Chapter 114: Imperial Capital The expedition continues
This free-spirited, worry-free adventure continues.
The two of them returned to the dimly lit corridor and began to move forward again.
This time, the sense of direction became clearer depending on the position just positioned, but I still didn't know where to go in this maze. The scale of this underground labyrinth is far greater than the two of them imagined. The most peculiar thing is that it is very similar to the above-ground buildings, all of which are irregularly linked by the corridors, and there are many obstacles, and in some places there is a wall opposite the passage, and there is no space to continue, but in fact there is still space at the back, or a secret door that is difficult to detect. This is one of the reasons why the ghost led the search team to find nothing in the end.
The Shadow Man's map isn't complete, but it does provide some information so that the two of them have a general direction as they walk.
"It's hard to imagine that such a large amount of work was not discovered at that time?" Sun Shadow was not clear about the establishment of the Streamer Pavilion, which had been established and completed for several years before he came to the imperial capital. He asked Peng Xiu with some confusion.
"The Streamer Pavilion has been built for a long time. There were several groups of workers, including many clergy. At that time, they all thought it was to build a building for the Illuminati Sect, so no one paid much attention to the surveillance, and it was not until the renovation was completed that it was unveiled to know that it was a place for fun, and it caused a lot of controversy at the time, but after all, it was the private property of a prince, and he didn't need to enter the consent of others for what he wanted to do. Coupled with the fact that more people are attracted by its specific set system, coupled with the good reputation of different opinions, the matter quickly subsided. Peng Xiu introduced.
"Why haven't you ever come in? Aren't you curious?" The last time he unsuccessfully visited the Streamer Pavilion at night, Sunshadow had asked Peng Xiu if he had ever come in. But he didn't dig into it at that time, and only then did he ask in hindsight.
"Then why didn't you wonder if I didn't come in last time?" Peng Xiu asked with a smile.
At that time, Sun Ying was actually curious about why, but at that time, he was more curious about everything unknown about the Streamer Pavilion, and selectively ignored it, and now he remembered it later. At this time, Peng Xiu's rhetorical question seemed to be in response to the choice at that time, which was like a question and an answer.
Like the answer, because Peng Xiu has always had something more worthy of attention, and he has no interest in entertainment here.
Like a question, he asks if Hikage is curious about his affairs.
"I was curious last time. Sunkage replied honestly.
"Then why didn't you ask. ”
"Maybe I had the answer in my mind at the time. Sunshadow said this, and the corners of his mouth hooked into an imperceptible smile.
"Oh, what is it. Peng Xiu was quite interested in Sunshadow's sudden answer, and continued to ask with a smile.
"At the time, I thought that ordinary decent people and gentlemen would not come to this kind of place. So I thought I had the answer in my mind, so I didn't ask any more. But I feel today that my arbitrary judgment is incorrect. So I can only ask confirmatively. Ri Ying said very seriously, looking directly at Peng Xiu, his smart eyes seemed to be sincere.
Peng Xiu was stunned for a moment by the serious direct gaze of the Sun Shadow, and then laughed happily. He really didn't expect that in this dim corridor, this person was joking with himself with such a look. Every time such a touchpoint seems to bring the hearts of two people closer.
"Little Shadow. Do you want to say that judging that I am a righteous gentleman is an arbitrary cognition, or do you want to say that in fact, a righteous gentleman will actually come to this kind of improper place to play?" Peng Xiu knew that Sun Ying was more likely to hint at the former, but he continued to ask, wanting to continue the fun of this topic.
"That must be the latter one. Sunshadow said again with the utmost seriousness.
"Oh, yes. Peng Xiu couldn't stop laughing.
Horses stumble, men stumble.
There is also a word, happiness and sorrow.
Peng Xiu felt that his feet had stepped on something that he shouldn't have stepped on. The sound of the mechanism activating, the subtle sound of Caracalla, alerted the two of them.
The dim closed corridor suddenly smelled of rancidity, a warning of air flow from different areas.
The two looked at each other, tacitly back to back and began to be vigilant, just when the two chose to stroll and move, there was an inhumane roar in the quiet distance, it was the roar of the beast's throat, and it seemed to form a visible sound wave in the narrow passage, and the two looked at each other again, the beast that the black shadow man said seemed to be not far from them?
Just as Peng Xiu and the two of them were paying attention to the front, the feet of the two also changed at the same time, and the stone slab under their feet suddenly contracted back and forth, losing gravity support in an instant, and the two fell down. Sunshadow and Peng Xiu both used their backs to push both of them to the edge of the trap in an attempt to grasp the support point and climb back into the tunnel.
Just when the Sun Shadow had successfully grasped the edge with both hands, and pressed his feet against the inner wall of the cave, his body was arched, and he could fly up with a little force, the stone slab on the edge began to close inward, and the sudden turbulence of the stone slab caught Sun Shadow's hand a little off guard, and his body swayed slightly, and at the same time, the moss on the hole in the inner wall also fell off under the pressure of gravity, and his feet slipped on the place. In the case of a double mistake, Nikkage's side completely lost its balance, and he lost the lead in an instant. Seeing that he was about to quickly close the mechanism, Sunshadow could only give up going up and choose down.
Sunshadow unleashed his Hidden Blade, slamming one hand at the wall and the other downward, trying to destroy the iron thorns that were facing the sky below. I saw that the black spikes were approaching.
Here, Peng Xiu was very successful in borrowing strength, just holding the edge with one hand, and before the slate began to turbulent, he easily jumped his body into the corridor with the strength of his powerful wrist, took off the slate, and flew up and landed on the slate of the mechanism. He took it for granted that such a small mechanism would definitely not trap the light as a swallow in the sun. But when he turned around, he didn't see the person who should be there, and suddenly looked at the machine slate, and his face changed greatly. Before he came up, he could see clearly that the bottom of the stone cave was full of black iron thorns with pointed straight up! The color of the thorn was strange black, it was not its original color, it was the color of the fallen flesh and blood that had accumulated red! It was the color of death!
Peng Xiu wanted to open the slate and step on the mechanism again, but the mechanism didn't start again. So he had to take off his sword and slash at the entrance to the slate.
Between Peng Xiu's hand and the knife fell, the stone that should have been enough to crack was supposed to be slashed, but sparks were splashed everywhere. The slate was not made of stone, but of a mixture of metal, and only one scratch was added to it when the knife went down.
But his sword was given by his uncle Lance at his coming-of-age ceremony, and with Lance's vision and love for Peng Xiu, how could it be ordinary. Needless to say, the sharpness is not to be discussed, but more importantly, the texture is very special, not how hard, but very tough. With a single blow, the sword was naturally bent compared to a stone or the like, and although it did not penetrate, it was already a deep scratch.
But Peng Xiu was a little annoyed, he took a deep breath, used the tip of the sword and the sword qi, and stabbed straight down. Only the sound of shattering was heard, and a deeper crack stretched along the tip of the sword, towards the previous scratch, and the two marks merged into an even larger crack, which continued to spread, spreading to the floor of the corridor, and even to the walls, until the crack reached the edge of the ceiling.
Peng Xiu saw that he still hadn't made a gap, took a deep breath, and was about to take another sword, but just as he was about to stab, the mechanism board snapped and broke into two pieces along the crack, one of which fell downward, and the other piece was still stuck in the groove, hanging obliquely.
Peng Xiu didn't care much, no longer attacked, but immediately looked down. His heart hung for a moment, and the moment he saw it, he simply pinched. He saw what he feared most. He saw the Sunshadow on the edge of the hole, its back facing up, its body half-swooping on the iron thorns, as if it were falling head-on, and the iron thorns facing upwards were straight into his body. It is impossible to survive a wound of this magnitude, even without a hole. Peng Xiu's mind suddenly went blank, what happened in just a few minutes, what happened?
The machine plate clanged down on the iron thorns, and bent a few more.
At this moment, the dead man in Peng Xiu's eyes suddenly moved his body.
"Hugh!" seemed to be a heavenly sound, and for a moment it woke up Peng Xiu, whose mind was blank, and he calmed down again and looked at the place where he thought it was a corpse.
It turned out that it was just the illusion of looking up and down, and when Peng Xiu looked down, Sun Shadow stepped on the Hidden Blade, and in addition to maintaining the delicate balance on the iron thorns, he was also leaning over to check the space under his feet and beside him, thinking about how he could find a place of activity without injury in the iron thorns, and then slowly figure it out. Who knows, before he could find it, a large machine plate had already fallen on it, and Sun Ying looked up to see Peng Xiu's face and hurriedly called him.
A few minutes ago, when Sunshadow fell, with the last bit of thrust, he managed to insert one of his Hidden Blades into the wall, but he couldn't stop his fall, he could only delay, and Sunshadow slid down the wall, and the Hidden Blade of the other hand was delicately stuck in the iron thorns, allowing him to stand delicately in a balanced battle.
"Little Shadow. Peng Xiu exclaimed with surprise and worry. "Are you hurt?"
"Nope. But I couldn't get up. Sunshadow replied helplessly. The conditions here make it too unlikely that he will be able to climb up without getting hurt.
"Alright, you be careful down there, wait for me a little bit, I'll go to the warehouse just now, there's a rope there. Peng Xiu instructed.
Seeing Peng Xiu hurrying away, Riying once again focused on the iron thorn under his feet.
If you want to sigh again, it's really hard to imagine that this is a mechanism in the imperial capital. In such a mixed situation of information in the imperial capital, an underground labyrinth was quietly built to create such a terrible trap. Sunshadow crouched down, his fingertips lightly touching the sharp head of the Iron Thorn, and a trace of blood immediately gushed out. He didn't expect it to be so sharp, but he was actually prepared, because he wanted to know if the iron thorns here and the iron nails in the cell where he was held were a material.
As he had expected, a drop of blood poured out of his fingertip, and flew down in an unnatural manner, down the stem of the thorn, along the branch of the thorn, as quickly as if it had been sucked and disappeared to the root of the iron thorn. The sun shadow looked carefully, and only then did he see clearly that the white objects piled up at the roots of the iron thorns that were densely packed and pointed straight to the sky were actually layers of human bones!
It seems to be more like a place to dispose of corpses than just a trap. Throw the corpse from above, land on the iron thorn, squeeze every drop of blood that has not yet dried up by the iron thorn, and then decompose the corpse, turning the outer layers of white bones. Like layers of soil, the roots of these iron thorns are buried, making it difficult to see where the blood ends up.
The way to deal with it here is obviously better, and it is not easy to be found, why did you bring the corpses of those girls to shampoo? Sunshadow was a little puzzled for a moment.
Or is it that the corpse thrown here is different from the situation of the girl? The girls are properly squeezed dry, and although the blood here is also being collected, it is basically like a big pot of rice. I don't care how much at all, I don't care about the quality, I just collect it casually. Nikkage thinks it's very likely.
As Sunshadow took a closer look, he heard heavy footsteps, not like human footsteps, coming from deeper into the labyrinth. Slowly approaching them.
Sunshadow stopped to look up, and a monster's face appeared at the entrance of the cave, its long fangs protruding from the black hair, and saliva.
The monster looked down, not intending to go on, but shrugged its nose and whirring, as if it was attracted by the scent of the sun's blood.
But moments later, Peng Xiu was about to return, and the Sun Shadow was worried about the monster's awkwardness, and he shouldn't rush into a confrontation with it. But his worries showed a little late. Because Peng Xiu has returned.
Sunshadow heard a sudden clanging sound from above, but he couldn't see it!
"Luo, what the hell is going on?" Mike shouted eagerly at the door.
"Go in and say it's okay. Idiot. Melson said disdainfully.
"You're an idiot! You're ......"
"Alright. Rank, now is not the time to quarrel. We're facing a very serious problem!" Robert said to the people he trusted the most, with unprecedented seriousness.
"What's the matter?" everyone asked, realizing the seriousness of the problem, and immediately looked at Robert. They all know that Sun Shadow, Boss, and Robert are the ones who don't write their emotions on their faces, but if they do, especially with such expressions, it must be really something!
Robert said in a deep voice. "The man is back. ”
As soon as the words fell, except for Miga, the faces of the other people present changed drastically.