Chapter 288 The Dark World
The moon is covered with rocks and abyss.
The depth of the mine far exceeded Yue Long's initial prediction. Since the lower mine was too dark, a drop of light would be discovered by the treasure troupe above, Yue Long did not dare to take out the lumen stone.
Supporting the Wind Wings slowly descending in the dark, Yue Long could only raise all his attention to master his own balance and prevent the Wind Wings from being damaged by the protruding thorns on the surrounding walls.
He did not have the Eye of God. In the information, the leader of the treasure troupe named Xiu Ji did not have it, so the current situation of the two of them should be similar.
And that guy is one step ahead of him, and should be under him now...
However, no sound came from below, and there was no subtle sound when the wings of the wind spread and swept through the wind. The dark abyss below seemed to be just endless darkness...
When he first got the Wind Wings and Mond sent instructors to teach, Yue Long had seen people who had no sound at all when operating Wind Wings - but those were Wind Wings operators who were very famous even in Mond. How could a mere treasure troupe leader reach this level?
But... the environment he is in now cannot distract him from thinking about these things. He clearly felt that the distance between him and the surrounding walls seemed to be getting closer.
Getting closer...
This is proof that the surrounding walls are constantly approaching and the downward space is shrinking?
He has supported the Wind Wings for more than five minutes, and if we count the distance we fell before opening the Wind Wings... the distance here should be about 300 to 400 meters from those treasure robbers - in Yue Long's senses, his distance from the surrounding walls was reduced by half.
If the deeper you go, the smaller the space around you will be... the deeper the depth, the compressed the space...
Scream—
Suddenly, a slight sound came, and Yue Long's open wind wings were cut by part of the protruding spikes around the walls.
As the part of the Wind Wings was broken, the difficulty of maintaining balance increased sharply, and Yue Long's body in the air could no longer stop shaking.
It was then that Yue Long realized something extremely clearly: the surrounding walls were covered with rock thorns due to the abnormal changes.
If the space below keeps shrinking and cannot reach the ground, he will sooner or later fall into the spikes...
He has no God's Eye, and for the sake of lightness, he does not carry heavy armor that can resist the spikes. If he is really injured by these spikes, he might have to really explain it here.
But then again, since even he was inevitably affected by these spikes, Xiu Ji, who was moving one step further than him...
"etc..."
Yue Long suddenly felt something thick under his feet, but this was not the feeling of stepping on the ground, but it was more like the feeling of stepping on a person...
He could clearly feel that he was stepping on a person's back, and when he stepped on it with his weight, the person didn't move, which only means that he stepped on a dead person.
Could it be...
Thinking of this, Yue Long dared not hesitate anymore, so he quickly took out a small lumen stone from his body.
The darkness around it is so pure that a little light can illuminate the surrounding environment.
Following the light emitted by the lumen stone, he clearly saw the man lying at his feet.
Her strong body, broken wind wings and a black eye mask scattered not far away... This is the outfit of the leader of the treasure troupe Xiu Ji.
“…”
Yue Long was silent for a moment, and finally turned the "corpse" over and saw his face.
This is a very ordinary face, as shown in the information. Although it is a little different from the Liyue people, it is indeed a very ordinary face shape of a rice wife.
But... the leader of the treasure troupe who had been troubled by them for so many years actually died so simply?
The man who could not even capture the trail in the short term; the man who was at the high position of a wanted order died in such a ridiculous way that he fell from a high altitude in the name of caution?
But the broken Wind Wings and black eye mask not far from his body meant that there was indeed such a possibility. After all, even Yue Long could not perfectly control Wind Wings in such an environment.
Although the facts before him were so clear, Yue Long still carefully checked Xiuji's physical condition - the facts were just as he expected, Xiuji had closed his eyes forever.
Judging from the damage to his body, many bones in his body were broken, which was indeed caused by impact after falling from a high place - but in this way, the problem has also arisen.
Why didn't he hear any sound?
This level of fall, coupled with this claustrophobic environment, could not have been heard from his ears above.
Unless...what else is affecting the surrounding environment or even blocking the sound...will Shuji look for at risk of his life?
He also paid attention to the things on this guy when checking Xiu Ji's physical condition, but unfortunately, there was nothing on it.
It's so abnormal. Xiu Ji's performance is completely different from before. His previous prudence and strategy seem to be left behind.
Crunch ~
Just when Yue Long was puzzled, a slight push and pull sound of old wooden doors sounded, and the source of the sound was at the broken wind wings and the black eye mask.
Yue Long raised the lumen stone and let the light shine on that side. He saw an ancient wooden door at a glance.
It stands among a pile of spikes, and all the rock thorns outside are extended outwards, but the only one on the wooden door is growing inwards. If you walk over, you won't be directly injured by the rock thorns.
What is strange is that the broken Wind Wings and the black eye mask are both facing this direction, and there is a distance between Shuji's own body.
Without hesitation for too long, Yue Long quickly made a decision. He held the lumen stone in his hand and walked towards the wooden door.
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Above.
The members of the treasure troupe digged digging for more than ten minutes, but only dug less than three meters of road. With this efficiency, they could not keep up with Xiu Ji's speed for several days and nights - although there was no such sayings as [Day] and [Night] here.
In this case, a wise member made a very reliable suggestion.
That is, directly dig the hole down and use the rope to stabilize it step by step - anyway, there are more than 20 people, and the platform here is also very large, so there is no such thing as falling down without pulling people.
In addition, the people who made this suggestion liked to climb mountains to gain some experience in this area, so all the members of the treasure thieving group thought this method was very good and immediately implemented it.
Although this method is very unsafe in terms of safety, it is better in efficiency, so they just chisel towards the darkness below step by step.
Chapter completed!