Chapter 327 Underground Cave

Xing Ze quietly came to the village hall. This building is probably the largest in the whole village. It is backed by the cliff at the east end. It has two floors, and a room on the second floor is lit.

Fortunately, there are no guards nearby. Xing Ze walked around it and checked the windows around it.

The window on the east side was bricked shut, and the westernmost window had a shutter that looked a little loose. Xing Ze tried and opened the window as expected. He tried to reduce the sound as much as possible to avoid alarming the people in the room.

He jumped in. It seemed that this should be the gathering room for the villagers. He turned around and closed the window. Then he walked slowly and quietly. He didn't know the structure of the house, so he could only explore slowly.

But if he did that, the risk was too great. Maybe at the next corner, he would bump into other people in the house, and that would be too bad.

So Xing Ze decided to go to the room with the light on and ask someone for directions. It was better than wandering around here. It didn't take much time for Xing Ze to find the room.

He listened carefully and heard some noises in the room, like the sound of turning pages. After thinking for a while, Xing Ze turned the doorknob and walked in.

The room was divided into two parts. The outermost one seemed to be a reception room, and the inner one should be a study. The sound of turning pages came from there.

Xing Ze closed the door gently and walked to the door of the study. From here, he could see a man dressed as a priest sitting behind a desk and reading a thick book.

The man was so engrossed in reading that he didn't even notice someone breaking into the room. Xing Ze picked up the wand, cast a silencing spell in a low voice, and then walked into the study.

It was not until then that the man raised his head and looked at Xing Ze. He stood up from his seat in panic and reached out to open the drawer next to him.

But Xing Ze was much faster than him. He waved his wand quickly and the man was pressed back to his seat by invisible pressure.

"Let me guess, Clyde Venters?"

"A wizard, a wizard, haha. We are in need of wizard materials."

"Well, maybe before that, you can answer a few questions for me. Where are the latest batch of people you captured?"

Venters showed a cunning smile, "I won't tell you anything, I won't betray my god."

"In fact, I may not need to ask you." Xing Ze strode to Venters and put his hand on his head.

Black particles poured out of his arms and poured into Venters' body. Xing Ze patiently manipulated those particles to explore the information Venters knew.

Ten minutes later, Xing Ze took back the particles. He quickly sorted out the memory fragments in his brain. After eliminating most of the unimportant content, he found the place where the investigators were imprisoned-under the village hall.

They built a laboratory similar to a mausoleum underground to imprison specific people and conduct some strange experiments, or rituals.

The whole village is like a test site. The residents here are taking potions created by the snake people. This potion can not only change a person's physique, but also affect their mind.

This also explains why Arbogast said that everyone here has become crazy. As for the senior members of the Old Record Gang, they have had dealings with the snake people for a long time, which is why they have been able to rise so quickly in Liverpool.

Venters' brain was turned into mud. This barbaric memory plunder is too harmful to ordinary people, but Xing Ze doesn't want to waste too much time on him. The sky is already white, and he has to go to the bunker to save people.

With the help of memory, Xing Ze bypassed the guards and servants in the house and rushed to the bunker. Not long after, he came to the door leading to the bunker.

There were two guards at the door, but it can be seen that they were a little depressed after a night of guarding. Xing Ze used his wand to cast a spell in a low voice. When the spell was completed, he quickly jumped out from the corner and hit one of the guards with a spell while fainting.

The other guard suddenly came to his senses and reached for his gun, but Xing Ze's left hand had already grabbed his neck.

Arbogast was right. These guards were indeed very professional. They were far superior to ordinary soldiers in terms of emergency response, reaction and speed.

Just like just now, after seeing his companion fall to the ground inexplicably, the other man did not show too much panic. He immediately took appropriate countermeasures. It was just a pity that he was not facing an ordinary person.

After dealing with the two guards, Xing Ze took out Venters' pass and swiped it on the door lock. With a click, the iron door was opened and he walked in quickly.

As he went down the stairs, the uneven, mossy rock walls gradually replaced the concrete walls, and the steps under his feet became slippery and steep.

Finally, he came to a damp underground cave full of stalactites and stalagmites. Some strange lichens emitted a dim light, making the surroundings not completely dark.

Xing Ze frowned and looked around. This seemingly natural cave had traces of artificial excavation in many places, but the people who built this place made the most of the natural terrain and only used some construction supports when necessary.

Obviously, this could not have been built by humans. This place is too humid for humans, and the strange fungi growing on the cave ceiling and rock walls make it slippery and difficult to walk. If humans want to move quickly here, they must be very careful.

Xing Ze was not clear about the structure of the bunker. Well, to be precise, it should be an underground cave. The relevant memories were damaged during the exploration process, so he could only move forward gropingly.

Fortunately, there are not many people down here, and there are only some rustling sounds around, probably from some animals living here.

The further you go, the smoother the rock wall becomes, the moss and fungus on it are deliberately cleaned, and some complex carvings begin to appear.

Judging from the carvings, these carvings did not take too long, and they should have been carved in recent years. Among them, the snake pattern occupies a dominant position.

Looking at the strange carvings, Xing Ze gradually stopped. He took out the local rumors and some photos that Edwin and Reko had collected from the Everglades from the ring.

Among them, there is a photo of a mural, the patterns on it are quite similar to these carvings, and some of the twists, turns, and repeated carvings look like some kind of text, and some of them are repeated.

According to Venters' memory, one of the spiral carvings represents a name - Yig. But his memory was too crazy. In order not to affect his own mind, Xing Ze decisively gave up a lot of this crazy knowledge when accepting it.

Therefore, Xing Ze had no way to learn any further information about the deeper meaning of this name. He put away the things at hand, stopped worrying about the carvings on the rock wall, and continued to move forward.