Ever since he saw the vines, he had been nervously recalling any details he had missed before, over and over again. Under such high pressure, beads of sweat had already seeped out of An Yu's forehead and face!
"Hurry up! I can't hold on any longer!" Su Fanjun said to An Yu anxiously. As he spoke, he used his weapon to cut off the vines that wanted to entangle him, and did not forget to cut off the vines on An Yu's side as well!
"Xiaohuo, put my brother up! Let him think carefully up there! It's too unsafe down there!" An Ran said to Xiaohuo who was leading them to escape.
"Oh, okay." Xiaohuo also saw the situation in front of him. He quickly threw An Yu, who was holding his right paw, up. At the same time, Jun Zichen jumped off Xiaohuo's back even faster and grabbed its right paw!
Under immense pressure, people will always unleash their full potential, and An Yu was no exception. When Xiao Huo led them around the temple for the third time, An Yu looked at a Qilin sculpture in front of him and shouted, "It's right in front! Fly towards that sculpture!"
This time, Xiaohuo flew towards the sculpture very consciously without waiting for Anran to remind him!
It was a sculpture of a baby Qilin mythical beast playing and frolicking. Although it was small, it was carved to look lifelike. An Ran and the others could clearly feel the joy and happiness on the face of the baby Qilin mythical beast!
A fire dragon spit out from the corner of Xiaohuo's mouth, turning all the vines blocking his way into ashes, and he came to the front of the sculpture unhindered!
An Yu was the first to jump off Xiaohuo's back and ran straight towards the sculpture. An Yu, Su Fanjun, Jun Zichen and Xu Errong also got off Xiaohuo, formed a semicircle around An Yu, and they looked vigilantly at the vines around them, trying to buy time for An Yu!
With a "click" sound, the stone wall behind them slowly opened, and at the same time, An Yu's voice was heard: "Retreat quickly!"
After saying that, An Yu was the first to enter the black hole behind the door, followed closely by An Ran, Su Fanjun, and Xu Errong. Jun Zichen was the last one to enter the black hole!
When everyone went in, they discovered that the layer of Qilin statue that they had never reached had blocked the invasion of vines!
An Ran, An Yu, Xu Errong, Jun Zichen, and Su Fanjun finally breathed a sigh of relief. They were really scared of being entangled by the vines...
"Follow me..." An Yu said calmly, his eyes looking at the long steps under his feet, extending all the way into the black hole...
When he was about to leave, he hesitated. He had a very strange feeling in his heart. He couldn't say it was bad, but he couldn't say it was particularly good either. The feeling was very complicated...
"What's wrong?" Su Fanjun looked at An Yu in confusion, "Why aren't you leaving? What happened?"
"Nothing..." An Yu let out a long breath, suppressed the feeling in his heart, looked at the steps under his feet and said: "Nothing, let's keep going forward."
As An Yu stepped onto the steps in front of him, the wall behind them slowly closed, and the entire passage fell into darkness.
"Don't panic, let's hold hands and move forward together!" At the critical moment, Jun Zichen stood up and calmly warned everyone.
However, his reminder was of no use at all, because a moment later, many lights lit up on the walls around them, not bright but enough to illuminate the path under their feet.
The long, empty stairs that seemed to have no end, the dim lights, the deathly silence all around, and the occasional "crackling" sound in the air all made people feel eerie and terrifying for no reason.
The corridor seemed extremely long in the darkness, as if it was a road to hell, with no end. From time to time, a few dark yellow smokes emerged from both sides, as if the messenger of hell was waving at them.
But their retreat was blocked, so they could only grit their teeth and move forward. An Yu suppressed the fear in his heart and gritted his teeth to move forward!
An Ran, Su Fanjun, Jun Zichen, and Xu Errong happened to catch up. As they walked forward, the oil lamps in front of them, which had been dim, lit up one by one, and the oil lamps behind them also went out silently after they left...
The light in front of their eyes always remained at about ten meters, and the light next to them was always the brightest, and then gradually weakened to both sides.
After walking for a long time, they still couldn't reach the end. An Ran couldn't remember how many stairs they had descended. She was already a little tired. Since arriving at the castle, they had hardly rested. Coupled with what had happened before and after entering the temple, she really couldn't bear it anymore...
"Let's take a break! This staircase is so long, I wonder how long it will take to reach the end! I'm really tired..." An Ran said as she looked at Jun Zichen. She knew that Jun Zichen was the leader of their team...
"Okay, let's rest here for a while. But everyone, be careful, don't touch anything..."
Jun Zichen rarely refused An Ran's request, and this time he agreed as well.
An Yu, Su Fanjun and Xu Errong were also a little tired, but they just didn't say it. Seeing that it was time to rest, the three of them quickly found a flat place for themselves, took out some cushions from the space rings, and sat down.
Jun Zichen didn't. The reason he agreed to An Ran's proposal was not only because An Ran felt tired and wanted to rest, but also because he always felt that there was something strange about the steps in front of him...
He frowned and looked at the steps in front of him, carefully checking them, searching both sides of the stairs without missing a single detail, his expression serious...
Xu Errong raised an eyebrow and looked at Jun Zichen, watching his movements carefully. He didn't know what he was up to. After watching for a long time without figuring out, he asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"
Jun Zichen frowned and replied, "I counted. Since we started walking up this staircase, we have already walked up 17,872 stairs. Everything we have walked together is a road..."
Hearing Jun Zichen say this, the curiosity of Su Fanjun, An Ran and An Yu was aroused. They all looked at Jun Zichen, expecting what he would say next.
(To be continued.)
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