Endless route

Chapter 327 98. Shocking disaster

That makes sense, Master Xian. When I asked Lord Ghost to drive away those Westerners, they were hiding in the wooden coffins and couldn't get out. Even Master Ghost didn't move when he came around.

It was only later that I asked Master Gui to draw a knife and insert it directly into the wooden coffin as a warning. Only then did those Westerners panic and run away. Moreover, there were still a few who pretended not to see it because they were lucky.

I thought there was something wrong with them at the time, but now that I think about it carefully, there is something wrong with this wooden coffin!

Ji Dao patted his thigh and whispered.

He really didn't think about this problem because since he left the Heavenly Palace, all the Westerners he met were defeated.

Look at how many Westerners there are in the West Factory.

In the various offices under the contemporary Jianxian Division, if Xichang is included, there are more Westerners than Easterners.

This is not counting the evil soldiers of the Immortal Master.

If you include these three hundred Yin soldiers, it is completely incomparable. The Easterners are not even a fraction of the Westerners.

But this doesn't mean anything, because the Westerners in Jianxian Division are all defeated generals who have committed crimes and made meritorious service. Over time, Ji Dao always felt that Westerners were not very powerful.

These wooden coffins are definitely not right.

Zheng Yun carefully observed the wooden coffin beside him.

Zheng Yun had seen Western explorers hide in wooden coffins more than once when they encountered danger. On the contrary, silver masks were rarely worn by Western explorers.

There must be something wrong here.

The level of Western explorers varies from high to low, but the elite among them are extremely powerful and cannot be fools. They must have their reasons for making this choice.

Master Immortal, do you suspect that these wooden coffins have special functions? How about I open a wooden coffin and lay down in it to take a look?

Nobuyoshi took the lead and requested to fight.

It's not necessary. This kind of behavior is very dangerous. Let me think about it. Zheng Yun shook his head and began to organize his thoughts.

The previous team of explorers who were in distress had been exploring this place for a long time. When Zheng Yun came to rescue them for the first time, four or five people were all holed up in wooden coffins, still screaming.

I was in a dream at that time, and I just thought their behavior was weird, and besides being scary, there was also a hint of absurdity and comedy.

Looking back carefully now, the expedition team was killed in Qili's dream in the early morning of that day. It had been a long time when I arrived, but the survivors were in good health.

No one knows how long they stayed in Qili Weimeng, but Zheng Yun estimated that it was at least thirty hours.

He didn't die for thirty hours.

With the lethality displayed by Qili Weimeng, even if they only dreamed about zombies, it was almost impossible. The body simply could not bear the fear for thirty hours.

So they must have some ‘tricks’.

The same goes for the group of Western explorers just now. When faced with the ancient Eastern gods and ghosts that Ji Dao dreamed of, their first reaction was to hide them in a wooden coffin, as if hiding in a wooden coffin would not be discovered.

Is this reasonable?

They saw themselves fighting evil creatures with their own eyes. The gods and ghosts were dazzled by their methods, and the fighting was shocking and earth-shattering.

In that situation, even the wooden coffin was thinner than paper, so there was no need for magic to be used. The aftermath of any kind of magic trick on the scene could easily destroy the wooden coffin.

But they still chose to hide in wooden coffins.

Therefore, Zheng Yun has every reason to guess that their secret is wooden coffins. These wooden coffins are key tools in Qili's dreams and can help them gain safety in their dreams.

This tip is actually not important.

It is indeed safe to get into the wooden coffin, but at the same time, you cannot move freely and can only sit and wait for death in the wooden coffin.

Even if I already knew it.

It is also impossible to wait for death in a wooden coffin.

At this moment, I have two hundred Yin soldiers and dozens of immortal arts. I can completely rely on my strength to ensure safety. There is no need to hide in a wooden coffin, and I can freely explore in Qili's dream.

So there is no need for Ji Dao to try it now.

Because this wooden coffin is aimed at Qili Meng, it is very likely that people can escape from Qili Meng, or enter another state to avoid all the evil things that Qili Meng manifests.

Noriichi is a key figure.

If something happens to him, it will be difficult to continue the exploration. If he goes out, then he will have to wait for him.

Master Immortal, let the Yin soldiers go in and lie down?

Ji Dao continued to make suggestions reluctantly.

Can.

Zheng Yun nodded and ordered.

As they watched, the two Yin soldiers walked up to a wooden beam and groped up and down, then lifted up the surface of the wooden beam with a slight lift, and lay directly inside the wooden beam.

...

They both fell silent.

In reality, the Yin soldiers were lying in wooden coffins, but in Qili's dream, this scene was a little weird, with an unreasonable feeling, and it was also so weird that it left people speechless.

Master Immortal, when you tortured the surviving explorers before, did they not tell the truth? Didn't they take the initiative to mention this incident?

Ji Dao suddenly mentioned another thing.

Tiangong is now keeping a few surviving explorers under house arrest, providing a safe environment to help them recuperate.

But these surviving explorers are too uninteresting. Since they made such a discovery, they did not take the initiative to tell Master Xian. If they had told him earlier, wouldn't they have known about it earlier?

No, let's wait and see.

Zheng Yun ordered the Yin soldiers to kill the evil objects around.

This was indeed his own negligence, and it was not the fault of the surviving explorers, because those surviving explorers regarded themselves and others as the Sea Guard Superintendent Xiansi in their dreams.

Why would you mention this to the person in your dream?

So they didn't take the initiative to say it at all.

Master Immortal, if there is something wrong with the wooden coffin, what does it mean? Jidao asked, staring at Yin Bing.

On my behalf, this is probably an ancient battlefield, and there is a terrible danger lurking there.

Zheng Yun sighed silently. While looking around, he kept thinking and piecing together all the clues in his mind.

The key is actually where the ‘trick’ comes from.

These wooden coffins were not made by Western explorers. At best, Westerners accidentally discovered this trick and mastered a mechanism that their predecessors could leave in their dreams.

The man who actually built the wooden coffin.

He is an ancient person from the ancient city of Nanze.

But what was their purpose in building this wooden coffin? Why are thousands of wooden coffins piled deep in the underground palace?

I'm afraid there are still secrets.

This is by no means an ordinary burial place, but more like the ancient battlefield where he had guessed that he died in the battle at Hunumu Camp.

Special wooden coffin.

Weird mask.

They are all special equipment and magic weapons for Qili Weimeng, rather than ordinary wooden coffins and funerary objects.

Because the dead don't need to be on guard against Qili's Dream. No matter it was last year or this year, those who died in Qili's Dream were truly dead, and no corpse transformation occurred.

These things must be for living people.

Then why would a living person bring this kind of thing into Qiliguimeng? What on earth are they going to do to Qili Guimeng?

The skeletons in these wooden coffins are the living people from those days. Are they thousands of generals from Hunumu Camp? Is it possible for ordinary people to wear a wooden coffin mask and enter the strange dream?

There should be only one answer.

The skeletons in the wooden coffin could only be soldiers of the Hunumu Camp, because the Ming Dynasty would not allow ordinary people to come here.

The generals of Hunumu Camp who brought these magic weapons into Qili Weimen must have a very special mission, and before entering this place, they knew that they would not be able to come out.

Ji Dao said the body was retrieved.

The truth is that it has not been retrieved.

This is the place where thousands of soldiers from Hunumu Camp were loyal and loyal. They died directly here. This is not only their burial place, but also the ancient battlefield where they fought.

Then everything is connected.

Zheng Yun could piece together the whole story.

Hundreds of years ago, the ancient city of Nanze encountered a disaster, and this disaster was a complete dead end. Thousands of soldiers from the Hunum Camp had to die to solve it.

This is too tragic.

No one can bear it.

But the ancient city of Nanze has no other choice. As long as there is any glimmer of light in other directions and any other options, it is absolutely impossible for the commander of Nanze to issue such an order.

This disaster must have forced them into a desperate situation. Even if this choice was appalling, they had to make it.

So the commander razed the landscape pond in the backyard of his mansion to the ground and built a spiritual throne tower in advance, so that he and the people in the city could remember the heroic feats of thousands of soldiers of Hunumu Camp.

After the construction of the spiritual throne tower is completed.

Thousands of generals from the Huzuma camp handed over their identity military badges and put them into the spiritual throne tower. Then they walked out of the ancient city of Nanze without hesitation, arrived here, and entered the depths to begin the mission.

But this mission is a complete dead end. Anyone who enters this place will not be able to get out alive. The wooden coffin they carry is not only a magic weapon, but also their coffin.

They came carrying wooden coffins.

On the way, I was prepared to sleep here.

The ending is the scene in front of you. The underground palace is full of rotten wooden coffins and skeletons. They may have been arranged neatly, but they were collapsed by explosives and soaked in the lake water, turning into a mess...

There is another detail here.

The commander seemed to be very convinced that as long as thousands of soldiers from Hunumu Camp entered this place, the disaster would be solved.

The construction of the memorial tower in advance, in addition to the role of motivating the generals, is in itself a kind of recognition of the meritorious service of thousands of soldiers in the Hunumu Camp and represents the commander's confidence in the mission.

But was it successful in the end?

Zheng Yun is also unknown at this moment.

Looking back at all the clues previously obtained, it was found that the ancient city of Nanze indeed experienced a major disaster hundreds of years ago, which eventually caused the entire city's people to migrate to Wuhaixianzhou.

The people of Wuhaixianzhou are the descendants of the ancient people of Nanze hundreds of years ago. This is an undoubted fact.

But the disaster that led to their migration was not necessarily related to Qili Guimeng, because there was still a silt-flooded city behind.

From the perspective of the archaeological team and the expedition team, the main culprit that directly led to the abandonment of the ancient city of Nanze must be the rising swamp silt, which flooded the ancient city by thirty meters.

Zheng Yun didn't know whether the flooding of the city with silt and the disaster here were the same thing, or what the connection was between the two.

But when they went to the Lingshi Tower before, they found that the ancient people of Nanze deliberately protected the Lingshi Tower before abandoning the ancient city of Nanze, making it airtight and untainted.

The time sequence is still easy to guess.

The disaster must have occurred first, and the city was flooded with silt later. However, there are not enough clues to make inferences as to how long it took, whether it was decades or months.

This is strange to say.

It stands to reason that the disaster here is related to Qili's dream. Thousands of generals in Huzuma camp carry magic weapons against Qili's dream. It is probably caused by Qili's dream getting out of control.

If this is the case.

Then the disaster here cannot be related to the silt flooding of the city, because the silt flooding of the city is almost impossible to be man-made, it is a completely uncontrollable natural disaster.

The entire ancient city of Nanze, hundreds of miles to the left and right, was flooded with silt. The amount of silt was so large that it was difficult to estimate. The unit of measurement was not cubic meters, but cubic kilometers.

Let alone humans, Zheng Yun felt that even an alien civilization would not be able to achieve such a natural disaster-level attack in an instant.

If there is an alien civilization with such strength and conflicts with the Ming Dynasty, then why is the Ming Dynasty still struggling? Hundreds of years ago, the entire city was flooded by the opponent.

Zheng Yun has indeed been guessing that the enemy that brought down the Ming Dynasty was another civilization, but it was not this kind of civilization.

Because this kind of civilization is too strong, it is completely irresistible, and even makes people question its authenticity.

Flooding the city with silt alone.

Modern civilization is completely unable to withstand it.

The civilization that built the endless sea route may have the strength, and even to them, this is just a trivial matter, but that civilization may have left the sea route long ago.

all in all.

Zheng Yun agreed with the Gubo archaeological team's judgment that the reasons for the swamp silt to submerge the ancient city of Nanze were natural disasters such as rainfall, plate movement, and active geological strata.

But he still had some doubts.

Because Qili Weimeng covers the entire ancient city of Nanze, if Qili Weimeng completely loses control, is it possible for the ancients to actively choose to submerge the entire city?

Not to mention whether the ancients could do it.

Just say whether this possibility exists?

If the last resort fails to deal with the disaster, is it possible to abandon the ancient city without any other choice?

There should be.

The ancients must have been able to do such a thing.

They can even fill up the Sea of ​​Mist and interrupt the endless shipping routes. Although they cannot submerge the ancient city of Nanze in a short time, what if it takes a long time?

Whether it is the Eastern archaeological team or the Western explorers, and even Zheng Yun himself, they have always had a preconceived impression that the city was flooded with silt quickly.

The ancients were victims.

The ancient city was forced to abandon it.

It is indeed very similar, because there are a large number of ancient utensils and traces of ancient people's life preserved in the ancient city of Nanze.

But in fact, no one knows the truth about the silt flooding the city, and they can’t even tell when the silt will flood the city. If the ancients were given a few years, they might also flood the city.

Not enough clues at the moment.

Still can't find out the final truth.

But they are very close to the answer. The truth is right in front of them. As long as they find out what happened in this underground palace, all these questions can be answered instantly.

But hidden dangers still exist.

If things are really as they thought, then this disaster is not over at all. Thousands of soldiers in Hunumu Camp have not completed their missions, and danger is around them.

Master Immortal, if you say this, things will get even weirder. What can they do with these thousands of wooden coffins piled up in the underground palace? What is the original purpose of this place?

Ji Dao asked after hearing Zheng Yun's words.

Zheng Yun told Ji Dao his reasoning process, and then shook his head: This question should be asked of you. Take a closer look. What do you think is happening here?