Chase Game

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Inside the underground palace passage, various mechanisms popped out from the stone brick walls on both sides.

Zhang Qiang transformed into a half-human, half-tiger form, his large tiger paws blocking Ling Yi's path.

Ling Yi replied, "It's alright, this looks like a lamp niche."

Using the light of the torch in his hand, Ling Yi clearly saw the mechanism.

"A lamp niche? What's that?"

Zhang Qiang had never heard of this term before, but he soon encountered it.

As he finished speaking, tiny sparks of light simultaneously ignited.

With the darkness banished from the underground palace, the torches in Ling Yi and Zhang Qiang's hands suddenly seemed unnecessary.

The tiger paw that had been positioned in front of him was withdrawn. Zhang Qiang let out a breath and said, "So that's what it was. You scared me to death! I thought I was going to be riddled with arrows and turned into a porcupine..."

"That's an exaggeration. Your tiger skin is all show and no substance."

Ling Yi thought to himself that if it really was a hail of arrows, he would definitely be able to withstand it with his Vajra Body.

Of course, this assumes the arrows are ordinary arrows.

"Alright, Qiangzi, stop looking around. Let's hurry up and find our way back."

Zhang Qiang ran to a lamp niche and was curiously studying the mechanism. After looking at it for a long time without understanding it, he heard Ling Yi call him.

As the two were traversing the underground palace, Wang Yun and Zhou Jie on the ground also felt the violent earthquake.

Generally speaking, unusual or unusual scenes in games often contain unique hidden information.

As a veteran player, Wang Yun was quite sensitive to this point.

His first thought was of the underground palace.

"I remember the entrance to the underground palace was in the old patriarch's room, wasn't it?"

"That's right, that's where I go in and out of the underground palace."

After Zhou Jie answered, Wang Yun asked thoughtfully, "Besides that place, have you discovered any other entrances or exits?"

"this……"

Zhou Jie pondered for a moment, then said uncertainly:

"The underground palace is very large, and due to the strange 'heating' phenomenon, I haven't been able to explore it completely, so I'm not sure if there are other entrances or exits."

"Fever... never mind, let's go downstairs together and we'll know."

The old master's room was not large; a bed took up almost half the room, and with the addition of a desk, wardrobe, and other furniture, it was clear how frugal the old master was.

After the old patriarch of the Meng family passed away, this room was sealed off.

At this moment, the bedding on the bed was still neatly arranged, and the writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk were also neatly put away.

After Wang and Zhou arrived in the room, Zhou Jie walked to the desk with practiced ease.

There was a large carpet under the table, and an oil lamp was lying crookedly on it.

"This one was even shaken off..."

Zhou Jie muttered to himself, then picked up the oil lamp and put it back on the table.

Wang Yun stood behind him, looking at the extinguished oil lamp on the table, and felt a sense of familiarity.

Before entering the game, Wang Yun and Zhou Jie were both outside and did not see the oil lamp in the abandoned house, so they did not recognize each other at this time.

Zhou Jie squatted down again, lifted the carpet, and revealed the wooden board underneath.

Then, the planks were removed one by one, and soon a deep, dark cave about the size of a person was revealed.

The amazing thing is that while the dry wells on Ling Zhangqiang's side were blocked by the earthquake, this narrow cave here remained unharmed.

The two were unaware of the well's condition and naturally had no suspicions.

In their memory, they discovered this cave when they were tracking the fleeing dancers and had come here.

As for how the dancer discovered the cave, that remains unknown.

Without much thought, Zhou Jie took the lead, lying on the floor and crawling in headfirst.

After a loud thud, Wang Yun heard Zhou Jie call out from below, "Captain, come down."

So Wang Yun also went inside.

It turns out that there was a space similar to a cellar beneath the cave.

Zhou Jie lit a torch, and then lit the torches in the torch troughs along the four walls.

The entire basement then became bright.

Wang Yun was facing a stone door, with two phoenixes carved on the left and right sides of the door.

He walked to the tightly closed stone door, placed both hands on the door knocker and twisted them outwards.

The heavy stone door opened automatically inward, revealing a stone staircase extending downwards.

He also took a torch and went into the underground palace with Zhou Jie.

After walking for a while, Ling and his companion discovered that not all passageways had lighting.

Thus, this only illuminated road clearly serves as a guide.

"Ling Yi, don't you feel it getting hotter and hotter?"

Zhang Qiang asked while taking off his clothes.

After the illusion was broken by the [White Jade Bracelet], Ling Yi felt absolutely nothing.

He told Zhang Qiang about the illusion, but it was of no use.

"It seems that knowing it's an illusion is useless; we need a special method to break the illusion."

"No... perhaps the [White Jade Bracelet] didn't actually break the illusion; it just freed me from its influence!"

Ling Yi suddenly thought of this possibility, but unfortunately the white jade bracelet had entered the cooling phase and could no longer be used by Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang didn't have any means to break the illusion, so he could only endure the heat and continue walking forward.

After some time, they found themselves in front of a huge, deep pit.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called a "pit," but rather an "abyss."

Standing before the abyss, Zhang Qiang's breathing was heavy. He wiped the sweat from his brow and spoke:

"Ling Yi, I feel like there's steam rising from the abyss. This should be the source of the illusion..."

Ling Yi silently took off his own clothes and said, "I felt it too..."

"What? Didn't you say you weren't affected by the illusion? How come you've fallen for it too?"

Ling glanced at it; the effects of calming the mind and clearing the consciousness were still there, so there was only one possibility.

"This time it's real, not an illusion."

"Ah! So that means what's down there really is the source?"

"I don't know, but there's no road anyway, let's go down and take a look."

With that, Ling Yi walked toward the rugged road to the side.

"Holy crap, they're really going? This looks even more dangerous than Mount Hua, and it's completely unprotected!"

Zhang Qiang glanced at the abyss again; its bottomless depth sent a chill down his spine.

"If that bastard falls, he'll be smashed to pieces!"

Looking at Ling Yi again, he had already walked along the cliff face for quite some time.

Zhang Qiang had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

The two descended along the path on the cliff face for about half an hour.

Zhang Qiang was initially a little apprehensive, but now he's gotten used to it.

The further down you go, the stronger the heatwave becomes.

Both of them were shirtless and drenched in sweat.

At that moment, a strange cry came from the depths of the abyss.

"Chirp—woo—"

Ling Zhangqiang looked down at the same time, and in an instant, a huge bird covered in flames... no, it was actually made of flames, swooped down from below.

"Holy crap, Ling Yi, I'm under an illusion again..."

Zhang Qiang looked at the firebird and found it unbelievable.

Ling Yi felt a sense of foreboding and quickly reminded him:

"That's a hallucination, you big idiot! It's real! Quick, think of a way to hide!"

"Holy crap, how do I dodge this?"

Both of them were on the cliff face, unable to maneuver at all.

Even if it wasn't killed by the flamingo, it would probably fall off the cliff.

Ling Yi did not answer. While holding the Reverse Hourglass in his hand, he was also looking for other solutions.

found it!

"Hurry up, there's a cave not far down, let's go down first and talk about it later."

Time was of the essence, so Ling Yi used the [Wind Speed ​​Shoes] to travel quickly.

Its speed was so fast that Zhang Qiang was terrified, fearing that Ling Yi would fall if she didn't keep her footing.

But he wasn't idle either; he ran at a brisk pace.

The two entered the cave before the firebird arrived.

At this point, without worrying about slipping and falling off the cliff, Zhang Qiang assumed a fighting stance and entered full beast form.

His entire body swelled several times its original size, and the features of a tiger appeared on his body, with even a tiger tail extending from his lower back.

The Moltres arrived at the same time, and with a "whoosh," it crashed into Zhang Qiang's chest!