"Monitor?"

Wu Xie frowned and said, "You followed us all the way, just to monitor our movements?" ”

"My duty is only to monitor, and I will not interfere with the freedom of people who enter the dungeon. Unless—"

Taoist priest Chen said: "Unless their actions affect the 'ultimate'. ”

There is also the "ultimate" here?!

The action of the stuffy oil bottle this time is really related to the "ultimate"!

Isn't the "ultimate" thing still not over?

Wu Xie squinted his eyes and said, "But the fact that you made a move, does this mean that our actions have affected the 'ultimate'?" ”

Chen Duxue nodded: "Those people outside don't have to worry. But Wu Xie, you are indeed a troublesome guy as our information says. ”

Wu Xie smiled ruffianly: "Shouldn't I feel honored to be able to get such an evaluation from your 'Zhang family'?" ”

Looking back on their personal experience of dealing with the Zhang family in the past, Zhang Haike and Zhang Haixing's brothers and sisters did not leave any pleasant memories for Wu Xie.

"Now I just want to know," Wu Xie stared into the other party's eyes, "Are we friend or foe at the moment?" ”

Chen's reply was lukewarm.

"It depends on what you do next."

"What if I'm going to go deeper?"

"I said—"

Chen Duxue said coldly, "I'm just a monitor. ”

Wu Xie touched his chin and groaned: "The implication is that as long as what I do will not affect the 'ultimate', you won't do anything, right?" ”

Chen Duxue was noncommittal, and just lightly moved out of the way.

Wu Xie was no longer polite and strode forward.

Illuminated by powerful searchlights, the space here gradually reveals the tip of its iceberg.

The initial impression of this place to Wu Xie seemed to be an underground tunnel of astonishing scale.

In the middle is a man-repaired passage wide enough for two trucks to pass side by side, flanked by vertically high dark red rock walls. The passage was so long that not even the light of a searchlight could reach the end.

And what surprised Wu Xie the most was that these rock walls were actually "overgrown" with countless "stone eyes" of all sizes!

These "stone eyes" are identical to the "eyes" on the "Sleeping Gate", but the number is so large that it makes the scalp tingle, I am afraid that there are hundreds of thousands or even millions. This scene can be said to be very dreamy, just like the fat man said, Wu Xie began to doubt himself or not on the earth? The only thing he dared to pack a ticket was that people with dense phobias would definitely have a nervous breakdown within a minute when they saw this scene!

The further he went, the more shocked Wu Xie was by the scale of this underground project, and at the same time, the confusion in his heart became stronger and stronger.

It is like a "sleeping city" hidden underground.

Who and under what circumstances carved these "stone eyes" into the stone walls? What is the purpose and significance of this amazing underground project?

What is the connection between the underground royal city of Gaochang and the "ultimate" behind the bronze gate of Changbai Mountain?

Why are the Zhang family closely monitoring this place?

In addition, did the Taoist priest Chen, who was the "watchman", know the whereabouts of the stuffy oil bottle?

And does the stuffy oil bottle know about the existence of the "watcher"?

The huge mystery filled his mind to the brim, but he couldn't find any exit, and he wished he could catch someone and ask him about it.

Of course, there is such a person by his side who can answer all the questions that Wu Xie has at the moment. But that "Chen Duxue" is worthy of a competent "monitor", and at some point he has quietly disappeared into the darkness, and he can't even find a ghost.

The portable portable searchlight has a battery life of only two hours. In order to save the limited light source, Wu Xie began to use LED flashlight lighting after exploring the general environment.

It's very big here, where would the stuffy oil bottle be? He wanted to yell at his throat, but looking at the silent "Stone Eyes" around him, he finally dispelled this thought. If they were to be alarmed, the sight of thousands of "eyes" opening at the same time would be terrifying, regardless of the other chain reactions.

After the initial novelty faded, Wu Xie began to feel the cold air around him gradually invade his body, and his injured right hand began to become numb. He looked at the fluorescent numbers on his watch, which showed 18:23 Beijing time. It was his first day in the underground city, and the thrilling day was finally coming to an end.

Wu Xie decided to stop and trim up.

He sat down against the stone wall and found that the spare clothes in his backpack had burned while repelling the bugs. Wu Xie sighed secretly in his heart, and finally accepted an unchangeable fact resignedly: no matter how well he prepared for every fight, he couldn't escape the end of running naked in the end.

Fortunately, there is also a solid-fuel wind lamp in the equipment, which is used when climbing the snow-capped mountains at high altitudes, which can both light and heat. Wu Xie still appreciated the benefits of this thing in the cave of the Qinling Divine Tree.

The wind lantern was lit and placed on the ground, and suddenly the surrounding area of more than ten square meters lit up.

Wu Xie took out the dry food and ate it, thinking about the experience along the way. Maybe it was the exhaustion after blood loss, and at the same time, there seemed to be no danger in this place, Wu Xie fell asleep unconsciously.

I don't know how long I slept, but Wu Xie was woken up by a strange itch on his back in a daze. When he looked back, he almost didn't bite his tongue off!

I saw the huge "stone eyes" on the rock wall behind me, and I don't know when they started, they have undergone strange changes. Within the reach of the light, these "eyes" that were close to the size of a football opened a gap to varying degrees!

This surprise was not trivial, and Wu Xie was completely sleepy in an instant.

- The "stone eyes" here are all "alive"!

Wu Xie bit his tongue fiercely, making sure that he was not dreaming.

Do these "eyes" all open at a certain time? What is controlling these "stone eyes"? What happens when thousands of "eyes" are opened at the same time?

Quicksand? Sand scorpions? Bug tides? Or something more perverted?

Wu Xie was nervous and vigilant, and he had never missed the fat man so much in his heart as he did now.

More than half an hour passed, but nothing happened.

Wu Xie took a deep breath, moved his stiff limbs slightly, and woke up again and approached the rock wall. It's no use just standing here and scaring yourself. The stuffy oil bottle is missing, the fat man is not there, even if the sky falls this time, he has to carry it alone. Thinking about this, Wu Xie calmed down.

He approached those "stone eyes" with a wind lantern to observe, only to see that compared with just now, these "eyes" were actually a little more open. The one with the most obvious change has revealed the bottom two-thirds of the "eyeballs".

Wu Xie put his eyes together, trying to figure out what the "eyeball" was all about. Under the illumination of the LED flashlight, the "eyeball" takes on a translucent crystalline shape, which hits the light from a specific angle, and you can also see an irregularly shaped "nucleus" faintly in the middle.

As if sensing the stimulation of light, this "core" actually moved in horror!

Wu Xie reflexively popped out far away, goosebumps rose all over his body.

- Damn, are these really "eyes"!?

- If these "eyes" are alive, then the question is, where are their "faces"?

Wu Xie remembered a very old joke he heard when he was a child, saying that a person can have his upper lips up to the sky and his lower lip on the ground, so someone asked, "What about his face?" ”

When the joke teller saw that he had sold enough, he said unhurriedly: "The person who talks big can just open his mouth, what do you want to do with his face?" ”

The original intention of the people who created this story was nothing more than to teach children to be honest and trustworthy and not to brag. At that age, many adults' boring preaching was forgotten, and only this somewhat strange story remained in the memory. It's a little weird because it's easy for little kids to think it's a horror story about yokai until the answer is finally revealed.

However, after so many years of experience, Wu Xie has realized that not all stories in the real world must have an answer, so not every horror story can successfully flip the plot at the last moment and become a fairy tale that makes people laugh at ease. Like this somewhat bizarre but real problem he is currently facing:

- If these "eyes" are alive, then what about their "faces"?

The "eye" that had been "stimulated" was finally fully opened.

Without the flashlight, the huge "eyeball" appeared a little cloudy, like some newborn animals, covered with a milky white film.

Under Wu Xie's nervous gaze, the "eyeballs" began to slowly move from side to side.

Perhaps because of that membrane, the "eyes" didn't seem to notice the existence of Wu Xie, and it seemed to be blindly patrolling in different directions.

- What will happen when it can see things clearly?

- Kill people with "eyes"?

Other than that, Wu Xie couldn't think of any other possibilities - this thing didn't even have a "face", let alone a "hand". But reason reminds Wu Xie that now is not the time for curiosity to overflow. In the current situation, the best choice is to run away quickly, otherwise when he sees the means of this "eye" with his own eyes, I am afraid that he will not be far from "game-over".

Life can't be archived and restarted, he only has one chance to clear the level!

Wu Xie tiptoed to pick up the wind lantern on the ground, carefully twisted the fire extinguisher, and then picked up his backpack and ran lifelessly.

I don't know how long I ran, until Wu Xie felt that he was going to lose his breath in the next second, he finally dared to stop, and he was panting wildly with his hands on his knees.