This magnificent and luxurious building has been sleeping in this forest for a hundred centuries. Its glory has faded, and the dazzling golden decoration has also been weathered and corroded. During the long geological changes, the building The main body of the building also gradually sank to the ground, and only one-tenth of the whole can be exposed—however, what is surprising is that even with this collapsed appearance, the main structure of the building is still intact and stable of.
Even if it was buried and crushed by a million tons of mud and rock, there was no sign of collapse.
It seems that apart from those flashy decorative accessories, the main body of this building has been specially strengthened, which shows that the god-killing race does have its own uniqueness in the field of technology.
Led by Leah, a group of people entered the interior of the ruins through the big hole in the dome, and began to search for paths between the intricate floors and corridors in the building, continuously entering deeper into it.
After entering the building, Hao Ren reconfirmed that this thing is the relic left by the god-killing clan: In this magnificent hall, gorgeous sculptures and reliefs to highlight achievements can be seen everywhere, all kinds of people with religious beliefs Symbolic decorations covered almost every corner the group visited, but these religious symbols were not used to worship any other gods, but to boast and whitewash the people who built the building.
After several wrong forks, Leah finally found the right direction, and a shaft leading straight to the ground appeared in front of everyone. The shaft was deep and dark, and occasionally some lights flashed on the inner wall: The energy left in the building was leaking through broken wiring and pipes.
"It's so deep in here..." Lily stood on the side of the shaft and looked down cautiously, her tail fluffed up because of nervousness, "Fuck me... why do we always have to jump into this The matter of the deep pit..."
"Do you often encounter this kind of ruins buried underground?" Liya gave Lily a strange look, then shrugged, "It's normal to be very deep. This building was originally a towering temple. According to the records It may be as high as a kilometer, and what we see on the surface is the top of its exposed main tower, so we may have to move down a kilometer inside the ruins to reach its base, and the important Stuff is usually buried there."
As she spoke, she looked at the wall of the shaft strangely: "But it's strange, this thing can't even see the stairs... How did the people who used this building move between these floors?"
Vivian glanced down: "This should be an elevator, and the walking ladder is probably blocked by gravel."
"Elevator...?" Liya smacked her lips. "Anyway, fortunately, I was prepared. The great scholar Liya never takes unprepared adventures!"
While speaking, Miss Magician opened the pocket of her robe like a treasure chest again, and took out a piece of rolled fabric from it: There must be some kind of space expansion effect in her robe, otherwise it would be really bad Explain how she hides all these weird props.
Leah shook the piece of fabric away, gently placed it on the ground, murmured an obscure incantation, and the fabric immediately began to vibrate, stretch, and thicken, turning into a huge square in just a few seconds. There is a flying carpet, and there is a bright lamp floating in each of the four corners of the flying carpet. As Lia injected magic power into it, the flying carpet gradually floated to a height of less than half a meter from the ground, stable and reliable.
"Let's just sit here!" Liya said proudly, "I did this myself!"
Vivienne spread her wings all of a sudden: "I don't need it, I can fly by myself."
"I don't want to sit on this!" Lily couldn't help getting hairy when she saw the unobstructed edge of the flying carpet, and subconsciously stepped back, "I always feel that this kind of soft car doesn't even have a safety rail Things will fall!"
Hao Ren gave the husky girl a look, and pushed her onto the flying carpet: "Don't worry, you weren't afraid of heights when you were boarding the plane?"
In fact, Hao Ren himself has the equipment to assist in flying, but this is the first time he has been riding a magic flying carpet. He is inevitably a little curious, so he squeezed on Leah's magic carpet with others in the attitude of experiencing life. .
Afterwards, Miss Magician skillfully lit the ignition, shifted gears, and started off, driving the severely overloaded flying carpet into the shaft unsteadily.
Watching the dark gray well with a hint of gold rising in his field of vision, Hao Ren couldn't help muttering, "I encountered a lot of monsters on the way before I came here. I thought there would be more monsters in the ruins. I didn't expect it to be quiet all the way after entering."
"The demon-eating monsters only gather around the ruins because of the leakage of magic power here, but they rarely run into the ruins," Leah explained, "because the energy concentration inside the ruins will be higher, which actually exceeds the feeling of the demon-eating monsters." The level of comfort', coupled with the fact that there is no food inside the ruins, makes it even more unnecessary for the demon-eating monsters that still need to eat to survive."
"I can't find food... that's right, that's the key," Hao Ren was stunned for a while, and couldn't help laughing, "The adventure novels are indeed deceptive."
"What?"
"Uh, it's okay, just talking to myself."
The flying carpet continued to descend in the shaft. For safety reasons, its descending speed was not fast, which gave everyone a good opportunity to observe the situation along the way. Hao Ren ordered the data terminal to secretly scan the surrounding data through the mental connection, while studying the decorative style of the Godslayers in terms of reliefs and runes with great interest, but in the process, he suddenly heard a low and strange sound. A muffled sound came from a certain direction.
The source of the sound seemed far away, but it was amplified and transmitted here through the intricate underground cave structure.
Lily was the first to react. The husky girl who was a little nervous immediately grasped the giant alloy X666 sword in her hand, and her ears kept turning in various directions: "Did you hear the sound?! It seems that something has collapsed !"
"I heard it too." Leah was also a little nervous. She drew out a few magic runes and watched them gradually drifting into the air before she breathed a sigh of relief. , Farther away, it should be the sound in the big tunnel."
"Is this very common?" Hao Ren asked with a frown.
"There are often strange noises coming from the big tunnel, sometimes it's airflow, sometimes monsters are moving," Liya said seemingly indifferently, "some people say that the ancient drilling machine in the big tunnel is digging through our world , don’t worry, it’s all far away from us.”
Hao Ren wanted to say that the sound was heard here, and it couldn't be far away, but at this time the flying carpet had reached the bottom of the shaft.
A sound of flapping wings came from the side, and Vivienne landed next to the flying carpet, folded her wings and looked around: "The structure here seems to be quite complete."
Liya instructed the flying carpet to fold and roll up by herself, and took out a magic crystal to detect the concentration of magic power in the air. The eyes of this magician lady almost burst out: "Not only is the structure complete, but the magic reaction is also very strong. ! There must be ancient facilities that are still in operation here—this time I really found a treasure!!”
Seeing Liya's excited appearance, Nangong Sanba couldn't help asking: "Do you know what the thing you're looking for looks like?"
"The thing I'm looking for? No, no, no, I'm a scholar, not a tomb robber," Liya said seriously. "This ruin itself is what I'm looking for. The knowledge buried here, any usable or Ancient objects with research value, even the structural diagram of the ruins themselves and the runes and sculptures we saw along the way, these are the greatest wealth! Come on, don't waste time, we still have a long way to go! "
Leah put away her magic flying carpet, rubbed her iron staff with her hands, making the luminescent crystal at the front of the iron staff brighter than before, and then walked to the gate at the bottom of the shaft that was obviously the exit.
Of course the gate is locked, and the identification system that can control the locking device has obviously been scrapped for many years, but these are not a problem at all for Miss Lia, who can kill a cow with one punch, and she pried open the gate with a staff in two or three , and beckoned Hao Ren and his party to follow quickly.
Hao Ren and Vivian looked at each other helplessly, and followed closely behind.
The building does resemble a grand temple, and whatever the godslayers' original purpose for building it, its internal structure bears the hallmarks of a temple. Not long after coming out of the elevator shaft, Hao Ren and his party saw those spacious halls and solemn corridors, and saw more epic reliefs and paintings in the corridors. If they hadn't known that the Godslayers had already given up their faith And calling himself a god, I am afraid that Hao Ren himself will think that this is a place to worship gods.
This building has been abandoned for a long time, and naturally there are not many clues left, but judging from the orderliness of the remaining items in the building and no obvious signs of damage everywhere, Hao Ren thinks there is nothing wrong with it. Not abandoned in an emergency.
Its owner obviously left quite calmly, everything that could be taken away was taken away, and things that could not be taken away were sorted out and placed in appropriate places. Every door was carefully closed, and there was no sign of a hasty evacuation. It looks scattered, and there is no opening of the door.
Hao Ren also didn't see the scene of "living things are being used, but the owner suddenly disappears", so he ruled out the possibility that "the godslayer disappeared instantly due to the impact of God's punishment, resulting in a neat and orderly ruins", and finally according to various According to the clues, he judged that this place should be abandoned before the arrival of the "God Killing Moment".
One team, two purposes: Leah is looking for the knowledge and heritage of ancient civilization with great interest, while Hao Ren and his party are collecting information about the god-killing clan and using it to improve their understanding of the world of "Lahrien". Information, but no matter what, they still successfully launched operations in this ruins located deep underground.
After a rough exploration of the central axis of the building, Leah proposed to go to the side hall. Based on the flow of magic power underground, she judged that there should be a functioning energy center in the side hall, which was an invaluable treasure to her.
Of course Hao Ren had no objections.
The team passed through the main hall and central corridor of the underground palace, and walked through the empty palace rooms. This gloomy and oppressive place made people feel breathless, but the team led by Hao Ren was well-trained , this difficulty is nothing to them.
However, on the way to the side hall, they had to stop: the front was blocked by a rift.
The entire underground building was actually broken into two parts here, its side hall and main part were completely separated, and what separated it was a rift valley that was as wide as a meter wide and bottomless.
Lily stood in front of the rift, looking up: the dome of the building was also torn apart, and thick rock layers and countless stalagmites hanging down could be seen directly above. This place might have been an underground cave originally, so in The rock formation above did not collapse after the palace dome broke.
There are many streams of light visible to the naked eye traveling upstream of the rock top, jumping and flowing along those stalagmites. The stream of light is the ruins of the building on the opposite side of the rift, which is the side hall of the underground palace, and the end point is where everyone is. The upper floor of this building—the flow of light is obviously the "magic flow" that Leah sensed before.
The so-called magical veins do exist, but the path to their source is blocked.
Lily looked down at the Great Rift Valley below, and found that this thing was far darker and deeper than the previous shaft, and there was a chaotic cyclone constantly appearing and disappearing inside, and a palpitating sense of danger came from the bottom of the valley. She couldn't help but her fluff stood on end, and she quickly moved away from this dangerous position.
Vivienne spread her bat wings again, judging the distance of the rift while moving her wings, the expression on her face didn't care much: "It's just white rice wide, just fly over..."
This is also what the rest of the team thinks: it’s just a chasm as wide as a rice meter, and it’s not even a challenge for this team. Lily can almost jump over it without a run-up, let alone everyone else. This option is up.
However, Leah hurriedly stopped Vivian: "Wait a minute! Don't!"
Vivienne looked at Miss Magician confusedly: "What's wrong?"
"This rift is the 'break' leading to the great tunnel I mentioned earlier," Liya said with a serious expression on her face, even a little nervous: this kind of expression is not unusual on the face of this arrogant lady mage. Often, "If you want to fly over there, nine times out of ten you will die!"
Vivienne folded her wings, with doubts on her face: "It's just the entrance to the big tunnel. Is there any problem flying over it?"
"People like you who don't know much about the Great Tunnel are the most prone to accidents..." Liya couldn't help but sighed, then picked up a stone from nearby, injected magic power into the stone and threw it in the direction of the rift.
The flying stone infused with magic power flew straight forward under the impetus of the wind arrow technique, as if it could easily cross the rift valley and fly to the opposite side hall, but when it flew halfway, the rift valley But suddenly a dark shadow surged up—Hao Ren had never seen such a strange phenomenon or matter. The thing rising from the rift looked like a mass of pure darkness, and its pitch-black color was so pure so that no details on its surface can be seen at all, it suddenly rises into the air, as if a piece has been dug out of the space, or as if a drop of dark ink has dripped on the picture—this mass of darkness emerges from the crack The bulge in the valley was several meters high, and did not directly touch the flying stone, but the stone instantly became illusory and transparent.
In the next second, it disappeared from the air, and even the magic flash that Leah bestowed on it disappeared together.
Even though he had seen all kinds of weird things, Hao Ren couldn't help swallowing at this moment, thinking what the hell.
No matter what it is, being "licked" by it will never feel better!
"The Great Tunnel will swallow everything that enters its range of influence and has a magic reaction or a life reaction, no matter whether it is a stone or a full-grown dragon," Liya said seriously, "I don't know if you know the big Whether the tunnel was taught by the teacher or made up by the bard, or just heard a little superficial from the bragging stories of other mercenaries and adventurers, what I want to say is that almost all the so-called large tunnels are currently Research is all about deceiving people, and those guys who claim to have entered the Great Tunnel and came back alive and wrote books and biographies are even more nonsense-their research is actually just touching the branch structure of the Great Tunnel, or walking in the mine near the tunnel It’s just a circle, and no one has ever touched the body of the Great Tunnel. It’s ridiculous that many guys who call themselves scholars have divided the Great Tunnel into two parts, one is the deadly area, and the other is the so-called “mild zone.” Zone', this theory is bullshit! There is no mild zone in the Great Tunnel at all, it is just a normal crypt slightly mutated by the influence of the tunnel, and the research conducted there is worthless!"
She raised her finger to the rift ahead, and the eerie darkness was gradually shrinking back, as if nothing had happened: "This is the big tunnel, the real big tunnel, so don't, don't Try to pass above it, let alone challenge its devouring ability with so-called magic."
Faced with such a serious warning from Liya, Nangong Sanba couldn't help but gasped: "I finally know why you can't recruit people..."
Leah: "... huh?"
Yizaks also said in a low voice: "I understand. In fact, according to the currently accepted definition in the world, the underground palaces and shafts we passed before have already entered the scope of the big tunnel, right?"
Leah: "... eh..."
Hao Ren folded his arms and looked at Miss Magician: "It's just that in your own theory, these parts don't count."
Leah: "... Anyway, I have no money! Are you capable of killing me?"
Hao Ren: "..."
This answer is so fresh and refined, it is completely unresponsive.
"Forget it, we haven't said anything yet," Hao Ren waved his hands at the magician lady with a defeated expression on his face, "We'd better find a safe place nearby to camp and rest first, then Find a way around this rift, okay?"
Leah thought for a while: "...are you planning to kill me while I'm sleeping, and then inherit my inheritance?"
"Inherit your uncle!" Hao Ren finally couldn't help being furious, "Do you really think that your dilapidated house in White Maple Leaf City is worth inheriting?"
Liya retorted seriously: "Although that tower can't be sold for much, the land in the mage district is very expensive!"
Hao Ren: "..."