[Hunter] False World

No one would have thought that in this dense forest far away from the coast, there is such a labyrinth-like cave that hides a secret passage leading to the sea.

In the depths of the cave, Kuroro leaned over and looked down at the low-lying and open vertical hole.

The opening of this hole is not big, but it is in a regular oval shape, with a diameter of less than two meters, and there are obvious traces of artificial excavation.

The soil around the hole like a dark cave is soft. Kuroro scraped some muddy soil from the nearest ground. It seems that the tide has receded for a few days. The land here is relatively dry, but traces of long-term soaking in seawater can still be seen.

Looking at the excavation of this hole again, Kuroro reached out and touched the edge of the vertical hole. The geology, rock and soil here are mixed, and the incision is extremely irregular. It is obvious that tools such as shovels were used to work.

Around the entrance of the cave, there is loose soil washed and piled up by the seawater. When dug open, the soil seems to be mixed with white fine dust. When you rub it lightly with your fingertips, you can obviously touch small hard particles, as if... pulled July's hand illuminated the fine particles on the fingertips, Kuroro frowned slightly, it seemed to be marble fragments.

The caves outside are recorded with stone age marks, and the excavation skills of some tunnels are poor, which should be done by primitive tribes when they survived, so there is no value for further research.But the traces of artificial carving in another part of the passage are still very new, and the cave excavation skills are also more advanced, which seems to be done in the past century.

Looking at this hole again, it was not dug through with tools from the Stone Age, nor did it use nearly a hundred years of punching and drilling technology.In addition to the marble fragments remaining in the land washed by the sea, it looks more like a work in the BC.

There are traces of three eras in one cave at the same time, heh, Kuroro chuckled lightly, and threw a small stone towards the vertical entrance.It seems interesting.

"despair--"

The stone fell, fell into the water to buffer it, and hit the ground directly.

Listening to the sound, the entrance of the cave is not too far from the landing site, the tide has basically receded, and the water at the bottom of the cave is very shallow.

"Go down?" Kuroro raised the corners of his mouth slightly and stared at Qiyue.He wondered how she would react next, going into the water, or waiting at the mouth of the cave.

July looked down, and there was darkness at the bottom of the hole.She hesitated for a moment, then nodded firmly under the man's searching gaze.

A low chuckle, like a drop of water piercing the silence of the cave.Kuroro jumped into the hole with one hand on the ground, and he did read a moment of wandering and flinching in July's eyes.

After Kuroro, Qiyue's posture in the cave was far less chic and stylish than the robber, on the contrary, it was much uglier.

She tore off the long sleeves of her shirt, and clapped her hands and feet on the rock wall. Long flames were ignited on her bare arms and thighs. Looking from a distance, she looked like a burning tree bag hanging on the rock wall. Bear.

Climbing down carefully, Qiyue tried her best to illuminate the sight below, until she saw Kuroro standing directly below with a smile and looking at herself, then she let go and jumped down with confidence.The water seems to have run out.

"What are you afraid of?"

Slowly advancing into the depths of the passage, Kuroro turned his head to look at Qiyue, a pair of dark black eyes were even more oppressive in the dark secret passage.In his opinion, July is a little nervous, and seems to care more about the depth of the water under his feet than the environment of the cave.

In the backlit expression, Kuroro stared at Qiyue with a half-smile, and he was very close to her, almost shoulder to shoulder.

Qiyue pursed her lips and glared at Kuroro, then extinguished the flame on the side near the robber, "Aren't you afraid of being burned so close?"

"If you are too far away from me, I won't be able to see the way clearly." The man said with a slight smile, he put his arms around Qiyue's waist unambiguously, and brought her to him, "Don't change the subject. July, Tell me, what are you afraid of?"

Carefully controlling the flames, July could feel the water level in the cave rising more and more, "I can't swim." She summed it up succinctly, "The last time I came here, I almost fell into the water and drowned."

What July said was very frank and straightforward, without any trace of lies.However, the smile on Kuroro's lips deepened.Can't swim, or can't swim?

The further you go in, the deeper the seawater pouring into the channel, and it has already overflowed the knees of the two of them at this moment.Kuroro could feel that Qiyue was getting more and more strenuous when he was walking. Leaving aside the resistance of walking in the water, Qiyue's pace was getting slower and slower, and he even grabbed the hem of his clothes several times to take advantage of it.

Kuroro lifted Qiyue's hand slightly upwards, holding her tighter so that she could walk more easily.

In this dark passage, he grasped her secrets and saw her weaknesses.

The man's face was reflected in the firelight, and his expression was unfathomable.Although it is still not conclusive, but judging from the current situation, Kuroro can be sure that July cannot be soaked in water for a long time, her physical strength is losing, and she can hardly walk.

Is it because of the mutual restraint of fire and water?Kurolo's answer is no.There must be something else as the July flames grow fainter.

Taking another step forward, the water has reached the waist, but the passage has not yet reached the end.

Qiyue leaned against Kuroro, unable to take another step.But at this moment, the man also stopped.

"Do you want to keep going?"

At this moment, Kuroro hugged Qiyue, and he bowed his head to ask tenderly. She leaned in his arms, but she felt as if she had been stabbed severely by a sharp dagger.Qiyue understands that this smart man has seen through her flaws long ago.

"I think we'll stop here today." Instead of July, Kuroro took the lead in making a decision, "This passage is still very long, and it seems impossible to pass it without waiting for the biggest ebb tide of the year. Wouldn't you know Swimming? If you go any further, the water will be over your neck."

Hearing what Kuroro said, Qiyue was stunned for a moment, shouldn't he be urging her to move forward, so as to confirm his inference and see her full of flaws?Although she didn't know what the man was thinking, Qiyue breathed a sigh of relief.The tense nerves relaxed, and the last bit of strength was lost along with it.

She's been in the sea for too long...

The flame on the right shoulder flickered a few times and then went out.Qiyue couldn't use her feet at all, her body gradually became limp, and it was difficult to even stand up.

The passageway was pitch black, and when Qiyue slowly slid down, the hand around her waist strengthened and lifted her out of the water.

In the quiet passage, a muffled sound of fetching water could be heard clearly, followed by a series of sounds of the water curtain sliding down, splashing and echoing for a long time.Good to hear.

Qiyue leaned softly on Kuroro's shoulder, and she no longer had the strength to ignite the flame for him.

"Aren't you going to ask me?" Qiyue said softly.She didn't want to betray her secret, but if Kuroro didn't ask, it seemed that she was hiding too much from him.

Wading forward in the dark, Kuroro asked, "Will you tell me?"

"No." This sentence in July answered quickly and firmly, as if it had been carved thousands of times in the bottom of my heart.If the light can shine, the great spider leader will see July leaning on his shoulder and smiling a little smugly.

Qiyue knew very well that if she betrayed all her secrets to this man, then he would lose interest in her as soon as he got tired of playing with those "toys".

"Since you won't tell me, what's the point of me asking you."

This sentence is melodious and low, but also as cold as thin ice.What a nasty robber!

Thinking of this, Qiyue opened her mouth angrily to show her fangs, and was about to give Kuroro a big bite viciously towards Kuroro's shoulder.However, after brewing emotions for a long time, she finally licked her fangs and closed her mouth.

"Oh, why don't you bite?" The man smiled, as if he had been waiting for the bite to fall.

In the dark, July made a sighing expression, "I'm afraid you will throw me down for revenge."

"Really?" There was a bit of a smile in Kuroro's voice, but he didn't ask why Qiyue was afraid of being left behind, "I thought you were reluctant to bite."

"..." Hearing what he said, Qiyue rolled her eyes upwards in the darkness, she was really defeated by this bandit...it was so shameless to a certain extent.Well, although she admits that maybe he's right...

There was the sound of wading under his feet, his arms were wrapped around the man's neck, and Qiyue quietly leaned on Kuroro's shoulder.She couldn't see his appearance clearly, nor could she see the surrounding environment clearly.Only at this moment, she suddenly remembered that she seemed to have forgotten the purpose of coming here.

At the first moment, she was afraid of the sea water, afraid of being discovered by Kuroro about her weakness.However, the moment she was picked up by him, she felt inexplicably at ease.

She is obviously here to find a space-time passage to go home, but why is her thinking always restrained by this man? !Just like at this moment, there is no trace of the time-space tunnel in the pool of water that I finally found, and there is no trace of the time-space tunnel in the secret passage that I finally entered after the tide ebbed. She actually forgot the loss.What is the emotion surging in her heart? It seems that it is a little bit of luck...

Are you glad you don't have to leave for now? !

Surprised to realize this, Qiyue pursed her lips, frowned and said nothing.With her nails stuck in her palm, she struggled and wanted to get out of Kuroro's arms and go down by herself, but the robber had no intention of letting her go down.

"Want to hear a story?" Kuroro asked, his cello-like voice hovering around July's hair.Without waiting for her to answer, the man told the story on his own——

"Once upon a time there was a king who loved his princess very much and wanted to be buried with her even after he died. So before he was alive, he asked someone to build a white marble tomb, hoping to sleep with his lover after death.

When the king announced this decision in front of his ministers, the princess agreed to be buried with tears.But she made one condition.She hopes that she can see the sea even after she dies, and hear the sound of the waves hitting the shore constantly, but she doesn't want the place where she lives after death to be too dark and damp.

Therefore, the craftsmen who designed the mausoleum selected the tomb site near the sea, and imagined digging a passage leading to the sea at the bottom of the mausoleum, allowing seawater to flow into the tomb along the passage, and artificially building a small shoal.The princess was very satisfied, and she got the king's promise that she would not be buried in the mausoleum until the shallows were completed. "

Hearing this, Qiyue also understood a little bit, "Actually, the princess didn't want to be buried. She was favored once, but she shrinks when she thinks of being buried with her. The artificial sea is just trying to delay time, or she is sure she can't get through the underground seaway." ?”

"Oh, that's not the point of the story." Kurollo laughed, "Listen to me."

It's not the point of the story, but July is still relishing it. While complaining silently in her heart, she took off one hand and ignited a flame in her palm to light the way ahead for Kuroro.

"Well, where did we talk just now?" In the firelight, Kuroro looked down at Qiyue, with a hint of reproach, "Then let's talk about the time first, the background of this story is in 340 BC Left and right. With the technology at that time, digging through such a sea channel really required a huge amount of manpower and material resources, and even like you said, it may be an impossible task before the death of the king."

"Then do you think that even you can see the purpose, as the king of a country, you can't comprehend it? Whether it is punishment or love, we don't pursue the purpose. In short, the king used huge manpower and material resources afterwards. This huge project was completed before his death.

As previously agreed, in the year the king died, his princess was also required to be buried with him.

There are rumors among the people that there is a courtier under the king who deeply loves the princess.On the day she promised to be buried and shed tears in front of all the officials, that official made a major decision in his heart-he wanted to rescue the woman he loved.

But disobedience to the emperor's order is a capital offense, let alone the desire to win the king's favorite woman.So this plan can only be carried out quietly.

Legend has it that while the mausoleum was being excavated, the official spent all his wealth and secretly hired people to dig the secret passage leading to the mausoleum.But until the day when the king and princess were buried, no one knew whether the secret passage was really dug successfully, and no one even knew the location of the secret passage. "

This time, July learned well, and she didn't interrupt Kuroro's story, but she waited with bated breath for a long time, but she didn't see the next one.

"Finished?" She was surprised.Such a story with no beginning, no end, and even loopholes, what does this man want to express?

"It's over."

"You also say that this is just a legend. Besides, the worker who dug the secret passage for him must not know the location of the secret passage, don't you think?"

"Oh, do you think so?" Standing at the entrance of the first entrance, Kuroro raised the corners of his mouth slightly, looked at July with his dark eyes, then looked away at the entrance above, and stepped on the rock wall, With a light jump, he easily jumped out of the hole.

Under Kuroro's meaningful gaze, Qiyue reorganized the story again, suddenly!A thought flashed through her mind!

"Are you saying that the passage we just walked was the secret passage dug by the courtier? So it leads to the ruins, what kind of king's tomb temple?" Qiyue suddenly realized and grabbed Kuroro repeatedly in astonishment. Question, "So those craftsmen accidentally dug through the sea channel, the sea water poured into the secret channel, and those who could not swim drowned, and the few survivors did not dare to spread it around? Or the location of this channel is very hidden?! Outside Were they also dug the maze-like passage?"

Putting July down, Kurolo replied, "Your assumption is partly correct, but I don't think the artisan was drowned. For example, you were also washed into the channel and couldn't swim, but you survived. According to me Observe, there are no remains of bones left in the passage, but there are marble fines at the entrance just now, and the location here is very close to the Mausoleum of King Mosorsky, and it is also along the coast, which is very consistent with the records at that time. If I were that Courtier, I don’t want the secret to be leaked, I will kill all the craftsmen. As for those maze-like passages, I have to ask those relic hunters who have been here in the last century.”

Following Kuroro out of the cave, Qiyue felt that she was looking up at the man's back more and more.

Just a simple walk, so much information has been sorted out.Observing the details, the speculation is even more accurate and reasonable.So what about the secret that I have hidden for a long time?Is he unable to find out, or is he deliberately delaying the time to understand?

It was as if he had just stopped walking in a cave.In Qiyue's heart, at that moment, she really felt a little lucky that she deeply condemned herself, but luckily she didn't find a way... She didn't want to leave this man.What about him?July looked at the back of the front from afar.

Didn't he want to leave by himself at that moment?

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