Chapter 183 Underground River
The cave slopes downward.
This is what Bai Chenxue and the other two felt as they followed Jin Cai deeper into the cave.
As we go deeper and deeper, it becomes darker and darker around us. Fortunately, players usually have a piece of calcite on hand, which can be used for lighting at this time.
After walking for a while, they came to another fork in the road. This time there were only two forks in the road, but it was difficult for the three of them to split up into teams, so they marked them on the map and then followed Jincai down.
Soon, the passage became increasingly narrow, and Shen Yun, the tallest person, had to bend his back.
After walking another ten or so meters, Bai Chenxue and Lin Muning were also forced to bend over.
However, after passing through a small stone cave that was just big enough to fit through, the surroundings suddenly became clear.
It was a huge underground cave, with dense stalactites above the head and stone pillars and stalagmites on the ground. Two steps forward, there was an underground river that meandered towards the darker depths.
Reflecting the light from the calcite, this underground cave is rainbow-colored everywhere, and the smooth surface of the stalactites is also flashing with colorful colors. Only the underground river is pitch black, which looks quite strange.
Bai Chenxue saw Jin Cai standing still and spinning in circles in the underground river, so she turned around and asked the two of them, "What should we do? We can't get through! It looks like we haven't arrived yet!"
Lin Mu Ning said: "Actually, we can fly over there, but I don't know how far we have to fly. It's too dark here and we can't see clearly inside."
Shen Yun said: "You guys wait here, I'll fly over to explore the way...Give me a piece of stone!"
Bai Chenxue took out a piece of stone and handed it to Shen Yun, and then saw him carefully flying from the surface of the underground river to the depths.
While Shen Yun was exploring the way, Bai Chenxue looked around boredly, and suddenly saw a hint of red.
She pulled Lin Mu Ning's sleeve and said, "Hey! Xiao Ning! Look what that is?"
"What's wrong?"
Lin Muning looked in the direction of Bai Chenxue's finger and also saw the red thing.
The two approached carefully and were surprised to find that it was a red snake skin.
Logically, the skin shed by a snake should turn gray or nearly gray after a long time, but the snake skin in front of me is extremely bright red, with almost no other colors, and it is obvious at first glance that it is not an ordinary thing.
Bai Chenxue excitedly pulled up the huge snake skin and pretended to give it to Lin Muning, saying, "Put it away! Let's bid or roll for it later to divide the spoils! This thing must be useful for refining equipment or something! It looks very valuable!"
Lin Mu Ning took several steps back in fear, waving his hands repeatedly: "You should keep it, I'm a little scared!"
"Okay!"
Bai Chenxue did not refuse and put it in her gaming backpack.
At the same time, Shen Yun flew for a while and finally saw a piece of "land".
It was a stone island, right in the middle of the underground river. There was a stone table and two stone benches on the stone island. Faintly, there seemed to be a figure sitting on the stone bench.
Shen Yun was frightened by the strange scenery and hesitated from a distance, not knowing whether to advance or retreat.
Instead, the blurry figure seemed to have noticed him and waved at him, as if asking him to come over.
Shen Yun hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and continued to fly towards the stone island. Unexpectedly, after flying only a few meters, he suddenly seemed to pass through a very sticky air film - it was a barrier!
As soon as he entered the barrier, the figure on the stone island suddenly became clear. It was a man. His clothes were very simple and plain, somewhat like the Warring States robes in the history of Blue Star, but also somewhat different.
But what attracted Shen Yun's attention more was the sound of flowing water suddenly bursting in his ears!
He looked in the direction of the sound and discovered that there was a waterfall not far away!
A waterfall in an underground river!
The waterfall was more than ten meters wide and divided into three levels, each of which was several meters high! Although the waterfall was still some distance away from Shen Yun, the splashing water had already splashed onto his face, icy cold with a hint of bone-chilling chill.
Just as Shen Yun was shocked by the strange and magnificent scenery, a voice came to his ears: "I didn't expect someone to finally come here!"
It's not Middle-Asia! That's right, although the game has a built-in "translation function", when talking to NPCs in the game, you can still hear the other person's tone of voice, but it is automatically converted into a flower language in the players' minds.
But the language spoken by this NPC was completely different from the Middle Kingdom language, and even somewhat familiar, just like... just like Cantonese! ?
Of course, after thinking about it carefully, there are still some differences - if it weren't for some singers and actors, which caused Shen Yun to know a little Cantonese, he would probably have thought that this NPC was speaking Cantonese!
"Hmm? Don't you understand me?"
The man was puzzled for a moment, then switched to the Central Plains language and asked, "Which sect are you from? It seems that the fox demon and the boa demon were killed by you?"
"I, I am from the Taiyin Sect,"
Shen Yun answered subconsciously, thinking it was just an NPC for some mission plot, and quickly said the key words: "The fox demon and the boa demon should have been killed by the people of the Chiyuan Sect. By the way, senior, we are here to track down the groundwater pollution. Does the senior know the reason?"
"Taiyin Sect..."
The man suddenly fell silent, and then his figure became somewhat illusory. After a few seconds, he suddenly muttered to himself: "So that's it... Taiyin Sect... a very bold attempt..."
Shen Yun thought he was another NPC who had never heard of Taiyin Sect, so he explained: "Senior? Our Taiyin Sect was established not long ago, so you may not know, I..."
"I know," the man interrupted Shen Yun's introduction and said, "I know Taiyin Sect, and I also know you, the people from another world."
After saying this, his figure became even fainter, almost appearing translucent.
"The underground water pollution you just asked about is very simple. It's about this underground river. The fox demon hid a magic weapon for searching at the bottom of the river, and washed away the evil spirit and evil energy that he had acquired from eating humans in the river. In the past, because this underground river was connected in all directions, it could gradually dissipate. But a few years ago, the river channel leading to the sea was blocked, and the speed at which it naturally dissipated could not keep up with the speed at which the evil spirits of those monsters accumulated... I guess this is the reason."
Shen Yun suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Then can we just find that river and dredge it?"
The man nodded and said, "Yes, but it doesn't matter if we don't clear it. Those monsters are dead anyway. They will naturally dissipate in a few years."
"The sooner the well is cleared, the sooner the people who rely on the well can resume their normal lives!"
Shen Yun glanced at the motionless taskbar and casually asked about the NPC's background: "By the way, my name is Yun Canghai, and I am a disciple of the Taiyin Sect. I haven't asked for your name yet, senior?"
The man tilted his head, as if he had forgotten his name.
"Jun Chou," he thought for a moment before answering, "My name is Jun Chou."
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