Like most other xenomorph shelters, the Ancatero family's territory is hidden in strange spatial crevices, and uses mysterious technology to camouflage and deflect layers, and as the most mysterious of all the xenotypes, the Ancatro Territory is even more secretive than the Shadow Sanctuary, and the way to open it is only in the hands of a few ancient families like Wayne.After the incident a month ago, the Ancatero Secret Realm was completely closed by the people inside, and the ordinary means of opening it also lost their effect, Wayne?
Walt had to prepare something special to help open the gate, and in order to open the door, they had to go to a special location: underground.Wayne?
Walter had visited the Ancatero family in the foothill town more than once, and he knew all the secret routes here.Led by the vampire patriarch, Hao Ren and the others burrowed into the underground tunnels of the town.This seemingly unremarkable town has surprising underground waterways, with wide sewers that connect the underground parts of the town like a labyrinth, and such a town obviously doesn't need drainage on this scale, so much of the sewers are blocked or semi-dry.Haoren followed Wayne and Hesperith in the wide, subway tunnel, and he saw that around him were circular pipes supported by permanent concrete and large steel inner shells, the sides of which were inlaid with dim lights, and in the center of the sewers was a waterway that had almost dried up, and the dark green moss on the guardrails on both sides of the waterway had severely eroded the steel and concrete structures.Judging by the surrounding lights, it is often maintained, and the builder of this place must have been human, but why would such a town build sewers of this scale?"
This was a battlefield many years ago, a military location, during World War II," Wayne casually explained after hearing Hao Ren's question, his voice echoing through the wide pipes of the sewers, which seemed very loud, "These underground facilities were originally tunnels and warehouses, so they were built very strongly, and the locals did not abandon these things after the war, but instead strengthened and rebuilt them as sewers." ”Lily wrinkled her nose and followed Hao Ren, these sewers are not very smelly because they have perfect ventilation facilities and only a few of them come in handy, but Lily, as a canine, is still a little allergic to the smell here: "Anyway, I didn't expect to drill into the sewers......
How did the Ancatero family choose such a place for the entrance?
How did they get in and out of this town before it was built?
”"Of course, there are other entrances and exits, but I chose the safest one this time," Wayne nodded slightly, "This entrance to the underground waterway was only settled decades ago.The entrances and exits of the Ancatero Realm correspond to the positions of the stars in the sky, so they change every once in a while, and each time there are four passages connected to the outside world at the same time.In this reincarnation of the stars, there happens to be a passage corresponding to the human town, which is also helpless. ”Lily sighed, it felt like it was quite magical: the entrance to the secret realm that changed with the position of the stars, and it sounded a bit of a myth.Next to him, Hao Ren inexplicably asked a question: "Although it sounds safe, what if the door of the house corresponds to the septic tank when the stars rotate?"
”Wayne was walking in front with a lot of grace, but Hao Ren's words almost made him fall into the ditch on the side of the road: "Why are your ideas so dirty?!"
”Hao Ren scratched his face: "My train of thought is quite normal, hasn't anyone ever thought like this?"
”Wayne was speechless, but Hesperius spoke: "Hao Ren, if you meet the Batanya Witch Spirit Family in West Africa in the future, don't talk to them about this topic." ”"Huh?""
The exit of their family's secret realm also changes with the movement of the stars, and it is really connected to the septic tank to pass the ......"
This time it was everyone's turn to be speechless, until Elizabeth hugged her arms and sighed as if a little adult: "So this kind of lost and out of control ancient technology is the most unreliable, I thought about safety at the beginning, and now people don't even know how to control the direction, so it's blind!"
”"Ahem, it's not completely uncontrollable," Wayne explained with a strange expression, even a little incoherent, "Choosing a general connection range, you can fix the opening position in a relatively stable location, or calibrate the astrological disk......
Forget it, let's not talk about that, okay?
”"And what about the witchers?"
Vivien blinked, "Wayne, you investigated early, what do you think about the witcher's disappearance here a month ago?"
”Wayne pondered slightly: "To be honest, I can't even believe a punctuation mark when the witcher says it, but if what the witcher named White Fire said is true, it can roughly correspond to the information I have."
A month ago, there was indeed a sizable group of witchers here, enough to send the Werewolf warriors of House Hogwover away, so it should not be the same as the few witchers who are currently investigating here.And according to the mad investigator's report, he did mention that there were witchers or something in Ancatero territory. ”Hao Ren snorted and didn't say anything else.The dimly lit underground sewers were not a good place to discuss things, and the team soon lost interest in discussing them.They followed Wayne in silence, navigating the pipes before entering what looked like they had been abandoned for years.There is no underground water flow in this section of the passage, and the only light is coming from a fork in the road dozens of meters away.Wayne eventually led the group to a stop in front of a patchy concrete wall: the entrance was here."
It was impossible for that spirit detective to find the Golden Manor in his lifetime," Hao Ren couldn't help muttering after seeing this entrance, "Its entrance is actually this kind of place, and it is completely untouched by the sun. ”Wayne smiled, "The sight across this door will surprise you even more." ”As he spoke, he pulled out something delicate from the suitcase he was carrying.It was a weird thing like an old camera, but with a distinctly different structure.It has a square body wrapped in black leather, and at the front of this "square box" is a hemispherical lens, and at the back of the "box" you can see a series of lenses and crystals, this prop can't help but remind people of the unreliable "psychic machines" made by those mysterious scholars more than a hundred years ago, those supernatural cameras assembled with glass, crystal, and copper ore to try to capture ghosts, and also reminded Hao Ren of the psychic lens set in Pierre's hand.But the device in Wayne's hand was clearly different from those half-bucket knockoffs, it was inlaid with glittering runes, and each of its lenses and crystals was not connected by any fixed object, but relied on magic to levitate where it was supposed to be.When Wayne pointed the device at the wall in front of him, all the lenses glowed slightly.The light of the lens group gradually intensifies, and the front of the installation creates a slide-like light like a projection, which gradually outlines a series of intricate lines on the concrete wall.The image slowly changed, and Hao Ren finally saw that it was the shape of a door.And the most amazing thing is that this door was indeed a simple image at the beginning, but as the device in Wayne's hand continued to creak and rattle, the feeling of those images slowly changed, Hao Ren didn't know which step he had missed, but by the time he realized this, the image on the wall had become a real door.A large gate cast in metal and inlaid with a large number of golden runes.Wayne turned off the device, carefully tucked it into his suitcase, and stepped to push the door open: "Let's go, this door will only last ten minutes."
After that, if all goes well, we can return to this side of the world through the fixed passage set up by the Ancatro family. ”Lily let out a long exclamation, then pushed Hao Ren and ran into the door.A moist and warm breath came to his face, and Hao Ren clearly felt that he had passed through a barrier like a curtain of water, and he stepped out of a door that stood in the air out of thin air, and found himself standing in a strange place.The boundless chaos of the fog shrouded the surroundings, and there was no sun, moon or star in this space, and the light of unknown origin shone down from above the thick fog, so that the world would not be pitch black.Haoren's eyes widened, and he struggled to distinguish his surroundings in the thick fog, and he got his wish to see the golden manor: despite the fog, he saw a series of splendid buildings dimly appearing in his field of vision, and the buildings were indeed made of almost pure gold, as described by Pierre, even if they were shrouded in thick fog.However, after seeing these buildings, Hao Ren and his entourage were shocked by something else."
Tanagus?!"
(To be continued.) )