Gradually, the effect appeared, and the handwriting on the paper began to fade, and faded more and more, until finally only a dry, yellowed note remained. The handwriting, along with our saliva, was gone.

Everyone was shocked as I tore the school rules off the floor. Looking at the black hole, the seemingly unfathomable staircase, I bit my lip and walked down cautiously, step by step.

One second, two seconds, a full twenty-seven seconds passed, and the punishment of the school rules still did not come. We immediately cheered, and this time, we made the right bet again.

The stairs are very long, I don't know how deep. There is a soft light floating in the sky all around, although you can't see the distant scenery clearly, but you won't be blind.

The floor of the principal's room is only more than a meter thick, and the bottom is full of hollows. This place is more appropriately called an underground cavern than a basement. There is no end to the vast space, and the stairs under your feet are endless. After walking for more than ten minutes, I still haven't stepped on the ground.

Just what can be seen with the naked eye makes me deeply suspect that perhaps the whole school is hollowed out, built on this void. This underground cavern is clearly a natural formation, caused by some kind of geological movement, it is empty and full of oppressive atmosphere, and the mere smell of the rancid air nearby can make the heart uncomfortable.

I walked for more than ten minutes before I reached the end. The soil under our feet was very soft, and with the light emitted from the air, we could see a layer of mist lingering at a height of thirty centimeters, and the calves disappeared into the mist, which made people very worried that something would come out and swallow us in one bite.

"Everyone gets closer and takes care of each other when things happen." I squinted, trying to see my surroundings clearly. Such efforts were ultimately futile. The area around is so large that there is no end in sight. Looking up at the top of the head again, the top is terrifying, and there is no end in sight. Only occasionally can you see some stout plant roots hanging down. What the hell is this place, the roots of plants can grow so far!

I cursed to myself, catching something sensitively, so I pointed to my right hand and said, "Let's go in that direction, although the light around us is floating in the air, but obviously it is due to the principle of refraction." Light does not appear out of thin air, and the position over there is more conducive to the refraction of light, which is probably the source of the light source. ”

The group had no opinion or objection, and fully adopted my opinion. So we went to the hellish place. The light source seemed to have no end in sight, and just as we were all about to despair, a foul stench rushed into our noses.

It was an indescribable stench, like the body of a baby being exposed to the sun on dog days, and the stench was earth-shattering. Everyone covered their noses for the first time.

"What does it smell like?" Yiyi was about to suffocate.

"Corpse stench?" Xu Lu asked.

"Not really." I shook my head, "It's like a volatile poisonous gas, but I don't know if it's harmful to the human body." ”

Zhang Guofeng hesitated: "Then should we go forward?" ”

"Go, of course." I cut it to the ground, "There is no way to survive if you go back, it is better to fight." ”

So we walked a little further, and not long after, a huge and thrilling object appeared in front of us. The four of us looked at the behemoth in amazement, and we were a little overwhelmed.

In front of me was a tree, a very large tree, all blood-red, as bright red as human blood. The huge trunk of the tree did not have a single leaf, only eight branches stretched strangely like slender arms, until the end of the line of sight.

We are like ants standing under the feet of an elephant and looking up at the tree, petrified for a long time before we come back to our senses a little.

"The stench seems to be coming from the trees." Yiyi said in surprise.

I had no intention of verifying it, and nodded, "Absolutely." ”

"What kind of tree is this, the earth has never seen it, I'm afraid even the world's largest tree, Australia's eucalyptus, and it can't be at all!" Yiyi was horrified, "There is such a big tree under the school, there is no sunlight, there are no leaves, it must not be photosynthetic." So what does it live on? ”

My eyes were fixed on the tree, and it always felt familiar.

"You see, there's a school rule there, too." Zhang Guofeng exclaimed. I saw that there was indeed a sign not far away, and the note on the side read, "The second article of the school rules, you are not allowed to approach the death tree, otherwise you will die." ”

Without much hesitation, the handwriting of the note was removed with saliva in accordance with the law, and the school rules were torn apart. We walked over.

The closer the tree got to it, the more it felt huge. A depressing atmosphere also became as urgent as atmospheric pressure, the heart was heavy, the pores of the body seemed to be under great pressure, and the whole body was very uncomfortable.

The stench around was even stronger, and the smell of corpses overflowed into the nose like substance, and the choking people couldn't breathe.

At the base of the tree, there are countless thick roots tangled together, each of which is several people tall and several meters thick. We walked around the tree and finally saw that the roots were starting to thinner. After walking for a long time, I came to the place where the roots of the tree were most concentrated. At the base of this place there were numerous lumps, which were fusiform, each one a person tall. It should be a place where large trees are used to accumulate nutrients.

And the thinnest part of the root is tightly wrapped around a coffin. The coffin was made of stone, not like an old thing. But the roots of the tree wrapped around it as if it were the most central part.

The four of us looked at each other and walked slowly.

On the lid of the coffin was a school rule, "The first rule of the school is not allowed to disturb the peace of the dead, otherwise you will be cursed with life worse than death." ”

Finally, it was time to uncover the final mystery, erase and tear the handwriting of the school rules again, and I said in a deep voice, "Open." ”

The heavy coffin was removed by the four men, revealing the inside of it. We held our breath tightly and looked inside, and suddenly it was as if we had been struck by lightning, and our whole body was numb, and we almost fainted in surprise.

Inside the coffin lay a corpse, a human corpse with tree roots impaled through. That person is the principal Zhou Huayuan. His bones don't seem to know how many years he has been in this coffin, and since his body is still in the coffin, who is he over there?

The stench suddenly intensified, and I don't know if it was an illusion, but the huge root system seemed to twitch.

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