820: Chapter 237_4 820: Chapter 237_4 Moreover, we have been running this entire way and surprisingly haven’t encountered any danger, which is quite bizarre.
Besides, with our speed, we should have already finished running through the entire tower, yet there are still countless steps ahead of us.
“I suspect we might have fallen into some Formation,” he whispered.
Yan Yourong and Ling Xi immediately looked over at Cao Zhen upon hearing this.
Cao Zhen frowned and spoke in a low voice, “Around these steps, I haven’t found any Formation, but if this tower itself is a Great Formation, we wouldn’t be able to detect it from within.”
After thinking for a moment, he bowed his head and took out a Sharp Sword, forcefully carving several marks on the step beneath his feet.
After leaving a mark, he then said to everyone, “Let’s continue on, but everyone pay attention to your steps.”
“Okay.”
The group moved forward again, yet within half an hour, they stopped in their tracks.
Beneath their feet appeared the mark Cao Zhen had left earlier.
“It really is a Formation, we’ve returned to the distant spot!”
Cao Zhen’s brows tightened.
He knew something about Formations, but currently, inside this tower, he truly hadn’t seen any Formation.
Actually, he had also looked around in the cave earlier and hadn’t seen any Formation.
However, if there were no Formation in the cave, the skeletons and resentful spirits wouldn’t be prevented from entering it, so there must be a Formation inside the cave.
Yet, he still couldn’t discover the Formation, which meant there was a very big possibility.
Cao Zhen thought for a while and then said, “The Formation, I’m afraid, is inside those smooth stone walls.
That’s why we can’t detect the Formation, nor can we break through it.”
“So what do we do?” Linghu Gudu looked around with a headache, “We can’t just keep being trapped here, can we?”
Meanwhile, Ling Xi was deep in thought.
After a while, she slowly proposed, “What if we split up and walk?”
Linghu Gudu looked up, full of confusion, and asked, “Split up?”
“Yes, split up,” Ling Xi pointed toward the steps ahead and said, “No matter what, we keep returning to this spot.
So what if we split up?
Walk in different directions?
Could it be possible that someone might reach a different place?
After all, even if there really is a Formation here, its range must be limited.”
“You’re right, we can give it a try,” Linghu Gudu immediately understood and shouted, “This is just a deceiving Formation.
If we all close our eyes, or say, if some of us deliberately walk in reverse.
Some continue moving forward toward the steps, and others deliberately walk in another direction, deliberately moving downward, could we still meet?
Maybe walking backwards, we might have a chance to get out.”
After pondering for a moment, Cao Zhen finally nodded and said, “Fine, Ling Xi and You Rong keep moving forward, and I and Linghu will head downstairs.
I want to see if we all eventually end up back here.”
Linghu Gudu had only met them at the ruins after all; he had seen before how Eclipse Demon and Qian Jiao had joined forces to slay their companions.
So, he had to be cautious and chose to go with Linghu Gudu.
Initially, they had all been climbing the stairs ahead, but this time, he opted to take the steps downward, walking downward with Linghu Gudu.
Gradually, as time slipped away, they kept descending the steps, and soon, a series of crackling sounds began to emerge.
Cao Zhen immediately perked up, hearing sounds now!
Previously, when they had been climbing up, they hadn’t heard any sound at all.
Linghu Gudu’s face also showed a trace of joy, and the two accelerated their pace downward.
As they ran down, the sounds from below grew louder and louder.
Finally, before them appeared silhouette after silhouette, shapes of skeletons and resentful spirits.
“Is this…”
“The hall!
The hall where we first entered this place!”
In the hall, the skeletons and resentful spirits upon seeing the two, all rushed forward.
But as soon as they reached the range of the steps, they immediately halted, just as if they were outside the cave seeing people inside the cave, they kept shrieking, but dared not step onto the stair.
“We’re back at the hall?” Cao Zhen’s brows deeply furrowed, they were returning the same way they came, so it was not problematic to end up back in the hall.
But the problem lay right there.
Whenever they moved forward, they always unconsciously circled back.
Yet when they chose to go back, that phenomenon didn’t occur; instead, they could return to the hall where they entered the tower.
Thus, moving forward there were issues, but going back there were none.
“This… there seems to be no other passages here, only the steps forward,”
Linghu Gudu, full of headache, looked towards Cao Zhen.
He too had been on many explorations, but his adventures in various ruins were mostly normal dangers,
like divine attacks left by the ruins’ masters or various dangerous Formations like Flame, thunder striking, and the like.
But what was this tower all about?
Just making people walk non-stop?
Keeping people trapped inside?
“Let’s go, let’s head back,” Cao Zhen scanned the surroundings once more, found nothing, and then started walking up with Linghu Gudu.