Chapter 26: St. Jonah, Forward!

Jonah lit up the illuminated star array and headed for the dark passage on the starboard side. The pink-hat dwarves had figured out an area around the shaft and were trying to reinforce the crumbling pillars and ceilings, and beyond that was completely unknown, even the most daring dwarves would dare to light torches and walk a dozen yards away. The lower passage is slightly lower than the upper one, and the ground is a steel frame structure, with wooden keels and wooden floors, which have been turned into a minefield full of traps over the centuries, and there are more than a dozen cabins on both sides of the road, and the steel hatches are so rusty that they are glued to the door frame and cannot be knocked open with a hammer.

According to the bare-bottomed dwarf, the south side of the passage is the submarine's weapons control room, ammunition storage room, Buddhist altar (apparently the work of the Buddha Vedic engineer), and infirmary, and to the north is the crew cabin, recreation room, small restaurant, bathhouse, and punishment room. According to ancient legends, thirty Southlanders were willing to follow the great expedition of the original astrology instructor Gilberto Gilberneon, and many of the rooms on the submarine were designed by these volunteers. But Gilbertaeon didn't have time to steer the ship himself, and he never looked back in the turbulence of time and space, and thirty brave men waited in this ship for the captain's return, and a hundred years passed in a blink of an eye, and the last brave man sent the remains of his companions into the last room at the starboard stern, and then walked in and locked the door. The chamber, known as the "Hall of Mourning", was located next to the weapons control room, and the Florians explored the lower passages to retrieve the bones of their ancestors and send them back to the lava heart of Ecbatana, the volcanic nation, where every pink-hat dwarf was born and died.

"It would be great if you could bring your ancestors back, if you can't bring them back, at least you have to come back yourself!In short, please be careful!" a dozen pink-hat dwarves cried out on the ground, "Captain!"

"I see. Jonah waved his hand, illuminating the dark underworld with a glow from a distant starry sky. The dwarves burst into tears, partly moved by the glorious image of Lord Jonah, and partly so accustomed to the darkness underneath that their eyes were almost blinded.

After taking a few steps, Jonakaba broke a plank with a thud, and his left leg sank into the rotting floor, and he pulled out his left foot in pain, only to see Yekon take his long legs and stride forward with that careless pace, oblivious to the rotten floor. The astrologer stared at the footsteps of the southerners, and suddenly realized that the route that Yakong had walked was exactly where the supporting steel beams were located, and there were two parallel steel beams in the middle of the passage, and although the floor was rotten, the steel structure still maintained a certain strength. "Wait for me!" the boy shouted, picking up the dwarf and chasing after him.

The smell of rot filled the nose, and the bulkheads could be seen in the light of the star array, and the bulkheads were covered in large chunks of rust and mildew, and the ceiling, which had been covered with cork boards, was now all rotten, and the criss-crossed outlines of the steel skeletons supporting the submariner's hull could be seen overhead. "Boom Boom......" A violent vibration came, and Jonah reached out against the wall to stabilize his body, but his arm popped through the wall, and he almost fell into the big hole behind the wall. "Captain, some of the walls are decorative, there are no rooms in the back, they are ventilation and escape pipes, be careful!" the dwarf danced in the air.

Jonah looked at the wall with trepidation, and there was a bottomless pit behind the wall, perhaps a garbage pipe leading to the sandworm spout. The boy patted his chest and smiled apologetically at the dwarf. As the three of them descended deeper into the south side of the passage, the surroundings became quiet, the signs of human activity disappeared, the surroundings began to become more and more dilapidated and dilapidated, and the floor disappeared in one piece, and Jonah could only walk cautiously through the air on the steel beams, trying not to look down, because the black hole below was unknown.

One room had a half-open door, thick cobwebs hanging from the cracks, and a few small dust-covered words on the peeling paint-covered beams: Meditation Room. The boy glanced inadvertently, and immediately held his breath, his heart pounding. "Do you want to think about it?" Yekong actually said in a rare way, "Southern Continent...... Sinner...... Reflection...... Turning into a mental power......" he muttered, as if remembering something from the past, and thinking that he was just talking in his dreams.

Jonah swallowed, trying not to think about the corpse he had just seen. In the middle of the room was a mummified corpse hung upside down from a beam in a cross-legged meditative position tied with a ribbon, swaying in the wind like a shriveled bat. The bare-ass dwarf exclaimed, "Wow, what's wrong with this guy?"

"I guess it's a serious sin, right?" Jonah was completely ignorant of the customs of the Buddha Vedic country, and as the only Vedic on the ship, Jekon was a non-communicative fellow. The young man was thinking about the identity of the corpses at this time, if according to the rumors, the bodies of thirty brave people were all in the mourning hall, then who was the poor ghost who was hanging here to dry? Could it be that something unknown happened here hundreds of years ago?

After another ten minutes of walking, the road came to the end, there were two rooms on the left and right in front of him, Jonah raised his staff to make out the handwriting on the door, the one on the left said "Weapon General Control Room" in the lingua franca of the Western Continent, and the one on the right was not marked, it should be the mourning hall. There was a rumbling sound diagonally below, and the wind was blowing in a hole in the floor, and Jonah knew that this was the tail of the submarine, and below that was where the sandeaters spewed out their jets of dirt.

The pink-hated dwarf broke free of Jonah's hand and ran to the door of the weapons room, "This is it! let me open the door, Captain!" he jumped up and grabbed the doorknob with both hands and spun it with all his strength, the rust peeling off, but the door didn't move. Jonah walked over and tried it, but again couldn't turn the handle, the door was made entirely of cast iron, thick and heavy, and covered in black rust. Jonah vaguely remembered reading in an astrology textbook that rust of steel could be divided into two ways: red rust was a sign that the steel had been corroded from the inside out and had completely lost its hardness, while black rust would in turn protect the steel from further corrosion for hundreds of years. He tried to kick the door a few times, and there was a heavy thud that felt like a kick on a large piece of iron.

"Get out of the way!" the young man took a step back and ordered with a serious face, "I'll bombard this gate with a Zero Star Array, I don't have time to break it now, I can only break it violently!I'll try to control the power as much as possible, but the space here is so narrow, it may still be a bit dangerous, everyone try to stay away......!"

As he spoke, he watched as Yekong walked slowly to the front and reached out and pressed on the door. A bright yellow halo appeared on the surface ......of the gate, and the rust peeled off at the same time, revealing the new and smooth metal surface underneath. Jonah felt his eyes bulge out, "Yellow...... It's not rust at all, it's just a stain on the surface! This door is made of gold!"

"Phew, gold. "It's soft, it's heavy, it's low, it's useless in steam machinery, it's the most sissy metal in the world!"

Yakong changed two gestures, and with a light touch, the door silently slid inward. The Southerner walked unsuspectingly into the weapons control room, and Jonah hurriedly followed, wondering if Danny Stewart would have torn down the entire door and carried it back to the endless sea of sand if Danny Stewart had been there, but after a few seconds, he knew he had been wrong, because the door was the least valuable thing compared to the furnishings of the house.

"Ahh......h

There was a cylindrical object in the center of the room, and the walls were piled with gold, precious stones, pearls, emeralds, crystals, coral, all the precious metals that could be named and unnamed, and everything shone with a dazzling light, and the treasure of Finn Stewart, the king of the sand pirates, was as pitiful as the jewel chest of the poor lady compared to this place. The weapon control room should be ten yards high, because the gold and precious stones are piled up too high, the headroom is only about five yards, Jonah climbed the sapphire steps, looked around in surprise on the gold carpet, he found that the central cylinder was a four-faced Buddha, the four Buddha's faces stared in all directions, as soon as his eyes fell on the Buddha statue, he felt a tingling, Jonah suddenly remembered the legend of the ancient country of Veda, and saw the Buddha and felt pain, touched the Buddha and died, in the teachings of the Buddha country, the Buddha statue is a very sacred thing, and it is never allowed to be seen and touched at will. Unexpectedly, after being usurped by the Vedic Brahma and the destruction of the Buddha kingdom for many years, the ancient Buddha statues in the depths of the big ship still retain this wonderful power.

"It's a bullet. Jekong spoke suddenly, and he walked around the Erawan Buddha into the depths of the room with the tinkling gold coins. Jonah secretly grabbed two rubies in the palm of his hand, he had never seen such pure rubies, if they were used to depict the star array, they would increase their attack power a lot...... He took two steps to follow the southerner and asked, "What bullet, Jekong?"

The sword-wielding Garan didn't talk. Twenty yards forward, a small door appeared at the back of the room, and the door was engraved with dense Sanskrit charms. Walking down the jade steps down the pile of treasures, Yekong pushed the door, but without pushing it open, he unceremoniously pulled out the Buddha's tooth and slashed the door in two. "Bang!" the door fell into the room, and the red-haired southern ** stepped into the room, "Well, this is gunpowder." ”

"What gunpowder?"

Jonah followed, and froze on the spot.

If the room was heaven, then there is no doubt that this room is hell. The walls of this room are in the shape of a thirty-six hedral body, and each wall has a Buddhist shrine, and in each Buddhist shrine there is a corpse, a dried man's corpse with an extremely strange posture. And in the center of the room stood a ** female corpse, after hundreds of years, the corpse still maintained the elasticity of the skin, and a pair of beautiful black eyes seemed to be staring at the stranger who walked into the room. Had it not been for the golden spear that had pierced through her mouth and out of her hip and pinned her to the ground, Jonah would have almost thought it was a living person.

"What the hell is this!" exclaimed the boy.

"Weapons. Jerkon said, "The weapon of the Buddha's kingdom." ”