jdhmnovel Chapter 222 Behind the Gate of Death
Chapter 222 Behind the Gate of Death
Lu Mingyu is usually rather taciturn and mostly agrees with others' opinions, but at this moment he looks like a learned mentor giving earnest advice to his students.
Mo Ming couldn't help but look at them with newfound respect. With Lu Mingyu's detailed explanation, the group gained a better understanding of the last two doors.
The Gate of Shock symbolizes fright and the unknown. It is often a channel for creating pressure, and strange, soft noises can be heard from time to time, or even whispers can be heard in one's ears.
The test is more about psychological resilience. The "Gate of Shock" may not pose a real fatal danger, but it is more of a mental ordeal.
The doorway, illuminated by a faint white light, provides a clear and unobstructed sense of guidance.
It symbolizes opening, breakthrough, success, and the end. The opening door is generally considered to be the passage to the most important goal, where the core secrets of the ruins may be hidden.
"Hmm~ This passageway is very spacious!!!"
"Brother, go down there and calm down!"
After saying this, Liu Heng and Lu Mingyu exchanged a glance and then burst into laughter, clearly understanding each other's meaning.
Overall arrangement diagram of the eight gates:
Rest
Shengkai
Shock
Du Si
A scene
“Perhaps these doors don’t indicate the level of danger, but rather symbolize the nature or outcome of the passage mechanism.” Lu Mingyu pondered, then looked up at the eight characters again, “Ruins are always mysterious and cannot be explained by ordinary reasoning.”
But in any case, the path of 'death' is definitely worth avoiding.
Everyone nodded in agreement, clearly believing that regardless of whether there was any hope of survival in the Gate of Death, it wasn't worth the risk. However... some people disagreed...
After some discussion, Liu Heng made a crucial suggestion: "We cannot determine which passage is the way out based solely on analysis, nor can we rule out which passage hides deadly dangers."
How about this: we split up, each of us choosing one passage to explore, finding clues as quickly as possible, and then meeting up here. If anything unexpected happens, the others can come to our aid within the agreed time.
The loot acquired by each individual in their respective passages belongs to that individual and does not need to be divided equally.
“Aside from the gates of life and death, there’s one path for each person, allowing us to test each other separately – it’s fair and reasonable.” Song Yufei briefly agreed, then stepped towards the “rest” passage, with the jade lion following closely behind.
The others nodded in agreement and chose their own passages based on their own judgment. Only Mo Ming remained standing still.
Liu Heng chose the "Surprise" passage, while Sun Miaoke walked towards the "Scenery" passage. The light emitted by the Spirit Wood Falcon subtly corresponded to this passage, making her feel that this path might contain hope.
Liang Dongshan walked towards the "open" passage without hesitation, while Lu Mingyu chose the "closed" passage. He felt that the closed atmosphere of this passage complemented his pet Blackwood Flying Zombie, and he might find an unexpected surprise.
After the others stepped into their chosen passages one by one, Mo Ming turned his gaze to the Death Gate passage and slowly walked towards it. He gripped the bronze Demon-Suppressing Sword tightly, a complex emotion burning in his eyes.
"Dead end... Is it really a dead end? If this place is so clearly marked as 'dead,' perhaps it hides the deepest secret." He murmured to himself, analyzing the situation.
Of course, the real reason that prompted Mo Ming to choose the Death Gate was not Lu Mingyu's analysis of the various gates, but because... when he took out the Bronze Demon-Suppressing Sword, Mo Ming felt a familiar aura.
And the source of that aura was... the direction of the Death Gate passage!
This damn sense of familiarity!
The reason he chose the last option was because he was certain that no one would choose the death gate. This way, no matter which gate others chose, they would be left with life, death, and another gate.
Apart from the gate of life, if the speed is fast enough and things go smoothly enough, the remaining two gates are both inexplicable.
Having made up his mind, Mo Ming gritted his teeth and his figure completely disappeared into the passage of the Death Gate.
As they ventured deeper, darkness enveloped the passage once more, but this posed no challenge for Mo Ming. With a flick of his wrist, another luminous jade appeared in his hand.
Mo Ming held the luminous jade in his hand, and the soft white light it emitted cast a hazy glow in the Death Gate passage. At this moment, the light once again prevailed, completely swallowing up the darkness in the passage.
The Death Gate passage wasn't long, only about twenty meters, but it was filled with a suffocating and chilling atmosphere, as if some invisible force permeated the air, making one feel a slight tightness in their chest.
The walls on both sides of the passage are made of ancient bluish-gray stone bricks, with pitted and uneven surfaces, bearing the marks of time.
The walls are covered with many reliefs. Although these reliefs have become blurred due to their age, they can still be vaguely seen under the light of the luminous jade, depicting a scene of fierce battle.
The reliefs on the wall seem to depict an ancient war.
Warriors, clad in armor and wielding spears and swords, were battling a group of indistinct monsters. The monsters appeared humanoid, but possessed sharp claws and distorted faces, as if they were some kind of cursed being.
Some reliefs depict warriors lying on the ground, blood splattered everywhere. Although they are just carvings, they are so realistic that they make people feel the ferocity of the battle. Other warriors raise their weapons, as if they are making their final shouts.
At the ends of both sides of the passage, the content of the reliefs gradually becomes more bizarre.
The number of soldiers gradually decreased, and what remained was a scene of piled-up bones, as if the entire army had been slaughtered, leaving only endless death.
Besides the reliefs, there are also many deep scratches and dents on the walls, like marks left by a sharp blade.
These marks are crisscrossed, and in some places the stone bricks have been completely broken, exposing the soil behind them.
There were also some dried, dark red marks on the wall, like bloodstains splattered during a battle. Although they looked to be nearly a hundred years old, these marks were still clearly visible and exuded an unsettling aura.
The entire passage was deathly silent, with only Mo Ming's footsteps echoing through it.
A musty, rusty smell filled the air, as if countless lives had once been buried here. Occasionally, Mo Ming seemed to hear low, mournful groans, as if coming from the depths of the passage, sending chills down his spine.
When Mo Ming reached the end of the passage, he stopped. The light from the luminous jade illuminated the scene before him, and this sight made him hold his breath.
Before them lay a vast space that resembled an abandoned ancient battlefield.
The ceiling of the space is arched high, like a natural rock cave, and all around is vast darkness with no visible boundaries.
The entire space was shrouded in darkness; the light from the luminous jade could only illuminate part of it, while most of the area remained hidden in darkness.
The ground was covered with broken stone slabs, and dark green moss and some strange plants grew between the slabs, making it look like a relic eroded by time.
"This is... an ancient battlefield?"