Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 502: Bunker Terror (16)

After several turns, Han Zu finally arrived at a location near the bridge structure area through the secret passage. According to the contractor's equipment scanning the surrounding environment, this should be the ruins of an ancient city. According to the analysis of the nearby debris, these should have been the remains of ancient city buildings. Although the materials used are very common stones, the construction method is not the machine processing that should have been used at that time. However, these machine-processed stones, although the technology is very advanced, are just ordinary stones after all, so they have not survived intact.

Judging from the architectural drawings restored by the contractor's equipment, Han Zu's current location should be an open-air building entrance. It looks a bit like the Colosseum or the Arena in ancient Rome, but it is somewhat different from the real Colosseum and the Arena. Generally speaking, the audience seats in this kind of Colosseum or Arena should be built high up to avoid accidental injuries from the fights between gladiators or wild beasts, but the audience seats here, or at least the remaining wreckage, are level with the ground of the arena, and there are no protective fences or the like. If it weren't for the wreckage of a huge metal gate that fell to the ground not far away, it would be difficult for anyone to discover that this is actually a location of a arena.

“Perhaps too much time has passed and the base of the original auditorium has been damaged, causing the entire building to sink?”

Han Zu was confused about the building structure diagram scanned by the equipment. In order to confirm that he had not missed something, he scanned the surrounding building debris again, but the result was the same. There was nothing wrong with the contractor's equipment.

"Isn't this a gladiatorial arena or a colosseum? But how do you explain the remains of the metal gates?"

Although Han Zu was very curious about the building wreckage around him, this was not his main concern at the moment. He used the contractor's equipment to scan the entire range of the building wreckage, drew a detailed structural diagram, and recorded some information. Then, Han Zu temporarily put aside his doubts about the building and continued to go deeper into the passages in the wreckage. He soon came to an entrance where the gate had disappeared.

Although according to the structural diagram, the scale of the buildings at this location is almost the same as those behind other gates, based on the scanning and restoration of the building debris inside, this location seems to be a rest area or trading area. The damage here is very serious. Even the contractor's equipment cannot be completely restored through scanning. After all, some places where there should have been buildings have now turned into rubble and even gravel.

However, deep inside this location, there is a staircase leading down. Although the staircase inside has been damaged, the remaining part is still strong enough for people to pass through. This staircase was supposed to be the secret of the wreckage of the arena, but due to severe damage, the wall that originally blocked the staircase has collapsed, revealing the appearance of the staircase.

After pushing aside the rubble and some debris that didn't look too heavy, Han Zu entered the staircase from the gap in the wall. Through the equipment scanning and restoration, the original complete staircase should be a building with very exquisite craftsmanship. Each step of the staircase is engraved with some decorations such as murals or texts. There are also decorations of precious metals such as gold on both sides of the staircase. There are some marks on the edge of the staircase, which looks like something corrosive, but this thing should be caused by long-term immersion, not something with strong corrosiveness. Han Zu used the contractor's equipment to scan the staircase where the corrosion marks were left. According to the comparison, the thing that corroded the stone steps seemed to be a fuel mixed with biological oil and some unknown material. According to the remains of the brazier stand on the wall next to the staircase, these fuels should be used to illuminate the staircase. The dripping of fuel is estimated to be someone using the original brazier to ignite something like a torch, causing the brazier to tilt, which caused the fuel to drip on the stairs.

The shape of this staircase is also very strange, and it is completely inconsistent with common sense in engineering. According to the original structural diagram restored by the equipment scanning, this staircase is a square spiral staircase. There is no support at the bottom of the staircase. Except for the steps, the rest of the space is empty, just like someone folded it out of paper. The length of each step is exactly the same. Although less than half of it is left now, the surviving part is still intact, and you can follow the stairs all the way to the bottom. But this is even more unbelievable. After all, the material used to make this square spiral staircase is ordinary marble. Logically, this kind of building without support and reinforcement frame should have been completely damaged long ago, but now it is only partially damaged.

The entire staircase was not very high, only about two or three floors, but there was a huge gap in the middle. Logically, such a structure should have something like an elevator. The direction of the bottom of the staircase also fits this situation, but through the scanning of the contractor's equipment, it was originally empty and there was nothing. From this position, the surrounding area was completely dark. Although this was not a problem for Han Zu, for the sake of the vest, he still took out the flip lighter he found when entering the bunker from his pocket and used it as a light.

Walking down the stairs to the bottom, there is an arched door built with natural rocks in front of you. Its size is a bit exaggerated, it can accommodate two chariots passing side by side, and its height is also exaggerated, at least three stories high, even higher than the stairs you just walked down. Apart from the beauty of the building, Han Zu couldn't figure out why such a large arch would appear in this location.

The distance from the bottom of the stairs to the archway is about thirty meters. There is nothing in the area between them, not even the remaining brazier racks. This waste of space is a bit strange. Han Zu has only seen this in some weird religious buildings. After passing through the archway, the view suddenly opened up. Outside the archway, there was a several-meter-long downward ramp with stone guardrails on both sides. At the bottom of the ramp was one of the bridges.

It was not until Han Zu walked onto the bridge that he discovered the difference. Although the lava below the deep pit at the bottom of the bridge illuminated most of the bridge area, there were actually seven or eight-meter-high solid guardrails on both sides of the bridge. Compared to a normal bridge, it was more like a long and wide corridor. The towering solid stone guardrails on both sides successfully blocked the light from the lava below, making the entire bridge extremely dark.

On top of these stone guardrails, there is a torch stand every ten meters. The fuel in most of the torch stands has long dried up, and in many places, the wooden torches have completely rotted away and disappeared. It seems that this bridge was deliberately built like this when it was constructed.

The width of the bridge is about one meter wider than the arch behind Han Zu. The bridge surface is flat, without grooves or protrusions. Most of the space is empty, with nothing on it but some dust.

Unable to find anything useful on the bridge, Han Zu walked straight through the bridge and walked into the archway opposite. Inside the archway, there were some decorations. There were actually some carriages here, and they were still well preserved. This made Han Zu feel that the stairs he came down might not be the only exit. After all, these carriages were still a bit big for the stairs, and they couldn't be transported in from that position.

The interiors of these carriages were empty, with nothing in them. There were some wooden boxes piled up against the walls of this space, some of which were still well preserved, while others were mostly rotten. Through the gaps on them, one could see that most of the boxes contained gold coins. The layer exposed to the outside had some signs of rust, but the gold coins in the middle were well preserved. Han Zu reached out and grabbed a few of them and studied them.

Although there are ancient characters of human civilization on the back of the currency, it is obviously not from the same era as the surrounding buildings, and was built much earlier than these buildings. However, what is interesting is that the Infinite City system, which should be able to translate all the texts in the copy, is completely useless this time, as if it cannot translate the meaning of the text on it. This makes Han Zu wonder if the Infinite Company that developed this copy, or at least the person in charge here, may not be able to fully control this place. Fortunately, the contractor's equipment quickly translated the text on the back of the gold coin.

These words are ancient Roman words with unique symbols, but they are written in the order of ancient Egyptian words. The words are not long, just a short sentence, which roughly means that these gold coins were made by the king for sacrifice. However, there is not much information on the gold coins, so who is the king who made the gold coins, and what the sacrifices that need these gold coins are used for, there is no clue at present.

The texture of these gold coins felt good, so Han Zu found the best-preserved one among the boxes of gold coins and took it away. Then he continued to explore other areas in the space.

This space was different from the space where he came down. There was no staircase leading up, but there was a wide passage. Except for some torch holders, the passage was empty. After walking for more than ten meters, Han Zu arrived at the other end of the passage. There was an arch on the right side, and outside the arch was a building similar to the first bridge, except that it was not empty, but filled with many monster corpses.

This location should be the place where another German army team arrived before. These fallen monster corpses look like something from ancient Egyptian mythology. They are tall and strong, with the same body structure as humans, but their heads are animals.

After using the contractor's equipment to examine the bodies, they found that except for the head, the rest of the bodies were almost identical to normal humans. However, they were obviously stronger, with more developed muscles. In their bodies, they also had a special organ, which was like a whole set of extra vascular tissues, except that they were not connected to the heart, but to some part of the brain. These tissues were also hollow inside, but the substance flowing in them was definitely not blood, and the direction of their flow was completely opposite to that of the blood.

The end point, or starting point, of this organ connection is an area in the brains of these corpses. There is also a new organ here. What is curious is that this organ does not oppress the brain, but seems to coexist with the brain. However, its function is the same as that of some powerful hematopoietic organ, except that what it produces is not blood, but a blue liquid. Inside the cooled blue liquid in these corpses, Han Zu actually sensed a certain degree of residual energy.

"An organ that produces energy?!"

The production and use of energy was not unfamiliar to Han Zu, but he was very familiar with it. After all, he was an expert in the use of energy. Although Han Zu had learned a little about the biological groups with organs that specialized in producing energy, he had never seen it in person. Now, he saw the real thing in a species that existed in the legend of human civilization, which really surprised him. After all, according to the scans of these corpses by the contractor's equipment, their body structures were exactly the same as those of humans, except for the energy-producing organ group and the head, which was different. This also showed that this type of species might be able to communicate with humans.

“I wonder if the so-called gods in ancient Egyptian mythology are these creatures.”

After scanning the corpses on the bridge, there were probably dozens of them. Based on Han Zu's understanding of the other player team in the German camp, Han Zu had a rough idea of ​​the strength of these creatures. If he used the threat assessment level to distinguish them, it was estimated that they were at a medium level.

After walking through this bridge, there is still a similar passage and a similar archway building. However, after walking out of the archway this time, the bridge in front of him has changed significantly. First, there are no fences on both sides of the third bridge. It is not that they are damaged, but that they were not built in the first place. Without the towering walls, the light of the magma at the bottom naturally illuminates this place, and Han Zu can easily see that there are a lot of damages on this bridge, and many positions can directly see the magma below.

"An ongoing battle has been detected, 73 meters from the current position."

Just when Han Zu was about to observe his surroundings, the device suddenly sent a prompt. It detected the remaining three people of another German camp team. A battle broke out between them in front of them. The distance was just inside the archway opposite the bridge. But strangely, Han Zu, who should have been able to observe the other side clearly, only saw an empty room with a lot of boxes piled up when he looked inside the archway.