Chapter 113 The Groom and Pure White, the Stag and the Warrior

Chapter 113 The Groom and Pure White, the Stag and the Warrior

Watson took the cotton mask handed over by Nero. This mask seemed to have been dripped with some kind of liquid. As soon as he put it on, he could immediately feel a slightly pungent breath pouring into his mouth and nose.

But after taking a few consecutive breaths, the olfactory nerves seem to get used to it quickly, and then you can smell the sweet and sour taste like fruity wine...it actually smells quite good.

The passage between the first and second underground floors is a curved downward staircase on the outside of the pyramid.

Watson and the others went down the steps paved with thick stone slabs, and after just turning a downward turn, they arrived at the exterior of the second underground floor.

In the middle of the stone wall tilted at an angle of thirty degrees, there is also a door that has been cracked. The thick stone door has been opened to the outside to create a narrow gap just enough for people to pass sideways.

The door panel and door frame all showed a strange silvery white luster, and there seemed to be some images carved on them that looked like human skeletons. Moreover, these skeletons all stood up with their backs to the door, as if they were moving towards the door.

Watson was familiar with the history of Mithraism. He knew that in the teachings of Mithraism, it was the god Mithras who created everything in the world, and everything in the universe, including the soul, was under his control... The god Mithras divided the entire universe into seven layers. If mortals want to obtain eternal life and immortality, they must go through seven portals - seven portals made of different materials that represent different stars in the universe.

The first level is the Gate of Lead, which is the Crow Gate on the underground floor that they just passed through, and it also corresponds to Saturn.

The second gate is the Tin Gate in front of you, the Bridegroom's Gate, which corresponds to Venus.

However, Watson thought of the Crow's Layer that seemed to be built in imitation of the Mansu Woodland, and he couldn't help but think in his mind:

"According to the information revealed by Little Victor, there is a gate in the Mansu Woodland that can lead to the next area. It is called the Pure White Gate... and the silvery-white Groom's Gate in front of him seems to Is it also somewhat similar to the characteristics of the Pure White Gate he described?"

"According to this inference, then the Bridegroom's Layer is also imitated from the area behind the Pure White Gate? If this is true, then I can just use this to see what other areas of Mansu look like."

"And judging from the relief on this door panel...do these skeletons represent the souls of dead humans? Just like the invisible undead souls I met near the rugged boulders before?"

"Based on the content of the relief painting, it seems that after the mortals die, their souls will go to the next area of ​​​​Mansu through the Bridegroom's Gate (Pure White Gate)?"

"Then if the Pure White Gate in Mansu is really like the Bridegroom's Gate in front of me...then the next time I dream about Mansu, I just need to follow the traces of the invisible undead, Can we naturally find the Pure White Gate?"

"It's just that I was able to open the road to the forest in the dream, but I actually relied on the guidance of the secret transmission of the moth. I don't know whether opening the pure white door... also requires some kind of secret power as a key, or is it What kind of price is needed... Just as the price of dreamwalking in the forest is to give up your hair, the price of the pure white door is to give up your bones, and you need to pull out a tooth to pass through it smoothly!"

Watson's mind was filled with random thoughts and imaginings. He eagerly wanted to enter the door, witness the structure and layout of this floor, and then verify his conjectures in his dream.

However, the church members just stopped in front of the door and extinguished the lanterns and fireworks in unison, and he followed suit.

Clovette leaned into his ear and whispered softly: "John, the next floor is very dangerous. You can follow me quietly later, put your hands on my shoulders, don't talk or breathe, and don't breathe." Just keep silent and look around... Don't wander around and look around, just follow us!"

Watson hummed slightly to show his understanding, but in fact, the moth's vision had given him the ability to see at night. Even in this lightless underground, he could see things as clearly as daylight.

The seven people reorganized into a straight line, with Nello in front and Watson in the back, and slowly passed through the groom's door and entered the second level of the underground pyramid space.

As soon as he entered the door, Watson immediately felt a biting chill, as if he had walked into an ice cave thousands of years ago. There seemed to be countless thin needles made of ice pricking his skin, the extreme cold It seems to penetrate deeply into the bone marrow, completely freezing these trespassers here.

If Watson were not wearing a mask at this time, he believed that his breath could be condensed into an arrow of air and sprayed out.

However, he was also keenly aware that in the seemingly deep darkness, none of the six believers in front of him breathed out as they moved forward. They were obviously holding their breath the entire time while moving forward.

The top of the head is finally no longer pure darkness - the ceiling, as dark as the night sky, is dotted with cobalt blue light like stars, which has not been extinguished after thousands of years.

These cobalt-blue radiances come from crystals hanging from the ceiling, carved into the shape of some kind of plump fruit.

This is probably some kind of radioactive material. Watson thought this, and unconsciously associated the scene above him with the cobalt blue light curtain he had witnessed in Mansu.

It seems that this underground pyramid space is really built to imitate Mansu... I wonder, what does the area behind the Pure White Gate look like?

With this question in mind, Watson kept his neck and shoulders still, and just quietly shook his eyes, looking at the situation on this floor in a manner that Crowett could not detect at all.

I saw a large group of terrifying mummies with withered flesh and blood standing densely inside this huge groom's layer!

They should have been soldiers belonging to an ancient legion when they were alive. They were all wearing armor and holding sharp weapons, and lined up in a square formation. They all faced the exit with their backs to the entrance. They seemed to be in a tight formation, guarding something that might come from them. Things that escape from below.

Even though this ancient army has withered flesh and wrinkles, and the skin is as dry as an old tree and tightly adheres to the ferocious and thorny bones, it cannot conceal the iron-blooded spirit that remains on their bodies... This must be an elite army. .

Moreover, the bodies and armor of these mummy soldiers are all covered with scars from swords. Even some of the soldiers standing near the corridor between the entrance and the exit have circular bullet hole scars printed on their bodies, and the interior can be vaguely seen. The withered black flesh and blood... strands of cold air were hovering around the edges of the wounds, as if leaking from the inside of the mummies, and as if they were trying to repair these damaged bodies.

This scene couldn't help but remind Watson of the Broken Walking Corpses sent by the Order of the Flashing Blade before. Could it be that all the mummy soldiers on this level were refined into Broken Walking Corpses after death? !

He finally understood the danger that Clovet mentioned... Such a huge army of broken zombies, although they don't know why they are sleeping here without moving, but if they are accidentally awakened... I'm afraid they will hardly All people have to be buried here and sleep underground together with these mummies!

He noticed that in the corner of the formation of this broken walking corpse army, there were actually several mummies in modern clothes standing. Their bodies were already severely broken, their faces were covered with traces of gnawing, and there were large pieces of flesh and blood. Lost, revealing the dense white bones inside...perhaps they are the explorers who failed in the previous invasion.

Moreover, Watson also noticed that the masonry of the wall on this floor was also engraved with traces of knives and swords, as well as scratches that looked like fingers scraping, with black blood remaining inside the scratches... This elite ancient team Troops, could it be that they were forcibly detained here while they were still alive and refined into broken walking corpses? !

Such a vicious ritual, such terrifying power, this is only the second level, so what kind of dangers will be hidden in the next five levels? !

Watson withdrew his gaze to prevent his inadvertent gaze from awakening these seemingly sleeping undead monsters, and followed Clovet's steps down to earth to leave this dangerous bridegroom's layer.

The so-called bridegroom level... does it mean that all the creatures who died tragically here will be forcibly retained by this underground pyramid, and their bodies will be reduced to slaves here and become forced grooms?

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As soon as he left the groom's floor, Watson immediately felt the warm temperature embracing him again. Although the temperature was still low, he finally no longer had to be in an extremely cold environment like the inside of an ice cellar.

After Clovette and the others left the groom's floor, they did not stop. They took silent and anxious steps and hurriedly left in a fast walking manner, just like suspects who were eager to escape from prison after being paroled.

Until they went deeper along the stairs of the second and third floors, gradually moving away from the groom's floor and away from the terrifying group of broken zombies.

Team leader Nello said: "Okay, it's safe here. Let's rest where we are for three minutes. We will continue going down later."

When the other members, who had already been holding back their anger until their faces turned red, heard these words, they were completely relieved and let out a long breath.

Then he breathed heartily, inhaling the turbid air from the ground and spitting out the carbon dioxide in his lungs.

"Phew - I finally came over. Every time I pass by that place, I feel very uncomfortable." Crowett turned around and asked, "John, are you okay?"

Watson was already blue and white from the cold, but he only shook his head slightly.

When everyone was resting, they also lit the lanterns in their hands again, and the yellowish light illuminated the spiral stone steps under their feet.

But Watson could feel that the depth and breadth of this spiral staircase were far greater than before. Every time he fell down a circle, he could feel the diameter of the staircase gradually expanding... probably shifting outward by a total of ten meters. distance. This proves that the space on the third underground floor is also getting wider and wider.

And the space inside the third floor must be extremely high... Just because Watson silently counted the number of steps going down, he had to sink at least twenty meters to the end of the stairs.

When he got all the way to the bottom, he saw an extremely thick and tall city wall standing on the ground in front of him.

Under the shining light of lanterns, the smooth and flat walls are covered with a bronze color as thick as history.

Moreover, the wall seems to have no gaps between the masonry and the stone, and seems to be made of one piece... But Watson guessed that this should be because after the wall was built, hot copper liquid was poured on the outer layer, and after the copper liquid cooled down, It will naturally form this shape.

but! There is no entrance or exit on this ancient bronze wall.

There is only a huge lifelike deer head carved on the wall. Under the light of the rekindled lantern, it shows a brilliant color like gold.

This deer head is extremely huge, ten meters high. Together with one half broken and one intact horn, the total length is nearly forty meters wide. If it weren’t for the fact that the lower jaw of the deer head has been completely broken and disappeared... the deer head has a big mouth. It was enough to swallow up this group of greedy invaders from Crossroad Hospital in one breath.

Moreover, the surface of this huge deer head is covered with deep cracks, and the fleshy marrow as bright red as blood can be seen inside the sharp broken horns like blades... But it seems that this is not caused by the destruction of latecomers. , it should be the original builder’s design.

"This is the Stag Gate? But what kind of deer is so huge? Is this an artistic exaggeration, or is it really a replica of the Mansudu Deer Gate?" Watson murmured in his heart. , "It is said that only by passing through the Stag Gate can the esoteric cultists truly be promoted to the knower... What kind of secrets and what kind of power are hidden behind this door?"

At this time, Nellobacchus also approached, and he said in a deep voice: "Sir Watson, this is the obstacle that has always hindered us from continuing to explore this place... There should be a third door here, so that we can Enter the warrior level."

"However, you have also seen that there are no doors, windows, gaps or other places for entry and exit in front of you...the only thing is this huge bronze deer head."

"I have also consulted Mr. Winfrey on this matter. According to him, this should be an imitation of some other mysterious door... The deer's name is Gribby, and he will propose a random answer to any travelers who try to enter. The riddle, only if the correct answer is shown to Gribe, will he willingly open the gate of protection and let travelers enter."

"If the corresponding answer to the riddle cannot be answered, even if a high-level Qi influence is exerted, there is no way to force the door to open."

Clovette explained in Watson's ear: "Enlightenment is a secret power similar to the principles of our hearts. It is mostly used to open certain secret locks and mechanisms."

Watson nodded slightly, "I see... It does sound difficult to deal with. So what riddles has this giant deer head named Gribby raised before?"

"This is the place that has always made us feel embarrassed and confused." Nellobacchus approached Gribe's deer head and looked up at the remaining upper jaw of the other party, as well as the stomach that should be open as a door but was missing at the moment.

"But I don't know if it's because it's too old, or if this fake Grebe has been damaged by others, causing it to lose its function... But whether we roasted it, hit it hard, or insulted it, it always turned out that Unable to wake up the Grimby who seemed to have fallen asleep, he opened his mouth to tell the riddle."

The words coded on the mobile phone on the road may be a bit too rough. The author will optimize it tomorrow.