Liu Shangang sighed helplessly: "Is it my fault if I am young?"

I smiled and said to him, "It's not your fault, it's not your fault at all. It's your advantage. Go down and take a look and tell us what's going on."

The passage was enough for him to move alone, but if he brought the backpack, he would not be able to open it. Liu Shangang gave me his backpack helplessly and asked me to take good care of it. Then he tied his belt with a rope and said that as long as he pushed it twice, we would quickly pull him up.

After making all the preparations, Liu Shangang got into a trap.

But he stopped before he climbed far. I thought he had encountered a situation and asked quickly: "What's wrong with the thin monkey?"

After a while, Liu Shangang's voice came out of the passage: "Brother Dao, why do I feel unsure if I don't bring a backpack. I used to carry it with me no matter where I went."

As he spoke, a series of echoes came from the pit, and it seemed that the passage was very deep and the structure inside was complex.

I responded to him above: "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and climb forward!"

Liu Shangang continued to go deeper. As long as he climbed, the rope next to the pit would slide.

After a few minutes, the rope suddenly slammed twice.

I pretended to be relaxed on the surface, but Liu Shangang got into the pit alone. In fact, I felt nervous than anyone else. When I saw him pulling the rope, I immediately grabbed the rope and pulled it out hard.

Liu Shangang didn't climb much, but I dragged it out in an instant.

After he got out of the pit, he kept patting the soil on his body with his hands, and said, "Damn, who was dragging the rope? I was so anxious that my face almost rubbed to the ground. This rub must be a layer of skin."

I immediately changed the topic: "How is it, what's going on in the passage?"

Liu Shangang said: "The situation is very complicated. The passage is actually very short, and there is a large cave behind it. I suggest that we broaden the passage and the pit opening first and go down to take a look."

Liang Houzai asked him: "You didn't go into that hole?"

Liu Shangang: "No, the rope is not long enough, the area I see is dozens of meters deep. I guess the hole may be very large and the structure is complicated."

"What to dig?" Mr. Zhang asked him.

Liu Shangang picked up his backpack and pulled out a folding engineer shovel from his side pocket: "Use it. But be careful when you use it. The shovel has been cut on both sides, and the left side is a saw and the right side is a knife. I originally wanted to get you a reed, but unfortunately there is not enough time. Let's make do with it."

The engineer shovel with spring blades is specially provided by Brother Zhuang's team. The spring is pressed to the place where the shovel head and the shovel handle are connected. In special circumstances, just twist the switch on the handle hard, and the shovel head can be fired out like an arrow. However, this kind of engineer shovel is relatively expensive and not practical, so even Dawei's team is rarely equipped.

Mr. Zhang was injured and his backpack was lost, so we let him rest and leave the groundbreaking matter to us.

Mr. Zhang did not object to this. After we started to get into the ground, he leaned against the door of a stone house to take a nap.

It seems that the battle with the dwarf mule also consumed a lot of his energy.

Du Kang seemed to be a veteran of digging holes. The three of us struggled for most of the time, but they were not as much soil as he dug in ten minutes. With his help, we quickly widened the entrance of the hole and dug deeper, and expanded the horizontally extending channel to a width that was enough for Master Jian to pass through.

What surprised me was that although the soil here has turned into red sand, the sand seemed to be magnetic. They were not as difficult to shape as the sand on the beach. They often went down with a shovel, and there was a deep pit on the ground, and it would not disappear by itself for a long time.

Liu Shangang was right. The passage was indeed very short, and it only extended three or four meters. On the other side of the passage, there was a large cave.

After widening the channel, I was the first to climb in. It was dusk, and the Qi field between heaven and earth fluctuated, and the abnormal Qi field coming from the other side of the channel became even more intense.

When I arrived at the end of the passage, I shook the flashlight and let the beam sweep twice in the cave.

This cave is about three meters high, and the passage I am in is located near the top. On the opposite cave wall, there are many round holes of varying sizes. The largest diameter is more than two meters, and the smallest one is about ten centimeters wide.

At this time, Liu Shangang was already very close to me. I immediately entered the cave. After my feet were firmly settled, I said to the person behind me: "Be careful, there is a distance between the bottom of the cave and the passage."

Only Lao Yang responded to me: "I know."

After me, Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai also arrived at the bottom of the cave, followed by Lao Yang. The three of us worked together to help him into the cave.

Actually, before I came in, I also thought about whether to let Lao Yang wait for us outside, but after thinking about it, I think he should be safer with us. After all, the evil god has not disappeared, so I can encounter anything. But since I decided to bring him in with me, I must do my best to take care of him.

After Lao Yang landed safely, Liang Houzai came to me and said to me: "I almost forgot that in this place, it should be the root system of the holy tree."

After hearing what he said, I also understood that the holes on the opposite cave wall should be left behind by the roots of the holy tree.

Recall that when the Yelang King asked Wutuo to burn the roots, both the tree-like and the roots of the underground part seemed to have been burned. It took them a long time to fill the holes left by the burning roots.

However, I think that the soil that King Yelang filled the hole into the hole could not completely fill the mark left by the root system in the earth. After all, the above-ground part of the holy tree already has such a huge size, and the root system of a tree is often much larger than the above-ground part of the tree.

After Mr. Zhang came down, he also used a flashlight to scan the wall of the cave opposite, and then asked me: "Which one can go to so many holes?"

When he asked me, I was also thinking about this question.

At this time, Du Kang also came down. He observed the hole on the cave wall roughly and walked towards the widest one very decisively. While walking, he waved to us: "This."

We followed Du Kang into the hole. He kept shaking the flashlight and sweeping the hole walls on both sides with the beam.

This hole extends downward with a relatively small slope. At the beginning, the walls on both sides are mainly composed of magnetic sand particles. The deeper they go, the less sand will be. Later, sand and soil are mixed. Later, there is no sand on the large section of road walls, and it is full of solid soil.

Du Kang kept looking at the cave wall carefully, frowning.

But I have been sensing the Qi field in the cave with my heart, and I feel something is even more wrong.

Judging from the illusions we witnessed before, the reason why the evil god appeared on this land was because the resentment of the black dog when it died tragically and the residue of the holy tree merged, and finally the two melted together, polluting the earth.

The soil that has become red sand due to being polluted by resentment and hostility should be the source of the evil god Qi field.

So I think that when we continue to go deeper and leave the area where the red sand is located, the evil god Qi field in the air should become weaker, but it shows no sign of fading, but instead becomes more and more intense.

At this time, another fork appeared in front of us, and three roads led to three different directions.

Du Kang squatted down at the fork in the road. He kept rubbing his eyebrows with the index finger of his left hand, and sniffing constantly, as if he was smelling the smell of an evil god.

After a while, he stood up, looked at a tunnel opposite, and spoke, "Actually, the evil god has appeared long ago, and the Han man just released it."

He was talking to himself, but I couldn't help asking: "The evil god has existed long ago?"

Du Kang turned to me and nodded: "Well, it should have appeared when the holy tree was burned, but at that time it was pressed to the ground and the Qi field could not be dissipated. In addition, the Yelang King put Linglong gall and the holy tree's heart on the head of the evil god. He did this to suppress the evil god. Do you still remember the Yelang King's actions at that time? He took out the Fantian Seal and originally wanted to break the heart of the holy tree, but he hesitated for a moment and gave up."

I said, "I thought he was afraid that after breaking that thing, it would accelerate the demise of Yelang Kingdom."

Du Kang: "I thought so when I first saw that scene, but now I look at it, the Yelang King just keeps it to suppress the evil god. Only after the Han man destroyed the two things, the evil god was released from the ground."

So that's it.

But why did that person with a similar appearance to Luo Youfang do such a thing? What did he want to do?

Du Kang pointed to the tunnel in front of us: "There are some very dangerous things hidden deeper, so be alert."

After saying that, he entered the tunnel.

The evil god Qi field deep in the tunnel is indeed stronger, but I feel that the "danger" in Du Kang's mouth seems to have nothing to do with this Qi field.

Several flashlights rays swayed back and forth in the tunnel. The beams fell on the walls of the road and on the ground, illuminating a small area, and then moved to another place quickly.

As the oxygen gradually became thinner, no one spoke during this period. In this place, only everyone's footsteps and Lao Yang's heavy breathing could be heard.

It was obviously the first time he was in such an environment and he became very nervous.

I don’t know how long I walked, but a very steep downhill suddenly appeared in the tunnel that was originally winding and extending forward.

Du Kang stopped before going downhill, and raised his hand to signal everyone to stop.

While squatting down slowly, he shone the wall of the hole in front of him with a flashlight, and said, "It's a rift."

I looked over in the direction of the flashlight beam and saw that there was indeed a very long crack on the ground. The width of this crack was about two meters, and the ramp extended toward the depths of the crack.

Du Kang lay on the ground and listened quietly for a while, then got up and walked into the crack along the ramp.

While walking, he carefully observed the earth walls on both sides of the rift. Since entering here, he has been like this. He rarely looked at the roads under his feet, and his attention has been placed on these earth walls. But whenever there is an abnormality in the road ahead, he can stop as soon as possible.

The deeper we went down, the air became wetter, and the qi field of the evil god gradually became stronger.

Du Kang paused again, he looked up at the earth wall on the left and muttered in a low voice: "It's broken!"

I also looked towards the soil wall on that side and saw some dark-toned patterns on the area illuminated by the flashlight. In such an environment, there is no natural light, and all the things illuminated by the flashlight are black and white.

Du Kang shook the flashlight and let the light beam slowly sweep the soil wall twice. There were such patterns in the places illuminated by the light. They were connected together to draw a huge root system.

That's right, this is a huge mural, which is the distribution diagram of the root system of the holy tree.
Chapter completed!