The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Catherine didn't open the door immediately, but carefully opened a gap and peeked inside, hoping to see Nelson and his kidnapper, but unfortunately there was no one inside.

On the contrary, Leo didn't seem to be worried that he would scare the snake. Before Catherine could react, he opened the door very roughly, kicked the wooden wedge on the ground to hold the door, walked in, and said: "There's no need to look for them, they're not here anymore! Since the Palace of Eternal Sleep has a secret door, it shouldn't be a surprise to have another secret passage."

Leo went straight to the tomb closest to the inside of the entire tomb. This tomb is different from the other tombs in the tomb. It is a coffin tomb that preserves a complete corpse.

Since several large-scale plagues broke out in the three continents of the Velen World, the funeral habits of the Velen Continent have changed. Except for those wealthy businessmen and nobles, most people will choose cremation.

In a place like the Cage City, after the dead are burned to ashes, the ashes are put into the columbarium and sent to a niche in the large tomb, where they are adjacent to other dead people, which is the most suitable for the Cage City. Burials in the slums. And the coffin burial method that Leo is facing now is a bit abrupt here.

"This is St. Birmingham's tomb. He was the chief designer of the sanctuary. After his death, he was canonized by Martin, who was still the patriarch at the time, and has been included in the saints list of the Orthodox Holy See." Catherine saw the words on the tombstone. After the name, he immediately made a religious prayer gesture, and then explained to Leo: "He also built the Palace of Eternal Sleep, and he was the first person to be buried here."

"Birmingham, it sounds like an English name." Leo said again seemingly casually.

Catherine said: "He is from your Kingdom of England."

After hearing this, Leo didn't say anything, but squatted down, groped under the sarcophagus, and then heard the sound of pulling the mechanism, and then the coffin slowly moved away to reveal a downward staircase. Seeing this In the first scene, Catherine showed an unexpected expression.

"Wait!" When Leo was about to lead the two down, Catherine stopped him, then looked at him seriously, and said, "You'd better explain it first, and we'll decide how to go next." ?”

Leo asked back: "Explain what?"

Catherine said seriously: "Why do you know these organs so well? Why do you think Nelson will be brought here? Where does this secret passage lead to?"

"Let me answer your questions one by one!" Seeing that Catherine became serious, Leo felt the need to explain, so he said, "I just said that everyone has a unique smell, such as gooseberry on your body, The perfume blended with cloves is very unique and should be blended by yourself.”

Catherine was surprised when she heard the words, obviously no one knew this secret.

Leo continued: "Perfume alone is not enough to make your smell unique. You also have the smell of some herbs, some potions, and the combination of these smells makes your smell unique."

Catherine guessed: "Can you smell these smells?"

Leo didn't admit it or deny it, he just smiled, pointed to the revealed secret passage, and said: "As long as you track the smell to the place, it's easy to judge whether there are secret doors or secret passages around, because it's impossible for someone to It can disappear out of thin air, and it’s not alone. It’s much easier to confirm that there are secret doors and passages, and then look for the mechanism to open it.”

Catherine was stunned for a while, and finally couldn't help but said to Leo: "Were you a thief before?"

Leo didn't pick up the words, and continued to point to the secret passage, saying, "As for where this secret passage leads to, it should be easy to guess, and you should be able to guess it too."

"The Catacombs." Catherine quickly thought of the answer.

"That's right, it's the Catacombs!" Leo nodded affirmatively, he would know where the secret passage leads to is not based on guesswork as he said, but the spirit net has already found out the situation below. Then, he said: "Don't you think this is weird? Mr. Martin wants to target the doctor inexplicably, and the ultimate goal is the catacombs, and now another group of people have joined in. After they catch the doctor, they also put him Take it to the catacombs. What's so special about this catacomb? And what's so special about the doctor?"

Because of Leo's intentional guidance, Catherine fell into contemplation, but she soon recovered, and from her thoughtful expression, it was not difficult to see that she obviously thought of something. It's just that she didn't intend to say it, but urged: "Let's find Nelson first and then talk about other things!"

Seeing that Catherine was unwilling to say anything, and Leo didn't ask, he nodded in agreement with the proposal to find Nelson first, and then he chopped down several wall lamps filled with lamp oil from the tomb with the battle ax at his waist.

Leo's act of destroying those wall lamps made Catherine frowned and wanted to stop it, but in the end she didn't say anything.

At this time, Leo lit the wall lamps and gave them to Catherine and Jason respectively for tunnel lighting, and put the rest in the backpack for backup.

Later, in order not to get in the way of the large burqa on his body, Leo took off the burqa again, but he did not throw it away. He also put it in the backpack together with the burqa taken off by the other two people, so that it can be used as a backpack when needed. Kindling.

Finally, he checked the loading status of the king and queen again, and asked Jason to also load the crossbow he got from Jean Valjean with arrows, but it was not the special effect arrows loaded, but ordinary arrows arrow.

Leo's prudent approach made Catherine very nervous, because she was going to treat patients in advance, and she never thought that such a thing would happen, and even if an accident happened, she felt that she would not be in the parish. She was injured, so she didn't bring any weapons at all. The only thing that could be regarded as a sharp weapon was a syringe with a needle soaked in an alcohol box to sterilize.

"You take this tomahawk first, and hide behind me or Jason when you have something to do." Perhaps realizing Catherine's predicament, Leo took a tomahawk from his waist and handed it to Catherine, and reminded him.

Catherine was obviously not an ordinary woman, she took the tomahawk and waved it twice, then nodded to Leo, indicating that she could use it.

After dawdling and preparing for more than seven minutes, Leo, who had checked everything properly, grabbed the wall lamp, stood up, stepped into the tunnel, walked quickly down the sloping stairs, and walked After a certain distance, he stretched out his right hand and pressed a stone brick with an inconspicuous pattern on the wall.

At this time, Catherine, who was at the back, just walked into the tunnel, and the sarcophagus closed silently behind her, leaving only the faint light of oil lamps in the aisle.

"Let's go! We still have to catch up with them, so we need to speed up our pace." Leo urged Catherine without waiting for her wild thoughts, and then quickened his pace to lead the way.

Perhaps because of walking in the dark environment of Cage City all the year round, Catherine's adaptation to the darkness was still higher than Jason's, and she soon adapted to Leo's footsteps.

Leo was also surprised by Catherine's adaptability, but this was not a good thing for him, because he was going to use Catherine as an excuse to slow down his progress.

The preparatory process that has been dawdling just now and the idea of ​​slowing down now are all because Leo really wants to know what the relationship between those people they are chasing now and Nelson is? Well-equipped they come here for what?

At the moment when the secret passage was opened just now, Leo's mental network had detected the location of those who entered the secret passage first and Nelson, because the secret passage extends downward in a spiral shape, although some of them will exceed His spiritual network covers the area, but soon the secret path will turn back, and those people will reappear in his spiritual network along the secret path.

Just like the information Leo obtained from the scent particles before, Nelson was indeed not kidnapped. Judging from the situation where Nelson was guarded by those people, it was obvious that Nelson was a protected person there.

What's more interesting is that Nelson is not the only person being protected, there are two other people, and these two people seem to be very familiar with Nelson, and they will also have some very intimate actions when they are on the road, such as patting the shoulders, etc., and Nelson showed no signs of defiance, either.

If Leo led people to chase down immediately when Nelson and others were sensed, I believe they would be able to catch up to the group of people who couldn't adapt well to the dark in a few minutes at most. It is difficult to know the purpose of this group of people.

Therefore, Leo deliberately delayed the time to let Nelson and the others walk a sufficient distance before leading people to chase them down.

However, he obviously underestimated Catherine's ability to act in a dark environment. If the other party didn't get out of this secret path, they would meet soon.

Fortunately, under the perception of the spiritual network, the secret passage has reached the exit about 160 meters down, and Nelson and the others are only half a circle away from the exit.

Leo continued to move down at the current speed, and deliberately failed to warn of some broken steps, causing both Catherine and Jason to make some noises because their feet suddenly stepped into the air.

Sure enough, as he expected, after the sound came out, those people in the secret passage also heard it, and the speed of their progress immediately increased a lot, and they quickly rushed to the exit of the secret passage and walked out.

When Leo and the others came to the exit of the secret passage, the group had disappeared.

After reaching the end of the secret passage, Leo purposely groped for a while on the stone wall in front of him, then opened the closed stone door as if he had just found a mechanism, and then walked out first.

I saw that the exit of the secret passage happened to be in a basement, and the stone door just covered the exit. Open the stone door and you will directly enter the basement. You can see the exit of the basement a dozen steps ahead, and the steps of the exit are upwards. Go, you'll be able to get out soon.

"Here? Where is this place?" Catherine, who walked out of the basement, looked at the unfamiliar environment around her, and couldn't help being stunned.

Although it is underground, there is a kind of fluorescent plant growing on the stone wall and the rock at the top.

Although the light emitted by this kind of plant is not very strong, it can also play a certain role in lighting when gathered together. Among other things, it can at least let people see the general situation of this underground space clearly.

A huge ruined city, this is anyone's first impression of the surrounding scene.

Furthermore, the entire city was dug out of the rocks of the earth. This can be judged from the fact that there are no gaps in the contact points of all building components such as house beams, foundations, and roofs. It is enough to judge that these independent stone houses are a whole piece of rock chiseled out.

Finally, more houses can be vaguely seen on the stone wall in the distance. Obviously, those are stone kilns dug out of the stone wall. Judging from the number of houses, there were also many people living here at that time.

"This should be the Catacombs." Just when the two of them were still shocked by what they saw, Leo had a clear understanding of the situation in the underground city, without much emotion or excitement, and said in a calm tone.

"Impossible! I know what the catacombs look like! This can't be the catacombs!" Catherine shook her head again and again, denying Leo's statement.

Leo said: "Remember how many meters you walked down the secret path just now, and then recall the location of the catacomb."

Catherine thought for a while, as if she had thought of something, she suddenly looked up at the rock above, and said, "You mean, we are under the catacomb."

"I don't know about that." Leo replied vaguely.

In fact, Leo knew very well that the current location was at the bottom of the catacombs.

If you follow the normal route from the Holy Auditorium, you will first enter the catacombs, and then enter the residential area of ​​another underground city through the passage dug from the catacombs, and then come here from the passage opened in that underground residential area.

Because the secret passage is vertically downward, people walking from the secret passage passed the catacombs and another underground residential area, and came directly to the underground city.

This is a good thing for anyone who does not want to disturb the church of Akenaya. From Leo's perception, there are many heavily armed church guards guarding both ends of the passage from the catacombs to the next underground city. Priest.

Without this secret path, he would have to consider how to deal with these people. Now, he would save a lot of trouble and avoid disagreements with Catherine, who has a special affection for the church.

At this time, Catherine suddenly seemed to have seen something, and quickly drilled through the rubble ruins, and came to the center of the underground city.

This is a central square. There should have been a huge sculpture on the square, but it has turned into a pool of gravel, but the base of the sculpture is barely intact, thanks to the light from the fluorescent plants attached to the rock surface , people with a little better eyesight can barely see the huge characters and some weird symbols on the base from a distance.

At this moment, Catherine was squatting on the ground, looking at the embossed words and symbols in front of her with surprise, excitement and excitement, and muttered to herself: "Is it true? So it is true? Nilgaard really exists."