Everything that followed was carried out in silence. Zuo Qingcang and the old man used a rope and a dagger to connect the robber's cave to the passage in the middle of the stone chamber. Then, they carried the jars down from the burial chamber to the passage in the middle of the stone chamber.
When the old man came to the passage opposite the stone chamber, he found that in addition to the original three passages, there was in fact another passage below the robber's cave. It was just that he did not see it before because he was in the robber's cave.
When all the food had been transported, Zuo Qingcang carried the jars on his back and strode into the passage again.
Before he left, Zuo Qingcang even turned back to throw a glance at the stone room. He looked at the eternal lamp hanging on the wall and suddenly felt that he seemed to have forgotten something. However, when he thought about it carefully, he could not recall what it was.
He shook his head and walked into the depths of the passage with the old man.
The old man followed behind and could not help but look back at the huge corpse monster in the stone chamber behind them. However, neither he nor Zuo Qingcang said anything. Obviously, they were afraid of attracting the attention of the corpse monster. After walking for a few hundred meters, the old man finally could not help but ask in a low voice, "Why did you choose this path?"
"The passages are almost the same, and there are no clues in the stone chamber," Zuo Qingcang explained, "I just chose one randomly."
The old man showed a depressed look when he heard this. Just now, when they were next to the corpse monster, they were not willing to talk. However, Zuo Qingcang chose this path with a look of certainty. The old man thought that he had some confidence. He did not expect that he had chosen it randomly.
"Oh right, you said that the corpse monster was born from the bodies of Taoist cultivators." Zuo Qingcang asked, "Just like the corpse monster in the stone chamber just now, how many Taoist cultivators' corpses do you think it would take to form it?"
The old man's expression changed. This was something he hadn't thought of before. "Such a large corpse monster would require at least dozens or even hundreds of cultivators. Only with their corpses as raw materials could such a large corpse monster be created."
The two looked at each other and immediately realized something.
"This ancient tomb is more dangerous than we thought." Zuo Qingcang said faintly, "There are only two possibilities for the source of these cultivators' corpses. One is that they were provided by the people who built the ancient tomb. No matter whether the formation of the corpse monsters was a coincidence or intentional, it shows the dangers in the ancient tomb.
The second possibility was that the dead cultivators were the ones who raided the tomb later. That is, the hundreds of Daoists who possessed spiritual power were all wiped out and died in this ancient tomb. "
Zuo Qingcang glanced at the old man and said: "The road ahead is one of death. If you want to leave now, it's not too late. Although the monsters outside are dangerous, it's not impossible to break through. Or you can wait for me here, and I'll give you half of the food … "
"You don't have to say it." The old man sneered and said, "Do you think I'll be willing to run away now and spend the rest of my days in the tomb? As for breaking through the periphery of the ancient tomb, there are those giant elephants, women of yin, and dwarves guarding the entrance and exit. I'll die if I go out. If I follow you inside, at least I can give it a try. Otherwise, I won't be satisfied even if I die. "
"Then let's go." Zuo Qingcang nodded and continued, "I originally thought that this thief's hole might lead to the outside of the ancient tomb. In that case, we might be able to reach the outside of the tomb to replenish our food and water, and then slowly make our way out. But now it seems that this thief's hole is not leading to the outside, but to the lower level of the ancient tomb. "
"The situation seems to be more complicated than we previously thought."
Although Zuo Qingcang said that the situation was very difficult, his eyes were as bright as before, and there was no sign of decadence and frustration. "But no matter what, we have to go down and take a look. No matter how big the ancient tomb is, and whether opening the coffin can stop the Star Shifting Formation, we have to go down and check it with our own eyes. Only then can we find a way to leave this island."
Along the way, the two of them exchanged the clues they had obtained so far and their opinions about the ancient tomb. A few minutes later, the two of them came to another stone room. In front of them, there were three identical passages.
Not only the passages, but the layout of the entire stone room, the size of the passage, the orientation, and the everlasting lamp in the stone room were exactly the same as the previous stone room.
"We're back again?" The old man reacted immediately, but he immediately shook his head and said, "No, there's no corpse monster here. Could it be that they purposely built the same stone room?"
Zuo Qingcang didn't answer him. Instead, he squatted down and stretched out his finger to touch the ground. Feeling the dry feeling on his finger, he calmly said, "There's no mucus, no traces of corpse monsters. The structure here is indeed the same as before. "
The old man nodded and looked at the three identical passages in front of him and the path behind him. He asked, "Then what should we do next?"
Looking at the three identical passages in front of him, Zuo Qingcang had a bad feeling in his heart, but he still pointed at the passage in the middle and said, "Let's go this way."
Then, the two of them walked into the passage, but this time, the passage wasn't long. After about a minute, the two of them walked out of the passage again. This time, what appeared in front of them was still the same stone room with the same three passages.
The old man's face became a little serious, "Could it be the same stone room again?"
Zuo Qingcang carefully looked around, but he couldn't find anything that could help him make a judgment. He simply pulled out his dagger and drew a cross on the ground, then said to the old man, "Let's go, again in the middle."
This time, the two of them walked faster. It only took them about 30 seconds to walk through the passage, and what appeared in front of them was not out of Zuo Qingcang's expectations. It was still the same stone room.
The old man hurriedly ran to the place where Zuo Qingcang had marked with his dagger. When he saw that there was nothing on the ground, he was relieved, "It's indeed the same stone room. Maybe there's a special meaning behind it, or some kind of psychological tactic."
However, Zuo Qingcang didn't say anything. The scene in front of him made him think of something very bad.
He didn't say anything and led the old man into the passage again. It was still the passage in the middle.
Every time the two of them came to the stone room, they would choose the passage in the middle. However, the more they walked, the worse the old man's face became. It was the same stone room, the same passage. His footsteps became faster and faster, but after walking through more than ten stone rooms, nothing in front of him changed at all.
His walking gradually turned into a trot, as if he was eager to get out of the predicament in front of him. However, when they came to the same stone room again, the old man finally couldn't help but curse, "What is the meaning of this? What is the person who made this tomb thinking? Why did they make the same room?"
However, Zuo Qingcang looked at the stone room without batting an eyelid. Then, he took out his dagger once again and drew a mark on the ground.
"You still suspect that we came to the same passage?" The old man said, "Didn't we try it before? It's probably just a lot of the same rooms. "
Zuo Qingcang shook his head, "The length of each room is about ten meters, and the length of the passage is about one kilometer. We have walked through seventeen stone rooms in a row. In theory, this straight line length has exceeded the range of the island's accommodations." This was the data Zuo Qingcang calculated based on the length of the passage obtained from the previous trip around the island.
Hearing Zuo Qingcang's judgment, the old man's face changed, and he asked, "Are you sure?"
"If there is nothing affecting my brain, this sense of direction and space shouldn't be wrong." With that said, Zuo Qingcang walked to the passage in the middle of the stone room again, and the old man walked in with a dignified face.
Half a minute later, the same stone room appeared in front of them again. The old man looked at the place where Zuo Qingcang had marked and said, "No. It seems that the structure of the room is indeed the same. Maybe the underground space of this island is bigger, or maybe you remembered wrongly. After all, in this kind of ancient tomb … "
Hearing the old man's words, Zuo Qingcang didn't say anything. He just made another mark on the spot, then turned around and walked back to the passage.
"You want to go back?" The old man looked at Zuo Qingcang in confusion and followed him, wanting to ask him why.
However, when he returned to the previous stone room and saw that there was nothing on the ground where Zuo Qingcang had marked before, his face immediately changed dramatically.
Zuo Qingcang squatted down, touched the ground without any scratches, and said lightly, "This place is strange."
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