It turns out that
As a princess, Princess Li Qingyan's holding skills are indeed much better than Ran Qingmo's Bing Tuozi.
I hugged him and ran around, and he didn't feel dizzy at all.
If it were Da Bing Tuozi's running method of running on his feet, he would probably have started retching on the ground by now.
Thinking about it, Xu Yuan smiled unconsciously and patted his arms. The woman who held him in her arms said softly:
"Put me down first."
"Um."
Li Qingyan glanced at him with lowered eyes, bent over with a smile, gently put it down, and said softly: "Be careful."
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The toes hit the ground,
Looking at her tall, slender figure, her heroic yet gentle figure, and her condescending red phoenix eyes, Xu Yuan's heartbeat inexplicably accelerated for a moment.
hiss.
Damn it, why does it feel like he has become a princess?
This bad girl really has too many tricks up her sleeve.
But a real man can bend and stretch, so he can take him back in the future.
The corridor behind them was as dark as ink, and the two of them were standing on the cliff extending from the corridor.
There is no cave ceiling above, no abyss below.
The wind at the entrance of the corridor was cold and biting, blowing her long hair. Li Qingyan looked into the distance, his eyebrows slightly wrinkled:
"Prince-in-law, this cave does not seem to be naturally formed, and there are heavy traces of digging using magic.
"and,
"There seems to be no black dead germ carpet like before in this cave."
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Xu Yuan glanced at the inner wall of the cave near the cliff with half-squinted eyes.
Just as Li Qingyan said, those lush brown-red carpets spread to the exit of the tunnel and stopped abruptly. The inner wall of the cave was very smooth and did not appear to be naturally formed, and there was no vegetation entrenched on it.
Looking along the smooth inner wall of the cave into the distance, Xu Yuan could not see the mountain wall on the other side of the cave at all, even with the energy left in Li Qingyan's body.
some,
Just endless darkness.
And the huge underground city at the bottom of the abyss beneath the cliff is also dimly hidden in the darkness.
Li Qingyan observed Xu Yuan's expression and suddenly spoke again:
"Judging from your expression, Prince Consort, it seems that your Prime Minister's Office has no information about this cave and this underground city?"
Xu Yuan glanced at her and spit out:
"have."
The words fell,
After a moment of silence, he added:
"But not much."
"not much?"
Li Qingyan muttered without any nonsense and said directly: "Then do we need to go down and have a look?"
"Don't worry."
Xu Yuan pondered without making a reply, trying to recall the relevant information about the Deathly Silent Underground Palace in his mind.
To be honest, he didn't remember that there was such a mammoth ancient underground city in the Black Death Underground Palace.
Fortunately, he quickly found a "map" that matched the surrounding scenery.
There is also a huge cave outside the wild copy of the Deathly Silent Underground Palace, but inside it is just a shabby village consisting of a few broken houses and mysterious sculptures.
Thinking of this, Xu Yuan had a slightly strange expression.
It’s not that the change is too big. After all, he has seen many cities that can be run in more than ten seconds in "Cangyuan" turned into giant cities where millions of people gathered.
Such a majestic ancient city appears in the lair of the White Walkers. It looks weird no matter how it looks.
Xu Yuan didn't care about these artificial creations at the beginning. After all, there was no information about the White Walkers in Cangyuan.
Combined with the weird sculptures in the village, as well as the undead characteristics and disgusting tentacles displayed by subsequent monsters, he defaulted to the assumption that this dead underground palace was the stronghold or even the main altar of a certain cult.
According to the knowledge reserve in his mind, he directly imagined a drama in which a cult committed suicide, created a group of monsters through "sacrifice", and then burned himself with fire to destroy his hometown.
But now it seems that this is not the case at all.
Xu Yuan stared at the quiet ancient city below, quickly summarizing the known information in his mind.
Can White Walkers also build houses?
In other words,
Did the White Walkers also have civilization?
"Then let's go down and take a look."
In the silence, Xu Yuan's calm voice clearly reached Li Qingyan's ears.
Without saying anything, Li Qingyan leaned down neatly and held Princess Xu Yuan in his arms. His eyes were slightly lowered and his voice was soft:
"Jump right down?"
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The woman's body felt soft to the touch, and Xu Yuan suddenly realized that it was actually quite nice to experience this irresistible tenderness once in a while.
But how can a man stay depressed and stay under others for a long time?
Xu Yuan glanced around and replied calmly:
"Jump directly. The way out of this underground palace should be near this city."
After saying that, he silently reached out and hooked Li Qingyan's neck.
In the previous life of "Cangyuan", the player fell into this dead underground palace through a cave, and the landing place was an ordinary corridor near the underground ancient city.
In other words, as long as he and Li Qingyan find the tunnel, they can return to the ground through the cave that reaches directly to the ground.
Silently, Li Qingyan stepped slightly, and the wind whistled by his ears again.
It was as if the bottom of the abyss shrouded in black mist quickly magnified and became clear in front of his eyes. When he was about to land, a weak and precise source of energy emanated from Li Qingyan's body.
Then, those jade feet wrapped in brown-red armor gently stepped on the bottom of the abyss.
Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan walked side by side on the stone road to the ancient city with solemn expressions.
Yes, a stone road.
A not-so-wide road was artificially built at the bottom of the black abyss, and large fields for growing crops appeared on both sides of the road.
In this field, some strange-looking crops are being planted, as orderly as a field of rapeseed flowers. It seems that the fruits on the hanging branches are about to mature.
There was silence all around, except for the rustling footsteps of Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan.
For a long time,
Xu Yuan suddenly asked:
"Qing Yan, these crops can actually grow underground without sunlight. Do you know what they are?"
Li Qingyan, while alerting the surroundings, replied softly:
"It's not the crops that are the problem, it's the soil. The soil under this black abyss is Baixi soil."
"Baixirang?" Xu Yuan frowned.
"A kind of soil that can grow rare medicinal materials is quite precious."
As he said that, Li Qingyan winked at Xu Yuan and said half-jokingly: "As the prince consort said before, if we go out, we can make a fortune just by relying on such a vast Baixi soil under the black abyss."
Xu Yuan was speechless for a moment, then asked solemnly:
"Qing Yan, you should have seen signs of human activity here, right?"
Li Qingyan glanced at him and nodded:
"If no one takes care of it, even a hundred-year-old soil will become overgrown with weeds after thousands of years."
Xu Yuan looked at the city wall that was getting closer and closer, touched his chin, narrowed his eyes and smiled:
"In other words, there are still humans here."
Before the words fell,
"Dang!"
"Dang!"
Two sounds of bow strings being stretched suddenly sounded!
With the blessing of the Black Death Armor and the Blood Yuan Heart Destruction Technique, Xu Yuan could still capture the incoming black shadow even if he was only at the fifth level of soul condensation.
They were two giant crossbow arrows coming from the city wall!
One shot at him, and the other shot at Li Qingyan.
Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan's eyes showed a thoughtful look, without any intention of avoiding it.
And for a moment,
A white jade hand half covered by thin brown armor appeared in front of him.
"Buzz——"
A trembling sound.
The strong wind blew up Xu Yuan's long hair, and the sharp arrow tip was less than half a foot away from his eyebrows.
The half-foot-long giant crossbow arrow was directly caught in Li Qingyan's hand, and the tail end was constantly trembling due to the strong inertia.
Another giant crossbow arrow shot at Li Qingyan hit the target, but was directly shattered by her graceful curves.
These two giant crossbows came from the ancient city.
However, without Li Qingyan's source energy blessing, Xu Yuan could not clearly see the scene above the ancient city in the pitch-black environment, and asked casually:
"Is it a human?"
Holding the giant crossbow, Li Qingyan looked at the ancient city with interest and asked in a clear voice:
"Looks like a human, kill him?"
Xu Yuan thought for a moment:
"Is there any danger? If not, take me there first to have a look."
Li Qingyan shook his head, his phoenix eyes flashing red as he stared at the city:
"No, those "people" on the city wall have energy fluctuations of only the seventh level."
more than one.
Xu Yuan frowned:
"Take me over there and have a look."
The words fell,
Li Qingyan didn't say anything, he just put his arms around Xu Yuan's waist and jumped forward.
Miles of distance passed by in an instant.
The two quietly landed on the sentry tower at the head of the ancient city. Xu Yuan immediately heard a deliberately lowered voice coming from below:
"Those strange ghosts are here! Go and inform Lord Siming and let the Blood Armor Guards prepare for war."
"Don't stop, keep pulling out the bed crossbow!"
There was a bit of dialect in Da Yan's speech, but I could barely understand it.
Xu Yuan responded to the reputation,
On the tower below, a group of busy "soldiers" were mobilizing before the war.
Their clothes are a bit unusual, probably because of the lack of supplies underground, and their bodies are basically made of woven plants.
However, as soldiers, the soldiers on the walls of this ancient city seemed somewhat inadequate.
Xu Yuan was used to seeing elites like the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army. The preparations of these people seemed unfamiliar and a bit funny to Xu Yuan.
He even saw some of them huddled in the corner out of fear of disobedience.
However, the physical structure of these people seems a bit strange.
He, a fifth-level soul condensing who has practiced the blood color technique, cannot see a distance of several miles away, but these underground palace people whose source energy cannot fluctuate beyond the seventh level can actually see him.
Xu Yuanzheng was thinking,
The group of "soldiers" below seemed to finally realize that something was wrong, and their voices vibrated with fear:
"President, Commander? The two White Walkers are missing."
"What?"
The man called the chief suddenly turned around and saw the empty stone road. He seemed to realize something and quickly shouted in a low voice:
"Hold on, don't panic, just wait until Master Si Ming comes over!"
As the voice of the "Commander" came out, panic still spread directly on the city wall.
Some soldiers with Yuan Qi on their bodies were frightened by the approaching death, and gradually lost their minds and cursed through gritted teeth:
"Hold on? How to hold on?! This kind of speed is obviously those striped white ghosts who can turn us into monsters!"
"What bullshit, Si Ming, can't you just make sacrifices to those monsters and protect the mortals? Aren't mortals just there to make sacrifices? It's been this way for generations."
"It's all you bastards. When the priest was here, you only provided two hundred mortals to those monsters every year. It was the woman Si Ming who killed the priest!"
"Two years ago, Diyang City was massacred by those striped ghosts. Now it's better. It's our turn, hahaha."
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Chaos continued to spread on the city walls, and the enemy was not even seen, and morale collapsed.
Xu Yuan listened to the shouts below and looked to the side:
"Qing Yan, what do you think?"
Li Qingyan lowered his eyes and shook his head gently:
"A bunch of weaklings. There probably isn't a decent general in this city."
Xu Yuan laughed dumbly.
If Li Qingyan's soldiers dared to behave like this, they would have been taken out and beheaded long ago.
Shaking his head, Xu Yuan whispered, gently raised his finger and pointed at the crowd below:
"I know, I'm referring to the underground city system here. Don't you think it's a little strange?"
Li Qingyan narrowed his phoenix eyes:
"It's really strange. Even the body structure has changed. These people should have been living here underground for generations since thousands of years ago.
"But according to what you said, my prince-in-law, the military level currently displayed by their city cannot be continued under that group of White Walkers. Not to mention a first-level White Walker, even a third-level White Walker can defeat this city. Butchered."
"yes."
Xu Yuan raised his eyes and looked at the inner wall of the cave hidden in the darkness in the distance, and said faintly: "This is indeed strange."
The current situation is completely beyond Xu Yuan's grasp.
At the very least,
In the dead underground palace in "Cangyuan", Xu Yuanke never encountered any living person, not even the bones of the dead.
The only thing that can move is the player himself.
However, after listening to the words of the soldiers below who burst out out of fear, and combined with the information he was given while chatting with Old Man Luo in his previous life, he could barely figure out the current situation.
first,
This dead underground palace covers a really large area, so large that there are far more than one underground city and giant cave.
In other words,
In "Cangyuan", the dilapidated city he encountered was not the one in front of him.
It might be the "Diyang City" that the soldier mentioned just now, or it might be something else.
Secondly,
The level of cultivators and military equipment possessed by the "human beings" living in these underground cities are completely incomparable to those of the strange ghosts entrenched in the dead underground palace.
For thousands of years, they could only exchange "peace" through "sacrifice".
But when you think about it, a problem arises.
Although Old Man Luo said that high-level White Walkers have spiritual intelligence, it will continue to be erased as time goes by, and eventually turn into a beast that only knows how to kill and transform its own kind.
In this case, why can the "human beings" here use sacrifices in exchange for surviving?
Thinking of this,
Xu Yuan frowned a little bit and looked at Li Qingyan:
"Qing Yan, I probably know what's going on here."
Li Qingyan seemed to be thinking about this question, blinked, looked back and asked:
"Is this ancient city for captive breeding?"
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Xu Yuan was slightly surprised by the other party's intelligence, but after looking at this ancient giant city, he sighed faintly:
"right,
"This underground palace,
"It is most likely a testing ground built by the human race thousands of years ago to study creatures like the White Walkers."
(End of chapter)
