In the second mural, it is still the black vortex, and it is still the Shadow Clan people crawling on the ground. But there were some other creatures around the black vortex, including the murloc they saw at the entrance, and the lizard dragon they met now. It's just that ShadowClan's strokes on it just left a silhouette of the body outline. God knows whether those lives evolved all these years ago.
But it is undeniable that it was indeed the so-called God of Darkness who created or influenced other life mutations to create these heterogeneous beasts. In the picture, the silhouettes of these ferocious beasts revolve around the black vortex in the middle. After watching for a long time, it feels like they were thrown out by that vortex.
While the third mural begins, the theme has changed. The Shadow Clan people are at war with some kind of beast, and other beasts are also their own enemies. The whole picture is filled with only one theme: war!
It was just a picture, but the artist of the Shadow Clan used simple and sharp strokes to outline a silent battlefield. Just looking at it like this, one can feel the tragedy of the battlefield from those black and white movies. The smell of killing quietly escaped from these black and white pictures.
Next, the screen changed. The Shadow Clan people appeared on a certain high slope, behind them was the battlefield and the black vortex. It is worth noting that the ShadowClan people who appear in this picture have already walked upright. The tall and thin silhouette at the front of the screen, with his head slightly tilted towards the battlefield behind him, makes people feel that he is looking back.
At this time, the Shadow Clan people should have developed wisdom and planned to leave the eternal battlefield underground. The location of the Eternal Battlefield is probably the Titan Hall that Hei Xiao said. Considering that the battlefield can accommodate so many alien beasts fighting and killing during it, the space is so large that it deserves the name Titan Hall.
Next is the process of the Shadow Clan people coming to the advance base, and these processes are represented by murals. The murals are silent, but from these portraits, it is not difficult to see the hardships of the process. When leaving the Eternal Battlefield, there were still a lot of Shadow Clan people, but when they arrived at the advancing base, the number of people could only be described as sparse.
Perhaps the number of Shadow Clan is small because they were hunted down and attacked by too many ferocious beasts during the migration. Accompanying them along the way is almost all fighting and blood. On this road leaving the abyss, under every footprint is the blood and bones of the Shadow Clan. They paid a huge price to escape from this killing field of Shura.
This can be called the path of destiny for the Shadow Clan people. It is precisely because of this migration path that they have the opportunity to change their destiny. But now, Zero and the others can pass through this road of destiny and push back to the second passage to the Titan Hall.
But in the meantime, there are a few scenes that make Zero feel puzzled.
First of all, in the second mural before arriving at the advance base, there is an endless abyss in that picture, and the abyss is expressed with dark brushstrokes. There was a little bit of blank space during the period, and outside the abyss, there were some humanoid creatures with bat wings. The ShadowClan fought these creatures, apparently living in the Abyss. A skull is painted in the upper left corner of this mural, and there are three signs like this on the migration path of the Shadow Clan. Usually marked with such a mark, it means that you can't pass, and you can only find another way out.
But if you read correctly, that abyss should be the wall of the abyss that you reached after passing through the devil's throat. It is also the forward route marked by Hei Xiao. If the batman in the mural is not dead, is it a trap deliberately set by Hei Xiao? But it didn't make sense, Hei Xiao still asked him, so how could he put him to death.
Zero shook his head. It has been many years since the Shadow Clan people left the ground. Maybe those batmen have died long ago, so Hei Xiao was able to go to the Titan Hall through the wall of the abyss to get the seeds of the God of Darkness and return to the ground.
Secondly, during the migration process, the Shadow Clan people were obviously hunted down by fierce beasts like Lizard Dragons. In that scene, the ShadowClan and the Lizard are chasing each other across an open field. And behind the two is a huge shadow, that shadow has a blank space similar to the eyes, I don't know if it is some kind of symbolic meaning, or the shadow of a giant beast.
If it's the latter, if the Shadow Clan painter didn't exaggerate, then using the lizard dragon as a reference, this giant beast has already reached the size of an abyss lord.
With the group of murals on the dome, they found another route to Titan Hall. When the team was resting in the hall, Zero recorded the route and named it according to some special terrains in the screen, which were used as the advancing nodes of the route.
Taking the advance base of ShadowClan here as the starting point, in the picture of the advance base, there is a stone pillar connected to the vault of the crypt on one side. Starting from the Optimus Pillar, you will see a giant mushroom forest when you walk forward. Just looking at the picture, I don't know if they are umbrella-shaped stones or real giant mushrooms. Using the Shadow Clan people as a reference in the picture, the shortest of these mushrooms are as tall as a two-story building.
There is an underground river in the mushroom forest, and on the other side of the river is a canyon. The shape of the canyon is a bit like the bones of some kind of prehistoric monster, and Zero called it the Giant Beast Canyon. To get out of the giant beast canyon, you have to go through the plain where the shadow clansmen were hunted down by lizard dragons. There is no doubt that that place is the lair of the lizard dragon, that is to say, if they take the migration route of the Shadow Clan, they will inevitably pass through the territory of the lizard dragon, and may even run into a monster suspected to be an abyss level.
Zero didn't want to pass through those lizards' territory if he had the choice. It's just that now he has no choice. After passing through the lizard dragon's territory, he turned to the high slope that the Shadow Clan people looked back at when they left. The next step is the Eternal Battlefield, which is where the Titan Hall is located.
The route is clear and clear. I just don't know how long it will take them to follow this path. After all, the Shadow Clan people only left pictures, but did not mark the specific mileage of the road of destiny.
Fortunately, there should be no shortage of food and water. In addition to what Hei Xiao provided, when necessary, they could hunt underground creatures. Coupled with the stream that almost traverses the entire underground space, there should be no shortage of water.
After 20 minutes, the team set off. They came out from the other end of the advance base, first searched around the perimeter of the base, and found the natural stone pillar. The stone pillars are connected to the dome of the crypt, and they may be tens of meters high with twists and turns. The upper part is completely submerged in darkness, and not even the searchlight poles can penetrate the darkness.
Using the stone pillar as a reference, Ling determined the direction and led the team to move forward. Walking in the dark is dull, the lamp post can only illuminate a place about ten meters away, and this flat land lacks reference, after walking for a long time, the feeling of disorientation reappears.
During this period, Jin fired another flare. Under the light of the fire, some umbrella-shaped shadow silhouettes could be faintly seen in front of the left side. That should be the giant mushroom forest that the Shadow Clan people passed by. It's just that they were thinking of walking forward just now, but in fact, due to the deviation of feeling, the direction has deviated greatly. If it weren't for things like flares, they might be lost in the darkness.
But there are not many flares, and it is not easy to find these things in Hakara City. With Hei Xiao's ability, he could only get ten rounds. Now they have used three rounds, and the road ahead is still long, so they have to save some.
Before the afterglow of the flares was about to go out, Zero and the others finally approached the edge of the giant mushroom forest during a rapid march. When you get close to here, you can feel the humidity in the air has increased, and you can faintly hear the sound of water flow. The river that witnessed the entire migration process of the Shadow Clan people is somewhere in the giant mushroom forest. Hit it, you can go to the second advance node Behemoth Canyon.
But as soon as you get close to the giant mushroom forest, you can feel the activity of the underground creatures. The kind of fat mole rat that was hunted and killed by the lizard dragon is particularly active here, and from time to time a fat rat can be seen running under the beam of light in front of the team. These animals are sensitive and vigilant, and when they find something is wrong, they will burrow hard into the ground.
Zero took a few steps and stopped, squatting down and pinching the soil on the ground. When we got here, the soil became relatively soft, not as hard and cold as when we first came ashore by the lake. The soft soil layer also gave birth to a large number of mutated mole rats. However, seeing this kind of creature at the bottom of the underground biological chain may not necessarily be a good thing.
They are almost the common prey of those heterogeneous ferocious beasts. If the prey gathers in large numbers, it will not attract hunters. The Giant Mushroom Forest was already in sight. Of course, Zero had no plans to turn back or find another way, but just asked everyone to pay more attention. Liya maintained a mental scan, always paying attention to the movement around the team to prevent accidents.
When I got closer, I realized that those giant mushrooms were neither natural stones nor fungi fossils. They are real plants. They have survived for countless years in this lightless underground world. Each giant mushroom is at least as high as a two-story building. When the mushroom umbrella is opened, it almost completely covers the space above the head. . Standing under the mushroom umbrella, you can even see the thick and dense fibers inside. Mushrooms are a type of fungus, and no matter how huge they are, they cannot be separated from this group. So in this piece of ground without light, other plants can't grow, but the giant mushrooms that don't need photosynthesis grow well.
After entering the giant mushroom forest, Zero and the others discovered that there were some fluorescent things on the surface of the mushroom umbrella. They emit light of various colors in the quiet and dark space. Those should be luminescent bacteria, growing side by side with giant mushrooms. Zero and his party simply turned off the searchlights. Without such a strong light source, their vision was still relatively dim at first. But gradually, the brightness of those luminous bacteria became more and more obvious. In the end, the luminous bacteria created patches of colorful light bands, filled with a dreamlike beauty.
If it weren't for being there, who would believe that there is such a beautiful scenery in the dark world without light. Attracted by these light bacteria, fat moles haunt the ground near the team, nibbling on the huge fungus stems. And at this time, the light bacteria on those mushroom umbrellas will be scattered, like a light rain.
Just behind the beauty, there is often a deadly truth. Not long after these light bacteria settled on the moles, some of the moles died suddenly. But the light bacteria on their bodies still glowed brightly, and everyone felt chills when they saw it.