Chapter 2667
Zhou Family Shocked
Chapter 2667 Zhou Family Shocked
There was no trace of Zhou Ziran and Zhou Ziyu's bodies left, but Zhou Ziyun was lucky enough, with only a jar of ashes left.
The nine people from the Zhou family worked together to clear out all the rubble in the passage, and finally dug their way to the vicinity of the gate.
What was behind the door? Now the nine of them had no way to think about it, so they could only open it first. This time, Zhou Ke naturally had to stand up and muster all his strength to push the door open.
Fortunately, there were no monsters or strange scenes, only darkness and a passage.
Several people felt a little cold in their hearts. Could it be that this underground passage was so long that they could not walk through it? But there was no other way. In order to get out, they could only move forward.
This passage was actually part of the original ancient tomb. Lan Caijie eventually added a door on one side to block it, and then expanded it into an underground city.
Therefore, many of the original mechanisms in the passage have been removed by Lan Caijie and are really useless.
There was even a part that was destroyed by Lan Caijie and Lan Caiyue during the battle with the strange beast, so there was no mechanism at all in the entire passage.
Chen Mo had already walked past in front, so now they just passed by without reacting to any problem.
Although all nine of them were warriors, they were trembling with fear in the passage. They were really scared by the dungeon. Who knows if there will be a monster or a trap in the next moment, it is better to be careful.
The passage was not long and we reached another gate in a short time.
Although the door was a bit heavy, as a group of warriors at the tenth level of the acquired realm, there was absolutely no problem with it and they pushed it open directly.
The scene after being pushed open was still dark, but with the help of a headlamp and some emergency glow sticks, the entire cave hall could be seen clearly.
This place is very small, only a few hundred square meters, but there is nothing here, just a bare expanse.
After observing the cave entrance for a long time, everyone finally confirmed that there was no danger and slowly walked out of the passage.
"Huh?" Zhou Mei was looking at the surroundings when she suddenly found many shallow marks on the cave wall, which seemed to be the marks of something being taken away. She reached out and touched it slightly, slightly rolling the tiny rock particles on her fingers, and said, "Everyone, look, it seems that something has been taken away here. These marks definitely haven't been there for too long, as if they just happened."
After hearing this, the others came over and observed carefully. They found many traces on the wall of the cave, as if something had been taken away.
But they couldn't be sure what it was, it was very strange. They couldn't figure out what was taken away, so they had to give up.
Then after walking around the cave hall, I found the cave covered by rocks.
Although Zhou Ke and his men were relatively weak, it was also relatively speaking. You have to know that in the martial arts world, those with the tenth level of acquired strength are the clan leaders and elders in some small families, and can support the main force of a small family.
Therefore, there was not much strength to push such a rock away, so I naturally went forward and pushed it away, and then I found the passage behind the rock.
"Should we continue moving forward?" Zhou Mei asked.
Zhou Ke looked at the darkness in front of him, and shone the light from his headlamp into the dark passage, but he didn't find anything. He could only nod and say, "We can only continue. There is no turning back now. We need to keep moving forward to find a way out."
"Okay!" Zhou Mei nodded. Although her strength was higher than Zhou Ke's, Zhou Ke was her uncle and the leader of the Zhou family warriors, so she naturally obeyed Zhou Ke.
The same thing happened to Zhou Hai and the others. There was no other way but to move forward, and the passage also pointed here, so there was no other way to escape, so they could only move forward.
"So, everyone rest for a quarter of an hour and replenish all their water. Then, we continue to move forward." Zhou Ke said.
Just now, when he was observing the cave hall, he also looked at the puddle. Although there was not much water, it could replenish some water. Who knows what is waiting for everyone behind, so he should replenish his water first.
In fact, when Chen Mo took away the puddle, he left a relatively large pit. However, he did not fill the pit, but just left it there, allowing water to continue to accumulate.
Unexpectedly, the puddle was already more than half full in just one day, enough for nine people to use a bottle of water each.
Moreover, the water in the puddles is an infiltrated water source, and as long as it is not polluted, it can be drunk directly.
To be on the safe side, Zhou Ke took a portable instrument to test it and found no problems at all.
All nine people sat down, and then handed the water bottle, which was an empty bottle after drinking water, to one of them and asked him to fill the bottle.
"Uncle Zhou, can we go out?" Zhou Mei asked quietly.
Zhou Ke was helpless when he heard the question. He also wanted to find someone to ask if he and his people could get out. But Zhou Mei asked him first, so he could only nod and say, "Don't worry, as long as we persist, we will definitely get out."
As for who would believe this, he didn't know, and he himself didn't believe it anyway.
Zhou Mei nodded, but ultimately did not continue. Instead, she sat quietly by the side, thinking about something.
The other warriors were also silent. Suddenly, there was no other sound in the entire cave except the sound of the water filling.
Finally, after filling up the water tank, the team set out again. Unexpectedly, they walked all the way, consuming much more time than Chen Mo did, and finally reached the exit.
Naturally, no one used the thousand-pound stone to search for the passage, but there was a branch road next to it, so they went in and explored, and found the exit.
Seeing a ray of light coming from the passage, the nine of them felt their hearts soar.
"Ah! We are out!" Zhou Hai stood at the entrance of the cave and saw the desolate desert. A spontaneous feeling of escaping from the sky emerged from his heart.
"Ah! We are out!" The others also followed Zhou Hai's example and stood at the entrance of the cave, shouting at the desert.
A month later, the nine people finally returned to Zhou's house after a long journey and many hardships.
Because of their return, the entire family closed themselves off, and everyone was shocked by the news that Zhou Ke had brought them back.
Zhou Ziran is dead, Zhou Ziyu is dead, and even Zhou Ziyun is dead!
The three elders, especially Zhou Ziyun, whose strength had reached the Baodan realm, died unexpectedly. How could the Zhou family not be shocked?
In fact, Zhou Ziyun had always shown that he was at the peak of the third level of innateness. But this time, after Zhou Ke returned, he informed the family of Zhou Ziyun's strength, and immediately there was a lot of grief.
They were not only lamenting how this could happen, the death of three innate masters definitely caused great damage to the Zhou family. They were also wailing, they did not expect Zhou Ziyun's strength to have reached the Baodan realm. If Zhou Ziyun was in charge of the family, then they would have no problem walking sideways.
But the key point now is that Zhou Ziyun is dead. This is totally weird. How could he die?
If Zhou Ziyun hadn't died, it should have been no problem for the family to become a top-notch family, or even the only one in the martial arts world.
Now that the person is dead, what else can I say?
Moreover, after the Zhou family lost three innates, there was only one other family elder left in the family, who was already very old and close to the maximum age, Zhou Zixing, who was in the late first stage of the innate realm.
If Zhou Zixing died, their Zhou family would not be able to withstand the invasion of other families.
Once the Zhou family's innate masters are gone, all the benefits that they had swallowed up before will have to be spit out directly, and maybe even more.
Therefore, the Zhou family meeting began to discuss how to deal with the next crisis.
Now, the Zhou family has no time to mourn the death of Xiantian, and they must first deal with how to deal with a crisis if it occurs.
After discussing for a long time, nothing was achieved.
In fact, there are only a few ideas.
One is to gather the strength of all the clansmen and train another innate master of the Zhou family. For example, Zhou Mei is more useful, and Zhou Ke or a few others meet the requirements.
One is to delay Zhou Zixing's life process, hoping that he can live for another few decades or even hundreds of years. Then, as long as the family's high-end combat power exists, no one will come to trouble the Zhou family.
Of course, even if the Zhou family wanted to hide this matter, they couldn’t keep it secret for long.
Over time, everything will be exposed.
Moreover, whether it is to train younger generations or to prolong the lives of family elders, extremely precious medicinal materials or special rare pills are needed to achieve it.
Unfortunately, let alone the Zhou family, even most of the other top-notch martial arts families in the martial arts world cannot produce it.
You know, this kind of medicine that can help warriors advance or prolong their lives can definitely drive everyone crazy. If anyone has it, they will never come out and shout loudly to let the whole world know that they have such a good thing.
Definitely hide all these good things well. Wouldn't it be better for your own family to use them?
Therefore, the final result of the discussion was that there was no solution.
"Alas! We can only hope that our ancestor can have a strong life and continue to live for dozens or hundreds of years." said Zhou Gang, the head of the Zhou family, who is only at the ninth level of the acquired realm.
For a moment, all the participants fell silent.
All the senior members of the Zhou family knew about Zhou Zixing's situation. He was already at the end of his rope and might die at any time. Therefore, it was basically impossible to covet and live for dozens or hundreds of years. It was just deceiving oneself.
However, at this moment, a man in the corner stood up and said, "I seem to have some news here, I wonder if it's useful?"
"What? You have news? It's already this time, and you're still talking about whether it's useful or not. Just tell us first, and we'll know after we discuss it!" Zhou Gang said, and several other elders of the family who had a say also nodded in agreement.
It has come to this point, why not just talk about whether there is hope or not and discuss it. Who knows, maybe we can get some useful information from it.