The massive stone gate seemed to be sealed by something, with the gaps tightly closed, preventing even a wisp of wind from getting through.
The words on the door were painted in black paint and had no reflection at all, as if leading to some void black hole.
"Is this place the underworld?" Xiao He's lips twitched in front of the screen, as if he were playing a "two-player online escape room game".
“This place is even more special than the outside. There must be some kind of barrier or curse that isolates living things, otherwise the guards on the ground would definitely be here.” Wang Xuefeng said as he rapidly typed on the keyboard.
Xiao He propped his chin on his elbow, shifting his gaze from his own screen to his own.
Various messages were flashing frequently, with at least seven or eight messages loading at the same time.
"Your machine is really high-tech!" Xiao He couldn't help but exclaim.
Wang Xuefeng chuckled, his hands moving without pause. The reconnaissance plane only paused briefly before determining the direction from which it could continue.
It bypassed the heavy stone door and hung upside down in a corner of the ceiling.
"Buzz buzz buzz..."
A thin "electric drill" emerged from the mechanical spider's mouth, accompanied by a burst of purple mist, and a small hole gradually dissolved in the seemingly solid and thick wall.
In less than thirty seconds, the reconnaissance plane, carrying the robot Bebe, completely disappeared into the newly drilled hole in the wall.
Xiao He looked at his screen and saw that after entering the hole in the wall, he didn't forget to patch up the hole.
"Sure enough, you can't judge a book by its cover when it comes to practical things!" she grumbled. "What baby baby? It's not even as good as a spider!"
Listening to her rambling, Wang Xuefeng couldn't help but chuckle, and teased her with a smile:
"Let's take a detour and avoid the traps around the entrance. If we accidentally fall into one, our Spider and Bebe will be ruined."
"I'm not worried! Watch out! Driver, keep going!" Xiao He didn't even need to turn his view, because no matter which way he turned, all he was around were bricks and mortar.
Just as she got up to make Wang Xuefeng a cup of tea, Yang Xing's dialog box popped up in the system.
[Yang Xing: Huh? Where did you guys go?]
[Xiao He: A prison near the palace of the Guli Empire on the Origin Continent]
[Yang Xing: Prison?]
[Xiao He: Xuefeng has found a clue about the old dean, and we are following the clue to find him.]
[Yang Xing: Really?! Do you have enough information? Should I send you an updated copy?]
[Xiao He: Send it!]
[System notification: You have a new group file!]
[Data parsing in progress, please wait...]
Xiao He, holding a cup of freshly brewed tea, walked back to the table and sat down.
After tidying up the clutter on the table, he placed the teacup in front of Wang Xuefeng.
The latter glanced down and exclaimed with delight, "Thank you, wife!"
"No rush, take your time," Xiao He said as he sat down.
She can view the data directly on the computer screen and keep an eye on two windows at the same time.
The old dean's diary entries were already quite varied, because even he couldn't perfectly connect all the information.
There were only scattered clues, which were then gathered together in a small diary.
Yang Xing was busy with production and manufacturing, so almost all the data was compiled by Dai Lele alone.
Coincidentally, Xiao He was very used to Dai Lele's organizational style. Just like when she tutored him when he was a child, the way she highlighted key points was exactly the same.
"There's still too much content, let's filter it..."
With a flick of his finger, Xiao He displayed messages containing the keyword "Guli" in chronological order.
Of the thirty-seven clues, nineteen contain the phrase "forbidden place".
"That's true... After all, the old dean's goal is to investigate the forbidden land. For elementalists, the most serious thing is that they can never break through to the god level."
Xiao He murmured, stroking his chin, his eyes rapidly scanning the screen.
Fifteen minutes later.
Two unassuming little machines crawled into a completely dark room.
The two of them simultaneously turned on the night vision mode for the machine.
This is an empty room of less than ten square meters, with only a narrow, curved iron door, and nothing inside.
Robot Bebe jumped off the mechanical spider, flapped its wings, and flew toward the iron gate.
"Is everything alright outside? If it is, I'll open the door," Xiao He asked Wang Xuefeng without looking up.
"It's alright, just be gentle," the latter replied.
The robot Beibei reached out and slowly touched the keyhole.
As she went deeper, her hand began to melt, as if to better fit the internal structure of the keyhole.
"clatter!"
After a slight sound, the heavy iron door slowly opened a crack.
The robot Beibei withdrew its hand from the keyhole, restored its arm to its original shape, and then slowly peeked half of its face out from the crack in the door.
On the ground, several jet-black spider legs silently stretched out.
On their computer screens, the images only showed black, gray, and white, so they could only judge the basic properties of objects by their shapes.
The robot Beibei's head turned 360 degrees, and all that could be seen were silent skeletons.
"Does 'life imprisonment' here mean that even the corpse cannot leave?" Xiao He couldn't help but wonder.
"Hmm...it seems that's the case, because there's such a thing as resurrection magic in this world," Wang Xuefeng explained softly.
"Are there any survivors in this prison?" Xiao He felt a chill run down his spine. If the old warden was here, he was most likely already dead.
"We can't be sure yet; we need to search carefully."
"Thump...thump..."
A series of heavy footsteps came from afar, like a soldier in heavy armor.
He seemed to walk very slowly, but the time it took for each step to fall was exactly the same, with an accuracy comparable to a metronome.
Xiao He turned the camera towards the direction from which the sound came, but could only vaguely see a figure more than two meters tall.
"Are these patrol soldiers?" she asked curiously.
She believed that the undead were easier to deal with than real living people, since there was no difference between the undead and the dead.
“He has a key.” Wang Xuefeng narrowed his eyes, and after a moment, continued, “It seems there should be a roster here for easy management. We can try to find it; maybe that will save us more time.”
“That makes sense!” Xiao He nodded. “How about this, I’ll go steal the key, and you go see if there’s a roster.”
"Okay." Wang Xuefeng agreed immediately without hesitation.
After agreeing on their tasks, the two immediately parted ways on the spot.
Xiao He controlled the robot Beibei, carefully flying towards the two-meter-tall "armored giant"...
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