Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 716 Seven. The Lost Underground

  The warm breeze blew Lu Li's wet body.

   There is a faint smell of sulphur in the wind.

   Lu Li, who climbed out of the hole, stood up and looked at the not-so-dark space.

   It is no longer appropriate to describe this underground space as an underground cave.

  The vast underground world is more spectacular than the ground. Countless natural stone pillars hundreds of meters high support the underground world, and the magma river with branches like branches flows meanderingly, bypassing the majestic and huge underground buildings like a city, and merging into the magma sea farther away.

   Lu Li watched silently.

  Where is he?

  The tides of the underground caves spill out of the holes and flow down the terraced rock formations. There was a sound of evaporation from the magma river a hundred meters away, and a white mist of steam filled the air.

   Whether Lu Li is thousands of meters deep underground or a deeper **** becomes irrelevant with these sights.

   Either way, it means that Lu Li is out of reach when he returns to the ground.

   But Lu Li was not overwhelmed by despair.

   He was thinking. If Mysterious Friday did exist, she should have meant it.

   His eyes fell on the underground city guarded by the moat-like magma. If there were clues in this underground world, it could only be in the lost city.

  Lili walks with the overflowing water to the magma river.

  The temperature is getting higher and higher. When Lu Li came to the shore, the air became distorted, blocking the view, and the temperature was unbearable.

   Lu Li put on a dripping coat, and the biting chill blocked the heat. The coldness that was taking away Lu Li's body temperature before became the existence that protected him.

  Magma River is less than five meters wide, but it is still like a moat. Lu Li looked downstream and found that the river channel tens of meters away was narrowed to three meters wide.

   He can jump across the lava river from there, but the price of failure is terrible.

   Or waiting for the spreading river water to cool the magma, but it's nowhere in sight—

  Lu Li retreated to the narrow channel, lightly stepped on the firm rocky bank, retreated back, suddenly accelerated towards the magma river, and took off from the bank——

  The action is not standard and beautiful, but it is full of power and speed, and it falls quickly on the opposite side.

   There were still three branched magma rivers blocking the front, and Lu Li jumped from the magma river pass as if passing through a checkpoint, reaching the edge of the underground city, and also downstream.

  The magma sea became no longer far away, and the scorching heat came from hundreds of meters away, making half of Lu Li's cheeks hot.

   The last difficulty lies in front of Lu Li: the moat outside the city wall.

   What flows in the river is not the river water, but the magma that surging bubbles and rising heat waves.

  A bridge over the moat leads to the empty and lost city.

  Lu Li took the corner of his clothes out of the water and sprinkled it on the bridge. The water droplets that fell on the stone bridge rolled and jumped like glass balls, shrinking and evaporating under the high temperature.

  Shoes only briefly stop at the edge of the bridge and leave a dark offset print.

  The bridge is also not strong. A twenty-pound rock smashed the bridge into cobweb-like cracks.

   But Lu Li had no other choice.

  Take off his overcoat and soaked and dry trousers, Lu Li put them on again, and stepped on the stone bridge more than ten meters long slowly and quickly.

  The heat wave instantly wrapped Lu Li, and the disturbing sound of cracking sounded from under his feet, spreading around, and the bridge was as fragile as ice.

  thump-thump-thump-

The    debris rustled into the magma, making a duller sound than the sound of falling water.

   The fast-paced Luli quickly reached the center of the bridge. This is the hottest and most vulnerable place—

  Lu Li almost felt the heat from the thinner and thinner soles, and the spreading cracks of the bridges became denser and denser, like the fragile glass being pressed.

   took a few steps forward again, and the bridge suddenly vibrated and fell.

   An obvious gap stretched across the end a few meters away.

   There was a sudden crackling sound of falling water behind him, Lu Li no longer hesitated, stomped heavily and jumped towards the city gate, rolled on the edge, and arrived under the city gate.

   Lu Li’s stampede became the last practice of the bridge, and the cracked bridge began to collapse and fell into the moat magma. The viscous magma splattered, engulfing bridges falling into the magma as brightly as a lit cigar.

   If it is later, this is also the fate of Lu Li.

   Now, he has no way out.

  The watermark on the ground left by the tumbling shrinks and disappears, the coat rises and the steam is drenched in high temperature, and the soles of the feet lose the protection of the soles, stepping on the hot rocks.

   Withdrew his gaze from the magma, and Lu Li looked at the city.

  Behind the city gate, the straight street was empty. At the end of the street, the stone pillars supporting the underground world fell into the center of the city.

   It is vaguely engraved with artificial traces of the rules.

   Lifting the lighthouse, Lu Li took off his ankle shoes and walked into the city on warm stone bricks.

   The source of this underground city seems to be unrecognizable. Who would build such a magnificent city far from the ground and how deep the ground is?

   The nearly ten-meter-high city wall is comparable to many fortified cities in the war era hundreds of years ago. The streets are wide enough for eight carriages to travel side by side, the grid-like blocks are neatly ordered, and the stone buildings still stand even after hundreds of years.

   But Lu Li, who walked into the city, had a strange sense: as if he had been shrunk.

   Stone bricks more than one meter long and wide, huge buildings on both sides of the street, and stone gates nearly three meters high—

   As if the city belonged to a group of intelligent beings larger than humans.

   Underground creatures?

  Lu Li entered the house with the light of the lighthouse and explored the interior, but each house was empty, no furniture, no dust, not even a staircase to the upper floor, only the outline of a house.

   No matter the house or the stone bricks on the street, there are only the aging and dust that emerge from time.

  The empty city has no traces of life, as if no residents lived in it after the city was built.

   Near the center of the city, a stone tablet stands on the street.

  There used to be pictures on the surface of the stele. After hundreds of years of oxidation and harsh environment, only white and mottled and indistinguishable colors are left.

   Land is close enough to the center of the city.

  The stone pillars connecting the underground world are also fully presented.

  The artificial marks on the surface of the stone pillars are not nicks, and the spiral steps extend upward in circles.

  The clues of the underground city are more direct and explicit than imagined - it leads straight to the upper level.

  Luli walked into the circular square in the center of the city. The stone pillars extending from the spiral steps were uncovered and stood upright in the center of the square.

  Standing in the middle of the square, the Lost City block leading to the four gates is unobstructed.

  This empty city seems to be just a decoration, just to guide Lu Li to find the way to the upper floor.

   Looking up at the spiral stone pillar, the steps of the stone pillar are not complete.

  The corrosive sulfur wind blowing from the ground caused serious damage to the stone pillars without the protection of the city wall. From a few tens of meters above the ground, the fracture and loss became sparse and common, and there was even a section of bare stone pillars with no steps for nearly ten meters near the upper level.

At the end of the    stone pillar, the steps extend into the darkness of the rock wall and disappear.

   Finally, he looked around the empty Lost Giant City, and Lu Li stepped onto the first floor.

   (end of this chapter)