Chapter 90: Hollowing Out the Ground

I'm still in a daze because of the staggered time and space, and I don't know if it's because of the influence of dreams or the influence of the stone chamber, we have encountered very strange things. There's no need to figure everything out now, just get out of here as soon as possible. So I walked up to the wall that had been smashed by the cigarette man and asked the cigarette boy about the way out.

The smoke man didn't speak, he raised the iron rod in his hand and waved it at the wall, and the stone wall in front of him made a loud noise, revealing a large black hole, and broken stones were scattered all over the ground. When the smoke and dust settled, I stuck my flashlight out of the cave and found that behind the stone wall was a long and narrow corridor of stone slabs, silent without the slightest sound.

Finally able to leave here, I hurriedly looked back to check the status of my teammates, the moment the wall broke, the fat man and the others returned to normal, he and the monkey both raised their hands and kept shouting pain, and Zha Qiye stretched his waist with a satisfied face, saying that he hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time.

The fat man asked me why his hand was injured, and I said that he was practicing boxing, and he said with a suspicious look that he didn't have any impression of himself.

I said very perfunctorily that you were sleepwalking, of course I don't remember. He looked at the monkey's gauze-covered hands in disbelief, and I smiled and said it just so happened that you two were sleepwalking together to practice boxing.

I didn't believe it anyway, but I didn't expect the fat man and the monkey to believe it after hearing it, because they didn't remember anything about what had happened before.

The fat man rushed to the stone wall with a big hole, completely forgetting the pain in his hands, and the monkey even exclaimed: "The little brother of the cigarette boy is really extraordinary." Then they were with the fat man. Scrambling to squeeze out of the hole.

The fat duo of the fat man and the monkey didn't care if there was danger outside, and in the blink of an eye, they had already drilled out of the hole. I hurriedly put on my backpack and pulled my flashlight through the hole.

A gust of wind blew up and down Zhou's body. Every cell shuddered, and there was something cold and wrong in the gloomy corridor outside the stone, as if there were gusts of wind coming out of the ground.

The light of the flashlight shone on the dim surroundings, and soon we found out the reason for the gusting wind in the corridor, and the stone slabs on the ground of the narrow corridor were actually hollowed out. It should be said that the entire ground under your feet is hollowed out, and under the hollowed out stone slabs, you can see the black and swarthy abyss, which is bottomless. Bursts of cold air kept pouring out from below, as if there was an unusually cold hell below.

The hollowed-out ground is covered with all kinds of strange irregular hollow geometric patterns, and some abstract shapes that cannot be discerned from the concrete form, which are intricately mixed with each other, only some very small and weak stone slab joints, which faintly indicate that they were originally roads.

Right now, you have to pass through the hollowed-out ground to reach the distance. Behind him is a closed stone chamber with no way to retreat but to move forward bravely. It is passable on the hollowed-out ground. It's just that the places where you can settle are very limited, and if you don't get it right, you will fall into the abyss. But at this time, there is no other way but to bite the bullet.

The skills of a fat man and a smoking man. Passing through this hollowed-out ground shouldn't be a problem, but it just hurts others.

The hollowed-out ground stretches straight ahead. I don't know how far it is, but below is a dark abyss that constantly bubbles up with cold and cold air. You have to be very focused and extra cautious to pass safely.

I don't know why. The erratic, demagogic red-skinned lantern suddenly appeared in my mind. I thought that if it floated out at this moment to make trouble, it would be very dangerous for everyone to walk on the hollow ground.

Worry only flashed for a moment, thinking that the boat would naturally go straight to the bridge, and there was no need to worry about it too early, so he beckoned everyone to move forward.

Everyone had a flashlight in their hands, all of them lowered their heads to the hollow ground under their feet, and then gently raised their feet, followed the smoking man who hit the head, and stepped on the remaining stone slabs that seemed to be connected to a little bit of skin and flesh after the bone was broken, and walked forward slowly and fearfully.

But we didn't go far before everyone stopped sweating, and we encountered our first problem on the hollowed out ground.

In front of everyone's feet, there is a two-meter-wide rectangular hole, and you can clearly see the bottomless black abyss below. In front of this rectangular black hollow, there is another identical hole, and in the middle of them connected to each other, there is only a stone bar the size of half a palm, if you want to jump from here under your feet and step on the stone bar with both feet, then the heel that falls will definitely be unstable due to the force, and it will be difficult for the body to stand firmly on the stone bar half a palm wide, and then you can only fall unsteadily.

Standing long jump is not a problem for everyone, but I don't dare to guarantee that everyone can overcome the force of inertia well after jumping over, in case, if there is a case, it will be miserable. Even if you succeed in jumping on top of a narrow stone bar and then take off a second time, your unbalanced body will definitely shorten the distance of the jump, and then you will fall headlong into the second hole and fall into the abyss below.

The only safer way is to build a bridge, but if there are no trees around, you have to look for something else to build a bridge.

I suddenly thought of the cigarette man's iron rod, but it wasn't necessarily safe. Walking on an iron rod is definitely the same as stepping on a tightrope from a high altitude performance, and we don't have a safety rope on us.

Zha Qiye said that it should not be a problem to hold on to the stone wall on one side and walk over with an iron rod.

At this point, without further ado, the people put the iron rod above the rectangular hole in the ground, and then the smoke man stepped on it in full view of everyone, and then stepped on the stone bar in three or two steps. The cigarette man is as light as a swallow, and his actions in one go have given everyone a lot of confidence. But when it was safe for the smoker to pass, he had to wait for us on a stone bar half the width of his palm, for the iron rod had to be used to rest over the second square hole.

I was the last to step on the bridge made of iron rods, and walked slowly forward with my feet on the outside, the sweat of my palms almost soaking the stone wall. Finally, I walked to the long stone slab in front of me without accident, and when I lowered my head and was about to pick up the iron rod and continue to stand in front of me, I suddenly heard a click, as if it was about to break, and I was immediately shocked into a cold sweat. (To be continued......)