The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

First Army? Leo, Jason, Nelson, and Catherine were all at a loss when they heard the name, not understanding what it meant.

On the contrary, Sean showed a surprised expression, took a belt that was about to fall apart from the high priest of Deni, looked at it carefully, and asked a little questioningly: "You mean that these corpses are the non-existent first military?"

Leo, Catherine, and the others didn't know much about the First Army that High Priest Denis was talking about, but Sean had specifically studied the materials of the Lanxi slave uprising for this underground trip.

Although most of the qualifications related to the slave uprising were destroyed by the French royal family, the British royal family, which has always liked to fight against the French royal family, is willing to keep some of them to embarrass the French royal family without being too exciting Sean also saw the other party's secondary information, and the qualifications of the First Army.

Regarding whether King Yassin established the First Army, all the scholars who study the slave uprising have no consensus, because from any battle data that can be collected now, there is no First Army, and everyone’s understanding of the First Army All from the diary of a slave.

However, because the slave himself had just learned to write when he wrote the diary, his handwriting was very illegible, and he often wrote wrong words, so most people thought that the first army was just caused by the slave's wrong words. of.

"The First Army is real." High Priest Denis said with great certainty: "The people who formed the First Army were all the best gladiators in the Lanxi Arena, so some people called the First Army the Asian Army at that time." The guards of King Xin." He looked at the belt in his hand, then at the corpses on the ground, and said, "I never thought that the First Army would all die here before they could make a name for themselves in this world. "

"Are you the best?" Leo walked into the corpses, looked through them casually, found some traces of battle, and then analyzed: "What they encountered was not a sudden attack, everyone was ready to attack , were all killed from the front by the attacker, and the attacker's weapon was very sharp and powerful, and the combat power of the two was not at the same level at all."

Leo analyzed the clues found by the corpses, and the sub-brain system gathered these clues, the location of the corpses, the death conditions and other data at the same time, analyzed them, and soon formed a battle reenactment image, showing the death of these people. The scene reappeared before his eyes.

After seeing the analyzed image, Leo stood up from the pile of corpses and said to everyone, "The thing that killed them had at least eight arms."

Everyone felt a little absurd about the conclusion Leo got, but thinking of the gargoyle they had seen before, they felt that the eight-armed attacker Leo mentioned might not be impossible.

Just when everyone was still immersed in King Yassin's first army being wiped out by the eight-armed attackers, Leo suddenly stood up, walked out of the gate quickly, and at the same time let Catherine and the others back out from the gate .

"What happened?" Sean asked with a puzzled expression as he retreated outside the gate.

Leo stared ahead, put the king back on his waist, pulled out two battle axes, and said, "The sound of gears is approaching."

As soon as Leo's voice fell, the others could also hear the faint sound of gears in the passage in the front door, and it became louder and louder, feeling as if something was approaching.

However, when the voice sounded very clearly, and the high priests of Deni and the others became extremely nervous, taking out their weapons and preparing to fight at any time, Leo, who first reminded everyone, relaxed instead, and raised his head towards the top of the passage ahead. Looked over.

Just when the sound of the gears made everyone feel that the enemy was not far ahead, all the sound of the gears stopped, and then they saw a fire suddenly rising above their heads, and the light of the fire was shining smoothly from the top of their heads. Reflected from the stone wall, the entire passage behind the door was completely illuminated.

At this time, it can be seen that the makers of the previous gear noises were the braziers hanging on the top of the passage. The gear noise just now should be the sound caused by the metal round basins hanging from the top.

Those fires were all burning fiercely in these metal round basins hung by iron chains. The number of braziers could not be counted. In short, they extended to the depths of the passage, as far as the eye could see.

When the flames illuminated the entire passage, except for Leo who had already understood the situation in the passage through the spiritual network, everyone was shocked by everything in front of them, because the corpses they found were not only the entrance. , but the entire channel is paved.

In addition to the corpses of the soldiers of the First Army, there are more than a dozen gargoyle-like wreckages as far as the eye can see. The shapes of these wreckages are very strange. They are all composed of a human-shaped lower body and four human-shaped upper bodies to form a nondescript conjoined body. Gargoyle, and the shape of this gargoyle coincides with the eight-armed attacker that Leo said before.

Compared with the narrow and low passage on the opposite side of the cracked abyss, the passage in front of me is obviously wider and taller, more than eight meters high and six meters wide, but even so, for the large number of people It is still too narrow for the First Army.

One can imagine the scene at that time, the people of the First Army were all piled up in this passage, more than a dozen conjoined stone statues wielding eight sharp blades, rushed into the crowd without fear of knives and guns, any slash could kill There are a large number of soldiers, and the only thing the First Army can do is to destroy these dozens of stone monsters with their lives.

"It's really tragic!" Even someone like Xiao En, who puts interests first, couldn't help sighing when he saw the scene in front of him.

"Let's go! I hope there is no such stone monster in front of us." Leo, who had seen more tragic battlefields, didn't rush out too much. When everyone recovered from the shock, he walked forward.

Seeing this situation, the others didn't think about anything else, and followed quickly.

At the beginning, because of some worries, everyone carefully avoided these corpses when walking, but after Leo quickened his pace, everyone ignored their worries and walked forward directly on these corpses.

Therefore, there was a constant sound of cracking bones in the passage, which made people feel very scary after hearing it, and couldn't help shivering.

Just when everyone's attention was attracted by the corpses everywhere in front of them, Leo, who was leading the way, shifted his attention to the brazier above his head.

Just now, Leo smelled a unique smell, and he only smelled this unique smell when the monster was burnt to death before, after the body fluids in the monster's body evaporated, it was the kind of body fluid that was produced during the burning process. Distinctive smell produced.

Through the spiritual network, he found that the burning substance in the brazier is a special kind of grease. Even after so many years, the grease has not rotted or evaporated, and the grease is also very flammable. If it is touched by a little spark, it will be completely ignited Yes, this is consistent with the monster's body fluids.

Leo felt that if these oils were refined from the body fluids of those monsters as he had guessed, then it would not be difficult to guess what these oils were made of after thinking about the origin of those monsters. And this also made him feel that these Nilgardians might not be as innocent and pitiful as Catherine and the others said.

Although this passage is very long, because the road is straight and there are no bends, it takes much less time to reach the end of the passage than the passage opposite the abyss before.

I don't know if it's because the battle that happened here hundreds of years ago has destroyed all the defense methods here, but the group of people along the way did not encounter any attacks.

On the contrary, there are as many as forty broken conjoined stone statues of various types encountered, and all the ancient wizards and wonders on all the stone statues without exception have been completely destroyed, which makes everyone wonder whether these stone monsters may be This is the entire defense force here.

At the end of the passage is a not-so-big, man-made cave, which is about the size of an average hotel lobby. The table is quite eye-catching.

But the most puzzling thing is that there is no corpse in this cave, as if an invisible force at the exit of the cave blocked all the corpses in the passage.

The difference from the previous bronze gate is that the current bronze gate does not have any rust. Under the light from the brazier, the surface shines with golden light, making it look very solemn.

Compared with the expensive bronze gate, the stone platform in the center of the cave is so insignificant.

There are no mysterious and luxurious patterns on the surface of the stone platform, and the overall shape has not been carefully carved. It looks like a cave digger made a stone pier for rest, but forgot to put it on when he left. Just erase this stone platform.

However, such an ordinary stone platform is more valuable in Leo's eyes than the well-preserved bronze gate, because Leo found that his spiritual net could not penetrate the stone platform, just like the previous high The energy force field is also excluded.

In this way, when everyone walked to the bronze gate, studied the Nilgaard characters and patterns on it, and considered how to open the gate, Leo walked to the stone platform in the middle of the cave and put his hand on the stone platform. on stage.

"Unknown psychic power item, unknown function, unabsorbable."

Leo looked at the analysis results that appeared in front of him, feeling a little puzzled in his heart. Although the sub-brain system had already analyzed the results, Leo still believed that the results were wrong, or incomplete.

Because at the moment he touched the stone platform, he had an inexplicable feeling that this stone platform should be the source of the high-energy force field that disappeared just now.

"Is this stone platform very special?" Jason was not interested in the words and patterns on the other side of the bronze door, so he followed Leo, and saw that Leo was very focused on studying this stone that seemed too ordinary to him. Taiwan, could not help but ask suspiciously.

"It's not special in other places, but don't you think it's special here?" Leo smiled, asked Jason back, and said to Catherine who was trying to push the door again, but the door didn't respond: "Catherine, can you come over and touch this stone platform? This thing may require Nilgardians to activate just like the door just now."

"What is this?" Catherine walked over upon hearing the words, and looked at this ordinary stone platform suspiciously. Although she was a little puzzled, she still touched the stone platform according to Leo's request.

When Catherine touched the stone platform, Leo was also prepared for an unexpected situation, and everyone else was very vigilant, but what was surprising was that after Catherine touched it, there was no reaction or change, just like Leo just now. Same as when touched.

Puzzled, Leo asked Catherine to touch different parts of the stone platform several times, but the result was the same.

Sean next to him saw that the only Catherine who could open the bronze door was called to do some useless things, so he couldn't help shouting, "Instead of touching that useless stone platform, let's think about how to open this door!"

"How do you know it's useless?" Jason, who doesn't like Sean very much, replied immediately, and said in a nonsensical way: "You are not this rock."

Sean was too lazy to argue with a rough man like Jason, so he said directly to Leo: "This stone is obviously a prop deliberately arranged by the Nilgardians to confuse people. Think about it, the people outside walked through the passageway for the first time. I saw a stone platform here at a glance, and I must be curious why this seemingly ordinary stone platform is here, thinking that there must be some device on this stone platform, so I will focus all my attention on the stone platform and forget about it. This door is the focus of the entire cave."

The High Priest of Deni next to him obviously disagreed with Sean's words, and retorted: "When this place was built, the Nilgardians still controlled the entire underground city-state, so the people who entered and left here must be Nilgardians. Do you think the Nilgardians would specially arrange such a stone platform just to expose themselves to such a trick that they would never fall for?"

Sean asked back: "Then what do you think of this stone platform?"

"I don't know, I just feel..." High Priest Deni touched the stone platform with his hands, with a solemn expression on his face, and said, "This stone platform is very dangerous."

Although High Priest Deni couldn't be as sensitive to the energy force field as Leo's spiritual net, he could immediately discover the spiritual force field on the stone platform after entering the cave, but after touching it with his own hands, he couldn't Being able to clearly feel the strength of the force field contained in the stone platform made him shudder.

At this moment, Nelson, who had not spoken all this time, suddenly asked, "Could it be the altar?"

After saying this, everyone immediately wanted to refute, but soon they realized that there seemed to be nothing wrong with Nelson's words.

Including Leo, when almost everyone heard the altar, some images would involuntarily appear in their minds, such as a high platform with religious decorations, such as the solemn and solemn religious buildings around it, etc.

However, these ideas are not true. Since there can be an altar with a strong religious atmosphere, why can’t there be such an ordinary-looking altar?