Chapter 486: Down the Well
As a result, from generation to generation, Black Mist was enshrined as the "God of Plague" and became an indispensable god here.
Every year, a cat man is selected as a sacrifice and thrown into the deep well as a sacrifice to the God of Plague.
And because that thing is not big, it seems to be easily satisfied.
As long as you get sacrifices for a period of time, you can greatly curb your hunger and not harm other people here.
"It seems to be the same epidemic." Li Yang frowned and said, "Your ancestors escaped from the world I visited before."
Teresa suddenly came to her senses: "If their ancestors escaped here with the help of the World Tree...then this world should be where the clues left by the plague clone pointed to, right?"
Li Yang was startled, then understood, and quickly asked the princess:
"By the way, where does this deep well lead to? According to your tribe, the Black Mist Plague God came out of this well, right?"
The princess nodded: "This well was opened by my grandfather's generation. The bottom is very mysterious, and we have no way of knowing where it leads. However, the smell of the disease came from there... We guess, then This is the origin of the Plague God..."
"At the very least, it is the origin of our city."
Demeter thought and murmured:
"The people who escaped from here through the World Tree are the survivors of the worlds ravaged by the disease that we saw earlier. And that clone deliberately let the disease follow it in order to lure us here."
Oniliyi looked at the bottomless well and felt worried:
"But the smell from that well... it's probably terrible down there. Do we really want to go in?"
Li Yang smiled, feeling very relaxed:
"Whatever you're afraid of, it's here."
"This place is two dimensions different from our world. Even if it is full of diseases, it can't do anything to us."
Teresa nodded and added:
"That's true. Although we defeated the clone of the disease in that world before, we still haven't completely eradicated the source of the disease. Now we have some new clues. It would be a big loss if we didn't find out."
After listening to Theresa's explanation, Li Yang decided to find out.
Artemis also nodded in agreement: "This opportunity is rare, we must seize this clue."
Seeing that everyone was determined to go, the cat-person princess had no choice but to lead everyone to the edge of the deep well.
I saw that the well mouth was extremely spacious and endlessly dark. Except for a wisp of green smoke floating out from it, there was no other abnormality.
"What is hidden in this damn place..." Oniliyi glanced at the deep well uneasily and asked in a low voice.
Li Yang looked carefully, his eyes piercing the darkness like lightning, but he couldn't see anything.
He shook his head and said, "Epidemics can even absorb light. If you look at it with the naked eye, you will definitely not be able to see anything."
Demeter nodded in agreement, formed a seal with her hands, and drew the power of time authority to wrap everyone in it.
"Anyway, go in, don't forget to concentrate, and always be prepared to deal with attacks from the epidemic." She tried her best to lower her voice, as if she was afraid of alarming the people in heaven.
Seeing this, the Cat Princess quickly begged in a low voice:
"Please be careful, this is the territory of the God of Plague. You must not harm it at all, otherwise we will definitely suffer disaster."
Aphrodite sneered after hearing this, and said with half disdain and half relief:
"Okay, there's nothing to be afraid of. No matter what we do, we won't interfere too much in your world."
"We are not the gods you worship, but we are by no means weak. You can just continue to live your own life."
As soon as she finished speaking, she came to Li Yang, stood side by side with him, patted Li Yang's shoulder gently, and jumped into the deep well together.
The group of people descended slowly under the protection of the force field, with only the whistling of the wind in their ears.
After a long time, Li Yang seemed to realize something, and he opened his mouth and said, "There is indeed some movement... It seems to be right below us."
As soon as he finished speaking, a wave of black heat suddenly hit his face, and the wild and primitive smell of disease immediately filled the entire space.
"Everyone...be careful." Teresa reminded, strengthening the force field.
Unlike Li Yang and his entourage, she could not resist the erosion of the epidemic solely by relying on her body.
But the epidemic can not only rely on erosion to attack others.
But at this moment, a black mass suddenly rushed past them, bringing up a gust of wind that almost dispersed everyone.
"What...is this again?"
Artemis asked doubtfully, calling out her hunting bow and pointing it directly below. The silver moonlight kept flickering, but she couldn't find the outside world.
"The flow of time in the two planes is different. I don't know how many sacrifices there have been here. How big the epidemic has become with those resources..."
Li Yang murmured to himself, narrowed his eyes and looked down. Suddenly his expression changed and he said to everyone:
"Everyone prepare for impact, something is coming, and there's a lot of it."
Sure enough, along the direction where everyone fell, tentacles of the disease spread out from the thick black mist, surrounding them.
Onerii and Aphrodite defended while trying to break through the front.
Li Yang casually threw down a bunch of seeds, which turned into cherry bombs and exploded one after another.
I wonder what the cats above will think when they hear these noises...
But the plague should also be able to devour things like sound waves, so it's not a big problem.
Finally, after being bombarded all the way, Li Yang and his party descended to the deepest place.
When they stepped on the ground, the chaotic noises around them finally calmed down a lot.
The group walked into a vast and empty underground world, with black swamps all around and strange fluorescence illuminating the entire space.
On the distant horizon, strange mountains rose and fell, and there seemed to be some small buildings scattered in between.
And just under their feet, a straight road was laid out, like a cut wound, running through the entire underground world.
"Here... it's really completely different from the world above." Demeter looked around and muttered to herself.
Li Yang nodded, he could feel the uniqueness of this field.
Time, gravity, and various elements seemed to be distorted here, forming a nearly independent small universe.
I don't know whether this is the idea of the plague clone or the instinct of the plague.
What they wanted to know, they probably could only find out by exploring further.
So, the group walked along the straight road, looking for clues to the source of the disease.
On both sides of the road, in the swamps formed by the disease, waves of black mist would rise from time to time, condensing into the form of strange creatures, staring at them covetously.
But in front of the powerful force of the group, these weak beings did not dare to act rashly.