The space below was much larger than they had expected, like the bottom of a trapezoidal square well.

The top gradually closed into an arched stone cover, and there was a narrow opening in one corner through which they had fallen through the opening, which resembled a ventilation duct.

After standing still, Feng held the candle and looked around, the surrounding walls were made of many large stone bricks, the gaps between the stone bricks were very tightly filled, the walls should have been smeared with some kind of special paint, and the hands were very smooth to the touch.

Feng thought to himself, this seemed to be an underground dark room where something was stored.

Zhang Haixing landed on the ground in one step, and after half-squatting to remove the impact, he turned back to look up, and his face became very bad with the naked eye.

"We're probably going to be stuck here and can't get out." She said in a deep voice.

The opening they entered was at least seven or eight meters from the ground under their feet, and the walls around them were so smooth that even if they jumped up and grabbed the edge of the ladder, the hole was so small, it was difficult for them to climb up with their strength.

"Oh my God, coming down here was a terrible decision." Feng was annoyed, "This is a trap specially set up for intruders. ”

"Not really." Zhang Haixing didn't know what she saw, and walked over to the corner where the blue light couldn't shine.

"What did you find?" Feng didn't know why, but immediately saw her pick up a gray-white cotton wool-like lump with the tip of her dagger, and hurriedly asked, "What is this?" ”

"The snake molts." Zhang Haixing replied.

Feng thoughtfully, "Then according to what you said, this should be a place dedicated to raising snakes." ”

"But what about snakes? Where did the snake go? Feng was puzzled, "It's empty here, and not a single snake has appeared since we entered." ”

As he spoke, he made a mistake in his footsteps, and he didn't know what he had kicked on his toes, and the thing rolled around Feng's feet a few times.

He looked down and found that it was the rhino horn candle that Zhang Haixing had lost before, so he bent down to pick it up, approached the cyan flame in his hand and lit it, and then walked to Zhang Haixing and handed it to her, "Here, take it." ”

Zhang Haixing took the candle, stood up and said: "These snakes have been here for a long time, even if there were snakes, I am afraid they disappeared because of some change." ”

"The walls around it are made so smooth, maybe it's to prevent the snakes trapped in it from climbing up, so there should be other exits here, look for them."

The two of them each took a candle and searched separately, and soon found a familiar fire symbol in a corner where the snake was molting.

The symbols were very messily carved on a stone brick, and the scribbled handwriting showed that the letterer was in a hurry, and the situation was probably very critical.

Zhang Haixing half-squatted down, tried to bend her fingers and knocked on the brick, there was a hollow sound, she said happily: "The bottom is empty, it seems that the group of people who came in before also encountered the same situation as us." ”

Feng was noncommittal about her speculation, "Pry it open and try it." ”

At that moment just now, he suddenly had an idea, the timing of the appearance of the two fire patterns was so coincidental, it didn't feel like an early warning, but as if it was deliberately leaving a mark to guide the way for future generations.

He suppressed this thought in his heart and did not tell Zhang Haixing immediately.

It took a lot of effort for the two of them to pry up the stone, move it to the side, and shine it with a lamp, and found that there was an iron plate with a diameter of more than ten centimeters underneath, on which was written the image of a chain of gossip buckles in seal script.

Feng raised his hand and made a gesture of please, and complimented him casually, "Please, Miss Wang, I have been following the group of people in the Zhang family for many years, and I guess this small organ should not be difficult for you." ”

Zhang Haixing glanced at him, did not speak, stepped forward and easily rotated the two collars to the correct position, and then pressed down hard.

I waited for a few seconds, but I didn't see any reaction on the wall.

Feng "Ahh ”

Zhang Haixing ignored his yin and yang weirdness, frowned and stared at the iron plate to carefully recall his steps to solve the mechanism, but did not find any mistakes, and wondered, "Strange, why don't you move?" Could this mechanism be an ornament? ”

Feng observed the surrounding walls to make sure that nothing would change, he took a step forward, and just as he opened his mouth to say something, there was a sudden clattering sound from his and Zhang Haixing's feet, and the two glanced at each other, and immediately wanted to dodge to the side.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he lifted his foot, the stone under his body suddenly cracked from the middle, Zhang Haixing immediately made a decision, and before falling down, he kicked Feng and jumped up with his strength, grabbing the edge of the pit.

Feng screamed and fell, it was pitch black below, bottomless, and thick fog like smoke kept surging upward, and Feng's figure was engulfed in smoke in an instant.

I don't know if this mist is poisonous, Zhang Haixing felt a slight tingling pain in her calf hanging below, as if something was tugging at her leg.

She hurriedly climbed up to the edge of the pit, and when she looked at it, she saw that there was a light green thread with the thickness of a hair wrapped around her ankle, and I don't know if it was an illusion, but the thread even faintly glowed.

Zhang Haixing didn't care at first, and reached out to pull the thread, but his finger hurt suddenly, and the thread was like a blade, which directly cut the glove and got stuck in the flesh, and seemed to be chasing the blood to drill deeper.

Zhang Haixing gasped, "What the hell is this?" ”

Click, click, click--there was a chilling chewing sound in the thick fog, like a beast gnawing on bones, Zhang Haixing's face changed greatly, and he immediately picked off the thin line with a knife, got up and wanted to retreat to the corner.

It's a pity that it's too late, and at the moment when Zhang Haixing turned around, countless light green translucent vines suddenly emerged, penetrating the dense fog, twisting and entwining like a big net and shrouding her back.

Zhang Haixing turned around and shook her hand and used the knife to knock away the few vines closest to her, but her fists were invincible, even if she moved fast, she couldn't resist more vines rushing up and binding her legs, making it difficult for her to move an inch.

Immediately after that, her upper limbs were also tied, and the vines wrapped her like a snake, her neck tightened, and the feeling of suffocation accompanied by dense pain instantly swept through her body.

A few thicker vines flew out of the mist, tying up the green cocoons on the ground and dragging them into the pit.

The stone bricks slowly closed, and the ground returned to its previous calm.

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"I've been trapped in the illusion for almost twenty-four hours, will they never wake up?" Wu Xie looked at Zhang Haixing and Feng who were lying in the pile of corpses and asked in a low voice.

Zhang Qixun was carefully picking out the ginger slices in the bowl one by one with chopsticks, and said calmly when he heard the words: "Don't worry, you will wake up in less than two hours." (End of chapter)