Chapter 4: Space at hand
After paying the money, Old Jack stepped aside, and one of the green-skinned guys stepped out to help Ryuji plant the banner of Fireblade City onto Skull Rock.
The moment the flag was planted, Ryuji only felt that the Skull Rock eyeballs in front of him flashed with a black light, as if a passage was opening in front of him.
Liu Zhi turned his head to look around, and Old Jack said: "You can rest assured, this is a normal phenomenon, but it is just a decision, as long as it is confirmed, only you and your subordinates can enter and exit this place for three years, and no one else can enter." ”
Ryuji nodded, reached out and pressed it in the passageway, and then he only felt as if he had been forcibly pulled into a space.
When everything was settled, he noticed that the sky had turned pitch black at some point, and some strange red eyes were blinking in the sky.
Taking a breath, Liu Zhi knew that this was not the underworld, there was a smell of corpses rotting here, and there was a strong yin qi, but there was no sense of order in the underworld, it was like a burial pit that had not been dealt with yet, and even the mass grave in Liu Zhi's underworld palace was better than here.
Ryuji held up the Staff of Death, and the sun crystal on it glowed brightly, illuminating everything in front of him.
In the light of the sun's crystal, Yanagi found that everything here was very similar to the shore where Skull Rock had been found, a square clearing with a length of fifteen or sixteen kilometers and a width of sixteen kilometers, and at least half of this clearing was seawater, and the waves were constantly washing some coral or shells onto the shore.
A turtle the size of the underworld was lying on the ground, the turtle's corpse had decomposed, and a large number of winged bone birds were hovering around the turtles, and the red eyes that had come from these bone birds before.
Half of the turtle's body was soaked in the seawater, and the lower half of his body had been soaked a lot, and Ryuji noticed that on the turtle's hind legs, there were some red strange insects sucking the liquid flowing from the turtle's body.
As for the turtle's eyes, it was gone, and at the same time, Yanagi noticed that there was a huge wound on the left side of the turtle's body, which could be seen, and that wound directly tore off most of the turtle's shell, body and internal organs, which also caused the turtle's death.
Just by glancing at the situation in this space, Liu Zhi already understood in his heart that this space should be the usual resting place of the turtle called Toga in front of him, he was bitten by a giant beast bigger than him for some reason, and although he finally escaped, he died in his own space.
Since there was no one to dispose of the corpse after death, the emanating yin energy and decaying aura finally broke through the boundary between the underworld and reality, attracting some creatures from the underworld.
If it drags on like this, this place may become a fulcrum of the underworld, and for normal people, it is a place like a haunted house in a haunted realm.
If it were an ordinary person, there might be no way to deal with the situation in front of him, but Liu Zhi is in the southern swamp plane, and he doesn't know how many times he has dealt with this kind of thing, so it can be said that the entire southern swamp plane exists for the invasion of the real world by the underworld.
Ryuji just glanced around, and then he found the location where the breath of the underworld came from, which was a little to the right of the turtle's corpse.
Carrying the Staff of Death, Ryuji walked over like this, wondering if it could be used as a base for his city.
Just as he nodded in satisfaction and was about to put the Hades down, his eyes suddenly lit up.
Ryuji half-crouched down and searched the sand, and after a while, he saw some small footprints on the ground.
"Somebody has been here."
Liu Zhi glanced at the location of the footprints, and already had a judgment in his heart, the black pearl that was snatched away before should have been activated, but Liu Zhi was not sure, what those people were going to do here.
After thinking about it for a while, Liu Zhi didn't come up with a reason in the end, but he was not the kind of person who hesitated, but after making sure that someone was eyeing here, Liu Zhi actually took the initiative even more.
He walked around the clearing, glanced at the somewhat cluttered trees growing on the shore because of the space, and the lumberyard that was almost out of work, at the stone mine that mined stone from the coral reef, and at the crystal mine that was almost completely submerged in the sea, and some thoughts already occurred in his mind.
However, before those thoughts can be unfolded, Ryuji still has to deal with this space first, at least those white bone birds in the sky, and the strange insects on the turtle's legs must all be disposed of.
While thinking like this, Ryuji stood on the right side of the turtle, where the footprints were found before, and released the Hades.
As the Hades landed here, the space shook slightly, and the sea surface in the Hades Palace was connected with the sea water in this space, and the gold artifacts that were originally mixed with the corpses on the bottom of the sea were actually washed into the sea.
Then, under Ryuji's control, the sun transformed by the Eye of Horus rose from the range of the Hades, rising higher and higher, and finally hung high on the top of the space, lighting up the black space, so that Ryuji could clearly see the situation of the entire space.
It was precisely because Ryuji raised the sun that the white bone birds hovering beside the turtle carcass screamed, and they actually rushed towards Ryuji, as if they wanted to kill Ryuji.
Liu Zhi didn't even look at them, and said to Mande: "Mande, I still have something to do, you deal with these guys, and when I take care of the things here, I will clean up this space." ”
For the matter of defending the city, it was naturally Mande's job, and he transferred a large number of skeleton archers, plus gargoyle troops, to fight those bone birds above the city walls.
Those bone birds do not have strong combat power, although they can fly in the sky, but the means of real attack are relatively simple, that is, claw attack and beak attack, both of which can only be done by getting close to the enemy.
But as long as they fly down, they will be hit by skeleton shooters, and these days the skeleton mages trained by Yanagi have also joined the battle, and the skeleton mages who have not yet formed a team are fighting there by themselves, but their attack power is relatively strong, whether it is fireball or ice archery, it is harmful to those bone birds.
But this is not the end of the story, when a sacrificial skeleton discovers that the bone bird can replace the eagle, the situation changes, and the sacrificial skeletons who have been trained in the Hades Palace, but have not yet become a young eagle warrior, carry their weapons and find out of the city, they have only one target, the white bone bird that is still hovering over the turtle and has not come.