Chapter 132 Escape from the Underground Palace
"You have to leave as soon as possible..." The gem guard said solemnly: "This place can no longer support itself."
"What do you mean?" Lin Tianlang asked eagerly.
"Atlanton was originally a city that should have been destroyed long ago. It has existed underground for so long under the protection of the rainbow gem. Now that the energy supply of the gem is lost, the entire ancient city will collapse soon." Gem Guard He said seriously: "Hurry up... leave quickly... If you don't leave, I will... come... before... in time..."
The gem guard's eyes flickered and his words became increasingly awkward.
Until two or three minutes ago, the Jewel Guard was a tall and strong stone giant, but now its vitality is quickly disappearing. First, the colorful lines on its body are the first to disappear, and finally the entire surface is quickly losing its luster. Its movements are also getting stiffer.
Obviously, the rainbow gems have not only maintained this underground city for hundreds of years, but are also an important component in maintaining the lives of the gem guards. Now that the gem fragments are in Lin Tianlang's hands, after losing their energy supply, the gem guards also quickly lose their vitality. The stones on its body were crumbling. After a while, the entire right hand was broken off and fell to pieces on the ground.
"Let's go quickly!" Xu Weiwei shouted, "This place is about to collapse!"
"Yeah!" Lin Tianlang nodded, but he almost fell to the ground as soon as he took a step.
His injured leg can no longer be used.
"Classmate Lin Tianlang, please hold on!" Sherry put the Breath of the Wind Spirit into the middle layer of her clothes, and then, together with Xu Weiwei, helped Lin Tianlang up.
"Let's go quickly!"
"It's all my fault for causing trouble to you." Lin Tianlang said apologetically.
"What are you talking about at this time!" Xu Weiwei said loudly.
"This way, this way!" Aniya ran to the front and showed the way to the three people behind.
"Okay!" Xu Weiwei responded, and then cooperated with Sherry to help Lin Sirius move forward.
Behind him, the body of the gem guard was rapidly disintegrating, and soon it was broken into several large pieces. The guard's head rolled to the ground, and his eyes happened to look at the four people walking towards the exit.
"Please..."
As the words fell, the gem guard's eyes darkened completely, losing the last trace of their luster.
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Above the Gemstone Hall, the buildings in the underground palace were rapidly collapsing. The mountains shook one after another, and all the buildings fell down in the shaking. The dazed stone soldiers were crushed under the masonry.
"Rumble, rumble..." The main hall in the center of the underground palace remained motionless during the first few waves of shaking. However, as the vibration intensity intensified, cracks began to appear in the load-bearing columns.
Once the cracks appeared, things spiraled out of control. The load-bearing pillar finally broke, and the entire main hall began to fall downwards, eventually turning into ruins.
The entire ancient city is collapsing. Atlanton, this ancient city that has been maintained underground for hundreds of years, finally ushered in the end of its life tonight.
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The path that the gem guard pointed out to the four people was a passage leading directly to the ground. All of them were stairs, and it was very painful to climb up. Especially with a wounded person like Lin Tianlang and someone to help him, it was even harder to get up.
In short, in the end, the four of them didn't know how they climbed to the ground. After the four people walked out of the passage, they saw a snowy world. The distant east began to gradually become white, and it was almost dawn.
Everyone probably entered the underground palace at night, but they didn't expect to spend the whole night in it. It was estimated that they stayed there for more than ten hours. There was no time to look inside the underground palace. It was dark and there was no concept of time at all.
"Huha - I'm so tired..." Xu Weiwei "threw" Lin Tianlang, a burden, to the ground, looking exhausted.
Next to Xu Weiwei, Sheris also looked tired.
"Haha...thank you for your hard work." Lin Tianlang leaned back on the snowdrift and said apologetically. It was indeed very tiring for the two girls to help him climb such a long flight of stairs.
"Really, why are you so heavy?" Xu Weiwei glanced at Lin Tianlang, curled her lips, and complained.
"Normal boys have this weight." Lin Tianlang said dumbfounded.
"If I had known, I would have let you climb by yourself. I am exhausted." Xu Weiwei said angrily. Lin Tianlang smiled. He knew that Xu Weiwei was just joking. She didn't have this expression when she helped him. Even if he asked her to let him go, the latter would probably not agree.
"Classmates Xu Weiwei and Lin Tianlang will also have a hard time. He needs to follow the posture and pace of the two of us, and it will be very tiring." Sherry said.
Lin Sirius glanced at Sheris next to him. He was quite surprised that the blond girl spoke for him. Xu Weiwei was also surprised. She stared at Sherry for two or three seconds, and then withdrew her gaze: "Forget it, I just complained. I didn't expect Sherry to be so serious."
"Am I being serious?" Shirley tilted her head and said with some confusion.
"Yes, if I was just joking, this guy must have understood it in his heart." Xu Weiwei smiled helplessly, shook her head, and then looked at Lin Tianlang: "You think so, right?"
"Who told you? I took what you just said seriously!" Lin Tianlang said deliberately, but the smile on his face was not concealed at all. Of course he knew that Xu Weiwei was just complaining and joking. He had been familiar with Xu Weiwei's character since they had been with her for such a long time.
"Oh?" Xu Weiwei's eyes narrowed: "Is this fun? Do you believe I will twist you off?" As she said that, Xu Weiwei stretched out her hand and made a threatening gesture.
Unscrew? ? ? ? Lin Sirius looked down at his crotch. Girl, where did you learn this new word?
"Okay, everyone has worked hard." Aniya came out to smooth things over and said, "It's great that everyone is fine."
"Ani-chan, why are you speaking for that guy?" Xu Weiwei said angrily.
"Hey, hey? I-I don't have one?" Aniya blushed and stammered.
"Why not? What you said is obviously..." Xu Weiwei put her hands on her hips and began to "bully" Aniya. The brown-haired girl was so amused that her face turned red, and she was too shy to look at Lin Tianlang's face.
Beside her, Shirley blinked, looked at Xu Weiwei and Aniya, and then at Lin Sirius, revealing a shallow smile: "So that's it... I understand..."
After coming out of the underground palace, everyone's nerves were completely relaxed. The sun rises slowly from the east, and the warm winter sun shines on your body, making it very warm.
Xu Weiwei, who kept talking, Aniya, who was blushing and shy, and Sheris, who was listening quietly and interjecting from time to time, looked at the harmonious picture in front of him, and Lin Sirius couldn't help but laugh.
"Why are you laughing?" Xu Weiwei looked at Lin Tianlang next to her and asked.
"I'm happy, why don't you give me a smile?" Lin Tianlang replied, the smile on his face not diminishing.
"You are smiling, can you stop smiling so obscenely?" Xu Weiwei said angrily.
Why am I so obscene? Lin Tianlang muttered in his heart, but he did not refute, nor did he intend to refute. Because he knew that this was the Xu Weiwei he was familiar with, the childhood sweetheart he had known since childhood.
"That's great." Lin Tianlang suddenly said softly.
"What's wrong?" Xu Weiwei asked curiously.
"It's nice to hear your familiar taunts towards me." Lin Tianlang looked at the delicate and pretty face of the silver-haired girl, and his smile became even happier. For the first time, he felt a sense of intimacy towards this kind of ridicule.
"Hey, are you a jerk? Do you like to be ridiculed?" Xu Weiwei laughed, covering her mouth and said.
"Hahaha, you think so." Lin Tianlang continued to smile.
But Shiris next to her keenly noticed something was wrong. She asked softly: "Classmate Lin Tianlang...did something happen when he was in the underground palace?"
"Yes, yes, classmate Lin Tianlang, you haven't told us yet, what exactly did you encounter in the underground palace before we woke up!" After hearing Sheris raising this topic, Aniya came Interested, he said expectantly.
"Do you really want to hear it?" Lin Sirius looked at Aniya. The brown-haired girl nodded, her cheeks bulging, and she was too cute to refuse.
"Although it's not a very pleasant thing, it doesn't hurt to share it with you." Lin Tianlang said softly: "I almost... thought I had lost you forever."
Then, Lin Tianlang recounted all his thoughts when he saw the "bodies" of the three of them in the underground palace.
"To be honest, I was completely shattered at the time. I didn't know what to do at all..." Lin Tianlang said while scanning the faces of the three women respectively.
"But fortunately, you are all living well now." Lin Tianlang said with a smile, his tone relaxed. But he himself felt relaxed, and the three women fell into silence after listening to Lin Tianlang's narration.
"Classmate Lin Tianlang... It's hard for me to imagine how terrible psychological pressure you were under at that time..." Sheris said softly after a while, with a complicated expression.
"Did we look...like we were dead...?" Aniya pursed her lips and her eyes were misty.
"Yeah." Lin Tianlang nodded.
"This is really, really scary..." Aniya buried her head low and clutched the hem of her clothes tightly: "If it were me, I might faint on the spot..."
This time, Xu Weiwei didn't speak. She just stared at Lin Tianlang blankly, her expression a little dull, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"Okay, no matter how scary it is, it has passed. Anyway, now we have successfully walked out of the underground palace and successfully completed the task. Next, we are ready to go home." Lin Tianlang said with a smile. , while taking out a small black stone from his clothes.