Chapter 217: The Hidden Man
Willy didn't run away on his own, but was taken away by four mysterious men.
In less than a day after Joanna was attacked by demons in the Vatican, martial law began throughout the city, and searches began for those who had come into contact with the monsters and the women who had been victimized.
Frightened to hear the news, Willie found the bar where his father's former friends used to hang.
And this bar is actually a historic property owned by the Brotherhood.
In fact, the Brotherhood is also waiting for Willy's arrival.
His father did not die in an accident, but in a mysterious cemetery while on a mission with the Assassins' Guild.
A man in his fifties and a steady and mature man would never die of an accident easily, and his death had to start with the recent exploration of the tomb.
William Sr., Wiley's father, was a member of the Assassin Brotherhood.
He usually goes to sea with his crew to fish, and when he comes home, he drinks.
After William's wife died in a sea storm, William's mood was always low.
He wants to find Pandora's treasure, which will have a space-time reincarnation mirror. He hoped to rewind the clock five or six years so he could see his wife again.
So William took out a map of the Panshen Labyrinth that his family had always hidden, and he asked his organization to go to the Demon Palace to explore.
At William's repeated requests, Elder Moses and another elder agreed.
But William had to make sure that the other two men who had followed him would come back alive.
So William only took a rubbed map of the underground palace and entered the mysterious cellar portal with two people. Open the scroll, chant the spell of the Immortal, and enter the portal......
After seven days of guarding the portal, two of the Assassins' Guild escaped in rags, covered in wounds and blood.
They were so frightened that they couldn't say anything, and William didn't come back.
After a few days, from the memories of the two men, who were not very clear, the elders of the Assassin Guild learned that they had successfully reached the core of the Demon Palace in the previous three days, but then encountered powerful monsters and monsters inside.
They had to flee all the way, scurrying through the maze to find their way back, and William was captured by the giant unicorn while covering them.
According to their descriptions, at least a dozen lifeforms were encountered, the most threatening being unicorn giants, titan orcs, spider monsters, lizard monsters, man-eating birds, purgatory dogs, purgatory snakes, killer bees, berserk bears, man-eating flowers, green vines, evil pincers and poisonous scorpions.
There are almost all monsters flying in the sky and crawling on the ground.
These monsters, which previously appeared in science fiction and fantasy films, actually exist in Pan's labyrinth.
And according to the two people who came back, they had actually been in it for at least ten days, and they could feel that the time around them was sometimes fast, sometimes very slow, and sometimes very normal.
Could it be that there are three kinds of virtual space-time in it?
It's not a fluke that they found the mark they left when they went in before, and they can't come back.
So ten days after William had actually been there, the Assassins' Guild informed Willy that his father had in fact died.
The returning attendant brought back one of William's necklaces they had picked up, with a gold coin on it and an inscription of a hell ghoul.
This is an object that William Sr. picked up on an altar in one of the cemeteries inside.
When they entered, everyone agreed that whoever found the treasure first would belong to whomever they wanted, and the large pile of treasures would be divided equally among the three people.
And in the past few days, several people are running aimlessly, familiar with the terrain inside. While finding a catacombs to rest in the night, William discovers the necklace that has been thrown in the grass on the altar.
It's like an object left behind by an ancient priest. There is a spell on the reverse side of the coin, and the obverse is a pattern of the Hell's Ghouls.
So William was the first to find the treasure.
Because the three of them were very weak, they did not have the strength to move the altar.
Apparently there's a tunnel down there, maybe it's a treasure.
Because while they were sleeping, they heard a noise coming from the ground.
According to the map of Pan's labyrinth, the entire labyrinth has nine floors and eighty-one areas.
Each floor has nine zones, corresponding to the attributes of a monster and a monster.
And each district has a temple-like building with one such altar inside.
The division of the nine districts is complex and irregular.
Basically, an enclosed area in the maze can be defined as a natural area.
The fact that each district is connected. And in each ward, there are youkai that belong to the wardens of that ward.
William realized that they had been going back and forth between the three districts for three days when they had been in, and they couldn't find their way out, and the way they had come had changed so much that they couldn't see where they were.
At this moment, looking at the map, the three of them realized that the entire area was moving slowly along the clockwise. And the enclosed areas are also in constant change.
Only after twenty-four hours will the terrain be exactly the same.
This means that between two areas, if you want to enter another area through the docking area interface, you can either find the nearest channel from the four interfaces and pass through it smoothly, or wait for 24 hours to return the same way.
The four moving interfaces meet each other in different places according to the time of docking every six hours, the time is ten minutes, and after these ten minutes, you have to wait six hours for the interface to pass through in another place.
And these interfaces are also irregular. This time was yesterday, and maybe not today.
Pan's Labyrinth is simply a huge random terrain composition. All mortals have is a flat instant map, and there is no answer that can actually be passed.
So it's not unreasonable that those terrible demon gods have been trapped in the labyrinth in the river for a long time and can't get out.
Even if you don't follow the rules of location, time, and interface in the first layer, you may spend your entire life walking around the nine Demon Palace areas.
How easy is it to completely pass through the labyrinth and enter the underworld?
Even if you have a moving floor plan, you'll have to follow the time.
And every six hours, a large number of demonic beasts in the area will emerge from the core altar of each ** array, and you have to deal with these difficult things carefully.
The night before, the sound heard under the altar was actually made by these monsters.
The Assassins' Guild knew about these peculiar laws of the labyrinth, and they were able to react in fact.
They had to prepare a lot of lethal weapons and carry more food in.
According to the progress of this expedition, if it goes well, it will take three months, without food, people have no food and water inside, and there is no monster to find trouble, and they will be trapped inside.
So Oga will be the captain of the fifty, and Willy will have to go to his father.
Moreover, the reserve team consisted of her cousin Odina, and his junior sister Angela to form a supply delivery team of 100 people, and as they continued to go deeper in front, the people behind them continued to deliver supplies over long distances.
As the general supervisor of the supplies is his sister Roy.
The specific food and ammunition weapon box is an iron case that can be dragged and run by pulleys, and can hold two hundred kilograms of things and slide forward. It can also be lifted and lowered by hooking the cable to adapt to areas with large height differences.
This kind of box can be dragged by one person on flat and smooth ground, and two people have to be dragged on difficult areas.
One box of food was enough to feed fifty people for five days.
So a food processing plant's frozen food workshop is constantly producing such food ration boxes to get food out. Bags of meat products, pasta products, vegetables and fruit products are packed into boxes and stacked in five layers.
Fifty large boxes were sent out of the factory in a truckload to a mysterious delivery location.
In another supply factory for weapons and equipment and common daily necessities, guns and ammunition, as well as small gas canisters for survival in the wild, cooking utensils and barbecue utensils are all being packed and sorted.
There were 200 large boxes of stuff in and they had to be sent in first.
At this moment, it seems that the people of the Brotherhood are determined to enter the labyrinth of Panshen to explore thoroughly.
And it's organized and planned, and it's well planned.
They intended to use cables and other means of communication to form a backup for the expedition and collect information in a timely manner.
The underworld figures of the Italian peninsula are also closely watching their covert operations.
Li Cheng knew the exact location of the maze in less than half an hour here.
Now is the time to intervene in the dark world.
Lu Xiaoqiang was called by Li Cheng to a mountain cemetery in the Vatican.
This is a private cemetery, and Lu Xiaoqiang doesn't know what he is doing when he comes here late at night?
The two of them let the entourage drive down the mountain and send it back.
So the two men set out to enter the mysterious cave below.
Under Li Cheng's prompting, Lu Xiaoqiang didn't carry anything, including the mobile phone for communication, and handed it over to the people who came down the mountain. Just carrying an empty backpack.
Li Cheng squatted on the top of the mountain and watched the people and cars in the valley below.
What are these people doing carrying so many iron boxes?
Li Cheng was also carrying an empty backpack like the person below.
As the delivery van drove away and left the valley, more than 100 people gathered in the cave below were carrying things to the cave inside.
The Assassins' Guild were all carrying the same bags, wearing the same field camouflage uniforms, camouflage masks and hats, dragging boxes into the depths of the cave.
Dragging a big box, Lu Xiaoqiang, who was following behind Li Cheng, understood why he didn't bring anything here.
At the entrance to the cave inside, all the chests are piled up in a stone cave.
Everyone transported it back and forth twice, and nearly 300 boxes were all transported into the cave inside.
Supplies boxes marked in white are for daily necessities, food supply boxes are marked in green, and weapons and equipment boxes are marked in red.
Li Cheng looked at it for a while and understood.
It seems that the people of the Assassin Guild are planning to use the crowd tactic this time, and break through the labyrinth of Panshen at one time.
The fifty people who entered the cave began to come forward to collect their equipment.
It seems that the cave here is complicated, and it is not easy to line up for roll call, so suddenly there are two more people, and this large ticket can't be seen.
Li Cheng followed a row of people forward and took his weapons on the box in turn.
The first is a machete, a machete is an indispensable weapon in field combat, and this machete is very fast, and there are serrations on the back, which is estimated to be able to saw trees.
Then there was an M16 rifle, and he took as many magazines as he wanted, so Li Cheng filled all the eight bullet packs on his body with magazines. The two pistol holsters on the legs also have the Desert Eagle pistol, and the two daggers on the outside of the ankles.
In addition, he carried a bullet supply satchel with pistol cartridges and grenades.
There were sniper rifles lined up in the front chests, but few people wanted to take on such a bulky long-range weapon.
However, when Li Cheng went up to pick up a sniper rifle, Oga nodded at him. I seem to appreciate his abilities.
Lu Xiaoqiang also followed, took a sniper rifle behind his back, and took a cartridge box with two hundred rounds of sniper bullets and put it in his ammunition supply satchel.
The two of them went to collect daily necessities and food.
There were two groups of people in the cave who were queuing up to get the items, so the one who got the food first, then went to get the weapons later.
Li Cheng put down his backpack and first picked out the necessities for use in the field and put them in the bag, then food, then batteries, flashlights, water bottles, cooking utensils, field sleeping bags, small tents, etc.
Everyone packed their backpacks and packed their gear, and many people were eating and drinking drinks with skewers on the barbecue grill.
One hundred members of the logistics team were serving fifty members of the lead team.
They will follow behind and carry these supplies up continuously.
Sitting on the stone on the side, Li Cheng and Lu Xiaoqiang lifted the camouflage masks on their faces a little and ate some barbecue.
The Assassin Brotherhood arranged the costume for the sake of the mystery of the entire organization, not knowing each other's brothers' faces, and facilitating the concealment of their respective actions and missions in the future.
Oga is also dressed in the same way, and everyone here only has the number of the costume on their body, Oga is the number one, and all of them have their names by number.
Li Cheng looked at Lu Xiaoqiang on the 98th, and he was on the 27th.
After everyone has eaten and drunk, the action officially begins.