Chapter 5: The Swarm
Sure enough, when the person stood in the middle, due to gravity pressed down the slate in the scorpion, four very small buttons appeared around, Fan Li's hands stood in the middle, Zhang Xin and Jialan's hands each pressed a button, only to hear a crisp sound, Fan Li's smile was already on his face, and he disappeared in front of him before he remembered to celebrate.
"Fan Li!" Jialan jumped down with Fan Li, it was pitch black below, and she almost stepped on Fan Li's body.
"Oh, what kind of mechanism is this, how can it be designed like this!" Fan Lixi covered her ass and complained, Jialan turned on the flashlight and looked around, this tunnel is very wide, and there are many torch-like things on both sides.
"It turns out that there is another cave, there are no scorpions this time." Zhang Xin also jumped down and looked around with a flashlight.
"Zhang Xin, you bring the torch, I'll see if the Regent can help." Fan Li's feet against the wall made his way to Zhang Xin towards the nearest torch, where he stopped and did not return.
"What's wrong?" Jialan noticed something was wrong, she walked up to Zhang Xin, and found that his hand was on the torch, and the torch did not move.
"It's like ...... Lamp! Zhang Xin said.
"Lights?" His words attracted the attention of Jialan and Fan Li, and the three of them formed a circle and shone a flashlight on the torch in front of them, which was indeed a lamp, but it was made into the shape of a torch.
"There's actually high tech here, it seems to be added later." Jialan looked up and looked around, then finally stamped her foot and bent down to look at the ground.
"Look at it." A wisp of dust on the ground turned out to be a neat marble floor.
"Sure enough, but the carvings on the walls are very ancient, I think the others should be added later, could it be that Qin Ziyang found this temple and made some modifications here?"
"Maybe Lanpa and Qin Ziyang collaborated to build this place." Zhang Xin said.
"It's not impossible, they used to be very good friends, and look at the dust here. Apparently no one came for a while. ”
As they walked inside, sub-chambers began to appear around them, and there were quite a few beds in them, much like a hospital bed, surrounded by rotten wooden tables and bottles and jars.
"Looks like we've found a good place." Fan Li walked into a secret room and picked up the tweezers scattered on the table, which were cleaned up, and it seemed that he had not left in a hurry, and it was obviously prepared for later use. I just didn't expect this to go, and I never came back.
"It doesn't look like a one-man job." Jialan looked up at the fluorescent lamp on the ceiling, and then tapped the switch on the wall, and the thing was shattered into powder by him.
"There are so many rooms here, I want everyone to split up and look for them to see if there are any valuable clues."
"Fan Li, didn't you notice that everything here is modern technology? It doesn't have much to do with the story in the Soul Thief Canon. Zhang Xin said.
"Yes, but that doesn't mean there isn't something we want to know here." Fan replied.
Walking out of the hut, Fan Li walked towards the diameter ahead. Jialan and Zhang Xin went to another hut, which was really big enough. Walking into a room, Fan Li saw rows of experimental tables, as well as some beakers and test tubes. Because it's underground, these things are very well preserved.
There seems to be nothing here except for these experimental equipment, and Fan Li has no interest in experimental equipment. I looked at the wall in front of me with all my heart, and found that there were tiles around it, and the original inhabitants here really had the energy and money.
"Fan Li. Here, I found a door. Zhang Xin poked his head out, and Fan Li cast a ghostly light, and the blue light hit his face, making him look terrifying.
Fan Li followed, and Jialan also came out of a room, she didn't gain anything, she was just attracted by Zhang Xin's words. The room that Zhang Xin inspected should be a warehouse, and there was indeed a very heavy door inside, and it was a metal door, which seemed to have nothing to do with ancient civilization.
"Find a way to open it." Fan Li stared at the iron door and looked at the combination lock in a daze. He's just a spirit thief, not a lockpicker.
"Aren't the Regents able to simulate things? I guess you should try simulating a key coming out. Jialan said.
"Keys? But it's a combination lock...... Wait, I seem to get it. Fan Li half-squatted down, put his hands on the combination lock, the blue glow emanated from the back of his hand, and the flames penetrated through the gap in the combination lock, only to see the combination lock tremble, and he actually pulled the entire lock out.
"Qin Ziyang once said that the Regent can control her magical energy, and I think the Regent can also simulate the nature of magical energy, so I let the Regent corrode the parts inside." Fan Li said and let the spirit gather into an electric drill, aiming at the broken place, and after a piercing roar, a hole appeared in front of him that could only pass through one person.
"I'll go in first." After Fan Li finished speaking, he drilled in, and he felt that the iron sheet around him had broken his wrist, and it was so dark that he couldn't see anything.
On the other side, he asked the spirit to turn into a flashlight and look around, the scene here was different from the outside, it was a very small secret room, and in front of Fan Li was a door.
"A door was built here to not let people in, there must be something magical hidden inside." Fan Li walked towards the gate, and had just taken a step, when suddenly there was a tremor around him, and he seemed to hear a screeching sound similar to cutting metal.
"What's wrong?" Jialan, who had just come in, was so stunned by the sudden shaking that she hit the wall, she thought that Fan Li's attack was attacked, and she had a bow and arrow in her hand in an instant.
"I think I heard something calling on the other side of the door." Fan Li stared at the door in front of him.
"Then we better be careful, in such a confined environment, a monster suddenly appears, in case we are difficult to deal with, there is no chance to escape." Jialan reminded.
"Monsters?" Zhang Xin, who had just come in, only heard this word, and probably thought of the scorpion he saw just now, and couldn't help but shudder.
"It doesn't matter what it is, I'm here today anyway, and I'm not afraid." Fan Li walked towards the gate, looking at the mechanism on the stone gate, and sure enough, it was the same kind of disc again, but this time it was white-eyed waves.
The door opened automatically in a tremble, Fan Li's shield walked forward, Jialan followed behind him with his bow and arrows, it was still dark in front of him, but after the gate was fully opened, there was a fire in front of him, first there was a fire in the nearest place, the flames rushed forward, lit an oil platform, and then continued to spread, and soon, the light emitted by the flames illuminated the surroundings, it was a huge temple, and some one-story statues were neatly placed inside.
"Mom!" Zhang Xin was the first to see a scorpion statue.
"What a miracle!" Fan Li walked into the temple and sighed. There are statues everywhere, on the ground, on the walls, on the ceiling, God knows who has the energy to carve these stones, and these statues are all bugs, scorpions, centipedes, beetles, butterflies, etc., these insects are magnified hundreds of times, some are even two stories high.
The hall of the temple was supported by several pillars surrounded by three people, and as they descended the stairs, they gradually saw a number of dark holes in the surrounding walls, which were densely packed and covered almost the entire wall. They reached the bottom of the stone steps, and Fan saw that in the center of the temple was a petrified quadrangle, very irregular, and showing signs of shattering all around.
"What do you think it is? Is there a record in the Soul Thief Canon? Jia Lan asked, looking at the strange thing.
Fan Li shook his head.
He didn't think this thing would appear in the Soul Thief Canon, if Lamba was really a monster who had lived for thousands of years, then from his time to the present, only in the last few years would such a thing appear. Maybe Zhang Xin and Jialan didn't see the clue in it, but Fan Li saw some trivial things. For example, the fragments scattered on the four sides, those fragments are stone flakes, but the size is very similar to broken test tubes, there are some destroyed beaker fragments, and some insects-like things, very small.
Fan Li walked over, those small things suddenly moved, frightened him to take a step back, Jialan and Zhang Xin both drew their weapons, only to see those small insects wandering on it for a while, then flew to the side and disappeared into the darkness.
"Damn, it turned out to be a few bugs, it scared me to death." Zhang Xin stared at the place where the insect disappeared, it was darkness, and the darkness was full of imagination for humans, forcing him to stare at the darkness and his legs trembled slightly.
"I want to know what this thing is." Fan Lifu walked up to the strange stone and touched it with his right hand. "This is supposed to be a test bench, it was petrified for some reason, and the fragments should be the test tubes and beakers that were destroyed at the time."
"Petrification? But what does it mean here? Jialan stared at the table for a moment, she saw some scratches on one of the edges, much like some sharp part scratched on it.
"I've heard both Brad and Lanpa say that at the beginning, Qin Ziyang had an accident while conducting an experiment, which caused the laboratory to explode, and the magic energy merged into her body. However, Lan Pa also explained the problem about the 'Knights of the Apocalypse', he said that almost all the people of the Knights were cultivated from an early age, so Qin Ziyang's immersion in demonic energy was the same as Martha's injection of potions when she was a child. Lan Pa knew that Qin Ziyang was born with an affinity for demonic energy, so he had known the outcome of that accident for a long time. ”
"You mean, Lanpa orchestrated the accident?" Jialan asked.
"I don't think so. Qin Ziyang judged the two of them before and after the experimental accident, and everyone thought that it was the magic energy that gave her new thoughts, if it wasn't so? If she had already had the heart to rebel against Lanpa, but she just needed such power, and needed magic to help her move forward, then wouldn't everything here be explainable? ”
Jialan and Zhang Xin looked at each other behind them, and at this time, a howl suddenly came from one of the holes, followed by a violent air current.
At this moment, Fan Li's ears heard a series of creaking sounds, which sounded very similar to the sound of cutting metal, but it was very similar to the cry of insects, which was amplified countless times. (To be continued......)