Just as Lu Chen's heart was lifted, the dark flame in his eyes suddenly became gentle again.
The two rays of light in the darkness were none other than Ah-Tu. Lu Chen walked to his side and wrapped his arms around Ah-Tu's neck. He gave him a hug and scratched the fur on Ah-Tu's head. He said, "Alright, now let's see what's in here. Are you the one who didn't fear being crushed to death?"
Atsu rubbed its head against Lu Chen's chest.
Lu Chen stood up and looked around. Probably after a period of time, he had almost adapted to the environment here. The scene in front of him was no longer pitch-black like when they first came in, but the surroundings were still relatively dim.
Vaguely, they could feel that they were in a spacious tunnel, which was similar to the one outside the gravel wall. Maybe it was the same tunnel outside, but they didn't know why it was separated from them by the gravel wall.
As for the gravel wall, it should have collapsed in the explosion just now, and a big hole appeared, allowing them to crawl in. But behind them, the original tunnel was also collapsed, completely blocking their way out.
After a while, suddenly, a red light shone in from the front of the tunnel.
The light was as red as blood, and the figures of Lu Chen and Atsu were reflected in the light.
At the same time, with the help of the flashing red light, Lu Chen and Atsu could vaguely see an exit in front of them, and that was where the red light shone.
Lu Chen raised his hand and patted Atsu, and said softly, "let's go and have a look."
As he spoke, he strode forward.
But after a few steps, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Atsu. He looked up and down at it for a while.
Atsu was a little confused, it barked and looked at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen shook his head and used his hand to measure the height of Atsu. Then he said, "San Xian, you seem to be fatter than before!"
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The passageway was not very long, and it was precisely because of this that the beam of red light from outside was able to penetrate it. After walking for a while, they passed through the passageway, and a circular arched door appeared in front of them. With the help of the red light, they could see that there were pictures of dragons, tigers, and fierce beasts carved on it. The carvings were exquisite and lifelike.
After walking through the arched door, the space before them suddenly opened up. An unimaginably huge space appeared in front of them.
The cave that Lu Chen and Atsu were in was dug out from a mountain wall. A stone staircase that was over a thousand feet long extended downwards and finally landed in a city.
That's right, beneath the feet of Lu Chen and Atsu, beneath the gigantic underground cavern, there was an almost complete city.
Looking down from this cave entrance, the streets of this hidden underground city were crisscrossed in picturesque disorder. It could be seen that this city had been planned by an expert when it was built. It looked solemn and dignified, extremely imposing.
On both sides of the streets in the city, there were also various kinds of houses and pavilions built. The style of these houses was somewhat different from the houses that humans lived in today's world. They seemed to be generally larger. At the same time, the scale of this city was extremely large. The streets and houses stretched forward. Looking down from such a high place, Lu Chen actually could not see the end of the city at first glance.
It was just that although the scene in front of him was spectacular, it also had a somewhat strange atmosphere. Firstly, as far as Lu Chen could see, everything in this city below was silent. All the streets and houses were empty. Not to mention people, not even wild cats, dogs, or even living creatures like rats could be seen.
Secondly, Lu Chen raised his head and looked up. At this moment, the place where he was standing was close to the dome above the originally dark underground cavern. In his sight, a red moon was suspended in the sky above the city.
Countless red lights with streaks of flickering cloud-like afterimages surrounded the blood moon that was as red as blood. At the same time, the blood-red light sprinkled in all directions, covering the entire underground cavern and the entire huge underground city in the blood-red light.
Lu Chen remembered the strange dark red light that he saw in the dark tunnel before. It seemed like the source was here.
A blood moon was suspended in a huge empty city. This scene was extremely strange, and people could not help but feel a chill in their hearts.
However, Lu Chen and Atsu did not seem to be too frightened. It was probably because they had experienced too many things in the past.
Since there was no way back, they could only continue to move forward.
Lu Chen patted Atsu's head and walked down. When he walked out of the cave, more red light fell from the sky and sprinkled on his body.
It made him look red all over, including his face and eyes. It was a little funny, but also a little scary, because he looked a little like a blood man.
When Atsu arrived here, he seemed to have quietened down. He was no longer as lively as before. He walked down beside Lu Chen, and at the same time, he stretched out his nose and sniffed the ground from time to time, as if he was looking for something. However, he seemed to have no clue and found nothing.
It was only when he stepped into the city that Lu Chen realized that the feeling he'd had when he looked down from the cave entrance was a little off.
The houses in this city were bigger than he had imagined. Compared to the human houses in the Immortal City above his head, the houses here were at least twice as big.
Looking at those tall and even majestic houses, Lu Chen, who was walking on the abnormally spacious street, felt very small. If there were really people living here in the distant past, then the race that lived here at that time should be at least two to three times bigger than the human race today.
Even the barbarians in the Southern Wilderness did not have such an exaggerated physical body.
Moreover, looking at the huge scale of this city, the original population here must be extremely large. In this dead silence, Lu Chen faintly felt a trace of uneasiness and horror.
He naturally thought of the legend about the huge ruins under the Immortal City that had been spread in the world for many years. Now it seemed that it was very likely to be related to this city, but where did the people here go?
Lu Chen walked on the street for a while and suddenly frowned. After a slight hesitation, he still turned into a tall house on the street.
The layout of the houses here was also different from the houses of the human race in the Immortal City, and many of the furniture-like things looked like they were made of stone, so after so many years, they still looked undamaged, just covered in dust.
But there was no one.
Lu Chen walked out with his brows tightly furrowed, and the doubts in his heart grew bigger and bigger.
As he continued to walk forward, his gaze swept across his surroundings. Suddenly, he raised his head and revealed a shocked expression. He raised his head and looked forward as if he had seen something inconceivable.
In front of him, on the street in the center of the city, there was a huge, statue-like thing standing there. However, Lu Chen could not see what the statue was at all, because it looked like it only had half a round body, and it was even the lower half.
At the same time, this huge statue pierced the dome of the cave, and was actually connected to the soil layer above.
Lu Chen retracted his gaze, took a few steps forward, and suddenly stopped.
He looked back with some shock, and looked at the nondescript and somewhat strange huge statue. Then, he thought that the position seemed to be similar to the position of the White Tiger statue on the ground...
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