Chapter 1869 Big City

"That's right, what are they hiding from?" Leo looked at the empty town in front of him, and doubts arose in his heart again.

This underground town in front of him is the fourth empty underground town among the four underground cities that Leo has discovered through the underground passage dug by humans. It is not quite appropriate to call it a town, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a city.

The area of ​​this city is roughly estimated to be more than ten times the sum of the towns that Leo has visited before. From the perspective of the city layout, the entire city has undergone at least seventeen expansions. The cave where the city is located may have been a natural cave at first, but now it has been dug by humans, and the dome of the cave should also be consolidated with a support frame structure with extremely high-tech content, and cooperate with the thirty-one pillars arranged throughout the city, so that this artificial cave does not collapse due to structural problems.

What is different from the previous towns is that the temple of this city is built in the center of the city in the form of a pyramid. The top is the main body of the temple, and the roof of the temple is only a line away from the dome, almost touching it. The foundation of the pyramid below is hollowed out, which looks like a room. It is speculated that it is for the clergy of the temple to live.

A rough estimate of such a large city is that the population is at least hundreds of thousands, but at this moment it is empty without a single person, which is really abnormal.

If the previous underground town was too close to the ground, and the Mumu tribe knew about the indigenous tribes and colonists on the ground, and was worried about the invasion of the ground, so they gave up the town and retreated deeper underground, this is very understandable. After all, from the layout of the underground towns we have seen before, there is no fortification at all. Once they encounter an invasion by experienced troops, it will be difficult for the residents of those towns to resist.

But this huge underground city is different. The population here is at least hundreds of thousands. On the ground, no matter whether it is a colonial settlement or an indigenous tribe in the New World, there is no residential area with a population of hundreds of thousands. Moreover, this is underground, the passage is narrow, which is not conducive to traveling together, and logistics are difficult to supply. Sending an army of two or three thousand people from the ground to invade here is already the limit, and as for tens of thousands of people, it is basically impossible, so the residents of such an underground city have no need to escape.

So after seeing this huge and exaggerated underground city, the idea that emerged in Leo's mind was that the Yagulin people living in this city, and even the people of the underground towns and the Mumu tribe, would leave their place of residence, and even use their own people for some kind of sacrifice, and migrate as a whole tribe. It is very likely that it has nothing to do with the plan of the Paho tribe. Everything is just a coincidence. They did such an abnormal thing for another reason.

In the previous towns, Leo had explored them. The only thing he found worth noting was that when the residents of all the underground towns left, they did not take away the snake skin of the Abyss Snake, which could be regarded as a sacred object, from the altar in the underground temple, just like the Mumu tribe did not take away the body of the young snake sealed by the divine crystal.

If the Mumu tribe did not take away the body of the young snake, it might be because this thing was at the bottom of the statue of the Abyss Snake. The current Mumu tribe’s high-level officials might have forgotten that there was such a sacred object, but the sacred objects of these underground towns were placed on the altar of the temple. It was impossible for the people of these towns to ignore this thing when they left. Then there was only one explanation, that is, this snake skin was no longer a sacred object, and it might even become something they despised. It was even possible that the snake skin in the temple was the reason why these Yagulin people left the place where they had lived for many years.

For the time being, Leo was not very sure about his inference, but he believed that he should be able to find more clues in this huge city in front of him.

So, Leo started a series of explorations of the city in front of him. The exploration process was very careful, and he used the white deer divine power that he had recovered during this period to create the white deer mark, so that he could smoothly use the mental network and scan every detail in the city over and over again.

Just like other underground towns, the people here cleaned up their homes very cleanly when they left, and even the streets in the city were clean. Judging from the daily items left behind, such as clothes, the people here did not consider leaving for too long when they left, but there was no food stored in all the houses, which means that when they left, they took away all the food in the city.

In addition, unlike other underground towns, the houses here are no longer of the same style. The temple in the center of the city is used as the origin and spreads to the surrounding areas. Basically, every time the city expands to form a new urban area, the buildings built will be completely different. This is why Leo can immediately judge how many times this city has been expanded after seeing this underground city.

The closer the city is to the temple, the more obvious the characteristics of Velen are in the architectural style. For example, the buildings in the circle of cities closest to the temple have a distinct ancient indigenous tribal style, highlighting a roughness. The further outward it expands, the more rigorous and simple the architectural style becomes. By the time of the last circle of cities, the architectural style is no different from that of other underground towns. It is all so simple and without any characteristics.

Although, like the buildings in the underground town, there are no patterns or symbols on the surface of the buildings here that can be studied, this city has two more special buildings than other underground cities. One is that a large area has been excavated underground outside the city, and that area is a military camp. Through the mental network, it can be found that there are also a large number of weapons left in the military camp. These weapons are not placed on weapon racks, but soaked in oil barrels and preserved.

It can be seen that the soldiers in the military camp should know that they will not be able to come back in a short time after they leave, otherwise they will not use this method to preserve these weapons.

However, this military camp is also a city facility that makes Leo feel strange, because judging from the size of the military camp, there are at least four or five thousand permanent troops here.

If this city is on the ground, Leo can understand why so many troops are needed, but this is an underground city. There are no fortifications around the city and no protective measures inside the city. Obviously, there are no dangerous enemies here, so why was this military camp with thousands of troops built? Or why was such a military camp with a permanent army built?

In addition to the military camp, this underground city also has a library. This library is a huge pyramid building under the temple. However, the books in the library are somewhat special. They are neither paper books nor leather books, but heavy and hard stone slabs.

I don’t know whether it is because of the influence of the so-called gods on the top of the temple, or because the suppression of the world law has weakened the scanning ability of the mental network. Leo cannot read the stone slabs with a large number of symbols carved on the surface through the mental network scanning method. In his mental network, the symbols carved are very blurred and unrecognizable.

Because he had to go to the temple, Leo did not dwell on the fact that the mental network could not scan the stone slab symbols. He temporarily ignored this matter and continued to scan the city, and also scanned the underground passages around the city. After finding the passage where the Yagulin people left, he stopped scanning and retracted the mental network.

However, at the moment of retracting the mental network, Leo suddenly felt something strange, as if some extremely weak mental body tried to take the opportunity to enter Leo's mental consciousness along with the mental network, but it seemed to underestimate Leo's mental strength, and before it had time to contact Leo, it was dispelled by the psychic resonance of the mental network. The whole process was just a matter of a moment, and the abnormal fluctuations were very weak. If Leo had not focused on the mental network scanning the city, it might be difficult to detect this abnormal fluctuation.

Leo did not think this was his illusion, so he also became a little wary of this underground city. Obviously, the mental body should be considered a part of the extraordinary power, and the mental body existing in such a special world is not an ordinary character.

As for whether this mental body is related to the abyss snake worshiped by the Yagulin people? Leo temporarily denied it, because since he swallowed the pure abyss power from the abyss snake, his induction of the abyss power has become several times stronger than before, and as he found similar snake skins in several underground towns he found later and swallowed the abyss power in them, this induction has increased exponentially, and he did not sense any abyss breath on that spirit body, but felt like the power of gods.

With doubts in his heart, Leo entered this underground city. Perhaps because it has been vacant for a long time, many insects living underground have begun to settle in the city, and some plants such as moss have also appeared on the streets and walls of the city. It is estimated that it will not take long for the entire underground city to completely change its owner.

Following the stone steps, Leo climbed up to the first floor of the pyramid and entered it. At the moment of entering, the induction device placed here was activated, and then the induction lights on the top were lit up, adding a strong technological style to this pyramid full of ancient atmosphere.

The appearance of the high-tech sensor light device here did not surprise Leo too much, because in a previous town, he had already found some traces of technological devices. Obviously, these Yagulin people should have mastered some technological devices, and the technological content of this sensor light was not high. It had already appeared in the old earth era, so even if it was scanned by the mental network just now, he did not pay any attention to it.

Although it was the same for Leo whether there was a sensor light or not, his eyes could see things clearly without any light, but the sensor light still made him feel more comfortable.

Then, he quickly flipped through the stone tablets full of symbols in this pyramid library, because he had long known that the language and writing of the Yagulin people were derived from the Gamorre language, so even if he did not understand the meaning of these words, he could still analyze the approximate meaning of some words that still had the basic roots of the Gamorre language through the language structure of the Gamorre language, and then reversely infer the meaning of other words through these words, and gradually interpret the words on these stone tablets.

After about three hours, Leo had completely mastered the Yagulin people's writing and read all the books in the first-level library.

The books in the first-level library are of no value to Leo, because the slate books are all about domesticating some underground creatures and cultivating various edible mosses, mushrooms and other reference books. The only thing that can be gained from these reference books is to know that this city has built more than a hundred large and small farms around it. The previous underground towns were actually converted from abandoned farms, and the food produced by these farms is used to supply the daily needs of the residents in the city.

However, what puzzles Leo is that the farms may be able to provide some jobs for the residents of the city, but the number of jobs provided should not be large, only a few thousand people at most, so what do the remaining residents do every day?

You know, when Leo scanned the city through the mental network just now, all the houses scanned were residential houses, and none of them were workshops. The number of underground passages around just matched the number of farms, so this underground city can only provide so many job opportunities, and the rest of the people can only do nothing. This is obviously not the state of a normal society, unless other people have other similar work to complete every day.

Leo's doubts did not decrease after reading the books of the Yagulin people, but increased instead. He continued to walk towards the upper library.

Because he had mastered the language of the Yagulin people, Leo's reading speed was much faster afterwards. In less than an hour, he came to the library on the top floor and finished reading the last slate book. At this moment, he also understood what those unemployed people in this underground city did every day.

Praying is an important thing that the Yagulin people in the city have to do every day, and they cannot stop except for resting. The object of their prayer is a god called the Great Snake of Light.

It is recorded in the slate book on the top floor that this Great Snake of Light helped their ancestors get rid of the pursuit from their enemies, helped them pass through the dangerous underground world, and came to this safe place to recuperate. In order for them to survive better here, they were given the blood of the gods and made them the descendants of the gods. Undoubtedly, this so-called Great Snake of Light should be the Abyss Snake of the Black Forest.

The reason why they prayed all day long was that the Great Snake of Light was dead, and they wanted to revive the Great Snake of Light through prayer.