Chapter 100 Underground Palace
The earthquake gradually stopped, and in the endless dust, the golden eagle carrying Mo Fei and his party slowly landed. Mo Fei put the golden eagle back into space and reminded them to pay attention to safety.
Ran Bing took a few feathers plucked from the golden eagle and stuck them in his hair. He sniffed around and said, "It seems he is here. But he is still some distance away from us."
As he walked, he came to the open entrance of the underground palace.
The entrance is a ruin, with many collapsed bookshelves covering it up. If it weren't for the earthquake, no one would have known that there was such a place under the popular bookstore in the city center.
A few people simply cleaned the entrance for a while to make it easier for them to enter later. Then Lin Jiyuan took a strong flashlight and shone it inside. He said, "This place should have been built later. The building structure looks very new."
Mo Fei nodded. Although she could hear any human voice with her hearing ability, she had a hunch that Bai Qi must be in this underground palace.
"I'll go down and explore the way first." Lin Jiyuan was the first to go down into the underground palace.
Before Mo Fei and the others could say anything, they saw a ball of lightning appear in front of Lin Jiyuan. Twenty or thirty green-faced, fang-toothed bats as big as kittens lay dead on the side.
They should have been hanging on the rock wall that shook the ground, sleeping with their eyes closed, without making any sound. That's why Mo Fei didn't hear anything unusual.
These bats are all mutants, and they are poisonous, making them extremely difficult to deal with. It seems that even if someone accidentally discovers this entrance, they may be killed by the bats at the entrance before they take two steps. There is no chance to explore further inside.
With the experienced Lin Jiyuan walking in the front, Mo Fei in the middle activated the space law, Peng Yuan set up metal shields on all sides, and the combustible ice at the back also pricked up his ears to listen carefully. They went down the stairs one by one, and they didn't encounter any big troubles. Only Lin Jiye's spiritual ability was of no use at this time.
But he knew how powerful Bai Qi was, so he was always on guard, weaving his supernatural energy into an invisible net to prevent Bai Qi from using mind control on anyone in their team somewhere.
The corridor in the underground palace was narrow and the distance between them was very close. If someone was controlled by Bai Qi to turn against them, they would not even have a chance to react.
"Why do I keep walking around and never reach the end?" Peng Yuan muttered.
He was tall, with his head almost touching the ceiling, so he had to keep his head down all the time, which made him feel very uncomfortable when walking.
"You're right, you're really right. I feel like we've been walking for at least 10 minutes. Is the underground palace below so big and long?" Lin Jiye nodded in agreement.
There was no light in the corridor, the only source of light came from the powerful flashlight that Lin Jiyuan was holding at the front. But the light from the flashlight disappeared into the darkness, as if it was absorbed by a black hole, and could not illuminate the distance at all, only allowing them to see the position close to them.
"Is it a ghost wall?" Mo Fei was suspicious. "I read that in tomb-robbing novels."
"Sister Mo, we have to believe in science. There are no ghosts in this world." Lin Jiye said.
Peng Yuan scratched his head: "That's not necessarily true. If it were really that scientific, Bai Qi's existence would be the biggest absurdity."
It is very strange that Bai Qi, who lived thousands of years ago, is still alive today.
What’s more, nowadays, if you randomly pick up a living person on the street, they will basically have superpowers. One or two years ago, if you told others that everyone would have superpowers in the future, and their daily routine would be to fight zombies, mutant plants and animals, and find things everywhere, people would just say that you have read too many apocalyptic novels and suggest that you go to the Fourth People’s Hospital to see a psychiatrist.
Several people stopped temporarily because of the "ghost wall" hypothesis.
When it comes to killing zombies, they are all experts, but when it comes to ghosts and monsters, they are simply blind. When it comes to things related to metaphysics, the best one is Su Cong, but he can't come here.
"It's okay, I'll let the snakes explore the way." Mo Fei was now very skilled in summoning snakes, and soon several snakes appeared in front, behind, left and right of them.
Mo Fei originally wanted to summon a few more, but then he changed his mind and thought that the tunnel was so narrow that it would be a bit uncomfortable if he had some "close contact" with these snakes. These few should be enough.
What they didn't expect was that as soon as these snakes came out, they swam straight towards the darkness in front of them, and then wrapped their bodies around the things in the darkness.
The thing was screaming like a madman, it was undoubtedly a human.
Soon, a shadow was brought to Mo Fei by the snake.
Mo Fei was a little surprised after identifying it: "Is this the butler's shadow?"
The bodies of the housekeeper and Bai Mingxu were already cold, and everyone was busy escaping and no one took their bodies. So when Mo Fei and his team left the base, their bodies were still lying straight outside the gate of the base. It is estimated that they were probably crushed beyond recognition by the rubble.
I didn't expect the butler was still alive, just in the form of a shadow. And this shadow could be attacked by materialization. Maybe if the butler's body was still intact, his shadow could return to his body. It was simply a natural ability suitable for escaping death.
Mo Fei has a new understanding of the types of superpowers in this world, which can be said to be an eye-opener.
"So it was you who was causing trouble just now, making us think there was really a ghost. Since you are here, Bai Qi must be here too. Let's go." Mo Fei let the snakes bite wildly until the butler's shadow was bitten into pieces.
Without the shadow butler's deception, they quickly passed through the corridor and arrived at the main part of the underground palace.
Unlike the darkness in the corridor, there are eternal lamps lit everywhere here, and in the middle, there is a life-size pure gold statue of Bai Qi himself.
The statue was luxurious and lifelike, even with fine fur and hair carved out of gold like a real person.
The statue is high up and majestic, with a pair of golden eyes staring straight at the entrance, making people feel cold for no reason.
"Why do I feel so cold? Are you cold?" Peng Yuan shivered.
Combustible Ice has ice-related abilities and is also a maned wolf. At this time, he also felt something was wrong: "What's going on? I actually feel cold too! Is it colder here than in the frozen layer?!"
Mo Fei and Lin Jiyuan also rubbed the goose bumps on their arms due to the cold.
Now the outside temperature has returned to normal, so they are just wearing a thin long-sleeved shirt. They felt fine in the corridor before, but they didn't expect to feel cold from head to toe as soon as they entered here.
This chill quickly turned into a chill, which made people feel fear in their hearts and had a strong desire to leave this place.
Among the few people, only Lin Jiye seemed fine. He was even sweating from the heat: "No way? Am I the only one feeling hot?"
"Everyone thinks that the cold may be related to Bai Qi's ability. His mental ability level is too high. Since he can control the mind, it must not be difficult to guide and cause illusions. Xiao Ye didn't feel cold probably because he has the same ability as Bai Qi and has resistance. Now everyone should not think that we are in the underground palace. It is better to think that we are in town now and are preparing to eat. Hot pot, barbecue, milk tea..." said Mo Fei.
As expected, after she diverted their attention, everyone felt much more comfortable, and the desire to escape quickly dissipated.
"Don't separate too far, let's look around first." Lin Jiyuan said as he loaded the gun in his hand.
The others followed suit and took off the safety of the guns Lin Jiyuan gave them.
With their super powers and elite thermal weapons, they will take action immediately as soon as Bai Qi appears.
It was very quiet here. After walking around for a while, they didn't see Bai Qi. Even the sharp sense of smell of combustible ice failed. He turned around and around and could only tell everyone: "His smell is here, very strong."
After every failure, Peng Yuan said, "Maybe he has more than one butler, and there are some tricks here. Or maybe there is some other mechanism here."
"It's okay. I have a simple solution." Mo Fei took out a large bag of explosives and homemade explosives from the space. "These are what Ji Yuan had stored here before. There are still so many useless. Let's just blow this place up. I don't believe we can't find a place."
No one had any objection. After all, Peng Yuan had a metal shield and Mo Fei had an iron pot. These two things were enough to protect them from getting hurt when the explosion occurred.
Soon the explosives were distributed in several key areas. As the deafening sound ended, this extremely solid underground palace showed signs of collapse. But at the same time, the golden statue was blown away, and a downward hole appeared under the statue.
This time, Mo Fei didn't need to say anything, as Methane Hydrate followed suit and quickly lit the remaining explosives and threw them in.
This made the underground palace, which was already on the verge of collapse, even more precarious. Everyone had the illusion that they would be buried underground forever in the next second.
“Oh my god, it’s really going to collapse this time!” Lin Jiye pinched the combustible ice’s neck and shook it, “Did you get controlled by Bai Qi?”
"Let me go! It hasn't collapsed yet, has it? And I blew it up according to big brother's method. Why don't you blame big brother but me instead? Hey, look what that is!" Combustible Ice yelled.
"Don't try to change the subject. I need to check you." Lin Jiye had a look of disbelief on his face. He was about to connect to the spiritual realm of combustible ice, but suddenly he found a hand with long black nails and grayish-white skin in the downward opening.
This hand was extremely dry, with countless protruding black veins on it. It looked more like a ghost than a ghost.
The moment the ghost thing poked its head out, everyone's bullets and super powers were thrown at it. Mo Fei was even more willing to take the lead, using the iron pot as a boomerang and hitting the ghost thing in a circle.
After a burst of smoke, everyone quickly saw the true face of the ghost thing.
From the way he was dressed and the black halberd in his hand that was broken in half by the explosion, they recognized him as Bai Qi, but his insides had completely turned into that of a zombie.
The thousand-year-old zombie Bai Qi is the well-deserved zombie king.
At this moment, his whole body was oozing with black blood, and in some places, one could even see pieces of white bones from the wounds. But these injuries did not seem to have much impact on Bai Qi.
Because everyone saw that Bai Qi's wounds were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A muddy voice came out of his mouth: "I didn't expect you to come so soon, but it's a pity that this is my territory."
Lin Jiyuan didn't want to listen to his nonsense anymore, and used his superpowers with anger. He and Peng Yuan's superpowers joined forces, and dense electric blades smashed towards Bai Qi.
It was overwhelming and thousands of arrows were fired at once.
Lin Jiye prevented Bai Qi from controlling his mind while giving Combustible Ice spiritual guidance. Combustible Ice continuously released his ice power, bursting out his strongest strength, trying to trap Bai Qi's steps with ice.
But Bai Qi just raised his eyes, and these attacks avoided his vital points. The remaining electric blades that pierced his body were just like tickling. The ice prisons were smashed one by one and missed one, and none of them trapped him. Lin Jiyuan and the others were not as fast as Bai Qi inflicted wounds.
He was right, this was indeed his territory.
Even God was particularly kind to him and gave him such a strong body.
Because Bai Qi had been avoiding and not attacking Mo Fei, and even when Mo Fei wanted to take the blame for them several times, Bai Qi noticed it and stopped in time, so Mo Fei's law of space had no room to come into play.
She could only continue to summon kangaroos and snakes anxiously to delay Bai Qi's attack. Even so, Bai Qi did not attack Mo Fei who controlled these animals. He knew that in the face of the law of space, no matter how many years he lived, no matter how high his ability level was, he would turn into blood mist within 10 seconds and disappear from this world.
He was unwilling to accept this, he really was unwilling to accept this.
His goal has never been Baishi, but the entire world. He wants the entire world to become the world of zombies, and humans are just captive creatures.
Bai Qi's desire to survive became stronger and stronger. He couldn't do anything to Mo Fei, so he took out all his anger on those animals. They were chopped horizontally and vertically, and died horribly.
It was also because of this that Mo Fei sensed an important message from the kangaroos and snakes that kept sacrificing themselves.
Bai Qi had been guarding near the downward entrance, and had not left that place for more than one step from the beginning to now. All the snakes and kangaroos that wanted to approach the entrance were killed by Bai Qi without exception. Even when killing these animals, Bai Qi, who was surrounded by enemies, would inevitably bear all their attacks.
So what's so important down there that's worth someone like him doing this?
Mo Fei couldn't help but shout, "That hole! Go to that hole!"
Her words were brief, because even she didn't know what was in the cave. But she thought that Bai Qi would risk his life to protect the cave, and what Bai Qi valued most was his own life.
Thinking back to what Su Cong had said to her and Lin Jiyuan, Su Cong's spiritual power was taken away by Bai Qi, but the divination ability he learned from his blind adoptive father was still there.
He had predicted that if everyone wanted to escape Bai Qi's catastrophe, they had to find the place where Bai Qi, the ancient zombie, had awakened. That was the source of all Bai Qi's power. And Lin Jiyuan said that this underground palace was built later. So based on the above, Bai Qi's lair was in...
The tacit understanding that Lin Jiyuan and Mo Fei had developed over the past year allowed him to quickly figure this out.
Everyone formed a circle and moved towards Bai Qi, especially Mo Fei, who relied on the fact that Bai Qi didn't dare to attack him, and moved forward step by step until Bai Qi was forced into a corner.
Bai Qi didn't hesitate any more and jumped into the cave.
Several people followed closely behind.
Compared to the majestic underground palace above, the entrance below can be described as simple. After going down a few steps, you will see a large pool filled with water, and in the center of the pool is a bronze coffin. The water looked very familiar to Mo Fei. It was undoubtedly the water that Bai Qi had people draw from the ancient well in Hexi Town. He did not expect that he would inject it here.
Bai Qi had jumped back to the bronze coffin, glaring at them with his red eyes.
Just now, an electric blade had grazed his throat. Although the wound healed quickly, Bai Qi's voice inevitably sounded a little strange. He said, "As long as you let me go, I can give you countless wealth, unique power and status among humans. There are at least five ancient zombies like me in the surrounding cities. They have not lived as long as me, and their strength is not as high as mine. They will all obey my orders when the time comes."
Bai Qi's original intention was to throw out some conditions to give himself a chance to escape, but he didn't expect that Mo Fei and the others looked as if they were struck by lightning after hearing them.
“You said, there are at least five people like you around here?” Lin Jiye stretched out his hand and made a five gesture.
This is still the minimum. If it is the maximum, there would be dozens of them.
The natural disaster may not be caused by these ancient zombies, but the zombies may have something to do with them. It's just that now all places have lost communication and the news is blocked. Even if they know the news, they can't tell the survivors in other cities.
"Thank you for telling us this bad news." Mo Fei smiled wryly, "It seems that the source of power Su Cong mentioned is the bronze coffin behind. In this case..."
Let Baishi’s suffering end here.
Mo Fei's iron pot smashed hard into the bronze coffin, making a harsh vibration sound.
No one expected that under the violent impact, the bronze coffin would actually begin to crack. And the recovery speed of Bai Qi's wounds also slowed down significantly.
"I will kill you!" Bai Qi no longer cared about 10 seconds. Since they were going to die anyway, he would of course drag Mo Fei to die with him.
But Lin Jiyuan did not give him this opportunity.
The last bullet took up almost all of Lin Jiyuan's energy. He didn't even have a little energy to protect himself.
"Be careful--" Fortunately, Mo Fei had time to cover everyone with the iron pot.
The bullet exploded in Bai Qi's head.
Is everything over?
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
