After entering the cave, there is first a long, vertical tunnel.
About a quarter of an hour after sinking, the terrain gradually turned diagonally downward until it branched into two roads.
Take the one on the right.
"Wait a minute." Seeing that he was going to the right, Shi Liuli couldn't help but ask, "Didn't my father give me the jade slips recording the map? Why don't you confirm it first?"
"Senior sister." Luo Yan said helplessly, "Didn't you just listen to me as promised?"
"I listen to you." Shi Liuli smiled sweetly, "If you say you must go to the right, of course I will follow you, but this does not prevent me from asking before you make a decision, right?"
"My answer is." Luo Yan threw the jade slip to her and said confidently, "The pathfinding steps of the entire map are all recorded in my mind, so there is no need to confirm."
Shi Liuli immersed his consciousness into the jade slip and took a closer look. He was indeed taking the right one.
She obediently returned the jade slip to Luo Yan, her expression a little shy, and she whispered:
"I just subconsciously felt that I should take the left one..."
"We brought a map this time, so don't play with your metaphysical inspiration." Luo Yan said firmly.
Shi Liuli said nothing and followed Luo Yan obediently.
Go forward to the next three-way intersection and take the middle passage;
Go forward to a pot-shaped cave, descend to the bottom of the pot, and take the melon-seed entrance passage.
Go forward to a slope. Don't go up the slope. Go around to the back of the slope and take the hidden cave entrance next to the gravel pile.
Luo Yan followed the directions on the map and took Shi Liuli along the route, but he couldn't help but complain in his heart again:
Although it has been known for a long time, what the hell is recorded on this map? Can't you measure and draw the path carefully?
After about a day, Shi Liuli felt a little overwhelmed - it wasn't because she was tired, but because she felt extremely boring as she crawled around in caves and tunnels with all stone walls.
Luo Yan stopped to rest understandingly. Anyway, according to the current speed of travel, he could reach the Chaoyuan Qi vein deep in the cave in about twenty-four days, which was more than enough time.
Shi Liuli cheered, found an open space nearby, took out the ingredients for the grill, and started preparing to cook. Luo Yan was dumbfounded.
Undersea barbecue is not bad, thank you Miss Shi for thinking of it!
"If I hadn't accompanied you this time, how could you have eaten such good meat, junior brother?" Shi Liuli was still feeling proud.
Luo Yan said helplessly:
"Sister, eating is really not necessary for monks."
"Put down my meat skewers before you speak!" Shi Liuli said angrily.
The two of them finished the barbecue skewers slowly, and Miss Shi took out some strange-looking fish from nowhere and put them on the grill to continue grilling.
"What kind of fish is this?" Luo Yan asked with a frown, "Why haven't I seen it before?"
"I caught it just now near the rubble pile," Miss Shi said.
You dare to eat any fish you catch casually... Luo Yan quickly grabbed one and examined it carefully with his spiritual consciousness.
Well, there are no toxins in fish meat, and obviously there are no predators in these deep sea caves that would require them to evolve toxin abilities.
The only problem is that there is too much turbidity, and the content is much higher than that of ordinary meat.
In the past, the universe was as round as a chicken's egg. Later, when Pangu opened the world, the clean air rose and the turbid air sank. Simply put, the lower the altitude, the higher the turbid air content of living things.
You will definitely have diarrhea if you eat it...
Well, there is no need to stop Miss Shi, just teach her a lesson.
Luo Yan ate the barbecue calmly, watching Miss Shi grill the white-eyed fish with degraded eyesight, and then enjoyed it with relish.
She kindly handed one over, but Luo Yan declined it on the grounds that he "didn't want to try new food."
"Junior brother, you are so timid." Shi Liuli covered her mouth and smiled, "I have already checked with my spiritual sense, these fish are not poisonous at all."
Is it edible even if it's not poisonous? Luo Yan chuckled inwardly and pretended to turn his attention to observing his surroundings.
Um?
His expression suddenly changed, and he silently took out the jade slip containing the map.
Something's wrong!
"A Jing." Luo Yan asked in his heart, "Something is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Kunlun Mirror asked in confusion, "Isn't it exactly the same as what's recorded on the map?"
"It is precisely because they are exactly the same that there is a problem." Luo Yan frowned, with a worried look on his face, "The first version of the map jade slips was left by ancient monks, and was later circulated in Penglai Yuqing Temple. Each generation of monks will use it according to their own
Based on the actual exploration situation, the map will be modified and supplemented.”
"In fact, since the time between each exploration and the last one is basically much longer than the period of submarine earthquakes, the terrain of each exploration and the route recorded on the map and jade slips are roughly the same on the outer layer, but the deep route is different.
There will be differences - this is why you cannot rely entirely on maps and must remember the route you came from."
"But you see, we have already gone deep here, and there is no difference between what is recorded on the map and the jade slip. Isn't it strange?"
"You have to say that, it's true." Kunlun Mirror thought and said, "Is it because there happened to be no submarine earthquakes between the last exploration and this time? So the terrain here has not changed?"
"The so-called submarine earthquake that changed the topography of Wuqi Chaoyuan Cave is just a conjecture within the temple. There is no evidence." Luo Yan sighed worriedly and said, "Suppose this is some kind of secret realm and what changes the terrain is the secret realm restriction.
Then why didn’t the terrain suddenly change this time? Thinking about it this way, it’s even more annoying.”
"Restricted in the secret realm?" Kunlun Mirror thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, let me use more spiritual power to scan the surrounding area."
After a while, she suddenly said in shock:
"No way……"
"What's wrong?" Luo Yan asked quickly.
"I am directly below..." Kunlun Mirror said hesitantly, "Although it is very weak, it does scan the fluctuations in space."
"That fluctuation frequency seems... to be the characteristic of the fragments of my body."
"Did a fragment of your body fall into this cave?" Luo Yan immediately realized with horror, "That is to say, the terrain of Wuqi Chaoyuan Cave that has been constantly changing since ancient times and trapped many monks here is actually yours.
Body fragments?"
"Ahem." Kunlun Jing said awkwardly, "After all, I have the power of space and time."
"Then on this journey to search for Chao Yuan Qi Veins, let's find your body by the way." Luo Yang had just made up his mind when he saw Miss Shi holding her stomach and saying, "Junior brother, I feel a little uncomfortable in my stomach.
"
"Senior sister, why don't you go to the cave next door for a while?" Luo Yan secretly smiled in his heart, "Sure enough, he's here," and pretended to be concerned.
[Hypocritical character, synchronization value +1.]
"Yeah." Shi Liuli nodded awkwardly, "But junior brother, you must not take the opportunity to leave me here and run away alone."
"How could that happen?" Luo Yan immediately laughed.