A hunting adventure [unlimited]

The secret passage is like a deep well, leading straight to the ground.

Because he was not sure of the depth and had a heavy object on his body, Yu Zhen climbed down the iron ladder very slowly, for fear that the monster hanging at the bottom would be smashed to pieces when it hit the ground.

He looked down from time to time and measured the remaining distance with the light; the secret passage was about 30 meters deep, equivalent to the height of a seven-story building.

Moving slowly, it took him 20 minutes to wait for the weight on his waist to fall to the ground.After lightening the burden, the whole person is as light and vain as if reborn; the hands and feet are limp and weak, and the energy is gone first.

The last few sections of the iron ladder extended to the outside of the secret passage. After his sight escaped from the narrow cylindrical space, what caught his eyes was a wide drainage channel of the same pitch black, which was comparable in size to the sewer channel they had passed in front of them; the vaulted square wall, a The ditch ran straight into the dark distance.

Yu Zhen landed at an angle so as not to step on the monster on the ground.

It is very dry here, there is no moss and moss in the cracks between the bricks, and the strange thing is that even the rampant rats are gone.

Du Yu followed his trajectory to the ground, held up the flashlight and scanned the light several times, found out the floor plan of the palace's underground drainage system in his backpack, and studied it with the light on.

Fortunately, the weight-bearing time was not long, and the strength returned quickly.

Yu Zhen lifted the monster that fell on the ground; because of its loose skin, atrophied texture, and no fat accumulation, it felt full of angular bones, which was very painful to the touch, and a layer of goose bumps spread across his back.

Yu Zhen still didn't dare to look directly at that face, he was afraid of this creature that looked like a human but not human.

Du Yu returned to his reasonable and gentle side, and said, "Let me recite it."

Don't dare.Yu Zhen thought in her heart, without saying anything, she just said, "Look at the picture carefully."

Du Yu didn't force it, looked down at the floor plan twice, and said with a stern expression: "There is no second layer of drainage pipes on the map."

The location they were in was tens of meters deeper than the sewer they had passed through before. The two pipelines were by no means on the same floor, and it was unknown whether they were connected.

"There is also a secret room underground in the picture." Seeing the strangeness, Yu Zhen thought about it, and said, "Could it be possible that this layer of drainage pipes is also a hidden building?"

——Like the Chamber of Secrets, it really exists, but it has not been recorded on any blueprints.

They already know the purpose of the secret room, but what is this drainage pipe used for?

Looking at the surrounding brick walls and cement, the age of the building is by no means a recent excavation and addition. Why not show it on the floor plan?

Yu Zhen asked: "Could it be a secret escape route left during the construction of the palace? If there is a war, it can also save the lives of some royal descendants."

"That's why the map I got is incomplete." Du Yu rolled up the completely useless floor plan, "Where does this road lead, we have no way of knowing."

"Qiao Qian won't dig a hole for herself, right?" Yu Zhen looked around the drainage channel, "The back road she prepared is of course used to survive. Anyway, this is the road, if we don't go forward, can we go back? ?”

Du Yu said: "Well, the water is flowing, let's follow the flow."

"Oh, wait a minute." After not taking a few steps, Yu Zhen called a pause, and put the monster far away where it would not be affected.He walked back with his neck turned, stretching his arms and legs, flexing his muscles.

Generally speaking, he was reluctant to hit good-looking people, but in order to wake Du Yu up, this was a last resort.

"What?" Du Yu was very puzzled when he saw his strange behavior.

Yu Zhen held her right wrist with her left hand, moved her wrist joint, and said, "There is something I didn't do..."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, before he had time to get close to the other party, his wrist was grabbed by a huge force that could not be resisted!

Yu Zhen was dragged into a stagger, and was thrown against the wall with pressure and cover!The shoulder blades and spine collided with the wall, and the severe pain invaded the back, and the internal organs were trembling! ! ! --what's the situation?

Of course he struggled, but his limbs seemed to be sealed by cement, and he couldn't move at all; his mouth was tightly covered by someone, so he had to stare wide.

No, he didn't even make a move... No matter how fast Du Yu reacted, he couldn't have predicted what didn't happen!

However, the culprit's eyes were not on him at all.Du Yu turned his head, looked around vigilantly, and said seriously, "Did you hear that? What's the sound?"

Yu Zhen calmed down and listened for a while. Not only were there no rats down here, but there were no ghosts. Except for the sound of running water, where was the sound coming from!

After realizing that Du Yu was pretending to deceive him, his eyes widened even more fiercely.

Du Yu pretended for a long time, then he loosened his grip, looked back at him suspiciously, and said, "I can't hear again."

The bastard's acting skills are pretty good!Yu Zhen couldn't speak, and was forced to protest with "no, no, no, no".

As if suddenly realizing that he was still holding him down, Du Yu let go unexpectedly and decisively, and apologized insincerely: "Sorry."

After regaining her freedom, Yu Zhen looked at her hands indignantly, her wrists were pinched blue, her cheeks and waist ached.

The water was gurgling in the quiet sewer, there was no other movement, and there was an ugly monster waiting for him behind him.

Yu Zhen thought, he had never had such an aggrieved dream.

His face was smudged like a cat that had gone through a chimney, his fair skin was covered with uneven dust marks; a pair of black and bright eyes in the deep eye sockets were soaked in water, and the ends of the eyes were faintly red.At first glance it looks angry, but on closer inspection it seems aggrieved.

Du Yu's eyelids twitched, he patted his arm, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

Yu Zhen: "...Hands hurt, everywhere hurts."

"Oh." Du Yu said, "Then I'll find you a doctor after I go out."

Yu Zhen: "No need!"

"Hush, here we go again." Du Yu didn't touch him this time, but told him to stop talking and listen carefully.

"Boring." Yu Zhen dropped two words and went to find the monster.

He was just about to take a step, when the light source on his forehead was aimed at the face of the monster not far away, and it was making a low and strange panting sound.

"It's from it." He walked over quickly.

Yu Zhen knew it was dying just by looking at it.He stood still, and then Du Yu overtook his position and walked up to the monster, but they all just stood there.

It panted like a broken bellows, but was extremely weak. Its hideous and distorted face was extremely terrifying before it was about to die. Its bound body twitched and writhed on the ground.

Yu Zhen stretched out his hand tentatively, but retracted before touching it; he subconsciously grabbed Du Yu's arm, his nails sank into the other's clothes and flesh, and scratched, "I really can't..."

He dared not touch it, it was too weird.

Being pinched by him, Du Yu didn't seem to feel any pain, he just said: "It can't be saved, it's too late."

Yu Zhen raised her head and looked at Du Yu's side face; that face was indifferent, just like when they first met, neither sad nor happy.

In this respect, they are very similar, not so prone to strong emotional fluctuations.

They stared at it in silence until it stopped breathing, watching its body go from throbbing to stillness.Everything happened in just 3 minutes.

Yu Zhen loosened his fingers, and Du Yu's sleeves were scratched into a few inward folds, probably scratching the skin underneath.

The two tacitly did not meet their eyes, and no one spoke.It was born Adonis, and died a monster without a name; how many such monsters have lived under the palace.

Finally, Du Yu said, "Let's go."

***

They became the same as when they came down at the beginning, they were silent to each other and walked through the long and quiet passage.

This single drainage channel seems to have no end. After walking for hundreds of meters, there is neither a fork nor any change in the trend of high and low.

The only change was that there was a vague smell of blood in the air. At first, Yu Zhen thought it was his nose that had failed, but every ten meters he walked, the smell became stronger and even had a fresh heat. .

After walking 100 meters, the smell was too strong to be ignored, as if someone was killing a pig in front of him.

And the drainage channel also had its first fork. On the other side of them, it formed a 45-degree oblique angle with the current channel; Yu Zhen could tell that the smell of blood was coming from that direction.

"Smell it?" he asked the only companion beside him.

Du Yu cast the flashlight on the water, "It's in the water."

The dim water turned dark red at some point, and pieces of grease and unknown flocs floated up.There is also a steady stream of crimson blood and dirt flowing into the main road from the drainage ditch at the fork, forming a shocking river of blood.

Yu Zhen panicked, he pulled Du Yu's cuff and said, "No one will kill pigs under your house..."

Du Yu had never seen this scene before, so he remained silent.

Even if it is killing pigs, this is at least the amount of bloodletting in a slaughterhouse.

"Oh my god, are we going to hell?" Yu Zhen couldn't think of a reasonable explanation.

"We're not dead." Du Yu replied.

Yu Zhen shook her head, with a look of finished playing, "That's a ghost encounter."

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