Catherine did not 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 worry at all about alerting the enemy. Before Catherine could react, he opened the door completely and roughly, kicked the wooden wedge on the ground to block the door, stepped in, and said:

"No need to look for it, they are no longer here! Since the Palace of Eternal Sleep has a secret door, it shouldn't be a surprise to find another secret door."

Leo walked straight to the tomb closest to the inside of the entire tomb. This tomb was different from the other tombs in the tomb. It was a coffin tomb that preserved a complete body.

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

In a place like Cage City, after the deceased is burned to ashes, the ashes are placed in an urn and sent to a niche in the large tomb, next to other deceased people, which is the most suitable for Cage City.

The burial method in the slums. The coffin burial method like what Leo is facing now is a bit abrupt here.

"This is the tomb of St. Birmingham. He was the chief architect of the sanctuary. After his death, he was canonized by Martin, who was the Patriarch at the time. He has been included in the list of saints of the Orthodox Church." Catherine saw the words on the tombstone.

After saying his name, he immediately made a gesture of religious prayer, and then explained to Leo: "He also built the Eternal Sleep Palace, and he was the first person to be buried here."

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

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

After hearing this, Leo didn't say anything more. Instead, he squatted down and groped around under the sarcophagus. Then he heard the sound of a trigger, and then the coffin slowly moved away to reveal a downward staircase. Seeing this

In this scene, Catherine showed an unexpected expression.

"Wait!" When Leo was about to lead the two of them down, Catherine stopped him, then looked at him with a serious face and said, "You'd better explain it first, and then we can decide what to do next.

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Leo asked back: "Explain what?"

Catherine said seriously: "Why do you know so much about these institutions? Why do you think Nelson was brought here? Where does this secret passage lead to?"

"Let me answer your questions one by one!" Leo saw Catherine becoming serious and felt the need to explain, so he said: "I just said that everyone has a unique smell, such as gooseberry on you,

Perfume blended with cloves is very unique, you should blend it yourself."

Catherine looked surprised when she heard this. It was obvious that 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 and some potions. These smells are mixed together to make your smell unique."

Catherine guessed: "Can you smell these smells?"

Leo didn't admit or deny, he just smiled, pointed to the exposed secret passage, and said: "As long as you follow the smell to the place, it will be easy to judge whether there are secret doors or secret passages around, because there can't be anyone there.

It can disappear out of thin air, and it's not just a person. It will be much easier if you confirm that you have a secret door and a secret passage, and then find 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 did not accept the question and continued to point to the secret passage and said, "As for where this secret passage leads to, it should be easy to guess, and you should be able to guess it too."

"Catacombs." Catherine quickly thought of the answer.

"Yes, it's the underground tomb!" Leo nodded affirmatively. He would know where the secret passage leads not by guessing as he said, but by the spiritual network that had already discovered the situation below. Then,

He added: "Don't you think this is weird? Mr. Martin wants to target the doctor inexplicably, and his ultimate goal is the catacombs. Now a group of people have joined in. After they caught the doctor, they also took him to the catacombs.

Catacombs. What’s so special about this catacombs? Also, what’s so special about doctors?”

Because of Leo's deliberate guidance, Catherine fell into deep thought, but she soon recovered, and from her thoughtful expression, it was not difficult to see that she had obviously thought of something. But she did not 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, Leo did not ask further questions. He nodded and agreed to find Nelson first, and then he chopped down several wall lamps filled with lamp oil from the tomb chamber with the battle ax on his waist.

Leo's action of destroying those wall lamps made Catherine frown and wanted to stop him, 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 his backpack for backup.

Later, in order to prevent the large burqa from getting in the way, Leo took off the burqa again, but did not throw it away. He also put the burqas taken off by the other two people into his backpack in case he needed it.

Fire starter.

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

arrow.

Leo's cautious approach made Catherine feel very nervous, because she had planned to treat patients beforehand and had never thought that such a thing would happen. Moreover, even if an accident occurred, she felt that she would not be able to do so in the diocese.

She was injured, so she didn't bring any weapons at all. The only sharp weapon she had was a syringe with a needle soaked in an alcohol box and sterilized.

"Hold this tomahawk first, and hide behind me or Jason if something happens." Perhaps noticing Catherine's predicament, Leo took a tomahawk from his waist and handed it to Catherine, and prompted.

Catherine was obviously not an ordinary woman. She took the battle ax and waved it gracefully twice, then nodded to Leo to indicate that she could use it.

After more than seven minutes of preparation, Leo, who had checked everything, grabbed the wall lamp, stood up, walked into the tunnel, walked quickly down the sloping stairs, and walked

After a certain distance, he stretched out his right hand and pressed on a stone brick with an indistinct pattern carved on the wall.

At this time, Catherine, who was at the very back, happened to walk into the tunnel. The sarcophagus closed silently behind her, leaving only the faint light of the oil lamp in the corridor.

"Let's go! We still have to catch up with them, so we need to speed up." Leo urged Catherine before she could think too much, then quickened the pace and led the way.

Perhaps because she had been walking in a dark environment like Cage City for many years, Catherine's adaptability to darkness was still higher than Jason's, and she quickly adapted to Leo's pace.

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

The lingering preparation process just now and the idea of ​​​​slowing down now are all because Leo wants to know what the relationship between the people they are chasing now and Nelson is? What is the purpose of these well-equipped people coming here?

The moment the secret passage opened just now, Leo's mental network had already 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 parts will go beyond

His spiritual network covers a certain area, but soon the secret path will turn around again, and those people will reappear in his spiritual network along the secret path.

And just like the information Leo had obtained from the smell particles before, Nelson was indeed not kidnapped. Judging from the situation where Nelson was guarded by those people, it was obvious that Nelson was being protected there.

What's even more interesting is that Nelson is not the only one being protected, there are two other people, and these two people seem to be very familiar with Nelson, and they will also make some very intimate gestures when they are on the way, such as patting on the shoulder, etc., and

Nelson showed no sign of resistance.

If Leo immediately led people to chase down when they sensed Nelson and others, I believe that in a few minutes at most, they would be able to catch up with the group of people who are not well adapted to the dark. But in this way, I am afraid it would be very difficult.

It's hard to know the purpose of this group of people.

Therefore, Leo deliberately delayed for a while, allowing Nelson and the others to go far enough before leading his men to pursue them.

However, he obviously underestimated Catherine's ability to move in a dark environment. If he continued to catch up at the current speed, if the other party did not come out of this secret passage, they would meet soon.

Fortunately, under the perception of the spiritual network, about one hundred and sixty meters down, the secret passage has reached the exit, 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 did not warn some of the damaged steps, causing both Catherine and Jason to make some noises because their feet suddenly fell into the air.

Sure enough, as he expected, after the sound spread, those in the secret passage also heard it, and their traveling speed immediately accelerated a lot, and they quickly arrived at the exit of the secret passage and walked out.

When Leo and the others arrived at the exit of the secret passage, the group of people had disappeared.

After arriving at the end of the secret passage, Leo deliberately 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. The stone door just covered the exit. When you open the stone door, you directly enter the basement. You can see the exit of the basement a dozen steps forward. The steps to the exit go up.

Go, you will be able to walk out soon.

"Here? Where is here?" Catherine, who walked out of the basement, looked at the unfamiliar environment around her and was stunned.

Although it is underground, the stone walls here and the top rocks are covered with fluorescent plants.

Although the light emitted by this kind of plant is not very strong, it can also play a certain lighting role when gathered together. If nothing else, it can at least allow people to see the general situation of this underground space clearly.

A huge city ruins, this is the first impression anyone sees when they see the surrounding scene.

Secondly, the entire city is carved out of the rock of the earth. This can be seen from the fact that there are no gaps in the contact points of all building components such as the beams, pillars, foundations and even roofs. It is enough to judge that these individual stone houses are all one piece of rock.

Chiseled out.

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

"This should be the underground tombs." While the two of them were still shocked by what they saw, Leo already knew the situation in the underground city, and said in a calm tone without too much emotion or excitement.

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

Leo said: "Remember how many meters the secret passage went down just now, and then think about the location of the underground tomb."

Catherine thought for a moment, and as if she thought of something, she suddenly looked up at the rocks above and said, "You mean, we are under the catacombs."

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

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

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

Because the secret passage goes vertically downward, people who walk through the secret passage pass through the catacombs and another underground residential area and directly come to the underground city.

This is a good thing for anyone who does not want to disturb the Church of Aknaya. According to 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.

If there was no such secret passage, he would still have to consider how to deal with these people, but now he saves a lot of trouble and avoids disagreements with Catherine, who has special feelings for the church.

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

This is a central square. There should have been a huge sculpture in the square, but it has turned into a pile of rubble. However, the base of the sculpture is barely preserved, thanks to the light emitted by the fluorescent plants attached to the rock surface.

, people with slightly better eyesight can barely see the huge text and some weird symbols on the base from a distance.
Chapter completed!