The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 1373 The Destroyed Idol

No matter how well the cemetery is managed, it is impossible to completely eliminate the resurrection of the dead as undead creatures. The density of negative energy sometimes increases for no reason.

After all, negative energy is also a kind of free energy naturally produced between heaven and earth. Like tides, it may be said that it will skyrocket when it is said to skyrocket.

In ordinary places, even if the skyrocketing rate does not reach the level of life-threatening, at most it will make the nearby people sneeze and catch a cold. However, in places like cemeteries where negative energy is easy to accumulate, once the negative energy suddenly The skyrocketing rate will cause the dead in poorly managed or slightly remote tombs to suddenly stand up.

The job of cemetery keeper is highly paid, but it is really dangerous, so since undead creatures cannot move in the sun, cemetery keeper basically sleeps during the day, and only wakes up at night to light up the cemetery to patrol the cemetery.

These small stone rooms every few hundred meters are actually built for safety considerations. Once a large number of undead creatures that cannot be dealt with by the gravekeepers are awakened, they can hide in the building nearby, similar to refuge.

Speaking of the tomb guards, Lin Tianci took a look into the distance and saw a few men in brown robes talking with a group of soldiers at the gate of the cemetery.

The secret agents of the White Hands Association will find out that there is a change in the cemetery, because the grave guards heard voices in the cemetery when they were on patrol last night, and there were even strange screams and roars.

Similar situations have happened several times in the past two days, and they were all in the middle of the night.

At first, the tomb guards thought it was some brain-damaged young man who had come here looking for excitement or pranks, but when they inspected the place with lanterns, they didn't find any figure.

This is not a simple haunting, because the undead creatures that may emerge from this kind of cemetery are either the bones of the standard combat scum, or ordinary zombies with a challenge rating of less than 10.

And undead creatures that can speak, communicate, and have the ability to think are definitely not comparable to zombies.

So the tomb guard wondered if someone was trying to make trouble, which made Lin Tianci see the picture of them communicating with the soldiers.

"There is no problem with the level of negative energy. I am not sure if someone is using the cemetery. Let's go deeper."

Sai Li also made the same evaluation as Lin Tianci. So far, the management of this cemetery can be said to be very good.

So Lin Tianci looked at the tomb guards and soldiers over there again, feeling that they would not come in for a while, so he turned and walked deeper.

Since the cemetery is close to the mountain wall, Lin Tianci jumped off the cliff directly. As soon as he landed, he went deep into the cemetery. The tombstones here are all at least two or three hundred years old, maybe they are crows The first residents of the fort when it was first established.

But although it is deep, it is not the deepest.

Because as soon as he turned around, Lin Tianci could see the majestic and wide doorway embedded under the mountain wall. The intricate and delicate marble carvings had fallen off a lot, but compared with the tombstones outside, they were still gorgeous.

People are divided into three, six, and nine classes, and the concept of class is naturally more deeply rooted in feudal society. Class is reflected in all aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, even after death.

When ordinary people die, they can only use the cemetery outside, find a stonemason to order tombstones and a carpenter to order coffins, that's about it.

In order to show their superiority, the nobles cannot be buried with the common people even after death. The doorway in front of Lin Tianci is actually the entrance to the tomb of the nobles.

Entering it, one can clearly feel a cold breath, like someone blowing on the back of the neck, which is the most direct portrayal of the increase in the concentration of negative energy.

The positive energy brought by the sun will disperse the negative energy, but where the sun cannot find the place in the cave, the negative energy will naturally be higher than outside. The nobles feel that they are superior and have to be put into a special tomb when they die. In fact, it is better than ordinary people. Easier to become undead.

Of course, the level of negative energy is indeed high, but it has not reached a dangerous level. This bit of negative energy is not enough to cause a corpse change.

I don't know if this cave was originally repaired by humans or was dug out directly by craftsmen, but it was repaired very neatly, and almost no natural parts can be seen. Not only are there flat bluestone slabs under the feet, but They are also inlaid with tile-like things, and are painted with intricate patterns and carvings.

There was no lighting in the cave, so Lin Tianci had to snap his fingers and exhale the Dancing Light technique to facilitate his vision when he went a few steps deeper. Without dark vision, this was the only way to do it.

Continue to go further inside, and when you turn a corner, you can see tombs lined up on both sides of the corridor.

These tombs are reserved for nobles, and each tomb is covered by a heavy stone door that is only half the height of a normal door. There are also stone latches, or door bolts, inserted into the door.

This setting is mainly to prevent the corpse inside from running out after becoming an undead creature, not to prevent someone from entering.

Low-level undead creatures are very stupid, have no brains at all, and can only act on instinct.When encountering a door that is only half the normal height, living people know how to squat down, but undead creatures don't.

Gravekeepers periodically open these gates to see if any undead appear.

If there is, attracted by the breath of the living, the undead creature will walk in the direction of the tomb door, and then be blocked by the entrance that is only half the height of the normal door.

Gravekeepers can easily level them with a blunt object such as a mace or club, and reinstall them in the coffin.

Lin Tianci saw that there were many more tombs on both sides, and immediately activated the divine sense technique, and held the detection talisman in his palm.

The detection spell spreads out as quickly as the sonic positioning of a bat, feeding back subtle movements.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the management of this cemetery is really good. Even in these tombs in the cave, there is no trace of undead creature activity. It feels like a very ordinary noble tomb.

"I don't think the gravekeeper would joke about this kind of thing, let's continue to look deeper."

The job of the cemetery guards is to maintain the cemetery. They basically all believe in gods with the priesthood of death, and except for a few gods of death with convulsions, most of the gods of death hate undead creatures extremely.

The god of death is also part of the cycle of life and death, and undead creatures just destroy this cycle.

It is usually impossible for the cemetery guards to joke about the accident in the cemetery, and there must be some reason for it because there are many people who witnessed it.

Continue to go deeper, the deeper the level, the higher the level of negative energy, until finally it has reached the level where the corpse can be transformed into a dead body.

But even so, the divine thoughts and detection talismans still did not return any traces of undead activity, and after walking for almost 5 minutes, Lin Tianci also came to the deepest part of the tomb, and it was a dead end to go any further.

A huge skull relief can be seen on the wall at the end of the passage, and flame-like lines can also be seen around the skull.

It was a bit scary when it was suddenly illuminated by the dancing light technique.

Sally glanced at it and judged:

"This is the holy emblem of Wejas, the goddess of magic and death. She is one of the gods of death, a standard lawful neutral goddess, and one of the few gods of death who are open to necromancy. Awakened undead."

It is normal to have the holy emblem of the god of death in the cemetery. The holy emblem is placed here to pray for the god of death to let the dead rest in peace forever.

This is also one of the reasons why the level of negative energy in the depths of the cave has reached the standard enough to awaken undead creatures, but there is still no activity of 'dead ghosts'. Wei Jiesi put those undead creatures that might be awakened into eternal sleep.

But after all, Lin Tianci turned around and didn't find anything weird.

"Under the holy emblem, on the third tooth from the left of the skull, there is a mechanism button that can be pressed."

In the end, Celie's detection ability is more reliable than Lin Tianci's. Divine thoughts and detection charms are very ineffective in detecting non-threatening dead objects, after all, she is not a professional.

Celie's brooch was equipped with arcane vision and many other powerful detection spells, so of course she could see it more clearly than he did.

"Although Weijiesi is the god of death, she values ​​her priesthood in magic more. She rarely interferes with the affairs of the underworld, even if she lives in the underworld."

While speaking, Lin Tianci stretched out his hand and pressed the place where Sai Li was pointing at. The tooth in the relief of the skeleton paused slightly, and then collapsed, and there was a slight rubbing sound of moving stones around.

"So wherever there is her holy emblem, there is either a powerful mage's cemetery nearby, or there are some magic-related institutions. This is the best way for her followers to please the goddess."

The sound of rubbing stones lasted for two or three seconds, and then Lin Tianci saw the skull-shaped holy emblem fall backwards, revealing a square hole that could be climbed into.

"It is estimated that the current tomb guards don't know that there is this mechanism. Its power comes from the goddess, so it has not been worn out by time. Judging from the technique and age, it has a history of almost 200 years."

When Sai Li was explaining, Lin Tianci first let the ball of dancing light fly in, and then scanned it with the divine sense and scouting talisman. He didn't feel any danger, so he climbed in.

Through the scanning of spiritual thoughts, Lin Tianci knew that the entrance of the cave was connected to a very large and wide space, but only after entering it did he realize that this space was a bit outrageously large.

Raise the light sphere of the dancing light technique to the highest point, with a ceiling nearly seven or eight meters high, you can see that this place is at least a thousand square meters, and it is a standard square room.

On the opposite side of the entrance, you can see a broken statue about 5 meters high. The fragile parts such as fingers have long been gone. Now there is only one main body standing on the base. Considering the holy emblem outside, There is a high probability that this statue is the goddess of magic and death Wejas that Saili just mentioned.

The simple statue itself may be damaged due to its age, but the god statue is usually protected by divine power, so there should not be such serious damage.

Walking a few steps closer, you can see even more strange places.

There is only one main body left in the statue, and the face of the statue has obvious marks of being smashed by something like a hammer. This is definitely not a sign of natural decay.

What's more striking is that the marks on the smashed part of the face still look very new, probably in the last two days...

(End of this chapter)