Chapter 735: What was released (please vote for the big chapter)
In the dark corridor of the underground palace, He Ao and Feiya stared at the chaotic scene inside the light door.
"The situation over there doesn't seem to be very good."
Feiya looked at everything inside the light door, looked at the chaotic figures and the noisy streets, and whispered.
"Um."
He Ao nodded slightly, then he suddenly raised his hand and threw the bone sword in his hand downwards.
Along with splashes of blood, a small green snake slowly squirmed between the vines towards the light door and emerged from its 'invisibility', revealing its severed body.
Its two snake bodies twitched for a moment before finally coming to a complete stop.
Only then did Fiya discover the little snake.
This snake has a similar 'invisibility' ability to that of the big snake, but its disguise is not as good as that of the big snake.
After cutting off the little snake, He Ao took a few steps forward, pulled out the bone sword, and put his hand into the light door.
The entire light door suddenly trembled violently the moment his hand penetrated it, then shattered with a bang and dissipated into the darkness.
This door cannot withstand their strength.
"This door looks much more stable than when we came in,"
Feiya looked at the door that turned into light spots and dissipated, "Now it may be able to withstand some weaker D-class monsters."
She paused and said with some worry, "Even if this kind of door is the most stable door among all the doors now, the situation in the real world is probably not optimistic, and there are still people who take to the streets...
"We have no idea what's going on over there."
"Um,"
He Ao nodded slightly, retracted his palm, inserted the bone sword back into the 'scabbard' holding the bone sword on his back, and then walked towards the half-open gate not far away, "Let's continue going down."
Panic now has no effect. Maintaining speed and exploring the secrets of this underground palace and the reason why the underground palace is so close to the city-state of Newland in the main world is the only way to solve the predicament.
Quiet footsteps echoed in the dark corridor again. Feiya used the faint light from the flashlight to glance at the calm profile of the young man next to her.
This kind of calmness and calmness in times of crisis can always give people peace of mind.
The two quickly reached the end of the corridor and saw the half-open gate.
To be precise, this is a ‘half-closed’ gate.
The huge gate fell halfway from above, and then got stuck there. Dense vines covered the entire gate, making this steel creation that had gone through countless years look a little green.
"This is the main vine..."
Feiya shined a flashlight on the vines on the gate.
The thick main vine extends from the wall to the gate, and then wraps the gate up and down. The branches spreading from the main vine intertwine with each other again, and weave together with the vines on the left and right walls.
It forms a huge 'green net', covering the entire gate.
"watch your head."
He Ao bent down and quickly moved out from under the gate.
Feiya also bent down and followed him. The two quickly passed the gate and appeared in the elevator leading to the third floor.
He Ao did not look at the scene inside the elevator, but turned his head and shined his flashlight on the outside of the gate.
Just like the inside, the outside gate is also tightly covered with vines and is almost integrated with the wall.
"Are these vines 'pocketing' the gate?"
Feiya looked at the vines with a flashlight in confusion, "That main vine was extended to prevent the gate from falling? But why?"
"Maybe it's to release something locked here."
He Ao looked around with a flashlight. There were seven elevators in this elevator room. The ceiling lights in the elevator room had long been destroyed, and the indicator lights of all the elevators had been extinguished. The control screen seemed to have been damaged by some external force. It seemed that the elevators
It is completely unusable.
The walls and floor of this elevator room were covered with bloodstains, which seemed to tell the 'visitors' that a brutal killing had occurred here. In some gaps in the walls, bullets that had been driven into the walls and produced rust could even be seen.
These killings were naturally not caused by vines. He Ao had just seen the 'predating' skills of vines.
The vines will directly suck up the blood of the prey. If the vines were preying on them, there would not be so much blood stains left here.
Judging from the density of the vines outside the corridor and the strength of the giant python hidden in the vines and coexisting with the vines, most of the strange beasts or monsters that "went the wrong way" should become the prey of these two.
Moreover, the blood stains in this elevator room are far less than those outside, proving that there are not as many people or creatures who died here as there are outside.
In other words, there may be very few other lives that come to this elevator. After all, not everyone has mastered the 'rules' of vine attacks like Carlin.
The elevator may have preserved its appearance to a certain extent undisturbed as it was when the crisis first broke out.
He Ao took a few steps back, shining his flashlight through every corner of the elevator room, scanning the bullets, firearms, and even the traces left by some kind of blade.
There once was a fierce battle here, and the fighting party should be humans.
In this battle, these humans may not be able to defeat their opponents, so those among them who can control the gate choose to close the gate and lock their opponents inside and perish together.
At this time, these vines spread out and resisted the closed gate.
The final outcome is obvious. The human side lost. The 'thing' they tried to block left here, and their corpses may have become nourishment for the vines.
He Ao walked in this quiet elevator room, and there were very few vines on the ground.
These vines did not spread out from the corridor or out of the corridor like they did in the stairwells on the first and second floors. When they arrived here, they stopped extending forward, as if they had reached the end of this floor.
In the corners of these elevator floors, you can still vaguely see some pieces of clothing that have not completely decayed.
He Ao continued to retreat, searching around the elevator room.
Feiya glanced at him blankly, not knowing what he was looking for, but she immediately came over with a flashlight to help He Ao illuminate a wider field of vision.
Although this place is relatively well preserved, He Ao did not find any effective content, not even the nameplate of the deceased.
In the end, he only saw a broken and blood-stained Gauss rifle in the gap between two vines.
After searching all the corners to make sure there were no clues, He Ao walked back to the corridor, picked up the corpse of the little snake he had just killed but had not touched the vines, and then threw it on the vine next to the rifle.
superior.
The two vines quickly curled up and entangled the snake corpse, and He Ao used the bone sword to pick out the Gauss rifle from under the vines.
Feiya blinked and looked at He Ao's operation.
In fact, she also thought of using the snake corpse to lure away the vines, but by the time she thought of it, He Aodu had already come back with the snake corpse and threw it out.
She could only lean over and help He Ao shine the flashlight, shining it on the Gauss gun in He Ao's hand, "Is there anything special about this gun?"
"have no idea."
He Ao shook his head. He looked carefully at the broken Gauss gun. Due to lack of maintenance and poor storage environment, the metal structure of the gun was rusty.
However, the rust on one piece is not regular, but appears to be uneven in a special pattern.
He Ao stretched out his hand to wipe away the rust on the surface, and two crooked words in the first area engraved on the firearm appeared in his field of vision. The person who carved these two words was obviously very anxious and time was tight, so
The handwriting is not neat.
"Relic text?"
Feiya looked at the two crooked words on the gun in confusion, revealing her illiterate eyes.
Although her academic qualifications are not bad, she does not know any relic characters. To be precise, the entire main world is illiterate about relic characters.
Without any reference, it is very difficult to decipher a lost text from scratch, not to mention that there is not much information on relic texts actually obtained in the main world.
"Is there something the owner of this gun wants to leave behind?"
She adjusted her glasses helplessly and frowned slightly, "But he didn't seem to expect that the person who found the gun would be illiterate, so he might as well have left a simple sketch."
In a sense, this is also the trouble of the ‘illiterates’.
In fact, Feiya was somewhat expecting He Ao to understand the meaning of these two words, but she also felt that this idea was indeed a bit whimsical.
After all, no matter how powerful and clever He Ao is, it is unlikely that he can figure out something that no one else understands.
This is really outrageous.
"Write it down first, it might be useful."
He Ao took out the miniature camera that Yue Guang had prepared for them before setting off, and casually took a photo of these two words.
He Ao didn't know what Feiya was thinking, but he actually knew these two words, which meant:
[isolation]
The last message left by the owner of this gun was "isolation", and coupled with the method of closing the gate to seal the space, this message may be related to the "thing" that escaped.
However, understanding the characters in the first area can be within the knowledge range of 'Hao Yi', but it should not be within the knowledge range of 'He Ao'.
Properly separating the two identities allows him to complete some operations and simplify complex things by taking advantage of the cognitive gap. After all, the main world is always facing threats from evil gods and their followers.
Finally, he carefully checked the Gauss rifle in his hand and found no new writing. Then he put the scrapped gun in the corner.
"Are we going down?"
Feiya looked at his movements, put aside her random thoughts, and asked softly.
"right."
He Ao nodded, "Let's take the corridor this time."
The corridor leading from the second underground floor to the third underground floor is at the innermost side of the elevator room, and there are no vines in it.
As long as there is no danger in the corridor, there will definitely be more escape routes through a connected space like a corridor than in a closed space like an elevator.
"good!"
Feiya nodded, her high heels stepping on the ground, and walked to the corridor door aside.
This corridor door had been damaged by some kind of creature, and even the edges of the wall were left with impact marks and some hairs.
"It does look like the traces left by the 'Sheep Demon'."
Feiya looked at those hairs and whispered.
Carlin once said that he saw traces on the corridor door on the third floor that seemed to have been knocked open by the goat demon.
"Um,"
He Ao also came over. He looked at the hair that still looked a bit 'fresh', as well as the damaged lock of the corridor door, and the new impact marks on the wall. "It seems that the sheep demon 'came up' not long ago."
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Maybe just in the last year or two.
Thinking of this, he looked back at the dark and deep corridor covered with vines.
According to Carlin's description, when he first arrived at the second underground floor, he was attacked by some ferocious beasts. After realizing that the second underground floor was already very dangerous, he did not explore further to the third underground floor.
Returned to the basement level.
Carlin had explored that corridor and been in this elevator, but when he came here, he didn't seem to be attacked by the snake.
Either the snake hadn't come here at that time, or there were some 'special circumstances' that prevented the snake from moving.
He Ao vaguely felt that he had touched an invisible thread among the chaotic threads underlying this complicated incident, but he seemed unable to fully grasp it.
He still lacks the 'hook' to catch this line.
While thinking, He Ao's movements did not stop. He and Feiya quickly went down. The entire staircase was not long, with only two turns. The only thing that was a little surprising was that there were no monsters in the stairwell.
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There was very little blood stains throughout the stairwell.
Soon, the two of them went down to the third underground floor.
The corridor door on the third underground floor was also broken open, but from the outside inward.
There was no light outside the door, and the lights in the elevator room must have been damaged.
Heao and Feiya walked out of the corridor door, and the light of the flashlight illuminated the narrow elevator room.
"It's so clean here."
Feiya said with some surprise.
There are still some blood stains here, but compared to the areas they have been to before, the blood stains here are almost negligible.
This elevator room was the most intact and 'cleanest' among the three elevator rooms they had walked through.
And its "completeness" naturally has its reasons.
He Ao picked up the flashlight and looked around, and found a closed gate directly opposite.
Unlike the first and second floors, the gate on this floor was successfully 'closed'.
Now He Ao somewhat understood why those vines came to hold up the gate that was about to close on the second underground floor.
If the gate on the second underground floor is also closed, then the 'thing' originally trapped in the elevator room on the second underground floor may be trapped inside for a long time.
However, although the gate in front of He Ao was successfully closed at this moment, it was not 'complete'.
On the right side of the gate, a gap two people wide opened.
The solid alloy that made up the gate was pierced by some external force, like pierced paper, curling outward and shattering, opening a gap as wide as two people.
"What is this gap?"
Feiya walked towards the crack with a flashlight at this moment. She shined the light of the flashlight into the crack, then she pointed the flashlight downward and paused suddenly, "He Ao, look at this."
"It's the Goat Demon."
He Ao walked over and looked along the light of her flashlight, just in time to see a small goat demon lying behind the gate.
Its eyes widened, and part of its head was shattered, revealing a structure of flesh, flesh, and machinery.
After this gate, there was another gate not far away, which was also knocked open.
He Ao glanced at the place where the gate was knocked open, raised his feet, and stepped over the gate, "Go over and take a look."
There is only one exit in this stairwell. Whether there are four underground floors in the underground palace or not, you have to go out and take a look to find out.
The two crossed this gate, and then found the body of a 'goat demon' again behind the next gate.
There are not only one or two gates lowered in this corridor, but more than twenty. Almost every two gates the two of them pass through, they will find the body of a goat demon, or even several.
"Were they the ones that opened these 'doors'?"
At the end, Feiya looked at the corpse at her feet and asked in a low voice.
"should be."
He Ao nodded and raised his flashlight to shine forward. At this moment, there was only the last gate left in front of them.
This gate has the largest opening, and most parts have been destroyed. It is almost completely open, but at the same time, a behemoth, even bigger than the gate, is blocking the door, with its back facing them.
Feiya also raised her head and looked at the huge creature, and then she looked at He Ao carefully.
"It's okay, keep going."
He Ao walked in front and walked out of the gap between the huge thing and the gate.
Feiya followed closely behind him.
The two of them walked forward a few more steps until they completely left the huge creature behind them, then turned back.
A huge goat demon with a height of seven to eight meters and a huge body sitting on the ground appeared in their field of vision.
This goat demon blocked the entrance of the gate, almost the entire gate was blocked, and there were only gaps on both sides for people to pass through.
"This goat demon..."
Feiya looked at the huge creature and spoke with a trembling voice.
"died."
He Ao said calmly.
In the eyes of the divine consciousness, the internal energy circuit of this sheep demon has long since collapsed, and all that is left here is a huge body.
At this moment, He Ao also had a guess as to what had happened here.
At the moment when the underground palace encounters some kind of crisis, the staff will most likely open the floodgates in a very short time, cutting off the connection between the three underground floors and the two floors above.
After that, these goat demons lived near the gate, hitting the gate day after day. It took hundreds of years to break open the gate, escape from here, and enter the upper two floors.
He Ao turned around and scanned the surroundings. The surrounding area was very empty and there was a three-way intersection. There was no goat demon coming out to attack.
The goat demons he killed on the underground floor before may be the last goat demons.
After they broke open the gate, they all fled above, leaving this huge corpse that might be their ancestor blocked here to deter other monsters.
Perhaps, this is the reason why no powerful monster has appeared on the underground level since the sheep demon appeared.
Those powerful monsters on the third floor may not have noticed that this passage has been opened, and that the sheep demons that "hit the wall" have disappeared.
He Ao withdrew his gaze and looked at the three-way intersection ahead.
There is a main road going straight ahead at this intersection, and two forked roads, one to the left and one to the right.
At this time, Feiya also recovered from the fright of the giant goat demon. She looked at the three-way road in front of her and asked in a low voice,
