Chapter 460: Meeting Xuela Again (5000 words)
Under the iron gate, about three or four meters above the ground, Xu Xin landed very easily.
There was actually a metal ladder, but he didn't need it.
"Boom..."
The surroundings were still shaking.
Below, exactly as Ji Chaoyang predicted, there is a staircase passage about three meters wide, rotating all the way down.
Because there is no gap in the center of the rotation where you can look down like an ordinary staircase, you can't see what's underneath at all.
"Hey..." Coco raised her little head and looked up.
The vibrations around him have begun to gradually lessen.
From the surrounding soil, there was the sound of something being pulled out of the soil.
Then, the underground entrance that was originally blocked by vines suddenly opened wide.
Immediately, light shone in from the outside, illuminating the small area around the entrance.
It seemed that the vine bundle above his head had been pulled out from the ground and began to retract towards the gap in the sky.
He no longer focused on the top, but looked at the spiraling downward staircase.
In other words, is he now equivalent to...
Opened the door to the vine bundle branch prison?
Now that the vine bundles have been recovered, does that mean...
Even if they don't enter this underground prison, their own activity requirements should have been completed, right?
Forget it, don’t think about it so much, let’s move forward.
Even if he didn't have an agreement with Changyin, he still wanted to see what was in this underground prison.
He immediately stepped into this passage and began to walk down quickly.
"Hey!" Coco jumped off his shoulder.
Just like it did in the dungeon, it ran in front of him and led him the way.
However, Xu Xin no longer needs to walk carefully and slowly because of fear of slipping like before.
The underground city at that time was not only slippery, but also went straight up and down. Once you fell, you would roll directly to the bottom. And this spiral staircase is indeed extremely dry, and the steps are even covered with dust.
In addition, his current physical fitness has also been greatly improved, so he started trotting directly on the rotating stairs.
In Ji Chaoyang's prediction, he ran downward for at least fifteen minutes before reaching the bottom. Therefore, this passage is very long and must be speeded up.
"Hey!" Seeing Xu Xin running so fast, Keke was not willing to be outdone and speeded up.
While running, he did not forget to observe the surroundings of the spiral staircase.
Different from the main underground prison in the center, this passage to the sub-underground prison is not made of that special metal, but is simply a passage dug out of the ground.
Stone passage.
The stone was covered with dust, but there were footprints other than his and Coco's on the dust.
Up and down, quite a lot.
Even on the stone walls, there are a few dirty fingerprints from time to time.
However, this was within Xu Xin's expectation.
This is normal, after all, this place is under the control of those furry weirdos, and Xuelan is probably being imprisoned down there, so it is normal for people to come in and out.
But from the looks of it, it seems that this place has not been used for a long time, and it was only recently opened, so there are many footprints on the thick dust.
Xu Xin and Coco continued running downward.
Round and round.
He quickly rotated downwards along the inside of the spiral staircase using the fastest way.
This circle was so fast that he was a little dizzy.
Coco's speed was faster than him, and he had disappeared.
However, with his enhanced hearing, he could still hear the sound of Coco running below.
Although it was light, he could still catch it.
"嘤!"
I don’t know how long it took, but Coco’s cry came from below.
Xu Xin spun again for two weeks, and finally reached the end of the spiral staircase.
"Huh... finally down." He rubbed his temples.
I'm really a little dizzy.
He calmed down and looked forward.
Ahead, there is already a flat passage.
The passage here is no longer made of rock, but the same hard metal as the previous prison.
Moreover, it exudes golden light.
It is a gold-level prison. It seems that important tasks must be held in the prison.
Xuela, is it inside?
The passage turned a corner about ten meters ahead, and he couldn't see further, so he didn't know what was inside.
"Hey..." Coco crawled along his body and onto his shoulders, her big tail drooped behind his back, her little head drooped, and her little chest heaved as if trembling.
This is obviously tired.
"I'm tired but I still run so fast."
Xu Xin rubbed its little head.
"Ugh..." Coco screamed weakly.
It seems that he is really tired.
If it were normal, it would probably rush into the depths first.
"There's no danger in here, right?" Xu Xin walked toward the depths of the passage, and at the same time asked Coco, whose body was already limp on his shoulders.
"Hey..." Coco responded, indicating that there was no danger.
Xu Xin nodded.
His hearing increased, and he could already hear what sounds were coming from the other side of the passage.
Is this...the sound of footsteps?
There is indeed someone inside!
He quickly walked to the corner of the passage, turned and looked in.
Then, his eyes immediately lit up.
In front of him was a small prison about the same size as the survivor prison at the bottom of the main underground prison, and inside the prison...
A gorgeously dressed female stone statue is grasping the metal railing of the prison and looking out.
Xu Xin couldn't be more familiar with this stone statue!
"Xu Xin?! It's really you!" When Xue Lan saw Xu Xin, a flash of red light suddenly flashed in his eyes, and his expression immediately became joyful. He grasped the railing tightly with both hands, "You...how did you come here?" Come!”
Although she only met Xu Xin once and only spent a few hours together, Xu Xin was the one who rescued their family from the underground, so she naturally remembered it clearly.
Xu Xin also laughed.
Ji Chaoyang's prediction was correct!
"We have found you. Changyin asked us to take you out."
He immediately walked outside the prison and spoke to Xuelan in the prison.
"Hey!" Although Coco was very tired, she still waved her little paw and said hello.
"Have you seen Changyin?!" Hearing Xu Xin's words, Xuelan suddenly became excited, "How is he now? Where is Xiaohong? Is Xiaohong with him?"
Xu Xin looked at her, then frowned slightly.
He...
Why can't I hear Xuelan's heart?
Isn't Xuela a native creature of this world?
Or is it that the stone creature can no longer be considered a normal creature, so he can't hear it at all?
Xue Lan saw Xu Xin staring at him with a slight frown, and the excitement in her heart slowly calmed down. She explained with an apology on her face: "I'm sorry, I'm too excited. I'm being held here without day or night." , I couldn’t feel the passage of time, and I didn’t even know how long I had been detained. Just when I heard this little guy’s cry, I thought of you. I didn’t expect that it was really you.”
There was a hint of exhaustion in her voice.
Even more tired than Changyin.
Changyin explained that their mental power is not strong. After waking up for a long time, they must enter a longer period of dormancy to make up for the loss of mental power.
Obviously, in this underground prison, Xuelan's mental energy was consumed very much.
"Hey." Coco raised her little head and shouted.
"...You misunderstood, I was just thinking about other things, related to my own abilities."
Xu Xin explained casually, and tried again to use his subjective consciousness to read Xuelan's heart.
But no success.
It seems that Xuelan is indeed unable to read his inner thoughts.
"Then..." Xue Lan's face showed a trace of anxiety, "The matter of Changyin..."
"Wait a minute, stretch out your hand, and I'll try to see if I can put you in the bracelet and take you out." Xu Xin pointed to the bracelet on her right hand.
Although the cage here is also of gold grade, it is different from that there. It is called [Branch Prison], which sounds lower level. It may be possible to take people out directly.
"This bracelet is...good!" Xuelan recognized that it was a bracelet made by Changyin, with a real expression of joy on his face. He also believed that Xu Xin had really seen Changyin, and immediately put his hand on it. Stretched out halfway.
Xu Xin touched her hand, then shook her head with some disappointment and said, "No, I can't take her out. I have to find a way to open this cell door. Do you have any clues?"
Xuelan also showed a somewhat disappointed expression, and then shook his head: "No, I said I was brought here by four hairy monkeys. At that time, the door of this prison was open, and I was pushed directly into this place by them. The cell door was closed before I could stand up. I didn’t see how they operated.”
Hairy monkey...
As expected of a couple, they even call the stuffed weirdos the same.
But by the way, this cell door can’t be opened, can it?
"Well" Xue Lan spoke again, with a hint of pleading in his tone, "Can you... tell me about Chang Yin and Xiao Hong?"
"Oh...ok."
Xu Xin briefly told her about his experience after coming to this underground world and Chang Yin's current situation.
At the same time, he walked around, touched, and observed the surroundings.
Here, it is already the end of this passage.
At the end of this rotating passage, there was only one prison where Xue Lan was imprisoned.
Apart from this, there are no other prisons.
He looked at Xuelan with some sympathy.
A person is imprisoned in an underground prison in the underground world. He is accompanied by darkness and loneliness every day. He cannot even know how long he has been imprisoned. He can only wait silently in the darkness.
If this were an ordinary person, he would have gone crazy.
"So that's it..." Xuelan murmured to himself, "Fortunately, Changyin is fine, but Xiaohong..."
After receiving the information that Changyin was safe, her expression became obviously more relaxed, but there was still worry about Xiao Hong between her eyebrows.
Although it is a stone face, the expression is still very delicate.
"Xiao Hong doesn't need to worry. Since the Blood Pattern Clan needs the ability of Long Seal and uses you as a restriction, then they won't do anything to Xiao Hong." Xu Xin comforted her while looking around for someone who could move the cell Door opening mechanism.
"That's good..." Xue Lan slowly sat on the edge of the prison railing, hugging his legs.
"By the way, you were imprisoned in prison, why didn't you, um, just... fall into a deep sleep?"
Xu Xin asked curiously while looking for possible mechanisms.
Just like Hiro did when he was in the belly of the Mimic, he fell into a deep sleep and soon he wouldn't have to suffer this anymore.
"...If you fall into a deep sleep and want to wake up, you need special conditions." Xuelan explained quietly, "If you fall into a deep sleep and wake up next time, you don't know when it will be. Chang Yin and Xiao Hong are nowhere to be found. , I...I can't fall into a deep sleep."
As she said that, she laughed: "Fortunately, my persistence was effective, and I was waiting for someone to save me. To be honest, now that I feel relaxed, I feel like falling into a deep sleep."
As she spoke, her fatigue increased.
"That's it..."
Her fears were indeed justified.
Xiao Hong never woke up at first, and the timing of waking up was a bit strange.
Although they don't know how they will wake up, they will fall into a deep sleep underground, and may even sleep here forever and never wake up.
He looked around and patted Coco on his shoulder, who had his little head drooped and started to take a nap: "Help me find something around here that can open the prison."
After searching for so long, he found nothing.
"Huh..." Coco raised her little head and shook it a few times, then looked around.
Then it jumped off Xu Xin's shoulder and ran to the corner in two steps.
"Huh!" Coco pointed to the corner and shouted, then looked up and tilted his head, "Huh?"
Corner?
Xu Xin walked over.
"Ah." Xuelan on the side suddenly covered her mouth and shouted softly, "That position...ah, maybe the switch is there!"
"Oh? Do you know where the switch is?" Xu Xin looked back at her.
She nodded and said, "It should be right. I remembered that when I was pushed into the cell and the cell door was closed, there seemed to be a 'click' sound from that direction. Now that I think about it, it should be... Is it the sound of the switch?”
She never paid much attention to that strange sound, but when she saw Coco and Xu Xin walking over there, she retrieved the incident from her memory and connected the sound with the cell switch.
organ?
Xu Xin reached out and touched the corner of the wall.
He had just groped around here, and there was nothing there.
"That sound should have come from above." Xue Lan pointed to the position three or four meters above the corner of the wall, "The person who brought me here...well, among the furry weirdos, there was one who was very tall, over three meters tall. Meters, and my arms are long, so it shouldn’t be a problem to reach more than four meters away. Maybe, the mechanism is on top?”
above?
Xu Xin looked up.
The height here is about four meters.
He hasn't really touched it yet.
"Hey!" Coco raised her little head, "Hey!"
It waved its little paw to indicate that it was on top.
Xu Xin stepped lightly, easily jumped up to a height of two meters, and reached out to press the corner of the wall.
"Click!"
You can press it!
He pressed the corner of the metal room diagonally in easily!
Then, the sound of a machine and metal friction came from behind.
"嘤嘤!"
"Bah." Xu Xin landed and turned around, only to see that the prisons behind him had been opened, and Xue Lan walked out of them with a look of joy on his face.
"Finally out!" Her voice was slightly choked, "Are we going to see Chang Yin now?"
Xu Xin nodded: "Yes, we are going to see Chang Yin. You also know that you may be in danger outside. I will put you in the bracelet first. There is also someone in the bracelet. You can get to know her. Details.”
Xuelan nodded: "Okay, take me in."
She now has great trust in Xu Xin.
Putting Xue Lan into the bracelet, Xu Xin walked in and took a look at the prison.
There was nothing, just a square prison, not even a bed.
Really broke.
He relied on his increased jumping ability to touch the ceiling all around.
There are no other mechanisms.
Looking at the corner where he was pushed in, Xu Xin thought for a moment.
According to what Xuelan just said, it can be inferred that the person who pressed the switch was a three-meter-tall plush weirdo.
Three meters high...
Isn't it the kind that Lou Fei'er encountered before?
It seems that this is a kind of fluffy weirdo?
He looked around again.
There is nothing else in this underground prison except the snow trap.
It's time to go up.
"Let's go Coco, let's go up."
"Hey!" Coco immediately climbed onto his shoulder after hearing this.
"Why, didn't you run away by yourself?" Xu Xin laughed.
"Hey..." Coco rubbed Xu Xin's face.
Xu Xin returned from a long way with Coco.
He didn't encounter anything as he climbed up. Soon, he was above the ground.
As soon as he came out of the ground and saw the scene outside, he raised his eyebrows slightly.
The vine branches here have completely disappeared, and the surrounding ground is as chaotic as farmland that has been overrun by pigs. Many underground creatures that were scared away by the giant python have also returned.
"Good... delicious..."
"Sleep..."
"What is that..."
The thoughts of these giant insects were also transmitted to his ears.
And the most important thing is that at this time, there is only the last vine left in the sky.
That is... the second vine that Wen Guixin is responsible for, and the prison over there has not yet been opened.
It's normal that after opening the first underground prison, she has to go underground to explore. After the exploration is completed, she can go to the other side.
If her exploration speed is similar to Xu Xin's, she should have come out by now and be heading for the second vine, right?
He touched the bracelet, wanting to release Xuelan to see if she would attract the attention of surrounding creatures.
And just then, something happened.
To the west of the main vine, a bright flash of light rose faintly, accompanied by thick red smoke.
Then it suddenly exploded into white spots of light all over the sky!
...!
There's something going on over there!
Could it be that we found Xiao Hong?
Today’s is here!
It may take a long time to post at this point in the future, because something happened during the day OVO
Tomorrow is the National Day, everyone has a great time during the long holiday! It’s the last day of this month, friends, the tickets will be gone tomorrow!
(End of chapter)