Light Keeper

Chapter 1038 Cave Exploration 7
The sky was already dark, and the starry sky above was sprinkled on the platform. As the two moved forward, the surrounding scenery gradually changed.

On the platform where there was nothing but dead trees before, some low wooden houses gradually appeared.

The board seems to be taken from those dead woods, the material is very distinctive, but the feeling of decay is stronger.

Ding Chen was too tired, and wanted to go up to ask if anyone was there, but was stopped by Song Shuyun.

"Let's go for a while, I don't think it's safe here, just keep going."

Ding Chen was not in a very good mood, with a depressed look on his face. Without much effort, he was already unshaven and his eyes were bloodshot.

"You always say you have to persist for a while, but how long do you have to persist? We walked around the periphery for a month, and you never said that you would persist. How come you have to persist in just one day!"

Ding Chen's exhaustion is not only due to his body and spirit, but also the negative state of his soul after being devoured. It is very normal for him to be unable to control his temper.

Although Song Shuyun wanted to push him as a shield, she still had a little kindness towards him. Until the last moment, she still hoped that the other party would survive, even if it was only the survival of the soul.

"This is different. You don't feel that your fatigue is very strong here. Maybe some of the magnetic fields here are like this. You may die in your sleep because of this. In fact, it's not that big here. Just keep persisting."

Ding Chen let out a faint sigh, which made his shoulders slump.

"I can feel that you are not Wang Su at all, you are different from me!"

After Ding Chen finished speaking, Song Shuyun was not surprised, the other party had been trained, and it was normal for the two of them to be discovered after being together for such a long time.

"You should understand that I have no ill intentions towards you. This is our job, and I hope it can be done."

Song Shuyun's pun neither admitted nor denied, and at the same time made Ding Chen more sober.

She feels that a person who has been abandoned by his teammates without any resources and can persist until now must be a person with a strong sense of faith in his heart.

Such a person should not be decadent because of a little difficulty.

In fact, Ding Chen did.

After listening to Song Shuyun's words, he didn't look at her again, and walked forward step by step with his shoulders slumped, dragging his tired body.

The shadow behind him was still faint, but Song Shuyun felt that it seemed clearer than before.

I don't know if it's because of the darkness or something else.

As the low wooden house appeared, Song Shuyun saw more and more houses behind, some were made of wood, some were made of adobe, and some were made of stone.

The height of the house also changed from about the same as hers at first, to the height of an ordinary house, and then to the height of a castle-like house.

The degree of dilapidation also decreased successively. When they reached the perimeter of the house that was more than ten meters high, Song Shuyun had clearly felt the glory of the house.

They are also made of stone. The stones built here are smooth and regular, as delicate as jade, and the shape of the house is like an ancient primitive style.

Rough atmosphere, savage and fierce.

Song Shuyun has seen many buildings, but this is the first time she has seen them. She has never experienced primitive society, let alone seen the peak level of architecture in primitive society, but now she has gained a lot of experience.

However, it was just for a look. She did not walk over, and neither did Ding Chen.

The few words just now that were insignificant to Song Shuyun seemed to have stimulated Ding Chen. Since then, he has been silent again, but his mental state has stabilized a lot.

The two continued to move forward, and the houses they encountered were getting better and better. They seemed to have merged together one by one, and they were waiting for Song Shuyun's arrival on the road.

Starting from the original building, the architectural style of the houses behind began to develop continuously, getting bigger and more brilliant.

Each building represents the pinnacle level of a certain era.

Song Shuyun became more and more vigilant.

A long time passed, but the sky still didn't seem to light up. She felt that she might have fallen into some kind of illusion, but Liu Guang said it wasn't.

This didn't reassure her, but made her more vigilant.

No one would do anything in vain. The appearance of these houses on her path meant that someone or a group of things had noticed her existence and was using some way to guide her to the path that the other party expected.

"What's the situation now? Am I still heading towards the center of the platform?"

The streamer gave an accurate reply.

"Absolutely! How can I be wrong about this! However, if there are any changes to the platform, it's hard to say! Anyway, you have always been going in the right direction."

Song Shuyun immediately felt that there was a pitfall in Liu Guang's words, but now that the other party can't even do a scan, it's normal for any pitfalls to shirk responsibility.

She has no other choice but to admit it.

"Actually, I now have a feeling that not only have I been discovered, but the other party may have already known my identity, and even guessed the purpose of my visit."

Song Shuyun's words were not aimless, her journey was said to be bumpy but extremely smooth, the road was always there, as long as she wanted to go astray, something would immediately come out to stop her.

In fact, after climbing up the mountain wall, the journey was frighteningly smooth. Except for Ding Chen, who seemed to be in a bad accident, her condition was almost the same as when the mission first started.

Also, what is that sticky sticky thing sticking to her body?
Was it really just to make way for those bats down there?
"Then you should be careful, there might be someone watching you around you now!"

As soon as Liu Guang finished speaking, Song Shuyun's scalp exploded immediately, because at this moment, her vision flickered and she suddenly saw a pair of eyes that slowly retracted behind a big tree.

A biting chill rose from behind her, and she quickly turned her head to look around, but she didn't find anything, and she didn't have the feeling of being watched.

This is not normal.

Her senses have always been sharp and she shouldn't have made such a big mistake.

Seeing that she seemed to be looking at something, Ding Chen also looked around twice. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed, and he followed the whole person like an arrow off the string, shooting towards a certain direction.

Song Shuyun's gaze immediately shifted. Although Ding Chen slumped a little, his skills were still professional. He went directly behind a tree, grabbed something, and twisted it in two strokes.

Song Shuyun stepped forward quickly, fearing that Ding Chen would die like this.

But she obviously worried too much, before she could take two steps, Ding Chen had already twisted a very thin person out from behind the tree.

Ding Chen's shadow is still so light, but that man's shadow is very heavy.

Song Shuyun let out a breath, and looked away from Ding Chen's shadow, and landed on the captured person.

The man was not tall, and was very thin, as thin as if there was only skin left except for a handful of bones.

He is a man, wearing a very ordinary hat and black clothes. The top is very long, with slits on both sides and hemmed with gold thread. It is restrained and inconspicuous.

Such clothes looked very luxurious at first glance, and it felt as if putting a little chicken in a golden cage was out of place when it was put on him.

The man looked ordinary, neither black nor white, with some loose skin on his face, and looked very old-fashioned.

"What are you doing here?"

Song Shuyun spoke without asking who the other party was.

The man looked very timid, his head was lowered by Ding Chen, and he lifted his head slightly. When he looked at Song Shuyun, his eyes rolled, but when he met Song Shuyun's gaze, he quickly lowered his head again.

"I'm just walking around here, I can't sleep at night, look around! Who are you? Why are you here."

This time, before Song Shuyun could speak, Ding Chen noticed his abnormality, twisted his arm even more, and threatened him by the way.

"I advise you to tell the truth! Otherwise, you will suffer."

The man groaned twice when he was twisted. Song Shuyun frowned, and her heart beat wildly with the other person's voice.

At the same time, Liuguang's reminder and the sword spirit arrived at the same time.

With a sound of "Zheng", the sword spirit who had been by her side suddenly draped over something.

Following Liu Guang, he said, "Someone shot a cold shot."

Listening to the sound, Song Shuyun could already determine the direction of the arrow, and instantly had a calculation in her mind, shifted her gaze, and precisely landed on the last place where the arrow stayed.

The arrows are not long, about fifteen centimeters, without tail feathers, so they can only be used for short-distance shooting.

The material of the arrow body is of good quality, but judging from the depth of the arrowhead into the ground, its strength is not very strong.

It's hard to shoot someone dead without hitting the guts.

But the meaning of this arrow with a border is very subtle.

Song Shuyun lost her keen perception, and there was more than one person around.

Seeing this, Ding Chen's face became angry, he raised his foot and pulled out the dagger from his boot, and pressed it directly on the thin man's neck.

"Whoever hides there and shoots cold arrows, come out quickly, or I will kill him immediately!"

His fierce appearance didn't seem to be fake. In order to create pressure on the other person, he even directly opened a hole in the person's neck.

This time, the person hiding behind the tree finally panicked, and then slowly stood up from behind the tree.

When she saw the person coming out by herself, Song Shuyun was startled.

A dozen or so people appeared in front of them, holding crossbows and bows and arrows, all of them looked thin and dressed in fancy clothes.

Their facial features were different, but their temperaments were exactly the same. Song Shuyun's face was solemn. This was the first time she had been so passive in many years of missions.

Up to now, this task has given her a lot of gains, and made her realize that her ability is still far from the top.

Those habitual and proud reliance lost their effect, and I didn't have a suitable countermeasure in the first place.

"Let go of the raccoon!"

One of the men raised the sword in his hand towards Song Shuyun and Ding Chen. Although he spoke arrogantly, his expression was unusually reserved, and his posture when using the sword was inaccurate.

That raccoon should be the man Ding Chen caught!
Ding Chen didn't let go, but pressed the dagger even harder, blood spilled instantly, and the man who was caught screamed immediately.

"It hurts! Don't kill me, don't kill me!"

His voice made a dozen of his companions panic, and several others were at a loss.

"Don't hurt him, let him go!"

"Let go of him, or we'll kill you!"

Song Shuyun was extremely familiar with this section. She didn't need to listen to Ding Chen anymore and immediately spoke to the dozen or so people.

"If you want your companions to survive, put down your weapons quickly. We have no malice towards you. It was you who spied on us first, so we passively counterattacked!"

The other party looked a little sensitive, Song Shuyun didn't dare to irritate their nerves, and just said all the good and bad things.

"We put down our weapons, what if you kill him? We won't let him go!"

Some people were very straightforward and felt that Song Shuyun's request was too much, but they didn't mention spying at all.

Song Shuyun's expression hardened in an instant, and at the same time, Ding Chen made a direct move, cutting off a finger of the opponent with a dagger.

Blood spurted out in an instant, and the captured man cried out immediately.

"Ah...it hurts! Put down the weapon! Put it down quickly..."

A circle of people surrounded the two people, all with angry faces.

"Put down your weapons, don't play tricks with me here, I know what you guys are thinking very well!"

Ding Chen had also seen big scenes before, and quickly saw through the bigger schemes behind these people's cowardly and ignorant disguises.

The man caught by Ding Chen was still howling, and the people around him had different expressions, obviously they were not willing to give up their own advantage.

Two people seemed to show cold and hard expressions towards the hostages. Judging by the posture, it was really not good. It seemed that they were going to kill the hostages themselves, and they would not let others use this to blackmail them!
None of those people hesitated to put down their weapons. This was quite different from what Song Shuyun expected.

If it's not that this hostage is unimportant, then the two of them are more important than the hostage!
Song Shuyun didn't even need intuition to guess that it must be the latter.

If this is the case, then what exactly do the two of them have that is worth coveting!
Just as the guardian of the lamp?
She couldn't commit the crime at all. She had never heard that eating the lamp-keeping spirit could lead to immortality. She inadvertently shifted her gaze to Ding Chen, and then thought of Ding Chen's swallowed shadow and these thin people. A bad thought suddenly came to her. came to her mind.

Ever since she entered this plane, she has never seen anything edible here!

Whether it was Ding Chen or what he saw and felt along the way, the monsters in the lake and the bugs in the cave all smelled of corruption, not to mention the bats and evil beasts that were not entities at all.

On the platform, it is even more interesting!

All the trees on this road are dead wood, not even a single leaf, so what do these people live on?

The entire platform is so big, and the scope for growing food is not small, let alone such a hole, it is difficult to keep the weather in order.

As for the drinking water, Song Shuyun hadn't seen a single drop of it anyway!
Therefore, it is reasonable for her and Ding Chen to be targeted.

I just don't know whether these "people" are still people!
"Liu Guang, do you know what they are?"

Liu Guang couldn't answer.

It still has no way to detect it.

But this information is very important to Song Shuyun, and it is directly related to whether the logic she envisioned can be established.

(End of this chapter)