Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 984: Chapter 303 Entering the Underground City_2

“Red Dragon Kingdom S Reward: Titles, lands for the significant discoveries made by individual adventurers and teams…”

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As soon as the large troop arrived, adventurers swarmed into the few entrances to the Underground City.

Leonard Churchill didn’t rush to take action.

He was mingling with the Viper Mercenary Corps, the official mercenaries of the Thorny Snake Corps, and had to move with the large troop.

He was also certain that Toad would definitely create an opportunity to go down.

It wouldn’t be long before the main forces of the Thorny Snake Corps would descend.

Leonard was in the camp, helping to set up tents.

At the same time, he was controlling Shadows to gather information.

The conversations of the hunters, the recruitment notices on the bulletin boards, the ancient Relics being excavated…

These fragmented pieces of information were like the shards of a shattered porcelain vase, which, when pieced together, might form a complete vase.

Leonard’s brain was working at high speed, slowly piecing together the situation in the research facility below.

The Underground City was vast, with at least seven or eight areas from A to G discovered so far, filled with a large number of monsters of varying degrees of danger.

The casualties brought up from these areas had mostly rotting skin and were showing black and green complexions, clearly suffering from poison and Plague Contamination;

There were also new monsters, Rot Monsters, Poison Gas, Soul-devouring Wolf Spiders, Plague Zombies…

These were not mentioned in previous intelligence reports, and even the people of the Southern Continent had never seen such mutated creatures.

So far, the monsters discovered in the research facility were not too powerful, the strongest being only Sixth Tier.

But they were numerous and highly toxic, which made them very troublesome.

Leonard certainly did not take the situation lightly.

Since the White Family thought this place could bury those from the Southern Continent, it posed a fatal threat to him, a Fourth Tier as well.

All the clues he noted now could be life-saving straws later on.

Leonard did think that it would be more assured to inquire more about the situation before descending, but the “teammates” around him were becoming a bit impatient.

Seeing the large number of ancient Relics being unearthed made everyone envious.

Relics are not like the Alternate Dimension; if you’re late, they may indeed be gone.

“When do you think we’re going to wait until? Look, those guys from the Snow Eagle Group who came with us, it’s only been half an hour since they went down, right? And they’ve dug out so much stuff already…”

“Yeah. If we wait any longer, I’m afraid we won’t even be able to eat hot shit…”

“Look! That chain those guys are carrying out, it’s actually made of pure Mithril? My, oh my, how much money would that big chain sell for?”

“Hey, are those metal lumps the legendary Mechanical equipment? Ouch, those ‘Forbidden Objects’ can only go into the furnace now…”

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Leonard joined his teammates in complaining while discreetly observing the situation around the iron cages.

The fellows from the Holy Church had gone into the tents and hadn’t appeared again, seemingly planning to wait for these hunters to explore.

No wonder, for adventure has always been the job of the lower classes.

Leonard was also curious about what Aragon would have to do to get those guys moving.

This wait lasted for several more hours.

Far from decreasing, the number of people in the camp kept increasing.

You can’t deny the power of numbers.

The card masters of the Southern Continent were already strong, and with tens of thousands pouring into the Underground City, they quickly mapped out large areas of it.

A chance came quite suddenly.

An Adventure Group found a mysterious door leading deeper into the underground.

After calling in lock-picking experts to open it, the people discovered that it was a passage to the core area of the research facility.

The adventurers quickly found the second floor of the research facility.

Although the second floor of the research facility caused a huge number of casualties, some astonishing discoveries were made.

It’s said that some well-preserved laboratories and a large number of valuable ancient Relics were found.

However, as the exploration went deeper, the death rate grew more alarming.

According to the hunters, not only was the second floor of the Underground City filled with lethal toxins, but it seemed to be hiding some horrifying creatures.

Low-tier card masters had virtually no chance of coming out alive, and even the mortality rate among High-Order Card Masters was very high.

Apart from a few elite groups that continued to explore, others dared not enter the second floor at all.

The pace of exploration suddenly slowed down.

At this rate, it might take ten days or even half a month to explore it thoroughly.

In the midst of this situation, no one knew what Toad had said to the people of the Thorny Snake Corps, but suddenly the Legion Commander Heman gave orders for the main forces of the Corps to set off, and they even brought along that big iron cage.

The Viper Mercenary Corps, to which Leonard belonged, became the vanguard, to scout the path to the second level of the Underground City in advance.

Now the “teammates” were wailing again; earlier they wanted to go, now they were afraid to go.

With such a high death rate, nobody wanted to face certain death.

But as official mercenaries, they were paid to follow orders, not their own will.

As the noble Legion set off, other hunter mercenaries also surged into the depths.

The official Corps dealt with the troubles, and it was time for the Loose Practitioners to make their fortune, in a mutually beneficial arrangement.

Just like shrimp feasting by cleaning the gaps between a shark’s teeth after it eats a big fish.

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The main forces advanced downwards.

The research facility was enormous, practically a huge Underground City.

Entering the main part from the passages, each area appeared as a “silo”.

Like bucket-like cylindrical spaces, with densely arranged and orderly rooms layer by layer, it seemed that this research facility once housed many people.

The walls were made of thick concrete and steel, the ceiling overhead crisscrossed with pipes rusty with age.

Even after thousands of years of exposure to toxic gases eroding metals to the brink of destruction, the core of the research facility remained intact.

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