Chapter 19 Secret Stronghold

It’s really convenient to have a guide! Baihu and the others had seriously deviated from their supposed position during the battle with the unknown person, but we found them easily. However, once we found them, we could only watch from the side, and we couldn't help at all. I don't know the guy who's fighting the white tiger, but judging by his attire, he's definitely from Buddhism. There are all masters on the field. One more than me is not more, and one less than me is not less. After much deliberation, I thought it would be better to look for the treasure first, so I asked the three volunteer guides to take me to the place where the Great Wheel Pluto hides his things.

Although Dalu Pluto is a boss-level figure, before becoming the boss, she was still a woman, so she has a very bad habit - being suspicious. The treasure cache that the guides took me to was very secret, but because of their special abilities we found it easily. But I didn’t dare to go in just looking at the wide open cave in front of me.

There is no door in the cave, but the strong mana fluctuations emanating from the cave entrance can probably be felt by even warriors who do not understand magic. Such a strong restriction would probably be difficult to solve at my level.

"Hey...how do we get in here?" I asked the three guides tentatively.

"Only the peacock can fly on its own, and we don't know." These three are obviously not good at this either.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to use the simplest method - a detour. Who stipulated that you must go through the cave entrance when entering a cave? Can't we go in through the big hole on the side? Anyway, my magic pet has a lot of holes, so it shouldn’t be difficult to get in through a hole from the side.

I released the pioneer, found a softer spot on the side of the cave, and started digging inward. Soft soil and rock are all the same to pioneers, as long as they don't touch iron sulfate, they'll be fine. It only took half a minute for the Blazers to break into the cave from the side, which was surprisingly simple.

"Not bad, very fast." I patted the pioneer and then sent him back to the Phoenix Dragon Space.

The guides said they were determined not to follow me into the cave to avoid suspicion. I had no choice but to go in alone. The environment of this place is really good. The surrounding walls are quite neat rocks, which look like they were dug out manually. The cave is very dry and has no bad smell. The only drawback is that there are more bugs.

After passing through the artificial cave in front, I quickly entered a large natural cave. This large cave was connected to countless small caves, and each small cave was filled with all kinds of strange things. I picked up one at random and looked at it.

This is a hairpin used by Taoist priests. The main material is jade. The patterns are also very ordinary, and they cost only one yuan each on street stalls. But this hairpin is anything but ordinary, because the vigorous magic power shows that this thing is at least a piece of Holy Spirit equipment. In addition to the hairpin, I also found a large barrel more than two meters high. The barrel was black and made of some unknown metal. The weight was unclear. Anyway, I couldn't move it alone. There's a lot of stuff like this here. I didn’t know exactly what it was used for, but I always move things first and then figure out how to use them.

"Scott, it's time to move things." I opened the space door and called out my moving team. The Ring Knight and Qilin Warrior quickly poured out of the Earth Gate and began to sweep the treasure house.

There are so many things here, but I have more people. It shouldn't take long to move them all. I asked them to throw ordinary items directly into the Gate of the Earth and pile them up. Only items with particularly strong magic power fluctuations would be handed over to me for processing.

"Report to the commander." A Qilin warrior ran up to me and gave a military salute. These guys have become more and more like soldiers since they took on physical form.

"What's up?"

"A sculpture was found over there. I suspect it may be what we are looking for."

Because when they came out of heaven, the Jade Emperor and others had said that those jade might change their form. Even the texture, so nothing else but magic can be used as a criterion. Therefore, what I told the Kirin Warriors was also a general standard. I only said that I wanted to find something with strong and special magic power, but I did not tell the specific appearance or magic characteristics. The magic power of that kind of jade is very special. What I felt when I was in heaven was a very weird feeling that I couldn't express in words. So I couldn't tell the Qilin warrior what kind of magic power fluctuations he was looking for. I could only Work harder on yourself. Go check out anything weird.

This time the Kirin warriors showed me a red jade fairy statue, which was definitely the main target of suspicion. Although the jade may change its material, that is only a possibility. Normally, it is most likely that it will still maintain the same shape as the jade I saw in heaven, and it is only possible that it will change its shape. The possibility is slightly smaller. As for changing the material, that is only the lowest possible possibility. So, everything is jade. It's always something worth paying attention to.

I rushed to the side of the sculpture in two or three steps. Then he pressed his hand on the surface of the jade statue, closed his eyes and felt it carefully.

"How is it? Is it what we are looking for?" Scott asked me.

I shook my head: "Unfortunately not. But this thing is quite strange. Xiao Longnu, come out and help me identify it."

The little dragon girl jumped out of the Fenglong space and carefully inspected the Xun sculpture, and then said: "This is a gift from Heaven to Buddhism a long time ago. I can't remember the name. It functions like a weapon of mass destruction." .”

"What? This thing is a weapon of mass destruction?"

"Don't get excited." Xiao Longnu quickly pressed my mouth. "This is indeed a weapon of mass destruction, but it is only aimed at mortals without power. People like us can recover blood faster than it can damage blood, so it is basically useless."

"Damn, is this kind of thing useful to a Buddhist?"

"It's just because it's useless, so I gave it away!" Xiao Longnu said matter-of-factly: "Heavenly Court and Buddhism are not really good enough to wear a pair of pants. Privately, neither of them thought about treating each other as friends, so being polite is superficial. You were so polite. Buddhism happened to have completed some kind of plan at that time. Heaven had to give something to save the face, but I couldn’t give away something that was too tasteless, and I couldn’t bear to give away something that was too powerful, so in the end I gave something like this. Use it. It looks like trash, but when you say it is a weapon of mass destruction, at least you say it with dignity."

"So this thing is really suitable!"

"of course."

"Sir. There is something new here."

While we were chatting, the Qilin Warriors discovered something noteworthy. What I found this time was not far from where we were, so I quickly walked over.

"What is it? Let me see."

The Qilin warrior ran out carrying a coffin. "This is it." The Qilin warrior in charge of this team pointed at the coffin and said to me.

"This...!" This kind of thing was actually put into the storage room. The hobby of Pluto is really special! "Do you know what this is?" I turned around and asked Xiao Longnu.

"coffin."

"Nonsense, of course I know this is a coffin. I was asking what's in it?"

Scott touched me, and when he saw me looking at him, he whispered: "I don't think there will be anything else in the coffin except the corpse."

"There are many types of corpses." I pointed at Scott's chest and said, "Aren't you also considered corpses? As for zombies, corpse witches, etc., aren't they also corpses? So there are differences between corpses. Since this thing can be put in the treasure house, there must be something strange about it."

"Never mind it. You'll find out when you open it." Scott went up and kicked the coffin board. As a result, the huge coffin flipped sideways for more than ten times and flew to the corner before stopping. "It's really strong!"

"I told you it's a treasure, so of course it can't be opened so easily!"

I walked over and looked at the coffin again. This is a very ancient coffin style, and its structure is different from modern coffins. Of course, it is even more different from Western coffins. This thing was boxy and looked more like a huge cage than a coffin. There is no decoration on its surface, it is entirely the color and texture of the wood itself, but this wood is a little bit special. The wood used to build this coffin comes from the World Tree. In other words, this is a coffin made of World Tree. You must know that the world tree is as precious as any kind of gemstone, so using it to make a coffin is really an extremely luxurious act.

Scott also came over. He kicked the coffin a few times and then said, "This thing is probably no worse than a steel plate."

"Wrong. This thing is not worse than a steel plate, but it is harder than a steel plate. Its hardness exceeds anything you have ever seen."

Scott looked at the coffin in surprise, and then said: "Then how are we going to open it? There's not even a lock on it, and I don't know how to open it even if I want to. And with such a hard thing, your eternity may not be Can you cut it?"

"Of course I have my own way." As I said that, I turned eternity into a small hammer. Then I tapped lightly on the coffin lid. The lid made a crisp echo, and then I knocked on the side again.

Scott watched me knocking around with a small hammer, and asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"

"Look for the main beam."

"Staple food? Is there anything to eat in here?"

"It's not the main grain, it's the main beam, the beam of the house beam!"

"But why are you looking for the main beam?" Scott still didn't understand what I wanted to do.

"Do you know Luban Lock?" I asked while knocking.

"Know."

"Style-wise, this thing and that thing are from the same era."

"So you think this thing should have a main beam?"

I was about to answer when suddenly the coffin board made a very special echo, which sounded much duller than before. And it also has a very special friction sound. "found it."

"How did you know this is here?" Xiao Longnu also walked over curiously and asked.

"Because this structure relies entirely on the main beam to lock the connection points between various parts, the main beam will connect many parts at the same time. In other words, the structure around the main beam is very complex, so the echo when struck will be very special and can I heard some subtle collision sounds. What? Don’t believe it? Then I’ll prove it to you.” I said and pressed the piece of wood down, and then when I let go, the piece of wood popped out on its own. I grabbed the piece of wood that popped out and pulled it out. I heard a bang, and the entire top of the coffin suddenly popped out. Then the four baffles fell neatly in four directions. but. After seeing what was going on inside, my pride immediately disappeared! "Hey...this seems to be a coffin!"

This damn coffin actually has more than one layer! fortunately. The second level is just an ordinary coffin. There is no special locking device.

"It's time for us to see what's inside this time!" Scott walked over and grabbed one end of the coffin cover and lifted it up hard. With a bang, he completely lifted the cover off the coffin. We quickly stretched our heads to look inside, and were stunned again.

This time I didn't find that there was another coffin inside, but that it was actually empty. If it were empty, we would be disappointed at most, but this coffin is even more surprising than being empty, because there is actually a staircase at the bottom of it.

After the coffin cover was opened, there was a large hole where the body should be placed, and a staircase extending downwards could be seen from above. But there is no end in sight. The depth of this coffin is no more than one meter and three meters at most, but the staircase is at least one hundred meters long, which is obviously not something that can be placed in the coffin.

"This is the entrance to space!" Xiao Longnu was the first to shout.

"It should be!" I reached out and 'touched' the inner wall of the coffin, and then looked at my fingers. "There was never a body in this coffin, it was just a disguised entrance."

"I wonder where this can go?" Scott said.

"It would be nice if it was another treasure hiding place." Xiao Longnu has been led astray by me now, and she wants to take advantage every day.

"Just go down and take a look and you'll find out." Scott jumped directly into the coffin, and then walked down.

"Little Dragon Girl, you wait above. If the Qilin Warrior finds anything strange, he will put it together first. Wait until I come back and take a look." After saying that, I turned over and jumped into the coffin.

The stairs below are very steep, and you can only stand half a foot on each step. There is a back blade on the back of my boots, which requires more space than ordinary boots. Now I can only stand sideways, otherwise there is no place to borrow strength. It was dark in the passage. But it’s not a big problem for Scot and I. After all, we are both creatures of darkness, and darkness is our best friend.

"Do you feel it?" Scott suddenly asked me in a low voice.

I nodded. "I feel it." There is airflow in the passage, which means that it is not a closed space below. But it leads to the outside. "It's very salty wind, it might be the beach outside."

"Wind?" Scott turned back to look at me in surprise. "I mean the temperature of the ground."

"Temperature?" I reached out and 'touched' the wall, and I really felt that the temperature of the wall was very high, close to my body temperature. "Don't worry, I'll let the dart go over and explore the way."

Darts are small and fast. Even if he steps on an ordinary mechanism, it will not activate, and even if it activates, it will be useless. With his speed, let alone a trap or falling rocks. Even the crossbow arrows couldn't catch up with his speed. The dart is exploring the path in front, so we don't have to move forward cautiously, which makes the speed obviously much faster.

After walking down a short distance, the passage became horizontal, and then suddenly entered a very huge room. This is obviously a place that has been artificially processed. There are a large number of reliefs carved on the walls and floors of the room, and the style is very strange. It does not seem to be the form of sculpture anywhere I have ever seen.

There was nothing in the room, except for a door diagonally opposite our entrance. The wooden gate was basically rotten. The rest of the land is just a frame. After exiting the door, Fei Dart coughed and jumped back.

"What's wrong?"

Fei Dart immediately telegraphed with his mind: "Ahead is a huge group of passages. There are many rooms around, but most of the things inside are gone. At the end of the passage is a downward staircase. But it is sealed by water."

"I understand, you go back and rest first." After taking back the darts, I called out Bailang and Yeyue, and then started searching the underground world with Scott.

The structure of the passage in front is very regular. The horizontal and vertical passages divide the land around the cave into small areas. Each area is a room. It is simply an underground city. When Scott and I walked to the door of a room, the already dilapidated door leaned crookedly against the door frame. I just pushed it lightly, and the entire door panel fell down and broke into countless pieces. .

"Cough cough cough cough..." Yeyue said while fanning the dust: "It seems that no one has been here for some years."

I walked into the room first and saw a house full of rags. It looked like a very ordinary office. There were a row of bookshelves and some tables and chairs in the room, but they were all covered with a thick layer of dust and looked gray.

"This place is simply a ghost town." Scott swept away the dust on the table, then turned around and jumped up to sit on it. However, there was a bang and Scott fell directly into a pile of rotten wood.

"Probably nothing in a place like this can remain the same." I reached out and grabbed a book by the bookshelf and pulled it gently. With a breath, the book turned into a pile of white powder.

"Without magic protection, these things cannot be stored for long." Yeyue flicked a wooden box next to her, and with a bang, the wooden box turned into a pile of fragments. "See?"

"Every room is the same." Scott said, "What's going on here?"

"Probably an abandoned underground base." I walked from the bookshelf to the opposite wall. I could still vaguely see some shadows of pictures, but as soon as I took a breath, they scattered in a large area, making them unrecognizable. . "As we move forward, the secret should lie ahead."

Passing through this large residential area, there are a large number of warehouses ahead, but the things inside are all rotten and unrecognizable, so we don't know what was stored before. Further forward, the passages gradually converge and become a wider passage. Continuing forward, less than three hundred meters later, the passage turned into a downward staircase again, but there were only a dozen steps, and the steps below were all soaked in water.

"This is probably the area sealed by water that Fei Dart mentioned just now." Yeyue said.

"I wonder what's down there," Scott said.

"Just go down and take a look and you'll find out." As Ye Yue said that, she jumped into the water and quickly disappeared on the water.

"Let's go down too." I took back Bailang, put down my mask, and I jumped down.

"Wait for me." Scott jumped down after me.

Yeyue has a big tail and can swim much faster than us. When we got into the water, she had disappeared. The underwater passage still goes all the way down, and there are also stairs, which shows that there should not be water here, otherwise there would be no need to make stairs at all.

After swimming not far forward, we caught up with Yeyue. To be precise, we caught up with Yeyue who was blocked. The downward stairs were completely blocked by a stone door, and the surrounding area was completely empty. There was no mechanism to open the stone door.

"It seems that if you want to get through, you have to break open this door." Scott said to me through spiritual contact.

Yeyue patted Scott. "Are you an idiot? This is a water sluice. It will only fall when the water level exceeds the warning line. If you smash the door, all the water outside will pour in, and we will be washed back."

"What should we do?"

"First create a gate behind us, and then open this gate. As long as there is no exit, the water will not affect our actions."

I nodded. "This is a good idea." As I said that, I took out the eternity, and then let it separate part of it and turned it into a gate behind us. It was deeply 'inserted' into the wall on all sides, so that it could resist the water pressure. After finishing all this, I said to Scott and Yeyue: "Get ready, I'm going to open the door."