Julius had been following Rei for a long time.
He was right behind Rei, holding a torch high to illuminate the surrounding space, so that Rei could see the road ahead and lead him forward.
Although he had been to the sewers many times, and was not a newcomer to the underground, in front of Rei, he was still young and inexperienced.
Now, the two of them had left the narrow tunnel, and when they left the tunnel, they fell from the air.
When they landed on the ground, Julius felt that his shoes were stepping on water, which made his soles wet.
When he turned around, he saw the exit on the wall, and the water was flowing down, wetting the wall below.
He and Rei came down from above.
Julius had never walked on this road before, but since Rei brought him here, she should know this place.
"Where is this?" Julius asked, looking back and looking around.
The place where he and Rei fell was a large space, and the ground was a very shallow water. When he looked down, he could see the water sparkling under the light of the torch.
It looked beautiful, but Julius was worried that the water would be dirty, and if he accidentally cut his feet, it would be infected.
He twitched his nose. The air here was not good, and the smell of the water under his feet also reached his nose. This water was definitely not clean, and there was a smell that was about to rot … But it did not seem to have reached that level.
"Don't step on anything strange." Rei said to Julius, "Otherwise, it will be bad if you make a sound."
"What will we step on?" Julius asked.
"Maybe a snake, maybe a toad … Anyway, they are all things that like to live in the water, wet and slippery, very disgusting."
For Julius, this was not something that could make him feel at ease. "Will it be poisonous?"
Rei shrugged and shook her head, "If it was poisonous, I would not have come here. If I am poisoned in this place, I can only wait for death.
Don't worry, poisonous things will not appear in this place, you have to go deeper to find them. "
"Your words do not make me feel at ease at all." Julius said, "Because you are taking me deeper."
"Because some things are worth the risk."
Rei turned back and smiled at Julius, "If you are afraid, then turn back. But without you, I probably can only turn back, I dare not go too far alone."
Rei did not intend to scare Julius, nor did she intend to force Julius to go with her.
What she said was the truth, without Julius, she had to go back.
If they wanted to go forward, they would go together, if they wanted to go back, they would go back together.
Julius sighed and raised the torch high, illuminating the space around Rei and her. "Let's keep going … I can only rely on you to make a living."
"Thank you, bodyguard." Ray smiled.
The two stepped on the water and walked forward.
After leaving the exit, Julius realized that the space they were in was much larger than he had expected. Compared to the Rat Tunnel, this place was much more spacious. At least, the light from the torch in his hand could not illuminate everything around them. It could only form a ball of light around him and Rei. Beyond that, it was still pitch black.
He could not see how high the ceiling was above his head. Perhaps he had already seen it, but the darkness did not make him think that it was the ceiling.
"Where are we?" Julius asked.
"Shallow water."
Rei replied, "Many water pipes around here have flowed to this place, and then it became like this … You have to be careful, don't slip in this place, or you will regret it from the bottom of your heart.
If you accidentally eat the water under your feet, haha. "
Rei could not help but laugh, "How does it feel to be drenched in feces and urine? Then you will know."
Hearing Rei's words, Julius frowned in disgust. Thinking about the water under his feet … or the unknown liquid, his throat began to squirm, and he felt like something was going to come out of his stomach.
"This is disgusting."
"There are more disgusting things down there than this."
Rei laughed, "Just get used to it. It's better than having nothing to eat and having to pick up garbage to eat, right?"
Julius could not refute Rei's words.
As Rei said, compared to this small matter, not being able to eat was worse.
The reason why the two of them could still eat and earn a little money was that they never cared whether it was feces or urine under their feet.
Although it was disgusting, as long as the feces under their feet were still there and not in their mouths, it was enough.
The two of them walked forward for a while, the space seemed to be endless. Julius could not see the end of the road with the torch in his hand.
Julius only felt that the road he was walking on was not straight, but slightly curved, as if he was walking in an arc-shaped passage.
The surrounding walls were mottled and broken, and he could not see their original appearance. Julius did not know how long this place was, and in this dark and damp place, he could not tell which era it belonged to.
Julius admitted that he could not tell either. He was just a semi-illiterate who could barely recognize words, and he was still trying to remember what Pasta taught him.
It was a headache, but when he thought about Lulunaka's smiling face, he felt that a headache was better than being tortured by her.
"I heard from others in the Rat Path that this underground was originally habitable."
Julius said, "But it was destroyed because of the war, and those who lived underground were driven to the underground of the mountains in the west."
"You went to listen to that old madman's nonsense again?"
Rei sneered. "In the Rat Path, only newcomers like you are interested in listening to that crazy old man's strange stories.
And only you would believe him: The people underground and the people above ground had a conflict, and in the end, the underground became an uninhabitable demon's den, and since then, the underground city of Inseid ceased to exist … I've heard so many of these stories that I've grown calluses in my ears. "
"Don't you think these stories are interesting?" Julius said, "At least, they are much more interesting than those stories about driving away the underground monsters."
"But the stories about driving away the monsters are always changing, and there are always new versions.
Underground dragons, underground snakes, underground steel golems … "Rei told the stories about the underground in detail." They are much more interesting than that old madman's stories that never change, right? "
"Do you like those amazing stories too?" Julius asked.
Rei shook her head. "I don't have the time to listen to stories that only drunkards and children like."
"But you are still a child."
"Don't forget that you have to rely on a child like me to eat."
"You also have to rely on my protection, child."
Julius and Rei would occasionally quarrel like this, not because they had a bad relationship, but because they had become familiar with each other and had become less restrained.
"Then which stories do you believe? The underground dragon, or the crazy old man's version of the underground empire?" Julius continued to ask.
Rei walked in front of him, her pair of small feet lifting and stepping in the water, creating a series of splashing sounds. "You are very interested in this.
Is it important? "
"I'm just a little curious."
"Soon, you won't be curious about it," Rei said.
"And soon, you will be tired of that crazy old man's nonsense … There will always be a process of getting used to it.
Just like me, I've heard it since I was young, but now, I can't listen to it anymore, and will run away every time. "
"He is an interesting person," Julius said.
"He is a poor old man," Rei said, and then laughed. "But I have no right to say that others are poor."
At this time, the two finally reached the end of the shallow water area.
In front of them, there was a semicircular entrance on the ground, and the entrance was sealed by an iron fence.
Rei walked to the iron gate with the fence, and reached out to grab the lock with the iron chain and shook it. The iron chain and the lock knocked on the fence, creating a loud sound that echoed in the darkness.
"If it was before, we probably wouldn't be able to get in," Rei said. "But this time is different." She took out a key from her pocket and inserted it.
With a click, the lock was opened.
She hung the lock and the iron chain on it, and opened the iron gate.
"This is the VIP passage, we didn't have a chance to go in before."
"You said this road is safer, but there is nothing to pick up." Julius said.
"Of course, the safer the place, the less valuable things there are.
But by taking this safe road, we can save a lot of time, "Rei said.
Rei said. "I'll find a way for those guys to go to a new area, and I can pass through these places for free … That's enough." Rei waved to Julius. "Let's go. It's time to go deeper into the forest."