Helfas was indeed a little scared.

Because the mask could not be used here, the biphasic devil insect sealed in the mask seemed to be suppressed by some force, and there was no movement at all.

And this also means that as long as he falls, he doesn't even have any means of recovery. He really has to wait for death.

As he walked down the rope, he could feel his feet trembling with every step. He would look down unconsciously, but gradually he couldn't see anything.

In the darkness, he tried his best not to look down, and tried to think about other things to suppress his panic, so that he could move down mechanically.

At this time, he suddenly thought of the young dragonman asking himself why he came here.

"What if you can't find the answer?"

He suddenly wanted to talk, and he asked the people below.

"you say."

"If the answer I want doesn't exist here, is it stupid for me to die here like this?"

The voice came from below and the other party told Helfas.

"Then stop, you can still climb up now."

"If you think it's stupid, don't die stupid here."

"Because if you think everything you do is stupid, then you are really stupid."

But after hesitating for a while, he continued to go down.

The people below asked him, "Why do you still come down?"

Helfas: "I didn't finish what I wanted to do when I started, and I don't want to stop now."

"Even if I can only take a few more steps forward, I want to at least take a few more steps before stopping."

Now that he already knew it, how could he not come here? At least for now, this was the only place he knew that could give him some answers.

If you choose to retreat and give up for every problem you face in life, then you really can only choose to stop in the end.

But he didn't want to stop, and still hoped to move forward.

The next two people did not speak again.

Helfas finally went all the way down to the bottom along the rope. He felt that he had reached his limit, his whole body was in pain, bloodstains were worn on his hands, the rope was stained red, and his whole body began to crumble due to fatigue.

But he still clung to the rope tightly, even though he felt the severe pain keep coming, he still yanked hard and wouldn't let go.

And the dragon youth has already found a place below, waiting for Helfas.

"There is a **** here, you can take a rest."

It was only then that Helfas discovered that there was a platform at the end of the rope, which should have been stepped on by people who had arrived here before.

Every step the youth takes is planned, and even before that, he should have been here.

Helfas had been guessing for a long time, but he didn't really say it until now.

"You've been here before!"

The young dragon man sat quietly, while Helfas slowly lit a torch. The moment the torch was lit, Helfas happened to see the other party's gaze staring at the fire.

He said: "I stopped here last time, and I haven't been able to go any further."

Helfas: "Why didn't you go down, it's already here?"

Dragon man youth: "Because my companion fell to his death, before reaching the temple, I was scared."

"We thought we had made a long enough rope before we came, but the depth of this pothole is beyond our imagination."

"I thought we had everything ready, but it still wasn't enough."

Helfas: "Then why did you come here this time?"

Dragon man youth: "Because I have nowhere to go, and I just met you."

"I suddenly feel that this is reminding me, let me continue what I haven't done before!"

"When I was wandering alone in this forest, I felt that the things I was afraid of before became worthless. There is nothing more regretful than coming here and not reaching the bottom."

It was only then that Helfas remembered that the other party was kicked out by the Zhi tribe. Since then, they have become a ray of lonely souls. Running here may be the only hope and salvation in their eyes.

The dragon youth stood up and told Helfas.

"Throw down the torch."

Helfas hesitated, but went ahead anyway.

The torch fell, and the two followed their gazes until they finally saw the scene at the bottom of the cave.

Vaguely.

They saw that it was the top of a temple, and there was an altar on it, with strange symbols carved on it, and they felt dizzy even just looking at it.

Weird cries and voices faintly sounded in the ears, as if they were calling for a great existence with various cries.

"Giant!"

Helfas was a little excited, even if it was just a quick glance, the greatness of the building is definitely not something that dragon people can create.

"Look."

"There really is, there really is a temple down there."

There must be a very big secret hidden here, information beyond this era.

Young man of the Dragon: "We also saw such a scene before we believed that there is a **** below. It must be something built by the gods."

Helfas was stunned: "Has anyone really gone down there before?"

The young dragon people don't know that the dragon people don't even have writing in this era, and even if they have writing, who can guarantee that everything recorded is true?

After the two had eaten and drank water, Helfas wrapped his hands again before continuing to climb down.

Because they may go up later, the rope must be kept, and then they can only use tools and hands to climb.

Fortunately, the rock wall below is not completely straight, but has many strange circles of regular patterns and gaps.

It seems to be artificially carved, but when he touches it carefully, Helfas feels like the lines left by worms when they squirm.

Also a possibility.

It must be because he has a particularly deep impression of the biphasic monster, so such a strange association appeared.

The following process is more thrilling and more exciting.

The two climbed down along the planned route, finding a fixed position every step of the way, and every time they went down, it seemed that they were getting closer to death.

At some distance along the way, a torch should be inserted in the gap to provide illumination.

This is the ultimate test of physical strength and an excellent test of will.

Then came the scariest part.

Two people are holding on to a raised stone, and they have to cross a smooth rock wall and grab the stone at the other end before they can reach the planned route and climb down.

Grab it and you will be able to reach the bottom smoothly.

If you can't catch it, you can reach the bottom directly.

The young dragon man said: "Get ready, you have to jump over here."

Helfas looked at the smooth rock wall. If you usually walk, this distance is not worth mentioning.

But here, this short distance is like a moat.

"It's so far away, how could it be possible to jump over?"

The young dragonman jumped up before Helfas finished speaking.

He really crossed the air like a flying dragon, grabbed the stone at the other end forcefully, then fixed his body while swinging, and looked back at the stunned Helfas.

He moved a position aside, giving way to his original position.

"come!"

Seeing that Helfas still didn't dare to move, he took a deep breath and said to him forcefully.

"do not be afraid."

"Just imagine that even when you fall, you are actually falling on a soft bed, and then you can sleep well."

"That way it won't..."

As he was talking, the young dragon man couldn't continue.

He seemed to remember something.

In his eyes, Helfas seemed to overlap with a certain figure, and then he said with a trembling tone.

"That's what I told my companion before, and then... fell..."

Helfas's mouth, which had been opened wide by nervousness, opened even wider now.

I am hanging on the stone wall right now, facing a life-or-death decision, and my heart beats like a drum with nervousness.

You tell me this.

But thinking about it this way, I couldn't help but want to laugh, and the originally tense and suppressed emotions were released a lot.

Helfas took advantage of this energy to imitate the opponent and jumped up.

He was not proficient, and he couldn't find any other fixed point after grabbing the stones extending from the stone wall. It took a long time for his feet and body to finally stabilize his figure.

"Wipe, wipe, wipe!"

The rattan shoes made a sound when they stepped on the stone wall, and their toes clasped tightly.

Then, the sound stopped abruptly.

Helfas remained motionless in an ugly posture, as if he couldn't believe that he had really come here, and at the same time he was still experiencing the feeling just now.

The young dragonman also looked at Helfas in disbelief: "You really jumped over?"

Helfas couldn't help laughing: "Because I believe it, there must be a bed underneath, and it's still soft."

at this time.

When Helfas looked down again, the feeling was completely different.

Suddenly he felt that some of his previous thoughts were ridiculous, his weakness of wanting to retreat when encountering some difficulties was really contemptible, and his shrinking and shrinking standing by the hole without his extraordinary strength was really ugly.

He then followed the dragon youth to climb down, looking much more stable.

He can still chat with the other party, his tone is tired, but he is very calm.

Helfas: "I finally understand why I'm so scared."

Dragon man youth: "Why?"

Helfas: "Because I know very well in my heart that my power is not my own, because I know that I only look strong."

"Those things I can have now, and maybe one day I will lose them."

"These are castles in the air."

"Only when I believe that I can still face everything calmly even after losing everything, the courage to face difficulties and problems no matter what, is the real strength."

Helfas was very happy.

"Though I can't do that yet."

"But if I encounter any terrible monsters or difficult things in the future, I just need to think about the feeling just now."

"I think I can face it calmly, at least I won't behave too badly."

This wall and the short distance of one jump may not be worth mentioning compared to the weirdness of those manipulating laws to manipulate celestial phenomena.

But the feeling and experience that life and death are completely in his own hands, and may pass away from his fingertips at any time, are completely different from facing weirdness.

In particular, this time he did not rely on the power of the sealed item, nor did he rely on the power of Zhi Zhu.

Only after putting aside all external objects, those things hidden deep in my heart.

It's called courage, patience, determination, things like that.

Perhaps it is the real strength.

Unshakable and cannot be taken away.

—

At some point, he stepped on a solid ground.

This also means that they have come to the end.

The bottom of the hole is here.

"Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

The first time Helfas came down was to sit down and rest, with his hands on his knees, his head resting on them, panting heavily.

The young dragonman rested for a while, and then started wandering around with a torch, as if looking for something.

Helfas saw the opponent's movement and got up accordingly.

Just stood up.

What came into view were several human skeletons, most of which seemed to be very old.

Helfas walked forward across the corpses, followed the other person, and saw more and more corpses.

These people should all come here to meet the gods, and most of them died on the way.

And the rest.

Died here.

Helfas walked and watched, when suddenly the figure holding the torch stopped in front of him.

He asked, "What's wrong?"

Helfas walked to his side and heard the other party say.

"found it."

Helfas lowered his head, and saw a rotting corpse, wearing the same patterned clothes as the Dragonborn youth, except that there was a hat on top of his head.

The other party's hair was formed into a few braids, which flowed from the back of the head to the back. It seemed that they were often groomed during their lifetime. The young dragonman also had such braids on the back of his head, but it was not as fine.

Neither of them spoke. After a while, the young dragonman started to move. He took off his clothes and put them on the corpse, wrapping them tightly.

"My companion was very fond of looking at it during his lifetime, and he definitely didn't want others to see this appearance."

Helfas also helped to wrap the body, and then tied it with the belt on the body, like a body bag.

The young dragon man carried the corpse on his back and said to Helfas.

"We came together and wanted to meet the gods in the temple."

Helfas nodded.

The two headed in the direction of the temple they had seen before, holding the torch high, penetrating the dark cave world.

They waded through puddles, and walked for a long time along the steep slope, until at last they came to a huge door.

The torch was raised high, but the light of the fire still could not reach the top of the temple gate.

The walls were covered with moss and stuck to it in a thick layer, as if a layer of green paint had been applied and it also covered the patterns on the temple walls.

"Here is a stele."

Helfas noticed a tall stone tablet erected outside the temple. According to his impression and feeling, generally this kind of stone tablet should have very important things engraved on it.

The young dragon people also went to the foot of the stele together, and the height of both of them standing was not as high as the base of the stele.

They approached the torches and carefully looked at the inscriptions on the stele.

The young dragon man said, "I don't know what it is written in."

Helfas looked at the stele, and the feeling of dizziness and whispering came back when he stared at the inscription on it.

at the same time.

Those special words seemed to send a meaning directly into his mind.

"Entrance to the Earth Maze!"

Helfas also read out its meaning, but both he himself and the young dragon man beside him were confused and did not understand what it meant.

The two entered through the gate, and there were no **** statues in the hall, only strange fuzzy and incomplete symbols.

I don't know if it has become blurred after a long time, or the people who engraved it didn't intend for people to see this symbol clearly.

Some of them are like water, and some are like flames. The two of them counted ten such symbols.

"can't read."

"There's a door here."

"There's a corridor here."

"This door is closed and cannot be opened."

The two walked around in the temple. To them, it was indeed like a maze. It was surprisingly big. All kinds of palaces and houses made them dizzy, and they almost couldn't find the way out. road.

This temple is too big, only part of it is exposed outside, and a large part should be built underground and inside the rock wall.

And seeing these pictures, Helfas can really confirm a problem.

That is, civilization must have existed in this world. The style and architectural form of this building, the words and patterns on the walls that you can see while walking in the dark, all represent a very prosperous era in which this world once existed.

It's just that civilization may not have been built by humans.

At least it should not have been established by the dragon people.

Helfas walked around and looked around. He wanted to trace the source to find out who built this place, and wanted to know more information.

He wanted to find a "person" similar to himself in the picture, and even thought about it in his mind.

"Is this place built by a person with black hair, black eyes and no tail?"

But in any case, the person who built this building should have left long ago.

There is nothing left here, only cold stone.

At least there should be a time in units of ten thousand years. No one has visited this place, as if time has completely forgotten this place.

The two returned to the main hall, and Helfas took out a pen to record something, but saw the corpse of his companion on the back of the young dragonman came in front of him.

"It's almost time to leave," he said.

Helfas: "Aren't you going to explore?"

The other party shook his head: "There is no **** here, nothing at all."

Helfas understood.

indeed.

There are no gods waiting here, no miracles and redemptions that fulfill human wishes.

All of this is just the fantasy of those dragon people who have arrived here, taking a quick glance at the firelight from a high place, seeing this great and amazing temple, and listening to those whispers.

Even if some great beings really existed here, they are no longer here.

Helfas looked into the eyes of the young dragonman, as if he was looking for any disappointment.

The other party exhausted all kinds of hardships and came here with his companions full of expectations, and finally got such an answer.

Unfortunately, he didn't see anything.

Perhaps when the companion died here, the other party no longer looked forward to the gods.

"I'm sorry to make you run this trip, there is no **** you believe in here."

The young dragonman carried the corpse of his companion on his back, as if to say that this trip was not in vain.

Then he looked up, looked at Helfas and shook his head.

"My companion doesn't believe in God, but just longs for the existence that can save us, but now it seems that such an existence does not exist."

Helfas: "What about you?"

Young Dragonman: "In fact, I didn't think too much about it. I just set off with them, so at least I'm not alone."

The young dragonman bid farewell to Helfas and said to him seriously.

"The answer my companion wanted has been found, and it's time for us to go back together."

"Black-haired man, what answer do you want?"

Helfas shook his head: "I don't know yet. There are many things I am interested in here. I want to take a closer look and see if I can find what I want."

The purpose of the youth and companions is to find God, while Helfas's purpose is to find the secrets about the world and about himself.

"Hope you can find it."

"Even if it's not here, it can be somewhere else."

After the young man finished speaking, he turned and left. When he walked to the gate, he said to Helfas, "You are actually very powerful."

On the contrary, Helfas felt that the other party was very powerful, and he was a little happy after getting his approval: "How powerful?"

The young man said: "You can go on alone."

After speaking, the other party turned around and left.

Helfas didn't know if he was praising or joking.

—

cave bottom.

Helfas stared at the high place with the help of the faint light of the torch on the cave wall, and saw the other party tie the corpse to the body and climb up. The difficulty was so high that Helfas was terrified, but the other party always relied on experience and strength to climb up. Great strength and experience go up.

Finally, I came to the place where I needed to make a leap.

Helfas saw the other party tie the corpse to the stone, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com, then jumped over himself, arrived at the opposite side in a very thrilling manner, and then pulled the corpse over by pulling the belt with his tail.

Then climbed up, no matter how difficult it was, it didn't stop.

He just watched the shadow disappear into the darkness, gradually disappearing.

After a long time, neither the sound of falling nor other movement was heard.

He can basically determine that the other party has climbed up.

"It's really amazing."

Helfas sat down, smiled and shook his head in admiration.

Then, turn around and enter the temple again.

This time he wants to explore this place thoroughly, as well as figure out the secrets about it, and go deeper into it.

(end of this chapter)

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