Chapter 713: The Center of the Dragon Vein Underground Palace
"Good boy, you're there. As soon as he saw the copper coin, Pan Huayu knew that the war letter was left by you. It's no wonder that the people of the Dragon Digging Society were able to come here, and it turned out to be the news you revealed.
I'm afraid that Chen Benzhong and the others don't know what is going on, and they didn't expect that the person who betrayed the location of the treasure of the Great Qing Dragon Vein turned out to be you. Seeing that Chen Ziyang was so thoughtful, Umbrella Shishuai said with great admiration.
"Alright, I didn't want to tell you two because I wasn't completely sure, but now it seems that it should be someone from the Dragon Digging Society who came here. It's not going to be a good time to deal with these traps, but you also have to be careful of their attacks.
Be careful, our goal is to kill Yoshioka, we must distinguish priorities and don't make unnecessary sacrifices. Chen Ziyang instructed the two of them again.
"You kid is really ruthless, even your fifth grandfather Chen Benzhong betrayed him, it's good, I like your character." Yang Lei said jokingly on the side.
"What now? Chen Sanjin doesn't know where to go, which direction should we go? Neither of these roads looked like they led in the direction of the gunfire. After looking around, Umbrella Shishuai asked.
The position of the three men was still a "T" junction, one road continued to go forward, while the other road turned right, and none of the junctions led to the direction of the gunfire on the left.
Sticking his ear to the wall on the left, Chen Ziyang listened patiently for a while, and now there was no gunshot, and it seemed that the two warring sides had left their left side, not knowing where to go. But judging by the sound of moving gunfire before, these people should have walked far to the left.
This maze is very complicated, don't look at the fork on the right and the direction from which the gunshots came from, but maybe this road will lead to the left after a few twists and turns, and if you take the road ahead that deviates from the left direction, you may get farther and farther away from the left.
However, these are only Chen Ziyang's rough guesses according to the direction of the previous maze. Maybe the truth is exactly the opposite of what he guessed, so he also made a mistake.
Just when the three of them were hesitating, they suddenly heard a boom. The sound came from the walls on either side of the crowd, and when they heard the sound, all three of them were amazed.
Judging by the sound, this is the sound that only appears after a mechanism is triggered, but the three people have been standing in place, and no mechanism has been triggered, so why did the wall activate on its own?
Although the three of them did not know why, their reaction was not slow, and as soon as they heard the noise, the three of them instinctively stepped back, distancing themselves from the wall that made the noise.
At the same time, the walls on both sides of the passage where the three people were standing before all moved, and the wall on the right suddenly stretched out, blocking the passage that originally led to the right side.
The wall of the left passage slowly moved to the left, and after a few moments, the sound of the wall moving stopped. The three of them walked cautiously and found that the original passage to the right had completely disappeared, and now there were still two passages in front of everyone, and the passage ahead had not changed, but there was an extra passage to the left.
This kind of channel change has been encountered many times by several people, and it should be that someone nearby triggered the mechanism to change the channel, so that such a result appeared.
"It's good now, it's troublesome, we don't have to take a long detour, hurry over, save a while the passage has changed again." Chen Ziyang hurriedly urged, and the three of them walked along the passage on the left.
When the wall was moved just now, Chen Ziyang saw that the range of the wall movement was obviously much smaller, and the thickness of the wall had also decreased a lot, and it seemed that his guess was correct, and it was very close to the center of the entire labyrinth.
After passing through the passage that suddenly appeared, the three people came to a relatively wide passage, and after shining a flashlight on both sides, the three people found three corpses.
The closest body to the three people was a few meters away from here, and under the beam of the flashlight, the three people saw that there were three bullet holes in the person's chest, and the blood was still slowly flowing out of the bullet holes, and it seemed that the person had not been dead for a long time.
After walking over, Chen Ziyang realized that he didn't know this person at all. Although Chen Ziyang, the team members brought by Liu Cong, was also in contact for the first time, everyone had been together for so many days, and they were already very familiar with each other, and the person in front of him was definitely not a member of Liu Cong's team.
Moreover, this person's clothes and automatic rifle in his hand are also different from Liu Cong's standard equipment, so it seems that this person should be a member of the Dragon Digging Society.
After rummaging through the body for a while, the three of them found no useful clues, but they did find the tattoo on the back of the corpse's neck, which belonged to the Dragon Digging Society. After putting away the food and water that the corpses were carrying, the three men turned their gaze to the other two corpses.
There was a corpse far away, it seemed that he died after being hit by the mechanism, that area was more dangerous, and the three of them didn't dare to go over, but judging from the clothes, that person should also be a member of the Dragon Digging Society.
The last body was a member of Liu Cong's team, who was also shot and died. Yang Lei stepped forward, and just reached out to search for the food left by the team member, but was suddenly grabbed by a bloody hand.
It turned out that the team member was not completely dead, and woke up under Yang Lei's touch. Using up his last breath of strength, the team member said with difficulty: "Go quickly...... Save...... Mr. Chen......"
"How many people are coming from the Dragon Digging Society? Did Yu Yoshioka come along? Chen Ziyang hurriedly opened his mouth and asked.
"Dig ...... Dig...... Before he finished speaking, the team member suddenly sprayed a mouthful ......of blood on Yang Lei's face, and then his head tilted, and he lay there motionless.
"Phew!" A portion of this mouthful of blood squirted into Yang Lei's mouth, and he spit it out while retreating back in disgust.
"Ziyang, do you think this team member looks miserable?" While rummaging through the team's backpacks, Umbrella Shi Shuai said.
"Miserable? He has died of this virtue, can he not be miserable? Being sprayed with blood on the face by this team member, Yang Lei was very angry and said angrily.
"When I say miserable, I don't mean his miserable death, but his current state." Umbrella Shishuai explained.
Chen Ziyang looked down and found that the team member's clothes were covered with dirt, and there were several holes in the camouflage uniform. The breach is very irregular, and it should not have been made by a bullet, but it was probably broken while dodging the mechanism.
In addition, this player's face is also very dirty, it is estimated that after the separation of the two groups of people, Chen Benzhong and Liu Cong's team has experienced a lot, and their life should not be very easy, otherwise this team member will not become this virtue.
After picking up the oxygen cylinder hanging from the team's waist and shaking it, Chen Ziyang found that the oxygen cylinder was light and fluttering, and it should have been empty. It seems that Chen Benzhong and Liu Cong did not realize that the air here was breathable until the oxygen in the oxygen cylinder was exhausted.
"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out, but this time it was very different from the previous one, with only a crisp sound. The three of them could hear it clearly, it should be the sound of a pistol, and it was estimated that the two groups of people had almost beaten the rifle bullets in the previous dogfight.
Now Chen Ziyang was anxious to know if Yoshioka had come here, and after hearing the gunshots again, he raised his head and looked in the direction where the gunshots came from.
However, it may be because this place is close to the center of the labyrinth, and in this relatively wide passage, there are many forks, and the forks appear very densely.
Just two forks in the road made the three of them hesitate for a long time, and now there are so many forks in the road in front of them, no one knows where to go.
"Huh?" Just when Chen Ziyang hesitated, he suddenly had a very strange feeling. It was as if something in this passage was attracting him, but after looking at it for a long time, he didn't find anything unusual.
After thinking for a while, Chen Ziyang opened his yin and yang eyes and looked in the direction where the gunshots came from again. Sure enough, under the eyes of Yin and Yang, he saw something different.
A faint golden dragon qi wandered under this passage, these dragon qi itself was very light, coupled with the relationship between the ground blocking, it was not very clear, but Chen Ziyang was very sure that these looming things flowing underground were undoubtedly dragon qi.
It seemed that the dragon-shaped stone sculpture that had been connected to the dragon qi before was close to the ground here, and was no longer buried deep in the ground, so he could see it. With the guidance of these dragon qi, Chen Ziyang suddenly found the direction.
The passage where the dragon qi was transported was just below a passage, and with the guidance of the dragon qi, Chen Ziyang hurriedly led the other two people along the passage. In a few moments, they were at the end of the passage.
It's a 90-degree corner, and at one end of the corner, there's a stone wall that's not very thick. At this time, a few more gunshots rang out from behind the stone wall, and after poking their heads out cautiously, Chen Ziyang found that they had come to a very open place.
A boxy clearing appeared in the midst of this huge labyrinth. The clearing is surrounded by long stone walls on all sides. Although it was relatively dark and he couldn't see it very clearly, with the help of the two piles of flashlight beams gathered together, Chen Ziyang judged that there should be two groups of people gathered here.
There was also an exit from the stone wall on the left side of the clearing, and a group of people were hiding behind the stone wall near the exit, constantly shining the flashlight in their hands towards the center of the clearing, and firing a few shots from time to time.
Judging from the style of this stone wall, Chen Ziyang guessed that it should be very similar to his position, and there should be a thin wall blocking the passage, and this thin wall also became a cover.
In the center of the clearing, six or seven flashlight beams swayed constantly, and these flashlights traced the outline of a building in the center of the clearing.
Standing in the center of the clearing is what appears to be a courtyard house, the walls of which are only two meters high and do not directly connect to the top of the dungeon.
The bricks and tiles of this small courtyard are also made of stone, and although the courtyard is not large, it is very beautifully built, and the walls are made of stone bricks of different shapes. Each tile on the courtyard wall also has a beast head pattern, which looks like a feng shui beast.
Especially at the corner of this courtyard, there is a stone carving warped out, and this upturned stone sculpture is also a feng shui beast.
Two dragon-shaped stone sculptures protrude from the ground near the courtyard and are directly connected to the courtyard wall, and it seems that they should have reached into the courtyard. Although he couldn't see the other two sides, Chen Ziyang estimated that there should be four stone carvings like this.
On the side of the courtyard wall facing Chen Ziyang, there is a stone gate, but this stone gate is closed. On the left and right sides of the middle of the stone gate, the head of a feng shui beast is placed, and the door knocker is also held in the mouth.
Not far in front of this stone door there was a pool, the surface of the pool was pitch black, as if it was still shaking, and it seemed that there should be water in it. In the center of this basin stands a stone sculpture that looks like a washbasin, and some water gushes out of the basin and falls into the pool below.
After the flashlight beam shook, Chen Ziyang could see clearly that a white spherical object was shaking in this stone plate, sinking and floating, left and right.
This thing Chen Ziyang had seen before, and it was an egg-sized pearl that officially opened the door of the treasure of the dragon vein of the Great Qing Dynasty.
It seems that after the pearl was thrown into the hole in the gate, it must have rolled here along the special passage, and was pushed out by the water spewing out of the stone basin.
Before Chen Ziyang expected this, he judged that the person who died outside the gate of the underground palace should have entered the underground palace.
The pearl that disappears after opening the gate is carried by this person, which means that the person must have come here and left after getting the pearl.
With the help of the shaking flashlight beam, Chen Ziyang saw that Liu Cong was lying on the back of the pool, holding an automatic rifle with both hands, shooting at the crowd on the other side.
However, Liu Cong used point shooting, and it would take a long time to fire a shot, it seems that there are not many bullets in his hand, otherwise it would not be so economical.
Behind Liu Cong, behind the dragon-shaped stone carving, there were several figures shaking, and the sporadic fires that would only come out when the pistols were fired were revealed there.
It seems that the people hiding there should be Chen Benzhong and the others, and the frequency of their design is also very slow, and only when they see a figure appear in the passage on the other side, they will shoot a few shots.
After judging that it was the people of the Absolute Dragon Society at the entrance of the other passage, Chen Ziyang looked carefully, hoping to see the figure of the Aurora Bear.
(End of chapter)