Liu Shangang sighed helplessly: "Is it small or is it my fault?" ”

I smiled and said to him, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault at all, it's your advantage." Let's go down and have a look, and come back and tell us what's going on. ”

The passage was enough for him to move alone, but if he brought his backpack, he couldn't open it, Liu Shangang reluctantly gave me his backpack and asked me to take good care of it, and then tied his belt with a rope, saying that as long as he slammed it twice on his side, we would quickly pull him up.

After making all the preparations, Liu Shangang went into the pit.

But he didn't climb far before he stopped, and I thought he had encountered a situation, so I quickly asked, "What's wrong skinny monkey?" ”

After a while, Liu Shangang's voice came out of the passage: "Brother Dao, how do I think, I don't have a bottom in my heart without a backpack." I used to carry it everywhere I went. ”

As he spoke, a series of echoes came from the pit, and it seemed that the passage was deep and the structure inside was complicated.

I responded to him above: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and climb forward!" ”

Liu Shangang continued to go deeper, and as soon as he crawled, the rope next to the pit would slide.

A few minutes passed, and the rope suddenly struck twice.

I pretended to be relaxed on the surface, but Liu Shangang entered the pit alone, I was actually more nervous than anyone else, as soon as I saw him pulling the rope, I immediately grabbed the rope and pulled it outward.

Liu Shangang didn't climb far, and was dragged out by me in an instant.

After he got out of the pit, he kept patting the soil on his body with his hands, and said: "Damn, who dragged the rope, so anxious, my face almost rubbed on the ground, this rub must be bald and a layer of skin." ”

I immediately digressed the subject: "How's it going, what's going on in the passage?" ”

"The situation is complicated. The passage was actually very short, and there was a large cave behind it. I suggest that we first widen the passage and the mouth of the pit and go down to have a look. ”

Liang Houzai asked him, "You didn't go into that hole?" ”

Liu Shangang: "No, the rope is not long enough, and the area I see alone is dozens of meters deep." I estimate that the hole may be very large and structurally complex. ”

"Dig with what?" The second master asked him.

Liu Shangang picked up his backpack and took out a folding sapper shovel from his side pocket: "Use it." But be careful when you use it, this shovel has blades on the left and right, the left is the saw, the right is the knife, I wanted to get you a reed, but unfortunately there is not enough time. Let's make do with it. ”

The kind of sapper shovel with spring blade is specially provided by Brother Zhuang's team, and the spring is pressed on the place where the shovel head and the shovel handle are connected, and in special circumstances, as long as you twist the switch on the handle, the shovel head can be launched like an arrow. However, this kind of sapper shovel is relatively expensive and not practical, so even Dawei's team is rarely equipped.

The second master was injured, and his backpack was also lost, so we let him rest, and the matter of breaking the ground was left to us.

In this regard, the second master did not object, and after we started to break ground, he leaned against the door of a stone house to take a nap.

It seems that the battle with the dwarf mule also consumed a lot of his physical strength.

Du Kang seems to be a veteran of digging holes, the three of us tossed for most of the day, not as much soil as he dug in ten minutes, with his help, we quickly widened and dug the hole, and expanded the horizontal extension of the passage to a width enough for the second master to pass.

To my surprise, although the soil has turned red sand, the sand seems to be magnetic, it is not as difficult to shape as the sand on the beach, and it is often a deep pit in the ground with a shovel, and it will not disappear on its own after a long time.

Liu Shangang is right, the passage is indeed very short, about three or four meters extended, on the other side of the passage, there is a very large cave.

After widening the passage, I was the first to climb in, and it was just dusk, and the Qi field between heaven and earth fluctuated, and the abnormal Qi field coming from the other side of the passage became even more intense.

At the end of the passage, I shook my flashlight and let the beam sweep twice through the cave.

This cave is about three meters high, and the passage where I am located is near the top of it, and on the opposite side of the cave wall, there are many round holes of different sizes, the largest is more than two meters in diameter, and the smallest is only about ten centimeters wide.

At this time, Liu Shangang was already very close to me, and I immediately entered the cave, and after my feet were steady, I said to the people behind me: "Be careful, there is a distance between the bottom of the cave and the passage." ”

Only Lao Yang responded to me: "I know." ”

After me, Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai also went to the bottom of the cave, followed by Lao Yang, and the three of us worked together to help him into the cave.

In fact, before coming in, I also thought about whether to let Lao Yang wait for us outside, but after thinking about it, I think he should be safer with us, after all, the evil god has not disappeared, leaving him alone outside, anything may happen. But since you have decided to bring him in, you must do your best to take care of him.

After Lao Yang landed safely, Liang Houzai came to my side and said to me, "I almost forgot, in this place, it should be the root system of the sacred tree." ”

Hearing him say this, I also understood that the holes in the opposite cave wall should be left by the roots of the sacred tree.

Recall that when King Yoro asked Uto burn the roots of the tree, it seemed that the roots of both the above-ground part of the tree and the underground part were burned, and it took them a long time to fill in the hole left by the burning of the roots.

However, I think that the dirt that King Yelang filled in the cave in the first place could not completely fill the imprint left by the roots in the earth, after all, the above-ground part of the sacred tree already has such a huge volume, and the root system of a tree is often much larger than the above-ground part of the tree.

After the second master came down, he also swept the opposite cave wall with a flashlight, and then asked me: "There are so many caves, which one to go?" ”

When he asked me, I was pondering this question too.

At this time, Du Kang also came down, he roughly observed the hole in the cave wall, and walked towards the widest one very decisively, waving to us as he walked: "This way." ”

We followed Du Kang into the hole, and he kept shaking his flashlight, scanning the walls of the cave on both sides with his beam.

The cave is extended down with a relatively small slope, and at first, the walls on both sides of the cave are mainly made of magnetic sand grains, and the deeper you go, the less sand there is, and then the sand and mud are mixed, and then the sand is no longer visible on the large section of the road wall, and it is all solid earth.

Du Kang had been looking at the cave wall carefully, his brows furrowed.

And I have been perceiving the Qi field in the cave with my heart, and I feel more and more that something is wrong.

Judging from the visions we have witnessed before, the reason why the evil gods appeared in this land is because the resentment of the black dog at the time of its tragic death and the remnants of the sacred tree merged, and eventually the two melted together and polluted the earth.

And this piece of soil, which has been polluted by resentment and anger, and turned into red sand, should be the source of the evil god's Qi field.

So I thought that when we went deeper and left the area where the red sand was located, the evil god qi field in the air should fade, but it showed no signs of fading, but it became more and more intense.

At this time, another fork in the road appeared in front of us, three roads, leading in three different directions.

Du Kang squatted down at the fork in the road, rubbing his brow with the index finger of his left hand while sniffling incessantly, as if he was sniffing the evil god.

After a while, he stood up, looked at a tunnel directly opposite, and said, "Actually, the evil god has already appeared, and the Han man just released it. ”

He was talking to himself, but I couldn't help but ask, "The evil god has existed for a long time?" ”

Du Kang turned to me and nodded, "Well, it should have appeared when the sacred tree was burned, but at that time it was crushed to the ground, and the Qi field could not be dispersed. In addition, the king of Yelang will be delicate and gallous, and the ...... of the sacred tree His heart was on top of the evil god's head, and he did this to suppress the evil god. Do you remember what King Yelang did at that time, he took out the Fantian Seal, which was originally intended to shatter the heart of the sacred tree, but he later hesitated and gave up. ”

I said, "I thought he was afraid that if he broke that thing, it would hasten the destruction of the Yelang Kingdom." ”

Du Kang: "I thought this when I first saw that scene, but now that I look at it, King Yelang just kept it to suppress the evil god. After the Han people destroyed the two town objects, the evil god was released from the ground. ”

I see.

But why did that person who looked similar to Luo Youfang do such a thing, what did he want to do?

Du Kang pointed to the tunnel in front of us: "There are some very dangerous things lurking in the deeper places, so be vigilant." ”

With that, he entered the tunnel.

The evil god Qi field in the depths of the tunnel is indeed more intense, but I feel that the "danger" in Du Kang's mouth seems to have nothing to do with this Qi field.

The rays of several flashlights swayed back and forth in the tunnel, and these beams fell on the walls and the ground, illuminating a small area before hurrying to another place.

As we went deeper, the oxygen gradually became thinner, and no one spoke during this period, and in this place, only the footsteps of everyone and the heavy breathing of Lao Yang could be heard.

It was obviously the first time he had been in such an environment, and the whole person became very nervous.

I don't know how long I walked, but the tunnel that had been zigzag and stretched forward suddenly had a very steep downhill.

Du Kang stopped before going downhill, and at the same time raised his hand and motioned for everyone to stop.

He slowly crouched down as he shone his flashlight on the cave wall in front of him, and said, "It's a rift." ”

I looked in the direction of the flashlight's beam, and I saw that there was indeed a long crack in the ground, this crack was about two meters wide, and the ramp extended into the depths of the rift.

Du Kang lay on the ground and listened quietly for a while, then got up and followed the ramp into the breach.

As he walked, he carefully observed the dirt walls on both sides of the rift, which he had been doing ever since he had entered, seldom looking at the road under his feet, and paying almost all his attention to them. But whenever there was an abnormality on the road ahead, he could stop as soon as possible.

As we went deeper and deeper, the air became more humid and the evil spirit's field became stronger.

Du Kang stopped again, he looked up at the earthen wall on the left, and muttered quietly, "It's broken! ”

I also looked over the earthen wall on that side, and I saw that the area illuminated by the flashlight had some dark textures, and there was no natural light in such an environment, and everything illuminated by the flashlight was black and white.

Du Kang shook the flashlight, and let the beam of light slowly sweep twice on the earth wall, and the places illuminated by the light all had the same lines, and they were connected together, drawing a huge root system.

That's right, it's a huge mural that shows the root distribution of the sacred tree.