An orange bonfire illuminated the gloomy space. This was a hall, a very spacious hall, with rough stone pillars supporting the dome. On the pillars, there were very abstract carvings, which could only be vaguely distinguished, some kind of beast.
As for the dome, most of it was submerged in shadow, and the part that appeared in the firelight was a faded mural.
The floor of the hall was not flat. The undulating bricks and stones created gaps, allowing the tenacious grass to barely survive between the hard bricks and stones.
Ding ding ding ding—
Sparks flew from a pillar as Ye Zhong swung his scimitar, chopping at the pillar countless times.
The strange thing is that this stone pillar is extremely hard. The crescent-shaped scimitar can only scratch white stone marks on the surface of the pillar, but cannot cut the pillar in half.
Of course, Ye Zhong’s failure to use the Star Essence was the direct reason why the pillar was preserved.
In another corner of the hall, right next to the campfire, the mysterious man in black who had attacked Han Shu and Fei Xu was sitting on the ground with his clothes on, his back against a stone pillar.
Next to him, a black sword was placed on the ground.
The sword had no sheath, and the blue zigzag lines on it lit up from time to time, as if energy was flowing quietly in the blade.
The black-haired, black-eyed young man glanced at Ye Zhong and said, "Can't you just take a break? You know, what you are doing now is nothing but wasting your energy."
Ye Zhong stopped, scimitar on his shoulder: "Stop talking nonsense, you unknown guy. Although the captain asked you to act together, you have no right to interfere with my freedom."
The black-eyed young man spread his hands and said, "If your freedom does not affect the mission, I don't mind."
Ye Zhong snorted coldly: "The next mission will not fail no matter what, unless something goes wrong on your part."
The black-eyed man said calmly: "I will not make mistakes, never. Don't compare me with you."
Ye Zhong's purple pupils suddenly showed traces of murderous intent: "Liu Xing, what do you mean?"
The young man called Liu Xing raised his hand and tapped his cheek.
Ye Zhong's long hair suddenly fluttered in the wind, and the palm holding the scimitar made a creaking sound. "That white-haired guy is just lucky. I will never get hurt again. If you don't believe me, let's wait and see!"
There was a faint scar on the cheek of the strange man with long hair and purple eyes, which was caused by Tianyang's predator yesterday.
Now that Liu Xing had pointed this out, Ye Zhong was filled with resentment and wished he could chop Tian Yang into eight or ten pieces right now.
But it doesn't work.
They were now in one of the buildings in the Thousand Eyes Cave subsidence area. Although the sun was shining brightly on the ground, it was dim here.
If it weren't for the black fog and the sunlight shining down from above, it would be almost indistinguishable from the Reverse Realm.
After the unsuccessful attack on the Raven Squad yesterday, the two received the order to evacuate. They came all the way to the Thousand Eyes Cave and stayed here temporarily to carry out the next plan.
"The only thing I'm worried about now is whether those guys can find this place successfully?" Liu Xing picked up his sword and wiped it carefully.
Ye Zhong sat down, put his scimitar aside, took out a tin bottle and drank, "Don't worry about that. We have already checked it out. That Han guy is having an affair with the leader of the flying squirrels, and the flying squirrels suffered such a big loss yesterday, they must hate us to death."
"I bet that woman named Feixu will go crazy and search everywhere for our whereabouts.
The traces left intentionally are enough for them to make the correct judgment. Therefore, those bastards from Skyfort will definitely come looking for us."
Putting down the tin bottle, Ye Zhong wiped the wine and shook it: "Would you like a sip?"
"I don't drink." Liu Xing replied calmly.
“Boring.”
Ye Zhong counted on his fingers: "You don't drink, you don't smoke, you don't play with women, and you just keep a hamster. You say you live like those church believers, no, church believers know how to live better than you. Your life is too boring."
Liu Xing said calmly: "I just want to figure out how I got here and how I can get back."
Ye Zhong shook his head: "The doctor said that you have a brain disease and you may not remember anything in your life. Do you want to continue the investigation?"
Liu Xing looked up at him and said, "A life without the past is incomplete."
Ye Zhong sneered: "If it were me, being able to forget the past would be a gift from God. You are just living in a blessed place and don't know how to appreciate it."
The two of them had no idea what to say and simply stopped communicating.
I don't know how long it took, but Liu Xing suddenly sniffed: "What's that smell?"
"What is that smell?" Ye Zhong had already laid on the ground. "Why can't I smell anything? Oh, I'm numb. This damn place has a musty smell everywhere."
"No... it's not musty."
Liu Xing suddenly stood up, sword in hand: "I'll go out and take a look."
Ye Zhong turned over and said, "Whatever you want, just don't bother me."
Pulling up the collar of his black military uniform, Liu Xing strode out. When he got outside, he sniffed carefully and indeed, there was a strange smell coming from his nose.
His nose has always been very sensitive and he can distinguish subtle smells. Even from a distance, Liu Xing can smell it.
This has saved him many times.
On several occasions, he smelled the stench of the dark people in the adverse world in advance, thus avoiding attacks and even ambushing and counterattacking.
Now, he smelled the strange smell again, a smell that had not existed before today.
Liu Xing immediately became suspicious and used his nose to identify the source of the smell, then reached over and tried to explore the space.
He crawled into a tunnel that was dug by some evil creature. It was crooked and crooked. Fortunately, it was spacious enough and he could walk by bending over.
Before he finished walking through the tunnel, suddenly, thick gray smoke rolled out from the beam of light emitted by Liu Xing's lighting equipment. When it got close, Liu Xing accidentally inhaled it, choking him so much that tears were about to flow out.
His expression changed, and he quickly retreated to his original position. Just as he was about to inform Ye Chong, he discovered that billowing white smoke continued to pour out from other nearby tunnels. The speed at which it spread was extremely fast, as if the air in the Thousand Eyes Cave was the medium for its transmission.
But in the blink of an eye, Liu Xing's eyes were already white. At this time, Ye Zhong in the hall finally noticed something was wrong.
The purple-eyed man came out and saw what was happening. He couldn't help but yelled, "What's going on... Ahem."
He didn't even have time to finish his sentence before the smoke choked him.
Liu Xing held his breath, pulled up his collar to cover his mouth and nose, and dragged Ye Zhong to the tunnel without smoke. However, before they could go deep enough, the suspicious smoke surged in from the tunnel ahead.
There are many tunnels in this subsidence area. Some are interconnected, and some are completely dead ends.
A huge underground maze.
God knows where the source of this thick smoke is, but judging by the speed at which it is spreading, it won’t be long before the entire Thousand Eyes Cave will be occupied by thick smoke.
What’s even worse is that the smoke smells extremely pungent. One breath of it will make you cough and cry.
Even though Liu Xing and the other person were both Ascendants, they were helpless against things like this.
Moreover, Liu Xing was worried that the smoke was poisonous. Although he could hold his breath, he could not close the pores all over his body. If the smoke was poisonous, the toxins would penetrate into his body through the pores.
By then, not only would Black Star Fort’s plan fail, but he and Ye Chong would also lose their lives!
At this time, Liu Xing's sensitive sense of smell came into play again.
In this environment filled with thick smoke, he could actually tell where the smell was lighter.
Although the price was constant coughing and his vision was blurred by tears, Liu Xing still pulled Ye Zhong up and headed towards a place with a lighter smell.
The two were like moles, forced by the thick smoke to flee in the maze-like settlement area...
At this time, the entire Thousand Eyes Cave was looking from a high point, and smoke was everywhere. Thick smoke billowed, filling this thousand-year-old ruin, and only in the northeast was the smoke noticeably thinner.
The Raven Squad is lying in ambush here.
Hiding behind a broken wall, Tianyang took out the kettle, drank some water, and then put it at his feet.
Cangdu, who was nearby, held his mechanical heavy sword and looked behind the wall: "Why hasn't anyone come out yet? Could it be that Momonga's information is wrong?"
Han Shu's voice rang out over the communicator: "Don't worry, the people in Fengxi Valley may not be good at other things, but they are quite good at finding people. But I didn't expect that Tianyang was so smart that he could come up with such a wild idea."
It turned out that on the way here, Tianyang suggested using smoke to force out the enemies hiding in the Thousand Eyes Cave.
However, Tianyang thought of collecting dry firewood and other flammable materials and burning them for three days and three nights.
But Ji Yu had a better idea. She used some materials on hand to artificially synthesize some chemical smoke.
As a result, we now have the scene where the entire Thousand Eyes Cave is smoking.
"Captain, there's movement!"
Yan Bing's voice followed: "The radar shows that there are two life signals approaching your direction at high speed."
Han Shu laughed: "The mice finally came out."
Tian Yang frowned: "Only two?"
Han Shu said in a deep voice: "Never mind, let's catch them first. Yan Bing, wait for the right opportunity and fire a few shots at them first, as a 'thank you gift' for their care before!"
"Yes, sir!"
A moment later, two blue star element shells slid over Tianyang's head and landed at the exit of a cave in the distance.
Amid the thunderous explosion, a large ball of blue light lit up in the cave. Then the light turned into a blazing blue flame. Although it was daytime, it was still dazzling!
Two figures fell out of the flames in unnatural postures. They were Liu Xing and Ye Chong. They had finally escaped from the Thousand Eyes Cave.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they came out, they ran into a star bomb. Fortunately, the two of them reacted quickly and jumped away from the center of the explosion at the first time, so they were not directly blown into pieces.
Even so, the two were still dizzy from the impact of the explosion and the subsequent flames, and their clothes turned into strips of cloth, looking little better than homeless people.