Giant Coiled Dragon Pillars
"Emperor what Vault?"
Hearing these words, everyone's brows knitted tightly, their eyes filled with blankness.
Buzz buzz buzz—!
The trembling of the earth became increasingly intense, as if something was rapidly approaching here. Zhu Zhong didn't have time to think too much. Gritting his teeth, he spoke:
"Forget it, it should be safe... I'll go down first!"
Without a second word, he drilled into the earth crevice. After he disappeared, the other children swarmed in. Fortunately, their statures were narrow and small, so drilling into this crevice wasn't a problem.
"Brother Xiao Li, are we going in?" Ah Qian asked in a low voice.
"We're going in." The Hemp-Clad Youth didn't have the slightest hesitation. "Since there are words down there, it means someone has been down there before, and it's relatively safe. Besides, it's too open here, those two killers will definitely chase over. Hiding down there is better than being exposed on the surface..."
The Hemp-Clad Youth didn't go down directly, but walked to the pushcart, strenuously trying to push the cart down too... But after pushing for a long time, it was still difficult to move it.
Right at this moment, the silently corpse-playing mummy, after being forcefully shoved for a long time by him, finally couldn't take it anymore, and made a "pause" gesture.
"Stop, I can go down myself." The Mummy was somewhat helpless.
"Thank you for your hard work." The Hemp-Clad Youth smiled embarrassedly. "Blame my strength for being too small, I can't push you..."
The Mummy didn't respond to him. He slowly got down from the cart, walking step by step towards the earth crevice. His footsteps were very heavy; every step he took would leave shallow footprints on the rocks.
"This... um... Senior... Since you are alive, why do you want to play dead?" The Hemp-Clad Youth couldn't help but ask.
"If I am alive, people will come and talk to me. I don't like talking." The Mummy said muffledly.
"..."
What an unthought-of reason.
"Then my talking to you, does it make you very... troubled?" The Hemp-Clad Youth spoke tentatively.
The Mummy hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"Sorry."
"..." Half a minute later, "It's fine."
"..."
"Then I will ask one last question. After asking, I will not take the initiative to talk to you anymore." The Hemp-Clad Youth stopped his footsteps in front of the earth crevice. "You... how may I address you?"
The Mummy slowly crouched down in front of the earth crevice. As if he didn't hear the Hemp-Clad Youth's words, he minded his own business, using his hand to gesture the size of the earth crevice...
Just as the Hemp-Clad Youth thought he didn't plan to respond to him,
A tiny voice sounded from under the bandages:
"Jiang Xiaohua."
The Hemp-Clad Youth was stunned.
Because the voice was too small, the Hemp-Clad Youth thought he heard wrongly. But after careful identification, he discovered that this was indeed the voice emitted by the mummy... His expression was somewhat surprised.
Jiang Xiaohua...
This name sounded like a girl's childhood name, but The Mummy's voice was clearly a man's... He could only say, it left a deep impression.
After saying this name, without a second word, The Mummy directly slipped down the earth crevice with a swish. His speed was so swift and fierce, it was as if saying his name was an extremely shameful thing!
After being stunned for a long while, the Hemp-Clad Youth finally recovered his senses. Holding Ah Qian, he followed closely behind, sliding down from the earth crevice.
A strong sense of weightlessness, accompanied by the pain of a hard object pressing against his back. The Hemp-Clad Youth fell in the darkness for a moment, then the surroundings seemed to suddenly open up, and even Ah Qian's exclamation produced an empty echo within.
Immediately after, he and Ah Qian planted headfirst onto something soft, rolling to the side...
The Hemp-Clad Youth climbed up blankly, discovering that the thing that just cushioned his butt was precisely the mummy-like Jiang Xiaohua... And the latter was lying straight on the ground, completely motionless, just like a stiff rock thrown down by him.
The fall of the three of them didn't attract anyone else's attention. At this moment, the gazes of Zhu Zhong and the others were all on those huge stone pillars around them.
This place seemed to be some kind of abandoned ruins. Magnificent stone pillars stood silently in the darkness. Looking out, there were about nearly a hundred of them, but almost all were broken and incomplete...
The Hemp-Clad Youth climbed up, walking to the nearest stone pillar. Gently brushing away the dust on the surface with his hand, stone carvings of uncanny workmanship coiled on it.
"... Dragons?"
The Hemp-Clad Youth's fingertips rubbed the dragon scales on the stone pillar, a look of surprise emerging in his eyes. Although these stone pillars were all incomplete, occasionally he could see the five claws of the dragon riding the clouds and mounting the mist.
Where exactly was this place?
The Hemp-Clad Youth looked around, quickly finding the wall mentioned by the first youth who went down...
Rather than a wall, it was more like a large, incomplete golden stone plaque. Like a magnificent plaque placed right above the main gate of a palace in ancient times, it had already broken into two pieces, submerged in the soil. Only the word "Emperor" and the word "Vault" could be seen clearly.
"This place is too close to the earth crevice. In case those two killers chase over, they will still be able to see us."
"Let's walk further inside."
The crowd briefly discussed, and then walked deeper along the giant pillars. Perhaps because of these Giant Coiled Dragon Pillars, or that giant plaque obviously made by human hands, it made them feel slightly more secure in their hearts.
The Hemp-Clad Youth falsely claimed he was tired from pushing, and asked another four or five youths to help push the flatbed cart. Under their full efforts, they finally moved the flatbed cart forward bit by bit...
The crowd cautiously traveled through this underground space. But the deeper they went, the less light there was, and the surroundings were pitch-black like an abyss.
Fortunately, among the crowd, there was an intelligent and quick-witted young girl. She pulled out the black stone hairpin from her pitch-black long hair, forcefully snapped it into two pieces, and then forcefully rubbed them against each other a few times, unexpectedly striking out wisps of faint sparks...
She used these sparks to ignite the spices hanging on her waist that looked quite expensive, then wrapped them with an outer garment, tying it to a piece of wood, considering it a simple version of a Torch made.
Among the crowd present, no one had this kind of experience and knowledge. Seeing the young girl's smooth and flowing operation, they were somewhat dazed for a time... Even the Hemp-Clad Youth looked at her in surprise for a long time, deeply remembering the young girl's dark and ordinary face.
The crowd proceeded all the way by the light of the fire, walking towards the depths of the underground space, praying that this place could lead to another unknown exit, shaking off those two ferocious and cruel killers...
During this period, the Hemp-Clad Youth even deliberately counted. The giant pillars around them were no more, no less, exactly ninety-nine.
"There's a door ahead!" A sharp-eyed youth pointed ahead and said.
At the end of the ninety-nine Giant Coiled Dragon Pillars was a massive, dust-covered stone door. Due to the limited light from the Torch, the crowd fundamentally couldn't see its full picture clearly...
But for some unknown reason, at this moment, an indescribable feeling rose in everyone's hearts, as if they were being indifferently looked down upon by something, feeling terrified and uneasy. Some people even felt weak in their hands and feet, almost kneeling and worshiping directly in front of the main gate.