Chapter 252: Ruins

Although they had obtained the method for clearing the grotto, the gang's team wasn't happy at all.

Who hasn't done something bad?

Is this something you can just say casually? Big things lose you your head, small things lose you face, how will you get by in the underworld in the future?

Xiao Yuan's face suddenly darkened. She was the last person who wanted to look back on the past.

Although the rules for clearing the level were outrageous, at least there was no danger to life, and it would be a lot of fun if everyone played together. Yes, the deeply thoughtful Tianxiaguihuo, the taciturn Zhao Chenghuang, the seemingly soft and cute but actually scheming Sun Miaomiao, the Hongjige representing Elder Jiangpu, and the seemingly learned but scatterbrained Shen Xiahou Aotian... Zhang Yuanqing swept his teammates, and an idea suddenly popped into his head.

Tianxiaguihuo said urgently, "Xiahou Aotian, come back first, I have a suggestion."

Xiahou Aotian stopped where he was. He had already endured one attack. If he didn't continue forward, he wouldn't be attacked.

"What is it?" Xiahou Aotian asked.

"If confessing can clear the grotto, we don't need to go together at all. You take the Little Red Riding Hood, and we hide inside," Tianxiaguihuo said.

"What you said, no one can hear, and we can avoid confessing, avoiding the disclosure of privacy."

He emphasized the word "privacy," hoping that this teammate who considered himself the protagonist would realize that he was ultimately mortal and different from the positive energy-filled protagonist in the story.

Xiahou Aotian understood Tianxiaguihuo's hint, pondered for a moment, and felt it made sense. After all, stealing his father's private money to pay off debts was not a pleasant thing to talk about.

"Good idea!" Xiahou Aotian turned back. "Yuanshi Tianzun, give me the red hat."

Zhang Yuanqing ignored him and instead looked at Xiao Yuan, saying, "You go into the hat for a while."

Every evil profession has a history of either pain, despair, or darkness, the pain in life they least want to recall. Xiao Yuan didn't confess during the Master's sermon, indicating that the thing in her heart was something she didn't want to make public.

Xiao Yuan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhang Yuanqing with a gentle look, and then disappeared from everyone's sight.

Then, Zhang Yuanqing ignored Xiahou Aotian's outstretched hand and put the Little Red Riding Hood into his item bar, saying:

"We are all upright gentlemen who have not done anything shameful. Follow me straight in."

Everyone looked at him with an "are you out of your mind" expression.

But Zhang Yuanqing seemed to be serious, striding into the grotto.

"You..." Sun Miaomiao exclaimed briefly from behind. Is this something a human would do?

Looking at Yuanshi Tianzun stepping into the grotto, Tianxiaguihuo frowned, and was the first to realize Yuanshi Tianzun's plan. Did he want to take the opportunity to test if anyone in the team was addicted to power and beauty and gradually falling? Or whether anyone had become an agent of the Dark Rose?

Yuanshi Tianzun wants to probe our secrets? Zhao Chenghuang had a similar idea.

But unlike Tianxiaguihuo's conspiracy theory, he believed that Yuanshi Tianzun did this to strengthen the bonds between the team members, and to gain leverage over each other.

Because of the Qinfeng Academy dungeon trip, they had become grasshoppers on the same rope, and at the same time joined the Undead Return gang, their relationship becoming increasingly close, already exceeding the relationship of friends and colleagues.

...More like a small team working together and sharing benefits.

But thinking about it carefully, they didn't really know each other deeply. Apart from knowing Sun Miaomiao since childhood, Zhao Chenghuang didn't know much about Tianxiaguihuo, Xiahou Aotian, or even Yuanshi Tianzun.

They hadn't known each other long, and didn't have much interaction.

If they weren't bound by interests, they wouldn't have come together at all.

Friendship is something that takes time. As they say, true gold stands the test of fire, and it takes time to accumulate. How can you know each other inside and out without the accumulation of time?

But right now, there was an opportunity.

Zhang Yuanqing took step by step forward, and shouted:

"I once used a telescope to peek at my uncle going to a hair salon, and blackmailed him with this, demanding money."

He took three steps, and nothing happened.

He immediately made a judgment and said back:

"The so-called shameful things refer to illegal acts and things that violate conscience and morality. Pranks are not included, unless they are extremely bad and cause serious consequences."

"Everyone, pay attention, don't say the wrong thing, don't lie, or people will die."

After saying that, he took another three steps forward, and shouted loudly: "I shouldn't have stolen property and blamed it on a classmate who bullied me, causing him to have to transfer schools."

Was this kid so insidious since he was a child? Threatening his uncle and framing his classmates... Guan Ya and the others were stunned.

Tianxiaguihuo sighed: "Let's go in, he's clearly asking us to be open and honest."

Everyone hesitated for a while, and then gritted their teeth in anger.

Hongjige took the lead and ran towards the grotto, holding his head high and chest out, saying:

"I killed someone for the first time when I was 14, I chopped up a traitor of the Black Dragon Society, his name seems to be Ah Hui... Oh, yes, when I was in junior high school, I broke the leg of a rich second-generation classmate because he was dating the girl I liked... I once sank an old rogue who didn't repay high-interest loans into the river, I forgot his name... Due to lending at high interest rates, collecting protection fees, violent assault, bribing officials..." While counting his sins, he strode forward, quickly surpassing Zhang Yuanqing and successfully reaching the exit.

He had become the most outstanding guy in the team.

The second one was Princess Yin Yao.

She held a small loudspeaker and strode forward, with a calm voice coming from the loudspeaker:

"When I was eight years old, I pushed my younger brother into the lotus pond and blamed it on Zhang, and I feel very guilty... At the age of ten, I pushed Liu, who was fighting with my mother for favor, into the well... At the age of sixteen, I didn't like a maid, so I ordered her death. I didn't like a servant, so I ordered his death. I didn't like my father, so I ordered the death of his concubine, assassinated court officials, and eliminated political enemies for my father..."

Are these two devils? The team members were stunned.

These things, one by one, were simply ruthless and cold-blooded.

Considering that Princess Yin Yao was a high-ranking member of a feudal dynasty, they thought that Hongjige was even more ruthless.

Hongjige and Princess Yin Yao arrived at the exit one after another, looking back, everyone was still wandering outside the grotto, and the poisonous smoke had already drifted through the passage and spread to the edge of the grotto.

Hongjige shouted:

"Isn't it just killing and looting? What's there to be so hesitant about? The poisonous smoke is licking Asano Ryo's back."

Asano Ryo said "Ah" and jumped into the grotto as if electrocuted, saying as if giving up:

"After I became The Way of the Extraordinary, I attacked my clan sister who often mocked me, and accidentally seriously injured her. I, I have always regretted it."

After speaking, she carefully looked at everyone, and found that her teammates' expressions were normal, as if what she said was just a trivial matter.

...Asano Ryo breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhao Chenghuang stepped into the grotto expressionlessly, saying as he walked: "When I was a child, because I was jealous of Lingjun, I encouraged other children of the sect leader to bully him."

Zhang Yuanqing at the front suddenly stopped: "Zhao Chenghuang, you did this kind of thing? You are quite jealous, I will tell Lingjun."

Zhao Chenghuang said coldly: "Whatever."

Just after he finished speaking, he heard Sun Miaomiao behind him:

"A few years ago, Zhao Chenghuang and I had a dispute on the forum because of disagreements. I changed my alt account and sprayed him for three days, spraying him into shutting himself off, and then pretended to be a good person in reality to comfort him. He was very grateful to me. As a friend, I have a little bit of guilt."

Zhao Chenghuang was struck by lightning, looking at her in disbelief, with a sense of bewilderment and pain of being cheated on by a scumbag.

"After joining the official organization for three years, I illegally made five million," Tianxiaguihuo took three steps forward, "After being transferred to Songhai, I accepted two million in bribes."

Another three steps.

Everyone silently looked at him. Tianxiaguihuo kept a straight face and explained:

"The Five Elements Alliance is no different from the officialdom. To get ahead, you must accept other people's money and give money to others. I am just adapting to the environment."

"Explanation is covering up," Xiahou Aotian muttered.

The corner of Tianxiaguihuo's mouth twitched.

The poisonous smoke rushed towards Guan Ya. She glared at the unfaithful man, took a deep breath, quickly entered the grotto, and lowered her voice:

"When I was in middle school, I joined forces with Fu Qingyang to buy a cursed item from the black market and used it to curse my mother. My mother almost died in a car accident and lay in the hospital for half a month. To this day, she still thinks she was targeted by a competitor."

Her voice was very low, but everyone present was a Saint, with sharp ears and eyes, and heard clearly.

Everyone looked at Guan Ya with strange expressions.

Sun Miaomiao opened her mouth wide, "Do you have any feud with your mother? Are you not her biological daughter?"

Guan Ya said angrily: "None of your business."

Sun Miaomiao curled her lips. Seeing the poisonous fog surging behind her, she quickly strode forward, "I posted a lot of posts on the forum that defamed and attacked Zu Ji, leading a wave of cyber violence, because I felt that her love with Demon King made Taiyi Sect lose face, and, and a little bit of jealousy, I regret it very much."

Tianxiaguihuo: "Maintaining improper relationships with several female subordinates, each taking what they need, without ever loving them."

Xiahou Aotian: "When I was in junior high school, my dad wanted to have a second child, so I put special birth control pills in his wine every day. He worked hard for three years and didn't succeed, so he had to give up on the second child. He seems to be infertile now."

Asano Ryo: "When I don't have enough pocket money, I use the Asano family's name to ask the children of the chaebol families for protection money."

Zhao Chenghuang: "Accidentally killed a Law Enforcer, didn't dare to admit it to the organization, and have been guilty ever since."

Zhang Yuanqing said with grief: "If Demon Eye were here, you would all be dead..."

With each sentence of confession, everyone moved forward in an orderly manner, and many old things were dug out.

People like Zhang Yuanqing who had no bottom line, had done a lot of illegal things just with his uncle.

Sun Miaomiao's crimes mostly involved cyber violence, cyberbullying this person today, cyberbullying that person tomorrow, and cyberbullying her grandfather the day after tomorrow.

...The things Tianxiaguihuo revealed were the most serious in nature, involving power and sex transactions, accepting and offering bribes, and doing a lot of "routine operations" in the officialdom.

Guan Ya's sins were mostly focused on her parents, writing anonymous reports to the Heaven Punishment Organization to report her father.

Secretly taking photos of her mother and then sending the photos to her mother, creating panic to retaliate against her mother's domestic violence.

When she encountered female classmates who targeted her when she was studying, she used her family's connections to knock them down, and once almost caused a tragedy.

In just a few minutes, everyone had a deeper understanding of each other and saw each other's dark sides.

Finally, they left the grotto and arrived at the exit.

"Phew..."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including Zhang Yuanqing.

Although he admitted that he was not an easy-going child and had done many wrong things, he might not remember all the things from his youth. At the same time, he wasn't sure whether frequently being a craftsman and sharing erotic pictures with his aunt was a shameful thing.

If the diameter of the grotto was ten meters longer, he would have had to reveal the series of events of saving Demon Eye and the successor of the Demon King.

"Finally cleared the level." Sun Miaomiao exhaled weakly.

"Yes, it's all recorded." Princess Yin Yao patted her bag.

...

Huh? Everyone looked at her in unison.

Zhang Yuanqing's forehead veins jumped, and he hurriedly said: "Although she has intelligence, she sometimes says strange things and does strange things, just ignore it."

Princess Yin Yao straightened her back cooperatively, standing still, pretending to be a brainless Yin corpse.

Except for Guan Ya, everyone勉强 believed his words.

Zhang Yuanqing sighed, perhaps because she had been in the human world for a long time, Princess Yin Yao had gradually regained her humanity, and her virtues of indifference to fame and wealth after traveling the world for a hundred years were slowly revealed.

Oh well, just playing around!

Stoking the flames in the villa, instigating the Queen, Ling Xi, and Guan Ya to fight amongst themselves, doing all kinds of mischievous things outside, speaking freely, being able to pretend to be stupid, being able to be wise, being able to make jokes, and being able to catch jokes.

It was just a little bit of a headache.

Zhang Yuanqing took out the Little Red Riding Hood, shook it, and the tall and aloof Xiao Yuan "fell" out.

She looked around and saw that no one was injured, and nodded slightly: "Very good!"

She looked at Guan Ya again.

This Fu family's mixed-race Qianjin had a cold face, as if she had "unhappy" written all over her face, and didn't even look at her boyfriend.

Obviously, Yuanshi Tianzun's concern when she was poisoned and the care he showed only to her made Guan Ya very jealous.

Xiao Yuan "Heh"了一声, revealing a smile.

Correspondingly, the veins on Guan Ya's smooth forehead jumped.

"Continue forward!" Zhang Yuanqing pretended not to see the two women's intrigues, shouted a slogan, and set off with his teammates who were not in high spirits.

The three-meter-wide passage twisted and turned, with oil bowls placed in the niches. There were no corpses along the way, indicating that there were no traps in this passage.

Sure enough, after walking for more than ten minutes, they did not encounter any danger.

"There's wind..." Xiao Yuan suddenly said.

Turning a corner, bright light came into view, and the field of vision suddenly opened up.

They saw a naturally formed cave. The top was half of the blue sky, and the other half was a horizontal rock wall with vines hanging down like beaded curtains.

The cave was full of dilapidated buildings and dilapidated mechanical creations. Under the rock wall was a deep pool, and next to the pool stood a dilapidated waterwheel, with water pipes scattered around the waterwheel.

....In addition, wooden mechanical arrow tubes were embedded in the rock wall, but they had long been rotted due to lack of maintenance.

"When I used wind to check before, I didn't see this cave." Zhang Yuanqing's eyes were filled with black, and he activated Spirit Devouring, scanning the huge cave. "There is no Yin Qi activity."

Guan Ya then raised her finger and pressed her forehead, and circles of light white ripples spread out, "There is no sign of living life activity."

Everyone then followed the small path in the weeds and went down. After walking a few steps, Guan Ya found several skeletons with only bones left in the grass. After checking, she said:

"The armor on the dead is the same as the ones outside, they should be Jin soldiers. The other two have no armor. According to the rotten clothes, they are probably disciples of the Mo Sect."

Xiahou Aotian habitually stroked his chin and analyzed:

"So the truth about the destruction of the Mo Sect is very clear, it was done by the Jin people. The Jin people took the legendary treasure from the Mo Sect, and then marched south, turning the Northern Song Dynasty into the Southern Song Dynasty."

"I don't even know the reign name yet, your statement is too arbitrary." Guan Ya thought: "But the demise of the Mo Sect is inseparable from the Jin people. I think that the treasure is still in the Mo Sect, otherwise the S-level difficulty of the copy would be unreasonable."

Tianxiaguihuo said:

"The Mo Sect is located in the southwest. If the Jin soldiers can attack here, it means that the Northern Song Dynasty no longer exists. This piece of sealed history should have occurred in the Southern Song Dynasty."

"Also, the Mo Sect's demise due to the Jin soldiers' encirclement and suppression is likely just the surface, otherwise the main quest would be too simple. Now it depends on how much information we can collect."

Zhang Yuanqing "Hmm"了一声, "Disperse and search."

The cave was not small, with more than 30 buildings, most of which had collapsed. The ones that had not collapsed were also in ruins. The wooden structure was rotten, and it was barely supported by rammed earth walls.

They found many corpses, with Jin soldiers and Mo Sect disciples entangled together, some even with their bones "merged," which showed how tragic the battle was.

After searching around, they found nothing. Also, there was no way to go.

This natural cave seemed to be the core of the Mo Sect. Everyone walked around and didn't see a road leading elsewhere.

"I touched along the rock wall, and didn't find any mechanisms, there's no road," Xiahou Aotian said.

"Have you looked down from the ruins?" Zhang Yuanqing asked.

"I used灵仆 to穿墙透物 and touched everything, there are no hidden compartments or mechanisms," Sun Miaomiao shook her head.

The dungeon map was definitely not finished, but they had encountered a predicament.

They couldn't find the road to the next level.

"I found some interesting things." Guan Ya pouted and didn't look at Zhang Yuanqing. She pointed to the pool under the rock wall and said, "Look carefully there."

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