For a moment, I thought I was dreaming...... But soon I came to my senses.

I saw that the stones were scattered, and the dust splashed instantly covered Xiao Rong's body. I was suddenly worried about the boy's condition, so I hurried with the girl in the direction of the arch.

"Are you alright? You're alright, aren't you? I asked Xiao Rong worriedly, "If the bones are cracked, just say it, don't hold it back, no matter how handsome young people love to be handsome and cool, they can't joke with their own lives." ”

He looked at me and smiled faintly, as if nothing had happened. Looking at him, I couldn't help but wonder if I was dealing with humans at all. The girl, however, did not show much surprise, and paid no attention to us, and like a light gazelle, she jumped up on the scattered stones and straightened up to look into the arch.

Inside the arch was a passageway, and when the dust cleared, it was pitch black, and nothing could be seen when a flashlight shone into it. The water under his feet was blocked by scattered stones, and it could no longer flow, and the small waterhole was growing deeper and deeper.

I don't know if this road will lead or not, looking at the deep passage in this arch, although there is a bad premonition, this is the only way out at the moment, and we have no choice. So they packed their bags and decided to set off immediately.

The girl and Xiao Rong and I walked in front, and the tall strange man followed behind with a mole man on his back and a Miao knife in his hand. I don't know how he met the girl, but it seems that he is quite kind to the girl, so I simply think that he should not have any ill will towards me.

The short man was at the end of the line—he was still half-dead and scared, and the girl said he was stimulated and frightened silly. But I couldn't leave him alone, so I slowed down and pushed him from time to time to try not to fall behind.

The flashlight lit up in the passageway, and a white circle of light traveled across the walls, which were full of water marks, dripping water like a waterfall overhead, and small streams flowed through the cracks of some stone bricks. The ground was muddy and felt like walking in a swamp, and a few of us lined up and struggled through the passage.

Looking around, I thought to myself, I don't know if it's safe in this passage, it has been soaked in underground water all year round, and Xiao Rong's fist shook just now, what if it collapses? Immediately, I noticed that I don't know when I became such a mother-in-law.

In the past, I would never think about the worst first, but now I can't help but think of the worst side of everything. Actually, I can't blame me, I think, probably because I've encountered too many bad things recently, reflex.

There is only one road in this arch, and there are no other branches. As I went deeper, I noticed that the water was gradually becoming less and the ground was starting to get dryer. I didn't pay much attention to it when I walked all the way just now, but now that I think about it, the groundwater that collects here may have flowed away from some other channel.

I was carrying Xiao Rong's camp lamp and shining around, when I suddenly saw some gray-white marks on the wall.

"Uncle Meng, look, there are murals here!" I shouted.

Hearing me say this, the mole man who was lying on the back of the strange man slowly raised his head.

Under the white light of the camp lamp, I saw a series of notches on the gray-black wall, and the notches were coated with white paint, which had been blurred for a long time, but the nicks were still barely recognizable.

These murals look very similar to the ones I have seen before with Xiao Rong, but the content of the paintings is different. Some of the lines are rather messy and feel like they were drawn in a very urgent situation. I couldn't quite understand it, so I held up the lamp and let the boy look all the way.

"Strange! What a surprise! Although the man had no beard, he still squinted his eyes like an old military master, touched his chin and said, "Do you know where we were just now? ”

"What place? Is it written on this mural? I asked rhetorically.

"Hehe, you would never guess! But it doesn't hurt to tell you," the man shook his head and began to explain, "Judging from this mural, the place where we were just now was a beast cage!" ”

"Beast cage?"

"Look at these paintings...... In ancient times, the Xuanyuan people kept a very terrible beast. And this is the beast's cage, so we can't find a gate in it. ”

"So what is the path we are taking now?"

"This is supposed to be a passage for the owner to put food on his pets," said the man, "and this beast eats humans like us." These humans are periodically thrown into this passage, and they are like swords, with nowhere to go, and finally they are devoured alive by wild beasts. ”

"What kind of beast the hell?" I asked again.

"From the picture, it looks like a snake ......"

"No," the strange man said suddenly in a deep voice, "it's a dragon!" ”

When I heard this, I was taken aback, and when I saw Xiao Rong walking in front, his steps seemed to slow down. I couldn't see the expression on his face, but I was no less surprised than I was.

"Dragons? You mean...... The Xuanyuan people raised a 'dragon'? I exclaimed.

I can't believe it, if you want to say that it's Pikachu, I'm okay with it, it's actually a dragon? How can it be? That's!

"Well, I can't tell, I can't tell," the man shook his head, "Anyway, the stone corridor mechanisms you walked through before were meant to prevent these people who were used as food from escaping. When the mechanism turns, the person will fall to death in the mechanism, but the slender body of the beast can just enter the mechanism and swim into the mechanism, eating those who are thrown to death. What's more, the doors at the end of these stone corridors were guarded by soldiers, and it was impossible for anyone to escape. ”

Speaking of this, I immediately thought of the descendants of those Nuwa's intestines, and thought that they were the ones who were used as rations for beasts.

"But, wait a minute......" Suddenly, I felt a chuckle in my heart, and I had reached another very important matter, and the more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and I couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, "But we didn't see that 'dragon' in it!" The ceiling of the main hall has collapsed, could it be that the man-eating dragon has escaped? ”

"Then I don't know." The leech man said with a leisurely face, I said in my heart that you are a little old man, it's quite cool to let people carry you on your back, right, you are still energetic!

I was nervous, pinching the bridge of my sore nose and thinking that it was terrible, terrible, this place was a monster camp! I can't stay for a second, and I don't know what will happen next, so I need to leave! But when you go out of this passage, you don't know where you will be, and even if you find your way back, you may not be able to go back. My protagonist's aura, I don't know when it's going to be extinguished, damn, thinking about it, my head began to hurt, and then I heard the girl walking in front of me say hello.

"It's over."

Hearing this, I was stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward with Xiao Rong to take a look-sure enough, there was no way.

Seeing this, the man shook his head and said, "No, this is the passage for the beast to put food, there must be a door." Then let's look around.

I also felt that it was impossible for the Xuanyuan people to build a dead end inexplicably, otherwise they would be too lacking in heart, so I nodded, and first tried to push the wall at the end of the road, although I couldn't push it away, but I felt that the wall should be hollow, and I thought that as long as it could be opened, I should be able to get out.

Then I began to touch the stone wall in front of me inch by inch, fantasizing in my heart, just like described in a martial arts novel, suddenly touched a certain mechanism, the brick retracted, the door opened automatically, and a martial arts cheats appeared in front of me......

I was groping on the wall, and then the girl screamed again, and when she was excited, her voice would become thin and long, and the voice echoed in the stone corridor, and my eardrums hurt.

"Look, what is this?!" The girl shouted.

I turned around very cooperatively to look, only to see the girl spread out her hand, and there was a triangular piece of jade in her palm.

"I've found a treasure!" The girl was overjoyed, and a small face smiled like a flower.

My heart said to let you find the door, what rotten stone are you looking for? Even if this jade is priceless, it will be in vain if we can't get out at the moment! Glancing at her, I turned my head to the side with a bored expression.

"This is really a treasure!" The girl was still not convinced, and shouted loudly, "So Xiaoyangzi, you are too boring, I guess you were dumped by girls in the early years, right?" ”

"What the hell are you trying to say?" I plucked my ears and felt a little upset.

"Hmph, you look closely, this is not an ordinary jade," the girl held the small stone and dangled it in front of my eyes, "This is the key!" ”

"Keys?"

"That's right, look here." Following the direction of the girl's finger, under the light of the camp lamp, I saw an identical triangular hole appear in the wall.

Obviously, if you put the jade in the girl's hand into this triangular hole, it will definitely trigger some things in this passage, and the door will be opened because of this. But when the girl raised her hand to do this series of actions, I suddenly had an ominous premonition, so I pressed it on her hand without thinking.

"Don't move!"

"What's wrong?" The girl looks at me.

"Are you sure this is the key to open the door?" I asked, "What if it's a 'self-destruct key'?" As soon as I put it in, it collapsed ......."

The girl started scolding, saying that I was too good at cranky.

I said, it's not that I'm cranky, this must be wrong! I looked at her and said, "Do you think, suppose you are from the Xuanyuan clan, and you have worked hard to build such a place, and then this door is your entrance, and this triangular stone is your key, but how do you get out?" ”

The girl looked at me, not understanding what I meant.

I continued to explain, and I said, "Do you remember that Uncle Meng said that the Xuanyuan people only have one eye, and their eyes are particularly bad?" ”

The girl nodded.

"So, they don't have a good eye, how could they put such a small key in such a dark passage, aiming it at such a small keyhole? Isn't this as difficult for them as smearing and threading a needle? You say how lacking they must be to do such a heartless thing, right? So, this is definitely not the key for the Xuanyuan clan! ”

"And what is this?"

"I don't know." I shook my head and said, "Since it's not for the people of the Xuanyuan clan, it's for the humans who are used as food. ”

"It's really fake!"

The girl frowned and glared at me, her face as ugly as if she had eaten pork liver. I looked at the others, and they were all stunned and didn't know what to do, at this time, my heart sank, and I smashed my hand and said, "Come on, give it to me, you all stand far away, I'll try, if something happens, you can run away immediately, don't worry about me." ”

"Okay! Boy, it's righteous enough! The strange man said, giving me a thumbs up, and then took two steps back.