Lin Shuo and Anne walked to the depths of the hall, climbed several steps, and came to the dragon chair.
If it was such a luxurious dragon chair as usual, Lin Shuo might go up to sit and experience it.
But he's not in the mood now.
The cave of the hooked snake is right under the dragon chair, and the smell of this beast is seeping up from the carpet under the dragon chair.
Lin Shuo was not in a hurry to lift the dragon chair, but supported the back of the dragon chair with one hand, and took out a cigarette from his coat pocket with the other hand, took out one and lit it.
The family knows their own affairs.
At this juncture, Lin Shuo knew what symptoms he would experience, and he had to adjust as soon as possible.
But this time, it seemed that Lin Shuo overreacted, and he didn't have any symptoms.
"Mr. Lin, you seem... quite normal." Anne said beside her.
"..." Lin Shuo himself felt a little strange.
This symptom has plagued Lin Shuo for six years. He knew when he would commit a crime and when he was fine.
But this time, things seem to be looking up. I thought I should smoke a cigarette for a while, but found that I didn't need it.
"Maybe, it's because you know the reason for what happened that night." Anne guessed.
Anne didn't major in psychology when she was in college, but she still knew a little bit. She knows that the onset of any mental illness is often triggered.
For Lin Shuo, this incentive may consist of two parts.
One is the memory of the hooked snake, and the other is the confusion about the Kunlun Mountain incident.
Now that the confusion has eased, the incentives are naturally no longer valid.
"Maybe, or maybe not." Lin Shuo himself didn't know, "But anyway, it's not a bad thing."
"Um."
While speaking, Lin Shuo extinguished the cigarette butt, grabbed the armrest of the dragon chair, and tested his strength left and right.
This dragon chair made of pure gold was easily pushed away by Lin Shuo.
In fact, Lin Shuo didn't spend much effort, not because the dragon chair itself is very light, but because there are two sliding rails under the dragon chair.
Between the two sliding rails, directly below where the dragon chair was originally, there is a carpet of a color that is obviously different from the one next to it. Unlike the carpet next to it with black background and gold patterns, this one is pure gold.
When the carpet is lifted, it is a whole stone slab with two pull rings embedded in the stone slab, keeping the surface roughly flat.
Lin Shuo held the pull ring with both hands, and with a gentle pull, he picked up the entire two-meter-square stone slab.
Behind the stone slab, there is a bright entrance, the light inside is much brighter than the oil lamp in this hall.
This is a kind of strong golden light, which makes the two people who have been in a relatively dark environment for a long time unconsciously narrow their eyes slightly.
After his eyes got used to the brightness, Lin Shuo finally saw clearly that this was an entrance leading to a deeper underground, with a row of steps leading obliquely to an unknown place.
Lin Shuo entered the tunnel first, followed by Anne.
Then the two discovered that the light source here was just below the steps, which was a river of magma flowing quietly.
The steps here are made of unknown materials. They are translucent, which not only insulates the heat, but also filters the red light of the magma into almost pure white.
The four walls of this passage are studded with golden mineral crystals, allowing the underground light source to be refracted into golden color.
The urban area of this dragon city is either gloomy and dark, or royal, but no matter what, it is still within the cognition range of Lin Shuo and Anne.
And once you enter this passage, everything around you seems to become magical.
But for Lin Shuo, he had no intention of appreciating the magical scene here. He just observed the terrain here at the shortest speed to confirm that it was safe.
Because of the size of this passage, hooked snakes can't get in.
Slowly walking down the stairs, Lin Shuo knew that this kind of security would not last long.
Here, the breath of hook snake and bar snake is getting stronger and stronger, and the battle is quietly approaching.
After walking for about two or three minutes, the scene ahead changed again.
There is a fork here.
One of them is similar to the style of the current passage, with white ground and golden walls, and the direction is also straight.
The other intersection looked much rougher. It was a large hole with an irregular shape, nearly ten meters in diameter, and golden crystal ore was piled up beside it.
It looks like it was blown out with explosives.
"The entrance that was blown out is probably the source of the first earthquake." Anne observed it and said, "I don't know who did it."
Reminded by Anne, Lin Shuo felt it necessary to go inside.
The opponent blasted such a big hole, there must be a plan, go in and see what traces are inside, maybe you can deduce the purpose of the opponent's trip to Dragon City based on this.
"Come on, go in and have a look." Lin Shuo said.
The two entered the cave and found that the space inside was indeed very large.
This is still the internal structure of the palace, but there is nothing inside.
In other words, the original things here have been moved away.
In the inner corner of the palace buried under the Dragon City, Lin Shuo found another hole.
Compared with the big hole that was blown out before, this hole is much smaller, and it can only accommodate one person to climb in. It is a bit like a robbery hole dug by a grave robber.
Lin Shuo sniffed the hole carefully, and roughly understood who made this small hole.
"There is the smell of Liu Shunfu here." Lin Shuo said, "It seems that the envoy of the Dragon King is not telling the truth. He has been here a long time ago."
"It seems that Mr. Lin's judgment is correct. This is not only the lair of the Blackwater Dragon King, but also the lair of the Dragon King's emissary." Anne said, "The actions he made before were actually a strategy of driving away tigers and devouring wolves. Let us Hold here for him."
"It's a pity that after several games, the opponent still has the upper hand." Lin Shuo shook his head, "The Blackwater Dragon King lost control, and Liu Shunfu was seriously injured. Our progress was also greatly delayed, and we didn't come here until now."
"Look, Mr. Lin, there are obviously traces of furniture or shelves on these stone bricks." Anne looked around for a while, and finally her eyes fell on the stone bricks on the ground, "The things here have been emptied."
Lin Shuo looked down, and it was indeed so.
"This Dragon City is not from the Jin Dynasty, but from the Yuan Dynasty." Anne judged, "And since the architectural style is the style of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty is more likely. Here, it is very likely that it is the secret treasure house of the Jin Dynasty. , but it has been preempted by others.”
"Let's go." Lin Shuo said, "We didn't come here for this, so don't bother others."
Anne nodded, and followed Lin Shuo out of the underground treasure house, muttering, "But if you think about it carefully, this thing is quite scary. This group of people not only got zombie oil lamps, but also got big gold." The treasure house of the dynasty, if they really want to do something next, no one can stop them."
The two returned to the passage and continued to walk underground. After a while, a stone door appeared in front of them.
Lin Shuo's nose twitched. He confirmed that the hooked snake was not far behind this stone gate.
Up to two or three kilometers.
"Listen to the structure inside." Lin Shuo said in a deep voice.
"Okay." Anne immediately fell to the ground, her ears pressed against the stone door, and she closed her eyes.
Liemen Su's trick "Listen to the mountains and know the way", as the name suggests, is to listen to the mountains with your ears to find the way.
This sounds miraculous, but this ability also has certain limitations.
Just like Lin Shuo's "Wind and Position", this special skill must also meet certain conditions.
Lin Shuo needs the support of the wind direction to judge the position when he hears the wind, and at the same time he is afraid of the water. But Anne's stunt is afraid of viscous and shock-absorbing, and it must have a sound source.
Through the sound of footsteps, Anne can hear the location of nearby creatures; through the wind in the mountains and the rustling of leaves, Anne can know the geographical conditions of the mountains; through the slight displacement and friction of underground rocks, Anne can sense the source of the earthquake.
At this time, Anne needs a voice to detect the secret behind Shimen for her.
The first thing she has to do is to find this voice.
She waited for a while, and it was very quiet behind the stone gate, until a minute later, she heard the sound of water dripping.
This drop of water came from a certain underground river, slowly leaked from the gaps in the stones, slowly condensed on the top of the stone dome in the opposite space, and finally fell into the water directly below.
The sound of water droplets that followed first diffused in all directions, then bounced and scattered by the surrounding stone walls, and finally the energy was gradually exhausted by the air and completely disappeared.
In Anne's mind, a holographic image is gradually forming, but this drop of water can only make a draft in her mind.
She needs a drop.
After another minute, a second drop of water went through the same steps and landed on the surface of the water.
"This is an underground lake." Anne closed her eyes and said softly, "It is surrounded by a ten-meter-wide stone brick floor, which is less than one meter above the water surface. It is surrounded by stone walls, forty meters high. The stone wall is the sedimentary rock we saw just now, and it is irregular, but the surface is very smooth. Wait a minute, Mr. Lin, there is another feature inside, which I don't know yet."
The third drop of water falls.
Anne finally opened her beautiful eyes: "In the middle of this lake, there is a building similar to an altar, 20 meters high, 100 meters square, trapezoidal structure, a bit like a Mayan rainforest pyramid, but bigger."
"Where is the hooked snake?" Lin Shuo asked.
"Among the currently exposed features inside, there is no one that matches the body of the hooked snake." Anne shook her head, and then analyzed, "It's either hidden in the lake or inside the altar."
"Okay." Lin Shuo nodded in satisfaction, "Stand back."
While speaking, Lin Shuo untied Master Zhui from behind, clamped the bow body under his arm, and held the bowstring with one hand.
When Anne walked behind him, Lin Shuo stretched out his hand and slowly opened the stone door.