Chapter 297: The Huge Maze
Yunshan, Yang Ping and others ate and rested in the open space of the Pillar Square.
Yunshan refused to leave, and Yang Ping and others could not do anything to him. Zhang Shouyi and Yang Ping stayed together. Tian Zhen wanted to go to Yunshan, but Yunshan stopped him with a look.
Tian Zhen stood there absent-mindedly. He felt that although Yunshan's approach was a little inappropriate, it was after all for the boss's sake. It would be fine to just give him a lesson, but why make it to this extent?
Before joining the security company, Tian Zhen received a lot of kindness from Yunshan. It can be said that if it weren't for Yunshan's rescue at that time, he would have died long ago.
Others can blame Yunshan for his actions, but he cannot, even if Yunshan really did something wrong.
Yunshan stayed alone in a corner of the square, looking at the little animal called Little Ball of Mao that popped its head out of his arms, pointing its little paw in the direction of the ground, as if thinking about something.
It seems that the boss is still underground.
However, after a short rest in the underground palace, Ning Qingyun chose to move on.
He had already eaten all the food he had with him. If he didn't break through the barrier and leave quickly, the longer he was trapped here, the more disadvantageous it would be for him.
Ever since the wall of mechanisms was broken in the previous level, it seemed that there were only identical palaces one after another. The palaces were empty, with no mechanisms or traps, no treasure rewards, no defenses at all, and freedom of movement.
Ning Qingyun passed through one palace after another and walked forward for a long time, but still could not reach the end. He gradually realized that something was wrong, and used some unimportant items he had collected when he passed the level before to mark the palaces he had passed. About half an hour later, he really returned to the marked place.
He was clearly walking forward and never went back, so how could he end up back where he was?
The palace was an ordinary one, without any traces of formations. He was conscious and his mind was clear, so he should not have fallen into an illusion. Ning Qingyun was puzzled and simply gave up thinking about it. He began to violently demolish the wall, waving the Ruyi Double Rings, urging the annihilation aura, and with the help of the black fire that could burn everything, he quickly demolished the palace he had marked.
Sure enough, after demolishing this palace, the vision was freed up, and there were identical palaces everywhere. It seemed to be a huge maze, and each palace in it was a part of this maze.
Ning Qingyun stopped moving forward and tried to go back to the previous checkpoint, but found that he could not go back.
I wonder if demolishing one of the palaces will destroy the integrity of the maze and allow us to get out of it.
Ning Qingyun began to walk through the numerous palaces again. When he walked back to the location of the palace he had just demolished, Ning Qingyun couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "***?"
Ning Qingyun withdrew the Ruyi Double Rings in frustration. With so many palaces, it would take all of his internal spiritual energy just to demolish the walls. How would he deal with any possible crisis?
Well, I have to think of a new way.
Ning Qingyun remembered the story he had read before. There were several ways to break through the maze. One of them was violent demolition. He had just put it into practice. Every wall of this palace was built with huge stones and was very solid. It took a lot of effort and time to demolish it. Using spiritual energy and black fire would speed up the process, but it consumed too much spiritual energy. In case of an emergency, there would be a certain degree of insecurity. It was better not to use this method unless it was absolutely necessary.
Another way is to fly out and fly in the sky, which will naturally free you from the restrictions of the maze, because the main buildings that form the maze are these palaces, which are difficult to distinguish when you are in them. Once you are free from the restrictions of the building complex, you will naturally be able to solve the maze.
But this is underground, so this method obviously won't work.
What else can we do?
Ning Qingyun couldn't help but look at the floor under his feet. He tapped the floor with his toes, "bang bang bang", but there was no unusual sound. He changed to another place and continued knocking, "bang bang bang", but there was still no unusual sound. Until he came to the thirteenth palace and knocked, there was a "bang, bang, bang" sound coming from under the floor, like knocking on the surface of a drum, the sound was crisp, with a slight echo. This was the place. Ning Qingyun took out the Ruyi Double Rings and began to destroy this piece of ground.
Ning Qingyun thought that this piece of ground should be made of stones like the previous walls, so he started to dismantle it along a corner of the ground. However, as soon as he pried one of the corners, his body swayed and he seemed to lose his balance. The whole ground suddenly turned over. It turned out that the ground of this palace with such a huge area was actually a whole. Just because one of the corners was pried open, the whole ground lost its balance. In a flash, Ning Qingyun fell down and threw a rope upwards with force. After the flipped ground lifted Ning Qingyun down, it quickly closed together again with perfect seams, and the rope was clamped at the edge of the floor.
Ning Qingyun was hanging in the air holding a rope with one hand and looking down. There were no glowing stone pillars below, and the light was much darker than inside the underground palace. However, there was a kind of luminous plant growing below, and although it was sparse, it also provided a lighting effect.
Different from the magnificent or exquisite buildings above, the space below seems to be a naturally formed cave. Looking around, it is pitch black with no end in sight. The ground is not very flat and there doesn't seem to be any trace of artificial excavation. Every soil, stone, hill and valley are naturally formed and harmonious.
Is this the exit of the underground palace, or is it just a part of it?
Ning Qingyun took out a large piece of scrap iron from the gem space and threw it down with a "bang". The iron block bounced several times before it stopped due to the rebound of the ground. It seemed that the ground was quite solid and there seemed to be no mechanism or trap.
He carefully slid down the rope, and when he was only ten meters from the ground, suddenly a series of neat footsteps came from all directions, "dong dong dong", echoing continuously in this huge cave. Ning Qingyun pulled the rope and climbed up a few meters. The footsteps did not stop. It seemed that his position was locked, and the footsteps coming from all directions were approaching him.
The footsteps were orderly and heavy, as if they were a well-trained army.
But Ning Qingyun soon realized that something was wrong. Practitioners have keen intuition. Ning Qingyun only heard the sound of neat footsteps, and when he concentrated on investigating the specific situation, he did not detect any sounds of breathing or heartbeats.
So the person who came was not a living person.
The dark underground palace, the gloomy cave, and a group of unknown things were surrounding him from all directions.
(End of this chapter)
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