The eagle said to go, and walked in front with Gardenia to lead the way for Li Huan. Although Li Huan emphasized to them many times, the eagle's stubbornness was beyond Li Huan's imagination. He said that this body was given to him by Li Huan, so his life was also given by Li Huan. Even if you don't want to give up this body, you can't let Li Huan encounter danger.

In the end, Li Huan could only admit this fact, let the two walk slowly in front, he followed behind, and if there was any danger, he could still rescue him in time.

It is said to be an underground city, but in fact, this passage, at least as far as this passage is concerned, does not meet the requirements of a dungeon at all, it is a natural earth tunnel. But it's right to think that this tunnel is the way to the underground altar that the Aztecs built at that time, so it is natural to be more secretive. If the entrance to this tunnel had been built in magnificence from the beginning, and even a pyramid of the sun had been built, it would not have taken a day for the Spanish conquistadors to find this secret tunnel, and the rest would not have happened.

Gardenia and Eagle led the way in front, Li Huan followed behind, and Wangcai's size was too big, so Li Huan left it at the entrance of the cave again. Although everyone is now walking towards the terrifying dungeon, an underground altar that once sacrificed 20,000 people, Li Huan always felt that the two people in front of him were like an outing, and they could show happy expressions no matter what happened.

Of course, they have been suffocated for hundreds of years.

And as they got along a little longer, Li Huan also grasped the characteristics of the two. For example, the eagle actually doesn't like to talk, he will speak when it is most critical, and usually he is silent. But Gardenia is obviously much more enthusiastic and generous, and regardless of whether the eagle ignores her or not, she will always chirp around the eagle, or introduce Li Huan to some interesting things about their previous lives—those very fragmentary, almost fragmented memories of the days.

"I found that the eagle is a little silent, how did you know each other?" On the way to the dungeon, Li Huan didn't forget to gossip: "It's always you who speak, and the eagle doesn't say a word." ”

"My lord, this is in front of you, he has already talked too much. When I knew him, he always didn't talk all day, and I think about it, we've known each other for so long, and we don't talk more than ten sentences a day on average. When someone asks him something, he won't speak, and he is often beaten by his master because of this. I often saw him sitting alone in a daze, and if his master wasn't there, or if there was no other command, the eagle could even sit still all day!" said Gardenia.

"Then it's good that he met you in advance, otherwise with this character, he is destined to be a single dog for the rest of his life in modern times. Li Huan laughed.

Listening to Gardenia's description, Li Huan can probably understand why Eagle has developed such a character. As an individual in a collective, he was forced out of labor by the Aztec Empire, killing his mother and leaving his father behind. There is almost no joy in the whole childhood, like a robot that never stops. Then the Aztec Empire was destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors, and he was captured by the Spanish conquistadors as a slave, and he searched for treasures in the wild for several years, and the perennial loneliness even made him unable to speak. This is not alarmist at all, there is scientific evidence to prove that if a person does not speak, does not communicate with others, and does not use language for a long time, then his language and dialogue function will be extremely degraded, and eventually become a mute.

If he hadn't met Gardenia, maybe Eagle would have been one of the thousands of mutes, but luckily, Eagle was lucky enough to meet this kind girl from China. save him from becoming a mute. But even so, years of collectivism and slavery had made him accustomed to not using his own language. can say so many words to Gardenia and Li Huan, which shows what kind of status Gardenia is in his mind, what kind of grace Li Huan has for saving his life and letting him reunite with Gardenia.

"It's here. ”

When Li Huan was thinking nonsense, the eagle suddenly interrupted his train of thought. Li Huan raised his head and found that the tunnel had come to an end, and he was standing in a huge and vast underground cave, and he could even see the remains of the city wall not far away. Li Huan watched for a long time and didn't understand how the Aztecs dug such a big cave in just a few years......

"It's a natural cave, and we renovated it on the spot to build the altar. As if knowing Li Huan's doubts, the eagle took the initiative to explain: "I'll take you to the center of the dungeon, where the altar is." ”

What appeared in front of Li Huan's eyes now was the ruins of the dungeon, the huge earthquake that day destroyed the city above the altar, and many places in the dungeon became ruins, and the altar was in the middle of this dungeon, but you had to walk to the center of the city to see it. The eagle was already familiar with the situation here, and took Li Huan towards the center.

Li Huan walked along the road and found that the dungeon was very badly damaged.

And there is no trace of the grandeur of the dungeon that Li Huan imagined here.

In fact, this underground city cannot be called a city yet, and the underground city should still be just a prototype of a huge crypt excavated on the basis of the original underground natural cave. After all, no matter how good the Aztecs were, they had only been here for a few years. Coupled with the Spanish conquistadors supervising outside, it was impossible for the Aztecs, who were alone and scarce in resources, to develop with peace of mind and build any magnificent dungeons.

However, despite being in ruins, the buildings in front of you still show some traces of the past - for example, the only remaining part of the dungeon, which can be called a magnificent and tall wall.

After Li Huan and the others entered the dungeon, this city wall divided the dungeon into two parts, and they had to bypass this city wall to enter the core of the dungeon, that is, the altar.

The walls were made entirely of huge stone blocks, a natural adhesive poured between them, so strong enough to resist the most powerful external attacks, which was probably planned by the Aztecs to defend the dungeons against the Spanish conquistadors in case they were discovered. Unfortunately, the Spanish conquistadors were too negligent to discover the dungeon and the altar, and ended up slaughtering the city, and the walls built so grandly did not work, but the dungeon was eventually destroyed by an earthquake.

When Li Huan entered the dungeon, he threw a few spirit balloons into the sky to illuminate them, Li Huan's flares had all been consumed, although the spirit balloons could also be illuminated, but the light was extremely weak, and the cold white light was even more bleak underground. The ancient walls built by the Aztecs reflected a dim light, revealing the ruins behind them between the small half-collapsed walls, and some scaffolding-like things hanging from the city's heads, turning them into a spider's paradise. Deep and terrifying fissures crisscrossed the collapsed gates, silently recounting the dungeon's past in the faint light.

After seven bends and eight rounds, the eagle led Li Huan to a gate that was almost collapsed, according to the eagle's description, this was the entrance to the dungeon.

"From here, you will see the underground altar, which is the center of the dungeon...... However, the last earthquake destroyed the dungeon, so I don't know if I can get there. The eagle said honestly, "But try a few more paths, and you will always find it." ”

Li Huan first threw in a spirit balloon, and then followed the eagle into it: "This place is quite dark...... What did you use for lighting before?"

"It wasn't dark for us. The eagle was the first to walk into the black one

"In the past, there was a kind of mushroom that glowed on the top of the cave, and we would pick some mushrooms every day and plant them where we needed them, and we would work with this light. But after the earthquake, I don't know why they all disappeared. It's a good thing you can use this light source, otherwise we'd really have to make our way through the dungeon in the dark. Of course, I'm familiar with dungeons, and I'm confident that I'll be able to take you to the center of the group even if it's dark. ”

"The working conditions are so difficult, and you can see such a huge dungeon. Ancient civilizations are not to be underestimated. Li Huan sighed: "The Chinese are already a hard-working nation, and compared with your working conditions, our happiness index is really high." ”

When Li Huan said this, the expression on the eagle's face was very calm. What Li Huan said was true, the Aztecs were captured as slaves by the Spanish conquistadors after their annihilation, and when they built this underground city, the shortage of resources had reached an alarming level. Because in their own situation, all the building materials were prepared by them, and they were usually responsible for the work of the Spaniards, and they had little time and resources left, so they could only desperately squeeze their own time and experience. You must know that these people were originally Aztec warriors before, although the Aztec civilization also has a glorious architectural history, but it was built by professional craftsmen, and the warriors are quite useful soldiers on the battlefield, but in the field of construction, they are definitely not a good worker, relying on them to build and gather, the efficiency is really low, but even so, they still built a magnificent underground city in a short time.

But the eagle seems to have become accustomed to this kind of living environment, Li Huan knows very well that there is nothing very special about the body he replaced, and he can be familiar with the actions in the underground environment where there is only a faint spirit balloon lighting, which shows that he has been here for a long time - don't think that the Aztecs always like blood and brutality, and ordinary Aztecs also yearn for peace and light, Li Huan doesn't believe that every Aztec likes to watch the intestines, brains and blood flow sideways.

As he continued to go deeper into the dungeon, the use of spirit balloons to illuminate also made Li Huan a little tired - if Li Huan was full of blood, of course it didn't exist, but he forgot that he had only killed the eagle thousands of times not long ago...... Consumes quite a bit.

"Fool, you can buy a prosthetic, why don't you buy a light source?" Xiao Fei was really tired to see.

"What you say makes sense!" Li Huan immediately opened the auction space to look for it, and sure enough, there was also a light source for sale. Li Huan had never thought of this before, he thought that the auction system was full of high-end things, where would he think that there would be ordinary light sources for sale. Li Huan quickly spent a hundred crystals of energy to buy a floating perpetual motion lighting source, which could extract water from the air and make complex transformations into a light source.

As soon as this light source was released, the underground world suddenly lit up, startling the eagle who was leading the way in the dark and the gardenia who was following the eagle. The two turned to look at the light source like a small sun and were stunned for a long time, not knowing what it was. However, the two didn't ask much, just glanced at Li Huan with awe, and continued to lead the way in front.

"This is a little too bright, can you dim it?" Li Huan looked at the floating light source: "Xiaofei, you can control it." ”

Xiao Fei was speechless, took over the control of the floating light source, and slowly adjusted the brightness of the natural light, which made Li Huan feel a lot more comfortable.

"Stop, whoever!"

Eagle and Gardenia were curious about this light source, and watched Xiao Fei adjust the light source while leading the way, and when they were just around a corner, suddenly a shout broke out in front of them: "Stop, who is it!"

Li Huan subconsciously condensed a stream of aura in his hand, this is a dungeon that has been imprisoned by time for hundreds of years, although he has now synchronized with this world by using soul threads with the eagle, and there will no longer be anything immortal and immortal, but the warning sound that suddenly appeared in the dungeon, how can it not make people nervous?

Li Huan looked up and saw that he had already arrived at an open field in front of him.

No, not in the open field, to be exact, a huge, estimated two or three thousand square meters, polished very smooth slate. Under the illumination of the floating light source, Li Huan could clearly see that there were some mysterious and incomprehensible symbols on the polished very smooth surface. Arranged in a neat and regular manner. Li Huan couldn't recognize their origin at all, but there were some symbols that Li Huan had seen on that white pyramid.

That's right, this is the masterpiece of the Aztecs.

The reason why Li Huan was able to recognize that this was not an ordinary place was because as long as he stood here, or even gazed with his eyes, he could feel his aura and spiritual power boiling for a while. This huge polished smooth stone slab seemed to be a formation. A formation that Li Huan couldn't understand. Looking beyond this sleek stone slab, Li Huan could already see a corner of an underground city that was beginning to take shape—of course, the city now looked more like a hole in the earth.

And the one who had just issued the warning was a man who looked like he had the air of the dead. He has a top body, his body is covered with various paints, and he seems to be in the same state as when he just died. Li Huan had just coincided with this timeline, and for him, no matter how many hundred years they had passed, everything had just started to be counted again.

"Lizard, lizard, do you still know me? I'm an eagle! We've lived together in a cave for years, have you forgotten?" the eagle who walked in front stared at each other for a while, and then suddenly spoke.

"Eagle, you're an eagle, didn't you leave when you activated the formation...... No, you're not an eagle!" a chill flashed in the dead man's eyes.

"I'm really an eagle, nothing more than mine...... The adults gave me a body, you see, this is my new body!" The eagle quickly said, "It's really me, that's right!"

Because Li Huan broke the timeline of this world, this is the time and things in the world for Li Huan, all of which are calculated from the moment of the collapse. The eagle and the young man called the lizard had just been separated on Li Huan's timeline - this calculation method was too complicated, and Li Huan couldn't understand it anyway. The young man named Lizard seemed to be in good shape, at least he hadn't turned into a pile of rotten meat, and he still had quite a long memory.

The eagle was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, so he hurriedly stepped forward to explain everything that had happened.

Ten minutes later.

The eagle came back with his old friend, and he took the initiative to say to Li Huan: "The lizard and I lived in the same village when we were in the Aztec era, and we were also captured together. At that time, when the sacrifice was launched, he happened to be guarding the altar...... He can tell you where the high priest is. Rest assured, I have already confirmed my identity with him. ”

"The Living...... How strange did you come to this world?" the lizard, though in better condition than the eagle at the beginning, is always a picture of the dead. He walked up to Li Huan under the leadership of the eagle, and his severely muscular atrophy face twitched twice quickly, and then he pretended to be casual and moved his gaze to Li Huan: "Can you really let us out of this strange world? I've been living here for I don't know how many years, or can you let me have my own body like an eagle?" I'm fed up with this place." ”

"It's hard to say, but the specific problem is analyzed on a case-by-case basis...... You know where the High Priest is, right? I'm going to settle the problem of us getting out of here, and I've got important information to send out. Li Huan didn't dare to agree, at that time, Li Huan had no choice, and sent the eagle to the eternal court for trial, and the trial came out of a way

A flawless soul. God knows what this young man named Lizard will be like if he is sent in. Of course, the one who was sent in to ashes was not necessarily the bad guy, if Li Huan hadn't had Xiaofei's help, his lifeline would have ended.

"Yes, I can take you to the High Priest!" the lizard nodded hurriedly.

"Such a happy ......" Li Huan was a little puzzled, because the appearance he appeared just now was the appearance of a loyal guard.

"Of course, I don't know your identity, I'm sure I'm going to stop you, I'm a warrior after all...... I don't know if I'm dead or alive now, but I can't let people destroy our last holy place at will. The lizard said, "But if there is anything that can take us out, it is two words, not only me, but even the high priest has had enough of such days." ”

"Didn't the sacrifice be initiated by the high priest?" Li Huan was curious: "He must have known that there would be such consequences, how could he regret it?"

"Time can always change all perceptions and ideas, and we were all loyal supporters of this sacrifice at that time. But I don't know how many days I've spent here, and I've done my duty to the Aztecs, including in the moments leading up to your arrival. The lizard said, "Come, I will take you to the high priest." ”

After saying this, he added, "But be prepared, for the high priest is good at talking, but there are those who are not good at talking." ”

"What preparation?" Li Huan asked, "Doesn't he really want to get out of the sea of suffering?"

"Many people want to get out of the sea of suffering, but some people can't forget their rights. The lizard smiled wryly.

......

Warriors really weren't fit to be qualified workers, and although the Aztecs were tireless and tireless in building the underworld, physical strength and endurance didn't necessarily mean high craftsmanship. Looking at the rough caves and crooked tunnels in front of him, Li Huan deeply realized what it means to be interlaced like a mountain, these slaves who were captured to build a town have actually worked hard, but it is estimated that the house above his head was planned by Spanish designers and architects - it is actually not easy for this group of people to make the building like that.

This contradiction is especially pronounced at a time when their country has been destroyed, transforming from a horrific and bloody empire that dominates Central America into a race of enslaved and obedient orders. No matter how skilled the Aztecs were in architecture, not everyone was able to engage in the advanced profession of architecture. In the war, the Aztecs were slaughtered indiscriminately, and the Spanish conquistadors were also not brainful, and they probably took a lot of effort to build towns with these slaves - at least the dungeon that Li Huan saw was like this, judging from the buildings behind the walls that did not require much technology, this dungeon lacked resources, craftsmen, perfect production capacity, and almost everything imaginable, and they did not have all the conditions.

And the reason why Li Huanting admired the Aztecs was also here - although they lacked all the conditions, the only thing they had, and the most precious, was an unyielding soul and amazing unity, but these two points alone were not enough for the Aztecs to build such a huge city-state underground after being captured and enslaved.

Li Huan knew this very well, the supreme ruler of this altar dungeon, a skeleton, the high priest who used to be the highest status, has now become a high priest with a skeleton with green phosphorus fire in his eyes, and he is equally clear.

The eagle and the lizard passed through the tunnel with seven twists and turns, and brought Li Huan to a stone house about two square meters high and about two hundred square meters, and introduced him to the actual ruler of the dungeon, the high priest who presided over the living sacrifice of 20,000 people, Kakaruba.

This was the last high priest of the Aztecs after the destruction of the country, and even though he had gathered the captured slaves and built the dungeon, he was now in a simple house made of stone. Li Huan could see from the appearance that these stones were taken from the ground, and they were very rough when cut, and in terms of volume, length and shape, it should not have been specially built for this "council chamber", but the surplus materials left over from the construction of the city wall. Although they had already decorated this place, Li Huan still felt that as the heart of a dungeon, this place was really shabby.

Kakaruba stood in the center of the council chamber, looking at Li Huan and his party with two phosphorus fires in his eyes, while at the same time, Li Huan was also secretly observing the last high priest of the Aztecs.

First of all, Li Huan had a doubt in his mind.

This high priest must have had a very strong power during his lifetime, otherwise he would not have been able to complete such a great sacrifice. That's the problem, he has such power. He can turn so many people into soul or half-soul beings, why is it that he is only a skeleton when he comes to himself? If his mental power and power or sorcery are strong enough, when they are strong enough to be powerful enough to be powerful to a certain extent. He can guarantee that his appearance, and even his memory, are no different from those before his death. Think about the kind of person Li Huan saw in the underground bunker of the De Beers family in the United Kingdom, that is, an existence with extremely powerful spiritual power and aura. He's dead, I don't know how many years have been, but he's still in his original form.

And the situation of the high priest is just the opposite, if Li Huan's guess is correct, he must have had very strong strength and extremely powerful spiritual power during his lifetime. If so, then as long as he wants, he can save his former appearance and not become the miserable skeleton he is now, so what happened to him?

It seemed that Li Huan's unscrupulous scrutiny caused the high priest's dissatisfaction, and an old and slightly hoarse voice suddenly sounded in Li Huan's spiritual power channel. This confirmed Li Huan's guess. After the high priest Kakaruba turned into a skeleton form, he was able to communicate with his spiritual power, and the spiritual power he possessed during his lifetime must have been unimaginably strong.

"Outsider, you don't seem to know your current situation?" the high priest's voice seemed to carry a sense of the vicissitudes of life that had traveled thousands of years ago.

"Not very surely, but the only thing I do know is that the Aztecs were really not very hospitable. I've been here for so long, I don't even have a chair to sit on. I don't know if your shortage of resources has really reached such a point, not only me, but I don't think even you have ......," Li Huan said with a big grin.

The phosphorus fire in Kakaruba's eye sockets jumped twice, obviously surprised by Li Huan's bold attitude. Of course, he didn't know that Li Huan had fully understood the causes of this world and their thoughts. If Li Huan had just come here today and was directly facing the high priest, then his statement would have been different. But it just so happened that here, Li Huan had just learned the thoughts of the Aztecs through the eagle, and they all wanted to escape from this world, even the high priest was no exception. The high priest just spoke coldly. It's just to express his attitude in a high position, which is the reserve of the superior, Li Huan understands it very well.

Sure enough, the flame in the eye socket of the high priest jumped a few times, and then let out an ugly laugh: "An interesting outsider, you seem to be much braver than other outsiders who see the Aztecs...... But as you can see, there are no supplies in this dungeon. Why did you come to me, it's better to say now, I don't like to go around in circles. ”

After saying that, the high priest also added, "Actually, I knew it when you first came to this world. You're on a rampage in my forest. But fortunately, you rescued my people by chance, so I will give you a chance to speak. ”