Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 555 Underground Forest
Putting aside the fact that Li Chengxi felt that the style of the gods was becoming more and more strange, Orday and the other two waited for the high temperature of the meteor explosion to subside before approaching the bombing site.

As expected, no clues were left, all burned to ashes in the terrifying high temperature.

Another piece of bad news was that when the high temperature subsided, Aldea went to check on the Skull Gate, which was almost like a ghost ship.

Unfortunately, the most important logbook was not found, and we still don’t know how the ship got into the underground of the ruins.

However, Oldie found the nautical chart sealed in a special safe. Although it was still badly decayed, it was still within an acceptable range. Once she went back and asked a specialized cartographer to repair it, she should be able to obtain a lot of useful information.

But that is something for after they return. The problem the three of them have to face now is where to go.

They didn't encounter any forks in the road 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.

The latter does not need to be considered as the risk is too great. No one knows how big this underground ocean is, and it is hard to say whether there are huge sea monsters hiding in the sea water. After all, judging from the stern of the Skull Gate, it was indeed attacked by a sea monster.

After searching around the area bombed by the meteor explosion, although the surrounding area was blown to pieces in the impulse, an entrance that was originally hidden was opened.

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

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

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

However, compared to entering the boundless underground ocean, it is still a relatively reliable option. Anyway, Alde feels that if things really don't work out, there is still Li Chengxi...

She was really rude.

Zora and Nemea helped remove some relatively intact planks from the Skull Gate, and then Olde chanted a few spells over the pile of planks.

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

The three of them then rowed the boat into the flooded cave.

Here, dark vision is not reliable. The reflection on the water surface makes dark vision only see a gray color when looking at the water surface. Olde and Zora had to turn on the lights.

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

Especially shortly after entering the cave, the humidity in the surroundings increased significantly, and sticky fog slid along the water surface. From time to time, thick fog shaped like hands could be seen swaying on the water surface, as if it was going to pull the three people on the boat down.

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

Experienced adventurers would immediately know that this thick fog would 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 deal with, they are just undead creatures. As for the latter, it is not simply setting fire to the mountain, but man-made, causing irreversible damage to the natural environment. Those strange thick fogs are more like an accusation against nature.

The boat glided on the water. The deeper it went, the more it felt like it was gliding through a thick fog. If Li Chengxi was also there, the sound of the Cloud Palace would probably have started playing in his mind...

Holding the light, they drifted in the quiet cave for about half an hour. Finally, a light appeared in front of them, which meant they had finally reached the exit. The three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. After all, as long as they were not being led into the 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 was abnormally bright, not like a torch or magic light, but rather...

Kind of like the sun?
Could it be that I had run outside the ruins without realizing it?
That's impossible. I could clearly see the dark underground ocean just now.

In any case, abnormal situations must be treated with caution.

Nimia took out a crossbow, Olde made a casting gesture, and Zora had already taken out the holy emblem. If a monster jumped out, they would immediately hit it in the face.

Maintaining this high level of vigilance, the boat swayed slowly through the cave, and warm light like sunlight immediately shone on the faces of the three people.

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

Fortunately, there were no monsters waiting for them at the entrance of the cave, and the three of them adjusted to the light slowly.

At this moment they saw an incredible scene.

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

And inside this underground cavity, there is a vast tropical rainforest that stretches as far as the eye can see.

Not an underground fungal forest, but a real tropical rainforest made up of herbaceous and woody plants!
They had to look up hard to see the big waterfall at the top. At the other end of their field of vision, they could vaguely see the water in the waterfall flowing into the deeper underground abyss. The surging water mist refracted colorful glare under the illumination of the light ball on the top of the cave.

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

If you listen carefully, you can hear some roars of wild beasts amidst the white noise created by the waterfall. If they hadn't been able to see the top of the cave and the thick rock walls, the three of them would have thought they had accidentally passed through a portal and were teleported to a tropical rain forest.

At this moment, a big fish jumped out of the water. Maybe it had never seen the boat or maybe it was just a coincidence, so it landed directly on the boat and almost hit Oldie with its tail.

The eyes of this fish 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 the cave fish is suddenly exposed to strong light for a long time and has to secrete melanin to protect its fragile skin from light damage.

Oldie recognized it as a blind catfish common in caves, but before she could examine it more closely, she saw it fluttering on the deck several times and returning to the water.

"What the hell is this place?"

Nimya opened her mouth wide, unable to believe what she saw. This was also what Zora and Oldie were thinking.

What the hell is this place?

(End of this chapter)