Endless route

Chapter 267 37. Weird ringtones and ghost bells

The chain bridge beneath the ancient city was shaking slightly. They had no way to go to the village or shop. There was dark mud in all directions, and strange creatures could attack from anywhere.

Zheng Yun handed the severed limb to Ji Dao.

The swamp creature with its tail cut off was still swimming around them, making an extremely weak sound of rubbing.

Even Zheng Yun could hear it.

If there is anything, there seems to be nothing around.

They had walked through many chain bridges, but few were more dangerous than this one. Compared to this weird underground world, bridges built on cliffs were much more elegant.

"I'll bring some equipment with you. Xiao Wu, give me your backpack. Xiao Liu, please guard this place and don't move around. During this time, set up the winch first."

Seeing that Zheng Yun and others had decided to leave, Li Wu quickly assigned the task to the other team members, packed up his backpack, got out of the air bag, and crawled towards Zheng Yun and others on the cable bridge.

"Hold on to our ropes."

Zheng Yun stopped and waited for him. Finding people to rescue people was their mission this time, and it was Li Wu's responsibility to participate in the operation.

So Zheng Yun did not refuse.

Moreover, the archaeological team has made full preparations for this exploration. From last year to today, no one knows how many customized swamp equipment Li Wu still has in his backpack.

The two items that have been taken out so far are of little use in the rescue mission, but it can also be seen that Gubo has made a very complete plan for the swamp ecology, which can at least save lives.

His backpack resembles a trick bag.

Maybe the next thing will save the day.

"Master Yun, I have never seen this thing before, but it is similar to the loach in the rice fields. It has this kind of slippery skin all over its body. Why does it make a series of tiny sounds?"

After taking the severed limb, Noriichi lay directly on the chain bridge. He lowered his head like a sloth and put the severed limb in front of his diving goggles, tossing and squeezing it over and over again.

"I have the same concerns."

Zheng Yun frowned and scooped up a handful of mud from the left and right, grinding it with his hands. There were indeed debris in the mud, but he had never seen anything similar to branches. How could there be a squeezing sound?

Previously, I learned from the professor that the most important thing in swamp ecology is sound. No creature should actively make sounds to expose its position in the mud.

"Could it be..."

Ji Dao stopped talking.

"First ask Mr. Sun about the situation of his team."

Zheng Yun stopped thinking about it. After Li Wu crawled nearby, he led the team forward and asked about the situation.

The answer is that the situation is very dangerous.

When Mr. Sun's team was in danger, they did not fix the protective air bag on the cable bridge. Instead, they directly opened the air bag and drilled in. This caused the air bag to slowly float up in the mud.

Like bubbles in mud.

It floats slowly but keeps rising.

After more than half an hour of floating, the airbag has now floated to the bottom of the ancient city and touched the brick wall.

The team's thinking at that time was that it was too dangerous for a solitary airbag to float in the underground mud. They might as well let the airbag float up and find other exits after reaching the top.

Their plan came true.

The air bag is suspended to the bottom of the ancient city.

But there is no exit nearby.

This caused the air bag to float twenty meters above the chain bridge, like a balloon, only held by an orange-red rope, and this orange-red rope was wrapped around the chain bridge.

There were swamp creatures on all sides.

Every now and then, the sound of bubbles bursting could be heard from Mr. Sun's side. If the chemicals in the thousands of bubbles that dispersed swamp creatures had not taken effect, the entire protective air bag would have burst long ago.

However, dispersing agents also have limitations. The archaeological team has to consider many situations when configuring the agents. The agents cannot be harmful to humans to avoid accidental contact, so the power cannot be too great.

Judgment based on current situation.

The air bag lasts for another hour.

Now Mr. Sun's team is trying to break open the bricks, but the ancient city wall is so thick that it cannot be blown open without explosives.

Since silt is a fluid, they cannot bear the consequences of using explosives at close range. People will die if the wall does not explode.

“Can this air bag withstand tugging?”

Zheng Yun suddenly interrupted when he heard this and asked, if it can be pulled, just use a winch to pull it back.

"No, the resistance of the silt is too great. It requires a huge force to pull the entire air bag. The air bag cannot hold it."

Mr. Sun answered the question himself.

"The only way is for us to go over and take the people back along the wall or from the chain bridge."

Li Wu sighed lightly and came to a conclusion.

"You are all in the protective airbag. The airbag is closed, right?" Ji Dao was still thinking about this matter.

"Yes."

The other person answered quickly.

"Master Yun, we..."

Jidao immediately spoke to Zheng Yun.

"I'm afraid it won't work here."

Zheng Yun shook his head. The humidity of the mud was very high, but it was not water after all. They couldn't open the fairy gate at all now.

"There are other exits above this bridge, but they are far away from Mr. Sun's team. I can go up there, not only to find the exit and plan the route, but also to do things along the way."

Ji Dao quickly made suggestions.

"About where?" Zheng Yun asked again.

"We should drill one to two hundred meters forward." Ji Dao immediately took out the drawings, pasted them in front of the diving goggles and started studying.

"Okay, let's find the exit first."

Zheng Yun immediately agreed to Ji Dao's plan.

"Do you know the location of the other exits at the bottom of the ancient city? People always forget things when they get older, and I haven't bothered to ask until now, Li Wu, who is leading your team?"

Mr. Sun asked in surprise.

"It's Zheng Yun from the Fuen Archaeological Team."

Li Wu quietly listened to Zheng Yun and Ji Dao communicating on the walkie-talkie channel. Even though the two felt like they were playing riddles, they didn't ask a single question and only answered the question immediately after hearing this.

Only at this critical moment when decisions need to be made can the difference between the first group and the second group be revealed. Each member of the first group has real abilities and can really lead the team.

A group is a group.

No matter how young you are, you are still in the same group.

When Zhao Qiufu first asked Zheng Yun to lead the team, he still had some doubts in his heart. Now he fully understood that it was not Zheng Yun that Mr. Zhao believed in, but the rules of the archaeological team.

It can also be said that Mr. Zhao trusted the entire Fuen Archaeological Team and Xu Yu. They were all old people from the General Cultural Relics Bureau and could not mess up. This group was given in a reasonable manner.

"Zheng Yun from Fu'en City?" Mr. Sun muttered in a low voice, as if he was recalling the name.

Zheng Yun didn't say much.

My name has just entered the world, and I haven't accumulated much fame. There are still a few people in Fu'en City who know it. After leaving Fu'en, I am just a passerby. If I insist on being known, I will embarrass others.

It should be different at Tijianghe Pawn Shop. Many people should know the name of his adoptive father, but there is no time to talk about it now. It doesn't matter whether he knows him or not.

Wow.

The abnormal sound came from far to near again.

When they talk, they make noise, and sound is the key for swamp creatures to lock their prey. The more they talk, the more dangerous they become. No matter how quiet the sound is, they cannot hide it from each other.

歘.

Ji Daogui will stand up and draw his sword at the same time.

The four ghost generals are distributed in front of and behind Zheng Yun, Li Wu and others, and there are Ji Dao guards in the middle. Coupled with the iron cables on the bridge blocking them, the probability of being swallowed by the evil thing is very low.

"Everyone keep quiet."

Zheng Yun shouted low and pulled out the Blood Pattern Emperor Sword.

Wow.

An abnormal sound passed over their heads, causing the chain bridge to sway. Nomadou and others raised their swords and stabbed out.

Modern firearms in a mud environment are not as powerful as those in water, almost the same as fire sticks, and explosives are so powerful that they can kill people thousands of meters away.

Cold weapons are very balanced.

The power of the sword only depends on the strength of the person, but in the mud, even the ghost general cannot perform chopping and other actions. Only by stabbing can the power be similar to that in the air.

However, one wave comes after another.

Just after the attack, a series of extremely strange sounds sounded in their ears, not from around them, but from Mr. Sun on the other side of the earphones.

Boom, boom, boom.

Boom, boom, boom.

A very dull sound.

At the same time, there were small sounds of surprise from Mr. Sun and others, and they obviously heard this strange sound.

It was impossible to tell the source of the sound just by looking at it, but everyone knew that it shouldn't appear underground.

"What's going on?" Zheng Yun asked quickly.

"It's the sound of a bell. This kind of bell is very large and looks similar to the Xiaofeng bell. We have excavated this kind of bell in the Triton warehouses at several sites before."

"It was some distance away from us, but it seemed to be moving, floating upward from deep beneath the chain bridge."

Mr. Sun immediately gave the answer.

Zheng Yun's hair stood up slightly when he heard that a big bell suddenly floated up from the depths of the mud. And was the bell still ringing?

What kind of weird situation is this?

What is hidden deep in the mud?

What was the intention of the ancients in building this cable bridge? Having learned from the experience of the floating city in the deep sea, Zheng Yun couldn't help but doubt that this chain bridge was also a 'viewing' bridge, right?

But the scenery is in the scenery.

I'm afraid it may not be a good situation.

But it is another ‘strange scene’ that can be called a spectacle.

"Something's wrong, but I can't hear clearly. The sound in the earphones is distorted." Nobuyoshi tried to take off the earphones through the diving suit, trying to listen with his own ears.

"hurry up."

Zheng Yun secretly thought something was wrong and accelerated forward.

Everyone drilled forward for more than 200 meters and reached the exit where Ji Dao said. The sound of the bell rang every now and then, even if Zheng Yun and others didn't use headphones, they could faintly hear it.

But that's strange to say.

As soon as the bell rang out, the mud snake on Zheng Yun's side immediately disappeared, and even Mr. Sun's side was free of evil things.

"How can I get up there?"

Ji Dao turned back to look at Li Wu.

No one can move freely in the mud. Ordinary people who fall into the swamp can only wait to die. There are no ropes and chain bridges at this moment, and even the track cannot climb vertically.

So Ji Dao asked Li Wu.

He also knew that Li Wu had a lot of things in his pocket.

"Yes." Li Wu lived up to expectations and immediately took out the relevant equipment. The archaeological team had long expected this situation.

They could even take out airbags and bring a dozen people out of the mire, so how could they lack personal equipment?

"Okay, okay."

Ji Dao nodded repeatedly and took over the equipment, which could be called a magic weapon. Under Li Wu's guidance, he used it and quickly mastered its use. He broke away from the cable bridge and floated vertically upwards.

Zheng Yun and others were waiting in place. Ji Dao brought a rope. As long as he climbed up from the exit and fixed the rope, others could climb up along the rope.

This wait lasted ten minutes.

Zheng Yun and Sun Lao's team were silent, not daring to make any noise in this environment. They could only listen to the strange ringtone that came and went, resounding throughout the ancient city.

Boom boom.

Boom boom.

Everyone was crawling on the chain bridge or in the air bag, surrounded by dark mud in all directions. The pressure and environment made people's chests feel tight, and the strange ringing made people's hearts beat faster.

They have experienced the floating city in the deep sea before. Over there is the endless deep sea, and here is the endless swamp. There is a city in the deep sea, and what is in the swamp, Zheng Yun really cannot easily imagine.

I'm afraid this bell is some kind of funeral bell.

I am also afraid that a coffin will suddenly float up from the ground.

But what they are even more afraid of hiding deep in the mud is an extremely weird thing that is beyond their imagination.

Everything has a purpose, and Ming Dynasty Haiwei is purely consequential in doing things. In the first few dangerous places he experienced, the purpose and results were very obvious and straightforward.

The purpose of building the Hades Pavilion was to encourage the Yin soldiers to rebel.

The purpose of building the Pregnant Demon Tower is to command the Kraken.

The purpose of building a cave to worship the Immortal is to lock the Yuhan Immortal.

The purpose of the ancients has always been pure and simple.

No matter the martial arts masters, the treacherous Tritons, or the Tritons themselves, they will never engage in any illusory mythology. Since they want to build it, they must be serious.

But starting from the floating city in the deep sea, Zheng Yun gradually couldn't guess the ancients. Even now, Zheng Yun is not sure about the purpose of the floating city in the deep sea, and he can't guess the ringing sound deep in the mud either.

It's really unbelievable.

The key is that they can only listen to the bells on the chain bridge and wait, and their thoughts will wander and they will fantasize about how small and fragile they are compared to the entire mire world.

The depth beneath the chain bridge is unfathomable.

It is an abyss even more unknowable than the deep sea.

After some time, Ji Dao's voice finally sounded in the earphones: "Master Yun, I found it. There is also an iron rope here. I tied the rope to the iron rope."

"Okay, come on."

Zheng Yun took action immediately. This passage was very crucial. He could rescue Mr. Sun's team at close range. He didn't even have to walk on the chain bridge and just walked across it close to the bottom of the ancient city.

The same goes for Xiao Wu and others. They can cut off the airbag rope, float to the bottom of the ancient city, and climb towards the exit.

Just find the exit.

Everyone can be rescued quickly.

After a while, Zheng Yun and others climbed along the rope for more than 20 meters, and they all reached the bottom of the ancient city. The pressure here was obviously less than deep inside, and everyone could take a good breath.

There is a hole in the ancient city wall.

Drill into the hole and climb up along the shaft, and you can go all the way up and return to the first floor from the third floor of the underground waterway.

Ji Dao stood guard at the entrance of the cave.

After Li Wu climbed up the Yinjing first, he suddenly closed the microphone on his chest, then felt into Zheng Yun's ear and said:

"I've discovered something new."

"Say." Zheng Yun immediately turned off the headset knowingly.

"Master Immortal, the evil things have dispersed with the sound of the bell. I suspect that this bell is either a powerful magic weapon or a ghost bell. This thing is extremely dangerous and makes evil things afraid."

"The Demon and Ghost Division has a special method of hanging bells around the necks of monsters and ghosts. This bell may also be a ghost bell, hung on a huge monster."

"And this monster suddenly surfaced and scared away the evil things around it. This is the most likely guess I have."

Ji Dao lowered his voice and analyzed.

But the words were horrifying.

"Why did the ancients keep demons and ghosts underground in the ancient city of Nanze? The ancient city of Nanze was extremely bustling in ancient times, and the city was filled with ordinary people. Do you think the ancients would do this?"

Zheng Yun was slightly doubtful.

Even if Ming Dynasty likes to lock up monsters and ghosts, he never messes around in the human world. His attitude towards the things of gods and ghosts is extremely strict. Haiwei even tries his best to isolate the gods and ghosts from the human world.

If this is the case, how can it be possible to raise demons and ghosts under the city? If something happens, wouldn't the whole city die?

"This monster may not be evil, but it may also be auspicious. Master Immortal must have heard about the four elephants such as North Xuanwu and South Suzaku. These monsters in the city are not just legends."

Ji Dao guessed again.

"..."

Zheng Yun was silent for a moment.

Jidao's words are irrefutable. There are immortal cranes and immortal turtles in the Heavenly Palace. With the latter's huge size and the grade of a third-level monster, it is really not an empty lie to let it control the city.

And it does qualify.

The ancient city of Nanze is a prosperous world, and there shouldn't be any magic tricks right below. This statement can explain the matter.

But it's still hard to say.

The cranes in the Heavenly Palace would occasionally play tricks on the little Taoist priests raising cranes secretly. Aren't the ancients afraid of the evil beasts' backlash?

"Save people first and then talk about it."

Zheng Yun shook his head slightly. They would be able to rescue Mr. Sun and others immediately, and then they could explore other problems.