There is a long flight of stone steps under the cave.
Without hesitation, we went all the way up. We went through such a long journey just to reach this place. However, after arriving, I still felt a little weird. The weird thing was that there was clearly a door in the cave, but it was ajar. As for why we knew this, it was because there was a whistling sound coming from the cave, which showed that the door was not closed tightly.
Is it usually open? Why add this door? Isn't it useless?
In addition, although there were many stone steps in between, I could already hear some fighting sounds in the cave. I didn't know if I heard it wrong, but in any case, there were really a lot of crackling sounds.
In this dimension, there are no other members of the Exorcist Division except Su Yuexi, so how could there be fighting sounds? Could it be that my ears are also hallucinating?
But I can't say for sure. Ever since I ate the black stone, my body started to show many strange things. It is very different from before. After that alienation, I have to adapt to this body again. It is not strange to have auditory hallucinations now. Therefore, I didn't ask Su Yuexi for fear that she would think too much.
Soon, we reached the last step of the stone steps. There was still a strong sound of fighting inside. Su Yuexi frowned, and before going in, I was thinking, how should I deal with the fish in my hand? Should I bring it in to participate in our brutal battle?
"Brother Zhou Bo, what are your plans when we go in this time? Are you going to negotiate and ask it to let us go back, or what are you going to do?" she asked.
I sighed and said, "I've been thinking about this the whole time. But if we kill it directly and end up unable to go back, then the gains will outweigh the losses. So my plan is to talk about it first, then fight it after we return to the original world. But I have a feeling that this time when we go in, things will definitely be beyond our imagination, so there is not much point in talking about this now."
"If what we do inside is a matter of life and death, what do you most want to do now?" she asked.
I waved at her, and she immediately rushed towards me and hugged me tightly. This was exactly what I meant. Before the tragedy happened, we should have each other well and have a perfect farewell to this part of the journey. But at the moment, I was more worried about the animal skin pants (actually it was in the shape of a skirt) that I had tied with great difficulty, and I hoped it would not fall off, so as not to be too embarrassing.
"Don't ask me all the time. I'll give you the chance this time. I'll fulfill your wish no matter what you want to do," I said.
She looked up at me seriously, then shook her head and said, "I just want you to be safe and sound. That's all I want."
I stroked her cheek, which was so delicate and tender, like a baby's. I nodded and said, "You too, let's go back alive together."
"I'm very happy to have such a wonderful journey with Brother Zhou Bo. It allowed me to see many of the things you encountered before. Let me experience it again with you, just like making up for the regret that I didn't have the adventure with you before. Now I am very satisfied. No matter what happens after I go in, I am already very satisfied. Thank you, Brother Zhou Bo." She smiled, her smile was as beautiful as a flower, and she was so beautiful that it was beyond words.
I held her face in my hands, and couldn't help but kiss her forehead, saying, "Thank you, too, for always doing everything you could for my own good."
Tears gradually welled up in her eyes, perhaps because the journey had reached its end and all the joys and sorrows had come to an end, or perhaps it was the final fleeting moment between the two of us. She was reluctant, uneasy and nostalgic at the same time. I knew it because I had the same feelings as her in my heart.
But the reality is, we can only move forward with the situation, and we cannot retreat once we have come to this point, especially those who love me and those I love, except her, there are others waiting for me on the other side. Going back is a necessary path. Although it is cruel to say goodbye to the journey, this is the meaning of the journey itself.
After hugging again, we looked at each other with smiles and entered the mysterious cave.
When we entered, we thought it would be very dark inside, but surprisingly, it was not dark at all. Instead, it was as bright as day. As soon as we entered, we were swallowed up by a huge light. Our eyes instantly lost their function. There was only endless white. We could not see anything around us. We lost all colors and the photosensitivity of our eyes.
In other words, at this moment, it was as if I no longer existed. In this world, I was just a superfluous consciousness.
I tried to scream, but no sound came out. I could only let this chaos devour all my senses. It felt like I was back in the mother's body again. Everything was just a beam of white light, and nothing else.
However, at this moment, with a bang, the white light dissipated, and the knife on my back returned to my back, and a strange rock in front of me was split open, so that the strong light dissipated.
Back in this cave again, I could hear the fighting sounds getting louder and louder. When I listened carefully, my eyes widened. Su Yuexi had just woken up from her trance and saw that I was nervous, so she quickly asked, "What did you hear?"
I shook my head vigorously, but said with certainty, "It seems to be Lingshang and Yunwen. I don't know if I am hallucinating. I heard the sound of fighting outside the door just now, and now I hear their voices. From this, I think there is a high possibility that there is something wrong with my body."
She shook her head at this point and said, "No, I heard the fighting too."
I was stunned. If the sounds of fighting existed, which meant that what I had been hearing was real, then the voices of Yunwen and Lingshang that I heard at this moment were also real. Didn't that mean they were here too?
A day without seeing you feels like three years have passed. I have already been away for three days. How many years have passed? I can't even count them. Besides, they are in danger now, so I have to help them quickly. So I quickly took Su Yuexi with me and we ran towards the inside of the cave.
My goodness, it was no longer full of daylight, but an endless darkness that stretched as far as the eye could see. However, if the white space was some kind of illusion, the black space was the reality, because before we ran a few steps, we rolled down into a huge abyss. I could feel that I was tripped by a stone.
He wouldn't just fall to death like that, would he?
At this moment, I thought of something even scarier: could it be that the sounds just now were a way of luring us into a trap? Just like some people use the sounds of female animals to lure prey into a trap.
"Ah!" I shouted.
There are so many echoes, one after another...
But after a moment, I shut my mouth, because we quickly went from falling to floating. In Su Yuexi's opinion, this disaster caused by gravity was not worth mentioning.
"I was careless and got fooled by it. I was fooled by such simple hunting techniques," I said.
But Su Yuexi held my hand tightly and said, "It may not be fake, but we may not be able to see it clearly here."
"You mean, we are still in the illusion?" I asked.
"Then we have to ask, it's hidden." Su Yuexi said.
This time, I took the initiative to pull out the blade from my back. At this moment, the knife suddenly pulled us forward. We flew forward with it and were dragged forward by it. Because it was too dark, I didn't know that there was not only an abyss below, but also a way to somewhere. Because while Yinsha was flying, we were crossing a long section of the road ahead. It can be seen that there is no depth or bottom below, and the depth of the cave is also breathtaking.
At this moment, I remembered the phrase "walking in a dream". Such a large underground space obviously does not seem like reality, but it is. Isn't this the usual style of the Dark Lord?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel curious about that guy. A guy who can control parallel universes, a guy who needs others to die, a guy who can create man-eating monsters, what is he? In addition, there are the voices of Yunwen and Lingshang on one end, so why is there a fighting sound? Could it be a person?
Just when I was still wondering, it suddenly dawned on me that we were clenched in the mountain wall that was made of mercury. When I stuck my head out, I saw a secret cave that looked like a paradise, and the lights around it were actually candles...