Returning from the abyss

Chapter 646
As Lan Tu said, their task is to observe and record some data from the outside, and there is no need to enter it at all-probably the nobles also know that it may be difficult to get out if they go in.

"This bounty seems easy." Lu Ning said.

"Ahaha, even so, not everyone can accept it." Dorothy said with a proud face, "Lan Tu got this task because of some internal means. After all, this is not difficult as long as there is no trouble." , it will be difficult to deal with it once you do redundant things.”

"Indeed." Lu Ning nodded.

"But...about that Rudolph." Dorothy suddenly lowered her voice and said to Lu Ning, "That guy is a bounty hunter, you have to be careful."

"What's the problem with the bounty hunter?" Lu Ning glanced at Rudolph who was walking behind the team without any trace, and asked in a low voice.

"It's just an eloquent title. They are a group of people who do bounty tasks alone. Most of the reason why they are alone is because they can't find teammates. This kind of people always have certain problems that prevent them from forming a team. .”

"Yeah." Lu Ning nodded, "We just need to take him to the station by the way."

"It would be nice if we could get rid of him so easily. Anyway, we have never had a good impression of bounty hunters." Dorothy didn't have disgust on her face, but was a little annoyed, as if she had some problems with bounty hunters before.

"In short... we just recorded the Red Rose Garden, and the Black Box Residence is just around the corner. The next stop is the palace?" Lu Ning has already seen the target building, the majestic house with black as the main color, which is also the place where Manden once lived. I just don't know what kind of monsters are locked here.

Lan Tu, Pa Xi and A Ya belonged to the main force of collecting data, while Dorothy and Dan Sheng helped with some work of moving the equipment, which seemed quite relaxed.But they didn't let Lu Ning and others intervene to help. They were members of their own team from beginning to end, and Lu Ning could only watch from a distance.

"Are you really going to the palace?" Rudolph chatted with Yuan Jie from behind.

"Yeah, the royal palace... Anyway, all the problems come from the king, so you have to go to his hometown to see, right?"

"Hey, this is a big business." Rudolph slapped his hands. "The information about the palace must be very valuable. As long as one of the rumored things hidden in it is true, we can make a fortune."

"Dude, have you been in the Pavilion of Time for ten years? Can you still remember these?"

"Anyway, there doesn't seem to be much change outside. No, in that kind of time-disordered place, I don't think the outside world has lived that long. I guess it's a year or two at most. In places like the outer city, there won't be any changes in a year or two. , intelligence is still valuable.”

"Who are you selling your information to?"

"There are those who specialize in this business. After all, bounty hunters basically act alone, so there must be some sources of information. But the team probably won't know. Intelligence business is one-on-one, and the information providers are well-informed. With a team No one can expect to get any more news from them."

"Why? Isn't it worth selling more?"

Rudolph laughed: "Don't you understand? This is the rule. There are so many people in the team that you can only sell it once, while a bounty hunter can only sell it once per person."

"This... isn't safe, is it?"

"Then it depends on whether the intelligence house is capable or not. If the information sold to the intelligence house dares to be traded privately, maybe another bounty hunter will come into your house that night." Rudolph put on a threatening expression, " In the outer city, killing is only prohibited on the surface, and there are more shady methods."

Lu Ning listened to the chat between the two, but the boredom in her heart was still not relieved.She is still worried about Yan Rong, even though she knows that Yan Rong is much stronger than herself in terms of force, but it is the force that is most likely to hit a wall in the scene. No matter what Lan Tu says, she is still thinking about whether there is any other way to find Yan Rong melt.

As for death?She didn't think Yan Rong would die easily.

Soon, the work of Lan Tu and others was over, and they came over after packing up all the instruments.Lan Tu looked around the crowd and said, "You know that the next stop is the palace, which is also the most complicated place in our reward offer. It doesn't matter if you can follow along, but don't count on my team if something happens. Help you solve it, we are just an ordinary bounty team, not so strong to face the monsters that may exist here."

"We know." Liu Yunqing nodded.

"Once you enter the palace, you are responsible for your own life and death." Pa Tia added, "If you want to die, you should die farther away. Don't drag others down. If I detect someone running into the crowd with a monster, I will kill him first."

After warning everyone, Lan Tu led the team towards the palace.

The palace——in appearance, it is somewhat different from what Lu Ning had in mind.

She had seen the photo of the Dark Sage, and the photo was also taken in the palace. It can be seen that it is a very traditional Western-style palace style. The spacious corridor surrounds the courtyard, with less green vegetation and more decorations.But before she actually came to the palace, she realized that it was just a corner of the interior.

First of all, there are no particularly tall walls here.The entire palace is surrounded by normal streets, with only a fence separating the inside and the outside.And the fence is only designed for aesthetic decoration at first glance, it can't prevent anyone at all, even a child can get in through the gap.

The second is the style of the house, which is clearly divided into two types on both sides of the main road at the entrance. The two styles of the east and the west capture the common points so that there will be no violent conflicts between them. The corridors connect each building, stretching Backwards, Lu Ning can only see some buildings in front of her, and she doesn't know how vast it is behind.

Before she could observe carefully, Lan Tu directly pushed open the gate of the palace.

"The prison of the royal palace..." He took out a map, opened it, glanced at it, and then looked up, "What is this place with twists and turns designed to do..."

"When it was still prosperous, the people living in every building here were not of an ordinary level." Of course, Paba's mechanical body does not need to read the map, and has memorized a lot of information, "so the walls are almost useless. If outsiders want to do harmful things, anyone who comes out of any house can solve the problem. Of course, the king will not really let it go, there used to be some legionnaires who were responsible for patrolling here."

"so what?"

"So this place is designed to meet the living needs of these people. The king recruits talents from all over the world, and those closest to him basically don't live in the palace, but the rest, you know, most of them come for fame and fortune, and live in the palace." In the palace it is a status symbol."

"This group of people are really looking for trouble..." Lan Tu scratched his hair.

"Perhaps this is why so-called geniuses have eccentricities." Ana muttered with a lollipop in her mouth. She seemed to have no interest in the palace.Dorothy looked around very curiously, and discussed with Dansheng in a low voice where it would be more reasonable to bury the explosives.

"I'll lead the way." Seeing that Lan Tu had a headache when he recognized the way, Pa He took the initiative to stand up, "This is the advantage of the mechanical brain. You won't forget it after reading it, so I recommend you to try it."

"Forget it, I don't want to connect a few plugs to my brain..." Lan Tu waved his hand.

As the sky slowly turned dark, everyone also walked a long way in this complex palace group, even Pa He didn't come all the way smoothly, he only had a map, and he had to study the terrain of the palace according to the map ——This is not only the ground, but also the underground layer and the undulating terrain.

"So the kings back then were not late for work?" Yuan Jie couldn't help but said after walking such a long way.

"Normal buildings can be walked quickly on the main road. The place we are going to is a prison, and this kind of place is relatively remote... Do you think who would put the prison near the gate?" Pao defended.

"Anyway, it means that the road is more difficult to walk? But in case there is any danger in the palace..."

Brush pull.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and Pa Xi also turned on his own lighting system.Hearing movement not far away from a house, everyone tensed up immediately, and the slightly relaxed atmosphere disappeared immediately.

"Crack, scan." Lan Tu would not let go of any suspicious details.

"It has been searched, and no suspicious targets have been found."

"Well, that's suspicious enough." Lan Tu turned her head, "Ana, what's the smell?"

"Tar..." Ana sniffed vigorously, "Burning... is approaching!"

Jean pushed out the purple light shield. Just when the shield was about two meters away from him, it flashed suddenly, and then exploded. A mass of purple spherical objects bounced back, passed through the paths between the buildings, and flew away erratically. , did not hit anything.

"Baiyan, tide surge." Lan Tu flicked his finger, and dozens of sparks appeared in front of him. Then he pushed his palm, and the flame instantly expanded. Nothing hit.

"There are ways." He whispered something.

"Could it be that the one that was ejected just now is the main body?" Lu Ning said.

"It's possible." Ana sniffed again, "The smell is dissipating, I can feel it. It should be something like a space depression."

"No matter what it is, Ana, you should pay more attention. Since the investigation by Pa Xi can't find it, the danger will exist." Lan Tu lit a cigarette, "Dorothy, Dan Sheng, we need your cooperation when necessary."

"Hey, Lan Tu, you have allowed us to play around." Dorothy burst into laughter immediately, "What's the matter?"

"Prepare first, and when the time comes, you will fight wherever I point out."

Dorothy nodded immediately, lifted a corner of the burqa, and a pitch-black cannon barrel protruded from it. Then, it quickly bent and deformed with the mechanical parts behind it, and rested on Dorothy's shoulder.Dan Sheng took out some parts from his baggy clothes, took off his rifle and began to install it on the muzzle.

"What kind of weapon is this?" Yuan Jie was still curious about this.

"You don't need to know this." Lan Tu said lightly, "We have neither treasure nor special skills, so we can only find other ways by ourselves."

"Sounds like a very dangerous thing, Mr. Lan Tu." Jean said.

"Don't worry, those things are indeed dangerous, so I will give them to Dorothy and Dan Sheng to use them-I also don't want to see when they need to be used."

Lu Ning pulled out a section of the long knife, flew the blade and circled around everyone to prevent surprise attacks by invisible entities, and the rest of the people also took out their own stronger detection methods, guarding everything from the sky to the ground with almost no dead ends possible attack.

Moving on, it became very calm again.Originally, no one lived in the palace, and the occasional night wind only brushed the tops of some landscape trees, making no very special sounds.Lu Ning traced the terrain of this area bit by bit with electronic eyes, but after all, it was not as convenient as a full mechanical transformation.

Finally, everyone saw a huge palace.

Lu Ning feels that this architectural style is very similar to temples in Greece and other places. The entrance is made of twelve white and tall columns to form a magnificent hall, but it is different when continuing inward, passing through five side by side. The arched door, you can see that the magnificent structure inside still maintains the grand occasion of the year. Some high platforms like altars are neatly arranged on both sides, and there is a huge statue in the center, which shows that several people of different races are holding weapons. The forward charge scene.Behind the statue, in the deepest part of the palace, there are three rows of seats from low to high. The first row has a minimum of sixteen seats, the second row has four, and the third row has only one.

"It's here." Lan Tu took out the map again and took a look.

"Here?" Yuan Jie raised his head and glanced at the tall pillar again, "Isn't this a temple anyway?"

"It's not wrong. This is a place where prisons, execution grounds and cemeteries are integrated." Lan Tu said, "It's probably for convenience. Anyway, the prisoner proposes to execute the execution outside, and after the execution, he will be sent directly to the temple. See inside Are those tables? They are all used to put ashes."

Everyone was speechless.

"Why does it look like this when a prisoner is locked up..." Liu Yunqing raised his forehead, "I will believe you even if you say that this place is used for important sacrifices."

"The prisoners who can be imprisoned in the palace prison are very special, and this is also for special treatment." Lan Tu explained, "However, according to the records I got, there are still about [-] prisoners who have not been executed. Now The prison has become a forbidden place, we have to find someone to ask."

"People?" Zhu Qinyuan frowned, "Is there anyone else here?"

"Army Shield, one of the four major armies, is stationed here." Lan Tu glanced at Ana, "Ana, try to see if you can contact the members of Army Shield. We need to find out the latest situation of the prison."

Ana took out a whistle and put it near her mouth and blew it. After waiting for a while, there seemed to be a whistle sound in the distance.

"Oh...five seconds, Lan Tu, it seems that the commander of the military shield came over in person." Anamo counted the time of the whistle, and then said.

(End of this chapter)