Chapter 175 Theory

When Liang Qian took out the bronze incense burner, the woman in black frowned and rarely took the initiative to ask, "This is..."

Liang Qian is obviously not as disgusted with the girl in black as Daxiong and I are. Hearing her questions, she said, "Oh, this is the Kirin furnace handed down from my family. It can ward off evil spirits and repel insects, and is invulnerable."

"Kirin furnace?" The girl in black frowned and said, "Can you lend it to me?"

Liang Qian hummed and handed her the bronze stove very generously.

I have seen this bronze furnace carefully as early as our first adventure. The dark furnace body is carved with a beast's head on each side, using the hollow carving method, and the handwork is extremely fine.

The mouths of the four beast heads are open, and the curling smoke spewed out of their mouths, which is very magical.

Now there is no fire in the stove, and it is dark in my hand, but it is not very eye-catching.

But the woman in black still held the bronze stove in her hand and looked at it carefully for a long time.

Then she suddenly remembered something dead, her eyes bulged and said, "You can't use this here."

Liang Qian was a little puzzled and asked, "Why?"

The woman in black didn't think about it and replied directly, "I said no, but I can't. It's not good for you to use this."

We looked at each other and felt that the words and deeds of the woman in black were very strange.

I remembered that she had cursed in the cabin before, and I thought that there were too many strange things about the woman in black.

I was thinking about it when the woman in black said, "Believe me, it's not too late to light the incense burner when you are in danger."

Seeing her sincere expression, Liang Qian hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, I won't order it for the time being."

The woman in black nodded, seemed to be relieved, and handed the bronze incense burner back to Liang Qian.

Hum, there was another strange noise in front of us, and the black shadow passed through not far away again.

However, these things don't seem to mean to get close to us, just flying in the distance.

We continued to move forward with our own flashlight. Unexpectedly, when we walked more than ten meters, a platform of about 30 or 40 square meters suddenly appeared in front of us.

The platform is square, with a row of dilapidated houses on the four sides, and in the center of the platform, there is a small platform about half a person high.

"This...should be the market, right?" Daxiong asked.

Andre nodded and said, "Yes, this used to be a small market in the south of Wangcheng. From here, the road became connected in all directions. When I came here more than 30 years ago, I was confused by the small street like a spider web. Finally, I couldn't find a way out and retreated."

I don't think Andre is completely telling the truth, because I saw the dense houses and roads behind the platform, and tried to think that if I was here alone, with the thick fog and the unknown dangers in the alleys, I would definitely give up going deeper.

And Andre probably retreated from here and went straight to the Grand Theatre from the fork on the left.

To be honest, the roads in a city are complex, and no matter how many streets and alleys there are, there will be a main road leading to Wangcheng, but we are full of houses in front of us. We can't find any road to Wangcheng. Such a design may not be accidental, but may be intentional.

Of course, the deliberate construction was not to confuse us adventurers. After all, the king of the Kingdom of Durban did not expect that his country would be destroyed.

This may be due to military needs. Once the king city is broken, the enemy will not be able to kill the palace directly, and the soldiers and horses will be blocked by the complex terrain.

At that time, the emperor could escape through another secret passage. I think this secret passage should be the main road of the royal city, and it was likely to be hidden under the palace, that is, near the lighthouse.

This proves two problems. First, it is a wise choice for us to find the entrance to the dungeon near the lighthouse.

Second, the Kingdom of Durban was not the king of this area, and there may be a danger of destruction at any time. At least when this city of Durban was built, the situation was like this, so there was such a complicated road here.

I don't doubt what Andre said that the Durban Kingdom once flourished, with a higher degree of development than many civilizations. But I suspect that the Kingdom of Durban at that time was not an empire that dominated one side, but at least one hostile force that could threaten the regime.

This cannot be the indigenous people of ancient Siberia, because when the Kingdom of Durban dominated, the indigenous people here were still in a very low civilization period.

So I really can't imagine which kingdom can be equal to the Kingdom of Durban.

In my thinking, under the banner of looking for cultural relics, Daxiong searched the sheds around the square to see if there were any deposit boxes that had not been washed away by the flood. If there were several gold coins in it, it would have great research value.

As a result, although Nobita found a rotten iron box, the copper coins inside had been rotten and stuck to the bottom of the box.

He sighed and said, "It seems that the 18th kingdom of Xiaochuan's ancestors did not like to use gold coins."

I scolded, "Are you lacking? These are obviously stalls selling vegetables and fruits. A gold coin was equivalent to thousands of yuan in ancient times. Will you use a thousand yuan to buy vegetables?"

Nobita hummed and ignored me. Obviously, he didn't know what to say.

"Okay, let's move on." Andre clapped his hands and said, "The road ahead is still long. You don't know that every road in the royal city is not only on the ground. As you walk, the road will turn into an underground tunnel. Some underground tunnels are relatively short and return to the ground after a while, and some underground tunnels twist, all of them are It goes around the ground, and there are many fork roads, and you will get lost easily.

I know that the underground tunnels and dungeons he mentioned are not a concept. The underground tunnels are relatively shallow, at most 20 meters underground, just like the current subway tunnels, while the dungeons hollowed out the whole mountain and the underground space built. When it comes to China, it is said to be the underworld.

The so-called Yincheng is the opposite city of Yangcheng, which is generally underground, not for living people, but for cattle, ghosts and snakes.

For example, Kaifeng in Henan was flooded six times because of the collapse of the Yellow River. Every time the yellow sand buried the whole city below, and later people built cities above the city, so that a total of six Kaifeng cities were crushed below, so that the current Kaifeng City is lower than the Yellow River bed.

The six cities buried in the ground are called Yin City. It is said that the dead lived in the Yin City. They usually live as usual, and if there are living people entering, they will be immediately eaten without any bones left.

I have heard about these legends for a long time, and I have also been to Kaifeng in person. Although what I saw is not as evil as what I heard, many elderly people keep silent when it comes to this.

The Yin City of Durban is obviously more evil, because it has the same characteristics as Kaifeng, that is, many people have died.