Then, after confirming that Zhang Mingyu and Lin Qingxue would not come, I decided to go to Zhongdong Gu Village alone. They might have returned to Tianshi Mountain first due to their injuries.
Fortunately, I know how to get to the Zhongdong Gu Stronghold. Even without Zhang Mingyu and Lin Qingxue to lead the way, I can still find the Zhongdong Gu Stronghold with the guidance of the beads transformed from the Dragon Hunting Chart.
So after making the decision, I set out again.
However, to be on the safe side, I returned to the Yinbing Valley before setting off, and even returned to the place where I stayed with Zhang Mingyu and the others at the beginning, but obviously, I still couldn't find them.
I had no choice but to choose one to go to Zhongdong Gu Village.
Of course.
This was also my original intention from the beginning.
Even though I don't know their situation, I still feel a little worried.
But thinking that both of them were quite capable, and even though they were both injured, they probably wouldn't choose to sit back and wait for death, I put away my worries and set out on my journey peacefully.
Zhang Mingyu also left some magical talismans for me before, so even if they were not around, I would not walk slowly. However, because I needed to sense the guidance of the beads transformed from the Dragon Hunting Chart along the way, according to what Lin Qingxue originally said, it would take two days.
I was still one day late when I was able to reach the Shiba Tiankeng.
On the third day after leaving Yinbing Valley, I arrived near the Shiba Tiankeng and stopped at a village called Tiankeng Village.
Tiankeng Village is built near the Shiba Tiankeng. There are not many people in the village. I don’t know whether it is a coincidence or other reasons. There are exactly 18 households.
Not only that, there is a number on the door of every house, ranging from one to eighteen.
What surprised me even more was that when I came to Tiankeng Village, the villagers in Tiankeng Village did not feel strange like I felt when I went to other villages before. Instead, they were very welcoming to me.
During their conversation, I learned that these eighteen families were not originally from here, but settled here because of the eighteen sinkholes that appeared here.
The numbers one to eighteen represent exactly the sinkholes they occupy.
In other words, these 18 tiankeng are occupied by them. They use the 18 tiankeng as a gimmick to attract some people who come here admiringly, and then take them to visit the tiankeng to collect rewards.
My arrival also made them mistakenly think that I came here because of my reputation.
After knowing this, I didn't point it out, I was just a little surprised.
According to what Lin Qingxue said before, even the elders and experts of Tianshi Mountain have not been able to figure out the mystery of these eighteen sinkholes, and the dangers are also unknown.
Even so, when I left Yinbing Valley and headed here, I was actually worried about it.
I thought that I might encounter something else in these 18 sinkholes, but judging from the current situation, it seems that there is really no danger in these 18 sinkholes.
Otherwise, why would these people occupy this place to make a fortune?
There is no danger, and it is not a bad thing. At least it can let me breathe a sigh of relief temporarily, and then make more preparations to go to Zhongdong Gu Village.
However, after some inquiries, I did not enter Tiankeng Village.
Because people in this village are all about wealth, and wealth is money, and I don’t have any money.
So after I came here and learned about the situation here, I randomly found a place to stay outside the village. I planned to rest for a night before continuing to Zhongdong Gu Village. There is no danger here and there is no need to stay.
But sometimes.
It might just be a coincidence.
Or maybe it is precisely because of my arrival that the absence of danger becomes a danger.
Even I have to admit this.
Just when I was about to take a rest, a loud noise suddenly came from the location of the Eighteen Tiankeng. Then I saw people from the Tiankeng Village running out of the village and running towards the Eighteen Tiankeng.
go.
When I saw this, I followed him.
We arrived at the location of Tiankeng No. 9.
The No. 9 tiankeng is in the center of the 18th tiankeng. At this time, there is a thick smoke rising from the pit. The smoke is gray and black, and there is a faint smell.
And where the thick smoke was, at a glance, I saw two figures.
The two men lay motionless in the pit, as if they had lost their breath.
Seeing this scene, I felt helpless. I knew I was too happy too early.
Although I have long been accustomed to this situation, I still felt a little guilty at this time, because according to my brief understanding of Tiankeng Village, nothing much has happened here in recent years.
Now that I'm here, things will happen.
I was not in a hurry to move, but stood outside the pit and watched other people in Tiankeng Village walking down the No. 9 Tiankeng.
The sinkhole is very deep, but it has a circle of platforms. It is not known whether the circle of platforms was man-made or left over from nature.
The two figures were on that circle of platforms.
The thick smoke actually appeared from them.
Not long after, the two men were lifted up.
The whole body was charred and black, and it looked very hideous and terrifying. When it was taken out, some of the more timid people unconsciously turned their heads to the side and started to vomit due to nausea.
One person said: "The two of them should have been burned to death."
I looked at the speaker and recognized him at a glance. He was the owner of Tiankeng No. 1, and he was also the first person to warmly entertain me after I arrived here.
He said his name was Chen Fu.
After Chen Fu said this, the crowd surrounding him instantly exploded.
"How is that possible?"
"Why is there fire here?"
"Act of God!"
Someone suddenly shouted.
As soon as these two words appeared, the crowd became even more excited, and one person even knelt on the ground with a look of fear on his face.
And as he knelt down, several more people followed him.
At that time, only about half of them were still standing.
Chen Fu looked at this scene, frowned slightly, and shouted: "How can there be any natural disaster? We have been here for many years and nothing has happened."
"There must be something wrong here."
"Look at Lao Jiu, he's like this, even his guests are following him... and you still say it's not a natural disaster?"
"Boss, what do you think this is if it's not a natural disaster?"
Chen Fu was silent for a moment and then said: "I will find out the problem."
"But now is not the time for you to do it alone. You should take Lao Jiu and the guest back first."
"I'll go down and take a look!"
"What?" Everyone was stunned for a moment.
"You want to go down?"
Chen Fu nodded and said: "I suspect that Lao Jiu and the others may have violated the regulations and fell into the sinkhole."
As he spoke, Chen Fu grabbed a handful of the shoes of the corpse on the ground.
There was a handful of dirt on his hand, black dirt.