Endless route

Chapter 376 16. The dark soldiers enter the tower and the horrifying scene

"My lord, this stone monument must have been built by the successors of Triton. After something happened here, Triton blocked the lighthouse and erected the stone monument to warn those who came after us not to trespass inside."

Ji Dao saw the key and said quickly.

This kind of stone monument is only used after the sea guards block a certain place. This kind of stone monument would not be erected near a normal lighthouse. The only explanation is that the stone monument was built later.

"This should be."

Zheng Yun agreed with Ji Dao's guess.

Further speculation, the presence of stone tablets here can also prove two things. One is that there is indeed a problem in the lighthouse, and the other is that Triton knew that there was a problem with the lighthouse but did not solve it.

Or maybe there is another direction.

Triton stored certain important items in the lighthouse and erected a stone tablet as a warning to prohibit outsiders from approaching the lighthouse.

But no matter what, after seeing such a scene, Zheng Yunjidao felt a little at ease. Although the ruins of Haiwei are dangerous, they abide by the rules of Haiwei that have been passed down since ancient times.

And Ji Dao knows the rules well.

As long as they go around dangers, they can avoid them as much as possible, which is a much greater advantage than Western explorers.

"Master Immortal, the feeling of being watched secretly around us should come from this stone monument. Haiwei never makes empty promises. This monument should be able to intercept and kill trespassers."

Ji Dao continued.

This kind of stone tablet must not be underestimated, and it is very difficult to deal with, because the stone tablet is not a living creature at all, it does not even have life, ordinary means are ineffective against it, and it cannot be killed at all.

There's no point in blowing it up.

Debris all over the ground is equally deadly.

"Can we go around it?"

Zheng Yun looked up at the river.

This kind of scene has been encountered before. During the time in the Deep Sea Floating City, the entrance to the trench under Goode Manor, although it was not a stone tablet, was also imprinted with these two lines underwater.

At that time, Ji Dao said that the characters could illuminate demons and demons would appear when they passed by them. Later, Zheng Yun believed that the two lines of characters were probably written with some kind of radioactive mineral.

Maybe the stone tablet in front of me is not good either.

It can make people feel obvious discomfort, even if it has nothing to do with radioactivity, it is definitely not a good thing.

"It can be detoured from the rainforest."

Ji Dao pointed to both sides of the ancient river.

Zheng Yun nodded in agreement. Now that he had rowed the assault boat to the shore of the rainforest and carried the assault boat through the rainforest, he planned to go around the side and behind the lighthouse to see if he could find another way.

There is no danger in the rainforest.

No traces of ancient ruins were seen.

The journey was smooth, and after walking around two hundred meters into the rainforest, the strong sense of voyeurism dissipated, as if the eyes that were watching them looked away after they walked away.

have to say.

This feeling is amazing.

The ancient sea guards actually had such methods. As long as people entered the warning range, they would feel like they were being spied on, and once they walked out of the range, this sense of peeping would disappear.

Just this sense of voyeurism.

It can dissuade most thieves.

Those who don't know how to do it will be scared away long ago, and those who know how to do it will run faster. If someone is stubborn and insists on breaking in, then it depends on fate and Taoism, how many levels can they pass under the ancient sea guard.

Zheng Yun Jidao was 'obsessive', but they had no choice. Even with this warning, they had to go in and see what else the ancient sea guards had left behind.

After half an hour.

A group of four people walked around for 500 meters.

They cleared a rugged path in the tropical rain forest that led directly to the ancient river behind the lighthouse. The vines and branches along the way were cut off, but they could be restored within a few days.

"Master Immortal, how long is this ancient river?"

Ji Dao returned to the river and looked ahead. They had already circled behind the lighthouse, but the ancient river channel had not been cut off.

"The end is not far ahead."

Although Zheng Yun entered this place for the first time, he was very familiar with the surrounding environment. He had watched it dozens of times on the drone and knew their specific location at the moment.

The environment at this end of the lighthouse is no different from before, except that the location is deeper and the rainforest is more lush.

A few people briefly discussed and put the assault boat into the ancient river again. They first rowed to the lighthouse and used a submersible detector to observe the underwater environment to see if there was any danger.

So Ji Daogui will row the boat.

Zheng Yun held the screen and observed carefully.

It stands to reason that since there is a stone monument in front of the lighthouse, there must be mechanisms behind it, but they have been detecting it for a while, but they did not find any signs of danger.

More than 100 meters away from the lighthouse.

You can already see the light flue on the river, breaking through the turbid black water like a stalagmite, pointing straight upward.

The assault boat moved forward slowly.

When entering within 100 meters of the lighthouse atmosphere, that vague sense of peeping emerged again, but it was obviously weaker, and it seemed to come from the previous Triton Stone.

"A stone monument guards the front and back doors?"

Ji Dao touched his chin and thought carefully. It seemed that they couldn't get around the stone monument in the end. If they wanted to enter the lighthouse, they had to resist the sense of prying eyes. There was no other way to avoid it.

"No problem, open the door and meet the Yin soldiers."

Zheng Yun made a straightforward decision.

When faced with an undecided situation, the Yin Soldiers explore the path. As long as there is danger ahead, the Yin Soldiers will appear and physically test the source of the danger.

Although the Triton Stone is powerful, in front of the Yin soldiers who are not afraid of death, they can only show their methods obediently and let themselves watch from the sidelines how it will kill the Yin soldiers.

As soon as this order came out.

The rhythm is back in their hands.

The people present were very familiar with this process and quickly found a position to open the Immortal Gate. From the time Zheng Yun opened the mouth to the Yin soldiers walking out of the Immortal Gate, it only took less than three minutes to complete everything.

Thump thump thump.

Ten Yin soldiers, wearing diving suits of the archaeological team and carrying various detection equipment, jumped into the water and swam towards the lighthouse.

This is where Yin soldiers are better than drones.

Because the deadly mechanisms in the Haiwei ruins and ancient buildings of gods and ghosts do not target dead objects such as technological equipment, but only target living people with physical bodies, and only people can trigger the mechanisms.

It was difficult for the ancients to predict the future.

There is no way to think about the advent of drones.

And this is also self-defeating, making it difficult for drones to accurately detect the methods of gods and ghosts. If it cannot be triggered, it will detect nothing.

The submersible drone penetrated into the deepest part of the lighthouse in one go. The path was really smooth. If it were left to a Western explorer, it might have been ignored and entered directly.

Then there was bad luck along the way.

All kinds of gods and ghosts swarmed out.

If you are confused, you will suffer heavy casualties.

Yin soldiers are completely different. They can take risks on their own behalf, and can trigger all the methods of gods and ghosts. As long as you observe how they die, you can find solutions to the traps.

Everyone was waiting on the boat.

Zheng Yun used the camera carried by the Yin soldiers to determine the current location of the Yin soldiers and control the movements and directions of the Yin soldiers, which was more dexterous and convenient than drones.

The Yin soldiers went deep into the water.

Swim in a straight line towards the lighthouse.

Their destination is the observation window on the side of the lighthouse. Liu Ming had previously sent the diving detector into the lighthouse through this entrance, and the Yin soldiers could also get into the window.

Underwater visibility is limited.

Even the direction is difficult to discern.

Zheng Yun could only use the positioning instrument on the Yin soldiers, combined with the detector inside the lighthouse, and use the latter as the end point coordinates, allowing the Yin soldiers to find the lighthouse first and then find the window.

after a while.

The Yin soldier at the front of the team was the first to see the submerged lighthouse. The huge tower was hazy and mysterious in the black and green stagnant water, and the brick walls were covered with gray-black algae hairs.

"Is the Yin soldier okay?"

Ji Dao asked, staring at the screen.

The first Yin soldier even touched the lighthouse with his hands, but judging from the screen, its movements remained smooth.

"Look at it from a different perspective."

Zheng Yun switched his perspective to the Yin soldiers behind him.

The fifth Yin Soldier is in the middle of the team. From the camera in its hand, we can see that the first four Yin Soldiers have all swam to the lighthouse, with their legs swinging naturally in the water. It does not look like they have been attacked.

From this view.

These ten shady soldiers are like natural explorers entering the backwater lake. Carrying cameras and various equipment, they are filming and recording the special ecology of the backwater at the dark bottom of the river.

Nothing really happened.

These Yin soldiers are not dead.

It can also be seen from the detection bracelets carried with them that the heartbeat frequency of these Yin soldiers is almost the same as usual, and various data such as body temperature have no fluctuations and almost no changes.

Maybe they also felt the 'sense of peeping', but to the Yin soldiers, it didn't matter whether anyone was peeping or not. As long as they didn't die suddenly, it meant nothing happened.

"Keep looking for the window."

Zheng Yun gave orders to many underworld soldiers.

The broken window was nearby, but it would take some time to find it. The ten Yin soldiers spread out, like blind men groping around a lighthouse, and soon found their target.

This lookout window is quite large.

After the fourth Yin soldier found the window, he leaned half of his body in and pointed his camera inside.

Deep and dark.

The stairs are broken.

There were pieces of window sealing all over the floor.

Turn on the searchlight and scan around. There is no other debris in the corridor. Everything remains in the same state as it was hundreds of years ago. There are only some excrement and traces of swamp creatures.

"Enter."

Zheng Yun gave instructions.

The fourth Yin soldier got into the window first, and the other Yin soldiers swam nearby one after another, keeping a certain distance one after another, and slowly followed behind the fourth Yin soldier.

When they all got into the window and turned on the searchlights, the entire lighthouse corridor was like daytime, with high-power searchlights illuminating everything in all directions.

Look around.

Just an ordinary ancient ruins.

The corridor was narrow and deep and spiraled downwards. Ten Yin soldiers swimming caused the river water to fluctuate and the sand to slowly roll up. However, it was difficult to completely block the view, and one could still see clearly.

But then there are no lines.

Although Liu Ming drove the detector to the deepest point, he did so after getting lost. Not only did Zheng Yun not know about it, but even Liu Ming himself found it difficult to repeat it.

"Let me consider."

Ji Dao took out the drawings.

The construction drawings are very useful at this moment. They can take over from Zheng Yun and point out the direction for the Yin soldiers. They are not expected to be completely correct, but at least they can eliminate most of the wrong paths.

"Go down the steps first."

After the location is determined, the trail will indicate the route.

"Down."

Zheng Yun immediately gave the order and asked the ghost general to row forward and get closer to the lighthouse so that it could give orders more easily.

The ten Yin soldiers were divided into two teams. The two screens in Zheng Yun's hands showed the real-time perspective of the Yin soldiers in the queue.

The Yin soldiers slowly went deep along the corridor.

Under Ji Dao's command and attempts, the Yin soldiers quickly descended more than ten meters and discovered some abnormal phenomena.

In the dark room where fuel is stored in the lighthouse, there is no trace of fuel at all, only rotten boxes on the floor.

This is obviously unreasonable.

As a navigation guide, the lighthouse must ensure that it can be lit every night, so a large amount of fuel will be stored inside the lighthouse, at least one year or even many years' worth of materials.

Even if something happens to the lighthouse.

The fuel should not disappear either.

"I wonder what special materials were burned in this Tianji Lighthouse. Could it be eaten by swamp creatures as food?"

Ji Dao found it difficult to understand this situation.

"Rather than being eaten, it's more likely to be absorbed by plants or degraded by microorganisms over hundreds of years. Let's ignore that and continue reading to see what else there is."

Zheng Yun shook his head and put it down.

After all, this is a site that is hundreds of years old, and anything can happen. There is no need to seize on a small thing and study it in depth.

"Further down you will reach the base of the tower, the northwest corner of the wide hall on the first floor of the tower..." Jidao pointed the way while holding the drawing.

Didn't go far.

Sudden changes occur.

Something suddenly appeared in the Yin soldiers' perspective, dragging out a huge black shadow under the searchlight, which was reflected on the wall behind them. It quickly dodged from the Yin soldiers' right hand to their feet.

Zheng Yun quickly switched perspectives.

Try to capture this thing.

The advantage of having more people is that there are more viewing angles. After switching twice, Zheng Yun saw the true appearance of this object.

But this thing turned out to be not a living thing.

It is a copper lamp that is as tall as a man.

This lamp is of ancient style. It is usually placed at the four corners of the hall. It is tall and slender, holding a lamp plate. An open flame is lit in the plate to illuminate the surroundings, and various images are carved on the lamp body.

The reason why Zheng Yun caught it quickly was because the lamp fell to the ground and lay sideways behind Yin Bing, motionless, as if it had just fallen from a high altitude.

"look up."

Zheng Yun subconsciously asked the Yin soldiers to raise their heads.

The horrifying scene appeared without warning.

There were actually a large number of things hanging on the dome of the hall where the Yin soldiers were, all of which were supposed to be placed in the hall, including bookshelves, porcelain bottles, copper lamps, wooden boxes, and all kinds of sundries.

All hanging from the ceiling.

Tied tightly by a long and thick rope.

They were just above the Yin Soldiers' heads, about three meters high. They looked like a group of hanging corpses, or like wind chimes hanging on the roof, swaying gently with the disturbance of the water flow.

"This is……"

Ji Dao took a deep breath and thought carefully.

This scene is very difficult to understand. Why should everything in the hall be hung on the roof with ropes?

Could it be that the waves are coming?

Are you afraid these things will get wet?

But isn’t that a fart? A Triton is afraid of the waves. These trivial items will be flooded if they are flooded. At worst, they will go back and buy a new set.

But since that's not the reason.

What is the purpose of this move?

Could it be that the ancient people who guarded the lighthouse were crazy and possessed by ghosts and evil things, so they did such crazy things, but Triton couldn't find out the reason, so they were forced to seal the place?

"Don't worry, take a closer look."

Zheng Yun had other opinions.

Although the scene in front of me was strange, it was obviously illogical, that is, these ropes rarely broke, and the degree of decay of these items was not high.

They were in a backwater river.

There are so many mosquitoes and small fish in this river, and there are even more microorganisms and decomposers that it is difficult for anything to be preserved here for hundreds of years, but the hanging objects have not rotted into ashes.

why is that?

They are indeed antiquities.

But it can be preserved to this day.

There must be external influence to achieve this result. If you look closely at the things hanging on the roof, it seems that most of them are 'container types'. Whether they are porcelain bottles, boxes, or wooden boxes, even the fallen copper lamps are hollow inside...

Could there be something inside?

What's hidden in this copper lamp at your feet?