Chapter 92 the Nest?
She had searched through all the available materials before the apocalypse but found no clues to this same totem. By sheer chance, she encountered a similar pattern here. She didn't want to give up, but the unknown risks were discouraging her.
"How come you have this pattern? Have you seen it before? You weren't a tomb raider, were you?"
He Liang's imagination ran wilder and wilder, and he even started to make up a story that Yu Miaomiao was a descendant of a gifted mountain-moving Taoist. He suddenly felt that everything made sense, which was why Yu Miaomiao was so knowledgeable about astronomy and geography and was not surprised by the bizarre world.
"Laughable, whatever you say goes." Yu Miaomiao was too lazy to explain; this young man really had a wild imagination.
Lu An noticed that Yu Miaomiao was hesitating about whether to go into the water to investigate. "Go down and take a look? Otherwise, you'll regret it someday."
"Yes, I'd like to see too," Xu Nanwei chimed in. She didn't know what Yu Miaomiao and Lu An were thinking; she was simply curious. She always had a sense of curiosity about the unknown and things she hadn't seen with her own eyes.
"You guys go if you want, I'm not going... It's too creepy." He Liang muttered to himself, but after the other three unanimously agreed, he had no choice but to accept his fate.
"Well, I guess I don't have a say either. Sisters, let's go."
Yu Miaomiao and the other two used this to detach from the lifting device and jumped into He Liang's shadow, which slowly submerged into the water.
Soon they approached the black door. Yu Miaomiao slipped into the space in the shadows and changed into her diving oxygen equipment. She wanted to go to the door first and see it with her own eyes.
As He Liang approached the gate, Yu Miaomiao was released as a shadow. Relying on her own gravity, she slowly floated in the non-Newtonian fluid and gradually approached the bronze stone gate.
In He Liang's eyes, this door was just an ordinary bronze stone door that exuded an eerie aura, but in Yu Miaomiao's eyes, it emitted a pale blue light like a spatial stone.
There are indeed two totems on the bronze stone gate, which are exactly the same as the totems on Yu Miaomiao's stone.
Moreover, on one side of the gate, there is an embedded hole, the shape of which is very similar to the stone that opened the space for Yu Miaomiao. However, at this time, she should not need to rely on that stone to open the stone gate. He Liang can just use his superpower to pass through the stone gate.
This superpower is truly omnipotent; if it were before the apocalypse, it would be like a cheat code in the world of tomb raiding.
She returned to He Liang's shadow, and He Liang slowly approached, attempting to pass through the stone gate.
result...
"Bang..." The dark figure crashed into the stone door, startling He Liang.
"Damn it, I knew this place was haunted! I can't even get through this door. I'm done for. Shall we go back?"
"Since we're already here, I have a plan, but I need your cooperation." Yu Miaomiao had already come this far, so naturally she wouldn't turn back.
So, He Liang pressed his shadow against the stone door to ensure it was isolated from the water. Then, Yu Miaomiao reached out and pushed the spatial stone into the groove of the stone door. Sure enough, the stone door loosened and slowly opened. Yu Miaomiao quickly put the stone into her space. The inside of the stone door and the outside world seemed to be two different worlds, completely unaffected by the water outside. Inside the stone door was a long passageway, without water, but also without air.
Because when Yu Miaomiao tried to light a match and throw it in, the flame went out immediately without lasting a second, as if it were a vacuum environment inside.
But it doesn't matter, Xu Nanwei will take action.
The three entered first, and Xu Nanwei used an air shield to create a helmet for them. The three of them worked together to close the door. At the last moment before the door closed, He Liang's shadow shrank and quickly disappeared into the stone door.
This stone door looks old and worn, but it truly keeps the water out.
The three did not return to He Liang's shadow this time, because there was no visual sharing in the shadow, and the three could not see anything.
He Liang continued strolling leisurely, determined not to leave his shadow. "I'll stay in the shadows. If there's any danger, I can quickly lead everyone away. Don't worry, with me here, there won't be any problems."
Well, in the shadows, there's no need to consider air quality, which will also reduce Xu Nanwei's burden.
I turned on a powerful flashlight and shone it into the dark tunnel, revealing many different entrances. This tunnel connected to a maze of branching paths. The tunnel floor was covered with spiderweb-like debris and emitted an unpleasant odor.
Yu Miaomiao thought about it and was still worried, so she found a rope and tied the three people and the shadow together. If an accident happened, her last resort would be to put everyone into her space. This would also prevent them from getting separated, as the area was very interconnected and it was easy to take the wrong turn.
She couldn't afford any accidents. Thinking ahead was always better than having regrets, since everyone had come with her to this place, and she had to ensure everyone's safety.
Yu Miaomiao didn't think this place was a tomb; instead, she thought it looked more like a submarine or a small control center.
Because besides those ancient and eerie totems, there are many things here that are beyond their comprehension, such as the huge silver sphere in front of them now.
"Wow! What is this? Could it be some kind of special burial method we don't know about?"
He Liang spoke significantly more in the shadows than outside them, as if he had a built-in muttering effect in the shadows.
Upon hearing He Liang's words, Lu An and Xu Nanwei instinctively took two steps back. After all, if there was an ancient corpse inside, anyone would feel uneasy.
"It shouldn't be. We haven't seen any items that indicate this is a tomb along the way. There are no burial objects or the structure of a main burial chamber," Yu Miaomiao pondered.
"Indeed, this place has been completely empty all the way here, except for this one huge sphere. The more I look at it, the more it looks like an egg. Could it be the nest of some kind of underground mutated creature?"
Lu An carefully observed the huge spherical object. When he shone a strong flashlight on it, the silver sphere was still translucent, and he could see some shadowy objects inside, but he couldn't tell what they were.
"A mutated creature from the ground? Possibly, but I've never seen one this big." Yu Miaomiao repeatedly recalled the mutated creatures she had seen in her previous life. She had never seen one of such a massive size. "If it really is the nest of some kind of creature, then we need to be even more careful. Such a large size, and an unknown species, is very dangerous."
Before the words were even finished, drops of viscous liquid began to fall from above them, accompanied by the stench of rotting corpses. A massive creature descended from the sky and pounced straight at them.
Without a moment to think, Yu Miaomiao quickly pulled the group into her space. She had prepared an empty room beforehand, without windows, so they couldn't see the full extent of her space, but they were absolutely safe inside.
Seeing that all three people were present, she sat cross-legged on the ground and turned on the visual screen of the space.