Chapter 26: Floating Debris

The four of us walked along the tunnel, and the forks that popped up around us from time to time proved that the current orientation of the tunnel had been formed through various attempts. 01 When playing this hole, there is actually no specific goal.

Obviously, it was originally located underneath the ancient city.

I really can't figure out how such a thing could come out of the ancient city of silkworm swallowing. Saying that animals are not animals, and saying that people are not people, that terrifying combination of regenerative abilities gives people the feeling that they are more like a super giant locust.

Immediately after that, we advanced for another forty minutes or so, and I don't know if it was my delusion, but I always felt that from time to time there would be a yin wind blowing from nowhere in the hole, and the wind blew through my ears, as if something invisible was gasping coldly at my ears.

If it weren't for the situation, I'd really like to ask for a stick of incense and see the situation.

The lazy man barely speaks, and walks in the front with a steady tone that is always unified. The one-eyed dragon walked in the middle with Harichagai on his back, and I walked in the last. At this moment, I noticed that the structure of this cave had changed somewhat, if the previous cave was like a circular tunnel made by some kind of large animal, then the further I went, the shape of the hole began to become neat, and I faintly saw the ridges, showing signs of artificiality.

The one-eyed dragon said: "It seems that we have arrived at the place, this is a hole in the ground that has not been completed, and it was made like this by 01 in the later stage." As he spoke, the cave had changed from circular to boxy, and at the same time, some unfinished stone slabs gradually appeared around it.

A question suddenly popped up in my mind, how did 01 get unearthed with such a long hole and such a large area? I know that the animal burrowed with its front paws and its hind feet, but that was only confined to a shallower burrow. The deeper caves still have to be excavated back and forth with great difficulty, similar to people.

It's hard for me to imagine what 01 looked like in this cave that lasted about three hours, and I always felt that something was wrong, and it shouldn't be as simple as we thought.

The lazy man walked along, observing the unfinished stone slabs around him,

To be exact, the shape of these stone slabs is no problem, and the rest of the work is only inlay, so they are stacked on the side of the tunnel in an orderly manner, with the 'silkworm pattern' that I am more familiar with. Soon, the end of the tunnel appeared in front of us, it was a round arched passage, and many large broken stones could be seen in front of the passage, so it can be seen that the place should have been a stone door, but the stone gate was destroyed for some reason, and only the stones remained.

A strange smell wafted into our noses down the arched passage, not stinky, but definitely unpleasant, like some kind of rotten smell. I smell a lot of corpses and the like, but this kind of rotting smell is different from the smell of corpses, so I can't say anything specifically.

All four of us were experienced, and we immediately realized that there was something strange behind this passage. Whether it is a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that cannot be avoided, everyone became more vigilant, and then walked towards the artificial passage in the opening of the lazy goods.

As I passed by the arched door, I looked at the crumbling stones around me, and there was no sign of explosives, but rather as if they had been shattered by some kind of force.

What is it that has so much power? Besides, the ancients more than two years ago couldn't have used such a thing as explosives, right?

There is no other entrance to this place, could it be that 01 came out from behind this arched door? After thinking about it, everyone still walked into the passage, and under the light of the miniature light, we saw the surrounding environment clearly in an instant, and at this moment, I only felt a tingling of my scalp.

There wasn't anything superfluous around, but the ground, the walls, and even the top, were all covered in blood.

The traces of blood seemed to be splattered, and the brushes were everywhere, scarlet and scarlet, and there were some painted things in the gaps that occasionally appeared on the walls, and it looked like there were decorative murals on the walls, but they were all covered in blood.

Clearly, there was a brutal massacre here.

Hari Chagai immediately said the key point of the matter. He said that there was a lot of blood in this place, and if only a few people died, it would be impossible for this effect to occur, and the only possibility was that there were many people gathered in this passage.

The width of the passage is about three meters, and there is nothing else, it is purely for walking. So, what is it that makes so many people gather in this place at the same time?

Harichagai speculated: "What are you hiding from to gather?" The four of us looked at each other, and although we didn't say anything, our expressions were already clear, and everyone probably thought of the same answer 01.

Broken stone doors, bloodstains, but no corpses, where did the corpses go? The only possibility, isn't it to be eaten by 01? That one is really a monster, and the ancient city of devouring silkworms that made this monster is even more mysterious.

Everyone walked along this bloody passage, and not long after, there was a faint sound of commotion in front of them. It took me a moment before I realized that it was the sound of water.

Could it be that groundwater is seeping in? It was only at this time that we discovered a strange phenomenon, we are now underground, and this passage is obviously part of the ancient city of Silkworm Swallowing, why is there still an underground building in this ancient city?

In fact, there have been many cracks in this channel, and it is estimated that in more than ten years, Bacheng will collapse. At the end of the passage was an iron fence gate, but the iron had long since decayed, and the lazy man kicked it with his foot, and the whole door fell down.

At this time, we realized that the end of this passage was actually empty.

It was dark, and it seemed to be a big space. The iron fence did not fall to the ground, but kept falling, and the most annoying pop was the sound of something falling into the water. In the light of this miniature searchlight, we saw that behind the passage, there was a large space, and the lights went down, and at a height of about ten meters from our feet, there was a pool of black water, which seemed to be underground water.

The one-eyed dragon said: "This water doesn't look like it seeps in, it's like a naturally formed underground water hole, hey, you see......" Don't look at him only one eye, but it's quite bright, observing the room, as if he found something, pointing to the left, signaling us to look.

Where we are now is a hollow groundwater, and the passage we came from is located on the mountain wall of this hollow, with no top or water. The place that the one-eyed dragon was pointing to was on the left side of the passage level with us, about four or five meters away from us, and a black thing could be faintly seen. We immediately gathered the lights together and hit it, only to find that there was a staircase carved out of the terrain next to it, and the steps were only four or five meters away, leading straight to the black shadow.

And that black shadow was a chain bridge, with wooden planks on it, leading to an invisible place on the opposite side.

The wooden planks on the chain bridge had already rusted clean, and only a few rotten wood blocks embedded in the cracks allowed me to speculate on its prototype. The lazy man's nose moved, as if looking for the source of the rotten smell. After entering this hollow, the smell of decay became stronger, faintly, as if it had been brought up from the water vapor below.

Is there something in the water?

To get a better look, we turned off the miniature searchlight and pulled the flashlight out of our gear. The advantage of the miniature searchlight is that it can be hung anywhere at will, which can free your hands, which is more convenient, but the light is not too strong. Now that we have changed the flashlight, our visual range has become a little larger.

The flashlight hit the opposite side directly, and it seemed that it was quite far away, and he still couldn't see the environment clearly. Immediately after, the lazy crouched on the edge and turned the flashlight down. Since the distance from the water level is not too high, we can see the environment on the surface of the water.

The water seemed to be not flowing, the surface of the water was very stable, and the place where the flashlight could not reach it was dark, like a cold and huge black hole. The light formed by the light flowed on the surface of the water as the lazy man moved, and the light became farther and farther away, and the vision became more and more obscure, but at this moment, in the dim light, I suddenly saw that something seemed to float on the water.

Obviously, I wasn't the only one who saw it, and the one-eyed dragon immediately craned its neck and said, "What is that?" ”

The lazy man said: "It's not a living thing anyway." "It seems that he is more sensitive to living things, which means that what is floating on the surface of the water should be a dead thing that does not move.

At first, I thought it was stagnant water, but obviously I was wrong, the water was just moving slowly, and there was no reference to compare it before, but now with the thing floating on the water, I immediately realized that the water was flowing.

We are now in the south, but the east-west flow is from east to west, and since it is not approaching us, we can never see its true face. At this time, the one-eyed dragon looked at the chain bridge on the wall, patted his thigh and said, "Look at it in a different position." As he spoke, he took a flashlight and walked down the steps to the chain bridge, and then shook the iron cable twice with his hand to test the firmness.

Suddenly, he felt that there was no problem, so he put the flashlight in his mouth, and moved with his hand on the chain, and after a while, he moved to a position five or six meters away. Due to the change of position, the light also changed, and in an instant, the light of the flashlight shone directly on the floating object in the water.

It was white, about the size of a person, and it looked like a giant white cocoon, which was very strange. The one-eyed dragon had a flashlight in its mouth, unable to speak, but its expression was clearly full of doubt, and the remaining one eye looked at us, now asking: What is this?

I shook my head.

At this moment, in the shadow of the edge of the light, another identical floating object appeared in our sight, looking very strange.

I said in my heart: That smell of rot is not from them.