To be honest, we still overestimated our abilities, especially our physical fitness, and when we came out of District 4 in the afternoon, we really had no strength at all, and we lay down in the cemetery outside Area 4 for a long time to rest before getting up again.

What disappointed me the most was that after this day of fighting, we did not complete our goal, and the gold letters on the stone tablet were finally fixed at around 1850, and our original goal was to make this number drop below 1800.

But even so, when Mr. Sun saw the numbers on the stone tablet, he seemed to be hit hard, and that night, he didn't say a word to us, and when he looked at us, his eyes were full of disgust.

Over the next few days, we did the same things every day, eating, sleeping, drawing, and training, and we quickly cleaned up the zombies in Area 4, after which the corpses summoned a large number of ghosts from the holes scattered throughout the tunnels. Comparatively speaking, it is easier to deal with the ghosts than the evil corpses, and the Qinggang Sword can kill one with a casual swing.

In just one day, we surpassed all the ghosts in District 4, and the golden characters on the stone tablet had become "One".

The only evil corpse left in this Fourth District should be the skinny armored corpse.

When I saw the word "one" appearing on the stone tablet, I couldn't help but glance at Mr. Sun, who had no expression on his face at that time, and he seemed to be numb.

Mr. Sun ignored us for a week after Area 4 was thoroughly cleaned, and although he would still take us to the Jizo Tomb every morning, he didn't say a word to us along the way.

Speaking of which, Mr. Sun is actually a very axial person, he has a good temper and is easy to hold grudges, but he is a good person, and when he encounters major rights and wrongs, he can not hesitate to let go of personal grievances.

I think if it weren't for the fact that we strayed into the depths of Area 4 and found such a stone gate, Mr. Sun might have ignored us for the next month or so.

It was the fifteenth day of our actual combat training, and we had been searching for the whereabouts of the corpses since we cleared Sector 4 of a large number of cults.

But after all the other evils were cleared, it played hide and seek with us, only occasionally showing its head and leading us deeper into Sector 4, but never confronting us head-on.

Although Uncle Liu had warned us not to go too deep, none of the three of us took his words seriously, and we had to walk far in the tunnel every time in order to catch the corpse.

Each time, the corpse will disappear at the fork in the tunnel at the end of the tunnel, this fork in the road is connected to dozens of tunnels leading to different directions, we can only look for it tunnel by tunnel, because each tunnel is very long, we must leave quickly every time we finish surveying one of them, otherwise it will exceed the time agreed with Mr. Sun.

At that time, our daily activity time in Area 4 had been increased to six hours, three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, but after several days of searching, we still failed to catch the corpse.

Every time we entered one of the tunnels, we would write a number at the entrance of the tunnel as proof that we had been in.

That afternoon, Liang Houzai carved the number "15" on one of the tunnels, which is the fifteenth tunnel we will be exploring.

After Liang Houzai carved the numbers, he threw away the stone in his hand, turned his head and said to me, "Brother Dao, I've been thinking about one thing these days. ”

As I walked towards Tunnel 15 with my flashlight, I asked him, "What do you want?" ”

Liang Houzai said: "I was thinking, that armored corpse spares no effort to lead us into the depths of Area 4 every day, as if it has some kind of purpose. ”

I responded to him in a nonchalant tone: "Of course it has a purpose, otherwise it wouldn't be doing the same thing every day." Speaking of which, I really underestimated this armored corpse at first, and its IQ was much higher than I expected. ”

I heard Liang Houzai say again: "But Brother Dao, have you thought about it, what is its purpose?" ”

I shrugged my shoulders: "Who knows, even if you are as smart as you, you can't figure it out." Supposedly, there are almost no evil cults in Area 4, and it is unlikely that it will try to ambush us if it has the ability to ambush us, and if it has the ability to ambush us, it has shown many flaws when we were besieged by corpses, but it seems to have deliberately given up those opportunities. I sometimes feel like it doesn't want to be bad for us. ”

Although I had my back to Liang Houzai, I knew that he must be nodding his head now, and after a while, he added: "I feel the same way, but I think it is still hostile, and it leads us deeper, and it is also ill-intentioned. ”

I just smiled at Liang Houzai's words and didn't respond.

I don't want to think about it so much now, I just want to catch that armor corpse, and in the remaining month or so, I want to go to Lhasa to see the Potala Palace and see the lamas in red robes.

Back when Master mentioned those lamas many years ago, I wanted to see them with my own eyes.

Master said that the lama has a completely different temperament from the cultivators of the Central Plains, that is, a primitive and simple innate spirituality, and it is these words that make me full of curiosity about the lama.

I always think that the most primitive and simple things may be the things that can best interpret the word "heart".

As we went deeper into the tunnel, the temperature began to drop, and I even saw ice crystals on the stone walls on both sides of the tunnel.

Liang Houzai came up to me, took a hot breath into his hand, and then said to me, "This tunnel...... It doesn't seem to be the same as the other tunnels. ”

Today, Liang Houzai's words have become extraordinarily much, I know that he is nervous, just now when I was standing outside the entrance of the cave, I felt a dangerous breath coming from the tunnel, probably because of the continuous practice of small calculations over the years, many times, I can really feel something that even the eyes of heaven can't feel, Master said, this is the sixth sense derived from small calculations.

I patted Liang Houzai's shoulder, and then looked back at Liu Shangang, at this time Liu Shangang hugged his arms, afraid of the cold, but also a trace of nervousness in his eyes.

Before, because the evil qi in the fourth area was too heavy, I was afraid that Liu Shangang would talk too much, and the evil qi would cause harm to his body, so I didn't let him speak, and he was also very obedient, during this time, as long as he entered the fourth area, he kept his mouth shut tightly and didn't say a word.

I beckoned to Liu Shangang: "Thin monkey, if you want to speak, just say it, the current No. 4 area is no longer so evil." ”

I wanted Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai to talk, so that the two of them could divert each other's attention and offset the tension in their hearts.

I continued to hold the flashlight and walked slowly forward while searching around.

The temperature is getting lower and lower, I can feel the change in temperature, but I don't feel very cold, I guess this is also the benefit of the prescription that the second master gave me. Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai clinged to each other and kept each other warm.

The ice on the stone wall gradually thickened, and the light of the flashlight reflected a large white sheen on it.

I noticed that when the beam flashed over a piece of ice, a faint black shadow appeared in the ice. So I walked over to the shadow and hit the light of the flashlight straight at it.

When I saw the "real body" of that shadow, my heart couldn't help but tighten. It was a man who was sealed in the ice, his clothes were very primitive, that is, some animal skins and wood-like things covered the small half of his body, when I saw him through the ice, his eyes were also looking at me in a daze, the expression on his face was still the same as the last moment before being frozen, there was not much pain, but he stared ahead, and his slightly furrowed brow hid a touch of murderous aura.

I shone my flashlight on other parts of the ice, and I found a few more people frozen in ice.

Liang Houzai said to me: "Maybe Mr. Sun is right, this place should have been an ancient battlefield in the past, you see these primitive people still have weapons in their hands. ”

Indeed, in the hands of many people are stone hammers and stone axes.

I nodded and said, "I don't know what happened in this place, you look at their movements, or the way they looked at the last moment before they were frozen." This shows that they were frozen in an instant without warning, but what kind of power can quickly freeze so many people in an instant. ”

Liang Houzai didn't respond, just shook his head.

And Liu Shangang said on the side: "Brother Dao, why do I think this place is so terrible, otherwise, let's not go any further." ”

I smiled at him, "Since you're here, you still have to go in and have a look." Don't worry, there is no other evil field here except for the cold, and it should be fine. ”

With that, I deliberately quickened my pace and continued to move deeper into the tunnel.

We hadn't gone far before the light shining into the depths of the tunnel illuminated a wall directly in front of us, reflecting a hint of whiteness.

Looks like we've finally reached the end of the tunnel.

Still holding the lamp, I was going to walk a little further to see if I could find anything special.

But I didn't go far before I could faintly see something black on the wall at the end of the tunnel, which seemed to be some kind of vegetation growing along the stone wall.

How could there be vegetation in such a cold place, besides, in such a deep tunnel, there is no sunlight at all.

I frowned, took a few quick steps, and soon saw what the black thing was, it was not vegetation, but a mural made of black paint, which had been frozen for years, and although ancient, the strokes were very well preserved.

And what appeared at the end of the tunnel was not a wall, but a two-meter-high stone gate, and those murals were painted on this stone door.

When I came to the stone gate, I saw a hole with a diameter of less than half a meter directly below the stone gate, and the holes dug out by the corpse before were almost the same size, and the edge of the hole was as smooth as the hole in front of me.

I was about to crouch down and take a closer look at the hole in the ground, but I heard Liang Houzai say, "These murals look so weird." ”

Hearing him say this, I looked up and looked at the mural on the door.

On the mural directly above my head, there were rough depictions of people dancing, at least judging by their unrealistic movements.