Chapter 1001 - 830: Discovered Thousand-year-old Wine

Chapter 1001: Chapter 830: Discovered Thousand-year-old Wine

What else can we do? Just like conquering the President Sister, go for the gut... so do we have to wait for her to grow up?

Amidst the awkwardness, the Bat Lord reflected the sewer terrain view onto Aileen’s mirror. At the same time, Chun’s map was also expanding.

That’s fine, after all, Aileen didn’t have any images in the mirror to ensure the long-distance transmission with Bilenna’s Crystal Bat, so it wasn’t really an interference.

However, Liya was surprised: "A bat is blind and has no vision, how could it have any view images?"

Seizing this opportunity, Chun quickly made her admire his knowledge: "Because this is a Crystal Bat, its whole body reflects its surroundings like a mirror, so the entire body of the Crystal Bat is equivalent to an eye."

Only then did Liya understand and subsequently made a discovery: "There are markings from the Thief Guild on the wall."

Chun was surprised and immediately shouted to stop the bat: "Which one?"

The screen paused on a wall full of scratches.

Liya explained: "This is it, the other scratches are meaningless disguises, only the bottom few rows of scratches are markings, it’s a cipher that only senior officials of the Thief Guild can understand. It means the location of an important department, but it doesn’t give directions. We can continue to explore."

Chun was surprised: "How does Liya know the Thief Guild’s cipher?"

Liya snorted: "Because the Thief Guild itself does the dirty work for the Royal Family, matters that are inconvenient to handle by administrative law enforcement or military means are handed over to the Thief Guild. Fortunately, these ciphers are not too complex, mainly marking locations, you can learn it as quickly as you learned bat language."

Not long after, the wall segment the bat passed by showed scratches again.

Liya shouted: "Stop!"

The screen stopped.

Liya began decoding: "At the next sewer exit, turn right and go through three intersections."

—— System Prompt: Your extraordinary wisdom has initially grasped the "Thief Guild’s cipher," and your Erudite Scholar profession experience has improved.

Ha, it’s indeed easy to learn. Although it’s not useful, gaining Erudite Scholar experience is good.

According to the route, the bat advanced to the destination, only to find a collapsed area of rubble and sand.

Liya sighed: "This should be the entrance, but it looks like it didn’t escape the devastation of the war back then."

Uh... Chun immediately took out his phone to compare with the underground departments strategy given by Zhou Qing, and it really seemed to be here.

Chun actually had a way to send vines from this location to explore the ground and see what’s there.

But apparently, the bat had another way: "Master, I can activate interface transfer to enter from the Undead Realm to take a look."

So it can be done this way? Ah, that’s right, back when Aziza and Nancy rescued Pinocchio to the slum, it went back through the Undead Realm.

Chun really wanted to see its capabilities: "Then drill in."

The next moment, the image on the mirror disappeared, flickering and blurring.

Is this the Undead Realm? Or is it the image transmission from the Undead Realm that’s distorted?

After a few minutes, the image reappeared, revealing a collapsed and ruined underground architectural space like ruins.

Holy Shit! This interface transfer is really useful, almost like the walk-through-walls technique.

But this isn’t what Chun cares about: "Find the wine, see if there’s a cellar."

The bat’s image began moving and shifting, while Chun noticed the sand and stones that had collapsed, which meant this sewer secret chamber was also penetrated, and digging from the surface could lead inside.

However, the trouble lies here, even if he finds the wine cellar and the thousand-year-old wine, Chun would have to dig it out in front of the Ten Lords. But how can he dig through this hundred meters of sand?

Or perhaps, he could drill the vines through here, slowly retrieve a few bottles and place them at certain angles on the surface, and then "coincidentally" find them? But this coincidence seems too fake. Besides, slowly dragging them out would inevitably leave scratches on the wine bottles, leading to exposure.

Perhaps there’s only one way, let Libnahi teleport in. But she needs teleport coordinates! But those teleport coordinates are different from geographical coordinates, even at the Divine Craftsman Level, I don’t know! Because I’m a self-taught Space Mage and never attended a single class, these theories are taught in class.

Last time, even Bilenna didn’t recognize the spatial coordinates and couldn’t transmit, so a mission was specially issued for Village Leader Feng Xingcuo to deliver a message personally...

As he was tangled in thoughts, the bat reached a location resembling a kitchen, where there appeared to be a basement with a decayed floor.

Liya exclaimed: "Did you find the wine cellar!?"

Holy Shit!

Chun’s eyebrow twitched: "Stop, don’t go in! Just investigate from the outside gaps."

Shortly after, the image zoomed in and out, revealing the scene inside the wine cellar. Although there were rotten wood, broken barrels, and shattered glass everywhere, there were about ten rotting boxes in the corner that seemed not to be fatally damaged.

Liya exclaimed: "It’s Royal Brandy, a tribute wine! The packaging is the most luxurious. If it wasn’t directly destroyed by war, theoretically it can be sealed and preserved for a thousand years, thus serving as material for the Emperor’s sacrificial offerings to the Divine Realm. If all these boxes remain intact and the quality hasn’t changed, it would mean we’ve acquired some extremely expensive thousand-year tributes!"

Holy Shit!! Wait?

Chun asked: "Quality change?"

Liya said: "The thousand-year tribute wine that the Emperor offers to the Divine Realm has extremely demanding production and storage conditions. It’s hard to see the effects in the first hundred or so years. But after two hundred years, wines constantly undergo changes and are eliminated. Those that can truly be preserved until now are very few. As for the current ruined environment, it’s hard to say, so don’t have too high expectations."

Uh, it’s okay, the more fake the wine, the less specific attribute comparison the Ten Lords have, the less they understand why I can bring festival luck to the field...

Chun immediately ordered: "Bat, leave this Thief Guild headquarters and explore other chambers in the sewers."

"As you command, Master."

Interface transfer initiated, the image blurred again.

Anyway, since it’s discovered, it’s time to find an opportunity to talk with Libnahi and Silva. I don’t understand spatial coordinates, but the Ten Lords surely do, right? Their family made the game after all.

But this time, the blurring persisted for a full ten minutes without recovering.

Chun felt something was wrong: "Bat, what’s happening?"

The bat’s answer was also blurred: "Seems like it’s not the way back!"

Liya furrowed her brows: "The attack that penetrated the Thief Guild headquarters may have distorted the space somewhat. There’s no need to find the way back, head towards where it feels easier to move."

Chun immediately conveyed: "Forget the way back..."

"Understood, Master!"

As time ticked away, Chun felt anxious but also excited, with a faint feeling that something significant might soon be discovered in the twist of events.

Midnight, 0:00:

—— System Prompt: The date is now May 2nd, 0:00 AM, Golden Continent time 12:00 PM...

—— System Prompt: You have received the Honorary Elder of the Southern Canyon Village...

—— System Prompt: Congratulations! You’ve received a presale dividend of 1,000,000 Mining Coins from selling 20,000 portions of Yina’s "Bean Flour Oil Baguette". Received a presale dividend of 400,000 Mining Coins from selling 40,000 portions of the "Xinna Smoke Processing Formula" and the "Original Divine Nanmei Anti-Plague Formula".

—— Astrologer Profession Prompt: Today’s fortune "suitable for travel, suitable for mining". Today is the Solar Day. Your "Chapter of Misfortune" has today’s preset misfortunes as injuries, paralysis, labor, and false accusations, accumulating misfortune for 1 day. The more intense the accumulated misfortune, the stronger the converted fortune.

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