Volume 2: The Abyss of Sighs 0097 Investigates the Tunnel

Welling and the other four walked on the unpaved streets like Patbang, throwing messages at each other.

While experiencing the exotic atmosphere, they occasionally try foreign specialties, but they are also comfortable, and they do not care about those hateful, envious, or curious eyes.

After walking for a while, Li Kongqing and Li Lingyou were about to go back to the barracks, so they wanted to say goodbye to Weiling and Shougong for the time being:

"Let's go back first, you two go over there first to see the situation, and then return to the vehicle in the evening to continue talking."

Welling nodded:

"Okay, anyway, we're just going to come and have a look, and we don't expect anything.

So many days have passed, and there may not be any clues left. ”

Bidding farewell to Li Kongqing and Li Lingyou, Wei Ling and Shougong followed the location information given by the Li brothers and walked towards the tunnel.

Following the loose and chaotic city streets and laneways, the two soon reached the outskirts of the northwest of the city.

On the way we are greeted by the mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, the Kara Mountains.

Kerala gets its name from this, and the whole city is right in the middle of the mountains.

The huge alluvial fan in the east gave the city-state room for development, and the mountains in the west gave the city more geomorphological changes.

Walking up the slowly rising hills, the low-rise houses are still dotted along the landscape.

Soon, the two saw the target tunnel.

The entrance to the cave is at the end of the road, in the shade of many tall larch trees and poplar trees on the side of the road.

The opening of the tunnel is larger, similar to that of the highway in the old era, and the arch structure is built with regular stones.

Perhaps it was precisely because of such a regular building that it attracted the attention of the Imperial team, and they went in to find out, and what happened later happened.

Welling and Shougong did not stop, and walked into the wide, empty tunnel.

A cold wind is coming.

There are some messy debris on the ground in the tunnel, which looks like traces left by homeless people or small animals after temporarily staying here.

The inside of the cave wall is not paved, revealing traces of rocks and rock formations, and the farther away from the cave entrance, the darker it becomes.

Under the cave wall and on the ground, in addition to the chaotic footprints, there were many dark liquid traces, which should be the blood marks left by the fierce battle that day.

Above the palace guard's hat, at some point she installed a small spotlight the size of her thumb, emitting a bright light that illuminated the front.

With the eyesight of the two of them, as long as there is a little light assistance, they can see all the details in the dark.

Therefore, with the help of this light-filling device, Welling was able to see even the traces of bullet holes in the cave wall.

If necessary, he can even analyze the location of the shot, the angle at which it was shot into the rock formation, and the change.

The straight tunnel is about 50 meters long and has a low low wall.

There is a passage in the middle of the low wall, which is presumably the inventory registration point of this base before it was abandoned.

After this passage point, the tunnel suddenly opens up, forming a huge space, like an empty conference room.

However, in this "conference room", nothing of value was found except for the rough floor, and the broken tables and chairs.

In the corners of this large space, there are several small tunnels, which can only pass through the width of one person, and the height has also become low.

Welling and Shougong chose a random direction and walked inside.

In Welling's spiritual power detection, no spirit body was found in the surrounding dozens of meters.

Naturally, Shounomiya has her own way of detection, and the sound of them walking is recovered after the reflection in the cave, and the sound wave image is obtained.

The palace can also emit infrasound waves to detect the entire cave on its own.

On both sides of these small passages, there are small lattices.

There are no facilities in the lattice, only a mat made of mountain palm is laid on the ground, which is like a person for meditation and meditation.

Walking down a few small passages, I found that there were hundreds of such small grids, which showed that there would be hundreds of monks here at most that day, studying and practicing here.

At the end of the last passage, the terrain slowly ascended, and a crude wooden door appeared at the end.

Welling opened the door and walked in.

It's a large space, like a small classroom, but the desks and chairs are still completely destroyed, and nothing is written or symbolic.

This is enough to judge that the other party considered it when evacuating, and could not leave any directional information for the investigator.

Seeing this, Welling was a little disappointed.

He had searched hard enough to get any information that would continue the investigation.

But most of the time there will be no gain.

Continue to survey the several passages that have branched out around this "classroom".

In the process, a small cafeteria, several small rooms of unknown purpose, and a bathroom that can accommodate several people at the same time are discovered.

On both sides of a passageway, there are small stone niches, some with a wooden plank in the middle, which feels like a shelving for the academy.

Suddenly, Shounomiya reached out and clasped one of the stone niches with his fingers.

The stone niche made an empty sound.

Welling's eyes lit up, and he pressed his palm against the stone niche, staggering it to the sides.

A small stone door slid to the side, revealing a small chamber.

Shougong was about to get inside, but Welling grabbed her.

The secret room is too small, and it will be a little too narrow if you enter the two of you.

Welling swooped into the chamber.

In the middle of the chamber is still a mountain palm mat for meditation.

Welling sat down on the cushion and felt it, not noticing anything under it.

At this moment, Welling was sitting on a cushion, in a state of facing the wall.

Through the light of the palace guard's hat outside the secret room, Welling noticed a pattern on the stone wall in front of him.

His eyes froze.

The pattern feels like it was randomly carved into the stone wall with a sharp object.

A cross with three circles superimposed above it, forming a triangle in the middle.

Underneath this pattern, a sinuous line is depicted with lines, as if it were the outline of a snow-capped mountain stretching across the sky.

The reason why I think of it is a snow-capped mountain is because under this line, there is a faint thin line, which seems to outline the position of the snow line at random.

Not surprisingly, it immediately occurred to Welling that he had seen this pattern.

In the Great Temple of Patbon, above the old man's head, hung a huge coat of arms with such a pattern.

"Are you a magician?"

"No, I'm just a waiter of the Lord."

"Where is the Divine Master?"

"He's everywhere."

The two sentences of exchange with the old man that day, Welling can still remember.

Welling had a vague feeling that he had missed something that day.

That old man shouldn't be a simple temple monk, and at least he should know some details about the Federation's mage cultivation plan.

Welling once again remembered the pattern that had been randomly carved on the stone wall, turned around, and faced the stone gate.

Outside the gate, the palace still casts the light of the hat into the small stone room.

Welling was a little puzzled, what could fit in a secret room so small that it could only accommodate one person to sit down?

Could this place be the cultivation place of the magician with the three spiritual power attributes?

If so, why would he set up a secret room in a place like this, and what did he need to keep secret?

If it wasn't for secrecy, it must have been that he needed to be more completely quiet and not be disturbed.

Immediately, Welling slid to the stone door to the side and found a few lines of words, which should be a few lines of poetry.

These poems are written in the script of Xixuan, and it feels like they were written on the stone door with a light-colored stone block at random.

Translated into the Bactrian language, these verses of the poem are to the effect of:

Suffering is a gift from God.

Asuka is God's messenger.

Incarnate a reef, tidal impact.

Broken bones, no traces.

Welling carefully analyzed what the meaning of these nondescript verses entailed, which needed to be written on the back of this stone gate.

Is it the perception of the multi-spiritual magician?

Or is it his self-motivational words?

Suddenly, Welling's movements froze, his eyes froze, and he tilted his head sideways.

In the detection of his spiritual power "Heart Eye", it was found that there was a spiritual body, wrapped in an energy body, rapidly approaching.

Based on the characteristics of this spirit body, Welling immediately recognized the identity of the other party.

It was the Earth Spirit Warlock who had encountered him in the secret room of Bohu County that day.

That guy is flying in a quaint way at the moment, quickly entering the tunnel.

The distance has already entered the "classroom" in the passage, and it will soon be revealed in the passage filled with stone niches.

Welling was a spirit, and quickly drilled out of the secret room.

The speed was so fast that his movements were a little deformed.

Welling secretly complained in his heart.

Why this guy?

Why do you always meet him in such a closed space?

This time the environment is still in his favor.

These rocky passages and chambers are not friendly enough to you.

The saber may be able to cut through the broken rock and soil of the Gobi Desert at a faster pace, but not necessarily in this solid sedimentary rock layer.

Seeing Welling come out as quickly as he was frightened, Shougong was also startled.

As soon as he got out of the secret room, Welling stood in front of Shougong and pulled Shougong behind his back:

"Shoumiya, that guy is here!

It's the one in the boulder secret room in Bohu County, a middle-level magician of the earth spirit, and he is still in a state of earth escape! ”

Shougong was shocked, and at the same time received the mental power detection image that Welling had lost.

A human figure that seemed to be wrapped in a raging black flame appeared in the passage, and around him was an endless flow of the Source Spirit World, flowing through his body and outside without obstacles.

In the blink of an eye, in the center of the narrow passage, the light cast by the palace guard's hat seemed to be distorted.

A figure came out of nowhere, slowly becoming clear.

It was that middle-aged Xixuan man.

Blonde hair and blue eyes, with high eyebrows, and bloodshot pale blue eyes, it seems to be a little decadent.

He suddenly spotted Welling and Shougong standing in the passage, their expressions a little shocked, angry, and pathetic.

However, before he could send a message or prepare for his magic, Welling chose to strike first, and had already launched an attack:

"Definitely!"

It was still the compound one-word spell, and Welling knew that this spell could freeze the other party for a moment.

At the moment when the other party was frozen, the palace guard moved.

Her figure was like a black lightning bolt, breaking through the sound barrier in an instant!

"Boom!"

A shocking, deafening sonic boom erupted in the passageway!

The passage behind the palace collapsed.

The magician had no idea that Welling would not give him any time at all!

He didn't expect that the other party's companion was so sharp and his body speed could be so fast.

In the face of such a fierce attack, he tried his best to enter the state of retreat again.

Fortunately, he was a mid-level mage, and his intuition about potential dangers was much higher than that of a low-level warlock.

Fortunately, he didn't have any hesitation or mistakes, even if he hadn't heard the sound yet, he had already made an evasion when he saw the figure that could break through the sound barrier.

A bolt of black lightning accompanied by a dark golden light swept in front of him.

He instinctively leaned back!

The dark golden lightning had already slashed across his shoulders and upper arms.

The earth spirit mage did not feel the pain, and successfully entered the earth retreat state.

Then, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his soul.

A deep knife scar cut from his right shoulder and across his entire upper arm, cutting his deltoid and biceps muscles directly.

The magician who was in the state of the energy body instantly felt that his energy was flowing out drop by drop.

If he exited the state of earth retreat at this moment, he would inevitably find that his right arm was bleeding at this moment.