Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 777: Chapter 486: A Different Altar (4600 words)_3

His abilities were actually starting to fail.

Moreover, the conduit ahead began to curve, and after only a few steps, there was another new fork in the path.

”That’s when I realized I had entered a very complex underground maze, so I planned to return to the first fork to reconsider my options,” Qin Fu said. ”But...”

”...You couldn’t find your way back?” Xu Xin guessed.

”...That’s right.” Qin Fu nodded slightly fatigued, ”I had clearly only passed one fork, and distinctly remembered it was the middle path, but when trying to return, I was lost.”

His abilities completely failed in the conduit, and what was worse was that his watch was also unable to connect with the outside world.

At that time, he was completely trapped in that underground conduit maze.

Thankfully, there was no danger in the maze, unlike the dungeon maze before, with mutated creatures and pitfalls.

It was just a simple stone conduit that made one hopelessly lost.

”Stone conduit?” Xu Xin suddenly asked.

”Hmm? Didn’t I just mention that?” Qin Fu was taken aback, ”It’s a stone conduit, but very smooth, comparable to polished marble.”

Stone conduit.

The floor of that altar, the sacrificial table, and those few stone pillars around were all stone.

Could they be of the same material?

The conduit and the altar are of the same material...

Back then, during the sacrifice, didn’t those blood-red patterns crawl along the stone to the sacrificial table?

”It was terribly winding inside, and those stones couldn’t retain any markings for carving.” Qin Fu said with great helplessness.

”Couldn’t retain markings?” Zeng Tao caught the key point and asked, ”You couldn’t carve them?”

”I could carve them.” Qin Fu shook his head, ”Those stones were only of blue-grade stone hardness. I could carve them, but...”

”The markings would self-repair,” Xu Xin said.

”Exactly.” Qin Fu nodded, ”I realized this after many attempts. I carved at every fork, but after walking for a while, I never encountered any markings I had previously carved. Then I waited after carving in place and discovered that the markings would automatically repair in about three minutes.”

”The stones can self-repair!” Zeng Tao was slightly surprised, then murmured to himself, ”If used as a weapon, they could be easily damaged...”

Xu Xin wasn’t surprised.

The altar’s floor would self-repair, which was something he had known since his battle with the Blood Pattern Rabbit.

It seems the material of the underground conduit is indeed the same as the ground altar.

”Anyway, I walked there for at least ten hours, and probably relying on luck at the end, I finally came to a place that wasn’t a conduit: an underground stone room.”

Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin: ”The short sword I gave you was stuck in the middle of that room.”

So that bronze short sword was discovered this way?

”The introduction of the short sword really shocked me at the time, but I didn’t think deeply because as soon as I took out the short sword, the surroundings began to shake, and then the stone walls started to crumble.”

And at that moment, his seemingly blocked sensory abilities were restored.

In his perception, the altar above was collapsing!

And now, he was just at the edge below the altar!

Fortunately, the stone room had another exit, and with his sensory abilities, he knew it was the route back to the surface, so he dashed along that pathway at the fastest speed!

This run covered nearly a thousand meters.

When he emerged, his location was already at the edge of the Hilly Resource Zone.

He looked in the direction of the altar, only to find that it was no longer visible.

Completely collapsed.

Upon hearing this, Xu Xin slightly narrowed his eyes.

The altar... really collapsed?

He remembered that during the night of no moon, beneath the sacrificial table of the altar, he had found a passage, but it was short and blocked.

Didn’t Qin Fu explore there?

”And then? Why haven’t you gotten to the main point after talking for so long!” Zeng Tao urged. ”Where’s the giant monster? Why hasn’t the giant monster appeared yet?”

”...After I returned to the surface, the giant monster appeared.” For the first time, Qin Fu’s eyes flickered as if the scene was still a bit unnerving for him. ”That giant monster was actually a hill transformed!”

Upon hearing this, Xu Xin’s eyelids twitched.

Qin Fu looked at Xu Xin again and smiled wryly: ”Boss, no offense, but your treehouse’s location is really dangerous. The surroundings are truly full of monsters.”