Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 148 Cave Stone Gate
Everyone took the floating chain car to the junction of the second and third areas of the underground city.

After getting off the bus, they walked north all the way to the northern edge of the underground city. At this moment, they were right below the city of Steel City.

What Pei Nai and others didn't expect was that there was actually a floating chain car in the stone tunnel leading to the meteorite ruins in the underground city.

The floating chain vehicle increased its speed, carrying people through the winding stone tunnel.

After an incense stick of time, they arrived at the old mining area at the meteorite site.

The flames from the surrounding oil lamps illuminated the mine brightly.

This was originally a closed and dark place. If it weren't for the sufficient lights, the huge mine cave more than ten feet deep would be like a huge abyss, dead silent and dark, hooking the viewers to fall.

In the dim light at the bottom, they saw the deepest cave in the mine. At this moment, a team of soldiers was guarding the cave.

Presumably, that was the entrance to the "Twenty-one Domain" at the center of the meteorite.

"Why is this place called the Old Mining Area?" Pei Nai asked the question that was in his mind.

Zhang Sheng explained: "This place is located in the center of the main body of the meteorite. Many rare raw materials such as Gongshan Black Stone come from here. Our ancestors dug ten feet deep. The rock below is too hard to be broken, and it seems to have formed a circle of protective wall."

"Our ancestors discovered a cave here. After entering, they found that there were layers of caves inside. These are the twenty-one regions I told you about on the way."

Grandma Axun led them towards a huge mechanism floating in the air.

On the way, Zhang Sheng continued, "After seeing the 21st Domain, people stopped mining here. They couldn't dig any deeper, and they didn't dare to dig any deeper. So it became the earliest old mining area. The other five new meteorite mining areas are all on the edge of the main area, and the annual mining volume and location are strictly limited."

"There are six major mining areas at the meteorite site alone?" Da Xi Shangle asked in shock: "How big is this meteorite?"

Lu Xulan replied: "The diameter is more than fifty miles, and the depth is unknown."

Not to mention the strange phenomena and mutated monsters inside.

The unknown depth alone is enough to send chills down one's spine.

Grandma Axun brought them to a mechanism that could carry people up and down. The mechanism was used for transportation, so twenty people could stand inside at a time.

The sturdy stone slab of the mechanism was pulled by iron ropes, and with the sound of the gear mechanism meshing and starting, it carried them down to the bottom of the mine.

There are only handrails around and no external objects blocking the view, so you can see the scenery below the mine.

The shaking of the mechanism made Pei Na a little dizzy, and she was a little unsteady on her feet.

Gu Jinheng immediately reached out and helped her.

Pei Nai pointed outside and said in confusion: "There are many places to land on the slope of the mine, so we can reach the bottom with a few jumps. Why do we have to sit on this mechanism?"

"Are you feeling dizzy?" Han Ruize asked worriedly.

Pei Nai nodded, "I see you are a triple shadow now."

Daxian laughed out loud, "We are fine. Maybe you are more sensitive to the direction of the wind."

Grandma Axun looked at Gu Jinheng who was supporting Pei Nai, then looked at Han Ruize and Da Xian in turn, and finally looked at Pei Nai with deep meaning in her eyes, and no one knew what she was thinking.

Fortunately, the mechanism soon reached the bottom, and Pei Nai felt better.

Grandma Axun walked towards the cave. She asked everyone to wait outside and then she went in alone to check the situation.

After a while, Grandma Axun returned.

Her face was extremely bad. She looked at the guards with gloom and said angrily, "Someone else has gone down to the domain? Didn't I tell you? After those people go down today, no one else is allowed to go in!"

The guard bowed his head and explained, "Mother-in-law, we have been guarding the door. After the group of people went in today, no one else has entered."

Grandma Xun frowned and said, "The water of Yunguang is already surging. In another six hours at most, it will flow back and completely block the road. According to the number of people who entered last time, it won't cause any ecological changes."

"Did someone enter from the entrance in the deep mountains?" Lu Xulan analyzed.

Luo Yuanying guessed: "Wu clan?"

"It's very likely, and there are quite a few people." Grandma Axun's face became worse and worse.

Han Ruize looked at Zhang Sheng with a stern look in his eyes, "Didn't you say that the path was hard to find? Is there someone inside your Valley Country acting as a lackey?"

"Don't think too badly. It is also possible that Yue Cang has been here in the past few hundred years, and he pointed out this path to the Wu tribe in advance." Pei Nai said.

Grandma Axun nodded in agreement.

When Pei Nai mentioned "Yue Cang", the two maids of Grandma Xun trembled subconsciously, as if their souls were trembling.

Huyan Weizhao noticed this anomaly and took two steps forward.

He walked up to the two maids, bent his back and asked them, "Did you two girls also escape from the Wu clan's shrine?"

One of the two maids nodded, while the other shook her head.

The girl shook her head and lifted the veil on her face. On her left cheek, there was a dark red scar caused by burns. It was hideous and twisted, and mottled on her snow-white skin, which was shocking.

"We made it out of there alive, but we didn't escape. Among the people trapped there for generations, only Granny Xun managed to escape. We were exchanged for resources by the Valley Kingdom ten years ago." The girl explained.

Huyan Weizhao repeated in disbelief: "Exchange back?" The girls sensed that something was wrong with him, so they held their words back and dared not say another word.

Huyan Weizhao's eyes were bloodshot.

He walked over quickly, grabbed Zhang Sheng by the collar, and asked, "You knew that Yue Cang's palace was so filthy, but you didn't make it public to the world, and yet you still used your resources to exchange with them? ! ! Why did you bow to the unforgivable devil? ! ! Why!"

"Huyan Weizhao, calm down!" Pei Nai urged.

Zhong Lin and Lu Xulan went over to pull him.

Huyan Weizhao was very strong and it took the two of them a long time to control him.

Huyan Weizhao and Zhang Sheng were finally separated. Zhang Sheng lowered his head and straightened his wrinkled collar, with guilt and helplessness on his face, "Because I can't win."

Everyone stared at him closely.

He was under pressure and told the story in detail.

"The daughter of the Lord of Kunjin City is my cousin and the princess of the Valley Country. Ten years ago, she followed her master to quarry in the outer land and was abducted by the Wu tribe cavalry. The Lord of Kunjin City knelt in front of my father's hall for a whole night. My father had no choice but to agree to send an envoy to discuss cooperation."

"You only got a girl from your own country?!" Huyan Weizhao cursed, "Do you know that you are encouraging his behavior and condoning the most sinful and inhumane crime?!"

Zhang Sheng nodded, and then he closed his eyes and said, "How could I not know? My father couldn't even sleep during that time, but we had no choice. No one could change this. We could save as many girls as we could."

Pei Nai asked, "What did you exchange for it?"

"Weapons, and some herbs from the Twenty-One Region." Zhang Sheng replied.

Pei Nai felt distressed. This was an unsolvable dilemma that tormented everyone except the Wu tribe. "Then they used the weapons you provided to attack you in return."

Zhang Sheng nodded without making any excuses.

Pei Nai patted Hu Yanwei Zhao on the shoulder and said, "Calm down. The countries have never united before, so Yue Cang has succeeded until now. What we should think about is how to defeat him, not to start internal disputes."

Grandma Xun looked at Pei Nai with appreciation, "Well said."

Gu Jinheng changed the subject and grasped the most important point, "What will happen if we don't come out after six hours?"

"The human body cannot be exposed to the water for a long time, otherwise it will mutate at best or melt the whole body at worst. Therefore, when the road is blocked, the people trapped inside have to wait for a month to get out." Zhang Sheng gave an example, "Let's put it this way, for hundreds of years, no one has ever been able to come out alive after staying in there for a full month."

Granny Axun began to organize her tools and added, "Let's not talk about whether you will starve to death in there. Once you go in and see those deformed monsters, you will know clearly."

Just now on the road, Zhang Sheng and the others roughly talked about the situation of each layer of the twenty-one domains, and also mentioned the mutant monsters lingering in the middle layer.

"Those monsters are human?!" Da Xi Shangle exclaimed.

Lu Xulan replied: "It used to be."

"Okay, those who are good at martial arts will go down to the domain with us, and those who are not so good at martial arts will stay here. This is a matter of life and death, so be prepared to never come back." Grandma Axun stopped talking nonsense, walked into the cave first, and led the way.

In addition to Grandma Axun's two maids, those who entered the territory with them included Pei Nai, Gu Jinheng, Han Ruize, Da Xian, Shao Liran, Zhang Sheng, Huyan Weizhao, Zhong Lin, Du Ling and more than ten guards.

The Twenty-One Domain is full of dangers, not to mention that the Wu Clan has already entered first.

Da Xi Shangle, Ju Yan, Luo Yuanying, Lu Xulan, Ju Liancheng and others do not have enough ability to protect themselves and will stay in the underground city waiting for them to return.

Pei Nai and others entered the cave one after another. Inside was just a long and narrow circular corridor, and later steps were built to facilitate passage, leading to the innermost cave entrance.

Going down from here, you will officially enter the first domain.

There are strange and complex patterns carved around the cave entrance, and the raised patterns gradually extend outward, making people feel uneasy.

Grandma Axun and two maids were at the front.

Gu Jinheng followed closely behind. He jumped down the cave and turned back to pick up Pei Nai.

Pei Nai jumped down from a high place and landed neatly, without him catching her. She even raised her eyebrows and looked at him: "What do you think I am?"

She clapped her hands again, and said with a rather smug tone, "When I was five years old, I could climb a wall of this height without help. I have been a professional wall climber for twenty years."

"Are you proud of climbing over the wall?" Da Xian followed her and joked after jumping down.

Gu Jinheng reacted, "Twenty years? So when you were in the mansion, sometimes you were not in the courtyard, so you climbed over the wall to go out?"

Han Ruize had also landed, and he laughed out loud when he heard this.

For no other reason than this is something Pei Nai would do.

Pei Nai coughed twice and began to change the subject: "Are these the light-distributing water? They can also glow by themselves? No wonder there is no need to bring torches. Eh? Grandma Xun is walking so fast, let's catch up!"

The uniformly-lit water glows with a silvery-white glow all over.

Looking closely, the water contains colorful and dazzling rainbow lights, which seep out from various cracks in the cave, gathering into streams of water, gurgling into deeper cracks.

If the ground in the cave is regarded as the vast earth, these uniform streams of water are like rivers paved between the mountains, crisscrossing each other.

It is complex and like the roots of a plant, with a silvery glow, beautiful and enchanting.

(End of this chapter)