Chapter 24: The Lord of the Wrathed Palace
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"Five, six......" Di Zhixue counted the corpses on the ground, "a total of six corpses." It's all male, and it's all alien. ”
"What a strange costume, what kind of fabric is this?"
When they first entered the completely unknown room, the attention of the two was naturally drawn to the corpses. All of them were wearing the same style of jumpsuits. There is no pattern, the whole body is monotonous in color, and the fabric is dense and elastic. Gloves and booties are made of similar material, and the belt is close to leather. The belt buckle is a metal product, with exquisite workmanship, and the specific pattern engraved on it is not a certain emblem or other specific pattern, and the meaning is unknown.
Although they both have a nose and two eyes, if you look closely at the facial features, it is not difficult to find that they are not locals. All of them had multiple severe fractures in their spines, hands and feet, and their bodies were already crooked and miserable, probably from the impact of the crash.
Xun Rin remained vigilant and observed the surroundings, while Di Zhixue crouched down to carefully examine the corpse.
"There were no other external injuries, all of them died in crashes."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple."
Rin disagreed, and bowed to the wall.
Frightened.
Due to the dim light, it was not noticed at first, but now it seems that there is only one difference among the four walls. Compared to the other three metal walls, which were less damaged, the fourth side seemed to be stronger, not collapsing and skewed, but it had withstood a great deal of man-made damage—with nearly a hundred tiny holes, three large pits the size of a washbasin as deep as a palm, and seven or eight sword-like cuts—and even so, the wall remained unbroken.
It is indeed clearly not the result of the fall.
"The old man went over and took a look."
"Be careful."
With that, Di Zhixue carefully groped the wall with both hands, and changed to Rin to continue to check the corpse.
The gold magic that Di Zhixue could cast was very low-level, and with his weak mana, he invaded the walls inch by inch, and even then the clues that could be found were limited.
This metal material is even less mana than the exterior walls of the palace, and upon closer inspection, it is discovered that it is a rare alloy that is fused with at least four or more materials. Not only is it hard, but it has a multi-layer foam-like structure that is able to withstand extreme damage.
Originally, it was impossible to soak this wall with mana, but through a small deep hole, he was lucky enough to find that this wall was only two palms thick, probably the thinnest wall of the four walls. That's why it's so intensively attacked.
Looking closely at the nearly 100 holes, although there is little difference, they are actually divided into two types: large and small. The cause is unknown, Di Zhixue has never heard of this magic, it looks like the traces of a siege crossbow, but there is no crossbow arrow. The basin-sized depression is a bit like a battering ram. The cracks were clearly slashes, but neither swords nor other weapons were here. Then again, can a sword really cut through such a hard metal wall? There are also subtle traces of metal melting at the slash site.
I'm afraid it's not a wall, it's the only door to this room. Trap doors.
They wanted to destroy the door with some powerful and unheard-of magic and rush out, presumably to escape by jumping out of the palace before it crashed. They didn't have time to do anything, and they all turned into corpses lying on the ground now.
Di Zhixue looked back at the corpses. All of them were dressed in strange cloth clothes, eighty percent of them were mages wearing cloth armor with magical effects, and the strange props scattered around them were their staffs.
"There is no corpse smell, the body is still soft, and it is certain that it has not been dead for long. The blood slanted down the floor for some distance before it solidified, roughly matching the time of the crash. Xun Rin just poked the corpse with his hunting bow, not with his hands. His archaeological experience had made him very cautious about this, so as not to have strange corpse poison or infectious diseases, "but their costumes were kind of interesting." ”
"How?"
"Two red, two blue, one white, one black. The whole body is monotonous color, and I don't think it goes well with their blonde, brown, black, or even blue hair color. Don't you think the color of your clothes is more like a ...... than whether it's nice or not."
"Job classification?"
"That's right. It always feels like the uniforms that distinguish between the "Royal City Patrol", the "Royal City Guard" and the "Royal Family Guard", and these people are all men, so I'm afraid they are soldiers. ”
Di Zhixue touched his chin after hearing this, thinking of his judgment just now, and said, "A group of soldiers or guards composed of mages? Protecting the owner of this palace - "Sister Bed"? This makes sense, but the old man still thinks there are still doubts. ”
"Brother, we are not from the security team, and we are good at archaeology and not criminal investigation, so it is enough to forcibly investigate these clues in advance, right?" Xun Rin shrugged helplessly.
"It's all metal, metal, metal, don't you think it's like ...... here?"
"A hundred years of prosperity?"
The remnants of a magical kingdom that flourished in ancient times, but the primary archaeological target of the "Temple Snake".
Suddenly, from a distance, there was a sound like thunder, the roar of a wild beast.
The two of them held their breath and pricked up their ears.
More than once, the monster's terrifying roar rang out four times in a row.
The atmosphere immediately became tense.
Di Zhixue immediately lowered his voice, told his companions all the information such as "Sister Bed may be the lord of the palace", and pointed to the badly damaged wall and said, "The voice seems to come from there." There's a notch in the upper right corner, it's too small, can you use your spirit magic to peek as far ahead as you can. Be careful. ”
Xun Rin listened, and without saying a word, he grabbed the gap in the upper right corner of the wall like a monkey and peeked inside.
Just enough to allow one eye to look in, but you can't just rely on your eyes to do that. Across the wall was a passageway, faintly lit and pitch black a few steps away.
Rin-seeking urged his mana and squeezed the part of his spirit clone's eyes through the gap like slime, peering ahead. Under the special vision of the spirit, not only a little night vision, but also a certain degree of perspective.
Both of them are non-masters, and their mana is very weak, so they can only use the most basic fur.
Xun Rin probed the spirit eye from his face like a snake about thirty centimeters, which was the limit of mana. After that, the sight distance has nothing to do with mana, it is closely related to naked eye vision, and if there is enough light, it can reach six or seven hundred meters.
Night vision isn't ideal, but you can see it clearly. Behind the broken walls was a passage about ten meters long, which collapsed and damaged far more than the hall.
Nothing but messy is worth noting.
…… Person!
Suddenly, a person appeared from the corner at the end of the passage, no, rushed over with a murderous momentum!
The man was about 1.73 meters tall, and his age and gender were unknown. He covered his face with a metal mask that was close to the shape of a skull, and then wrapped his head, neck, and body in a rather haphazard way with a large piece of dark cyan cloth, impermeable to the wind, except for his hands and feet.
A faint red glow glowed from the mask's eyes. Swaying, it makes people shudder.
Holding a strangely shaped all-metal silver staff without a magic crystal, his left pants rolled up high, revealing a metal prosthetic leg with a complex structure, and three sharp toes like eagle talons reflecting the cold light.
Xun Rin's sharp eyes found that the other party had white sleeves and trousers exposed under the cloak, which was the same as the six corpses behind him.
He couldn't see through the other party's magic power, muscle density, or any information, all blocked by the white jumpsuit and cloak.
Have no bottom.
Mana overflowed with rage from his eyes.
And slowed down, approaching step by step.
Boom!
A loud bang suddenly rose from behind Xun Rin at this moment, causing him to fall to the ground from the upper right corner of the wall.
He crawled close to Di Zhixue, and shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing! It scared my heart to stop! ”
"Ah, I was just thinking that since I was about to be withdrawn, I wanted to make sure that these clear tables were glass or crystal, so I smashed them with a sledgehammer...... It's so hard and elastic that it doesn't even crumble. ”
Before he finished speaking, Xun Rin pulled him away: "Run!" Now is not the time to do this! The lord of the palace called Sister Bed showed anger and had already rushed behind the wall! ”