Chapter 38
Jiang Zhulang's vision gradually adapted to the darkness during the long descent in the darkness. He could vaguely see the black stones or wet mosses flashing with an inconspicuous gleam on the rugged stone walls around him.
"How long will it take us to land?" Martin's voice was stretched by the wind and was a little distorted.
Jiang Zhulang also replied with a hoarse voice: "I don't know——"
"Loshia - why don't you speak -"
“…”
Finally, after the anxious feeling of weightlessness, he heard the sound of gurgling water. With three "splashes", the three people fell into the water. Jiang Zhulang only had time to quickly cover the three people with a layer of air film to alleviate the huge impact.
But obviously, he couldn't find the target in the dark, so his accuracy dropped. Unfortunately, his air bag failed to completely cover Martin, missing one of his legs, so -
“Ah!!”
After emerging from the water, his legs were hanging in a twisted posture, and he could only rely on Jiang Zhulang to manipulate the air membrane to pull him to the shore.
After getting ashore, Jiang Zhulang took out a bone-growing medicine and stuffed it into Martin's mouth to treat him without even drying his body.
After the tingling sound of bones growing, Martin jumped up and down again.
"Thanks for the great potion!"
Luo Xiya took out the eternal lamp from the storage ring and illuminated the surrounding environment. Jiang Zhulang found that they were in a magnificent underground palace. On the dome were faded murals, which seemed to be trying to tell something to the visitors.
"I never thought there is an underground palace on this deserted island? It's just like in the legend. Lannuo, do you know whose underground palace this is?"
Jiang Zhulang: "I don't know."
He didn't mean to hide anything, he just didn't know.
Although the background, world view and many details of "The Warlock" were created by him, it does not mean that he knows all the details, especially after surviving in the virtual world.
After all, the plot about the island, even before the comic ended badly, was a relatively late plot. Jiang Zhulang did not design too many details, and naturally he did not know who the owner of the island palace, which was originally used as a background board in the outline, was.
Thinking about it this way, it is reasonable that his comics were so unpopular that not many people even criticized them...
There are no details, no story, mixed settings, slow pace, thin characters, cannon fodder, and low IQ...
"Hiss!" The more Jiang Zhulang thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable, especially when he thought about how he had told Brother Li with extraordinary confidence that it was not that his work was bad, but that readers did not know how to appreciate it. He shuddered unconsciously and could not bear to look at it.
Where did he get all that confidence from before?
At the same time, he began to review the new chapter of "The Warlock", which had been completely transformed and could be said to be completely different from the original, and suddenly discovered that there were quite a few problems.
There is still no strong reason to explain Lannuo's familiarity with many things and his incredible ability to rewind. From the discussions about his background in the forum, it can be seen that readers are looking forward to the protagonist having a unique background that can match these doubts.
But if they knew that "Lannuo" was just a villager from a border town...
Jiang Zhulang himself found it absurd, let alone the readers?
So, where should he go to dig up a remarkable background and attribute it to himself?
"Lannuo, what's wrong with you? Are you too cold?" Seeing him shivering and his face changing, Luoxia asked with concern, taking out a rabbit fur cloak and covering him with it.
Feeling the wet underwear sticking even tighter to his body, Jiang Zhulang put away his hooded cape and said, "It's not cold. I'm just thinking about how to get out."
After changing into dry clothes, the three of them groped around in the underground palace for a long time. Finally, Luo Xia found a narrow and low secret passage in the corner. They climbed along the secret passage and entered a more spacious stone chamber. Most importantly, the lights were on in the stone chamber, and a sapphire crown was placed on the exquisite and luxurious coffin in the middle of the open space.
What? You can actually find the treasure?
Jiang Zhulang didn't know whether he should be thankful that there were treasures in the underground palace, so that this plot wouldn't be so boring. Or should he be surprised that there would be unexpected gains in the underground palace, which was not a background for the plot at all.
“Could this be… the remains of the Warlock King?” Martin murmured as he lay in front of the coffin and looked at the exquisite and luxurious crown.
Hearing this, Luo Xiya was also stunned, and quickly stepped forward to Martin's side, staring at it with burning eyes.
Warlock King? What?
Jiang Zhulang, who was not an indigenous person, was confused for a moment, but then he found clues in the corners of his memory.
The Warlock King is a legend from the continent of Nidos thousands of years ago. He was a late bloomer and spent the first thirty years of his life as an unknown ordinary person, making a living by forging iron.
One day after he turned thirty, his bloodline was inexplicably activated, and it was a new talent that had never been recorded on the continent of Nidos - the invisible energy, which is the talent that "Lanno" possesses now.
You know, in the Nidos continent, if you haven't activated your bloodline after the age of 18, you will never be able to activate it again, but he broke this "common sense". After the news came out, more than half of the warlock families and major forces were shocked and wanted to know how he did it.
Intimidation, bribery, pursuit, torture...
The Warlock King alone defeated the top forces on the entire continent of Nidos and became the strongest in the world.
According to legend, he built a large number of underground palaces for himself, and left in them the methods of how to break through the imprisonment and activate the bloodline. Therefore, even now, thousands of years later, there are still people who are tirelessly searching for his relics.
However, this was just a random background board that Jiang Zhulang made up for the origin of "Lan Nuo's" bloodline and talent. He didn't even have a name in mind. Besides, how could the king of warlocks choose an island on the edge of the mainland as his final resting place?
What's more——
"Why do you think this is the remains of the Warlock King?"
Martin shook his head: "I don't know. I just guessed because I saw such a beautiful crown. People in the entire Nidos continent will think of him when they mention the ruins of the underground palace." He looked at Jiang Zhulang strangely, as if he didn't understand why he had such a doubt.
Jiang Zhulang: ...
He clenched his fists, somewhat speechless.
Suddenly, Jiang Zhulang thought: "The successor of the "King of Warlocks" is a perfect explanation, isn't it? What a coincidence, the same blood talent, the same experience of "waste turning into genius", there is no better choice than this.
Of course, in order to confirm his identity, there is still a problem to be solved, that is, how to naturally draw the plot that reveals Lan Nuo's life experience.
You know, in reality, comics based on dreams and personal experiences are not as easy to fabricate as they used to be. In other words, he couldn't even do some small actions to prove it.
Wait, why would he bother to fabricate evidence about his identity? He only needed to show the similarities between the Warlock King and "Lanno" and give a little hint, wouldn't that be enough?
After sorting out his thoughts, Jiang Zhulang also stepped forward and picked up the crown to study it, but he could not figure it out. He carefully looked at the stone walls around him, which were bare and had nothing that could prove the identity of the owner of the underground palace.
In this case, the only breakthrough point is probably the luxurious coffin on the platform.
According to tradition, the three men washed their hands, burned incense, prayed devoutly and bowed before working together to open the coffin.
Jiang Zhulang stood at the head of the coffin, while Luo Xia and Martin stood at the tail, forming an equilateral triangle.
"Boom——"
After the smoke and dust cleared, the coffin was opened. It was empty inside, with only a note that quickly turned into powder after coming into contact with the air. It read:
"Haha, you never expected it, this is an empty coffin~ Want to know where my real resting place is? I won't tell you!"
Because the note disappeared so quickly, they were unable to see the signature clearly.
"This tone is really..." Luo Xia paused, not knowing how to comment.
Jiang Zhulang felt around the inner wall of the coffin in disbelief, and when he pressed a bulge, something strange happened—
A tragic bony hand suddenly appeared and dragged him into it. Jiang Zhulang tried to use arcane magic to escape, but found that the power was like a drop in the ocean and there was no response at all.
"Lan Nuo!" Before Jiang Zhulang was completely dragged into the coffin, Luo Xia grabbed the corner of his clothes and followed him in. Then, the coffin closed.
"You two wait for me—"
“Bang!”
With his head and neck protected by Luo Xia, Jiang Zhulang rolled on the slope that inexplicably appeared at the bottom of the coffin. He instinctively wanted to go back and restart, but before he could do so, he was hit by a flying rock, his eyes went black, and he lost consciousness.
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