Ever since the feeling of being watched appeared in Yin Xiu's heart, the entire queue began to feel uneasy.
Maybe it wasn't caused by Yin Xiu, but more likely because the appearance of the two corpses caused the current atmosphere.
After getting into the waterfall and walking for a while, something strange happened again at the back of the team.
The tunnel they had been walking along suddenly disappeared at some point.
The open mouth seemed to have never appeared before, but was completely blocked by the rock wall.
It seems that those bloodthirsty mud monkeys have appeared again.
"Are they following you?" Ma Xiaoyu asked in a low voice.
"It can't be you?"
Yin Xiu glanced at her, "We all participated in that bloody battle, and you just come to me for revenge?"
Ma Xiaoyu shook her head, "I don't think I will be as hated as you."
"Those guys are not human either." Yin Xiu said speechlessly.
After thinking for a while, Lei Zhong raised his hand to stop the team from moving forward, and then he looked at Zhuowu.
"Sir, how long does it take to reach the main altar?"
Zhuowu seemed a little surprised by his title. After a pause, he shook his head and said: "I'm very sorry, I don't know, because I don't know where we are at the moment."
"But I look at the pointer. Maybe in two hours, we can get to a place where the indicator is slightly visible. In that case, we can deduce the distance."
"Two hours is too long. Let's speed up our pace. We can go further in just over an hour."
As soon as Lei Zhong waved his hand, everyone speeded up.
Although Yin Xiu and the others did not need to follow his orders, the entire queue took action, so they had no choice but to follow.
After all, no one wants to fall behind, be separated, and become food for those mud monkeys.
Almost without stopping, everyone's breathing became heavy when they emerged from the tunnel in one breath.
Fang Yin, the weakest member of the team, turned pale and collapsed on the ground, looking like he had been fished out of the water.
Lei Zhong glanced at her and then at the other people in the queue.
Now they were in a relatively open area and no longer worried about the intrusion of the mud monkeys that roamed freely in the rock formations.
But more than anything, Lei Zhong still felt a little uneasy, and he also unconsciously felt like he was being watched.
It’s not stalking or peeping, but a feeling of being observed at a higher level, like Sun Wukong on the palm of Buddha.
After resting for a moment, Lei Zhong stood up a little irritably and said to Fang Yin: "It's time to keep going."
Even though he had been paralyzed on the ground for a while, Fang Yin was still so tired that he didn't want to get up and just sat on the ground and looked at him.
"Huh? You don't want to get up?"
"Why don't you carry me on your back?"
"Carry you?"
Lei Zhong looked around and found that no one was paying attention to them, and sneered: "Except for carrying my younger brothers and sisters when I was a child, I have only carried my superiors on my back as an adult.
After walking for a while in the mountains, we couldn't agree on a price, so I threw him into a deep valley and didn't even find his body.
As for you, who are you? ”
Fang Yin stared at him, "That's not what you said when you were on me last night."
"Stop pretending."
The smile on Lei Zhong's face became even brighter, "Do you think I don't know who you are? You had an affair with Tao Baishi and Lang Ciping before. Even that Zhu Wu, you also want to go to his room.
But he ignored you, so you turned around and came to my room. Besides, didn’t you also enjoy last night? ”
Fang Yin stared at him coldly, "Why, are you humiliating me now?"
"I'm not shaming you. I never quarrel with a woman, nor do I try to shame a woman."
Lei Zhong shook his head, "I just treat you as a random woman who walks into my room. It's not my style not to take advantage of you."
"Do you think you have taken advantage but won't lose anything? I tell you, you will pay the price soon."
Fang Yin didn't want to say anything more to him, so he stood up and walked forward.
"Keep going!"
Lei Zhong shouted, and the team started to move again.
Until he bypassed a raging underground river, Zhuowu raised his hand and pointed to the darkness ahead, "There, that's where the main altar is."
"Didn't you say it would be later?" Lei Zhong's tone was full of doubt.
"It may be late, it may be early, it may never be found, or it may be right in front of you. This is the strangeness of the world of Infinity.
A hermit once said that it is not that you discover the world of infinity, nor that you enter the world of infinity, but that when you close your eyes and open your eyes, infinity is right in front of you.
It is your mood that wants it to exist that creates the world of eternity. ”
Yin Xiu couldn't help but frowned when he heard this.
"What you mean from beginning to end is that the Infinite World is some kind of conjecture or fantasy?"
Zhuowu nodded, "There is absolutely such a possibility. Otherwise, why would it be so bizarre? In fact, just the fact that it exists underground in Hong Kong Island is outrageous enough.
If you tell anyone that there is another world beneath the ground in Hong Kong and Kowloon, everyone will associate you with mental illness. Isn’t this a bizarre experience?
If it does not exist in fantasy or imagination, how can we explain that the path to a certain place is changing all the time.
Could it really be explained only by tides or crustal movements?
Yin Xiu, I told you that you are a special person. As long as you close your eyes, you will soon be able to experience the strangeness of the endless world. ”
Zhuowu said this, but Yinxiu did not do it.
In fact, after the incident at the waterfall, Yin Xiu didn't even dare to close her eyes for a long time, for fear of falling into some kind of illusion like before.
He now has no fake body to ward off disaster.
"Crazy!"
Lei Zhong gave a cold shout and started to continue on his way with a few people.
Zhuowu just smiled helplessly, looking more like he was pitying Lei Zhong rather than being dissatisfied with the current situation.
Then he whispered: "It's a pity that Lei Zhong is a person who is insulated from cause and effect. Such a person is not welcomed by the world of Wujian, and he has no chance to see Kunlun in this life."
Realizing that he was talking to herself, Yin Xiu asked, "Then you think you are the one destined to enter Kunlun?"
"Of course it is."
Zhuowu was very confident, "Otherwise I wouldn't be a so-called elder. In fact, the opportunity for me to enter the world of Infinity and embark on a journey of exploration was entirely due to a destined opportunity.
When I was seventeen years old, I suffered a serious illness. As a result, my originally fuzzy mind seemed to suddenly open up. I deeply felt that there was some kind of opportunity and mission in me.
It enabled me to take elixirs and gain enlightenment after I fell seriously ill, became a practitioner, and met my mother. ”
"You met my mother, are you the same as grandma and the others?"
"Of course, that is a scene I will never forget."
Zhuowu murmured, his expression pious and confused.
"However, I still can't remember my mother's face or clothes. She seems..."
"She looks like a man and a woman, she looks like an old woman and she looks like a girl, she looks like a human and she looks like a god, right?" Yin Xiu said suddenly.
Zhuowu couldn't help but widen his eyes, "Why, have you seen my mother too?"
Yin Xiu grinned, "If I said this was my guess, would you want to hit me?"
Before Zhuowu could answer, Lei Zhong's hand reached out and patted his shoulder very politely.
"Mr. Zhuowu, we have to hurry up, otherwise it will be bad when it gets dark later."
Zhuowu looked up. Above their heads, there was only a dark rock wall, surrounded by black or white stones. It was not dark. How could they, who were deep underground, feel it?
But he didn't care, he just nodded and walked forward.
Just when he turned around, his head turned around again.
"Yin Xiu, you are the person my mother likes. You will eventually face her. This moment is coming soon."
It didn't sound like a threat or a warning. Zhuowu's tone was so calm that it seemed like he was chatting.
"Okay, I'll wait."
After whispering something, Yin Xiu also followed the queue.
The team marched in silence, with countless thoughts flashing through everyone's mind, but no one spoke, and they even tried to avoid eye contact.
Not only these people, but Yin Xiu also felt that the relationship between him and Ma Xiaoyu suddenly became a little reserved, as if the two people had just met and were not familiar with each other.
This may be due to the influence of previous illusions, or it may be because they have never traveled such a long distance underground and stayed for such a long time, so that everyone has suffered from group claustrophobia?
Zhuowu just pointed out this way, and everyone walked for more than an hour, and the eyes were still dark.
Even the spies' steps slowed down and became heavy.
Wangshan ran to death, Zhuowu said "it's just in front", but in fact everyone had climbed two high slopes, crossed two streams, and almost caused casualties due to falling rocks in the middle.
When they stood in front of a cliff, Zhuowu pointed forward again, "The main altar is right in front."
Lei Zhong glanced at him, still very polite.
"Mr. Zhuowu, there is no road ahead. Are you sure you are not looking in the wrong direction, or are you struggling to lead us in a circle?
You have to know that no matter what you do, it will be in vain. ”
Zhuowu said calmly: "Master Lei, it is in vain for you to say this, because what I said is the truth, not a lie. I said it, and the road is ahead."
Seeing that everyone didn't believe it, Zhuowu took the torch from a follower's hand, walked to the edge of the cliff, and threw it ahead.
The torch immediately spun and fell into the bottom with a splash, as if it had fallen into water.
"One more." Zhuowu stretched out his hand and said.
I don’t know what he wanted to do, but there were many light sources in the team, so Lei Zhong handed over the torch with a cold face.
When he threw it down again and reached out for the second time, Lei Zhong finally couldn't hold it anymore and was about to ask again, but Fang Yin handed over the torch in time.
Zhuowu didn't want to explain anything, so he took the torch and threw it down again.
It was still a plop, no different from before.
Then, the sound of tearing cloth resounded all around, and the strong smell of tar penetrated everyone's nostrils and eyes.
Boom!
A mushroom cloud steamed up in the darkness. The flames were several stories high and seemed to reach the top of the cave.
After everyone's eyes adapted to the dazzling firelight, the flames quickly spread out, forming an endless sea of fire at the bottom of the cliff.
Finally, with the firelight that illuminated the cave like daylight, someone shouted, "Iron chains! There are iron chains here!"
Yin Xiuxun looked around and saw five iron chains hanging on one end of the cliff and on the other end that was almost invisible. Each iron chain looked extremely thick, as if it was set up for people to pass.
"Is this also the work of hermits?"
Yin Xiu had no doubt that the Qi Refiners could not make such a thing with their abilities.
Zhuowu shook his head, "Even the hermits would never be able to create such a miracle. A thick iron chain stretching for miles. Do you think it can be built underground where materials are scarce and craftsmen are in short supply?
According to our research, this should have been made by a kingdom or a tribe that has not left any records in history.
Used to seal or sacrifice a certain existence. ”
Lei Zhong said loudly: "Impossible! Before the English came, this was just a barren land, just a small fishing village. Where could there be an environment that could support a kingdom?"
Zhuowu smiled and said: "That's why I said this is Wujian. The existence of Wujian is to make the impossible possible.
Maybe it's not a tribal kingdom or something like that, but we just want an iron chain to exist, and it exists.
Just like when you are thirsty and want to drink some water, a river appears in front of you. You cannot use common sense to infer. ”
"Then why five?" Yin Xiu asked.
Zhuowu was stunned for a moment, "Maybe some people want it to be five instead of one?"
"That makes sense."
Yin Xiu did not argue with him anymore, but walked forward and observed the burning sea of fire below.
Before I realized this, I threw torches underneath several times, perhaps just to ignite the sea of oil below and illuminate it with the light of the flames.
He threw it down twice, and it wasn't until the third time that the flames rose.
Is it possible that maybe there was no oil at all under the cliff, but the desire to illuminate the cave again and again caused this sea of oil?
Her face was hot and dizzy due to the firelight and smoke, and Yin Xiu also fell into a trance.
Until Ma Xiaoyu put her hand on his shoulder.
"You have been thinking about a lot of things since just now. I don't know what you are thinking or thinking about, but it should be something very important.
But now, we have arrived at the entrance of the main altar. No matter how many myths you have, you should put them behind you for the time being. ”
"Myth?"
Yin Xiu turned her head and met Ma Xiaoyu's eyes.
At this time, the original barriers, barriers, and strangeness had disappeared, and the two of them seemed to have regained the familiar feeling before.
Feeling the real sense of reality, the confusion in Yin Xiu's heart suddenly disappeared, and her eyes finally became clear.
Perhaps, this was also a method used by Zhuowu to bewitch him? (End of chapter)