I Live on the Land in Global Games
Chapter 266 - 262: Exploring the Underground City Again

Chapter 266: Chapter 262: Exploring the Underground City Again

After seeing off Li Luoxia, Mu Ying began making final preparations for entering the Underground City.

She packed a large batch of supplies into her Space Ring, brought along the items made by the Stone Shaping Technique, and Gungun, who was clutching the Wall Peeping Mirror.

Since she had broken through the dragon-breaking stone, there were still quite a few players who had come to explore the Underground City.

After all, there was a precedent set by Old Mao and others who had gotten rich from just a coffin.

In the last few days, she had heard many people in her territory discussing this matter.

Therefore, when she came again, Mu Ying thought that at least the two doors in this corridor, where she had eliminated the hazards, including the falling stone trap, would have been explored by players; surprisingly, the wooden door was violently broken, but the stone door was still intact.

"Alas, don’t mention it, this door can’t be burned or budged by crashing. Yesterday, a Half-Breed Wanderer came to look and said there’s a Secret Magic Lock on it, which only Knocking Skill or Magic Dispel could open, otherwise it can only be broken down violently.

The Wanderer’s Dispel Device Skill only works on traps, which can disarm both ordinary and magic traps.

We broke the wooden door, and inside it seemed like a small living room, quite low probably suitable for a dwarf or a dwarf’s dwelling, but we had no way with the stone door next to it."

Hearing her inquiry, players inside the small room behind the wooden door explained as they searched for valuables.

Before coming, Tongbi 559 had briefed her about the Secret Magic Lock, which was a type of Magic Lock set by Magicians and Mages through spells fixed to doors.

The same Spells by Magicians and Mages, the Knocking Skill can temporarily open the Secret Magic Lock, while Magic Dispel can permanently destroy the entire Secret Magic Lock.

This spell is a 3rd circle spell, and professionals such as Bards, Priests, Druids, Paladins, Magicians, and Mages can learn it.

But among these professionals of levels 5 to 6, except for Mu Ying, a 7th level Druid, there was no one else.

The wooden door could be violently broken due to the nature of the material, but the thick stone door was much more difficult.

Compared to opening this door, there were several professions with the Magic Dispel skill, and it was not a high-level skill, although only the Wanderer’s Dispel Device could dismantle magic traps, other professions could only disarm ordinary traps.

But conventional traps also constituted a certain proportion in the passage, like the falling stone trap in this corridor which was just an ordinary mechanical trap.

Certainly, whether traps could be detected and effectively disarmed also depended on each individual’s skill level.

Already, quite a few players had gone deeper into the corridor to explore, the specifics of which were still unknown.

She first let Gungun place the Wall Peeping Mirror next to the stone door to check the situation inside.

The interior was also a hall with a bronze coffin in the center and about a dozen wooden coffins around, similar in structure to the Tomb previously occupied by the Ghoul.

Mu Ying opened the door using Magic Dispel.

There were no incidents of corpses in the coffins suddenly coming to life; they were indeed dead beyond revival, but they were slightly better off than their counterparts in the other Tomb, their skeletal structures still intact.

The coffins also had some grave goods, but due to the passage of time, many items had decayed and become ineffective; only some coins and gemstones remained, and it appeared the occupant of this Tomb was much poorer than that of the previous one. The coffins seemed to be from the same "manufacturer", but there was only 1 Gold Coin inside.

Mu Ying picked out the coins and Elemental Gem and stored them carefully.

These items had not depreciated even now.

The Elemental Gems, of course, definitely retained their value.

Even the coins, although they were special currency for the Guland Underground City and different from the current coins in circulation, according to 559, were made using a special minting process. Apart from their historical value, they could still be used in circulation, as the Guland Underground City had already become ruins.

That is to say, one Guland Gold Coin was equivalent in value to one current gold coin as currency, but its collectible value was even higher.

Therefore, she had to keep them; this time she even collected the coffins, whether they were made of wood or bronze, and gathered up all the bones inside into her Space Ring, since there was still plenty of room inside.

Even if Tongbi 559 did not collect them, she could find a chance to sell them later. Since there was talk of collectible value, there would definitely be people willing to pay for the history.

Before the apocalypse on Deep Blue Star, there were collectors who purchased ancient corpses!

The demands that a prosperous civilization gave rise to were varied.

Last time, the event of buying the chest but not the pearl, Mu Ying absolutely would not do it again.

Gungun had gone through special training with Tongbi 559 and had memorized the appearance of the Underground Core, so he was entrusted with the task of finding the chamber where the Underground Core was located with the mirror.

While Mu Ying was collecting items, Gungun held the mirror and shone it everywhere—Mu Ying even added a Spider Web Skill to it, leaving no part of the walls, floor, or even the ceiling unchecked.

After a lot of effort, they did not find the Core Chamber, but they discovered a hidden compartment.

At the stone platform where the bronze coffin was placed, right under the bronze coffin, they only discovered it after removing the coffin.

It looked just like a stone brick identical to others in the area, but because it was buried a bit deep, knocking on it also sounded solid, and it was completely fixed in place with no trace of Magic or knowledge of where the mechanism was.

But beneath it hid a long, narrow box.

Mu Ying used the Stone Shaping Technique to create an opening in the floor tile and removed the box wearing isolating gloves.

She was worried about the box, which was tightly secured, containing poison or mechanisms.

She tested it with Detect Poison; it was not poisoned.

The box was not locked, just lightly fastened with a catch. Mu Ying took out a large, thick stone slab and placed it in front of her, shouting to Gungun, "Quick, come and hide!"

Gungun: →_→ Is this an exaggeration?

Mu Ying forcibly dragged him behind the stone slab. The Magic Wand slid into her hand, she gently touched the box with it from the side, and then immediately withdrew her hand.

"Swoosh~"

Three dark needles shot out, embedding into the stone slab, each one an inch long, thin as a hair, buried twenty centimeters into the super-thick stone slab with only a joint’s length of the needle’s tail remaining visible.

Gungun: (ｷ｀ﾟДﾟ´)!!

"See, this is almost like tomb raiding. Would you spare those who come to profit from your coffin?" Mu Ying deeply felt her own wisdom.

The ordeal wasn’t over yet; it seemed that the needles had some kind of corrosive liquid on them, as the stone slab started to sizzle and corroded into a fist-sized hole.

Inside the box, however, there was no treasure, but there was some text engraved at the bottom of the box.

It was the script of the Guland Underground City. Because the Underground City had a diverse population of Races, Universal Language was commonly used, but they had their own unique script system.

Mu Ying fetched a copy of the Guland Old Dictionary funded by Tongbi 559 from her Space Ring; she was a person with a sponsor after all.