We were discussing, but our feet didn't stop. Not long after, a huge pool appeared in front of us.
I tried to illuminate the opposite side with a miner's lamp, but I couldn't see the side at all.
On the edge of the pool, there is a circle of fences, and not far away, there is a metal ladder descending.
On one side, you can still see the closed door.
"Is this the sedimentation tank?" I asked.
Editor Zhou made a point.
I walked to the fence and looked down carefully. The light seemed to shine into the abyss, and I couldn't see the bottom.
"How is it?" Editor Li beside him asked from a long distance away.
I took a few steps away from the railing and wondered, "How about what?"
"Is there any water?"
I was taken aback, and shook my head seriously: "No."
The two looked at each other with complicated expressions.
I thought for a while and said: "I want to go down and have a look, you can wait for me up there."
Editor Li opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and nodded silently.
Editor Zhou remained silent on the sidelines.
Although the two were courageous and curious, they still stayed away from such a weird place.
I nodded and said, "Well, fine, I will keep two men to protect you."
"No need," Editor Li glanced at Editor Zhou, and said to me, "Just keep one, there shouldn't be any danger here."
I thought about it for a while. Although it sounds scary, in my feeling, the yin energy here is far less dense than those sewers just now. It is probably the reason why people often come in and out for cleaning. The danger should not be great.
On the contrary, it is the sinking pond that I am about to go down, which is the scariest.
So I accepted their suggestion, left a mummy, and walked towards the stairs.
Of the remaining five mummies, three were at the bottom and two were at the top. I walked in the middle and slowly climbed down the straight stairs.
Gradually, the lights above the head were no longer visible, leaving only a haze, which was still slowly getting darker.
The surrounding area was so quiet that it made people panic. If it weren't for the occasional mummy's long sword hitting the ladder and making a crisp sound, I felt like I would collapse.
I didn't know how many times I repeated the same action, and I gradually felt something was wrong.
The top has turned into complete darkness, but at the bottom, I still can't see anything, as if I am alone in the void.
I had a feeling that I shouldn't have fallen into a hallucination, and let one of the mummy destroy a little wall, only revealing the normal concrete.
I should ask how deep this sedimentation tank is, so now that I am in the middle, I have no idea.
After thinking about it, I arranged for the mummy to walk in the front, speed up, go down alone, and then report to me.
However, what I didn't expect was that the mummy would never return.
It seems that I should have been tricked. I took out the spare flashlight from my arms, turned it on and threw it down. This is also a signal discussed with the mummy. If you see it, you must return to me as soon as possible.
Seeing the beam of light spinning and falling, I was considering whether to pray, so that the mummy below must see it.
A crisp sound of "pop" was heard.
I was taken aback for a moment, and when I looked down, the beam of light had disappeared, and the bottom was still the same as before. Under the light, it was all dim, and I couldn't see the depth.
But I can tell from the sound just now that I should not be far from the ground.
Is it true, or..., I dare not think about it anymore, I grit my teeth and speed up. Unexpectedly, it was really only a short time, and I had already reached the bottom of the pool.
There is no water at the bottom of the pool, it is very dry, and countless mist lingers below the knees, which is probably why I can't see the bottom.
However, I dare not relax in the slightest, because I haven't seen the mummy that came down the first time.
The pool was huge, and the miner's lamp on my head still couldn't see the edge. I let the mummy protect me in the middle, walked slowly along the wall, and let the mummy destroy the wall from time to time.
Unfortunately, I did not see the wall made of human heads that Editor Zhou mentioned.
I don't know how long it took, but I have circled the pool and returned to the stairs, where there is a mark I made.
According to two steps and one meter, I roughly estimated that the length of this pool is about 200 meters. It is not small, but it is far from as big as I imagined.
It's just that I still haven't seen the missing mummy, nor have I found any abnormalities.
Just as I was thinking about my next move, a muffled sound came from a distance.
I looked over, and as far as I could see, there was nothing.
I waved my hand, and let a few mummies follow me, walking towards the place where the sound came from.
Because I can no longer walk against the wall, I am more cautious.
However, the darkness made it impossible for me to determine my direction. After searching for a long time, I finally found the place where the sound came from.
The reason why I was able to find it was not because of that sound, but because of the person lying on the ground.
This is Editor Li, perhaps because of the strong wind that fell, the fog around him was blown away, so that I can clearly see his current appearance.
At this time, he was lying on the ground in a strange posture. Because the place where he fell was too high, all the bones in his body had been broken, and stabbed out from the skin, making the whole person look like a monster.
The head has also been flattened, and one eyeball popped out, falling far away, but the remaining half of the face is still so familiar.
I sighed slightly in my heart, looked up at Editor Li who was standing next to the corpse with a dazed face and nothingness, and said.
"Editor Li, what are you doing, what's up?"
Editor Li looked at me blankly, then his eyes moved and gradually focused.
"I, I don't know, I was chatting with Lao Zhou, and then, and then I was here, where is this, what's wrong with me?"
"This is the bottom of the sedimentation tank. You, you, are dead."
Editor Li suddenly let out a weird laugh, then knelt on the ground, crying with his head in his arms.
"My child is only three years old, only three years old, I don't want to die. I don't want to die."
I looked at the collapsed editor Li and didn't speak.
After waiting for a long time, Editor Li slowly stopped crying, staring at me tightly, his face full of longing: "Master, master, help me."
I shook my head silently, and said: "You are already dead, the only thing you can do is to find your murderer."
What I said made Editor Li lose his last hope. He sat on the ground dejectedly, staring at his own corpse in front of him, completely stunned.
I even called out a few times, but Editor Li didn't respond, so I had to turn my attention away from Editor Li.
Because the place where Editor Li fell is really strange.