They went very deep underground.
Darkness is the norm here, and any light seems abrupt.
All the underground creatures that appeared were eyeless, strange and twisted. Some had eight arms, and some had bare tails. They looked like a patchwork of humans and various other underground creatures.
At this depth, there were very few explorers. Lin Yuan felt that he had not seen a living person for a long time, and the surroundings were terribly quiet.
It was dark and silent, with only the sound of the wind whistling in my ears coming from deep underground.
Sometimes I lower my head and listen, as if something is calling me from deep within.
Lin Yuan felt a strange feeling, but not horror. Her blood seemed to become warmer, making her inexplicably excited.
"There's movement." Ni Ji pulled Lin Yuan in one direction.
After turning around several walls that blocked the route, I saw a sunken platform.
The reason why the forest garden can be seen is that in that damp corner, there grow clusters of crystalline, glowing stones.
That was the Hades Stone, a large cluster of it, priceless.
The crystal texture of the Hades Stone is mottled and extremely beautiful, and the top of the spherical shape glows slightly with fluorescence.
It was a bit like the pupils of a sentinel that lit up with colorful light during battle. The stones clustered together like countless open eyes in the darkness.
That faint light illuminates the outlines of the surrounding scenery.
Lin Yuan saw four deformed creatures from the Pupilless Land. Or maybe three. The monsters' bodies were mixed together, and they could move independently even after being broken. It was difficult to tell the number by sight for a moment.
They crowded together and blocked a sentry. The sentry was covered in blood, his eyes were burning with blazing fire, and he let out a desperate roar like a beast, fighting desperately like a madman.
Amid the sounds of fighting and roaring, Lin Yuan heard another kind of unclear chewing sound, like the sound of sharp teeth biting bones and flesh.
In the darker corner, there was a monster with a long tail, moving its body and chewing something voraciously.
Dark red blood slowly flowed out from under the tail. Lin Yuan did not detect any emotions of a living person there. The monster was devouring a dead body.
Ni Ji took off his gloves, let his long sword be stained with blood, and joined the battle.
The battle was over quickly and was not too difficult.
There were a large number of monsters, but they had obviously experienced a fierce fight, and each one was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
There used to be two sentinels here. They were besieged by many monsters. One of them is dead and the other is covered with wounds.
The rescued sentinel said nothing, dragging a broken sword and limping in. He dragged the long-tailed monster's body out and smashed its head with the broken sword.
Then he raised his head and looked at the bleeding corner.
Lin Yuan saw his eyes, and sadness flooded her eyes like a tide. The cold sadness was like a substance, overwhelming and affecting Lin Yuan in reverse. The chill made her shiver.
In that tiny corner, there was a small cluster of beautiful dark stones, with deep red human blood flowing out from the cracks in the stones.
A female arm was resting on the cluster of blood-stained crystals, illuminated by the glow of the stone.
Her body was hidden in the darkness, motionless, only her hand stretched forward, with a little blood on her fingertips, as if she wanted to grab something.
The seriously injured sentry stared at the arm in the glowing light for a long time, then desperately supported his wounded body and struggled to crawl over.
He picked up a mutilated body from a pool of blood.
It was a woman, with many parts of her body eaten away and her original appearance no longer visible. It was a horrible sight.
The sentry hugged her tightly, his head lowered, his arms trembling.
He sat among a pile of priceless gems, his body covered in blood. He didn't even look at the precious stones, but only stared at the mutilated corpse in his arms.
They may be the closest partners, comrades-in-arms, or they may be lovers.
Now, we have to die in this dark abyss, for these cold stones.
"Take it and leave here. I don't need it." The sentry finally said.
His voice was very hoarse, as if he had cried violently, but his face was dry, without a single tear, only dried blood.
His heart was dead and so empty that he couldn't even shed tears.
"Is she your lover?" Ni Ji asked.
It is rare for Sentinels to form couples. This is not accepted by the world and is often ridiculed by the world. Even if some people are together, they mostly keep it a secret.
"No, I didn't have time to tell you." The sentry didn't look up at Ni Ji, but only at the dead body in his arms. "I always thought there was still a lot of time, so I could take my time."
"You know what? I really regret not letting her know my true feelings when she was still alive."
"How could I be so stupid. I am so stupid..."
His voice became softer and softer.
Lin Yuan took a step back.
She noticed a strange change: the hand of the female sentry's body lying in a pool of blood seemed to move slightly.
A brand new, white and thin arm was growing out of her body and slowly rising from the pool of blood.
She is deforming.
Soon it will turn into a monster that is not human at all.
"She's going to be deformed," Ni Ji said quickly, his voice calm and soothing, "Leave. Put her down."
He reached out to pull the sentry who was sitting in a pool of blood.
The sentry's arms tightened, hugging the slowly changing body tightly.
"You guys go." He buried his head deep into the bloody shoulder, "I'm not going to leave. I'm staying here."
"She is no longer the same person." Lin Yuan spoke, "If you stay here, you will also become a mutant in the darkness. You will never be able to return to the ground and never see the sun again."
Lin Yuan stood in the dark, tentacles surging out from the ground. Her voice was gentle, with a strong power to adjust other people's emotions. She was a guide, and could influence the people around her to a great extent. She could cheer up the sad people and make the suffering people forget everything.
But the sentry just shook his head and buried it tighter.
"It doesn't matter if I can't see the sun, or if I turn into a monster."
His voice trailed off, but the tentacles heard what he said in his heart.
I just want to be with her. I hope I can still remember her after I become a monster.
I remember the words I didn't have time to say when I was once a human.
The emotions conveyed by the tentacles were clear and resolute, filled with deep despair and unshakable persistence.
He has decided to stay and die with his dead lover.
Even Lin Yuan couldn't change his firm determination.
Lin Yuan glanced at Ni Ji and shook his head.
Ni Ji stared at the couple hugging each other. His soft brown eyes looked at the sentinel hugging his lover in a pool of blood, and the fluorescent light of the dark stone was reflected in his eyes.
Finally, Ni Ji shoveled up a small piece of intact Nether Stone with a knife, took Lin Yuan's hand, and turned to leave.
Leaving that sentinel alone in the darkness.
Ni Ji only took one stone with him to use when he returned. The Hades Stone was valuable, but very heavy. He still had to accompany Lin Yuan for a long distance, and he didn't want to carry too much on the way.
He knew that Lin Yuan's ultimate goal was to explore the depths of the Pupilless Land, not just to pick up a few stones and bring them back.
Then no matter how valuable something is, it is nothing in his eyes.
The two left here and slid down along the long pipe.
When he reached the next floor, Lin Yuan looked up and happened to see three or four strange pale arms stretching out from the dead body in the corner where the light was dimly glowing.
Soft, slender arms rose up and hugged the sentry's neck.
Ni Ji silently held Lin Yuan's hand and pulled her forward, preventing her from looking at that.
They walked a long way, but Lin Yuan still felt that she could hear voices behind her.
That thin, shrill voice, like weeping, followed her all the way and penetrated into her ears.
She obviously couldn't hear sounds that far away.
The sound was like someone crying, but also like laughter. It was painful, but also mixed with an indescribable joy.
She knew that the sentinel was dead and the tentacles could no longer feel the stable emotions that belonged to humans.
But the image of that man hugging the monster tightly in his last moments kept floating in his mind.
Those faint sounds coming from nowhere are still there.
It keeps ringing in my head.
Lin Yuan felt a slight pain in his brain. It was as if something was calling out from deep within, affecting him.
"I feel very uncomfortable here," Lin Yuan pointed to the position of his heart, "as if something is blocking it, it feels heavy and very uncomfortable."
"I won't let you encounter this kind of thing," Ni Ji's voice came from the darkness.
"You and I come in together, find what you want, and then we go back together."
His voice was calm, like a glacier hidden under the azure sea, pure and transparent, with an unwavering firmness.
Hearing this voice, Lin Yuan felt a little better.
She felt that Xiaoyu was actually a very contradictory person, who looked rational and mature on the outside, but on the battlefield, he made decisions and did things in an orderly, wise and rigorous manner.
Sometimes he is very sentimental and would firmly believe in some fantastic things.
For example, in this dark, lightless and pupilless place, no one can guarantee that they can get out alive.
In the abyss of darkness, personal life is like a firefly, which may be suddenly extinguished by a hurricane.
But he clenched his fingers and made a firm promise to himself, saying that they would come together and go back together.
Lin Yuan explored his heart and found that there was really no hesitation. He stubbornly believed in such an illogical thing.
When facing the powerful death, the stubborn whale covered its rational eyes, with a little blind persistence in its heart. This reminded Lin Yuan of a word that belongs to humans - romance.
Yes, this should be romance.
Lin Yuan thinks Ni Ji is a very romantic person.
She liked the feeling in her heart at the moment, so she said to Ni Ji,
"This idea is not practical. I think what we should do is to say what we want to say as soon as possible and not leave any regrets."
She didn't want to be like the sentry beside the Nether Stone, regretting what she hadn't said before she died.
He left the world miserably with a heart full of regret.
Perhaps that emotion infected Lin Yuan, making her inexplicably irritated. She felt an urge in her heart to tell the person next to her what she was thinking.
The sentry's fingers shrank slightly in her palm, and his steps forward stopped.
"I want to say that I like you as a friend very much. Thank you for liking my spiritual counseling and thank you for being my exclusive sentinel."
Lin Yuan's voice was very clear, like the rippling water of a lake, spreading far away in the silent darkness.
This was her sincere and heartfelt words. She felt that there was nothing she couldn't say, so she spoke it clearly and openly to the person in front of her.
After I finished saying this, I felt very happy. All the buzzing sounds in my ears and the weird and disturbing emotions along the way seemed to be soothed and suppressed.
She felt that she really liked Ni Ji, they were comrades with a tacit understanding and friends worth risking their lives for.
This sentinel could be considered one of his best friends.
The sentry in front turned back to look at her, against the light.
There was a light on his shoulder, and Lin Yuan couldn't see his expression clearly. He could only see a vague black silhouette with a straight nose and slightly fluttering eyelashes.
She saw Ni Ji open his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to tell her something.
In the end, he swallowed his words and said nothing. He just held Lin Yuan's hand and walked slowly forward.
He seemed to have a huge secret in his heart, but he kept that emotion very tightly, sealed it tightly in a treasure chest, and buried it at the deepest part of the seabed.
Refusing to let himself be discovered.
[The fish seems to be cooked]
[Yes, the body temperature rises sharply]
[He is so delicious now, I just hate that the subject is blind. ]
[No way, she relies on her eyes to see things, and can't see many things]
[This is the first time I have seen such a fish]
[Like ripe fruit, sweet and tempting]
[It's a bit bad, it makes me want to do something bad to him]
[Me too, I’m eager to try]
Ni Ji jumped off a high platform, turned around and stretched out his hand. Lin Yuan jumped down from above and was caught steadily by him.
The faint electric light flickered, and in the darkness, the girl's eyes were shining with tiny lights, and her palms were warm and hot.
More emotional than ever on the ground.
She seemed a little different from usual. Ni Ji thought to herself that her mood was not stable.
But he thought again, and realized that he was also in a state of confusion. When Lin Yuan said that just now, he almost couldn't control his emotions.
She said she liked herself and in her heart, she was a best friend.
I felt secretly happy but also a little bit sad. My emotions were so complicated that my heart beat very fast and I couldn't suppress it several times.
Ni Ji felt that he was not a qualified soldier. On such a battlefield, no matter what the people around him said or did, he should keep himself steady and stay calm and alert at all times.
It's obviously in such a dangerous place.
A cold wind blew, and the wind came from the darkest depths of the earth, seeming to carry countless tiny and unknown sounds, wailing like ghosts crying.
I listened carefully again, but I could hear nothing. Only the whistling sound of the wind was left in the air.
This place is really weird. Ni Ji thought, the environment is depressing, even Lin Yuan seems to be a little affected, and has become a little emotional.
I should concentrate more and not think about unnecessary things.
[Have you noticed that something is different?]
[I don’t know why, but after entering here, I felt my blood boiling.]
[I like it here, something is calling in the darkness]
[There is a familiar feeling here.]
[Exciting]
[It always makes me want to destroy something]
[Yeah, I want to bully my favorite thing]
(End of this chapter)