Fire splattered everywhere.

With a snap, the dagger's blade broke in the middle due to friction and collision with the rock.

Luo Xingchen hurriedly pulled out another short knife and pierced it into the stone wall to slow down his body's fall.

Finally, his body shook and he stopped falling.

The whole person hangs on the stone wall.

At this time, his blank brain gradually came to life.

"Here... there's actually a crack in the ground. This is Moyun Forest!"

Luo Xingchen felt like he was having a nightmare!

Moyunlin is an ancient forest, and the ground soil here is unlikely to crack.

But everything that happened now told him.

The common sense in the past may be wrong.

Even in the woods, ground cracks may occur.

Luo Xingchen looked up.

There is only a line of light on it...

"No, it's blocked by rocks!"

Luo Xingchen's heart sank. The upper part was not completely sealed, and there was still a gap left, but he was unable to go up from the lower part for the time being.

After falling suddenly for such a period of time, he had exhausted all his strength in order to slow down his falling speed and stabilize his body.

So since you can't go up, you can only go down.

Luo Xingchen looked down...

It was so dark underneath that I couldn't see the depth at all.

At this time, he chose to climb down step by step.

Using the short knife as a support point, he moved downwards little by little. Before long, Luo Xingchen's feet had stepped on the hard ground.

After Luo Xingchen stood still, he felt a little more at ease.

After all, human beings are the living beings on the earth, and standing on the earth is the most practical.

After flexing his hands and feet, Luo Xingchen took out the fire stick from his arms and lit it.

"There is Qi flowing here." Luo Xingchen thought thoughtfully after seeing the Huozhezi light up smoothly.

Without Qi, it is impossible to light a fire, and people cannot breathe.

Since there is flowing Qi here, it means that this place is not closed, but has some kind of connection with the outside world.

However, Luo Xingchen still took out a piece of handkerchief and covered his mouth and nose.

No one knows if there may be any poisonous gas underground like this.

Luo Xingchen walked slowly, lighting up his surroundings with fire as he walked.

"No wonder the ground cracked. It turns out that the ground was originally empty."

Luo Xingchen looked around. Although his field of vision was limited due to the limited range illuminated by Huozhezi, he could vaguely see that there was originally a cave underground and it was artificially constructed.

Thinking back to the astonishingly long secret passage at the end of Moyun Forest, one can imagine that there must have been a huge underground cave complex in the Jade Belt Mountains.

Who did this? Is there any record in the history books?

Luo Xingchen felt a dull pain in his head when he thought of the vast historical books in the secret vault of the Daqi royal family.

There are so many books that no one can read them, and how can they know whether there are any records?

"Next time I return to the capital, I'm going to ask those historians." Luo Xingchen thought about it. Those historians, with their salaries from the court, usually write history books, and their minds are full of classics. Maybe they know something, because

No one knows history better than them.

Especially the historian Sima Yu, who is a genius, has amazing memory and energy, and is extremely knowledgeable. He has recently been writing the history of the last unified dynasty, the Southern Dynasty.

The person most likely to know the inside story is probably him.

Luo Xingchen kept using his fire to illuminate the way forward. He saw a half-collapsed passage in front of him.

After hesitating for a moment, he decided to walk into the passage to see what was going on.

Holding a fire orb in one hand and a short knife in the other, he moved forward slowly.

After entering the passage, a cool breeze came to my face.

Luo Xingchen took a breath and clearly felt the cool wind carrying moisture.

"There is an underground river ahead."

Both sides of the passage are made of stones. From an engineering point of view, this is to increase the resistance of the cave and prevent collapse.

But time is not forgiving, and eventually, a section of it collapsed.

The road ahead was straight. After walking forward for a while, suddenly, three passages appeared in front of us.

Luo Xingchen stopped and did not move forward.

No one knows which of these three passages is real, or are all three real?

Luo Xingchen thought for a while, took the fire folders, stood at the entrances of the three passages, and looked inside.

After exploring it, he found that he no longer had to worry about it.

The reason is very simple. Two of the passage entrances have been blocked by collapsed mud and rocks, leaving only one passage that can really be walked.

Since there is only one way to go, there is no choice.

The only passage that was not sealed was a layer of water mist on the bluestone on the ground, indicating that there must be an underground river ahead.

As long as there are underground rivers, it is very likely that there will be a passage to the surface.

Luo Xingchen's muscle soreness had eased a lot at this time, and he sped up and moved forward.

Along the way, he was alert to possible dangers, but to his surprise, he encountered no danger and reached the end smoothly.

After reaching the end, he saw the front suddenly opened up.

There is a huge rotunda in front, with dots of bright lights.

"Is there anyone?" Luo Xingchen's heart tightened.

Immediately, he saw a black figure lying on a platform in the hall.

He came closer and took the fire folder and shined it in front of him.

It was a woman lying sideways on the ground. Judging from the profile, her face should be quite beautiful. Her lips were white and bloodless, and her eyes were closed. She seemed to have passed out.

The woman in black holds a strange black object in her hand. It looks like a comb, but it doesn't have as many teeth as a comb.

Suddenly, the woman in black slowly opened her eyes and stretched out a hand towards Luo Xingchen.

"Help, save me." The woman in black was vain and weak, as pitiful as a little white flower.

According to her past experience, there are very few men who can refuse her such a weak look, which will arouse men's desire for protection to the maximum extent.

"Who are you? If you don't tell me honestly, don't blame me for being ruthless."

Luo Xingchen looked at her warily, pointing the short knife in his hand at the woman in black.

He was thinking in his mind that this distance was the most suitable. If this woman had any intention, he could advance, attack, retreat or defend.

"Sir, why did you... take action against the slave family? What did the slave family do wrong?" The woman in black had tears in her eyes.

"Don't look at me like that, it makes me sick and uncomfortable."

Luo Xingchen hurriedly took two steps back and looked at the woman in front of him with more vigilance.

His mother Yang Ruoqing once warned him...

The more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie and the less trustworthy she is!
Chapter completed!