Kitten Lovers Foundation

"They're coming!" Ji Feng looked up and saw a whole team, yes, it was indeed a whole team.

The black crowd was surging, wearing uniform jackets, black trousers and casual shoes, and everyone was carrying the same brown-yellow outdoor travel backpack.

They lined up orderly and uniform.

Although tall and short, fat and thin, they are all quite ordinary people individually, but when hundreds of people gather together, there is an indescribable sense of coordination.

This should be a tacit understanding born of long-term training and working together.

The leader was very tall, and walked bent over in this mezzanine, handing them four travel bags.

"Have you noticed that none of these people have civets?" Gu Si whispered.

Uncle Suifeng explained: "The civet can't survive here, there are unjustly dead souls all around, which will damage the civet's orifices."

As expected of a boss, Ouyang Xiong didn't communicate with them at all, and of course he didn't care about them, he just let them follow the team.

The dense crowds of people in front squeezed the originally low mezzanine even more cramped.

Some of them led the way, and Ouyang Xiong stood in the middle of the team, protected by people at the front and back.

Ji Feng's group of four followed behind, Rhubarb slept soundly in Ji Feng's arms, sticking out his tongue to lick his little nose from time to time!

"I went around this floor just now, but I didn't find the way." Gu Si told the truth, and explained to Ji Feng and the others what she saw and heard after she came down.

It turned out that she was the same as everyone else, she rolled down from the gap when the stone crevice collapsed, but fortunately, the others fell into a hidden mezzanine, and she rolled down from the main entrance to the third floor of the cave.

As soon as he fell down, he encountered Ouyang Xiong's subordinates committing murder and arson.

She was originally in the corner, covered by jagged rocks, and was not noticed at first.

After Ouyang Xiong's subordinates finished killing people, they still needed to clean up the battlefield. She followed the group all the way, and walked around the entire third floor by the way.

But one was discovered accidentally, and was chased and killed. Just when he was about to lose his hold, the three of Ji Feng arrived!

"Actually, I just made a fortune before going out, and the divination said that my going out this time is basically safe and safe." Gu Si patted her chest, which was not steep, and comforted herself.

Ji Feng replied: "You are not only out of danger, you are already the luckiest of us!"

"Hmph, speaking of which, I just walked around with them. The location here is not big, so I didn't see any entrance or exit." Gu Si said.

Gu Qian said: "This kind of up and down passage, the entrance and exit usually go down. The karst caves here are relatively primitive. There are no stairs or elevators. Depending on the situation, it will be a very old communication device."

"Oldness also has ancient benefits, such as infrared rays and high-tech networks, once the power is cut off or hacked, the mechanism is easy to die instantly. You can only carry on with ancient things, and there is no skill at all."

Uncle Suifeng's analysis is the most pertinent, because they really encountered this ancient and insurmountable device next.

"Stop." Ji Feng stood on tiptoe and looked towards the front of the line.

The four of them stood too far behind to see what was ahead.Since they are Dahuangla's partners, they can't rush forward to find out the situation, which is too bad!

I had to wait honestly.

Not long after, there were bursts of exclamations ahead.

"What's wrong?" Ji Feng didn't put down his toes.

Gu Qian was the tallest person in this group, and he was obliged to take on the task of inquiring about news and spying on the enemy's situation.He also stood on tiptoe, relying on the sporadic fragments he saw and the exclamations and dialogues he heard, and roughly deduced a sad story.

In the process of going down, they encountered an emergency, and many people died in front of them.

"Look at what I said, the ancient mechanism is the most effective!" Uncle Suifeng plausibly said: "This kind of mechanism is set up underground. If you want to go down, you must pass through it. Dead people are sure. It depends on how many people Ouyang Xiong has. Come fill the hole."

Ji Feng immediately retorted: "There is a paradox here, uncle, haven't you noticed it?"

"Ok?"

"If a vicious trap is set up at the entrance that must be passed through, then what will they do when they want to pass by themselves?" Ji Feng stated.

Gu Si agreed: "That's right, that's the reason. So there must be a passage for our own people? The one without organs?"

Gu Qian said: "This kind of assumption is even more unfeasible. The people on the next floor design two kinds of passages, one for their own use, and one for outsiders like us. So, how can he guarantee that we will be free from the full How about passing through the passage of the organ trap? Moreover, since you don’t want people to go down, why bother to make a passage that requires dead people to pass through?”

Uncle Suifeng nodded and said, "Gu Qian's analysis makes sense, so my inference just now was wrong?"

Several people fell into thinking at the same time, the paradox here is completely unexplainable.

After all, the significance of the construction here at the beginning lies in the communication and circulation between the levels. This is not a place like a tomb or a treasure house. There are many checkpoints to prevent other people from entering, or the owner has entered this closed space. , there is no plan to go out, so naturally, it will be very difficult to make traps.

"There is another possibility. We underestimated the opponent's level." Gu Si seemed to think of something: "Maybe the opponent's staff can pass through normally, and they understand the various key points of the trap. But we don't know, so we fell into it. "

But there must be many harsh conditions for this possibility to exist. For example, there must be a certain number of people who can easily pass through the traps of the other party, and they are all masters who are much stronger than them.

In addition, this organ itself has two or even three solutions.

In the end, so many masters of the Ouyang family were unable to unlock the mechanism, and could only sacrifice their companions in exchange for the opportunity to enter the next floor.

These possibilities are all stacked together, and the probability is about the same as that these people are all half-brothers and sisters!

The bloody smell spread, the screams continued, and the atmosphere became more and more heavy.

"Actually, I thought of a possibility." The strong smell made Ji Feng a little uncomfortable, and his stomach was churning.

"Huh?" Gu Qian looked at him.

"Could it be that this facility was never used by humans?" Ji Feng said, "Those who can go down to the third floor may not be human at all?"

"It's not a person, what is it..." Gu Si said weakly.

"Um, I just said it casually, I am," Ji Feng paused, "I came across a memory in Jiuling Mountain. I think, if a person's body, soul and memory can be separated, apart from the body, In addition, the soul has been passed on through the model of 'spirit', so can memory also be passed on in some form? So what goes down is not a complete 'person', but a certain part of a person."

Gu Qian kept up with Ji Feng's logic: "So this organ is aimed at the flesh and blood body of a person. If it is the memory or the 'spirit' that goes down, there will be no danger. They can also transmit information through the 'spirit', not necessarily I want people to go down!"

"Hey, so it seems that there is indeed such a possibility." Uncle Suifeng said.

"But how does this inference help us go down?" Gu Si was puzzled.

The three men shook their heads at the same time, yes, that's right, this assumption is not helpful, after all, it is impossible for them to become 'spirits' now, or even a piece of memory.

Waiting for death is always longer and helpless than waiting for other things, and a strange atmosphere gradually appears around.

People are dying in front of them, they are being consumed at a speed visible to the naked eye, that is, no one asks them to try, and no one pays attention to them and gives some explanation.

After sitting for more than an hour, the speed of people entering the cave was full, and suddenly they heard an OK, and everyone was moved to varying degrees. After all, it is too depressing to go down one by one and never come up again.

The passage down is a hole forcibly dug out with spells, the size of which can accommodate three people at the same time.

Equipment has been added to the edge of the hole, and everyone tied ropes next to each other, and lowered the equipment little by little.

Gu Qian and the others were at the end, while Ji Feng hugged Rhubarb and walked down the rope little by little.

This corridor was very long, estimated to be more than 30 meters long. Monsoon held his breath and entered the black space.

It moved inch by inch, and it didn't take long to reach the bottom, but there was no place to set foot.

I saw a black moving thing under my feet, like the black plasticine I played with when I was a child, but it exuded a strong mixed smell of blood and rancidity.

"Swing over!" one said.

Monsoon is in mid-air, shaking his upper body vigorously, and his lower body is rippling from side to side. When he is thrown to a high place, someone catches it and puts it down again.

Everyone stood around the lump of plasticine.

Monsoon saw that the edges of the plasticine were shaking constantly, not a fixed shape.

But I don't know if someone got scared or it was just an accident. There was a spirit trainer from Ouyang's family who came down at the same time as Ji Feng, and his age was also similar to him.

As soon as Ji Feng touched the ground, when he undid the lock on his body, the man was also swaying, but the amplitude was slightly larger. His hand trembled with the acceleration, and when his hand slipped, he fell towards the black plasticine!

"Ah—" the child yelled, and the people around rushed to catch him. In fact, the buckle around the chest and back prevented him from falling directly into the black plasticine, but he might be too nervous, and the conditioned reflex stretched his hand down , trying to support his body from falling, but unexpectedly, just as his hand touched the plasticine, the black thing seemed to be activated, turning into soft black ink, climbing all the way up the child's arm.

"Go! Go away!" The child kept shaking his hands, trying to throw this black thing out.

But it didn't help, in just a few seconds, something like black ink wrapped his whole body.

"Ouch—" Ji Feng couldn't take it anymore, his already tumbling stomach turned upside down again, the naked eye could see that the lump of ink was getting rounder and rounder, and the person inside had no human shape, and a smell of fresh blood spread.

Ji Feng fell down on the rocky ground, his face pale, watching a spiritual trainer who was similar to him being eaten by a black plasticine-like thing, a shadow cast over his heart.

The spiritual trainers of the Ouyang family around him didn't know whether it was because of their strong psychological quality, or because they had seen this kind of scene a lot just now, and they were all expressionless.

The ink fell from mid-air back to the position of the hole, and the diluted state gradually returned to mud.

After the last living person landed safely, the spiritual trainer of Ouyang's family spent a lot of time arranging the formation, counting the dead, and rearranging the group.And Ji Feng told the three friends what he saw and heard just now.

"What is this?" Gu Si looked at Uncle Suifeng.

Uncle Suifeng said: "Have you read "Mountain Objects"? I remember there is a record in it, a black moss-like animal that lives underground, will fend for itself, and feed on the animals and plants in the mountain."

"Huh? Did you mean 'Sui Gong'?" Gu Qian said.

"Yes, yes, it seems to be called this name."

"It seems that the entrance to the third floor is not a hidden weapon, but an animal that likes to eat people. There are very few records about Sui Gong in "Shan Wu Zhi", and no one can figure out what it is. After all, there is no A few living people have seen the real Sui Gong." Gu Qian said.

The first time Gu Qian read "Mountain Objects" was in the library of the Gu family, which was filled with books accumulated by the Gu family for hundreds of years. "Mountain Objects" was written in the Ming Dynasty. It is a book that records the strange things in mountains, rivers and rivers compiled by the ancestors of the spiritual master who traveled all over the country and compiled according to different ancient books and the dictation of the spiritual master.

Most trainers see it as a sort of ghost story rather than a serious documentary.

But in "Mountain Objects", there are no less than a hundred species of man-eating animals and plants alone. Among them, the man-eating plants that grow dark and have no fixed shape are called Sui Gong.

But this is just a guess. Sui Gong is a plant similar to a cactus. When no one eats it, it can turn into a puddle of black water and hide everywhere in the cave, patiently waiting for food, and can live for dozens of years after reducing consumption. Year.

They will not take the initiative to attack people after they are full, so in the current situation, it seems that the spiritual trainers of Ouyang's family filled up the old tribute with their bodies.

Ji Feng felt uncomfortable in his stomach, and his complexion was extremely bad, "These people, how can they die? If I'm asked to fill in this stuff, I won't do it!"

"The spiritual trainers in Ouyang's family have a different way of raising us than us." Gu Si replied, "Most of them don't have the blood of spiritual trainers, they don't know magic skills, and they can't use civet cats. Their family governs the land Most of them have large mines and forests, so they usually raise some poor children who have no father or mother and are used as the first labor to mine mines, mountains and rivers. The death rate is particularly high."

"...is it the 21st century now?" Hearing such a story, Ji Feng felt as if he had returned to the ancient times when human rights laws did not exist at all.

"Money is omnipotent." Gu Qian shrugged, "Ordinary people talk about human rights, which is a guarantee for the weak. There are no weak in the world of spiritual trainers, so our rules of conduct are the weak and the strong, survival of the fittest. And, those What can a child who has no father, no mother, and no opportunity to receive education grow up to do? There is no land, and there is no opportunity to farm in the countryside. Even in the city, a young man with a primary and junior high school diploma must work part-time to survive. It's tough."

Gu Si added: "But if you work as a spiritual trainer in Ouyang's family, you will not have to worry about food and clothing. If you are lucky, you have the blood of a spiritual trainer, or if you have made great achievements in mining, you will live well."

"It's better to die than to live. This sentence doesn't apply to spiritual trainers." Suifeng concluded.