Chapter 42 Ancient Well
The ancient well is in a dilapidated old house and is said to have a history of more than 200 years.
The descendants here donated this ancestral house and ancient well to the country.
But after the natural disaster, this old house has almost collapsed, and you have to be very careful when entering to prevent it from collapsing again.
The ancient well is at the back of the old house.
According to Wei Shao's confession, Ding Hao attached great importance to this ancient well.
Not only because it's the only source of water in their town right now.
It is also because they discovered that the water in this ancient well may allow them to upgrade their supernatural powers.
That's why Ding Hao asked people to guard this ancient well 24 hours a day.
If Ding Hao and Cai Guan had not driven away, they would most likely have gone to look for this ancient well.
Even if they couldn't take the ancient well away, they would at least get some water on their way.
The two strong men lying on the ground beside the ancient well.
"No breath." Peng Yuan and Lan Chengyin sniffed their breaths respectively and shook their heads.
Perhaps the situation was urgent, and in order to avoid exposing their whereabouts, Ding Hao and his companions directly killed them.
"Be careful!" Mo Fei's hearing was different from that of ordinary people. He warned them while pulling Peng Lan and the other person apart.
The moment the rope was pulled open, everyone saw two green serrated sickles under the body of one of the sturdy men.
A mutant mantis with a golden-green body, large compound eyes, long tentacles, and a fat abdomen appeared in front of everyone.
Before the disaster, praying mantises were rarely seen in the city. Occasionally, they were small, not as big as this one, which was half a washbasin.
Several people subconsciously pulled their companions and family members back.
Lin Jiyuan took a step forward and electrocuted the mutant mantis, causing it to crawl around.
But the mantis did not give up. It turned its head 180 degrees and pounced towards Lin Jiyuan at an astonishing speed.
Lin Jiyuan kicked the mutant mantis on the head and kicked it directly into the pile of rocks next to it.
Lan Chengyin followed closely behind, trying to tie up the mantis with a wooden vine.
But the mantis knife was too sharp and cut the vine directly.
Lan Chengyin felt extremely distressed and held the half-broken vine while breathing heavily.
Seeing that the mantis was still struggling to death, Peng Yuan quickly condensed the nearby metal elements into an iron knife, stabbed it into the mantis's brain, and killed it.
"Hey, it seems like there is something?" When Peng Yuan pulled out the iron knife, he felt that he touched something hard in the mantis's brain.
"There are stones growing in the mantis's brain?" Lin Jiye squatted down and found that what Peng Yuan dug out from the mantis's brain was a stone as big as a thumb nail.
But there was a layer of plasma covering the outside, so it was hard to tell what kind of stone it was.
Mo Fei took out a wet wipe from his backpack and wiped off all the dirt on the stone.
A small stone that sparkled like a crystal appeared before their eyes.
Lin Jiye took it to his brother and showed it to him like he was presenting a treasure.
"This is a supernatural crystal core." Lin Jiyuan took a look at the stone.
"The kind of supernatural crystal cores mentioned in novels? Produced in evolved creatures and zombies? How do you know?"
Mo Fei was very interested in the crystal core and asked Lin Jiyuan three questions in a row.
Lin Jiyuan didn't answer any of them.
He passed the stone to Peng Yuan next to him:
"You found this crystal core. You take it. Hold this stone and meditate."
"What is meditation?" Peng Yuan was stunned.
"..."Lin Jiyuan felt a little helpless.
Lan Chengyin patted Peng Yuan on the shoulder:
"I took yoga in college. I know. You do this and then that and then..."
Under Lan Chengyin's guidance, Peng Yuan closed his eyes, concentrated his mind, his facial expression began to relax, and all the muscles in his body relaxed.
After a moment, the colorful light in the crystal core disappeared.
Peng Yuan opened his eyes and said in surprise:
"I feel so comfortable now. It's like I've had enough food and sleep, and I have endless energy. And I feel like my supernatural powers have been enhanced a little."
He condensed a new iron knife. This time, the iron knife looked sharp and much stronger than before.
“It’s exactly like what’s written in the novel.”
The Mo Fei family watched with great interest and felt it was magical.
"Why aren't those we killed before here?" Peng Yuan asked interestedly.
This external force is so amazing.
He felt like a cell phone that wasn't fully charged, and he wanted more.
Lin Jiyuan explained: "The formation of crystal cores is like coal mining, it takes time. Now is the fourth month of the natural disaster, which just meets the shortest time for formation. And not all evolved creatures and zombies can generate superpower crystal cores. Sometimes you have to rely on luck."
He rarely spoke so much at once, and after a pause he added:
"We can look for it after we kill evolved creatures and zombies. This kind of superpower crystal core is necessary for superpower upgrades."
"Then can my abilities also be upgraded?"
The person asking the question was Mo Jianian, who was looking at his left hand.
The tentacles are long and have attack power, but they only exist for a relatively short time.
At first, it lasted for 3 minutes and was half a meter long. Now, after Mo Fei constantly gave him space water to drink and he trained himself every day, the tentacle could last for 10 minutes and was 2 meters long. But the cooling CD was still one hour.
In contrast, other people's abilities don't seem to have this limitation.
"Of course you can. You can't use your superpowers frequently now. Besides being related to your level, it's also related to your age and physical fitness. When you grow up a little bit, you can be like us." Lin Jiyuan rarely speaks such a long speech.
Mo Jianian nodded and secretly made up his mind to eat more to grow taller.
After resolving the incident with the mantis, everyone started to scatter to look for Ding Hao and Cai Guan.
But after searching everywhere along the ancient well, no trace of these two people was found.
Mo Fei turned back to the ancient well.
She threw the mantis corpse into the space when no one was paying attention. She saw that the mantis had a thick abdomen and might be able to make a dish after processing it.
As he turned around, Mo Fei supported himself on the edge of the ancient well with his hands, and found that just by standing by the ancient well he could feel a chill that rushed into the sky.
She stared at the bottomless ancient well and felt that there was a voice inside her body that seemed to be earnestly hoping that she would jump in.
For some unknown reason, Mo Fei really planned to jump into the well.
But the next second after she took a step forward, she immediately came to her senses.
Because she had been staring at the well, after her special ability was activated, a sound from the bottom of the well reached her ears and pulled her back to reality.
"Brother, how long are we going to hide down here?" A man's voice came from me. It should be Cai Guan.
Ding Hao said bitterly, "Wait for two days. We can leave after they relax their vigilance. There is always hope. There is no other way. It is impossible to get through there."
Mo Fei was shocked.
They searched here for a long time, but they didn't expect that there was another world at the bottom of the well.
After Mo Fei shouted a few times, several people nearby ran back.
"Is it possible that the two of them are at the bottom of this well?" Mo Fei pointed to the ancient well.
"Could it be that they are water-based users who can hold their breath?" Lin Jiye stretched his neck and looked down.
Mo Jianian was also watching and threw a stone in. The sound coming from it was deep, indicating that the water was very deep.
"I have the ability of hearing. As long as I focus on one place, I can hear the sound coming from that direction. I just heard them talking below. There should be a waterless space underwater where they can stay temporarily. When we search the entire Hexi Town and can't find them, they will come out."
Mo Fei pulled the rope hanging in the ancient well. She attributed her ability to hearing to a supernatural power.
Except for Lin Jiyuan, everyone else looked at Mo Fei in surprise.
Mo Fei also has the ability of hearing? When did he awaken? How come they don't know?
However, after Mo Fei said this, they were all sure that Ding Hao and the other man were hiding underneath.
But who goes down first becomes a problem.
They were not familiar with the situation below. If Ding Hao was waiting to catch someone underwater, the first person who went down would definitely be in trouble.
"I'll go first." Lin Jiyuan started taking off his clothes without thinking.
He took off his shirt, revealing his strong arms and muscles, as well as the scars on his back that had accumulated over the years.
Mo Fei felt a pain in his back when he saw these scars.
How cruel this person must be, to be alive and well after suffering so many injuries, and now he has become a superpower.
As Mo Fei was thinking about it, he found that Lin Jiyuan had already gone down the rope.
"Mom and Dad, you guys stay up there. Jianian and Jiayue, you guys protect grandpa and grandma."
Mo Fei came here for the water, so she must go down.
Also remaining on the shore were Lan Chengyin and Lin Jiye.
The sun has come out, and several people are huddled together under a large parasol beside the ancient well.
In order to avoid boredom, they began to discuss what dishes to eat after Mo Fei and the others came up.
The moment her body was immersed in the well water, Mo Fei's consciousness entered the space. She saw that the stream and the ancient well seemed to echo each other and began to surge.
She almost tried her best to hold back from absorbing the well water into the space when she touched it.
But the well water seemed to like her very much, rushing towards her desperately, causing a whirlpool in the originally calm water surface.
"What's going on?" Peng Yuan was a child from the village. He knew how to swim, but he had never seen a whirlpool in the well water.
He immediately looked around vigilantly, ready to attack at any time.
Lin Jiyuan glanced at Mo Fei, seeing through it but not saying anything:
"It's okay. Get ready and hold your breath. Remember to follow me closely."
The wonders of nature have created many miracles.
No one expected that there would be an underground river under the ancient well.
Underground rivers develop from the complex rock cracks and dissolved pores underground.
Sometimes it is wide and sometimes it is narrow, forming a huge maze under the influence of groundwater.
The temperature here can be described as cool and pleasant, quite similar to the effect of an air-conditioned room before a natural disaster.
There is a stone platform of about ten square meters next to the underground river.
Ding Hao and Cai Guan were lying there, one while the other was sitting.
Next to them was a rock wall with two sides almost squeezed together. After they came down, they tried several times but failed to swim through the gap between the rock walls.
Otherwise, they would have escaped along the underground river long ago and wouldn't have to wait here.
"Brother, why do I feel like someone is coming?"
Cai Guan stood up suddenly after hearing some noises.
Ding Hao immediately became alert: "If they dare to chase us, we will fight them to the death. You will destroy this place later. We will die together."
In fact, with Cai Guan's ability, it would only take a few minutes for him to use all his supernatural powers to collapse the rock wall.
But there was no guarantee that they would not be buried here if the rock wall collapsed, so Ding Hao rejected this idea.
But now Lin Jiyuan and the others are chasing us. If we really can’t get out, then we will all die together.
As soon as Ding Hao finished speaking, he felt like his whole body was struck by electricity.
In a panic, Ding Hao waved out ball of fire in his hands, illuminating the originally dim underground space into orange-yellow.
But there were no flammable materials in this underwater space. As soon as he set out his fire, it was quickly extinguished before he could even see where the attacks came from.
"Third brother! Get to the rock wall!"
Ding Hao shouted at Cai Guan, wanting him to do what he had just said.
The next second, a metal arrow shot over from an unknown direction, with electric light on it, and shot directly into Cai Guan's chest.
"Brother, run!" After Cai Guan shouted this, he fell straight to the ground and stopped breathing.
Ding Hao had no time to care about him. He dived into the water and swam hard towards the rock wall next to him.
And there, a dagger was waiting for him.
Before Ding Hao's blood contaminated the groundwater, Lin Jiyuan hooked his arm around Ding Hao's neck and dragged his body ashore.
Then he threw the bodies of Ding Hao and Cai Guan together.
It is quite troublesome if someone dies here, as they will have to be brought up there later.
To prevent the corpse from rotting, the groundwater will become corpse water and become unusable.
Peng Yuan wiped his face with his hand. He sat next to Cai Guan in a daze, still unable to believe that he had just killed a person so easily.
Lin Jiyuan let him take a break and reached out to pull Mo Fei again.
"What's wrong with you?" Lin Jiyuan noticed that something was wrong with Mo Fei.
Mo Fei frowned, looking a little flustered, but she was trying her best to keep herself in shock. She stretched her hand towards the water surface that was almost level with the stone platform. The light blue water was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye: "I don't know why, but I can't seem to stop..."
At this moment, tremendous changes are taking place in Mo Fei's space.
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