Chapter 1867 Underground Town

So many Mumu people died in this underwater pit, which made Leo feel a little confused. Later, he did not rush to find the entrance to the underground world, but swam around the corpses carefully and checked the corpses and the items around the corpses.

It is certain that the cause of death of these Mumu people is the same as the corpses seen before, that is, they were attacked by some underground beasts and then poisoned to death. And it is also certain that these Mumu people should be those Mumu people who left the tribe in advance, because there are some items scattered around these corpses, most of which are some daily necessities.

Leo roughly counted that there are hundreds of corpses piled up here, and according to his calculation from the number of houses and caves in the Mumu tribe, the population of the Mumu tribe is only about 7,000 to 10,000 at most. The death of so many tribesmen in such a small tribe at one time can be said to have hurt the foundation of the Mumu tribe.

In addition, Leo also found two strange things. Although the wounds on these corpses showed that they were attacked by some kind of beast, these Mumu people did not resist when they were attacked. Instead, they stood there and let the unknown beasts attack them. The unknown beasts that attacked them did not kill these Mumu people with their claws or teeth, but poisoned them to death. This is obviously unreasonable.

In addition, these dead Mumu people are almost all elderly people, only a few are middle-aged people, and the middle-aged people do not seem to be very healthy. As for teenagers, there are no teenagers at all, and there are no women. So from all the signs, Leo feels that these corpses are more appropriate to say that the Mumu people came here to perform a living sacrifice, and the dead Mumu people are the sacrifices, rather than saying that the migrating team was suddenly attacked and suffered huge casualties.

Leo carefully recalled the notebook he had seen that recorded the underground world. He did not see anything about sacrifices required to enter the underground world, but this did not mean anything. After all, it had been many years since the notebook was written, and it was unknown what had happened in the meantime.

After finding no other clues, Leo did not stay here any longer, but left the mystery to the people behind him. He quickly searched the bottom of the giant pit and soon found the entrance covered by a huge rock.

This rock should have been moved by the Mumu tribe to block the entrance, because there were four Mumu tribe members around the rock. The four people had ropes and stretchers used to move the rock next to them. In addition, the cause of death of these four people was different from that of others. All four of them drowned. Obviously, when they moved the rock to cover the entrance, there was no water around.

Leo easily pushed the huge rock away, revealing an underground passage that allowed two people to walk side by side. He then swam in and quickly swam deep underground along the passage. When he encountered a fork in the road, he quickly found traces of the previous people, found the correct path, and went deeper. At each difference point, he left some signs to guide the direction and give hints to those who came later.

About ten minutes later, after passing seven or eight forks in the road, Leo came to an underground cave filled with water. From the light coming from above, it can be judged that this should be the source of the lake.

Leo did not rush to float up, but continued to sink to the bottom of the cave. As he guessed, there were also some bodies of Mumu people at the bottom of the cave, with the same injuries and the same old people, but there were much fewer people, only a dozen.

However, unlike the bodies of hundreds of people who were randomly stacked at the bottom of the pit, the positions of these dozen bodies were regular, forming a multi-pointed star shape, and the clothes on these dozen people also showed that their status was much more noble than those Mumu people who died at the bottom of the pit before.

Leo, who did not find any more useful clues, floated to the surface and looked around. He saw a lot of luminous mosses growing on the top of the cave. These mosses illuminated the entire cave and were also the source of the light seen under the water.

Although Leo did not know where he was exactly now, he was sure that he should be inside the high mountain around the lake, because the water surface here was exactly the same as the water surface outside.

After looking around, Leo soon saw an artificial arch about six or seven meters high not far from the water surface. On one side of the arch, a circle of stairs was built along the edge of the cave wall, directly connected to the entrance in the water below.

After swimming to the small platform outside the arch and climbing up, he saw the fist-sized water pipe openings on the inner wall of the arch at first glance. There were about a thousand of these water pipe openings, densely spread on both sides of the wall, and some water pipes were still flowing out at this moment.

From the inner wall of these water pipes, it can be seen that the tools used to dig these water pipes are not mechanical equipment, but more like some kind of digging animals, and the claws of this animal should be very strong and sharp, and can dig rocks as easily as digging soil.

In addition, Leo guessed that the location where these water pipes lead should be at the bottom of some nearby lakes, reservoirs or streams, and from the broken state of the water pipe mouth, it is not difficult to guess that there should be a set of matching blocking tools here, and the purpose of these water pipes may be to defend against foreign invasion.

Think about it, when the enemy enters here, all the surrounding water pipes will spray water outward at the same time. It is impossible for the enemy to enter the arch under such a strong water flow. The large amount of water will flood the passage, preventing the enemy behind from entering, or drowning the enemies still in the passage. In the end, even if someone survives the strong water flow, they will die at the hands of the person who is in charge here because they are outnumbered.

Although Leo does not think that such fortifications can play a big role, he has to admit that such fortifications should be enough, especially the underwater passage that even Leo needs to swim for ten minutes. It is absolutely impossible to dive to this cave with the manual pump diving equipment that can be provided by the countries in the Novat continent, unless someone has the ability to breathe underwater.

Leo didn't stay here for too long. He continued to move forward. The passages were obviously much smoother, because the ground and walls of these passages were not only polished by hand and very smooth, but also planted with a large number of luminous mosses and some fluorescent stones that could emit strong light. It was these fluorescent stones that made him feel that the people living here might have been another biological race, because he could feel weak radiation waves on these fluorescent stones.

Although these radiation waves would not have any effect on Leo, it would be different for ordinary people. After staying in such an environment for many years, their genes and cells would all mutate in this radiation, and this mutation would either be benign or fatal.

After walking in this passage for a few minutes, the passage changed from a straight extension to an extremely steep downward staircase. After walking down the stairs for about six or seven minutes, Leo felt that he had gone deep into the underground town mentioned in the notebook after going several hundred meters below.

The entire town was built in a huge cave that was large enough to wrap around Matou Bay. Judging from the surroundings, there was no trace of artificial excavation in the cave, and it should have been formed naturally. However, the people who built the town made some modifications to the cave, such as flattening the bottom of the cave to facilitate the construction of the town, and installing a large number of fluorescent stones on the top of the cave to fill the cave with light.

The town in the cave was built in a very simple cross-shaped layout. All the houses were of the same style and were built of stone. The only outstanding thing was the unfinished temple outside the town and the statue of the abyss snake that had been carved in the temple.

At this moment, there was no one in this underground stone town, and it was dead silent.

Although using the mental network to scan the town would allow Leo to understand the situation here faster, Leo did not intend to waste the White Deer Mark here. He walked into the town along the stairs in a completely normal way, and then searched one room after another without any trouble to see if he could find anything here.

Just like the Mumu tribe I saw before, the items in all the rooms here are neatly arranged. It seems that the people in the town walked very calmly. There are also a lot of daily necessities and clothes in the room. When the people in the town left, they did not consider leaving for a long time, but more like leaving for a while and coming back.

In addition to some daily necessities, Leo also found some cold weapons, and the styles of those cold weapons are different from those used by countries in this world, and they are also very different from the cold weapons in the Vilen world. And these weapons are all made of high-strength alloys. In terms of manufacturing technology alone, it has far exceeded the metallurgical manufacturing technology of this world, and even exceeded the manufacturing technology of the Vilen world. It is more like the metallurgical technology of some kind of early scientific and technological civilization.

Although some things were found, the written records such as books that Leo wanted most were not seen here, as if there was no need for any written records here.

After not finding too many useful things in the town, Leo set his sights on the unfinished temple outside the town.

Compared to the monotonous stone buildings in the town, the temple in front of us, which is used to worship the Abyss Serpent, is obviously much more interesting. Just like the cave temple of the Mumu tribe, the buildings of this temple are engraved with a lot of blasphemous words from the abyss. What's different from the blasphemous words in the cave temple of the tribe is that the blasphemous words here are complete, not the kind of dismembered blasphemous words.

However, even if the characters of these blasphemous words are complete, it is useless, because the complete characters do not mean that these blasphemous words can be connected into complete sentences with clear meanings. They are like a string of symbols composed of the basic roots of Gamorrean language without any meaning.

However, Leo still recorded all the basic symbols of these blasphemous words, because like Gamorrean language, this kind of blasphemous words also has extremely powerful power, but this power is not as stable as Gamorrean language. In many cases, using blasphemous words indiscriminately will not only not attack the enemy, but will hurt yourself.

After writing down these blasphemous words, Leo turned his attention to the statue of the Abyss Serpent. The shape of this statue of the Abyss Serpent was completely different from the statues in the temple of the Mum tribe. This difference was not only reflected in the size, but also more in the material and shape of the statue.

This statue of the Abyss Serpent was not made of gold. Only the symbols of blasphemy on the scales were inlaid with some gold. The whole statue was carved and polished with a huge ruby. Leo had never seen such a huge ruby ​​before, so at the first sight, he could be sure that the ruby ​​used to make the statue was not natural, but artificial.

The alloy cold weapons found in the town before and the huge artificial ruby ​​he saw now made Leo wonder whether the people here had mastered some high-tech equipment that could perform decomposition, synthesis, forging and other processes. The Earth Federation also has similar equipment, but the number is very rare. Only some mining planets controlled by the federal government have such equipment, because the core technology comes from a medium-tech civilization, and the price is extremely expensive. It is said that one machine is enough to rival a subspace spacecraft.

The shape of the entire statue is also very prominent. The statue of the Abyss Serpent in the temple of the Mumu tribe is coiled up and raised its head, as if ready to attack at any time, while this statue is hovering on a pillar, with its head slightly lowered, as if saluting a certain existence, and a clear white deer mark is boldly carved on the forehead of the statue. In order to reflect the true situation of the white deer mark, the maker also used fluorescent stones that can emit silver-white light to inlay it.

Seeing this white deer mark, Leo is very sure that this Abyss Serpent must have betrayed the Abyss and become a god of the Black Forest.

In addition to the huge statue of the Abyss Serpent, Leo also saw a piece of skin fragment on the sacrificial platform below the statue, and could clearly feel the extremely pure breath of the Abyss power from this piece of skin. This breath of the Abyss is so strong that even if it is suppressed by the laws of this world, it still cannot be completely suppressed.

At first, Leo thought that this piece of skin was from the body of the Abyss Snake, but when he picked it up and looked at it carefully, he found that it was completely different from the skin on the Abyss Snake. As for what kind of skin it was, Leo was not sure for the time being. The only thing that was certain was that the owner of this skin definitely possessed power at the level of a true god, and was the kind of true god who had the ability to break the laws of the world.