Steel Chang'an

Chapter 124

Chapter 124

As soon as he entered the tomb of the knights of King Donglin, Mu Yun immediately knelt down.

It's not that the majestic and quiet ancient battle armor array in front of him is too spectacular, but that the moment he stepped on the outer wall of the collapsed mausoleum and stepped into the mausoleum, there was a huge pulling force that pulled him away. His body slanted toward the ground.

what's the situation!Mu Yun got up quickly, but before he could stand still, he staggered again, as if an invisible hand stretched out from the ground to grab his feet, and threw him to the ground fiercely.

Damn it... Mu Yun was half lying on the wet ground, her eyes quickly searching her surroundings.The ground here is also covered with a thick layer of snow salt, and the original walls of the mausoleum have disappeared. He can't tell what is buried under the white snow salt, but his eyes seem to touch something, he craned his neck to look—

It was a glove.

The rotting fabric was half buried under the white snow salt, Mu Yun pulled out the knight sword and picked up the glove.Judging from the style, it doesn't look like the gloves worn by knights under the armor. There is a thin layer of material between the five fingertips, just like duck webs. It looks more like a murloc's stealth suit. on the parts.

In order to explore the Yin Ruins, besides tens of thousands of scavengers, Teng Wengong also sent hundreds of murlocs who specialize in underwater operations.Mu Yun thought.They never found the bodies of those people in the dark river. Could it be that the bodies of those people were washed into the tomb of King Donglin?

Thinking of the possibility of countless corpses buried under the white snow and salt, Mu Yun suddenly felt a chill coming from his stomach that was close to the ground.He plunged the knight sword into the ground and struggled to get up.The invisible force from the ground was still pulling him, as if trying to stop him from moving forward.Mu Yun stretched out his hand to draw the sword, but the sword suddenly became extremely heavy, as if something was pulling the sword under the ground, making him unable to pull the sword out of the ground for a while!

Your second uncle, this is really a hell!
Mu Yun stared at the white ground in front of him, but Li Jing also turned his head and stared at him: "What are you dawdling about?"

"There seems to be something underground that doesn't want us to enter the mausoleum..." Mu Yun said, thinking that the place under his feet might be a pile of corpses, so he shivered fiercely.

"It's the magnetic field." Zheng Quan said, "From the moment we stepped into this mausoleum, we are already within the range of the magnetic field."

"Ah?" Mu Yun opened his mouth wide.Although he had known for a long time that there was a magnetic field in the mausoleum, he never thought that this magnetic field would be so powerful and cover such a wide area!

The entire mausoleum is actually within the scope of the magnetic circle. How big is the diameter of the magnetic circle?
"Otherwise, what do you think is underground?" Zheng Quan turned his head and looked at Mu Yun with a smile, "Is there a ghost?"

Mu Yun tightly shut her mouth.It was only then that he noticed that Li Jing and Zheng Quan were advancing as close as possible to the ruins of the building, so they were not like him, who immediately lost their balance as soon as they stepped into the mausoleum, and fell several times in a row.

"Hehe, magnetic fields are much more dangerous than ghosts." Li Jing grabbed his hand and pulled him up from the ground, "Ghosts may not kill people, but this magnetic field can kill people."

"Especially for some guys who regard the magnetic field phenomenon as haunted," Zheng Quan said with a smile, "Such a strong magnetic field will cause a great burden on the human body. If people who enter the mausoleum do not notice this, Staying in the mausoleum for too long, the magnetic field will cause irreversible damage to the human body, causing people to gradually lose their ability to move, and be trapped alive in the mausoleum, which can be said to be a death trap that kills people invisible. Those The tomb robbers who died in the mausoleum might think that the ghost of King Donglin was behind the scenes."

Mu Yun scratched his head.When they first entered the Yin Ruins, they thought that the two Hall of Valor organs were a trap designed to prevent people from discovering the existence of this ancient battlefield, but in fact, just like the powerful magnetic field in the mausoleum, all they had along the way Are all the organs encountered are anti-theft measures designed to protect the tomb of King Donglin?
He always felt that there was something unreasonable. Ever since he entered the dark river, he had always had a strange feeling, not only because of the missing corpses, but also because of a bigger mystery hovering in his heart.

After hearing Zheng Quan's words, he suddenly realized what was wrong——

magnetic field.

The existence of the magnetic field here is too unreasonable.

The reason why they were able to enter this ancient battlefield and discover the tomb of King Donglin was because Zheng Quan cracked the control matrix in the Hall of Valor and closed the previous magnetic field mechanism that controlled the tide of the Illusory Sea.

Although there is sufficient geothermal energy here, why did the people who built this mausoleum design all the organs here as magnetic fields?The same energy is enough to support a fully automatic weapon system that can cover the entire mausoleum.But judging from the structure of the outer wall of the mausoleum, it is obvious that there is no energy shield or defensive array set up here.

Apart from this powerful magnetic field, there doesn't seem to be any lethal traps in King Donglin's tomb.

This is not logical, Mu Yun thought.

Just like the imaginary sea full of murderous intentions at first glance, although the powerful magnetic field in the tomb can kill people silently, if King Donglin wants to prevent others from entering his tomb, or wants to kill Wouldn't it be more effective to directly use the lethal trap weapon mechanism to punish the tomb robber who dared to use his mausoleum's brains?
Why did King Donglin design all the organs guarding the tomb as magnetic fields?
"The magnetic field here is not just a murder trap," Zheng Quan said, "Look around you, what do you think of? Does it feel familiar?"

Around him... Mu Yun raised his head, and he saw those huge battle armors standing solemnly in the darkness. The shadows formed by the flares made them appear to be more than they actually were, row after row, until the end of the darkness .

These armors were all within the range of the magnetic circle, and he suddenly realized, "This is an electromagnetic trap!"

Just like the electromagnetic trap weapons that most Yanshi armors will equip in machine warfare, the electromagnetic pulse will interfere with the armor system, causing the armor to be unable to act for a short time.

This entire mausoleum is a huge electromagnetic trap!

"You understand now," Zheng Quan said with a smile, "Using the magnetic field as an anti-theft measure for the tomb will not only make the tomb robbers think that there are ghosts haunting this place, so they dare not come to offend, the most important thing is that as long as the tomb is not closed Even if the tomb robber enters the armor and cracks the operating system of the armor, he will not be able to drive away any armor."

As long as the magnetic field is not turned off, the Nine Songs Legion cannot leave the mausoleum.

Mu Yun thought to himself, he thought of the remains of those mechanical creatures that died outside the mausoleum.So the army of kings who besieged the tomb did not invade the interior of the tomb, was it also because of the protection of the magnetic field in the tomb?Could mechanical beings also be trapped by electromagnetic traps?Although Zheng Quan's explanation sounded reasonable, he still felt that he seemed to have missed something crucial. Why did those mechanical creatures attack the tomb of King Donglin?Do they also want to seize Jiuge?and also……

What exactly killed those mechanical creatures?

Mu Yun shook his head.These issues are not what I should care about now.he told himself.There is a more important problem to be solved right now - if they don't find the magnetic field mechanism here as soon as possible and turn it off, then they will soon lose their ability to move, just like the tomb robbers who broke into this tomb The same was slowly trapped to death in this mausoleum.

Moreover, if he does not turn off the magnetic field, he will not be able to obtain any armor in this mausoleum.

"Where do you think the organ that controls the magnetic field is?" Zheng Quan asked Li Jing.He lit up a flare, and the huge battle armor around them looked down at them expressionlessly. They had already noticed outside the mausoleum that there was no third Hall of Valor here.

"In order to form such a strong magnetic field, the magnetization device here must be very large in size, and the pulsed magnetic field cannot be directly exposed, otherwise everything here will be blown to pieces. This means that the outer layer of the magnetization device has to be included. layer and the floor space of the cooling system, if there is no redundant underground structure in this mausoleum, then there is only one possibility—"

As Li Jing said, he groped around his waist, took out a cigarette and lit it.

In the mausoleum where there was no wind, Mu Yun was surprised to see that the curling blue smoke formed a slanted straight line under the action of the magnetic field, pointing to somewhere in the darkness.

The direction Qingyan pointed was the high platform where King Donglin's coffin was placed.

"There." Li Jing said briefly.He stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and took the lead in that direction.

That's the center of the magnetosphere, where the device that controls the magnetic field is located.

Zheng Quan lit up a flare again, and with the help of the slowly falling light, they passed through the huge battle armor and walked towards the high platform.

"Your second uncle's legs..."

Zheng Quan sighed in a low voice.When they looked down from outside the mausoleum, they didn't realize that the high platform where the coffin of King Donglin was placed was so huge.The shape of the high platform is like a huge trapezoid, the width of the bottom exceeds three hundred feet, and a thousand steps lead from the ground to the plane where the coffin is placed, just like the ground leading to the high platform, whether it is the high platform itself or the straight and wide road The steps above are covered with thick snow salt, and the surface looks rough, like a snow-white hill, making it impossible to see the original material of the high platform and the decorative patterns on it.

"It seems that this high platform is where the magnetization device is located." Zheng Quan subconsciously took out his glasses and took them off again. Within this distance, they seemed to be able to hear a low, trembling humming sound coming from the high platform.Although they all knew that it was only the sound of the magnetizing device inside the high platform, in the silent mausoleum, this sound was still creepy. It sounded like countless people were buried alive in this high platform. whimpering and moaning.

"This thing is bigger than I expected." Li Jing pondered. According to his calculation, it can generate a magnetic circle covering the entire mausoleum. The diameter of the magnet should be close to one hundred feet, plus the energy supply pipeline and cooling system. The area of ​​the entire magnetization device should be close to [-] square feet, but the volume of this high platform is much larger, which means that the outer protective layer of the magnetization device is very thick, multi-layer concrete plus steel plates, or even a composite armor...

"This thing is impossible to destroy from the outside." Zheng Quan said.Li Jing knew that what he said was right, which meant that his original plan would not work.he thought.It is impossible for all the ammunition they carry to blast such a thick protective layer, and now there is only one very risky way...

Li Jing narrowed his eyes and looked up at the coffin of the high and mighty King Donglin.

"Do you think the control matrix of this thing is in the coffin of King Donglin?" Zheng Quan asked thoughtfully.

Li Jing nodded.There is only one possibility.He thought that the ornate coffin was just a disguise.If the Yin Ruins were in the same place as the place he had entered before, it would be impossible for King Donglin's body to be buried in the coffin, and that "corpse" could only be in one place...

He steps up the steps.

Mu Yun raised his head.

Behind the high platform, immersed in the darkness like a mountain peak, is Jiuge, the vehicle of the legendary king of the Eastern Forest.

They finally came to Jiuge.

Mu Yun took a deep breath.

Facing this legendary divine armor, he originally thought that his heart would beat faster and he would sweat from excitement, but at this moment, he only felt bitterness in his heart.I vowed to fight side by side with Li Jing until I found Jiu Ge, and now we are standing in front of Jiu Ge.

This meant that the time for him and Li Jing to fight to the death was finally coming.

Before that, he had always had an illusion, as if this moment would never come, as if something would happen forever, so that he could find a reason to temporarily put revenge on the back of his mind, and let him persuade himself to continue with Li Jing Fight alongside……

There is no longer any reason to procrastinate.Mu Yun told herself.He had no time to procrastinate any longer.

If he wants to get Jiu Ge and Tinder, he must complete his revenge before Teng Wengong arrives.

He raised his head and looked at the figure standing above the steps.

From this angle, the figure looked thinner and shorter than he had imagined, with a slightly hunched back and a slouchy standing posture, it seemed vulnerable.But he is very aware of the opponent's strength.He will never find a better time for revenge than now.Even if he had the strength in his body as his hole card, he was not sure that he would win the opponent in the machine battle, not even a slight chance of winning.

This is the best chance he can get, defeating Li Jing when he has no armor.

He thought back to the terrible sword he had slashed in the dark river, then stepped up the steps and walked towards that figure.

This is the center of the entire magnetic field, and it is the most powerful place in the entire mausoleum. Just maintaining an upright posture is already difficult enough. When he began to climb up, he felt the pulling force almost pushing his body downwards. Pressing on the steps, his steps became heavier and heavier, his body tilted almost parallel to the steps, and each step was more strenuous than the previous step.The steps were not as smooth as he had imagined. They looked less like they were carved by humans, and more like they were formed by the erosion of the lake. There was something covered under the thick snow and salt. The soles of his feet were uneven. He could even faintly feel the soft elasticity, as if stepping on the back of some kind of creature, and at the same time, there was a slight tremor coming from his feet. He told himself that it was just the magnetization device inside the platform doing work, but...

He stopped and stared at the steps beneath his feet.

"Li Jing!" he shouted sharply, his voice echoing in the mausoleum.

"Are you sure that the body of King Donglin is not in this coffin?" Zheng Quan asked out of breath.

"You won't know until you open the coffin." Li Jing said, "I can only confirm that the control matrix is ​​inside this coffin."

"You don't want Zheng to climb into the coffin of King Donglin to crack the control matrix, do you? What if there is a dead body in there?" Zheng Quan stared at the gorgeous coffin, while King Donglin looked at the lying portrait. It looked lifelike, but if there was a corpse inside, it would be a thousand-year-old corpse. No matter how well-preserved, King Donglin's true self would not be as pleasing to the eye as his reclining portrait.Zheng Quan wrinkled his nose, "Although Zheng has a nickname called Thief Zheng Quan, he has never done such a thing as opening coffins and touching corpses. Why don't you demonstrate it to me first?"

"That's not in a hurry." Li Jing raised his chin, motioning Zheng Quan to pay attention to the surroundings of the coffin, "Look at what that is?"

"Huh?" Zheng Quan then noticed that there seemed to be some huge object entrenched under the base of the coffin, but it was covered by thick snow salt, making it impossible to identify what it was at a glance.Zheng Quan stared at the base for a while, and then said in disbelief: "This... looks like a dragon?"

"Did you see clearly?" Li Jing asked.

"Well, that's right." Zheng Quan lowered his body and turned around the coffin, "There are nine giant dragons in total. This kind of decoration on the coffin is called Nine Dragons Carrying the Coffin on the ancient mother planet of human beings. You see This dragon has five claws. On the ancient mother planet of human beings, it represents the real dragon that protects the true son of heaven. It is a mark that only the emperor can use. It seems that Donglin King's ambition is really not small. Don't forget to call yourself emperor..."

As Zheng Quan was talking, he suddenly realized that Li Jing was standing far away from him, "Why are you standing so far away?"

"Hehe, I'm afraid the dragon will come alive and bite me." Li Jing said.

Zheng Quan's hand that was stretched out to brush off the snow salt on the dragon's tail stopped in mid-air, "Your second uncle won't want to say that this dragon is alive?" He lowered his voice, quickly withdrew his hand, and continued After taking a few steps, I suddenly realized that if the dragon was a living thing, it would be a dead thing after guarding the coffin without eating or drinking for more than 1000 years.

Li Jing lit a cigarette, and under the action of the magnetic field, the blue smoke swirled like a vortex and floated to the top of the coffin.

Almost at the same time, the nine giant dragons entrenched around the coffin raised their heads one by one.

"Mechanical creature!" Zheng Quan let out a low cry, and blood crystals shone in the dragon's eyes, which was a symbol of advanced mechanical creatures.Zheng Quan thought of the Nether Princess in the dark river. These mechanical creatures were older than the King's Legion. They were specially designed to protect this tomb. They were directly controlled by the Immortal King and were not affected by the signal of the King's Seal.

But if the dragon was a mechanical creature, he would have already stepped into their attack range, why wasn't he attacked?
"As I thought, their original order should be to protect the coffin of King Donglin, so they will not leave the coffin and attack on their own initiative, they will only attack those who try to open the coffin." Li Jing said thoughtfully.

Zheng Quan gave Li Jing a hard look, "You just used Zheng as an experiment to test the attack range of these guys?"

When the nine dragons moved, Zheng Quan saw the white bones piled up under the dragon. If he had really touched the dragon's reverse scale just now, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"Hehe, don't you know that you run fast?" Li Jing smiled impudently.But there was no smile in his eyes.He originally planned to let Zheng Quan decipher the control matrix of the magnetization device, then modify it into a remote-controlled detonation device, and detonate the entire magnetic field directly after Teng Wengong's arrival.Although the nine giant dragons in front of him proved that his guess that the control matrix was inside the coffin was correct, they also became a big trouble...

"It seems that Zheng has little room to play this time." Zheng Quan said, "This Kowloon coffin is too domineering. As long as the magnetic field is operating, the armor cannot move in the mausoleum. With human power, it is impossible to move." Get close to the coffin, let alone hack into the control matrix inside and crack the code."

With human strength, it is indeed impossible to deal with these nine giant dragons.Li Jing narrowed his eyes.But he knew that this magnetic field had been shut down once, and that the Nine Songs Legion had left this tomb. Even though under the obstruction of the King's Legion, that force was driven back into this water prison before it set foot on this land again. But someone did manage to pass through the nine dragons, opened the coffin of King Donglin, and closed the magnetic field that trapped the Jiuge Legion. A terrible deal was made.

Human power cannot defeat these nine giant dragons, but a strong enough apostle can do it...

Li Jing was startled, could this be Teng Wengong's plan?
At this moment, he heard Mu Yun's shout from the bottom of the steps.

"Li Jing!"

"What are you doing?" Li Jing turned around impatiently, "I'm busy!"

Oncoming was the knight sword in Mu Yun's hand.

Li Jing turned his head sideways, the blood splashed on the white snow salt, and a pair of severed hands fell on the ground at the same time.

"People..." Mu Yun supported the ground with his sword, and said out of breath, "This place is full of people..."

what!Li Jing and Zheng Quan were both shocked, they looked down——

The high platform seemed to come alive suddenly. From under the thick layer of snow salt covering the high platform, countless hands suddenly stretched out, and countless bodies were writhing and crawling out from under the snow salt. Among them were men and women. Most are naked.Judging from the rotten fabrics barely entwined around them, these are the scavengers sent by Teng Wengong to clear the way in the dark river!
They were just stepping on the bodies of these people to climb up the high platform.

"Your second uncle's..." Zheng Quan couldn't remember how many times he was here today, and he suddenly understood why the volume of this high platform was much larger than they expected. It's basically a Jingguan—the kind of high platform specially piled up with corpses on the ancient mother planet of human beings. He didn't expect to meet him today!
Your second uncle's... Mu Yun's heart is also violent. He wonders if God is deliberately playing with him. Why every time he makes up his mind to seek revenge from Li Jing, something bad will happen, and he doesn't want me to take revenge Just say it straight?

But at least he now finally knows where the bodies of the missing scavengers went...

However, when Mu Yun looked at the monster whose hands had been cut off by him, he couldn't help feeling a creepy feeling in his heart—what the hell is this?
It should have been a scavenger with a strong physique. Although the shriveled gray-white skin was covered with wrinkles and ulcers, making the body almost invisible, the liquid flowing from the severed hands was similar to that of a human being. Blood is also red.The monster propped up its body with its broken arm, twisted and crawled towards him on the ground, its movements were weird and stiff, but when the monster raised its head and looked at him with eyes that were no different from humans, Mu Yun was shocked. Take half a step back——

"Help us, sir, save us..."

What came out of that monster's mouth was a human voice.

God, what did he just do?Mu Yun squeezed out a groan from his throat, "This man is still alive!"

He looked around, most of the monsters that crawled out from under the snow salt were festered like this scavenger, almost inhuman, but they were indeed human beings, and there were clear minds in those eyes, and they looked forward to Looking at the three knights standing above the high platform.The festering bodies raised their heads and stretched out their hands towards the top of the high platform, as if a person who had been in the darkness of despair and pain for a long time suddenly saw a glimmer of hope. It was an expression that only human beings can have.

These people are still alive, Mu Yun thought in shock, no matter how they survived, they are still alive, and...

They are asking him for help.

The scavenger approached him in a strange posture, his festering broken arm was waving in the air, Mu Yun suppressed his nausea, as a knight, he had to help those who asked him for help, "Tell me what happened here What? How am I supposed to—”

Before he could finish his words, a flash of sword light flashed in front of his eyes, and Zheng Quan had already drawn his sword and slashed towards the scavenger. Mu Yun quickly used his body to block the front: "Are you crazy? This is a big living man what!"

"Are you crazy!" Zheng Quan stopped the sword abruptly, with a disgusted expression on his face, "Is that thing on your neck an ornament? Use your brain to think about it, these scavengers enter the underworld How long has it been since the ruins? Where did the food and air come from here to keep them alive? How could these... these things be human?"

"Then what do you think they are?" Mu Yun asked back, "They shed the same blood as human beings, possessed the intelligence of human beings, and spoke human language. They are asking us for help! What else do you think they are?"

Zheng Quan glared at him angrily, neither answered nor retracted his sword.Even Zheng Quan, a scholar of Bo Wen Guang Ji, has never encountered such a thing.He couldn't say what it was.But whatever it was, he tended to kill it first.His eyes flicked back, those things were slowly climbing up the steps, coming towards where they were standing now, tens of thousands, those things - including this one in front of him, didn't attack them, but who knew what happens next...

He should knock the impeding boy unconscious first.Zheng Quan rolled his eyes and turned the hilt of his sword silently, but he had another layer of worries, not only because of the upcoming Duke Teng Wen, but also because until now, he still couldn't judge...

One hand held Zheng Quan's sword hilt. "They are human beings, real people." Li Jing said, "Keep your sword away, it can't save them."

Mu Yun breathed a sigh of relief.Seeing that Li Jing seemed to want to check on the situation of the scavenger, he subconsciously stepped aside.

Li Jing stared at the inhuman scavenger.

"Please, save us, save me..."

From that festered mouth came a muffled moan, just like the one he'd heard five years ago.The gray and white rotten face in front of him seemed to overlap with the face in his memory. He remembered the despair and pain, and there was only one way to get rid of it...

He closed his eyes. "I'll save you," he whispered, and pulled the trigger.

The fire suddenly lit up, and the scavenger looked down at the flare that was burning in his chest, and his eyes illuminated by the fire showed a look of relief.He fell backwards like a ball of fire rolling off a ledge and into the festering bodies that were climbing up.

Flames burn.Li Jing aimed at the bottom of the high platform, pulled the trigger again, and at the same time turned sideways without hesitation, and used his other hand to catch the fist that hit him——

"Bastard, what are you doing?" Mu Yun roared, "You just said that he is a real person! He is asking for help from you! You actually killed him!"

Li Jing turned around, the dancing flames cast a shadow on his face, making it impossible for Mu Yun to see his expression clearly.Those five slender fingers were stronger than he had imagined, and the angle of clasping his wrist was very tricky, his movements were completely locked.

"This is the only way to save them." Li Jing said.

He sighed, now is not the time to tell the truth, he knows Mu Yun is not ready yet.But he also knew that if he didn't say anything, the brat wouldn't let it go.

"These people are infected with a virus," he finally said, without a trace of emotion, "I've seen this virus before, I've seen people who have been infected with this virus, and I know how dangerous this virus is. They're airborne, they can enter the body directly through the skin, and if our masks or armor break, we're all infected."

"Is that why you killed them?" Mu Yun pulled his wrist calmly, but those five fingers were like iron hoops. Li Jing looked into his eyes, "Calm down, boy, do you think I look Like the kind of guy who would waste Molotov cocktails for no reason?"

The coldness in this sentence made Mu Yun feel a chill.

"There is no cure for this kind of infection." Just listen to Li Jing's voice and said calmly, "The virus is similar to some kind of fungus. After entering the blood, it will replicate itself, and the hyphae will spread all over the human body. Nerves of muscles. The fungus will replace the brain to control every muscle in the body. The whole process will take less than a month, and the person infected by the fungus will become a marionette. Every move will be controlled by the mycelium, even if the head is cut off , the body still moves, just like these hands..."

He kicked the severed hands under his feet.Mu Yun opened his eyes wide, the pair of severed hands were still wriggling, he originally thought it was just a nerve reaction of the hands being severed from the body, but the movements of those hands seemed to have their own will...

They were crawling towards his insteps.A creepy feeling ran up Mu Yun's back.

Li Jing raised his foot and kicked those severed hands that were about to move into the flames under the high platform. "You see now, boy," he said, "the reason these people are still alive is because their bodies have been overgrown with fungi, and their cells have completely mutated. Even if you want to die, you can't die, only the high temperature of the flames can kill the fungus, this is the only way to save them."

He let go.Mu Yun turned her wrist, and suddenly thought of a very bad thing: "I took off the mask in the dark river..."

If the air in this mausoleum is full of this terrible virus, and there is a high possibility that there is a virus in the dark river, then he is also infected...

Thinking of this, Mu Yun suddenly felt his body become stiff, "I...I seem to be a little uncomfortable..."

Li Jing glanced at him, "Hehe, even if you are infected now, it will take a month before the virus can control you, not to mention that these scavengers were not infected in this tomb at all."

"What!" Mu Yun was taken aback, "Then how did they become like this..."

"Duke Teng Wen."

Zheng Quan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spit out these three words. "If Zheng guessed correctly, it shouldn't be an accident that so many scavengers were infected with this virus at the same time, but someone deliberately implanted the virus in their bodies, and it was as early as before they entered Yinxu At that time, this move has already been laid."

I just heard Zheng Quan continue to say: "Although Zheng doesn't know what the structure of this virus is, if its behavior pattern is similar to that of fungi, then Zheng knows that although under normal circumstances, fungi will drive away the host. Look for better propagation conditions, more nutrients, and more hosts for faster reproduction and spread, but several types of fungi are also attracted by magnetic field movements. Therefore, as long as the viruses are implanted in the bodies of these scavengers in advance, the cleansing After the Doffers entered the dark river, they would be driven by the fungus in their bodies to find the center of the magnetic field, and finally entered this mausoleum, bringing the virus in."

"So this is the real purpose of Teng Wengong sending scavengers into the Yin Ruins..." Mu Yun looked at the inhuman scavengers, his heart was full of anger, "That bastard deliberately sent a large number of scavengers to explore the Yin Ruins, not only for In order to consume the energy of You Ming Ji in the dark river and reduce the number of You Ming Ji, he also wants to use them as biochemical weapons and bring this virus into the tomb of King Donglin..."

As soon as Mu Yun blurted out these words, he faintly felt that there was something wrong with this conclusion.

He originally thought that Li Jing would give an annoying "hehe" like in the past before pointing out where he was wrong, but he didn't expect that Li Jing would simply nod his head, "Since you already understand, then it's easy to handle."

On the contrary, Zheng Quan seemed to have thought of something, and looked at Li Jing meaningfully, but finally said nothing.

"How many flares do you have left?" Li Jing asked.

Zheng Quan spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders.After entering the mausoleum, their flares were exhausted very quickly. The illumination of the knight armor could not find a way between the huge battle armors. Both Zheng Quan and Li Jing's flares had been used up.

"I still have four." Mu Yun said.Seeing Li Jing reaching out to him, he hesitated instinctively.

"As I said, this is the only way to save them." Li Jing said softly.

"I know." Mu Yun gritted his teeth, he knew why Li Jing asked him for a flare launcher.Nobody wants to kill a bunch of innocent people with their own hands unless they have a heart of stone.Even if it was to free them from the pain of being controlled by the virus, burning people alive was too cruel. He originally thought he could do it, but...

He sighed, and finally handed the launcher to Li Jing with guilt.He watched the flames fall into the crowd under the high platform, and forced himself not to take his eyes away, hoping that he could gather enough anger to deal with Teng Wengong.Every life here, he wants to get back from him.

However, deep down in his heart, he still felt something was wrong.

Not because of Teng Wengong, but because of some information revealed in Li Jing's previous words, and the hellish picture of Shura in front of him, it seemed that he thought of something that he didn't want to think of, which made him feel extremely uneasy .

The flames of the flares surrounded where they were standing and spread to the bottom of the high platform.

"There are too many scavengers." He heard Zheng Quan say, "These few incendiary bombs are not enough."

"Just detonating the magnetic field is enough." Li Jing said with a serious face, "The most urgent thing is to open the coffin first."

Zheng Quan rolled his eyes: "You know that Teng Wengong should be outside the mausoleum at this moment, right? When we are in full swing with the nine dragons and everyone is half dead, he can come in to pick up the bargain."

He was right.Li Jing thought to himself.After seeing these scavengers, he has fully understood Teng Wengong's plan.He didn't fully tell the truth about the virus just now, but he knew very well in his heart that the situation in front of him could no longer be delayed. He thought of five years ago...

He forbade himself to think about it. "I have a way to open the coffin without disturbing the nine dragons. All you have to do is to decipher the control matrix of the magnetic field as quickly as possible," he said.Although Teng Wengong's layout in the Yin Ruins is very thorough, as long as they don't disturb the nine giant dragons, he is still sure that he can end all this.

Mu Yun unconsciously listened to the conversation between Li Jing and Zheng Quan, they seemed to be assembling something.

Only Zheng Quan asked casually: "By the way, are you sure that the virus really takes a month to attack? Zheng suddenly remembered that when he came out of the dark river, Zheng got sick because of the mask. It's really disgusting, I took it off and cleaned it up, if the virus has spread widely enough, then Zheng must have been tricked..."

Mu Yun turned his head abruptly.He finally realized that there was something wrong with his deduction just now——

He thought that Teng Wengong wanted to use those scavengers as biochemical weapons and carry the virus into the mausoleum, but if the virus takes a month to completely control the human body, even if they are infected by the virus now, it will not affect their actions at all. So what is Teng Wengong's intention to let the scavengers bring the virus into the tomb?

What exactly is this virus really doing?
You should be able to guess.said the voice in his head.Think about it, what did Li Jing say before?

"I've seen this virus before, I've seen people infected by this virus..."

"Do you think I look like the kind of person who would waste Molotov cocktails for no reason..."

"Those people are infected...this is the only way to get them out..."

Mu Yun closed his eyes, his heart beating violently under his chest. The conversation between Li Jing and the wolf master he heard in the hangar that night echoed in his ears again——

"Do you think I like to set fire to slaughter cities so much?" Lord Wolf said. "What do you think my men are thinking when they burn those people to death with flamethrowers?"

"Both the living and the dead were incinerated. No secrets were revealed, and no one knew why I burned them. My men just carried out the order faithfully. No matter what they thought about it, maybe they just felt that I'm a little crazy..."

At that time, he didn't pay attention to the details of the killings mentioned by the wolf lord. Murder and arson were commonplace for the Northwestern wolf, but when he thought about it, he realized that the wolf lord's method of slaughtering cities in the desert was very singular.

He burned every city captured by the Northwest Wolf, and burned everyone in those cities.

Including White Horse City.

Everyone he knew in that city, and the one person who meant the most to him.When he asked the wolf lord for Mu Chuan's body, they brought him to a white desert.All the bodies were burned there.The white ashes covered the yellow sand, and no matter how hard you dug, you couldn't finish it.They wished him something to discover in that desert.

"You should see this for yourself and see what hell you've turned this desert into."

He remembered what the wolf lord had said to Li Jing.At that time, he did not understand the meaning of this sentence.

Mu Yun felt as if someone had stuffed a large lump of ice into his stomach, and the leaping flames under the high platform conveyed bursts of oppressive heat, but he was as cold as if his legs were frozen .It took him a lot of effort to turn himself around—

"What's the name of that virus?"

Li Jing stood up and looked at him in surprise.Only then did he realize that his voice was hoarse and almost nothing like him.

"I seem to have already said that as long as you haven't taken off your mask in the mausoleum, you won't be infected," Li Jing said, "What's more, even if you are infected now, you won't feel anything, at least one It will take you a month to—”

The voice stopped abruptly, obviously Li Jing himself finally realized that this sentence leaked information that he shouldn't have leaked.

"What's the name of that virus?"

Mu Yun asked again, biting the muscles inside his mouth to prevent his voice from trembling.

"I don't know." Li Jing said, he looked down at the shadow on the ground and sighed, "I call it a ghost fire."

Will-o'-the-wisp.The name pretty much says it all.Mu Yun thought to himself.But he still wanted to hear the answer from Li Jing——

"What is the real role of this virus?"

Li Jing looked at him, the warm orange flame flickered on his knight mask, and the reflection blocked most of his expression.But the moment their eyes finally met, Mu Yun knew that Li Jing had fully understood—understood why he was here, and understood how much he knew the truth.

"It can produce a special substance in the human body." He finally said, "A particle called fire. Some people call it the power of the master, which means the power of the god. It is the power of King Donglin origin of."

"So you didn't kill those scavengers to save them. What you want to destroy is the fire." Mu Yun said, "Those scavengers have fire in their bodies, right?"

"I want to save them." Li Jing said, although he knew that Mu Yun would no longer believe a word he said, "Teng Wengong used these scavengers as containers to transport the fire to this tomb. The fire and Clusters of sparks attract each other, larger clusters devour smaller clusters, and the sparks in these scavengers have been absorbed by other clusters."

So this is why Teng Wengong chose to open the Yin Ruins until now.He needs to wait for the will-o'-the-wisps to cultivate enough sparks.Li Jing thought to himself.He glanced at the Nine Songs Legion standing silently in the darkness. If he guessed correctly, there was an apostle on standby in each armor.Like scavengers seeded with will-o'-the-wisps, apostles have no right to die unless the spark cluster within them is absorbed by a more powerful cluster.

This mausoleum is a prison.

All the organs are not to prevent people from entering the mausoleum, but to prevent things here from leaving the mausoleum.

If they cracked the control matrix inside King Donglin's coffin, there would be a closed gap in the magnetic field. Once those armors were out of the control of the magnetic field, the entire Nine Songs Legion would be revived. That was the result Teng Wengong wanted.They only have one chance to transform that control matrix into an explosive device as quickly as possible, detonate the entire magnetic field, and completely destroy it before the power of God can be seen again.

This is an extremely risky plan, and there is no room for error in the whole process.But the brat happens to be at this time...

Li Jing sighed in his heart. It seemed that he really didn't care enough about the brat. He didn't realize when Mu Yun knew about Tinder.He recalled Mu Yun's awkward actions, that brat probably already knew how Baima City was destroyed.But he couldn't remember when he slipped up.

That's all.Li Jing shook his head and decided not to think about it anymore.If the brat has the ability to defeat him, he doesn't mind if he comes to seek revenge on him, but now, he doesn't intend to waste any more time with this brat who doesn't even have the qualifications to fight him.Although it would be troublesome to run away with an unconscious person during the explosion later, his plan must not be disturbed in any way, he had to tell the kid to shut up and lie down.

He narrowed his eyes, stretched out his hand calmly——

"last question."

Mu Yun opened his mouth, surprised that his voice was so calm, and he was even more surprised why he didn't think of this earlier, it was all so obvious: "You have entered a place similar to this mausoleum, it's not the castle of death, and it's not in the east. Lin, but in the desert, isn't it? That's why you know how to deal with mechanical creatures. You can tell at a glance that the scavengers are infected. You know that will-o'-the-wisps can cultivate fire. You can easily find out where the device that controls the magnetic field is. Where, it is because you have entered a similar place before, so you are so familiar with all of this."

He paused, and took a deep breath, "The will-o'-the-wisp spread in the desert after you entered that place, and you brought the will-o'-the-wisp out of that place, didn't you?"

The screams of those struggling in the fire echoed in his ears, deafening.He stared at the face under Li Jing's knight mask, barely blinking his eyelids until he saw those thin lips move.He didn't hear the voice, but he already knew what Li Jing's answer was.

"Why?" He asked in a low voice, not so much asking Li Jing, but rather asking himself.

"To save someone."

"To save one person?" Mu Yun couldn't imagine a more ridiculous answer than this, "You killed so many people just to save one person?"

"Sorry." Li Jing said, "I'm really sorry."

"Sorry?" Mu Yun couldn't believe it, it was so ridiculous, he thought to himself, "Do you think this kind of thing can be said to be sorry?"

"Oh, don't get me wrong," Li Jing said, "I'm not apologizing for what I did back then, because if people could go back in time, I would still do that."

If he could go back to the past, Li Jing thought, if he could let that person live, he wouldn't care about dying in this world.

But that person is dead, and her last wish is for her daughter to live, so he must let this world live, and all he can do is to try his best to take this world back from the hands of death.

He closed his eyes, strangely, he couldn't remember that person's face at all.He only remembered that she was beautiful, but he had completely forgotten what her facial features looked like.All he knew was that her daughter looked nothing like her.

He glanced at Mu Yun, the brat didn't understand anything.He thought to himself, the brat has never loved anyone, and he has no idea how much a person can do for love.He really shouldn't have said that to the brat.

He let the electric shock gauntlet form from the unicorn arm. "I'm sorry because I have to put you down now, boy."

It was the same move as when he turned his back and grabbed Mu Yun's wrist just now, except that the target was Mu Yun's side neck, and the electric shock glove gathered blue electric light. Lie on the ground for ten minutes.This time is enough for him to get everything here.

The electric shock gloves passed by Mu Yun's neck.All he did was take a slight step back.

He didn't have to ask that last question at all.The reason why he asked was because he saw Li Jing's movement of activating the unicorn arm.From that moment on, he was already calculating the tricks that Li Jing might use and his retreat.

He just didn't expect that Li Jing's answer would make him so angry.

Almost at the same time as he took that step back, the shape of a bright sword had condensed from his arms.

"Go to hell!" Mu Yun roared angrily.

(End of this chapter)

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