Chapter 501: Shattered Light City
Under Ye Lan's keen questions, the person in charge was sweating coldly.
He glanced at the commander of the Ember Fire Legion beside Ye Lan, as well as the key figures of the Tribunal who were disbanded but still in spirit. Under the pressure of the five gods' agreement, he sighed softly.
"I'm not sure, but it is possible. There is a special department of our Sunset Religion underground in Shattered Light City."
Ye Lan's eyebrows raised.
"What department?"
What kind of special department is this, so special that I have never heard of it?
"I don't know the specifics." He wiped the sweat from his forehead:
"But this department is not actually managed by the Afterglow Religion, but is a department that directly listens to the oracle."
Listen to the oracle?
Yelan's pupils shrank slightly, and then she spoke in a deep voice:
"You mean, this is a human department directly managed by Pure Setting Sun?"
"Yes."
Yelan frowned, and then looked at Xia Manman. Meeting Yelan's gaze, Xia Manman seemed to have heard of the existence of such a place for the first time.
"Is there... any problem?" she asked.
"Yes." Ye Lan said with great certainty:
"According to the situation of your Yuhui Divine Religion, Pure Setting Sun has not been able to convey the oracle smoothly for at least thirty years."
"However, there is such a department directly under its command, and it is buried deep underground all year round."
Ye Lan paused for a moment, because there were many 'outsiders' here who could not be completely trusted. He did not elaborate on how suspicious this was... but based on everyone's experience, everyone basically knew it.
There are so many possibilities.
For example...are they really listening to the oracle of the pure setting sun?
For example, is the condition of Pure Setting Sun really so bad that it cannot convey the oracle smoothly?
Xia Manman swallowed softly.
"The situation shouldn't be so extreme, right?"
"Who knows?" Ye Lan stood up from a squatting position and looked at Su Xiaguang.
"What do you think?"
"...Huh?" Su Xiaguang was stunned for a moment and pointed at himself: "Do I also want to express my opinion?"
He thought he was just following him so that he could be monitored by the other party.
"If I have to say..." He hesitated: "It's not very comfortable."
Not too comfortable?
Ye Lan raised her eyebrows slightly and turned her head again.
"Do you have a sample?"
"Yes." The person in charge of the Yuhui Cult nodded and brought over a delicate small box from the storage area.
Yelan took it and opened it, revealing a crystal-clear ore that was exactly the same as what he had just seen.
Holding it in his hand and looking at it, Ye Lan couldn't help but fall into doubt again.
"What's the use of this thing?"
To be able to make a city like Broken Light City rise from the ground because of this, it shouldn't be something ordinary.
"Manman, have you ever used this thing?"
"Used it." Xia Manman was finally able to answer fluently: "This thing is called a spiritual stone. It can strengthen the user's spiritual power. Most of our teams are equipped with this kind of thing... For example, my sister's magical sword is Made of this material."
"Spirit-promoting stone..." Ye Lan repeated the term, but her brows furrowed.
If you just listen to the name, this is simply an important resource across the century, and it can even be said to be as significant as a genetic enhancer.
Can……
It just lay quietly in the palm of his hand without even the slightest reaction.
It does nothing, at least not to itself.
It's getting weirder and weirder.
After restraining all the doubts, let’s find out next.
"White peach."
"exist!"
"Xia Manman."
"1."
"..." Yelan almost didn't realize what 1 meant, and the corner of her mouth twitched.
"Summary light."
"yes."
"The three of you will join the team that will take action with me next and collect supplies." Ye Lan looked seriously, looking at the deep sinkhole that even made him a little scared, and spoke in a deep voice.
"Get ready to go to the mine!"
In just ten minutes, the four of them were already fully armed.
Four tough cables were fixed to the giant searchlight pole at the top of the pit, and another section was fixed to the waists of the four people.
Facing the underground space that may be as deep as a thousand meters, Ye Lan adopted a relatively safe way to descend... Otherwise, he couldn't really rely on the activated hook gun to swing down, right?
During the slow descent, a deathly silence condensed in all directions.
Apart from the four people's head-mounted flashlights, the only light source was a small amount of light refracted from the ores hanging on the rock wall.
Too few.
Unknowingly, the four of them descended all the way down, and they had already dropped more than a thousand meters!
call out……
There was a gust of cold wind in my ears. In other words, just a little bit of insignificant wind can cause strange sounds like ghosts singing from the endless depths of the underground.
"...Ye Lan, do we need to chat for a while?" Bai Taotao asked in a low voice with a slight tremor.
Even though he is very strong, he still feels a sense of physical fear when he is in such a place.
It's like diving into the deep sea, like floating in no man's sky.
It's like falling into the monster's mouth bit by bit and losing consciousness.
"You can communicate freely, I'll forget it." Yelan chuckled, lowered his head slightly, and paid full attention to the changes around him.
After descending to their current position, several people were already outside the range of regular reinforcements. Except for the cable tied around his waist, it can be said to be almost isolated from the surface.
That is to say, this group of people is strong enough, otherwise such darkness would drive people crazy.
But for some reason, Ye Lan began to feel that her body was getting heavier and heavier.
But this deep pit is still far from the end.
"Captain, there is a cliff-like structure about fifty meters below, would you like to conduct a survey?"
Xia Manman tried to suppress the emerging fear in her heart with a professional attitude. She also adhered to the usual practice of the trial team and asked Ye Lan with the title of captain first in all actions.
Yelan was already descending while observing the open space she mentioned. There is a faint light more than fifty meters below the current position, and you can vaguely see a small area where the veins of 'spirit-promoting stones' are piled up.
"Can."
Snap!
The figures of several people began to reverberate like swings, causing their suspended bodies to sway to a certain extent.
Then, after swinging to the position closest to the cliff, the Range Rover was stuck again, leaving enough distance, and landed firmly on the ground.
"What a huge piece of spirit-boosting stone..."
The strength of the pedal made everyone feel at ease. During the investigation, Xia Manman gently brushed the mineral vein and sighed with emotion.
Snap!
Yelan adjusted the flashlight to strong light mode, and opened the light on the spiritual stone vein several people high on the rock wall.
If there is really any danger, then this somewhat out-of-place thing is the most likely source of danger.
Fortunately, Ye Lan didn't feel any abnormal spiritual energy fluctuations, and there didn't seem to be any mechanism. His own face could even be clearly reflected on the stone surface.
Snap!
Lighting a flash stick, Ye Lan threw it deeper into the bottomless pit.
The light went from being very close and very bright, to getting farther and farther away, getting fainter and fainter, until it was completely gone.
Under the increasingly foggy cover, nothing could be seen.
There is still a long way to go.
Leaning gently against the rock wall, Ye Lan pressed the intercom.
Zizzi!
A burst of noise sounded from inside. It seemed that the signal had been affected by some unknown interference and could no longer be contacted.
Leaning against the cold wall, Yelan closed her eyes slightly.
Have you not rested for too long? So tired...