There are many doomsday ethnic groups in Iron Core Fortress, including men, women, old and young, with a population of at least 100,000.
There seems to be a very strict hierarchy in the fortress, in which the doomsday tribesmen holding weapons have a significantly higher status.
Some of the doomsday races have strange shapes. Although there are many humanoid creatures, they are only the mainstream.
All doomsday races have one thing in common.
There are black lines on their skin.
Some slaves captured by the doomsday tribe have no black lines on their bodies. These people are crazily enslaved by the doomsday tribe and work with their heads lowered while wearing shackles.
A slave just raised his head and glanced at the doomsday race holding a weapon, and the other party roared and chopped off one of his hands.
Even though his arm was cut off, the slave still kowtowed crazily and knelt on the ground begging for his life.
Seeing this scene, Mu Zhen was filled with anger.
Even though she knew that this was not Noah's world, but the most terrifying abyss, she even knew that the slaves captured by the doomsday tribe were not necessarily good people.
But Mu Zhen was still very angry and couldn't bear to see the weak being bullied.
"calm."
Bai Yan held her down and shook his head.
"Don't alert the enemy."
"I understand." Mu Zhen's eyes were still filled with anger, and Bai Yan could see it.
"We're going to look for clues," he said.
So, Bai Yan and Mu Zhen explored room after room. The rooms in the fortress were all simple in style, without any extra decoration or furniture.
It can be seen that the doomsday tribe does not advocate enjoyment.
They found many slaves, and they also found that most of these slaves were under the control of the doomsday tribe, collecting special black ores from the surrounding areas, and they did not know what special functions they had.
"Wait a moment."
Bai Yan closed his eyes, reached out to touch the hot fortress wall, and began to use his "contact" ability.
Flashbacks played out in his mind.
"Well, I understand."
After Bai Yan opened his eyes, a smile appeared on his face, he nodded slightly and pointed to the location directly below.
"What we are looking for should be at the bottom of the fortress."
"the bottom?"
Mu Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then heard Bai Yan continue.
"Well, Ming, the leader of Iron Core Fortress, is there. She is the doomsday clan who sent people to Chenhai. As long as we find her, we can figure out the cause and effect."
"I want to liberate the slaves in this fortress." Mu Zhen suddenly said.
"good."
Bai Yan already knew what Mu Zhen was thinking, so he didn't find it strange. He said calmly: "Since you want to do this, I will accompany you."
Mu Zhen looked at the senior "Enjoyer" and always felt that his eyes felt familiar to him, but he could not remember where exactly he felt familiar.
"Thank you."
She sincerely thanked Mr. "The Enjoyer", who was really tolerant of herself.
"Senior...have I seen you somewhere before?"
Mu Zhen finally couldn't help but asked out of curiosity.
Bai Yan immediately replied: "Huh? Isn't it many times? I have participated in many tasks, and I also appeared in the Tower of Babel meeting... You won't lose your memory, right?"
Mu Zhen shook his head and organized his words before saying: "No, I mean other than these times... I always feel that senior is very familiar with me."
"Um… "
Bai Yan was silent, Mu Zhen was really very sharp.
With the improvement of strength and the lengthening of time together, the difficulty of continuing to play the double role is also increasing day by day.
Perhaps if this continues, sooner or later, his true identity will be exposed.
However, even if her true identity is revealed to Mu Zhen, her loyal attitude will not change, so there is no need to worry about this.
Is now really the time
"In that case, I have no choice but to tell you the truth."
Bai Yan smiled and sighed again.
"I originally thought I could hide it from you forever, but I didn't expect that you would find out so quickly."
He looked at Mu Zhen solemnly and said slowly: "The truth I am going to tell you next is so shocking that you may not be able to believe it for a while."
Um.
Sure enough, we must take this step.
Bai Yan also knew in his heart that just fooling around was not the answer.
Mu Zhen held his breath and stared at the senior hedonist in front of him.
At this moment, she always felt that she... seemed to be about to know some unimaginably huge secret!
Bai Yan was more serious than ever before and said word by word: "Why do you feel familiar with me and why do I know your preferences? The reason for all this is actually... "
Chapter 402 "The Truth"
"Mu Zhen, in fact, in your previous life, you were the most legendary ancestor of the Mu family."
Bai Yan's eyes were full of sincerity, as if the words in his mouth were the facts of what happened.
"And your ancestor and I were old friends. We fought together many times hundreds of years ago. At that time, I was ashamed of her and couldn't let her survive."
"ah… "
The sudden unfolding made Mu Zhen a little unable to react.
Bai Yan raised his head slightly and looked at the sky, while pursuing his victory, he continued: "This is the truth... and because of this, I felt like old friends at first sight after meeting you, and I also have an understanding of your preferences."
"I'm afraid your familiarity with me comes from this."
Bai Yan's face didn't turn red when he spoke, and his heart didn't beat. The lies in his mouth came out as if they were true.
Mu Zhen was completely stunned.
"It's actually like this..."
She thought for a moment and realized that, in fact, everything made sense!
During the decisive battle against the World-Destroying Legion, Mu Zhen had long discovered that he had a close relationship with his ancestors, and he was mentally prepared for the fact that he was her reincarnation.
"So, these are all true?" Mu Zhen asked again uncertainly.
Bai Yan nodded.
His words are half true and false, and there is no way to prove whether they are false or not. It just depends on whether Mu Zhen believes it or not.
Based on Bai Yan's understanding of her...
Mu Zhen will most likely believe it.
"I understand. I had always had doubts in my heart, but now it's finally clear."
Mu Zhen nodded, thought for a long time, and then said: "Actually, I have completely forgotten the memory of my previous life. I am just Mu Zhen now... You don't need to give me special treatment because of my previous life. "
Look!
Believe this guy!
Poor Mu Zhen was toyed with and applauded by Bai Yan.
"But in my eyes, you've always been my friend."
Bai Yan looked at Mu Zhen with sincere eyes, and continued: "It is understandable to have a better attitude towards your friends... Do you want to take away this power?"
Mu Zhen shook his head and said: "I... I don't care, forget it, Senior Hedonist, let's go underground to resolve this matter quickly."
She didn't know why, but she always felt the way Senior "The Enjoyer" looked at her.
A little... beyond friends.
Very strange.
Mu Zhen couldn't tell what kind of emotion it was. It was something she had never experienced or witnessed before.
"good."
Bai Yan also didn't want to get too entangled in lies, as it would be embarrassing if they were exposed.
Then, he began to discern the power of "mysterious magic", slowly stretched out his hands forward, and clapped his hands with a smile.
"Snapped."
The next moment, both of them were teleported to the underground of Iron Core Fortress.
The underground space of the Iron Core Fortress is also very huge, even at least several times the area of the above-ground fortress. It is dark and deep, and the height from the bottom to the "ceiling" is at least several hundred meters.
"Look! Senior Hedonist!"
Bai Yan and Mu Zhen soon saw an astonishing scene.
Hundreds of giants were shackled with extremely huge shackles. They were tens of meters tall and worked painfully and exhaustingly in the underground world, constantly digging out underground ores with their bare hands.
"Ouch!"
The screams of the giants resounded throughout the underground world, and they completely lost their freedom. Many doomsday tribesmen guarded these giants, but these tall monsters did not dare to resist at all.
"What are they digging for?" Mu Zhen couldn't help but ask.
"That kind of ore..."
After Bai Yan used his ability analysis, he immediately got accurate information and immediately replied: "It is an important material used to cast the curse. The weapons of the doomsday tribe are all made of this ore. On the one hand, it can be used in close combat, and on the other hand, it can be used in close combat. It can also be used as a staff to enhance the effect of the curse."
"Wand?"
Mu Zhen had never heard of this term and asked curiously: "What is a staff..."
"That is, something used to enhance the effects of extraordinary power."
Bai Yan also realized one thing. In fact, in Noah's world, magicians do not use magic staffs.
In fact, "rituals" are common in the multiverse, but "spells"... are only a specialty of Noah's world.
Although there are other worlds where spells are used, in the infinite universe, spells can only be regarded as unpopular things.
What kind of spells, invisible arts, magic, spiritual arts... In the infinite world, there are countless kinds of extraordinary power systems.
The power system in some worlds will derive power-up props such as "staffs", but such things do not exist and are not needed in Noah's world.
It's hard to say the strength of various power systems. Most people can't reach the upper limit anyway... But Bai Yan feels that "ritual" should be the most powerful of all extraordinary power systems.
Because, no matter in which world there are "rituals".
The power of "ritual" has been present since the dawn of the multiverse.
There is a very broad road in the underground world, which is not like a road for ordinary people.
"Let's move forward."
Bai Yan spoke and Mu Zhen nodded slightly.
Next, the two of them walked along the road, and continued walking like this for about half an hour, when they saw a huge statue appearing in front of them.
It was a very large statue, at least three hundred meters high. It was shaped like a black sun, with only a gray-white circle in the center.
There are no slaves in this area, only guards from the doomsday tribe.
Moreover, the guards here are wearing heavy black armor, well-equipped, and in good order. They are almost three steps to one guard, and five steps to one post.
"This is it, the heavily guarded altar... The master of Iron Core Fortress, Ming, is right in front, praying under the statue of the Black Abyss."
After Bai Yan said these words, without any hesitation, he took Mu Zhen and moved on.
Neither miscellaneous soldiers nor well-equipped miscellaneous soldiers were their goals along the way.