The corridor is about three meters wide and five meters high. It leads deep into the mountain with no end in sight. There is an oil bowl on the niche with bean-sized flames burning quietly.
Xiahou Aotian stood in front of the door, sniffed his nose, and said:
"The oxygen content is very high, the stench is very light, and the oil lamp is still burning, which means the air circulation system in the mountain is functioning normally. There shouldn't be any poisonous gas or anything like that. We can go in."
He looked back at his teammates:
"Who among you will go in as cannon fodder? I'm the bachelor. I'll be in charge of planning the strategy."
Xiao Yuan suddenly said, "Since this is a mechanical city, there must be mechanisms in the tunnels. We need a scout to conduct on-site inspection."
Everyone looked at Guan Ya. She was the only scout present.
Guan Ya said coldly: "You can just tell me to take the lead."
Xiao Yuan nodded slightly: "Then thank you very much."
Shishi Guan Ya: “Heh~”
While the two were talking, Xiahou Aotian quietly distributed the piston headphones to Sun Miaomiao and others.
[Xiahou Aotian: Will these two women cause trouble? I often see these kinds of idiot characters in movies and TV shows who are jealous of each other and then make trouble at critical moments. You have to know that this is an S-level copy, and there is no room for idiot supporting characters to mess around, especially two of them.]
[Zhao Chenghuang: If they can become saints, they can't be brainless. Don't worry about it. But since Yuanshi Tianzun brought his girlfriend, he shouldn't have brought a woman with whom he has an unclear relationship. It's really unwise.]
[Sun Miaomiao: Yuanshi Tianzun is a very smart guy when he is smart, and very stupid when he is stupid, especially when dealing with emotional issues.]
【天下归火: Probably because he has no experience in love. Haha, no matter how smart a college student is, he has only been eating for ten years. It is impossible for him to be perfect in everything. He is far inferior to an experienced person. 】
[Xiahou Aotian: Although he is young, he is quite playboy. Yuanshi Tianzun is obviously a scumbag, but some girls just throw themselves into the fire. They are really sick in the brain.]
[Sun Miaomiao: You are going too far. I don’t like Yuanshi Husband at all. Please stop being sarcastic.]
【Zhao Chenghuang: Miaomiao, wait a minute, he's not talking about you.】
Zhang Yuanqing dragged his exhausted body over and stared at their ears, "What are you whispering about behind their backs?"
"Nothing!" Everyone took off their headphones and put them in their pockets tacitly.
At this time, Guan Ya, holding a Han Bafang bronze sword and taking long steps, was the first to step into the corridor.
Zhang Yuanqing was afraid that she might get into trouble, so he quickly followed her in.
Why is Xiaoyuan so angry today, as if she had eaten gunpowder? He whispered to Guan Ya, "Wife, don't be angry with her."
Guan Ya said calmly, "I'm not a Cancer. I won't fall in love. Don't worry, I won't bother with her. As for you, we'll settle the score after we get out of the dungeon." She walked forward among the piles of corpses with a cold face, kicking one and moving another. After carefully examining the wall for a few minutes, Guan Ya looked at the team members who followed in and said, "The dead at the door are all lying on their backs. They were killed while escaping. From the smooth cuts on the bones and the sword marks on the wall, we can tell that the enemies are swordsmen, and there are more than one of them."
"All these people died at the entrance of the tunnel, which means that once you enter the mechanical city, the stone gate will be closed. This passage is a one-way passage. You either pass it or die."
Everyone frowned, feeling heavy-hearted.
Xiahou Aotian said, "Don't be scared by the S-level dungeon. Before coming here, I read the paper in the Dead Family Database. This dungeon has an upper limit on strength. Some of us are level 4 and 5, but only Yuanshi Tianzun is level 6. Theoretically, the dangers in the Mechanical City are at most Domination level, and they are definitely level 1 or 2. Before encountering them, Yuanshi Tianzun can handle most levels."
Everyone felt relieved after hearing this.
Sun Miaomiao said in a low voice: "No! I just looked at everyone's face. Except for Yuanshi Tianzun, everyone else has a blood disaster. Yuanshi Tianzun is also shrouded in dark clouds and accompanied by blood. This means that we can die at any time, and Yuanshi Tianbo may be seriously injured or even die."
Qian Yuliang clenched his fists and whispered
He muttered something in Japanese, as if to cheer himself up.
Princess Yin Yao raised her trumpet and said, "We can't let our guard down. Yuanshi Tianzun is only a night-wandering god after all. He has only one ability. He can withstand many dangers, but he may not be able to save us."
Zhang Yuanqing led the team forward and everyone kept a distance of ten meters from him.
After walking in the dark corridor for more than ten minutes, Zhang Yuanqing suddenly stopped. Two swordsmen wearing straw raincoats and bamboo hats stood in front of him.
They stood like statues, facing the crowd, with their heads bowed and the brims of their hats covering their faces.
"Yin Yao, go and try them." Zhang Yuanqing said.
Princess Yin Yao immediately walked up to Guan Ya and snatched the Han Bafang Ancient Sword from her hand, saying, "Lend me your sword."
She slowly walked towards the two swordsmen, and there was a "zigzag" sound of electricity coming from her waist bag. Soon, a clear song came back to her: "Eating frost and drinking snow, sharpening a sword for ten years, look at me, I am alone in guarding the pass, I dare not let ten thousand men be displeased"
Yin Yao slapped the Elvis speaker with her backhand, and the speaker immediately became obedient.
At this moment, the two swordsmen in bamboo hats suddenly raised their heads, revealing two black iron masks and a pair of eyes flashing red light under the hats.
"The Eye of Bewitching," said Princess Yin Yao, raising her hand and pressing her forehead. With a clang, she drew out her sword, and the sword energy slashed through the air with a sharp whistle.
Princess Yin Yao raised the bronze sword leisurely, and swung out a sword flower, which made a clanging sound and sparks flew everywhere.
She swung her sword across, deflecting the attack of one swordsman, ducked down, and silently swooped in front of another swordsman, pressing her palms on the swordsman's chest, and exerted force suddenly, with a whistling sound, the two swordsmen flew backwards.
"Come back!" Zhang Yuanqing looked at his teammates who were all at the peak level of level 4, "Who among you will go?"
At the end of the day, rewards are calculated based on everyone's contribution. Even if it's S-level, if you don't make any effort along the way, you won't get a lot of experience points.
As soon as he finished speaking, a fireball shot out at the same time, exploding with a bang. Brother Hongji and Tianxia Guihuo were the first to go out.
Soon there were bangs of gunfire. Sun Miaosen and Zhao Chenghuang provided long-range shooting support. The passage was too small to accommodate a multi-person fight.
Seeing this, Guan Ya calmly took out his gun and fired. The five of them joined forces and quickly killed a swordsman.
Xiahou Aotian hurried forward and removed the straw raincoat and hat, revealing a badly damaged body. The swordsman's body was made of cast iron and wood.
"This is a puppet." Xiahou Aotian pried open the slightly concave iron plate on the puppet's chest and said, "Great! Great! The manufacturing process of this puppet is a bit old, but it has been able to maintain operation for thousands of years. The wisdom of the ancients is really amazing. Yuanshi, collect them and I will take them back to study them carefully."
In addition to the ancient craftsmanship, the materials used on the puppets are also very valuable.
Zhang Yuanqing took out Little Red Riding Hood and took the puppet swordsman away, reminding him that the fact that it had been able to last for thousands of years was probably due to the spiritual realm that gave it magic, not because of the amazing craftsmanship of the puppet. Besides, is this thing useful to you? You are just an alchemist, not a weapon refiner.
Xiahou Aotian raised his handsome face and said disdainfully, "You don't understand, right? Mechanical arts are a branch of weapon refining arts. You don't need to reach the master stage to learn them. The mechanical arts handed down from ancient times are divided into two major schools, the Mohist School and the Luban School. Luban's mechanical arts were later integrated with the curse spells of psychics and the spiritual seals and yang fire of the night-wandering gods, and were later called the victory-defying arts. The mechanical arts of the Mohist School slowly died out in history. When the ancient practitioners became extinct, the victory-defying arts were lost. A few years ago, the government and the scholars worked together to set up a fund to promote ancient arts, but it ended up in vain."
Sun Miaomiao asked with great interest, "Why?"
"Time is one thing. Any technology is accumulated through accumulation. Mechanical engineering has long been lost. Without a master to teach, it takes more than ten years to get started by studying on your own. The history of Spiritual Realm Walkers is only a hundred years, and it has only been about fifty years since the Spiritual Realm families became large-scale." Xiahou Aotian sighed, "On the other hand, mechanical engineering is a branch of equipment refining. For the master, if I have the materials and time, wouldn't it be better for me to directly refine tools? Therefore, mechanical engineering has not been developed to this day. A small number of people in the three great scholar families who are obsessed with this are still studying it, and they have indeed made a lot of good things, but it's too niche."
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Guihuo thought for a moment and said, "There may be a secret manual of mechanical weapons here. When the time comes, the manual will be yours, and you can provide mechanical weapons for the gang."
"As long as you pay, it's all right." Xiahou Aotian's wallet has always been tight.
The group continued to move forward, encountering attacks from poison arrows, stone balls, poisonous smoke, and vengeful spirits along the way, but they managed to get through all the difficulties without any danger.
Finally, we walked out of Kangchang's corridor and came to a huge cave. At the entrance of the cave stood a stone tablet with four big red characters "Ming Gui" and "Jie Yong" written on it.
The entire cave is about 60 square meters and has only one passage, one is the entrance and the other is the exit opposite to everyone.
On the floor of the cave is a huge Bagua diagram, and at the exit stands a three-meter-high statue of a green-faced, fang-toothed evil spirit.
The straight-line distance of a passage is only sixty meters, so it takes very little time for everyone to get through it.
But the ground with the eight trigrams carved on it was covered with corpses and broken bones, foreshadowing the murderous intent in the cave.
"What do Ming Gui and Jie Yong mean?" asked Brother Hongji.
"Economy means being frugal. No one knows that." Sun Miaomiao looked like she was not well educated.
Only Xiahou Ao, the most knowledgeable person present, explained: "Knowing ghosts and being frugal are the ideas of Mohism. Being frugal means opposing extravagance and waste, saving money, and improving productivity. Knowing ghosts is more controversial. The most accepted view is to believe in ghosts and gods. Ghosts and gods can clearly distinguish between good and evil, so we should care about the world, fear the world, and not do bad things."
Tianxia Guihuo listened silently, examined the situation in the cave and said, "More people died here than outside. It's very dangerous. As usual, use the Yin corpses to explore the way."
Zhao Chenghuang immediately took out the bronze box and used his spirit servant to drive the terracotta soldiers into the passage of the grotto. As soon as he stepped into the grotto, the Yin-Yang fish in the center of the Bagua diagram began to rotate slowly, and the evil ghost with a green face and fangs at the exit came out, turned his head, and stared at the terracotta soldiers with sinister eyes.
Boom! Boom!
When the terracotta soldier took the third step, the Yin-Yang fish had just finished rotating, and the next second, two white lights shot out from the pupils of an evil ghost with a green face and fangs.
Bang!
The terracotta warriors exploded into pieces in an instant and scattered all over the ground.
The sparse pieces of stone shook slightly, quickly gathered together, and condensed into terracotta warriors again.
Zhang Yuanqing suddenly said, "Take a step forward!"
The spirit servant of City God Zhao reconnected to the terracotta warriors and manipulated them to enter the Bagua diagram. It took a step, and the Yin-Yang fish in the center turned again. When it finished turning, two white lights shot out from the evil eyes of the green-faced and fang-toothed evil ghost, and the terracotta warriors exploded again.
After gathering again, Zhang Yuanqing said, "Retreat." The Terracotta Warriors retreated and this time they were not attacked.
Zhang Yuanqing looked at his scout girlfriend at this time. Guan Ya had already seen through the pattern and said, "As long as something enters the cave, it will trigger the attack of the evil ghost sculpture. Before the Yin-Yang fish completes a circle, it must pass through the cave and reach the exit. It's really difficult."
Brother Redbird said immediately, "That's easy. I can get there with just one Fire Element."
"It's not that simple." Guan Ya looked at the broken bones in the cave. The Mo Sect was an immortal sect. If the Jin people dared to come, they must have summoned a large number of ancient practitioners. Among these people, is there no fire master? The escape technique would definitely not work.
"Yuanshi, try using your spirit servant."
Zhang Yuanqing let out a light breath, and a spirit servant with the image of a plump young man with his stomach ripped open rushed away and flew towards the exit at an extremely fast speed.
The Tai Chi fish in the center of the Bagua diagram turned a circle in an instant, and the evil ghost sculpture's eyes shot out a beam of black light, shining on Lingwai.
Lingpu let out a sharp, silent scream, which disappeared into a cloud of black smoke, and his soul quickly dissipated.
Zhang Yuanqing frowned.
Guan Ya nodded: "White light is for real objects, black light is for new objects. The faster the speed, the faster the Yang-blocking fish will turn, and the escape technique will not work."
She suddenly took out a large-caliber pistol and pulled the trigger at the evil ghost sculpture. As soon as the bullet left the barrel, the Tai Chi fish turned a circle at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Then there was a flash of white light, and the bullet exploded into powder.
"Anything that passes through the cave will be destroyed no matter what it is." Guan Ya shook her head and said
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Kill the level 5 directly. My Bingtong has good defense, and even a level 4 saint can't destroy it easily." Zhao Chenghuang said in a deep voice.
Red Chicken's eyes widened: "What should I do?"
"Not really," Tianxia Guihuo turned around and said, "Look at the distribution of the skeletons. Some of them are close to the exit. That means they have resisted several attacks from evil spirits. They were just one step away from success. How did they succeed?"
Sun Miaomiao's mind moved: "Human wave tactics."
Tianxia Guihuo nodded: "That's it, use the corpses and mercenaries as cannon fodder, and we charge forward."
He thought for a moment and said, "Zhao Chenghuang's terracotta warriors have the ability to heal themselves, so don't use the Yin corpses for now."
After saying this, he looked towards Zhao Chenghuang.
The latter understood what he meant, and the spirit servant extended black lines from his ten fingers and reached into the bronze box.
One after another, pitch-black soldiers and mercenaries came out, twelve in total.
These terracotta warriors were transformed from the terracotta warriors in the original underground palace.
Although Zhao Chenghuang does not have that many Yin corpses, his mercenaries are stronger than ordinary level 4 Yin corpses.
“Boom boom boom…”
The twelve terracotta warriors rushed into the cave in unison.
The Tai Chi fish spun wildly, and light beams shot out from the eyeballs of the evil ghost sculpture, as fast as lasers.
Tianxia Guihuo picked up a fireball and threw it out with all his might.
Sun Miaomiao used the Star Escape Technique.
Flames surged from Tianxia Guihuo's body, and starlight enveloped Sun Miaomiao.
The fire went out, the starlight dissipated, and the two stood there without moving. Before the starlight and firelight enveloped them, the terracotta warriors in the cave had already been defeated by the "laser".
"Cannot use skills..." Tianxia Guihuo's face changed slightly. He seemed to remember something and looked at the stone tablet fiercely. "Disabled... You cannot use skills in the cave."
"Twelve corpses lasted less than two seconds." Zhao Chenghuang's tone was more solemn than ever before.
The team fell silent for a moment.
However, something worse happened. Brother Red Chicken pointed to the corridor behind him and shouted, "There is poisonous fog!"
Everyone looked back and saw a large cloud of yellow-green smoke coming like a thick fog.
For a moment, the team was attacked from both sides.