After entering the basement of the Ziyang Ancient Mansion.
Shi Feng looked around but didn't find anything unusual.
The entire room was empty and bare, with nothing to see at all. There was no cold wind blowing out flames, nor was there that soul-crushing oppressive pressure.
"How come there's nothing here? Could I have been mistaken?" Huowu discovered there were no monsters and sheathed her dagger back into the scabbard at her waist.
"I'm not sure, but there really is no danger here." Shi Feng shook his head.
With more combat experience in the Divine Realm, players' ability to perceive danger had been gradually improving.
Divine Realm experts were especially sensitive to it.
And this kind of danger perception ability generally didn't lead them astray.
"Let's still take a careful look around," Shi Feng said.
If the Mystery of the Hidden God wasn't resolved and something unexpected happened that frightened the NPC who came to issue quests, that would be a disaster.
It wouldn't matter much for players — the worst that could happen was dying from bad luck, losing a level and skill proficiency. But NPCs were different. If they died, they stayed dead. The Main God System wouldn't restore them.
So this problem had to be solved, otherwise this prime location would be completely wasted.
After the three of them searched around for over ten minutes, they didn't find any issues — let alone monsters, they couldn't even find a single rat.
But the enormous pressure they had encountered before, Shi Feng was certain it hadn't been an illusion. He had experienced something similar before, only he couldn't quite recall the details.
After searching for a long while without finding any clues, Shi Feng and the others had no choice but to head upstairs.
"What's going on?" When they reached the upper floor, Shuise Qiangwei gasped at the scene before her.
It wasn't just Shuise Qiangwei who was stunned — even Shi Feng was taken aback.
They had simply returned to the first-floor hall they had been in before. But the scenery had completely changed. It was no longer an empty, decrepit hall — instead, it was an incomprehensibly complex maze of corridors. It was as if they had arrived in an entirely different place, nothing at all like the Ziyang Ancient Mansion from before.
At that moment, the system issued a notification sound.
System: You have discovered The Lost Land. All connections between players and the outside world have been temporarily severed.
"So that's what this is about." Shi Feng suddenly understood. Now he realized why the mansion's owners had all disappeared one by one — they had been teleported to this place.
"Guild Master, Return Scrolls can't be used." Huowu frowned slightly. "It's just like inside a God's Trial."
"It seems this place really isn't simple." Shi Feng began examining his surroundings.
He had encountered this kind of situation many times in his previous life. Just like after entering the Divine Realm not long ago, when he had entered the Fallen Land and obtained the Magic Artifact Abyssal there.
Although this Lost Land was different from the Fallen Land, it wasn't all that different either. In both cases, you were probably only allowed to leave after completing a certain quest — except in the Fallen Land there were quest notifications, whereas here there were no prompts at all.
Shi Feng and his two companions then stepped into the maze and began exploring the map.