Chapter 17: The Tower of Babel and the Forsaken Pawn
And the remnants of the Wusang Clan who had been driven back into the gathering place before seemed to be shouting to inform the other clansmen inside, Li Jie and they could already hear more and more voices boiling from a distance, and there were faint figures shaking on the lookout tower at the edge of the stone city, obviously discovering the huge contingent of the Shenyuan Society that was constantly pouring out of the jungle.
"Everyone follow the team, let's go full speed ahead and break into the core area with all our strength before these wildlings are fully mobilized, so that we can reach the treasure storage place with less resistance!"
Takayama Yuo didn't give everyone time to observe or think carefully at all, almost when the team had just emerged and was not fully gathered, he suddenly shouted, and spread this order to the whole team, making everyone's hearts subconsciously tighten, and involuntarily followed him in a rapid sprint towards the staggered branch in the outer lookout tower.
Those towers seem to be scattered and irregular, but when the high-speed sprinting team approaches, it is found that there is actually an ingenious layout, the inside and outside are like dogs and teeth intertwined, even if they rush past the first floor, they can't relax at all, but fall into a more dangerous situation of being attacked on their backs.
However, as Takayama Yufu said, it is obvious that the Wusang people have lived in this primeval forest for a long time, and they have not encountered such a large-scale team rushing into the stone city for an unknown amount of time.
Most of the scattered attacks were concentrated on the arrows of the team, and in that part, with the dual protection of Takayama Yuo's pitch-black poisonous clouds and the frost light and shadow of Kamihara Division, almost no attacks could be effective, and even those tall weirdos who wanted to give up throwing spears and spears and try to jump from the tower to launch an assault. For everywhere they passed, they were quickly frozen in layers of frost. Leave two long and spectacular glaciers on either side of the procession. Countless human bodies and towers form ice sculptures in different postures, as if they are completely isolated from the world.
At the unimaginable speed of everyone, they rushed through the defense line of the tower almost instantaneously, and entered the interior of the stone city, and they could already see a faintly large number of Wusanga people roaring and rushing over to attack, but most of them were left behind by the team full of indomitable momentum, and there was no stagnation at all to continue to break in, break in, and break in again!
The adrenaline-pumping, high-speed sprint lasted for several minutes, at least nearly two kilometres on feel. Only then did people feel that the pressure gradually increased, and countless figures could be seen besieging them from almost all directions, and they could no longer maintain that unbridled charge.
Countless spears and spears thrown from the sky were like torrential rains, even if the poisonous clouds and mist of Takayama Yufu were surging higher and higher, almost completely occupying the sky within a radius of 100 meters, they had begun to be difficult to completely isolate and decompose, and more and more spears and spears that were decomposed and eaten into the mutilation were extremely tenacious through the pitch-black clouds and mist, and fell into the ranks below.
At this time, every step forward has become extremely difficult, and sporadic casualties have begun to appear around us. Many people woke up suddenly, and the silver-white light and shadow that was originally parallel to Takayama Yufu no longer knew when it would disappear!
"Kamihara will go to the front!"
"Grow up?!"
"We're falling behind?"
A few of the quicker ones had already exclaimed.
The pitch-black clouds above Takayama Yuo stretched wildly. It almost made people feel like they were covering the clouds and the sun, and they enveloped a group of Wusang people who came from the shock, and they let out a terrible howl, and their tall and strong bodies dissolved one after another, and their mouths warned sharply:
"Don't talk nonsense! Defend with all your might, rush to the core area in front of you! ”
With the presence of him, the one who gave orders, it made the others quiet again, although there were many doubts in their hearts, but because the wild people in front of them were beyond imagination and the impact pressure was huge, there was no time to worry too much, but the speed of the breakthrough under his feet had to become slower and slower, giving birth to the feeling of being mired in the quagmire and being burned, and there was no longer the previous indomitable momentum.
Tsukasa Kamihara disappeared?
Of course not, at this moment, the president of the Shenyuan Association is like a ghost in the sun, even if there is still a Tani Shin Michio under his arm, the speed is so fast that he can almost only see a trace of afterimage, but he also conceals the sound and breath of all the actions of the two to the extreme, and flies forward like a ghost.
This way of advancing undoubtedly made him a stark contrast to the huge and dusty team in the rear, not to mention the highly poisonous clouds and mist that Takayama Yuo had exerted to the extreme, and in this stone city where the light was still very abundant, the majestic black fog was simply the most eye-catching target.
At this time, if you only rely on the ability to pull hatred, the brigade led by Takayama Yuo can be regarded as a full level, and the Kamihara Division, who forcibly blocked his own breath sound and rode alone, may not even be able to compare to him.
This led to a clear and natural result, those Wusang people who rushed out of the strange buildings in all directions, the vast majority of them went straight to the direction of the turtle-moving Takayama Yufu brigade, only a very small number of people with keen perception noticed this uninvited guest for the first time, but it was difficult to catch his speed, or was instantly frozen in extreme cold, this frozen part was also concentrated in the heart, skull and other key parts, layers of hoarfrost spread from the inside out, not even dead, but paralyzed to the point that it was difficult to move.
Obviously, this was because Kamihara wanted to minimize the movement in his path, and it was not because he wanted his men to show mercy.
At the same time, behind the Kamihara Division, there are several figures, Li Jie is the undoubted first, the way of advancing is almost the same as the other party, only when he can't dodge, he swings his sword to kill the object who finds himself and others.
And Leonid had already lifted the extremely conspicuous diamond crystal state, obviously with the same intention as the Kamihara Division, and even several of them saw that when he suddenly accelerated away from the brigade earlier, a guy who was extremely eye-catching after transformation wanted to keep up, and was directly imprisoned in place by the Kamihara Division mercilessly with frost, and did not allow any uninteresting slightly weaker people to follow him, or cause additional movements, even if his speed was impossible to catch up.
Li Jie's eyes flashed. As he marched, the hunting wind was fierce and his clothes were flying. But there was not a sound at all. He even had the strength to look back at the black shadow behind him that was about to disappear from sight, representing Takayama Yuo and the others.
In his opinion, from the very beginning, Kamihara Tsukasa had already prepared to give up the vast majority of people, and it was Takayama Yuo, the executive minister, who was giving the orders from beginning to end, and his stay would not only stabilize the entire team and attract the attention of the Wusangjia clan and others in the entire stone city, but also be enough to ensure that it would not collapse too quickly.
At this time, the distance between the two sides has become wider and wider, and Li Jie can clearly see it. Thousands of strong warriors of the Wusang clan were pouring out from all over the buildings, heading straight for Takayama Yufu and the others, and even knights riding terrified giant scorpions several meters long and unknown fierce beasts with black hair hanging down on the ground appeared, wielding huge and incomparably strange weapons, and the powerful power was clear at a glance, and the pressure brought was more than a hundred or ten meters higher than before.
Just after glancing at this glance, Li Jie had already concluded that the final outcome of the brigade that was getting deeper and deeper was only defeat, and without the support of himself and the strongest people such as Shenyuan Division, there was absolutely no chance of luck.
At this insane speed, a few people were only a few tens of seconds. You will enter the huge tower in the center, and you can clearly see that many fences have been built around the tower. There were even bloody, uneaten beast wreckage, and empty long ropes that were as thick as children's arms, apparently the place where those fierce beast knights were kept, and it was also the area that should have been the most heavily guarded, but now most of them were gone, and only a few who had not had time to rush out found the intrusion of Kamihara Division and others, and yelled to stop them.
It can be said that if it weren't for the involvement of Takayama Yuo's team outside, these hundreds of fierce beasts and knights should now be faced by Kamihara Division and Li Jie, and with their obstruction, it is enough to support the support of other Usang clansmen.
Now, there was no way to slow down a few people, and they could only watch them rush into the entrance of the tower.
This tower is unusually magnificent from a distance, made of countless earthy yellow boulders, the entrance is above the high stone steps, but after entering, it is not oppressive at all, only the ground floor is more than seven or eight meters high, countless ancient murals and strange words are engraved around, and a group of ancient and vast atmosphere is blowing in the face.
With a wave of Kamihara's arm, countless layers of thick ice silently emerged, completely sealing off the entrance and outer walls, and constantly reinforcing the ice through the crystal twisting, you could vaguely see that the fierce beast knights who were following closely outside were trying to break through.
The temperature in the entire tower also dropped suddenly, making Gu Xindao shiver, but he didn't care about the cold, and looked up at the murals around him obsessively, as if he saw a rare treasure and began to mumble to himself again.
At this moment when the pursuit was urgent and seemed a little anxious, Kamihara still relied on Tani Shinmio to study those murals and did not rush.
"The Tower of Babel, this is the legendary Tower of Babel! It's similar to the murals of the Tower of Babel in your! Turns out there's another one here! Tani Michio said in a trembling voice. The Bible? Old testament? In Genesis 11, after the catastrophe of the Great Flood, mankind united to build a tower that hoped to lead to heaven. In order to stop the human plan, God made the human beings speak different languages, so that the human beings could not communicate with each other, and the plan failed, and the human beings scattered from then on. ”
Li Kit also knew this rumor in his heart, and he also knew the second half of the unfinished part of the story of Michio Gushin—because Jehovah was there to confuse the words of the people of the world and scatter the people all over the earth, so the name of the city was also called Babel and Babylon (which means "chaos").
"The Tower of Babel? Does it mean that we are going to look upwards for a way out? Are you sure? ”
Leonid's face was full of suspicion, this legend sounded too mysterious, and the higher up this so-called Tower of Babel, the narrower the space, in the eyes of normal people, it was an absolute dead end, if it wasn't for the fact that he knew that the existence of the immortal rank could open up the origin world, I am afraid that he would not hesitate to reprimand.
"Down!"
This idea came to mind at the same time, but Li Jie's words came back to his mouth, and Kamihara said it directly. At the same time, his gaze faintly swept over the faces of Leonid and the others, and he didn't seem to have any opinion on them coming, just simply reminding Tani Shin Michio to find a passage.
"Down...... Oh, yes, down. ”
Even Tanigin Michio suddenly realized, and he didn't seem too surprised, obviously Kamihara had already mentioned it to him beforehand. He was a little anxious to observe the various engraved mural texts around him and on the ground, chattering for a moment, and suddenly walked to a corner in front of the left with a happy face, looked at the strange pattern on the ground, squatted down and reached out to grope for a moment, as if he had found the mechanism and pressed it down suddenly, and the pattern was indeed sunken down by him.
Li Jie and the others, who had all paid attention to his actions, immediately noticed an undetectable movement under their feet with strong perception, as if the entire ground was undergoing strange changes, and soon the sound became louder and louder, and on the other side opposite to Gu Xin Michixiong's position, the huge stone bricks on the ground slowly and heavily moved in layers, and then the speed continued to increase, and the stones and gravel on the top of the surrounding shook and fell, forming a staircase passage with a radius of several meters in an instant.
Kamihara Tsukasa was the first to walk to the edge of the passage, only to see that the passage was extending diagonally downward, although it was pitch black inside, but of course they could see it clearly with their eyes, but it was still difficult to judge how deep it was, and there was a faint pungent smell of dampness, and they could also feel a slight air movement, as if there was a wind blowing from below, it was obviously a very large space.
"Go down!"
Kamihara grabbed Tani Shin Michio next to him, and rushed into the underground staircase first, Li Jie, Leonid and others did not hesitate to follow closely, but after walking down not far, they arrived at a new empty room, and the staircase behind had returned to its original state again, revealing the huge stone staircase that continued to go down in front of it, like a giant beast opening its mouth in a black hole to devour the comer.
Kamihara was not in a hurry to go down, the silver-white light and shadow in his hand flashed again, and countless thick layers of ice rushed out, and in an instant, this stone room with a radius of dozens of square meters was completely frozen, and even the mechanism that came down was mostly frozen, and the people above wanted to come down again, I don't know how much work it would take!
Li Jie, Leonid and the others saw it, but their eyes met for a moment, but no one stopped them.
You must know that although the actions of the Shenyuan Division can greatly prevent the Wusangjia people on the ground from pursuing them, it also means that most of the men and horses led by Takayama Yuo have been completely sent to death!
Even if they broke through the siege and rushed to the Tower of Babel, not to mention how much time it would take to find a way down, it would take a lot of effort to restore the mechanism and break the ice, not to mention the thousands of Wusanjia people who would launch a frantic siege, these strange people who don't understand the language have no intention of communicating, and they are completely unending their attitude towards the invaders.
In other words, at this moment, most of the rest of the people on the ground have completed all their missions in the heart of the Shenyuan Division, and they no longer have any use value, and they have completely become outcasts! (To be continued......)