"Are you okay?" John Woo asked.
"I'm fine, it's Lin Fan."
"I'm fine. I got through safely."
Lin Fan's voice echoed with Sister Xu's, "Just now, I don't know what hit my foot, and then holes appeared in the walls on both sides and arrows started shooting. It was like a movie."
She didn't intend to retract the sword in her hand. She held the cold light in her left hand and shone it up and down, especially towards the ground, looking more carefully than before.
"There's no situation here. I don't know if it's because we haven't reached the destination yet, or we have chosen a safe passage." Sister Xu said lightly.
Among the three people, she walked the easiest.
"Generally speaking, places with traps are meant to keep people out, right?" Lin Fan asked. "Could it be that there's some treasure hidden inside?"
"It's hard to say whether it's a treasure, but it can clearly affect people's thinking." Wu Yusen said as he walked, "That fellow came in not long ago and was also assimilated, wasn't he?"
"It should be emitting some kind of energy, similar to radiation, without requiring close contact," Sister Xu speculated. "Once you're in its radiation zone for a long time, your brain will naturally be affected."
"Yes, that fellow villager should be in the same situation." Lin Fan nodded in agreement, then thought, "But why aren't we affected? Didn't we come down with him?"
"Did you forget? Our work IDs have shields that can actively block some common or minor damage. Perhaps the effect of this thing is just within the shielding range." Wu Yusen speculated. "Work IDs are good things, you should always carry them with you."
"So, it's really not a tomb?" Lin Fan complained into his headphones. "Even though I hope it isn't...but these passages and traps, why do they always feel like something out of a tomb-raiding movie on TV?"
"Don't watch such meaningless TV shows," Sister Xu said coldly. "Tomb construction has different specifications and styles in different periods, just like the standards for building houses."
"I know that," Lin Fan smiled. "That's why archaeologists can tell the period of a monument or something like that when they see it."
"Sister Xu means that so far, the construction layout and specifications do not conform to the known ancient tomb standards, right?" John Woo's voice sounded quite relaxed.
"Well, apart from being underground, I don't see any commonality." Sister Xu replied, "Actually, I hope it's a tomb, at least..."
At least she has seen a lot of things in the tomb, so she is basically sure what to do when she encounters something.
It was nothing like now, where nothing was clear, and the strangeness made her feel uneasy...
Sister Xu suddenly stopped and stared intently at the dark place ahead, where no light could reach. Cold sweat seeped out of the palms of her hands holding the box...
"Sister Xu, please forgive me." Lin Fan's face fell. "Although I'm a little braver after what happened last time, but that... it's better to avoid it if possible."
After saying that, I waited for a while, but there was no echo in the headphones.
Lin Fan paused, his heart suddenly sinking.
"Sister Xu?" Wu Yusen's voice came, making Lin Fan's heart sink less.
"Sister Xu? Lin Fan?" Wu Yusen's voice was a little nervous.
"I'm here." Lin Fan was stunned for a moment, then quickly replied. "Why isn't Sister Xu replying?"
She carefully listened to the sound in the headphones and found no noise at all.
When Wu Yusen and she encountered the trap, they were breathing heavily because of the large amount of movement. Unlike now, even the slightest breath can't be heard.
"Did something happen to Sister Xu?" Lin Fan asked, "Or is her communication equipment broken?"
Although she asked this, she knew in her heart that the probability was pitifully small.
How could it be such a coincidence that the equipment I had just checked when I came down suddenly broke down?
Wu Yusen thought for a moment, "It must be a special situation that caused the signal to be blocked. You forgot that even cell phone signals outside can be blocked, so it should be normal to block communications inside, right?"
"Does that mean we might lose contact later?" Lin Fan asked with a frown.
When there was sound in the headphones, although she was walking alone, she always felt that someone was accompanying her.
If we are all disconnected, then we are truly alone...
"That's possible, but don't panic even if you lose contact," Wu Yusen soothed. "You've been on so many missions before, and your performance has always been good. Keep up the good work, and you shouldn't be in any danger. If all else fails, we can just use Xingchen."
There's not even a ghost to be seen here, so there's no need to worry about the possibility of Xingchen being exposed.
"Then...should I go back to see Sister Xu..." Lin Fan thought to himself, it wouldn't take much time to transform into a star and fly back, then enter the passage that Sister Xu was in.
"...Not yet." Wu Yusen thought for a moment and rejected her proposal. "Sister Xu is not an ordinary department head. We have to trust her ability. Let's focus on the path in front of us first. Maybe if we reach the end, we can find the problem and contact Sister Xu."
"Okay." Lin Fan clenched the thing in his hand and continued to move forward.
Fortunately, the communication with John Woo was normal. The two of them talked as they walked, which alleviated a lot of the tension in Lin Fan's heart caused by Sister Xu's loss of contact.
The passage slowly descended, its top becoming higher and higher, and its sides becoming wider and wider. The originally smooth four sides began to gradually become uneven, unlike the previous passage, which was smooth and flat.
"I originally thought this place was a bit similar to Xue Ping's place, both were square, but now it's finally different."
As soon as Lin Fan finished speaking, he heard an extremely empty echo coming from Wu Yusen's side.
"It's definitely different." Wu Yusen stood at the end of the broken bridge, looking down at the bottomless darkness, and sighed helplessly, "There's no ladder here."
"What should we do then?" After Lin Fan knew that John Woo was on the broken bridge, he looked at the stone wall in front of him, which was as bumpy as the original cave, and wondered if they had walked to different places.
"It's just a broken piece, don't worry." Wu Yusen pretended to be relaxed and comforted Lin Fan.
I don't know if the bridge deck is in disrepair or intentional, but the length without road surface is nearly five meters.
He had just tried to throw the Flying Tiger Claw towards the opposite side, but failed because the ground was too smooth and there was no place to hook it.
It seems that I still have to jump.
John Woo bared his teeth helplessly and slowly walked back.
The distance was a bit far, and he was not completely sure.
Lin Fan heard the other person's breathing getting longer and heavier, and he didn't dare to make a sound to disturb him.
John Woo retreated fifty meters, took a few deep breaths, and then suddenly accelerated forward.
Lin Fan heard the sound of quick footsteps and faint wind coming from the headphones and guessed that John Woo was running.
After a very heavy step, only the sound of wind could be heard, and even John Woo's breathing was gone.
Lin Fan stood there, waiting for the impact to hit the ground.
Time seemed to be very long, so long that when Lin Fan felt that he had finished smoking a cigarette, he finally heard a heavy sound of something falling to the ground.
"Yes!" John Woo's excited voice indicated that he had landed successfully.
Lin Fan felt relieved and was about to speak with a smile when he heard the sound of collapse and the crackling sound of falling rocks coming from the other side.
John Woo's breathing suddenly became heavy, and he vaguely heard him curse, and then he could hear nothing.
"John Woo? John Woo?!" Lin Fan's heart tightened, not knowing what was going on over there.
But no matter how she called out, there was no response from the other side. In the entire corridor, only her own voice echoed and spread everywhere...
Lin Fan immediately turned around and wanted to go back to John Woo's side to see what had happened.
But Wu Yusen's words rang in her ears again.
"We have to trust her abilities. Let's focus on the path ahead..."
Lin Fan tried his best to calm himself and forced himself to take several deep breaths.
John Woo said that she should trust Sister Xu, so she should also trust John Woo.
Lin Fan convinced himself, turned around, and faced forward again.
Holding the sword tightly in his hand and holding the cold light lamp high, he walked forward steadily step by step.
This time, she was really alone.