Chapter 1866 Found the Entrance

Although Bernardo, Governor Matouwan and the Nature Association have tried their best to cover up everything related to gold, a secret that many people know cannot be prevented from being leaked.

One month after Bernardo's pioneer group was stationed in the Mumu tribe, rumors about the Lake of Gold had already spread among the colonies along the coast of the New World.

Fortunately, at this moment, all the colonies were overwhelmed by the plague and could not distract themselves from the gold issue for the time being, but everyone knew that once the plague subsided, the colonies in the New World would definitely unite to attack Bernardo's pioneer group. At that time, let alone the pioneer group formed by Bernardo himself, even if they joined forces with Matouwan and the Nature Association, they would probably find it difficult to cope with the siege of so many countries, and even the Kingdom of Rut might not be able to withstand the pressure and attack them.

Although Matouwan often does things that disobey the orders of the Kingdom of Rut, they belong to the Kingdom of Rut after all, and the people here are still the people of the Kingdom of Rut. Once the Kingdom of Rut attacks them, they will not be able to resist the Kingdom of Rut unless they rebel and establish a country.

Because of this, there is not much time left for Matouwan, Bernardo and the Nature Association, so they began to increase their manpower. Matouwan has sent two-thirds of its troops to transport gold, and the support invested by the Nature Association is almost the same. It is precisely because of the increase in the number of people transporting gold burial objects that Bernardo can free up enough manpower to establish colonial settlements and send teams to explore the entrance to the underground world.

Establishing colonial settlements is not an easy task. In addition to the various procedures that need to be prepared in the process of forming a pioneering group, there must be a pioneering order issued by the kingdom, and when developing colonies, relevant colonial construction must be carried out in accordance with the areas designated in the pioneering order.

After clearing the colony, establishing a settlement camp became the top priority. In the past, countless coastal kingdoms' development plans failed at this stage, because establishing a colonial settlement camp is not just about building a few wooden houses, but also requires building complete fortifications, and a regular road is needed to connect other colonial settlements.

Not to mention how difficult it is to open a regular road in the depths of the jungle that allows carriages to run side by side, it is already very difficult to build a settlement camp with fortifications in the depths of the jungle. Usually, various attacks are often encountered during construction. Such attacks are not only from indigenous tribes, but more from the creatures of the jungle itself, especially those seemingly harmless plants.

There was once a pioneering group of more than 10,000 people who went deep into the jungle to develop a colonial settlement. They repelled the invading enemies and built a fortified camp at a selected location with great difficulty. As a result, a plant that was harmless in most cases grew around their camp. When the plant bloomed, it would emit some pollen, which was highly toxic. Even a little bit of it was enough to kill an adult. In the end, this pioneering group of more than 10,000 people, along with thousands of craftsmen who later supported them, died silently in the camp they built. No one dared to collect the bodies until now.

However, these difficulties in building colonial settlements were not a problem at all in Bernando. First of all, the construction of regular roads was completed in just half a month. The reason why it was completed so quickly was that the temptation of gold was too great. Although this road only led to the Lake of Gold, the road from the Lake of Gold to the location of the Mumu tribe had been repaired by the Mumu tribe in the past. Bernando only needed to slightly repair the road.

As for the colonial settlements with fortifications, there are ready-made ones. The deserted Mumu tribe is the best colonial settlement. The village built on the cliff of the canyon has a large number of houses and caves for people to live in. Because of the strategic location, there are natural fortifications everywhere, and no additional construction is needed.

In addition, there is a geologist among the scholars who followed Bernardo to the Mumu tribe. He found that there were several flat lands on the tops of the mountains at both ends of the mountain canyon. Although those lands were only covered with a thin layer of soil and were very barren, as long as the fertile soil in the jungle was transferred to these lands, and then one or two reservoirs for irrigation were built nearby, then these mountaintop lands could grow a lot of food. He also calculated that the food produced each time should be enough for 10,000 ordinary people to eat for several months, which made food available, and this also made the colonial settlement that Bernardo occupied not afraid of siege.

So Bernardo created a miracle that he had completed the construction of the colonial settlement in just half a month. Half a month ago, he sent his development plan and results together with the development order back to the Kingdom of Rut by his designated envoy to apply to the king and the cabinet for the position of governor.

Under normal circumstances, there would be no problem with this application. The king and the cabinet would quickly approve the application, and Bernardo would be a real colonial governor at that time. But now because of the variable of gold, he was not sure whether there would be someone in the kingdom coveting the gold and tampering with his appointment and removal as governor.

So, shortly after sending out the envoy, he returned to the camp and met with the heads of Matou Bay and the Nature Association in the camp, hoping to borrow the power of these two parties to help him get the appointment and dismissal of the governor as soon as possible.

In this regard, Matou Bay and the Nature Association both expressed their willingness to help, not to mention the Nature Association, which has always cooperated happily. Although there were some minor conflicts on the Matou Bay side at the beginning, those conflicts were no longer a problem under the common interests. Compared with inserting a new governor whose background is unknown, it is more in line with the interests of Matou Bay to let Bernardo, who knows everything, be the governor.

After several parties made efforts, Bernardo's governor appointment order was delivered to him more than a month after his development plan was officially implemented. The first thing he did after becoming the official governor was to send a survey team to demarcate the boundaries of the colony and an exploration team to explore the entrance to the underground world. The person leading this exploration team was Joe.

Because of the information Leo obtained from the gold burial objects as a location marker, the expedition team led by Joe found the entrance to the underground world after about half a month of exploration. However, it was a bit difficult to enter the underground world because the entrance to the underground world was most likely in a cave at the bottom of a lake.

The reason why Joe's expedition team found the entrance was also a very coincidental thing. Although they had arrived at the marked location ten days ago, they did not see the so-called entrance, but only saw a lake, so Joe suspected that he had found the wrong place.

So they took the lake as the center and continued to search around until noon one day, a body suddenly came out from the center of the lake, and the clothes on the body looked very much like those of the Mumu tribe.

Then Joe sent people to dive into the bottom of the lake to search, and found several more bodies of Mumu people. These bodies were stuck on some rocks at the bottom of the lake. At the same time, they also saw a huge cave at the bottom of the lake, so Joe guessed that the entrance to the underground world was in the cave.

Although the lake is not very deep, the cave is very deep. It is pitch black inside and you can't see the bottom. Most people can't dive in, so Joe returned to the pioneer camp overnight to find diving equipment that can be used. At the same time, he also told Leo the news that the entrance to the underground world was found.

After receiving the news, Leo and Joe set out overnight to return to the entrance to the underground world he found, and the diving equipment was prepared and transported by the people of the Nature Association, which would probably take several days.

"This is not a lake." After Leo came to the lake that Joe and his team found, he said something that puzzled everyone. Then, before everyone was puzzled and wanted to ask, he walked to the edge of the lake, pointed to the plants under the clear lake water, and said: "Those plants are all terrestrial plants, not aquatic plants."

Everyone couldn't help but look at the underwater plants pointed out by Leo. Some scholars who have studied the species of New World plants immediately recognized the species of these plants and agreed with Leo's statement.

"Why is this the case?" Someone asked puzzledly.

Leo explained simply: "It should be that when the Mumu tribe hid underground, they somehow flooded this area with a lot of water, forming a lake, hiding the entrance and blocking the entrance to the underground world."

"Mumu tribe? Underground world?" After hearing what Leo said, the people around him looked even more puzzled and confused. Obviously, they didn't know that their expedition team was looking for the entrance to the underground world. They all thought they were looking for the gold mine of the indigenous tribe. They didn't even know that the tribe that Bernando had taken over was the Mumu tribe.

Joe didn't expect Leo to say these things publicly. His face looked a little ugly. Then he immediately asked Leo loudly as if to disturb everyone's thinking: "There are no reservoirs, no big lakes or rivers around. How did the water get in here?"

Leo pointed to the center of the lake and said meaningfully: "Sometimes the water doesn't necessarily come from the surroundings, maybe it comes from the ground."

Joe said with a little surprise: "Are you saying that the water in this lake is pouring out from the entrance?"

Leo didn't respond, but turned his head to look at Joe and said: "I'll go first. You wait for the diving equipment to come, and then follow me. If there is a fork in the road below, I will leave some obvious marks. You just need to follow the marks and you will be fine."

After that, before Joe and others had time to react, they saw Leo jump directly into the lake and dive to the bottom of the water without surfacing.

Everyone was stunned when they saw this scene. After a long time, they didn't see Leo surfacing, so they couldn't help but turn to Qiao and ask: "Who is he? Is he crazy? Is he trying to commit suicide?"

Faced with a series of questions, Qiao didn't know how to answer, but he was sure that Leo was definitely not committing suicide, and he was also sure that Leo must have mastered some method to survive underwater for a long time.

Leo didn't think about what kind of impact jumping into the lake would have. Now his only idea was to go underground, see what the underground world was like, find the abyss snake that the underground world believed in, and get as much useful information as possible from the abyss snake.

After entering the water, Leo swam underwater at an extremely fast speed. With his demigod body, even without extraordinary strength, he could breathe underwater through his pores. He didn't have to worry about survival at all, and he Various body waste gases shot out through his pores formed a jet propeller, allowing him to swim in the water at a faster speed.

Soon he came to the center of the lake, where the entrance cave to the underground world was discovered.

He did not rush into the cave, but swam to the corpses of the Mumu tribe stuck on the rocks next to the cave.

As Qiao said, these Mumu people are indeed different from ordinary people. Not only are their physical fitness much higher than ordinary people, but they also have some tiny scales growing on their necks, chests, nape, etc. Although these The Mumu tribe should have been dead for a long time, but their corpses did not show many signs of decay. This was obviously related to their physical fitness. Their extraordinary physical fitness gave them great strength and also helped them survive. The original appearance of the body can be preserved for a longer period of time after death.

These Mumu people were not drowned as Joe had guessed. Judging from the wounds that Leo could find, they should have been attacked by some kind of underground beast, and this beast not only had sharp claws and teeth , and the claws and teeth were still poisonous, so they were all poisoned to death.

"Were those Mumu tribesmen attacked?" After discovering these clues, Leo couldn't help but have a doubt in his heart.

And this guess still brought a bit of confusion to Leo, because logically speaking, the Mumu tribe should return to their hometown when they return to the underground world. They should have walked through this passage to the underground world many times, so The possible dangers in this passage should have been eliminated long ago, but why were the Mu Mu tribe attacked and the attackers also caused casualties?

Leo guessed in his mind: "Unless the Mu Mu clan has a falling out with the towns in the underground world and has not entered the underground world for a long time, this passage will be abandoned, and eventually the creatures in the underground world will occupy this area again."

While making guesses about the situation in the underground cave in his mind, Leo dived down into the cave. After passing a distance of about four to five hundred meters, he quickly dived to the bottom of the cave, and the scene at the bottom of the cave made him see After arriving, I couldn't help but frown, because the bottom of the cave was already filled with a large number of corpses, and these corpses were all dressed in Mumu clothing.