Chapter 78 Shadow

Inside the stone gate was a dark, enclosed corridor, surrounded by concrete walls on all sides, about four meters long and wide. Using the flashlight's light, it seemed as if there was no end in sight.

The long square cement corridor is covered with raised stone pillars of various sizes. The short stone pillars are irregularly distributed in the corridor like chess pieces.

"Why do I feel so depressed in here, just like walking in a coffin?" said Li Dong.

As soon as he finished speaking, someone spoke the same words as his from the depths of the tunnel, as if someone was imitating him. He jumped up in fright: "Fuck! Who's there?"

His words were heard again in the corridor, and the voice was very clear, as if someone was standing not far away and imitating his speech.

Ji Ranzi, who was walking behind Xie Liang, trembled even more violently. She grabbed the corner of Li Dong's clothes in fear.

Xie Liang lowered his voice and said, "It's your echo." He was afraid that speaking too loudly would cause an echo.

"What?" Li Dong asked.

Xie Liang said loudly: "I said...it's your echo."

After a while, the corridor bounced Xie Liang's voice back clearly.

Now everyone understood that no one was talking in the corridor, it was just the echo of their voices that was reflected back.

Li Dong started to howl and talk non-stop, as if he was just joking.

"That's not right! Brother Liang! This voice doesn't sound like mine." Li Dong said.

"The waveform of the reflected sound has changed and become distorted, so it doesn't sound like your voice," said Xie Liang.

"Brother Liang is Brother Liang, he knows a lot." Li Dong said and gave him a thumbs up.

"The junior high school physics textbook said it, let's go quickly." Xie Liang said.

After walking for about half an hour, the temperature in the corridor gradually rose. It was warm and comfortable at first, but the further we went in, the more we could feel the obvious heat deep inside.

The wind gradually grew stronger, and the sound of the wind whistling could be heard. Every gust of wind brought a heat wave, and it was so hot that several people took off their coats.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the corridor in the distance was filled with a faint red light, which looked like the faint light from hell.

"It's so hot! I finally see something different." Li Dong said as he quickened his pace and walked towards the red light.

After getting closer, Xie Liang discovered that the red light was emitted by the magma at the bottom of the tunnel. The long cement tunnel was cut in half by the scarlet magma, and the interception surface was two or three meters wide. No wonder the temperature got higher the further in you went.

The magma at the bottom of the tunnel was like a wave of fire, constantly rolling and rising, and waves of heat rushed up and surged towards the tunnels on both sides.

Several people were burned by the heat and their bodies turned red and they were sweating profusely.

"How can we get through this?" Ji Ranzi's voice was a little hoarse. However, her mutation speed seemed to have slowed down, and she still looked the same as before.

No, it was not until she turned around that Xie Liang discovered that a lizard tail more than one meter long had grown behind her!

Seeing that Xie Liang and the other two were staring at her, Ji Ranzi stretched out her gray-brown arms and legs to check. After confirming that they were still the same as before, she couldn't help but ask, "Why are you looking at me like that again? What's wrong?"

"Uh, nothing." Xie Liang said.

"What about you! Li Dong! Why are you looking at me like that?" Ji Ranzi asked.

"Ah? Oh, I was wondering if you could jump over this lava river." Li Dong said, wiping the sweat from his face.

"It looks quite wide. Can you guys handle it?" Xie Liang asked.

"I should be fine. I used to jump around a lot at the construction site, so my skills are pretty good." Li Dong said and looked at Ji Ranzi with some concern.

Ji Ranzi looked at Li Dong disdainfully and said, "What are you looking at? Do you think I can't jump over it?"

"How dare I! I'll go first, you just jump with confidence, I'll pick you up on the other side." Li Dong said.

"Tsk! Who wants you to answer it?" said Ji Ranzi.

Li Dong stepped back a few meters, then quickly started to run. When he reached the edge of the corridor, he bent one foot slightly, then pushed hard, and flew quickly towards the opposite corridor.

"Not bad, you're quite skilled!" Ji Ranzi walked to the edge of the broken tunnel and shouted to Li Dong who was standing steadily opposite.

"Come! I'll pick you up." Li Dong opened his arms and shouted at Ji Ranzi.

Ji Ranzi stepped back a few meters, preparing to run for a distance and jump to the other side like Li Dong.

As she was about to start running, she glanced behind her and was terrified by what she saw.

She rolled to the ground screaming, "Ah! What is this!"

She screamed and rolled around on the ground, her tail bumping against the raised stone piers in the corridor.

At this moment, the ground in the corridor began to tremble. Xie Liang hurried over to hold her back: "It's just a tail, don't panic!"

The ground was shaking more and more violently, and the concrete roof above also vibrated. After a while, the whole corridor cracked with a snap, and concrete gravel fell down from the concrete roof - the corridor was about to collapse!

Xu He pulled Xie Liang and said in a deep voice, "Let's go." Then he asked worriedly, "Can we jump over it?"

"Sure!" Xie Liang said affirmatively. Since he ate the burning stone, his physical fitness has improved a lot, so this width is not difficult for him.

"Oh shit! What's going on? Your place is about to collapse, come here quickly!" Li Dong shouted anxiously from the opposite side.

The corridor was falling apart, and the three of them hurriedly ran up, and after reaching the edge of the corridor, they jumped to the other side with all their might.

Ji Ranzi was about to fall into the lava when Li Dong pulled her back, and luckily she escaped danger.

After Xie Liang and Xu He stood firmly, they went over to help him pull Ji Ranzi up.

As soon as the three of them pulled Ji Ranzi up, the corridor they came from collapsed into ruins. Then a new wall rose from the lava, blocking the square corridor completely.

The surroundings fell into darkness again, and Xie Liang quickly found the flashlight.

"That's great now. The road we came from is gone. We can only move forward." Ji Ranzi said as she looked at the new concrete wall with fear.

"Hey! Beauty, I found that you speak much more fluently after your tail grew out." Li Dong teased her.

"Go to hell!" Ji Ranzi kicked him.

"Is this how you treat your savior?" Li Dong said, putting his face in front of her.

Ji Ranzi stopped talking, lowered her head, and looked like she was about to cry.

"You're just being rude." Xie Liang said.

"Hey hey hey! Don't, I was wrong, I was wrong! Don't cry!" Li Dong said while holding her shoulders with both hands and apologized.

Ji Ranzi's eyes were red. She looked up at him and said, "I don't blame you. I cried because I was moved. No one has ever been so nice to me..."

Li Dong scratched his head: "Ah! I thought you were crying because of anger, but this is nothing, right?"

"You have no idea how much it means to me that you two risked your lives to save me." Her voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

"Ah? What?" Li Dong asked casually.

"Forget it! It's nothing, let's get on with our journey." Ji Ranzi said as she caught up with Xu He who was walking in front.

After walking for more than half an hour, the temperature gradually cooled down.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, they arrived at a stone chamber that looked like a secret room. Four torches were hung on the walls of the chamber, and the flames from the torches illuminated the entire chamber brightly.

They had just taken a few steps into the stone chamber when a heavy stone door suddenly fell down at the entrance, completely blocking the way they came.

"Damn! What's going on?" Li Dong asked in surprise.

"The road is blocked, and there is no other way out of this stone chamber. What should we do?" Ji Ranzi said in panic.

Her pupils had changed color. They were no longer brown, but had become like the vertical pupils of a snake, reflecting golden light.

"Don't worry, try looking, there shouldn't be no way out." Xie Liang said calmly.

The stone chamber of dozens of square meters was empty and had no passages. There was a fixed torch burning on each of the four cement walls, and there was a recessed stone door in the middle of each wall.

There was a tiny gap between the two concave stone doors. Three big men tried to pry the gap between the two doors and push them to both sides. They used all their strength, but the two doors did not move at all.

At this moment, a mechanical ticking sound suddenly rang out in the stone chamber, like the sound of water dripping under the eaves, and it was particularly clear in the silent stone chamber.

After the last ticking sound disappeared, the torches in the stone chamber went out at the same time, and the entire stone chamber fell into darkness.

"Damn! Why is it all dark!" Li Dong yelled.

Xie Liang hurriedly took out a flashlight, and at the same time he turned on the flashlight, the torch on the wall lit up again.

Everyone was stunned. Suddenly, four more people appeared in the stone chamber out of nowhere! And these four people looked exactly like them.

The two Li Dongs and the two Ji Ranzis started screaming and asking each other what they were. Only Xu He remained relatively quiet in the entire stone chamber.

Xie Liang had been staring at the man next to him who looked exactly like him for a minute. Just as he was about to speak, the man asked what he was thinking: "Who are you? Why do you look exactly like me?"

Xie Liang: ...

People who looked like him seemed to be able to understand what he was thinking. To test it, Xie Liang thought of a sentence again but did not say it immediately.

But a moment later, the fake Xie Liang said what he had thought of beforehand: "Are you the replica of the secret room that we copied?"

Xie Liang calmly took out a dagger from his bag and prepared to stab the clone.

"Brother Liang! It's going to stab you! Run!" The two Li Dongs shouted at the fake Xie Liang, one in front and one behind.

This reminder was subconscious, and there was no time to think about it. Obviously, the one who spoke faster was the real Li Dong.

Xie Liang glanced at Li Dong, and it was obvious that he thought he was the fake one.

The two Xu Hes on one side had already started fighting, stabbing at each other with black swords.

One of the Xu He's attack speed was obviously slower, so he should be the fake Xu He. However, although the fake Xu He's attack speed was slower, he was able to capture the real Xu He's attack methods every time, and counterattack with moves that the real Xu He could not imagine.

Xie Liang put away the dagger. If he planned to stab the clone in front of him at this moment, then he would definitely know his thoughts. If he wanted to kill him, he would have to act quickly while his thoughts were still under formation or just forming.

At this moment, the real Xu He was stabbed by the fake Xu He with an unexpected move during the fight.

Xie Liang blurted out without hesitation: "Brother He! Don't think about anything when fighting!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the clone repeated what he had just said. Xie Liang was really intolerable. Just when he was about to curse out loud, the clone yelled at him: "Shut up! You fake!"

Xie Liang: ...

How could it be so shameless? Xie Liang planned to ignore him for the time being.

The real Xu He gradually gained the upper hand, and inadvertently, he stabbed the black sword into the chest of the fake Xu He.

The fake Xu He who was stabbed did not scream or bleed, but became flatter and darker, and finally turned into a shadow cast by Xu He's body, quietly sticking to the ground under Xu He's feet.