Hang Shiqi and his party climbed up along the entrance of the cave. The cave was a little dark, and they could vaguely see several exits leading to the outside.
Hang Shiqi is still struggling with the problem of the undersea lamp: "There is no sea water above, how does it shine?"
He casually attached the underwater lamp to the wall. Unexpectedly, the underwater lamp lit up again, illuminating the cave where they were.
"It's lit up again!" Hang Shiqi shouted excitedly.
Yun Wuzhen explained: "It should be that there is something in the deep sea that can make the undersea lamp shine, and this kind of thing is also found on the rocks in the deep sea."
"That's it, then I'll bring a stone up from here, and this lamp can shine on the land." Hang Shiqi patted his head and came to a conclusion happily.
Yun Wuzhen smiled bitterly: "We can try. But the premise is that we can go back."
"Do you feel that something is wrong here?" Zong Yao used the light of the underwater lamp to look around and found that this cave was not natural, but had many traces of artificial digging.
"Something's wrong?" Hang Shiqi looked around and then clapped his hands excitedly: "Ah, it turns out that Cocoon Rat's new underground palace is hidden here!"
"What!" The faces of the group all changed.
Zong Yao remembered that when they entered the agency door just now, Hang Shiqi said that this place looked a bit like a cocoon rat dungeon, but only a little bit like it. Then they went in and found that there was only one room inside, which Yu Fangqing simply used as a golden room.
The place where the beauty is hidden dispelled the suspicion. But Hang Qi now said that the place above is the Cocoon Rat Underground Palace. This is impossible, right? How could the Cocoon Rat Underground Palace be built in the same place as Yu Fangqing’s secret room? The mermaid tribe is not neutral.
What?
"Can Xiao Qi be sure?" Yun Wuzhen put away his casual expression after hearing this and asked seriously.
"I'm sure." When Hang Shiqi also knew that this was not a joke, he pointed to the rock wall and ceiling of the cave seriously: "The height and width of the cave are the same as that of the Cocoon Rat Underground Palace. The top is built in a circle, and the tunnels inside the cave are crisscrossed.
, and will build such a cave at every intersection, which is exactly the same as the Cocoon Rat Underground Palace."
Yun Wuzhen showed a look of surprise: "No wonder my brother wanted to send me here. If I'm not mistaken, he, Yu Fangqing and Cocoon Shu have already cooperated."
Zong Yao also said: "No wonder you can't find the underground palace of cocoon rats everywhere. Who would have thought that it is actually hidden in the sea?"
"Boss, what should we do now?" One of Zong Yao's subordinates grabbed his hair and asked distressedly: "If this place is the underground palace of Cocoon Rats, there must be many Cocoon Rats and Cocoon Orcs hiding there, right? If they are discovered,
We have no way to survive."
As soon as he finished speaking, several cocoon orc guards came over from the corridor in groups. After seeing their reaction for a few seconds, they looked at the big hole in the ground. They immediately raised the conches in their hands and shouted: "
An outsider broke in!"
Someone broke in... broke in... came... came...
The man's shout rang out from all directions in the cave, followed by repeated echoes.
"Crow's mouth." Zong Yao patted the crew member's head unceremoniously.
The cocoon orc holding the conch seemed to realize that his shouting was too loud, so he lowered his voice and continued to report into the conch: "There are ten people in total, eight armored bears, one cloud fox, one...can't judge,
It is located on the third floor, with seven caves in two rows."
This time the sound also echoed clearly in the cave. The echo was much smaller and almost inaudible.
"What kind of black technology is this?" Hang Shiqi looked at the conch curiously.
Yun Wuzhen: "It's a sound transmission conch. This thing is a one-way sound transmission. It can publish messages to all sound conchs through one sound conch."
"Just say something there, and the whole underground palace can hear it?" Hang Shiqi asked: "Can I do it too?"
Yun Wuzhen: "Anyone can do it, Yinluo doesn't recognize anyone."
While the two of them were talking, the cocoon orcs had already surrounded Hang Shiqi and his party, but these did not pose much of a threat at the moment. What Hang Shiqi needed to worry about was that if he could not escape within a short period of time, then what would happen next?
The number of cocoon rats and cocoon orcs arriving will be terrifying.
"Brother, don't be excited. Don't be excited." Hang Shiqi thought for a while, took a step closer to the other party, and said, "I am also a cocoon orc, we are our own people."
"Are you also a cocoon orc?" The other party showed a somewhat puzzled expression: "Then why did you hang out with the cloud fox and the armored bear and still show up here?"
Hang Shiqi lamented that these cocoon orcs were indeed much more awake than he was at that time. Not only could they talk, but they could also think. He moved closer to each other and said, "That's right, they are not armored bears and cloud foxes, but resurrected ones."
The cocoon rats went on a special mission and just came back. I was responsible for picking them up, but there was something wrong with the entrance. We had to borrow a tunnel from the owner of the Evernight Island and cut a tunnel from her side.
On the way."
Is that so? The cocoon orc looked at Hang Shiqi doubtfully, but there was no similar situation in his mind to provide him with a reference, and he couldn't tell whether Hang Shiqi's words were true or false.
"Phew." Hang Shiqi secretly pressed the bamboo tube, and a silver needle flew out from the bamboo tube and nailed it to the cocoon orc. Hang Shiqi jumped over at the same time and snatched the conch from the opponent's hand: "Run!"
Zong Yao's men followed Hang Shiqi as soon as he made a move, knocking down several cocoon orcs blocking the way in front of him. Zong Yao himself carefully protected Yun Wuzhen and punched him
He turned over a cocoon orc who was trying to catch someone, pushed Yun Wuzhen onto his shoulder, and ran away.
There were sounds of approaching footsteps in several corridors around. Hang Shiqi chose a road without pursuers and ran. As he ran, he held up the conch and began to shout in the cave: "All cocoon orcs, listen up, put down."
Weapons, stop being brainwashed and controlled by the Cocoon Rats, you are not their slaves, you are free!"
Hang Shiqi's voice was loud, and the huge shouting filled the entire underwater underground palace for a while, and it was accompanied by echoes that kept floating back and forth, making people feel dizzy.
But Hang Shiqi is a talker, and he has been holding back his words for a long time, and wants to tell other cocoon beasts who have suffered the same things as him: "I tell you, the cocoon beast priest is a bastard, he is not a human being! He is very bad!
Your original identities are all orcs from other races on this continent. He used Yuan Yu to attract your souls, enslave you, wash away your memories, and then let you go to the front line to die for his ambitions, to kill your original
Relatives.”
"If you are disobedient, he will torture your souls. Even if you are obedient, he will control your actions from time to time. In their eyes, they have never regarded you as the same human beings. You are just people they can manipulate at will.
Tool puppet!"
"Are you grateful that he resurrected you? But do you know that many of you died because of them. Besides, living like this as a tool slave, is this really what you want? This kind of life
Is it really considered alive?”
"I am also a Cocoon Orc, and I have experienced all this. We Cocoon Orcs must unite and resist the evil deeds of the Cocoon Orc! I have a way to set you free, but the prerequisite is that I have to leave here first, and you should stop chasing me.
, Ouch, Ouch, Ouch, Ouch!”
The last string of screams was because Hang Shiqi happened to collide head-on with a group of cocoon orcs chasing him at the corner, and almost fell into their arms. However, he reacted quickly, holding the bamboo tube in his hand and pressing
Go down and knock everyone on the other side to the ground amidst the screams.
"More and more people are chasing us. We can't go on like this." The continuous running and fighting made Zong Yao breathless: "We have to... Shi Qi, what are you doing?"
Hang Shiqi was holding the food box and bleeding the cocoon orcs one by one. Each person made a cut in the palm of his hand, but he didn't put too much blood. When Zong Yao asked, he simply explained: "Collect the blood of the cocoon orcs and pour it out later."
In the Yuan Yu Formation, you can blow up the underground palace. This place is underwater, so we won’t be crushed to death after the bombing, and we have water-proof beads, so we won’t be flooded, but they cocoon rats and cocoon orcs will.
By the time they have no time to take care of themselves, we can run away."
Only then did Zong Yao realize that there were so few underground palaces in Nanxia, and he asked with some confusion: "Didn't you say that you are the same kind as them? Wouldn't you be sad if they drowned?"
Hang Shiqi looked at Zong Yao with clear black and white eyes: "What do I have to be sad about? Although they are the same kind, they are enemies now. I sympathize with their experience, so I persuade them, but I will not do it when I take action
Be soft-hearted, otherwise it will be us who will die, and more people who will be involved in the war by the Cocoon Rat in the future. They will not be soft-hearted when the knife in their hands falls."
When Zong Yao got along with Hang Shiqi, he always felt like a child. Although he was one year older than himself, it was only then that he could feel that Hang Shiqi was not a heartless fool.
He is clear-minded, decisive, and ruthless. At certain times, he is actually the same type of person as Ao Wu.
"The method of blowing up the underground palace is good, but the Cocoon Rat will not allow us to approach the Yuan Yu Formation at will." Yun Wuzhen thought for a moment and said, "You just reminded me. The Cocoon Rat and Cocoon Orcs here probably won't.
Yu Fangqing can't give them thousands of water-avoiding pills for swimming. Then they must have other ways to get to the shore."
Zong Yao: "But this is under the deep sea. Is it necessary to build a thousand-mile tunnel leading to the road?"
Yun Wuzhen said: "I know that the Yunhu clan has a forbidden space technique that can be teleported remotely."
"Is it a large teleportation array? I seem to have heard that as long as the corresponding teleportation arrays are set up on both sides, many people can be sent to far away places at one time. It is a very powerful ability, but why is it a forbidden technique?
"Zong Yao asked.
"Because this teleportation array is unstable, space-time cracks will appear immediately. Once the cracks appear, they will inevitably swallow about one-tenth of the teleporters. Therefore, in order to prevent themselves from being swallowed, people who use the teleportation array will prepare the corresponding number in advance.
Sacrifice, knock them unconscious, and when encountering a crack in time and space, throw them into it to ensure that others are not swallowed during the use of the teleportation array."
"Can't we use a dummy? It must be filled with a living person?" Zong Yao asked.
Yun Wuzhen: "No, those people have tried many methods, including objects, dummies, animals, plants, etc., but none of them work. The big teleportation array teleports people, and those who sacrifice must also be people. That's why they were
It is classified as evil magic and sealed in the body. Unless there is a disaster of genocide, it will never be used."
Hang Shiqi pretended to cover his ears and swayed his eyes from side to side: "Then do we know too much?"
"Yeah, I'm ready to silence you." Yun Wuzhen joked, and then said: "We can find this large teleportation array. If I guessed correctly, the corresponding array location should be Yunhu Palace, so that cocoon rats can be sacrificed.
Only those who can manage and call the stronghold at any time. Sacrifice are also ready, those injured or unsatisfactory cocoon orcs can be used as sacrifices."
The sound of footsteps came again. The four people were not in a hurry, but rather scattered. Yun Wuzhen quickly judged that these were not cocoon beasts, but four cocoon rats. Yun Wuzhen stopped Hang Shiqi who was about to press the bamboo tube.
, said to Zong Yao: "Catch them, don't knock them unconscious. I'm useful."
"Okay." Zong Yao led a group of crew members. It was not difficult to take care of four cocoon rats. He quickly restrained the four people and tied them up: "What are you going to do to catch them?"
Yun Wuzhen: "Cocoon rats are timid and know a lot. They are much easier to control than cocoon orcs. We can take this opportunity to ask for some information."
He turned around and looked at the four cocoon rats: "We plan to make a teleportation array to leave the underground palace, but the teleportation array has a one-tenth sacrifice rate, so I plan to choose a cocoon orc among you as a sacrifice and help us pass through the teleportation array later.
.I will count one, two, and three, and whoever of you finally tells the location of the teleportation array, I will bring him as a sacrifice."
Yun Wuzhen's eyes swept over the four people one by one, and after ensuring that he saw enough fear in their eyes, Yun Wuzhen withdrew his eyes with satisfaction and began to count: "One, two, three!"
"Up there!"
"Top floor!"
"central Hall!"
"Center on the first floor."
The four cocoon rats answered in unison. It seemed that they all knew about the teleportation array and the sacrifices.
"Hey, you guys are so cooperative, it's hard to choose." Yun Wuzhen randomly grabbed someone from inside and said to Zong Yao, "He was the slowest to answer just now. Knock him out and take him away."
After saying that, they asked Zong Yao to lift the person up. But they did not go up, but ran all the way down. The cocoon rat that was carried as a "sacrifice" was also casually thrown on the road by them.
Perhaps Hang Shiqi's previous shouting had some effect. When they ran down, they didn't encounter many cocoon orcs to stop them.
On the other side, the Cocoon Priest and Shu Ran who were far away in Dongye also received information that someone had sneaked into the underground palace. He quickly determined the identities of these people, Yun Wuzhen, Hang Shiqi, and a group of armored bears.
"Hang Shiqi? We must not let him escape this time. Do they want to take the teleportation array? Impossible. That boy Yun Wuzhen is a little clever. He can definitely guess that this teleportation array leads to Yunhu Palace. They teleport to
Here, we are all going to die. If I guessed correctly, Hang Shiqi’s goal should be the Yuan Yu Formation. Following my order, a hundred cocoon orcs will be sent to the sixth floor of the underground palace to be on standby. I will personally go over and take charge of the remaining people later.
Everyone is dispatched to search and guard everywhere in the underground palace, and no one can be let go."
"Stand by on the sixth floor? Why don't you kill them directly? Senior brother, do you still want to catch them alive at this time? Don't forget, if the Yuan Yu Formation is destroyed, even you and me will be in danger." Shu Ran asked.
"I really want to catch him alive." The Cocoon Rat Priest sneered: "But don't worry, I will never make the same mistake twice. This time the Yuan Yu Formation will never be destroyed by him as easily as last time.
.”
When the Cocoon Rat Priest used the teleportation array to rush to the underground palace, Hang Shiqi had already found the location of the Yuan Yu Array: "It's exactly what I thought. This thing will always be built at the bottom of the entire underground palace."
The place they had just escaped from Yu Fangqing was on the third floor, but this place was on the seventh floor underground. Like the previous Yuan Yu Formation, it also occupied an entire floor, but there was no one there.
The difference is that this layer has been filled with seawater, which is more than 20 meters deep.
Hang Shiqi was a little strange at first, but he soon understood the significance of the existence of sea water - the blood of the cocoon orc would be diluted by the sea water as soon as it was poured out. The infinitely diluted blood could not cause Yuan Yu to explode, and his plan failed.
Already.
"There are a lot of cocoon orcs coming to the sixth floor." Zong Yao, who was in charge of the release, swam over and said.
Zong Yao: "Don't be afraid, these Cocoon Beastmen are not good at water, but we are temporarily safe here. If there is sea water here, there must be a water inlet. If we find the water inlet, we can find a way to escape."
Yun Wuzhen raised his hand and pointed to the corner above the wall: "I'm afraid it won't work. That entrance is connected to the corridor where Yu Fangqing entered. The water flows in from the gate when you entered. The waterway was built with the help of the mermaid tribe. There are dozens of people along the way.
The sluice gate can, on the one hand, stably control the amount of water here to ensure that it does not pose a threat to the underground palace above, and on the other hand, it ensures that the waterway cannot be easily destroyed and no one can escape through the waterway."
After Hang Shiqi heard this, he actually laughed: "Hey, it seems that the last time I bombed the underground palace, I left a big shadow on them."
Yun Wuzhen looked at Hang Shiqi's triumphant look and gritted his teeth: "It's not a small thing. I upgraded this bombing of the underground palace to hell difficulty."
Hang Shiqi nodded, his smile unabated, his eyebrows raised: "But who said that if I want to escape, I have to blow up this formation?"