endless route.

Chapter 345 115. Nothing more than demons, ghosts and gods

"It's not what people dream of..."

After reading the message from Kedester, Zheng Yun stared at the screen and fell into deep thought, thinking carefully about this sentence.

This message contains a lot of information.

The most critical point is not some alien civilization, but what they saw in Ancient City No. 3.

Kedester said that they found a dark altar and a huge black coffin about two hundred meters underground.

Regardless of the specific depth or Kedester's description, the scene he was talking about was highly similar to the tomb in front of him, even the iron ropes binding the coffin were the same.

The dark altar is the high platform.

The huge black coffin is the sarcophagus.

What Kedester found in Ancient City No. 3 was almost the same as what he found here. The only difference was the number of sarcophagi. There were actually three sarcophagi in Ancient City No. 3.

It seems that there is also a tomb underground in Ancient City No. 3, with exactly the same underground structure...

That is to say.

There is probably more than one fairy tower.

At least there is a fairy tower in the No. 3 ancient city where Kedster is located, and the royal explorers have not discovered the fairy tower yet, and they have not moved the sarcophagus from its original position.

It shouldn't be moved away for a while.

The sarcophagus in Qi Li's strange dream looked like a spooky and terrifying thing at first glance. Unless there were several lives left, the Royal Expedition Team would never dare to open the coffin rashly.

I have the Yin soldiers to carry me to death.

The Royal Expedition has no Yin soldiers.

Facing that kind of scene, it takes courage to even approach the sarcophagus, let alone move it away to see what's underneath.

Most people would never imagine that the sarcophagus would be the lid of the high platform, and the real treasure would be underneath the sarcophagus.

"Jidao, tell them to move quickly. There is a fairy tower in the No. 3 ancient city." Zheng Yun looked down. Ji Dao and the Tiangong Taoist priests were collecting fungi in the field.

"Is there another one?"

Jidao immediately raised his head and looked at Zheng Yun.

"Yes, we need to make a quick decision. We have to go there." Zheng Yun nodded and replied to Kedester.

This situation is also reasonable.

The scope of Qili Guimeng is too large, and it is too difficult to cover it all with one Immortal Tower. The ancients have mastered the materials for the Immortal Tower, so they should build more Immortal Towers to expand the scope.

No matter how many there are.

The Supervisory Immortal Division will take them back.

So Zheng Yun's reply to Kedester was to ask him to try to delay the process, but if it really couldn't be delayed, there was no need to force it. If they wanted to, let them open the coffin.

Zheng Yun was also curious about what was hidden in the black-haired sarcophagus and whether it was an 'alien civilization'.

They also seized a similar sarcophagus, but they did not dare to open it for the time being and could only hang it deep in the Immortal Burial Valley.

With the expedition team from the Royal Museum opening the coffin for them and bearing the risk for them, Zheng Yun would naturally not refuse.

As long as the Kedesters and others from the West Factory are well hidden and don't get killed by the things inside the coffin the moment they open it, they can lurk in the Royal Expedition and report the situation at any time.

Without any effort, they can learn the truth inside the sarcophagus, and someone will open the coffin at their own risk.

This is a good thing.

As for the fairy tower under the sarcophagus.

Zheng Yun was not worried at all.

Even if the Royal Expedition removed the sarcophagus and saw the fairy tower below, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Because they can't move out in a short time.

The mass of the entire Immortal Tower is very large, and it is definitely not an easy task to transport it from 200 meters underground to the surface.

There is a fairy gate here, but the Royal Expedition Team does not. They can only move it to the land through machines. It will take at least several days and nights to move the entire tower.

The only thing to worry about.

It's what's in the sarcophagus.

Kedester's use of the word 'alien' is actually a small error in translation.

The most indispensable thing on the endless route is alien creatures. If they go anywhere except the earth, 90% of all the creatures they see are alien creatures.

Kedester means.

It should be an alien intelligent creature.

He left the message in Chinese, so there are inevitably some errors.

The civilizations described later are also consistent with this speculation. Only intelligent creatures other than humans can build alien civilizations.

This guess is indeed surprising.

But Zheng Yun was not surprised.

Because he had made similar speculations before, the people in the sarcophagus must be the enemies of Ming Dynasty, and they were powerful enough to force Ming Dynasty to send hundreds of thousands of troops to suppress them.

In addition, many clues pointed out that the enemies that Ming Dynasty encountered at the end of the Eastern Route could not be humans at all, because there were no other forces there, only Ming Dynasty himself.

So this Ming Dynasty enemy.

It is indeed possible that it is an alien civilization.

Zheng Yun recognized the Royal Expedition's judgment. From a logical point of view, there was no problem and the possibility was indeed very high.

However, there is a time issue here. When were the alien intelligent creatures in the sarcophagus imprisoned?

There are several options to choose from.

One is before the date when the ancient city of Nanze was built, the second is before the date when Qili Qimeng was built, the third is before the date when the auspicious pictures were painted, and the fourth is before the date when Nanze was abandoned.

These dates are not the same day.

And there are big differences.

Zheng Yun believes that the time when this object was imprisoned should be earlier than the date when Qili Guimeng was built. If it is more accurate, it should be earlier than the date when the auspicious map in the mountain was painted.

Because the dream of this object is the foundation of the auspicious picture in the mountain, this object was first captured alive by the Ming Dynasty military camp, leaving a psychological shadow, and then it was transformed into an auspicious heavenly soldier and general in the mountain.

There should be no doubt about this guess, because only this timeline can deduce the cause of the auspiciousness in the mountain.

Then you can make a guess.

The alien civilization in the sarcophagus was once surrounded and captured alive by the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of troops. At the same time, it may not be related to the destruction of the ancient city of Nanze, and it may not be the murderer of the generals of Hunumu Camp.

An alien civilization that can be captured alive by the Ming Dynasty should not be considered very dangerous and should not pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

Things are not absolute.

It cannot be ruled out that it was after these creatures were captured alive and put into coffins that the civilization behind them became enemies with the Ming Dynasty and attacked the ancient city of Nanze many times and destroyed it.

But all this happened before the ancient city of Nanze was abandoned, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty at the end of the 17th century, because Western navigators had already discovered the abandoned ancient city at that time.

The Ming Dynasty fell a hundred years ago, at the end of the Ming Dynasty in the twentieth century. There was a difference of at least two hundred years.

In other words.

Logically speaking, no matter whether this alien civilization was the enemy that caused the ancient city of Nanze to be abandoned, it could never be the enemy that caused the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Ming Dynasty in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty were completely different. From the national power and population to the methods of gods and ghosts, they could not be compared at all.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was still in the early stages of exploring endless shipping routes. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the actual controlled territory was only 40 million square kilometers and there were less than 20,000 ships.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty reached the peak of its national power. The territory within the Eastern Sea Route was 1.2 billion square kilometers, of which 300 million square kilometers were actually controlled.

The earth's land area is 1.5 billion square kilometers.

The Ming Dynasty's actual control area reaches two earths, ranking first in the world, and its nominal territorial area is eight earths, ranking fifth in the world, second only to several countries in the West.

Because there are a total of twenty planets in the Endless Route from E-09 to W-10, with a total area of ​​nearly billion.

If the West goes beyond W-10 to encircle territory, from W-10 to W-20 in one go, it can still encircle billions.

The nominal territory is a competition to see who can circle it. No one has even been there, only a few explorers have circled it.

In terms of strength, it still depends on the territory actually controlled.

But if you add in the many abandoned places outside the Eastern Route, then even in terms of nominal territory, the Ming Dynasty ranks first.

For example, Wuhai Xianzhou.

The entire planet is the territory unique to Ming Dynasty. No one knows that the entire planet covers hundreds of millions of square kilometers.

The actual controlled territory is much smaller. It should only be the continent where the Immortal Sect is located, and there is no Haixian Continent. The same goes for the Shanhaixianzhou where the Tiangong is located. The entire planet belongs to the Ming Dynasty, but the actual control area is only the area around the Tiangong, which is not clear at all.

If all the Forgotten Lands are added, the Ming Dynasty's territory can be increased to at least several hundred million square kilometers, or even billions, because everything outside the Eastern Sea Route is surrounded by the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, it is a circle that leaves no escape route. No one except Daming can enter at all, and it can be counted as actual control.

Even if it has perished, the territory owned by the Ming Dynasty at this moment may still rank among the top three in the world.

The difference in strength between the mid-term and the end is huge.

In the past few hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has expanded rapidly like a balloon. Its comprehensive national strength has become more than dozens of times stronger, and the methods of gods and ghosts have also increased exponentially with the increase in population.

So one can easily draw a conclusion.

Encountering the young Ming in the middle Ming Dynasty, alien civilizations that have not yet directly destroyed the Ming Dynasty will find it difficult to fight the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years and see the Ming Dynasty in its prime at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The opponent did not kill Ming in advance.

It will eventually be destroyed by Ming Dynasty.

This alien civilization whose members were captured alive and imprisoned in sarcophagi might have been destroyed by the Ming Dynasty at that time. Even if not, it is almost impossible to be the murderer who brought down the Ming Dynasty.

There is other evidence.

The tomb was right in front of them.

The Ming Dynasty's attitude towards this civilization was careless and casual. It captured members of the other party alive, imprisoned them in sarcophagi, and used the fear in the other party's heart to create strange dreams.

Is this the attitude towards enemies of the same level?

Ming Dynasty almost regarded the members of this civilization as consumables for making gods and ghosts, no different from the mountains of herbs, the monsters in the heavenly palace, and the sea monsters in the pregnant monster tower.

Maybe there really is no difference.

Even an extraterrestrial creature like the Hanxian is just a magical trick in the hands of the ancestors, but the Hanxian is strong enough to eventually add the word "fairy" to his name.

Since Hanxian is like this.

Other creatures are not much different.

What kind of alien civilizations are, after all, extraterrestrial beings? Those who are powerful enough to kill Tritons are named monsters or ghosts. Those who are powerful enough to destroy the Marine Corps are named immortals...

In the eyes of the ancients, the entire route was filled with demons, ghosts, immortals, and gods. The only difference was the three, six, or nine grades listed in ancient books.

Those who can be defeated will be conquered and become the gods and ghosts of the Ming Dynasty. Those who cannot be defeated will be left alone until there is an opportunity in the future, and then we will find a way to defeat them.

The creatures in the sarcophagus were 'tamed'.

For a creature like this that has been conquered, the ancients would definitely briefly record the situation of this creature in ancient books. If the ancient books can be found, the information about this creature can be obtained.

At present, we don’t know its level, and we don’t know if it belongs to a demon or a ghost. However, the Ancient Town only used a few iron ropes on it, which shows that the level of this thing is not much higher.

The iron rope is actually not bad either.

The ancestor of the Hades Pavilion sealed the coffin with iron ropes, and the Pregnant Demon Tower was also sealed with iron ropes. However, there were suppression talismans and other combinations on the iron ropes in those two places, but they were not seen here.

In addition, it is not comparable to Hanxian.

In order to facilitate the use of Hanxian, the ancients built the Hanxian Cave Sacrifice Pavilion deep in the extreme cold mountains, which was very grand.

All magic.

The ostentation must not be small.

Just as I had judged before, the sarcophagus was ordinary and had no carvings, and it could not be magic at all.

Taken together, the creatures in the sarcophagus are at most the level of demons and ghosts. They don't even have the word "immortal", nor do they have the pomp and show of immortality, nor do they have the emanation of immortality. It is impossible to reach the immortal level.

This kind of treatment has proved that the creature in the coffin is of average strength and has not reached the level of immortal magic. Even a few boat masters of the Ming Dynasty cannot destroy it and cannot gain the respect of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not magic.

Still want to bring down Ming Dynasty?

This is completely impossible.

But this does not mean that the things in the coffin are not dangerous, because just now he was judging it from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, not from the perspective of an individual explorer.

Personally.

Ordinary ghosts are also very scary, because the minimum requirement for a ghost level is to kill Triton alone.

Demons and ghosts are also divided into three, six or nine levels.

A third-class monster like the Tiangong Dragon can already destroy an entire ship if it is caught off guard and launches a sneak attack.

The thing in the coffin should be at the level of a monster. The specific level is unclear, but even a ninth-level monster can at least kill a Triton alone. It shouldn't be difficult to kill several explorers.

So Zheng Yun still insisted on making judgments.

He himself would not open the coffin to inspect it in advance.

Let the Royal Expedition go if they want. I have no ability to interfere now, and there is no need to interfere.

They are all senior explorers and have been to many dangerous places. They don't need to remind themselves. They can be responsible for their own actions without outside intervention.

"Master Immortal, the move is finished, shall we go?"

Ji Dao panted and walked to Zheng Yun.

While Zheng Yun was thinking about it, they had moved all the Immortal Pagodas back to Tiangong, and other properties in the tomb had also been copied intact to the underground chamber of Tiangong.

Except for the fact that all the tentacles were killed by Han Xianqing and had no need to be moved, all the items in the tomb were prepared in the Tiangong, and the tomb could be rebuilt in the Tiangong at any time.

"Okay, let's go."

Zheng Yun picked up the phone and looked above his head.

He could even faintly hear Li Wu's voice now. Li Wu was communicating with the group of Western explorers. They were all in the underground palace, and there were probably a hundred or ten people in total.

The sound is very noisy.

Enough to penetrate brick walls.

But this road is the only way out. The entire tomb is watertight and there is no other exit at all.

"Collect the team."

Ji Dao turned around and looked behind him.

Zheng Yun also followed and asked the Yin soldiers to clean up the mess and deal with the traces in the field. In addition, the hole at the top of the high platform was blocked with the bricks and stones removed from the robbery hole.

After everything is done.

All Yin soldiers returned to the secret realm.

All debris is dealt with.

Only Ji Dao and Gui Jiang were left beside Zheng Yun. The four of them were wearing diving suits and carrying flashlights, just like ordinary members of the archaeological team, returning along the original route of the robbery cave.

Shortly after.

They pushed aside the stone bricks and drilled out of the dry well. When Zheng Yun climbed out, dense flashlights were pointed at them, but they could be divided into two groups, a group of people on the left and right.

The two sides are clearly divided.

A confrontation is ongoing.

On the left were eighty or ninety members of the archaeological team, headed by Li Wu, Song Wan and others. The moment they saw themselves, they immediately raised their weapons and stepped forward to protect them with a smile on their faces.

On the right were more than sixty Western explorers, each of whom had a gloomy expression. After seeing Zheng Yun and the four others emerging, they immediately stared at them with deep resentment.

Angry.

So angry.

The exploration results that were finally discovered were stolen by someone who walked in in broad daylight!

"Brother Zheng, are you okay?"

"Captain Zheng, let's go."

"Let's see who dares to stop us!"

"Huh? Why did I pull out this knife? It seems that I haven't exited from the ghost dream yet! Brothers, please be careful. People in ghost dreams will kill people randomly."

"When you say that, my knife was pulled out for no apparent reason. Captain Li, what do you think we should do?"

"Damn it, why did you all draw your swords? Then I have to draw them out to defend myself, lest I get hurt by you guys."

Song Wan, Li Wu and others quickly gathered around Zheng Yun, protecting Zheng Yun and others in the center, and spoke to Zheng Yun one after another.

The young members of the Gubo archaeological team were full of tricks and used various excuses to take out their weapons, with smiles on their lips but cold eyes staring at the west.

At least they are all college students.

Because these words are all said in English...

(End of this chapter)