Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 496: Bunker Terror (10)

"So, you think there might be a space underneath?"

"I'm not actually sure, but it looks so similar."

"How about this, let's make some preparations first, and then everyone else should step back. Yuan Si, once we are ready, try to pry this thing open."

"Row."

Before they were ready to start, there was actually nothing much to prepare. Yuan Feng just marked Yuan Si, and then like everyone else, they left the hot spring area and aimed their weapons at the metal. So it didn't take long. After the other four found their positions and angles, they gestured to Yuan Si, who then used the golden rod in his hand as a crowbar to pry open the metal.

“Squeak…”

“Hua La La La~~~~”

The weight of this piece of metal was not very heavy, so Yuan Si pried it open easily. It made some normal noises of rusted metal, and after being completely pried open by Yuan Si, it was thrown aside. There was indeed a hole under the metal cover, but it did not generate much suction as expected to suck Yuan Si in. It was just like a wash basin with the drain hole opened, and a vortex of moderate size appeared.

"How are you Fatty?"

"I don't feel anything. It looks like there's just a hole underneath. Or maybe it's just a broken drain."

After hearing Yuan Si's words, the other four people gathered around again, stood next to Yuan Si, and began to study the cave below.

"The surrounding water level has not dropped significantly, which means the hole is not very big."

"The entrance to the cave is very small, and none of us can get in, but we can throw a tool to explore the way. Does anyone of you have a similar detection tool?"

The water in the hot spring was rather turbid, but it was not completely impossible to see the bottom of the water. After all, the water level was not deep, just above the knees. So everyone observed and groped their way around, and roughly figured out the size of the hole, which was about the size of a normal washbasin. It was definitely impossible for an adult to enter from this position.

Just as everyone was discussing who had the right detection prop, Yuan Feng suddenly slapped his head.

"I remember I had a miniature underwater detector. It should be a reward from the previous dungeons. I thought it was useless, but it didn't take up much space, so I just threw it in my backpack. I didn't expect it to come in handy now!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a palm-sized instrument and a toy boat from his backpack. Yuan Feng turned on the controller, slowly lowered the toy boat into the hot spring, and used the controller to drive the toy boat into the cave entrance. Everyone gathered at the cave entrance, their eyes fixed on the small display screen on the controller, which was about the size of a watch face.

"This thing of yours doesn't look like an underwater toy boat. Can it really go underwater?"

"The boat can't be launched? How did you think of saying that?"

"What the hell? No, I mean this thing shouldn't be able to dive!"

"Who cares? It's not a valuable thing anyway. Let's give it a try. What if it works?"

What Yuan Feng said was indeed correct. Although the toy boat did not look like something that could dive, it could indeed work normally when it dived into the water.

At the beginning of entering the underwater cave, there were only blurry black shadows on the screen. Those were the walls on both sides of the cave. The cave extended downward for a long distance, and it was narrow and tortuous. Fortunately, the toy boat was not big, so it could pass smoothly. As the detector went deeper, the picture gradually became clearer. They saw some structures with traces of artificial polishing, and some unidentified objects that were glittering, which looked like night pearls or minerals with fluorescent effects.

"It looks like we are about to leave the cave. It seems quite bright down there. Maybe it is a larger space?"

Yuan Feng controlled the toy boat and continued to move towards the exit of the cave. Just a few seconds after the toy boat sailed out of the cave, it suddenly left the water and fell straight down. As the toy boat fell, everyone caught a glimpse of a huge natural cave below the underwater cave. However, there were ancient-style buildings inside, or the remains of buildings. These remains were like some kind of bridge or air corridor over the deep pit, and below them was a bright abyss.

“Sizzle…Sizzle…”

"Tsk~~"

Soon, the toy boat fell out of the maximum remote control range of the controller. Any operation could no longer work, and the picture on the controller began to become intermittent and gradually blurred. Before the toy boat completely lost control, several people heard some sounds similar to objects being burned and melted. Without the toy boat, the controller was naturally useless, so Yuan Feng threw it out.

"What do you think?"

"There must be something going on here. Judging from the battles we encountered in the bunker before and the fact that we haven't received any hidden missions yet, maybe that's where the new dungeon is going to be."

Everyone nodded. Based on the five people's experience so far, this statement is very likely. Everyone is ready to go to the area below to take a look, but there is still one most important question.

"But the problem is how are we going to get down? The entrance to the cave is so small, and we are too small to fit in."

"And according to the location of the cave entrance, if we take the approach of destroying the cave entrance, not to mention how much time it will take, when we open up the space below, we will fall directly. There is no lighting equipment in the space below, so I estimate that the glowing things under the bridge are mostly magma, or at least something similar.

"Based on the burning sound we heard before the toy boat was destroyed, the glowing area below is most likely magma."

While everyone was thinking about how to reach the area below, Wuzhitu snapped his fingers a few times in his ears.

"When we searched this area before, we found that the bathhouse was not the end of this space. I remember Pei Lan and I found a place to walk nearby. Maybe it is connected to the space below. Where is it? I am stunned."

"It's behind that half-collapsed wall. That wall is not very solid. The artillery fire from the battlefield just now caused that part to collapse. I remember it should be here."

"Fatty, Kaikai, help clear this area. Let's go in and take a look from this position."

"it is good."

Yuan Si and Kai Kai began to clear the obstacles behind the half-collapsed wall. The fat man first smashed the debris blocking the passage, and then the skeleton soldiers summoned by Zhao Mingkai moved the rubble and debris away. It didn't take the two of them long to clear the obstacles blocking the passage. Everyone was ready and walked forward carefully along the passage.

The passage was filled with a damp and decaying smell, and the walls were still flickering with a faint green light. It was some luminous, mossy things, and there were quite a lot of them, so the passage was not that dark. After walking for a while, a fork appeared in front of us.

"Where should this go?"

"The passage on the left has no traces of artificial construction. It may be a natural cave, or something built next to a natural cave. The passage on the right has artificial marble walls on both sides. Based on what we just saw, the structure below should be artificially built. I think we should go to the right."

Zhao Mingkai and Yuan Feng thought they should choose the fork on the right, while Yuan Si thought the road on the left was more suspicious, so everyone did not rush forward, but observed at the fork. After careful observation, Pei Lan and Wu Ritu found some clues.

"I think we should go left," the two said.

"why?"

"Look, although the fork in the road on the right has obvious traces of human intervention, I can see that there is an upward staircase in the distance. I think this is most likely an exit, so this road should not be the correct one." This was Wuzhitu's idea.

"It could be a trick, right? For example, they built a staircase that goes up first, but it actually leads to the lower level, right?"

Faced with the questions from the other three people, Wuzhitu really couldn't refute them, but Pei Lan did give him a help.

"Generally speaking, it is possible. But look at the fork in the road on the left. Look carefully at the position above the edge of the entrance. What do you see?"

"Oh, I see."

Wuzhitu looked in the direction Pei Lan pointed and soon found the clue, but the other three didn't understand. So Pei Lan threw a flying knife towards the ground directly below that position.

"Ding!"

"Qiang Qiang Qiang!"

Just as the flying knife landed on the ground with a crisp sound, several spikes suddenly emerged from above and below the left side of the cave entrance. These spikes fit together tightly, like a metal gate, temporarily blocking the left side of the cave entrance. After a few seconds, they shrank back into the rocks above and below, as if nothing had happened.

"organ?"

"Yes, that's the mechanism. Now you should understand why we should take the left fork, right?"

Yuan Feng's attention was somewhat distracted, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Huh? What does that mean?"

"Haven't you figured this out? They would only set up traps in places they don't want people to go to! If there's nothing important on this road, wouldn't it be useless to set up traps? This trap is well made, and it must have cost a lot of gold, silver and materials in that era. No one would set up such a trap in a useless place."

"Oh...I see."

However, the others noticed that Yuan Feng's attention still didn't seem to be here. He looked behind him and his answers were just perfunctory. He didn't really participate in the conversation. He was obviously absent-minded.

"What are you thinking? Normally, you would be able to quickly notice the clues here. What's wrong with you?"

"Do you remember that I sealed the entrance from cell 11 to the cave?"

"Remember, what happened?"

"To be on the safe side, I not only sealed the hole, but also used a sleight of hand to disguise the inner wall of cell No. 11 to its original appearance."

"Someone saw through the disguise?"

"Not only that, they should have entered the passage. The skills I deployed in the passage just gave me an early warning, but..."

"Are they already in?"

"That's not the case. I set up an arcane trap at the entrance. It's not very powerful and can't kill players or enemies of similar strength to us, but it makes a very loud noise. As long as someone triggers it, we will definitely hear it."

"What's going on?"

"I didn't see anyone."

"Ah? What do you mean? Didn't you say someone entered the passage? Why did you say you didn't see anyone?"

"The skills I deployed in the passage gave an early warning, which means someone has indeed entered the passage, but the detection magic I left there didn't detect even a mouse, let alone a person."

After Yuan Feng said this, everyone immediately understood the seriousness of the matter. As a mage, Yuan Feng's strength was very good. Whether it was offensive magic or other types of magic, it would not be ineffective on other people who were equally powerful as him. But this time, his detection magic did not work. This can only mean one thing, at least in the field of counter-detection, the person who entered the channel must be better than Yuan Feng. And no one would be stupid enough to use counter-detection as their main ability, which means that the other party's own strength must at least be better than Yuan Feng.

Being discovered by Yuan Feng's early warning skills means that the opponent is not strong enough for Yuan Feng to deal with, but at the same time, multiple early warnings can also confirm that there are more than one person entering the passage. Maybe the opponent is also a full team, which is not a good thing.

"It looks like we have to fight first if we want to move forward."

"Don't worry, we haven't been discovered yet. If the enemy is really as strong as us, or better than us, then we'd better take advantage of the information gap and ambush them first. But Kaikai is right. If we want to explore the next location smoothly, a fight is inevitable."

Everyone quickly discussed the ambush plan. They took advantage of the environment around the fork in the road. Yuan Si moved some large pieces of building debris from nearby to build a temporary advantageous terrain for everyone. Zhao Mingkai summoned skeleton soldiers to disguise as the layout of the environment, and Yuan Feng set up magic traps in various locations around. Pei Lan and Wu Ritu hid in a high place. Everything was ready, and they quietly waited for the enemy to arrive.

However, half an hour passed and there was still no movement nearby. But just as Wuzhitu was about to use his skills to explore, they suddenly heard the sound of some excavation equipment coming from not far away.

"Om~~"

“Zizzizi~~~”

"Boom, boom."

These things kept ringing for about ten minutes, and then stopped. Pei Lan and Wuzhitu could hear some vague conversations and the sound of walking in the water, as if someone was moving around the hot spring bath.

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Then they heard the sound of something jumping into the water.