Chapter Forty-Six: Danger lurks
Soon arrived at the antechamber of the underground palace, and in the records obtained by Hu Bin, it was speculated that this was the burial place of the slaves who built the underground palace, and it was also the place where the bodies of the royal family members were put into the coffin for the final arrangement. What makes Hu Bin other than Hu Bin is that the slaves here have other uses, and the word "blood sacrifice" actually appears in this poor demon world. Maybe it's a religious ritual that Hu Bin thinks he's making too much fuss about.
The lighting torches prepared at the entrance of the underground palace were lit, and the scene in the front hall was revealed in the highlights passed one by one, making everyone take a breath of cold air, and a large pit in front was filled with human bones, and a suspension bridge crossed the pit to the opposite platform. How many people died in the pit? Ten thousand, fifty thousand or more. Everyone didn't dare to continue to think about it, maybe it would be a good thing that such an empire would be destroyed.
The quickened team quickly reached the platform, and to their disappointment, it was apparently looted, and the door to the main hall of the tomb was opened a gap. Hu Bin accidentally saw that a corpse in the pit still had clothes left, his eyes shrank, and he thought of some possibilities, it seems that this ruin will not be too simple.
The crowd that advanced to the main hall finally breathed a sigh of relief, and although some people had explored this place, they had clearly failed. The objects in the main hall are still neatly arranged on the shelves, and the walls around it are painted with mysterious totems and patterns, and the blank space can be deduced that there were decorative flags and curtains there a long time ago, but they have been corroded over time.
Most of the burial items and weapons are rusted and weathered, the books on the shelves are no longer full sentences, and the traces of time are all over this open crypt hall, and it seems that the door of the main hall has been opened so that these items have not withstood the test of time. The crowd looked at the corners of the main hall, and only found a few antiques that were not particularly badly damaged. Friesen, disappointed, cursed the group of fools who opened the door, he couldn't take much, and he lost a lot of his gains in vain.
But those seniors may have heard the thieves' complaints, and a skeleton was found near the door of the Forbidden Chamber. Strange as it may seem, the man used a bookshelf to hide himself in an enclosed environment, and then committed suicide.
The dagger in the corpse's hand was not too badly corroded, but such a desperate death made everyone vigilant, and an unknown danger was looming over the adventure party.
There were many other items in the backpack next to the corpse, but most of them were not intact, and what Hu Bin cared about the most was a diary that was only half left. After showing it to the universal translator Su Jia for identification, they got this information from the handwriting that was still intact.
"On the morning of the 7th, the Kalantes were in hot pursuit, and we were forced into the Land of the Damned, may ... (name of man) bless.
Maybe it's night, maybe it's the morning of the eighth, who knows. Thanks to our Carter, his modified trap stopped the group of lunatics, and we... ”
In the following days, it seems that the owner of the diary did not record it, but Hu Bin still saw some clues from the later records.
"I don't know how many days it is, the enemy is still blocking the door, we don't have much water, someone suggested fighting with them, but the captain still made the decision to enter.
I'm scared, legend has it that those who enter here are cursed, but we don't have a choice.
The pit behind the door frightened us, and everyone wanted to get out of it as quickly as possible, and we had an argument in front of the next gate, and several mercenaries who were reluctant to move forward were killed by the captain.
The door was still open, and I felt like I had been cursed by the evil spirit. But the next harvest made everyone forget the curse, and a lot of wealth piled up there, and the captain laughed maniacally, and I felt like my party was going to die here. ”
A large chunk of the diary was missing here, and the next few pages seemed to be written in blood, more indistinct than the previous ones. Su Jia only recognized a few words.
"Door・・・Demon's curse・・・Death..."
After reading the records in the diary, everyone's faces were not very good, and it was certain that this group of people encountered some danger in the end, and they actually committed suicide in despair. But there is only one corpse in the main hall, and there must be some traces of the others' whereabouts.
The adventurous team stayed here for a day, and Hu Bin gave them plenty of time to think about whether to continue the adventure, and then they might encounter unexpected dangers, and he didn't want anyone to break down and drag themselves back.
Priest Lorraine secretly unleashed the Detection Evil on the gate, telling Hu Bin that he had found no traces. However, the environment here is somewhat oppressive for him, and he can feel a kind of malice surrounding everyone, which may be an invasion of xenophobic energy.
Hu Bin knew that Lorraine was suppressed by the rules of the world and could not judge other information, but everyone else decided to move on, and the adventurers would not stop their adventures at the whispers of a mentally broken madman. Everyone was in good spirits, and the thief was signaled by Hu Bin to slowly unlock the door.
Hu Bin and the others finally found the previous tomb robbers, and it seemed that they had encountered something inside, the first person to come out locked the door, and the others were trapped inside. There were several dried corpses at the door, and they could still vaguely see the despair of their lives under the intact closed environmental protection. The team that continued to move forward found a spiral staircase leading to the ground, and Hu Bin and the others piled up some large debris at the door to prevent the door from closing by itself, and then walked into the staircase with some curiosity.
The people who went down to the bottom did not encounter any accidents, but found several other dried corpses in the room at the top of the stairs. Upon walking through the room, the crowd was struck by the large hall. This was not built on the surface, and although the crypt was also very large, it was clearly excavated from the ground, and the space here was excavated little by little.
Large blocks of floor tiles flatten and solemn the hall, intricate carvings of the curtain wall dazzle you, and in the center of the square stands a statue of a majestic man, perhaps the owner of the tomb. There is no information about this monumental project, and adventurers explore the hall with awe of the splendor of the ancient empire.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake, Hu Bin secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly ran towards Su Jia. The flat and open terrain lowered the vigilance of the crowd, and the team no longer had the same tight formation as before. Hu Bin, who was probing with the thieves in front of him, still did not join Su Jia at the end of the team, and the separated floor tiles and the wall rising from the cracks separated the members of the team.
When the unsteady shaking stopped, Hu Bin found that only Hooknose and Priest Lorraine were left with him. Yes, the Tactics Bow Pasture Quest Team is complete.
"Careless!" Hu Bin was not worried about Su Jia's safety, there were many Hu Bin's subordinates in her position, but she was a little annoyed.
Hu Bin beckoned to the two remaining companions and continued to explore the hall that had been turned into a labyrinth. He pulled out a stone tablet from his backpack with a magic circle drawn on it, which had been scavenged from the numbered person captured by Rhodok, and could be used to contact other targets within a certain distance, but the requirement to use it was to have magical powers. Hu Bin activated the circle and tried to contact Howard and Su Jia, but the spatial prompt communication was closed. Hu Bin almost dropped the slate, do you think this is China Mobile, and electromagnetic shielding.
Hu Bin, who had no rut, could only rely on intuition to lead the two people to wander around, and then met a line of words at a fork in the road, and Hu Bin was tragic in this world equal to illiterate. Lorraine stepped forward to identify it, told Hu Bin that he could understand, and then said sincerely in Hu Bin's surprised expression: "Master, don't you know that the doctors in this world are all transferred from scholars." ”
Well, Hu Bin lost to Lorraine in terms of IQ, but fortunately, it is better for someone to understand the hints than to run blindly. The handwriting on the wall means: "On the left is light, on the right is darkness, but there will always be shadows under the light, and light will be born in the darkness." ”
is very philosophical, Hu Bin said that he can only issue such an opinion, and he doesn't know how to pretend to understand, and the above prompt is the same as not saying it.
"Darkness does breed light, but if you don't even have the courage to pursue it, what is the use of being favored by the light." Lorraine looked like a god and said such a paragraph.
Hu Bin decisively accepted and walked to the fork on the left, so they ran into the legendary shadow.
Hu Bin and others were attacked by rolling stones, and the makers of the traps deliberately chose a long corridor with no forks in the road within 100 meters to arrange the traps, and the huge rolling stones brought the shadow of death to Hu Bin's group.
"Your sister's Lorraine!" Hu Bin grabbed the priest's collar and quickly fled, and finally escaped with Hook Nose to a fork in the road to avoid the rolling stones, and then found that the exit of the maze was just ahead.
"It turned out perfectly, master." Lorraine straightened her collar and had no sense of mistake.