What made Luo Yuan feel strange was that he did not see any traces of his teammates. If it were not for the coordinates on his wristwatch that showed the exact location of the sinkhole, he would have suspected that he had seen wrongly.
He frowned and carefully looked at the huge sinkhole. After a while, he found a slope at the corner of the sinkhole. The slope was unusually steep and almost vertical. Luo Yuan estimated that it was about 60 to 70 degrees.
The slope was filled with jagged rocks and was unusually steep. The surface was wet and covered with moss, making it look slippery and dangerous. If one was not careful, they would fall off the cliff. However, for Luo Yuan who could already fly, no matter how steep the slope was, it was nothing. All he needed was a foothold.
Of course, he could fly directly into the sinkhole. However, it was not only dark inside, but the terrain was unknown.
If it was a normal mission, even if it was a D-level mission, Luo Yuan would not be so careful. However, this mission was extremely dangerous. It was unprecedented for it to be a D-level + mission. This meant that there was a high possibility of encountering a dark green level super creature.
If he entered the sinkhole hastily, with his "slow" reaction speed, once he was noticed by the super creature, he would definitely be eaten by the beast. Facing such a terrifying and unknown enemy, Luo Yuan could not be too careful.
Luo Yuan walked quickly to the corner and looked down. He took a deep breath and jumped down.
He didn't have any buffer and let gravity pull his body down. Three seconds later, he took a few steps on the jagged rocks with the tips of his feet, quickly alleviating the terrifying momentum.
He was moving very fast. The environment around him quickly dimmed. Half a minute later, he was completely in darkness.
The light was very weak. The bottomless abyss seemed to swallow all the light. Even Luo Yuan's low-light vision was greatly reduced. If Luo Yuan did not have his Sensory Perception, he would not have been able to move forward.
Suddenly, Luo Yuan stopped. There was no path in front of him. There was a huge space under his feet.
The sinkhole was like a giant gourd formed by two balls, one big and one small. The space above was only a small part of it, while the space below was much wider. It was like an underground world.
Luo Yuan did not jump right away. He closed his eyes and listened quietly for a while.
It was terrifyingly quiet here. Only the sound of flowing water could be heard clearly from below. Clearly, the bottom was not far away. But other than that, he did not hear any other movements.
After a minute, he slowly opened his eyes.
He noticed that the moss on the nearby rocks had disappeared, and even the common insects and ants were nowhere to be seen. There seemed to be no life here, and there was no danger at all. However, this was just an illusion. A sense of crisis constantly reminded Luo Yuan that it was extremely dangerous there!
He hesitated for a long time before he finally made up his mind. He restrained his aura and leaped down.
Ten seconds later, he landed lightly on the ground.
After arriving at the bottom of the sinkhole, it didn't seem too dark. Glowing rocks decorated the surroundings, making the place look like stars, as if they had arrived at the night sky.
Through the dim light, Luo Yuan realized that he was in the middle of a forest. There were countless strange and twisted gray stone pillars. They were so densely packed that he could not see the end of them.
It was not accurate to call them stone pillars. They were actually fossils of a forest. Luo Yuan walked past one of the broken stone pillars, and he could see the jade-colored growth rings.
Perhaps it was because of a forest hundreds of millions of years ago. However, as time passed, the original forest was buried by the flood, and then the land sank. After a long time, it became a stone forest made of silicified wood.
As Luo Yuan moved forward, he could see fossils from the Carboniferous period. There were ancient dragonflies that were five to six meters long, and giant centipedes that were more than ten meters long.
Suddenly, Luo Yuan realized that the Carboniferous period was very similar to the present. Both of them had a plant explosion, and the coal that belonged to this period accounted for more than 50% of the world's reserves.
However, Luo Yuan quickly rejected the idea as there was no comparison between the two.
Be it the horror of the creatures or the prosperity of the plants, the Carboniferous period could not be compared to the present. If the Carboniferous period was a period of prosperity for life, it was still considered normal. However, the apocalypse was a period of transition for life. An ordinary life could evolve into a super life form within a few years. This was a mysterious phenomenon that could not be explained by existing theories.
The sound of flowing water could be heard from the front. Strangely, Luo Yuan did not see any rivers nearby. He did not pay much attention to it as it might be further ahead.
Luo Yuan noticed Wu Qianru's position. She was less than three kilometers away from him. Luo Yuan took the time to send her a message, but there was no response.
However, it was reasonable as the terminal did not respond when it received messages. If he did not pay attention, he would not even know when the message was sent.
However, he was sure that she was still alive as the mission had not been canceled. She was still hanging there!
In the stone forest, he bent his body and walked forward quietly. The distance of three kilometers was neither short nor long. To Luo Yuan and the other super life forms, it was just "nearby". Although Wu Qianru was "right in front of him", Luo Yuan did not dare to be careless.
According to the system's character, there would never be a mission that could be taken advantage of. A D + mission would definitely have a D + difficulty.
As time passed, the sound of flowing water became clearer and clearer. At this time, he suddenly stopped, a trace of shock flashing in his eyes. Through the dense stone forest, there was a mercury-like liquid that was flowing towards him.
It seemed to have a life of its own as it moved quickly in the stone forest like a snake. It raised its head from time to time and swayed from side to side as if it was looking around.
It was huge, about 14 to 15 meters long and more than half a meter wide. Its surface was rippling and flowing. It did not have a normal body. At first glance, it was hard to tell where was its head and where was its tail. Perhaps, it did not even have both.
If it did not show that it was a living creature, Luo Yuan would have doubted if it was a living creature.
Seeing that it was approaching him quickly, Luo Yuan quickly hid aside.
After the strange snake passed by Luo Yuan, it did not stop and disappeared into the distance.
Luo Yuan looked at the strange snake that left with a serious face. This kind of living creature was completely beyond his imagination. With its flowing body, a knife might not be able to do anything to it.
What made him feel heavy was that the sound of flowing water did not disappear after the strange snake left. Instead, it got louder as he got closer.
Finally, after about 10 minutes, he climbed up a huge silicified wood and could not help but take a deep breath.
A few hundred meters away, a huge "mercury" lake suddenly appeared in front of him!
From time to time, the lake surged like a pot of boiling porridge. At the edge of the lake, countless strange snakes separated from the "mercury" lake and disappeared into the distance. Countless strange snakes returned from all directions and merged into the lake. It seemed to be unusually busy.
What made Luo Yuan's scalp numb was that a young woman was "sitting" in the middle of the mercury lake. Perhaps it was not accurate to say that she was sitting. In fact, other than her chest and head, the rest of her body had completely disappeared and become part of the "mercury".
However, it was unbelievable that she was still alive. Although her face was numb and desperate, and her skin was gray and bloodless, there was no expression of pain on her face.
However, she didn't seem to be able to hold on much longer. Countless "mercury" granules were intertwining and slowly but firmly extending towards her chest. At this rate, it wouldn't take more than a few hours before her entire body would be corroded by the mercury.
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