Tomb Raider: Call Me Dragon Vein Cleaner

Chapter 341 Ruins and Ancient Tombs

The top of the thunder tower has decayed due to the passage of time, and there is a gap in the center, which is now covered by dead branches.

Moreover, judging from the surrounding traces, it seems that someone had stayed here for a long time.

"The location of the mechanism is the same as before."

As Zhang Qiling spoke, he used his long, slender fingers to open the mechanism.

The same revolving door slowly opened, creating a space large enough for someone to walk sideways.

Cheng Feng was at the front and was the first to enter.

Compared to the previous secret passages, this one was indeed quite different; behind this revolving door was a downward staircase.

"We seem to have found the right place. According to the information provided by Wu Sansheng, Lei City is built a thousand meters underground."

There's a high probability that this staircase leads directly down to Thunder City.

Once everyone had entered the secret passage, Chen Wenjin turned on his flashlight and shone it down below, saying...

"Isn't it a bit hasty to hide such an important passage in an ordinary thunder tower?"

As Huo Ling walked down the stone steps, she began to doubt whether this path truly led to Thunder City.

"There isn't just one path into Thunder City, but the more hidden the path, the greater the potential danger."

Since the main path is the one the King of the South Sea frequently takes, it would naturally not be stowed with too many deadly traps.

Chen Wenjin firmly believed that this was the entrance to Thunder City, and that of the ninety-nine Thunder Towers, only the top of this tower was the most severely damaged.

It's very likely that people frequently walked over there at that time.

"That's right, Thunder City is an ancient ruin, not an ancient tomb. Unlike ancient tombs, the entrances to ancient ruins are not too complicated."

Moreover, places with traps are often hidden escape routes.

As two top students in their family, Yang Xueli and Chen Wenjin have a great understanding of each other and both have high expectations for this path.

And indeed, things turned out exactly as they expected.

The stone steps stretched down for over a thousand meters, and at the end, the group arrived at a grand hall buried deep underground.

Everywhere you look, there are bronze pillars as thick as water buckets, piercing through hundreds of meters of soil to reach the surface.

Even if all of modern cutting-edge manufacturing were concentrated, it would be extremely difficult to replicate the entrance palace before us.

"These ancient ruins are all magnificent, but the thought that such magnificence was achieved with human lives..."

It's better to just settle for something that's passable.

Walking along the avenue guarded by the massive bronze statues, Huo Ling looked at the bronze statues on both sides with her flashlight as she spoke.

"The King of the South Sea is quite skilled in the art of listening to thunder; a building of this caliber cannot be constructed by human lives alone."

The bronze pillar above blends perfectly into the soil, as if a giant had used absolute power to nail the bronze pillar directly into the earth.

How many people does a small country in the South China Sea have at most? Even if you filled the entire country's population with just one thousand-meter-long bronze pillar, it would be far from enough.

"If it wasn't entirely built by human labor, then this place couldn't possibly have been created by some so-called Thunder God, could it?"

Huo Ling's question made Cheng Feng smile.

"That's hard to say, the Thunder God might really exist!"

Cheng Feng's words drew everyone's attention. If the Thunder God really existed, then everything made sense.

Whether it's the hidden message in the thunder or the countless believers in listening to thunder throughout the millennia,

In fact, they all implicitly pointed out that there must be something in Lei Zhong that they should believe in and pursue.

Soon, the group passed through the entrance hall and arrived at a passageway.

The ground here is paved with bluestone bricks, and it's hard to see the gaps between the bricks unless you look closely.

This shows just how much care the craftsmen who laid the stone bricks put in; only the Nine Clans' meticulous selection could produce such an effect.

The passageway is adorned with exquisite murals, featuring strangely shaped symbols and figurative images of the Thunder God.

From a religious perspective, this path was probably only accessible to the King of the South Sea at that time.

"Sure enough, there were no traps or mechanisms along the way."

"I'm bored," said the man in the lead, Black Bear.

"Be careful. You yourself said that if you get used to being careless, you will lose your life sooner or later."

Zhang Qiling, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but offer a reminder.

"It's not easy. Zhang, the mute, actually took the initiative to show concern for me."

Black Bear chuckled, but he had already secretly adjusted his mindset.

After all, she wasn't the boss's wife; she couldn't go down into the tomb with Cheng Feng every time. If she didn't have the right mindset, she might just capsize in some ditch.

As they spoke, the group walked through the tunnel and arrived at a relatively spacious area.

The bronze pillars here are even more densely packed, with a bronze pillar as thick as a water bucket almost every two meters.

At a glance, there are more than a hundred bronze pillars.

"Now I'm starting to believe that this place wasn't built by human hands."

Chen Wenjin sighed. The sheer size of the bronze pillar was an unimaginable feat to excavate.

In the spacious area, Cheng Feng and his group of seven walked among the bronze pillars.

A few hundred meters later, a special area appeared ahead.

The bronze pillars here are sparsely arranged, with a circular altar in the center surrounded by six slightly thinner bronze pillars.

"Boss, don't you think the arrangement of the bronze pillars here is a bit unusual?"

Hei Xiazi turned around and looked at the bronze pillars that filled the entire space behind him.

He hadn't noticed it when he walked by, but after seeing the altar and the six thin bronze pillars, he had some guesses in his mind.

Cheng Feng came to the blind man's side and they looked together at the area they had just passed.

Soon Cheng Feng noticed something peculiar about them; these bronze pillars all seemed to be the same.

However, some bronze pillars in certain special locations are slightly thinner than the surrounding ones.

These thinner bronze pillars are not conspicuous among the others and can easily be overlooked without a good view and careful observation.

Walking to the nearest special bronze pillar, Cheng Feng raised his hand and gently tapped it.

Judging from the vibrations, the thick bronze pillars were hollow in the center, while the thin one in front of us was completely solid.

"We really have to stick to the right path. Luckily, we found a very important location right after we arrived."

Having already guessed what was going on, Cheng Feng spoke up.

Chen Wenjin looked around and asked in confusion, "Is this place important?"

"That's right. These bronze pillars vary in thickness. The thick ones are hollow, while the thin ones are solid. Their unique arrangement makes them a perfect lightning-attracting device."

As he spoke, Cheng Feng took off his backpack and threw it under a bronze pillar.

As Cheng Feng stepped toward the altar, he continued:

"Perfect timing, this is also the most suitable place to deal with evil spirits."

Upon reaching the edge of the altar, a glint of light flashed in Cheng Feng's eyes, and the wooden coffin that had been stored in the imaginary space appeared in the center of the altar.

Lying inside was the female corpse from the well, whose body had been sealed by Cheng Feng using the meteorite needle.

"Old Cheng, are you planning to use this place to summon lightning to destroy the evil spirit?"