Inside The Black Mist Chapter 919: Underground ancient city
I have nothing to say all night.
In the morning, when the sky is getting dark, the sun will rise.
Eating the breakfast sent by Aliwang, the chamber of commerce convoy also brought a bad news. From last night to now, Moonlight has woken up and slept, and woke up, and has repeated several times.
The snake scales on his body have also increased, but fortunately not much, compared to yesterday evening, there are only five more.
Also, Moonlight didn't have a fever, but the life energy on his body was still slowly draining.
At least, her symptoms are much less severe than those of other patients with 'loss of energy'. Tian Yang didn't know whether it was because he used dark particles to 'anti-virus' her, or after she woke up for the first time, as a sublimator, she naturally began to resist this disease.
No matter what the reason is, as long as the source is not solved for a day, Moonlight will still get sick again and again.
After breakfast, Shi Huo came over with four or five thin men. They were all wearing leggings, and the clothes on their bodies were as close-fitting as possible for easy movement.
Everyone carries one, or even several rucksacks made of animal skins, stuffed with things.
"It's time to go." Shi Huo said to Tianyang.
Tianyang stood up and nodded: "Please lead the way."
When they were about to leave the settlement, Tu Moshan came, and he asked Tianyang to give Tianyang a few rucksacks, which contained food, water and first-aid medicine.
"Brother Tianyang, go and come back quickly, we will wait here for you to come back."
Tu Moshan patted Tianyang on the shoulder vigorously and said.
Tianyang nodded, and left with Xingluo and the others after Shihuo and the others.
After they walked out of the settlement, they continued to walk towards the woods behind the settlement, and after a while, they came outside the woods. There are several magnetic energy vehicles parked outside the woods. At a glance, they are all modified vehicles.
These vehicles have sacrificed speed, and are all based on elements such as sturdiness and firepower. Each one is like a steel monster.
Shi Huo made a gesture and asked his companions to use a car, while he and Tian Yang and others shared a car.
Shi Huo looked like a boring gourd, he focused on driving when he got in the car, and did not introduce the situation of the ancient underground city to Tianyang and the others in advance.
Tianyang opened a window and saw a 'road' paved with many car marks outside. Wreckage of buildings on the ground.
In the front cab, Shi Huo finally said: "From here, it can be regarded as entering the range of the city. What you see now is the part that has not sunk into the ground."
"This is the fringe area of the city, and there are not many buildings. I heard from the uncles and others. When they opened up wasteland when they were young, there were more houses in this area, and they were taller."
"But over the decades, many houses have collapsed, so now this is all that's left."
After walking for a while, you can already see the broken road surface. These are hard roads, which are completely different from those paved with sand and gravel just now.
It seems that this ancient city that sank into the ground should have been prosperous like the 'Sunset City' back then. Otherwise, waiting for the city would not be such a luxury to build hard roads on the edge of the city.
When we got here, there were more and more buildings, but there was only a frame left, and the damage was much worse than the ruins of Sunset City.
Squeak——
The magnetic energy car stopped, and Shi Huo picked up the leather bag beside him, and said: "We can only go here, and then we have to walk."
Get out of the car, looking at the vast ruins of the city, Tianyang can see, occasionally people's figures flashed between the doors and windows of those dilapidated buildings.
Fatty 'Fu Sheng' couldn't help wondering: "Are there still people picking up waste here?"
Shi Huo said with no expression on his face: "Yes, some old people or women who have no labor force. They can't go underground to explore, so they can only try their luck on the surface."
"They will pick up some metal and go back. If they are lucky, they may sometimes find a complete handicraft. As long as they find one, they will not have to worry about eating and drinking for a month."
Tianyang didn't say anything.
This is where settlements differ from fortresses.
No matter how bad the life of the residents of the fortress is, as long as they are willing to pay, even the elderly and women can barely make ends meet.
But people in settlements are not so lucky. Sometimes there is no opportunity for them to earn a living even if they are willing to work. They often live from day to day, and how long they can live depends entirely on luck.
Soon, Tianyang saw an abyss.
It was in the city. I don't know what happened at that time, and the whole city sank underground.
Shi Huo pointed to the abyss below which was full of dust and smoke all year round, and said: "A scholar came to our place before and said that it is an ancient underground city, which was caused by some geological movement."
"He said that a hole was suddenly torn open in the underground rock strata, causing the surface city and a large part of the urban area to sink. Then the surrounding earth and rocks buried it, but because the city's buildings acted as 'pillars' , thus forming a fragile structure under the ground.”
"The scholar said that sooner or later, the ancient underground city will be completely 'submerged' in the earth and rocks. At that time, we 'gophers' can't even dig a hole to get in."
"However, I probably won't see this day coming." As he spoke, he led Tianyang and the others to a relatively clean platform where people were obviously active.
"Let's go down from here."
Tianyang glanced at the bottom of the platform, thinking that if he took the 'Melodious Feather', it would not be difficult to fly down.
But now, it is not difficult to go down. Below the platform is a landslide that slopes down. Probably for the convenience of movement, the people in the settlement built wooden beams here to form a 'stair'. The structure extends along the **** into the 'gray cloud' below.
Shi Huo took off his turban and tied it on his nose, covering his mouth and nose.
He pointed to the gray cloud below and said: "That thing is full of dust, it's very choking, you'd better not breathe, or use a ventilator or something. In short, don't inhale air, otherwise you will feel My chest hurts like it's on fire."
"Also, it's best to wear blindfolds, unless you want to go down with your eyes closed."
Tu Moshan prepared eye masks and ventilators for them. When Tian Yang came here just now, he checked the backpack and found it. Moment and Xingluo took out these devices to protect their eyes and nose.
At this time, Shi Huo and the others had already started to climb down, even ordinary people could easily climb down, let alone Tianyang and others who were sublimated. After descending about a hundred meters, it began to approach the 'grey cloud'. Although the gray cloud blocks the view, it cannot prevent the penetration of perception. As Tianyang climbed down, he extended his perception. Now that he is rank 6, even without the help of the black mist, Tianyang's perception can reach hundreds of meters away. If it is bundled into a thread, nothing within a kilometer can be hidden from him.
In his perception, there are piles of rocks deep in the gray cloud, and among them, there is a man-made 'gap' under their 'stairs'.
There are metal parts around the gap for reinforcement to prevent the 'gap' from being buried by the rocks.
When they entered the 'grey cloud', they couldn't see anything around them, and the visibility was only a few tens of centimeters, or even lower.
Without the help of perception, Tianyang could only see the shadows around him, and he couldn't tell what they were.
But passing through the gap, the visibility suddenly improved. Tianyang took off the blindfold and looked down. Beside him, there was a building with cracks all over the outer wall!
As Shi Huo said, after sinking into the ground, the high-rise buildings in that city acted as 'pillars'. They supported the large amount of rocks that slid and covered up above, thus forming a 'hall' with a fragile structure in the ground.
At this time.
Shihuo and the others below turned on their lighting equipment one by one, and the rays of light flickered, allowing Tianyang to see that some buildings below were pierced by raised stone edges. formed by extrusion.
They penetrated the building and formed a partition, thus turning this ancient underground city into a three-dimensional labyrinth.
The 'stairs' that Tianyang and the others climbed ended with a broad stone edge. In the invisible darkness.
After falling on the stone edge, Shi Huo gestured: "Follow me."
They walked along the stone edge and stopped after walking for a while. Tianyang saw that there were iron bolts tied there. There were chains on the iron bolts, extending for a distance of about twenty meters, across the dark space, and into the windows of a building in front.
Shi Huo and the others began to take out the rope from the leather pouch, tied one end around his waist, and the other end passed around the chain, and fastened to the main rope around his waist to form a loop.
After taking safety measures, they began to use their hands and feet, relying on these chains to climb over.
It is conceivable that many explorers lost their lives here before these chains did not exist. After all, the sense of space below is very strong, and the drop is probably at least forty or fifty meters.
It is absolutely unreasonable for ordinary people to fall like this.
Tianyang and the others don't need to be so troublesome. After Shihuo and the others passed by, both Tianyang and Xingluo used the chains as footholds, and once borrowed their strength, they had already fallen into the window of the building twenty meters away.
Liu Ya also came here very easily, only Fatty Fusheng honestly protected himself enough, and then crawled along the iron rope.
Liu Ya who had already come to Tianyang's side, gestured a few times in the air with his hands, and Tianyang read out: "Is he afraid of heights?"
The fat man, who was halfway up, yelled: "Smelly dumb, don't expose me, be careful, I will tell you if you have nothing to eat in the future."
At the end of the sentence, Tianyang suddenly heard a sharp whistling sound coming from under the iron chain...