Chapter 185 - The World under the Desert (1/2)

Chapter 185 The World under the Desert

What should the world under the desert look like?

Endless sand? Dark without light? No air? People dying from suffocation once getting in… Actually, it is more like a maze. There are a lot of zigzag tunnels and hundreds of branch roads. Some are wide and some are narrow; some lead to somewhere and some lead to nowhere.

In a wide branch road, there is a sparkling light on the wall. It might be the luminous component in the rock. In the faint light, the girl lying on the ground finally wakes up.

Lin Luoran feels that she has broken every bone of her.

She holds her body up by one arm and sits up slowly. The pain reminds her of what happened before — the relic collapsed and the ground became fluid and took them down. It was more powerful than her “Hurricane Spell”. They were all taken down without time to react, and then… She lost consciousness.

As for the wound on her back, Lin Luoran a.s.sumes that it was caused by the pincers when they came down at her. Thinking about the Scorpion King, she starts to look around. She is alone in the sparkling tunnel. It seems that the four of them have fallen into different places.

Lin Luoran wants to go and find them immediately but she doesn’t. She puts a “Circulation Bolus” in her mouth and holds one jade in each hand to restore Reiki. After an hour, she feels that the bolus starts to come into effect. She doesn’t feel the tearing pain inside and she has restored a lot of Reiki. Finally, she stands up.

There are eight branch roads in front of her. They are all just less than one meter higher than her. Some are wide and some are narrow. Lin Luoran doesn’t know which one to choose.

However, she breathes the smell of blood from one branch road… Is anyone hurt? Lin Luoran feels delighted at first, but then she realizes that her spiritual mind can only cover dozens of meters here so she cannot know what is bleeding in the branch road. Is it possible that she is not under the relic, but deeper inside the desert?

Making a.s.sumptions, Lin Luoran takes the Sword of Bright in her hand in case of emergency.

She walks in carefully. Width is changing in the tunnel from time to time. It is not entirely dark as there is sparkling light on the wall, but it is still terrifying. The sound of water dripping into the puddle is echoing in the tunnel blankly. Other than that, there is no sound at all.

Lin Luoran walks for a few hundred miles and sees the thing that is spreading the smell of blood — the Scorpion King falls here. Its body is on the ground and blocks the tunnel.

It is dead for sure. The smell of blood is caused by some gophers. They are just a little smaller than cats and they are gnawing the flesh of the Scorpion King. Lin Luoran feels uncomfortable and she wants to go back. Suddenly, something occurs to her.

She recalls that the Sword of Bright only left a trace on the sh.e.l.l. That means its sh.e.l.l is extremely hard… The scorpion is seven to eight meters long. If she can take the sh.e.l.l and make it into body armors, it is enough for everyone in the Lin family! Lin Luoran finally feels happy.

The gophers are busy eating while looking at her suspiciously. Lin Luoran sits next to them, showing that she is not going to grab their food. The gophers are like free labors, working for her to clean up the sh.e.l.l!

As was expected, in the period of time when Lin Luoran restores Reiki, the gophers clean up the flesh of the scorpion with their paws and teeth in less than an hour. They cannot eat the hard sh.e.l.l so they give up.

However, they are not satisfied. They put the sh.e.l.l aside and look at Lin Luoran, who looks more delicious — however, Lin Luoran is not the dead Scorpion King. She uses some fireb.a.l.l.s to burns the gophers. The gophers run away and they disappear in the complicated underground maze soon.

Lin Luoran makes great effort to take the scorpion sh.e.l.l into the s.p.a.ce. She puts it under the tree and the sh.e.l.l takes up a lot of s.p.a.ce. Despite the complete sh.e.l.l, Lin Luoran also finds the toxic venom sac left by the gophers at the tail of the scorpion. She wants to keep it safely so she takes out a jade box. After packing it, she continues walking.

All the branch roads look the same, so Lin Luoran continues walking alongside this tunnel in front of her. The phoenix hairpin is s.h.i.+ning blue lights in her hand. If anything abnormal happens, the Sword of Bright can kill the enemy at any time.

The sound of water dripping continues echoing from time to time and it seems that the tunnel is endless. Lin Luoran didn’t find anything strange at first. However, when she past the same place for the third time, she figures out that she is repeating the same way.

A maze? Lin Luoran looks at the ground and finds the burnt gopher skin. This is where she packed the sh.e.l.l and burned the gophers. She is circling in this tunnel, no wonder why she didn’t find a new way.

Her spiritual mind keeps alerting her so she is always staying alert. There is no way that she is absent-minded. It is possible that this place is so strange that it can restrain the spiritual mind and mess up with it… Normally, a maze can only cheat people’s eyes. Does that mean that this maze is built to deal with cultivators?

Lin Luoran takes her spiritual mind back and only sees with her eyes. She walks alongside the tunnel.

She is correct. She has walked for less than an hour and gets rid of the maze. It seems that she has entered another branch road.

In the blank and long tunnel, there is only the sound of water and Lin Luoran’s footsteps. Without a steady mind, walking in this dark and quiet underground tunnel will drive people crazy.