Since there was no need to delay any longer, Leo led the way much faster, and soon entered an ancient passage dug by the ancient Nilgardians that those people had deliberately hidden.
At the same time, the group of people who had been disturbed by the movement of the flintlock hand cannon also accelerated their marching speed. At the same time, they had no time to cover up the traces of their passing.
This allowed Leo, who was catching up behind them, to not need to open the mental network at all, but could easily find the route they had taken just by relying on the obvious traces they found.
However, those people were also worried that someone behind them would catch up with them, so they often took long detours and deliberately found dangerous places in complex underground passages, such as the edge of an abyss.
etc., and even traps will be placed in some places.
It's a pity that these things are of no use to Leo, but he didn't dismantle them, but kept them to deal with the people behind him. This allowed him to hear the people walking behind him through his enhanced hearing on the way.
There were at least two screams heard in the passage.
In less than ten minutes, Leo had caught up with the group of people in front of him, and the mental network had brought those people back into its coverage.
However, Leo did not immediately go up to contact those people, but followed them from a distance, wanting to see what they would do when they reached the end of the passage.
Leo had already explored this winding, sloping passage on the ground through his mental network, and it was also at the very bottom of the topographic map he constructed. Through the topographic map, he knew very well where the end of this road should be.
It is a broken bridge across the Earth-fissured abyss. As for what is on the other side of the broken bridge, it has exceeded the maximum detection distance of the spiritual network.
However, Leo feels that the people he is following now should know what is on the other side of the broken bridge, because judging from the fact that they are extremely familiar with every fork in this passage and have not gone to the wrong place, they should have explored this place more than once.
Now this time they should be preparing to implement specific actions.
Leo's sudden slowdown made Catherine a little puzzled, but she quickly explained for Leo, feeling that Leo was deliberately slowing down to take care of his own physical strength.
The reason why Catherine's attitude changed was not only because the previous conversation had brought the two closer, but also because Leo had just rescued her from a deadly trap, which gave her a little more trust in Leo.
feel.
In this way, the two groups of people, one behind the other, walked through this ancient underground passage for about five minutes, and finally the group in front reached the end of the passage.
Walking out of the passage, you can see a square with a wide view. Like the previous square in the underground residential area, there was also a statue erected here. Similarly, the statues here were also broken, and a foundation was still left.
seat.
In addition, around the square, there are some caves similar to shrines. The statues of gods were originally carved in them, but they were removed by humans.
At the other end of the square is an abyss with no edges visible to the left and right, no bottom visible from below, and a width of more than fifty meters. Apparently many people passed by here back then, so some structures were built on the edge to prevent people from accidentally falling.
Fallen stone railing.
A broken stone bridge is located on the edge of the square. Judging from the remaining base, railings and other fragments of the broken bridge, this broken bridge should have been very beautiful when it was complete. Unfortunately, only a wreckage is left.
Standing on the edge of the broken bridge and looking across, you can vaguely see the blurry shape of the broken bridge on the opposite side, but because there is no fluorescent plant growing on the opposite side, it is pitch black and you can no longer see any other objects.
After the group of people arrived at the square, they immediately began to arrange tools such as ropeways to cross the bridge. They first fixed the ropes on the stone pillars in the square, and then used barbed arrows to shoot the ropes to the opposite side again and again, hoping that
The hook on the arrow provides a reliable anchor point.
In addition, they also arranged several people to be on guard and pay attention to the situation at the exit of the passage. Each of these people held a mechanical repeating crossbow and pointed it at the entrance. Anyone who appeared at the entrance would be met with random arrows.
attack.
Of course, it was impossible to just walk out of the passage exit. Fortunately, Leo knew that another passage also led to this square, so he followed the instructions on the topographic map and came to the bottom of that passage, and then motioned to Jason and Catherine.
He pointed to a hole nearly three meters high above his head that was not easy to see.
Leo first pushed Catherine up, and then helped Jason climb up. He used the wall to easily push up. This made Jason, who had just stretched out his hand to give him a hand, froze and awkwardly raised his hand.
He took it back and wiped it on his body.
Leo smiled and patted Jason's shoulder, and continued to lead the way. After rounding a small bend, the three of them came to the exit of the passage. This exit was located on the side of the square on a stone wall about two meters high.
Because it was covered by some vines, no one in the square could discover the entrance.
After arriving at the entrance of the cave, Leo did not go down to the square. Instead, he motioned Jason and Catherine to sit down near the entrance of the cave. They each slightly pushed aside a few strands of vines to peek out.
The ground, stone pillars and walls of the square are also covered with fluorescent plants, which makes the movement in the square clear at a glance.
Catherine, who was concerned about Nelson's safety, quickly found Nelson's location, but what made her confused was that Nelson did not seem to be a kidnapper.
Although Nelson's movements seemed to be somewhat restricted, and there were at least two burly men watching over him, judging from the sight of him conversing easily with the people around him, and the fact that the mechanical repeating crossbow on his body was not confiscated, etc.
, Nielsen’s relationship with these people is unusual.
Catherine, who was aware of the abnormality, also found that the conversations of these people were all in English, and their accents were obviously from Port Sète, which made her have bad associations in her mind. She began to think that Nelson was trying to trap him.
Cheng was not there to see her, but for other purposes, which also made her begin to doubt Leo and Jason beside her.
"Don't think too much! Look carefully and listen carefully." Leo reminded her in a low voice as if he felt something was wrong with Catherine's mood.
After hearing Leo's words, although the suspicion in Catherine's heart did not dissipate, it also weakened a lot, because she thought that if Leo and Jason were together with the group of people in front of them, then he could arrest her directly.
, there is no need to hide here and spy, it is unnecessary.
"Sean, why did you bring me here?" Just when Catherine followed Leo's advice and calmly began to pay attention to the activities in the square, Nelson, who was under guard, suddenly walked up to a man wearing Aknaya robes.
Behind him, he said loudly: "I can't escape now even if I want to. You should rest assured and let me know the whole story, right? Even if you want to kill me later..."
"Cousin Nelson, why do you think so? We are relatives, how could I kill you? I just want to borrow your blood." The person being questioned pulled the hood of his robes over his head.
Lifting it up, a face wearing glasses and looking a little old was revealed. While stopping Nelson from continuing to talk nonsense, he also told Nelson his purpose.
"It's him!" At this moment, Catherine suddenly exclaimed softly when she saw this man.
"Do you know him?" Leo asked.
Catherine nodded and lowered her voice and said: "I met Martin in his office. When he introduced himself, he said that he was the executive director secretary of the Lanxi Industrial Federation, who is responsible for labor negotiations with the Workers' Mutual Aid Association."
Leo guessed: "It seems that Martin's calculation of Nelson must be related to him."
At this time, Nelson, who was a little anxious, asked again: "Where is this place?"
The man named Sean heard the question, but did not answer immediately. Instead, he took off his robe, revealing a windbreaker suit that looked like a military uniform. Then, he walked to the base of the statue in the middle of the square.
He erased the fluorescent plants covering the ancient words and symbols and said: "Nilgaard City, a lost city destroyed by gods."
"What does this have to do with me?" Nelson asked with a confused look on his face.
"Actually, this has nothing to do with you." Sean showed an expression of pity, looked at Nelson, and said: "You just happened to show up when you shouldn't. My original target was the French Empire.
Baron Maupassant, when you and your comrades left Rabbit Skin Town, he also left Rabbit Skin Town and took the mainland train to Miria City. The train will stop in Lanxi for half a day. He will be attracted by something.
Come here and help me complete a ritual. But it is just as useful now that you are here, after all, you also have the blood of the red rose, the blood of the gods."
"Blood of the gods? Are you crazy?" Nelson glared at his relatives with an annoyed look on his face and shouted: "You also believe this nonsense about the British royal family flaunting their divine right to rule!"
Sean shook his head at Nelson and said: "Cousin Nelson, you are really pitiful. Not only are you excluded from the White Rose Family's asset management, you don't even know the true history of the White Rose Family."
"What on earth are you talking about?" Nelson said to his older-looking cousin.
Sean sat on the ground casually, patted the ground next to him, motioned Nelson to sit down, and then narrated eloquently: "It is true that the British royal family has the blood of gods. The founder of White Rose, that
The great Lord Protector did a lot to obtain the bloodline of the British royal family. Later, in order to make the bloodline even stronger, he even made a plan to marry the British royal family for a hundred years." As he spoke, he suddenly looked seductively at Nelson.
Said: "Do you know why he did this?"
Nelson had already heard about his cousin's bad taste, so he ignored his question.
"What a boring guy!" Sean curled his lips and said: "Robert Sean is not only a great military strategist, but also a great adventurer. During his early adventures, he discovered a mysterious thing on the bottom of the sea.
A city built of huge stones..."
"Under the sea? You mean under the sea?" Nelson couldn't help but question after hearing the flaw in the story.
"It's the bottom of the sea." Sean said with certainty: "Although I don't know how he did it, what is recorded in the notes is the bottom of the sea. He thinks that the underwater city is the palace of Poseidon, because only Poseidon can deserve it.
There was such a huge and majestic palace. His notes didn’t have much description of that palace. He just mentioned that when he left, he took a scepter with him, which is said to be the scepter used by Poseidon to rule the ocean.”
When Nelson heard this, he could guess the following without thinking too much, and said: "The condition for using this scepter is to have the blood of Poseidon, right?"
"That's right!" Sean nodded and continued: "In fact, the Protector's plan has been successful, but it's a pity that one of his descendants is as adventurous as him, and this descendant is very unruly.
The scepter was taken away and never appeared again."
Nelson frowned and asked: "From what you said, do you know where the scepter is?"
"The person who took away the scepter had a caring servant beside him. This servant stayed with that person until he saw him being killed. Then he escaped alone and returned to the Kingdom of Inge. He changed his appearance, married a wife and had children.
, and finally created a family.”
"It's your Donald family, right?"
"Yes." Sean admitted frankly, then took out an old diary, stroked the somewhat old cover, and said: "The ancestor recorded all his experiences in this diary, and this diary is where I came from.
Here’s the reason.”
"You mean the scepter is here?" Although Nelson still didn't believe in the so-called divine blood, he couldn't help but be attracted by Sean's story.
Sean's mind jumped a little, and he suddenly changed the topic to the other side, saying: "Did you know? The White Rose who took away the scepter was once one of the leaders of the slave uprising that almost destroyed the French royal family. This
If this matter is known to the current French royal family, I am afraid that the Matthew family will be in bad luck."
"What are you talking about?" Nelson said in a panic.
No wonder he was so flustered, because the French royal family had always been concerned about the slave uprising of that year. Even after so many years and several dynasties were changed, the French royal family's attitude towards the slave uprising of that year remained consistent.
Anything and anyone related to it will still be treated with the harshest measures even after so many years. No country, not even the Kingdom of England, which has been hostile for most of the time, has published anything related to the slaves of those years.
Books related to the uprising can be seen from these things.
"I'm not talking nonsense. This is a fact, a fact that no one knows." Sean clapped the notebook in his hand and said, "However, my ancestors recorded this big joke. Do you want to hear it?"
Nelson was stunned for a moment, hesitant and didn't know how to answer.
He felt that what Sean said might be true, and he was also curious about it, but he knew more clearly that the consequences of hearing this matter were not something he could bear.
Chapter completed!