Watching Yunwen go out the door, I gently touched the left side of my face, still feeling cool. I knew it was a lucky kiss. Yunwen probably wanted to bless me in this way. Knowing her intention, I smiled slightly and prepared to set off for the tunnel.

Before setting off, I made a special selection of food. The food has been consumed quickly recently. There is only half a bag of flour left, and only two or three cans of canned food left. Other wild vegetables and other items are already very limited. If the personnel situation cannot be improved in time and the consumption is still so fast, I am afraid that we will run out of food within a week.

Last night was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the lunar calendar had already passed August 15th. In a few days it will be the Autumnal Equinox. Halfway through autumn, a new winter will soon arrive. However, winter is a time of great food shortage, and we should have stored food for the winter. However, under the current conditions, it is probably difficult to store food for the winter.

The problems kept coming one after another, which really caught me off guard. However, I could only deal with them as they came. For now, I had to quickly solve the problem in front of me, especially the problem of the Song sisters. I could not worry about food for the time being.

So, I took the Golden Que Sword and a military kettle filled with spring water. I also soaked the Feiyu suit cloak in the spring water and soaked a piece of coarse cloth in the same way, without wringing it out on purpose. I put them all in the backpack. After preparing these, I went to the entrance of the tunnel near the edge of the fence on the left, pushed open the wooden board, went down the ladder, and soon entered the tunnel.

Since I've been here once, I'm not curious about everything here. Things like the eternal lamp and dragon birthday incense are already commonplace. But when I got near the cave wall where the mechanism was opened, I rummaged through the earthen cabinet, hoping to find a new Heavenly Master Talisman or the ancient secret book that Senior Li Mufeng mentioned.

It's a pity that the book was found, but it suffered the same fate as the other books. It had been bitten to pieces and could not even be considered a fragment. The only thing that could be seen was a few fragments of the words "Xuan Pin Ling Fu..." written on the cover of the book, and three words "Kun Yuan Zi" in the line below.

I flipped through a few pages under the light and was still readable. All I could see were some flowery words written inside, and because there were too many fragments, I could understand even less of the coherence. However, there was one sentence that was intact and I could understand the meaning. It said, "That is to say, Tao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, two gave birth to three, and three gave birth to all things. In other words, when united, they are one; when separated, they are different; when different, they are all things. It is also said that Tao is the opposite of movement..."

The text did not go on to mention this further, but just by seeing this, I seem to understand what the author said, the great way is simple, and I can guess what he means, but it is just to look at it in reverse, so all things are born from three, three are born from two, two are born from one, and one is born from the Tao, so all things are originally one, which is the Tao, and all things are one.

Thinking about these, I feel that there seems to be some truth in them. I think the principle of the Xuanpin Tianshi Talisman must be based on this. However, now is not the time to study these great principles. What is more important is to do things quickly and resolve the disaster that is happening now.

So, I put the book, which was not even a book, into my backpack, and continued to explore the way, going forward along the tunnel. When I reached the end of the tunnel, there was the abyss below. It was pitch black below the abyss, with a faint light. There were stairs leading directly to the underground abyss, and I could reach the destination by following the stairs down.

On the earth wall beside the stairs, there is a lamp that is always on every twenty steps or so. The light is absolutely sufficient, allowing people to go underground so easily. It is like a beautiful woman with half her face covered and her hand hooked, exuding charm. When people come here, they can't help but want to explore to satisfy their curiosity.

"The mysterious things usually look ordinary. This is also the movement of the opposite." I analyzed.

Then I wrapped my mouth and nose with the coarse cloth filled with spring water, and put on the flying fish suit cloak which was also soaked with spring water, and put on its hood. I felt extremely uncomfortable with being wet all over, but in order to isolate myself from the poisonous miasma below to the greatest extent, I could only wrap myself tightly like this and go down into the abyss.

The last time I came here, I didn't feel anything unusual, but this time, I felt that everywhere was mysterious. Although there was no physical thing rushing out to harm people, the eerie and mysterious feeling was like countless black hands reaching out from the wall to strangle my throat, making me dare not breathe easily.

The steps are the same all the way. It is pitch black on the left side and faintly bright on the right side. The road you can see is always the one in front of you. It is slightly clearer five or six steps up and down, and slightly less clear further back. Ten steps forward, you can't see anything, but when you pass there, you can see the light ahead again, and then you can continue walking.

After walking up about two or three hundred steps, I arrived downstairs. There were many eternal lamps on the ground, which was extremely luxurious. I could see the underground water and three or four water wheels running non-stop. When they turned, they drove the gear shaft, and the gears linked many devices, including the chain that was connected to the top. I thought of when I used the "elevator" above, I opened the iron pestle switch. I guess when I pushed the iron pestle, the position of the chain below would change, and it would definitely be connected to the gear.

Once the gear is connected to the chain hole, the power of the waterwheel can drive the gear. The gear will rotate with the power, thus providing power for the "elevator" to rise.

I walked forward and saw a dancing wooden man. It was a puppet made of just wooden parts. It was like a puppet in a music box, playing the same music over and over again. As long as the water power was there, it would keep moving and never stop.

Crouching slightly in front of it, I listened to it speak.

Sure enough, there was a strange sound that kept ringing, like the sound of strings, but I could clearly hear the tone, and the sound quality was too similar to a man's voice. I was very confused, so I let the Golden Que Sword transform my spiritual energy, light up the light, and shine it into its mouth. This sight scared me to death!

When it opened its mouth, I saw a human throat and larynx inside. I didn't know if it was because of the special environment, so it was not damaged, it just sounded weird.

"Who came up with this idea? Won't I have nightmares at night?" I said, patting my chest to calm myself.

At this time, the wooden man finally spoke again and started from the beginning. The first sentence surprised me. I only heard it introduce: "Younger generation, I am fortunate to meet you. I am Wang Gang, the deputy envoy of the Dragon Camp..."

My eyes widened. This guy was actually Wang Gang? He actually turned himself into a wooden man?

Then it said a bunch of things I had heard before, all about the tragedy that happened that year, the appearance of [Erosion], the internal fighting among all the members of the Seeking Dragon Camp, and the death or injury of all of them. I had heard about all of these before, and the next sentence was the answer I was looking for: "The surviving ones all went to the west camp in the canyon for refuge. I heard from the messenger that a method to cure the evil of the Erosion has been found there, so if future generations hear about this, they should go there as soon as possible and stay away from this place..."

Okay, I have understood the original version. I thought that since I have taken proper protection, this poisonous miasma cannot affect me, so this information is definitely correct.

However, when I just stood up, I felt something was wrong. I took a closer look and was immediately frightened by the scene in front of me and collapsed to the ground!

That pair of red eyes, bigger than a human's, were looking towards me from the darkness. No, not just one pair, but nine pairs! !