Lu Youqi slowly widened his eyes. When his gaze pierced through the dim surroundings and fell upon the ground, he indeed discovered something unusual.
But it was still too dark here. He still could not see clearly.
To get a better look, he pressed his entire body down, his face nearly touching the floor.
Yet the ground, like the surroundings, was black. Even this close, he still could not make it out.
However, Lu Youqi had already guessed what it was...
He gently brushed his fingertips across the ground, feeling the direction of the cracks and searching for patterns within those subtle changes. His gaze grew sharper, but his brow gradually furrowed.
"Are these... words?"
Lu Youqi stroked the ground. Though he could not see clearly, he could feel it: tiny characters covered the floor, like worms.
His hand groped farther away. No matter where he touched, the ground was covered in those tiny, worm-like characters.
In the dim environment, Lu Youqi's sense of touch became exceptionally sharp. His fingertips passed over each character, feeling their structure. Every horizontal, vertical, left-falling, and right-falling stroke slowly etched itself into his mind.
These characters seemed to be in a standard stiff brush script, carved into the pitch-black ground, too tiny to see clearly...
A trace of doubt rose in Lu Youqi's heart. Why were there such strange words here?
But he quickly suppressed his doubts and focused on feeling out their contents.
"They are human writing, all right..."
Once he confirmed that they were human words, he was even more shocked.
"Isn't this the Abyss Bottom? How can there be human writing here?"
"Or is this not the Abyss Bottom at all, but another human world?"
He was filled with suspicion, but for now, all he could do was continue exploring.
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