After Zhang Yu returned to the station, he summoned Wen Liang and Shi Yue and asked them to jointly be responsible for the specific communication with the military station, and both of them agreed.
As for how the military government carried the mysterious soldiers to where and how they launched the attack, he didn't need to ask more about these details. He believed that the military government would have a solution on its own.
In the next few days, he practiced while going out to search for relics. In mid-March, a thick volume of classics was sent from Yantai Academy.
He borrowed this thing from a letter he sent to Mr. Lu, and what was recorded on it was mainly the ancient relics of a man named Helier.
This ruin is said to have existed for two epochs. Of course, the owners are not one group of people. They were rebuilt after the original owner disappeared and later people occupied the place. In the end, it was destroyed by the turbid tide, and only a few people were able to do so.
After escaping, it was these survivors who brought news of this ancient country outside.
In the legend of Helier, there are two divine objects, namely the "Wishing Box" and the "Jar of Immortality". The former is said to be able to realize any wish, and the latter can make people live forever.
But in his opinion, the rumors must be exaggerated, otherwise Helier would not have been destroyed in the turbid tide.
However, something so ancient and loaded with faith may have source energy existing on it.
After the classics, there is an appendix from Mr. Lu, which contains a lot of eloquent words. It can be seen between the lines that he is very excited.
Although antiquities scholars like Mr. Lu often inspect ancient sites in the wilderness, they usually cannot go to places that are too far away from Qingyang Shangzhou.
Because the military garrison is far away and there is no support, and there are many spiritual beings and monsters on the road, even if there are armored sergeants and mercenaries accompanying them, there is no guarantee that nothing will happen along the way.
The Helier ruins are located deep in the wasteland, and the same is true. Although this ruins is well-known among many antiquities scholars, few of them have actually visited it.
And everyone who has been there has never come back.
Therefore, Mr. Lu also said in passing at the end of the letter that if Zhang Yu planned to go there and saw the remains of those scholars, he hoped that he could bring them back with them.
After Zhang Yu read it, he thought about it carefully, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he commissioned Tianjiyuan to build some things, mainly some creations, in order to make it easier to find what he needed.
Around late March, everything was ready and secure, so he boarded a Kuntu flying boat, left the station, and sped towards the southwest.
However, not long after setting off, he discovered that two flying boats were following behind him. They should have flown out from the Tianjiyuan station.
He turned his eyes and saw everyone inside the airship clearly. He changed his mind and ignored them, letting the two airships follow behind.
Behind him, in the main cabin of a flying boat in front, sat an old man with a wrinkled face and sharp eyes. Next to him sat a young man and woman on the left and right.
The young man said at this time: "Mr. Ying, are we following too close?"
Elder Ying said with a deep expression: "It's okay. We can't hide our behavior in front of this person, so we might as well be generous. And this person probably won't mind."
The young woman wore light makeup and looked good. She looked worried and said: "Ying Lao, this matter is still too risky."
Ying Lao said in a deep voice: "But this risk is worth taking. Judging from the limited records, both the Jar of Eternal Life and the Box of Wishes are very valuable items. They may provide a lot of help for our next plan.
help."
After the flying boat traveled for about five days and nights, an oasis surrounded by snow-capped mountains appeared in front of it. Zhang Yu sat up on his own, took a few steps forward, and looked there.
Along the way here, we are surrounded by desolate wilderness, but here it is full of life, with shade trees, gurgling springs, and the neighing sounds of various creatures can be heard from a distance.
In the middle of the oasis, there is a pit that is sunken inward. From the sky, it looks like a navel.
The water flow from the surrounding snow-capped mountains comes here, forming a rumbling waterfall flowing downward in the pit. Under the sunlight, the splashing water droplets create a colorful rainbow light above.
He stretched out his hand to hold Yuchen down, and piloted the flying boat directly into the pit.
Not long after he went down, the two airships also flew over the pit and stayed there.
The young man said: "Mr. Ying, that person seems to have entered there, what should we do?"
Ying Lao thought for a while and quickly made a judgment: "Tell Mr. Li and the others behind to leave a team of people here to take care of them. We will also go down, but everyone needs to be careful. I don't know what will be here. That person
Things we don’t care about may not be a threat to us.”
Zhang Yu's flying boat went straight down. After about a hundred feet, it stopped on an underground water channel. The river flowed towards four channels. He chose one of the directions at will and turned there.
To him, it doesn't matter which direction he goes, as long as it leads to the ruins in the end.
After him, Ying Lao's flying boat also came here.
The young man looked at the four passages below and couldn't help but be startled and said: "Ying Lao, which direction should we go?"
Yinglao looked at it and said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid we can only rely on ourselves when we get here." He pointed in the opposite direction to Zhang Yu, "We'll go there."
Zhang Yu's flying boat traveled along the underground river. The road ahead was no longer narrow, but became more and more spacious. The water flow gradually decreased, but there was a light similar to the sky above, making it look like it was still above the ground.
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At this moment, tall statues covered by vines and moss appeared on the rock walls on both sides. They were all figures of guards holding swords and shields.
The water finally disappeared when it reached this moment, and a huge rocky mountain wall appeared on the wall.
But if you look closely, you will see that there is some kind of mountain wall. It is clearly a huge human face, and there is an inward passage in the open mouth of the human face.
He stared at the man's face for a while, thought for a moment, then held Yuchen down, drove the flying boat to the side, and landed on a stone platform nearby.
The hatch swung open, and he came out with a sword, and beside him was a custom-made creator. He looked like a very agile and alert young man, with only a silver metal vertical mark on his chin.
To distinguish them from strangers.
Zhang Yu sensed it, but found that there was a layer of obstruction in front of him. He could not penetrate deeply into it and could not pry into the reality inside. However, he was prepared and called out: "Qingmo."
Qingmo immediately bowed and said: "Sir, please give me your instructions."
Zhang Yudao: "Send a group of 'iron soldiers' in to explore the road."
Qing Mo said yes, he took out a whistle and put it to his mouth and blew hard.
After a while, there was a slight sound, like sand flowing, and dense metal insects and ants were seen crawling down from the flying boat.
Each of these things is about the size of a finger, with two tentacles on top, and a body shape similar to a crawling ant. There are two pairs of thin wings on the back, and they crawl very fast.
This was Kuntu's creation specially used to explore paths. With these things, he didn't have to search for them one by one himself. Moreover, this thing was very cheap, so it didn't matter even if it was all lost.
Zhang Yu knew that it would take some time to explore the path, so he asked Qing Mo to take out his drawing board, face the huge statue of a human face, and start tracing it.
On the other side, the flying boat of Ying Lao and others also came to a huge human face. Ying Lao looked ahead and said excitedly: "The Gate of Horror, that's right, it's right here. The flying boat can't go forward.
Okay, let’s stop here.”
The two airships also stopped aside.
After Ying Lao and others came out, more than 20 mercenary soldiers came from another airship. A tall man headed by him came to Ying Lao. He clasped his fists and said, "Ying Lao, is this here?"
Mr. Ying nodded and said, "Mr. Li, I will trouble you for the rest of the journey."
The man surnamed Li patted his chest and said: "Don't worry, my people were all retired soldiers from the Chinese army. Each of them is qualified to wear armor. I guarantee that you, the British, will not be harmed."
He shouted a whistle, and all the mercenaries behind him put on their outer armor, and then dispersed into five small teams, each walking into the passage with neat steps.
Ying Lao looked at them with squinted eyes. The young man hesitated for a moment and said softly: "Ying Lao, they look like they are from the Chinese Army..."
Mr. Ying shook his head and said, "Just understand it yourself and don't say it out loud."
After the man surnamed Li entered the passage, he walked at the front. A soldier beside him said: "Leader, they seem to have seen something coming."
The man surnamed Li said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, that old man is a smart man. So what if he knows? There is no conflict between our goals and theirs."
The soldier said: "Then what if Xuanzheng is looking for the same thing as us."
The man surnamed Li said: "If that's the case, let's leave it to him. This operation was an impromptu decision from above. Don't take it too seriously. Your own life is still at stake."
The soldier said: "Let's take the lead, there are twenty-five of us."
The man surnamed Li glanced at him and said, "You are overthinking. Twenty-five people are useless, but two hundred and fifty are useless."
The soldier muttered: "Commander, please stop lying. I have never seen a monk before. How can he be so powerful?"
The man surnamed Li was too lazy to explain to him. He slapped him and said, "Don't bother me. Are you the leader of the team or am I the leader of the team? Just listen to what I have to say!"
"Yes Yes."
The soldier immediately became honest.
On the passage on Zhang Yu's side, half a day later, the first batch of "iron soldiers" turned back, raised their heads one by one, and kept shaking their tentacles at Qingmo.
Qing Mo was also half-kneeling on the ground, as if listening to something. Then he took out a jade board and drew on it, and a map gradually appeared on it.
As more and more "iron soldiers" came back, the map became more and more detailed and complete. Finally, he stood up, brought the jade plate to Zhang Yu, and said respectfully: "Sir, please take a look."
Zhang Yu glanced at it and found that there were gaps in some places on the map. It was obvious that the iron soldiers had either encountered obstacles that were difficult to overcome or were destroyed by something, but these places were exactly what needed attention.
He nodded and signaled, asking Qingmo to move the painting tools down. After they were packed away, he picked up his sword and walked into the long passage.