Nine secrets to cover the sky

Chapter 215 Underground Refuge
That night, Young Master Bai set off with one hundred and eight undead warriors, and rushed non-stop to Baidi City, where the clansmen were waiting day and night for his return.

Only a small number of soldiers and civilians in the imperial city knew that Young Master Bai came back with food, and they were very happy in private, but no one knew that this was called "Bai Di", a hero who had given selfless help to the soldiers and civilians of the imperial city as a foreigner from the Dongyi tribe , quietly left this night.

Everyone in the entire imperial city is busy with their own affairs.Because no one knows when Dozo will make a comeback, so even though the imperial city is currently in a state of truce, it still has to prepare non-stop.For a while, everyone was contributing their strength to the imperial city, and Fang Jie was no exception.

On the morning of the second day after Young Master Bai left, Wu Nu, who had just got married and put a woman's head on a plate, expressed that she would take Fang Jie to see the refuge below, and Fang Jie also wanted to know Wu Nu's plan to serve the entire imperial city army and civilians. What kind of "back road" was prepared, he readily agreed.

"Is this the entrance?" Fang Jie asked looking at the unremarkable old locust tree in the yard.

Wu Nu nodded with a smile, and shook her palm in front of Fang Jie's eyes: "There is also a rune key, otherwise you may not be able to get in if you find the entrance." After that, the palm was printed on the trunk of the old locust tree.

Immediately, the trunk of the old locust tree became like a silkworm chrysalis, and where the palm of Wu Nu was printed, the dense silk threads automatically separated into a gap as tall as a person.

"Let's go." Wu Nu smiled at Fang Jie and stepped forward first.

Fang Jie then stepped into it.

A tunnel facing downward appeared in front of the eyes, just like the transformed tree trunk outside, surrounded by dense white silk, being in it was like being inside a silkworm chrysalis.

"It is the existence of these silks that confuse the counselor's insight, so the counselor cannot discover the passage wrapped in these white silks." Wu Nu introduced, and went down side by side with Fang Jie.

After walking along this silkworm chrysalis-like passage for about 10 minutes, after diving about 300 meters underground, there was a faint noise.

When the two walked out of the end of the corridor, they saw an underground cave with a height and width of only more than 3000 meters, surrounded by bare cliff walls, and the rock walls were full of exits for silkworm chrysalis.When you turn your gaze to the front, you will find that there are rows of women sitting in this cave, busy with clothes in their hands. At a glance, there are more than 500 people, and each of them is very serious. There are not many silkworm chrysalis in the entrance. A certain one of them came out of Fang Jie and Wu Nu.

The woman made a small gesture and introduced in a low voice: "This is a garment factory, and the clothes made will be worn by the soldiers soon. The number of soldiers has increased recently and they are very busy. Let's not disturb them, continue on." Go forward." After saying that, he pulled Fang Jie along the rock wall and walked forward.

After reaching a corner, Wu Nu's voice amplified and introduced: "The same cave, there are more than 30 underground in the entire imperial city, including some factories, and some places where refugees live. Because of different purposes, These caves are big and small, each of them was made by the Five Elements Mage, and those secret passages were of course arranged by Senior Gongsun's silkworms, but this is not our real refuge."

"It's a good thing it's not, otherwise these burrows would be easy to find." Fang Jie said, looking at the bare rock, curling his lips.

Wu Nu said helplessly: "It is true that the imperial city has joined a large number of soldiers and warriors in the past few months, but refugees have also flooded into the imperial city with soldiers and warriors. The imperial city has long been under pressure. You must not know that the imperial city is now How many people is there? Saying it scares you to death, except for the soldiers, there are 200 million people! How can the imperial city accommodate 200 million people? Of course, these caves can only be temporarily used underground."

Fang Jie was speechless after hearing this.

Wunu took Fang Jie and continued to walk into the deep corner of this cave, and then said: "The people in the imperial city know the existence of these caves. Once the imperial city falls, these caves will be immediately filled by the five elements mage. No matter the people on the ground of the city or the people in this cave, they have to transfer to another larger underground space that they don't know about." At this moment, he stopped.

Just like before, she stretched out her palm with the runes painted on it and printed it on the rock wall. A silkworm chrysalis-like entrance appeared immediately, and the two walked in immediately.

What appeared in front of me was a low but extremely wide cylindrical passageway.The passage is still tightly wrapped in white silk, from the eyes of one end where the side cannot be seen to the other end where the side is also invisible. There isn't anything else, so it feels very empty.

Wu Nu walked straight to the right with Fang Jie, and said: "This is the main passage to enter the refuge. Once the city falls, special people will be arranged to bring more than 300 million soldiers from all over the city. The entrance enters this main passage, so the main passage is very wide, no matter how chaotic it is, it will not be crowded. But the passage is too long, we have to walk quickly, otherwise it will take a long time to get there."

Without further ado, Fang Jie hugged Wu Nu and turned into a ray of light and flew past.

About 10 minutes later, while flying extremely fast while paying attention to the situation on the ground above the passage, I found that this passage traverses the entire imperial city, extending from the east to the outside of the city. After more than 200 miles, I have arrived at Among the mountains outside the imperial city, and with the arc, the depth has reached eighty miles underground.

At this moment, Wu Nu said: "Here we are".

Fang Jie stopped, put the woman down, and looked forward, the passage had come to an end.

The two walked forward for about [-] meters, and their vision suddenly opened up. Fang Jie, who entered this place for the first time, couldn't help being stunned by the sight in front of him.

I saw that there is an astonishingly large space here.On the rock wall that is faintly visible in the dark, there are rows of caves. The caves are neatly arranged, with more than 30 floors. Stone bridges pass in front of each cave, like stairs, which seem to be for people to live in. The place that gives people a particularly spectacular feeling is the ant nest.Except for the rock wall that doesn't take up much space, the rest of the underground shelter is empty and scary. There is only a small lake in the center, and the surrounding area around it is empty, which makes people feel It is almost the same as on the ground, the "sky" is high above, and the "earth" is boundless.

Wu Nu stretched out her hands like a master, looked at Fang Jie with a smile, and said, "It took more than four months from the design to the completion of this shelter. It can accommodate more than 300 million people and has 50 caves. There are more than 50, with a total of [-] layers, and the rock walls are all over the entire space. How about it, does it look like the inside of the mysterious dome you saw in Zhonghuang Mountain?"

Fang Jie looked up at the 50-storey caves, and smiled after listening, "It really looks like a silkworm chrysalis. Maybe the space inside is bigger than the inside of a giant egg."

The woman smiled with satisfaction and continued to move forward.

Fang Jie glanced at the huge small lake located in the very center of the entire underground refuge, and he didn't know how long it would take to walk from here, and asked, "Is that the water source?"

"That's right." Wu Nu stood on her tiptoes to look far away, and said with a smile: "But it's not a real lake, it was dug out. It is connected to groundwater below, and there are water veins exposed on all sides seeping all the year round. With these two conditions, it will never dry up."

Fang Jie nodded, stopped at this moment, stepped on the ground, and couldn't help asking: "I just wanted to say, you use the surrounding rock walls to dig so many caves, enough for more than 300 million people Why do you need to free up such a large area for living? It’s still empty?”

Wu Nu smiled and said: "This place will not be empty, it will be of great use."

"What's the big use?"

Wu Nu sold the key: "Think about it, in the underground shelter, if you want to live for a long time, besides the cave and the water source, what else is more important?"

Fang Jie didn't even think about it: "Of course it's food." After saying that, he was taken aback, then smiled again: "I see, you plan to grow food here?"

Wu Nu nodded and said: "Yes, if the imperial city falls one day, then the people in our imperial city will survive here for a long time when there is nowhere to go. With more than 300 million mouths, no matter how much you store The food will not last long, so I can only plant it by myself. The most critical water is already here, and the only thing that is lacking is sunlight, temperature changes, and a more fertile soil environment. Fertile soil is more complicated and takes a year. The time is arranged, so it cannot be planted in the first year, and the sunshine and temperature changes are easy to solve. In the current army and civilians in the imperial city, I want to recruit 100 five-element mages, enough to imitate the weather and climate changes, so that here and the ground There is no difference, in this way, this underground shelter can become a world of its own, and it is of course no problem to grow food."

Fang Jie couldn't help imagining such a picture: In the vast space, there are densely populated caves on the rock walls on all sides. People come out of the caves and follow the stone bridges to the ground, and the ground is an endless field of lush grain seedlings. , at the very center, a lake branched out to irrigate the fields. At the same time, there was a sun-like ball of light above the head, which was occasionally covered by dark clouds, and rain began to float in the space...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help sighing: "Although we all don't want the imperial city to fall one day, there is a 'back road' that is essential, but your back road is too comprehensive, right?"

Wu Nu took a deep breath with pride on her face: "I told you that I want to be a good wife in the future. The family affairs are all about me, and I won't care about other things, so this is the last thing I do for the imperial city." One thing, of course, must be done well.”

Fang Jie couldn't help but ask: "If you don't care about other things, one day, who do you plan to let manage such a big 'country'-like shelter?"

Wu Nu thought for a while and said, "Prime Minister Zheng Guoda is suitable."

Fang node nodded and said nothing.

In the following time, Wu Nu took Fang Jie to visit.But because the place is too big, it is difficult to see everything even by flying.So after about a circle, they finally stayed by the small lake for a while, and the two left here and returned to the ground.

On the way, Wu Nu instructed: "There is only one refuge, the more people know about the existence of this refuge, the more likely it will be known by Xirong, especially after the fall of the imperial city, when all of us have already entered here, If Xirong knows the existence of this refuge, we lose this refuge, and we don’t know where to find a new refuge or secondly, if we are wiped out, the consequences will be serious. So this refuge until now, only you and me , Mr. Gongsun Zhi and the three know it, don’t tell anyone else, even Kunlun and the princes of the Seven Kingdoms. This can only be made public at the last moment when the imperial city is about to fall!”

Fang Jie smiled and said, "Don't worry, I know that."

Speaking of this, Fang Jie picked up Wunu again, and spent more than 20 minutes reaching the underground of the imperial city.After that, Wu Nu went to visit some refugees underground, while Fang Jie returned to the ground alone.

Unexpectedly, when he just returned to the yard, it happened to be hot and kept knocking on the door, and "dong dong dong" seemed very cramped.

Fang Jie went to open the gate of the courtyard, and immediately a young black man said: "Master Guard, I am a member of the Langshan Tribe. A few of us were eavesdropping on the surroundings of the Imperial City just now, and suddenly found ten Yuqi flying , The master whose strength is unknown is approaching the imperial city, and will arrive soon."

(End of this chapter)