Looking at the cut rope in his hand, the old man was bewildered.
'What's going on? Why did he cut the rope? '
He looked at the pitch-black hole in front of him. It was like a gate to hell, ready to swallow one life after another.
He waited at the hole for a while, but there was no response from the other side. The old man waited for a while longer, but there was still no response. He shouted at the hole, "Zuo Qingcang, are you still there? If you can hear me, answer me. "
There was no response from the pitch-black cave, only the old man's voice echoing back and forth in the cave.
The old man shouted a few more times, but no matter how much he shouted, Zuo Qingcang did not respond. It was as if he had completely disappeared from the hole.
'What's wrong with this guy? There's no signal, and he won't answer even when I call him. ' Although he knew that Zuo Qingcang was a calm person and that this situation must have happened because he had no choice, the old man was still anxious when he did not get a response.
A few minutes later, the old man gritted his teeth and tied the other end of the rope to the stone statue. He then walked down the hole.
'Damn it, I'm going all out. ' He knew the current situation. The entire ancient tomb was a hopeless place. Other than putting his life on the line, there was no other way out for him and Zuo Qingcang.
The old man pulled the rope on his arm, took a deep breath, and crawled down the hole. The seemingly dark tunnel was actually not that deep. No, it should be said that its vertical height was not very high. It was only one or two meters above the ground. This was because, just like the second tunnel, the first half of it was a horizontal path.
However, unlike the second tunnel, the first tunnel's route was much more winding. He had to turn here and there, unlike the second tunnel, which was at least straight in the horizontal part.
The old man touched the cold soil. Using the weak light from the Night-Luminescent Pearl, he crawled into the depths of the hole. However, the Night-Luminescent Pearl was only a Night-Luminescent Pearl. Its range of light was very limited. Starting from about one meter in front of and behind the old man, the two ends of the tunnel were swallowed by darkness.
In this environment, it was true darkness without any trace of light. The old man's heartbeat quickened, and his breathing became heavier.
At first, he had planned to call out Zuo Qingcang's name in the robber's cave. However, the pressure from the formless darkness was like the coldness from hell. It tightly gripped his heart, making him not dare to shout in the darkness.
A few minutes later, a bright light finally appeared in front of the old man. He immediately sped up and ran towards the light.
What he did not notice was that unlike the second tunnel, the first tunnel was not dug upwards but downwards.
In other words, the first tunnel led to the lower levels of the ancient tomb.
The old man finally crawled to the entrance of the thief's hole. Outside was a stone room, and the thief's hole was in the stone room. The connection between the wall and the roof led to the stone room horizontally.
The stone room was brightly lit, dying the entire room golden. That was the legendary everlasting lamp on the eaves, which was said to never be extinguished for ten thousand years. It was releasing light and heat. The fire he had seen in the robber's hole had obviously come from here as well.
In the three directions of the room, the old man saw a total of three bottomless tunnels shrouded in darkness.
However, these were not the things that attracted his attention the most. Right now, the thing that attracted his attention the most was Zuo Qingcang's tall and big figure at the passageway in the middle. When Zuo Qingcang saw the old man looking over, he immediately made a shushing gesture, forcing the old man to swallow the words he wanted to say.
'What's wrong?' Zuo Qingcang then pointed to the floor of the hall. At first glance, the old man did not see anything. However, after taking a look for a while longer, his countenance changed drastically, and he felt a chill running down his spine.
He took a closer look and realized that the floor of the stone room was covered in a layer of transparent liquid. Comparing the wall and the floor, the layer of sticky liquid was at least half a meter thick.
'Zombie monster …' Through the movement of Zuo Qingcang's lips, Fang Xingjian confirmed this judgment. Right now, there was an extremely huge zombie monster on the floor of the stone chamber, covering an area of several tens of square meters.
This was the reason why Zuo Qingcang did not speak loudly.
In fact, as this zombie monster was almost completely transparent, the moment Zuo Qingcang entered the stone chamber, he had already been attacked by it. A strong gush of power wanted to grab him and wrap him up in transparent adhesive liquid. The two of them kept on struggling against each other. This was the reason why the elderly man had felt the rope being dragged forcefully.
Fortunately, Zuo Qingcang's strength had greatly increased. With his powerful muscle strength and explosive strength, he managed to break free from the zombie monster's restraint. At the same time, in order to escape, he directly cut the rope and escaped into the tunnel. After he entered the tunnel, the zombie monster did not chase after him again.
However, this also caused him to lose contact with the old man. He guessed that there were two possibilities for the old man to leave and enter the tunnel to look for him. Therefore, he decided to wait here for half an hour. If the old man did not come in after half an hour, he would go into the tunnel alone.
During this time, he also carefully observed the zombie monster in front of him.
'Its transparent body seems to have absorbed all the food in its body and has been decomposed.
'Looking at the zombie monster's appearance and the way it attacked me just now, could it have entered some kind of dormant state due to insufficient food?'
Zuo Qingcang tested it a few times and realized that as long as he did not come into contact with this huge zombie monster and did not make any loud noises, this zombie monster would not attack him. He suspected that this zombie monster had already entered some kind of dormant state and that the initial attack he had received was probably just an instinct. It was even possible that the zombie monster was extremely weak and could not defeat Zuo Qingcang.
However, Zuo Qingcang did not test this out. As long as he knew that the zombie monster would not attack him if he did not approach him and make any noise, it would be fine. After all, this was not a game. Even if he could kill the zombie monster, Zuo Qingcang would not gain anything. Instead, he would have to risk the zombie monster waking up from its dormant state.
If it was really in a dormant state, then judging from the state of its legs and the strength of Zuo Qingcang's legs just now, once it woke up and used its full strength, with its huge body, Zuo Qingcang would definitely not be able to deal with it easily.
Just as Zuo Qingcang was thinking about this, the old man climbed to the entrance of the thief's cave. After making a shushing gesture to prevent the old man from making any noise, Zuo Qingcang gestured for him to look at the ground.
After seeing the old man's ugly expression, Zuo Qingcang knew that he had discovered the zombie monster on the ground.
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