While Chen Ziyang was studying the purple Wang Lian, Wang Dawei led a person to walk at the back of the line, and they did not enter the stone platform, but still stayed in the space of the spiral staircase, looking at the empty groove.

Just after Chen Ziyang shook the handle, as the handle rotated, the gears also rotated, and several gears in this slot, including the golden gear, disappeared into the mezzanine inside the stone wall again after spinning.

It seems that this gear is like a sign, indicating their way forward, and as long as they are on the right path, they can see it again at the next mechanism that opens the door.

Wang Dawei's purpose in studying this gear was to find some hints for the next direction of the team, but because the gap in this mezzanine was relatively narrow, there was nothing to be seen after the flashlight went in, so when Chen Ziyang and the others stepped on the leaves of those huge purple Wang Lian one after another, Wang Dawei also followed.

Although these purple royal lotus leaves are large enough to withstand the weight of an adult, after all, no one dares to guarantee that these leaves will not break or sink into the water when two people stand on them at the same time.

Therefore, everyone in the team can only walk up after the previous person has left the Wang Lian leaf, and only one person can stand on each purple Wang Lian leaf at the same time.

The diameter of each Wang Lian leaf is two meters away, and the largest one is more than three meters, so that the distance between everyone in the team is about three or four meters, and because the previous person needs to leave the leaf before the second person can step on it, the overall speed of the team is much slower.

Because Chen Ziyang was the first to step on Wang Lian's leaves, he walked at the front of the line. Whenever Chen Ziyang jumped to a royal lotus leaf in front of him, he would frighten the fireflies that roosted on these huge purple royal lotus leaves, and a little yellow light surrounded him, forming a beautiful picture in this smoky underground water world.

Looking at the beautiful scenery in front of him, Chen Ziyang was in a good mood, he danced for a long time, and he didn't feel that his physical fitness had declined, but he felt very energetic, it seems that this beautiful scenery can really cultivate people's mood, but just when Chen Ziyang was tirelessly leading the team forward, the umbrella stone shuai behind him stopped him and said to him:

"Ziyang, you wait, I remember."

Chen Ziyang stopped, turned around, and looked at Umbrella Shishuai with a very strange gaze.

"Brother Umbrella, what do you remember? Let's hurry up and go, and we'll talk about it after this lake. ”

"You have to be careful when you go forward, pay attention, I thought I had seen these plants somewhere, but I couldn't remember, I had been thinking about it just now, and now I remember, even in the waterway in Li Yan's tomb that transports materials, there are also such plants.

At that time, I also asked Qin Liang, he said that this plant may have grown in the underground without light for many years, so these plants do not contain chlorophyll, and they do not need to use light for photosynthesis at all, so the color of these plants is purple, not green, do you remember what I told you about what happened in that section of water. ”

Chen Ziyang thought for a while, and said to Umbrella Shi Shuai: "What you said is that in that water, you were attacked by a huge crocodile-like creature, and that crocodile bit off one of Camp Commander Jin's legs, and at the same time swallowed Qin Liang into his stomach, right?" ”

"By the way, I also remembered, just now I also thought that these plants were familiar, I did see them when I was in Li Zhuo's tomb, but at that time, these plants in there were very small, there were no such big leaves, and the largest was less than half a meter, so I didn't think about it, just now Umbrella Shishuai said this, I am also very sure that these plants are the plants that grow there, but these Wang Lian here grow relatively large." Xiao Na, who was behind Umbrella Shishuai, said.

"Yes, since there are crocodiles there, there may be them here, so let's be careful when you move forward."

"Probably not, we've been walking for so long, and we haven't seen anything in the water, and you also said that the crocodile is in Li Yan's tomb, it can't be that there is anything there and here, maybe it's just a coincidence, both tombs have this purple royal lotus leaves, but this doesn't mean that where this kind of royal lotus grows, there will definitely be that kind of huge crocodile."

Chen Ziyang recalled that when he was in Li Zhuo's tomb, the whole team was divided into three routes, Chen Ziyang and Yang Lei all the way, Umbrella Shishuai and Wang Lele all the way, and Xiao Na and Qin Liang all the way, but later, Xiao Na's team and Umbrella Shishuai's team merged together, and the two teams walked together into the waterway that transported materials, and were attacked by a huge crocodile there.

"You have a point, but I'm just reminding you, let's be careful."

"The people in the back, hurry up, don't step on the leaves of the people in front, everyone walks sideways and speeds up." Chen Ziyang had not experienced the horror of that crocodile, so he didn't take this place seriously.

But Xiao Na has personally experienced the ferocity of the crocodile, a team of dozens of people, under the attack of the crocodile, more than a dozen people ran out alive, although it may be just like Chen Ziyang said, it may not be so coincidental, there is also such a big crocodile here, but the things she experienced before made Xiao Na cautious, so she ordered the people behind her to speed up.

There are many places where this purple royal lotus grows on the surface of the lake, and even in the most dense place of the purple royal lotus, the leaves are stacked one after another, and even the water below cannot be seen, so there is no need for the people in the team to form such a long snake formation and walk forward one after another.

The reason why this strategy was used before was because Xiao Na felt that it was more safe, and with Chen Ziyang exploring the way in front, it could be seen whether the leaves he was stepping on were strong enough to withstand the trampling of the next person.

But under the reminder of Umbrella Shi Shuai, Xiao Na also became nervous, so she made the team change from this vertical long snake formation to a horizontal team, and everyone stepped on different Wang Lian leaves to move forward, so that the overall speed of the team would speed up a lot.

As if confirming Xiao Na's worries, just as everyone was speeding forward, in the originally quiet waters around them, there was a sudden sound of water splashing, and at the same time, there were ripples on a piece of water, and when the ripples passed under everyone's feet, Wang Lian's leaves shook slightly.

Everyone in the advancing line stopped, looked at the place where the water was splashing, and listened carefully, they wanted to hear what it was making this sound, and what was making a splash, but after the water was making this splash, there was no other movement.

"Don't look at it, speed up." Under Xiao Na's reminder, everyone reacted, no matter what thing he was in the water, this thing could only be bad for the whole team, it was not good at all, it was better to hurry up and move forward.

Chen Ziyang led everyone forward in the direction of the small stone pier where they came in, this body of water is very large, there is no edge to be seen, and all the people do not know the direction of progress, and at the same time, because they are afraid of waking up some other creatures here, everyone does not dare to use flares and other things to see what is going on, after all, there is a scene of the bat swarm frightened by flares before, so everyone is also very cautious.

Because he didn't know the right direction to go, Chen Ziyang felt that the direction with his back to the pier should be the right one, which was better than running around in this water.

As they leaped in that direction, several members of the group heard the sound of another splash coming from the nearby waters, which became louder and louder, and felt as if they were getting closer and closer.

Chen Ziyang jumped forward and said to the umbrella Shishuai beside him: "Brother Umbrella, this time it really made your crow's mouth right, it was fine, there was nothing wrong, who would have thought that under what you said, something really came over." ”

"You kid is embarrassed to say that I am a crow's mouth, if I hadn't kindly reminded you, you would still be playing slowly and leisurely in front, in that case, we would all have to finish playing."

This underground water area is really big, and everyone ran forward for about ten minutes under the chase of the sound of this splash, but they still didn't see the end of the water.

The only difference from before was that the leaves of the purple royal lotus in the nearby waters were getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time, there were more and more fireflies perching on it, and even under Chen Ziyang's rapid running and jumping, these fireflies hit him in the face one by one.

Hit by these fireflies, Chen Ziyang suddenly thought of a way to find the thing underwater. These fireflies inhabit this quiet underground world all year round, and if there is any sound of the leaves of the royal lotus on the water, these fireflies will fly.

So if there is really something chasing them underwater, this thing will definitely touch the long pole of Wang Lian's leaves stretching out to the bottom of the water, so that the words will cause the Wang Lian leaves to vibrate, and the fireflies on it will also fly, thinking of this, Chen Ziyang hurriedly looked left and right, and he found that just seven or eight meters away from the team, there was a string of fireflies on the leaves of Wang Lian that no one flew up from time to time.

Chen Ziyang hurriedly shouted this discovery to the people around him, and the other people also looked in that direction, and sure enough, just as Chen Ziyang said, these fireflies flew up one after another, and the arrows composed of fireflies were like a sharp sword, running towards the direction of the team in the oblique thorn. I didn't expect this thing to be so close to the team without noticing.

In order to avoid the unidentified underwater object, Shauna had the team change the direction of their travel, keeping it parallel to the direction of the firefly's arrow, so that they could avoid the unknown object as much as possible and also buy time for the team.

However, after the team changed direction, the direction of the arrow composed of fireflies also bent slightly, and it was still inserted in the front of the team in the oblique thorn. At the same time, there was another sound of water splashing in that direction.

And looking at the speed at which those fireflies fly, the thing under the water is moving much faster than the speed of the others, although it is impossible to reach them immediately, but it will not take more than a few minutes.

After changing the direction of the team again, Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na glanced at each other, and both of them saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.

In this case, there is nothing for a short time, and the team can avoid contact with it for a while, but as time goes by, the more the team changes direction, then the whole team is equivalent to walking on a huge circle, so that they will eventually be surrounded by this underwater object and catch up with them.

At the same time, it is easy for the team to lose their way in the water and lose themselves in the waters. And with the decline of everyone's physical strength, not only will there be no way to get out of this water, but at the same time, it is more likely to be trapped on the surface of the water by this thing and destroyed.

Just as Chen Ziyang and Xiao Na were thinking about countermeasures, suddenly a scream of "ah" came from behind them, followed by the sound of something falling into the water. A few people looked back as they ran forward, but they didn't see anything.

However, there was a slight ripple near a Wang Lian leaf, obviously something had fallen into the water just now, Xiao Na quickly glanced at the people around her, and then she found that one of her team members had disappeared.

"Who saw what happened?" Xiao Na asked as she ran forward.

"Didn't see ......"

"Didn't see ......"

……

Because this water space was very dark, and the direction of the flashlight beams in the hands of all the people was relatively scattered, and everyone was tired and didn't pay attention to anything other than themselves, no one noticed that there was no one missing from the team. If it weren't for the man's cry before he fell into the water, no one would have noticed that anyone was missing.

Although Xiao Na changed the team from a column to a horizontal team, which accelerated the speed of the team's advance, it also created a problem, that is, no one would notice the others, and no one even knew how the team member disappeared.

Xiao Na hoped that the team member was careless under her feet, so she fell into the water, but then she found out that the truth was not what she imagined, if the team member fell into the water, he should have poked his head out, or shouted loudly, and at worst, he would also struggle under the water and make a splash.

However, after the ripples had disappeared, the waters were completely calm again, as if the team had never been there.

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