Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 248: Underground Escape

No one can be sure what will happen in the future. Even the monks who are good at fortune-telling have a very vague and confused view of the future.

Li Chengxi heard Lei Lei say that people around her would encounter major changes in the near future, but she couldn't tell whether it would be good or bad, and she couldn't say anything specific. After listening for a long time, it was like he was just listening to a sentence.

He felt that this was a standard operation of divination. Speaking ambiguous words, it seemed that the monk was not very reliable.

So he really didn't take it seriously. After sending Lei Lei away, he focused his attention on the computer again.

Because the properties of her muscles and bones have changed a lot, and she has also learned the skill of light fall that can reduce the damage of falling, Yang Yiyi was not seriously injured this time. She just fainted for a few minutes and then woke up. Then she listened to Li Chengxi's chatter for more than half an hour.

Fortunately, Lei Lei came in and interrupted Li Chengxi, otherwise he would have continued muttering.

Yang Yiyi stretched her still aching body, stuffed the jade sceptre into her arms, and picked up the emergency light as big as a lantern to shine it around her.

She seemed to have fallen into a cave. Not far from her was a stalagmite half a person's height. Fortunately, she did not fall on the stalagmite. Yang Yiyi was a little scared when she saw it.

The sound of flowing water can be faintly heard on the other side of the stalagmite. Walking a few steps forward, a tranquil underground lake appears before your eyes.

She held up the lantern and shone it upwards again. About ten meters above, there was a hole that let in a little light. That was where she fell.

However, the entrance to the cave was now completely blocked by rubble, and if one wanted to go up, one had to climb a rock wall with a very large arc, so it was almost impossible to return by the original route.

Now Yang Yiyi began to panic. She was in a closed space underground, a completely unfamiliar environment. If she couldn't find a way out, she would be trapped to death in this dark place.

"Are you panicking now? Think more carefully before doing anything next time."

When Yang Yiyi heard Li Chengxi's voice, it was like she had grabbed a life-saving straw.

"Brother Li, can't I get out?"

"I do not know either."

As soon as these words came out, a w(Д)w emoji bubble popped up next to the two-headed figure representing Yang Yiyi on the screen. It was obvious that she was panicking.

Then Yang Yiyi heard Li Chengxi sigh:

"Although I'm not absolutely sure, it's not impossible. You see, the water in this underground lake is flowing. Maybe we can find the exit by following the water."

Yang Yiyi was relieved when she heard this, but Li Chengxi was not so optimistic.

There is no regular pattern in the direction of groundwater flow. It may flow to the surface through holes to form rivers, or it may flow deep underground.

Especially for this kind of cave, no one knows how deep the groundwater can go underground. There are also natural caves on the earth that are one or two thousand meters deep.

"So which way should we go?"

"Let's go upstream first, maybe we can find an exit."

The downstream of the groundwater is likely to be a bottomless underground cave, while the upstream is likely to find an entrance to the surface. Although it is not absolute, it is definitely better to go upstream than downstream.

Yang Yiyi held the emergency light, observed the direction of the lake, and then walked upstream according to Li Chengxi's instructions.

This time she was obedient.

This underground cave is much larger than expected, and feels like a large square.
Yang Yiyi walked forward slowly with a little fear, always having the illusion that some terrible monster might be hiding in the darkness underground.

After walking along the lake for nearly thirty minutes, we reached the rock wall on the other side.

The lake water flowed out from a thin, inclined pipe. The flow rate was not very large, and the width was enough for a person to crawl in.

Yang Yiyi held the handle of the emergency light in her mouth, stretched out her limbs and climbed up the pipe. This was a very tiring task. The rock wall was slippery and difficult to hold on to, and she had to use all her limbs to hold on. From time to time, water splashed on her face. What was even more annoying was that the inclination was getting higher and higher, and it was almost vertical in the end.

Going further up, the emergency light revealed an obvious depression on the rock wall, and there seemed to be a cave entrance there.

Yang Yiyi, who was climbing up with her head raised, also saw it, and hurriedly climbed up using her hands and feet, then sat on the edge and gasped for breath.

It was no longer possible to continue climbing up. Yang Yiyi’s physical strength could not sustain it, and she didn’t know how far she could go.

However, the depression that Yang Yiyi crawled into was actually an entrance to a deeper and darker cave.

"Just follow this path and use this red marker to make a mark on the wall so you don't get lost."

Humans will lose their sense of direction underground, especially when drilling such intricate caves, which is equivalent to entering a natural maze.

After making a mark, Yang Yiyi raised the emergency light and continued moving forward.

This time the passage seemed to be exceptionally long. The good news was that there were no forks in the road. The bad news was that there was no exit in sight, and I didn't even feel any breeze that might be related to the exit.

Yang Yiyi became more and more frightened as she walked, and she had to ask every few steps if Li Chengxi was still there to give herself courage.

This time, they walked for almost twenty minutes again. The lights not far away became distorted again. Yang Yiyi walked over and came to an empty underground cavity.

It looks like this place is about a hundred square meters, and the ground is extremely flat. Although it is now in a dilapidated state, it seems like someone has repaired it.

Yang Yiyi suddenly remembered the legend that there was a big savage living in the cave. When she was a child, her parents scared her, saying that if she didn’t sleep well, the savage in the cave would come and capture her and eat her.

This brought back Yang Yiyi's childhood memories. No matter how she looked at it, this cavity looked like a nest.

But that was just to scare the children. Yang Yiyi walked forward a few steps and didn't see the big savage, but she saw a flat stone wall.

There were words carved on the stone wall. At the bottom, some blurry words read, "I used the Five Elements Escape Method as a basis and comprehended the ground escape method. Those who practice this method can pass through stones and appear and disappear mysteriously."

When Li Chengxi saw this comment, he felt it was outrageous.

Isn't this martial arts? How did the immortal hero's earth escape technique appear?
Looking at the rock wall again, Yang Yiyi said:

"It's been destroyed by someone, and I can't see anything clearly."

Except for the text at the bottom, all the words and patterns on the stone wall have become unrecognizable, and it looks like someone took a hammer and knocked them off bit by bit.

I feel like this Earth Escape Step should be a magical skill, but now there’s only a piece of approval document left.

"Look at it in a positive way. Since there is a secret stone inscription here, it means there must be an exit."

"Well, Brother Li is right."

Yang Yiyi finally felt relieved, but Li Chengxi thought, according to the routine, wouldn't she have to learn the underground escape technique before she could get out?

It's just like Zhang Wuji learning the Great Shift of the Universe, the approval document says that the Earth Escape Step can pass through rocks, so maybe he has to use the Earth Escape Step to pass through a special hollow stone wall.

But I can’t tell this to Yang Yiyi for now, or she will be so panicked that she will pick her feet.

Yang Yiyi took another step along the stone wall, trying to find if there was any other exit. But when she turned around, she couldn't help but screamed.

Not far from her, the light revealed a skeleton leaning against a rock, which looked very old.

(End of this chapter)