People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

Chapter 438
Things went surprisingly smoothly, and the unknown creature clinging to the outer wall of the grotto did not change during the process.

But just when Chen Ziyan was about to go down, a larger black shadow suddenly appeared in his vision, which he hadn't completely retracted.

This made Chen Ziyan's movements freeze instantly, and when he took a closer look, he found that this new black shadow appeared exactly in the middle of the previous two black shadows.

At this moment, one of Chen Ziyan's legs had already stepped into the stone well, thinking that he was about to enter the bottom of the well later, and it didn't matter whether he would alarm the other party, so he pressed down on the newly appeared black shadow. flashlight switch.

The moment the flashlight lighted up, Chen Ziyan also saw the specific situation above his head clearly.

The first thing that catches the eye is the whole view of the top wall of the grotto. This top wall is the same as the surrounding cave walls, and it is full of that incredible sense of distortion. It is precisely because of the influence of this factor that the three black masses above The shadow is very blurry, even with the blessing of lights, you can only see the specific outline, but you can't see the whole picture of the black shadow.

But it was not without discovery. Chen Ziyan found that the black shadows on both sides were indeed palm-shaped, but they had more obvious characteristics of beasts, and the black shadow that appeared behind was a giant face. The face was out of shape because it was close to the outer wall, so it was impossible to see it clearly, but Chen Ziyan could see some familiarity from the vague outline, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

But for a while, he really couldn't remember where this strange sense of familiarity came from.

After Chen Ziyan remembered the scene he had just seen deeply in his heart, he didn't worry too much about this problem. With a little force on the arms supporting his body, he had already entered the stone well.

The passage in the well is about 45 degrees, and the overall is quite spacious, but there are some stone steps at the beginning, and there is almost nothing below.

However, this is for ordinary people. With Chen Ziyan's balance ability, he naturally does not have this kind of trouble. He just regained his balance with a little force on his legs, and stopped on the severely worn steps in a slanted posture.

After stabilizing his figure, Chen Ziyan discovered that the underground passage is also an underground natural geode, which is in the shape of a circular arc as a whole.
After completely standing still, Chen Ziyan found that there was an underground geode with a narrow mouth and a wide bottom, but the stone wall of this geode was different from the front, it was smoother than a mirror surface. Chen Ziyan looked around and found that There are my own figures in all directions, and there is a feeling of entering the mirror channel.

When Chen Ziyan came out of the passageway, he saw that everyone who came down first was blocking the outside, and they seemed to want to catch him.

This made Chen Ziyan puzzled for a while, he is not a child, so he doesn't need to be so cautious, right?

Seeing the puzzled look on his face, Hu Bayi explained the reason to him. It turned out that they were on a long and narrow platform, and there was a right angle turning downward a few meters outside the entrance of the passage. It is easy to rush down due to inertia.

Wang Kaixuan almost fell for the trick just now. If Chen Wenjin hadn't had quick eyesight and quick hands, and used the nine-claw hook to hold him back at the critical moment, the fat man might not know where he would be now.

In order to prevent Chen Ziyan, who didn't know about it, from repeating the same mistakes, they waited for him at the exit of the passage after they recovered.

After learning that everyone was thinking of himself, Chen Ziyan first expressed his thanks, and then came to the edge of the platform to check the situation.

From the edge of the fault, it can be seen that this is probably caused by stratum fractures. Their current position is the edge of an underground geode, and there is an extremely vast space in front of them.

In this regard, Chen Ziyan guessed that this is probably a deeper underground space.

Looking far away, on the dome that is tens of meters high in this underground space, there are clumps of spars stretching downwards. Water drops will seep from the sharp edges of the spars from time to time, just like a lake hanging upside down. Same on top of head.

In front of them, apart from the cracks in the fault under their feet, they couldn't see the specific situation clearly, because outside the geode they were in, there was a vast expanse of white clouds. This kind of cloud looked like white mist, but it also had some characteristics of water vapor. .

Shirley Yang observed for a while, and said: "This should be the stone smoke produced by the alienation of crystals during the orogeny process. It has a lower density than ordinary crystal dust, and is odorless and tasteless. It condenses and does not disperse. It can maintain a long-lasting The height will never change without the influence of external forces."

"Is this special stone smoke harmful to the human body?" Chen Ziyan asked.

He is more concerned about this than the principle of this substance.

"That's not clear. This kind of substance is basically invisible to the outside world." Shirley Yang shook her head first, and after thinking about it, she said: "The molecular structure of Shiyan is very stable, it should be the same as ordinary dust. The respiratory system is damaged."

Although the latter point is her guess, Shirley Yang feels that this is something that needs no verification.

The density of this kind of stone smoke is lower than that of ordinary crystal dust, so it should have the characteristics of other stone powders, and there is no distinction between good and bad.

"If that's the case, let's put on the masks next, to be prepared." Chen Ziyan said after thinking about it.

Since it's just a purely physical hidden danger, there's no need to use an oxygen bottle, and the breathing filter system that comes with the mask is enough to deal with it.

After getting ready, everyone came to the edge of the stone platform.

The upper half of this underground space can be seen at a glance, there is nothing of value, and even if there are them, they can't get through, after all, they don't have wings.

So they naturally put the next exploration target in the lower half of the space covered by stone smoke.

"Eh? Master Chen, Hu, look over there, is there something there?" Just as Chen Ziyan and Hu Bayi were researching where to fix the climbing rope, Wang Kaixuan, who had nothing to do next to him, suddenly called out. .

The two looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that there was indeed a very conspicuous yellow dot in the sea of ​​white clouds.

The color of this sea of ​​clouds is too pure, making it easy to detect any abnormality.

Chen Ziyan saw a little yellow in the whiteness, and suddenly thought of a point that he had overlooked, that is, they don't seem to need to go down into the sea of ​​clouds. There is a peak of topaz in the center of the sea of ​​clouds, and there is a road leading to topaz on the stone platform where they are. The road to the peaks.

After recalling this, Chen Ziyan looked towards the edge of the stone platform, he wanted to find out the road leading to Huangyu Mountain.

But after scanning back and forth for several times, Chen Ziyan didn't find any traces, and there was no extra part on the edge of the stone platform.

This made him a little puzzled, and he began to wonder if there was another change here.

Xue Liyang noticed Chen Ziyan's situation, walked over and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"A little bit, but it needs to be verified." Chen Ziyan pointed to the topaz mountain peak that Wang Kaixuan found in the distance and said: "It seems to be at the same level as the platform we are on, so I suspect that there is a direct way to that side."

Chen Ziyan turned the information he got from his memory into his own guesses, and he wanted others to help him figure out a solution.

If you can find the way to Huangyu Mountain, that would be great, although the distance between the two is not too far, but it is a straight-line distance.

If they can't find the passage here, they need to go down to the bottom of the underground space first, and then go from the underground to the location of Huangyu Mountain Peak, which is equivalent to several times the distance directly.

And if the terrain along the way is more complicated, or if they encounter some vicious creatures, then the time they need to spend will undoubtedly increase.

"The way to that side?" Shirley Yang looked at the edge of the stone platform with some doubts.

She didn't doubt Chen Ziyan's words, but she needed evidence to convince her completely.

If there is really a passage connecting the two, even if the passage is destroyed due to accidents, some traces should be found on the edge of the stone platform.

"Wait..." Just after this thought flashed in her mind, Shirley Yang's eyes suddenly fixed on the edge of the stone platform.

According to what she knew, this was most likely caused by stratum fractures, and the thick stone smoke here undoubtedly supported this guess.

But what if that's really not the case?
She had overlooked one point before, that is, in addition to stratum fractures, there is another situation where such fractures occur.

That is, the edge of the stone platform was originally a whole, but it was broken due to some unknown reason, and such a break may also appear.

Combined with Chen Ziyan's speculation, Shirley Yang suddenly felt that maybe there was a passage here before, but this passage was much wider than she imagined.

"You mean that the width of that passage is likely to be the same as this stone platform?" Chen Ziyan was also a little tongue-tied after hearing Xue Liyang's words.

This is a bit exaggerated!
In his memory, it was just a sky beam, not this kind of sky-reaching avenue.

But thinking about it carefully, Chen Ziyan suddenly felt that this setting was more reasonable than the narrow sky beam in his memory.

After all, one of the main functions of this road is to transport slaves as sacrifices. The narrow road that needs to be passed one by one, and if you are not careful, it looks more mysterious at best, but what is the actual effect? It would be nice to have a wider road.

"Use signal flares!" Hu Bayi thought of a way at this moment.

He remembered Shirley Yang said that if there is no external force, these stone smokes will always maintain a constant state and height, but this also means that these stone smokes will be affected by external forces, and they do not need to let stone smoke form The sea of ​​clouds changes forever.

It only needs to clear the area between them and the yellow object for a short time, can't you know if there is a way between the two?

Chen Ziyan immediately understood what Hu Bayi meant, and nodded accordingly: "This method is good, fat man, you are right, let's see the effect."

"Come on!" Wang Kaixuan naturally wouldn't refuse such a thing, immediately took out his flare gun, pointed at the position of the yellow object and pulled the trigger.

Chen Ziyan said that he aimed accurately. This is really not a compliment, but that this guy's marksmanship is really good.

All I saw was that the signal flare drew an arc across the sea of ​​clouds, and then hit the yellow object directly.

Due to the high temperature carried by the signal flares, coupled with the airflow driven by the flight, it was easy for the sea of ​​clouds in front of them to move towards the sides.

When the signal bomb fell into the depths of the sea of ​​clouds and could no longer see the slightest shadow, the specific appearance of the topaz mountain peak also appeared in front of Chen Ziyan and the others.

Just like in Chen Ziyan's memory, it was a topaz mountain peak, the platform on the peak was level with the platform they were on, and there was indeed a suspended stone bridge between the two, but the stone bridge had long been broken. There is still a part of Huang Yushan on the other side, and there is nothing left on their side.

Chen Ziyan frowned slightly when he saw this, which was in line with Shirley Yang's guess. The break on the edge of the stone platform was the width of the stone bridge, but where did the sky beam in his memory go?

If the suspended stone bridge can be used, then everything will be fine, but now the stone bridge has obviously been scrapped, so whether the sky beam exists is very important.

At least with this Tianliang, they can directly lead to Huangyu Mountain in the opposite sea of ​​clouds, without having to go down into the sea of ​​clouds to wander.

There is a huge difference between the two.

When Chen Ziyan was looking for Tianliang, he suddenly heard Hu Bayi say: "This...is it the legendary Dragon Pill?"

These words attracted Chen Ziyan's attention. He looked at Hu Bayi and asked, "Old Hu, what is this dragon pill you're talking about?"

He has an impression of Huangyu Mountain, but this Long Dan really doesn't know.

"There is a saying in the Dragon Search Jue that there is a dragon pill condensed under the top of the ancestor dragon, which means that at the source of the dragon's veins with strong vitality, there will be a chance to give birth to a strange peak of heaven and earth. You see this mountain looks like jade but not jade. I think this is most likely the legendary Dragon Pill." After organizing his words, Hu Bayi said slowly.

Although there is no clear evidence yet, he feels that the topaz mountain peak in the sea of ​​clouds in the distance is the dragon pill mentioned in the ancient dragon hunting formula.

And he is now [-]% sure that the altar of the Demon Kingdom they are looking for is there, because even if it is not the legendary dragon pill, this strange peak must be a top geomantic treasure, and it is definitely the best choice for setting up altars !
"Then let's find a way to get there!" Hearing Hu Bayi's words, Wang Kaixuan immediately said impatiently.

He didn't think so much, and his knowledge base didn't allow it. He just thought that such a treasure land would definitely be able to discover something, and he couldn't miss it.

Hu Bayi said helplessly: "I can get there in just one step, but the problem now is that the road has been cut off, and we have to think of a new way to get there."

"Otherwise, let's go down. Since there is no direct way, let's find another way." Chen Ziyan said decisively after searching to no avail.

Since the Tianliang in the memory didn't appear, they couldn't spend it here all the time. Even if it would take some time, it was better than continuing to do nothing.

(End of this chapter)