Chapter 4: The Sinkhole
Wang Xiaotian was stunned when he heard this. Why did Moli do this?
Did he do it on purpose? or unintentionally?
Ye Zhanjian continued: My brain was also blank at the time, and I couldn't figure out what Mo Li was going to do.
However, Mo Li pressed it for such a moment, and Cheng Yunshi suddenly woke up from the state of a broken marionette. When she saw Mo Li's movements, she was immediately annoyed and angry, pulled out her sword, and couldn't help but say that she wanted to kill Mo Li.
Seeing this, Mo Li immediately pulled out his legs and ran, and Cheng Yunshi chased after him. I saw that both of them had run away, so I had to chase after them.
Wang Xiaotian: How big is a big tree?
Ye Zhanjian: It's about 20 meters tall, and the trunk is as thick as four people hugging each other.
Wang Xiaotian: ...... So a big tree, you don't think there's anything wrong?
Ye Zhanjian was stunned, from the time they set off to the present, all the way was a wilderness, and there was very little grass, let alone trees. At that time, Cheng Yunshi was indeed standing in front of a big tree in a daze, but she only paid attention to Cheng Yunshi and ignored the big tree.
He then wrote: You are right, something is wrong with that tree. In retrospect, it seems that there were some trees around there.
Wang Xiaotian thought for a while and wrote: Go over and take a look?
Ye Jianjian looked at Wang Xiaotian and the other four people, tied together by a rope in a strange shape, and wrote: Can you do it?
Everyone read what he wrote and nodded their heads again and again.
Ye Jianjian put away his notebook and pen, then reached out and grabbed the head of the rope and made a gesture to keep up.
The group followed Ye Zhanjian and ran all the way for more than two hours, and sure enough, they saw a huge tree.
The tree is tall and thick, with a gray-white trunk and heart-shaped leaves that are somewhat purple in color, and when the wind blows, you can hear the sound of the leaves colliding, as if they are clapping.
Wang Xiaotian approached the big tree, and suddenly felt a strange will to resist, as if he was disgusted by something. He immediately took a closer look, but found nothing.
Everyone circled around the big tree and saw that there were still seven or eight of these big trees scattered in the distance.
Wang Xiaotian found Ye Zhanjian and wrote: Go ahead and take a look?
Ye Jianjian thought about it and nodded in agreement.
The group continued to walk forward, walking about a kilometer, and came to the second big tree. Compared to the previous one, this large tree is almost the same thickness and height.
Wang Xiaotian was a little surprised, and hurriedly suggested that Ye Jianjian continue to find the third big tree.
When the group arrived at the third tree, it was expected that the third tree was almost identical to the first two.
Everyone was amazed, and immediately went to look for other big trees.
It turned out that there were nine of these trees, all of which were of the same height and thickness. Moreover, after Wang Xiaotian drew the location of the nine big trees on paper, he found that the nine big trees were arranged into an arrow!
The first and second trees they saw were the tails of the arrows, and the seven trees in front of them formed a triangle of arrowheads!
What made them even more strange was that the direction indicated by the arrow was not due north, but northwest.
Seeing this result, everyone looked at each other.
After a while, Wang Xiaotian: What do you think?
Lone Eagle: There's a problem.
Everyone gave them a look of contempt. If this TM is fine, there will be a ghost.
Ye Zhanjian: The height and thickness of the tree are almost the same, indicating that they were basically planted at the same time. Based on the thickness of the trees, the age of these trees is at least five hundred years or more, if not more.
Ding Sicong: What about the role?
Wang Xiaotian: If my guess is correct, it should be used to indicate directions. However, the observer's position should be in heaven.
The crowd followed his fingers and looked up at the sky.
After nearly two days of traveling, everyone has a preliminary understanding of the topography and landform of this area.
It was a very flat wilderness, and if it weren't for the sun in the sky that could tell the exact position, it would have been almost impossible for them to tell the exact position in the wilderness.
And, if it weren't for the fact that the beast tide had just ended, there would have been a lot of monsters roaming around the area, and they would frantically attack all living creatures in the vicinity.
At the same time, there will be many strange birds wandering in the sky, frantically attacking intruders who enter their airspace.
In other words, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for anyone to approach the area from the ground or from the air.
So, who is this arrow for?
To the strange birds in the sky so that they can find their way home?
Those weird birds don't even have their senses, and they still know the road signs?
Wang Xiaotian: Why don't we look in the direction indicated by the arrow while the sky is still bright?
Want to explore the unknown alias curiosity. This is the day of mankind. Everyone exchanged glances, then nodded.
So, they followed the direction indicated by the arrow, continued to walk, and after walking for about a hundred kilometers, they found their destination. The reason why we know for sure that this is the destination is because it is so unique, so unique that it is unique.
That's a very big sinkhole!
The sinkhole is about 1 square kilometer in diameter, but it is very deep. The visual depth is at least 500 meters, and the mountain rocks below are abrupt and strange. With such a deep depth and such a complex terrain, they couldn't jump down directly.
To their surprise, they easily found their way down the sinkhole near the direction indicated by the arrows!
That road is a ramp that remains on the inner wall of the sinkhole. Following this ramp, against the inner wall of the sinkhole, and bypassing the jagged boulders, they walked most of the way down to the bottom of the sinkhole.
At the bottom of the sinkhole, they could clearly see a path covered with animal claw prints, leading to a hill in the middle of the sinkhole.
The hill is very steep like a pillar, and there is a huge hole halfway up the hill, and from the hole it leads to the foot of the hill, which is a very smooth and long slope.
If it's a monster on the ground, it can slide down very smoothly from above, but they can't walk up from below.
However, this is not difficult for Wang Xiaotian and them. They untied the rope and jumped halfway up the hill to the door of the cave in a few jumps.
It was pitch black under the door, and I couldn't see anything clearly.
The crowd exchanged glances with each other again, and then took out their notebooks and pens to write.
Sergeant Lu: It's getting dark, why don't you find a place to rest here today?
Wang Xiaotian: I can't sit here, I can't lie down, how can I rest? I think it's better to prepare some lighting things, and if you keep going, maybe you will find something.
Ye Jianjian: Agreed.
Tuoba Qing: Hmm.
Ding Sicong: That's right.
Dugu Ying: No comment.
Seeing that most people agreed with him, Wang Xiaotian took off his backpack, reached out and touched it for a while, and soon found a wind lantern and lit it with a lighter as a tool for lighting.
Originally, Wang Xiaotian wanted to be the first to enter, but was stopped by Ye Zhanjian. Ye Zhanjian took the wind lantern from his hand and motioned for himself to take the lead in front of him, and the others followed.
Under the light of the wind lamp, everyone saw that there was a downward ramp in the cave. The group continued to walk forward.
I don't know how long I walked, Wang Xiaotian estimated that he had walked at least one kilometer or more. The cave grew wider and wider, and glowing moss began to appear on the walls and ceiling of the cave, and umbrella-shaped mushrooms began to appear on the ground.
Of course, in addition to these mushrooms, there are also some palm-sized worms that lie on the mushrooms and eat them.
These worms are very unresponsive, and when they come over, the worms don't know how to dodge or attack, and they are still eating mushrooms.
Further on, the glowing moss became more and more and brighter, and there was no need to borrow the light of the wind lantern to clearly see the surrounding scene. Moreover, there are more and more various mushrooms and worms.
Then they came to the mouth of a cave and found it as bright as day.
Everyone stood at the entrance of the cave and looked ahead, and they were stunned.
It's a huge underground world!
More than two hundred meters above their heads was a dome made of glowing moss, like a blue sky.
On the ground more than 200 meters under their feet, there were all kinds of mushrooms of varying heights, countless ferns that could not be named, and countless vines intertwined with each other.
What surprised them even more was that in the forest of mushrooms, ferns and vines, there were many strange animals!
There are saber-toothed tiger-like babies, monkey-like long tongues, and other animals like foxes, wolves, and bears. There are even strange birds with three heads in the sky, as well as birds like phoenixes flying by.
And, here, the devil's whispering is completely gone!
Wang Xiaotianye guessed with his sword that it might be because they went deep underground, and the thick stratum shielded the devil's whispering.
It took a while for everyone to come to their senses from the shock. Then, they exchanged glances and decided to go down and take a look.
The group followed a ramp to a forest of giant umbrella mushrooms, ferns, and vines.
The animals, seeing their appearance, all came up one after another. The crowd was not polite either, and quickly killed the animals that were going to hunt them.
Then, they discovered that these animals, in terms of size and strength, were inferior to those that made up the beast tide. The body size is generally about two meters, and the strength is also the fourth-level Force level.
Moreover, these animals are sane, and after killing these animals, they can also draw pure Force power from their hearts!
This suggests that these animals are the source of the beast tide monsters.
The crowd continued to walk forward with a stomach full of questions. Along the way, hunt down the animals that attack them.
After walking for more than ten kilometers, Ye Zhanjian found an open place to stop and said, "After tossing for more than ten hours, everyone should be tired, right? Let's rest here, rest for one night, and continue to explore here tomorrow." ”
Everyone was tired and nodded in agreement.
The crowd sat together. For safety, they did not eat the animals they hunted, but ate the dry food they brought with them and drank the water they brought.
After eating, everyone took turns to rest.
Wang Xiaotian slept until midnight and was woken up by Ye Zhanjian. He looked at Ye Zhanjian sleepily and said, "What are you doing? Wasn't I on the first shift? Why is it my turn again so soon?"
Ye Zhanjian made a "shhh" gesture, quickly glanced at the others, and then sat on Wang Xiaotian's side, and whispered, "Don't you think it's strange to see these things today?"
Wang Xiaotian nodded again and again. Whether it was the arrow composed of nine big trees, the sinkhole, and this strange underground world, what he saw today made him feel incredible, and he felt as if he had a bizarre dream.
Ye Zhanjian said: "Before you came, didn't your master tell you something?"
Wang Xiaotian shook his head. Zhou Ziheng didn't give him any instructions at all.
Ye Jianjian pondered for a moment and said, "I always feel that this exploration is very problematic. ”
Wang Xiaotian scratched his head and said, "What can be the problem?"
Ye Zhanjian said: "It's too smooth." ”
Wang Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but complain in his heart. Big brother, just yesterday, Ding Sicong and the four of them were disturbed by the devil's whispering and went crazy; the two grandmasters had a dispute at night and both disappeared; the guide Mo Li made an obscene move towards the only female team member, and was chased and killed by him for hundreds of miles without saying anything. So many unexpected things have happened, and you think it's going well?
Big brother, do you think that for such an important exploration, it is normal to have a few people killed, or everyone to be bruised?
Big brother, you don't have a masochistic fetish, right?