Endless route

Chapter 330 101. Sudden attack

At this moment, they are located more than 160 meters deep underground, surrounded by swamp silt in all directions. Even if there is only a small hole in the wall, a huge amount of silt will spew out.

But this gap is in front of me.

But no silt spilled out.

This is obviously abnormal. Even in Qili's strange dream, they can still clearly see the transformation of the mud in the dream, but now the fracture is empty.

But they don't know if this is Qili Guimeng's conspiracy, or if there is something in reality that blocks the flow of silt, or if the gap leads to a certain place.

Master Immortal, let me fumble over and have a look?

Jidao looked up and saw that the Yin soldier walking at the front of the team was still more than a hundred meters away from the break. The lantern in his hand could not provide enough lighting to illuminate the pit.

Throw the lantern and watch.

Zheng Yun ordered the Yin soldiers to take action.

More than a dozen lanterns were thrown into the depths, and the firelight drew an arc in the dim passage, like oil rockets shooting into the void, landing near the break one after another.

The results were surprising.

Among the dozen or so lanterns, only four or five flew towards the edge of the fracture and landed steadily on the dark floor tiles.

All the other lanterns that were thrown directly towards the fracture itself fell into the dark void without exception, and disappeared in an instant as if they were directly swallowed by the pothole.

Although the four or five surviving lanterns fell near the fracture, they were surrounded by wisps of black mist, which restricted the spread of light and could only cast a one-meter-diameter aperture.

Such weak lighting cannot penetrate the darkness in the fracture, but can only reflect the surrounding environment.

It seems like it's really a broken bridge?

Ji Dao stared into the distance and observed carefully.

One of the lanterns had the best luck. It happened to fall on the edge of the fracture. If it was two inches further, it would fall into darkness, and the circle of light it cast would also illuminate the fracture.

Very similar to Broken Bridge.

Broken floor tiles can be seen.

One thing can be directly determined. The bottom of the fracture is empty, there is absolutely no silt, and the depth is not less than one meter. The floor tiles are layered one after another and are illuminated several layers.

It's actually empty, go.

Zheng Yun frowned, nodded and raised his hand to order. Unless there were other man-made spaces under this passage, there would be no silt pouring out, but there was another situation.

When they were at the bottom of the ancient city of Nanze, they observed a very strange phenomenon. The silt was not uniform, but there were cavities of varying sizes at the bottom of the city.

Did it also collapse due to explosives?

Ji Dao took two steps forward and stood on tiptoe.

Zheng Yun did not answer. He sent a large number of Yin soldiers to the fracture, holding lanterns and physically pointing the way forward.

Wow.

Evil things appeared in the darkness.

But as soon as they emerged from the shadows, many Yin soldiers put down their lanterns and used various magical methods to throw the evil objects head-on, killing them on the spot until they transformed again.

We are also moving forward slowly.

Zheng Yun mobilized his troops and moved forward.

As the distance got closer, they could see more details. The fracture in front was indeed the same as the broken bridge, and there were still some sword scratches on the wall.

When the distance to the fracture is less than 100 meters.

The torches in the hands of many Yin soldiers have completely illuminated the fracture, and a large pit has collapsed on the surface of the passage. There is nothing inside the pit, only pure darkness.

The lantern that was thrown down before was nowhere to be seen.

It should just be a pothole caused by long-term disrepair. The lantern disappears when it is dropped, indicating that there is still mud underneath, and the mud swallowed the lantern deeply.

Zheng Yun quickly came to a conclusion.

In order to verify this guess, he finally ordered many Yin soldiers to throw their lanterns into the pit.

More than a dozen lanterns all landed about one or two meters after falling into the pit, and then slowly disappeared on the spot.

This scene is consistent with the guessed result.

Only silt can create this weird phenomenon.

It can also be seen from this test that the depth of this fracture is at most one meter, and there is silt below.

Master Immortal, it's a bit dangerous now. There are so many blind spots in this place. Who knows which corner has such a hole? If you accidentally fall, it will be over.

Ji Dao breathed a sigh of relief.

He was not worried about himself and Master Xian, because they were walking in the center of the team, with the best view, and the two hundred meters in front and back were fully illuminated by lanterns.

But the Pathfinder Yin Soldiers do not have this kind of treatment. They may miss the mark and fall into the mud at any time, and they will not be able to be rescued because they will not be able to find them anywhere.

Go to the edge and look.

Zheng Yun ordered the Yin soldiers more carefully, and everyone continued to move forward to the edge of the fracture to investigate the traces.

But I haven't even looked at it yet.

Sudden changes occurred in the field.

A faint but very obvious swimming sound came from the depths of the pit at their feet, and then, there were signs of some living creatures surging on the surface of the mud.

Like bubbles rising.

In the intersection of dozens of lanterns, the mud that had remained calm just now suddenly became chaotic and complicated like a loach fried in a hot pot, as if something was about to come out.

What is this?

Ji Dao's sharp eyes saw the trunks of some living creatures in the splashing mud, but the objects were covered with a thick layer of mud, and only a vague outline could be seen.

Is it evil or reality?

Zheng Yun stepped back and asked immediately.

I can't tell for the moment, but it should be a swamp creature. It's obviously not human. Ji Dao shook his head.

The two of them stopped talking and retreated behind the many Yin soldiers, carefully observing the changes in the fracture through the human wall.

But after waiting for a long time, nothing in the mud really emerged from the surface, but the signs of messy activities became more and more intense, and the surface of the mud continued to squirm.

It seems to be in a very deep place. Ji Dao listened carefully with his ears tilted, and after a while he came to a strange conclusion.

This thing moving under the mud should be a long way away from them. The signs of creeping they saw were caused by the other party drilling deep.

How big do you think it is?

Zheng Yun felt a little weird. This kind of creature could create such traces of movement on the surface of the mud over a long space span just by drilling in the depths.

Then this thing should be quite big.

At the same time, its power is also extraordinary.

To be able to move freely more than 200 meters deep in the mud, you need to overcome the pressure brought by the mud itself. The movement of this thing is so loud, it may be very dangerous.

I don't know, but I feel that he should be something that exists in reality. Master Xian, is the range of Qili Weimeng's transformation so far away? Jidao asked, staring at the surface of the mud.

Regarding the scope of Qili Guimeng's transformation, Master Xian has the most say. He has been dispatching Yin soldiers to fight against evil creatures, so he should have a general understanding of this scope.

It should be about a hundred meters.

Zheng Yun nodded and answered. It was impossible to round the scales in Qili Guimeng. All the judgments he had made before were approximate. He rounded the numbers himself.

He could only estimate a range. Qili Guimeng's transformation range was about 95 to 105 meters.

Then it is real. It is more than a hundred meters away from us. Ji Dao listened quickly and came to a conclusion.

...

Zheng Yun thought for a moment.

Modern humans have insufficient knowledge of the biomes in swamp ecology. There are a large number of unknown creatures near the ancient city of Nanze, and there are countless new discoveries on the surface of the swamp alone.

Professor Zhang and his team’s research only focuses on the surface of the swamp, which ranges from the swamp rainforest to about 20 to 30 meters below the swamp. They know nothing about the creatures in deeper areas.

And it’s already terrifyingly deep here.

No one has any idea what exists here.

Perhaps the ancients in Nanze Ancient City knew it, but they have all died and the ancient city has been submerged in mud.

Master Immortal, is it possible that this thing is the enemy of Nanze Ancient City? The Huzuma Camp went deep here to kill it? Ji Dao came up with another idea.

This place is deep underground.

So the war that happened here must be inseparable from the depth, because there is a question here, why should the battlefield go deep into the mud?

The underground palace and passages are dug so deep.

Is it because the enemy is active deep underground? The Tiger Marsh camp can't fight the opponent without reaching the depths?

It's possible, but not high.

Zheng Yun doubts this statement.

It does make sense, because Qili Guimeng can be cast on the ground, but the ancients of Nanze chose to place Qili Guimeng underground. There must be some reasons.

Even when they got here, they were still not free from the influence of Qili Meng, which meant that the people who arranged Qili Meng hoped that Qili Meng could cover the ground.

It is also consistent with previous speculation.

The ancient city of Nanze was attacked by troops, and the entire city had to send out troops to fight back. However, the troops were not on the surface, but deep underground, beneath the ancient city.

But Zheng Yun did not believe that there was some kind of enemy deep in the swamp that could force the ancient city of Nanze to engage in a decisive battle with them, especially if they used magical means such as Qili Guimeng.

Qili Guimeng's effect on low-level creatures is average. If you throw a fish in, even if the fish dreams of natural enemies, it will be afraid of running away at most, and it is impossible to be scared to death by natural enemies.

It is possible to die of exhaustion and starvation.

If you run away in Qili's strange dream for ten days and a half, there will be no time to eat to replenish energy, and the fish will indeed starve to death.

But that's not the case here.

If Nanze Ancient City wanted to kill fish or swamp creatures, spreading poison would be more efficient than Qili Guimeng. They could poison them on the spot. There was no need to wait ten and a half months for them to starve to death.

There is also Hunum Camp.

Nanze sent the Tiger Marsh Battalion to enter the dream and kill the enemy. How could it be to kill fish? Do you need magic to kill fish?

Their enemies cannot be low-level creatures.

Professor Zhang has previously said that swamp ecology is not suitable for mammals to survive. There are almost no conditions for mammals to reproduce in the deep mud. At the same time, the environment deep in the swamp makes it difficult for organisms to evolve higher-functional brains.

At the same time, compared with the extremely rich food stocks on the surface of the swamp, food deep in the mud is very scarce. Powerful creatures will seize the ecosystem on the surface of the swamp as they evolve.

The creatures left in the depths of the mud are basically weak creatures that have been eliminated by natural selection and fall into the lower circle, and such creatures are rarely high-level creatures.

In other words, it is almost impossible for a creature powerful enough to threaten humans to evolve deep in the mud, let alone a creature that cannot even defeat the Ming Dynasty.

If so.

That means that Professor Zhang's statement is wrong, and it also means that modern science has insufficient understanding of swamp ecology.

Then who are the enemies of Nanze Ancient City? Jidao asked in confusion after hearing Zheng Yun's rejection of the guess.

They have been exploring all the way until now, but they still don’t know what the enemies of Humarsh Camp are. If they are not swamp creatures, what else can they be? Is it a human or a demon?

Let's keep looking forward. I'm afraid this question can only be known after we see the ancient battlefield.

Zheng Yun sighed softly and said nothing more.

Western archaeological teams believe that there are living ancients deep in the ruins of gods and ghosts, so strange dreams can transform ancient battlefields.

But from the beginning to this moment, they had only seen the ancient battlefield on the wall of the corridor at the beginning, and then they found nothing else, even though they had gone deep into this place.

This is really strange.

The Western expedition team probably did not enter such a deep area, but they could see the ancient battlefield. However, I and others could not see the shadow of the ancient battlefield after walking so far.

If they could also encounter the ancient battlefield, these problems would be easily solved and they could see with their own eyes who the enemy was.

This enemy forced everyone in Hunumu Battalion to die, which was enough to leave a shadow in the hearts of the survivors.

As long as there is a person in the original ancient city of Nanze who lives to this moment, he will definitely dream of the scene at that time, constantly reincarnating in strange dreams, and repeating the tragedy of that year all the time.

Although appalling.

But this is the only way they can get the truth at the moment, and Zheng Yun also hopes that he can encounter the ancient battlefield.

Master Immortal, is there a possibility that this living person has been frightened to death by our dream? Jidao suddenly said something shocking, and made guesses in a surprised tone.

...

Zheng Yun was silent.

This possibility does exist. Ji Dao's dream is too outrageous, and it often resorts to magic, which ordinary people cannot handle.

If they have been in contact with this living person from the very beginning, and their dreams have blended, then the other party will see their dreams and be attacked by evil things.

The ancients would not question the discipline.

Because Ji Dao’s dream is about ancient monsters.

And that level of fright is likely to be the last piece of snow that breaks the beams of the house, sending this ancient man who has finally survived to this day away with the gods, ghosts and evil objects of the Ming Dynasty.

But this is too outrageous.

Zheng Yun didn't believe this would happen.

Wow.

When the two were talking.

The fracture surface suddenly undulates.

A tentacle covered in thick mud suddenly poked out of the mud, swept two Yin soldiers instantly, and rolled the two Yin soldiers back into the depths of the mud at a speed that made it difficult to react.

This scene happened so fast.

Zheng Yun only saw with his peripheral vision that the mud on the surface of the tentacles was illuminated darkly and shiny by the surrounding lanterns, and even dragged out afterimages in the dim light and shadow, and the attack was completed in an instant.

There was no sound at all.

There were no signs at the same time.

Master Immortal, another tentacle! Ji Dao didn't take it too seriously, because this tentacle was exactly the same as the one just now, except that it was slightly smaller in size.

The tentacle just now can be solved with Yellow Box Immortal Gu, and this one can also be solved now. They have no shortage of Yellow Box Immortal Gu.

No, this is true, hide now.

Zheng Yun immediately discovered the problem, because he had lost control of the two Yin soldiers, which meant that they were dead. This tentacle was by no means an evil thing that had been transformed out of thin air.

The appearance of the tentacles is bizarre and dreamlike.

Its true form is most likely a swamp creature that moves in the mud without making any sound. It can also lock onto food through sound and silently defeat the enemy with one move.