Zila...flames ignited in the darkness, forming a long winding dragon that went straight to the bottom of the nine earths.
The moment they entered, Jiang Xian and Lin Ruoxue were both stunned. What appeared before them was a vertical underground cave.
The cave was fifty meters in size, and the stairs were like a coiled dragon clinging to the rock wall. A ray of fire was like the red beard of a dragon's spine, lighting up this road that seemed to lead to hell.
"In 1975, a magnitude 5 earthquake hit Wancheng, creating a crack here. That's when we first stepped into this place." Buda walked in the front, looking around with great emotion, and said slowly: "But the first time we entered here, we were shocked... I don't know what kind of oil is used here, but it never goes out. As soon as we stepped in, it caught fire, as if welcoming us."
Jiang Xian and Lin Ruoxue looked around. They had entered the outer perimeter of Area 003, which had wiped out dozens of top archaeologists decades ago. They must not take it lightly.
Buda was walking on crutches, and although he seemed to be walking slowly, he was actually no slower than Jiang Xian and the others. After walking for a few minutes, Lin Ruoxue suddenly stopped and looked down in astonishment.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Xian asked immediately.
Lin Ruoxue made a hushing gesture, frowned slightly, and said after a few seconds: "What...did you hear?"
The suspended dragon ladder, the bottomless cave... Walking on this road like the underworld, Lin Ruoxue's words were so quiet that it seemed as if an echo could be heard around her. Jiang Xian took a deep breath and listened carefully for a long time. He shook his head: "Nothing ."
Lin Ruoxue frowned: "Let's go."
However, just when everyone took two steps, the three of them turned their heads and looked behind them. Their pupils shrank at the same time. An unspoken fear was like an invisible poisonous snake that bit everyone fiercely.
Gulp... Buda swallowed hard, and the three of them were like sculptures, no one dared to move. Because, they all heard, at the moment when their footsteps landed, on the stairs... the footsteps of a fourth person were heard!
And...right behind them!
Pah—the light burst into a spark, and the night wind from the entrance moved the fire dragon, the flames flew, and the shadows of the three people swayed like ghosts. The faint night wind was sent into the huge mouth of the abyss, blowing people's bodies and minds cold. After a few seconds, Jiang Xian stared at the back and took a tentative step forward.
Ta... The military boots stepped lightly on the stone slabs, and the stone slabs that had been sealed for thousands of years raised a circle of dust. Almost at the same time, a slight "ta" sound was heard behind them!
It's like a hundred ghosts walking at night, following you like a shadow.
"What, what is that!" Buda looked , his voice changing tone.
Just as they were walking up the stairs, a pair of blue footprints appeared !
There were only footprints five steps away from them, and the ones behind were slowly disappearing. The footprints on the stairs behind Lin Ruoxue, who was walking at the end, were particularly clear, just like... a fierce ghost, slowly walking towards them!
A silent chill spread along the stairs. Jiang Xian walked around Lin Ruoxue and went to the back. He took a closer look and said in a deep voice, "These are my footprints."
The stairs were three meters wide, with stone railings on the side. They had already walked down about ten meters... He reached out and touched the stairs, put it under his nose and smelled it. Then he took a breath and quickly swept away the dust on the surface of the stairs with his arm. The next second, everyone gasped and their goosebumps rose.
That's not a stone staircase at all.
But... a human bone!
A human finger bone. I couldn't tell which finger it was because... it was too big. It was three meters long.
There was a dead silence on the steps. Buda covered his mouth and took a few steps back, leaning against the wall, his chest rising and falling sharply. Jiang Xian squatted down with a burning gaze, gently brushed the surface of the finger bones with his hand, knocked them, and said in disbelief: "It's a real bone."
“How is it possible…” Lin Ruoxue raised her head in disbelief, then looked down. Dozens or even hundreds of stairs were faintly visible under the light of the fire. “There must be at least two or three hundred stairs, right? Are they all finger bones? What…what kind of thing has so many huge fingers?”
Buda was stunned where she was. Suddenly, she bowed down and said in a trembling voice, "Mountain God... This is the Mountain God!"
Boom! She kowtowed hard. Jiang Xian frowned. He wanted to say that there might be Godzilla in this world, but there would never be demons and monsters. But everything was too weird now. After a few seconds of hesitation, he said, "This might be phosphorus powder."
"It's because of the friction between our footprints and the phosphorus powder that phosphorus sparks appeared. Don't scare yourself."
"No... We didn't see these last time we came. This is the mountain god!" Buda's voice was full of reverence: "No outsiders are allowed to enter the holy land. I know... phosphorus powder can't have existed for so long! This is the mountain god warning me!"
...I don't want to bother with this kind of charlatan... Jiang Xian nodded to Lin Ruoxue, and Lin Ruoxue closed her eyes and opened her five senses to the maximum. Jiang Xian kicked the finger bone step carefully, and they heard again... the "click" sound that seemed to echo.
Lin Ruoxue suddenly opened her eyes, walked quickly to the wall, and gently put her ear against it. In just a second, her face suddenly changed, her red lips slightly parted, and she raised her head in disbelief: "There is something... in here."
Jiang Xian immediately pressed against the wall. The next second, a rustling sound that made one's scalp tingle was heard from the wall, as if... as if there was a beehive inside... and countless bees were waking up from hibernation!
"This is……"
Before he could finish, suddenly, several "dong dong dong" sounds came from above. The three looked up and saw several rocks rolling down from the top of the cave. And at the entrance, Taiya and An En, two inhuman faces, had already poked out from the crack.
They were Taiya and An'en. Their facial features were completely distorted, saliva dripped from the corners of their mouths, and they spoke in unclear monosyllables. The voices were like those of a ghost from the underworld. Following a sharp roar, two figures rushed out of the crack first and rushed madly towards the bottom of the stairs.
However, no one looked at them. The three of them all looked at the falling rock. The rock was so stubborn that it rolled down the steps. It made a thumping sound all the way. As it rolled over the steps, phosphorescent marks appeared one after another. The thumping sound was like the death knell. As if by resonance, the buzzing sound in the wall instantly increased, and then... it quickly spread to the entire cave!
Buzz buzz buzz... the sound was overwhelming and deafening. Buda stopped praying. The three of them stood back to back, looking around with extreme vigilance. As they were staring solemnly, tiny cracks suddenly appeared on the wall.
Crack, crack! Something came out, golden in color, and looked particularly strange under the light of the fire. Then, more and more things came out! One dot of gold, two dots... ten dots, a hundred dots, a thousand dots... like a sea! Just above the three people's heads, a golden tide formed.
"Run!!!" Jiang Xian finally saw what it was and rushed down without hesitation. Lin Ruoxue followed immediately. Buda was stunned for a moment, then quickly moved his legs to follow.
That is... the golden-faced ghost.
Countless golden-faced ghosts!
They... have lived in the surrounding rock walls since ancient times, and anything that meets the standards is a signal to wake them up!
Jiang Xian could no longer care about anything else. With so many golden-faced ghosts, if they were caught up, they would die! Moreover, they would only appear where they had walked. They were already ten meters below the cave surface. In other words, they could only go down, not up.
Just as they were running, all the golden-faced ghosts spread their wings at the same time. Under the glow of the fire, golden stars flickered all over the sky, and the dazzling firelight sprinkled down. The beautiful scene contained a chilling murderous intent. The golden-faced ghosts opened their wings and flapped them, and the next second... the stars fell!
Buzz buzz buzz! Countless golden stars rushed down crazily! Transformed into a golden galaxy! More and more golden-faced ghosts joined in, and the walls around them peeled off more and more, like a downpour, and with the falling golden stars, they poured back into the cave like a tide!
There were so many of them that they formed a golden tornado. This breathtakingly beautiful scene made the three people below feel a deep chill in their bones.
"Too fast!" Lin Ruoxue ran very fast. Now everyone was not walking up one level at a time, but jumping down three or four levels at a time. However, this could not catch up with the speed of the golden ghost tsunami.
“I can’t catch up…I can’t catch up!” Buda’s face turned pale, and the jewelry on his body jingled. He screamed, “I don’t want to die…I don’t want to die!!”
Damn it... Jiang Xian's eyes turned red. They had just entered and encountered such a horrible mechanism, a finger bone staircase, and countless golden-faced ghosts behind it... It seemed like they didn't want to let them go up at all and just wanted to bury them to death underneath!
"Jump..." Looking at the darkness below, he gritted his teeth and shouted desperately: "Jump!!"
There is no other choice.
The buzzing sound of the golden-faced ghost was like a bomber. Even without looking, he could tell that the other party was less than fifteen meters away from them!
After saying this, he took the lead and jumped down without hesitation.
"Fuck!" Lin Ruoxue cursed inwardly, and then jumped down. Then came the screaming Buda. Behind them, the golden tide poured back and fell straight into the underworld.
Don't go too deep...
Jiang Xianzhong prayed desperately. He wanted to close his eyes, but he had to open them and stare down.
It was pitch black, the future ahead was uncertain, and death was chasing closely from behind. In this suffocating torment, time passed slowly.
Three seconds... five seconds... eight seconds later, he finally saw... a bright light below him, reflecting the solid ground.
"Heh..." His Adam's apple moved violently, and the heartstrings that were almost broken finally relaxed a little. The next second, with a swish, his new long black straight hair was fully opened!