parentshiftbook Chapter 239 All The Way Down
Chapter 239 All The Way Down
Now Chen Tao finally understands the mood of the so-called big collectors in his previous life. Chen Tao has always had no artistic knowledge. Whenever he sees so-called works of art fetching sky-high prices, Chen Tao is at a loss.
After today, Chen Tao considers himself to be an art "collector".
Different from those people in his previous life, Chen Tao does not need to spend money to collect things. If he sees what he likes, he can just move it back to his territory.
After putting away the statue, Chen Tao finally began to carefully examine the situation in the church's front hall. The style and sacredness here were not related at all. The murals on the surrounding walls had all turned into various reliefs, reliefs made of unknown bone materials.
Chen Tao took a quick look and found that the content on the relief turned out to be a coherent story.
It was probably about a group of bandits, or people who looked like bandits, suddenly rushed into a magnificent building. They slaughtered everyone in sight, except for a little girl who was thrown into the building by a woman who looked like a mage. A portal.
The little girl who passed through the portal appeared on a mountain full of tombs. There were several "people" who looked like skeletons living on the mountain. The story of the mural ended abruptly here.
While Chen Tao was studying the reliefs, Wei Weiran asked Liu Ya to summon a group of soldiers to help search for a hidden door in the church.
Chen Tao noticed all this. After he finished studying the story in the relief, he asked Vivian: "You seem to know us people very well. Can you tell me why?"
Vivian didn't hide anything and told everything she knew.
It turns out that Chen Tao was not the first lord she met. Before she met Chen Tao, there had been lords in the human empire, and there were more than one. They suddenly appeared at different times and then disappeared suddenly.
The empire calls these lords descended from the sky.
Moreover, in this war with the Demon Kingdom, there were descendants from the sky joining both camps.
The soldiers searching around the church quickly found the secret door, which was hidden under an altar in the northwest corner of the church courtyard, where a statue of a giant in armor was enshrined.
The warrior girl said that he was the God of Destruction. Not only did he have many believers in the Demon Kingdom, but also many people in the Human Empire believed in him. According to legend, worshiping him could give people unparalleled destructive power.
Chen Tao unceremoniously asked Liu Ya to take this statue into his territory.
After taking away the statue, Chen Tao keenly felt a strong resistance coming from the underground.
He immediately reminded everyone who was banging on the door: "Be careful. There is something down there."
Vivian heard the words and replied: "Mr. Chen, don't worry, that is the barrier formation set up by the first Pope of Light. It can prevent anyone who wants to enter it, and it can also prohibit anyone from setting up other structures around it." Magic trap.”
Perhaps in order to increase her persuasiveness, Vivian continued to add: "It is said that the Pope was very powerful. In his heyday, he even rivaled several major gods, so no one can break the restrictions he set up."
Chen Tao opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to argue, but suddenly realized something, shut up decisively, and made an inviting gesture towards the downward stone door.
The stone door was very thick and opened upward, but the door itself was very smooth, and the person who made it seemed not to have thought about how to open it. There was no handle or anything else left at all. In the end, Lu Lingqi was still impatient. Use brute force to smash the stone door directly.
Under the door is a large rectangular hole. The wall of the cave is made of stones made of the same material as the stone door. The inside is pitch black. If it weren't for the sound of the broken stone door hitting the ground, Chen Tao might have thought that this thing should be A deep well.
Then several people climbed down slowly along the rope in order. As Chen Tao calculated, the hole was not too deep, only about ten meters at most.
After coming down, there was another stone door blocking the road, made of the same material as before and opening inward. This time, the warrior girl pushed it open without much effort.
Behind the door was a 45-degree downward staircase. After a few steps, everyone was blocked by an invisible wall.
Upon seeing this, Wei Weian said: "The barrier should be within the boundary from here. Wait a moment, I can open it."
Then she knelt down and prayed in front of Chen Tao, then took out a staff and recited a series of incantations.
Then she turned around and said to everyone: "Okay, we can go in now. Although this barrier is still there, its effectiveness has been greatly reduced. If an enemy appears in the future, it can be easily broken. Please be careful."
Her explanation was more like a hint to Chen Tao and the other three to protect themselves. Of course, Chen Tao heard it and nodded slightly to express his understanding.
From then on, the group headed westward.
There will be a ninety-degree corner in the passage every few dozen meters, and the downward angle of the passage will increase by a few points every time it turns.
Since the passage was getting darker and darker, Vivian didn't seem to want to waste her mana to light it up. The warrior and thief originally wanted to light a torch or something, but Chen Tao sternly stopped them.
Just kidding, although I am not afraid of hypoxia, can you delicate little ladies not be afraid?
If everyone faints from lack of oxygen, who will deal with the magic barrier?
In the end, Chen Tao still called Alice and asked her to deal with the light source. After all, with the blessing of 11 times the attributes, everything was just a mess.
But as soon as Alice appeared, she sensed an evil aura above her head. Chen Tao quickly explained that this made Alice stop being restless.
Vivian just glanced curiously at the sudden appearance of her colleague and didn't say much.
The group of people went all the way down, and the downward slope became steeper and steeper until it stopped at 90 degrees. Fortunately, there were stairs all the way down, and there was no other impact except that they were too long.
Along the way, the soldiers and thieves seemed to be very curious about Guan Yinping and Lu Lingqi, and they looked at them with admiration and admiration in their eyes.
Thinking about it, the strength shown by the two of them when dealing with the Corpse Witch Beast just now was enough to make them, who are also women, look at them with suspicion.
So I looked for opportunities to talk to them along the way, but Sister Guan was a little shy, but Lu Lingqi was very talkative and couldn't stop chatting with them.
Slowly, Chen Tao discovered that Sister Lu was intentionally or unintentionally changing the topic of the conversation to the outside world. Guan Yinping also helped from time to time, and he quickly understood the situation outside.
Sensing something, Chen Tao turned his head and glanced at Zhuge Guo beside him, who responded with a sweet smile.
As expected, this is the person who is teaching my two younger sisters how to talk. He is indeed a person with the attributes of a strategist, but he must not lead my younger sisters into bad ways.