A stone rolled down from the window and fell into the darkness where no light could reach. After a moment, a faint sound was heard.
In front of Tianyang, there were still several iron chains spanning the void. They were fixed on the wall and extended into the windows of a building in front.
"The ground is dangerous, so we won't go there if we don't have to."
Shi Huo pointed to the cableways outside the window and said, "We have these 'cableways' connecting the buildings. They allow us to travel through the city without having to set foot on the ground."
"Over the past few decades, we have built thousands of 'ropeways' like this in the ancient city, which can allow us to reach most parts of the ancient city."
Ah Jiu whispered beside him: "But it does not include the Snake Temple."
Shi Huo nodded: "Yes, the Snake Temple is in the center of this ancient city. We can only use the 'ropeway' to travel two-thirds of the way. For the remaining one-third, we either have to find a way to build a new 'ropeway' between the buildings, or we have to risk setting foot on the ground and pass through it."
Tian Yang asked him, "Which way did you go to the Snake Temple last time?"
Shi Huo said without any expression: "Of course we went on the ground. An accident happened that time and we had to go down to the ground. Then, in a series of escapes, we arrived at the Snake Temple."
Fusheng came over and asked, "What's on the ground?"
"Some people call the infinitely spreading creatures 'Things that cannot be looked at'." Shi Huo explained, "It looks like a little girl. We think its image should come from a resident of the ancient city."
"There may be only one of those things at first. If you look into its eyes, your body shape will gradually change until your appearance is exactly the same as its. Once you are changed, you will become one of them. There is no possibility of reversing this process."
"In that accident, many of us were transformed by it. Although there is no danger as long as you don't look it in the eye. And that thing has no aggressive behavior except that it will try every means to look you in the eye."
Ah Jiu said with fear: "But there are too many of them. They can appear near you at any time, and once you meet their eyes, you are doomed."
"They spread infinitely in this way, creating one after another, and gradually occupying the ground. Fortunately, they can be attacked and killed."
"But instead of wasting time fighting them, it's better to get away before they surround you. And if you fight, they will come from all directions, and you won't be able to kill so many. And even if you close your eyes or cover them, as long as your eyes are in front of their sight, you will still be assimilated."
Shi Huo raised a finger and said, "The only way to avoid assimilation is to blind yourself. One of our companions has tried it and it works. But there are many monsters like this on the ground, and being blind in this ancient city is no different from committing suicide."
Tian Yang pondered and said, "It sounds like this thing's ability should be related to the retina. Only a damaged retina can avoid being assimilated by it."
"If we build a screen to protect the retina, we should not be assimilated even if we look directly at them. But it is too dangerous and unnecessary, so we should not try it."
At the same time, I thought, this underground ancient city is really strange. There are so many strange things underground.
What's even more strange is that they haven't been seen running outside for so many years.
If these strange creatures run outside, the disaster they create will definitely not be less than a tide of beasts.
At this time, they were about to start climbing the cableway.
Tianyang went over first, and after a few jumps, he made a rope sway gently, and then he flew into the window. As soon as he entered the window, Tianyang immediately took precautions, but in fact, he had already sensed the situation in the window in advance when he was flying on the ropeway, and did not find any danger.
After confirming that there was no danger, he waved to the people over there, and then Shi Jiu and the others began to crawl over.
Using this method, they moved between the buildings and half a day passed in the blink of an eye.
Calculating the time, it is already noon, but underground there is no sunlight at all. If it weren't for a clock, you wouldn't notice the passage of time at all.
Now it was time to rest, so they chose a small room. In this room, Tianyang saw some things left by explorers, such as anthracite.
Shi Huo used these items to set up a camp pot in the room, started a fire with anthracite, and cooked food in the pot.
Ah Jiu smiled softly: "Sometimes we will explore the underground ancient city for three to five days, and stay there for at least one or two days. In addition, we often have to climb the cableway, so it is impossible for us to carry a lot of supplies with us."
"So when we explore, we will bring a little more stuff with us, and then store it in safer places like this for resupply."
Fusheng was about to say something when suddenly, a faint laughter was heard outside the room.
"Hahaha... "
It sounded like a woman's laughter. Unexpectedly, in this dim environment underground, even Tianyang felt it was strange to hear such laughter, and the faces of others naturally became even worse.
Oh, Xing Luo was an exception, there was no change in her expression.
Shi Huo immediately poured water on the stove, extinguished the fire, and made a "silence" gesture to everyone.
Everyone held their breath and dared not move. They could only hear the laughter outside, sometimes loud and sometimes low, sometimes crazy laughter and sometimes low chuckles.
"Hehe..."
"Hahaha... "
The laughter gradually got closer, as if it had already arrived at the door. Everyone's nerves were on edge, not knowing what was going on outside the door.
Next to Ah Jiu, a thin man was about to raise his gun with trembling hands. Ah Jiu saw it and quickly put it down and shook his head.
Sudden.
There was a bang outside the door, as if someone was knocking on it. The laughter was intermittent but unusually loud, as if there was a woman outside laughing wildly.
But where did this woman come from under the ground
At this moment, the door was suddenly pushed open a crack, and Tianyang immediately grasped the hilt of the "Moonlight" sword, almost pulling out the sword exchanged from the church.
A hand stretched in from the door. This hand had long fingers and small bones, and looked like a woman's palm. But there was no skin on the hand, and bright red muscles and white fascia could be seen.
Everyone's eyes fell on this hand, but it fumbled for a moment and then retracted it. Then it was creepy and gave people goosebumps.
The laughter gradually faded away.
Only after he could no longer hear the laughter did Shi Huo heave a sigh of relief: "It's safe."
He rekindled the fire, and the faint light illuminated everyone's faces.
Without waiting for Tianyang and the others to ask, Shihuo said, "That is a very dangerous alien creature in the ancient city. We call it the 'mad woman' or the 'laughing woman'."
"No one has actually seen it, so we don't know exactly what it looks like, but we have seen its back, we have seen its shadow, we have seen certain parts of its body."
"Combining the information we know, we can roughly piece together its image. It is a monster with several heads. Those heads are all female. No one has ever seen a male head, at least not yet."
"Except for the fact that it has multiple heads, the rest of its body is the same as a normal person. However, it has no skin. It is like the hand you just saw. Its body is only blood red and grayish white."
"It's always laughing, as if it has encountered something funny and can't stop laughing. Its laughter is contagious. If it hadn't left for more than 10 minutes, we would have had to find a way to evacuate or kill it."
"Because if you listen to it and laugh for a quarter of an hour, you will start laughing too and you won't be able to stop. You will die of laughter."
"In addition, it can freely control its own flesh and blood and form various weapons at will. I once saw this strange thing turn its hand into a gun and use its own bones as bullets to shoot and kill several of our companions."
"But it seems to have no hearing or vision. As long as you don't show up and hide, it will usually leave on its own after a while."
Tian Yang couldn't help but ask, "This underground ancient city is filled with so many strange and dangerous things, and it's not far from Harvest Castle. Why did Harvest Castle let it go? Didn't you inform Harvest Castle?"
Shi Huo glanced at him and said, "Of course there is one. When uncle and his men were building a settlement here, they discovered this ancient underground city. After being attacked by underground monsters, they reported it to Harvest Castle."
"But they believe that this ancient city has existed for hundreds of years, but monsters have never come out. For this reason, they believe that the underground ancient city is safe."
"Uncle Aliwang said that Harvest Castle probably didn't want to waste manpower and resources in this ancient city. The Church of the God of Nature would send some personnel to guard the ground entrance all year round, but since they were expelled, the guards were also withdrawn."
Tianyang listened without responding. He probably guessed that the reason why Harvest Castle was unwilling to contribute was probably because they felt that investing a lot of resources to eliminate the monsters in the ancient city would not bring much benefit. In addition, these monsters only wandered underground and never left the ground, so they simply left them alone.
"But there is one thing that is very strange."
Shi Huo stirred the soup in the pot. "In the past, these things mostly gathered on the surface and in the center of the city. Or they wandered between floors close to the surface. There were not many monsters that appeared in other places."
"Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to explore this ancient city for so many years. But now, the monsters seem to be running away. I'm really worried that they will keep running to the ground."
At the same time, at the place where Tianyang and his friends had just entered, on the stone ridge, suddenly, at the edge of the stone ridge, a gray, translucent hand suddenly reached out...