Chapter 126 What the Hell Is Buried in This Land

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"This is the entrance."

After a little rest, Knight Byron, who had recovered a few percent of his strength, took Gao and his party to the woods near the Goering Mill, and found the tunnel entrance under a raised soil slope—the hole is not big, hidden Between the stones and tree roots at the root of the slope, and the outside was covered with vines and fallen leaves, if it wasn't for Knight Byron's instructions, I'm afraid anyone passing by here would subconsciously ignore it.

When Byron left the tunnel, he destroyed some of the plants covering the hole. Although he did some re-covering work after that, he could still see the traces of people coming and going here. Pittman crouched down in front of the entrance of the cave, observed the situation inside, and then judged: "This should not be an exit originally, most likely it was an earthquake or the roots of the giant tree opened the ground crack, and this cave was connected to the tunnel below. stand up."

While talking, the old man said casually with a smile: "There are really a lot of things buried in the ground in the south."

Gao suddenly felt that there was something in the old boy's words: "You are including me!"

Pittman laughed dryly, then took out a small magic spar from his arms, he injected a little magic into it to make it shine bright and constant, then put it into the hole, and made a "you first" gesture to Gao : "It's time for you to go out."

Shrugging high, he stopped Knight Philip who wanted to go down first, and jumped down first.

He felt that he was stepping on a layer of soft and damp rotten leaves and branches, surrounded by a narrow and cramped earth and stone space, and the light emitted by the magic spar that fell on the ground illuminated the surrounding, allowing him to see the deeper situation: Ahead is a meandering and downward-sloping ramp, with no traces of artificial processing, but more like what the old Druid said, it was connected to a deeper artificial tunnel due to natural factors.

He picked up the magic spar, shook it twice to signal safety below, and then took the lead and walked forward.

After a while, Amber's breath followed, and the half-elf thief was obviously at ease after entering this underground space. She happily turned the treasured dagger in her hand while looking around: "This place has been extending downwards."

"If it were really the 'combat tunnels' dug up back then, it would definitely be very deep," Gao said casually, "after all, the surface of the earth often leaks the aura of a magic tide. violated."

The sloping corridor continued for a short period of time, and the surrounding began to become wide and dry. Gao noticed that the soil and natural gravel on both sides of the passage were gradually decreasing, replaced by artificially processed support beams and stone bricks.

And the solid wall treated with the earth element magic, and continue to move forward, the ground also becomes flat, and no longer continues to slope downward.

Looking at the surrounding scene, Gao's brows gradually wrinkled.

Amber also found something unusual. She stopped playing with the dagger and ran to a nearby wall to carefully observe the material of the latter and the pattern of the wall, and then ran back to her height in surprise. Side: "That's not right... The style of this place is different from the tunnels we walked through when we ran out of your tomb..."

"That's right, it's not the same. These are not the underground fortifications in the southern region that I presided over." He held up the magic spar, illuminating the surrounding walls and ground, "No wonder... Knight Byron mentioned that there are underground passages under Tanzan Town. I was wondering at the time, because there was no development plan in this area back then, even if I died for a long time, no one should have developed it... Who would build tunnels here..."

Amber frowned: "If you look closely, it looks a bit like the ruins in the Dark Mountains?"

Gao finally came to his senses, realizing where the vague familiarity of the memory came from.

The architectural style and material of this underground passage are very close to the giant ruins in the Dark Mountains!

Knight Byron himself was also greatly surprised. He looked around carefully and wondered: "Really... it does look very similar. My brain was dizzy when I was cursed and tossed, and I didn't see it at all!"

"There are underground facilities left over from the Starfire Era..." Gao Xin fluctuated for a while, "So the ruins in the Dark Mountains are just part of a large group of ruins? Or..."

A bolder thought popped into his mind: Could it be that the buried fortress in the Dark Mountains is connected to the underground passage in this place? !

These ancient passages crossed a large area on the north side of the mountain range, crossed the Baishui River and the forest area in the north of the mountain, and were completely continuous? !

However, Gao's bold speculation did not last long. He quickly shook his head and thought that these ideas were unlikely: even if the Gondor Empire was strong back then, its productivity was limited. Not only was the distance from the Dark Mountains far away, There are also intricate terrains such as mountains and rivers. How easy is it to build such a large-scale facility group underground?

Although to tell the truth, if the Gondor Empire is really determined to penetrate this land, it is not impossible to build such an "underground city-state" underground near the Dark Mountains with the strength of the whole country, but Gao really can't figure out what's going on here. It is worth their crazy investment, and it is still a secret project that the people of Gondor and the people of future generations are completely unaware of this...

Could it be that... the human experiments mentioned by Nicholas Egg have something to do with the so-called "God's Sin"?

"Hey, hey, what are you thinking?" Gao's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden voice in his ear. He came back to his senses and saw Amber was shaking vigorously in front of his eyes with his paws outstretched, and the half-elf lady's face came close to him. , "Are you distracted on this occasion?"

"No, it's nothing," Gao quickly regained his mind and put those guesses aside for the time being: Now is not the time to think about them, "Judging from the location, we should have reached the bottom of the Baishui River bed."

"Really?" Amber looked up in disbelief. Fang's "stone" vault was dry and solid, without the slightest drop of water, nor could he hear the slightest sound of the river flowing, "My God...then this The place is really deep enough, how could those people drive such a tunnel under the riverbed..."

"I'm better how he can accurately judge the position in this situation." Pittman glanced secretly and muttered.

Amber's ears twitched, and he opened his mouth: "It's still a question, people have been buried in the ground for more than 700 years, and they are professional... Alas, it hurts!"

Gao Shun twisted Amber's ear around, and then ignored the guy, motioning Knight Byron to continue to lead the way.

At the same time, he looked at the composition of the team he brought, and his heart suddenly became a little cold——

A elf thief who is ashamed of all things, a druid who is good at making soup and selling fake medicines, an old churros knight who can say so righteously about running away, there are five people in the team, all three of them have the wrong style of painting, so It seems that in addition to being able to stabilize morale with a national character face, Knight Philip, who is following the road with a serious and silent face, is probably the only remaining conscience of the entire Cecil action team...

He was thinking about it, and saw Knight Philip suddenly turning his head and asking Byron seriously: "By the way, Byron, is the 'righteous retreat' you mentioned before a knight skill that I don't know about?"

Everyone: "..."

Gao Xin sighed deeply: It's rare to be a good guy, but in the end, he's still a passive jerk...

Everyone gradually stopped chatting as they got closer and closer to Tanzania Town.

Based on the cheating memory map and terrain pre-reading ability, Gao can always roughly judge where he is currently. He found that this long underground passage is not straight, and there are many detours and forks in between - ignore those collapses or mistakes After the route, he found that he had walked a small half circle around the eastern part of Tanzania Town.

This is right below the Tanzanian mine.

The terrain of Tanzania Town has been mentioned before: it is backed by a huge Tanzanian mine on the east side, and the two tributaries of the White Water River on the west side. The whole town is roughly triangular, and the castle of Viscount Andrew is located in the east of the town. Connecting to the gentle part of the Tanzanian mine, the fact that the main building materials of the castle itself are plucked from the mine: the mine not only produces iron ore and various crystal ore, but also produces high-quality stone, It's not unreasonable that the Leslie family that owns the land has enviable wealth.

At this moment, Gao walked in the ancient tunnel directly under the mine, and the first thought that popped into his mind was: Does Viscount Andrew know about the existence of these underground ruins?

...he probably doesn't know, because the iron ore and crystal ore in the Tanzanian mines are not deep veins, but are located in the mountains. It is not necessary to dig deep underground to excavate the mine. Digging deep into the ground is not a joke, no one would do such a thankless thing. And if Viscount Andrew really dug up this ancient ruin... then the outside world would not be silent at all.

As the largest population gathering place and business travel distribution center in the vicinity, Tanzania Town is not a place that can keep secrets - it is not the same as the dark mountains where birds don't shit.

The terrain ahead began to rise.

The air became humid, and the skin felt a clear airflow blowing, and there was a faint sound coming from the front. There were various signs that the exit was near.

Not long afterward, they walked out of the tunnel and saw the spot where the Knight Byron fell: this is an open and steep cave with a water hole at the bottom of the cave, and the exit of the tunnel is at the water hole. The edge, said to be the exit, is actually a cracked rock crevice - obviously this is not a normal entrance, but due to factors such as geological changes.

The real tunnel entrance and exit are still unknown, and most of them have collapsed.

Seeing that there was no serious water-soluble wind erosion in the rock crevices by the pool, Gao couldn't help turning his head to ask Philip, "Has there been an earthquake in this area in the last few years?"

"No," Knight Philip shook his head, then frowned and thought, "but I heard from the mayor of Tanzania that they would occasionally hear a strange howl-like sound coming from the underground of the mine. It was said that it was the work of the undead slave laborers who died in the mine, but that Viscount Andrew had searched with psychics and wizards several times, and could not find the source of the strange sound."

"Really..." Gao said noncommittally, then looked up at the cave.

There are vines growing there, and huge roots of trees can be seen spreading out from the side. Presumably that hole was once covered up and hidden, and now a big hole has been knocked out: Knight Byron's luck is really good, He should really thank the goddess of fate for his survival.

If only there was such a god in this world.

"From here, you can see the east wall of the castle," Byron said, "but the opening is almost straight, and it is still soft soil, and it is not easy to get to."

"Now it's up to the professionals!" Pittman came forward at this time, the little old man smiled, and then took out a green branch from his arms. He waved the branch like a magic wand, and the air was constantly moving. One after another talisman was outlined, and the branch itself seemed to have lost its vitality, quickly changing from a vibrant green to withered and withered.

A rustling sound came from Fang, and the vines growing around the hole were catalyzed and pulled by Druid spells, growing rapidly and hanging down!