Chapter 233: The Right Target
Since the Yaki Orochi is basically the goal of this time, the rest is much simpler. The only thing we need to do is to follow the clues and see what Yaki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga are doing.
It is not easy to find the clues. Since the other party has a purpose and does not want to be discovered, of course it has done enough hidden means. Although we have discovered the underground secret passage now, it is not that simple to find the locations of Hachiki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga.
Although this task is not simple, things always have to be done. First, I contacted the guild and briefly talked about my new discovery with Matsumoto Masaki and others, and then I planned to send Amakura Tokubu away first. This guy's strength is actually only equivalent to the level of a level 500 player. I really can't fully protect such people around me. Besides, this time I'm not going to travel. I'm going to find news about Hachiki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga. These two guys are not simple. For such an opponent, I must do my best and bring a burden by my side and it's purely not to feel happy with myself.
Although Amakusa Tobudou was very reluctant to leave, the guy finally let go after I tried to persuade him until I started to threaten him. After I sent away the rather reluctant Amakusa Tobudou, I began to study the authenticity in a comprehensive way. This thing is the main clue so naturally I cannot let go.
To find the exit on the other side of the tunnel, the easiest way is of course to go down to the tunnel, so I just put away other summoned creatures and jumped down the passage dug by the Trail Blazers.
In order to hide his whereabouts, the other party dug this tunnel very deeply. Thanks to the fact that it is on the mountain, if such a tunnel is dug on the flat ground, groundwater may be dug out.
After following the passage opened by the Trail Blazer for me to the passage left by the other party, I realized that the underground tunnel network was much wider than I thought. If I had just doubted it before, then now I am really sure that the one who grabbed people must be the Yaqi Orochi, because this tunnel network is actually as wide as an undersea tunnel. A huge vault passage about ten meters high and a horizontal width of more than fifteen meters is obviously not dug out by humans. If it were just a group of humanoid creatures to kidnap someone through the tunnel, it would be very luxurious to dig out a tunnel that was two meters high and two meters wide. Why do they have to make such a big tunnel? Are they planning to change this place into a human defense project? So, the creatures used here must be big guys, otherwise there would be no need to dig such a large tunnel.
After entering this huge authentic network, I was first surprised by the huge amount of this place, and then I found that it was not as dead as I imagined. On the contrary, this place seemed to be very lively. As soon as I entered the place, I immediately heard moans coming and going around. This moan was a bit like the painful wailing of the injured buffalo. The sound was very low and a little hoarse.
Others may not know much about this strange sound, but I am really familiar with it because it is the zombie's cry. To be precise, the meaningless moans made by zombies. Zombies do not rely on this sound to communicate, nor do they use it to express any emotions, but they just like to call it twice from time to time.
This is an authentic tunnel, surrounded by enclosed illusions. The sound will not disappear quickly here, but will reflect repeatedly several times before completely disappearing. In addition, there are obviously more than one sound source here, so the sound sounds like one after another.
As for me, of course I wouldn't be afraid of zombies, but there were so many zombies in this place that still surprised me a little. But being surprised does not mean being scared, and I am not afraid of these things, so the first thing I did was to run towards the nearest zombie.
Zombies are different from ordinary undead creatures. They have to be divided into two types: East and West. If all of them are Western zombies, that would be pretty good, because I can get some information from the mouths of these undeads. But if these are Eastern zombies, it would be troublesome.
Western zombies are a kind of undead formed by the souls of the dead after the death of the dead or the body is occupied by other souls. To put it simply, they use their souls to drive the corpse to move. I happen to be a dark profession, and I have a very high affinity for undead creatures. Just guide you casually and you can get a lot of useful information from those undeads. However, the formation principle and structure of Eastern zombies are completely different from hope zombies. Eastern zombies are a monster whose souls leave or dissipate after the death of a person, and then the corpse naturally wakes up and follows instinct to start moving, and finally grows up gradually.
The zombies in the West belong to a branch of the large group of undead creatures, while the zombies in Asia are an independent biological system, which has nothing to do with other creatures. In fact, the saint of the Undead is still a soul creature. The difference is just that the soul carries different ways, but it is undeniable that undead creatures have souls, which is easiest to see in the skeleton soldiers, because you can see the burning soul fire in their heads as long as you look in their eye sockets. Although that thing is complete
The soul is different, but it is really a soul. And the Eastern zombies must be bad. Although these guys are also very intelligent in the later stages, unfortunately, the early zombies are really just zombies. Their intelligence level is basically the same as insects. They only know the simple reaction of seeking profit and avoiding harm, and there is no complete logic. Moreover, because these Eastern zombies don’t even have a soul, even if they use Ling’s soul search method, it’s useless. After all, they don’t even have a soul, so what else do you search for?
While praying that I must not be an Asian zombie, I ran to the nearest zombie. At the same time, the black magic guide aura under my feet completely unfolded, and the dark aura on my body spread like a rolling thick black fog. If a real undead creature didn't say he wanted to bow his head, he would at least show quite politeness. However, the zombie in front of me who seemed to eat well showed extraordinary enthusiasm, because he turned around and gave me a warm hug, and then opened his mouth and chewed at my neck.
When, without any surprise, the zombie's teeth broke, and the guy was knocked away by a lightning chain for more than ten meters away. When he fell to the ground, he immediately turned into a pile of black and gray, and there was really only a little bit of shit left.
Although the zombie was too fast just now, I didn't even see what his face looked like, there was no need to ask about this reaction. It was definitely an Eastern zombie. Only those brainless guys would feel such pure dark power and bite it with their mouths.
Since there are all Oriental zombies here, I can’t ask anything. I simply waved my hand and let the dart out, and then said to him: “Go and help me find the authentic exit.”
Although there are zombies everywhere in this place, with the dart's speed of light movement, the zombies may have a lot of effort to see his shadow, let alone catch him.
This tunnel network is almost a spider web near the temple, with upward vertical channels everywhere, and the number is significantly higher than the number of missing people. These channels show that when Yaqi Orochi and the others were robbing people here, they were not accurate at one time. These extra channels should be mistaken actions, or channels used to confirm the situation first. Of course, in my opinion, the greater possibility is that Yaqi Orochi and the others directly dug up such an authentic group, and then squatted in these places. Once a target person approaches a certain tunnel entrance, they launch an attack to drag the person down, and then quickly seal the entrance. This becomes a divine hidden incident, and others can no longer find them.
Although there are many exits for these passages, they have one thing in common: they are all concentrated near the temple and they are all vertically upward. The one I want to dart to find is not such an entrance, but an entrance and exit far away from the temple. That place should be the entrance for the other party to enter the tunnel, and when the other party evacuated, 80% of them also evacuated from there. As long as we can find this entrance and exit, we can find more clues and continue chasing.
The speed of the dart is really exaggerated. After only a few seconds, the entrance and exit were found. The obvious difference between this entrance and exit is that it is very far from the authentic group we came down, and it is actually connected to an underground lava pipeline below.
After finding the passage, I no longer delayed my time and directly summoned Yeying to run wildly. This wide passage brought me a lot of convenience to the journey. Yeying ran away for a while and we found that the wide passage suddenly turned into a small hole. The passage that was originally enough for several trains to run parallel suddenly shrank into a small passage that was only enough for two people to run parallel. Although this passage is still much larger than the ordinary tunnel, it is much smaller than the passage in front.
Judging from the shape and shape of this passage, I guess that the Yaki Orochi probably turned into a human form and passed through here. As for why the rear part was so wide, I think it might be related to the arresting personnel. Perhaps the Yaki Orochi was able to get rid of those people silently because he used his own body at that time, so he quickly took away the people. The wide passage there was obviously deliberately made it so big to adapt to the huge size of the Yaki Orochi.
Although the passage here has become much narrower, the ground is much quieter. The zombies are concentrated in the spacious passage there, but there is not one here. Although I am very puzzled why there are so many zombies wandering in the passage that has been dug for a while, I can understand that there are no zombies here.
The reason why there are no zombies near the entrance of this small passage is because the entrance of this passage is connected to the underground lava pipeline, and this lava pipeline is definitely an active volcanic pipeline, and lava must flow through it. I can feel the heat coming from the entrance of the passage, and these are the things that zombies hate the most. Western zombies have different hobbies, but Eastern zombies are the same. They cannot touch fire at the beginning of the first stage. Any high-temperature and dry things are not good for them. The cold and humid environment is the environment that Eastern zombies like. This place is connected to the lava river. The temperature inside is so high that zombies will definitely not come.
I continued walking along this small passage, which was only about a hundred or ten meters in total. The passage ended directly and entered that section of lava pipeline. The lava pipeline was not big. The location I entered was in the area near the top of the pipeline, and below was the lava river flowing slowly.
This place is different from those normal lava tubes. There is no area on both sides where you can leave. From now on, you will fall directly into the lava. Fortunately, I have enough magic pets, and I am not afraid of the high temperature of the lava. So I ride the night shadow and land in the lava lake directly.
Ye Ying is actually a guy who likes fire. You see, he usually sneezes and sprays sparks outwards. He will know that he is definitely not afraid of fire. After entering the lava river, Ye Ying became obviously excited. He landed directly on the lava river, and then stepped on the lava and ran forward happily like running on a small country road. If it weren't for the scary lava river under his feet and the blue flames spewing out of his nostrils, the picture would look like a pastoral wind. However, with the surging earth fire, now it's the devil wind that looks a little heavier.
The location where we enter the lava pipeline is not at the beginning, but in the middle, so there are two directions, but there are more obvious residues of divine power in this place, so we don’t have to explore the way, just run in the direction of the residue of divine power.
I have been running along this lava pipeline for a long time. I guess I have already run out at least 200 miles, but the passage has not ended yet. I feel that this passage may be longer, so I had to let Ye Ying accelerate. Ye Ying was just walking like a walk. Although the speed was not slow, I didn't play all my strength after all. Now I was urging me to the extreme immediately after I was urging me to the extreme. Sometimes when I encountered a curve because I didn't have time to slow down, Ye Ying simply ran directly to the wall outside the curve with a row of Mars, and then ran across the corner like a corner during a motorcycle race, and then returned to the river and started to continue running.
After completely letting go of the speed, we quickly left the lava pipeline, but at this time we were at least three or four hundred kilometers away from where we entered the pipeline. In order not to be discovered, the two guys, Hachiki Orochi and Ghost Nobunaga, were able to hide, and sneaked over from such a faraway place. No wonder Buddhism could not find clues.
Although we have broken away from the lava pipeline now, it does not mean that we have entered the lava nest of Yaki Orochi and others, but have just broken away from the lava pipeline. At the end of this lava pipeline is a vertical well, and there are three openings on the well wall, two of which are lava pipelines, injecting a large amount of flowing lava into the bottom of the well, while the remaining pipeline is ordinary groundwater.
Because there is a stream of water and two streams of magma in this vertical well, the airflow here seems particularly chaotic, and no remnants of divine power can be felt here. However, after trying the other two holes, I was lucky to find the remnants of divine power again.
The Yakio Orochi probably entered the underground river opposite, with obvious divine power remaining there, so I went straight over.
There is no way to use Yeying to transport it in the underground river, but the underground river here is very narrow, so Xiaolongnu can't do it either, so she can only ask Adina to help.
The width of this underground river is only three or four meters, and the depth is only one meter. Even if you stand up and walk, it is OK, but if you don’t get faster, it is true. Moreover, the top of the cave above your head is only one meter high from the water surface, and there are some short hanging stalactites in it. If you want to not bump into these things, it is best to swim in the water honestly.
With Adina dragging us, our speed will naturally not be slow. Moreover, the Yaqi Orochi and the others probably felt that the distance was far enough, so after walking not far in this underground river, a horizontal fork appeared. This fork also poured into the underground river, so it was the upper reaches of the underground river just now, and the water flow was naturally much smaller than the downstream river.
I think this underground river is more like a crack than an underground river. Although many of the places have been smoothed by flowing water, you can still see the cracks of intertwined teeth. Moreover, the width of this place is indeed not wide, only a little over one meter. Although it does not affect people's movements, it is actually very depressing.
After continuing along the crack for a while, we suddenly found a vertical crack above the crack. This crack is a little narrower than the watery crack below, but it is vertically upward, so this narrow state is quite suitable for climbing. After feeling it, I confirmed that the residual power of the divine power also moved upwards. I quickly put away Adina, then I supported the walls on both sides of the crack with both hands and started climbing upwards.
The upward crack is very long, and there are some turns during this period. I calculated that after about a hundred meters of rise, I finally found that the crack turned into a horizontal passage. After entering the horizontal passage here, there is a small room not far ahead. This is a real room, not naturally formed. There are wall tiles around the room, floor tiles are also laid on the floor, and a lot of things are placed in it.
From the structural perspective, this room is basically a cellar. The narrow slit I passed when I first entered the room can be seen from this side to confirm that it is a natural crack. It is not difficult to guess from these things that the cellar appeared before the crack, and then it may be caused by an earthquake or something, which leads to the crack, which is connected to the underground river below.
I felt it a little in this room. There was a very obvious residue of divine power, which should be left by a very powerful god. This is in line with the strength of Yaqi Orochi.
Because I had already entered the artificial building, I began to be careful. I ran so far underground just now, and I knew where it was. If it was Ghost Nobunaga's old nest, I would definitely be alarmed when I suddenly crawled out.
Fortunately, there seemed to be no one guarding me here. I carefully confirmed that there was no one outside the door, and then I left the cellar. After I came up, I found it was a woodshed, and it was very ordinary.
When you open the small door of the wood-room, you will walk out. There is a small yard. There is a small pool in the center of the yard. The row of houses on the left side of the wood-room is obviously a kitchen. The row of taller ones in the front left is probably the main living room, and the courtyard wall on the right is.
This is a very standard house, and there is nothing special about it, but the problem lies in this. What is Yakio Osaka? If it is okay, he will go into the house?
No matter what kind of place it is, I first summoned Chili to scan the entire house with a range of mental power field. The answer I got was that there was no one in the house, and the house was actually not an ordinary resident courtyard, but a side courtyard of a large courtyard, and there were many yards connected nearby.
Obviously, this is a super large manor, and it has a large yard with a small yard, with a very large area. However, there is a very amazing answer in Chili's report, that is, there is no one here now.
Since there is no one, I don’t have to be careful. I summoned the demon pets and started to inspect the entire yard with great fanfare. I found that the place was very big. No, it should be said to be outrageous. This place is much larger than an ordinary city park, with at least thirty yards inside and outside, and countless rooms. Although it is incomparable to the imperial palace, it is at least the size of a mansion at the level of the princes.
This kind of place should have lived with a super nobleman and brought countless maids and servants, but now it seems that this place is empty, and the most amazing discovery is that there are traces of battle in some rooms. Although the traces do not seem to be obvious, there are indeed traces of battle, and blood has been found in several places.
After getting such a reward, I suddenly understood where the zombies came from. The other party must have used the passage in the cellar here to grab people, but the owner here obviously did not intend to cooperate, and the battle occurred. However, in order to cover up the facts, try not to be discovered. So after killing all the people here, the other party transported all the bodies to the authentic network there, so that ordinary people could not find out the situation here. As for why all those people turned into zombies, I don’t know this for the time being. It may be that there are problems with the environment in the temple, or the people who killed these guys may have problems. Anyway, there are many factors and cannot be analyzed for the time being.
"Ling."
"exist."
"Check what exactly is here."
"clear."
After answering my question, Ling immediately stood there, then inserted his staff to the ground, and then saw circles of energy ripples rippling. After waiting for more than ten seconds, Ling suddenly opened his eyes and said, "There is a city near where we are. There seems to be a leveling point behind it, and there are many monsters. The mountains and forests on both sides should also be leveling places. This house is stuck here, and it is likely to be a large NPC concentration."
There are often some NPCs living outside the city in the game, but most of them are single-family houses such as woodcutters or hunters. Such large estates are relatively rare. However, although they are rare, I have seen them once or twice, which is not too strange. However, there are only one person killed here and there, which is a bit troublesome. However, Ling quickly said to me: "Master. When I checked just now, I found that there is not no one here."
"Not there is no one? Are you saying there are people here?"
Ling nodded and said, "In front of the mansion, there is a archway a little further outside the courtyard wall. There are four people under the archway. Judging from the strength of the soul, it should be armed personnel such as soldiers."
I didn't find it strange to Ling who found the person who did not find the person, especially after knowing the other party's location. The mental detection distance of the pepper was not as far as Ling's soul detection, and I just asked her to detect the house at that time. Ling said that the other party was under a archway a little further outside the house, which means that it had exceeded the scope of the house. No wonder the pepper didn't find it. Fortunately, when we searched the courtyard before, we did not make any sound, otherwise it would be bad to attract the guards there.
"Follow me to see."
After reclaiming most of the summoned creatures, I only took Ling to the gate of the mansion over there. The gate of the mansion was tied up from inside, but it was too easy to do this. After all, the courtyard wall is only more than three meters high, and so many people can fly in this world, it is even more surprising that they can jump over the wall. Besides, they also have the ability to control objects from a distance.
In order to avoid disturbing the people there, Ling and I just climbed up from the wall of the courtyard, then stretched our heads and looked out.
Sure enough, there was a archway about seventy or eighty meters away from the gate of the mansion here. There were four Japanese samurai holding long weapons standing below, looking like guards.
I don't know what these four people do, but they are so close to the mansion and standing there like guards, so it is absolutely impossible not to know that there is no one in the yard. No matter who they sent to guard here, they can always ask for some information.
Thinking of this, I didn't continue to hide, so I summoned the princess and placed it outside the courtyard wall.
The guards there were very ordinary existences, with average strength and weak resistance. The princess just dazzled them in just a few seconds, and then obediently walked to the door of the house like sleepwalking. After I opened the door and put them in, I immediately started asking the princess and Ling to cooperate in interrogating them. Unexpectedly, they hit the target directly.
"Who are you?" Ling just asked this.
The guy who was pointed at the answer was dumbfounded and said, "We are the field force of the Ghost Hand Alliance."
The Ghost Hand Alliance is the guild of Ghost Nobunaga. These guys are actually Ghost Nobunaga's people, so the problem is already very clear.
Chapter completed!