43. Underground Exploration (I)
I have to say that Ma Jun's tricks to finally end the corpse fire are very stylish, stylish, chic, and handsome. Cool and bullying, enough to blow up the sky.
But it is precisely because of this that everyone feels very unhappy in their hearts.
Therefore, the final fate of Ma Jun, who was dragged by the cool bully, was beaten by all his peers. There are Li Xiang, Yang Zhao, Liu Dongxu and others who specially brush him with healing spells, and the people who beat him will definitely not put their skills or kill him, so it is impossible for Ma Jun to be beaten to death by everyone. So the ones who played the most were Mi Zhansong and Chen Zhanying, because their strength attributes were the highest; And the fastest ones are Xue Xiaojing and Ruan Kunpeng, because they have the highest agility attributes.
After a little venting, everyone sat down on the ground to rest. The battle lasted neither long nor short, but the pressure on everyone was really not small. So after the battle, everyone felt a little out of strength.
After a short rest, everyone got up and went about their work. Some of the people are responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, not to mention the weapons equipped on the abominated corpses and the equipment that the berserk corpses 'Corpse Fire' were originally wearing are made of the best materials, even if they can't be used, they can get a lot of good raw materials when they are taken back to the furnace. Others looked at the passages that had previously been bombarded by the monsters to see if they could be reopened.
The work of clearing the battlefield is going well, and although these loot may seem difficult to carry, it is not a problem for the traversers who have storage space, and everyone can carry some separately.
It's a lot more troublesome to check the way home.
Li Xiang looked at the entrance of the passage that was almost completely blocked, shook his head, and said: "It's not easy to do, these stones are too difficult to move, and the top rock wall near it has also loosened a lot because of the heavy blow it received before, and it will definitely collapse again if it is hit by any more - speaking of which, it is really wise that we managed to keep the battlefield away from this area, if we let those monsters run here to stir up during the battle, I am afraid that half of the top of the wall will collapse, and we will all be buried here alive at that time." ”
"So what are we going to do?" Neo asked with a sad face.
"What else can I do?" Li Xiang shrugged. "Find another way."
Neo was even more embarrassed when he heard this. Finding the way back is easy to say, but it is very difficult to do.
The tunnels in this underground cavern are like a labyrinth, and if the people had entered through the regular entrance at first, even the most clumsy wayfinding method - exploring all the paths one by one - would have ended up with a map. However, everyone opened a gap in the labyrinth to enter, and now the gap has been blocked again. This is equivalent to saying that people have to find a way out of thin air in a maze that they don't know at all, which is not something that can be done easily.
"Don't worry, there's always a way." Seeing Neo's expression, Li Xiang somewhat guessed his thoughts, and hurriedly said comfort. "There are a lot of passages here, but it doesn't look like a treasure buried, but rather a hiding place like a shelter, so even if the road is complicated, it won't be a labyrinth. As long as you search patiently, you can always find a way. ”
"I'm afraid it's too late." Neo said with a wry smile. "We didn't have much to offer because we thought it was just an ordinary expedition, but now we've completely depleted it. Now there are more than 50 of us in total, and the consumption of food and water is not a small amount, how long can we last to explore the way? ”
"Are you worried about this?" Li Xiang was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a smile: "Then don't worry, we have made full preparations for this operation, and it is unlikely that you will starve even if you want to." ”
Long before leaving, the group checked their storage spaces to make sure that everyone was carrying enough water to last for about a month, which was enough to cover the consumption of everyone trapped for half a month. As long as everyone is not too unlucky to fall into this cave with no exit at all, more than half a month is enough time to find a way out.
Just as Li Xiang was comforting Neo and the others, Yang Lixue, who was in charge of finding another way, came with the news that the night owl she had released had found some rooms with many interesting things in them while exploring the path.
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This is a passage that is wider than the passage that everyone else has taken to enter the underground cavern, and it is also the passage where the previous abomination of corpses and corpse fire appeared, and the passage has carved out so many stone chamber spaces along the way. Curiously, they found that these stone chambers were all similar to dormitories, with beds, tables, chairs, and cabinets in them, but these wooden objects had already appeared to be rotten, scattered on the ground and covered with thick dust. There were still some bones left in some of the rooms, and the scars on them must have been very tragic at that time. Some tattered strips of cloth that had long been unable to see the style of clothing hung on these bones, Yang Qianyu curiously picked up some and rubbed them in his hand a few times, distinguishing that these fabrics were once muslin and satin with excellent texture.
"Looking at the texture of these fabrics, the identities of these dead are not simple." Yang Qianyu said after throwing away the rags casually.
After walking more than 100 meters along the passage, a side fork connected to another empty field, but looking at the many chairs and benches and long tables, as well as the stove-like equipment resting in the corner, everyone judged that this was once a canteen.
"There is such a facility, it seems that this is not a shelter, but a place for many people to live for a long time." Li Xiang looked at the furnishings in the empty field and said. "Where does the other road lead?"
"Hmm...... I don't know how to describe it...... Anyway, just check it out. Yang Lixue gestured with her hands and found that she didn't know how to explain it to let everyone understand, so she simply took everyone to watch it with her own eyes.
After descending down the stairs for about four or five meters, an iron door appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the iron door was half-open, and there were traces of this large twist on the edge. It looked like it had been broken open by a huge hand.
"This can't be the work of the guy we talked to before, right?" Li Xiang looked at the broken iron door and rubbed his forehead.
"I don't think ordinary people would open the door in such a violent way, right?" Yang Qianyu shrugged his shoulders and answered the question.
After reaching out and pushing open the door, everyone was greeted by another huge space, where there were twenty large cultivation tanks in each row, and there were more than thirty rows in the entire space. The liquid in the culture tank has long dried up, leaving only some turbid stains, and the glass of individual culture tanks is broken, and the liquid that was originally filled in it has flowed to the ground, although it has long been volatilized, but there is still a faint stench left in the whole space, and as everyone advances, they see a lot of culture tanks falling to the side.
And there are obvious traces of fighting in this space, there are a large number of broken marks on the ground and in the cultivation tank, and all kinds of paw prints and pitch-black blood stains are sprayed everywhere. It looks weird and scary.
Obviously, this is a large laboratory, and these tanks seem to be used to breed something, but it is impossible to guess what is being cultivated, because most of the facilities here are damaged, and there is no written medium for everyone to look up.
After passing through the large laboratory full of cultivation tanks, a straight corridor appeared in front of everyone's eyes again. After passing through the long corridor, there is another huge room, this room is full of shelves, on which are placed all kinds of scrolls, which seem to be at least tens of thousands of volumes. As a laboratory, it is obviously impossible not to have a place to store materials, and this is obviously the repository where all the materials and documents are stored.
Yang Qianyu curiously took down a scroll and unfolded it, and what caught his eye was a picture, although many places were blurred, especially the text of the notes was even more indistinguishable, but Yang Qianyu still vaguely saw that it was a tall humanoid creature painted in it.
And what impressed Yang Qianyu the most was the several arms waved by this humanoid creature.
"Obviously, this guy in the painting must have something to do with the Abomination of Corpses, but the appearance and the number of arms don't match, and I don't know if this picture depicts the original or late setting of the Abomination of Corpses." Yang Qianyu closed the scroll. "The text is also vague and of little value."
Most of the literature scrolls on the shelves are made of parchment and cloth, and a few are made of scarce monster skins, most of these scrolls have also been eroded and broken by time, and the content on them is even more mutilated, leaving only some fragments of broken sentences that make people wonder. The only surviving drawings and words can be assumed that the lab is a place to study how to use alchemy and magic to create living puppet warriors. As for who or what forces, for what reasons, and for what purpose this laboratory was built. That's not the answer that these scientific repositories can provide to everyone.
Yang Qianyu casually flipped through a scroll, trying to discover something special.
After inspecting a shelf. Yang Qianyu walked to a shelf against the wall of the large library, and then casually reached out and took down a scroll against the edge. However, when the scroll left the shelf, there was a sudden "click" sound, and then the entire wall behind the shelf suddenly protruded, and with the trajectory of the wall's movement, the sand and stones continued to fall from the top of the cave, and Yang Qianyu was caught off guard and was drenched by the sand and stones.