The passage under the waist pit was only about one meter high, and the steps were narrow and dense, making Xiao Ran and the others feel as if they had entered some kind of kingdom of half-length dwarves.

The stairs are long and deep, and the further you go, the more depressing you feel. Everyone instinctively turns back from time to time to look at the little bit of light behind them, in order to feel a little more at ease.

This time Xiao Ran was at the front, Xu Er followed behind, and Hu Bayi and Fatty were at the back. Hu Bayi intermittently told Fatty some of the details that Xiao Ran had said before, including the origin of the key and so on.

The fat man responded incessantly. What made him feel at ease was not the communication with his companions, nor the fading light behind him, but the precious lump in his hand.

From time to time, he took out small pieces of gold or jade from his pocket, illuminated them with a flashlight, and kept laughing at the reflective pieces, while muttering: "This can be used to make a bracelet... This

, make a ring, sell it for at least two thousand...this, string it together as a necklace!"

As soon as Hu Ba saw that he was not interested in chatting, he stopped talking to him and turned his attention to the front.

The stairs were not straight, but kept winding and twisting. After walking about seven or eight hundred meters, a hexagonal wall suddenly appeared at the end of the passage.

Hub Bayi and Xiao Ran stared at each other with confusion on their faces. Especially Xiao Ran, he had thought that there might be an iron gate or a stone gate at the end of this passage, or that there might be some mechanism waiting for them, but there was absolutely no way.

I thought it was a dead end.

When the fat man saw the wall, he sat down on the ground, beat his waist and said, "No, my waist is almost broken, I have to rest for a while. You study slowly, if it doesn't work, we can turn around and go back. I can still make it in time for the New Year."

Make a fortune before..."

Xiao Ran shined a flashlight on the hexagonal wall, scratched the wall with the tip of a shovel, and tapped it from time to time, and found that there were waves of hollow sounds coming from the wall, as if it was a hollow wall.

A hint of wind blew from the wall. Xiao Ran felt a little curious, so he searched carefully and found that there were some holes the size of soybeans on the wall. He shined a flashlight into the holes, and it was pitch black inside so he could not see clearly.

What.

Hu Bayi also checked around the perimeter of the hexagonal wall, and finally shook his head helplessly at Xiao Ran. He found no mechanism related to opening the door, not even the common oil lamp holder before.

At Xiao Ran's signal, Hu Bayi also raised his hand and knocked lightly on the stone wall, and found that the wall was empty.

"It seems there is still space inside, but how to open this wall? Why don't we look carefully?" Hu Bayi said.

The fat man heard the two people saying that the inside of the wall was empty. He quickly put his small pocket of gold and jade into his backpack and put it away. He came over with a flashlight and took a photo. He asked the two people doubtfully: "You have studied for a long time and you have figured out this."

Is this thing empty?”

Xiao Ran and Hu Bayi looked at each other and nodded. Hu Bayi asked: "What else?"

The fat man curled his lips and said, "I think your heads are empty..."

After saying that, while the other three were shocked, he kicked down the wall. The hexagonal wall made a sound like shattering glass, and shattered into pieces with a "crash".

Xiao Ran looked at the fat man in shock and quickly drew his knife to block the three of them. Hu Bayi also immediately pulled out the pistol from his waist and pointed it nervously at the broken hexagonal wall.

After the fat man's kick, a large amount of dust flew up along with the collapse of the wall. The fat man pushed the two people away without caring, fanned the dust in front of his eyes, looked at the collapsed wall, and said: "Inside, the left and right sides

There is a way!"

"Fat man...are you uncomfortable if you are not reckless? What if there is an agency?"

When Hu Ba saw that the fat man was fine, he put the gun back into his waist and complained to the fat man.

The fat man chuckled and said, "You two have been studying for so long, so I can trust you. Tell me, which way should we go?"

At this time, the hexagonal wall had turned into an irregularly shaped cavity, with some sharp triangular-like protrusions hanging around the cavity. Xiao Ran simply waved a shovel and knocked off these remaining sharp objects to prevent everyone from suffering any more.

Unnecessary injuries.

Hu Bayi picked up the fragments, looked at them carefully, and knocked on the wall again, wondering: "These things look a bit like glass and a bit like thick wax, and the sound when knocked is quite nice."

…”

"I think this thing is just a cover-up. The hole is covered with a layer of crap, just to scare those of you who like to think too much. Just kick it." The fat man said in a rather proud tone.

Xiao Ran leaned out from the hexagonal hole, looked to the left and right, and saw that the passages on both sides were arc-shaped and went deep inside. There were some stone balls of different sizes and irregular shapes around the passage, some of which were hanging on the

On the top of the passage and on the walls, some are just piled on the edge of the ground below.

This scene was somewhat familiar to Xiao Ran, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before. Hu Bayi also leaned over at this time, took pictures on both sides with a flashlight, and said: "Otherwise, the fat man and I will go to the right, and Xiao Ran will go to the right."

Brother, you and Xu Er go to the left, so that our strength is evenly distributed and easy to take care of. Let's go all the way to the end and see if we can encounter each other. If we encounter a fork in the road, we will turn around and come back to discuss it again."

This was the safest plan. No one would be left alone, or even die in an unknown accident. The four of them made preparations and headed towards the left and right sides.

The irregular stone balls up, down, left, and right made Xiao Ran instinctively feel a little dangerous. However, in order to avoid potential dangers, when he passed by a stone ball leaning next to it, he patiently observed it.

He found that the stone ball was not leaning against the channel wall due to gravity, but was stuck to the channel wall. However, the connection was covered with dust, and it was impossible to tell what material was used to connect it.

He raised his fingers and carefully tapped the stone ball, and found that there was also a hollow sound coming from inside. The touch was very similar to the feeling of glass or thick wax that Hu Bayi said.

It seems that this stone ball is the same as the stuff stuck on the entrance of the cave, but I don't know what kind of miraculous work it is.

He told Xu Er not to touch randomly, and then continued to walk forward. The entire passage seemed to be a ring, and he listened to the fat man's loud voice getting farther and farther away, until in the end there was only an echo that could not be understood.

Suddenly there was a "crash" sound behind him, and Xiao Ran quickly turned around and took a look at it. It turned out that the stone ball just fell off the wall and was shaking in the middle of the passage.

The stiff trajectory of the stone ball as it swayed made Xiao Ran and Xu Er's hearts tense to the extreme. Xiao Ran quickly told Xu Er to hide back, while he drew out his knife and carefully approached the stone ball that suddenly fell off.

He walked all the way to the stone ball, and the stone ball stopped shaking at this time. He saw that the bottom of the stone ball was a little wet, so he looked carefully and found that there was a narrow opening on the stone ball, and some brown liquid was flowing from it.

flow out from inside.

The stone ball is indeed hollow, and judging from the cross-section at the edge of the crack, it cannot be called a stone ball. It is indeed exactly the same as the thing on the hexagonal door opening.

He was about to take a closer look at what was inside the spherical object, when suddenly there was another crunching sound of something breaking behind him, followed by Xu Er's screams that echoed through the entire passage.
Chapter completed!