"No need, I'm in good spirits, since Uncle Wen is already waiting in the capital, let's move quickly." Su Xiaochen didn't want to delay on the road for a moment, he had too many mysteries to solve.

"Yes." He Gui bowed and withdrew.

Seeing her go away, Herin sighed and said, "It's the first time I've seen Mama so deferential in so many years. ”

"Did she treat you badly?" Su Xiaochen said curiously.

He Ping shook his head and said: "It's very fierce, but he rarely talks to us, and every time he has almost nothing to say except to teach us how to serve people, let alone laugh." ”

He Ping rarely talks about others behind her back, but even she has this feeling, Su Xiaochen can't help but believe it.

This He Gui is indeed very deferential to Su Xiaochen, not only with a respectful attitude, but also very obedient. Su Xiaochen just said "move faster", and she obviously sped up the journey of the convoy. The destination, which should have been reached three days later, arrived early in the morning of the third day.

When He Gui personally opened the door of the carriage, Su Xiaochen couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and hurriedly jumped out of the car.

Shakoye Dadu, which is one of the three major capitals in the world on a par with the Wanhua Imperial Capital and the Taiye National Capital, he has long heard of it. Uncle You once said that the terrain of the Wanhua Imperial Capital is dangerous and high in the mountains, but it is actually the smallest of the three capitals. It's just that this Shakoye capital is buried underground, and it only knows the scale is magnificent, but it never knows how big it is. Thinking that he could finally witness it with his own eyes today, Su Xiaochen couldn't help but feel excited.

He looked expectantly in the direction of the convoy, but was stunned.

It was still a desert, with yellow sand and gloomy sky, and there was no difference between the place where the eye could see and where it was.

Su Xiaochen was a little puzzled, turned his head and asked, "This is ...... Shakoye City? ”

He Gui smiled and said, "Yes, this is the capital." Childe, please walk a few steps further to the entrance, and the slave maid will lead the way for Childe in front. As he spoke, he walked forward.

Su Xiaochen felt confused for a while, and looked back at He Ping and He Lin, who were both smiling and silent, and didn't look like they were trying to tease him, so they had no choice but to follow behind He Gui.

After walking dozens of steps, Su Xiaochen suddenly found that there seemed to be a small piece of ruins in a yellow sandy area, but the color of the walls and soil of the ruins was also yellow in general, so he didn't even see it before.

He Gui walked into the ruins, shuttled through the pile of broken walls for a while, and stopped at the edge of a clearing. She groped around a small wall next to her, as if she had turned some mechanism, only to see that the clearing in front of her suddenly and gradually sank, forming a very large and gentle slope!

Su Xiaochen didn't expect that there was a mystery in this ruin, and when he was stunned, He Gui had already walked in front and beckoned to him, and said with a smile: "Childe, please come with me." ”

Su Xiaochen looked at the slope under his feet as he walked, although it looked like an ordinary stone, but such a large stone slab as thick as five or six zhang wide of the building wall, if he wanted to go up and down freely, he really didn't know what it was

What kind of mechanism was used.

The three of them led Su Xiaochen down the slope as soon as they saw another slope appear in front of them. The difference is that the floor of this slope seems to be made of wood, and it is silent to step on. When Su Xiaochen first entered the ground, he felt that his eyes were a little uncomfortable. He heard a loud bang behind his ears, and when he looked back, the previous stone slope had been lifted back and merged with the wall above him, and there was no trace of the entrance anymore.

He rubbed his eyes, looked ahead, and saw a large road in front of him. On both sides of the road are neat walls made of blue bricks, and the walls are all silver-white, like the silver-tin painted walls on the Taiye city wall. There are torches every few dozen steps along the wall, and although there are not many torches, the light of the fire is reflected all over the wall, and the light is reflected, reflecting the whole path as if it were daytime.

Hegui was still leading the way, and the slope continued to descend for a short time, and suddenly turned a corner. Su Xiaochen turned along the intersection and found that a hall suddenly opened up in front of him, the size of four or five courtyards.

The hall was square, and there stood fifty or sixty Imurin soldiers, each in full armor and armed with sharp spears. When the soldiers saw Hegui, they asked in Imuran, and Hegui only said a few words, and then he saw that one of the soldiers, the leader, gave an order, and all the soldiers immediately knelt down on one knee and lined up neatly on both sides.

Su Xiaochen was surprised, He Gui turned his head and said softly: "Childe, please pay attention to your step", and passed between the two rows of soldiers, ignoring the kneeling people.

Su Xiaochen hurriedly followed behind, and whispered to He Ping and He Lin behind him: "I can't see that this He Gui Mama is so pompous." ”

He Ping shook his head, but He Lin couldn't help laughing:

"Where is Mama's pomp and circumstance......" was glanced at by He Ping, and then stopped.

The four of them walked through the hall and entered a small, sealed room, in the center of which was a bronze chair covered with a white tiger skin, and the handle of the chair was carved with intricate Imuran patterns.

"Childe, please be seated." Hegui was still very humble.

Su Xiaochen secretly thought about why there was only one chair in this room, and he estimated that he wanted to excuse the three of them, so he stepped forward and sat down.

"Childe, please sit tight."

Su Xiaochen was wondering what he said, could the chair still fly?

Suddenly, he sank, and the roof of the room was getting farther and farther away from him.

It's not a room! Su Xiaochen suddenly found that the stone under his feet was a ladder platform that would settle.

He Ping said softly: "This is the entrance to the capital of Shakoye, Gongzi is now sitting on a thousand zhang ladder, we have to sit for a while before we can get to the city." Is Childe thirsty? ”

Su Xiaochen was in the mood to drink water at this time, he waved his hand hurriedly, only turned his head to look east and west, and then looked up at the top, and found that the roof of Fang Cai had shrunk into a black dot that was almost impossible to see, and couldn't help but be shocked: "This ...... Why is it so deep here? ”

"Yes, there are thirty-six floors in this Shakoye City from top to bottom, and the thousand-zhang staircase we are sitting on now is all the stairs

The deepest ...... in the middle"

"Thirty-six floors?!" Su Xiaochen exclaimed, "Where are you going to take me?" ”

He Ping seemed to anticipate Su Xiaochen's surprise, and said with a smile: "Childe, don't panic, when I first came here, I was the same as Childe, and I was really shocked to see that there was such a big place underground." ”

He Gui suddenly opened his mouth and said slowly: "This Shakoye City, there are a total of thirty-six floors, one point for every twelve floors, which are the upper city, the middle city and the lower city. The upper city is the place where the common people live, the middle city is the place where the wealthy families and chiefs of various ethnic groups live, and the lower city is the royal palace. There are checkpoints between the cities, and they cannot travel with each other without the seal of passage. ”

"Then you people here ...... when you come and go"

"There are hundreds of entrances to Shakoye City, and most of the people who go up and down the city go up and down the stairs at the entrance."

"Is that the stone slope we just came in?" Su Xiaochen asked.

He Gui smiled and shook his head: "There are many civilians, they enter and exit from the entrance of the cave next to the capital, and there are steps down in the cave, and they all enter and exit on foot. ”

Herin also nodded and added, "Yes, the only people who can sit on the stone staircase are those from the middle city and the lower city." And the number of layers that can be lowered by each stone staircase is also different, and we can go down to the bottom of the ladder. ”

"The bottom? That's what you say...... Palace? ”

He Gui responded: "Yes, at the bottom, it is the Palkhan Palace." ”

Su Xiaochen suddenly understood a little, and the thoughts in his mind began to spin quickly.

Most of Shakoye's capital is actually made up of three cities stacked on top of each other, and although there is a passage between the cities, they are heavily guarded by heavy troops and do not pass through each other. From the outside, the city is very hidden because it is completely underground. Even if ordinary people find the entrance to a cave that can enter the upper city, they will not be able to enter the middle or lower levels.

If such a city were to be attacked from the outside, the upper and middle cities would become natural barriers, and it would be necessary to break through the thirty-six floors before they could enter the palace. Mo said that ambush mechanisms can be set up everywhere between this floor, and even if they can be broken through to the end, there are countless exits here, and they extend in all directions, and outsiders have no way of knowing where they will extend in advance.

If the defenders of the city sensed that the city might be captured, the lowest princes and dignitaries could choose to escape from the city at any of the twenty-four floors of the middle or lower city at any time, and they would not be captured at all. The design of such a castle is truly exquisite.

There is a way to be a cunning rabbit three caves, and this Shakoye City can really be described as a hundred caves!

While Su Xiaochen was thinking about it, Herin stood beside him and said with a smile: "Childe, please take a look." ”

Su Xiaochen looked in the direction she was pointing, and suddenly found that the walls around the room were gone, replaced by layers of iron guardrails, the surrounding guardrails formed a closed downward passage, and the stone staircase platform was still descending.

Looking through the gap in the guardrail, a large expanse of the market appeared in front of Su Xiaochen's eyes, and looking down on the past, it was no different from the lively scene under the Taiye City. I saw that the streets were spacious, and the city was everywhere,

In the crowd, the shouts of various hawkers and the clanging sound of the blacksmith shop could be faintly heard.

"Here?"

"This is the first floor of Shakoye's capital, where the people buy and sell. When the caravan of the Bihai Kingdom came to Shakoye to open a merchant hall before, it was on this floor. ”

"They're just on the first floor?"

He Gui nodded and said: "Yes, civilians can only operate in Shangcheng, not to mention that they are only foreigners, and they can let them enter the tolerance of most of the lords of the country." Therefore, they are not allowed to go any further, lest they snoop on the secrets of our Imulan. ”

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