Lin Wu asked, and Bo Yuting on the side directly helped Cheng Man to lean against the wall so that he could talk more easily.
Cheng Man looked at Bo Yuting hesitantly, but because he trusted Lin Wu, he was about to speak. But at this moment, he saw the snake man scurrying around boredly not far away, and his face changed immediately.
"That is..."
"I consider myself one of our own."
Lin Wu explained and waved to the snake man.
The snake man noticed it, swam over with his tail swinging, and put the tip of his tail in Lin Wu's hand.
Cheng Man had an expression as if she had seen a ghost.
"He was also originally in this underground tomb, but... well, you can understand that he is more friendly and will not harm us. We can also rely on it to leave here." Lin Wu said.
Bo Yuting echoed, and carefully slapped the snake man's tail away, and held Lin Wu's hand himself.
The snake man bared his teeth at Bo Yuting.
Bo Yuting confidently shook his hand, which was clasped with Lin Wu's fingers.
Cheng Man stared blankly with his eyes wide open and his mouth wide open, unable to utter a word for a long time.
Lin Wu said: "Let's get back to the point. What is the truth you are talking about?"
Could it be related to the "511" case? Cheng Man's eyes were still attracted by the living snake man, and she subconsciously replied: "Since you are here, you should have met Mingxian, right?"
"Yes."
"It's like this. I accompanied Mingxian here before because there was an ore here that Mingxian needed, and he wanted to take it back for research. But I found that there was evil spirit left in the mined ore. If we continue to mine, the miners might get into trouble. As a master of mysticism, I can't just sit there and do nothing. So I went down there myself to find out what was going on."
"Zheng Mingxian told us that you also encountered some very aggressive monsters."
"Yes. And there is a black mist deep underground that is completely opaque to light. It is difficult for me to stay in there for too long, and it is also very passive."
“We encountered that, too.”
Cheng Man looked at Lin Wu in astonishment.
Lin Wu then told him that after he was in trouble, Zheng Mingxian asked them to save him, and that the black fog and monsters in the mine were spreading upwards.
Cheng Man didn't expect that they were willing to take such a big risk to save him, and he was a little touched. Thinking of what he was going to say later, he said seriously: "But what you see is only the surface."
"surface?"
Lin Wu and Bo Yuting were puzzled.
Cheng Man recalled, "The first time I came down, the fog and monsters were just about to appear, so I dived very deep, about 40 meters. I was prepared at the time and held on for quite a while. In the end, I found that the black fog was coming from a kind of ore."
This is consistent with Bo Yuting's previous research.
Lin Wu asked: "What happened next?"
Cheng Man pursed her lips, unzipped her shirt, took out something wrapped in cloth from her inner pocket, and handed it to Lin Wu.
Lin Wu took it and opened it. It turned out to be a short knife made of stone. The blade was broken in half. Only the teeth on one end of the blade and some lines on the blade could be seen.
Bo Yuting's expression changed slightly, "How did you get this?!"
Lin Wu was stunned: "Do you recognize him?"
Bo Yuting took it, frowned, and said, "This is something that was specially made when the special organization in Area S was established. The shape is special, and apart from that group of people, no one else would have it. But the material used for forging it was not ore."
So this is the thing that belonged to one of Bo Qingcheng's team? !
"S District... Special Agency..."
Cheng Man took a deep breath and said, "I have roughly heard of this organization. My father once told me that it was this organization that caused Xuanmen to lose many top talents. They were the ones who let Xuanmen down. At that time, they were the ones who forced our people to go there."
Bo Yuting's face suddenly darkened.
Cheng Man continued, "The first time I came down, I fled randomly to avoid those monsters. I didn't know where I fled to. I couldn't see clearly inside. Those monsters attacked me, and I hurriedly grabbed something to resist. This is what I got."
He pointed at the broken stone knife in Bo Yuting's hand.
"Then I fell into a cave. There was no fog inside, so I was able to catch my breath and recover. At the same time, I found a lot of words carved on the stone wall inside. The general meaning was that more than ten years ago, several people came here to look for something. They eventually went to the same unknown place, and only one person left and returned to the ground to continue the unfinished business."
"Later, I also found a token from my Xuanmen elders. It was the person whose life and death were unknown in the '511' case mentioned by the Xuanmen elders."
Lin Wu and Bo Yuting were both very surprised.
Are there any other survivors among the people led by Bo Qingcheng? !
"And those words on the stone wall were exactly what my Xuanmen elders had memorized. So I took the token with me when I went out, and I was lucky enough to escape while avoiding the monsters' attacks. Then I immediately called my father to ask for information."
Cheng Man's voice condensed slightly: "But my father told me that it couldn't be a senior from Xuanmen, and there was no way those people could survive at that time! I didn't believe it, so I led people down again, but I couldn't find the cave anymore, and I encountered more serious danger than before. In the end, I fell into a section of a tomb passage and survived."
"But the token was lost. I went back to look for it, but I found the evil spirit I had sensed before. So I led people to chase it and found a tomb where someone had lived. There were some records on the walls, and the recorder was also my Xuanmen senior!"
"It turns out that they had voluntarily followed the people from the organization in Area S to find the existence of a underground city. However, the process was very dangerous and they narrowly escaped death before losing contact with China."
These are already very familiar to Lin Wu and Bo Yuting.
The two looked at each other, and their thoughtful gazes returned to Cheng Man.
Cheng Man changed the subject and said, "But not all of them died at that time. Some of them survived and discovered that there was a spy in the team. While recovering from their injuries, they decided to use the situation to catch the spy. But in the process, they discovered a shocking secret related to the dungeon, which made them finally decide to remain in hiding."
"And this is one of the places related to the secret they discovered. They lived here for a long time to explore it."
“There is no record after that.”
Cheng Man continued to recall, "I did sense the evil spirit in that room at the time, but it was not strong. I spent a long time and found that the source of the evil spirit was in another tomb. But the door of that tomb was tightly closed and I couldn't open it."
He described to the two men what the tomb door looked like.
Lin Wu and Bo Yuting recognized that this was the place the snake man took them to.
"There is indeed a strange thing in that tomb, and it has been stolen by the Huo family. The Huo family has been ambushing our team that came to rescue you." Lin Wu said.
Cheng Man sat up straight abruptly, "Stolen?!"
At this point, Lin Wu didn't mind telling him that the Huo family also rushed to the underground city. "You said that this place is related to the secret of the underground city. That thing is obviously the specific thing related to it."
I just don’t know whether Lu Guichi will decide on his own after he goes out, or continue to cooperate with the Huo family.
Cheng Man's face looked grim.
Bo Yuting asked: "What happened to you guys afterwards? How come you are the only one alive?"
Cheng Man said painfully, "We couldn't open the door of the tomb at that time, so we wanted to return and leave here, and bring people down another day. But we encountered several corpses that had transformed into zombies. They were very strange, with more evil spirits than ordinary corpses, and were extremely difficult to deal with. When we finally killed them, the people I brought with me were... gone."
Lin Xi patted his shoulder to comfort him and asked, "Then why are you here?"
Cheng Man perked up and pointed at the murals around him, "Because of these."