Chapter 3 Stone Road Chase

Xiao Chen and the others slowly moved forward along the stone path. After passing several turns, the road ahead gradually became brighter. Xiao Chen took a deck of playing cards from the supermarket and used a card to mark the order at each fork in the road.

After turning another corner, Xiao Chen discovered the source of the light in the tunnel. Every ten meters or so on the wall in front, there is a palm-sized pattern, which is emitting a faint white light. This light does not come from fire or lanterns. Rather, it comes from the pattern itself. The light was gentle and bright, better than a torch and almost as bright as an incandescent lamp.

"Hey! What is this?" Xiao Chen carefully approached the light source with his hand.

Zhou He grabbed his hand and said, "Don't touch it! Do you know what this is? What if you get an electric shock?"

"Hey, thank you for your concern." Xiao Chen smiled, "It's okay. Since this thing is used for lighting, it will definitely not harm anyone. I think it is a kind of lamp. Who would make a lamp so that you get an electric shock when you touch it? And I didn't feel anything when I put my hand up against it." Sure enough, Xiao Chen's hand touched the wall, neither cold nor hot, just like touching an ordinary stone.

"Today's trip was not in vain. I saw something new." Xiao Chen took his hand back and saw that there were no traces on his fingers.

Luo Ling imitated Xiao Chen and gently touched the stone wall, "This is either high technology that we have never heard of, or it is legendary magic. Other than that, I can't think of any other explanation. But, look , does this thing look like the Chinese word for 'light'?"

Xiao Chen walked further and took a closer look, "Well, except for some patterns, it really looks like the word 'light' in small seal script. It also looks like some kind of artistic calligraphy. Ha, was it written by a Taoist cultivator? Or a wizard "

"Stop talking nonsense, I, I'm scared." Zhou He looked around nervously, "Why is there such a place under the school? No, there won't be any monsters, right?"

Xiao Chen consoled him: "Where are the monsters? We didn't see any moving ones all the way here."

Zhou He pursed his lips and finally said in a low voice, "However, I have been vaguely aware of sounds around me. It seems like something is moving around us. Listen, is there a 'clang', 'clang' sound? It's very similar. The feeling of an iron box hitting the ground.”

This time Xiao Chen and Luo Ling did not dare to be careless and listened with bated breath.

"There!" Luo Ling pointed to a fork where she came from, "There is really a sound there!"

Xiao Chen also heard it, and he also found that the voice was getting clearer and clearer, and it was coming towards them.

Hearing such a sound in such a strange underground stone passage really makes people sweat on their foreheads and panic. The two girls took a step back unconsciously, and Zhou He even hid behind Xiao Chen.

"I'll go take a look!" Xiao Chen said decisively.

"No, what will we do if you leave?" Zhou He said.

"Listen to me!" Xiao Chen lowered his voice, "Someone has to go over and see what's going on, maybe it's other teachers and classmates. Just stay here and don't move around, waiting for news from me. If I shout to run away, you Just don’t hesitate and run.”

"But, this place is like a maze, where should we go?" Zhou He glanced at the dim stone path.

"We can run back along the playing cards left by Xiao Chen," Luo Ling said.

Xiao Chen nodded approvingly to her and took out two fruit knives from his backpack. The blades of these knives were only three inches long, but holding them in their hands made people feel at ease. He gave one to Luo Ling and kept one for himself. Then he pressed his body against the wall and moved towards the source of the sound.

"You, you must be careful." Zhou He hugged Luo Ling's arm tightly and told her.

Xiao Chen turned around and smiled, gesturing OK with his hand to reassure her.

This passage has collapsed, the ground is full of rubble, and the lighting runes on the wall have been basically destroyed, making it look dark and gloomy. Xiao Chen's eyes were just dazzled by the bright light, and he couldn't adapt to the darkness for a while. He had to put one hand in front, groping the wall, and hold the fruit knife tightly with the other hand behind him, and slowly moved forward. There was a gentle breeze blowing through the stone path, and it felt slightly cool as it brushed against Xiao Chen's forehead. However, beads of sweat flowed from Xiao Chen's forehead. It was not entirely nervous, but a little excited. It was the feeling of his curiosity being aroused.

After turning two corners, his eyes slowly adapted to the darkness, and he saw a shadow shaking on the wall in the corner ahead.

Sure enough there is something!

The shadow was shaking unevenly, but its movement was consistent with the rhythm of the "clang" sound.

Xiao Chen half-crouched in the corner and stuck his head out to take a look...

I saw five figures walking towards them. At first glance, they were a group of ancient knights wearing full armor and holding long swords in their hands. The armor and sword looked a bit old and stained with rust. But this cannot cover up the runes engraved on the armor. Their style is very similar to the illuminated runes, only a hundred times more complex.

However, when Xiao Chen looked at their faces, he found that none of them had faces! In the middle of the helmet was a black void, filled with nothing. These five knights turned out to be five suits of armor that could move on their own, and the "clang" sound heard before was the collision between metals when these movable armors walked.

What a hell! What a monster is this!

Even though Xiao Chen had always prided himself on being bold, at this moment his heart felt as if he had been hit by a heavy hammer, and cold sweat was poking out of every pore on his body like weeds all over the mountains and plains.

Xiao Chen suddenly felt weak under his feet, and his half-crouched body could no longer control his balance, and fell back involuntarily. He took two or three steps back and kicked a few rocks on the ground in his panic. There was a clicking sound.

The leading armor suddenly stopped and turned its head towards the corner where Xiao Chen was hiding. Xiao Chen poked his head out again and met it face to face. It stood there for a second, then pointed with his hand, and the four armored warriors behind it rushed over with their swords raised high.

They were called charging, but they did not run fast, and their rusted joints made creaking sounds. But seeing the aggressive look of these armored monsters, Xiao Chen knew that if he was caught by them, he would definitely be chopped into pieces. He picked up a steamed bun-sized stone from his feet and threw it hard at the leading armor. The stone hit the chest of the armor, making a sound like a gong, leaving a gray and white shallow mark, but the armor just leaned back slightly, immediately regained its balance, and continued to press forward.

Xiao Chen made a quick decision, turned around and ran, shouting as he ran: "There are monsters, everyone run away."

Xiao Chen and the other two ran wildly in the maze-like underground passage, and soon lost their direction in the chaos. But what made him even more depressed was that although those armored warriors ran slowly, new armored warriors often appeared from everywhere. No matter how they turned left and right, they would be chased and blocked. After a while, the pursuers behind them increased.

"I... why do I hear more and more noises behind me?" Zhou He's eyes were already filled with tears, "I really, really can't run anymore."

Luo Ling: "Try harder, run if you don't want to be eaten by monsters."

"Xiao Chen, think about it quickly, what should we do? I don't want to be eaten by these monsters."

"You won't be eaten."

"Really! Have you come up with a good idea?"

"Not yet, but I can see clearly that they don't have mouths!"

Luo Ling couldn't help but chuckled, Zhou He was very annoyed, and tears flowed even more fiercely, "You, how are your brains grown, you, you can still laugh even in this situation!"

"Okay, hold on! We have to find an exit or a place to hide." Luo Ling grabbed Zhou He's arm and ran with her.

When the three of them ran through another fork in the road, suddenly an armored warrior holding a long sword rushed out and blocked them.

"Ah~~" Zhou He had never met them so closely before. She trembled with fear, her left foot tripped over her right foot, and she fell to the ground. Luo Ling was pulled by her and almost fell. The two of them stopped fighting, and Xiao Chen hurriedly blocked them.

Xiao Chen looked at both ends of the stone road, and his heart sank. This stone road is long and narrow, and the armored monster blocked everyone's way with a sword. At this time, the pursuers behind had also caught up. It would definitely be too late to take the two women squatting on the ground and retreat to another way.

What to do?

When people are in crisis, they often behave in two completely different ways. Becoming a hero or a coward depends only on the choice of this moment. Should I rush forward to fight for my life, or return to the fork alone?

In a flash, Xiao Chen made a decision.

"Let's fight!" Xiao Chen felt the blood rushing to his head. His eyes were wide open, his teeth were biting on his lips, and he rushed towards the armored man with a ferocious face.

He swung his right hand first, and threw the fruit knife in his hand to the armored man's head. The armored man blocked it with his sword, easily knocking the knife away, but the original slash was interrupted and lost its original sharpness.

Xiao Chen's eyes were fixed on the tip of the swung long sword, and he dodged the oblique slash sideways. He pulled off the left shoulder strap of the backpack with his left hand, and swung his right hand. The backpack full of things hit the armored man's chest like a meteor hammer. Although the armor had a mysterious origin, it was not a real person after all. Both its movement and balance were a bit stiff. It staggered after being hit, and then fell straight back.

"Run!" Xiao Chen shouted to Zhou He and Luo Ling to go first, while picking up stones on the ground and hitting the armored man's sword hand again and again. It may be due to disrepair. After a few hits, the mechanism of the armor elbow broke, and the armored man's forearm fell off with the long sword. Xiao Chen was delighted and was about to hold the long sword in his hand, but at this time the armored warrior's left hand grabbed his ankle and pulled hard, and Xiao Chen fell to the ground.

Xiao Chen was not strong, but the armored warrior's strength was obviously greater than that of an ordinary person. It climbed onto Xiao Chen's back from behind and pressed Xiao Chen so that he could not turn over. While struggling, Xiao Chen turned his head and looked back with his peripheral vision. He saw that the armor pressed his back with its broken limbs and body, and raised its left hand high, about to hit the back of his head.

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