It was impossible for Li Yunmu to wait forever. He finally took the first step, which was to directly face the cave and unravel its secrets.
Five minutes after Ya Yan and the others set off, Li Feng and Li Mei formed a team of two and entered the shadow state. They followed the shadows of the other four and silently advanced into the depths of the cave.
After that, Li Tian and Li De followed behind Li Feng and Li Mei from a distance of five hundred meters. After five hundred meters, Li Zhu and Li Lan followed behind Li Tian and Li De.
Li Yunmu relied on this arrangement to follow Li Ju from a distance. Because of this, the true distance between Li Yunmu and Ya Yan was around two kilometers.
This was a sufficiently safe distance for Li Yunmu to have enough time to deal with anything.
However, this time, no one had expected that he would follow them for a few days. However, according to the information sent back by the shadows earlier, Fang Qiu did not expect that Fang Qiu would follow them for so many days.
Clearly, Ya Yan and the others hadn't reached the end. The depths of the cave were much deeper than what everyone had guessed.
The system also followed Li Yunmu, so it naturally provided him with the most accurate information.
After a few days, everyone had already walked more than two hundred kilometers. While walking, the system recorded the terrain of the cave into its map.
When Li Yun looked at the map in his Sea of Consciousness and saw that the system had already accurately described the terrain that everyone had walked through, his heart skipped a beat.
"Is this a recursive map?" Li Yunmu was bewildered.
"That's right. Actually, we've been going in circles, slightly downwards. It's just that because the diameter of the circle is too big, it feels like we're going straight and we don't feel like we're going down at all."
Very soon, the System collected the map of the terrain that everyone had walked on and listed a series of data collection. "But in reality, we've been going in circles. We've already gone three and a half circles. Our current position is about 300 meters below the surface."
"Then what did you come up with?" When Li Yunmu heard the system's words, his mind was shaken. He had to say that with the system, the perverted recursive path which could bully human senses couldn't hide anything.
"Based on all the circular channels that we've walked through so far, as well as the inference of the center mark, if we continue to walk like this until we reach the center, we'll need to walk a total of 3,666 kilometers when we're at the same place."
"Sss." When Li Yunmu heard the exact figure, he couldn't help but curse the perverted person who had schemed against the cave dweller. This was simply playing with people to death without paying with their lives.
If it wasn't for the existence of the System, everyone would have thought that they were walking deeper into the cave. It was just that the cave was very deep, and they needed sufficient depth.
On the surface, there were no other forks in the road, so there was no maze. They had deliberately misled people from the very beginning. As long as they kept walking, there would be an end to the cave passage.
However, in this case, there was a problem.
According to the system's deductions based on the parameters they had walked, the total distance would be more than 3,600 kilometers once they reached the center of the underground.
How long was this distance?
If Li Yunmu had flown on Earth without the suppression of the extremely strong gravity, then he would have been able to reach Earth in a few hours with the speed of his Wings of the Wind.
However, this place was different. Not only did it have a strong gravitational pull, but it was also an unknown, dark, and lonely underground cave that required constant vigilance.
If Li Yunmu didn't know how far it would go, he couldn't help but shudder.
This was definitely a test of his willpower.
Because if you kept walking and couldn't sense that you were going in circles, and if you kept walking and realized that there was no end or exit in the cave, then at that moment, people would often doubt their own thinking and decisions.
Moreover, as time passed and the environment became more and more oppressive, his suspicions would be magnified.
Therefore, if the system hadn't predicted this result beforehand, Li Yunmu would have also suspected that if he had been faced with this unknown situation, he would have given up on his original goal and decided to leave this place forever, never to return.
It was possible that he had walked more than two thousand kilometers, or even three thousand five hundred kilometers, or even three thousand six hundred and sixty-five kilometers. He was only one kilometer away from the end.
But because of the suspicions in his heart and the psychological influence of the vile environment, the people who entered would eventually give up.
Sure enough, the next scene proved Li Yunmu's guess.
Just as Li Yunmu had guessed, when Ya Yan's group of four continued to walk for more than ten kilometers, their speed began to decrease substantially.
For the first three hundred kilometers, they could still advance at a speed of sixty kilometers per day. But after walking this part of the path, their speed instantly dropped, and they could only advance twenty kilometers per day.
Their advancing speed had dropped by nearly three times.
Why?
Because they had already completed the first part of the path they had explored.
If they continued forward, they would encounter unknown dangers, so they slowed down. Their nerves were stretched taut, and they cautiously advanced forward.
If they continued on like this, wanting to walk through three thousand six hundred kilometers would simply be a pipe dream.
Because humans weren't robots, Li Yunmu could foresee that as time passed, Ya Yan and the others' mental and physical functions would begin to show signs of fatigue. Their speed would also continue to slow down, and it was even possible that they would have to stop and rest frequently.
If there were many of them, they might even argue about whether they should continue forward or return.
"This is truly a big test." Li Yunmu sighed and suddenly raised his hand, signaling for them to stop. At the same time, he discovered through the telepathic connection between him and the shadows that they were summoned to return.
The next instant, more than ten seconds passed.
Li Feng and the others, who were walking far ahead, walked out from the shadows behind Li Yunmu. They silently looked at him, puzzled as to why their master had summoned them back without any danger.
"There's no need to follow, I've already discovered a faster path to the end," Li Yunmu explained to the shadows.
In the next moment, he took out a large egg.
A drop of blood essence fell on the egg, and before long, it flickered with light. Finally, a thick beetle with enormous pincers crawled out of the eggshell.
That's right, this enormous beetle was the digging beetle which Li Yunmu had exchanged for a long time in the Tower of Glory. It was a rainbow grade monster, but because of its clumsy and inflexible movements, it didn't possess any offensive power.
It had thick scales and flesh, extraordinary strength, and was adept at digging. It had been raised by Li Yunmu in his heavenly world because of its outstanding use.
Thus, Li Yunmu attached great importance to it.
Because of that, the enormous digging beetle in front of him had undergone a great transformation compared to before. At the very least, it had become more formidable and possessed even greater strength.
In terms of strength alone, it had already broken through the rainbow crystal layer and was now a Transcendent Flux Beast. The reason for this was simple. Li Yunmu had fed it three drops of divine blood to nurture it.
When the twelve meter tall creature which was as large as a house appeared in front of them, Li Yun and the others finally understood what the faster path their master had mentioned was.
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