Chapter 167

After a long and rugged trek, the three of them spent a full hour walking those ten miles of winding mountain roads. When they finally reached their destination, the scene before them made them gasp.

Not far ahead, a natural cave that looked like the mouth of a giant beast appeared before everyone. The entrance to the cave was towering, as high as a building, and surrounded by dense weeds, as if a green barrier had isolated it from the outside world.

As they got closer to the entrance, a thick, damp air rushed toward them. The smell was mixed with the scent of soil, moss, and unknown creatures, making people feel a bit suffocated. Gu Changzheng frowned, looked suspiciously at Peng Weibing beside him, and asked: "Director Peng, is this the cave you mentioned before?"

Peng Weibing stroked his chin with his hand while nodding slightly: "That's right, it's here. Don't look at its ordinary appearance, but the space inside is huge! Let's go in and take a look first!" After speaking, he took the lead and walked toward the cave.

Seeing this, Gu Changzheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded slightly, and followed closely behind Peng Weibing with Luo Fei, cautiously stepping into this mysterious and unknown cave.

Inside, as Peng Weibing said, it had a good space. Gu Changzheng estimated it, and the place within his sight was at least the size of a football field.

At this time, the sun in the sky was strong, and the sunlight shone into the cave through the barrier formed by the weeds, barely allowing them to see the situation in the cave. The space inside was even higher, so high that the top was pitch black, and they couldn't see what the top looked like. The ground and stone walls in the cave were uneven and permeated with a damp smell. Luo Fei was about to continue walking inside, but Gu Changzheng reached out and stopped him: "Don't be in a hurry. It's dark and damp here, and maybe there's some danger hidden. Wait a moment."

Saying this, he said to Peng Weibing: "Director Peng, didn't you prepare any tools?"

Peng Weibing chuckled: "Haha, Captain Gu, are you good at calculating? Did you know I had preparations?"

Gu Changzheng also smiled: "Didn't you say you've been here several times? Then how could you not get some tools to prepare?"

"Haha, you're really something!" Peng Weibing smiled and walked to the stone wall on the left, pushed aside a few pieces of rubble, and a wooden board appeared underneath. He picked up the wooden board, and underneath was a small pit about a meter square, containing a dozen wooden sticks the thickness of an arm. One end of the wooden sticks was obviously thick and large. It turned out to be a homemade torch. In the corner of the small pit, there was also an iron bucket.

Peng Weibing took out three torches, opened the lid of the iron bucket, soaked the heads of the torches with the oil in the iron bucket, and handed one to Gu Changzheng and Luo Fei each: "In this kind of wild cave, torches are better to use than flashlights!"

"Director Peng is well prepared! It seems you were also prepared early!" Gu Changzheng smiled pointedly.

"Hi! I am a local born and raised here after all. I can't let those messy things harm this place, right?" Peng Weibing said while lighting the torch in his hand.

Gu Changzheng and Luo Fei also lit the torches in their hands, and the group continued to walk inside.

Peng Weibing was familiar with the terrain. He walked in the front, Gu Changzheng in the middle, and Luo Fei in the back. The three walked another hundred meters, and the space in the cave became smaller and smaller. It looked like they had reached the end.

After walking through, it was indeed as Peng Weibing said, just an ordinary cave, and it looked like there was nothing. Just when everyone thought this exploration would return without success, Luo Fei suddenly felt that the ground under his feet was a bit loose.

He hurriedly reminded the two in front: "Wait, the ground here seems a bit wrong." Peng Weibing and Gu Changzheng immediately stopped. Peng Weibing squatted down, brought the torch close to the ground to check, and found that the edge of a stone slab had a subtle gap with the surrounding ground. He tried to push the stone slab hard, but unexpectedly, the stone slab moved slowly, revealing a pitch-black entrance. A cold wind blew out from the cave, carrying a decaying smell.

The three looked at each other, their eyes filled with both surprise and excitement. Gu Changzheng took the lead and said: "It seems this cave still has secrets."

Thus, Peng Weibing was in the front, and Gu Changzheng and Luo Fei followed closely behind, slowly climbing down along the narrow passage of the entrance. After climbing down for about ten meters, they entered a slightly larger space.

Borrowing the light of the torches, they saw that the four walls of the cave here were also made of stone, but unlike the cave outside, these stone walls had obvious artificial traces, appearing smooth and neat, not naturally formed at all.

Surprise appeared in everyone's eyes. Peng Weibing said: "Hey! It's strange! I've been here several times alone, just feeling that it was a bit strange, but I never discovered that there was another world here!"

Gu Changzheng, however, had a look of horror and hurriedly reached out to cover his mouth and nose, shouting loudly: "Be careful! Don't get too close to these walls! Cover your mouth and nose!" Seeing this, Peng Weibing asked strangely: "What's wrong? What's the situation?"

Gu Changzheng had already dodged four or five meters away from the wall and replied: "These symbols! I've seen them in Zizhen!"

Peng Weibing was stunned and said: "Are you sure?"

Gu Changzheng nodded slowly and said: "There's no mistake! I have too deep an impression, because I was almost controlled by these symbols!"

Peng Weibing didn't know about Gu Changzheng being fascinated by the drugs of the Supreme God Sect in the basement of the hospital, but hearing him say this, he asked curiously: "What's so evil about these symbols? Can't they be looked at?"

"That's not it, it's just that the paint used to paint these symbols is problematic. Now I'm not sure if the symbols here are the same as those in Zizhen, but if they are the same, those who inhale them will be poisoned without knowing it, so we must be on guard!"

Peng Weibing suddenly realized, and he also hurriedly covered his mouth and nose, saying in a muffled voice: "Then how to distinguish? I don't know how many such symbols are here. Should we continue to check?"

Luo Fei said: "Director Peng, Captain Gu, let's go back and get a few gas masks and come back?"

Gu Changzheng said: "It's not necessary. Although this drug is powerful, as long as we keep a distance from these symbols, there will be no problem. Everyone walk with me, so it's easy to judge the safe distance." Gu Changzheng decided to take a risk. He was not sure if this place was an abandoned place or if it had been used by the Supreme God Sect all along. If he didn't figure out the secret here thoroughly this time, he was worried that the other party would destroy the entrance if they found someone invading, or abandon this place, and then it would be difficult to find them!

Hearing him say this, Peng and Luo were relieved. Peng Weibing even tore off the shirt on his body to serve as a mask for everyone, and the three continued to look at this mysterious cave!