Calamity Dance

Chapter 54 Tracking
"What should I do? Or should I smash it open?" Xu Qingquan touched the round hole back and forth, and it is definitely impossible to open it with a key in this state.

"Don't act rashly, the cavity of this cave resonates, and if it collapses, not only can we not get things, but it will be difficult to get out!" Orianna quickly stopped.

"Let me take a look." Ren pulled Xu Qingquan's shoulder and moved closer to observe carefully.

This small round hole is about a little bigger than a thumb, and the ancient characters on the outside are unfamiliar to Ren, more like hieroglyphs from ancient times. Judging from the age of the rock mass, it may have been tens of thousands of years ago.

At that time, human civilization had not yet covered the planet, and writing and language had just formed. What kind of civilization would leave such a device here.

Ren took out a pack of colloid and poured it into the round hole.After a while, he took out the colloid to check.Surprisingly, the shaped round hole is not so much a keyhole as a jagged fang!
Ryan passed the plastic film to everyone, and everyone said that they had no clues.

"Wait a minute! I have something here!" Lin suddenly shouted from behind.

Everyone's eyes turned to her, only to see Lynn open the neckline and remove a necklace from her neck.There is a sharp tooth in the middle of the chain, which looks very similar to the model of the key in Ryan's hand!
"I have a tooth here, which is similar in size, why don't you try it?" Lin took off the sharp tooth hanging around her neck and walked to the wall.

She carefully put her sharp teeth into the hole, and it fit perfectly!

Behind the sharp round hole, there was a crackling sound on the wall, and everyone quickly picked up the light ball to look at it.

I saw that the granite wall with no gaps was sunken in a spiral shape with the round hole as the center.The spiral depression drove the surrounding mountains to vibrate continuously, and after a while, a huge hole was opened on the ground under Xu Qingquan's feet.

Xu Qingquan quickly jumped away.After everything stopped ringing, Lin took back the sharp tooth and hung it around her neck.

"Where did this tooth come from? How did you have this thing?" Orianna looked at Lin suspiciously.

"White Ape gave it to me and said it would definitely be useful, but I didn't expect it to be useful in this place!" Lin explained while putting away her sharp teeth.

"Bai Yuan told us that there was a traitor at the time. Could it be that it already knew a lot?" Xu Qingquan said.

"The age of this white ape has always been a mystery, and it obviously knows much more than us! But it can be said that it is very unexpected that it can give us this key after planning so many steps." Ren said, " I originally thought it was a brave man with nothing but brute force. I didn't expect the beast spirit to be so intelligent!"

"At least in this battle, I think the White Ape is on our side!" Xu Qingquan's tone was a little joyful.

"Forget about this, let's check the situation below!" Orianna hurried to the entrance of the cave, illuminating it with a light ball, trying to see the situation below as clearly as possible.

The Wren probe flew in again, and quickly returned information.

The cave below is an arched passage leading to the interior of the mountain, almost parallel to the underground river just discovered.The air circulation in the channel should be passable for people.

Ren told everyone about the situation, Xu Qingquan jumped off first, and everyone went down to the lower cave one by one.

But Xu Qingquan who stepped on the ground already felt something on the ground.He looked down, and saw countless dead bones covering the passage extending into the unknown depths.

This scene scared Sanqian Sakura to exclaim, and hid in Orianna's arms.

Ren looked down and saw that these dead bones had been around for a long time. Not only were they heavily calcified, but most of them were already close to petrification.

However, these bones are very large and thick, and in terms of size, length, and appearance, they don't look like human bones, let alone current animals.

"It may be that the ancient beast spirits inhabited here. These eighteen caves may not have such a high altitude in the last geological era. The beast spirits are likely to live here. This is their ancient tomb!" Ren inspected Said the petrified bones.

"No wonder the white ape knows this place!" Xu Qingquan clapped his hands.

"Don't be careless. It seems that no one has passed through this hole. We also bumped into it by mistake. There should be other entrances and exits in the normal place where the beads are stored. We still have to be careful." Orianna analyzed.

Xu Qingquan thought it made sense, and stepped forward cautiously to explore the way.

This passage has traveled several hundred meters, and I haven't seen the end yet, and there is no smell of living things, only the fresh wind blows in front of me.

"Is this the right way?" Xu Qingquan looked back at Ren.

"I can only go forward, there is no other way." Ren looked at him helplessly.

"It's true." Xu Qingquan turned his head and continued to walk forward. The light ball was in front of him, illuminating the bones along the way, which made people's hair stand on end.

As soon as Xu Qingquan finished speaking, he suddenly found that the dry bones under his feet were a little loose, which was completely different from the road just now.He stopped and stepped on it hard, but suddenly he missed his foot and fell down.

Xu Qingquan reacted quickly and tried to grab the side, but without any support, he fell into a long pipe.The pipe had a steep slope, and Xu Qingquan kept falling, unable to catch the protrusion next to him, so he could only let his body go down.

Xu Qingquan didn't have time to think, he couldn't see the aisle just now when he turned his head, and no one else fell down, only himself.

Seeing Xu Qingquan fall, Sanqianying exclaimed, but his figure had already disappeared among the dead bones.

Ren lay down among the dead bones and looked down. He could only see black pipes, and there was no shadow of Xu Qingquan at all.There was no response to shouting.

"Let's go down and have a look!" Lin said nervously.

"This place may have been a volcano earlier, and there are lava tubes below!" Ren did not act rashly, "The slope is very steep, let's go down without saying whether we will not come back, the bigger possibility is one by one Crash and kill!"

Ren is actually not that worried, he thinks that Xu Qingquan can handle it completely.

Xu Qingquan rubbed his hand against the rock wall during his fall. Although he was injured and the pain was unbearable, his recovery ability was excellent, so he could only slow down manually.

Finally, after an unknown amount of time, Xu Qingquan slipped out of the pipe and was thrown heavily into a swift current.

Xu Qingquan struggled to get out of the water. The current was so fast that he couldn't keep his balance and had already choked on several saliva.

The water body of the underground river in the mountains is cold, and it does not freeze due to its continuous flow.Xu Qingquan tried to go down the river, stuck his head out of the water, and observed the surrounding situation.

This dark river is three to four meters wide, and it seems that many streams above it have converged just now.A lot of stalactites have been formed on the upper part of the river due to the perennial flow of the underground river. Xu Qingquan wanted to surface more, but accidentally bumped his head and pushed him down again.

The whole environment is very dark, almost invisible.Xu Qingquan couldn't judge whether more people fell down with him.However, the top priority must be to go ashore as soon as possible to prevent the icy river from freezing him to hypothermia.

In the bone cave above the dark river, Ren led the crowd forward, Orianna led Sanqianying, and Lin followed at the end.

"We continue to move forward. The volcanic activity here has long since ended. There must be no lava. There is wind coming from the front, and there is a dark river next to it. There must be an exit here." Ren analyzed to the people behind.

"Don't worry about that kid, he won't die." Orianna also said.Although she said so verbally, in fact, she was more worried that Xu Qingquan would meet Abu Muti first.If this is the case, with Xu Qingquan's current state, it is not certain what will happen.

"You said, did the White Ape know that the people in the other world were looking for the magic weapon?" Lin was still thinking about the meaning of the sharp tooth that the White Ape gave her.

"Who knows, the relationship between it and humans has always been very delicate. On the one hand, it looks down on us and doesn't like to associate with us; Guardian, it is very recognized for this." Ren replied, and he continued, "You still have to keep this tooth, and there may be more uses."

"Yeah!" Lin nodded and touched the sharp teeth on her neck.

"But it's a bit strange that it can give you this tooth. I don't know what it likes about us." Orianna said to herself.

Lin grabbed Sanqianying's hand and shook her head, hoping she would not tell about her transformation into Balrog Mephisto.Sanqianying nodded, although she was a bit embarrassed, she still expressed her understanding.

"We have to be careful in the future, and we can't have this kind of sudden stepping into the air again!" Ren said seriously, "We don't have the recovery ability of Xu Qingquan. Once we get lost, it will be very dangerous!"

The three people in the back tightened up and walked more carefully.

The dry bone passage continues to extend forward, and I don't know how many beasts have walked here to the end of their lives.

Xu Qingquan went down the river, he gradually became familiar with the rhythm of the water flow, and he was able to surface.At the same time, he opened his eyes wide to check his surroundings back and forth.

After a while, the water flow gradually slowed down, and several forks appeared.It seemed that there was a little light coming from the front right, Xu Qingquan quickly grabbed the rock wall on the right and let himself flow to the bright place.

Soon, the light just now became more and more obvious, and it seemed more like a lamp.Just as the water flow was not in a hurry, Xu Qingquan seized the opportunity to grab the light and climbed up.

Xu Qingquan lay on his back on the ground, his whole body was cold and shivering.Panting heavily, he struggled to get up and rubbed his hands.The metal arm did not lose its function due to the water, but it was detected that his body temperature was a little low, and it emitted heat, which made Xu Qingquan warm up.

"This thing is really useful!" Xu Qingquan looked at his left hand and said to himself.

After his body warmed up a bit, he stood up and looked at the lights beside him.This is an artificial corridor with floor tiles on the ground, and the light comes from street lamps on the wall.This road should be an emergency exit somewhere, leading to the dark river.

Xu Qingquan shook the water off his body, stomped his feet, and entered the tunnel.

"I hope they can find the way too." Xu Qingquan thought to himself while looking down at the dark river.

At this time, he can only continue to move forward, with full energy.

(End of this chapter)