Chapter 4: The Bodyless Sword
The patriarch Xiong Bi never believed in the legends of the gods that had been handed down in the world, and he was born in the interstellar era and felt that it was very ignorant, but that night he led the people outside the tunnel into the tunnel to join Tugubo and others, and when he first saw the majestic and magnificent dungeon, the shock and awe from the heart were beyond words, if there were no other clansmen present, he really wanted to bow down and worship.
From that moment on, Xiong Bi was convinced that only a great god could build a dungeon hidden deep in the ground to such a miraculous workmanship, and that only a powerful and noble race was worthy of living in this magnificent city, looking down on the common people, and that human slaves were only ants in the eyes of these great gods.
However, this underground city is not so much a city as a giant altar, because the architectural layout of this entire city is radiating around the giant torch in the center of the city, and the raging fire above the torch has not been extinguished for hundreds of thousands of years, bringing eternal light to this underground city.
The dungeon is about ten miles in circumference, nearly a thousand temples and palaces, pavilions, pavilions, alleys and bridges, and thousands of humanoid sculptures with different expressions are all constructed and carved by a white spar similar to white marble, which is scattered in the city.
If it weren't for the land thunder that broke into the dungeon and countless birds, beasts, and moths that threw themselves into the giant torch and burned to death, which made Youxiong Bi feel a little bad for this mysterious dungeon, otherwise his trip to the dungeon would be perfect. The people of the bear clan also tried to stop the suicide of the land thunder, but the land thunder madness was like a mecha chariot driving at full speed, how could the fragile flesh and blood of human beings stop it?
If you ask what you have gained, Xiong Bi doesn't know if it is a harvest to rescue an unconscious mysterious old man from somewhere in the city, but there are Xiong clan people who have been in the dungeon all night, and many people have brought some interesting objects as souvenirs when they left, which must be regarded as a gain.
Although the Xiong clan people have done enough secrecy work, but there are too many live birds and animals that night from all over the place, and herdsmen from near and far have chased them. Rumors spread quickly, and within a few days they spread throughout the Seberian steppes.
As a result, a large-scale cultural relics excavation in human history began to be staged in Qinghe Ranch, all kinds of herdsmen, homeless people, poachers, poachers, and even bandits, rebels have joined the ranks of plundering cultural relics, and soon, hundreds of vehicles and nearly 10,000 people gathered inside and outside the tunnel, and all kinds of rare objects stolen from prehistoric ruins were divided and sold on the spot outside the tunnel, and then flowed to the hands of cultural relics dealers in the black market, and then flowed to various countries and clans.
On a small hill not far from the entrance of the tunnel, several ironclad cars were parked, and the five elders of the Youxiong Clan Elders, led by Youxiong Bi, stood in a row, quietly watching this scene of theft and excavation.
"Alas, what a sin," Xiong Bi sighed deeply and said bitterly, "It's a pity for that dungeon and those relics!" ”
The clansmen were silent when they heard this, in fact, it was not that they had the high style and noble character of the Xiong clan, but now that the Xiong clan was about to die, who else had the leisure to dump which antiques and cultural relics?
"Second brother, is there any movement in Yiman's 'Wolf Tooth Army' today?" Youxiong Bi asked with his head sideways.
"No," said the bear, "the five eyeliners that were cast out were all staring at it." ”
"Okay," Youxiong Bi nodded and said, "Qinghe Ranch is now in a mess, the news will reach Yiman sooner or later, and he will definitely send the 'Wolf Tooth Army' to come at that time, and the loss of land mines can no longer be hidden, so our response work must be accelerated!" The third, what about the third? ”
"In!" There was Xiong Yin behind him.
"How's the escape plan going?" Youxiong Bi asked.
"The whole village has been mobilized, and everyone is preparing," Xiong Yin said, "There are more than a dozen households that are reluctant to leave." ”
"Who wouldn't want to go?" Youxiong Bi asked.
"There are Xiong Dacai's family, Qinglin's sister-in-law's family, and the bearded family, and there are more than a dozen households, and they don't want to leave." Xiong Yin replied.
"Hmph," Youxiong Bi snorted with a cold face, "Youxiong Dacai, this old bastard has long been covered with lard, and he has been doing business with Qiman's subordinates for many years, and his family is big, and if something happens, it is estimated that there are people on Qiman's side to help take care of it, so he won't leave!" ”
"Sister-in-law Qinglin, her eldest son joined the beast army as he wished the year before last, and sister-in-law Qinglin also became a military family member of the beast empire, protected by an amnesty clause, so she has no fear, and it is reasonable not to leave."
"For others who don't want to leave, there are people who take care of them openly and secretly, and they all have their own dependence, so if you don't leave, we don't have to waste time on them. If given a choice, who would want to leave their hometown to be rootless duckweed? Let's just arrange what we want to go. ”
"Yes." There is Xiong Yin answering.
Youxiong Bi nodded, glanced around, and didn't find Tugubo, so he asked, "Where is Xiaobo?" ”
"I didn't come because I had something at home." Someone in the crowd replied.
"Well, I was about to ask him how the old guy he rescued from the dungeon that night was doing......" Youxiong Bi dispelled the idea.
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At this time, in the dungeon more than 200 kilometers above the surface, Dick and Jessica, who had been disguised, were wandering in a low-key manner on the central avenue in the center of the city.
For the two of them, this dungeon is like a gift from heaven, and the first-hand information they have collected dare not say that it can make them more official and knighted, but it is certain that they will be credited once. It's a pity that this originally solemn place of sacrifice has now become as vulgar and noisy as a vegetable market, with people and slaves carrying various cultural relics on their shoulders shuttling through the streets and alleys one after another, discovering the surprise screams of novel cultural relics, and the noisy fighting of snatching cultural relics. Accompanied by the roar of motors, the shrill horn and the chatter and curses of the driver, various transport vehicles drove past the two from time to time, sometimes scolding, and several times Dick was angry and pulled out his gun, but Jessica quietly pressed it.
"Why do you want to be like these dying people?" Jessica said, "I'd like these stupid slaves to move everything out, so that our people have to do it again." With that, Jessica leaned down and picked up a piece of hide that had been left on the side of the road.
"What's written on it?" Di Qiu asked.
"It's the Yijin Sutra," Jessica glanced at and said, "It's also a kind of exhaling and practicing qi that human slave practitioners often practice, and in terms of content, it seems to be more junior than 'Zhou Tian'. ”
"Why is it all something so mysterious?" Dick said, and when he looked up, he saw what seemed to be something left on the ground not far ahead, so he leaned forward and picked it up.
"Come and see!" Dick shouted.
Jessica stepped forward and saw that what was in Dick's hand was a quaint sword, with only a transparent piece of crystal-like material that was raised outwards and was four or five centimeters thick.
"What's so strange about this thing?" Jessica pouted, "Aren't all those slaves outside the tunnel mouth selling this?" You can buy one for five silver coins, and you can buy three for ten silver coins. ”
"I'm strange," said Dick solemnly, "I haven't seen a single intact sword from the surface here, all of them have hilts like this. As he spoke, Di Qiu pulled out the saber at his waist, "Oh, look at my 'Lion Retrospective' saber, it has a handle and a body, a sharp and a blade, this is complete." ”
"When you say that, it seems to be true," Jessica said, with a solemn expression, "Could it be that the person who made the sword did it on purpose?" ”
"Most likely," Di Qiu said, "there was a blaster gun before, and now there is a bodyless sword, and there are these mysterious and mysterious ancient books of animal skins, and it seems that everything is related to human slave cultivators. ”
"Hmm!" Jessica nodded in agreement.
Di Qian continued: "We might as well speculate that a few days ago, a meteorite fell and brought this dungeon back to the light of day, and then the two homeless people bought the blaster gun in the dungeon and the ancient book of "Zhou Tian" as cultural relics, perhaps out of curiosity, or for other reasons, those two homeless people actually practiced according to the exercises recorded in "Zhou Tian"; Then, by some coincidence, they triggered the blaster ......"
"When the two outcasts discovered that they were capable of triggering powerful blasters, they began poaching and looting with impunity; It just so happened that I was passing by the neighborhood, and then they robbed me, did you infer that? Captain Jessica continued.
"That's right," Di Qiu replied, "That's what I deduced, of course, there is another possibility that those two slaves were already cultivators before they got their blasters, and I mean they may be senior cultivators. ”
"No," Jessica said, "during the two days I was held hostage by them, I made a very careful observation, and found that they just eat, drink, and sleep every day, and go to poach when they are not interested, and rob when they are interested. ”
"Maybe their practice has just begun?" Dick said.
"When you first start practicing, you can knock out my crash deck and bulletproof glass with a blaster?" Jessica asked rhetorically.
Di Qiu didn't answer, he looked around thoughtfully, and as far as his eyes could see, he could see the blaster guns, bodyless swords, ancient animal skins, and bustling human slaves and vehicles scattered everywhere in the dungeon, and he suddenly gasped and said in a trembling voice: "If as you said, those two slaves can trigger the blaster to blow up your armored car as soon as they start practicing, then all this in front of you and me will become a disaster for us and the empire!" ”
Captain Jessica was stunned when she heard this.
"I think we should report to the command!" Captain Jessica's mechanical pupils flashed red, and she said through gritted teeth.