Endless route

Chapter 386 26. The truth comes out

The stagnant water at the bottom of the river was shaking again, and the silt was swirling and floating in the water curtain. The Yin soldiers who were lying on the ground and pressing the grooves were covered and swallowed up by the waves of mud, leaving only a hazy figure.

Several searchlights focused on it.

The Bodhisattva statue is motionless.

The outline of Yin Bing's body sank slightly.

Switching to other viewing angles, it seems that the floor tiles under the Yin Soldier's feet have sunk, causing the entire floor tiles and the Yin Soldier's body to move downward at a slow speed at the same time.

"Master Immortal, is this a passage?"

Ji Dao stared at the screen to identify carefully. At this moment, there was nothing else going on in the depths of the lighthouse, only the Yin soldiers were moving here.

From multiple camera angles, the eight arms of the Bodhisattva statue did not turn over, the heads of the three Bodhisattvas did not move, and the shaking and churning mud came from the feet of the Bodhisattva statue.

The Bodhisattva statue remained motionless.

Instead, the ground began to sink.

The only explanation can only be that the roaring sound surrounding the Yin soldiers is the sound of the ground sinking.

This scene is actually quite familiar. They had made such rumbling noises in the underground of Fuci Dusi Museum, and were considered to be haunted by the museum's night watch staff.

"Raise your hand and flip the camera."

Zheng Yun tried to give orders to the Yin soldiers.

At this moment, we still don’t know the condition of this Yin soldier, whether he is dead or alive, or whether he was killed by a curse out of thin air by the Bodhisattva statue.

Wow.

The Yin soldiers reverse the camera.

A face appeared on the screen wearing a chemical protective suit and a diving suit. It was the face of a Western explorer about thirty years old. There was no bleeding from the orifices or loss of control.

"Since it's okay, then this is undoubtedly the passage. Master Immortal, the passage in and out of the Immortal Sect is similar to it."

Ji Dao touched his chin and speculated.

The Fu'en Immortal Gate they walked through every day also used their waist cards to jam into the secret slot, and then pushed the entire stone gate to open the passage. As long as it was not closed later, it would remain open.

The Yin soldiers successfully opened the door now. They don't need to open it again in the future. They can just go in after confirming that the environment is safe.

"Keep looking."

Zheng Yun also breathed a sigh of relief. At least he had found the direction, and the Bodhisattva statue no longer attacked the Yin soldiers indiscriminately.

The screen continues to advance.

The Yin soldiers pressing the hidden slots with both hands did not use much strength and just continued to press the waist card. However, the effect of the mechanism was as if the Yin soldiers pushed down the floor tiles.

Don't know what the principle is.

Maybe it has something to do with water pressure.

There are several interconnected sealed pressure water columns deep in the lighthouse. The floor tiles pressed by the Yin soldiers may have been soaked in water, and the waist card is stuck in the air valve.

I don’t know how the ancients designed it.

Anyway, it looks amazing.

It looks like a Yin soldier riding an elevator.

The Yin soldiers and the floor tiles slowly sank, and soon they completely disappeared from the ground, and their whole bodies sank under the floor tiles.

The vibration amplitude slowly decreases.

The floor tiles sank five meters before stopping.

The Yin soldiers raised the camera and turned around to observe. There was a diagonal tunnel in front of them. It was completely submerged in water, but the water was clean and looked like a different world from the stagnant water above.

At the end of the corridor is a flight of stairs.

Don't know where it leads.

In clean and transparent water, light can travel a long distance. When the searchlight shines towards the end of the steps, you can see some debris scattered on the ground, which is still refracting and reflecting light.

"Go over and have a look."

Zheng Yun gave orders to the Yin soldiers.

Yin Bing reacted immediately and swam forward along this historic corridor, revealing the details inside the corridor, especially the stone bricks made of obviously special materials.

These bricks are actually dark silver.

Reaching out and brushing off the thin mud on the stone bricks with your fingers, a silvery white color was reflected, which looked like silver and gray, giving it a very special metallic texture.

But it should be a stone.

At least no metal specials were found.

Ji Dao also couldn't recognize the origin of this stone brick, and could only roughly speculate that this stone brick may involve the tricks of gods and ghosts.

Rumble.

The sound of the machine suddenly sounded again.

The Yin Soldier immediately looked around, and after searching for a while, he discovered that the source was above his head. The 'water elevator' he took to get here suddenly went back at this moment.

It was a boulder three meters long and wide.

Floating lightly from Yin Bing's eyes.

It didn't take long for the entrance to be completely blocked. It was almost exactly the same as a modern elevator. The process was very smooth...

"Master Immortal, this mechanism is indeed quite ordinary. After all, it is too old and its skills are not as good as those of later generations of Tritons. It seems a bit crude and not as beautiful as the mechanisms of later generations."

Ji Dao was actually not satisfied yet. He saw through the mechanism after just a few glances, shook his head slightly and sighed aloud.

"Find a way first."

Zheng Yun did not answer Jidao's words.

The entire lighthouse was built by sea guards over hundreds of years, and is a product of the middle and early Ming Dynasty. It is already extraordinary to be able to make such a mechanism, and only Ji Dao can say such a thing.

The most important thing now is.

How should the Yin Soldier come out? It still holds the badge of the Commander of the Western Region in its hand. If it cannot come out, it will be in trouble.

The Yin soldiers looked around.

Soon, an identical hidden groove was discovered on the wall next to it. By inserting the waistband into it and pushing the mechanism, the 'water elevator' could come down again.

Now you can move forward with confidence.

The Yin soldier swam forward with the camera in his hand.

After passing this section of the corridor, several gentle steps appeared in front of them. The texture of these steps was even more different, and actually showed the transparency of jade under the searchlight.

"This seems to be a kind of white jade."

Noriichi recognized the material of the steps.

White jade is not uncommon on the endless sea route. The ancients discovered a white jade mountain range in Dongxian Yingzhou very early. The entire mountain is full of fine white jade with a warm texture.

Therefore, white jade is not very valuable. In terms of preciousness, it must be gold, and the gold mines on the endless sea route are also very rare.

"Keep going."

Zheng Yun nodded and ordered.

Whether it's the silver-like stone tiles in the corridor or the white jade steps beneath your feet, the feeling at this moment has nothing to do with luxury, but something indescribably weird.

After all, this is a dangerous place.

The white jade and silver bricks may not be decorations, but part of some kind of magical method, allowing people to be tricked silently, and once again lose to the ancient sea guards hundreds of years ago.

Still need to be cautious.

The people of ancient times were ruthless, and even if the Yin soldiers had come so far, they would not dare to ensure that this road would be safe. Perhaps this so-called passage was another trap, and the Yin soldiers would die soon.

The two stopped talking.

Just watch the Yin soldiers continue to move forward.

When Yin Bing walked down the steps, the picture displayed on the screen changed again, focusing on the many debris at his feet.

"Is that a mineral water bottle?"

Ji Dao pointed at the corner and said.

In the corner of the middle section of the steps, there were a dozen mineral water bottles, thrown randomly at the edge of the steps.

"It should be my father who stays."

Zheng Yun enlarged the picture and observed carefully, he found that those mineral water bottles came from a local water factory in Fuen City.

Seeing these mineral water bottles can prove one thing. The adoptive father has entered this place. It also means that the route in front of him is correct and there are no mistakes.

The things left behind by my adoptive father are road signs. As long as you follow these traces, you can find the end point of the route map.

"The old immortal has a good appetite."

Ji Dao looked at the water bottles on the floor and sighed. He didn't know what to say, so he could only find something to praise.

"There may be a problem, let's take a look and talk about it."

Zheng Yun frowned. In the past, he had often been dissatisfied with explorers who littered in dangerous places, but this time it was his adoptive father who threw water bottles all over the ground.

Logically speaking, the adoptive father is not this kind of person.

He also warned himself specifically about this kind of thing.

"The water in the water bottle seems abnormal. Is that water?" When Ji Dao heard this, he immediately opened his eyes and looked at the mineral water bottle, because it was the relic of the old immortal.

Something left behind by the old supervisor, Master Xian.

That designation is something extraordinary.

Even though they are just a few rotten mineral water bottles, they may contain some kind of miraculous elixir or spring water of youth.

"Pick it up and take a look."

Zheng Yun asked Yin Bing to pick up one of the bottles.

When I put it in front of the camera and observed it carefully, I found that the water in the mineral water bottle was really not water, but a turbid liquid with a green color, as if I had filled a bottle of algae by the river.

"What is this?"

Ji Dao stared at the mineral water bottle and thought deeply.

Zheng Yun also had no clue as to what his adoptive father's intention was behind leaving all this green water. He could only ask the Yin soldiers to turn the camera and continue to observe other debris near the steps.

Except for these mineral water bottles.

There are some seemingly ordinary but extraordinary items on the ground, such as an aluminum lunch box that the Yin soldiers cannot pick up, a silk bag that emits a golden light when a searchlight shines on it, and a rotten shovel head that is sharp and engraved with cloud patterns. …

Almost all have problems.

The first was the aluminum lunch box. It looked like a lunch box, but Yin Bing couldn't pick it up even with all his strength.

It seems too heavy.

Although the Yin Soldier was wearing a chemical protective suit and his fingertips did not have enough friction to exert force, it was not completely unable to move because the Yin Soldier was an explorer after all.

The Yin soldiers can definitely pick up gold bricks of the same size with both hands, but this aluminum lunch box cannot be buckled at all, and it cannot be opened because the lunch box is upside down on the ground.

Then there was the tattered cloth bag, which looked like the sacks used to hold grain in the previous era, but turned out to be gleaming with golden light, as if every fiber of hemp had some gold threads embedded in it.

What is this?

The Yin soldier opened the bag and took a look, and found that it actually contained a bag of sand. It was very ordinary sand, yellow and white in color, very soft, and completely no different from ordinary sand.

"Master Immortal, this bag belongs to our Immortal Supervisor Department. It is a monster-catching bag from the Demon Suppression Department. It is not afraid of water, fire, cold, swords and monster bites."

Ji Dao took a look and suddenly spoke.

He didn't know what was in the mineral water bottle, but he knew that there were a lot of these tough cloth bags in Tiangong.

"A monster-catching bag? To hold sand?"

Zheng Yun suddenly felt a sense of absurdity.

In fact, until this moment, he had not connected the words of the adoptive father who opened a pawn shop in his mind with the words "Supervisor of the Immortal Supervisor", let alone the methods of gods and ghosts.

Everything is understandable.

Everything can be recognized.

But Zheng Yun still couldn't imagine it.

Zheng Yun felt very bizarre when he thought of the scene of his adoptive father carrying the demon-catching bag of the Demon Suppression Division and holding the ghost sword of the Immortal Supervision Division, going to the dangerous place to slay demons and demons.

And there are no monsters in this bag.

Instead, there was a bag full of sand.

"Master Immortal, this is not necessarily sand. It could be a bag of monsters, or some kind of monster that likes to burrow in the sand, and is hiding deep in the sand at the moment."

"Pull the bag up first, don't let the monster escape."

Ji Dao spoke quickly, as if the bag of sand was priceless, and once the monster ran away, everything would be over.

"pull."

Zheng Yun gave orders to the Yin soldiers.

The Yin soldiers quickly grabbed the bag.

Although it is hard to imagine that the adoptive father who even took in the old neighbor's refrigerator would leave a priceless treasure to himself, this kind of thing has happened before, hasn't it?

Isn't it the black jade pillow?

Behind the fairy gate in the secret realm is the entire Forsaken Land, the entire territory that separates the Ming Dynasty from the mortal world. These are not priceless, but half of the Ming Dynasty is separated by one gate.

Since there is a precedent.

Then this bag of sand, as well as those mineral water bottles and sundries, why can't they be priceless treasures?

"Put it all away."

When Zheng Yun thought of this, his mentality suddenly changed. With Ji Dao's very approving eyes, he ordered the Yin soldiers to put away all the debris left by their adoptive father.

If you can't take it off, put it aside properly.

After waiting, send the Yin soldiers down to get it.

Apart from the value of these things, they are the relics of the adoptive father after all. They must be collected and cannot be left in the wild.

After a delay.

The Yin soldiers started to go down the steps again.

The steps are more than 30 meters in total, and the slope is very small. At the end, there is a very large hall.

This is directly under the statue of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva.

As soon as the Yin soldiers walked up the last step and stepped into the deep and empty hall, something suddenly happened around them, and bright yellow lights lit up like long dragons.

Wow.

The deep hall is brightly lit.

The sudden change caught Zheng Yun Jidao off guard. After reacting, he quickly asked the Yin soldiers to observe the surroundings.

It is undoubtedly the Triton basement.

The hall is ten meters high, with a square layout of silver bricks and jade steps, just like a modern library. Stone cabinets ten meters high are neatly arranged, and you can't see them all at a glance.

Those stone cabinets are made of special materials.

Each area is different.

There are also large stone cabinets and monster prisons.

Yin Bing roughly counted the stone cabinets that he could see in front of him. There were as many as twenty rows on the left and right, including gold cabinets, jade cabinets, and ghost cabinets wrapped with iron ropes.

Take a casual glance.

You can see traces of a large number of divine and ghost items, because the storage of divine and ghost items also requires the blessing of divine and ghost means.

This basement is full of incredible facilities, arranged in order with Triton's unique taste, with carved cloud patterns and various decorations, giving it an ancient charm.

It's like an old fairy's warehouse.

It's so dizzying that you don't know where to look, because there are areas full of fairy or ghosts everywhere.

This is Triton's basement.

The scale is not very large.

But the quality is astonishingly high.

The magic tricks and rare treasures collected by Haiwei from all over the world will be temporarily stored in the basement, or stored for a long time, or escorted to the Immortal Supervisor through the Immortal Gate or the Boat Master.

There is also the reserve of strategic resources. This kind of lighthouse is of extremely high strategic significance. It needs to store a large amount of magical means for emergency use, or transfer it to the store at any time.

The pilot lighthouse is different from other ancient buildings. It is far away from ordinary people and is completely controlled by Triton. It is a private facility of Triton from beginning to end. People are strictly prohibited from approaching the lighthouse.

And this lighthouse is called Tianji.

It is suspected to be one of the passes of the ancient Great Wall of China.

In the basement deep inside this lighthouse, if it were in Triton's heyday, there would probably be more than a dozen kinds of magic and dozens of magic consumables in just this one vault.

But now the situation is completely opposite.

Not much remains of those stone cabinets.

Moreover, there are many mineral water bottles, cloth bags, and even transparent plastic buckle boxes on the floor of the hall. Most of them contain something, while the other half are empty.

"Master Immortal, it's broken."

Ji Dao sighed with despair.

"really……"

Zheng Yun also sighed softly and suddenly realized.

Until now, all the puzzles have been revealed, all the answers are in front of you, and a fool can see them.

It's been ripped off here.

All the treasures were taken away.

The person who took away all the treasures in the lighthouse basement was none other than the old shopkeeper of Jianghe Pawn Shop, Zheng Yun's adoptive father, the previous head of the Immortal Supervisor and the commander of the Western Region... Jiang Jianguo.

He came here just to pick up stuff.

The mineral water bottles and cloth bags on the edge of the steps were not treasures left for Zheng Yun. Instead, they took out the treasures and carried them so full that they even scattered some on the roadside.

Fortunately, they still treat it as a treasure.

As a result, others paid for the rest.

The adoptive father left this route map, maybe because he was thinking about the remaining treasures, and asked him to come and finish it off, and pick up all the treasures they left on the roadside...