It has to be said that the alchemy in the world of steel Alchemist is very convenient for destruction and construction. One of Edward and Alphonse brothers is responsible for excavating the tunnel leading to the lower part, the other is responsible for strengthening the tunnel to prevent collapse, and specially uses Alchemy to create a vent pipe to deliver oxygen to the tunnel, Of course, Alphonse without * * doesn't need to breathe, but Edward is still a normal human.
Using the compass, Edward judged the location of the logging ground. It was not clear how deep the cult would arrange the altar. However, according to the previous observation in the capital of Saxony, it can be judged that the construction mode of this country is still quite ancient, and there are not too many large-scale engineering equipment. It must not be too deep if God unknowingly excavates a secret altar.
The light of alchemy in the tunnel has been shining. Edward, who is in charge of digging in front, feels like he has become a groundhog. He looks at the compass and moves forward slowly.
"Al ~ lean the torch closer. I can't see the compass." After digging another distance, Edward said to Alphonse with a torch behind him.
With a little light from the torch, Edward looked at the compass to determine the excavation route. From the current situation, he should have reached directly below the logging yard, but he didn't find any secret room and altar. The problem now is that he doesn't know whether he dug too deep or too deep and didn't touch the underground altar.
"It should be more than 30 meters deep." Edward recalled the depth of the inclined passage.
"Shouldn't we be wrong. They didn't build an altar under the logging yard?"
Alphonse said with worry that Edward could not help scratching his head. If so, he and Al would really be helpless. Although the air in the tunnel has a vent pipe for ventilation, it still looks very turbid. Edward feels a little uncomfortable with the smell of soil. Edward, who just wanted to rest on the wall, suddenly found that the soil of this generation seems to be sticky. Even under my feet, I felt some mud.
Tick
Suddenly Edward found that a drop of water fell on his shoulder. The stimulated little bean subconsciously raised his head and fell on his face with the second drop of water. Hastily took the torch from Alphonse, and Edward shone up. At this time, Edward was surprised to find that the top of the whole channel had been filled with water droplets, which were illuminated by the torch and affected by the heat. The water droplets immediately fell like rain.
"Bad. It's a permeable layer!" Edward, who has rich professional knowledge, knows what's going on at once, which doesn't bode well. What any worker working underground in a mine, tunnel, etc. is most afraid of is meeting a permeable layer.
While Edward was thinking about whether to fix it with alchemy, the water droplets in the permeable layer became larger and larger, and the soil at the top even began to flow down with the speed visible to the naked eye.
"Brother ~"
"Run back, Al!"
Edward inserted the torch into the wall next to him. When he was preparing to strengthen the top of the tunnel with alchemy, a large amount of soft mud had been washed by the water and slipped down. Edward, who was too tired to prevent, was poured into a clay figurine. The silt on the ground of the tunnel quickly spread upward, and soon the groundwater on the mud began to swarm in.
"All right, brother!" Alphonse hurriedly fished Edward, who had been wiped with a layer of mud. With the sound of water, the water in the tunnel had almost overflowed Alphonse's waist in an instant.
Edward wiped the mud from his eyes and looked at the water that was almost drowning his neck (calculated according to Xiaodou's height) the alchemy has quickly turned the mud wall into a mud wall to try to stop the water flow. However, the mud wall quickly collapsed under the impact of the water at the moment of refining. It is obvious that these softened sludge can not form an effective barrier at all. The double whammy is that the torch on the wall loosened and fell into the water to extinguish it, and there is also a collapse at the other end of the tunnel Fang's voice.
The vision was dark and threatened by death. Even Edward couldn't help feeling overwhelmed. Alphonse lifted his brother on his shoulder. In the darkness, Alfonsi realized that he could see everything clearly. He closed his hands and began to open a channel upward with alchemy. Rely on endless physical strength to climb up along the open vertical channel.
"The water is coming up, al."
Edward, hanging behind Alfonsi, could tell from the sound of the water that the tunnel had been submerged. Now the water was pouring up. God knows where he and Alfonsi dug, which actually caused such a flood.
Continuous refining and climbing would have been unbearable if Alfonsi had not changed into an ordinary person. Suddenly Alfonsi suddenly found that in addition to the sound of water coming up, there seemed to be some voices speaking. Of course, it was not his brother's voice. No matter how it sounded, it was like a woman's voice.
Is it going to the ground?
Alphonse speeded up immediately. But then he put this idea behind him. According to the height he climbed now, he should still have some distance from the ground. However, the water below has flooded his lower legs, and Alphonse doesn't have much time to think about these things. Hold your body and close your hands as fast as you can, refine it once, open the road, and then fiercely climb up and push open the cover
Eh!!?
Alphonse, who poked his head out, found that he seemed to have come to a strange place. The first thing he saw was a white * * and the woman who looked at him with a puzzled look. It was not until Edward's urging voice came from behind that Alphonse regained his consciousness and hurriedly climbed up.
"It's on the ground \ nwah!! what's this place!!"
Edward, like a clay figurine, was startled as soon as he climbed out. He looked at the hall like the harem. There was a naked young woman in the hall, and a strange faint fragrance floated into the tip of his nose seemed to be some kind of charm fragrance for fun. Edward felt a little hot and dry all over his body. For the two children who are still at home, the scene in front of them is really something that people can't look directly at!
Alfonsi subconsciously wanted to cover his eyes, but suddenly Alfonsi noticed a familiar figure. In front of the altar, it seems that Tiya is lying on it, and there is a huge dark shadow with an unknown smell in front of Tiya.
"Catch them!!" The voice of Harold, the priestess, sounded angrily. Especially the water flowing up from the pit below the two people makes Xia Ledo angry and difficult to describe in words.
The female cultists around screamed, hurriedly grabbed the things that could be used to cover up and put them on their bodies, while the attendants holding snake swords came up from all around.
The worried Alphonse turned a blind eye to the evil believers and ran to TIA. But suddenly Alfonsi stopped abruptly, because the huge dark shadow next to TIA looked at al, and Alfonsi had to stop just at this glance. His worries and anxiety about TIA were instantly dissipated and replaced by an invisible strong sense of oppression, like a frog watched by a poisonous snake, which was a sense of crisis belonging to biological instinct, Alphonse felt that his heart could not be repressed and bred a feeling called fear.
The black devil's projection eyes sent out a strange yellow light, like a voice from another dimension stabbing Alphonse's soul.
Terrible!
Alphonse's dull gaze has turned to his demon projection. His body is like being filled with lead in a moment. Not only that, it seems that there is an unknown force squeezing the body to peel off his soul.
Edward, who had just become a stone fist and flew a female cult, found that Alfonsi's situation was wrong. Edward, who was caught by the devil's sight, was shocked. Cold sweat began to seep from his forehead. Edward knew that he had seen this amazing sense of oppression before, that is, when he met Yalin just when he came to this world, But in contrast, the oppression brought by Yalin makes people feel trustworthy and trustworthy, and the devil in front of us is like death.
Forcibly suppress the fear bred from the soul, Edward saw Alphonse as if he couldn't move and stood in place. He immediately knew that it was bad, and more female cultists surrounded him, and even the bodies of several women began to change, which was the same as the monsters he met in the logging yard.
Edward and Al had to make a strategic retreat to defeat one body lion. Now Edward and al have no chance of winning in the face of three or four body lions at the same time.
"Come back, Al ~" Edward shouted to Alphonse.
There was no response when he saw his brother. Edward closed his hands and began to refine recklessly. The ground began to shake and form a huge fist shape to fly to the huge devil projection. However, before the fist arrived, the devil projection had stretched out his hand and waved fiercely. An invisible force fanned Edward and the refined fist.
"Wow!!" Edward fell and rolled on the ground for several times before he stopped. He just got up in a mess. Edward found that the three lions had rushed to him from different directions.
It's over! For a moment, Edward was at a loss.
After looking at Edward, the devil's projection turned his eyes to Alphonse again. It seemed that he hesitated. The devil grabbed Al with his huge palm. (to be continued)