Rachel and Sabrina walked along the corridor full of musty smell and cobwebs.
The former opened the hidden mechanisms with ease, pushed open the hidden stone doors, bypassed the complicated forks, and led the latter slowly towards the depths of the mountains.
Sabrina, who was walking in the corridor, kept fanning her face with her hands and asked in a low voice: "Is it my imagination or is it true? Why do I feel hotter and hotter?"
Rachel carefully avoided a rock that fell to the ground and said, "The mountain range where the Presbyterian Church is located is called Supuha. Do you know what this name means in ancient Semitic language?"
Before Sabrina could give an answer, Rachel explained directly: "Supha is the god of fire in Semitic mythology, in charge of the power of earth fire and sky fire."
Squeezing sideways into a narrow stone crevice, Rachel put away the torch and said, "The original road has become impassable due to landslides. I'm afraid we have to take some risks..."
Listening to the cooing sound coming from not far away, Sabrina followed Rachel into the crack of the stone. When she came out, she looked at everything in front of her, her body suddenly trembled and her face turned pale.
A narrow stone bridge stands high in the sky, with jagged cave rock formations above your head, and hot lava flowing hundreds of meters below your feet!
Seeing the dark red high-temperature magma wrapped in black smoke, flowing continuously towards the depths of the earth's core in the underground cracks under her feet, and smelling the pungent smell in the air, Sabrina took a few steps back.
, firmly grasping the rock behind him, and shouted at Rachel: "Is there no other way to go?!"
"I said, it turns out that the shortcut can no longer be used. This bridge is the only way to the destination." Rachel stepped onto the stone bridge, and the high-temperature stones came into contact with her shoes.
There were bursts of fine blue smoke.
Looking at this arched stone bridge with a total length of more than fifteen meters, it is in disrepair, has cracks, and is crumbling.
Sabrina shook her head desperately: "You are crazy! You must be crazy! I will never step on a stone bridge built a thousand years ago, and there is still boiling magma flowing underneath!"
Rachel turned around and said to Sabrina: "I have a question. Maybe you, who have lived for a hundred years, can answer me."
"Which life is more valuable to you? A lifetime of lingering in confusion, or a moment of bravery to find the truth?"
Sabrina froze on the spot, looking at Rachel silently.
Standing on the stone bridge above the flames, Rachel opened her arms and said loudly to Sabrina: "Even if you give me endless life, but let me live in a cage the size of a square inch, what does this kind of survival have to do with death?
difference?"
Sabrina's nails dug into her palms.
"Open your eyes and look at this dirty and unbearable world! Lies, fighting and killing are like poison, and they have completely polluted everything! You are avoiding death and dare not face the hell after death.
.But! Have you ever thought that the world we live in is already an out-and-out hell!"
Rachel stretched out her hand to Sabrina: "You are a lot like me. We have nothing more to lose, and our bodies are no longer important to us. Don't you want to change? Don't you want to change?
Don’t you want to try to escape from hell?”
"Perhaps the world after liberation will not be as wonderful as we imagined..." Rachel lowered her head, her eyes full of loneliness: "But it will definitely be better than now."
After hesitating for a long time, Sabrina finally took a small step forward. She stretched out her trembling hand, moved forward, and finally touched Rachel's fingertips.
Grabbing the other person's hand and pulling her to the stone bridge, Rachel smiled and said to Sabrina: "My sister, welcome to the truth."
After crossing the stone bridge over the magma river, Rachel led Sabrina into an ancient passage.
The walls of the passage were inlaid with green gems as dense as stars. These gems emitted a gentle green light in the darkness, pointing out the direction for the two of them to move forward.
Looking at the piles of human bones at her feet, Sabrina whispered: "There are no scars on the dead. They are sitting here quietly waiting for death. This scene is simply like..."
"Burial."
Rachel walked quickly ahead and reminded Sabrina: "Don't touch those green gems. They are highly poisonous. I almost died from them once."
Sabrina looked at the emerald in the wall with some surprise, then followed Rachel's steps and walked forward quickly.
The two walked forward for another ten minutes, and finally came to an iron door hidden in the rocks.
Sabrina looked at the vaguely visible words above the iron door and struggled to identify: "nascentes_morimur...born to die?"
With the light green light around her, Rachel pointed to a rotating keyhole plate on the iron door and said to Sabrina: "I need your help."
The latter looked at the keyhole and asked, "Do you want me to open this lock?"
"This kind of machine lock has a compass-shaped lock cylinder inside. Even the most outstanding lockpicking master cannot open it. And you, Sabrina, your blood can change into various forms. This kind of lock is very useful to you."
It shouldn’t be difficult…”
Listening to Rachel's words, Sabrina frowned more and more: "Now I am really beginning to doubt your original intention of inviting me. Maybe you just want me to help you open this lock."
Complaints were complaints, Sabrina bit her finger, and semi-solid blood slowly flowed out from the wound and seeped into the keyhole.
As the lock cylinder rotated one after another, after a while, a muffled sound came from the stone door.
Rachel pressed her hands against the stone slab and pushed forward with all her strength.
Thick dust fell and filled the entire corridor.
Sabrina covered her mouth and nose with her hands, followed Rachel, passed through the stone door, and continued walking forward.
After walking forward for more than ten minutes, when they reached the end of the passage, a high-temperature storm swept in from the other end of the passage and blew on the two of them, making it almost impossible to open their eyes.
Rachel put her arms in front of her and shouted behind her: "We're almost there! It's right in front!"
Sabrina, who was almost lying on the ground and moved forward to the exit little by little, looked up at the scenery outside the cave. She couldn't help but be so shocked by the scene in front of her that she forgot to breathe.
The ocean of magma is endless as far as the eye can see, and the tongues of fire are rolling like waves. Wherever you look, there is blazing red everywhere!
Rachel stretched out her hand and pointed forward: "Our destination is right there!"
Sabrina looked in the direction of her finger. In the middle of the sea of lava, there was a huge black metal tower hundreds of meters high, rising from the bottom of the sea of fire, standing tall and shining in the light of the fire.