shangang asked us on the side: "But the question is, how can we find a water source?" ”

I pointed to the monster corpse lying on the ground, and Liang Houzai said to him, "Rely on them." ”

After that, we went back to the stone monument that had caused us trouble before, and after gathering up the supplies scattered from the backpack, I deliberately took out a large piece of cotton wool and sucked a large amount of blood from a monster. With everything ready, we continued towards the left side of the stele.

It was dark all around, only the light of the torches shone on the area around us more than ten meters, and we couldn't clearly calculate the direction and time, so we walked sullenly.

I don't know how long it took for the fourth stele to finally appear in front of us, this stele was about the same size as the first stele we saw. I pulled out the map and found the only set of eligible tombstones out of the nine targets that were finalized.

In this way, we finally determined our position. We were in the southeast of the entire area, a long way from the center of the dark area.

But we are not in a hurry to get close to the central belt, and the thing we need to do now should be to find a source of water.

I asked Liu Shangang for a pen to mark our location on the map, and then asked Dorjee: "Dorjee, can you tell the direction in this kind of place?" ”

Dorjee nodded vigorously.

Thinking about it, Dorjee can accurately identify the direction in the thick fog, so as to find the residence of Senit. Its strong sense of direction should be able to cope with the dark environment here.

I must say here that I didn't let Dorjee identify the direction before, because at that time, whether it was us or Dorjee, the direction felt completely confused. In the dark, you don't know where you are, you don't know where you can lead, you don't know where you can go, you don't have a suitable reference point, and you can't find the right direction again.

In fact, this is also to blame for Dorjee, when he first came in, he was too focused on looking for the direction projected from the spring, and neglected to judge the direction, so that when we got lost, it couldn't even tell where the stone gate was.

I said to Dorjee: "In the next battle, you try not to participate, let alone get hurt." ”