Steel Chang'an

Chapter 100

Judging from the holographic structure diagram displayed by Teng Wengong on the imperial palace, the Teng family indeed dug a secret passage into the Yin Ruins from the mountainside.

The mountainside of Yinshan Mountain itself is not solid, the interior of the whole mountain is full of numerous irregular-shaped gaps, the holographic perspective view at first glance looks like a huge thick line drawn by a child, and then the thick line is drawn again. There are countless twisted and entangled thin lines drawn under and around it, and these thin lines are still continuously growing, pushing the huge thick line higher and higher.

The Teng family's secret passage was dug out by using the irregular gaps formed between these thin lines.

And Mu Yun looked at the pattern formed by these lines, and couldn't help but feel more and more familiar and startling, and couldn't help but blurt out——

On the imperial palace, someone had already exclaimed: "This—is actually a tree?!"

The true face of this kilometer-high Yinshan Mountain turned out to be a tree!

"That's right," Teng Wengong said calmly, "This entire Yinshan Mountain is a thousand-year-old Yinyang tree that grew out of the ground."

Yinyang wood is a plant cultivated by humans on the ancient mother planet. Its aerial roots are divided into supporting roots and respiratory roots, which will grow underground and above the ground at the same time, and actively help plants find more water and oxygen intake. The survivability is extremely strong, no matter how harsh the environment is, it can survive.When humans first established this continent, they planted a large number of yin-yang trees to prevent soil erosion. Therefore, this kind of plant is not uncommon on the mainland. Large areas of yin-yang trees can be seen even in the northwest desert, and often It looks like a large area of ​​yin and yang trees, but they are actually aerial roots grown from a single mother plant.

The thick lines on the holographic perspective are the mother plant of the yin-yang tree, and the messy thin lines wrapped around it are the air roots of the yin-yang tree.

The yin-yang tree grows extremely fast, but its height is limited. Mu Yun once saw a 300-year-old yin-yang tree outside Chang'an City, and the height was only a hundred meters.But this yin-yang tree was buried underground together with the ancient battlefield back then. It was infiltrated by the mechanical biological crystal liquid of the king's army and mutated. It has grown continuously for thousands of years. The mother plant is high up to the sky, but due to the soil and gravel pressing on the mother plant, and the layers of butterflies and bones covering the soil and gravel, in the past 1000 years, there has never been a tree. People discover its true colors!
Knowing that the true face of Yinshan Mountain is a Yin-Yang tree, everyone in the Royal Palace also understood why Teng Wengong proposed the rule of "disarming and entering the Yin Ruins" - because they wanted to get out of the air roots of this mutated Yin-Yang tree. Digging out a path that can allow the armor to pass through is really difficult for a strong man!
And Mu Yun became more and more sure that Li Jing's judgment at that time was correct - this secret road leading to the Yin Ruins was definitely not discovered and dug by Teng Wengong himself, but the result of continuous and secret excavation by generations of Teng family heads!

You must know that this mutated yin-yang wood root is just like the thorns in the sea of ​​thorns. It is extremely aggressive. Even if it is cut off with a knife, it will regenerate immediately. It will be surrounded by air roots and die.Therefore, in the process of opening the road, it is necessary to cut forward while pouring molten alloy liquid on it, and use the cooled and solidified high-hardness alloy to block the continued growth of air roots, so that it will not be like Mu Yun and others in the thorns. It's like the sea, the road just opened in front of it disappears when you turn around.

In the case of magnetic field interference and the inability to rely on machines, it would take a lot of time to dig such a road by hand alone. With the time Teng Wengong just took over as the head of the family, it is absolutely impossible to complete this time-consuming task. Engineering.

Qigen itself is not strong, and it can support the height of the entire Yinshan Mountain, all thanks to the ingenious balance of its naturally generated structure in terms of mechanics.The weight of the alloy is much heavier than the qi root itself. Although it is possible to pour a path in the qi root with alloy, it will also destroy the mechanical structure formed by the qi root itself. The Yin Ruins were completely pressed below, causing a second subsidence, completely destroying the ruins and never seeing the light of day.

Therefore, in the process of opening the road, the Teng family tried their best to use the gap formed between the air roots, and tried not to damage their own structure.

The gap between the air roots is no more than two meters high at most. People can pass through the road dug out in this way, but the armor can't get in at all.

This is why Thirteen said that there will be better mobile phone opportunities in the Yin Ruins!

Mu Yun's brain was spinning rapidly, and he quickly realized the many disadvantages that Li Jing would encounter in the ruins——

First of all, the structure of the Yinshan Mountains doomed the armor to be unable to enter the Yin Ruins. Even if Li Jing could fight again, the ultimate goal of the physical skills possessed by a knight was to control the armor, not to fight with real people. Gao Chao, when it comes to physical combat, his strength is at most equal to that of a sharp master.If it is said that Li Jing's strength in the battle armor is far greater than that of other people, one can fight ten, but without the battle armor, the gap between people is not so big, in other words , that is, after entering the Yin Ruins, Li Jing's relative strength will drop greatly, and he will no longer be invincible.

Secondly, Yin Ruins itself is the same as Dead Castle, an ancient battlefield of the Millennium War. It is impossible to be clean inside. There is no remnant of a king's legion. Those mechanical creatures that have lost the control of the immortal king will wantonly attack anyone who steps into their territory. Once the creatures inside encounter a mechanical creature of the level similar to the iron spider, it is extremely dangerous for the knights who enter the Yin Ruins. It's inevitable, if he fights against others at this time, even Li Jing may not be able to escape.

In the end, the battle armor cannot enter the Yin Ruins. For each team, the team that Li Jing used Teng Jiaxing to pull up the team that suffered the most losses: In Li Jing's original plan, the candidates to enter the Yin Ruins should be him, Mu Yun, Ji Steward, Lao Zhang, Fei Ye, and Zheng Quan are six people. Among them, the Yanshi armor controlled by Ji Steward plays a role in the tactics of supporting the overall situation in the middle, and is an indispensable general.Now that the battle armor cannot enter the Yin Ruins, even if Steward Ji of the Zhi Clan barely enters the Yin Ruins, it will not be able to play any role, and Teng Jiaxing can no longer find a second person to replace the Steward Ji, which means that Li Jing The entire set of tactics that took one month to finely train and arrange will be invalidated. Whether it is encountering the rest of the king's army or fighting against other teams, it will be a great disadvantage!

However, Mu Yun remembered that King Teng said that Teng Jiaxing's team has one of the biggest advantages, that is, Fei Ye, the new Patriarch of the Fei family, is in Teng Jiaxing's team.After experiencing the battle of Chunshou Baidi, Fei Ye was very popular among the people of Donglin, and some even called her the incarnation of the crimson knight, the goddess of vengeance among the Seven Knights of Pangu.In order to protect Fei Ye, the new head of the family, even if the Fei Family Elders were unwilling, they had to order the Fei Family Knights to act together with Teng Jiaxing's team after entering the Yinxu. Time to conduct tactical coordination training with Teng Jiaxing's team.

The two teams support each other. This absolute superiority in numbers will not disappear even if the battle armor cannot enter the Yinxu, even if the general Ji Butler is missing, the tactics have to be temporarily adjusted!

Could it be that Shisan actually had a way to make the Fei family blatantly tear up the covenant before entering the Yin Ruins, eliminating this greatest advantage?
Just as Mu Yun was thinking, the heads of the various families above the royal palace looked at the secret passage made of metal poured on the holographic structure diagram, and fell silent for a moment. Obviously, like Mu Yun, they were also planning The relative weakening degree of each team that the battle armor cannot enter the Yin Ruins, and the list of knights to enter the Yin Ruins to be adjusted.

You must know that spring hunting is carried out in the form of offensive and defensive warfare. Except for a few battles tailored to local conditions that require the dispatch of Yanshi-type armor, or other armor that originally played an auxiliary role on the battlefield, in this one-on-one In the duels, most of the knights who participated in the battle were equipped with samurai or swordsman armor.This also means that the knights who participated in the Spring Hunting were originally very good at physical skills. Even without armor, their combat power is far superior to that of ordinary soldiers, and they can even fight against the top sharp masters. The main force of a knight order is usually dominated by this type of knights.Therefore, even if there are one or two alternative main knights who are good at strategy and tactics but weak in physical skills need to be replaced, under normal circumstances, the impact on the strength of a team will not be too great, and they will never fall into a team like Teng Jiaxing. The team is mediocre, because Ji Butler is too weak to enter the Yin Ruins because he is an intelligent race, and there is no one to replace him, so he will directly reduce the number of staff.

Moreover, in order to prevent Teng Wengong from setting a trap in the Yin Ruins and sweeping away the best knights of the Donglin Zhujia, the knights and soldiers of the Donglin Zhujia are now also stationed around the Tianshou City. As a pledge, the combined forces of the various families far surpassed Teng Wengong's Habayashi Army. It stands to reason that they are confident, and they are not afraid that Teng Wengong will play some tricks.

But even so, the Patriarchs of the Zhu Families sat on top of the Royal Palace, and they still had no idea: Even if the common people were talking about it, thinking that Teng Wengong opened the Yin Ruins, and the purpose of Jiuge's present life was to rebuild the Donglin Knights, the Patriarchs of the Zhu Families still had no idea. But he was not so naive, thinking that Teng Wengong would be so selfless that after discovering Jiu Ge, instead of monopolizing it for himself and making a fortune in silence, he took it out and distributed it to other families. There must be some conspiracy that they didn't think of—— It's just that the temptation of Yinxu and Jiuge was so great that they knew there was a trap in it, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet, put on their seat belts and jumped inside.

Therefore, after seeing the holographic structure diagram shown by Teng Wengong and knowing that the battle armor could not enter the Yin Ruins, the Patriarchs of the various families breathed a sigh of relief: This at least explained why Teng Wengong had to disclose the Yin Ruins—— The structure in the ruins is fragile, the magnetic field is disordered, and the interference is serious. The sharp tribes and machines are useless. Ordinary soldiers may become dizzy after entering the ruins for a long time. The nervous system is disordered and the behavior is abnormal. Only a strong knight Only people with blood can enter the Yin Ruins without being disturbed by its magnetic field and losing combat capabilities.

According to the predictions of the Patriarchs of the various families, there must be the rest of the King's Legion guarding the Yin Ruins, and their number and combat effectiveness cannot be handled by Teng Wengong's guard knights, so Teng Wengong planned to gather the Donglin Zhujia The power of the knight, first kill the mechanical creatures of the king's army, and then talk about it after getting the nine songs-as for how to distribute the nine god armors, the heads of all families have their own little nines, no matter how good Teng Wengong's rules are, until the time comes. At that time, the knights of all families also relied on their own abilities, so what's the use of relying on Teng Wengong's guard knights?

So now, for the Patriarchs of the various families above the Royal Palace, there is only one problem left——

That is, is there any Jiu Ge in the Yin Ruins?
At present, at least on the holographic map shown by Teng Wengong... there is no such thing.

The patriarchs of the various families glanced at each other, only to see Qi Wannian, the patriarch of the Qi family, stood up, raised his sleeves, bowed and asked, "Dare to ask my lord, is the legendary Nine Songs in the Yin Ruins?"

"Of course it is." Teng Wengong replied lightly.

The heads of the various families revived, and once again concentrated on looking at the holographic structure diagram, they saw that the secret road made of metal poured from the mountainside of the Yin Mountain to the underground, winding among the air roots of the thousand-year-old Yin-Yang tree. Finally, it leads to an extremely wide and open flat land. There are traces of felling on the ground, and it is also poured out of alloy. Obviously, this large flat land was originally full of air roots of yin-yang trees.

But in the current holographic picture, on this flat land, there is a magnificent building similar to a temple!
Even just looking at this holographic image, everyone can imagine how shocked the person who opened the way was when he cut the road from the air roots and found such a large-scale palace!What a time-consuming and labor-intensive effort to clean this palace out of these air roots that have grown for thousands of years!
I saw that this hall is supported by ninety-nine and 81 pillars, and the four sides are transparent. The stone plate under the pillar is as thick as two people hugging each other. If it is on the ground, its height can reach the clouds, although many pillars have broken. , only half of it is left, the carvings on it are inlaid with dirt and dust, which is indistinct, and the algae well on the top is also penetrated by the air roots of the yin-yang wood, making it dilapidated.However, it can be seen that this temple was originally built extremely beautifully. Thousands of years ago, this temple stood on the ground, and the breeze and white clouds passed through the towering vermilion pillars. Beautiful scenery.

It's just that there is nothing in the palace now, what was originally used for, what was placed there, what kind of battles took place, but it can't be seen at all, only a layer of bricks has been poured on top of the broken blue bricks. Dozens of holes were dug out to allow only one person to pass through. The heads of the various families looked left and right, but they couldn't tell which hole seemed to hide Jiu Ge.

The Patriarchs of the various families were puzzled in their hearts, but their faces were all unpredictable. They nodded while looking at each other, and looked at each other's expressions, wondering if it was only their own eyes that were not very good. Missed it?
It was still the head of the Qi family who couldn't bear it anymore, and asked again: "Dare to ask my lord, where is Jiuge in the picture?"

"Under this picture." Teng Wengong said.

"Bottom?" Qi Wannian was taken aback, "But the bottom of this picture is gone?"

"The bottom of this picture is gone, but it doesn't mean that the Yin Ruins are over." Teng Wengong said, "The ancient battlefield of the Millennium War is so huge, how can there be only such a small piece of land?"

Mu Yun was also taken aback when he heard it in the imperial pavilion, wondering why this picture is still a "eunuch"?The Patriarchs of the various families above the Royal Palace were even more stunned. They didn't expect Teng Wengong to show them a castrated map, and they admitted it openly.This is to make it clear that they want to hide their secrets, and what's more, the location of the most important Jiu Ge is hidden. Wouldn't this be too shameless?
But I heard Teng Wengong say: "The poisonous gas curls up and down the Yin mountain, and the magnetic field is disordered. It is extremely dangerous for ordinary people. The Teng family's secret road has been dug so far, and it has cost the lives of tens of thousands of scavengers. It is even worse under this temple. The mountain is a hundred times more dangerous. I asked people to dig a hole leading to the bottom. I originally planned to let the scavengers open the way first, but after hanging nearly a hundred people with ropes, they never returned. God has the virtue of good life. Now that I have determined Jiu Ge is buried under this temple, so why waste a few more lives?"

When Mu Yun heard the words "tens of thousands of lives of scavengers", he had already clenched his fists tightly, and when he heard the words "God has the virtue of good life", he couldn't help punching the table.It's just that he was in the imperial pavilion, and no one noticed this movement except Thirteen.

On the other hand, above the Royal Palace, King Teng, who had lowered his head and wondered what he was thinking about, suddenly slapped the table, attracting everyone's attention. He stood up, holding the jug in one hand, and the wine glass in the other, and said loudly: "What a god has the virtue of being kind! I just found out today that my elder brother is so benevolent and righteous. The younger brother must give a toast!"

After Xiao Teng finished speaking, he filled the wine glass in his hand, but instead of drinking it, he fell to the ground and said: "This glass is for the tens of thousands of dead souls who opened the way in the Yinxu. Remember my elder brother's great benevolence and righteousness, whether you want to repay your kindness or revenge when the time comes, don't find the wrong person!"

As soon as King Xiao Teng said this, the faces of everyone in the hall changed drastically. They thought that you don't need to perform so hard, and the whole Donglin knows that you two brothers are not getting along. Even if you want to blame your elder brother, don't worry. In this hour and a half, right?At this time, you suddenly jumped out to look for your elder brother's bad luck, what is the role?
Those with more scheming minds, such as Xiao Yuanshan, the patriarch of the Xiao family, immediately thought that Qi Wannian was asking about the key point of Jiuge, and King Teng jumped out at this time to find a sense of existence. Could it be that he wanted to change the topic on purpose, thinking What are you hiding for Teng Wengong?
Could it be that the discord between the two brothers is just a cover-up, and in private, Teng Jiaxing and Teng Wengong's team is a family?In this way, the little King Teng has joined forces with the Fei family, which is very difficult to deal with in itself. Coupled with the team of Duke Teng Wen, the combination of the three families is enough to take over all other families in the Yinxu...

Xiao Yuanshan's thoughts were quickly thought of by everyone in the hall, and they immediately wanted to find the figure of the new Patriarch of the Fei family, trying to get some clues from her reaction, only to realize that Fei Ye had never left the palace. When I came back, I was even more suspicious.

Only Mu Yun could not help laughing when he heard Little Teng King's words satirizing Teng Wengong's "virtue of good life" in the imperial pavilion, and finally felt a little better in his heart.

But King Teng put down his wine glass and continued: "I almost forgot, there is one more thing that I am curious about as a younger brother, and I want to ask my elder brother to clarify my doubts - I just want to know whether those scavengers were killed by poisonous gas or by the root of the poisonous gas." The strangling, did he die by falling from the rope, or was he ordered by my elder brother to kill him because he found Jiuge?"

Hearing King Xiao Teng's words, the heads of the various families all shook their heads, thinking to themselves that such a simple question, don't you ask it knowingly?Is this trying to embarrass your elder brother, or is it embarrassing yourself?

But Teng Wengong didn't even look in the direction of King Teng, but instead looked at the heads of the Zhu families, with a mocking smile on his mouth, and said: "If I answer those people, it's not because I found nine Song, I ordered to silence everyone, wouldn't everyone here be disappointed?"

The Patriarchs of the various families didn't expect Teng Wengong to say a word, and this embarrassment came to him. He didn't know how to answer for a while, and the atmosphere in the palace was very embarrassing.

At this time, Qi Wannian appeared to be witty.He only heard him coughing lightly, just as if the little King Teng hadn't said anything just now, he asked Teng Wengong: "Dare to ask why the lord is sure that Jiu Ge is under this temple?"

"Of course it's because of this temple." Teng Wengong said lightly, and with a wave of his hands, the holographic map that was suspended in front of everyone quickly zoomed in in the air, and the location of the temple on the map happened to cover the royal palace, "Everyone Please see—”

Everyone above the royal palace stood up, and the 81 pillars in the underground temple of Yinxu stood in front of everyone in the proportion of the royal palace, as if everyone was in this temple thousands of years ago at the moment. The yin and yang wood energy roots piercing through the body look lifelike, as if they will meander down at any time, sweeping people away.

"This is—" Qi Wannian stood in front of a pillar, looked up at the pattern on the pillar, and couldn't help but exclaimed!
The holographic map has not been enlarged before, and everyone can see that although the ninety-nine and 81 pillars on the temple are already dilapidated, the air roots are entwined on them, and a layer of cyan alloy has been poured to prevent the air roots from attacking people. , but it can still be seen that the pillars were originally extremely exquisitely carved—just looking at the antique characters in the pattern, with high crowns and broad robes, it seems to show myths and legends on the ancient mother planet of human beings.

On this continent, many buildings like to decorate with the mythical and legendary characters and stories on the ancient mother planet of human beings. Even the royal palace of Teng Wengong, the carved door panels in all directions are carved in various postures. Nine Heavens Goddess, so everyone didn't pay attention to it when they glanced at it before.

But Qi Wannian is standing under a pillar at the moment, and looking carefully at the patterns that can still be distinguished on the pillar, he can see that the most striking one is a bodybuilder man with a fishtail, driving a chariot drawn by two horned dragons , jumped out of the waves, and there were rows of fish behind him to protect him. Among the patterns covered by the yin and yang wood roots, there seemed to be a crystal palace of fish scales and shells faintly!

Qi Wannian is the youngest among the Patriarchs above the Royal Palace. He is about the same age as the Young Master of the Li Family. Although he is not as well-read as the Young Master of the Li Family, he likes to research various anecdotes in human civilization. It's anecdotal, but Qi Wannian is not lacking in the education and accomplishment that nobles should have, especially the "Knight's Travel Record" he is familiar with, so he is quite familiar with the origin of the nine armors.He knew that these nine divine armors were called "Nine Songs", named after the nine gods in myths and legends on the ancient mother planet of mankind, and among the nine gods, there was one named "He "Bo", whose mythological image is a handsome man with a fishtail. According to people's speculation, this is probably a water battle armor.

And the image of the man appearing on the pillar of this temple in the Yin Ruins at this moment is also He Bo in the myth!
Could it be that...Qi Wannian had a thought, and quickly checked the patterns on the other pillars.

In the pattern on another pillar, a majestic Kong Wu raised a huge curved bow in one hand and a long arrow in the other, preparing to shoot at the Greedy Wolf star in the sky, behind him Countless people are beating the war drums and shouting, showing the myth and legend of Dongjun shooting greedy wolves; and on the pillar behind him is a young and beautiful female god, holding a long sword in one hand and holding a sword in the other. The child, surrounded by a group of boys wearing lotus skirts and holding lotus leaves, is the Shao Siming in Jiuge!

On the rest of the pillars, Qi Wannian also successively recognized the images of Donghuang Taiyi, Yunzhongjun, Xiangjun, Mrs. Xiang, Da Siming, and Shangui.The people in the royal palace also gradually began to discover that the nine gods depicted on the 81 pillars of Jiujiu are exactly the nine gods in Jiuge.In addition to the images in myths and legends that people are familiar with, the 81 pillars show more pictures of them leading the soldiers to fight bravely. Crashing, chariots staggered on the ground, and soldiers wearing rhinoceros armor killed the sky and the earth. Although the picture has long been mottled and only a corner of a few paintings remains, the tragedy of this battle is still shocking!
And everyone quickly noticed that the picture seemed a little strange, as if something was missing——

The strangest thing is that although the pictures on these pillars show the battle between the enemy and ourselves, who these people are fighting with has never been shown in the pictures!

Another peculiarity is the proportional relationship of the characters on these pillars. The images of the Nine Songs gods are much taller than the human soldiers!
You must know that even in the art of painting, in order to highlight the main characters, especially to express the identity of the gods, the gods are deliberately painted taller than the people around him, but the proportional relationship is at most doubled or doubled.

But the Nine Songs Gods are much taller than the human soldiers behind them, close to the ratio of one to one hundred!So much so that the soldiers on the screen are almost densely surrounded by them, and each character is only the size of a fingernail. If you don’t look carefully, you will think that these people are just some kind of decorative pattern, but if you look carefully, But I also found that the faces of all the soldiers are different, and the carvings are extremely realistic. There are even names written in fonts as big as rice grains beside them!

"This..." Qi Wannian took a deep breath, "I see, this is the Hall of Valor!"

(End of this chapter)