si-mexico Chapter 589 Let's just wander around.
Chapter 589 Let's just wander around.
Jiede glanced at Xu Ning speechlessly.
Before they could even exchange two words with Tirzad, Xu Ning spat out the entire point of their argument with a single spit.
Xu Ning was also a little confused. He coughed lightly and said, "This is not my fault. This wall was probably already past its prime. It must have been subjected to external force just now, causing it to turn into sand."
After the mural disappeared, a passageway was revealed behind it, with a staircase leading upwards.
"Okay, so it went down just now, and now it's going up again?"
Xu Ning shook his head speechlessly, completely unimpressed by the inexplicable mechanisms the Crimson King had created.
Perhaps for the Sumeru people, being able to solve the mechanisms in such a maze and find the right path means that the person is very wise, but there are many ways to express wisdom.
Just like the domains in Liyue, they are all simple and straightforward. But to say that they are not challenging and therefore lack wisdom, you should first be able to decipher the immortals' runes!
There is another elevator on the stone steps.
After everyone stood still, the stone slabs beneath their feet began to lift them up slowly.
"The technology here... is very strange."
Belial, who had been silently following Xu Ning, suddenly spoke up.
Xu Ning nodded silently. "I sensed it the moment we entered the Sacrifice Trail. The technology displayed here is clearly not Teyvat, but rather matches the legend of the Red King coming into contact with forbidden knowledge. However, the mechanisms and machines we see are completely different from the Kanriar technology we have encountered before."
Xu Ning tapped the blue patterns on the ground with his toe, stroking his chin as he searched for the right words.
"How should I put it? It's like the technology tree of Kanria is rough and dark, while the technology of the Red King appears refined and bright."
Belier strongly agreed with Xu Ning's statement.
"Qingyi told me about the sapling in your cave. The symptoms of the demonic scale disease that appeared in Sumeru clearly indicate that the Crimson King has indeed come into contact with forbidden knowledge, but why is he showing such an unusual form? Did the other two demon gods give him other help?"
"Since the Great Tree King accepted the Heart of God bestowed by Heaven and was responsible for guarding the World Tree, it would only stop the Red King's actions and would never help him."
Xu Ning frowned and analyzed, "However, the Flower Goddess... it is said that her origin is very special. If someone is really going to help the Crimson King, it can only be her. But we don't know what her true identity is or where she got this knowledge from."
As the two chatted, the stone slab slowly came to a stop.
The group finally realized that they had already left the Temple of Mystic Arts.
The stone slab transported them directly to the top of the Temple of Mystic Arts, and the path directly opposite led to the enormous tomb that Xu Ning had gazed at from afar—the Tomb of the Crimson King.
"This has brought us directly to the entrance of the Crimson King's Mausoleum. It seems that the Crimson King also wanted us to come here to explore."
Having spent most of the day wandering through the underground complex, Xu Ning felt a sense of relief upon seeing the light of day again and couldn't help but jokingly mention the deceased Crimson King.
Jeberlele cautioned, "All the secrets and answers are buried beneath the yellow sand. Are you sure you want to step into the sea of sand and witness His power?"
Xu Ning took a sip of wine and casually replied, "Of course, otherwise why would I be here?"
Xu Ning took the lead and approached the main gate of the Crimson King's Mausoleum, but there was clearly another guy next to him who was even more anxious than him.
After approaching the gate, Benben, who had been floating beside Jade, eagerly broke away from her like a puppy about to return home, rushing straight toward the gate.
As if sensing something, the gate to the Crimson King's Mausoleum opened directly, and Benben entered without any hindrance.
"Hey, Benben, slow down and wait for me..."
Jade was anxious to rush in after Benben, but unexpectedly, Jeberlele suddenly reached out and grabbed her.
"Wait, there's an ambush!"
Xu Ning and Belier naturally noticed it as well, but they both stepped through the gate without a care in the world.
"We've only just gotten the key to the door, how did you gilded guild guys get in... Oh, you even have acquaintances, no wonder."
A number of people dressed in gilded brigade uniforms stood on both sides of the passage, each holding a weapon and staring at Xu Ning and his companion who had just entered with hostile expressions.
Moreover, Xu Ning saw the figures of the Winter Fools behind them, including two veiled ladies-in-waiting. No wonder these people could enter this place so easily without Benben.
However, there are some surprising things as well.
Whether it was the members of the Gilded Brigade or the Fools, they all seemed to know what Benben was.
The animal ran past without any obstruction, but instead deliberately made way for it to go in.
As soon as Xu Ning and the others approached, they gripped their weapons tightly and assumed an attack stance.
"Heh, don't you even know who's coming? You're actually planning to attack? Get closer to me, and those who can escape should do so!"
One of the Fools' captains, wielding a thunder hammer, sneered and stepped back into the mirror that the Mirror Lady beside him had unfolded.
Apart from a few reckless young men who rushed forward and were easily knocked to the ground by Xu Ning, most of them passed through the mirror and escaped.
Xu Ning paid little attention to these people. He walked straight through the wide passage guarded by a giant black dog statue and arrived at a huge golden hall.
The hall wasn't gold; it was a stone building.
However, the entire hall was filled with piles of gold coins, enough to dazzle the eyes of ordinary people, which, reflected in the sunlight streaming through the skylight, turned the whole hall golden.
"I bet if Paimon, that little white-haired girl, had come with us, she probably wouldn't have been able to see that huge coffin in the center of the room, even though it takes up almost a quarter of the room's area..."
Before Xu Ning could finish speaking with a laugh, Tirzad's shout came from the gourd in his hand.
"What? There's a coffin? Quick, let's go see, is that the Red King's coffin...?"
So you've been dazzled by the gold, but at least you haven't forgotten your business.
Xu Ning didn't rush towards the coffin, but instead bent down to examine the gold coins on the ground carefully.
The gold coins here are not the Mora, which is the most widely circulated currency on the continent of Teyvat. Instead, an eye symbol is engraved on the front of the gold coins.
It's like the symbol that looks like both a sun and an eye, which you see in the mural in the Temple of Mysteries.
"It seems that in the era of the Red King, they issued their own currency..."
Xu Ning did not take the gold coins, but went directly to the coffin.
"Could you open it?"
Tirzad's abrupt question startled Xu Ning for a moment.
"What? Don't you think that opening the coffin like this is actually a kind of desecration of the deceased..."
“Hey, Brother Xu, I’m an archaeologist, not a professional missionary. I don’t have time to worry about those things.”
Xu Ning felt that Tirzad was right, so he didn't say anything more. He simply stepped forward and grabbed the upper half of the coffin lid with one hand.
The entire room seemed to tremble slightly, and Xu Ning frowned slightly.
Why wasn't it mentioned?
Xu Ning knew that he had used almost all his strength in that move. Not to mention that he hadn't moved the stone slab, if it were a normal stone slab, Xu Ning could have crushed it without any problem.
But the coffin lid didn't react at all.
“It looks like it’s been carefully designed with mechanisms to prevent it from being destroyed by force. Let’s split up and look for clues,” Jeberlele suggested.
Xu Ning turned to look at Jeberlele. Intuitively, he felt that this guy knew a lot of things, including not only what happened in this tomb, but also the thugs from the gilded brigade that had just appeared.
Jeberlele should know very well why those people came.
Since he wouldn't say anything, I shouldn't ask too many questions. However, seeing that he always kept his daughter by his side and didn't specifically warn her, there shouldn't be anything or anyone that could threaten his life yet. I should just follow the others and look for the mechanism to open the coffin.
In the previous explorations, many mechanisms were triggered by a small blue orb of light called "Elemental Flame." There are four Elemental Torches distributed around the four corners of the coffin here, and it seems that they also need to be triggered by those flames.
"Let's just wander around then!"