246 Rewinding Time? The Mysteriously Restored Cave Entrance
Mount Sword’s main peak.
Shen Rulin rode Thunderball and went straight to the top of the mountain. He remembered that Lin Ran had said that the entrance was on the west slope. Although he didn’t know the exact location, the west slope wasn’t very big. As long as he was patient, he would definitely be able to find it. At most, it would take him a little more time.
As he was thinking, Shen Rulin had already arrived near the dark cloud. Just as he was about to dive into it, his pupils suddenly constricted as he sensed something. He stopped steadily near the dark cloud.
“Who is it? Show yourself.”
Shen Rulin shouted and jumped to the ground. The Thunderball in his hand surged with countless lightning bolts. With a thought, these tiny lightning bolts would turn into a lightning dragon and attack!
“Is it Deputy General Shen?”
A surprised voice sounded from the dark cloud. Then, a large group of Golden Guards ran out. There were twenty to thirty of them!
Most of these guards were injured, and some were even carried out by their companions. However, after seeing Shen Rulin, everyone looked surprised. “Deputy General Shen! We finally found you!”
“Found me?”
Shen Rulin was stunned when he heard this. He looked at these people carefully and was puzzled because he realized that these people didn’t belong to the same team.
Among these twenty to thirty people, the ones who were more seriously injured were from the second to the sixth team. Although Shen Rulin knew the rest of the people, he didn’t remember sending them out on the mission.
“We’re from the eighth and ninth team.”
As if sensing Shen Rulin’s confusion, someone took the initiative to explain, “After you went into the mountain, there was no news for a long time. The general sent two more teams up.”
“I see.”
Shen Rulin nodded, but the confusion in his eyes did not decrease at all. “But why are you together? Your investigation route should be completely different, right?”
Someone replied in a low voice, “Deputy General Shen, to be honest, we don’t know how we got together…”
Shen Rulin frowned. Someone explained, “Deputy General Shen, I’m from the fifth team. After we entered this fog, someone suddenly started to attack indiscriminately. At first, we wanted to stop him, but then, we forgot everything.”
“It’s the same for the third team!”
“The same for the second team too.”
“And us!”
…
What everyone encountered was pretty much the same.
Shen Rulin recalled that Lin Ran had once said that this “dark cloud” was actually formed by a large amount of evil aura and killing intent that could affect one’s mind. It seemed that this was the situation these Golden Guards encountered.
However, Shen Rulin did not explain. He only nodded and continued to ask, “Then how did you get together?”
“Didn’t I just say that? We don’t know either…”
Someone replied in a low voice with a strange expression, “After we woke up just now, we discussed for a while and felt that this place was strange and we couldn’t stay for long, so we brought our injured companions down the mountain. We ran into you just as we reached here.”
The others nodded in agreement, but Shen Rulin frowned even more tightly.
Although he did not experience it personally, he could roughly imagine the scene from everyone’s description just now.
Seeing that so many people were still alive, Shen Rulin was happy from the bottom of his heart. However, at the same time, he couldn’t figure out how these people suddenly woke up since their minds were already affected by the evil aura.
However, the situation was urgent. It was obvious that these people did not have any useful information. Shen Rulin did not want to waste any more time. He waved his hand and instructed everyone to continue to go down the mountain immediately. Then, he rushed into the dark clouds with his sword.
Soon, Shen Rulin found the mark he had left behind previously. When he and Lin Ran were following Zhao Ziming, he casually left some marks out of boredom. It was just a small habit of his, but he did not expect it to come in handy now.
After following the mark, Shen Rulin returned to the vicinity of the cave entrance. Zhao Ziming, who was tied up, was still lying there, but he was no longer struggling as hard as before.
Shen Rulin hesitated for a moment before sending Zhao Ziming out of the dark cloud. After lighting up a yellow bamboo tube, he returned to the entrance and jumped down without hesitation.
It was extremely dangerous for him to jump down because he didn’t know the depth of the cave, so he naturally didn’t know when he should land.
A strong sense of weightlessness overwhelmed him. Shen Rulin fell for more than ten seconds without changing his expression. Only then did he wave the Thunderball and slash out a bolt of lightning. Then he saw that the ground was almost within reach!
Shen Rulin directed his internal energy to his feet and landed heavily on the ground.
With a loud bang, countless gravel scattered in all directions, causing dazzling sparks to fly when he landed.
After stabilizing himself, Shen Rulin began to look around under the dim light.
His original intention was to find Lin Ran. Since Lin Ran had sealed the cave entrance, he must have returned to this stone room.
Otherwise, if Lin Ran wanted to escape at the last minute or had other motives, he wouldn’t have to spend so much effort. He could just sneak away when the two of them split up.
However, Shen Rulin did not find Lin Ran. Instead, he discovered something else that puzzled him.
The stone room was still the size of a hundred square feet. On the stone walls in the south, north, and southwest, there was a black cave entrance, but Shen Rulin clearly remembered that the cave entrance in the south had been destroyed by Lin Ran!
Shen Rulin’s expression immediately turned solemn. In the blink of an eye, the flickering sparks around him were completely extinguished, and the dense darkness filled every inch of the stone room.
At the same time, Shen Rulin also walked towards the cave entrance in the south. Then, he held the Thunderball tightly and activated all his internal energy!
Accompanied by the sound of a sharp blade being unsheathed, a snow-white electric light flashed, lighting up the black cave entrance in the darkness. Although the light only lasted only for a moment, it made Shen Rulin break out in cold sweat!
Wasn’t this cave entrance destroyed by Lin Ran? How could it be restored?
Just as Shen Rulin was feeling puzzled, there was suddenly a clicking sound in the darkness. It sounded like the sound of horses’ hooves stepping on gravel…