54. The Real Underground Palace
At this point, worrying about face was meaningless. Besides, the people before them clearly had more information about the underground palace. Unless it was absolutely necessary, turning against them would only cause more trouble.
Although Murong Jing didn’t say anything, his thoughts were clear.
And after that, everything was as Gong Yiling had imagined. A very faint sound came from the opening, showing that the entire passage was not moving very fast, and the sliding part was smooth and flat. It was hard to imagine that this was a mechanism from this kind of ancient era.
Even modern industry would find it difficult to make something that was almost silent.
Not long after, when this sound stopped, the opening was now facing a similar circular hole.
“This is it. Let’s go.”
After saying this, Miss Gong climbed up on her own, and Xuan Lingling and Yan Chuyue followed closely behind.
Seeing that they were not hesitant, Murong Jing finally let down his guard a little.
Even so, he still let Murong Yun go first, putting himself in second place.
To be so cautious, it was no wonder he was who he was.
Gong Yiling, who had already reached the upper level, couldn’t help but sneer.
To think that he had considered his own sister’s safety so important before. Life was like a play, all about acting.
And so, the group passed through two similar corridors. In the last corridor, she even took out the broken sword left by the Daman Daoist, which could instantly kill a certain unlucky giant python, and deliberately stuck it on the edge of the hole to prevent this hole from turning the next person into a disabled unlucky person because it was running again.
However, the passage stopped here for longer than she had thought. It wasn’t until everyone had come up and she had put the broken sword back into her Universe Ring that the sound of something running again came from the hole, and the opening immediately closed.
“Interesting.” Gong Yiling chuckled, then turned to look at the world outside—or rather, the true appearance of the underground divine palace.
The reason she said it was the outside world was because, without the previous experience, almost no one would think that they had come to an underground palace.
Yes, this place looked no different from the outside. There was a sun, a sky, a river, and even a breeze in the air. It was a real outside world.
And the place where they were was a plain. Not far behind them was a cliff with no visible top, and not far in front of them were some towering buildings.
Seeing this scene, those guards even suspected that they had climbed up from the ground again, but no matter how they looked, they couldn’t have climbed that far, right?
“Don’t think too much about it.” Gong Yiling said, “To be able to build such a huge area underground, and their mechanism skills are so exquisite, how could they not create such a space?”
“Your Excellency Murong.” She said and turned to look at Murong Jing. “My duty is to bring you here. After that, your actions have nothing to do with me. But you have to think clearly about what I said just now.”
“Whether you want to continue with me or go on your own, you decide.”
Murong Jing thought for a moment, then asked, “How familiar are you with this place, senior?”
“What a joke! I’ve never been here before, and this girl is also here for the first time. Do you think your palace is a place where anyone can just walk in and do whatever they want?”
Murong Jing frowned slightly.
According to his thoughts, he just wanted to find that legendary army here, or the method to create this army.
However, with the previous experience, he now knew that without the person in front of him, he might not be able to find it, and even if he did, he might not have absolute control.
Before those people also came here, acting alone was not a wise choice.
“I wonder what you’re looking for here, senior?” He asked after thinking for a while. “I can help you.”
“No need.” Although Gong Yiling refused him, she knew what this sentence meant. She turned back and said calmly, “I’ve said what I needed to say. You can weigh the rest yourself.”
As she finished speaking, Gong Yiling walked to Yan Chuyue’s side and took her hand.
“Let’s go.”
“What about the dead weight?”
“Who cares about them? They can go wherever they want. I can’t be bothered.”
“Then do you know where we should go?” Yan Chuyue blinked.
“I haven’t gotten the map yet. How would I know?” Gong Yiling sighed helplessly. “If that quest was completed, we would know where to go now.”
“But at least it’s a legendary divine palace. There should be treasures everywhere. We can just go into a room and look around. We’ll find something.”
Seeing her like this, Yan Chuyue couldn’t help but cover her mouth and chuckle. “Are you here to take a dump?”
“Pah, a beautiful girl doesn’t… ah, no, aren’t we here to get some extra cash? And do a quest on the side.”
“Pfft…” Yan Chuyue pointed at herself and said helplessly, “Have you forgotten what I do?”
“Guard a tomb.” Gong Yiling said righteously, “The problem is, look where this place is. This is someone else’s backyard. With His Majesty’s covetousness, this place will be dug out by him sooner or later. It’s better for us to take the things and leave him an empty shell.”
“How many Universe Rings did you bring? You want to take everything here?”
“To be honest,” Gong Yiling coughed lightly, “I actually brought a hundred.”
“A hundred!?”
Hearing this, Yan Chuyue’s mouth twitched.
This guy was really prepared. This was the rhythm of emptying the place.
“So—” Gong Yiling tugged at her sleeve, thinking about how to get her to agree to this.
How about acting cute?
But with their past relationship, would that really work?
It seemed useless. Then—
“Alright, if we do this any longer, they’ll notice something is wrong.” Before Gong Yiling could say anything, Yan Chuyue sighed. “Priority is to stop them from getting news of that undead army. The rest is up to you.”
“Of course.” Gong Yiling clapped her hands and smiled. “And not just stopping them, but also stopping another group of people I don’t know.”
“Hmm?”
To this question, Gong Yiling just smiled and didn’t give an explanation.
But no one knew that her other pair of “eyes,” although she couldn’t contact them now, had already discovered the arrival of some uninvited guests before she came underground.
