ask the mirror

Chapter 77

Following the figure of fish and dragon swimming, Yu Ci was also observing the environment inside.

He knew at the first glance that this huge cave opened at a depth of five thousand feet was by no means an isolated space enclosed by thick cliff walls.Otherwise, the bones scattered here and there, the blackened blood stains, and the sleeping nest made of hay could not be explained.

Is it a beast?

First of all, he confirmed this guess, but Yu Ci quickly became confused again. If this is the beast's lair, then where is the entrance?Judging from the hay sleeping nest, the beast living here is probably not small. It can't be like an ichthyosaur, crawling in through a gap no thicker than a finger?

Staring at the structure of the cave shown in the picture of the gods, as far as Yu Ci could see, the cave was huge and straight, with no twists and turns from the beginning to the end, and no obvious ups and downs.If a torch is lit, it can probably be illuminated to the end at once.Such a cave...

He suddenly turned his head, not far away, what he could see with his naked eyes was still a dark cliff, no different from the surrounding environment, equally thick and seamless.However, according to the God map, it is a different scene.

Behind this cliff is the giant cave.And the distance between the inner and outer spaces is...

zero?Yu Ci made a sudden move, regardless of the appearance of the thick cliff in front of him, he punched straight, when the edge of the fist touched the cliff, it seemed that a layer of membrane had been broken, and then he passed through.

On the other side, half of Yu Ci's arm is clearly visible in the picture of the gods.

Illusion!

This kind of illusion should not only interfere with people's sense of soul, but also use other means such as light changes, so it is useless for him to hold his heart.It was only by relying on the powerful mapping ability of Zhaoshentu that the problems inside were discovered.

Yu Ci exerted force on his feet and jumped over directly.The body seemed to pass through a layer of water, and there was a little pressure, but soon he was definitely standing in the cave.

But immediately after, he was almost overwhelmed by the fishy smell in the cave.There is a disadvantage of having a too sensitive nose, but he didn't cover his nose, instead his face was solemn, carefully distinguishing the details of the smell.

This smell seems familiar!

He turned around, the illusion obviously didn't work on the inside, the goal was the entrance of a very huge cave, comparable to the gate of the cliff city.Looking from the inside, he could see a darkened area lit by glowing moss outside.It was still there, almost dead.

"Either it is desolate, or there is a big guy living there..."

As far as Yu Ci knows, there seems to be only that one giant beast that lives in the Rift Valley and can cast illusions.Through the map of the gods, Yu Ci looked at the traces of fierce battles in the tens of miles around the cave, but there was a faint clue.

Through these contexts, Yu Ci's judgment became clearer and more certain:

The smell lingering in the nose really belonged to an "old friend", that is, the ghost beast that showed its supernatural power, repelled the demons, and then ran away with its tail between its legs.

This smell, from the pine forest battlefield where Hu Ke's body was first discovered, to the head-on battle under the Rift Valley, to the long-term observation in the dark area that day, left an extremely deep impression on him, and Yu Ci was sure that he remembered correctly. .

Is this the lair of ghosts and beasts?

If this was the case, it would have solved Yu Ci's little doubt.

According to Yu Zhou's jade slip, the Yinjie tree will attract the most powerful creatures around it to occupy it.But the fish and dragons he saw were rare enough, if they were said to be powerful, they really couldn't be called.But if you change the ghost beast, there is no such problem.

However, the owner of the nest seems to have not returned for a long time.

From the traces of the battle outside the cave, it can be seen that the battle did not start from the cave that day, but it should have encountered the enemy suddenly on the way back to the nest of the ghost beast.The two sides started fighting from above the "rain eaves", and then the downwind ghost beast ran along the cliff all the way to the south, and finally entered the reflection range of the map of the gods, contributing to Yu Ci's wonderful monster battle.

Even if the ghost beast bluffed in the end, after scaring the group of demons, the direction of escape was not this way, but continued to the south.It is said that the cunning rabbit has three caves, maybe that guy has other hiding places.

These things that have already happened, even if they are calculated, are of little value.What Yu Ci was even more curious about was the soul of the monk who was suspected to be a monk of Zhengde, why did he come here specially after seizing the demon?

Yu Ci couldn't help thinking, remembering that at the beginning, the legend of the treasure of the Tianrift Valley was connected with the ghost beast's lair, and before beheading the poisonous snake monk and others, he also heard similar news from those three guys .

There was a thump in his heart, and then he fell silent again.

Constantly doubting your own judgment is not a good habit.Rationally, he has long judged that the so-called treasure is a rumor spread by someone with a heart, and now there are some fluctuations in the world, and there will be no more big waves.

What's more, he has mapped the environment in the cave through the map of the gods.Now, except for a priceless fish and dragon that has been locked by him, it is just a lair where a big guy with bad living habits lives.

"Always have a purpose."

Unable to think of the answer for a while, Yu Ci temporarily put it aside, and slowly walked into the depths of the cave.At the bottom of the cave, the ichthyosaur is still swimming carelessly there. In the picture of the gods, it has gradually moved away from the rock gap it passed through before, and in other directions, Yu Ci did not find anything that could Let it walk through the corridor.

I don't have any tools at hand, and if I want to catch a super fast but not very flexible guy like a ichthyosaur, it's best to use the terrain...

Thoughts were spinning in my head, but something was under my feet.

Yu Ci lowered his head to look, and found that it was an obviously artificially made rope, the color was dull, and there were delicate lines on the surface, it seemed that the workmanship was exquisite, quite extraordinary.It's just that the rope has already been torn into several sections, scattered on the ground in a random manner, the longest section is no more than a foot, but it is also full of gaps and dilapidated.

There are many relics of 'medicine' pickers in Tianrift Valley. It is not impossible for ghosts and beasts to come back to practice their teeth with one, but:

"This thing looks familiar!" Yu Ci's heart moved slightly, he squatted down, collected the remnants of the rope, and roughly spliced ​​them together.In this way, the little impression in memory suddenly became clear:

"It's Xu Laoer's 'Sleeping Lingsuo'."

Probably there was the case of Monk Zhengde first, and Yu Ci could easily associate it with related information.

In the fierce battle on the cliff a few months ago, this rope with humus soul fire attached did cause Yu Ci a lot of trouble, so he still has a little memory.Now that I think about it, this "trapped spirit rope" is a rather special crafting tool. After more than a month, this rope, which had fallen off the cliff with the master, appeared in the ghost beast's lair thousands of miles away 'In the middle, why did it become such a miserable appearance?

Is it really practicing teeth?

Yu Ci caressed the ground lightly, the light in the cave was dim, but with the dim light of the Illumination Map and the sense of touch on his hands, he could still feel that the ground here was uneven, and there were still many paw prints left, each of which was several meters deep. Based on this, he could already imagine how violent the ghosts and beasts would be when they tore apart the "sleeping spirit rope" and brought disaster to the ground!

irritable?He has seen the rage of ghosts and beasts once.Wasn't the sudden "turmoil" of the creatures in the valley caused by the violent howling of ghosts and beasts?Calculate the time, and when the rope falls into the valley, it will fit well.

"It's so annoying with things like ropes, it's so annoying that I took back the 'sleeping rope' on purpose, and dismembered the corpse to vent my anger!" Yu Ci came to this conclusion logically.

"Well, it's interesting."

After making a judgment on the ghost beast's mood, Yu Ci realized that he had stayed in place for too long, so he got up and continued to push forward.In the process, he picked up a few gravels on the road and held them in his hand.

When he was about to reach the deepest part of the cave, Yu Ci stopped.At his feet is a hay nest laid by ghosts and beasts, which is half the height of a person.The ichthyosaur was hanging three feet away from him. At this distance, the ichthyosaur finally sensed something was wrong, and its swimming speed increased slightly, and it seemed more like it was accumulating energy.

Yu Ci made a decisive decision, flicked his fingers, and a gravel shot out.

This blow Yu Ci didn't retain any strength.The gravel infused with the innate energy is like a strong bow and arrow, tearing the air, and the ear-piercing whistle sounds, which is even more soul-stirring in the enclosed space.

Yu Ci didn't know whether the fish-dragon's soul was shaken or not, but when the crisis was imminent, this guy's reaction immediately improved greatly, and he avoided the flying stones with a flick of his body, and jumped away.

However, it only moved on this side, Yu Ci flicked his fingers repeatedly, and seven or eight stones flew one after another, scattered to various positions in the cave.Although the directions are different, it is an instant effort to seal the most direct route for the fish and dragons to shoot.

If it were another creature, it would be a fly, and it knew how to change direction and avoid obstacles at this time.But fish and dragons are different.The speed of the ichthyosaur is indeed fast, but its instinctive reaction is a straight line. The straight collision is indeed very imposing, but it is even easier to predict it.

Most of the seven or eight stones fell through the air, but there was still one, which happened to intercept the flight path of the ichthyosaur. With a bang, the stone was crushed, but the ichthyosaur was also startled and shifted slightly.

In the darkness, Yu Ci pounced forward, and got a good position.With the help of the cave's terrain, the ichthyosaur was forced to make a choice: either hit the cave wall and him, or drill out from the gap next to it.

The ichthyosaur chose the empty space, but its flying direction was exactly the narrowest corner in the cave that Yu Ci had calculated in advance.The slightly weak intelligence of the ichthyosaur obviously had difficulty understanding this question, so it rushed over without hesitation.With a low shout, Yu Ci fitted himself together and blocked the passage behind.

At this moment, things suddenly became very simple, the left and right were either stone walls or human bodies, no matter how fast the ichthyosaur was, they could only escape from the upper and lower directions, and Yu Ci was best at making similar choices!

The ichthyosaur finally realized that something was wrong. Its seven-foot-long body turned around within a radius of Zhang Xu, trying to rush out, but it stretched out half of its body, then retracted.The slender body coiled into a ball in the void, at this moment, it looked more like a snake than ever.

This is the first time that the ichthyosaur has been in a state of indecision.

Yu Ci also stopped moving.In this position, he can maximize the blocking effect of his body, and there is only one thing left for him to do afterwards.