The anomaly of the bronze gate made all the soldiers of the Nether World Watch on high alert. Even Elder Nether Spring, one of the strongest experts of the Blood Demon Sector, was staring at the twisted embossments.
The tombs and relics of the ancient experts were the favorites of the Cultivators and the demons. If they could discover one or two legacies, the capability of the Cultivators would be greatly improved. However, the tombs and relics were often riddled with traps. One moment of carelessness might lead to failure.
However, according to the studies of the specialists and the exploration over the past few days, a conclusion had been reached. The Mausoleum of Chaos had been sealed because of a gory accident that killed everybody in the mausoleum instantly.
Perhaps, because of the leakage of a deadly virus, a lot of people were mentally deranged, mutated, and killed each other.
Under such circumstances, the death of Chaos was very hasty. There were not enough followers to help him set up the traps after his death.
It was also one of the reasons why Elder Nether Spring was bold enough to explore directly.
Crack! Crack! Crack! "
The sounds of gears and chains below the bronze gate were closer and closer. At first, they seemed to be coming from below the ground, but right now, they seemed to be echoing in everybody's ears. They felt that not only the core of the bronze gate was being twisted, but their internal organs were also being twisted.
Before the gate was opened, some of the experts who were relatively weak were already retching.
Huala!
Then, the bronze gate suddenly sank.
"All the fluorescent bugs and searchlights, aim at the bronze gate. All the soldiers of the Nether World Watch, step back ten meters!"
Elder Nether Spring commanded.
Dozens of searchlights, which had been captured and smuggled from the Tian Yuan Realm and were made of crystals and enhanced by almost a hundred light-gathering rune arrays, were aimed at the bronze gate at the same time. Hundreds of flying bugs, which were much larger than fireflies and whose heads and butts were embedded with crystals, flew to the top of the bronze gate, too.
The brilliance that they generated illuminated the surroundings as if it were daytime. Even so, right above the bronze gate, the light was still limited. It seemed to be swallowed by the black fog that was flowing out of the bronze gate.
Then, when the light was compressed to the minimum, it could be vaguely seen that the bronze gate had sunk almost five meters. It spun three times to the left and two and a half times to the right. Then, after a clang, as if the pivot of the gate had been opened, the bronze gate split apart like petals. It retreated into the depths of the rocks.
The bronze door was laid on the ground, and the passageway behind the door went deep into the ground. It was like a vertical well, and one couldn't see the bottom while standing beside it.
"Baizu, begin scouting!"
"Illusionary Butterfly Demoness," Whirlpool shrieked.
A soldier of the Nether World Watch stepped out. He barely had any features of a human being on his body. He looked more like a hybrid of a giant spider and a centipede. Two long limbs were growing in front of his body. It was actually densely covered with more than ten red compound eyes.
The 'hundred feet' of the Nether World Watch extended their limbs to the maximum.
His limbs seemed to have undergone special genetic modifications and were created specifically for reconnaissance. His three-meter-long limbs were folded and folded, and when fully extended, they actually reached more than ten meters. They were connected by more than ten joints, and they could freely turn in the winding and complicated tunnels.
The 'hundred feet' of the Nether World Watch were the limbs that were full of compound eyes. He dived into the pitch-black cave.
Despot and Swirl, the two commanders of the Nether World Watch, both placed their hands near his head and connected to his brain through synthesized neurons. They shared his vision.
"Judging from the soundwave detection at the beginning, the tunnel is at least twenty kilometers long. There are circles of threads on the wall to help people get in and out. However, the wall is extremely smooth. Ordinary people can't enter without the help of tools.
"The tunnel is shrouded in fog. Even though the compound eyes of the 'hundred feet' have been specially modified and trained, it is still impossible for him to see more than a hundred meters into the tunnel. "
"Huh. Is there a sound?"
At the end of the tunnel, deep below the ground, the roar of an approaching tide suddenly echoed, as if a fountain had suddenly surged up from below the ground!
"Be alert. Watch out for the anomaly!"
'Swirl', the Illusionary Butterfly Demoness, pulled the 'hundred feet' back. Between the two enormous horns on the head of 'Despot', a ball of lightning quickly expanded.
Almost at the same time, the rumbling of tides flowed to the entrance of the cave. After a boom, a large cluster of black air rushed out like the eruption of a volcano!
"Ahhh!"
The last limb of the 'hundred-legged' had not been pulled out of the shaft yet when it was hit by the black gas. It let out a heart-wrenching roar, and its compound eyes suddenly expanded like abnormal tumors. A moment later, they exploded one after another!
The 'hundred feet' screamed in excruciating pain!
'Swirl', the Illusionary Butterfly Demoness, was fast enough to shake her wings. A streak of colorful brilliance circled around the 'hundred feet''s swollen limb three times. The broken limb fell to the ground and bounced more than ten times like a viper whose head had been chopped off, before it finally turned into a pool of pus in spluttering noises!
The black air soared to the sky and enshrouded most of the fluorescent insects. The brilliance of half of the fluorescent insects was immediately extinguished. They withered and fell into the shaft like hailstones.
The other half of the fluorescent insects, on the other hand, were emanating dazzling brilliance. Hissing noises were echoing from their mouths. Their wings and limbs were growing crazily. Even their wings were significantly larger than before, growing from the size of a thumb to the size of half a palm!
The enlarged fluorescent insects were almost like flares that had grown wings. They became extremely brutal, bloodthirsty, and hungry. In earsplitting shrieks, they charged at the soldiers of the Nether World Watch in all directions!
"The fluorescent insects are out of control!"
A soldier of the Nether World Watch exclaimed in shock.
Elder Nether Spring's subordinates were mostly insects. As their name suggested, they were all specialists in the art of insect manipulation. All kinds of insect-type demon beasts were as easy to manipulate as their own limbs.
But right now, the fluorescent insects, which had been modified with the blood of the soldiers of the Nether World Watch and were almost part of their organs, were not listening to his command!
At the critical moment, 'Despot' roared. The ball of lightning between the two horns suddenly burst out and exploded in the middle of the mutated fluorescent insects, turning into an enormous electric net more than ten square meters in diameter. The deep blue electric arcs enshrouded all the fluorescent insects! Zi! Zi!
"Zi, zi, zi, zi!"
Zi! Zi! Although they were tied up by the intense electric arcs, the fluorescent insects did not die immediately. They were still struggling hard and almost ripped apart the electric net several times!
"Huh?"
The shell all over Despot's body was shaking violently. The demon cores embedded to his body suddenly glittered, and the electric arcs that they released turned from deep blue into crimson!
Under the surging crimson electric arcs, most of the fluorescent insects were finally electrocuted into burnt corpses and blown to smithereens. But more than ten particularly tough insects were not killed by the electric arcs. Instead, they further mutated in the electric arcs. Sharp thorns grew out of their bodies, and their mouthparts were enlarged, making them look like shining caltrops!
"What?"
As if he had been greatly humiliated, Despot's face, which was covered in the black armor, was steaming with blood. He punched each other brutally like two crystal trains. The super demon core on his chest that looked like a mirror suddenly glittered, and the electric arcs that it released turned from crimson into pale white.
Finally, the dozens of mutated flying insects were all electrocuted to death!
"Spray the stabilizers now!"
'Swirl' demanded the Illusionary Butterfly Demon.
A few soldiers of the Nether World Watch who were wrapped up like rice dumplings stepped forward.
They were wearing quite a few layers of fully-enclosed protective suits. Some of them were even wearing the antidote suits from the Tian Yuan Realm. They were also carrying several enormous silver pressure bottles on which the rune arrays were glittering.
Pu! Pu! Pu!
Pu! Pu! Green bubbles spurted out of the pressure bottles and formed a solid barrier around the black gas.
The moment the black gas touched the green bubbles, the bubbles immediately enshrouded the black gas as if they were boiling and neutralized it. A lot of harmless, bright green gas was generated and spread out in all directions.
"The black gas that has been accumulated in the deepest part of the tomb of Chaos seems to have the effect of activating the cell activity crazily. Any creature that touches it will have their vitality drained instantly and become extremely crazy!
"Thankfully, the ancient black gas is rather simple in structure. It can be neutralized by the stabilizers."
One of the specialists of poison was fiddling with a few pieces of demonic equipment local to the Blood Demon Sector and the air detector magical equipment from the Tian Yuan Realm. He said quickly, "The black gas has been sealed inside the tomb of Chaos for forty thousand years. During the forty thousand years, because of the tectonic changes and the pressure of the outside world, the black gas will be spurted out when the bronze gate is opened. By estimation, it will disperse in five minutes.
"However, there may still be some remaining black gas in the deepest part of the tomb of Chaos. It is suggested that we spray and neutralize it with the stabilizers before the exploration."
As he expected, three minutes later, the intensity of the black gas gradually decreased. Like a fountain that had run out of pressure, it slowly turned into a trickle. Five minutes later, there was no more black gas spurting out.
Even so, Elder Nether Spring still asked the soldiers of the Nether World Watch to wait for another half an hour. In the meantime, he asked the specialists to drop an air detector magical equipment into the depths of the shaft with a narrow, long rope.
The rope was ten kilometers long. At least ten thousand meters deep, the components of the poison that was too intense were not detected.
Deep inside the ancient tomb that had been sealed for forty thousand years, the air was naturally not suitable for ordinary people to breathe. However, demons did not have as high a demand for air as human beings did. Also, they were carrying compressed oxygen cylinders. There should not be any problem.
Taking advantage of the half hour to disperse the air, the soldiers of the Nether World Watch were working on the top of the shaft. They established a temporary lift with solid iron ropes.
However, because of the limitation of the strength of the iron ropes, the iron ropes were only five thousand meters long. Any longer and they would be broken by their own weight.
Many experts of the Nether World Watch boasted flying and floating abilities. Even if they could not fly, they could still grab the wall of the cave and move up and down like lizards. The lift was mainly prepared for the transportation of assets.
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