Pollution throughout the territory - #293 - Chapter 289 Sabbat: Green Flame Pillar

After walking into the entrance, there are simple stone steps at your feet. They are as rough as half-finished products. Some steps are even at an angle. If you don’t walk on them carefully, you will risk falling.

This was the first time that Xia Ren encountered such a difficult staircase. It was even more unsuitable for human walking than the tall staircase leading to the Stone City on the Crazy Mountains.

The residents of the town probably couldn’t move freely in the complete darkness. Some people took out ancient lanterns from under their cloaks and lit them one after another, illuminating the surrounding space.

Although the dim candlelight could not illuminate farther, Xia Ren could still tell that this narrow staircase spread downwards in a spiral shape by following the trajectory of the team further ahead.

It seems that the place where the ceremony is held is deep below.

The further down you go, the heavier the moisture you can feel on your skin, and a weird and unpleasant smell begins to emit in the air, giving you an ominous premonition.

The stone stairs seemed to have no end, there was dead silence around him, and there were no companions to communicate with. The huge mental pressure and physical discomfort made Xia Ren feel extremely tired.

He even had the illusion that he was not walking up the stairs, but falling towards the abyss.

One side around him was empty, while the other side was a uniform gable. The stone stairs gradually became wider. Xia Ren began to be able to see that falling stalactites and cracked limestone began to appear on one side of the gable. This shows that they have gone all the way down from the location of the church to the heart of the hillside on which the entire town is attached.

Xia Ren had already lost Yu Chen’s position when he entered the church, but he had no time to take care of this cheap son-in-law at the moment. The only thing that was certain was that Yu Chen should be at the front of the team at the moment.

He slowly saw that many side passages, or caves, appeared nearby. Because of the dimness of the candlelight, he could not see the specific structure of those caves, and he could not even figure out whether they were man-made.

Perhaps, it could even be the nest of some kind of huge social creature.

Because Xia Ren smelled an extremely unpleasant and somewhat fishy smell from those dark and deep caves.

The number of these caves increased, and Xia Ren was more willing to believe that they were nests. He felt a huge threat from them. It seemed that there were unspeakable terrifying creatures lurking in them, quietly watching the passing town residents.

Finally, they completely walked down this long staircase. Xia Ren had just escaped from one kind of torture, but the situation did not improve at all. He immediately fell into another kind of huge torture.

The pungent smell was unbearable, and every step under his feet felt slippery, accompanied by a small popping sound. He lowered his head, and with the help of the blurry light of the lantern, he was shocked to discover that there was a wet and soft ground on the ground. , hiding densely packed white maggots!

These maggots squirmed and crawled up Xia Ren’s calves along the shoes. He wanted to shake them away, but once he did, his existence would be immediately exposed.

Helpless, he could only hold back the waves of nausea in his heart and maintain a normal walking posture.

The feeling of stepping on maggots is no more uncomfortable than stepping on rough stone stairs. The latter is just physical discomfort, but the former is more of a mental torture. No normal person can easily endure this kind of pain. environment.

Xia Ren would rather return immediately to the Wuji Icefield full of storms and cold snow than stay here for even a second longer.

Then, he saw a faint light shining in front of him, and heard the gurgling sound of the undercurrent below.

The fear in my heart emerged again, and there seemed to be a huge danger hidden ahead.

But Xia Ren couldn’t retreat, he could only move forward, there was no other way to go.

Suddenly, he heard a sound.

Like the sound of a flute, weak and plaintive.

Just as he heard the sound of the flute, a vast, seemingly borderless underground world suddenly appeared before his eyes!

The columnar flame ejected from the ground illuminates the entire space, which is also green. Compared with it, the candlelight of the underworld candle is like the difference between fluorescent light and the bright moon.

Under the flame beam, there is a wide river, which is soaked in unknown substances, making the river water look extremely sticky, as if it has been contaminated by oil.

It is as if the river flowing from hell washes away the mold-covered shoals from time to time. It cannot see its source and does not know where it will flow. There may not be any normal life forms in such a filthy river!

Xia Ren saw the land abandoned by the gods, or the desecrated realm of darkness. Huge toadstools were rooted in patches in the soft soil full of maggots. Fluorescent spores were released from under the umbrellas and floated in the surrounding air. middle;

The cylindrical flame spurted upward from the ground, like a green flame tornado, but the momentum it exuded was far more violent than a tornado in nature;

The slimy water surged into the shallows in waves, emitting a pungent stench that made you dizzy just by smelling it.

He also saw the cloaked crowd lined up around the columnar flame that shone beyond sight, performing the ritual steps.

They held handfuls of slimy, yellowish green things in their hands and dropped them into the water.

A strange creature whose appearance cannot be clearly seen squats far away from the pillar of flames and plays the flute, making a disgusting sound.

They worship sickly, flaming pillars and perform mysterious rituals of unknown meaning in this unreasonable place.

All of this was so difficult to understand. Xia Ren stood there numbly, his mind going blank.

Everything that happened before him was beyond his comprehension.

What frightened him most was not the residents of the town who were holding a ceremony at this time, but the pillar of flame that erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption. What was even more unbelievable was that he did not want to burn on the ground like normal flames. Casting his own light and shadow, a dirty, poisonous patina grew on the stones around the flame.

It is clearly burning, and the momentum is so fierce, but it does not bring any warmth to this space. What is there is only death, and the dampness of decay.

If Xia Ren could see his system values, he would be horrified to find that his sanity had dropped to single digits just like the night he was deceived by Zhao Mingyue and then forced into the study by a room full of contained objects.

He is on the verge of madness without even realizing it.

At this moment, Xia Ren saw the old man who received them twisting his body next to the flames.

Facing the crowd arranged in a semicircle, he stiffly made ritual gestures, and then he took out the book with the “door” pattern on the cover from his arms.