treacherous world

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao and talked, Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang and listened to him.

The two probably looked at each other so engrossed that they only saw each other's eyes.Bai Yutang didn't notice that the branch in his hand was constantly playing with those dead bones.

Just when I didn't know whether the next step should be to get closer, or to stop there... There was a click, and something hooked the branch.

Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment and came back to his senses, only to realize that the two were very close to each other.Zhan Zhao also seemed to understand, took a deep breath, and backed away a little.

Bai Yutang fiddled with the branch in his hand a few more times, and found that there was indeed something under the pile of dead bones. Every time the branch passed by, he would trip over it, and it felt hard and strong.Bai Yutang frowned slightly, stood up and walked over to look.

Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's white sleeves brushing past his side, bringing a faint warmth... He reached out and gently scratched the side of his face, it was a little hot.

"There seems to be something down there." Bai Yutang gently pushed aside the pile of skeletons, and saw a giant iron ring fixed on the ground.The black iron ring links the ground.I pushed aside more skeletons and found that it was a square gray stone slab. Could it be that there is a tunnel leading to it? !Still, Guan Zhanzhao also wanted to take a closer look, "What is it?"

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang gently waved his hand at Zhan Zhao, "Mao'er, back off a little bit, I'll try to pull it, I don't know if it's a tunnel or a mechanism."

Zhan Zhao moved aside a little bit, made sure to stand in a relatively safe place, looked up, and did not forget to ask, "Be careful!"

Bai Yutang nodded slightly, stretched out his hand to pull the iron ring, and found that it was fixed on the ground. Could it be that there is a door underground?I pulled it hard, but it still didn't move.

Bai Yutang put down the iron ring, but just after he passed his birthday, he heard a click.

After a click, there was no movement. Bai Yutang was puzzled, thinking what kind of mechanism is this?

But just as he was wondering, he heard a "bang" sound from behind... accompanied by Zhan Zhao's surprised cry, "Ah!"

Then the ground moved slightly, and Bai Yutang hurriedly turned his head... But Zhan Zhao was nowhere to be found.

"Cat?!"

Bai Yutang was shocked, and ran over quickly, only to see a big hole where Zhan Zhao was standing.It was pitch black down from the entrance of the cave, and it was bottomless.

Bai Yutang was in a hurry, the cat was unlucky and reminded him, it was not a good place to choose, but he chose the right below the organ, and he was to blame, I knew I wouldn't have reminded him.

Stretching out his hands to touch the two large stone slabs that were opened, Bai Yutang was amazed. It turned out that the iron ring was a mechanism to open the tunnel, and there was a deep hole like a shaft.There are stone slabs on all four walls, which don't seem to be natural, but dug out artificially.It's just that the walls of this bottomless cave are slippery, and there is nothing to attack.

"Zhan Zhao!" Bai Yutang lay on his stomach at the entrance of the cave, and shouted loudly into the cave, "Are you alright?!"

But after waiting for a while, no one answered.Bai Yutang yelled a few more times in shock, but still no one answered, so he knew something was wrong!

The hole is bottomless, and there is no place to borrow strength on all sides. Zhan Zhao doesn't know if he will be injured by the fall, but don't do anything wrong... If there is a trap below, it will be over!

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, Bai Yutang yelled again, "Cat!"

But apart from the echo from the bottom of the cave, there was no answer from Zhan Zhao.

Bai Yutang couldn't wait any longer, seeing that it was getting dark, and Zhan Zhao fell into the dark hole, the key was because he said too much, causing him to fall.

After thinking about it, Bai Yutang wanted to jump down with Zhan Zhao, but then he felt that he couldn't do stupid things just because his head was hot.What if you can't come up after going down?He didn't mind dying with Zhan Zhao, it's not bad to die in the same acupuncture point... It's just that Zhan Zhao might be injured, and he wanted to save him even more.

After thinking about it, Bai Yutang stretched out his hands to touch the walls of the four walls, and found that they were very smooth. Fortunately, they were not particularly hard after a long time.

Putting the knife behind his back, Bai Yutang took out a dagger, first knocked twice on the stone wall, and a hole appeared.

Raising his eyebrows, the dagger given by his second brother was really useful. This method was taught by his second brother. He climbed down while digging a hole... In this way, after reaching the bottom, he would have a place to borrow strength when he wanted to go up.

So, Bai Yutang was like this, holding the gap pried out by the dagger with one hand, hanging his body in the air, slowly crawling down, digging down as fast as possible, only thinking about Zhan Zhao, don't get hurt. very heavy.

It's also fortunate that his lightness kung fu is good and his arms are strong, so he's exhausted like this. It's completely dark, and he can't see his fingers. Bai Yutang said in his heart, Zhan Zhao, Zhan Zhao, who are you? Ken, do you think I have a problem with my head? !

Just digging little by little, until Bai Yutang felt that he had stepped on the bottom of the hole, which should be the bottom.It is pitch black now, the moonlight has long been blocked by the dense tree canopy, and the bottom of the hole is even less visible.

"Cat? Are you okay?"

Feeling that he had already stepped on the ground, Bai Yutang summoned Zhan Zhao, took out the torch, shook his hand, and blew on...

The moment the light came on, Bai Yutang was really afraid that he would see Zhan Zhao's corpse, of course...he thought it was impossible.

It's just that a strange thing happened, there was a shaft at the top, it was empty, the walls were blocked, except for some dust and leaves on the ground, there was no sign of Zhan Zhao.

"Cat?" Bai Yutang thought in his heart that he had lost his way, seeing Zhan Zhao fall, where did he go?

Letting go of the doubts in his heart, Bai Yutang began to think calmly - logically speaking, Zhan Zhao was caught off guard.It's not that he doesn't have kung fu, this is a royal cat!With his lightness skills, it is not a problem to jump off after adjusting his posture at this height, staying on the stone wall a few times, but why did the person disappear?

Bai Yutang thought instantly - Zhan Zhao fell from a high place, so he was heavier, but he fell down slowly, so he landed lighter.

After thinking about it, he raised his foot and stomped hard.

With a "boom", the stone wall on the side suddenly rotated.

The space at the bottom of the cave is only that big, and when the stone gate turned around, Bai Yutang naturally wanted to give way, so he was turned behind the stone wall... and his eyes lit up.

After letting his eyes get used to the light, Bai Yutang saw behind the stone wall was a stone room, surrounded by oil lamps, and in the middle of the stone room was a stone table, on which a man sat cross-legged, looking listlessly at himself.

Bai Yutang immediately breathed a sigh of relief—the man in blue was thin, and he was yawning at him with his chin in his hands, "It's so slow."

Isn't it Zhan Zhao?

Bai Yutang walked over, "Are you okay?"

Zhan Zhao shook his head, Bai Yutang put away the Huozhangzi and began to look around.

"I was transferred here just after I came down, and I found that there is still a passage behind, but I thought you would come down too, so I was going to wait for you to go with me...but..." Speaking of this, Zhan Zhao narrowed his eyes, "Okay Slow down, slow down, Great Xia Bai!"

Bai Yutang smiled, "Are you so sure I'll come down too? But it's life-threatening."

"Speaking of loyalty?" Zhan Zhao muttered.

Bai Yutang secretly laughed in his heart, is it just that simple loyalty?

"If I knew it, I would have jumped off immediately." Bai Yutang said flatly, "I thought you were injured."

"How is it possible!" Zhan Zhao shook his head, "It's just that tall."

The scene Bai Yutang was thinking about just now was not like this. He was thinking that Zhan Zhao fell and got a slight injury, and then he carried him up the stairs...and then carried him back to find someone to treat him.Nine lives strange cat!

"Hey." Zhan Zhao suddenly remembered, "You came down too, what about Hong Lie's eagle?"

"Forgot." Bai Yutang thought for a while, "I guess I'll go back to find Gongsun and the others...

"Then they should know that something happened to us." Zhan Zhao also continued to speculate. "Will definitely come to us."

"Wait?" Bai Yutang looked around, "Or go in and then come out?"

"Can't get out!" Zhan Zhao said seriously, "It seems that the mechanism can only be opened from the outside!"

When Bai Yutang heard this, he hurried back and kicked the door, but it really didn't work - yes!If I had known that I would have jumped off just now, it would be a waste of time.

"Forget it, don't wait for them." Zhan Zhao got down from the stone table, "Let's go in and see for ourselves, there seems to be an underground palace inside! There might be an exit at the back." Seeing Zhan Zhao's face, Bai Yutang was inexplicably excited He knew that he must have discovered something, and asked, "Could it be the hidden palace?"

"It's possible." Zhan Zhao smiled and pointed to the two torches on the table, which he made here just now out of boredom.

"By the way, the lights were on when you came in?" Bai Yutang looked at the oil lamps hanging high on the walls, wondering, the lights are so big and bright!

"Yeah, it looks like an everlasting lamp." Zhan Zhao took the torch and climbed up on a stone stool, intending to dip the torch into the oil of the everlasting lamp and light it.But when he climbed up the stool and looked inside the oil lamp, he couldn't help frowning and staring at the oil lamp.

Bai Yutang saw that he looked like a cat who saw something rare, so he also jumped up, but what he saw made him frown.

The oil lamp hanging in the air is huge, and it is full of yellow lamp oil, and the wick soaked in the lamp oil is really scary!It's not grass wick or cotton thread, but a piece of human skin with bones removed.

"Hiss..." Zhan Zhao asked Bai Yutang, "Is this a human oil lamp? Is there really such a thing?"

Bai Yutang coughed, "I've heard of it, but I didn't expect it to exist. No wonder it's an ever-burning lamp. It is said that this kind of human oil lamp can burn for at least 2000 years."

"Such a disgusting way, the owner here must be a tyrant!" Zhan Zhao hated this kind of thing the most, hesitating whether to dip the torch.The burning corpse looked too glaring.

"You should be treated like this after you died." Bai Yutang said casually, wanting to comfort Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao looked at him with wide eyes, "Did you do it while you were still alive?!"

Bai Yutang opened his mouth, thinking that this cat doesn't know that human oil needs to be made from living people? !

"Uh..." Bai Yutang had no choice but to point to the lamp oil to Zhan Zhao, "Light the torch and let's go, anyway, it's been burning for so many years, maybe it's just a shaved monkey."

Hearing this, Zhan Zhao felt even more disgusted, but he still dipped the torch into the lamp oil, lit it and handed it to Bai Yutang, bowed softly to the man's oil lamp, got down and left with Bai Yutang.

Holding torches, the two of them walked to the half-covered back door behind the stone chamber, when Zhan Zhao suddenly pulled Bai Yutang back, "Wait a minute."

"What's the matter?" Seeing the cat's mysterious smile, Bai Yutang narrowed his eyes slightly. Maybe Zhan Zhao knew something interesting.

"Close your eyes." Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang.

"Why?" Bai Yutang was slightly puzzled.

"Shut up! I'll show you something nice!" Bai Yutang had no choice but to close his eyes as if Zhan Zhao was presenting a treasure.

Pulling Bai Yutang's wrist, Zhan Zhao gently pushed the door open, took Bai Yutang two steps outside, and said, "You can open it."

Bai Yutang opened his eyes... and was immediately dumbfounded.

Bai Yutang is not a person who makes a fuss, he has seen a lot of good things and strange things, but this is definitely the first time he has seen this kind of scene.

I saw that the place where they were located was a high slope, and I looked around.The ground turned out to be a city.The scale of this city is not small, the houses are all made of earth and stone, the layout is magnificent and exquisite, and there is a majestic palace in the distance.

What Zhan Zhao wanted to do was to see Bai Yutang Wannian Bingshan's face showing this look, and asked with a smile, "Isn't it amazing?"

"Hmm..." Bai Yutang nodded involuntarily, "It's actually a dungeon?"

"This place is really like an underground palace. Do you think there are still people living in it?" Zhan Zhao pointed to the dots of light, "If those lights are not permanent lights, maybe there are still people living in it."

"This shouldn't be possible. What are you going to eat after so long?" Bai Yutang said, walking downstairs with Zhan Zhao.

"Cat."

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao replied, looking around curiously, looking at the abandoned streets and houses.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao's hand that was still holding his wrist, and didn't say anything, but asked, "Can you tell which dynasty this is?" Zhan Zhao shook his head in embarrassment, "I can't tell, you're not a civil and military expert. Just? Do you recognize it?"

"You are talented in both civil and military affairs." Bai Yutang smiled, "Maybe only Gongsun can recognize it, but it's really exquisite!"

"Look!" Zhan Zhao pulled Bai Yutang and led him to the door of a house, pointing to a stone tablet with writing on it, "Look at the writing on it!"

Bai Yutang looked down and found that the words written on it were not words, but patterns used by the theater troupe.

"Hmm!" Zhan Zhao said half-jokingly, "Could this be the gathering place for the former troupe?"

Bai Yutang looked at him and smiled, "We're in the ground, and now it's not working, so you're still in the mood for joking?"

Zhan Zhao smiled, but he didn't know if it was illuminated by the lights, Bai Yutang only felt that Zhan Zhao's smile in the dim light was a little warm.

The two continued to walk forward.

Sure enough, it was a dead city without any living things. The two of them walked for so long, not to mention living people, not a single mouse was seen.

"Mao'er, have you heard of Dead City?" Bai Yutang asked.

"Hmm... Zhao Pu was just talking that day. When he was fighting, he saw many empty cities or camps. It seemed that people and animals disappeared overnight, while all the furniture and houses were well preserved. .”

"Yeah." Bai Yutang also nodded, "I went into the mountains with my elder brother before, and I have seen this kind of village. There are still meals in the pot, and the letters on the table are only half written. It seems that when a gust of wind passes by, people all disappear. "

"Yes, it is said that this is a city set on fire by ghost fire, all living things will be wiped out, and dead things will remain unchanged." Zhan Zhao sighed, "I really want to see what ghost fire is."

"Cat..." At this time, Bai Yutang suddenly interrupted Zhan Zhao's words.

"Huh?" Zhan Zhao looked back at him, but saw him looking at an alley in front of him with a strange expression.

Zhan Zhao looked along his line of sight, seeing that there was nothing wrong, he was curious, "What's wrong?"

"I... seem to see someone..."

Zhan Zhao was startled, "Wh... who is it?"

It was the first time that Bai Yutang had such a complicated expression on his face, and he opened his mouth, "A white shadow just floated past."

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