Chapter 555 Underground Forest

Leaving aside the fact that Li Chengqi felt that the painting style of the gods was getting more and more wrong, the three of them waited for the high temperature of the meteor explosion to subside before approaching the bombing site.

As expected, there were no clues left, and they were all burned up in the terrifying heat.

Another piece of bad news is that when the high temperature subsided, Aldai ran to the Skull Gate, which was almost like a ghost ship, to check it out.

Unfortunately, the most important logbook has not been found, and we still know nothing about how the ship entered the ruins.

However, Aldai found the chart that was sealed in a special safe. Although it was still severely decayed, it was still within an acceptable range. When she goes back to find a professional cartographer to repair it, she should be able to get a lot of useful information. .

But that will happen after returning. The problem the three of them have to face now is where to go.

They didn't encounter any detours along the way. If this was a dead end, they would either go back and find a way to open the obsidian gate, or take a boat into the underground ocean.

There is almost no need to consider the latter, the risk is too great. Who knows how big this underground ocean is, and it is hard to say whether there are huge sea monsters hiding in the water. After all, judging from the stern of the Skull Gate, it has indeed been attacked by the sea. Strange attack.

After searching around the area bombarded by the meteor explosion, although the surrounding area was blown to pieces on impulse, it also opened an entrance that was originally hidden.

It was a cave next to the underground ocean, half of it submerged in water. The entrance had been carefully covered with moss and stones, but a meteor exploded and the storm blew away the disguise.

The cave is very deep. Standing outside the cave, you can't see where the other side leads. You can only know that the water in the underground ocean flows in the cave, and the flow rate is not slow, which means it is not a dead end.

A cave like this that is flooded by water is likely to be connected to an underground river that leads to an unknown depth underground. It is not a good choice to enter hastily. Even in the 21st century, with the assistance of various advanced instruments, cave exploration is still a An activity with a very high mortality rate.

However, compared to entering the even more boundless underground ocean, it is still a relatively reliable choice. Anyway, if Aldai thinks it is not possible, then there is Li Chengqi...

She was really rude.

Zola and Nemea helped remove some relatively complete wooden boards from the Skull Gate, and then Aldai chanted a few spells on the pile of wooden boards.

With the help of magic, the wooden boards quickly softened and joined together, just like playing with plasticine, and a small boat was assembled in a blink of an eye.

Then the three of them rowed the small boat and sailed into the flooded cave.

Here, dark vision is unreliable. The reflection from the water makes dark vision only see a gray color when looking at the water, so Aldee and Zola have to light up the lights.

The boat entered the cave and moved almost completely along the current, without any need for human control. But for some reason, the three of them always had the illusion that they were sliding down the esophagus of some kind of super-large monster into its stomach.

Especially not long after entering the cave, the surrounding humidity increased significantly, and the thick mist slid against the water. From time to time, you could see thick mist shaped like a hand swaying on the water, as if it was trying to pull the three people on the boat down. .

Everyone else was fine, but Nemea was so nervous that he almost turned into a sculpture. He didn't dare to move, and squatted at the stern of the boat, staring at the thick fog.

If you are an experienced adventurer, you will immediately know that this kind of thick fog will only appear in ancient battlefields, places where a large amount of negative energy accumulates, and places where nature has been severely damaged.

The first two are easy to say, but they are just undead creatures. As for the latter, they are not simply setting fire to the mountains, but man-made, causing irreversible damage to the natural environment. Those strange thick fogs are more like nature. accusation.

The boat was gliding on the water. The deeper it went, the more it felt like it was gliding in thick fog. If Li Chengqi was also there, he would probably have already started playing Yungong Xunyin in his head...

Holding the light, I drifted in the quiet cave for about half an hour. At this time, a bright light finally appeared in front of me, which also meant that I finally reached the exit.

The three of them all breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. After all, as long as they were not led into a deep underground river, this was good news.

But as they got closer to the exit, the three of them immediately became nervous again.

Because the light outside the cave entrance is unusually high intensity, it doesn’t look like a simple torch or light made by magic, but rather...

Kind of like the sun?

Could it be that he ran outside the ruins unknowingly?

Impossible, obviously I could see the dark underground ocean just now.

Regardless, care must be taken in abnormal situations.

Nemea took out the hand crossbow, Aldai held the spell-casting gesture, and Zora had already taken out the holy symbol. If a monster jumped out, it would be immediately confused.

Maintaining this high level of vigilance, the boat swayed through the hole, and light as warm as the sun immediately fell on the faces of the three people.

After waiting underground for a long time, when they suddenly came under the sun, the three of them couldn't help but squint their eyes and observe purely with their secret eyes.

Fortunately, there were no monsters squatting at the entrance of the cave, so the three of them got used to the light a little.

At this time they saw an incredible scene.

A huge ball of light that really looked like the sun was hung on the top of the cave hundreds of meters high, almost completely illuminating the entire underground cavity.

And within this underground cavity, there is a large tropical rainforest as far as the eye can see.

It's not an underground fungus forest, but a real tropical rain forest made up of herbs and woody plants!

You need to look up hard to see the big waterfall at the top. At the other end of their vision, you can vaguely see the water in the waterfall flowing into the deeper underground abyss, and the surging water mist refracts colorful glare under the illumination of the light ball on the top of the cave.

Looking up, you can even see a flock of birds taking off from the forest, drawing an arc in the air, and flying towards the deeper forest.

Listen carefully, in the white noise created by the waterfall, you can also hear some roars of wild beasts. If you can't see the top of the cave and the thick rock wall, the three people would think they accidentally passed through the portal and were teleported to a tropical rain forest.

At this time, a big fish jumped out of the water. Maybe it had never seen a boat or it was just a coincidence. It landed directly on the boat and almost gave Oldie a big fight with its tail.

The fish's eyes have degenerated, and it is obviously a fish that lives in caves or dark environments, but it is not the light-colored fish that usually live in caves. The color of its body is similar to that of common fish.

It feels like cave fish are suddenly exposed to strong light for a long time, and they have to secrete melanin to protect their fragile skin from light damage.

Alde recognized that this is a common blind catfish in caves, but before he could check it carefully, he saw it fluttering on the boat board several times and returning to the water.

"Where is this place?"

Nemia opened her mouth wide, unable to believe what she saw. This sentence was also the voice of Zora and Alde.

What the hell is this place!