Chapter 829: Chapter 507: Return to the Outpost Ruins, Subduing the Lion Skeleton Knight

After all, anything is possible.

In response, Zong Shen also had a strategy, and that was to have a fight.

And he would wait to fight together when Baron Bezos arrived.

This way, he could further lower his guard.

Zong Shen took out the magic power flashlight and directly turned it to level 2.

He traversed through the underground, passing by the small house with the missing wooden beam outside once again.

The lion skeleton knight he had previously tamed still stood there.

It was motionless, just like a sculpture.

If not for the soul fire still shining, Zong Shen would have thought the guy had cooled off.

He stood at this spot and began to inquire the guide module to lead him.

"Please mark the valuable locations in the ruins and the locations of those treasure chests."

This time, the golden thread navigation was more complex than ever.

Some were in the underground, some were on the sides of the pathways.

And some were at the end of the pathways.

This indicated that a portion of the ruins was directly exposed due to the underground reason.

Many main parts of the ruins still remained closed off.

Excavation would be needed at that time.

However, the excavation strategy needed to change; he couldn’t continue with large-scale operations but had to excavate quietly.

Zong Shen didn’t have the means for a large-scale excavation, so he planned to walk around the tunnel first.

To see the specific situation of this underground.

Because his main goal was to find the lion skeleton knight.

Continuing forward along the tunnel, he encountered three small cottages close to the passage.

Most had collapsed, and the remaining space was very cramped.

Besides some corpses and broken weapons and equipment, Zong Shen also found a silver treasure chest.

After his inspection, the silver treasure chest was normal, so he put it away.

When he reached the end of the passage, he understood where the lion skeleton knight had come from.

The right side at the end of the passage was a much shorter path.

About ten meters in length, and coming out led to a relatively spacious area.

It looked like a hall, but its height and the passage were only about three meters.

There were small wooden cottages lined on both sides as far as the eye could see.

At least twenty to thirty in number.

There were also many dark corners, which were hard to see completely, even with the magic power flashlight.

Undoubtedly, this was the main part of the ruins of the Lion Knight Order’s outpost.

The previous passages connected to another portion.

The twenty to thirty small wooden cottages in front were deeply buried underground, with only an adjacent space clearly visible.

Judging from the previous situation, Zong Shen understood that this ruin was most likely buried due to a landslide, with a mix of earth and rocks forming a mudflow with rainwater.

This explained why the hillside above was bare cliff rock.

The verticality of that cliff was very high, as if carved by nature’s craftsmanship.

Because the surface layer of earth and rubble had been washed away.

The torrential mudflow descended like waves, engulfing the hillside outpost ruins.

The small wooden cottages near the mountain edge were destroyed in an instant.

Most of the wooden cottages had some solidity, covered by the mudflow, only to be buried but not completely collapsed.

As for why this underground and space formed, Zong Shen couldn’t grasp.

It seemed to have appeared long after the mudflow occurred.

Because, by then, the soil below was dry and had become quite solidified.

This new conclusion also overturned his original hypothesis that this underground was naturally formed.

At this point, he thought of the rapids tribe’s shallow water fishmen.

Those guys seemed to have been active here only in the last two or three hundred years.

Very likely, they discovered these ruins and then excavated them.

That’s why the shallow water fishmen seemed so vigilant.

Surely, during their excavation, they disturbed the lion skeleton knights, leading to intense conflict, and surely the rapids tribe’s fishmen suffered heavy losses.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t abandon the south shore while setting up tight sentries.

The combat power of these lion skeleton knights was undoubtedly strong.

The fishman warriors, compared to them, had a huge gap in individual fighting strength.

But it wasn’t easy for them to hurt the fishman warriors, which highlighted another issue.

Below, many lion skeleton knights were dormant, and even powerful undead warriors existed.

With all this, Zong Shen became increasingly expectant.

According to the guide’s direction, there were four or five places worth exploring here.

But Zong Shen planned to check all the cottages completely.

He grasped the magic power flashlight and began to move forward step by step, aiming to reach the nearest cottage.

After just a few steps, "da-da" sounds came from the shadows nearby.

This time, the "da-da" sounds were very dense, reverberating in the underground space.

Zong Shen halted his steps, his face showing delight.

He was very familiar with this sound—it was the stepping sound of the skeleton bone horse.

It indicated that the nearby lion skeleton knight had been alarmed.

So not only did he have no worries, but he was also very happy.

He had been waiting for this moment to arrive!

Silently, he took off the chain gloves from his right hand, now everything was ready, only waiting for the east wind.

"Come on, little skeleton knight baby!"

He murmured to himself softly.

As soon as he spoke, rays of red soul fire began to appear from every corner.