Let Me Explain, Fairy
Chapter 402: 二百七十六章 _1

Chapter 402: 二百七十六章 _1

As it turned out,

as a Princess, Princess Li Qingyan’s hugging skills were indeed much stronger than those of Ran Qingmo’s Big Ice Lump.

Holding him in her arms for a full circle, he didn’t feel the slightest bit dizzy or disoriented.

If it had been the Big Ice Lump’s way of running on feet, he probably would’ve been dry-heaving on the ground by now.

With that thought, Xu Yuan couldn’t help but smile slightly and patted the woman in his arms, saying softly,

"Put me down now, please."

"Mm."

Li Qingyan lowered her eyes and glanced at him, bent down smilingly, and gently set him down, softly cautioning, "Be careful."

"...."

As his toes touched the ground,

seeing her tall and graceful figure, heroic yet not lacking in gentleness and those condescending crimson phoenix eyes, Xu Yuan’s heartbeat inexplicably sped up for a moment.

Hiss...

Damn, why did he feel like he’d become the princess?

This wicked woman really was too cunning.

But a true man knows when to bend and when to stand; he’ll just carry her back another day.

The corridor behind them was as black as ink, and the two were now standing atop a cliff that branched off from the corridor.

No ceiling was visible above, no abyss below.

The wind at the mouth of the corridor was icily cold and piercing, stirring long hair. Li Qingyan looked towards the distance, her brows slightly furrowed:

"Prince Consort, this cavern doesn’t seem to have formed naturally; the traces of spellcraft excavation are heavy.

"Moreover,

"it seems that the cavern lacks the Black Death Mycelial Mats we saw earlier."

"....."

Xu Yuan half-closed his eyes and scanned the inner walls near the cavern beside the cliff.

Just as Li Qingyan had said, the overgrown brown-red mycelial mats spread to the mouth of the corridor and then abruptly stopped. The cave walls inside were smooth, not seeming naturally formed, and devoid of any vegetation covering their surface.

And as his gaze followed the smooth walls of the cavern into the distance, even with the Origin Qi left in him by Li Qingyan, Xu Yuan couldn’t make out the opposite wall of the cavern.

There was,

only a vast, unending darkness.

And the giant underground city situated at the base of the abyss below was also hazily hidden in the shadows.

Li Qingyan observed Xu Yuan’s expression and suddenly spoke again:

"Looking at your face, Prince Consort, it seems that the Prime Minister’s Mansion doesn’t have information about this cavern and the underground city?"

Xu Yuan glanced at her and uttered:

"We do."

After a moment of silence,

he added another:

"But not much."

"Not much?"

Li Qingyan murmured, no nonsense, directly,"So, do we need to go down and take a look?"

"Don’t rush."

Xu Yuan pondered and did not respond, struggling to recall information about the Silent Underground Palace in his mind.

Truthfully, he did not remember the Black Death Underground Palace having such an enormous subterranean ancient city.

However, fortunately, he soon found a "map" that matched well with the surrounding scenery.

In the outer perimeter of the Silent Underground Palace, a wilderness instance, there was a large cavern, but inside it was merely a broken village composed of a few derelict houses and mysterious statues.

Thinking of this, Xu Yuan’s expression appeared somewhat strange.

It wasn’t that he found the change too great; after all, in Cangyuan Chronicles, cities that could be run across in a matter of seconds in the game had become mammoth cities with millions of inhabitants, which he had seen quite a few times.

Such a majestic ancient city emerging in the lair of the specters, how it looked was rather eerie no matter how one saw it.

Back then, Xu Yuan hadn’t cared about these man-made structures because there was no information about the specters in Cangyuan Chronicles.

Combining the sinister statues in the village with the undead traits and those disgusting tentacles that the monsters later displayed, he had assumed that the Silent Underground Palace was a stronghold or even the main temple of some cult.

Based on the knowledge in his mind, he had easily conjured up a drama wherein the cult courted disaster, summoned a bunch of monsters through "sacrifice", and then self-destructed in flames, destroying their own home.

But now, the situation seemed entirely different.

Xu Yuan stared intently at the quiet ancient city below, rapidly summarizing the known information in his mind.

Could specters also build houses?

In other words,

did the specters once have a civilization as well?

"Then let’s go down and have a look."

In the midst of silence, Xu Yuan’s calm voice clearly reached Li Qingyan’s ears.

Without a word, Li Qingyan swiftly leaned over and took Xu Yuan back into her arms, her phoenix eyes slightly lowered, her voice gentle:

"Jump down directly?"

"...."

The woman’s body felt soft to the touch, and Xu Yuan suddenly realized that occasionally experiencing this kind of helpless gentleness was actually quite nice.

But how could a great man remain for long beneath others in gloom?

Xu Yuan glanced around and replied indifferently:

"Just jump, the exit from this Underground Palace should be near this city."

Having said that, he quietly extended his hand to hook around Li Qingyan’s neck.

In his previous life in Cangyuan Chronicles, players fell into this Silent Underground Palace through a cavern, and the landing spot was a common corridor near this underground city.

In other words, as long as he and Li Qingyan found that corridor, they could escape back to the surface through that cave that led directly to the ground.

Without a sound, Li Qingyan took a slight step with her feet, and the sound of wind once again whistled past the ear.

As the abyss shrouded in black fog rapidly expanded and clarified before their eyes, on the verge of touching down, a faint yet precise stream of Origin Qi spread out from around Li Qingyan.

Then, those jade feet wrapped in brown-red armor delicately stepped onto the bottom of the abyss...

...

...

...

Xu Yuan and Li Qingyan, with solemn expressions, walked shoulder to shoulder on the stone pathway leading towards the ancient city.

Yes, a stone pathway.

This bottom of the abyss had been artificially paved into a pathway no too spacious, and to either side of the road were extensive fields meant for cultivation.