Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

915
After the water receded, members of MI9 used their own methods to test the depth of the hole and confirmed that it would not exceed ten meters.

This height was nothing to any Beyonder of any sequence. The physical enhancement gained by Sequence 9 was enough to protect them from injury. But the problem at the moment was not just about jumping down, but where exactly this hole led to, and whether there was another path inside.

This is also the "residence" of a god-level being. Even though they are loyal believers, there is no guarantee that no accidents will happen.

"Do you want to go down here?"

"Ah."

The team members were a little skeptical, but the leader knew the reason for the appearance of this hole, but he couldn't tell others. Since his wish was "a hidden entrance" and he had successfully completed the transaction, then this must be a place to enter the mausoleum smoothly.

He looked back at the rest of his team members, and an inexplicable emotion was growing in his heart - he was not willing to use this seal at first, even though the expression on the face of the demon family when they gave it to him was "you're lucky" - but in the end, his loyalty to the emperor overwhelmed his feelings and attention to his subordinates. When he made up his mind to write the first word on the inconspicuous little piece of paper, his hands were shaking a little, and he was reluctant in his heart, but he wrote the whole sentence very quickly.

Once conscience and bottom line no longer exist, there are many things that can be done.

He had not yet slipped into the state of self-deception that these subordinates would be willing to sacrifice themselves for the emperor, although sacrificing subordinates without saying a word had gradually become acceptable to him. I just didn't know what the price he would ask for each time would be. If he only killed one of his subordinates each time, it might be okay, but his subordinates were limited, and they would eventually be borne by him.

I hope I won't need to use that item anymore. The gift from the demon family is too evil... The officer thought uneasily, but his hand involuntarily touched his chest inconspicuously, feeling the raised touch of the small glass bottle as thick as a finger.

Despite its evil and terrifying nature, this simple and crude method of use is indeed the best prop to deal with emergencies at the moment, and can bring him an indescribable sense of security.

He pulled a small, extraordinary object from his arms.

It is impossible to use torches in heavy rain, and lanterns can easily go out, but this thing is covered with thick, opaque cloth. When a corner of the cloth is lifted, a bright and warm light immediately shines out.

At this moment, everyone could immediately see that the soil on the wall of the cave was dark red and emitted a faint fishy smell that was frightening to people.

The commander ignored the expressions on the faces of the other members and their hesitation to speak. He said to follow, and then he jumped directly into the more than one-meter-wide hole with the extraordinary object emitting light. Before he could count to three in his mind, his feet had already landed on the unstable stone ground. His thoughts did not come true, and he did not step on anything.

He picked up the extraordinary item with some concern and shone it around. He found a path in front of him, which was so dark that even light could not illuminate it. But it was more like a gap in the collapsed building than a path. Sharp edges of various stones protruded from all directions, and if you were not careful, you would be punctured and scratched. After receiving his safety signal, the members of MI9 jumped down one by one. They looked around in the crowded and narrow cave for a long time, but could not find the body of the companion who had died unexpectedly.

The body of such a big man just disappeared like that, without a single bone to be found, and only a faint smell of blood filled the air. It was as if he had not disappeared, but had completely dissolved in the tunnel.

They looked at each other and felt a chill down their spine, but no one dared to disobey their superior's orders.

"What is the approximate location here?" The officer did not act rashly, nor did he use any extraordinary power. He silently infused his spirituality to make the extraordinary items brighter, but no matter what, the path ahead was still pitch black, and he could not see clearly beyond one meter.

"The northeast corner of the mausoleum." The team member replied in a low voice. "From the height, we should be at the junction of the ruins of the surface buildings and the underground part. We need to find the stairs going down to officially reach the underground area."

After confirming their location, they compared their positions and found that the path ahead was most likely the stairs in this corner. They didn't need to go through so much trouble, but the construction of nine mausoleums was a secret within the Augustus family. With the destruction of the angels and the entire royal family, the design drawings were lost. The members of MI1 could only rely on the confessions and memories of different people who had participated in the construction and supervision of the mausoleums to barely piece together a map of Mausoleum No. .

"Hey." The officer was about to move forward when he heard a team member at the back say, "Is there something here..."

He touched the hard and smooth object that was tightly attached to the wall, suspecting that this was the original location of the candlestick on the wall of the mausoleum. With the dim light shining in from the cave above his head, he saw that it was a brass metal piece attached to the wall.

The metal sheet is oval in shape, with pointed corners, a circle in the middle that is just tangent to the upper and lower sides, and a thin vertical oval in the middle.

The metal sheet was originally covered with a layer of dark red dirt, but the member's foothold was right next to it. He turned around and moved slightly, wiping off part of the dirt, revealing the true appearance behind. When he touched it, he inadvertently wiped off some of the remaining red dirt, so that he noticed the reflection of the brass.

"what is this?"

The more it looked, the less it looked like the back of a candlestick. Several people around also looked over. The officer was far away, with five or six people squeezed in the middle. He didn't know what was going on, so he frowned and whispered, "Move forward as quickly as possible and don't waste time on unimportant things."

"Sir, there is a totem here with an unknown meaning."

Someone spoke up: "We have never seen a symbol like this, whether it is a positive god or a hidden existence."

"...This thing looks like an eye?" The MI9 member who was stroking the metal piece asked in confusion, "An eye is a bit similar to the symbol of the Hidden Sage, but the current Church of the God of Mysteries has revised its holy emblem and crest, so why is there..."

Before he finished speaking, an inconspicuous ray of light suddenly shot out from his brass eyes and fell right on his head.

In a flash, the body of this extraordinary person began to collapse from the head downwards. All tissues and parts were equally transformed into granular spirituality that flew away. In the blink of an eye, he disappeared from everyone's sight.

Not even the clothes were left.

After a brief moment of stagnation, everyone present reacted immediately. Although most members of MI9 had gone through rigorous selection and various dangerous missions, the sight of a companion being wiped out without any resistance still made their hair stand on end.

The captain who witnessed all this was suddenly horrified. He suddenly remembered that brass is now an important ritual metal of the Thunder Church. Like silver and tin in the past, it can be used as one of the ritual props pointing to the God of Thunder. The only difference is that there are no eyes engraved on the holy emblem of the God of Thunder, but only a white tower standing high in the sea, surrounded by thunder and storms.

In a flash, he suddenly realized something, and without hesitation, he took the glowing seal and went directly into the narrow tunnel in front. His action gave an effective guide to the people behind him. The others immediately ignored whether the tunnel would collapse or whether there would be other dangers inside, and they all rushed in one after another.

One of them ran a little slower, and the light from the brass eye sculpture once again brushed against the corner of his clothes, and he also disappeared into the air in an instant like the previous member.

The others had all run into the tunnel, their brass eyes emitting light into the tunnel, but the straight light could not go deeper into the dark tunnel, but was twisted and turned elsewhere as if refracted by an invisible mirror.

After a few attempts, the brass eyes stopped trying and gradually disappeared into the wall, going nowhere.

boom!
The sound of stones breaking was heard, and a bolt of lightning as thick as a bucket suddenly struck the ruins above the mausoleum. A large amount of rubble and broken bricks flew around, and the gap above the head suddenly collapsed, leaving the entire mausoleum without any space at all.

...After entering the mausoleum with no other options, the members of the Military Intelligence Department suddenly realized that the inside of the tunnel was much more spacious than the outside. Although there were jagged rocks above their heads, they did not need to bend over to walk.

At the same time, the tunnel does not seem to be completely downward. It looks straight from the outside, but in fact it gives people the feeling of going up and down. It is obviously a spiral downward structure, but the person walking in front can always see the last person, as if it is a straight road.

"distortion?"

"The space here must be distorted..."

The commander realized that something was wrong here, but no matter how strange and terrifying the high-sequence power in the adjacent passage was, it would only make the people in MI9 excited. Under the influence of the gods and sequences from top to bottom, they had completely forgotten the grief for the two companions who had just died unexpectedly, and could not help but speed up their pace, almost wanting to run in the narrow tunnel.

Just then, a drop of water fell on the officer's head.

Soon after, more and more rain water seeped in from the top of the tunnel. Originally, he thought that the rain on the mausoleum had become heavier, causing the rain water to seep into the mausoleum, but after a while he felt something was wrong. The rain seemed to be gradually changing the surrounding environment - the tunnel suddenly became cramped, and the accumulated water underfoot rose rapidly in a very short time. It seemed that in a short while, it spread from a thin layer to the height of their ankles, and continuously seeped in through the gaps in the leather boots, making everyone feel cold in an instant.

The water level continued to rise, and the tunnel became lower and lower, making it hard to breathe. A dangerous thought emerged in everyone's mind:

They will be drowned here by the rising rain water!

916
"MI9's authority was repeatedly seized by the Thunder Church. When they were about to lose even the power of legal authority and supervision of the search, they finally decided to venture into the Emperor's mausoleum and seek help from the gods of their own way."

"To this end, they took the risk to seek cooperation from the Demon Family and planned the explosion, pretending to be showing goodwill to the Thunder Church."

"However, Hvin Rambis of the Psychological Alchemy Society suddenly lost control, causing an accident. They originally only intended to cause an explosion accident, so that the nobles would use their personal safety to create public opinion and cause social chaos, but they did not expect that there was a demigod of the 'audience' path hidden in the banquet tonight. Unfortunately, there was no other being of the same sequence to stop him. He went crazy under the influence of the unknown, and after slaughtering everyone present, he hid in a safe house in the east district and tried to contact the high-ranking people of Intis for help."

"The Harvest Church was completely destroyed in the flames, and the fire spread to surrounding houses and quickly spread to the east side."

In a room that no one is allowed to enter, on a solid wooden table that looks square and has beautiful hollow carvings, a feather pen is writing quickly on a thread-bound white paper notebook placed on the table.

On the table were inkstones, brushes, and ceramic pen holders painted with blue patterns, as well as other items with a strong Western Continent style. The presence of the feather pen seemed very out of place, yet there was a strange sense of harmony.

The face of the Demon of Knowledge now appears as a middle-aged man with gray hair. He still maintains the identity and appearance of "Yang Mo", but his age is different from usual.

He held two carved wooden balls in his hands, his eyes half open, and wrote furiously while looking at the "Pen of Al-Suhod".

On the other side of the table, there was a silver mirror with intricate patterns.

The mirror was facing the notebook that 0-08 was writing, but not a single word appeared on it.

"…Hvin Rambis's mental state was abnormal. He thought his mental abnormality had been eliminated, but in fact it had not. In the jurisdiction of the God of Thunder, his prayers were naturally not answered, which seemed to have made him fall into anger and frenzy again."

"At this time, Backlund's head, Redar Valentine, was focusing on fighting against Emlyn White of the Harvest Church. Emlyn White broke into Redar Valentine's residence to demand an explanation for the burning of the Harvest Church and the casualties of the surrounding people."

"When a young and energetic demigod came to visit directly and forcefully, regardless of social etiquette and the relationship between the church, the rhetoric lost its effect. Faced with the furious Beyonders of the same sequence and the God-favored Ones of the friendly church, the parish leader had to choose to appease them. Therefore, he could not care about what happened in the city and asked his subordinates to deal with the gas explosion in the Viscount's mansion."

"Of course, the church knows the reason why they skipped the search and rescue and went straight to the aftermath."

The Demon of Knowledge laughed.

"This kind of thing happens everywhere." He sighed softly.

"Under various emergencies, although the actions of MI9 lacked strategy and were not perfect, tonight's infiltration activities were based on simple interests and a pious stance towards God, but they still distracted the attention of the demigods of Thunder and the Church of Truth to a certain extent."

"Even though they were not well prepared, they decided to take the risk and sneak in."

"More than ten minutes were wasted just on finding the entrance. The search and rescue and aftermath of the Viscount's mansion were about to end. When they realized that they had wasted too much time, they had no choice but to ask for help. With the help of (blackened name), they successfully entered the mausoleum - it was incredible, they should have returned empty-handed, or been burned to charcoal by the sky fire brought by thunder."

"..."

"The good times didn't last long. The Thunder God soon noticed their infiltration. Although the mausoleum had become the emperor's kingdom of God, He still had many ways to kill a few ordinary people who broke into the mausoleum."

"The tunnel was compressed to a height of less than 50 centimeters. Their faces were already pressed against the water surface and they were about to be drowned by the rainwater accumulated on the ground."

"The rain level is still rising. The rain level near Mausoleum No. 1 has already exceeded Loen's annual rainfall!"

0-08 was just about to continue writing when the Demon of Knowledge reached out his hand.

He rolled up his sleeve with one hand and picked up 0-08 with the other hand. He dipped it into the inkstone a few times with a sense of ritual, and then wrote down the Chinese characters neatly on the notebook.

"But it wasn't enough to kill them because the tunnel had reached the end."

"Perhaps, they themselves don't know what they can do. However, the Emperor is looking forward to the arrival of outsiders to communicate with the inner and outer worlds, so they still have a great chance of coming before Him alive."

TBC
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Good night! (End of chapter)