Chapter Fifty-Seven: Exploring the Underground
The underground cave echoed with Zi Yan's mournful scream, followed by a silence, Zi Yan's eyes stared straight at Mu Mu, and Mu Mu also stared at her.
The silent atmosphere made people feel an inexplicable suffocation, and Mu Mu finally spoke after a short silence.
"Zi Yan, if you don't want to take risks, I understand, you don't have to go, and Shui Lingzi, you also need to recuperate, you stay here and wait for us to come back," Mu Mu said in a very flat tone.
Zi Yan had tears in her eyes, and shouted excitedly: "This is not a danger at all, it is to send it to death, do you know how terrible that monster is, even if it is just to look at it-"
"Then what do you say, let it rebel against that young man, and then escape from the Five Spirits Holy Realm smoothly, and watch it kill Grandpa, Senior Brother, Sister Wick and your father."
Three black lines appeared on Mu Mu's brows, interrupting Zi Yan's words and roaring loudly.
"You, do you know that I'm worried about you, I don't want you to die" Zi Yan roared emotionally, her eyes blurred for a moment.
The black line on Mu Mu's forehead disappeared immediately, looking at Yueyao in front of him, he wanted to say something, but he swallowed it back and was speechless.
Yue Yao saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly relieved the siege: "Brother, sister, don't quarrel, it's better for none of you to go, I'll start the stone statue with the little lizard, if I can stop the monster, it's naturally good, if I can't stop it-"
"No, no, it's too dangerous for you to be alone, I'll follow you wherever you go" Shui Lingzi, who was pale, suddenly interjected, and shouted in a firm tone to Yue Yao.
Yue Yao suddenly turned around, pouted with a face, stretched out her hand and gently pushed, Shui Lingzi sat unsteadily in the water.
"What's the fun, look at your own body, you can't help if you go, you can only go to death in vain, be obedient to me and stay here" Yue Yao yelled at Shui Lingzi with a look of annoyance, her smart eyes flashing with crystals.
Shui Lingzi sat in the water, staring straight at Yue Yao, with a trace of determination in his eyes, and said loudly: "Even if you go to die, I will follow you." ”
“...... You're messing around."
Yue Yao looked at Shui Lingzi with a resolute expression, her eyes were covered with a thick mist for some reason, the soft place in her heart seemed to have been touched by something, and tears in her eyes slid down her cheeks.
In the small pool, after the childish quarrel of the four children, they fell silent again.
Time passed quietly in silence......
Suddenly, the water in the pool shook, and the stone stalactites on the top of the head swayed, and the water droplets on the stalactite walls continued to drip into the pool, causing ripples in the originally peaceful water.
A small lizard poked its head out of the pool, swam towards Yueyao with a sticky body, quickly climbed up Yueyao's shoulder, and blinked twice with its bulging eyes.
"Yueyao, what is the little guy talking about" Mu Mu inadvertently noticed the little lizard's strange behavior and asked with concern.
"He said we had to hurry, this kind of shaking is very extraordinary, maybe the monster is about to wake up," Yue Yao translated eagerly.
"What, so fast, Yueyao can't delay any longer, let's leave now, don't go anywhere if you stay here" Mu Mu finished speaking very quickly, and with a "bang", he stood up from the pool and stepped out of the pool.
A hand, a delicate hand, grabbed his arm, followed by a "whoosh" sound of water behind him.
Zi Yan stood up, looked at Mu Mu's somewhat thin back, and said calmly: "Wherever you go, I will go, and I will die together." ”
The voice is not impassioned, and the tone is not very high, but it is full of a hint of absolute determination.
A shock from the depths of the soul rushed up, instantly spreading throughout the body, and the shocked body trembled involuntarily, but Mu Mu didn't look back, he struggled to get rid of the tightly grabbed arm, and said in a very soft voice: "Wait for me to come back." ”
How could Zi Yan let go of him, rushed up and hugged him, "No, I want to go with you." ”
Mu Mu turned his head to look at Zi Yan behind him, and there were crystal tears in the corner of his eyes.
......
Yue Yao stood up, Shui Lingzi also got up, Yue Yao suddenly leaned her face towards Shui Lingzi, leaving a distance of less than an inch, and whispered against his face: "You are not allowed to come with me, or I will never play with you again, and I will not pay attention to you in the future." ”
Shui Lingzi's heart jumped in fright by the sudden move, and before she could react, Yue Yao turned around, her eyes were blurred, and she stepped out of the pool in a blur, and her body quickly contracted and a piece of clothing fell to the ground.
"Collect it for me, and wait for me to come back. ”
At the same time, Mu Mu broke off Zi Yan's arms that were hugged very tightly, and the strange steps under her feet unfolded, and Zi Yan couldn't catch up at all.
Yue Yao jumped on Mu Mu's shoulder with a swift step, Mu Mu didn't dare to look back at all, and her feet accelerated into an afterimage, disappearing rapidly.
In the turbulent airflow, Zi Yan looked at the distant figure, frightened and sluggish, Shui Lingzi was also confused by Mu Mu's extreme speed, Zi Yan and Shui Lingzi came back to their senses at the same time, glanced at each other, nodded heartily, and stepped out of the pool to chase after Mu Mu disappeared.
Before he could run a few steps, the bluestone slab under his feet began to shake again, causing a small shock, and the stone stalactites on the top of the cave could not withstand the aftershocks in the shock, and the gravel fell one after another.
Zi Yan grabbed Shui Lingzi to dodge the falling rubble, and in a panic, she ran towards the only building in the cave, lifted up the badly weathered tabernacle, and quickly hid at the bottom of the altar.
"Boom, lie down" There was a loud bang, Zi Yan and Shui Lingzi hid under the altar, and there was a sound on the bluestone ground around them, and the broken stones stirred up smoke and filled the surroundings.
Zi Yan and Shui Lingzi hid under the dusty altar, coughing loudly from the smoke that swayed.
"Ahem, Sister Zi Yan, what should we do?" Shui Lingzi covered her nose and coughed non-stop, asking Zi Yan in front of her.
Zi Yan also couldn't stop coughing in the dust, glanced at the bottom of the dim altar, stretched out her hand and pointed forward, and groped into the dim depths with Shui Lingzi, gradually moving away from the dusty area.
After climbing for a while, the terrain gradually felt downward, and the sound of falling gravel overhead became louder and louder, Zi Yan didn't have time to think about it, so she could only be forced to move on.
The deeper you go, the darker the light becomes, the dim light disappears, and darkness descends and envelops everything.
"Shui Lingzi stop, when it's calm outside, we'll go out from here and chase Mu Mu and them" Zi Yan stopped crawling in the dark and said to Shui Lingzi behind.
"Okay, okay" Shui Lingzi replied casually, and then stopped and sat down on the spot.
The sound of falling stones never stopped, and Zi Yan and Shui Lingzi could only wait in the dark, and they couldn't wait for a while.
"Sister Zi Yan, let's go out, I don't know what happened to Brother Mu Mu and their side, if there is a mistake-"
"Don't say it, don't say it, we have to believe that nothing will happen to them," Zi Yan interrupted Shui Lingzi's words, and shouted loudly with some nervousness.
"Yes, they'll be fine, it's that I'm thinking too much, but it's not a way to always wait here, let's go back!" Shui Lingzi said anxiously.
"Okay, let's go out, you climb first and I'll follow behind, remember to go back the way you came, don't go wrong again" Zi Yan said seriously, feeling a little uneasy in her heart for some reason, and a shadow that could not be erased was crossed in her heart.
Shui Lingzi agreed seriously, turned his body and crawled towards the endless darkness, and after crawling for a while, the space in front of him seemed to be shrinking, allowing only one person to crawl.
A shadowy light appeared, and Shui Lingzi looked at the light source happily and crawled towards the bright place.
Zi Yan followed Shui Lingzi and climbed over, but the more she climbed, the more she felt that something was wrong, a hot wind rushed towards her, and there was a faint smell of sulfur in the wind, which was very pungent.
"Stop, Shui Lingzi, are you sure you're not taking the wrong path?" Zi Yan shouted anxiously.
"Sister Ziyan, it shouldn't be wrong! I returned according to the original path, ah! Oh no, I climbed in the wrong direction, what should I do?"
Shui Lingzi thought back to the previous scene in his heart, and then realized what was wrong, when he started to crawl, he did not climb backwards, but crawled forward, thinking of this, his heart beat wildly.
Zi Yan's bad premonition was verified, and she regretted it for a while, secretly thinking that it might be better if she led the way, but the matter in front of her was irreparable.
"What can I do, keep walking, go to the front and see if there is any other way out" Zi Yan replied a little helplessly.
Shui Lingzi lowered his head, as if he had done something wrong to lead the way in front, and soon the light in front of him became brighter and brighter, the temperature was getting higher and higher, and the pungent smell was getting stronger and stronger.
The sweat droplets on Shui Lingzi's body gradually increased, gradually soaking his back, but he didn't stop, gritted his teeth and continued to crawl towards the bright light, but this action seemed a little powerless, and he didn't climb a few steps and gasped for breath.
Zi Yan behind her naturally didn't change much, but some fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, she raised her hand to wipe her face, looked at Shui Lingzi, who was not quite right, immediately realized something, and shouted: "Stop! It's too hot ahead, you can't go, stay here and I'll go and take a look and come back." ”
Shui Lingzi stopped obediently at this time, leaned against the cave wall, and made way for Zi Yan.
Zi Yan crawled towards the bright exit, knelt at the entrance, her eyes narrowed to adjust to the light source, and glanced at the scene ahead, stunned.
In front of him was the belly of a very empty mountain, and the surrounding rock walls were hung iron chains as thick as small arms, and the iron chains of unknown length were connected to the mountain wall at one end, and the other end was connected to a huge altar.
On top of the altar is a rectangular box made of unknown objects, and below the altar is a bubbling pool of lava, crimson lava floating on the lava, and as the lava continues to flow, the lava also moves.