Chapter 198 Exploring the Secret of the Underground Palace
Lonely Ruyan stood up with a blushing face and glanced at Li Ming, who was silent as if he had made a mistake. A smile couldn't help but appear on his face.
"You were sleeping so soundly just now, I couldn't bear to wake you up." Lonely Ruyan said with a smile.
"Then how long have I been asleep?" Li Ming quickly looked at the current time and couldn't help but be stunned.
"It's only half an hour, let's continue exploring the map." Lonely Ruyan said.
"Are you okay now? Claustrophobia cannot be cured easily..." Li Ming asked nervously.
"It's okay now. I haven't had an illness in more than ten years. This time the dungeon just triggered my memories. As long as it passes, it will be fine." Lonely Ruyan said.
"Is that so? You had this disease when you were a child?" Li Ming asked in surprise.
"Yes, when I was only 6 years old, I was kidnapped by others and my father was forced to pay a ransom before he was released. I was locked up alone in a dark container and spent three days and nights alone.
With no water to drink and nothing to eat, I almost died... I was rescued when I was dying, so I got this disease." Lonely Ruyan replied calmly.
"Damn kidnappers, they won't even let a little girl go!" Li Ming said angrily.
"Everything has passed. I don't know why I suddenly fell ill just now. It must have been because the environment in the dungeon was more terrifying than my previous experience, which triggered the illness." Lonely Ruyan shrugged.
"Let's not mention this anymore. Since you are safe, let's continue exploring. You walk behind me," Li Ming said.
"Okay, but do you know which direction we should go now?" Lonely Ruyan looked at the front and back of him, almost the same straight passage, and there was no end in sight.
"Easy choice, let's go higher." Li Ming said with a smile.
He has locked onto the long corridor on the left, which is obviously a slope leading to a higher place.
The most urgent task now is to find a way out, and then find a way to figure out the situation of the entire underground palace.
"Okay, you lead the way." Lonely Ruyan nodded and followed him obediently.
Li Ming held a short staff and held a torch. There were not many torches in his package, while Yan Mei didn't bring a torch, so he could only speed up his search for the exit.
Now he also understood that the reason why loneliness triggered the disease was because before he jumped down, she was alone in the dark without any lighting tools, so she fell ill again.
According to what he just said about cabin fever, patients suffering from this disease can easily develop the disease even in closed environments such as airplanes and buses. It can be seen that the beauty has actually recovered well in the past ten years, but it was only triggered by the special environment.
Found the cause.
No longer needing to worry about the condition of the beautiful woman behind him, Li Ming also began to officially explore the environment of the underground palace.
The two of them walked towards one side of the corridor one after another, paying careful attention to all the terrain here. There were many stone doors on both sides of the corridor. The two made a rough estimate. They just walked a hundred meters away.
We have discovered the appearance of more than a dozen stone doors on each side...
With so many rooms, the two of them were extremely surprised at the same time.
As the two of them continued to move forward, they could clearly feel that the slope of the corridor was getting higher and higher, and seemed to be getting closer to the ground.
When the two of them walked two hundred meters away, they finally saw a faint light at the end of the dark corridor ahead, but it was not the shining of sunlight, but the flashing light of fire.
"There is a situation ahead, let's be careful!" Li Ming reminded softly.
"Okay." Lonely Ruyan nodded, the two of them hunched over, reducing the sound of their footsteps, quietly leaning against the side of the stone wall, and constantly moving forward.
Not far away, the floor of the corridor disappeared and was replaced by a high step road. The two stepped on the steps and continued to move towards the light at the end.
Now Li Ming has seen that at the end of the corridor is a corner opening, and the firelight shines in from the exit on one side.
He pricked up his ears, and while continuing to move forward quietly, he began to pay attention to the movement in the distance.
However, when the two of them reached the middle of the steps and saw that they were only a few dozen meters away from reaching the end of the corridor, they still didn't notice any special noise.
"I'll go take a look first, and then I'll call you if it's safe," Li Ming said.
"No, don't leave me here alone. Even if there is danger, we will die together." Lonely Ruyan shook his head and said resolutely.
"Okay..." Li Ming had no choice but to continue moving forward and slowly walked with the beauty to the end of the corridor...
The fire was shining brightly, and at the end of the corridor was a passage that turned left. When he stretched out his head and quietly took a look at the situation behind the corner, he saw a brightly lit corridor that was empty and nothing else was found.
On the contrary, the source of the lights hanging on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor were not props such as torches, but large shining crystals, emitting bright light like fire.
"Follow me." Li Ming paused for a moment and found no danger, so he called and rushed out of the corridor first, continuing along the steps and entering this passage with shining lights...
The two quickly walked up the steps and stood at the end of the corridor. Two forks appeared in front of them.
One is a staircase leading downward, with twists and turns leading to nowhere underground.
The other is the staircase passage going up on the right.
"What kind of thing is this? It can also be used as a lighting tool." Lonely Ruyan stood under the shining crystal lamp on one side, looking up curiously.
"Look at the properties. If you can take it away, I'll take it off." Li Ming said.
On both sides of the stone wall at the end of the corridor, two lamp holders are placed on the stone walls about three meters high. There are no props such as torches or oil lamps on the lamp holders, but two fist-sized red crystals, emitting light.
It emits light like a burning flame.
Lonely Ruyan tried to call up the properties of the two crystal lamps, and a system interface immediately popped up in front of her eyes...
Flame Crystal Lamp: System props and decorative items, cannot be obtained.
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The simple system introduction made the two people completely give up. The decorative props were not obtainable, which meant that the two crystal caves were environmental decoration props and could not be taken away by the players.
"Let's go, let's continue exploring upward." Li Ming said.
He only has one idea now: first find the exit of the underground palace, find a way to contact other teammates, and then explore the secrets of the underground palace together. Otherwise, with the abilities of two people, it will be too dangerous here.
What's more, Fan Hua must be getting anxious after not showing up for such a long time...
"I listen to you." Lonely Ruyan nodded, continued to follow him and chose the upward passage on the right, and followed him all the way forward.
The upward passage turned out to be a spiral staircase. Every time it turned upward, it seemed that it came to the underground palace on the upper level. There were also two forks, with the left side going down and the right side continuing upward.
Li Ming didn't care so much and decided to leave the underground palace first. He took the beauty along and chose to continue exploring upwards.
Unknowingly, the two of them had climbed up to the three-story underground palace. When they turned around a passage again, there was only one passage left in front of them, which connected to a spacious grotto.
When the two of them walked into the grotto cautiously, there were no lights in the dark cave, but they were greeted by countless fierce red eyes. The owner of each pair of red eyes was a huge and fierce man.
Wild wolf!
Moreover, although the names on the heads of the wild wolf monsters in this cave cannot be clearly seen, their size has far exceeded those of the wild wolf monsters in the forest. At first glance, it is obvious that they are stronger monsters and not the same kind.