Chapter 109 3.31 Heading to the Underground World
There is no doubt that Loki has touched the edge of the treasure mountain. He can see that the pyramid is just 300 meters away from him. It seems that he can touch it by stretching out his hand.
However, at this time, a huge problem lies in front of him: this city hidden under the surface mountains is alive!
This place is by no means a quiet tomb like the Sunken City, but a bustling market with thriving soil and crowded people. Although the monsters moving on the streets are extremely strange in shape, these things actually live in harmony in this city
Perhaps, this underground city is their common refuge?
The bull monster "Minotaur" flourished in 6000 BC and was an outer god in the same era as "Mother Earth Gaia".
As for Medusa, she existed in 1000 BC, when Zeus served as the "second generation leader" of Mount Olympus.
The two monsters existed thousands of years apart, but this did not prevent them from living together in this underground city.
(Perhaps this is exactly what happened.)
The edge of this magnificent underground city has many passages that spiral up and can climb the cliff. In the empty mountain, there are many flying creatures sliding and flying between the slender columns! If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a monster that has been trapped underground for a long time and wants to walk to the ground to breathe some cold air.
The Minotaur, Medusa, and Big Eye Monster that I met on the surface should all have come out of this kind of underground passage.
(I just don’t know if the flying thing I saw just now is a dragon)
Not daring to stay any longer, Loki put away the telescope and stood up and was about to leave. At this moment, two metallic buzzing sounds suddenly came from the pyramid at the bottom of the canyon behind him.
Loki subconsciously turned his head and saw that the firelight in the city was dimming piece by piece.
(Is this a curfew?)
If it is really a curfew, and there is no one on the street at night, can we get a chance to sneak into the pyramid in the dark?
Pulling out the telescope in his arms again, Loki put the lens in front of his eyes. In the city, the flames of temples were extinguished. The demons on the streets also returned to their own temples. After just over ten minutes, the roads of this huge city were almost cleared.
The only light came from the two huge braziers in front of the black pyramid.
The whole mountain was almost in darkness.
Loki could feel his heart pounding, and his greed made his mouth dry and his legs almost unable to move. There was a curfew in the underground city, which was a great opportunity! The braziers illuminated the gate of the pyramid, and it could be seen that the two doors were still open. At this time, the last few monsters on the street walked out of the pyramid.
After the fire was extinguished, the whole city was infinitely close to silence.
Loki hurriedly turned back and pulled the sled dog to walk and climb in the dark cave. It took almost 4 hours to return to the cave entrance. After returning to the cave entrance, he used the simplest language to explain to his four subordinates what he saw on the cliff, and everyone was shocked.
They never expected that this "Erosion Country" mentioned by the Tang people was actually hidden under the mountain, an underground city!
Go or not? This is the problem they have to solve immediately.
After learning that the city exists underground, they no longer have any reason to continue wandering on the surface. Xiao Lu's expedition team lost all traces. I'm afraid they found something wrong when they walked to the area close to the center and turned underground.
But everyone knows the danger of entering the city.
"I want to go." Emma said seriously first, "My life belongs to the Royal Academy of Sciences. As long as I can explore the unknown world with a pragmatic spirit, I am willing to go no matter how big the risk is!"
"I want to go too." The next person to speak was the ship's doctor Lawrence Nightingale, "I carried this cross all the way just to find this city and insert it. I have no regrets in my death for the Holy Bishop."
Loki looked at Old Gore, who laughed while holding his silver arm armor: "What are you looking at me for! If I die, I will ascend to Valhalla while the memory in my mind is still warm! Haha! I have a story to tell!"
The only one whose expression did not change was "Sun Sacrifice" Youm. Only this young boy in the team behaved like he was going on an outing. He was like a newborn baby, with a strong interest in everything around him. Wherever Loki went, he followed.
When Loki drove him away, he played with the dog and was very well-behaved.
Seeing that all his companions around him had the desire to sacrifice their lives for justice, Loki no longer hesitated. Ask yourself, if he were to return at this point, he wouldn't feel willing.
Since everyone agrees. They must act immediately. Because this city under curfew will wake up at any time.
Leaving the sled dog at the entrance of the cave, several people turned and entered the dark mountain passage. Walking along the way, when passing the fork in the road, Loki looked at the python skin that was pulled down by the giant python and signaled everyone to move it away.
Although you can walk to the underground city along the cliff like walking up the stairs. But this city is located under a 300-meter-deep cliff after all. It's unknown how long it will take to go down along the cliff. If you encounter some powerful monsters on the road and fight, you are likely to be surrounded.
The safest way is to climb down the cliff.
The weight of this retreating snake skin is nearly 200 kilograms. Fortunately, most of the way into the mountain is downhill. After the four men dragged the huge snake skin to the edge of the cliff, Old Gore pulled out the silver sword, cut the snake skin into 5 sections and wove it into a tough rope. After tying it to a strange tree on the edge of the cliff, several people slid down along the snake skin.
It took less than half an hour in total.
When his feet stepped on the land in this underground city, after several months, Loki finally felt what it felt like to step on "mud" with his feet again.
At the same time, taking a deep breath of the air in the underground city, he felt extremely comfortable, as if the acupuncture points in his body that were blocked in the past were suddenly unblocked.
(In the pre-Qin period, ancient gods and foreign gods roamed the Kyushu continent. They kept breathing, and humans were able to absorb their spiritual energy. Perhaps this is the spiritual energy revival that Gu Changqing once mentioned?)
After the five people slid down the snake skin to the ground, Loki made a gesture to silence them. Then he divided the team into three echelons.
He and Old Gore were in the first echelon, and Lawrence Nightingale, who was carrying a huge cross behind him, was in the second echelon.
Emma and "Sun Sacrifice" Youm walked at the end.
The group stepped on the soft soil and headed towards the underground city in front of them in the dark, where the lights were turned off.