After waking up, Luo Kai continued to explore. The underground space was dark, but under the investigation of his spiritual power, everything was clear.
Time will erase everything. This buried city must have been very prosperous in the past. It was densely covered with reinforced concrete. He could still vaguely see the developed transportation system. Now it was gradually integrated with the soil. Maybe in tens of thousands of years, it would become an underground mineral vein.
After circling around, he still couldn't find a way out. Just when he was hesitating whether to break through or not, he felt a trace of human words.
He felt a little strange in his heart. Following the voice, he drilled into a dark round hole. The walls of the cave were stained with a lot of strange mucus. It had dried up. It seemed to be a passage opened by some kind of underground creature.
A few minutes later, the air began to flow again. He finally drilled out of the underground space. Looking around, the entrance was built in a valley surrounded by fog. This was an extremely deep valley. It was wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. Looking from the bottom to the top, it really gave people the feeling of sitting in a well looking up at the sky. There were steep rock walls on both sides of the valley. He couldn't see the end of it at a glance. On both sides of the valley, there were large areas of vine-like plants.
A stream flowed through the valley. Two young women were washing clothes while talking and laughing. It seemed that they had left Shangjing and were in a valley in the surrounding mountains.
The two women were wearing some animal skins and coarse linen clothes. There were two longbows beside them. They looked like hunters in the forest. Luo Kai was a little surprised. He greeted them and said, "Two ladies, do you live here?"
The two women were shocked at first. After seeing Luo Kai's appearance, they were relieved. One of the older women asked loudly, "Who are you?
How did you come here? "
"I accidentally got lost. Where is the nearest village?"
The two women looked at him suspiciously for a while. The younger woman said, "Our village doesn't welcome outsiders. Hurry up and leave." Then she pointed up and said, "You can see the people outside if you go around this mountain."
The two women looked no different from normal people, but their cheeks were sunken and their eyes were lifeless. They looked very similar to those who had their essence sucked out by ghosts. Luo Kai pretended to be helpless as he pointed at his stomach and said, "I haven't eaten for a few days. Can I have a simple meal in your village? Don't worry, I'll pay."
"No, you should leave now." The older woman's face was cold and resolute.
Luo Kai smiled and pointed around. "This place doesn't belong to your family, right? What right do you have to drive me away?"
"Hmph, if you don't leave, then wait to be eaten by the ferocious beasts. Little Flower, let's go!" The older woman snorted coldly and pulled the younger woman beside her away in a hurry.
Luo Kai followed them without hesitation. The two women looked back at him from time to time and quickened their pace.
After passing through a long forest path, a wave of warmth hit him in the face. A small verdant valley appeared in front of him. There were a few wooden houses in the valley, and there were also many vegetables and grains planted there. It was like a winding path leading to a secluded place, and there was a deja vu of a peach blossom garden. Unfortunately, there was a different species living here.
The younger woman angrily turned her head and said, "If you continue to follow, my uncle will beat you!"
Luo Kai ignored her and looked coldly at a skinny old man in the valley. There was still a distance of a thousand meters between them, but this distance was no obstacle for them.
The old man's sunken eyes shone brightly as he shouted in a hoarse voice, "We have a guest. Little Flower, Little Flower, quickly invite the guest in."
The older woman replied from afar, "Uncle, this person insists on following us. We can't do anything about it."
"Got it. Tell your aunt to prepare some food."
The old man waved his hand at Luo Kai and said, "Young man, come."
The old man was like an ice cave, constantly emitting powerful dark energy. There was no heat from him at all. He was obviously a powerful ghost.
Luo Kai sneered and walked into the valley.
There were villagers passing by the valley from time to time, and they all looked at Luo Kai with strange expressions. The two walked into a small courtyard. The old man looked at him and said in a hoarse voice, "You should be a human Saint, right?"
The villagers here were lacking in essence. It was obvious that their essence had been extracted by evil beings for a long time. Luo Kai suppressed the killing intent in his heart and said, "You're keeping humans in captivity?"
The old man's eyes flickered slightly as he smiled and said, "It's not captivity. To be exact, it's symbiosis."
Luo Kai was too lazy to continue talking nonsense. The condensed Qi and blood in his body became active, and his eyes flashed with electricity. He said indifferently, "Do you want to kill yourself, or do you want me to do it?"
The old man was not afraid at all. Instead, he suddenly said, "Human, do you understand our ghost race?"
Without waiting for Luo Kai to answer, he continued, "Actually, ghosts are also born from humans. They also need the essence, energy, and spirit of humans to survive, and the essence, energy, and spirit of humans contain many negative emotions. When ghosts devour these negative emotions, they will become vicious, cunning, and hungry ghosts in the long run.
But heaven and earth are divided into Yin and Yang. Our ghost race can also live on the Yin Qi of heaven and earth. It's just like how you humans breathe in oxygen every day. The difference is that you humans will die without oxygen, but we ghosts will not die without Yin Qi. We will accelerate the loss of soul power.
Similarly, places with dense Yin Qi will reduce the loss of soul power. So before the origin of heaven and earth withers, some stronger ghosts will find places with dense Yin Qi to sleep. I slept in this Yin Vein for thousands of years. It was only a few years ago when I was stimulated by the energy of the earth's core that I woke up. "
Luo Kai's expression changed and said, "You're not from the Dark World?"
The old man sighed, "Of course not. The living conditions there are much crueler than this world."
While they were talking, the girl called Xiao Hua came in with a plate of food. She placed it on the stone table in the courtyard and said to Luo Kai fiercely, "Eat."
Then, she carefully said to the old man, "Uncle, since you can't eat the food of us mortals, you should drink some wine."
Luo Kai said in surprise, "You know he's a ghost?"
The girl snorted coldly, "Hmph!
Uncle is our protector. Even if he's a ghost, he's a good ghost! "
"Aren't you afraid that he will suck all of your essence?"
The girl said with a cold face, "What's a little essence? If it wasn't for uncle, we would have died during the beast tide. We wouldn't have to worry about food and clothing like we are now!"
The old man sighed and said, "Xiao Hua, if this goes on, your lifespan will be reduced by a lot!"
The girl shook her head and said, "Uncle, we don't mind. Why do you mind? Okay, I should go back and feed the pigs."
Luo Kai frowned and watched the girl leave. He turned to the old man and said, "What kind of magic did you use on them?"
The old man sat alone in front of the stone table and poured himself a cup of wine. He replied, "I've said it before. The Ghost Clan and the Human Clan have a symbiotic relationship. Once the Human Clan perishes, the Ghost Clan will become a tree without roots. The so-called Ghost and God are just what you humans call them. Those who hate them are called Ghosts, and those who revere them are called Gods. Compared to the high and mighty Gods who enslave all living things, we, the Human Clan and the Ghost Clan, should cooperate well."