On the base of the Church of the Holy Innocent, there is a large area of ground that has collapsed, exposing huge holes and deep pits; an indescribable complex aura hits the face; and the bottom of the deep pit is suspected to have been deposited for many years. The sound of sewage water is rippling and flowing.
"My king." Immediately afterwards, Lieutenant Yule of the engineering company with gray and slightly curly hair also stepped forward and reported: "While the company was cleaning up the scattered skeletons in the Amadou Palace and cremating them on the spot, suddenly We encountered multiple ground collapses and discovered tunnels.”
"According to the direction and extension of this tunnel, we finally found the small church; but we did not expect that there was a larger cavity hidden under the base of the church; as a result, it collapsed as soon as we excavated, exposing this huge pit. , also causing injuries to more than ten people.”
"After preliminary exploration, as well as the rubbing patterns and building material sampling, it has been confirmed that this is the legendary underground tomb city of the royal capital, one of the exits that has been closed for many years. It is only judged from the traces of excavation that it was opened recently. Being opened,..."
The predecessor of the Holy Infant Church can be traced back to the end of the Second Dynasty (Lily) and the early days of the Third Dynasty (Acacia). The posthumous son of Compiègne II, who had been treated as a puppet since childhood, Victor I lived to adulthood in a comfortable life and under house arrest.
And like a precocious stallion, before the age of fifteen, he had affairs with more than two women around him; including wet nurses, teachers, maids, female officials, and even low-level maids who made beds and cleaned. Although he died of premature aging before getting married due to severe physical weakness.
But he left many heirs among the women around him. Although these children, without exception, were all in infancy, they died one after another together with their mothers. However, many local rebellions and separatist regimes took place under the banner of Victor I's illegitimate son.
Many years later, in the later years of the reign of "Fortunate" Westent, the founder and founder of the Third Dynasty (Acacia), a crisis of heirs suddenly appeared. The new generation of royal members died in infancy and early death one after another, and almost no one survived to adulthood.
Therefore, there were also rumors among the people at that time that this was the last curse from the last king of the previous dynasty, because the Acacia royal family broke their original oath and killed off the Lily's bloodline. For this reason, Westent had to hold a grand requiem mass and sacraments.
Finally, I got some kind of revelation, and in a forgotten corner of the Amadou Palace, I found a place where the remaining lilies were blooming; I built such a church of the Holy Infant on the spot. Only then did his grandson Besançon III, who lived to adulthood and was called the "Blessing King".
The huge maze called "Underground Tomb City" has an even longer history. It almost originated from the last generation of the Rose Dynasty, after the first change of the celestial sphere; a special era when aliens were most active and abnormal phenomena occurred frequently. Plague, famine and aliens almost turned the royal capital into a dead city.
As for those who survived, except for the royal family and their accompanying ministers and guards who were having fun in the royal castle and muddle along, they all hid in fearful groups in the excavated cellars, tunnels and caves, leaving the ground under the sun to Those aliens who are wreaking havoc.
Therefore, when the ancestors of the Lily Dynasty led the coalition of princes into the royal capital, they could only reluctantly clean up and rebuild the ruins of the city on the surface; then, they stuffed as many large pieces of corpses as possible underground that were unclaimed and uncollected. The caves and tunnels were filled in.
Despite this, frequent strange incidents and rumors of deformed creatures that occasionally appeared underground forced the new dynasty to abandon most of the old city on the left bank and choose to find another site on the right bank to build a brand new palace and city hall. , the urban area where nobles and officials reside.
However, with the stability of the dynasty's rule and the advent of peaceful times, more people came to the royal capital to seek life, and naturally filled up the mostly abandoned old city. After all, with the relatively high prices and living costs, the legend of the tiger-like tax collectors is just a legend.
Therefore, every person born and raised in Seine City has known from a very young age the legend of a city of bones/maze of tombs under the royal capital, as well as rumors and different versions of stories related to various strange and strange hedges; almost every mother They will tell relevant folk proverbs and nursery rhymes.
Even in the underground world/black market in Seine City, a special group called the Diggers/Burial Group was born; they have been digging and exploring the underground tomb city for generations, searching for ancient relics buried therein, and even special bone specimens. It is then sold to collectors for profit.
Coupled with the constant escaping of debtors, active criminals and smugglers. Therefore, this is an underground network and space that has become increasingly complex through continuous excavation and expansion over the ages. If you are not relatively well prepared, you will suffer big losses if you rush into it.
Therefore, even though many cleanings and purges were carried out during the Second and Third Dynasties, little effect was achieved. So after the establishment of the Fourth Dynasty, they simply used construction waste and waste materials from large-scale urban renovation and reconstruction to fill in all the entrances found on the surface.
This is how the newly planned city of Seine is now basically far away from these underground troubles and legends for a century of long-term peace and stability. However, as the Amadou Palace continued to collapse, large areas of the ground collapsed. These layers of accumulation have also revealed the network tunnels buried underground.
However, after listening to the report, Jiang Tian secretly sighed with self-deprecation. It seems that he is destined to be in the sewers, or that he has trouble getting through these underground network channels. Even in this different time and space of the medieval era, can we still not get rid of the shadow of the sewer walker?
But fortunately, Jiang Tian is no longer the lonely man who had to fight alone. He now controls the political power of the Sealand Kingdom, and also has an entire country's resources and properties, a population base of tens of millions, and an army of more than 100,000 under his command, which can be driven and commanded.
Therefore, before Jiang Tian arrived, the engineering team on site had been working continuously for a period of time. They built a large area of scaffolding, wheel cranes, lifting platforms, and multiple pipes for pumping water around the huge potholes. Large machinery driven by;
The huge wheel that rotates with the sound of whipping turns into the Archimedean water-drawing mechanism driven by levers and gears, spiraling in a spiral shape; one stream after another green water with old silt; continues The water spurted onto the ground and was directed into the temporary ditch.
Along with the cranes going up and down, there are platforms that are constantly rising and falling; soldiers are loading the excavated and cleared landfills or the remains of the killed aliens on small carts and transporting them to the ground like a flowing stream. Undergo screening, inspection and subsequent crushing and cremation.
Occasionally, some injured soldiers were sent out from the channel opened below. Then, more fully armed soldiers who were ready, as well as combat groups composed of hunters, monks and knights, filed in orderly one after another as follow-up support and supplements.
】
Therefore, when Jiang Tian, who was standing on the lifting platform, reached the bottom of the deep pit with only a shallow layer of water and silt left, he also heard the faint sound of explosions, sound waves, and flames coming from the corridor. , and the smell of burning bone fat.
But after Jiang Tian, who was surrounded by people, stepped into the corridor, he saw another scene. The spacious corridor has been paved with a layer of lime and charcoal chips, which absorbs most of the moisture. The moss on both sides has also been burned and peeled off, revealing the covered wall.
There are also some weird relief patterns. Although they are quite rough, you can still vaguely see some human figures wearing armor, and various wolf-headed bat bodies, or upright lizard shapes, or even ones with tentacles. Flowers, fighting fiercely.
Immediately, Jiang Tian came across the first corner, which was also the patio that had been re-excavated after the collapse above. There was already a small group of soldiers guarding here, and temporary fortifications and defense lines were established on the spot. Buckets and baskets, continue digging to expand space.
Even in a row of derricks that extend below, seven or eight large metal mirrors are used to stagger and refract the sunlight from the ground; directly illuminating the dark corridor at the bottom of the deep well. There were also faint puffs of smoke evaporating from the exposed mud and sewage.
In addition, Jiang Tian also heard the whirring sound from above. It was the original exhaust fan rotated by animal power, which was continuously ventilating and ventilating the corridor connected to the patio. Therefore, even if such a large group of people are marching through it, they will not feel much stuffy or suffocated.
It wasn't until he passed through several patios that were dug out one after another that he suddenly appeared in an underground hall. However, the next moment, Jiang Tian was attracted by the densely packed walls of skeletons in front of him, as well as the dots of phosphorus fire emanating from the four walls.
Several gaps have been blown out on the walls of these stacked bones, and there are constant fragments of fluorescence floating in the air from the broken bones, illuminating everything brightly. Under the illumination of these phosphorus fires, there were strange corpses lying on the ground.
There are the most common corpses with sharp claws and cracked teeth, jagged dog monsters with deformed big heads, and fragmented skeleton spirits; there are also water monsters with swollen mucus all over their bodies, drowned monsters that look like mermaids but with ulcers all over their bodies, and skinny and yellowed foul ghosts. It just extended to the depths of the walls of bones.
At the end of the wall of bones, there were two tall statues covered with holes and cracks, broken and falling to the ground. These two were obviously made into the form of a spear-wielding knight and a sword-wielding warrior, and were hidden among the many reliefs on the edge of the hall, acting as guardian stone spirits/wither monsters;
If you approach rashly without preparation, you may easily be caught off guard in a limited space that is narrow and difficult to maneuver. It's just that they encountered the special forces of the Free Army; as long as they determined a deliberate target, they would throw explosives or incendiary bombs to clear the way.
