Chapter 160: Escape
readx;? Time was short, and when the decision was reached, several people quickly entered the tunnel, only this time they had to rely on their own groping, and inevitably had to go on some forks in the road. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Out of regret for everyone, Ian walked to the front of everyone in a few steps. His perspective of consciousness is far beyond the naked eye of ordinary people, which can allow them to avoid many wrong and dead ends. Of course, this does not mean that everyone is not at risk of making a mistake, because he can see farther, so once the path he chooses is wrong, it also means that everyone has wasted more time on the wrong path.
Choosing to lead the way means that he has chosen to take the greatest responsibility and risk.
But, in Ian's opinion, this is something he should bear. It is because of his guidance that people have taken a more dangerous path, and he must be responsible for them on this path.
Behind them, the battle that did not belong to mortals continued. Even though they had been deep in the tunnel for several minutes, they could still hear the roar that shook everything.
Countless tiny pieces of sand and gravel fell from the top of everyone's heads, seeping into the silk and sliding into the collars of their clothes, causing everyone to look up frequently, for fear that a sudden collapse would bury them all.
But at this point, there is no way back for everyone. Because a long time has passed, the mouth of the tunnel behind has either been swallowed up by magma, or has collapsed due to the confrontation between two mortal beings. The only option they have now is to move forward.
Underground tunnels have never been easy to navigate, after all, naturally formed passages are not intended for pedestrians. Not to mention that there are no neat steps, many paths are simply vertical up and down, or completely a gap.
What's more, there is usually a lack of oxygen underground, and the burning of lava takes away a lot of oxygen. In their line, the physique of the capable people is different from ordinary people, even in an oxygen-deficient environment, they can still persevere. Ian has been trained to deal with all kinds of environments, and after becoming a Juggernaut, he is not strictly an ordinary person.
But Master Clark was just a mortal. Although the old man is still quite healthy, but after all, it is not an inhuman existence, after climbing for about a quarter of an hour, he gradually developed symptoms of dizziness, tinnitus, and weakness of his limbs, and basically lost the ability to move forward, so he could only lie on Pullman's back, panting unwillingly.
This undoubtedly increased their burden, and slowed down the progress of the crowd a lot.
Not to mention, before that, they would have had to send a man to watch over Lawrence and prevent him from escaping.
Although this feminine-looking man has behaved well so far, no one dares to let his guard down against him. After all, he has four mental images that can escape, and this is the lair of the Black Balance Society. Once he is allowed to escape, no one knows how much trouble it will cause.
Sadly, however, it was impossible for the crowd to end him on the spot. For he is the only one of all who knows the way back to the surface, and besides, the member of the Black Balance Society is undoubtedly the best witness to all that he sees underground. As long as he is brought back to the Northern Regions, he may be able to torture many of the secrets of the Black Balance Society.
The group had been walking through the dark underground for a long time, and no one could see it, and the expression on Ian's face was getting more and more tired in the countless paths he had chosen.
Of course, this fatigue is not physical fatigue, but mental exertion.
In order to find the right path, he had to do his best to stretch his consciousness all the time and construct a three-dimensional map in his mind. Exploring this twisted and complex area was far more difficult than looking down on an open field, and the farther they went, the more he had to memorize and deduce.
Previously, he had made a mistake in the choice of a fork in the road.
And because of this mistake, he realized that there was a dead end in front of him halfway, and he had to make everyone turn around and return to the previous intersection, which was worthy of returning to the right path before the lava overflowed the fork in the road.
Although in the eyes of everyone, no one can do better than him, but such a moment of life and death, this is undoubtedly a waste of extremely precious physical strength and time for everyone.
Even now, he himself is not sure that he must be leading everyone on the right path, and perhaps after the next fork in the road, he will appear, and the front is also blocked by the merciless rock formation.
It's just that everyone has no choice, and he has no second chance to make mistakes. Because the road back is dead, there is no way for them to turn back.
Fortunately, this time the Most High Lord finally favored them. After continuing to travel upwards for nearly a quarter of an hour, Lawrence announced to the crowd that the passage was nearby, with a single exclamation.
"Are you sure it's right above us," Bartlett asked, surveying the dark ceiling above him, as he turned to Lawrence.
"If I'm not mistaken, this is the Hall of Fluorescents. Lawrence nodded, "We built a total of twelve spiral staircases, and two of these twelve stairs are in the position of the worm here. Where we are now should be right below the staircase. ”
"It's empty, and if we break this rock formation, we'll be able to get past Asharis and into the Hall of Fluorescence. Then take the central elevator back to the upper floor. And when it comes to the upper floor, then it is basically relatively safe. ”
Hearing this, Bartlett straightened up, pressed his hand on the rock formation above, closed his eyes, and began to measure the thickness of the rock formation. After a moment, he suddenly opened his eyes and nodded to everyone: "He is not lying, it is indeed empty." ”
All of a sudden, everyone's faces suddenly showed joy. This series of great escapes really exhausted their mental strength, and at this time, they suddenly heard that the hope of life was in front of them, how could they not feel excited.
"You go back a bit. The corners of Bartlett's mouth also oozed a smile, but as the head of the investigation team, he was obviously more cautious than the others: "Pullman protect Master Clark and Miss Julie, and I will open the passage upward." ”
The people who were instructed quickly put away their smiles and retreated a distance long enough for them to guard against the sudden incident. Pullman, on the other hand, put down Master Clark and took a sideways step, keeping the old man and the girl behind as much as possible.
Confirming that everyone was ready, Bartlett nodded, then raised his hands and pressed them to the rock formation above his head. As soon as he saw this action, Ian took a slight step forward, ready to rush forward at any time.
He knew that Bartlett was going to use his mental image to open the rock formation, and at the moment when the rock formation broke, once there was a sudden state, this man would be in the most dangerous situation, and he had to be prepared to save people.
The power of the mental image surged, and the rocks above his head suddenly turned into quicksand and fell down.
At this moment, a white light pierced from the top of the heavenly cave in the dim crypt. To be continued.
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