After a long tunnel, they arrived at an underground palace that looked like a hall.
There should have been many murals in the tunnel, but they seemed to have been peeled off. Zuo Zhicheng looked at the rat droppings, dust, and debris on the ground and said, "This should be connected to the outside. Maybe we can find a way out."
Liu Changding, on the other hand, had a look of pity on his face as he walked up to the damaged murals. "Sigh … What a pity. If these murals weren't damaged, we might've been able to learn the history of Amaliken. This legendary country is too mysterious. Until now, we have no concrete clues. "
"At least we know that it exists now." As he spoke, Zuo Zhicheng was already walking in front with the torch in his hand. The reason why he wanted to walk in front was because he could see through the infrared vision that the figure had already hidden in the corner of the passageway.
"Was it attracted by the sound of the stone slab opening?" Qing Yueqiu and the others behind him did not notice anything. They followed Zuo Zhicheng to the exit of the tunnel.
However, as Zuo Zhicheng got closer to the exit, the figure became clearer in his infrared vision. There was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
A figure rushed out and aimed a machete at Zuo Zhicheng. But how could he be a match for Zuo Zhicheng? Zuo Zhicheng waved his hand and knocked the machete away. Zuo Zhicheng then grabbed the man by the neck and pressed him against the wall.
"Who is it?!" Tangyuan and the others gathered around and saw a man with a dirty face and ragged clothes appear in front of them.
"Song." Zuo Zhicheng looked at the blackmailer's face and sighed. "I didn't expect him to find a job like this instead of fishing."
Zuo Zhicheng understood how Song came to this place. Obviously, Song wanted to change his job, and Qing Yueqiu wanted to keep the psionic food a secret without the help of the imperial court. This was their first expedition, so they did not know how dangerous it was. Perhaps they thought that it would be fine, so they let Song do the logistics work.
Zuo Zhicheng let go of the man's neck. Tangyuan and Tang Xianghui walked up to him. "Are you from the previous expedition?"
"How did you survive?"
"What about the others? Are they still alive? "
Song, who was a little dazed, was still a little hostile at first, but as the others talked, he suddenly broke down and cried. After crying for a few minutes, he wiped his eyes and said, "Dead, they're all dead. I've been here alone for a long time. "
"Oh, right." He held Tangyuan's hand and said, "Are you here to save me? Can we get out now? "
Everyone looked at each other and told Song what had happened. Song sat on the ground with a depressed face.
"We can't get out. We're all finished. We're all dead."
Zuo Zhicheng asked, "First, tell us what happened to you and how you came in."
Song glanced at Zuo Zhicheng. Although he did not know Gui Quan, his white mask looked very scary, and he was subdued in one move. He said, "After we came in, we found this forest. Everyone was very happy …"
According to Song, the monsters on the mountain wall had also fallen into a deep sleep. However, when Song and the others were picking the fruits, they woke up the monsters. They were either killed or caught, and all of them were hung on the branches.
However, Song was lucky. He hid in the rotten leaves on the ground and escaped. After that, he had been hiding in the forest and survived by relying on the spiritual fruits.
Finally, he found a passage to the underground palace in a tree hole. He thought that he could get out of here, but after some exploration, he was disappointed to find that the entire underground palace was a dead end. The only exit was in the caves in the underground space. However, after the monsters were awakened, they filled up the passages. Song did not dare to go out. He could only hide in the underground palace and pick some spiritual fruits to fill his stomach when the monsters went out to hunt.
On the other hand, Zuo Zhicheng was listening as he lifted his mask a little and started eating the spiritual fruits he had just picked.
The others looked at him and started asking about the structure of the underground palace.
However, even if they did not look for it, they could guess that there was no way out. Zuo Zhicheng was still thinking about the monsters, or zombies. These things were wrapped in a layer of corpse wax, and the outside of the corpse wax was wrapped in vines.
However, when he saw the giant snake in the underground space, he thought of many things. Apart from the vines, these zombies were very similar to the strange white corpses on the ship.
'But the corpse wax takes at least a year and a half to form. The corpses on the ship definitely did not take that long. What is the relationship between the two?'
After eating a spiritual fruit, Zuo Zhicheng felt a warm current spreading in his body. This feeling, which he had not felt in a long time, made him very excited.
This was a hopeless situation for Qing Yueqiu and the others. However, as long as they could survive, and there was still spiritual food, this was a good place for Zuo Zhicheng. The only problem was that there was a lack of light here, so he could not continue practicing Nightsea.
'Those zombies seem to be guarding the spiritual food other than helping the Serpent King hunt. I just don't know how they communicate with each other.'
The others followed Song and explored the entire underground palace. Liu Changding said as he explored, "This should be a tool room, and this should be a storage room. Unfortunately, the things here have been weathered …"
Liu Changding guessed as he observed, "It seems that this place was used to grow spiritual food. However, it was abandoned for some reason. Those monsters must have occupied this place after that. "
Tang Xianghui looked at the tree hole that Song had come from. "These tree roots broke in, so this underground palace is connected to the outside world. There is no way out."
Everyone's faces were filled with disappointment. Qing Yueqiu noticed that Zuo Zhicheng seemed to be very calm. This was also Zuo Zhicheng's habit. However, he was already thinking of the worst case scenario.
That was, they couldn't find a way out here. They had no choice but to stay here and increase their strength through spiritual food before leaving. However, by that time, winter might have already passed. If the giant snake woke up, it was hard to say how strong they would have to be to defeat it.
At this moment, Liu Changding's mouth suddenly made a sound of surprise.
"What's wrong, Mr. Liu?"
"That's not right." He touched a wall in the hall of the underground palace and said, "Nine is the number of extremes. Since ancient times, it has the meaning of perfection. I see that the distance between the tunnels in the underground palace is equal, and they all lead to different rooms. There should be a ninth tunnel here. That should be the case."
Tang Xianghui knocked on the wall. "Could it be a secret room?"
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