Chapter 5: The Strange Stone Staircase
After approaching the stone steps, the old stone steps were completely displayed in front of Mu Fan. The water washes over the stone steps, turning the square stone steps into smooth semicircles.
Mu Fan helped Xiao Wan to the stone steps, which were covered with moss, wet and sticky, and it was slimy to step on.
The two of them walked up the stone steps, looking up, and the stone steps went deep into the stone wall at the top, and they didn't just lead to somewhere.
Mu Fan walked to the intersection of the stone steps and the top stone wall, and the humidity not only did not lessen, but became more serious.
He reached out and touched it upward, and there was a burst of moisture in his hands.
"There's water up there."
Xiao Wan frowned slightly, and said in surprise: "Water? ”
"Well, that's right, that's amazing."
As the saying goes, water flows lower, and the water above the stone wall does not flow into the dark river below, but hangs in the air.
When it comes to the underground rivers of the dense forest, the water is not playing according to common sense.
Mu Fan turned around and beckoned to the milk-eating beast, signaling the milk-eating beast to climb up.
The milk-eaters understood what he meant, and climbed up the stone steps in unison.
Mu Fan said: "Xiaowan, I'll go up to explore the road later, and you stay here for the time being." ”
Xiao Wan nodded, didn't argue with him, took a step back, and said, "Be careful!" ”
Holding his breath, he continued his way up the stone steps, plunging headlong into the water above the stone steps. The water washed away his hair and wet his clothes.
Mu Fan continued to walk upward, and the whole person walked into the water. The strange buoyancy pushed him into the river below, and he had to reach out and pull the stone steps to continue upward.
It's not easy to catch these stone steps, and it's disgusting to catch sticky moss. He exerted force on his hands, leaving strings of finger prints on the stone steps.
However, the stone steps seemed endless, and Mu Fan felt that his lungs were getting more and more uncomfortable, so he could only return the same way first.
He turned around in the water, using buoyancy and exerting force with both hands and feet, desperately rushing back into the river.
Due to his speed, when he floated to the top of the stone wall, he brought a lot of splashes, and almost met Xiao Wan.
Mu Fan turned around again and landed steadily beside Xiao Wan.
The splash of water just now slowly floated back to the top of the stone wall, unaffected by gravity at all.
"It's weird that the water above your head isn't affected by the gravity of this world." Mu Fan's expression was serious, the underground river channel was too weird, even stranger than the world inside the Sword Forging Field.
Xiao Wan grabbed a handful of water from her head, and as soon as she let go of her hand, the water droplets slowly floated into the air, and then dropped into the "pool" on the top of the stone wall.
She muttered to herself, "It's the first time I've seen anything like this." ”
Mu Fan took out the pearl from the storage ring and said, "The fire fold in your hand is about to be extinguished, use this." ”
Ruyi bricks can still be seen inside the pearl, the two are one, as long as there is a pearl in the hand, it doesn't matter who the Ruyi brick is in whom.
Because the Ruyi brick is not simple, it just shows that the pearl is very precious. Now I haven't found anything else good, it is likely that the opportunity has not arrived, or Mu Fan's strength is too low to discover Mingzhu's other abilities.
The halo of the pearl shone into the river, and the visual range suddenly became much larger.
Xiao Wan asked, "Did you swim up there?" ”
Mu Fan shook his head and said helplessly: "The stone steps are too long, I don't know how high, I didn't swim to the end of the stone steps." ”
"This place is weird, let's just not go up there." Xiao Wan retreated, just a stone staircase water flow channel is weird, what is at the end of the water flow?
"I'll try again, and if it doesn't work, we'll withdraw. After completing the exercise mission, you can think about whether to come here again if you have spare energy. Mu Fan jumped onto the head of the milk eater and pointed to the top of the stone steps.
The milk-eating beast's tentacles exerted force, first sinking to the ground, and then crashing headlong into the water.
The milk-eating beast kept climbing, and it didn't take long to climb to the extreme height that Mu Fan had reached just now. Then the man and the beast continued to move forward, but the stone steps were not as long as they were, and the higher the water pressure became, the greater the water pressure became, so that the milk beast was squeezed out of blood.
Mu Fan was also uncomfortable, and his chest and back seemed to be pressed hard. He patted the head of the milk-eating beast, which hung still in the water.
Not only is the water immune to gravity, but even the water pressure is contrary to what he knows.
The light emitted by the pearl was dreamlike underwater, and it was still pitch black at the end of the light, so black that it made people panic.
Mu Fan asked the milkeater to turn around, and if he swam any further, the milkeater would not be able to hold on, and without the milkeater, he would not be able to return to the underground river until he suffocated.
The speed of return was much faster, and because of the speed, Mu Fan quickly rushed from the high water pressure area to the low water pressure area.
He felt as if his lungs were inflated, blood spilled from his mouth and nose, and the pain in his lungs was unbearable.
Mu Fan motioned to the milk-eater beast to slow down, and gestured for a long time before the milk-eater understood what he meant.
The Milkeater slowed down into the underground river, and he slipped off the top of the Milkeater's head to the ground, gasping for breath.
Xiao Wan hurriedly helped him and asked with concern, "How are you?" ”
Mu Fan raised his left hand, waved it lightly, and said, "It's okay, the breathing is not very smooth, wait for me to slow down and it will be fine." ”
"Did you reach the end of the stone steps?"
"No, it looks like it's going to take a while to figure out the magic here." Mu Fan lowered his head, his current strength was not enough, and he was guarding a strange place, so he could only watch dryly.
The trip was not for nothing, at least I was sure that there must be a secret here, and it was a big secret.
Mu Fan asked Xiao Wan to help him up, "Let's go, wait for us to complete the exercise task and see if there is enough time." ”
Xiao Wan carried him to the top of the milk beast and said, "You can rest for a while." ”
Mu Fan put the pearl in Xiao Wan's hand, "You lift it up a little higher and inject more true yuan." ”
Xiao Wan did as he said, and the soft light of the pearl filled the underground river.
Mu Fan looked around and found many branches. The underground river here is a huge network, and someone has built something in the underground water system, I don't know what to do, but it's not simple.
The stone steps look ancient, but they have not collapsed and destroyed, and there is still an upside-down stream of water overhead. The original construction project is still useful now, and the mystery is in front of us, but it is not strong to reveal it.
Mu Fan and Xiao Wan did not linger in the underground river, and the two went to the cave full of stone stalactites with the milk eater.
When we got to the cave, there was a group of milk-eating beasts inside. When they saw Mu Fan coming, they were very happy.
Mu Fan was not in the mood to play with them, because the bones in the cave needed to be disposed of. A year ago, these people went to the cave to search for him and Song Changgeng, but they were all killed by the milk-eating beasts.
The corpse has remained here, long since decayed.
It was not a problem to stay with the corpses all the time, so he collected the bones briefly, then dug a small ditch outside the cave, and finally sent them into the earth......
In the underground river, a young Taoist priest swam up the stone steps and breathed in the air. He didn't have a milk eater to carry him, and he swam all the way from the lake to the underground river, almost suffocating to death.
"Fuck, I didn't even know there was this place under the jungle!"