They went very deep underground.

Darkness is the norm here, and any light seems abrupt.

All the underground creatures that appeared were eyeless, strange and twisted, some had eight arms, and some had bald tails, like a patchwork of humans and other underground creatures.

At this depth, there were very few fellow explorers. Lin Yuan felt that he had not seen a living person for a long time, and the surroundings were terribly quiet.

It was dark and silent, with only the sound of the wind howling from deep underground ringing in my ears.

Sometimes I lower my head to listen, as if something is calling me from the depths.

Lin Yuan felt a strange feeling, but not horror. Her blood seemed to heat up, which inexplicably made her a little excited.

"There's movement." Ni Ji pulled Lin Yuan in one direction.

After turning around several walls that blocked the route, we saw a sunken platform.

The reason why the forest garden can be seen is that in that damp corner, there grow clusters of crystalline, glowing stones.

That is the Hades Stone, a large cluster of it, and priceless.

The crystal texture of the Hades Stone is mottled and extremely beautiful, and the spherical top is faintly fluorescent.

It was a bit like the pupils of a sentinel that lit up with colored light during battle. The stones clustered together like countless eyes staring in the darkness.

That faint light illuminates the outlines of the surrounding scenery.

Lin Yuan saw four deformed creatures from the Pupilless Land. Or maybe three. The monsters' bodies were mixed together, and they could move independently after being broken. It was difficult to distinguish their number by sight.

They crowded together and blocked a sentry. The sentry was covered in blood, his eyes were burning with blazing fire, and he let out a desperate roar like a beast, fighting back desperately like a madman.

Amid the sounds of fighting and roaring, Lin Yuan heard another kind of unclear chewing sound, like the sound of sharp teeth biting bones and flesh.

In an even darker corner, there was a monster with a long tail, moving its body and chewing something voraciously.

Dark red blood slowly flowed out from under the tail. Lin Yuan did not detect any living emotions there. The monster was devouring a dead body.

Ni Ji took off his gloves, let his long sword be stained with blood, and joined the battle.

The battle was over quickly and was not too difficult.

There were a large number of monsters, but they had obviously already experienced a fierce fight. Each one was seriously injured and on the verge of death.

There used to be two sentinels here. They were besieged by many monsters. One of them is dead and the other is covered in wounds.

The rescued sentinel said nothing, but limped inside, dragging a broken sword. He dragged the long-tailed monster corpse out and smashed its head with the broken sword.

Then he raised his head and looked at the bleeding corner.

Lin Yuan saw his eyes, and sadness flooded her eyes like a tide. The cold sadness was like a substance, spreading all over the sky and affecting Lin Yuan in the opposite direction. The coldness made her shiver.

In that tiny corner, there was a small cluster of beautiful underworld stones, with deep red human blood flowing out from the cracks between the stones.

A female arm was resting on the cluster of blood-stained crystals, illuminated by the shining light of the stones.

Her body was hidden in the darkness, motionless, only her hand stretched forward, with a little blood on her fingertips, as if she wanted to grab something.

The seriously injured sentry stared at the arm in the glowing light for a long time, then desperately supported his wounded body and struggled to crawl over.

He picked up a mutilated body from a pool of blood.

It was a woman, with many parts of her body eaten away, leaving a mess. It was so horrible that her original appearance could no longer be seen.

The sentry held her tightly, his head lowered and his arms trembling.

He sat among a pile of priceless gems, his body covered in blood. He didn't even glance at the precious stones, but only stared at the mutilated corpse in his arms.

They may be the closest partners, comrades-in-arms, or lovers.

Now, we must die in this dark abyss, for these cold stones.

"Take it and leave here. I don't need it." The sentry finally said.

His voice was extremely hoarse, as if he had been crying violently, but his face was dry, without a single tear, only dried blood.

His heart was dead and so empty that he couldn't even shed tears.

"Is she your lover?" Ni Ji asked.

It was rare for Sentinels to form couples, as this was not accepted by the secular world and was often ridiculed by the world. Even if some people were together, they mostly kept it a secret.

"No, I didn't have time to tell you." The sentry didn't look up at Ni Ji, but only at the dead body in his arms. "I always thought there was still a lot of time, so I could take it slow."

"You know what? I really regret it now. I regret not letting her know my true feelings when she was still alive."

"Me? How could I be so stupid? Me? Really stupid..."

His voice became quieter and quieter.

Lin Yuan took a step back.

She noticed a strange change: the hand of the female sentinel's corpse, which was lying in a pool of blood, seemed to move slightly.

A brand new, white and thin arm was growing out of her body and slowly rising from the pool of blood.

She is deforming.

Soon it will turn into a monster that is not human at all.

"She's going to be deformed," Ni Ji said quickly, her voice calm and soothing, "Leave. Put her down."

He reached out to pull the sentry who was sitting in a pool of blood.

The sentry's arms tightened, hugging the slowly changing body tightly.

"You guys go." He buried his head deep into the bloody shoulder, "I'm not going to leave. I'm staying here."

"She is no longer the same person she used to be." Lin Yuan said, "If you stay here, you will also become a deformed creature in the darkness. You will never be able to return to the ground and never see the sunlight again."

Lin Yuan stood in the dark, as tentacles surged out from the ground. Her voice was gentle, with a strong power to adjust other people's emotions. She was a guide, and could greatly influence the people around her. She could cheer up the sad people and make the suffering people forget everything.

But the sentry just shook his head and buried it tighter.

"It's okay if I can't see the sun, and it doesn't matter if I turn into a monster."

His voice trailed off, but the tentacles heard what he said in his heart.

I just want to be with her. I hope I can still remember her after I become a monster.

Remember those words that you didn't have time to say when you were once a human being.

The emotions conveyed by the tentacles were clear and resolute, filled with deep despair and unshakable persistence.

He has decided to stay and die with his dead lover.

Even Lin Yuan couldn't change his firm determination.

Lin Yuan glanced at Ni Ji and shook his head.

Ni Ji stared at the couple hugging each other. Her soft brown eyes looked at the sentinel hugging his lover in a pool of blood, and the fluorescent light of the Nether Stone was reflected in her eyes.

Finally, Ni Ji shoveled out a small piece of intact stone with a knife, took Lin Yuan's hand, turned around and left.

Leaving the sentinel alone in the dark.

Ni Ji only took a piece of stone with him to use when he returned. The stone was valuable, but also very heavy. He still had to accompany Lin Yuan on a long journey, and he didn't want to carry too much on his back.

He knew that Lin Yuan's ultimate goal was to explore the depths of the Pupilless Land, not just to pick up a few stones and bring them back.

So no matter how valuable something is, it is nothing in his eyes.

The two left here and slid down the long pipe.

When he reached the next floor, Lin Yuan looked up and happened to see three or four strange pale arms stretching out from the dead body in the corner where the light was faintly glowing.

Soft, slender arms rose up and grasped the sentry's neck.

The sentry's hunched back trembled and he hugged "her" tightly back.

Ni Ji silently held Lin Yuan's hand and pulled her forward, preventing her from looking at that.

They walked for a long way, but Lin Yuan could still hear voices behind her.

That thin, shrill sound, like weeping, followed her all the way and penetrated into her ears.

She obviously couldn't hear anything that far away.

The sound was like someone crying, but also like laughter. It was painful, but also mixed with an indescribable joy.

She knew that the Sentinel was dead and that the tentacles could no longer feel the emotional stability that was characteristic of humans.

But the image of that person hugging the monster tightly in his last moments kept floating in his mind.

Those faint sounds that came from nowhere are still there.

It keeps ringing in my mind.

Lin Yuan felt a slight pain in his brain. It was as if something was calling him from deep inside, affecting him.

"I feel very uncomfortable here," Lin Yuan pointed to the spot where his heart was, "as if something was blocking it, it felt heavy and uncomfortable."

"I won't let this happen to you," Ni Ji's voice came from the darkness.

"You and I come in together, find what you want, and go back together in the end."

His voice was calm, like a glacier lurking under the azure sea, pure and transparent, with an unwavering firmness.

Hearing this voice, Lin Yuan felt a little better.

She felt that Xiaoyu was actually a very contradictory person. On the outside, he looked rational and mature, but on the battlefield, he made decisions and did things in an orderly, wise and rigorous manner.

Sometimes he is particularly sentimental and would firmly believe in some fantastic things.

For example, in this dark, lightless place without pupils, no one can guarantee that they can get out alive.

In the abyss of darkness, individual life is like a firefly, which may be suddenly extinguished by a hurricane.

But he clenched his fingers and promised himself firmly that they would come together and go back together.

Lin Yuan explored his heart and found that there was really no hesitation. He stubbornly believed in such an illogical thing.

When facing the powerful death, the stubborn whale covered its rational eyes, with a little blind persistence in its heart. This made Lin Yuan think of a word that belongs to humans - romance.

Yes, this should be romance.

Lin Yuan thinks Ni Ji is a very romantic person.

She liked the feeling in her heart at the moment, so she said to Ni Ji,

"This idea is not realistic. I think what we should do is to say what we want to say as soon as possible and not leave any regrets."

She didn't want to be like the sentry at the edge of the dark stone, regretting what she hadn't said when she died.

He left the world miserably with a heart full of regret.

Perhaps that emotion infected Lin Yuan, making her inexplicably irritated. An impulse surged in her heart, and she wanted to tell the person next to her what she was thinking.

The sentry's fingers trembled slightly in her palm, and he stopped moving forward.

"I want to say that I like you as a friend very much. Thank you for liking my spiritual counseling and for being my exclusive sentinel."

Lin Yuan's sound was clear and crisp, like the rippling water of a lake, spreading far into the silent darkness.

This was her sincere and heartfelt words. She felt that there was nothing she couldn't say, so she spoke it clearly and openly to the person in front of her.

After I finished saying this, I felt very happy. All the buzzing sounds in my ears and the weird and disturbing emotions seemed to have been soothed and suppressed.

She felt that she really liked Ni Ji, they were comrades with a tacit understanding and friends worth risking their lives for.

This sentinel can be considered one of his best friends.

The sentry in front turned around and looked at her, against the light.

There was a light on his shoulder, and Lin Yuan couldn't see his expression clearly. He could only see a blurry black silhouette, a straight nose, and slightly trembling eyelashes.

She saw Ni Ji open his mouth slightly, as if he also wanted to tell her something.

In the end, he swallowed his words and said nothing. He just held Lin Yuan's hand and walked slowly forward.

There seemed to be a huge secret in his heart, but he kept that emotion very tightly, sealed it tightly in a treasure chest, and buried it at the deepest part of the sea.

Refusing to let himself be discovered.

[The fish seems to be cooked]

[Yes, the body temperature rises rapidly]

[It tastes especially delicious now. I just hate that the subject is blind. ]

[No way? She relies on her eyes to see things, and she can't see many things]

[This is the first time I have seen such a fish]

[Like ripe fruit, sweet and tempting]

[It's a bit bad. It makes me want to do something bad to him.]

[Me? I am also eager to try.]

Ni Ji jumped off a high platform, turned around and stretched out his hand. Lin Yuan jumped down from above and was caught steadily by him.

The faint electric light flickered, and in the darkness, the girl's eyes were shining with tiny lights, and her palms were warm and hot.

More emotional than ever on the ground.

She seemed a little different from usual. Ni Ji thought to herself, feeling a little unstable.

But he thought again, he was also in a state of confusion. When Lin Yuan said that just now, he almost couldn't control his emotions.

She said she liked herself and in her heart, she was a best friend.

I felt secretly happy but also a little bit sad. My emotions were so complicated that my heart beat very fast and I couldn't suppress it for several times.

Ni Ji felt that he was not a qualified soldier. On such a battlefield, no matter what the people around him said or did, he should keep himself steady and remain calm and alert at all times.

It is obviously in such a dangerous place.

A cold wind blew, and the wind blew from the darkest depths of the earth, seeming to carry countless tiny and unknown sounds, the howling sound like ghosts crying.

I listened more carefully, but I could hear nothing. Only the howling sound of the wind remained in the air.

This place is really weird, Ni Ji thought, the environment is depressing, even Lin Yuan seems to be affected a little, and his emotions are fluctuating.

I should concentrate more and not think about unnecessary things.

【Have you noticed anything is different?】

[I don't know why, but after entering here, I feel my blood boiling.]

[I like this place. Something is calling in the darkness.]

【There is a familiar feeling here. 】

【Exciting】

【It makes me want to destroy something】

[Yeah, I want to bully my favorite thing.]