Chapter 213: Warring States Relics

Originally, this kind of task completed by the squad would not attract my attention. The reason why I was so curious this time was entirely because I heard the content of the chat between the mage and the strong man named Big Bear. Before tracing their squad, I always thought that their actions were for support or cover for the Russian main legion that stayed on the front battlefield. But later, listening to their chat content, it turned out that the facts were exactly the opposite of our guess. These two teams were not only not used to support the main legion, but on the contrary, the super invading legion that gathered the main guilds of Russia were actually covering them. With such a strange start, how could I not be curious?

With curiosity about the mission goals of these people, I landed lightly near the entrance of the cave. I confirmed that the people in the cave had already gone down for a while and then turned over and jumped down.

Although the gate with complex mechanisms outside is inclined on the ground at a thirty-degree angle, it is not an inclined passage or steps below it. Below this gate is a vertical downward passage, and the depth is amazing. The previous second echelon was all cabled down to the bottom with ropes, and in order to avoid the people in the first echelon awakening and finding that they had entered the crypt, these guys did not even leave the rope on it. Instead, after everyone lowered, several flying players threw the end of the rope down together. Anyway, when they wanted to come out, they could let the flying players bring the rope up first, so there was no need to worry about not being able to come out.

Compared to those Russians, I thought it would be much easier to go down. I just stood directly at the entrance of the passage and took a step forward, spread my wings and slowly floated to the top of the cave.

After going to the bottom of the well, I first observed whether the other party had left people here. However, I used the reverse invisibility to scan a guard without finding any notice. I found a lot of rotten wood around the bottom of the well. Judging from the remaining traces on these wood, the vertical deep well we just jumped down originally had slope passages similar to scaffolding to get up, but these wooden structures really couldn't withstand the destruction of time, and now they are already a pile of rotten wood.

There is a unique entrance at the bottom of this cave, but unlike the above, the entrance here is not that big, but not as small as the door of ordinary home. The entrance is about ten meters high and at least eight meters wide. There is also a wooden door that is almost rotten on the entrance, but now only a few small pieces are left, which are less than one-third of the remaining small pieces are still hanging on the door frame. On the contrary, there are many fragments lying on the ground.

After passing through the broken door, the situation inside was more complicated. Unlike the obvious artificial buildings outside, although the passages here were obviously rested and rectified, their original natural style did not change much. I guess the passages behind should not be excavated manually, but were repaired by later builders on the basis of these natural passages. Some prominent parts that affect traffic safety were removed and the ground was roughly filled in. This is what I see now.

Following this passage that is quite tall for humans, I kept moving forward. Not long after walking far, a cave that was larger than the bottom of the well appeared. However, the shape of this cave made me completely stunned.

The cave in front of me is quite large, with an area no less than an indoor football field. There is a large vertically downward hole in the center of this cave. Its area has almost covered the entire cave ground, leaving a circle of passage along the cave wall. However, this circle of passage is not flat, but high and low, and even the width is irregular. The widest place is almost four meters from the cave wall to the edge of the cave, and there is still an area that cannot stand at all in the narrowest place.

I wasn't surprised to find a hole here just because I just jumped down, but it didn't take much trouble. But the problem is that in addition to this downward hole, there is a hole directly above the cave. However, unlike the dark hole below, the hole above the head is actually covered by a layer of light film emitting light with a faint blue light. Through the light film, you can barely see the channel behind it, but you can't see anything clearly a few meters away. However, there is a very bad situation now, that is, the light film on the head is pumping up like a vacuum cleaner. The gravel flying up from time to time from time to time can show that the airflow in this channel is very terrifying. As long as it gets touched a little, it will surely draw people into the hole above in an instant.

However, it's strange. Although the two holes on the top and bottom are crazily circulating gas convection, the horizontal channel where I stand is not airflow at all. Originally, according to the principle of air pressure, since the channel on my side is connecting to the external space, and the big hole on the top is inhaling wildly, I should be howling the wind here, but it's strange that there is not a trace of wind here.

Although I didn't figure out why there was no wind in the horizontal passage, I wanted to know more about how the guys in front passed through the wind passage. Just now, when I arrived at the entrance of the cave, I happened to see the last person in the second echelon climbing into the passage opposite me, and I was blocked here.

In fact, there are four passages in this cave. In addition to the one I came in, there are two more passages, which are the crazy inhalation passage above my head and the big hole like the entrance to hell on the ground. In addition, in addition to these three passages, there is also a passage opposite the entire cave. The second echelon of the Russians walking in front enters the passage opposite, but to go through the two convection areas in the middle that are the same as the straws of the vacuum cleaner.

Although you can go around the two holes in the middle along the hole wall, since the hole on the top of my head can even suck up the stones in the hole below, it can be seen how fast the wind is. Such a strong airflow, let alone you have to go around the hole, even if you get a little closer, you will be pulled over. If it weren't for some unknown reason that there was no airflow in the passage where I stood, I would probably have been pulled into the hole above my head like a cockroach sucked into the vacuum cleaner when I entered the hole outside.

After standing here and studying for a long time, I couldn't figure out how the other party got through, but I knew I couldn't stand like this all the time, so I finally decided to take the risk and try it. Anyway, even if I was sucked into the hole above, I might not die. If I didn't try it, it would be useless to think about it.

After making up my mind, I walked carefully into the cave. I had actually been standing at the entrance of the passage here before and didn't walk over. However, just after I took two steps, a sudden violent airflow suddenly blew me away from the ground. I flipped my eyes and quickly shot the dragon tendon rope into the rock wall, and then used the winch of the cable collector to shrink and pull myself back to the ground.

Now I finally know why I stood in the horizontal passage just now without wind. I spent a long time because there was an invisible barrier at the entrance of the passage that blocked the wind outside. Because I didn't see that barrier, I just stood at the boundary of the barrier. So I walked forward two steps and entered the storm area, which was blown away from the ground.

After crossing the barrier, I realized that the cave here was not only howling strong winds roared and sand and rocks, but also the noise was loud, just like standing next to the space shuttle taking off. The terrifying airflow in the wind duct next to it made a whistling sound from the rock wall that could be compared to the magic sound that penetrated the brain.

Although the environment is extremely harsh, I still have to get through it. Fortunately, the dragon tendon rope has proved that it has the ability to fix me on the ground. Using the dragon tendon rope as a safety rope, I turned Eternal into two daggers, and then crawled across the cave wall against the wall and walked around the opposite hole.

Just like the passage I came in, there was an invisible barrier at the entrance of the cave here. After passing through the barrier, the violent airflow and the deafening noise disappeared in an instant.

The passage on the air duct has two distinctive features compared to the previous passage. The first is that the passage on this side is more primitive than the other side. Not only are there a large number of protruding sharp rocks hanging on the walls and the top of the holes, but the ground is not at all high and low. If the passage on that side has been treated with some simple treatment, the cracks on this side will simply form naturally.

Because I had been delaying too much time in the wind duct before, I didn't dare to sway slowly during this road, for fear that there would be a fork in front of me and I simply started the werewolf form and started to jump between the rocks. The body structure of the werewolf form is more suitable for running and jumping, and the arms will become longer. In this complex terrain, you can climb hands and feet from time to time, which is much faster than simply walking with your feet.

Because of the speed, I ran forward a short distance and caught up with the guys in front. The terrain blocking effect is the same for everyone, and they can't get faster if I don't run fast. Moreover, compared to me, their situation is obviously worse. After all, I am only alone, and I am also a person with super high attributes and good at melee combat. In addition to warriors, there are also groups of mages and auxiliary professionals in their team. The attribute points of these people are added to their mana. They must not be able to compete with warriors in their bodies, and their speed is naturally not too fast. Moreover, even the warriors in their team cannot compete with me in terms of athletic ability.

Since I had caught up with these guys, I simply slowed down and followed them carefully. However, I did not cancel the werewolf form because it was easier to move.

This complex terrain extends forward for about three or four kilometers, and then it begins to show a significant inclination. As the team moves forward, the inclination becomes larger and larger, and finally becomes a slope of more than 70 degrees. Rather than a slope, I think it is more suitable to call it a cliff, but there are more footsteps on this cliff. If you pay a little attention, you can walk down the protruding rocks.

This kind of rock wall is very easy to walk on for me, but the team ahead has nearly 200 people, and there are also mage professions who are not good at physical fitness. As a result, when the slope increases to more than 70 degrees, it only goes down after less than five minutes. Then a man rolls down from the rock. It doesn't matter if he rolls, but the people below him are in trouble. The slope is said to be steep, but it is only 70 degrees after all, it won't be like the ninety-degree slope.

As soon as you get out of the cliff, you will fall to the bottom. Here, the fallen people will roll down the cliff, and then because of the survival instinct, these rolling people will try to grasp everything he can touch. Compared with those prominent rocks, the best thing to catch is undoubtedly his companions. As a result, a person will immediately pull down a large row of people below, and then pull one by one. This time, he took more than a dozen people down in one breath.

"Everyone is careful." A bearded guy in the team shouted angrily as he watched the people who fell away from the darkness.

In fact, there is no point in getting angry like him. This cave is located underground and there is no light source at all. People present rely on the wizard's lighting technique and torches to provide light. The people who can use large lighting techniques in the team were obviously all martyred in the previous monster attacks. The remaining wizards only know personal lighting techniques. This lighting technique not only lasts for a short time, but also can only illuminate a small area around them. In order to find a way on this mountain wall, everyone cannot squeeze into a group to borrow light, so they cannot borrow it.

People who assist in lighting and looking at the road have to use torches. The mountain wall is originally inclined, and it is located deep underground. The rocks are very wet. The surface is either sharp and cannot be grasped or slippery. Some rocks look very flat, but they will break when they stand up. Such complex terrain is not enough to use hands and feet. These people have to hold a torch. It has only been an accident that has been considered as high-quality people. If ordinary players climb this section of the road, they will probably lose half of them.

Of course, for me, it would be better if they died. As long as they don’t die, leave one or two for me to lead the way. As for myself, it’s hard for me to fall down this way. After all, I use absolute dark vision and don’t need to use one hand to catch the torch. Moreover, my werewolf form has sharp hooks on my hands and feet. On this kind of rock cliff, I basically go on a road like walking on a big road. As long as the whole mountain does not fall off, I will never fall down. Besides, even if I fall down, it’s okay. Anyway, we still have wings, so we can fly. The caves here are very wide, and even if they are lucky, they can barely fly, let alone I’m not lucky enough to have a big head.

After following this slope section of more than 70 degrees, the guy who had been downstairs for a period of two or three kilometers, the guy in the team who had asked everyone to be careful before finally issued a rest order. It was not that he was polite to his subordinates, but that he was not able to do so.

Just now, the player fell again. However, it was different from the previous mistake. This time it was not because the player himself made a mistake, but because he was suddenly forced to kick off the line by the system. The player was forced to kick out, but his body in the game did not disappear. The body, which was uncontrollable, completely lost control, and rolled down the mountain. Fortunately, the person was standing in a relatively high position and did not hit the person below.

According to the information I heard from the mage and Big Bear before, this second tier should be the first tier, which means that they should be comparable to the first tier in online time. However, the first tier was just rushing, and they had a very fierce battle because of the monsters that Cook led to. You should know that the accumulation of fatigue in the battle is much faster than usual. Now even the first tier, which has smaller movement volume, is resting, and it is not surprising that some of their teams that have fought in battles have been forced to kick off the line.

Although it was just stopping to repair, it was not that easy to rest on this inclined slope. These players and NPCs were really good, but no matter how elite they were, they could not become bats. It is not something that humans can do while sleeping, and that is not something that ordinary people can do.

However, although they cannot sleep on the cliff with their own strength, the talent of a person is that they have the brain to know how to use tools. With the assistance of several specialized personnel in the team, they soon punched steel nails on the rocks and hung all the sleeping bags on the nails. Although it was uncomfortable to sleep like this, the current conditions were just like this, and there was no way to be unhappy.

The guy who led the lead explained the rotational alert tasks and started to take a quick break. Seeing that they had stopped and couldn't wait for them to wake up, I decided to go over them and go downstairs to see the situation. I didn't want to surpass them before because I wanted them to step on a landmine for me in front, but now I really don't want to wait for them to sleep, so I had to go down first.

Without them in front of me, I would have been much faster by myself. For example, this downward passage, I didn’t need to climb down slowly, just spread my wings and jump down, gliding down along the inclination of the crypt, and landed on the ground safely without even flapping my wings.

I couldn't see the bottom of the hole above before, but when I landed, I found that the slope was really long enough. The second tier of the Russians above has only reached one-third of the slope, and it is still twice as long as it is. At their speed, don't count on the end without an hour. Of course, I glided and landed much faster, and it didn't take five minutes in total from top to bottom.

The bottom and above of this slope are basically the same in the terrain structure, with rocks and various long and strange-shaped stalagmites and pillars everywhere. Since there is no one here, I even saved my hiding shape. I spread my wings and started flying forward along the passage. Although there are many obstacles in the passage, it is all for people on the ground. Flying in the air is not that much trouble.

I flew forward seven or eight kilometers along the passage, and this super long passage finally came to an end. But what made me depressed was that what I least wanted to see appeared, and as soon as it appeared, there was a large area.

The wide passage is connected to a huge crypt here, which is more than three times larger than the one with the previous ducts. However, in this huge crypt, there are dozens of channels scattered in different directions. Those passages are large, small in size, some are small enough for one person to climb in, and some are large so that Lucky and Mira can walk over with their hands in their body form.

"Damn, there was no fork in such a long road before. I just passed those guys and encountered so many forks. What did I do if I tried to trick me?" Seeing so many forks, I couldn't help complaining. But no matter how much I complain, I still have to walk on the road.

In order to determine which is the correct fork, I plan to walk around the cave first to see if there are any clues or something. No matter what, this place is a natural cave. Since someone has hidden something here, someone must have walked through this place. As long as someone has walked through it, some clues will inevitably be left behind. The key is to see whether these clues are obvious enough to be discovered.

I carefully searched inch by inch through the cave, and suddenly I noticed that a rock on the wall was a little different. Compared with the surrounding rocks with blade edges, this rock was obviously very round, like a pebbles. I was about to walk over and observe carefully, but suddenly I heard a crack sound from my feet. I quickly retreated and looked down and found a broken human skull on the ground.

"Are the undead?" Seeing this skull, a smile appeared on my face. I quickly took out a handful of crystal powder from my body, and then sprinkled it on the sky, and then said, "The dead who sleeps here, obey my call. Rekindle the fire of the soul, leave the cold earth, shake off the soil on your body, and return to this warm world."

As my last spell was completed, the crystal powder in the air suddenly emitted a blue light, and it was not until a few seconds later that the surroundings returned to darkness again. However, just a few seconds after the surroundings became dark again, a sound of rocks rolling suddenly came from the originally quiet falling needle-averable crypt. Then the ground around seemed to suddenly wake up, with the sound of stones rolling everywhere, and some large rocks were also shaking and trying to move.

Suddenly, I heard a buzzing sound. Less than half a meter away from me, a rock as big as a TV suddenly flew up, and a gray bone hand suddenly appeared at the place where the rock was originally stationed. After reaching out of the ground, the bone hand slowly turned left and right, and then a large number of cracks suddenly appeared on the ground around my arm, and the entire ground was lifted up, and a skeleton with a broken body suddenly sat up from under the ground.

As the skeleton sat up from the ground, a large number of skeletons emerged from behind the rocks, under the stones, and even on the walls. The originally empty cave instantly turned into a sea of ​​skeletons. I originally planned to awaken one or two skeletons and asked about the bottom lane, but I didn't expect that there were thousands of skeletons that got up, and the number was too exaggerated.

When the skeletons crawled out from under the ground, they immediately raised their heads and observed the surrounding environment with the soul fire that was leaping in their eyes until they discovered my existence. Then all the skeletons' attention was focused on me. However, just as the blue soul fire in their heads began to gradually turn red and was about to enter the violent mode, a sudden blast of the blazing fire on my body ignited. At the moment the flames on my body ignited, all the soul fires of all the skeletons turned from red to blue, and finally turned white.

The soul fire of the skeleton is their soul. An experienced liar can tell others lies without blushing or breathing, even if he believes it is true, but no matter how powerful a liar is, he cannot disguise his soul, because the soul represents thought. Unless you have never thought of it, it is impossible to make the soul show a false reaction. Of course, the soul of ordinary creatures is invisible, so it doesn't matter even if it cannot be disguised, but skeletons are different. Because there is insufficient biological tissue on their body, there are several large holes in the skull that plays a protective role, so the soul fire of the skeleton is actually half exposed. This determines that their soul reaction can be seen intuitively by others.

When a soul is in silence or confusion, his soul will emit blue or purple light, and for the undead, this state will be their main state. Red represents passion, and the same is true for the undead. When the skeletons see things they are interested in - such as creatures and living lives. When they see these creatures, they will appear very excited, and their souls will change from blue to red, and the degree of excitement will determine the brightness of the red. However, the real soul fire of the undead is neither red nor blue, but white.

To be honest, it is difficult for ordinary people to have the opportunity to see the white soul fire. Of course, if you see the free soul body that is separated from the skeleton or other undead body and overflowing from the body, their colors are generally white. However, the soul fire that is still in the undead creature is rarely white, because white only represents one situation for the undead - the connection state.

The so-called connection state is a completely open and unpreventive state, which represents a completely open soul. If the soul is hit at this time, it will bear more than a hundred times of damage. Moreover, other souls can read their memories or give orders to them at this time. Of course, if you don’t feel disgusted, it is OK to swallow those souls. Anyway, the soul in the open state is like a beauty who has been washed away and is ready to contribute everything to you. The next is your absolute time, and whatever you want to do is your thoughts.

Of course, it is precisely because the soul in the connecting state is so fragile and unprepared that ordinary undead creatures rarely do this. This is the same as when you suddenly tell someone that you will rise and fall and be willing to do tasks for him, including giving your life. This behavior cannot be said to be impossible, but it absolutely requires quite harsh conditions to happen. After all, no one will be stupid and suddenly want to contribute everything to someone. This is a very abnormal behavior.

Although the undead does not have a flexible mind, they have basic judgment at least. The undead will never do it easily. So why do these skeletons present open their souls to me and enter the state of connection? The answer is - I am the devil.

Hey...it seems to be that.

As we all know, my evil attribute cannot decrease, so it has been rising a long time ago. In addition, some accidents later, my evil value has now become a number-ordinary existence. But... Although evil value can easily scare ordinary NPCs, for creatures like the undead and demons, evil value should actually be regarded as affinity. That is to say, the higher your evil value, the more the undead and demons like you, and my current evil value... can basically be regarded as a common idol in the undead world.

The above is why the souls of those skeletons suddenly turned red and then turned white in an instant after discovering me. Their souls suddenly turned red because they found that I was a creature, so instinct drove them to attack me, but then they suddenly discovered my astronomical evil value, and then these guys instantly fell under my evil pressure. Having said that, although we don’t have a turtle energy, can we still be scared at critical moments?

"Hello, the dead who have woken up from their long sleep." I found a larger stone and stood on it and said to the thousands of skeletons below.

After I finished speaking, all the skeletons fell to my knees and gave me a big gift of crawling on the ground and sent me a soul wave like thanks, but their actions made me frown.

Generally speaking, the undead will retain some habits during their lifetime. Although their memories during their lifetime will be more chaotic, things like habits are not so easy to forget. For example, the etiquette for superiors is difficult to forget. If a modern person becomes a skeleton, then I just said hello to them, even if such skeletons don’t remember who they are, they will definitely want to shake hands with me. However, the skeletons in front of them collectively gave a big gift of promising to the ground. The problem is that this kind of etiquette seems to be not used much in modern times, even in feudal times. Even when ordinary people see the emperor, they are nothing more than kneeling on the ground and facing the ground. There are very few super gifts that even the chest must be put on the ground.

"Now, I wake you up and want you to help me and answer some questions." After I finished speaking, the skeletons below immediately came with a wave of agreement or promised that they would know what to say. I waited until they finished expressing it before continuing: "The first question now, does anyone know if you died here at the same time?"

Because my memories were quite messy during my lifetime, even if the undead here died together, there were definitely not many of them who could remember this moment. Sure enough, only two undead in the end replied: "I know. We were poisoned to death here at the same time."

"Very good. Next question. Which country are you from?"

Actually, what I want to know is what era they are from, but it is actually stupid to ask this question directly. As a modern person, you can certainly distinguish between the Warring States Period, Spring and Autumn Period, Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty, but if the other party is from that dynasty, can he decide the dynasty for himself? It seems that if one day you are resurrected and find yourself appearing in a space warship, and the people inside say that they are the army of the Great Universe Federation, and ask which dynasty you are from, how do you answer? Say you are a modern person? Compare with others, you are a primitive person, and say that you are

It is definitely wrong to be a modern person. Of course, you can also say that you are from the Republic era, but what if someone asks you which republic you are? Then someone explains it to you and you will know that humans have entered the universe era for more than 100,000 years. There have been hundreds of world-wide changes in humans. Can you know which republic you are the first? Even if you say that you are from the first republic, you may not be able to express your meaning correctly according to the representatives of the year, because the historical information of others may be different from what we know. The first generation you mentioned may not be considered the first generation.

Therefore, asking an ancient man from which dynasty you belonged to. Asking this question means not asking. It is better to ask him directly which country he belongs to. At least based on historical information, we can find out which dynasty he belongs to.

Sure enough, a skeleton quickly replied below: "We are from Qin."

Look, isn't the problem clear now? Since the Qin State has come out, the general historical period will be clear. Anyway, I'm not here to do archaeology, just know the approximate historical era.

"Next question. Why are you poisoned to death here?"

"because……"

The communication speed is very fast using this question-and-answer method, because my questions are very targeted and the other party’s answers are also very concise. From these questions and answers, I roughly figured out the situation here.

These skeletons were actually all the civil servants of Qin. They were summoned by the king to build the Seven Thousand Tombs. As for this cave, it was completely natural. They just dug the vertical well we passed by when we first came in and built a gate. However, in the deepest part of the cave behind this, there was a Seven Thousand Tombs. However, although they built the Seven Thousand Tombs, the king at that time would not tell them the specific purpose of these people. What they knew was only

They didn't know what the monarch wanted to build this thing. However, they guessed the reason for their killing. Of course, Wuwei was a means to kill people to silence the Seven Thousand Tombs. Anyway, there were too many such things in that era, such as building a tomb. Generally, they killed all the construction workers in the end, and used them as sacrifices, and secondly, they could ensure that the location of the tombs was not leaked.

Although I didn't ask what was installed in the Qixiongzu, it didn't matter whether I knew this question or not. Anyway, I would naturally know it when I got there. What I want to know most now is how to get over and what is there. These problems have now been solved.

Finally, I picked out two skeletons from the skeletons who remembered the details of the Seven Thousand Tunge to guide me, and then used dispersion to let the other skeletons return to their sleepy state.

Because the skeletons have no muscles and internal organs, the two skeletons are not as heavy as one person. I easily lifted the two skeletons in my hand and flew over in the direction they pointed.

If these two skeletons hadn't been guided, I wouldn't have found the right path. Although there were no less than eighty passages in this damn place, the two skeletons replied in unison when I asked which of the correct path was: "All of them are fake."

"What? They're all fake?"

"Yes, it's all fake. The real road is not here." The two skeletons explained kindly when they looked like I couldn't react: "This is used to confuse tomb robbers. All the channels are fake, and all have mechanisms. Those who walk in will definitely be dead and lifeless. Moreover, even if the gods who can crack all mechanisms come, it's useless, because the real Seven Thousand Tombs are not there at all."

"Where is the real Qixiong?"

"When sir came in, did you see the vertical downward shaft?" asked one of the skeletons.

I nodded and said, "Of course. Isn't it the one under the gate?"

"Yes, that's that." Another skeleton replied: "The real seven-eighth tomb is right there."

"What? Then wouldn't I run away in vain for such a long passage?"

One of the skeletons corrected: "In fact, it's not a waste of time, because if the adults don't find us, it would be useless even if they know where the Qixiong is."
To be continued...