Chapter 101: The Inner City of the Imperial Tomb
After one day of boring and hard military training, Yue Tian and the others returned to the dormitory early after dinner.
It's half past six, and it's still half an hour before everyone goes online collectively. Brother Yue Tian drank water and went to the toilet, everyone was preparing for the upcoming mission protracted battle at night.
Li Jianfeng was also in the 207 dormitory at this time, and he came to visit the door. During the daytime military training break, Li Jianfeng met with Yue Tiange. As a brain-dead fan of online games, this kid has played most of the online games on the market. However, he used to play alone, and at most he communicated with other players in the game. It is the first time for Li Jianfeng to chat face-to-face with friends in the game like this.
As soon as Brother Yue Tian and Li Jianfeng chatted about online games, this kid suddenly became energetic. From how lonely it is to play games alone, to some personal views on online games, Li Jianfeng, who met his bosom friend, talked endlessly. It wasn't until it was almost seven o'clock that he ran back to his dorm room to get into the game.
Seven o'clock sharp. Brother Yue Tian put on game helmets and entered the reincarnation together.
Their figures have just appeared at the gate of the inner city of the Imperial Mausoleum, and others have also gone online one after another.
After all, it is an important task chain related to the main plot of the game, and everyone attaches great importance to it. Yue Tian counted the number of people, and all of them were there.
Yue Tian explained the precautions to everyone a little, and everyone marched towards the inner city of the Imperial Tomb with full spirit.
The inner city of the Imperial Tomb is surrounded by a high wall made of blue bricks, and the overall shape is like a huge square that is not too irregular. The vast area of the inner city is dotted with many buildings for worship and burial. And in the center of the inner city, a majestic palace with gold and jade is particularly conspicuous. There is the entrance to the Imperial Mausoleum Underground Palace.
To everyone's surprise, the ground and plants in the inner city of this imperial tomb looked normal, and there was no trace of being infected by evil qi. On the wide Shinto path paved with bluestone slabs, there are even a few foraging sparrows jumping around.
On both sides of the Shinto, the exquisitely carved and symmetrically arranged stone statues stand quietly in place, without any intention of coming to life. As far as the eye can see, the entire inner city of the Imperial Tomb appears solemn and quiet, and the atmosphere is mysterious and strange.
The people who thought that they would have a bloody battle when they came in couldn't help but be stunned when they saw such a scene in front of them.
"Boss, is this a god situation?" In the middle of the night, he scratched the back of his head sadly, and asked Yue Tian puzzled.
To be honest, the question asked by grief in the middle of the night, Yue Tian also wanted to know the answer to Lu Dao. Shrugging his shoulders helplessly in the middle of the night, Yue Tian fell into deep thought, and his right index finger began to light on the dagger on his waist again. The rest of the crowd also frowned one by one.
After a moment, Yue Tian's fingers stopped. He quickly clicked on his quest panel and flipped out the background introduction of the quest that originally took over the quest chain.
After carefully reading it from beginning to end, Yue Tian locked his gaze on the last paragraph of the background introduction.
"In the spring of this year, a big star fell to the Jingxuan Tomb, and since then, there have been strange things near the Tomb, and people should not approach. It is rumored that the soul of the enemy army destroyed by King Jingxuan is haunted, and it is rumored that the demon star has descended, attached to the body of King Jingxuan, the god of war, and wants to lead the soul of the soldiers who died in battle to reincarnate into a demon. Since then, near the royal tomb, the soldiers and civilians have been in fear. ”
Looking at this text, Yue Tian's thoughts slowly became clearer. After sorting out his thoughts, Yue Tian raised his head with a serious expression and said to everyone:
"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid we were misled by the old monk Hui Ling from the beginning."
"What? Boss, you mean, that old monk is not a good thing either? Before Yue Tian finished speaking, the sadness in the middle of the night, who had always been fast-talking, immediately asked.
"That's not all. As the national teacher of the Qin and Ding Empire, the old monk's character is still reliable, and I think the task tip he gave us was the pit deliberately arranged for us by the system god. Yue Tian explained.
"You mean, in order to increase the difficulty of our task, the system god deliberately misled us?" A dusty ground also asked.
"Yes!" Yue Tian replied affirmatively. "I just looked at the background of the mission again, and I don't think we should have focused on the Imperial Tomb in the first place."
"I see, the real place where we completed the mission is not in the Imperial Tomb at all!" A place of dust suddenly realized.
"Not in the Imperial Tomb? Where's that? Xiao Si'er, who was slow to react, asked puzzled.
"King Jingxuan's Mausoleum!" Yue Tian and Yidi Dust replied in unison.
Due to the limited time, Yue Tian didn't bother to explain in detail to everyone, so he directly opened the small map in the control panel.
On the small map, you can clearly see that there is a relatively small cemetery on the right side of the imperial mausoleum, which covers a huge area. It is the tomb of King Jingxuan. And Yue Tian If they want to go from the inner city of the Imperial Tomb to the Jingxuan Tomb, there are two routes to choose from.
The first route is farther away. Yue Tian and the others had to go back the same way, and go around the imperial tomb in a big circle to reach the main entrance of the Jingxuan Tomb.
Because Zheng Zheng, the king of Jingxuan, was a brother and sister to Emperor Gaozu of Qin Ding during his lifetime, after King Jingxuan fell ill, Emperor Gaozu of Qin Ding ordered him to build a royal tomb to connect the underground palace of King Jingxuan and the underground palace of the imperial tomb with a tunnel, saying that after he died and was buried in the imperial tomb, he could meet with King Jingxuan in the underground palace at any time. Therefore, this second relatively close route is to enter the Imperial Mausoleum Underground Palace, and then directly enter the Jingxuan Tomb through this tunnel.
After weighing the pros and cons, Yue Tian decided to choose the second route.
"Enter the Imperial Tomb Underground Palace? It's terrifying! There must be terrible monsters waiting for us inside. Even if there are no monsters, the many mechanisms in the dungeon are terrifying! I've seen it in movies. Can't we go the other way? As soon as Yue Tian said the route he chose, Xiao Lori raised an objection with a nervous face.
"It's not impossible to go back the way you came and go to the Jingxuan Tomb in a big circle, but I suggest you turn around and look behind you first." A cloud of dust gathered next to little Lori and snorted behind her.
Little Lori turned around and saw that countless Praetorian Guard zombies had been refreshed on the square outside the Imperial Mausoleum, and they were wandering around the square in groups.
"Uh...... Then let's go to the dungeon. Remembering the scene of working hard for hours to farm monsters when passing through the square last night, little Lori immediately gave up her idea.
"Although we don't know the situation in the underground palace, I think we can gamble on this road than spending a few more hours to get out of the imperial tomb." Amethyst Ice Feather, who had not spoken much, also voted in favor of Yue Tian's choice.
"Okay, everyone be vigilant, let's enter the dungeon!" Seeing that there was no one to object, Yue Tian waved his hand, and the group drove towards the entrance of the underground palace in the center of the inner city.