The sound of breathing was as dull and manic as an old bellows or a heavy truck, carrying a sense of crisis that made people instinctively feel that they were being watched, or even about to be hunted.

He subconsciously wanted to turn back to check the situation, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a figure swaying vaguely in the bushes not far in front of the wooden sign, about twenty or thirty meters away from him.

It seemed that he was still waving to himself eagerly, as if he was asking him to catch up quickly.

Although he didn't know whether it was a beast, a monster or something strange behind him, at this moment, it was indeed difficult for Zhang Ke to muster up the courage to turn around and look straight at him. In addition, since the man in front of him was greeting him, he hesitated for a moment and ran away decisively.

go out.

——Five seconds later, Zhang Ke realized that this was simply the wisest decision he had ever made.

It turned out that the moment he took a step forward and galloped forward, there was a crisp and tearing chopping sound from behind, and a small part of the flying sawdust even landed on the back of his neck, and there was a burst of

Slight tingling sensation.

Even without looking at it with his eyes, Zhang Ke clearly understood that the wooden sign behind it had been smashed into pieces with brute force.

In other words, if I hadn't run away just now, wouldn't I be the one standing next to the wooden sign who would have been chopped into pieces?

Zhang Ke no longer dares to imagine what kind of monster is behind him. Just by hearing the heavy and savage breathing, and the whistling sound that still sounds like he is waving some force to break the wind, he can guess almost exactly.

As long as you stop, you will die. As long as you run slower, you will die. The only way to survive is to keep running forward. Therefore, your footsteps must not be hindered by anything, otherwise you will die quickly.

Fortunately, there was a person in front of him who seemed to know very well which roads in the jungle were easy to walk and which roads were muddy and difficult to walk, so he was always twenty or thirty meters away, guiding Zhang Ke and choosing the most correct and easiest path.

In the direction of the road, there has never been a situation like stepping in a mud puddle or tripping over vines.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. Zhang Ke wanted to ask the other party who he was, why he wanted him, and where was this place? However, since there was always a distance, shouting would take extra effort and slow down the pace.

Although the gasping sounds behind him were a little farther away, they were still chasing after him. I didn't have the leisure time yet to completely put this life-threatening crisis behind me.

Forget it, just follow the person in front of you. He has been saving himself since just now. I don't think he has any bad intentions. In this kind of place where there are tigers and wolves behind and the wilderness next to him, he can only temporarily save himself.

Put all your trust in the person in front of you.

But through the hazy shade of the dancing trees, Zhang Ke could vaguely see that the man in front seemed to be wearing a black cloak, and something seemed to be covering his head. The back of his head was completely wrapped up, and not even a strand of hair was exposed.

The roots look particularly mysterious, as if they don’t want others to know their appearance.

He didn't know how far he had run. Just when Zhang Ke felt that most of his physical strength had been exhausted and his pace involuntarily slowed down, the dense jungle finally came to an end, and what appeared in front of him instead was a huge

Underground spiral staircase.

"This is……?"

Not far ahead, a huge hole appeared on the ground, like an ancient ruin that had been excavated. Looking from a distance, it was a spiral staircase that continued to extend underground. It was completely unknown how deep it was.

How long it is, if you look at it roughly, there are at least thousands of steps, like an earth vortex that is always turning downwards.

Such a structure is obviously man-made, but it is completely unclear what the purpose of spending a lot of manpower to dig out such a large spiral staircase extending downward underground. Is it used to build a cemetery? Or is it to be opened underground?

What vault?

None of them are right, because obviously the main structure of this underground building ruins is the reciprocating and rotating staircase. There is almost no superfluous structure, even if there may be hidden things hidden deep underground in some places that you cannot see.

room, but that definitely shakes the conclusion that "stairs are the main body".

Otherwise, there is absolutely no need to build the stairs in such a special and complicated style. This is an almost ostentatious operation and does not pay attention to practicality.

Could it be that the person in front just wanted to lure me here? Just when Tianzhi was thinking this, the masked man in a cloak in front of him jumped down from the hole without hesitation and walked up the spiral staircase, one floor at a time.

The layer runs downwards.

Do you still want to continue following? Looking at the endless abyss-like underground corridor, Zhang Ke hesitated a little. After all, no one knew where this increasingly dark staircase would end.

What is even more unsettling is what will happen after reaching the end.

However, the terrifying sound behind him prevented him from staying there for too long to think. The thing behind him, who had no idea what grudge he had against him, had obviously broken through the shackles of the jungle and was still chasing after him.

.

That's all - this is the only way left to go, so let's take one step first.

Zhang Ke gritted his teeth and jumped down from the hole, but before that, he subconsciously looked back behind him, trying to see clearly what the monster that threatened his life along the way was.

"This is impossible!"

His body has fallen downwards and is about to fall onto the underground spiral staircase, but at this moment, Zhang Ke wants to jump up more than ever and jump out of this prison bound by gravity.

His heart was filled with shock, confusion, doubt and deep regret.

That's because the so-called "monster" behind him in the corner of his eye looked so familiar, and he had seen it countless times along the way.

——The black cloak and the hood covering the entire face, except for a sharp ax in his hand, are almost exactly the same as the masked man who guided him along the way, even the body shape and running posture are the same.

no difference.

What is this? Why do the people who want to kill you look almost the same as the people who want to save you? Are they connected in any way? Or do they have some kind of special relationship?

No, the more direct question is, is it really as they thought, one of them is chasing and killing, while the other is rescuing? After all, from the split wooden sign, it can be deduced that the person behind is trying to hunt.
Chapter completed!