What kind of girl would travel to another world?

In the previous chapter, Wei Qingping suggested preparing some lighting equipment before entering the underground city. The Sword King then immediately started making torches. After everything was ready, the two of them returned to the secret passage.

Following Wei Qingping's directions, the Sword King, carrying a torch, entered the dungeon through a hidden side entrance. Wei Qingping, who had been guiding him from behind, followed closely behind.

At this moment, the two had entered the abandoned dungeon, and the Sword King's heart was pounding with apprehension. After all, this was his first time entering a "dungeon," and the path ahead was shrouded in darkness. Faced with the unknown, even the bravest person would inevitably feel some fear.

Although this was an abandoned dungeon that had already been explored, any normal person would naturally be afraid in such a dark place. Fortunately, Wei Qingping and the Sword King were two people, so as to encourage each other, their fear would be reduced somewhat.

The Sword King shone his torch to both sides, roughly wide enough for two people to walk side by side. However, Wei Qingping was too frightened and could only hide behind the Sword King as they proceeded.

And so, the swordsman king slowly moved forward step by step, shining his torch as far as he could, afraid of suddenly slipping and falling into a pit, or that something frightening might suddenly appear ahead. In this type of cave-like dungeon, anything could happen.

Their speed in the dungeon was only slightly better than that of a snail or a tortoise; it was nowhere near "fast."

They had only taken a few steps into the dungeon when the Sword King, while taking a step forward, shouted loudly, "Don't panic! Don't panic!"

Wei Qingping was startled by the sudden shout, so she tugged at the swordsman king in front of her and said, "Why are you shouting so loudly, uncle?"

The Sword King said to Wei Qingping behind him, "Don't pull my clothes!"

Wei Qingping said to the swordsman king in front of her, "It's too dark here, I'm afraid I'll lose them!"

I've said it before, that's just how people are. When they're in an unknown place, they inevitably feel scared. Unless they're in their own home, where even if it's pitch black, they won't be afraid because they know where to turn on the lights.

So imagine if your home suddenly went completely dark, and you had nothing to light it, and the light switches were no longer in their usual places or were not working, you would start to panic.

After walking for a short while, the two could clearly feel that they were heading downhill. The Sword King shouted again, "Hey! Why does it feel like we're going downhill the whole time?!"

Wei Qingping followed closely behind, and asked the Sword King in a speculative manner, "It's an underground city, isn't it natural to go underground?"

Upon hearing such a far-fetched guess, the Sword King also loudly retorted, "Is that so?"

Wei Qingping raised her voice as well, replying to the Sword King, "I don't know! This is my first time here too!"

And you know what? Their shouting did have some effect. What effect? ​​It boosted their courage.

As they walked, the Sword King suddenly threw his head back and burst into laughter: "Hahahaha!"

Wei Qingping followed behind the Sword King, her view blocked by his large frame, and had no idea what he was laughing at. She anxiously called out to him, "What's wrong?! What happened?! Why are you laughing?!"

The Sword King forced a heroic air and loudly told Wei Qingping, "I'm laughing! Everyone says this dungeon is so dangerous, but there's not even anything to scare people! Hahahaha!"

Wei Qingping knew the reason sounded far-fetched, but she couldn't help but burst into laughter along with the Sword King.

And so, the echoes of their laughter reverberated through the cave. They only stopped this emboldening laughter when they began to cough.

Well, it's just like Cao Cao's defeat at Huarong Road. Cao Cao found a "reason" to mock his enemy in order to cover up his extreme panic during his defeat and escape.

In such situations, people will do this as long as they can find an excuse to use laughter to mask their extreme panic. Ultimately, it's about "boosting courage" for themselves and those around them.

Then, in this back-and-forth, word-by-word encouragement, the two quickened their pace slightly. As they increased their pace, they felt the road sloped even further downhill. Eventually, they were almost running.

After walking for a while, the road finally became a gentler slope instead of a downward slope.

The Sword King and Wei Qingping calmed down a bit, no longer as excited as before. After all, they had been excited for so long and had walked for so long, leaving them both physically and mentally exhausted.

Having calmed down, Wei Qingping sniffed the air and said to the Sword King, "This dungeon smells like roasted meat. I wasn't hungry at all..."

Wei Qingping had been under a lot of stress and hadn't paid attention to anything else. Now that she had calmed down, she immediately smelled the burning grease on the torch.

The Sword King said to Wei Qingping, "It's the smell of fat burning on a torch. How come you only smelled it now?"

At this moment, the Sword King no longer cared whether Wei Qingping was hungry or not; it was already quite an achievement that he could calm down from his extreme excitement.

Then, the Sword King stopped and said to Wei Qingping in a very calm tone, "This feels like an ordinary cave, not like the 'Demon Realm' at all."

Wei Qingping asked the Sword King, "What should the Demon Realm be like?"

The Sword King told Wei Qingping, "The Demon Realm is different from our human world. There is an inexhaustible supply of magical energy there. And incredibly, there is no sun at all, yet everything is brightly lit day and night. Some things that shouldn't be shining actually do..." As he spoke, he continued walking forward.

Wei Qingping quickly caught up and said to the Sword King, "So you don't need lighting in the Demon Realm? Then this place definitely isn't the 'Demon Realm,' it's completely pitch black here."

The Sword King muttered to himself, "This is different from what that person said." Then he said to Wei Qingping, "Actually, you can't say that. Maybe it was the same before, and only changed after the dungeon was conquered."

Wei Qingping pretended to "analyze" for a moment and said to the Sword King, "It's possible that the dungeon was a 'demon realm' before it was conquered, and it's no longer a 'demon realm' after it was conquered."

The Sword King, somewhat uncertainly echoing Wei Qingping's "analysis," said, "That should be it, otherwise it wouldn't make sense." Then he asked Wei Qingping, "Don't just keep talking about the Demon Realm, which way do we go?"

As the two people were talking, two forks in the road appeared ahead.

Wei Qingping pointed to herself and asked the Sword King, "You're asking me? Just don't make me go first." As she said this, her speech unconsciously quickened.

Wei Qingping was clearly "once bitten, twice shy," still feeling lingering fear of this environment. She vividly remembered being assigned to walk at the front when the four girls went to the abandoned neighborhood.

The Sword King said to Wei Qingping, "Women have a better intuition, so pick one."

Wei Qingping was immediately troubled and said to the Sword King, "I don't have any intuition, so let's try the right side..." As she spoke, she pointed to the fork in the road on the right.

And so, the two of them walked into the fork in the road on the right. Once inside, the passage became wider and wider.

At this point, the Sword King was no longer as nervous as he had been when he first entered the dungeon, and he walked a little faster.

They had walked less than fifty meters when the Sword King suddenly stopped without a word, causing Wei Qingping, who was following closely behind, to bump head-on into his back. And the Sword King was carrying a giant sword; you can imagine how painful the collision must have been.

After being bumped, Wei Qingping immediately squatted down in pain. She angrily said to the Sword King, "What are you doing! Why did you stop?!" As she spoke, she rubbed her nose and complained, "My nose hurts so much..."

The Sword King explained to Wei Qingping, "It seems there's no road ahead..." As he spoke, he lay down on the ground and held the torch down as far as possible to illuminate the path.

At this moment, there wasn't a wall in front of the two people, but the path ended there. If they continued forward, their only option would be to jump down.

So the Sword King wanted to use torches to illuminate the way and see just how deep it was.

While gently rubbing her nose, Wei Qingping said to the Sword King, "If there's no road ahead, let's turn back."

The Sword King suddenly threw the torch down, and Wei Qingping, who was behind him, was instantly plunged into darkness.

Wei Qingping hurriedly asked King Jianhao, "What happened?! Why did it suddenly go dark?!"

As Wei Qingping was speaking, they heard a "thud," the sound of a torch falling to the ground.

The swordsman king, lying on the ground, said to Wei Qingping, who was behind him, "There's a path down there. It doesn't look very high. You can go down."

Upon hearing that there was still a road ahead, Wei Qingping quickly asked the Sword King, "How high is it?"

The Sword King gave a long "hmm" and told Wei Qingping, "Judging from the distance of those torches, they're probably three or four meters away..."

Wei Qingping asked the Sword King for confirmation, "Are we really going down?"

The Sword King replied to Wei Qingping, "Of course! What if this is the only way out?" As he spoke, he changed from lying on the ground to squatting on his side.

In the darkness, the swordsman king gripped the edge of the broken path with both hands, his feet dangling in mid-air. Then, he let go, and he fell to the ground.

Upon hearing the thud, Wei Qingping quickly crouched down to investigate and saw a figure faintly visible next to the torch below the broken road.

The figure was none other than the Sword King. He shouted to Wei Qingping, "It's alright! You can come down!" As he spoke, he picked up the torch and raised it upwards, trying to illuminate a larger space for Wei Qingping.

Although Wei Qingping couldn't see clearly how the Sword King jumped down in the darkness, she thought almost exactly the same thing: he grabbed the edge of the broken path first, then let go and fell.

Just as Wei Qingping turned to the side, the Sword King below shouted to her, "Hey! You don't actually need to jump down! There's a slope to the left of the cave entrance! It's the top part that's broken off!"

Wei Qingping quickly asked King Jianhao, "What should I do now?"

After thinking for a moment, the Sword King loudly told Wei Qingping, "Jump over the slope... Well, I'm afraid you're not skilled enough! Just do what I did earlier, grab the edge of the cave entrance, and see if you can swing your body to the other side of the slope!"

After the Sword King finished speaking, he moved towards the slope, wanting to get a clear picture of it so that Wei Qingping could find the right spot.

Wei Qingping first grabbed the edge of the broken road with both hands, and then her feet were about to dangle in mid-air.

However, Wei Qingping's skills were clearly not as proficient as those of the Sword King. The moment her feet touched the wall, her face slammed into it. The pain caused her to drop her hands, and she fell directly to the ground.

That's it, all the planned "swinging" is out of the question now, what's the point of "swinging" when we're already on the ground?

That wasn't the end of it. When Wei Qingping landed, she didn't land properly, and to make matters worse, her legs gave way, and her face slammed directly into the wall.

Wei Qingping quickly covered her nose, squatted down and cried out, "Ouch! It's my nose again! It hurts so much... If you hit it a few more times, my nose will collapse."

The Sword King originally wanted to go forward and ask what was wrong, but seeing Wei Qingping so energetic and still complaining, he jokingly said to her, "So what if it's collapsed? Your nose wasn't particularly straight to begin with."

Wei Qingping was furious and complained to the Sword King, "What kind of talk is that? Ugh! Nosebleed..." As she spoke, she quickly raised her head and pinched her nose to prevent the blood from flowing out.

When the Sword King saw Wei Qingping raise her head, he quickly said to her, "Hey! Don't look up, just pinch your nose."

Upon hearing this, Wei Qingping quickly did as instructed.

A nosebleed is an unexpected situation, and in such a moment of panic, people tend to do whatever others say without considering whether it's right or wrong. However, the Sword King is right here: you shouldn't tilt your head back when you have a nosebleed, as the blood will flow back and choke you, causing you to cough, which will actually make it harder to stop the bleeding.

After a while, Wei Qingping was still pinching her nose. She complained to the Sword King, "What kind of terrible ideas are these? And you call them frivolous?"

The Sword King said to Wei Qingping, "This has nothing to do with my idea. You didn't follow the plan at all."

Wei Qingping, still pinching her nose, asked King Jianhao, "So what do we do next?"

The Sword King told Wei Qingping, "You...rest for a bit, I'll look around and see if there's a road."

Wei Qingping called out to the Sword King, "Wait! Leave me a torch!"

And so, Wei Qingping squatted on the ground, holding a torch in one hand and pinching her nose with the other. She looked very unnatural, like someone squatting in an outhouse in the wilderness at night.

The place where the two of them fell was much wider than the passage they had fallen into before.

After lighting another torch, the Swordsman King began exploring along the wall to the left.