Chapter 26

To understand the situation in the underground world, one must go down and see for oneself.

Liu Siyi gave the command to the fierce tiger to dig through the wall.

When there was only a very thin layer left, Liu Siyi stopped the command and personally dug through the thinnest part. Suddenly, his view opened up, and he saw the underground world.

The underground world was not completely dark. The bioluminescent algae around emitted a faint green light, illuminating the entire underground world. Of course, although these bioluminescent algae were very numerous and almost covered the entire underground world, some areas were still not covered. These areas, combined with the surrounding green light, looked like dark holes from a distance, resembling monsters ready to devour anything.

The underground world was not a small space. At least from what Liu Siyi could see now, it was very large, with the green light extending far into the distance, out of sight. From the knowledge passed down, the true underground world had enough space to build a city.

Prospecting.

Prospecting was originally used to explore various mineral resources underground, so it did not weaken at all. Immediately, the different lights of mineral resources within four hundred kilometers appeared in his mind.

Gray stone mines, black iron mines, and silver-white silver mines. Even in the deeper layers underground, there was a fiery red color like a river, which was lava.

These mineral resources were deep in the underground space, likely within the territory of the dwarves, making them not so easy to obtain. Just like the logging camp, now that it was occupied, he would have to mine the resources himself.

X-ray Vision, Eye of Insight.

In such an open space, this should not cause too much of an impact.

When he released this reconnaissance spell, it gave him a sense of sudden clarity, as if the entire underground space was his backyard, and everything was clear.

This underground space was very large, an irregular rectangle, about eighty kilometers long and over twenty kilometers wide, with heights ranging from over a thousand meters to just a few meters.

Logically, such a large underground space should have many wild creatures, and powerful ones would not be few. However, after reconnaissance, the number of wild creatures was not only small, but only weak first-tier wild creatures existed.

It could only be said that the dwarves had explored this underground space very thoroughly, but they did not pay attention to the wild creatures that posed no threat to them, so there were still some low-tier units at the edges.

Wolf Den, a neutral first-tier unit.

The Wolf Den was located at the top of a chaotic edge area. Even if he climbed up, the entrance to the den was only about half a meter in size. Liu Siyi thought he could crawl in, but the fully equipped dwarves could not even crawl in.

Unit Nest, this was the second one he had seen in such a large area. However, a first-tier unit could be eliminated with a single Lightning Bomb, so it was no wonder the dwarves did not care.

In addition, this underground space was connected to six passages. To avoid confusion, Liu Siyi named them from the first passage on the left of this underground passage, 1#, 2#, 3#, 4#, 5#, and 6#.

Passage 4# had obvious signs of repair, likely leading to the dwarves, but what was in the other passages? Liu Siyi was very curious. So, he came to the nearest 1# passage and released the Eye of Insight.

Before he acted, the first thing he did was to block the entrance to the underground passage again, at least to prevent unknown units from seeing it at a glance.

It couldn't be that every passage was over ten kilometers long, right? If that were the case, he could only temporarily give up and go to 4# to scout the dwarves first.

Sure enough, 1# passage was not long. After about a mile, there was a bend, and after another bend, there was a cave as large as a soccer field, with a building inside that looked like a European vampire castle.

It definitely wasn't a city, as it was only a three-story house with a large courtyard, and there were no dwarves.

A vampire unit nest?

Although it was very different from the game, Liu Siyi had already adapted to the differences.

However, this place was very strange, as the Eye of Insight could not penetrate the building that looked like a small castle, and the castle gave off a sinister feeling, making him completely unaware of what was inside, giving it a mysterious and strange sensation.

If it were a unit nest, the Eye of Insight would not be blocked, and everything would be clearly observed.

Should he go in or not? Liu Siyi thought for a moment and then left.

His current strength was too weak, and there was no need to take unnecessary risks. It would be better to wait until he was stronger before exploring. Moreover, from the knowledge passed down, there were many ways to block reconnaissance spells, but all of them required great strength.

Passage 2# was very long, and even at the end of the Eye of Insight's range, which was over ten kilometers, he could not see its full appearance.

Why is it so long? Could it be connected to another underground space? Liu Siyi stood at the entrance of the passage, carefully sensing the elemental power within. Since meditating, he had gained a great understanding and sensitivity to elemental power.

Darkness, gloom, death, and a sense of brutality—this was what he felt from 2# passage.

But isn't the underground world supposed to be like this?

He didn't know, but Liu Siyi had no intention of exploring it. This was not the time to stir up trouble.

Passage 3# was not long, about five or six miles, and inside was a relatively small underground space, but there was nothing there.

What is this?

Liu Siyi cautiously stood at the entrance of 4# passage and released the Eye of Insight spell.

In his mind, 4# passage was completely blocked by a wall. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was a pass.

It was indeed completely blocked. The pass was built in a relatively wide area of 4# passage, about twelve to thirteen meters high and over fifty meters wide, like a small city wall. However, the passage was only about fifteen meters high and the same width.

The space between the city wall and the top of the passage was only two to three meters high, a height that only the dwarves could fully utilize their combat power. Other units with slightly larger bodies could not even climb the city wall. The only way to capture this pass was to open the city gate.

However, thinking about it the other way, the dwarves standing on the pass, with their high vantage point, and with bear cavalry or the renowned magma dragons blocking the city gate, it would be very difficult to capture the pass unless the strength difference was not too great.

Indeed, his mental power penetrated the pass, and he clearly saw the dwarves' defenses.

Two hundred first-tier shield guards, all heavily armed warriors, holding a one-handed axe in one hand and a large shield that was wider at the top and narrower at the bottom in the other. When defending, they could reduce their effort by simply standing the large shield upright on the ground.

There were no second-tier javelin throwers, but there were twenty more powerful ballistae.

Ten fourth-tier axe warriors and three fifth-tier rune elders.

Additionally, there were four extremely powerful fifth-tier ballistae.

Don't be surprised; in the game, only the human race had ballistae, but in this world, if you brought out good things, others could capture and obtain the technology, making it easy to replicate and even surpass.

The human ballistae could only fire one arrow at a time, but the ballistae could fire three.

The ballistae could be considered an enlarged version of the ballistae, but they were modified into large ballistae. Although they were made entirely of fine iron and lost their mobility, they had extremely strong attack and defense power. The arrows were five meters long and as thick as an adult's arm, even threatening seventh-tier units. The ordinary dwarves operated both the ballistae and the ballistae.