The general's face was flushed, although the city of Dar was indeed intricate, and it was naturally deliberately blocked by Tuoba Xiongxin before, but for the army to fight, this was indeed an indefensible and huge negligence.

"What's the situation in the battle down there now?" Xia Ba Ying did not deliberately save the face of this general on this issue, as the supreme ruler of the Xia Ba clan, she was already very good at the means of both grace and power.

"There are about 100 to 300 enemies found so far, and the exact number is unknown. The general hurriedly responded, but the embarrassment and shame on his face became more intense: "They are all in that dungeon, and now we have managed to open up several passages to this dungeon, but the entrance to that dungeon is just above a dry underground river, and the cliffs on both sides are at least a few hundred zhang high. The passage of the underground palace is like a bridge, with a length of four or five hundred steps, and the most important thing is that the underground palace opposite the bridge does not know whether it is caused by man, or the mouth of the natural kettle, the wind blowing over is too cold, and it blows head-on like the mountain wind on the top of the snow-capped mountain, which makes people unable to breathe, and it freezes people stiffly. The arrows that were shot casually by the wind on the opposite side were like arrows shot by cultivator archers, and we had already organized more than a dozen charges, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded, but we still couldn't rush through. It can only be judged that there are about 100 to 300 enemies on the opposite bank, and it can only be seen that there should be a dungeon behind this bridge-like passage, but it is still unclear how many people are inside. ”

Lin Yi and Bai Yuelu glanced at each other, and the two finally understood why this general was more and more ashamed, it turned out that this army with a fine name was good at fighting underground, but after a long time, it was still blocked outside the discovered underground palace, and they didn't even know the exact number of each other, at best, they opened up a few more roads to the entrance of the underground palace below.

"The dungeon is backed by the center of the mountain, and it is not possible to open a passage from other parts of the mountain at present, and I don't know if there are other exits. We have arranged for the army to patrol the perimeter so that they do not leave the city from elsewhere in the dungeon. ”

The general continued: "General Yingling is supervising the battle below, and he can't attack it for a while, for fear that something will change, so he hurriedly reported to General Lin for help. ”

"Is there a possibility that the mountain below will collapse completely?"

Xia Ba Ying frowned and said, "Don't let us go down then, they will use some means to bury all of us in it when the time comes." ”

"This Dadar-like city is hard in substance, and many tunnels and caves are reinforced by various means, and the reinforcement methods of these tunnels are like adding countless bones to this mountain, even if they use magic circles or other special means to cause strong ground movement, it will not cause the complete collapse of the entire city, at most it is a small-scale collapse and rockfall. ”

The general glanced at her and Lin Yi, and said boldly: "Ordinary sergeants may not be able to escape from such a small-scale collapse, but with the strength of you and General Lin, they should not be able to help you." As for poisonous fire and poisonous gas, we have also taken precautions ourselves, and we also have means of isolation and extraction in these tunnels, that is, even ordinary soldiers will not have large-scale casualties. ”

Xia Ba Ying silently said in her heart, "I believe you are a ghost." ”

She doesn't believe the judgment of these subordinates who have sealed the name of Ying at all, and if Tuoba Xiongxin is really still hiding in that underground palace, there are many dangerous possibilities. The key to seeing is how tall a person stands.

Many things are impossible in the eyes of cultivators in the Chengtian Realm, but when it comes to the Divine Mind Realm, it is different, and if it is the existence of the Three Saints of the Southern Heavens, it is completely different.

But the more this is the case, the more she can't let these people waste time, what secrets and conspiracies are still hidden in the underground palace, she has to see it for herself to rest assured.

She glanced at Lin Yi and knew that Lin Yi had the same thoughts in her heart at this time, so she didn't say anything more and said, "Then take us down." ”

......

The first thing Lin Yi thought of was the tomb of the ancient tomb.

Jiankang City has been an important city of the Southern Dynasty since ancient times, and there are many dynasties in history that Jiankang is used as a royal city, so many places inside and outside Jiankang City are built and often dig out ancient tombs.

Lin Yi remembered that in the years when he had just started studying, there was a landslide caused by heavy rain in Zhongshan, and a landslide exposed the holes of two ancient tombs.

The kind of tomb is not hidden in the mud, but carved out of the mountain to carve out a passage. The ancient tomb he saw back then didn't know which ancient prince left it, in short, it was much more complicated than the tomb he imagined at that time, there were not only passages for people to walk and lead to various tombs, but also many passages for drainage, moisture drainage, and various mechanisms, and even some holes were said to be used by craftsmen who were sealed inside after the tomb was built to secretly build escapes, anyway, later scholars went to study, and they didn't know what some of the half-human-high passages were used for.

When he asked his father's subordinates to take him to open his eyes, the tomb had been cleaned up, but the strange smell inside still made him remember it vividly.

The underground passages of this Darban City are really similar to his impressions back then.

Even though the army had placed lanterns for lighting in all corners of the passage, and in some places had even erected braziers, the blazing light of the fire dispelled the suffocating darkness in the passage, but the unusually rough stone walls and some of the deep twists and turns that looked like steps but not like steps connected still gave people an uncomfortable feeling.

The underground of Dalan City was a forbidden area before, and it was strictly controlled by the Tuoba army, and many passages were blocked with stone gates or iron fences, but all the latrines in Dalan City were not as particular as Jiankang, especially the ownership of the nobles was not as elegant as the magnates of Jiankang City, their style could be described as heroic, and all the toilets were directly dug out by the craftsmen to go straight down, directly leading to the depths of the underground or into the underground river.

In the Southern Dynasties, there were very few literati who would go deep into the city of the party for a long time, otherwise if they had a clear understanding of this point, they would have spent a lot of pen and ink on this point after they returned, and they would have depicted this important city of the party as a city built on a dung heap.

It's just that the city of Darban does not stink, in fact, this is really adapted to local conditions, the high drop coupled with the extreme cold and the cold wind everywhere, so that the water in the city of Darban can not emit much smell, and it will soon be weathered naturally. Most of them are directly washed away by underground water flows and underground rivers.

The perennial snow-capped meltwater easily melts away a lot of filth and seeps into the wasteland that only thaws in summer.

It's just that although the city of Darban is constantly blown by strong winds, there is no unpleasant smell, but in this underground passage, the smell is somewhat indescribable.

And it's clear that although Tuoba Xiongxin has designated this city as a forbidden area, it doesn't mean that no one enters it, and everything is dumped inside under various circumstances.

Lin Yi, Xia Baying, Bai Yuelu and the others were not pampered people, but the smell of the cold wind constantly rushing to their faces in this tunnel still made their scalps a little numb.

Fortunately, the entrance to the dungeon was not far from the ground, and the violent wind and pungent bloody breath completely obscured the strange sounds and indescribable smells of the earth.

At the intersection of several tunnels, there is a cave the size of several acres, and the height of the top of the head is two or three feet.

There are at least dozens of such places beneath the city of Dar, and some caves are even larger. Some of these caves are natural water-karst caves, some are formed by artificial quarrying, and some were specially opened for the purpose of hoarding troops or stockpiling supplies when the city was first established.

It is precisely because there are many such caves under the city of Dar, and this cave is not an important node in the labyrinthine underground passage, so the army that has been carefully named before has not paid too much attention to this cave.

A group of high-ranking generals and cultivators under the throne of the fine seal gathered behind a stone gate with the sound of the wind, and at this time they were annoyed to death.

Hearing the news of Lin Yi and Xia Ba Ying's arrival, this group of high-ranking generals and cultivators hurriedly asked the dense sergeants who were crowded in this cave to get out of the way, and they all walked up quickly with hot faces.

The supreme general here is Xifeng Yingling, he is the distant cousin of Xifeng Yingming, and he can be regarded as having the blood of the Xifeng clan, a middle-aged man who looks to be in his forties, with a strong figure.

"General Lin. ”

Looking at Lin Yi who appeared in front of him, although he felt extremely embarrassed, he still said honestly: "The closest place is only seven or eight hundred steps away from here, and there is a bigger cave, where we were originally going to be one of the places to hoard troops, we even made a lot of arrangements over there, not to mention that our sergeants have also passed through dozens of trips in this place, and they have not found anything abnormal before, if this stone gate is not opened by us, even if it is illuminated by fire, it will not be visible." It just so happened that there were some mastiffs in the Tuoba clan's own army, and we knew the general who was in charge of the mastiffs before, so at the beginning of the search, we borrowed them for the first time, and only then did we find that there were many traces of people passing by, so we opened this stone gate strongly. ”

Lin Yi was quite patient, but Xia Ba Ying had long been impatient to listen to the ins and outs of the general of the Xi Feng clan.

As soon as she swept her eyes, she found the rubble at the entrance of the so-called dungeon, presumably a hidden stone door that had been sealed at the entrance had been completely shattered. The rubble was covered in blood and broken flesh, as well as a number of broken arrows.

The entrance is not small enough for a carriage to pass through, and the rear of this entrance is unbelievably wide.

From her current position, it was a sea of black, but she could also faintly see that a passage like a stone bridge floated above this deep black, leading to the distance behind.

Lin Yi's eyesight was better than hers, and he could see more clearly, the passage that seemed to be like a natural stone bridge was slightly inclined upward, and it was wider than the entrance, enough to accommodate two carriages walking side by side.

But on both sides of this passage, there is a dark abyss.

It is true that the passage is only about four or five hundred paces long and reaches the end, but at the end is a real underground palace, and it is not a dungeon like a cave dug out of the natural mountain wall, but a palace built by people with huge stones on the mountain wall.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, this palace turned out to be a spire style, there were three spires in total, the highest of which was the back, followed by the two sides, it looked like a main hall in the middle, and there were side halls on both sides.

The whole palace is like a bridgehead, and it is more than enough to accommodate hundreds of people.