non-plastic epic

Chapter 151 Embers
The deep tunnel slowly revealed its faint outline under the light of the pearl in Xiang Dongliu's hand.But the warm fluorescence could not bring him any warmth. A few strands of cold air blowing from the depths of the tunnel were intertwined with the unpredictable darkness ahead, making people feel a feeling of palpitations and uneasiness emerging from the bottom of their hearts.

"Pfft~" Xiang Dong spat out slightly bitter spit. The colorless spit "fallen" to the black stone on the ground, but it looked particularly eye-catching. It was not eroded into the same color by the ubiquitous darkness.It seems to show the determination of its owner to move forward bravely!
cough!Mustache.Xiang Dongliu, who was holding a water-blue fluorescent bead, smashed his mouth, "Why do I feel that what I am holding is not a night pearl, but a flame candle. And the tunnel cave is so low, so low, It’s still so dark, it’s like a burglar.”

"Mom, the style of painting has changed really fast. I feel like I'm touching the golden captain all of a sudden." Xiang Dongliu's pace slowly quickened.

There is no way not to speed up, the slower you walk, the weirder it feels, as if you are really about to hit a ghost soon.

As he was walking, Xiang Dongliu suddenly felt a slight trip under his feet, as if he had kicked something. "Um?"

Xiang Dongliu thought about it, he didn't want to leave, but he took a step back, lowered his head to see what he just kicked, it should not be a stone, the stone would rattle twice.On the contrary, judging from the "foot feel", it looks like tree branches. "But how could such a thing appear here?"

It is even more gluttonous than the Gobi, at least there are some shrubs and grasses in the Gobi.

Xiang Dongliu knelt down and pulled twice with his hands, and he really touched something short and short.It was dry, like a withered branch, and the ends were a little prickly to the touch.

"What the hell, there are so many dry branches here... eh?"

Waiting for Xiang Dongliu to hold Mingzhu's hand in front of him, he was stunned.Slightly burnt black appearance, moisture loss feel.Moreover, and there is a fork of similar size at one end of this "tree bar"?

"This, this is not a branch." Xiang Dongliu was stunned for a while, put down, stood up, and walked forward.Although nothing can be seen on the surface, but the slack pace is not stiff, but it reveals something.

"Why, there are burnt worm arms here..."

Accidentally found the scorched black arm of the scorpion man at the corner of the tunnel, and Xiang Dongliu's heart was cast with a black shadow like this dark tunnel.

"And it seems that... I accidentally ran to an incredible place."

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A small episode did not make Xiang Dongliu stop, on the contrary, it aroused his curiosity.But he wandered around in this winding tunnel for a long time and found nothing worth noting.

After a long time, when he encountered a fork in the road, Xiang Dongliu stopped his footsteps, because under the light of the faintly fluorescent pearl, he found that there were some extra holes on the side pit a little farther away from him. , which is different from the blackness of the mass black shown by the boulder here.

On the huge boulder extending from the outer edge, the black has a glossy reflection under the illumination of the pearl water-colored fluorescence... It is like the color of carbonized black charcoal after something has been burned.In an instant, Xiang Dongliu thought of the withered and dehydrated arm of the scorpion that he found not long ago, which seemed to have been scorched at one end.

"..."

He pondered for a while, throwing away a little hesitation.Xiang Dongliu still decided to go deep to see. At this time, he had a faint premonition that he was about to discover something, and he felt a sense of spying on the secrets of "the sun is out of sight".

Walk into the depths of this increasingly dwarf cave.There was silence, and there was darkness in front and behind Xiang Dongliu.After walking a long distance and turning his head another 180 degrees, Xiang Dongliu couldn't tell where was in front and behind. "But it's better than standing outside and being surrounded by the swarming executioners."

Such silent and comforting thoughts sounded in Xiang Dongliu's heart.Extending the head is also a knife, and shrinking the head is also a knife.Let's go!
Even if you have the pearl in hand, the situation of moving forward in the dark is a test of one's psychological endurance.It seemed like something was quietly scratching the tip of my heart.I always have a weird mentality of turning my head quickly to see if there is anything behind me.

The world is mysterious and yellow, the universe is prehistoric!Xiang Dongliu coughed secretly, and silently recited the nursery rhyme that everyone in this world knows that everyone knows that there are no ghosts in this world, there must be no ghosts...
Unlike the days when I spent time with Jian Nanxu, the two of them shared their original "sorrows and sorrows". In this dark and gloomy environment and alone without a companion, it seemed that there was an extra layer of sadness in the body and mind. The feeling of terror.

At that moment when the two were together, the ambiguity and charm between the lonely man and the widow was enough to dispel all negative emotions, but now...
Enduring the messy thoughts in his mind, Xiang Dongliu moved forward step by step.

Go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go go.

"Whoosh, pacha~" Xiang Dongliu's footsteps slowed down again, and he mentioned another stumbling obstacle.

"Huh~" Xiang Dongliu breathed a sigh of relief at this time.

I have been walking in the dark... being alone, even the concept of time is a bit blurry. It seems that only a quarter of an hour has passed, or it seems that I have been walking for several hours without stopping. If it hadn't been for this kick Something, Xiang Dongliu felt like he had almost forgotten why he walked in here.

Bow down, step back.Xiang Dongliu looked at everything on the ground under his feet, which was completely flat and without potholes.The ground here is obviously paved with common boulders.But it was only a thin layer, not as exaggerated as the tunnel I entered when I first entered Heishui City, it was completely paved with huge stones.

And touched it with my own hands, and there was a fine layer of dust stained on my fingers.Xiang Dongliu twisted the distance from the tip of his nose in front of his eyes and watched carefully. "Hmm... there is natural dust, it should be the scattered gravel that fell from the top of this narrow tunnel. But there is also a little bit of dry and soft dust..."

"It's the embers after burning something!" Xiang Dongliu judged decisively after twisting his fingers for a long time. "And it's mixed with ordinary dust. If the time is long enough, after the volatilization and drifting away, there should be a lot of 'embers'."

"Could it be...is there some kind of crematorium that burns garbage in front? Haha, hahaha."

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