Chapter 276 Captivity

  It turns out that

  As a princess, Princess Li Qingyan’s hugging skills are indeed much better than Ran Qingmo’s ice lump.

   After holding him for a lap, he didn’t feel dizzy at all.

  If it were replaced by Da Bingtuozi’s way of running with his feet, he would probably have started to lie on the ground and retch by now.

  Thinking, Xu Yuan smiled subconsciously, patted his arms. Holding him in her arms, the woman said softly:

   “Put me down first.”

   “Hmm.”

  Li Qingyan glanced at him with downcast eyes, bent over with a smile, put it down gently, and said softly, “Be careful.”

  “.”

  Toe landing,

  Seeing her tall and graceful figure, heroic yet gentle, and those condescending crimson phoenix eyes, Xu Yuan’s heartbeat speeded up inexplicably.

  Hiss.

  It’s broken, why do you feel like he’s become a princess?

  This bad girl really has too many eyes.

  But a man can bend and stretch, and he will just hug him back in the future.

  The corridor behind it is as dark as ink, and the two are standing on the cliff extending from the corridor at this moment.

  There is no cave roof above, and no abyss below.

  The wind at the entrance of the corridor is cold and bitter, blowing his long hair, Li Qingyan looked into the distance, his eyebrows slightly frowned:

   “My son-in-law, this cave does not seem to be formed naturally, and there are heavy traces of excavation by magic.

  ”And,

  ”There doesn’t seem to be the kind of black death creep in this cave.”

  “.”

  Xu Yuan narrowed his eyes and scanned the inner wall near the cave next to the cliff.

  As Li Qingyan said, those luxuriant brown-red creepers spread to the exit of the tunnel and then stopped abruptly. The inner wall of the cave is very smooth, it does not seem to be formed naturally, and there is no vegetation entrenched on it.

   And his gaze followed the smooth inner wall of the cave to the distance, even with the remaining energy of Li Qingyan in his body, Xu Yuan couldn’t see the mountain wall on the other side of the cave at all.

  Yes,

  It’s just endless darkness.

  The underground giant city located at the bottom of the abyss below the cliff is also dimly hidden in the darkness.

  Li Qingyan observed Xu Yuan’s expression, and suddenly spoke again:

   “Looking at the expression on your son-in-law, it seems that your Prime Minister’s Mansion has no information about this cave and this underground city?”

  Xu Yuan glanced at her and spit out:

   “Yes.”

  The words fall,

   After a moment of silence, he added another sentence:

   “But not much.”

   “Not much?”

  Li Qingyan murmured no nonsense, and said straightforwardly: “Then do we need to go down and have a look?”

   “Don’t worry.”

  Xu Yuan pondered and did not answer, trying to recall the relevant information of the dead underground palace in his mind.

  To be honest, he didn’t remember that there was such a huge underground ancient city in the Black Death Palace.

   Fortunately, he soon managed to find a “map” that matched the surrounding scenery.

  There is also a huge karst cave on the outskirts of the wild dungeon of the Dead Underground Palace, but inside it is just a dilapidated village consisting of a few dilapidated houses and mysterious sculptures.

  Thinking of this, Xu Yuan has a slightly weird expression.

  I don’t think the changes are too big, after all, he has seen quite a few of the prefectures that can be run in ten seconds in “Cang Yuan” turn into reality and become a huge city where millions of people gather.

   Such a majestic ancient city appeared in the lair of the aliens, how strange it looks.

  At the beginning, Xu Yuan didn’t care about these artificial creations. After all, there was no information about the strange ghosts in Cangyuan.

  Combined with the weird sculptures in the village, and the undead characteristics and disgusting tentacles displayed by the subsequent monsters, he tacitly believed that this dead underground palace was a stronghold of a cult or even the main altar.

  According to the knowledge reserves in my mind, I directly made up a set of cults to kill themselves, create a group of monsters through “sacrifices”, and then play with fire and self-immolate to destroy my 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.

  Aliens also build houses?

   In other words,

  Aliens, did they also have civilization?

   “Then let’s go down and have a look.”

  In the silence, Xu Yuan’s plain voice came into Li Qingyan’s ears clearly.

   Without saying a word, Li Qingyan bent down neatly, and hugged Princess Xu Yuan in his arms again, with her phoenix eyes drooping slightly, and her voice softly:

   “Jump directly?”

  “.”

  The woman’s body feels soft to the touch, and Xu Yuan suddenly realized that it’s actually pretty good to experience this kind of irresistible tenderness once in a while.

  But how can a man be 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 finishing speaking, he silently reached out and hooked Li Qingyan’s neck.

  In the previous life “Cangyuan”, the player fell into this dead underground palace through a cave, and the place where he fell was an ordinary passage near the ancient underground city.

  In other words, as long as he and Li Qingyan find the tunnel, they can return to the ground through the cave that goes directly to the ground.

  In the silence, Li Qingyan stepped on his feet slightly, and the wind whistled past his ears again.

  Like the bottom of an abyss shrouded in black mist, it quickly magnifies and clearly appears in front of your eyes. Just before it hits the ground, a faint and precise source of energy emanates from Li Qingyan’s body.

  Afterwards, those jade feet wrapped in maroon armor lightly 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, the stone road.

  The bottom of the black abyss has been artificially built a road that is not spacious, and on both sides of the road there are large fields for growing crops.

  And in this field, some strange-looking crops are being planted, like rapeseed flowers, but the fields are neat and orderly. It seems that the fruits hanging on the branches seem to be about to mature.

  There was silence all around, only the rustling footsteps of Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan.

  For a while,

  Xu Yuan suddenly asked:

  ”Qingyan, these crops can grow underground without sunlight. Do you know what it is?”

  Li Qingyan replied softly while guarding his surroundings:

  ”It’s not about the crops, it’s about the soil. The soil under this black abyss is basil.”

   “Hundred breath soil?” Xu Yuan frowned.

  ”A kind of soil that can grow precious medicinal materials, it is very precious.”

  Speaking, Li Qingyan blinked at Xu Yuan, half-jokingly said: “Just like what the son-in-law said before, if we go out, just relying on such a vast Baixi soil under the black abyss Can make a fortune.”

  Xu Yuan was dumb for a moment, and then asked solemnly:

   “Qing Yan, you should see traces of human activities here, right?”

  Li Qingyan glanced at him and nodded:

  ”If no one takes care of it, even the hundred-spirited soil will grow overgrown with weeds after thousands of years.”

  Xu Yuan looked at the city wall that was getting closer and closer, touched his chin, squinted and smiled:

   “That is to say, there are still artificial”

  The voice has not yet fallen,

   “Dang!”

   “Dang!”

  Twice the sound of the bowstring stretching suddenly resounded!

  By relying on the blessing of the Black Death Armor and the Blood Origin Heart Falling Art, even if Xu Yuan is only a fifth-rank Concentrated Soul, he still captured the incoming black shadow.

   are two giant crossbow bolts from the city wall!

   One shot at him and one at Li Qingyan.

   Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan’s eyes showed a thoughtful look, and he didn’t mean to avoid it at all.

  For a moment,

  A white jade hand half-wrapped in brown-red thin armor appeared in front of his eyes

   “嗡——”

  A trill.

  The strong wind whipped up Xu Yuan’s long hair, and the sharp arrow tip was less than half a foot away from the center of his eyebrows.

  The half-foot-long giant crossbow arrow was directly held by Li Qingyan in his hand, and the tail trembled continuously due to the strong inertia.

  The other giant arrow shot at Li Qingyan’s heart, but was directly crushed by her soft curve.

   These two giant crossbows came from the ancient city.

  But without the blessing of Li Qingyan’s Yuan Qi, the pitch-black environment prevented Xu Yuan from seeing the scene above the ancient city clearly, so he asked casually:

   “A person?”

  Holding the giant crossbow, Li Qingyan looked at the ancient city with great interest, and asked in a clear voice:

   “Looks like a human, kill him?”

  Xu Yuan thought for a moment:

   “Is it dangerous? If not, take me there first.”

  Li Qingyan shook his head, his phoenix eyes flickered with red flames and stared at the city:

  ”No, those “people” on the city wall do not have energy fluctuations of the seventh rank.”

   More than one.

  Xu Yuan frowned:

   “Take me there to see.”

  The words fall,

  Li Qingyan didn’t say a word, and directly embraced Xu Yuan’s waist, making a vertical leap.

  The distance of several miles passes by in an instant.

  The two quietly landed on the sentry tower at the head of the ancient city, and Xu Yuan immediately heard a deliberately lowered voice coming from below:

   “The group of aliens are here! Go to inform Lord Siming, and let the blood armor guards prepare for battle.”

   “Don’t stop, keep pulling the bed crossbow!”

  Dayan language with a little dialect, but I can barely understand it.

  Xu Yuan should go to the prestige,

   Below the city tower below, a group of “soldiers” in a hurry are mobilizing before the battle.

  They dress a little differently, probably because of the lack of underground materials, and their bodies are basically woven from some plants.

  But as soldiers, the soldiers on the walls of this ancient city seem a bit unqualified.

  I am used to elites like the Beifeng Army and the Black Scale Army, and the preparations of these people seem strange to Xu Yuan, which is a bit funny.

  Even, he saw some of them huddled in a corner because they were afraid of direct disobedience.

  However, the body structure of these people seems a bit strange.

  He, who has cultivated the blood-color kung fu, can’t see the distance of several miles, and these people from the underground palace whose source energy can’t fluctuate at the seventh rank can actually see him.

  Xu Yuanzheng was thinking,

The group of “soldiers” below    seemed to have finally realized something was wrong, and their voices trembled in fear:

   “Boss, boss? Those two ghosts are gone.”

   “What?”

  The man known as the chief, turned his head suddenly, saw the empty stone road, seemed to realize something, and quickly shouted in a low voice:

   “Hold on, don’t panic, just wait for Lord Si Ming to come over!”

  Following the voice of “Chief Chief”, panic spread directly above the city wall.

  Some of the soldiers with source qi on their bodies suffered from the panic of approaching death, and gradually lost their minds and gritted their teeth and cursed:

   “Hold on? How to hold on?! This speed is obviously those striped ghosts who can turn us into monsters!”

   “What kind of bullshit is commanding your life? Why don’t you honestly make offerings to those monsters and protect mortals? Isn’t that what mortals are used to make offerings to? It’s been like this for generations.”

   “It’s all you bastards. When the priest is here, he will supply those monsters with two hundred mortals every year. It’s the woman who ordered the priest to kill him!”

   “Two years ago Diyang City was directly slaughtered by those spotted ghosts, now it’s all right, it’s our turn, hahaha”

  “.”

  “.”

  Chaos continued to spread on the city wall, and the morale collapsed without even seeing the enemy.

  Xu Yuan listened to the shouts below, and looked aside:

   “Qing Yan, what do you think?”

   Li Qingyan lowered her phoenix eyes and shook her head slightly:

  ”A group of vulnerable mobs, there probably isn’t a single decent general in this city.”

  Xu Yuan burst out laughing.

  If Li Qingyan’s soldiers dared to behave like this, they would have been dragged out and beheaded long ago.

   Shaking his head, Xu Yuan whispered, raised his finger slightly, and pointed to the crowd below:

   “I know, I mean the system of the underground city here, don’t you think it’s a bit strange?”

  Li Qingyan narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly:

  ”It’s really strange, even the body structure has changed. These people should have been living here for generations since thousands of years ago.

   “However, according to what you said, the military level of their city now cannot be continued under the hands of those strange ghosts. The city was slaughtered.”

   “Yeah.”

  Xu Yuan looked up at the inner wall of the cave hidden in the darkness in the distance, and said faintly: “This is indeed strange.”

  The current situation has completely exceeded Xu Yuan’s grasp of information.

  At the very least,

  In the silent underground palace in “Cang Yuan”, Xu Yuan has never met any living people, not even the dead bones.

   Except for the other ghosts, the only thing that can move is the player himself.

  However, after listening to the words of the soldiers below who erupted out of fear, combined with the information he told him when chatting with old man Luo in his previous life, he managed to figure out the current situation.

   First,

  The area covered by this dead underground palace is really huge, so big that there are far more than one of these underground cities and giant caves.

   In other words,

  In “Cangyuan”, the dilapidated city he met was not the one in front of him.

  It may be the “Diyang City” that the soldier said just now, or it may be something else.

  Secondly,

  The “human beings” living in these underground cities have cultivators and armaments that are completely incomparable with those ghosts entrenched in the dead palace.

  Thousands of years, they can only exchange for “peace” through “sacrifice”.

  But when you think about it this way, a problem arises.

  Although the old man Luo said that high-level ghosts have intelligence, they will be obliterated as time goes by, and eventually turn into a beast that only knows how to kill and transform the same kind.

  If this is the case, why can the “human beings” here use sacrifices in exchange for lingering?

  Thinking of this,

   Xu Yuan frowned a little bit, looking at Li Qingyan:

   “Qing Yan, I probably know what’s going on here”

  Li Qingyan seemed to be thinking about this question as well, blinked, then looked back and asked:

   “Is this ancient city for captivity?”

  “.”

  Xu Yuan was a little surprised at the intelligence of the opponent, but after looking at this ancient giant city, he sighed faintly:

  ”Yes,

   “This underground palace,

  ”There is a high probability that it is a test site built by the human race ten thousand years ago to study creatures like ghosts.”

  (end of this chapter)