The underground exploration began.
Six days later.
Lin Dong and Yun Jiyu walked out of a crack on the cliff. Facing the biting cold mountain wind, they took a few breaths of fresh air.
"There is still nothing to be gained from this underground exploration." Yun Jiyu sighed. She had thought that there would be many places in the country like the underground of Dong Mountain, filled with all sorts of powerful life forms. She had followed Lin Dong here in high spirits, prepared for an exciting underground exploration.
Alas, that was not the case at all.
In terms of monsters.
It was not that there were none.
There were actually quite a number of life forms in the tunnels of the first three exploration sites. For example, giant bats, venomous snakes, strange lizards, mountain leeches, spiders, cave eels, and so on. The problem was that these "monsters" were relative to ordinary people.
Their harm was limited to ordinary people.
Not to mention Lin Dong and herself.
Even Fang Yizhi's team and the other teams that had followed them here were disdainful.
This was the fourth exploration site. Previously, due to the high danger level, it had been sealed with a thick layer of cement by the locals. After a long time, the engineers from the special forces had finally drilled an entrance that could allow people to enter and exit. The underground here was not very deep. The entire journey was less than 20 kilometers. There was a very shallow muddy river. The length of the underground cave was even shorter than the previous three exploration sites. However, it was filled with giant toads. They could not be considered monsters, but they were extremely disgusting.
"It's not like there is nothing to be gained. The giant toads in this cave can be caught to extract vitality elements. They are much more useful than those venomous snakes and bats." Lin Dong did not tell Yun Jiyu that long before entering the cave, he had asked the puppet sisters to secretly dismantle a black voodoo altar that was emitting evil aura.
The giant toads in the cave might look bigger than crocodile frogs, but they did not eat humans. The real danger was the evil spirit sealed by the black voodoo altar, which was secretly harming people.
Ordinary people did not know the truth. They only knew that it was rare for people to come out alive after entering the cave. Furthermore, there were many giant toads inside. Therefore, they all thought that they were the culprits.
The giant toads had grown after absorbing the evil aura emitted by the black voodoo altar.
Their combat power was extremely weak.
Of course.
The vitality elements in these giant toads were not bad. If he could capture some and breed them in large numbers, it would reduce some of the pressure of extracting vitality elements.
"The cave has been completely explored. Apart from this crack in the middle of the mountain, there is also a Sky Gazing Cave that leads to the top of the mountain. The water in the cave should have slowly accumulated from the Sky Gazing Cave over time." Fang Yizhi rushed over to report. As a special battle team, they had held back a lot of energy and thought that they could show off their skills. They did not expect to only find some ordinary underground creatures. The four special battle teams were completely useless, and they felt very disappointed.
"Let's go somewhere else!" Lin Dong waved his hand.
"Yes." Fang Yizhi quickly ordered the helicopters on standby to pick them up and head to the fifth exploration site.
"If we can't find anything in the last exploration site, won't we be returning empty-handed?" Yun Jiyu really wanted to ask Elder Yan why he didn't open up a few more exploration sites. Such an Underworld had nothing to do with the word 'high risk'!
She didn't know.
Elder Yan had been fighting with the higher-ups.
The problem was that the higher-ups were cautious about opening up these high-risk or even extremely dangerous sites.
Some of the old men would rather have less harvest than to have anything happen to them. Especially when the person going to explore was Lin Dong, they had even more thoughts.
If something happened to Lin Dong while exploring the Underworld, who could bear the responsibility?
It was not impossible to open up more sites.
They had to be cautious!
Once they found a suitable site, they would let the special battle team go in and test out some details before letting Lin Dong go. Otherwise, the situation would go out of control, and that was the last thing they wanted to see!
"I hope there will be a surprise at the fifth site!" Lin Dong shook his head. The country was relatively conservative in handling these matters, but there was no other way. Some places were indeed very dangerous if they were opened up casually. If they accidentally activated some mechanism or opened some seal, and a group of monsters came out, that was indeed not something that ordinary people could bear! In reality, there was no group of Calabash Brothers jumping out to die. No, it was jumping out to defeat the monsters. If the monsters were really born, the blue planet would definitely be plunged into misery and suffering, and there would be mountains of corpses and seas of blood …
Those insects and beasts in Death Canyon, to be precise, were just monsters.
They were not monsters yet.
If Lin Dong did not level them up, they would be too far away from monsters!
Half a day later, Lin Dong and Yun Jiyu sat in a helicopter and arrived at a valley deep in the Transverse Plateau.
Some soldiers from the engineering corps had already set up camp here. Even Elder Yan had been waiting here for a long time.
"I already know the situation of the first four exploration sites. As for the first three that you think are worthless, I have already asked people to reseal them. After all, there are too many venomous snakes and other things inside, and they are still dangerous to ordinary people! As for the fourth site, I have already sent out a large number of people to capture it. I believe that they will successfully bring most of the giant toads back to Dong Mountain to breed. Haha, as long as safety is guaranteed, I am very confident in the execution of our people. I can guarantee you this matter! "Elder Yan was very happy.
Safety first during the exploration.
Moreover, it was not like there was no harvest. Wasn't the giant toad a good harvest?
There were tens of millions of giant toads in the entire underground, and they were not as ferocious as the Dark River Monitor. Their vitality was not bad, and their reproduction rate was more than ten times that of the Dark River Monitor Lizard. What else could they ask for?
"The fifth site is rated as extremely dangerous?" Lin Dong realized that the danger level of the fifth site was rated as extremely dangerous, which meant that no one would be able to survive!
"Before the cave was sealed, giant pythons had appeared at the entrance more than once. Moreover, we did not record one giant python, but many. It should be a snake cave where giant pythons live!" Elder Yan said as he passed the information he had sorted out to Lin Dong.
"Quite a lot!" Lin Dong took a look and realized that not only the characteristics of the giant pythons were described, but there were also local legends and even news of warlords hunting for treasures.
"Xiao Lin, you really need to be 100% vigilant here! It is different from the previous places. This place used to be the Republic of China. In fact, there were warlords who heard ancient rumors and thought that there were ancient treasures inside, so they sent people in to explore. However, a thousand-man army with guns and cannons went in, and no one survived. This news was published in the newspapers at that time, so it is definitely not a rumor! "Elder Yan reminded Lin Dong again to put safety first.
"I will be careful." Lin Dong was afraid that Elder Yan would not stop talking, so he quickly promised.
"Fang Yizhi, you lead the team!" Elder Yan knew that he could not control Lin Dong, but he glared at Fang Yizhi, reminding him to be more vigilant and not let his guard down just because the first four underground caves were not challenging.
"I know, please rest assured. As long as Fang Yizhi is still breathing, we will be able to protect him and return safely!" Fang Yizhi saluted solemnly.
"You don't have to be nervous. It's just a few pythons, we should be able to deal with them carefully." Yun Jiyu waved her hand.
She thought you had never seen a real monster.
If one looked at the underground river in front of the Sword Pass.
All you know is that a python is just a slightly bigger earthworm in front of a real monster.
Let's take a break in the camp.
After dinner.
The team set off again and entered the underground cave that they had just entered.
As usual, Fang Yizhi and the special forces would lead the way. Elder Yan would never allow Lin Dong to walk in front. He also forbade Fang Yizhi and the rest to stay far away from the left and right. Otherwise, he would rather not explore the underground world. Fortunately, he knew that his combat strength was not enough, so he didn't follow the team. Otherwise, Fang Yizhi would have a bigger headache and wouldn't know how to protect him!
"There's a huge snake!" Less than a hundred meters into the underground cave, Li Qing, who was walking at the front, saw a huge python as thick as a water bucket lying lazily on the ground.
"Be careful. As long as it doesn't provoke us, just ignore it!" Fang Yizhi hurriedly told Li Qing to go around it.
"Looks like it had dinner!" Xie Qingyang laughed.
"Don't talk nonsense. Pay attention to the surroundings. Form groups of two and report immediately if there's anything! If there's an emergency, you're allowed to shoot! " Fang Yizhi knew that the special forces were skilled and bold, so he specially reminded them that there was a small leader following behind them, so they must not drop the ball.
"Why is the underground world in our country different from that abroad?" This was what Yun Jiyu couldn't understand.
The underground world in foreign countries was connected to Purgatory.
There were always Sacred Realms.
It sounded awesome.
What about the underground world in China?
There were only big bats, poisonous snakes, and spiders, which were not commonly seen on the surface.
If it wasn't for the underground river in Dong Mountain, the underground world in China would have been suppressed by the underground world in foreign countries.
Lin Dong didn't think much about this. He instead explained to her, "Actually, the reason is very simple. People abroad like to take risks. They will go into any cave they see. Unless it's like those Sacred Realms that are connected to strange spaces, ordinary underground caves would have been discovered long ago. Haven't you heard that foreigners are rare? Those foreigners are born to seek death. Their way of thinking is different from us who want to live peacefully. In addition, some places have to be kept secret. In the past, you people from the various cultivation sects even pretended to be mysterious and didn't let ordinary people go in! Combining all the reasons, it's not that our underground world isn't strong enough, but that no one deliberately looked for it. Some people know about it, but no one dares to investigate it. Thus, it's been dragging on like this! "
"That's right, but I still hope to be able to find out something!" Yun Jiyu's relationship with Lin Dong had improved by leaps and bounds these few days. She wanted to bring something back as a souvenir. She didn't want to go home empty-handed.
"There should be something here, but I don't know if it's the right time!" Lin Dong felt that there was a very strange seal here.
It was different from the Sword Gate Seal of the Dragon Slayer Taoist.
It wasn't a seal of that level.
However.
Although the power of the seal here wasn't strong, it operated according to certain laws and principles. It also operated according to the power of heaven and earth. If one didn't want to break the seal by force, they had to wait for the right time and place!
"Really?" Yun Jiyu was overjoyed when she heard this.
"Phew!" After Fang Yizhi and the rest heard this, they heaved a sigh of relief in their hearts. God, they finally had a chance to show off their skills. They were so depressed these few days!
As they went deeper.
From time to time, they could see giant pythons lying or coiled on both sides of the passage. Sometimes, they even had to step over their bodies.
Maybe it was because there was an abundance of food, but these giant pythons didn't care about the human invasion.
They slept lazily.
After advancing five or six kilometers, Fang Yizhi and the rest started to feel something.
The people in the special forces with keen senses started to realize that there was a smell similar to the underground river of Dong Mountain. At the same time, it was also a smell that they were familiar with. The only difference was that there wasn't much water here. Many places couldn't even submerge their ankles. Furthermore, these living monsters weren't Dark River Giant Lizards, but a group of giant pythons that were too lazy to even make Fang Yizhi and the rest want to complain!
As the owner, you should at least attack the intruders!
No!
This group of lazy giant pythons didn't even look at them. Fang Yizhi and the rest wanted to take this opportunity to test their combat power and compare it with the Dark River Giant Lizards. Who would have thought that they wouldn't have such a chance at all!
Li Qing flipped a giant python over and over, dragging its tail and shaking it. The giant python just shook its head and slithered away lazily.
It would rather leave.
Or start a fight.
This kind of lazy giant python made Fang Yizhi and the rest completely speechless.
"Let's continue forward. Pythons have always been like this. Do you think this is the Mad Python Disaster in the movie? Under normal circumstances, giant pythons don't attack people. Besides, they can sense your strength. It would be strange if they would start a fight with you! " Lin Dong let the special forces continue forward. These underground giant pythons weren't much different from the Dark River Giant Lizards. They might be one level apart, but their combat power was similar to the Crocodile Frogs in Death Canyon. They didn't want to fight, but that was their nature. Contrary to the Dark River Giant Lizards that loved to fight, not all of them were weak.
"There are quite a lot of them. I really don't know what they ate to grow so big!" Fang Yizhi found that the water here was shallow, and there were few fish and prawns. Each giant python was as thick as a barrel. What food did they eat to grow so big? He couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it!
"Maybe it's a problem with their physique. They grow fat just like sister-in-law!" Xie Qingyang joked with him. Fang Yizhi met a girl. Everything else was good except for her slightly fleshy face. The girl claimed that she would grow fat just by drinking water. No matter how much she trained, it was useless. She even said that she hoped that Blockhead would invent a special weight-loss drug that could directly reduce her face.
"Scram!" Fang Yizhi waved his hand in annoyance.
The girl was already very sad. Why do you keep mentioning this matter? What are your intentions? Aren't you making it more difficult for me to attack?
Furthermore.
Except for people.
There wasn't a single creature in the world that would grow fat just by drinking water!
After walking for a long time, Lin Dong suddenly stood under a rock wall. He gestured for the special forces to stand further away. "There should be a hidden entrance here. You guys stand further away. If you go any further, I'm going to open the mechanism!"
Rumble!
As Lin Dong pressed at an unknown place, the mechanism was activated. The entire rock wall shook.
Fang Yizhi and the others couldn't sense it. They only felt a gust of cold air gushing out from inside. The special forces standing slightly closer sneezed a few times. Their bodies had to circulate their qi and blood to regain their normal senses.
Yun Jiyu knew what this was. It was a type of sealed underground Yin Qi.
Something like this appeared.
It proved that there was something inside.
There must be an ancient seal.
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