Ma Xiaoquan shrugged and said: "Since we are all likely to kill each other, let's go our separate ways."
"Haha, Ma Xiaoquan, you are really cautious. That's fine, you go your way and I go mine. But when we meet again, I'm afraid we won't stand and talk like we do now."
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly: "Then it depends on whether you and I are destined to see each other again." After that, Ma Xiaoquan turned and left.
Zhang Lei looked at Ma Xiaoquan's retreating back with cold eyes. His hand was behind his back, holding a small emerald green dagger.
"Humph, Ma Xiaoquan...you are just a small stumbling block on my way to becoming the Hua family's uncle..."
...
The complexity of the roads in the dark valley far exceeded Ma Xiaoquan's imagination.
Not long after he walked in, Ma Xiaoquan was already a little lost.
Reaching into his backpack and groping for a while, Ma Xiaoquan took out a tray and a magnetic spoon. He placed the magnetic spoon on the tray and gently turned the magnetic spoon. After a few turns, the magnetic spoon gradually stopped.
Come down.
After the magnetic spoon came to a complete stop, Ma Xiaoquan squinted his eyes and recorded the direction the magnetic spoon was pointing.
"I entered from the southern valley entrance, but this does not mean that the dark valley is in the south..."
Ma Xiaoquan squinted his eyes, calmed down and carefully recalled his position on the ground.
"When I was on the ground, I remember looking in the direction for the last time, which should be southwest. In other words, the underground palace complex, at least in general direction, is southwest... Later, I walked into the underground palace through the underground passage.
, and the underground passage has about a few curves, so I can’t jump out of the southwest even if I take the curve.”
Ma Xiaoquan knelt down and put away the magnetic spoon and tray, raised his head and scanned the surroundings alertly.
"Hmm~~" General Ma Xiaoquan nodded and murmured, "No one seems to be following me yet, but I can't stay here any longer."
After finishing speaking, Ma Xiaoquan packed his backpack and trotted away.
...
After half an hour, Ma Xiaoquan stopped to rest.
Judging from the direction pointed by the magnetic spoon before, Ma Xiaoquan's current position and the entrance to the valley formed an S-shaped route. Although it seems a bit messy, if you think about it carefully, there are certain rules to follow.
Ma Xiaoquan secretly marveled in his heart. This dark valley looked like an undeveloped area. In fact, it seemed that generations of capable people from the Ma family and the Hua family had done Feng Shui and layout planning. Although Ma Xiaoquan did not understand Feng Shui, based on his past experience,
Judging from some life experiences, this dark valley is definitely not as simple as the elder Hua said.
Sure enough, just when Ma Xiaoquan was hesitating about what to do next, a big tree not far behind him suddenly began to rustle and tremble.
Ma Xiaoquan alertly threw himself at a boulder to hide. Just as he was hiding behind the boulder, the branches of the big tree suddenly pointed in his direction.
The sound of "swish, swish, swish" kept sounding, and then, there was a crackling sound from the boulder.
"A hidden arrow..." Ma Xiaoquan broke out in a cold sweat on his back. Thinking of what the Hua family elder said in front of the dark valley, Ma Xiaoquan finally understood the meaning.
Even if he won't be killed by other people, he will still be killed by various hidden arrows in this dark valley.
"Damn, I got fooled..." Ma Xiaoquan cursed secretly. After the crackling sound gradually disappeared, he stuck his head out and took a look to make sure there was no danger, and then walked out from behind the boulder.
.
"It's not a good place to stay for a long time. Well, it should be said that this valley is not a good place to stay for a long time..."
...
At the same time, after the other seven people entered the valley, big and small things also happened.
Zhang Lei, like Ma Xiaoquan, noticed the difference in the dark valley after experiencing the hidden arrows. Although the things that the other people encountered were big and small, they were not dangerous for the time being.
However, no one knows how many mechanisms and traps there are in this dark valley.
...
Another half hour passed, and Ma Xiaoquan leaned under a big tree to take a rest.
After walking up the road, Ma Xiaoquan still couldn't find the so-called glowing stone that Hua Clan elder mentioned, and the dark valley in front of him was still beyond the horizon.
"Is this damn road an endless road?" Ma Xiaoquan cursed and stuffed the remaining half of the dry food into his bag, "I'm afraid this dark valley wasn't so big originally, but it's just that it's been so long.
It was just formed, it took more than a thousand years, and it is entirely possible for various changes to occur within the underground, but..."
Ma Xiaoquan looked around and murmured: "There are actually trees in this dark valley, and there are trees in patches. So how do these trees survive? The survival of trees requires photosynthesis...
....”
Ma Xiaoquan turned his head and took out a Luoyang shovel from his backpack.
This Luoyang shovel was brought with me when I left Ningyuan. The origin of this Luoyang shovel is that my second brother Ma Yuan got it once when he defeated the Jurchens. As for how the Jurchens got this Luoyang shovel, the second brother
Brother didn't say anything, and he probably doesn't know either. In short, the Luoyang shovel is currently in Ma Xiaoquan's hand.
Ma Xiaoquan raised the Luoyang shovel and shoveled it hard on the tree trunk. With a "click" sound, Ma Xiaoquan cut a gap in the tree trunk.
Ma Xiaoquan pulled hard and pulled off part of the bark connected to part of the trunk, then reached out and touched it.
"It's humid, which means the trees here are not too short of water. Well, it's understandable. This is underground, closer to the water table, and the roots of the trees are better able to absorb water."
Taking back the Luoyang shovel, Ma Xiaoquan looked up at the branches and leaves.
"This tree can grow so lush, so it should receive some photosynthesis, but it's pitch black above my head, and there doesn't seem to be anything..." At this point, Ma Xiaoquan decided to climb the tree to take a look.
Just when Ma Xiaoquan had just climbed up the tree and was about to part the top branches to take a closer look, the conversation between two men suddenly came from a place not far away from him.
"You...what do you want?"
"Hmph~ What I want to do is, of course, kill you! In this case, you will not be among the people competing with me."
"You, why do you want to kill me? I have no enmity or enmity with you. At worst, I just won't argue with you."
"Haha, the mountains here are high and the emperor is far away. Even if you die, no one will know~~"
...
The two people talking were getting closer and closer, and Ma Xiaoquan finally saw their faces clearly.
It has to be said that although this dark valley is underground, there seems to be something that can glow around the dark valley, which illuminates the entire dark valley very brightly and is not dazzling.
