Chapter 1361
The trio continued marching on forward. Regarding the incidents in the cave, Ranjeet actually no
idea what it really was like. All of his knowledge about it was based on what he had heard from his
family. It was his first time down there too.
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Along the way, the three of them saw more and more corpses. The closer they were to the centre,
the more people there would be, and more fighting would break out. It was just as the man and
woman Henry had killed earlier had said, everyone who made their way there all had their eyes set
on the inheritance of Lon. Everyone there saw each other as enemies.
"Bro, the centre-point is just right ahead." Ranjeet stopped walking. Dozens of passages of different
sizes appeared before the three of them. "These passages can lead to the centre-point, but they go
in different directions respectively. Plus, some of the passages also have Puppet Fighters hidden
within them."
Henry frowned. He did not understand why there were still so many passages. Was it just to
separate the paths? He saw no reason for that at all.
Ranjeet seemed to notice that Henry had doubts and exined, "Bro, our inheritance of Lon is
not something that anyone can easily inherit. These passages actually serve as a test, to a certain
extent. The widest passage can amodate four people. Rtively speaking, this channel, which
is wide enough for four people, would be more dangerous than the other smaller passages that can
only amodate one person. The idea of my ancestors is very simple, if you can''t manage to
survive these passages, then you''d not be eligible enough to inherit the inheritance."
Henry nodded, then picked the widest passage and marched on. There was no special reason
behind that decision, he chose it just for the sake of its spaciousness.
Ranjeet was obviously not the kind who enjoyed a challenge. Seeing that Henry had made a
decision, he just followed behind him without any hesitation.
It was just as Ranjeet had said, the passage was indeed full of challenges. There were various
mechanisms and Puppet Fighters in it. Six Puppet Fighters emerged suddenly, blocking Henry in his
path, the only way to the other side was through them. This time, no light was involved in the
operation of those Puppet Fighters. They were much stronger than the ones Henry had
encountered before, and would attack the moment they were touched. The lower limbs of the
Puppet Fighter were stationary, only their upper bodies would attack relentlessly which could only
mean that if one wanted to go through, he would have to either destroy all six of the Puppet
Fighters, or dodge their attacks easily and pass the test.
This was not a problem for Henry, and it also had little effect on the gluttonous Ranjeet or the
gentlelooking Yaffah, both of them disyed their impressive capabilities and stood behind Henry
after going through the Puppet Fighters.
The spherical Ranjeet had a timid look on his face. It was obvious that he had gotten used to
running away from his problems, and had been living with the philosophy of avoiding conflict as
much as possible. Yaffah followed closely behind Ranjeet with the same expression on her face,
which might have been a result of sticking around Ranjeet too much.
After passing the test of the Puppet Fighters, there were no other traps in the passage. Henry
walked for about five minutes and arrived at the end, a cliff appeared in front of him.
Henry stopped walking abruptly and looked forward. The bottomless cliff was like the jaws of danger
that led to the depths of hell in the darkness that surrounded them.
Henry pulled out the shlight he had picked up earlier and flicked it on. Henry caught a glimpse of
his surroundings and turned off the shlight instantly. The shlight was just on for a second.
Henry clearly saw that there were countless Puppet Fighters at the bottom of the cliff, their numbers
were so great that it was impossible to count exactly how many they were. The Puppet Fighters
were armed with weapons such as curved swords, bow and arrows, broadswords, spears, swords
and shields, and more.
To be exact, it was not a cliff that appeared before Henry, but a deep pit, it was about 50 meters in
depth. The walls around the pit resembled beehives, filled with openings of passages simr to the
one where Henry was in, it would have been a very disturbing sight for someone with trypophobia.
Among those passages, some had people within it, and some had none.
Ranjeet squeezed in together with Yaffah to where Henry stood. After their eyes had gotten used to
the dimness, they could vaguely see the densely packed Puppet Fighters below. There was a huge
cylindrical shaped object at the very centre of those Puppet Fighters.
"That''s our ancestral weapon!" Yaffah eximed when she saw the column. "Ranjeet, that''s our
ancestral weapon of Lon."
Ranjeet frowned and said, "Why is the inherited weapon of the Western Xia a sword? And ours just
a stick?"
Henry noticed that the light emitted by the ring he carried had grown stronger. Henry''s intuition told
him that the reason behind the lighting from his the ring was right beneath the cylindrical
object.
The trio stood at the opening of their passage, not making any unnecessary movements. They were
very certain that many people were hiding in the other passages, lying in wait for the perfect
opportunity for an ambush.
Time passed by, and it was extraordinarily quiet. The asional sounds of footsteps and
exmations could be hearding from other passages. Someone had rushed over there and
noticed something was amiss.
"No! No! Please! I''m begging you! Please don''t do this!"
Cries of begging sounded suddenly. The cries were loud and sharp, in the dark and quiet
environment, attracting the attention of every soul that was present.
In the darkness, a blurry figure was seen being thrown off an opening from above.
The scream waster apanied with a loud thud someone was thrown into the bottom of the pit.
In the absence of light, sounds of steel shing rang from the bottom of the pit, and a shrill scream
was heard. The whole processsted for less than two seconds, then the screams came to an
abrupt end.
A ray of light shone from one of the openings around the pit, making it clear to everyone that the
person that had been thrown to the bottom had been chopped up into pieces. The Puppet Fighters
at the bottom of the pit still attacked the intruders even with the absence of light. The poor fellow
who had been chopped up had clearly been used as a tool by somebody to check out the situation
below.
When the light shone on the dead body of the person, the Puppet Fighters struck at the body again,
confirming that those Puppet Fighters were still affected by light.
After that became clear, the entire pit was quiet again. The light disappearedpletely. Everyone
waited in silence because they knew that they could not use their Qi in there. Under those
circumstances, no one was confident that they could survive the attacks of the countless Puppet
Fighters at the bottom of the pit, even Henry felt uncertain of that. Plus, even if someone could
survive the attacks, they would not be willing to be an open target for the others. Everyone
was waiting for someone to lose their patience first.
Ten minutes passed, twenty minutes, one hour... two hours.
For those who were lying there in ambush, two hours was not a long period of time, but that
situation at that moment was agony for them. After all, the inheritance of Lon was just right in
front of their eyes. It was a treasure their eyes could see, but their hands could not touch.
Some had begun to get impatient. They pinched their noses and shouted loudly, "Didn''t you people
of the Alvin League create monsters for this? Why don''t you throw them down there! Start a fight
first, that should bring up the atmosphere. Where are the party- nners? Somebody get the Alvin
League a few shots!"
Although the voice came from a man pinching his nose, but judging from his tone, Henry was
certain that this man was Gardiner.