Chapter 863: The Road of Destiny

In the second mural, it's still the black whirlpool, and it's still the ShadowClan crawling on the ground with their hands and feet. But around the black vortex, there were some other creatures, including the fish-people they saw at the entrance, and the lizard dragon they met now. It's just that ShadowClan's brushstrokes on it only leave a silhouette of a body silhouette, and God knows if those beings evolved all these years ago.

But it is undeniable that it was indeed the so-called dark god who created or influenced other life mutations to create these xenomorphous beasts. In the picture, the silhouettes of these fierce beasts surround the black whirlpool in the middle, and after looking at it for a long time, it feels like they are being thrown out by the whirlpool.

And by the beginning of the third mural, the theme has changed. The ShadowClan and one of the beasts are at war, and the other beasts are at odds. The whole picture is filled with only one theme: war!

It's just a picture, but it allows the painters of the ShadowClan to sketch a silent battlefield with simple and sharp strokes. Just looking at it like this, you can feel the tragedy of the battlefield from those black and white pictures. The smell of killing just escaped from these black-and-white images.

Next, the picture changed. The ShadowClan appeared on a high slope, and behind them was the battlefield, with black swirls. It is worth noting that the ShadowClan figure who appears in this frame is already walking upright. The tall, thin silhouette at the foreground of the frame, with his head tilted slightly towards the battlefield behind him, makes it seem like he is looking backwards.

At this time, the ShadowClan should have evolved their wisdom and intend to leave the eternal battlefield underground. The location of the eternal battlefield is only afraid that it is the Titan Hall in the mouth of the black lord. Thinking about the fact that the battlefield can accommodate so many alien beasts to fight and kill during the period, its space is so large that it deserves the name Titan Hall.

Next is the journey of the ShadowClan to the forward base, which is represented in murals. The murals are silent, but from these portraits, it is not difficult to see the hardships of the process. When they left the Eternal Battlefield, there were still a lot of ShadowClans, but when they arrived at the base screen, the number could only be described as scarce.

Perhaps the scarcity of ShadowClan is due to the fact that they have been hunted down and attacked by too many fierce beasts during their migration. They were accompanied by almost all fighting and blood. On this path out of the abyss, under every footprint, there was the blood and bones of the Shadow Clan. They paid a huge price to get out of this Shura killing field.

This can be called the path of fate of the ShadowClan, and it is precisely because of this migration path that they have been given the opportunity to change their fate. Now, Zero and they can use this path of fate to go backwards to the second passage to the Titan Hall.

But in the meantime, there are a few images that puzzle Zero.

The first is in the second mural before reaching the forward base, which has an endless abyss, which is expressed in pitch-black brushstrokes. There was a little white space, and beyond the abyss, there were humanoid creatures with bat wings. The ShadowClan and the creatures fight each other, and it's clear that these creatures inhabit the abyss. The mural has a skull in the upper left corner, and there are three of them on the ShadowClan's migration path. Usually marked with such a sign, it means that you cannot pass and can only find another way out.

But if I'm not mistaken, that abyss should be the wall of the abyss that passes through the devil's throat. If it wasn't the kind of batman in the mural who was dead, then was it a trap deliberately laid by the black owl?

Zero shook his head, the ShadowClan had been out of the underground for many years, and it was possible that those Batmen had long since died, so the Dark Owl was able to travel through the Wall of the Abyss to the Titan Hall to obtain the Dark God's seed and return to the surface.

Secondly, in the process of migration, the ShadowClan people are obviously pursued by fierce beasts such as lizards. In that scene, the ShadowClan and the Lizard are chasing each other across an open field. Behind the two was a huge shadow, a blank space that resembled eyes, and I don't know if it was some kind of symbolism, or if it was the shadow of a giant beast.

If the latter, if the Shadow Clan painter did not exaggerate, then using the dragon as a reference, this giant beast has already reached the size of the Abyss Lord.

With the dome as a set of murals, they found another route to the Titan Hall. When the team rests in the hall, Zero records the route and names it according to some special terrain in the picture as a node for the route.

If you start with the ShadowClan's forward base here, there is a stone pillar attached to the vault dome on one side of the screen. From the Optimus Pillar, you will find a giant mushroom forest. Just looking at the picture, I don't know if it's some umbrella-shaped rocks or real giant mushrooms. Using the ShadowClan as a reference, the shortest of these mushrooms are as tall as a two-story building.

There is a river in the mushroom forest, and on the other side of the river is a canyon. The canyon is shaped like the bones of some kind of prehistoric beast, which Zero calls the Canyon of Behemoths. To fight the Behemoth Canyon and get out, you must pass through the plains where the ShadowClan people were chased by the dragons. That place is where the dragon's lair is located, which means that if they follow the migration path of the Shadow Clan, they will inevitably pass through the territory of the dragon, and may even run into a giant beast suspected to be an abyss.

If he had a choice, Zero didn't want to pass through the territory of those dragons. Only now he didn't have a choice, after passing through the dragon territory, he turned over the high slope that the ShadowClan had looked back at when they left. Below is the Eternal Battlefield, where the Titan Hall is located.

The route is clear and clear. I just don't know how much time it will take them to follow this path. After all, the Shadow Clan only left a picture, but they did not mark the specific mileage of the road to fate.

Fortunately, there should be no shortage of food and water. In addition to what the Black Owls provide, they can hunt underground creatures when necessary. Coupled with the stream that almost crosses the entire underground space, there should be no shortage of water.

After 20 minutes, the team departed. They came out of the other end of the forward base, first looked around the perimeter of the base, and found the natural stone pillar. The stone pillars are connected to the vault dome, which is curved and dozens of meters high. The upper end was completely submerged in darkness, and even the lampposts of searchlights could not penetrate this layer of darkness.

Using a stone pillar as a reference, Zero determined the direction and led the team forward. Walking in the dark was dull, the lamppost could only illuminate a distance of ten meters, and the flat land lacked references, and after walking for a long time, the feeling of disorientation reappeared.

During this time, Jin fired another flare, and under the firelight, he could faintly see some umbrella-shaped shadow outlines in front of him on the left, which should be the giant mushroom forest that the ShadowClan people passed through. It's just that they were thinking about moving forward, but in fact, due to the deviation of their senses, the direction has deviated greatly, and if it weren't for the flares, they were afraid that they would be lost in the dark.

But there aren't many flares, and it's not easy to find them in Hakara. With the ability of the black owl, he can only get ten rounds. Now they have used three shots, and the road ahead is still long, so they have to save some money.

Before the afterglow of the flares was about to go out, Zero and the others finally approached the edge of the giant mushroom grove during a rapid march. As you get closer, you can feel the humidity in the air and hear the sound of the water. The stream that witnessed the entire migration of the ShadowClan was somewhere in the Giant Mushroom Forest. Hit it and you'll be able to head to the second advance node, Behemoth Canyon.

However, as soon as you get close to the mushroom forest, you can feel the activity of the creatures underground. The fat mole that has been hunted by the dragon is particularly active here, and from time to time a fat rat can be seen scurrying under the pillar of light at the front of the team. These animals are sensitive and alert, and when they notice something is wrong, they drill into the ground.

Zero took a few steps and stopped, crouched down and pinched the dirt on the ground. When I arrived, the soil became relatively soft, not as hard and cold as when I first came ashore at the lake. The soft soil layer also gave birth to a large number of mutant moles. However, seeing this creature at the bottom of the underground biological chain is not necessarily a good thing.

They are almost the common prey of those alien beasts, and if the prey gathers in large numbers, it will not attract hunters. The giant mushroom forest is already in sight, and of course Zero has no intention of turning back or finding another way, but he just wants everyone to pay more attention. Leah, on the other hand, kept a mental scan, keeping an eye out for movement around the team in case something happened.

When I got closer, I realized that those giant mushrooms were neither natural stones nor fungus fossils. Rather, they are real plants, they have survived for an unknown number of years in this lightless underground world, each giant mushroom is at least two stories tall, and the mushroom umbrella is open, almost covering the space overhead. Standing under the mushroom umbrella, you can even see the coarse fibers inside. Mushrooms are a type of fungus, and even the size of their size is inseparable from this order. So in this underground where there is no light, other plants cannot grow, but giant mushrooms that do not need to photosynthesize grow well.

After entering the giant mushroom forest, they began to notice that there were some fluorescent things on the surface of the mushroom umbrella. They emit a variety of colors of light in the quiet and dark space, and those are supposed to be luminous mushrooms, which grow side by side with giant mushrooms. Zero Row simply turned off the searchlight, and without this strong light source, their vision was still relatively dim at first. But gradually, the brightness of those luminous bacteria became more and more obvious, and in the end, the photobacteria created patches of colorful bands of light, filled with a dreamlike beauty.

If it weren't for the immersive scene, who would have believed that there was such a beautiful scenery in the dark world without light. Attracted by these photofungi, the fat moles infested the ground near the party, gnawing on the giant mushrooms. At this time, the light mushrooms on those mushroom umbrellas will be sprinkled, like a rain of light.

Just behind the beauty, often fatal truth. Not long after these light bacteria fell on the moles, some of the moles died suddenly. But the light bacteria on their bodies still shine brightly, and everyone feels a chill in their hearts.