The itinerary of exploring the ruins was carried out today according to the original plan. The sun had not yet come out early in the morning, and the surrounding area was still foggy. The group of people who were going to go was already ready to go.In addition to the four members of Jin and his party, the text scholar Rees, and his bodyguard Art, there were also two professionals accompanying him this time. This eight-member exploration team was scattered at the edge of the camp.

Kate looked at Art quietly and secretly. The man had a gloomy feeling and always made people feel difficult to get along with. Since he came to the camp yesterday, he had said very little, and he didn't say a word except what was necessary. The object of the conversation was only Reese.Kate learned from Master's conversation with them yesterday that the purpose of this person's coming here is not pure, so he secretly maintained vigilance against Yate.

"Everyone, please take care of yourself. Please be careful." Leo stood in the see-off line to see off the group, his eyes quietly met Jin's, and the latter nodded inadvertently.

"Then let's get ready to go." After speaking, Jin led the team to the east.

In order to take care of the researchers who are not capable of fighting, Jin slowed down his walking pace. A group of people walked through the dense forest, and nothing dangerous happened along the way. Get to know each other.Very smoothly, after walking for nearly four hours, they came to the ruins of the eastern forest.

"Kate, what do you think will be inside the ruins? This is the first time I have participated in the field exploration of the ruins, and I always feel a little nervous." Shirka is one of the two professionals participating in the exploration team. One of them, always with a warm smile on his face, cheerful personality and easy to mingle with others.

"I don't know too well." During this period of time, he was busy practicing and had no time to take care of other things.

"I thought you were Mr. Jin's apprentice, so you would know." Shirka shrugged with disappointment.

Before Kate could say anything more, he felt the hem of his clothes being pulled by Mi Ji beside him, and Mi Ji pointed in Jin's direction and said, "Look, Kate!"

Following the direction of the funny fingers, Kate saw Jin put the stone slab into a groove on the ground, and then there were a few loud bangs, which startled the birds in the forest, and the center of the ground rose A few stone pillars half a person's height formed a circle around the door that appeared on the ground. As the door was opened, a step leading to the ground appeared in front of everyone. The stairs were very dark without a trace of light. , The damp and musty smell rushed towards everyone as soon as the door was opened.

"It's amazing that there is a door here." Basically, Mi Ji is a bumpkin, because he has never seen the big world, so he is easily surprised.

Seeing this, Kate immediately tightened Miji's little hand. He was afraid that Miji would not obey Jin's arrangement because he was too excited, so he quickly told her: "Miji, after you enter the ruins, you have to obey the arrangement. Is it? No, don't leave me too far later." It's safer to keep her in your eyes.

"Understood, I won't leave Kate." Mi Ji readily agreed to Kate's request. In fact, she has always been very attached to Kate, and she doesn't feel verbose about Kate's request at all.

"Then can we follow you later?" Shirka approached the two of them, pointing to himself and another researcher named Doni: "We are not combatants, and we don't have bodyguards like Professor Rees , Mr. Jin and Mr. Garcio are responsible for the front-line exploration, I think we are safe and somewhat guaranteed to follow you."

"Ah, please be careful, Mi Chi and I will try our best to take care of you." Indeed, what he said made sense, and Kate agreed to the other party's request, and decided to do her best to protect them.

Jin turned his head and made the last arrangements and instructions to all the staff before entering the ruins: "Everyone, we are going to start the ruins, because I don't know what dangers there will be, I will walk in the forefront later, and Kate and Miji will follow. Behind me, followed by Doni and Shirka, followed by Reese and Art, and at the end is Cassio. If there is any danger, those who are not capable of fighting should do nothing, just try to escape from the ruins. We will do our best to protect you."

After finishing the order, Jin held up the torch and stepped into the steps leading to the ground first, followed by Katela.However, when Mi Ji took the first step on the steps, she realized something was wrong, and her connection with Diarmuid was basically cut off.

For a long time, even though Diarmuid has not materialized, Miji can always feel his existence because of the contract, and sometimes can communicate with him in thought when he is in the spirit body, but now she is It was found that she could only feel that Diarmuid hadn't disappeared, but she couldn't have any contact, as if she was locked in a sealed box and couldn't get in touch with the other party.

"Kate." Miji looked solemn and called out to Kate in a low voice.

"Ah, I see." From the first step into the ruins, Kate also noticed that her thoughts disappeared, as if the fine pores were suddenly closed, and then looked at Doni and the others, and they didn't feel anything wrong at all. He thinks that Master and the others must have noticed that there must be something in this ruins that can force all those with the ability to enter a state of extreme.

"Kate, you two have to be careful." Jin didn't look back, but just said a word to the two of them.

"I see." Kate pulled the brim of her hat and looked around, trying to find something from the surrounding environment that would cause this effect, but under the light of the torch, there were only steps around her. On the three walls, there was nothing on the walls, only regular brick patterns that repeatedly appeared before his eyes.

"Have you found it? Kate." Jin still walked forward without looking back.As if he knew what Kate's next step was, he asked exactly what Kate was thinking.

"No, not yet, there is nothing special around, so I didn't notice it." Kate answered honestly.

"It's steps. You should pay attention to the steps. These steps are not made of ordinary bricks. Although the black substances mixed in the bricks are small, if I guess correctly, it is a kind of insulation. The stone of mind power. This kind of stone should be very rare, and this kind of stone can be used to make ruins. I think this ruin must have a very important reason for the people at that time.” It took less than 10 minutes to enter the ruins, and Jin had already seen Something went wrong.

Is this the gap between me and Master... Kate looked at Master's back with longing and admiration, no matter in terms of observation, judgment or knowledge, he was far inferior to Master.Sure enough, Master was the goal he pursued in his life and wanted to surpass.

"Uncle Jin, is it really okay if we can't read?" Mi Ji was always a little uneasy about being forced to read: "Since we know there is a problem with the steps, can't we solve this problem?"

"That's not okay, we can't destroy these steps." Kate pointed to the front with one finger, and the place in front of it that was not illuminated by the torch was pitch black. It is not yet known how long the steps are.Can they still explore if the passage is destroyed?

"Ah, Kate is right, and I don't think it's possible for the entire ruins to be built with this kind of stone, which must be a very rare type, so I think we'll probably There will be attacks." Jin intentionally analyzed for them: "If I were the builder, I would definitely kill outsiders on the steps with the sealing stone. So you have to be vigilant."

Everyone silently increased their vigilance, no one spoke along the way, only the rattling sound of shoes on the steps; time passed slowly like this, the same scenery kept appearing in their eyes again and again, In this dark environment, Mi Ji didn't know how long he had walked, but felt that he seemed to have walked for a long time. The repeated vision made Mi Ji feel tired unconsciously.

"Miji, cheer up." Kate shook Miji's hand, trying to cheer her up. "Although it takes a long time to go, don't let your guard down."

"Kate, how long do you think we've been walking?" Kim stopped and turned to Kate and asked.

"I think it's about three or four hours." Kate thought about it and gave Jin an approximate time.

"No, we only walked for a little over half an hour." Jin shook his head and handed the torch to Kate: "Look at how well the torch burns."

Kate carefully observed the torch. Indeed, the torch was not burning for three or four hours as he thought, but only half an hour. Then why did he feel that he had walked a long way.

"Because we have already stepped into the trap." Gaxio, who stood at the end, suddenly gave the answer. He pointed to the moss growing on the wall and said, "I'm afraid there are some hallucinogenic poisons mixed in here. The bryophytes should not grow naturally, but were planted here deliberately, and their spores can emit a hallucinogenic ingredient."

"Impossible, if it's just a hallucinogenic poison, it won't work on me." Miji categorically rejected Casio's point of view. The anti-drug training of beating enemy Hakkas is no joke. food, she believed hallucinogenic plants had no effect on her.

Apparently, Kate also thought of this, and at the same time, he also thought of his anti-drug training when he beat the enemy Hakka some time ago.

"It's not just these, if you add the boring visual sense, hallucinogenic poison, and the thoughts of the dead, I think it can cause this effect." Jin analyzed carefully.

"But isn't there a Feng Nian stone on the steps? How can you use Nian?" Kate was puzzled.

"You must know that the minds of the dead are much stronger than those of the living. These steps are indeed mixed with sealed mind stones, but if you observe carefully, you will find that these sealed mind stones are sparser than when you first came in. Signs, although they can seal our thoughts, but these quantities cannot seal the thoughts of the dead, so this trap was created." Jin knelt down and pointed to the black stone foam on the steps and said: "From the beginning Feng Nian is just trying to paralyze us."

"Something is coming." Art, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.

Da, da, da sound came from the darkness ahead...

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