Chapter 528: A Difficult Mystery to Solve
"Rubbish, a bunch of rubbish! Such a large group of people surround two magicians, and they can still let people run away?"
In the face of the reprimand of the master, no elder dared to refute it. Because, it's not just the head of the house who wants to scold his mother like this. In other words, when they faced that group of young disciples on a mission, there was a good chance that they would reprimand them like this. Fortunately, this siege is not the sole action of any one sect, otherwise, these leaders will definitely be even more furious.
"Shame on you! Where should we put our old faces in charge in the future?"
"Master, please dissipate your anger. It's not a matter of one school. This shame is also a shame for everyone, and presumably other leaders will not make things difficult for no reason. ”
Everyone knows this kind of thing, and if you say it, you will lose the face of the entire Oriental Martial Arts. Even if there is no free faction involved in the siege, its head will never be stupid enough to talk about it, otherwise he will only offend the other nine major sects in one fell swoop for no reason.
However, instead of calming things down because of this, the heads of the various factions invariably sent heavyweights such as the elders to the scene, eager to find the traces of Western magicians again. Because, whether or not you can kill a Western magician is a matter of the safety of the entire Eastern Martial Arts, not just a matter as simple as face.
With such a huge encirclement, it is naturally impossible to hide it from going around to inquire about the Loose Sect. It didn't take long for Jin Xuwei to float in with a large group of masters of the younger generation of the Carefree School.
If you want to say that you have the most peaceful mentality, you have to count the head of the free faction. It's not because the head of the Carefree Sect has cultivated so deep that he has no joy or hatred, but because the failure of the young masters of the Carefree Sect to besiege the Western magicians at the beginning is nothing compared to this incident. What's more, this siege, the free faction has not yet participated?
However, the head of the Carefree Sect attached great importance to the disappearance of the Western magician, so like other sects, he invited a respected elder to ride an extremely valuable high-level flying demonic beast and go straight to the scene. Therefore, the elders of the Xiaoyao Sect almost arrived with Jin Xuwei and other young disciples.
An elder is an elder, and those young disciples' tricks of stealing and playing tricks were seen through by them at a glance. Therefore, after going to the scene to briefly understand the situation, he immediately scolded his disciples. It seems that it is precisely because of their greed for life and fear of death that Western magicians have disappeared.
There were only the young disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect and the Tang Sect who were not scolded. The young disciples of the Xiaoyao Sect had long since lost the whereabouts of the Western magicians, so they were unable to catch up with this massive joint encirclement. However, it is precisely because of this that Jin Xuwei and they have one less scolding. This is also a blessing in disguise. The disciples of the Tang Sect were also selfish, how could the elders not know? However, they were completely for the sake of the sect, and besides, they were the only ones who fought fiercely with Western magicians at that time and even suffered heavy casualties, so the elders of the Tang Sect couldn't bear to blame. Moreover, in the eyes of the elders of other sects, only the children of the Tang Sect can barely be regarded as having made some small contributions.
However, all the elders unanimously stated that if there were any more incidents like stealing and treacherous in the course of hunting down Western magicians in the future, no matter who they were, they would definitely be severely punished. At best, the whole body martial arts will be abolished, and at worst, a thousand knives will be cut.
After the strict military discipline, under the assignment of the elders, the investigation of the secret passage was in full swing. Some people investigate the soil layer of the cave, and some people look up relevant texts. Soon, it was determined that this cave was not some secret passage left by the predecessors, but had only recently been opened up by those two Western magicians. Even though everyone had seen the new soil layer of the cavern, few believed it was real. Because, no one will believe that this dense underground passage can be completed in an instant by manpower alone.
In an extremely shocking mood, the masters of the ten major sects carefully analyzed the structure of the underground passage. It's quite reassuring that the maze setting of this underground passage is quite simple. Because, it is only a one-way bifurcation, and it does not communicate with each other. Therefore, as long as it takes a certain amount of time, you will definitely be able to find the real channel. Think about it the other way around, if many channels are connected, and the forward and reverse directions are constantly bifurcating. Once inside, it's easy for them to get lost in it.
But it is precisely because of the simplicity of this maze setting that the masters of the ten major sects are even more convinced that this is what those two Western magicians temporarily excavated. Due to the tight schedule, it is impossible for Western magicians to craft an intricate underground labyrinth. At that time, it was already amazing that Western magicians were able to do this.
However, after completely studying this half-finished labyrinth, all the people of the Ten Great Sects were even more confused. Because, all the innermost passages are dead ends, but those two Western magicians are missing.
Could it be that these two Western magicians just lurked in the cave in the ground, and then turned back while others were unprepared? In the end, could he escape from under the noses of the disciples of the ten major sects?
No, this is absolutely impossible! Because, at the beginning, only the disciples of the Tang Sect entered the cave to search. The disciples of the other sects surrounded the entrance of the cave and this inn with three layers inside and three layers outside. Absolutely no one can escape this impenetrable encirclement without being noticed. Unless, the person is able to become invisible.
Can Western magicians become invisible? The disciples of the Tang Sect are very sure: Western magicians cannot be invisible. Otherwise, why would they have to make such a move to make an underground passage for something? Wouldn't it be easier to just hide and escape?
Since Western magicians can't be invisible, and there is no possibility of breaking the impregnable encirclement, why can't they be found in the underground passages?
It stands to reason that Western magicians have gone to great lengths to make these many forks in the road in order to slow down their pursuers and buy them more time to escape. According to this line of thinking, one of the underground passages must be able to reach the ground in the distance.
Unfortunately, this doesn't work now. For a while, the investigation of the underpass was in a dilemma. The elders of the ten major sects had to send a distress signal to the mountain gate. It's just that this is like a dead knot, and if you want to solve it, how can it be a matter of a while?
Some people also wrote back and speculated: "Could it be that a Western magician went out from above a certain passage and blocked that entrance again?"