Steel Chang'an

Chapter 106

The Yin Ruins are just below the Yin Mountain.

Seen from a distance, the Yinshan Mountain covered by the blue night glass butterflies is an amazing and magnificent beauty.

But after approaching, the butterfly's remnant wings piled up thickly like fallen leaves under the feet, and the increasingly strong rotten smell in the air gave people a weird illusion that they were walking towards hell step by step.

The entire Yin Mountain is a huge Yin-Yang tree that grows from the ground. The mutated air roots absorbed the residual crystal liquid of the mechanical creatures of the King's Legion and preyed on the beasts that strayed into the mountain, causing their overlapping corpses to form a spectacular mountain.

Under the remnant wings of a faint blue butterfly like fallen leaves is a veritable mountain of corpses.

The secret path opened up by the Teng family in successive dynasties is located at the southwest corner of Yinshan Mountain.

After cutting down the air roots of the Yin-Yang tree, immediately cast alloys to stop them from continuing to grow. After the metal of this section of the road solidifies and cools down, continue to cut and move forward. The metal corridor formed in this way winds in the belly of Yinshan Mountain. Although only One person is so tall, but one can imagine how expensive and huge the project is.

The yin-yang wooden air roots wrapped in the alloy are intertwined, and the corpses of strangled beasts hang between the entangled roots, which are also wrapped in the light blue alloy.

In the dark corridor, there is a sensor light every five steps, which lights up as the knight advances.

Skeletons of various shapes were illuminated by the light, and some of them could no longer tell what species they belonged to. A pair of empty eye sockets exuded a cold metal light, silently watching the knight entering the mountain from all sides of the tunnel.

A solid, solid, putrid smell filled the entire corridor.

In order to prevent the inhalation of corpse poison, the knight's face is covered with a knight's mask that matches the knight's armor.

The knight's mask made of special materials strictly fits the contours of the knight's facial features. While protecting the knight, it can keep the knight's senses from being disturbed.

Although the microtube material in the knight's mask can filter the poisonous gas, the stench of corpses formed by the decay of countless corpses over the millennia is still strong enough to be disgusting. down the throat.

In the silent footsteps, the corridor began to slope and sink, and the slope under the feet became more and more steep.

It's as if they are walking into the depths of hell step by step.

The sound of water began to be heard.

At the end of the corridor is the Hall of Valor.

Although I have seen holographic projections of equal proportions when I was in the castle tower, everyone still felt unparalleled shock when standing in front of this tall hall and seeing the nine songs carved on 81 huge pillars.

The sound of water came from below the Hall of Valor.

Several holes were dug on the blue brick floor of the Hall of Valor to allow one person to pass through, leading to the underground river below the Hall of Valor. The sound of rushing water was transmitted to the ground, amplified by the caisson at the top of the Hall of Valor, and echoed in the empty hall .

The white smoke lingering in the hall is the steam formed by the geothermal eruption in the underground river escaping from the hole.

The secret path opened up by the Teng family in the past dynasties ends here.

This is the real entrance to the Yin Ruins.

The dark underground river, hot geothermal eruptions, this river is like the Styx in hell.

The Donglin knights who stand out in the spring hunting will cross this Styx River and enter the ancient battlefield thousands of years ago.

That belongs to the glorious era of Jiuge.

The nine warriors who first find the nine songs and successfully control them will become the masters of the nine armors.

The glory of the Donglin Knights will be resurrected on them and shine on the entire earth.

The air roots that originally entangled in the Hall of Valor have been removed, and the incomplete carvings on the pillars have also been repaired.

The alloy poured on the building was polished and shone like a mirror, reflecting the gorgeous figure of the knight who came here thousands of years later in armor and cloak.

The white-clothed musicians on standby in the Hall of Valor plucked the strings, and the troubadours who were ordered to come sang poems that had already been written, praising this exciting moment.

The attendants in Tsing Yi who stood at the four corners of the Hall of Valor brought out fine wine.

The wine of jasper, held in twenty-seven horns of abundance of true gold, is exactly the number of knights in the temple.

The knights who are about to go out raise their wine glasses to their lips through their masks, symbolizing that they have taken a sip, and then sprinkle the wine in the glasses on the ground, offering sacrifices to the spirits of the heroes who died in the Millennium War, and praying for them to bless the safety of this trip .

"Let's roll the lottery!"

Teng Wengong said.

For the sake of fairness, the knights of each family will choose the hole to enter the underground river by casting lots.

There are countless geothermal springs distributed in the dark river, causing hot steam to gushe out from every hole at any time.

And after the local heat stops gushing and the hole cools down, the yin-yang tree air roots dormant below will entangle the knight who entered the water.

The only safe way to enter the dark river is to enter the water at the moment when the geothermal spring located below the hole has finished erupting.

In other words, it is the time of geothermal eruption that determines the time of launching.

The ground heat under the hole drawn by whichever family of knights is the first to erupt, whichever family of knights can go into the water first.

And whichever knight can go into the water first, has the upper hand in terms of time, and has more hopes of finding Jiu Ge first.

The holes dug on the ground of the Hall of Valor have been numbered according to the azimuths of "Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, and Dui".

The knights of various families have already observed the situation of each hole.

Among them, white steam has been emitted from the holes in the three positions of "Qian", "Gen" and "Li", which means that these three holes have already erupted, but it is unknown when the next eruption will occur.

The knights who draw the holes in these three positions are most likely to fall into an embarrassing wait.

All the knights secretly prayed not to let themselves draw the arrows for these three positions.

Unlike Chunshou who uses electronic technology to draw out the battle table, this time the lottery is completely in accordance with the ancient method of human ancestors. The lottery paper with the position number written on it is tied to the arrowhead of the lottery arrow, and put into the golden lottery tube. The feathers of the tail are facing upwards, and the representatives of the knights will throw them by themselves.

The lottery paper, lottery arrows, and lottery cylinders were carefully inspected by various knights, and there was absolutely no possibility of fraud.

Of the three in Teng Jiaxing's party, the one who went up to cast the lottery should naturally be Li Jing.

But Li Jing touched his chin and said: "Why don't you smoke with a better personality this time?"

It turns out that you also know that your character is not good!Mu Yun complained silently in her heart.

"It's really time to change someone," Zheng Quan pushed his glasses, and said seriously, "The person whose character is so bad that he can roll six dice in a row should consciously stand out of the stick farther away."

"Huh? Why do I remember that you were the one who shaved his head in the loss that day?" Li Jing said.

"Is it okay for me to be black?" Zheng Quan snorted, "Besides, Zheng has fought you so many times in Chang'an City, and it's not like he hasn't won you once!"

"You mean the time I deliberately let the water go because you lost so badly that you were about to take off your underwear?" Li Jing said, "Just that one time you still have the nerve to talk about it?"

"Even if it's only once, it's still a victory over you!" Zheng Quan snorted, "Could it be that the number one knight in the world back then was such a person who couldn't afford to lose?"

Listening to the conversation, Mu Yun came back to her senses: Zheng Quan said solemnly that he had fought against Li Jing many times in Chang'an City, and each had a winner or loser. And the bet is the most unskilled dice roll!
Do you need to be so serious about this kind of thing!

But having said that, to be able to lose to a person who throws six hands in a row is really not an ordinary black hand...

Mu Yun was complaining endlessly in his heart, but Li Jing and Zheng Quan looked at him together.

"Boy, it's up to you!" Li Jing said.

"Come on, boy!" Zheng Quan said seriously, "I see that your complexion is pale, and your hands must not be too dark!"

I have a mask on my face and you can tell a ghost!Besides, is my complexion pale, is it necessarily related to black hands?
At this moment, Mu Yun's face is really a little pale, mainly because he doesn't know whether his hands are black or not...

If one of "Qian", "Gen" and "Li" is unfortunately drawn, wouldn't it prove that one's hands are darker than these two people with no character?

Mu Yun remained expressionless, with his head held high and his chest held high, he strode forward with two long legs, trembling in his heart, walked forward, tremblingly shook out a lottery arrow from the lottery tube, and opened it up to have a look.

It was the "dry" signature that was drawn.

This is still really close to the ink...

Before Li Jing and Zheng Quan could speak, Mu Yun made a complaint in her heart.

But I heard Li Jing say: "Hehe, the boy is lucky."

Zheng Quan took a look at the lottery and arrow, and said, "Sure enough, it's a good lottery!"

"Is this a good sign?" Mu Yun really wanted to ask, could it be that you two are illiterate?But after thinking about it, Li Jing was fine. Since Zheng Quan had a nickname of Xiucai, he probably wouldn't have misunderstood the word "dry".

But if this lottery can be considered a good lottery, then Mu Yun really doesn't know what a bad lottery is.

You must know that according to what Li Jing said before entering the Yin Ruins, there were only three of them. Although they were at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, it was more convenient to keep their actions consistent because of the small number of people. Therefore, they had an advantage in mobility. Before they found Jiuge, they had to maximize this advantage from the very beginning, leading the other 24 knights in terms of speed.

To put it simply in Zheng Quan's words, they had to get rid of the other knights from the dark river, so that this team with the smallest number could avoid being surrounded and wiped out as soon as they set off.

But now the "dry" hole in Mu Yun's pumping is one of the three holes that the geothermal heat below has just spewed out not long ago. The armor of the armor suffered a battle damage caused by high temperature when it first started, otherwise it would have to wait until the next eruption ended before it could go into the water.

At this moment, the hole in the "Kan" position has begun to emit white steam. The knight of the Qi family who drew the "Kan" sign showed joy, and Qi Qi clasped his hands to the surroundings and said "Accepted", then threw off the knight cloak on his body, After the white smoke disappeared, the six Qi family knights also disappeared on the Hall of Valor.

"These guys really can't wait..." Mu Yun clicked his tongue.He looked around the hall, and the other knights saw that someone had entered the water on the kanji position, but there was no movement in the hole he drew, and his movements and expressions were more or less anxious.

"Hehe, someone will help us open the way, won't you?" Li Jing leaned on the pillar calmly, even took out a cigarette and lit it.Although the mouth of the knight's mask is movable, the range is extremely small, and I don't know how he stuffed the smoke into it.

"You can still laugh when someone takes the lead?" Mu Yun glanced at Li Jing in surprise, "Aren't you the one who planned to seize the speed advantage from the dark river?"

"If you want to take the lead in this section of the dark river, you don't necessarily have to be the first to get into the water. On the contrary, the later you get into the water, the better for us. That's why I said you've thrown a good lottery!" Li Jing said, patting Mu Yun's shoulder, "The truth of this, you should use the waiting time to think about it!"

"There's nothing to think about. Don't you just hope that the person who goes into the water first will be entangled by those mechanical creatures operating in the dark river, and will clear the obstacles along the way for you, so that you can save some energy and be lazy. Do you want to play a trick at the end to come from behind?" Mu Yun's mind was also spinning very fast, and when she saw Li Jing's lazy appearance, she immediately thought of the answer.

"Is the teacher the kind of person who will be lazy and fish at critical moments?" Li Jing shook his head, even narrowing his eyes, and said to Mu Yun, "I'll take a nap first, and you can continue on your own." Think about it!"

While they were talking, the Xiao family knight who had won the Xun character had also entered the water.

Seeing the flamboyant faces of the Xiao family knights when they entered the water, Mu Yun also realized that his thoughts just now were a bit naive - if the later they entered the water, they could take advantage of it, so are the other knights so selfless? Are you a fool who is willing to open his own way and let others take advantage of it?
Unless... Mu Yun stared closely at the few remaining knights who hadn't entered the water, observed their expressions and movements, and vaguely thought of what they were planning, but still had some doubts that they would really do this?

"You should have already thought of it, the number of people is the key to this problem." Just listen to Zheng Quan's voice and said in the built-in headset, "These are six-member teams, even if they are attacked in the water, they can only stay One or two people fight, and the rest can continue to move forward and maintain the lead."

"Leave your companions alone and just move forward, can they really do this kind of thing?" Mu Yun is still a little unbelievable—not because he thinks the Donglin Knights have such a noble chivalry, but because of what he has seen. It is estimated that no one will be sacrificed voluntarily with the awareness of the Donglin knights.

You must know that Teng Wengong sent countless scavengers at that time, and finally used the murloc masters with excellent water skills, but they still never returned. It can be seen that the mechanical creatures lurking in this dark river are quite ferocious. For a single knight to be entangled by such a monster, I'm afraid it will be more or less dangerous.

"It seems that you don't know enough about the nobles of Donglin," Zheng Quan said with a smile. "In the face of such huge interests as Jiuge, what is it to sacrifice one or two knights? The heads of each family must have made arrangements long ago and were assigned If he wanted to keep the broken knight, he had already been promised a thousand dollars, and if he suffered misfortune in the ruins and died heroically, his family would naturally receive great honor as compensation."

"So that's how it is..." Mu Yun also wanted to understand that if such a knight who was designated to make sacrifices refused to obey, he would naturally be suppressed, including his own family, from now on so that he could not hold his head up for the rest of his life, so Had to self-sacrifice!

"In this way, if we want to come from behind, we must rely on these knights who have been left behind..." Mu Yun lowered his voice, and spoke his conjecture to the built-in communicator in the knight's mask.

"That's right, our plan is..." Zheng Quan also replied in a low voice.Hearing what Zheng Quan said, Mu Yun's eyes lit up, and he frowned again: "Is this okay?"

"With the three of us alone, this is the only way to come from behind. All in all, the dry signature you threw is only a good one for us..." Zheng Quan was talking, but he heard Li Jing chuckled and said, "That's not necessarily the case!"

Li Jing still kept his eyes closed, but nodded in the direction of Teng Wengong, and said, "I think the lottery that Teng Wengong left for me is also a good lottery like ours."

What Teng Wengong threw was exactly one of the characters "Qian", "Gen" and "Li".

At this moment, the six knights of the Fei family have also entered the water, and the only ones left on the Hall of Valor are Mu Yun and his party and Teng Wengong's Tianshou Knights.

Seeing Teng Wengong standing with his hands behind his back, looking calm and calm, even Mu Yun seemed to realize something.

"Could this guy have the same idea as us?"

"Hehe, then you underestimate this man too much." Li Jing said, "His Highness Heroic Spirit's dark river was discovered by him anyway, even if he couldn't pass through the dark river with only a Sky Guard Knights, and sacrificed so many scavengers , and also figured out the situation in the dark river, is it necessary for him to have the same idea as us?"

After thinking about it, Mu Yun realized that the biggest obstacle to advancing in the dark river was not the lurking mechanical creatures, but the ubiquitous geothermal eruption. Once unfortunately caught, it would not only weaken the defense of the knight's armor, but also affect the follow-up operations. In this environment with an extremely strong magnetic field, if you are washed away by the gushing spring column, you will easily lose your way. If you want to move forward while exploring the road, the speed will be greatly affected. In this case, you will encounter mechanical creatures An ambush would be quite dangerous.

However, Teng Wengong, knowing that the scavengers would never be able to defeat the mechanical creatures in the dark river, still sent a large number of scavengers into the water to explore the way. The purpose is to use their sacrifices to find out the distribution of geothermal eruptions in the dark river!
In the hands of Teng Wengong, he must have mastered the secret route that can avoid the geothermal eruption. However, because the number of mechanical creatures cannot be dealt with by a single guard knight order, he selected knights from various families through Spring Hunting to enter. Yin Ruins...

As long as Teng Wengong does not reveal the secret route in this dark river, his castle guard knights will remain invincible!
In the final analysis, Teng Wengong's idea is to wait for work with ease, let the knights who enter the water first attract away the mechanical creatures lurking in the dark river, and then follow the proven route to come from behind, and easily take advantage of the cheap I picked it up...

Then if the dry character I drew smoked later than Teng Wengong's hole away from the character position, wouldn't I be able to enter the water later than Teng Wengong, and follow him to pick up cheaper...

Mu Yun had just turned halfway through this thought, only to realize that her thoughts were too naive——

I saw a burst of white smoke rising from the hole in front of Teng Wengong, but Teng Wengong and the guard knights behind him remained motionless!
"Duke Teng Wen really can hold his breath!"

Li Jing praised.

You must know that the time for the hole to enter the geothermal fountain is unpredictable. If you miss this opportunity to enter the water, you don’t know how long you will have to wait for the next time. If you wait too long, the mechanical creatures restrained by the knights who have already entered the water will regain their freedom and gather together It is extremely dangerous to deal with a team of six people!
But Teng Wengong obviously made up his mind, he would rather take the risk by himself than let others follow suit!
At this moment, a puff of steaming white smoke finally came out of the hole in front of Mu Yun.

"Do you want to take a gamble?" Zheng Quan pushed his glasses and asked in a low voice.

He wanted to compete with Teng Wengong for luck, bet on the timing of the geothermal eruption under the hole in front of each other, and see if the three of them didn't go into the water, whether Teng Wengong could continue to hold his breath and miss a few times the opportunity to go into the water !
"With you here, forget it." Li Jing shook his head, "It's better to rely on strength than luck!"

Mu Yun quickly nodded in agreement. With Li Jing and Zheng Quan, two rotten gamblers, there was no luck to rely on.

"Let's go!" Li Jing stood up, stretched his waist, extinguished the cigarette in his hand, casually bowed in the direction of Teng Wengong, and said, "Xingyi, let's take a step first."

"Please, Mr. Li."

Teng Wengong said lightly.

Although there should be no expression on the face covered with the knight mask, Mu Yun felt that at that moment, Teng Wengong seemed to show a sneering smile.

Li Jing and Zheng Quan had disappeared above the Hall of Valor, and Mu Yun untied her knight cloak and quickly followed.

But at the moment when he jumped into the hole, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have forgotten one very important thing——

"Hey, I can't swim!"

(End of this chapter)