Li Heng glanced down at the remains of this old explorer and took off his camera without any expression.

He doesn't have a liking for this guy, but he doesn't have the same disgust as Warner.

In the final analysis, this guy is just a good reputation, he loves to brag about spectacles, and in today's words, he is creating topics to attract traffic.

But it is still much better than those robbers who specialize in stealing cultural relics and destroying the heritage of other countries' civilizations.

At most, he is a candid maniac who likes to drill into other people's houses to find big news.

Seems annoying to think about it?

So he crouched down again and rummaged through the guy's remains, continuing to collect some "surplus value".

Not to mention, it really made him find something again.

A brown paper bag wrapped in layers, opened to see that inside was a small metal wine bottle, a lighter, and a notepad.

Li Heng's eyes lit up suddenly, he didn't pay attention to anything else, but the things with written records were what he cared about the most.

So he took the book and took it away, opened the cover and went directly to the last few pages of the written record.

Because the last record is the last information he had before his death, Li Heng still cares about what he saw and knew before he died.

Turning to the last few pages with the text, he took a brief look at the light, and then his first glance was drawn to one of the lines on the penultimate page.

Most of the notes in this notebook are written in English in a kind of blue ink, but there is an unusual mark on the last few pages.

It was a line of Chinese in bold and black.

"Pressing the Dragon"

These three characters are still written in traditional Chinese, and the strokes are quite complex, but this tick is very in place, which shows that this Alle Jones is actually very familiar with Chinese characters.

These three words were followed by a messy pattern, like a large lump of thread, which was the trace of his cross-out of the original pattern.

There is more than one such thread, which means that he wanted to draw a pattern that could describe this thing simply, but perhaps after drawing it several times, he found it difficult to describe, so he crossed it out himself.

And at the back of a page, there's a big blank space with just one line scrawled in English - lets go China!

Li Heng frowned slightly and felt a little strange, something that he didn't know why, and then he went directly to Huaxia?

Or is this thing called [Pressing the Dragon] the goal of his trip?

I don't think I can figure it out for a while, although the environment here is quiet, even quieter than the library, but it is really not suitable for reading.

"Huh?"

Just after he put the notebook in his pocket, his right ear suddenly stood up.

I may have to change what I said just now, and it doesn't seem to be so quiet here.

Li Heng held his breath and stared, just now he was sure that his eardrums had caught a trace of sound, in this dark and enclosed underground space.

But now everything is calm again.

But he believed that he had heard correctly, and with his current hearing, he could catch the slightest hint of wind and grass.

He immediately leaned to the side and pressed his ear against the stone wall, silently waiting for the search, like a scanned sonic radar.

Goo-snort-

Appeared! That's it.

It was like a very elastic rubber stretching and contracting, and at the same time rubbing against the rock.

The sound then lasted for about 1.5 seconds before disappearing, followed by a long silence, and then reappeared after about half a minute.

"It's a very regular sound, as if it's underground...... Pulse! ”

Li Heng thought so in his heart.

He glanced back at the corpse of the explorer on the ground, and this final death gesture meant that he was probably so nervous when he came out of this passage that such a seasoned adventurous man would be killed on the spot by such a simple routine in a panic.

And now this faint voice, could it be the reason for his panic?

Is there something in this deeper area that scares him?

Li Heng's eyes gradually brightened, and his breath continued to become calm and deep, like a big lake with no bottom invisible.

Maybe what he's looking for is out there, in the depths.

There was no hesitation to continue to explore, but Li Heng was now engrossed in his mental strength, guarding against all possible hidden threats.

It wasn't until he had traveled at least a few hundred meters in the underground tunnel that his hand touching the rock wall shrank slightly.

It was a natural alertness caused by some subtle change that he perceived.

This change is the temperature.

"It's getting hot"

Li Heng muttered softly to himself, although he was still in the cold darkness, he could feel this little bit of heat change.

It made him feel a little off, even though geologically it was thirty meters underground, and the temperature would rise by about one degree for every 100 meters dropped.

However, the underground tunnel that Li Heng is now passing through is vertically downward, but a tunnel with a certain slope, and the slope is not large, so the feeling inside is still similar to flat ground.

So he knew that his depth in the vertical direction hadn't increased much, so the temperature wouldn't change so drastically.

The change in ground temperature that he perceives now is not the result of a pure relationship between ground temperature and depth.

Some kind of heat source exists ahead!

As he approached, the temperature continued to rise, and soon reached a level where ordinary humans could feel warm on the surface.

It wasn't until he had traveled at least a thousand kilometers that he had completely left the cramped tunnel and entered a more spacious space.

Li Heng felt as if he was standing on a large platform, similar to the feeling he had when he had just entered the White Lotus Sect's mines, but it was different, because the mine cave in the mountain was pitch black, but there was light here.

Yes, I don't know how much deeper the underground than the White Lotus Mine Cave is, and there is still light!

In this kind of place, even if the sunlight can make a hundred and eighty bends, it will not be able to shine in, so the light here can only come from the ground.

"Volcanic lava?"

Li Heng made such a speculation for the first time, the environment in front of him was filled with a dark red luster, which was very faint, but it could barely illuminate the way forward for people with enough eyesight.

And the ambient temperature of the tunnel here is rising all the way, so it is reasonable to guess that it is underground magma.

It's just that Li Heng also clearly knows that there is unlikely to exist a volcano under the land of the Qinling Mountains, and the geological landform here itself is formed by sedimentary rocks, and then squeezed and stretched by plate movements.

Even the possibility of an extinct volcano is low.

However, this is not a big problem, as Li Heng continues to move forward, this kind of problem that exists on the surface is quickly solved.

He found that the dark red sheen came from a very fixed area, unlike the fluids of magma, which have a certain fluidity.

By the time he could see where the dark red sheen was coming from, the lava light source could be rejected.

"Fluorite crystals, or some kind of isomer"

It is a kind of stone crystallization that attaches to the rock layer in large quantities, emitting a faint dark red light, illuminating this otherwise dark space, creating a very unique underground landscape.

Fluorite, also known as fluorite, was also called warm palace stone in ancient times, and there are many variants, most of which can emit light on their own, and some need external energy, such as irradiation of the sun, or heating.

And the fluorite here converts the internal energy into light energy under heating.

In other words, the premise of light here is that there is heat first, and the causal relationship between the two is sequential.

Not far away, a more intense red light attracted Li Heng's attention, and the brightness of this red light indicated that it was far different from the partial density of other rock formations in this underground space.

If nothing else, it is likely that there is human intervention, and someone has gathered a large amount of fluorite in one place to create a light that can stay on and out of the ground.

As Li Heng slowly approached the location of the dense red light, the artificial traces that had once disappeared also reappeared.

The features that belonged to the White Lotus Sect also continued to appear on the stone pillars, rock walls, and ground, and even carved and polished into steps in some places.

"It seems that this is the place where the so-called pregnant immortals are, where the real forbidden place mentioned by Inoue is"

Tick – tick – tick –

At that moment, he suddenly heard the sound of water dripping.

Maybe it's groundwater, but maybe it's something else......

A series of steps appeared in front of him, leading to the place where the sound of water droplets was heard, and everything here was shrouded in a dark red light, and there was a dreamlike horror like an abyss.

But just as he was about to step over the steps to the other side of the abyss, he suddenly turned his head to look at the other side, the far dark area on the other side of the steps, which was not shrouded in the light source.

But it wasn't completely dark either, as pairs of red dots of light were densely packed there.

One-pair, two-pair, three-pair...... Ten pairs, 100 pairs, 1,000 pairs...... Uncountable red spots, like pimples crowded on a black face.

At the same time, with the breath of life that has not been seen for many years, it is followed by an incomparable noisy and chaotic interweaving -

Squeak squeak!!!!!

(End of chapter)