Chapter 63 Chapter 63: The Mysterious Dark Underground World

After a while, the smoke rising from the tree hole gradually thinned out until finally it disappeared.Zhaofeng stood up and said, "Master Yao, you just wait here, I'll go down and have a look." "Are you really going down?" "Why don't you really want to go down?" At this time, Zhang Zikun, who was squatting far away under a bamboo cage, also stood up.Master Zhang Yao made a fuss and said, "Zikun, don't go down. Father Yao was just kidding you." Zhang Zikun grinned and ignored Master Zhang Yao, just walked down the tree stump. Zhaofeng laughed and said, "It's good to have him go down with me, I have someone to take care of me."

Zhang Yaoye said worriedly: "What is he doing down here? Maybe he will become your burden." Zhaofeng smiled and said, "Then see if you can persuade him." Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Zikun: "Zikun, you are not clear-headed, don't be brave, do you hear me? Dad Yao was really joking with you just now." But Zhang Zikun said: "I'm not joking with you." He had already walked a few steps to the tree stump, and tightened the rope that tied his trousers, looking eager to try. Zhang Ziheng on the side complained to Mr. Zhang Yao: "I said I can't provoke him? Is this something exciting?"

Zhang Yaoye said to Zhang Ziheng: "You complain about the hammer! If you are timid, don't just sit around and mutter." Zhang Ziheng looked at Master Zhang Yao very dissatisfied. Master Zhang Yao went up to pull Zhang Zikun, and said: "Zikun, listen to Dad Yao, just wait outside with Dad Yao." Zhang Zikun sniffed his nose and said, "Dad Yao, can't we let outsiders help us with everything? We should at least show our attitude. Everyone should be a coward and let outsiders see jokes?" Seeing that Zhang Zikun looked like he couldn't pull back eight horses, and what he said was reasonable, Master Zhang Yao was lost and looked at Zhaofeng.

Zhao Feng ignored Mr. Zhang Yao, took a few steps back, and made a short run-up, chugging... using the tree stump with his hands and feet, he jumped and disappeared into the tree stump. Zhang Zikun scratched the back of his head and walked around the tree stump.He didn't have Zhaofeng's sensitive method of getting on the tree stump, so he was anxious to scratch his head. Zhang Yaoye persuaded him again: "Zikun, don't be brave if you can't get up, and sit outside with Dad Yao." At this time, Zhang Ziheng joked to Zhang Zikun: "Zikun, you also give us a flying over the wall, let us open our eyes."

Zhang Zikun was aroused by Zhang Ziheng, so he really became impulsive. He also took a few steps back like Zhaofeng, pulled up his trousers vigorously, and then sent a figure-of-eight step to a run-up, because the pair of rotten cloth shoes he was wearing had already been stepped on by him. He lost his heel, and when he was running, he swung his steps too far, and a shoe flew out... Zhang Yaoye was also amused by Zhang Zikun's funny actions. Zhang Zikun stopped, hopped to put on the shoes that had been flung far away, and giggled sheepishly. The atmosphere in the open space suddenly eased up.

Still unwilling to give up, Zhang Zikun suddenly had an idea, picked up the brown rope from the ground, tied a pebble to one end, and then flicked it towards a branch on the tree stump, and the rope was immediately entangled in the branch. Zhang Zikun's skillful and dexterous movements of throwing the rope made Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng stunned for a moment. Zhang Yaoye said: "Why is this guy's technique so accurate?" And Zhang Zikun had already climbed up the tree stump along the rope.On the stump, the guy took up the rope again, put the rope into the tree hole, and slid down the rope.

Master Zhang Yao watched Zhang Zikun disappear on the tree stump, and said, "The method of this dog day is not bad. Why are you still pretending to be crazy and numb us?" The inside of the tree hole was pitch black, but it was much warmer than the outside of the tree hole. At least there was no feeling of cold wind. There was only a strange smell mixed with the scent of mugwort permeating the hole. Ashes of mugwort flickered in the dark. The messy light spots transmitted from above the tree hole only printed a small circle of light in the ground hole, and beyond the light circle was a dark world.

When Zhang Zikun went down to the bottom of the cave, his eyes immediately became bright. Zhaofeng in the dark said to him: "You still have a way, use the smell of mugwort to cover up the bloody smell of Zongmuren. As long as there is no temptation of bloody smell, these underground evil things will not be restless. What? Things are afraid of restlessness, and even more afraid of being induced! The smell of blood is the most attractive to them. These things live in the dark for a long time, and only the sense of smell is the most sensitive." Zhang Zikun ignored Zhaofeng, and walked a few steps into the cave. The ground under his feet seemed to be smooth and flat, without any bumps.

Is this a man-made underground palace? Zhang Zikun opened his eyes and struggled to discern the surrounding environment in the dark. Because it was too dark, his eyes couldn't immediately adapt to the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, and he felt like he was blind.Judging from the echo produced by Zhaofeng's words in the space, this cave is deep and narrow. Although it is a dark cave that does not see the sun all year round, the air in the cave does not feel damp, but rather dry and not dull.Does this burrow have good ventilation and air circulation? At this moment, Zhang Zikun mobilized all the tentacles in his body, and he felt as if he had entered another mysterious world.

"Now there are only two of us in the ground, can you tell me about the slate?" Zhaofeng said. But Zhang Zikun said: "You do what you should do, and I will do what I should do. Don't ask about unnecessary things, and I won't tell you if you ask." Zhaofeng in the dark paused for a moment, and said, "I asked you that because I thought you were a god." "Whose are the Ten Thousand Immortals?" Zhang Zikun asked back. Zhaofeng was taken aback by Zhang Zikun's question. In the darkness, neither of them could see each other's expressions, but they could sense the mutual guard from each other's words.

Zhaofeng said: "Since you don't want to talk, I won't ask anymore. Our questioning ends here." "This is the best." Zhang Zikun said. "You asked me to come down here with you just to ask me this question?" Zhang Zikun asked again. "Not all of them," Zhao Feng said. "Not all of them?" Zhang Zikun was puzzled. "We have to go in and see what's going on inside. Because someone has already gone in before us." Zhaofeng said. "You mean Qiu Renfeng?" "He may be the same as us. He only observed the entrance of the cave and didn't go deep into it." Zhaofeng said. "Then who is it?" "I can't say for sure, it's just a guess. Are you going ahead or should I go ahead?" Zhaofeng said. "Of course you go in front, and I'll come back." Zhang Zikun said. Gradually, both of them barely adapted to the dark environment, and the surrounding things appeared vaguely. Although they were not very clear, at least they could distinguish the simple outline of the space and the basic things in the space. There is indeed a man-made underground hall hidden under the tree stump. The underground hall is long and about three meters wide. The walls on both sides are smooth and flat, as if inlaid with bluestone strips. The rhizome of a plant that is short, long, and zigzag. It was the first time for Zhaofeng and Zhang Zikun to look at the scene in the cave so carefully, and they couldn't help being secretly curious. This is not so much a cave as it is a long corridor. The ground obviously slopes deeper into the ground. The further you go, the larger the angle of inclination seems to be. Bring in the feeling. Zhaofeng walked in front, Zhang Zikun followed, neither of them spoke.The scent of mugwort has been going deep into the front of the corridor. It is certain that the front is not a dead end, and the air flows smoothly. The more you go forward, the more gloomy and dark, even the only sense of outline is lost, and people seem to have entered a lost state that seems to be lost in a lifetime. Zhaofeng said in front: "If I knew it earlier, I should have lit a torch to come in." Zhaofeng's voice is not loud, but it is particularly responsive in such a space, with a buzzing echo echoing in the corridor. Zhang Zikun didn't speak. In such darkness, although the eyes lost their only function, other sensory organs in the body began to intervene to the maximum extent. Judging by the number of steps under his feet, he and Zhaofeng have walked a distance of 100 meters along this corridor. Suddenly, Zhaofeng, who was walking in front, let out a cry of surprise and stopped. Zhang Zikun also felt something strange and stopped in his tracks. He and Zhaofeng obviously felt that the air in the space was flowing freely, and there was moist water vapor filling it. Mega Feng in front struck a match, and because of the rapid flow of air, the first match went out the moment it was struck. Zhao Feng then struck the second match. As for Zhang Zikun, at the moment when the first match was lit, he caught a glimpse of a large circular hall in front of him. The passage they passed just now was indeed a corridor. When Zhaofeng struck a match this time, he held the flames with his hands. The fragile flames shook between his palms, and a warm halo diffused in this dark space. At this moment, Zhang Zikun found a torch made of a fresh bamboo tube by his feet.Obviously, before them, someone visited the underground hall with a torch, or even threw the torch on the ground because of fleeing in a hurry. Zhang Zikun picked up the torch and handed it to Zhaofeng.The torch is simple, just put a piece of cloth at one end of the bamboo tube, and there is a faint smell of kerosene in the cloth that has not yet evaporated. Zhaofeng lit the torch and said, "This guy really has a wicked heart!" The torches blazed up in this dark world that was isolated from the world, and everything in the underground hall finally appeared in the flickering firelight. What appeared in front of Zhang Zikun and Zhaofeng was an underground world permeated with infinite mystery...