Chapter 686 Ancient Porch

Hamlet, ruins, old house.

After a night, Lance didn't know what happened in the ruins just now. He spent the whole night studying the information obtained in the leader's room, trying to find the location of the cult leader and the dungeon.

Then he found a lot of interesting situations from those things, involving Hamlet's number one traitor - the butler.

Although there was a prediction about the role of the butler before, it was just a guess combined with the actual situation, and now it is "certified by the ancestor".

If the leader is the spokesperson of the ancestor in the Ascension Sect, then the butler is the agent of the ancestor on the surface.

One face and one inside belong to yes.

He understood that if he was fooled by the butler like those previous lords, then the ancestor could control the behavior of the heirs through the butler's issuing tasks.

This is why the butler can take out generous bounties and extraordinary equipment as the benefits of reviving Hamlet, and at the same time arrange for the cultists to spread these extraordinary equipment and gold coins throughout the territory.

Through these things, the lords can recruit more people and then launch a bigger war.

This has been the case for more than a decade. The stimulation of simple violence has driven those people crazy. They "revive" the territory step by step according to the requirements of the butler, but in the end they are stepping into death.

As for the money and equipment, anyway, those adventurers or lords will eventually become the food of the ancestor, and the ladder for him to ascend to god.

Then the gold coins and equipment will naturally be recycled, and the next unlucky person will continue.

Then they ran into Lance, the freak, and killed the butler at the beginning, and directly escaped from their control.

Maybe those guys didn't care about Lance very much at that time, and were not willing to turn the table and fight with Lance, but used bandits, witches and the like to deal with him.

Even Lance still remembers that just after the witch was beaten, a "heir" suddenly appeared and shouted that he was Lord Hamlet, and was sent to the sanatorium.

In the early stage of the wilderness development, the Ascension Sect stopped pretending, and a large number of cultists gathered in the wilderness, intending to kill Lance.

However, they still had inherent thinking and wanted to use a tug-of-war to bleed Lance. Anyway, the cultists were not afraid of consumption, and death was just a part of returning to the ancestor.

But unfortunately they failed. Lance took the pressure and even completed the initial accumulation by sacrificing the corpses of the cultists. Otherwise, how could there be so many spiritual treatments and strengthened soldiers?

Then a group of veterans were defeated, and their equipment began to be replaced with muskets, artillery, and various new things.

The subsequent series of operations made the high-level leaders of the Ascension Sect understand that Lance was completely out of their control.

Dare to send equipment and gold coins, Lance really dared to put them in his pocket, and they would become bullets shot at them.

So naturally, the high-level leaders of the Ascension Sect decided to seal those things, that is, the things in the warehouse on the fourth floor of the old house.

Obviously, Lance didn't let the ancestor eat good fruits, and the ancestor couldn't let Lance eat good fruits.

No wonder the butler in the game can casually take out so many equipment and gold coins, and the enemy's explosion rate increases with the difficulty, and the monsters can drop jewelry and jade, or gold coin equipment.

But Lance fought in the old house, and the equipment he saw was sporadic, and most of them were gifts from his own sacrifice.

After all this trouble, you took the kickbacks for the benefits that the ancestor gave me!

After reading the information, Lance had to be more clear that the inheritance could fall into his hands now, and he really had to thank this sneak attack plan.

If he really pushed the ruins slowly and then came up, it would probably be an empty shell.

Because Hamlet's strength expanded too fast, the Ascension Sect's final counterattack at the end of the Beast Cave Battle completely failed, and the sect's top leaders also felt the pressure and planned to move their positions.

Now Lance understood why the old house was taken so easily. It turned out that a group of believers were taken away by the leader.

The place they chose made Lance a little interesting, that is, the territory around Hamlet, such as Owendo and Bastia.

This is to break up the whole into pieces and disperse, and then use the top leaders who have accumulated control over the years to jointly launch a grand war to completely destroy Hamlet.

At the same time, the death brought by the war will also accelerate the progress of the ritual and promote their ultimate goal-ascension.

But Owendo has been secretly controlled by Lance, and the so-called high-level officials have been wiped out. As for Bastia, the count is not a fool.

One is the closest, and the other is the strongest in the surrounding area. There is no problem with these two places. It is unknown whether the other scum can gather 300 knights.

Lance's evaluation of this can only be said that it is a good idea. I have already beaten to your doorstep, and you still want to develop, right?

It was Lance who asked for time to develop, and now it is the turn of the ancestor?

I can only say that from today on, we will attack and defend the aliens!

Lance really laughed. If there were no people around, he would have laughed out loud.

It is better to bite a lighter than to force the ancestor to do it.

However, laughing, Lance also knew that he had to break through the dungeon and kill the ancestor before the Ascension Sect controlled those guys to start a war.

He couldn't give the ancestor a chance to turn the tables.

Lance couldn't help but cast his eyes on Audrey who had woken up.

"You go find the underground entrance."

"Me?"

Audrey wondered if she had overslept and missed something, or if she hadn't woken up yet.

Lance nodded in confirmation and briefly explained the details of the new mission.

"There is a magnificent palace underground here, with real treasures buried there. That is our real goal. Those yesterday were just guards responsible for guarding it."

Although Audrey didn't feel right about this, she couldn't resist the conditions given by Lance and stared at the bottle of potion that Lance took out.

"You only have seven days...no, it should be six days."

Lance waved the potion but then turned around and took it back, which made Audrey feel a heavy feeling in her chest and her face became a little ugly.

Lance didn't care about this. This wasn't a threat, it was a kind reminder.

Audrey had no choice. The anger at being manipulated dispersed her last sleepiness, and she could only turn her attention to the old house.

Soon the sun rose, and the first ray of sunlight first fell on the old house in the northeast corner of the ruins, and then gradually moved towards the entire ruins.

Lance didn't need to worry about what happened to the garrison. He took the adjusted team and entered the old house again.

The difference is that before, you climbed in through the window and the wall, but now you just walked in through the dilapidated front door.

Yesterday's mission was to clear out the cultists, but today's goal is to find the dungeon entrance.

But the problem is that it was checked yesterday. If it could have been discovered, it would have been discovered long ago. There is nothing abnormal about the dilapidated first floor.

After going around in circles, I wasted a lot of time, but finally returned to the lobby.

"Are you okay?" Amanda was already unhappy with this tomb robber, so she immediately complained.

"You you on the line!"

It’s just that Audrey didn’t tolerate Amanda at all and directly said something back.

Speaking of which, besides Lance, she was the one who was most anxious to find the entrance to the dungeon. After all, she didn't want to die yet.

Both of them had suffered from each other during the initial arrest operation, and more importantly, neither of them were broad-minded people.

One is obsessed with Tamara's resentment, while the other poisoned her ex-husband, which can even be said to be narrow-minded.

If the lord hadn't been there to mediate, they could even have fought.

"Okay, it's impossible for such a big place to disappear. Let's search carefully." Lance stopped the dispute between them and was so calm that he didn't seem to be affected by the slight setback at all.

In fact, Lance still has many ways, such as summoning Wangcai to peek into the void.

However, Wangcai's spiritually structured body is not very resistant to these things. Like Amanda's method, he was worried about contaminating the spirituality and never called out.

If that doesn't work, you can also use a black-armored helmet. He's protected and shouldn't be afraid.

But Lance was not sure whether he was facing the power of the ancestor or the power of the ancient god, and he did not dare to bet on whether Shelter could withstand it.

So it's best to avoid this kind of contact, because now he is on the dominant side and he doesn't want to take unnecessary risks.

"I wonder if everything has been eliminated, there is only one place left..."

Boudica's voice came slowly, and she didn't understand why the two of them were quarreling, holding axes and guns with disgusted expressions on their faces.

These words attracted everyone's attention, and Lance couldn't help but ask a question.

"What did you find?"

"There is a room over here, and there should be one over there." Boudica raised her hand and pointed to the stairs of the hall.

Lang suddenly understood something. The structure of the old house was symmetrical. There was a room that had been cleaned long ago under the stairs on the left, so there should be one on the right as well.

However, the staircase on the right collapsed and covered it, so everyone subconsciously ignored it.

Everyone also reacted and approached one after another.

"Do you think the stairs were deliberately collapsed by the cultists at that time?"

"Whatever, just move away and take a look."

Lance got started immediately. It was definitely the best material to use in building an old house, but it was so fragile in the face of brute force. The heavy wood was easily dragged in his hands.

The wooden frame that could have been roughly shaped like a staircase seemed to have lost its support and completely fell down, along with some masonry, which instantly stirred up thick dust.

"Ahem!"

Lance and the others couldn't help but take a few steps back. When the dust subsided, they saw the faint outline of a door hidden by the bricks and wood.

"Boudica, you are so smart!"

Lance smiled and praised, and Boudica couldn't help but feel a little proud when she heard it, and she seemed to wave the shovel harder.

After everyone's efforts, they were quickly cleared out. Lance pushed the door open without much nonsense, took out a torch and walked into the door first.

The firelight illuminated the hidden room, an ordinary-looking room with some sundries piled up.

Audrey started looking for possible traces as soon as she came in. She didn't work just now, and now she wasn't sure whether Lance would give her the antidote, so she could only try her best to show off.

Soon she seemed to have discovered something, and a delighted smile appeared on her face. She pushed away the debris and kept tapping the masonry wall with the pickaxe in her hand.

Amanda was about to say something when she saw her like this, but she saw a tremor and the brick wall was pushed open, revealing a spiraling downward passage inside.

"found it!"

Audrey looked at the lord excitedly, but Lance didn't bother to pay attention to her at all. He stared straight at the dark and deep portal, with an indescribable weirdness in his eyes.

Lance roughly understood why the old house was breached, but the ancestor did not organize a counterattack.

Perhaps knowing that it was irreversible, they wanted to use the destruction of the cultists in the old house to make Hamlet mistakenly believe that the Ascension Sect had been destroyed, so as to buy time for others.

But... do you think I don't know the existence of the dungeon?

"Let me start, maybe there is a trap below." Audrey was good at observing the lord's words and found that he didn't pay much attention to her, so she took the initiative to speak.

"You did a good job, but it's too dangerous. Let me do it." Lance nodded to recognize Audrey's contribution, but did not agree with her suggestion. He held a torch and entered.

Going down the spiral staircase, a reinforced passage like a mine tunnel soon appeared.

There were wooden boards on top, supported by wooden stakes at intervals, and brick walls on both sides filled the excavated space.

From time to time, some rubble and digging tools that had been discarded on the side and decayed for who knows how long, as well as broken wooden boxes, could be seen on the ground.

"No, why is it leaking water?"

"Do you feel that the air is getting more humid and a little salty..."

"Isn't it salt that is precipitated on these bricks and stones?"

Lance also noticed this. There was a layer of white frost on the bricks and stones. Now this situation reminded him of an interesting place, that is, the salty and humid bay.

The old house is on the sea cliff, and deep in the sea cliff is the complex Deep Diver Bay. Is there any connection between them?

"Let's go, everyone be careful." Lance didn't say much, just reminded and continued to move forward with a torch.

The mine tunnel was too long, and the dead silence even brought clear echoes when the water dripped from the head.

The humid and thin air made people breathe a little strange, and the oppression brought by the surrounding environment made Audrey, who was used to the tomb, feel something was wrong.

That is to say, their team is all masters, otherwise anyone with poor psychological tolerance would suffer from claustrophobia.

Silence all the way until the team walked out of the passage and came to a huge cavity cave.

How big is that space?

Once inside, let alone people, the light of the torches even seemed as weak as fireflies. The few people standing at the entrance felt inexplicably insignificant.

The cracks in the cliff rock layer leaked in the sunlight, which seemed to cover the entire space with a thin veil.

With the supplement of light, they could roughly see the contents inside, and they were all stunned, including Lance.

Because he saw...

Actually, I was originally planning to write about the plot of Bastia, but I decided to finish the main plot first and then write slowly. I feel that I have lost a lot of readers recently, and my state is not right. What I wrote is too watery.