Chapter 823: Return to the Underground

Return to the Underground

Prott pointed out the passage leading to the underground. The players thought it would be a mechanism like a secret base door, but who would have thought that it was a "thief hole" buried in the snow.

It looked like it was dug by manpower. Not only was the tunnel shape strange, but it was also hidden very secretly. If no one led the way, even if the three really came to this area, they would have to search carefully to find it.

Looking at this thief hole that could only accommodate one person, Cheng Shi smiled slightly and stepped back with Zhang Jizu at the same time.

The meaning was very clear: they only cared about the back, not the path.

Ai Si's face turned black, and she inexplicably became the vanguard. But her reaction was not too intense, because she had already adapted to the rhythm of these two priest teammates. Whenever facing the unknown, you never want to walk behind them.

Fortunately, Ai Si also had self-knowledge about her team positioning, so she had been practicing what she said at the start: know when to advance and retreat, understand the sense of proportion.

And now, it was time for her to advance.

So the Supervisor raised her giant blade and prepared to modify this narrow passage, but Cheng Shi grabbed her hand and stopped this overly 【War】 idea.

"Traces that are too obvious will let others see. I'm not sure where the two bastards impersonating me are, so let's go in like this. I'll trouble Supervisor Lord to open the way for us."

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Jizu also spoke. I saw him push Prott forward a step and said seriously: "Let him walk in front, this is safer."

"?"

Prott shivered, uneasy.

Cheng Shi was stunned, turned his head to look at Zhang Jizu, and smiled meaningfully.

"I think clamping the guide in the middle is the most steady method. This can not only prevent him from triggering any mechanism traps or small actions at the front, but also block his retreat. Old Zhang, I don't think you can't think of this point. So, what is your purpose in letting this scavenger walk in front?

Are you protecting this Supervisor?

When did the relationship between you two become so good?"

Hearing this, Zhang Jizu's eyes narrowed slightly. He just wanted to say something, but saw Ai Si roll her eyes, directly retract the giant blade, and jump into the hole.

Cheng Shi shrugged, the meaning was clearly "Look, people don't need it," and then pushed Prott to follow.

Zhang Jizu naturally fell to the very back. He looked around, wiped away the traces of the group outside, and left a simple teleportation array before following safely.

The passage was very long, winding underground for a long time before connecting to the pipe wall of a thick underground pipe.

This was clearly not a normal road. The pipe wall, which was almost half a person thick, was full of traces of corrosion and excavation. It looked like the hole in the pipe wall had been ground open by people spending enough time. The four carefully entered one by one until they returned to the underground passage, and they determined that this place was no different from where they descended before.

There were no observation equipment and experimental space inside, only pipes extending in all directions and countless forks.

Realizing that Prott's description was problematic, Cheng Shi's face sank directly. But this time, before he could ask, Prott himself became confused.

"How could this be? What they said was clearly here!"

"You haven't been down?" Zhang Jizu frowned slightly.

"No, I didn't dare to come down. Once caught by Wells, he would exile me to the Land of Piety."

"Sneer—but isn't your wish to push open the door of the theater through the Land of Piety?

If everyone is huddled in the edge area, how can your dream of becoming a god be realized?" Cheng Shi sneered.

Prott shook his head with a pale face: "I don't know about others, but I don't want to become a god. I fell down accidentally. My only wish is to leave here, to leave this cold abyss of the Land of God-Seeking."

Prott's words were exceptionally sincere. Even without a deception master, no one would doubt this attitude.

But Cheng Shi always felt that the other party had something to say. He raised an eyebrow and said: "So, your request is to want us to take you out? To get rid of this ice and snow abyss of Sandlais?"

"Yes... is it possible, Lord?" Prott's eyes were full of expectation, but his body was a bit shrinking.

Seeing him like this, Ai Si shook her head and laughed: "This wish is afraid that it is..."

"Of course it is possible." Cheng Shi directly interrupted Ai Si's words, gave her a look, and then faced Prott with an exceptionally bright smile.

"As long as what you said is correct, and we can find traces of that experiment here, I can take charge and take you away when we leave.

But the premise is, you didn't lie."

"I didn't! I really didn't! I will go find it, it must be here, it must be here!" As he spoke, the excited Prott explored frantically nearby.

Watching this harmless scavenger work so hard, Ai Si rolled her eyes speechlessly: "Do you like lying so much, Cheng? Sometimes it's clear that you can achieve your goal without lying, why do you have to use lies?"

Cheng Shi glanced at Ai Si strangely:

"You don't know that my true identity is a believer of Him. I show my piety to the Benefactor at all times, is there anything wrong?

Instead, it's you, Supervisor. You seem to raise your sword at every disagreement, but in the end, you only killed one person, Barto. I even suspect that you stabbed him not to fit the 【War】 will, but to let this scavenger who had no face to live get relief.

You are so kind and so restrained... your Benefactor..."

Speaking of this, Cheng Shi couldn't continue.

Don't say, you really don't say, 【War】 is much more "restrained" than His believers.

"Forget it, let's not talk about this. Let's accelerate. I just want to know what secrets are hidden in this underground pipe, and whether this secret can let us walk into that Land of Piety."

After finishing, the three players also searched separately in this pipe.

To mark the way they came, Zhang Jizu took out countless firefly small lamps. These magic lamps were like buttons, and they could light up a small area with a casual press on the pipe wall. The four people relied on this method to "draw" the map, and soon they touched the surroundings clean.

Soon they found abnormalities.

Prott pressed the small lamp too hard on a certain pipe wall, directly pressing through the wall and falling into a secret room. The three players rushed over when they heard the sound, and after seeing this dark room with some experimental style of the Tower of Rationality, they finally let out a long sigh of relief.

It's good to have a harvest.

This was clearly a secret data room, but most of the data inside seemed to have been used by people to burn for warmth, and even the bookshelves holding the data were chopped open and thrown into the fire basin as firewood, while a war machine attacker that had been pieced together seven or eight times was placed in the original position of the bookshelf.

But the patchwork here was only a patchwork of form; when Cheng Shi saw that the key connecting joints of the war machine were held together with wooden pegs, his expression could only be described as black as ink.

Good news, Prott didn't lie.

Bad news, Wells was bragging.

His plan was too far from the final stage, no, it was even far from the beginning. He was purely using this big toy to lie to...

The problem is, he really lied to it.

It seems that this Ye Nuoli is also stupid enough, not knowing how to come and verify it himself.

The clue was interrupted again, and the problem of the fog being unable to cross was placed in front of the three again.

Seeing that there was nothing here, Cheng Shi had no choice but to pick up the remaining paper in the fire basin and piece it together as much as possible, trying to understand what happened here and recover some losses.

While piecing together the puzzle, he asked casually: "Old Zhang, can you repair war machines?"

Zhang Jizu hadn't answered yet, Ai Si laughed first.

This Supervisor glanced at Cheng Shi playfully, with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes.

"Really interesting, you are actually asking a 【Truth】 believer if they can repair war machines?

Even if God-Chosen Zhang is not a member of the Mechanical Engineering Department, just by the talent of 【Truth】 believers, it shouldn't be too difficult to make this big thing move, right?

Right, God-Chosen Zhang?"

"..."

【Truth】?

What 【Truth】?

Who is a 【Truth】 believer?

Cheng Shi blinked and looked at Squinty Old Zhang in confusion.

Zhang Jizu froze, his eyes narrowed tightly.

Bad, this round is coming for me. ===== CHAPTER 824 =====