Tang Qi Tan

Chapter 547 Re-entry
On the pedestal of the Church of the Holy Child, there is a large area of ​​ground that has collapsed, and huge cavities and deep pits are exposed; there is an indescribable complex atmosphere coming from the face; and the bottom of the deep pit is suspected to have been deposited for many years. The sewage is rippling and flowing.

"My king." Immediately afterwards, Yule, the lieutenant of the engineering company with gray and curly hair, also came forward and reported: "When the company was cleaning up the scattered bones of Emmadu Palace and cremating them in situ, suddenly Encountered many ground collapses, and thus discovered the tunnel.”

"According to the direction and extension of this tunnel, we finally found this 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 dug, exposing this huge pit , and more than a dozen people were injured.”

"After preliminary exploration, as well as the rubbings and sampling of building materials, it has been confirmed; this is the legendary underground tomb city of the king's capital, one of the exits that has been closed for many years. Judging from the excavated traces, it was only recently. was opened,..."

The predecessor of the Church of the Holy Child can be traced back to the end of the second (Lily) dynasty and the early establishment of the third dynasty (Acacia).The posthumous son of Compiègne II who was treated as a puppet since childhood, Victor I lived to adulthood in a life of luxury and house arrest.

And like a precocious stallion, before the age of 15, he had an affair with more than two women around him; including wet nurses, teachers, maids and female officials, and even inferior maids who made beds and cleaned.Although he died of premature aging due to serious physical deficiency.

But he left many heirs among the women around him.Although these heirs were all in their infancy without exception, they died one after another together with their mothers.However, many rebellions and separatist regimes broke out under the banner of Victor I's illegitimate son.

Many years later, in the later years of the reign of Westent the "Lucky", the founder and founder of the Third Dynasty (Acacia) dynasty, there was a sudden heir crisis.Members of the new generation of the royal family died young and prematurely one after another, and almost no one survived to adulthood.

Therefore, there were 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 all the blood of Lily.For this reason, Westente had to hold a grand requiem mass and sacrament.

In the end, some kind of revelation was obtained, and in the forgotten corner of the Emmadu Palace, such a place where the remaining lilies bloomed was found; such a Church of the Holy Child was built on the spot.Only then did Besançon III, the grandson who lived to adulthood and was known as the "Blessing King".

The huge labyrinth called "catacombs" has a longer history.It almost originated from the last generation of the Rose Dynasty, after the first celestial sphere change; the special age when aliens were most active and abnormal phenomena frequently occurred.Plague, famine and aliens have almost turned the capital into a dead city.

And those who survived, except the royal family and their entourages and guards, who were carnival and merry in the royal castle, hid in fearful groups in the excavated cellars, tunnels and caves; Those rampant aliens.

Therefore, when the ancestors of the Baihe Dynasty brought the allied forces of the princes into the capital, they could only barely clean up and rebuild the ruins of the city on the surface; Caves and tunnels are filled up.

Even so, the frequent occurrence of strange things 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 chose to find another base on the right bank to build a brand new royal palace and city hall. , a city of noble and official residences.

However, with the stability of the dynasty's rule and the advent of peaceful years, more people who came to the royal capital to make a living naturally filled up the mostly abandoned old city.After all, with relatively high prices and living costs, legends about tiger-like tax collectors are just legends.

Therefore, every person who was born and raised in Senna knew from an early age that there is a legend of a city of bones/tomb labyrinth under the capital, as well as rumors and different versions of stories related to various strange hedges; almost every mother They will tell related folk proverbs and nursery rhymes.

Even in the underground world/black market in the city of Seine, a special group called diggers/burial groups was born; generations have been digging and exploring the catacombs, searching for ancient relics buried with them, and even special bone specimens, It is then sold to collectors for a profit.

Add to this the debtors who keep fleeing, criminals and smugglers during active periods.Therefore, this is an underground network and space that has become more and more intricate through continuous excavation and expansion through the ages.If you are not relatively well prepared, you will suffer a lot if you break into it.

Therefore, even during the second and third dynasties, cleaning up and purges were carried out many times, but there was still little effect.Therefore, after the establishment of the Fourth Dynasty, they simply used the construction waste and waste from large-scale urban reconstruction and reconstruction to fill up all the entrances that could be found on the surface.

This is how the city of Senna, after the new planning, is basically far away from these underground troubles and legends for a hundred years of long-term peace and stability.However, with the continuous large-scale underground collapse in the Emmadu Palace.These webways buried underground by layers of accumulations have also been seen again.

However, after listening to the report, Jiang Tian let out a sigh of self-mocking.It seems that he is committing crimes in the sewers, or in other words, he is specifically struggling with these underground network passages.Even in this different time and space in the Middle Ages, can you still not get rid of the shadow of the sewer walker?
But fortunately, Jiang Tian is no longer the loner who needed to fight alone.He now controls the regime of the Kingdom of Sealand, and he also has the resources and properties of an entire country, a population base of tens of millions, and an army of more than [-] under his command, which can be driven and instructed.

Therefore, before Jiang Tian arrived, the engineering company present had been working continuously for a period of time. Around the huge pothole, a large area of ​​scaffolding, wheel cranes, lifting platforms, and multiple pipelines for pumping water were built around the huge pothole. Driven by large machinery;
With the sound of whipping, the huge roulette turned into a spiral-shaped Archimedes water-drawing mechanism driven by levers and gears; one after another green stagnant water with old silt; continuous The spurts spewed on the ground and were led into the temporary ditch.

Along with the cranes that reciprocate up and down, there is also a platform that goes up and down; the landfill that soldiers will be excavated and cleaned up, or the wreckage of other types that have been killed by soldiers, will be transported to the ground on small carts, Accept screening, inspection and subsequent crushing and cremation.

Occasionally, some wounded soldiers were sent out from the passage opened below.Then, more heavily armed soldiers waiting in battle, as well as a battle group composed of hunters, monks, and knights, filed in in an orderly manner as follow-up support and supplements.

Therefore, when Jiang Tian 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 roar of explosions, sound waves, and the whirring of flames coming from the corridor. , and the burnt smell of bone fat being burned.

But after Jiang Tian, ​​who was hugging behind him, stepped into the corridor, he saw another scene.The spacious aisle has been paved with a layer of lime and charcoal chips, absorbing most of the moisture, and the moss on both sides has also been peeled off by the burnt brown, revealing the covered wall.

As well as some grotesque relief patterns, although they are quite rough and blurred, you can still vaguely see some human figures in armor, and various wolf-headed bats, or upright lizards, and even flowers with tentacles. Fighting and fighting.

Immediately, Jiang Tian encountered the first corner, which was also the patio that was re-excavated after the upper part collapsed; Buckets and baskets, continue to dig to expand the space.

Even, in a row of derricks extending below, seven or eight large pieces of metal mirrors were used to staggeredly refract the sunlight from the ground; directly illuminating the dark corridor at the bottom of the deep well.Also in the silt and sewage that was irradiated, there were faint streams of smoke.

In addition, Jiang Tian also heard the whirring sound from above. It was the original exhaust fan turned by animal power, and it was continuously ventilating and exchanging air in the aisle connected to this patio.Therefore, even if such a large group of people marched in it, they would not feel much stuffiness and suffocation.

It wasn't until he passed through several patios that had been dug out one after another in one breath, that he suddenly appeared in an underground hall.However, the next moment, Jiang Tian was attracted by the densely packed skeletons piled up like a wall in front of him, and the little phosphorous fire emanating from the four walls.

Only on the walls of these layers of bones, several gaps have been blasted, and there are continuous fine fluorescent lights floating in the air from the broken bones; it is brightly illuminated.Under the illumination of these phosphorus fires, there were strange corpses lying all over the ground.

There are the most common ghouls with sharp claws and teeth, saw-toothed dog monsters with deformed and big heads, fragmented skeletal spirits; there are also water monsters covered in swollen mucus, drowned monsters that look like mermaids but are festered, skinny and yellowed ghosts, In this way, it has been extended to the depths of the wall of bones.

At the end of the wall of bones, there are two tall statues that are full of potholes and cracks, falling to the ground in pieces.These two are obviously made into the form of a knight with a gun and a warrior with a sword, and they are hidden among the many reliefs on the edge of the hall, serving as guardian stone spirits/monsters;
If you approach rashly without preparation, you will be caught off guard in a narrow and difficult-to-use limited space.It's just that they encountered the special forces of the Freedom Army; as long as they identified a deliberate target, they threw explosives or incendiary bombs to open the way.

(End of this chapter)