Volume 3 Blood and Fire Chapter 169 Ancient Tunnels (2…
Immediately, everyone discovered a half-open stone door on the left side of the arch. However, it opened with a push of the hand, and it looked like a large room carved out along the stone wall.
Eloise walked in cautiously, and the others followed behind.
"Look!" Elos pointed to the center of the floor. Only then did the group see the entrance of a deep well. There were many broken rusty iron bars nearby, some of which extended into the entrance of the deep well. There were rocks nearby.
of fragments.
If someone had stepped into the room rashly just now, they would have fallen directly to their death.
"This seems to be a guard barracks, used to guard the three passages outside. This hole is obviously for the guards. There used to be a stone cover on it. However, now the stone cover is broken due to unknown reasons.
We'd better be careful." Elos told everyone.
Druid Brown's curiosity made him unable to help but look into the well.
While others were arranging blankets and preparing to make beds against the wall, he quietly slipped to the edge of the well and looked inside. A gust of cold wind blew in his face from the invisible abyss below.
Instigated by damned curiosity, Brown picked up a stone and dropped it. He felt his heart beat several times before there was any sound from below.
Then, from far away, there seemed to be the sound of stones falling into deep water.
Plop!
But under the amplification and echo of many tunnels, the sound spread quickly.
"What is that sound?" Eloise whispered.
When Brown admitted what he had done, Ilosif breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still very angry: "You idiot! You'd better throw yourself in next time, it will save us a lot of trouble. Don't do any more tricks."
Damn!" Elos cursed in a rare rage.
After a few minutes, there was still silence.
However, a faint knocking sound came from the distant depths of the earth:
Dang-dang, Dang-dang.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and listened.
When the echo disappeared, everyone continued to hear bang, bang, bang, bang, bang.
This sounded like some kind of unsettling signal, but soon after, the knocking sound disappeared and never appeared again.
"Unless my ears are broken, this must be the sound of something knocking, but my magic didn't sense what it was." Ekaterina said.
Other druids also said that the little animals they sent out to investigate did not find anything unusual.
"Yes, I don't like this feeling. It may not have anything to do with Brown's stupid stone, but it may have awakened some power that shouldn't be awakened. You'd better not do this kind of stupid thing again.
What happened! I hope we can have a good rest without being disturbed this time. Brown, you are the first person on night duty. This is a reward for your heroic behavior."
Eloise stretched himself into the blanket. He had not rested for many days, and he was also a little tired.
Brown sat by the door in the dark with an innocent look on his face, but he still looked back frequently uneasily, worried that some terrifying monster would crawl out of the well.
Even with just a blanket, he wanted to cover the well's mouth; but even if Iloth seemed to be asleep, he did not dare to go near the well again.
In fact, Eloise just lay still and made no sound.
He was thinking hard about everything he had done before entering the tunnel, trying to decide what to do next.
As long as he makes one wrong step, he may make a big mistake. He may not be in any danger, but others with relatively low strength may encounter mishaps.
An hour later, Eloise got up and walked to Brown.
"Go find a place to sleep. I think you really want to sleep. I can't sleep, so I'll be the one doing the night watch." Elos said to Brown calmly.
It was Iloth who woke everyone up.
He stayed up all night for six hours by himself, letting the others have a good night's rest.
"I made up my mind during the vigil. I didn't like the feeling the middle road gave me, and I didn't like the smell of the left road either. There was something foul-smelling down there. This is my sanctuary ability -
My extraordinary perception told me that I decided to go to the right, and it’s time for us to continue climbing." Elos said to everyone.
Everyone walked non-stop for eight hours, with only two short breaks in between.
I did not encounter any dangers along the way, nor did I hear any strange noises. In front of me was only the light of Iloth's crystal tube staff, leading the way like a will-o'-the-wisp.
The path Elos chose continued to climb upwards. They seemed to be walking on slopes. The higher they went up, the wider and gentler the slopes became.
There are no branches or rooms on either side of the corridor, and the floor is flat and flawless, with no pits or deep grooves.
It was obvious that the place everyone was walking on was once a very important road, which allowed them to move much faster than yesterday.
They walked like this for about twenty miles, heading straight to the west.
However, if we look at the straight-line distance, it is probably only about fifteen miles.
As the group walked higher and higher, everyone's spirits got better and better, but there was still a feeling of being depressed.
Sometimes everyone still hears, or thinks they hear, the continuous footsteps that are not echoes coming from behind the team.
Suddenly, the walls on the left and right disappeared.
Everyone seemed to have passed through some kind of archway and entered an open, vast place.
Behind you is the hot warm air, while in front of you is the icy cold wind.
Everyone stopped in unison and looked at the door.
Elloth seemed very happy: "The path I chose is correct! We finally came to a place where people can live! I guess we are not far from the exit to the west. If I am not wrong, we are on high ground.
From the feeling of air movement, we should be in a large hall, and now we can venture into some real lighting."
When Yekaterina heard Elos's words, she raised her magic wand, and a burst of light like lightning flashed everywhere.
Huge shadows were immediately cast in all directions, and for the first time everyone saw the high ceiling and the many majestic stone pillars supporting it.
Surrounded by a wide hall, the black walls have been polished and shine like glass.
Everyone also saw three other entrances with the same black arches, one directly opposite them, and one on each side.
Then, the light disappeared.
Ekaterina's intuition told her to try not to maintain the magic for too long, otherwise it would attract unknown things.
"It's enough for us to do this now. In the past, large windows were cut into the mountain side to introduce sunlight into the cave above the middle of the tunnel. I think we are here now, but it is still dark outside, so
We can't see it now. If I'm not wrong, we can see the sun shining in here tomorrow morning. Now we'd better stop running around and take the opportunity to rest. So far, everything is going well, and the dark road is almost over.
However, we should not take it lightly, there is still a long way to go before we get out of the underground."
After Yekaterina told Ilosu her intuition, Ilosu remained silent and just comforted everyone with words.
Everyone spent the night in this huge cave hall. They huddled together to avoid the severe cold brought by the cold wind outside. The cold wind outside seemed to find a place and penetrated directly into here.
Everyone felt that they were surrounded by endless darkness and emptiness, and felt immense pressure among the endless stairs and tunnels.
Everyone in the War Eagle Clan has heard the most fantastic rumors since they were young, but they can't compare to the terrifying and magnificent sight here.
"I really don't know what kind of terrifying power the high elves used to carve out such a spectacular project in the mountain!" Maid Jenny said with emotion, and other druids also agreed.
However, the knowledgeable Ekaterina immediately answered everyone's questions. She read many books on high elves from ancient times in the Silver Moon Clan.
"This tunnel was originally dug by the dwarves more than a thousand years ago because there used to be a large number of mithril mines here. Later, the high elves launched a war against the dwarves and almost wiped out the dwarves entrenched in the Crimson Mountains. This rich land was
The tunnel containing a large amount of mithril veins became his own. Later, after the mithril mines were almost exhausted, a large number of elven mages gathered to transform the mines into tunnels that ran through the Crimson Mountains. Unfortunately, there is no empire that has been passed down from generation to generation, and there is no
After the high elves, an eternal race, withdrew from the stage of history, this tunnel has been abandoned to this day."