Chapter 435 The source of everything

Gordon and Pork Chop walked slowly along the edge of the giant pit.

Although I haven’t yet experienced the “sense of sight” that Zhupa said, in this huge dark and silent space, it is inevitable that there will be a feeling of depression.

Gordon couldn't help but put his palm on the hilt of the epitaph behind him, and the hard touch made him feel reassured.

“Look, you can see the stairs, meow, it’s right in front.” Pig Chop’s eyesight is better than Gordon’s, and he huddled next to Gordon, “Do we really want to go down, meow?”

"Um."

Gordon rubbed the pig's head. "Your perception is more sensitive, and the things below will have a greater impact on you. Stop at any time when you can't stand it."

 “It’s okay, it’s okay, meow!”

Gordon couldn't help but recall the year when he first met Pork Chop, when he first took him to defeat the Blue Velociraptor, Pork Chop also looked like this.

　Although I am afraid in my heart, I always try to be strong

 “Get on my back.”

".Meow meow?"

“You’re not too heavy, help me watch what’s behind me.”

Pork Chop hesitated for a moment, but finally jumped on Gordon's back, grabbed Gordon's armor with his claws, and fixed himself in place.

His legs are a little weak.

Gordon smiled and walked towards the stone steps that appeared on the edge of the pit.

This stone step is a bit scary. It is about two meters wide. There is no guardrail, no sling support, and it is not fixed on the wall. It goes straight down without any support.

 The end of the staircase is swallowed up by the darkness of the abyss, and it is impossible to see where it ultimately leads.

 “It should lead to the bottom of the pit.” Gordon said to himself.

 He stepped onto the steps.

The moment Gordon stepped onto the stone steps, his heart skipped a beat.

 He swallowed, "Pork chop, I feel what you said, sight."

"Meow!"

Pork Chop buried his face behind Gordon and vented his fear with a cry, "It's getting more and more obvious, meow!"

Gordon took a few quick breaths.

It felt like being stared at by some kind of malicious monster.

 But no monster will stare at you like this for a moment, and locking eyes often means the beginning of an attack.

 But the "sight" from the bottom of the pit just stared, lifelessly.

Closing his eyes and calming down, Gordon said to Pig Cho: "Pig Cho, if you think about it this way, there is no such thing as sight, it is just a feeling.

Just like being close to fire will make you hot, and being close to ice will make you cold. There is only some substance at the bottom of the pit that can make us feel uncomfortable. There is nothing to be nervous about. "

 “Meow meow?” Pig Chop poked his head out a little and opened his eyes a little.

“Whether it’s hot or cold, it’s just a warning signal from the body. Treat this feeling as a signal and try to ignore it.”

 “I feel like I’m dying like this.” I tried to follow Gordon’s words, ignore the “feeling of being watched”, and calm down.

 It even has the energy to complain.

"Better?"

"It's better, meow." Pig Chop jumped off Gordon, "There's no point in retreating now, meow. This is an illusion, meow. This is an illusion, meow."

"Let's go. After so many years of life and death, it would be too embarrassing to be frightened crazy by inexplicable fear without even seeing the appearance of the 'thing' at the bottom of the pit."

“That makes sense, meow. I’m not afraid anymore, meow!”

Pork Chop’s beard was still trembling, but Gordon didn’t expose it.

"Walk!"

Gordon took a deep breath again, changed his previous cautious attitude, and began to speed up his steps. He trotted down while counting the number of steps.

 This is his way of relieving tension.

 “Seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three”

“Eighty-nine, ninety!” Pig Chop, who was running on all fours, also counted with Gordon.

 The pace of the two became faster and faster. In the end, it was almost like a race, with you rushing down and me competing.

 The sight of horror always enveloped them.

 But all that one person and one cat could think about at this moment was "How many more floors are there on this staircase?" and "How can I (below) lose to Pork Chop (Gordon) when running up the stairs?"

 Unconsciously, they had reached the end of the steps.

 At the last few steps, Gordon and Pork Chop jumped directly.

 “Aha! I won!”

“It’s a draw, meow! It’s just that your legs are longer and you land a little faster, meow!”

 “What’s wrong with the long legs? You still have four legs?”

 “I’m not convinced, meow!” Pig Cho scratched the stone tiles on the ground frantically.

“Hey, it’s useless not to accept it. By the way, how many floors have you counted?”

 “Meow meow meow!” Pig Chop vented for a while before he said angrily: “Five hundred and fifty-fourth floor meow!”

“You counted it wrong, it’s five hundred and fifty-sixth floor.”

 “Gordon counted wrong, meow!”

“Then on average, five hundred and fifty-five floors?”

 “This number is too unlucky, meow!”

“How about we go up and count again?”

 “Is there something wrong with you, meow?!”

 “Ahem.”

Gordon coughed twice, "There's something wrong. It's probably because this equipment has affected my spirit and made me excited again."

“I don’t think it’s because of the armor, meow.”

"Never mind that for now." Gordon held up the torch, "There are over five hundred floors. Based on one layer being more than thirty centimeters, this pit is almost two hundred meters deep. It seems to be at the bottom of the pit."

 One person and one cat fell silent at the same time.

After a while, Zhupa said: "My sight is still there, it's in that direction. It feels like it's not that far away. Do you want to go that way?"

“Of course, we’re all here. Now we’re going back the way we came. Even if we can break through the blockade of Lan Long and successfully evacuate, this feeling of unidentified gaze will become a lifelong nightmare.”

“Meow too, we’re all here, meow.”

"Let's go, we're very close." Gordon pointed the torch in that direction, "Nothing jumped out, and there was no movement of struggling or breathing. It certainly didn't look like a living thing.

 In this case, what we have to do is to stabilize our emotions and stay calm no matter what we see. "

"I'm fully mentally prepared, meow." Zhupa scratched his ears hard twice, "The worst-case scenario is that a sleeping ancient monster wants to fill the gaps in our teeth, meow."

"Don't scare yourself." Gordon took a step forward, and Pork Chop quickly followed.

 With the light of the torch, the darkness in front of them was broken away bit by bit.

 A huge dark stone tower appeared in front of them.

 The hunter and the cat stopped.

Gordon was silent for a few seconds and then said: "Speaking of pork chop, do you think this stone tower is worth it?"

"It's very similar to the shape of the entire ruins, a flat-topped square pyramid." Pig Chop took out two newly modified incendiary bombs, lit them and threw them out.

The incendiary bomb did not explode, but burned into two fires. Together with the torch in Gordon's hand, it illuminated the dark stone tower in front of him.

“If my sense of direction is correct, this black stone tower corresponds to almost the center of the ruins.” Gordon looked up at the stone tower, “It should be the core of the ruins.”

“The source of that strange feeling is on the platform at the top of the tower. After climbing up, everything becomes clear.”

“I still have some expectations, let’s go, Pig Chop.” Gordon took Pork Chop and stepped onto the stone steps on the side of the Black Stone Tower.

 One step, two steps

As they continued upward, the frightening gaze became stronger and stronger, and finally turned into a real sense of oppression, falling on their hearts.

".interesting."

 Firmly suppressing the instinctive impulse in his heart to turn around and run away, or even scream loudly, Gordon tried to raise his head and continued climbing.

Pork Chop was trembling all over, but he still gritted his teeth and followed closely.

 They reached the top of the tower.

 In the center of a platform of nearly 100 square meters, a huge head is placed here.

After countless years of erosion, the pitch-black scales have long since become gray and decayed, but the two pairs of sharp horns raised back are still sharp.

 The eye socket on the left side is empty, while on the right side, the dark gold evil eye that has long been crystallized captures the spirit of the hunter and Ellu.

 They can't breathe.

 (End of this chapter)