Chapter 160: The Dungeon
Chapter 160: The Dungeon
Not long after the battle with the man called Yan Shen, Qin Chen recuperated for a while, and then flew towards Qingyan City with Zhang Yiming and Zhang Lulu.
All you have seen along the way are endless barren mountains, and thousands of miles of uninhabited people are not enough to describe the desolation here.
Not long after flying, the direction turned north, and after flying for a while, a large area of extremely towering mountains appeared in Qin Chen's field of vision, although this mountain range was towering, it was also a barren mountain, and it would not attract Qin Chen's attention at all.
But the Qingyan City is here.
Qin Chen looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see the slightest shadow of the city, and thought it was in the depths of the mountain range, but he didn't expect Zhang Yiming to let Qin Chen fall down at the foot of the mountain range.
As far as the eye could see, it was desolate, without any shadow of any living beings, and Qin Chen couldn't feel the slightest trace of spiritual energy, if it wasn't for the fact that this Qingyan City had an ancient array that could hide the spiritual veins, or that there was not the slightest spiritual vein in this Qingyan City.
And seeing that this place is not far from the ancient land of the Flame God, it is not close, Qin Chen can understand why this Qingyan City ranks last among all the cities in this boundless moat, in Qin Chen's opinion, if there is no fire crystal vein, I am afraid that the way to live would have been cut off long ago.
Although he didn't know why the ancestors of this Qingyan City built a city here, this was someone else's business, and it was inconvenient for Qin Chen to express his opinion.
When I came to the foot of the mountain, I saw a row of dense caves, almost everywhere, at a glance, there were tens of thousands of caves just Qin Chen saw, and the caves here were simply boundless.
"Could it be that you, a native of Qingyan City, actually live in a cave?"
Zhang Yiming shook his head and said mysteriously that he just followed him. Although he was a little puzzled, Qin Chen still followed.
I didn't see any hesitation from Zhang Yiming, and walked directly into an inconspicuous cave, Qin Chen thought that this Zhang Yiming had walked countless times and had such confidence.
Zhang Yiming was in front, and Qin Chen and Zhang Lulu were walking behind.
into the hole. After taking a step forward, Qin Chen found that this was not what he thought at all, because around here, there were countless secret passages, and they didn't know where they led, through some passages, Qin Chen actually saw the light and saw the scenery outside, Qin Chen finally knew why Zhang Yiming didn't hesitate when he chose the cave, because all the caves lead here.
It's just that this passage leads in all directions. If you don't have a map, it's easy to get lost.
This time, Zhang Yiming walked very carefully, although not every road was thought about for a long time, but it was also carefully selected.
Zhang Yiming introduced to Qin Chen while walking, so that Qin Chen had a certain understanding of this passage.
It turns out that all the barren mountains here used to belong to the territory of the dwarves.
The dwarves are a peculiar race, although they are called dwarves, but each of them is not short, adult dwarves are nearly two meters tall, but these dwarves are extremely strong. The muscles are very well developed, so they feel very short.
The dwarves are born with divine powers, and everyone is a natural master of forging, and their only hobbies are casting and fine wine. The dwarves are rugged and heroic, and like to be friends with all races.
Because of these hobbies, dwarves don't live in houses like humans. The place they chose to live was a place rich in mineral veins, mostly inside some mountain ranges, so. Dwarves are rarely seen elsewhere.
The Dwarves would settle down in areas with abundant veins, and they were highly skilled in mining, often selling entire mountains to hollow out, building very safe passages for secret hemp, and a large number of casting furnaces, and because of this, the Dwarves did not see the light of day for many years.
But the veins are not endless, and there will always be a day when they will be mined.
So every time this happens, the dwarves will migrate in a big way, taking everything with them, leaving behind a thousand-year-old immortal passage and a vast underground world.
This endless barren mountain is the decision of the dwarf race, hundreds of years ago, the dwarf race left here, leaving such a place, but unexpectedly, it was used by the ancestors of Qingyan City back then.
They used this vast underground world to build a vast underground city, and because this secret passage was built based on the height of the dwarves, the humans did not have the slightest trouble walking in it, but it was too narrow for those proto-beasts.
There have been several times in history when the proto-beasts attacked Qingyan City on a large scale, but because of these passages, only those low-strength proto-beasts attacked in.
Because the original beast is a race that judges its strength by volume, generally speaking, the smaller the size, the weaker the strength, of course, there are exceptions, but that is too little. Every time, most of these low-strength proto-beasts were lost in this intricate passage because their spiritual wisdom was not opened, and even if a small number of them came out by mistake, they were killed by the elders of Qingyan City.
There used to be some powerful proto-beasts who wanted to destroy all these passages with brute force and attack Qingyan City on a large scale, but the craftsmanship of this dwarf clan is really good, and the same is true of this passage, if you want to destroy all these passages, you must first destroy this huge mountain range, anyway, there is no such powerful proto-beast near this Qingyan City.
But because of this, it is also extremely troublesome for the people of Qingyan City to come in and out, and Qingyan City will give a road map about the passage to children of a certain age every year, so that they can memorize it as soon as possible.
Originally, Zhang Yiming's age was not up to standard, but he got a road map after going through the back door.
Listening to Zhang Yiming's narration, Qin Chen can be regarded as admiring the ancestors of Qingyan City, no matter what, this Qingyan City has survived tenaciously for hundreds of years, but this lack of resources is also a big problem.
"If some powerful primordial beasts use soul control techniques to control a Qingyan City person, won't they be able to attack on a large scale?"
Zhang Yiming was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "I don't know, but it seems that near my Qingyan City, there are no original beasts that can control the soul, and those powerful original beasts, to put it mildly, may not have a high IQ." Zhang Lulu was furious when she heard this, and immediately grabbed Zhang Yiming with her teeth and claws.
Every time he walked along the passages, Zhang Yiming would stop and carefully identify the directions, and these passages were basically the same. In order to prevent those proto-beasts from finding the correct route, Qingyan City strictly forbids the people of Qingyan City to mark the passage.
Therefore, everyone who walks through the passage is extremely careful, because if you take a wrong step, you may get lost in this passage and be starved to death inside.
After walking for a long time, I didn't even meet a single person.
Zhang Yiming scratched his head, a little puzzled.
Qin Chen knew part of the reason, the main resource of this Qingyan City was the igneous crystal vein, so generally speaking. Anyone who walked out of Qingyan City to perform a mission would go to the Ancient Land of the Flame God, and all the way around, Qin Chen had already seen the cruel scene on the Ancient Land of the Flame God, and there were very few people who escaped.
I don't know how many bends there are along the way, if ordinary people are afraid that they would have been dizzy, but Qin Chen has memorized all the road maps, so that he can plan for his back road.
As he walked, there was a slight cool breeze blowing in front of him, and Zhang Yiming was in good spirits. trotted over.
Leaving the passage, you will be greeted by a scene that is enough to make people marvel.
Qin Chen looked around and found that he was actually standing on a protruding mountain wall, looking around. It turned out to be a large circular space, with a solid rock cap overhead, and on top of this mountain wall, a whole row of caves were arranged. Qin Chen, they walked out of one of them.
In front of the cave, there is a raised mountain wall on which people can walk on it at will. But there was no way down the mountain.
Looking down from the edge, I found that it was a hundred feet above the ground, unless I reached the middle and high level of the Spirit Transformation Realm, if I went down from here, I was afraid that I would be in danger of falling to death.
And below, there is a large expanse of extremely vast flat land, on which a large number of densely packed houses are erected, although there are many of them, they are neatly arranged, and the roads are exceptionally clear to divide the Qingyan City into several parts. The whole Qingyan City is in a circular shape, the outermost houses are more dilapidated, the more prosperous they are, and in the center of Qingyan City, there is an extremely luxurious building, which is the office of the Qingyan City Elders.
Except for the lack of trees, it looks like a normal castle.
On the streets, a large number of figures can be seen, but the distance is so far away that it looks like ants.
Qin Chen wanted to fly down with Zhang Yiming and Zhang Lulu in his arms, but he didn't expect Zhang Yiming to bring him an extremely familiar means of transportation.
It turned out that in front of Qin Chen's eyes, there were two extremely thick iron chains, which were connected by something similar to a pulley on the mountain wall, and the other end was at the bottom, Qin Chen really didn't see where it was. Moreover, Qin Chen also found that at all the cave entrances, there were two iron chains like this.
Zhang Yiming dragged the iron chain, and the iron chain moved forward little by little through the pulley.
Qin Chen couldn't wait for such a long time, he held the iron chain with one hand, and with a strong tug, the entire iron chain made a violent friction sound, and the speed of the iron chain was extremely fast, and he had already seen the phantom.
After a while, a large basket appeared in Qin Chen's field of vision, the top of this cradle was firmly fixed on the iron chain, Qin Chen understood this means of transportation, but he was a little nostalgic, he seemed to have sat on such a thing in his previous life.
The group of three walked onto the cradle, then let go of their hands, and under the influence of gravity, the cradle rowed downwards at a speed that was neither fast nor slow.
The cradle was in the air, and Qin Chen clearly saw that there were some huge cracks in the mountain wall, and the wind was howling, and the cool breeze that Qin Chen felt at the entrance of the cave was blowing in from here. I just don't know where these cracks lead, if those proto-beasts attack through these cracks?
Thinking of this, Qin Chen couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, how could the elders of Qingyan City not know about this question, wasn't he worrying about it?
After a while, the cradle had reached the ground, and with a slight shock, the cradle had an intimate contact with the earth, and Qin Chen and his party jumped off the cradle.
Looking around, there was no one here, and the Qingyan City was in his sight, the distance was not very far, Qin Chen had already seen the tall city wall, maybe it was because of the habits of human beings since ancient times, so when the ancestor of this Qingyan City was building the city, he still built this city wall that was not practical in Qin Chen's opinion.
There was no figure along the way, and a moment later, Qin Chen came to the city wall.
When he first arrived in Qingyan City, Qin Chen understood the reason why it was called Qingyan City, because the tall city walls were all made of cyan rocks, and the surrounding mountain walls were all cyan, it seemed that the ancestors of Qingyan City were made of local materials, and the houses in Qingyan City were also built of cyan rocks.
I didn't meet anyone along the way, and when I arrived at the city gate, I found that the city gate was closed, Zhang Yiming was stunned, obviously I didn't encounter this situation.
Turning back to Qin Chen, he explained, "The gate of this Qingyan City has never been closed in my impression, I don't know what's going on?"
Qin Chen nodded, believing his words, "It should be the reason for the Ancient Land of the Fire God." Zhang Yiming is also an extremely smart person, and he figured out the key to this in an instant. But the gate must be entered.
When he came to the city gate, Zhang Yiming formed a trumpet shape with his hands and shouted at the top of the city gate: "Lao Li, I am Yiming, are you on duty today? If it is you, quickly open the city gate and let us in." "This Zhang Yiming is only a cultivator of the Spirit Realm, and he can't fly.
This is, sticking out a head from the city gate, this is a young man in his twenties, with a helmet on his head, but Zhang Yiming is not an exaggeration to call him Lao Li.
When Lao Li saw Zhang Yiming, he was also overjoyed, and raised his throat and shouted, "I knew that you kid wouldn't die so easily, the elders said that there was some kind of mutation in the ancient land of Yanshen, and ordered the city gate to be blocked, I thought you also died inside, but I didn't expect it to survive, wait a while, I will help you open the city gate." ”
"It's too much trouble. Qin Chen muttered, hugged Zhang Yiming and Zhang Lulu, jumped up, flew to the gate of the city tower, and landed beside Lao Li.
Lao Li looked at this scene in surprise, and couldn't react for a long time, and at this time, there was a city guard on the city gate tower, and they couldn't react, these people were all in the lower layer of Qingyan City, otherwise how could they come to guard the city gate such a position without oil and water, because this Qingyan City has no city gate tax.
They also knew Zhang Yiming, and knew that they could fly to the city gate with the two of them, at least they had to have a high-level cultivation in the Spirit Transformation Realm.
But how did Zhang Yiming realize such a master, Lao Li knew that this Zhang Yiming's family originally belonged to the nobles of Qingyan City, and his head turned, thinking that this Qin Chen was a friend of Zhang Yiming's father, and he couldn't help but be happy for Zhang Yiming.
You must know that you have a good relationship with this Zhang Yiming, Zhang Yiming gave a lot of help when he first came, and now this Zhang Yiming looks like he is about to soar, with the relationship between himself and Zhang Yiming, wouldn't he follow
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile, and he saluted Qin Chen, "Kid Li Minghao, I've seen my seniors, I don't know the names of my seniors, and I'm really grateful that my juniors can witness the demeanor of my seniors, I want to come."
Qin Chen couldn't help but stagnate, could it be that this Li Minghao is Beidou's long-lost brother, and he is also a super chatter?
Without saying a word, he grabbed Zhang Yiming and Zhang Lulu, flew down the city gate tower, and disappeared into the vast sea of people.
Li Minghao was talking loudly, and found that the senior in front of him had disappeared, so he turned his head and asked the guard on duty with him, the guard yawned and pointed to the bottom of the city tower, Li Minghao also didn't say a word, and threw the spear in his hand to the guard on the side.
After hesitating for a long time, I finally walked down the stairs.
The guard didn't care about that, yawned and fell asleep.
Not long after Qin Chen and his party had just entered the city, the Great Elder of Qingyan City had already flown back, but they entered by mistake.
Therefore, it was not encountered. (To be continued......)