Chapter 207 A dead end

This was a chance to survive from a desperate situation! Xiao Ran was overjoyed. Looking at the vines that were still moving forward slowly, he quickly rushed into the corridor on the right.

Climbing over the half-meter-high patch on the ground, he rushed to the ajar iron door and pulled the door handle. I don't know if it was too long ago, and the huge plant's perennial moisture corroded the joints of the iron door.

The area was severely rusted. Xiao Ran was already a little tired after running away, so he had to use his last strength to push the iron door hard.

After a heavy friction sound, the iron door finally cracked open enough for one person to walk together. Xiao Ran took a flashlight and saw that there was a spiral staircase behind the door, and there were extinguished torches on the wall. This layout was consistent with the situation.

The way they came was almost the same.

It seems that there is another exit behind this door. Although Liu Shengli and Xu Er are not here, it does not prevent him from going out first and then trying to save people. After all, if he dies, the whole team will have to attack as a group.

Xiao Ran secretly prayed in his heart, hoping that those two idiots could grease the soles of their feet and carry out their instinct to escape, so that they would not suddenly have a brain attack and die here as a hero.

Listening to the rustling of moving vines and the cry of "Ahhh" from the head getting closer and closer, Xiao Ran quickly got into the iron door, closed it as much as possible, and then climbed up the stairs.

After walking about six hundred steps, gravel began to appear on the steps. Xiao Ran felt a little uneasy in his heart. The further he went up, the larger the stones on the steps became. In several places, they even blocked the entire step. He had to

Go up along the wall.

After climbing up another hundred steps or so, Xiao Ran found that there were almost no complete steps under his feet, and they were all replaced by large rocks. He looked up at the corner above and felt a wisp of breeze blowing from above, which made him nervous.

With a start, the hard work of climbing suddenly disappeared.

It seemed that the exit to the ground was in sight. He excitedly climbed up the big rock in front of him with his hands and feet and turned the corner, but the sight in front of him made him completely dumbfounded.

At the end of the stairs, there is a huge stone blocking the way. The cracks on the surface are covered with dead grass, and some tree roots hanging with soil come out of the wider cracks. There are several shallow gaps on the edge of the huge stone.

, you can see the moonlight coming through, and occasionally a gust of wind blows, and some loess drifts in along the gaps.

Under the boulders, there were several corpses buried under them. They didn't look like humans. They were probably lynxes used by the Tianling San people for experiments.

Xiao Ran used a knife to dig a little at the edge of the boulder. There were large blocks of limestone on both sides of the gap. It was impossible to dig out a passage with the knife in his hand.

He could only roughly guess that this place was indeed a passage to the outside world. The lynxes that gathered in the abandoned village should have escaped from here. However, a violent earthquake later occurred, causing the mountain wall to collapse.

They blocked the road leading from the abandoned village to the outside world and buried the exit. Several lynxes that didn't have time to escape were also crushed to death.

After hundreds of years of changes, the boulder at the exit has now become completely integrated with the ground. From the outside, it may look like a flat land or hill covered with vegetation. Unless you have large-scale equipment, if you use a shovel to dig

I don’t know that it will take forever to dig. And if I am not careful, I may have destroyed the balance between the stone and the ground, and only caused this huge rock to sink a few more points.

After finally finding a way out, it turned out to be a dead end that could be seen but not used. Xiao Ran was immediately discouraged, and even the flashlight in his hand flickered a few times and went out.

As long as he was alive, he still had to find a way to get out. Xiao Ran cheered up and replaced the last spare battery on the flashlight, and then walked down the steps.

He comforted himself that after walking for so long, he didn't see those cannibals following him again. Maybe they had returned to a cave deep inside him.

But judging from those thick roots, the giant vine's nest should be near the end of the prison.

Xiao Ran smiled bitterly and thought about his retreat strategy, but after thinking about it, he could only think of running out of the prison non-stop after getting out of the iron gate, and having a head-on confrontation.

The way downstairs was more difficult than going up. After running for his life and going up hundreds of steps, his knees were shaking every time he went downstairs.

Finally reaching the iron gate, he once again covered the flashlight with a handkerchief, trying not to disturb those heads like lanterns as much as possible.

The iron door was severely corroded and kept creaking when he pushed it. He had no choice but to be patient and move the door inch by inch while nervously paying attention to the surrounding situation.

When he pushed the iron door open enough for him to pass sideways, he carefully got out and shone a weak flashlight on the surrounding area.

In front of it, entrenched on the ground, the roots of the walls and roof are still there, but there are no traces of those vines, and there is no crackling sound when the vines move.

Xiao Ran carefully climbed over the thick roots on the ground and walked towards the end of the corridor in the center of the prison. But as soon as he left the small corridor sandwiched between the prison wall and the cell, he was so frightened by the sight in front of him that he almost fell over and quickly started again.

Shrank back.

The vines chasing him may have lost their target when they chased him here, so they fell silent. The vines of different thicknesses had completely blocked the iron door leading to the entrance of the prison, turning it into a wall of woven vines.

The heads on the huge wall were sleeping with their eyes closed, and even snored "uh huh".

Xiao Ran covered his mouth and leaned against the wall, not daring to breathe out, for fear that the sound and smell of his breathing would wake up these skull lanterns.

The original plan of a head-on confrontation didn't work. Who knows how thick this vine wall was. Maybe he would be surrounded before he could make a few cuts, and his head would eventually become one of those skull lanterns.

Seeing that the heads and vines didn't move at all, he took off the handkerchief on the flashlight and looked to the other side.

The two cells on the inner side of this prison and the innermost wall have a corridor that surrounds them, making the passage of the entire prison look like a "T" shape. Since it is built into such a symmetrical structure, then this

There is a passage leading upward on one side, will there be a corresponding passage on the other side?

The light jumped over the thick roots and shone on the opposite wall. Xiao Ran discovered that although there was no iron door on the opposite side, many thin roots protruded from the gaps in the opposite wall. In the center of these roots, there was a rectangular outline.

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Secret door?

Xiao Ran thought of this word and frowned as he thought about it. If this is a secret door, then there are two possibilities. One is that the secret door leads to the room behind the tenth iron door next door, and the second is that it is between the prison and the tenth door.

There is a secret room between the rooms with the door.

But no matter which one it was, it was definitely the nest of the giant vine and man-eating plant. He could only avoid it as much as possible instead of using it as an escape route.

A strange smell mixed with plant fragrance and corpse odor suddenly passed through the mask and reached Xiao Ran's nostrils.

He felt like there was something above his head. When he looked at it with a flashlight, he saw a white bird head with green eyes. It was looking at him with its mouth slightly open and its eyes rolled. It looked very much like the ones he had just seen in the vegetable market.

Slaughter the plucked chicken heads.

Before he could react, the bird's head screamed "Jie Jie Jie".
Chapter completed!