Chapter 145 The Altar at Night
Has the appearance of the altar changed?
"What do you mean?" Xu Xin frowned.
"Literally." Ji Chaoyang's footsteps came from the other side of the voice. "The four stone pillars and statues on the four corners of the altar are gone. The altar table was moved to one side, and a staircase appeared on the ground in the center of the altar!"< br>
Stairway?
"The staircase leading to the bottom of the altar?" Xu Xin asked.
"It is indeed downward, but..." The footsteps stopped, and Ji Chaoyang's voice became a little confused, "But this passage is a dead end. After only walking a few dozen meters, it was blocked."
Xu Xin had now moved away from the surrounding hills and entered the resource area.
What surprised him was that the red mist seemed to only diffuse around the hills, but did not enter the resource area surrounded by the hills.
This place is still the same as before, but looking around, there are hills filled with red mist.
"I have broken through the red mist. I will go to the altar immediately. Wait a moment. I will check the situation here first."
"Okay."
Xu Xin rode the Silver King and rushed towards the altar in the center of the resource area without stopping. In just over a minute, he had arrived at the altar.
Seeing the appearance of the altar at this time, he was still surprised even though he had heard Ji Chaoyang's description.
Just like Ji Chaoyang said, the original stone pillars on the four corners of the altar and the statues on the stone pillars have all disappeared, leaving only four smooth stone bricks in their original positions that are completely different from the rough and uneven altar floor.
The sacrificial table in the middle seemed to have been pushed aside. The entire sacrificial table moved horizontally, leaving its original position vacant, revealing the dark passage below.
It felt to him like a coffin board that had slid open, looking a bit eerie in the dark.
Xu Xin rode the Silver King and entered the altar.
"Click." The familiar voice came up from the underground again.
He walked to the entrance of the underground passage and looked inside.
With the ability of night vision, Xu Xin could easily see everything in the passage, and even saw the end at a glance.
It's only about fifty or sixty meters to the end. Just like what Ji Chaoyang said.
"Keke, is there any danger here?" Xu Xin touched Keke's head and asked.
"Hey." Coco shook her head to indicate no, and climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulder. It knew that Xu Xin was about to enter it.
Xu Xin asked Silver King and Mimi to guard the entrance of the passage, while she took Coco and Bat into the staircase passage about two meters wide.
Unlike the stairs in the dungeon, the stairs under the altar were not damp at all, and were even dry. The stairs and walls were covered with thick dust.
It's hot in the tunnel.
Although the temperature is not low now, and there is no wind today, which makes it very hot outside, the heat in the passage is much stronger. The temperature has already exceeded 40 degrees. If you stay here for a long time, you may get a heat stroke.
Xu Xin wiped the sweat from his forehead and walked down.
There are some patterns tattooed on the walls of the passage.
He looked carefully and found that these patterns were basically consistent with the patterns on the stone pillars outside. At the same time, they were also somewhat similar to the blood patterns on the mutated creatures.
Xu Xin reached out and touched it, and found that the wall was also unusually hot. This should be the culprit causing the stuffiness and dryness in the cave.
A similar situation exists with altar pillars. The first time he touched the stone pillar, he felt unusually hot. During the sacrifice process, the stone pillar would emit an astonishing amount of heat.
In addition, the walls have the same pattern as the stone pillars. Xu Xin guessed that this passage may be the same as the stone pillars, requiring sacrifices to light up the patterns.
Coco jumped off his shoulder and ran towards the end of the passage.
"Don't run around, be careful. There's danger." Xu Xin reminded Coco.
"嘤!"
The bat kept flying beside him obediently. Seeing that Coco got off Xu Xin's shoulder, it landed on his shoulder to rest.
The further down you go, the swelter it gets and the temperature gets higher and higher.
When he reached the end of the passage, even though he had only walked fifty or sixty meters, Xu Xin was already sweating profusely and his mouth was dry.
"Hey!" Coco turned around and shouted at Xu Xin at the end of the passage. There was something on the ground beside him.
Xu Xin stepped forward and saw something on the ground. She narrowed her eyes and reached out to pick it up.
[Damaged small windmill (white): The small windmill that once had great abilities was completely damaged after being sacrificed and turned into an ordinary small windmill. 】
It was the small windmill that Xu Xin returned to the stone statue of the little boy.
It seems that Changyin's family is also in this underground passage.
However, since it is a sacrifice that has lost its power after being sacrificed, why does it appear here?
Coco stood and looked at the paintings on the wall at the end of the passage.
"Hey!" Coco touched the wall at the end of the passage with her little paws, and immediately retracted her hand, rubbing her two little paws back and forth.
Standing in front of this wall, Xu Xin could clearly feel the billowing heat waves coming from this wall.
The wall in front of me is completely out of tune with the passage wall, like a baffle inserted in the passage.
The patterns on the wall even glowed slightly, so the patterns on the wall appeared very clearly in the darkness.
"Is this carving...a bear?"
There is an animal carved on this wall, standing upright and raising one paw to catch it. It's obvious that this is a bear.
The bear carved on this wall looked very strong, with extremely thick limbs. It did not look like a black bear, but rather looked a bit like the jungle overlord he had encountered, the majestic brown bear that seemed to weigh tons.
What does this altar have to do with that brown bear?
By the way, since the brown bear seriously injured the Silver King and left with the wolf pack's prey, Xu Xin has never seen it in this jungle again, not even its red light spot on the map.
The strongest beast he had ever seen in this jungle, besides the brown bear, was probably the tiger that was poisoned by mutated cat meat.
I tried touching the wall with my hand, and sure enough the temperature was extremely high, it felt like 70 or 80 degrees.
Because Coco got burned, she is far away from this wall now.
"Hey!" Coco climbed onto Xu Xin's shoulder and pointed at the hot and shiny wall in front of her and shouted.
"Huh? You said there are good things behind the wall?" After cooperating for so long, Xu Xin had already heard the meaning of Keke's cries of different emotions.
"Hey!" Keke nodded her little head fiercely.
Sure enough, there is a road behind this wall, but he doesn't know how to open this wall yet.
Taking out the spear, Xu Xin scratched the wall several times, but did not make even a shallow mark on the wall.
It seems that with his current ability, it is impossible to violently break down this stone wall.
After carefully observing the surroundings, he found nothing else. Xu Xin, who was already dizzy from the heat, quickly walked out of the cave with Coco and Bat.
After coming out, he wiped the sweat from his forehead that was about to flow into his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief.
"...It's too hot in here." Xu Xin licked her chapped lips, as if there was fire burning in her throat.
He immediately contacted Ji Chaoyang.
"How's it going? Did you find anything over there?"
"Same as you, an underground passage also appeared."
The two exchanged information and found that their experiences were slightly different.
The most obvious difference is that Ji Chaoyang's side is not very hot. Although the stone wall does emit some heat, the temperature is relatively normal, only a few degrees hotter than the ground.
As for Xu Xin, when he reached the end, the air temperature was already ridiculously high. He had been in a sauna, and the temperature in the sauna was about 55 degrees. The end under the altar was definitely hotter than the sauna, and it was much drier. It was dry and hot. It was simply torture.
There is another difference. The carving on Ji Chaoyang's stone wall is a ferocious tiger.
"...Tell me, are the things carved on that wall a sacrifice that we want us to offer? If we sacrifice the beasts carved on the wall, we can open the wall blocking the passage." Xu Xin thought. asked.
"There is another possibility that the beasts carved on the wall are actually behind this wall." Ji Chaoyang also expressed his speculation, "And we need to open this door by increasing the progress of sacrificing to the 'gods'. Fan the wall.”
What Ji Chaoyang said makes sense.
Xu Xin hasn't seen that brown bear for a long time. That brown bear has absolute strength. Even an ordinary intermediate mutant beast will die if it gets a slap from it.
If anyone in this world can restrict its activities, then this so-called "god" is very likely.
If it mutates, it will definitely be a boss-level existence. After all, even if it hasn't mutated yet, it can defeat all the intermediate mutated creatures Xu Xin has seen so far.
It is obvious that the deepest wall of the passage is now not the end of the passage. There must be some way to open that wall.
If you want to open the passage under the altar, you must make a sacrifice to the altar.
When Xu Xin touched the hot wall just now, there was no prompt, so he didn't know if his guess was correct, but he felt that the temperature in the passage might be related to the progress of the sacrifice.
As for why his place was much hotter than Ji Chaoyang's place, it was probably because Changyin's family had come here to offer sacrifices, which made the progress of the altar's sacrifices higher than that of Ji Chaoyang's place.
From the fact that the small windmill of the Changyin family fell in the passage, we can know that this change in the altar will not be permanent. They came here a few days ago, but when Xu Xin came over at noon, the place had already returned to its original state.
...Wait a minute, didn’t they just come here? !
No, it shouldn't be. There was a layer of dust on the ground in the passage, and there were faint footprints on it when he stepped on it. When he came in, there were no other people's footprints on the ground, which meant that at least Chang Yin and the others had not been here just now.
Xu Xin's brain was running wildly, thinking about possibilities.
Ji Chaoyang told him that during the previous jungle hunting activities, he did not return to the tree house at night and was still hunting near the altar. The altar did not change at that time.
In other words, the abnormality at the altar tonight does not happen every night.
Xu Xin looked up at the sky.
There is no moon and no wind tonight, and the starry sky is bright. At the same time, the surrounding hills were still shrouded in red mist.
Could it be that the underground passage of the altar is only opened on moonless nights?
The moons in this world are not like those on Earth, where there is only a moonless night every other month. He has noticed before that sometimes it is a new moon one day and a full moon the next day.
After the two discussed it, they unanimously decided to come back again during the day tomorrow to confirm the changes to the altar. Once the beast returns, sacrifice is immediately on the agenda.
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin let out a breath. (End of chapter)