"Let's see if there are any mechanisms or secret passages around." After trying for a long time without any results, Long Xiangtian could only sigh.
Everyone nodded and started searching separately.
Long Xiangtian walked to Yunniang's side and touched Xue Ling's head. He found that after he got used to Xue Ling's appearance, he actually slowly adapted to it and no longer had any resistance to his appearance.
"How pitiful." Yunniang looked down at the sleeping blood spirit, her eyes full of pity. Long Xiangtian had a vague illusion that there was a sacred light enveloping Yunniang, which made him feel comfortable.
"You stinky Dabai, what are you looking at?" Long Xiangtian was brought back to his senses by Yunniang's coquettish cry. Only then did he notice that his eyes were fixed on Yunniang's unspeakable place. He swallowed his saliva subconsciously, causing Yunniang to look shy. She kept protesting to him with her eyes, but no matter how he looked at it, that look seemed like a secret wink, which touched Long Xiangtian's heartstrings.
Fortunately, Nulimu's voice broke the awkwardness between the two.
"Come and see, I found something strange."
Long Xiangtian glanced at Yunniang, whose face was flushed, and fled in embarrassment. When he came to Nulimu's side, he saw a hole the size of two fists at the base of the wall. Under the light, something seemed to be flashing inside.
Long Xiangtian lay on the ground, and the flashlight handed to him by the mercenary shone into the hole, and found a key the length of three villages hidden inside. Long Xiangtian reached out and took it out, and played with it in his hand. The key was made of a special stone, with an extremely smooth surface, very similar to marble, but more solid, and it didn't feel as cool as marble in the hand, but was as warm as jade.
Long Xiangtian stood up and said, "Is this key the key to open this door? But there is no keyhole on this door."
Long Xiangtian was confused and came to the stone gate again to search carefully. At this moment, someone on the other side shouted, "Brother Xiaoliu, there is another key here."
Long Xiangtian looked up and saw that the mercenary was walking towards him with a key exactly the same as the one in Long Xiangtian's hand.
"That's weird. I didn't find a keyhole, but there are two keys... Hmm? Two! Wait..."
Long Xiangtian instantly set his eyes on the wolf head on the door frame. A pair of wolf heads and two keys. This couldn't be a coincidence.
With the idea of giving it a try, Long Xiangtian climbed up the stone gate and came to the wolf's head. Sure enough, in the open wolf's mouth, an inconspicuous keyhole appeared in front of Long Xiangtian's eyes.
Long Xiangtian inserted one of the keys, and it fit perfectly with a click.
Done!
Long Xiangtian was delighted and quickly went to the other side and did the same thing, inserting the key in the same way.
The moment Long Xiangtian inserted the key, the stone door creaked and turned. Only then did Long Xiangtian realize that the stone door was not a vertical structure, but a rotating structure.
Seeing the stone door open, everyone's faces showed joy, and they began to pack their luggage to go in. But before they could move, Long Xiangtian rushed forward and stood in front of everyone, saying in a deep voice: "Be careful, something is happening!"
He smelled blood again. He didn't know whether it was because Long Xiangtian had shouted too loudly or because the smell of blood had awakened the blood spirit in Yunniang's arms. The blood spirit shuddered and woke up. Its big eyes looked towards the stone gate, full of fear.
Seeing this, Long Xiangtian had no time to think, no matter for the sake of Blood Spirit or the safety of everyone, he could not just sit there and wait for death, so he made a prompt decision, flew into the air, and pulled out the two keys in an instant.
The stone door paused, then creaked back to its original direction.
Just as the stone gate was about to merge, a bloody arm suddenly stretched out from the gap, accompanied by a shrill roar.
Squeak... The sound was as unpleasant as it could be, especially when the child Xue Ling heard the roar, he burst into tears and trembled in Yunniang's arms. Seeing this, Long Xiangtian made up his mind, grabbed the saber in Nulimu's hand, and chopped at the bloody arm.
The saber was extremely sharp, and Long Xiangtian used so much force that there was almost no resistance, and the arm was chopped off by Long Xiangtian. A scream came from the other side of the stone door, and the stuck stone door slowly turned again and returned to its original position.
Long Xiangtian breathed a sigh of relief, and the blood spirit in Yunniang's arms gradually stopped sobbing under Yunniang's constant comfort.
Long Xiangtian returned the saber to Nulimu and thanked him, but at this moment, Long Xiangtian smelled a strange smell and heard the sound of water pouring.
Long Xiangtian looked around and no one was drinking or pouring water.
"Did you hear the sound of water pouring? Gulp, gulp..."
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. Only Yunniang looked confused and suddenly looked behind her. Long Xiangtian quickly shone the light on the road he had come from and found that water had flowed on the ground without him noticing.
"Is there water?" Nulimu asked curiously.
But Long Xiangtian was shocked and said, "This is not water, it's oil!"
As if to confirm what Long Xiangtian said, two flames suddenly ignited on both sides of the corridor, and the place where the flames passed happened to be full of liquid. The liquid ignited with a bang, and the flames were more than two meters high, instantly blocking the original path completely.
Not only that, as the liquid continued to flow, the horrifying flames also moved towards the crowd. Judging from the current speed, in five minutes, they would all become collective roasted pigs!
Damn it, is God playing a joke on me? Long Xiangtian couldn't help but start to curse the heaven.
With a ferocious blood spirit behind him and a sea of fire in front of him, Long Xiangtian must make a choice in this dilemma!
"Let's go in!" Long Xiangtian had no other choice but to enter the stone gate. If they met the blood spirit, they might still have a chance of survival, but if they were surrounded by a sea of fire, they would really just be able to cook barbecue.
Everyone knew that this was the only solution and nodded in agreement. Long Xiangtian did not dare to delay and jumped onto the door frame with his feet. He inserted the two keys into the wolf head as quickly as possible. The creaking sound of the mechanism turning was heard again and the door opened.
At the same time, the violent and strange cry was heard again. Long Xiangtian looked at the sea of fire behind him and suddenly an idea came to his mind. He jumped off the door frame and rushed into the stone door first. In the darkness, he bumped into the blood spirit head-on.
This was a blood spirit made of an adult man, but it had probably lost its mind, with murderous intent in its eyes. It ignored Long Xiangtian and passed him by directly when he rushed in. This was not the first time Long Xiangtian had encountered this situation. When he was moving in the tunnel earlier, he found that these blood spirits seemed unable to detect his location.
But now is not the time to think about these things. Long Xiangtian found that since he could not detect his figure, it would be more convenient for Long Xiangtian to attack. Long Xiangtian first tripped the blood spirit and made it stagger, then turned around and hugged the blood spirit around the waist.