GBP Chapter 1330 Tsar's Ruins
Chapter 1330 Tsar's Ruins
Looking at Xiao Dingshan's expression, Xiao Ce smiled at him and said, "Xiao Dingshan, I still admire your confidence..."
Xiao Dingshan stared sharply at Xiao Ce. Their eyes met, and Xiao Ce didn't avoid his gaze, meeting his eyes for a moment...
He then smiled and said to Xiao Ce, "I really admire your confidence... I also admire your abilities... If you've changed after we open this Hidden Dragon Tomb, and you're willing to serve me, I can make you my subordinate, my right-hand man..."
Upon hearing Xiao Dingshan's words, Xiao Ce chuckled and said, "Why the future... Actually, the present is fine too... I'm willing..."
Xiao Dingshan said to Xiao Ce, "Because you may not be entirely sincere right now... and I'm not sure what you're really up to..."
Xiao Ce looked at Xiao Dingshan and said, "Aren't you willing to tell me who you are and what you want? Maybe if you tell me, I might actually be willing to fight you... Actually, we're not exactly mortal enemies..."
After Xiao Ce finished speaking, he looked intently at Xiao Dingshan.
After hearing Xiao Ce's words, Xiao Dingshan did not avoid Xiao Ce's gaze.
Instead, she looked up at Xiao Ce.
Their eyes met, and Xiao Dingshan said, "The timing isn't right... If the time is right, I will follow your advice..."
"But not now. I know your ideals... I'm quite certain that right now, our ideals and goals are different..."
After hearing Xiao Dingshan's words, Xiao Ce already had a general idea in his mind...
Xiao Ce said to Xiao Dingshan, "Do you intend to enslave the people of the entire world?"
Xiao Dingshan wasn't actually surprised by Xiao Ce's words...
It's not surprising that Xiao Ce knew...
Xiao Dingshan said to Xiao Ce, "Yes and no... it's too early to say anything about these things..."
"Is the next place we're going to the Hidden Dragon Tomb? Isn't this the Tsar's ruins?" Xiao Ce asked Xiao Dingshan.
"It's just a different name...it's actually the Hidden Dragon Tomb..."
Hearing Xiao Dingshan's answer, Xiao Ce asked with great curiosity, "What exactly is in there?"
Xiao Dingshan said to Xiao Ce, "You'll know when you get there... Alright, it will still take some time. My body is a simulation now, so I don't need to rest... But you still need to rest. It will take some time before we arrive, so you should rest for a while..."
Xiao Ce glanced at Xiao Dingshan, and without any ceremony, he leaned against the side of the carriage and fell asleep.
He knew very well that health was the foundation of everything, and he had an important matter to attend to later...
So, Xiao Ce leaned against the carriage to rest.
The biting wind, carrying snowflakes, lashed against the speeding carriage like countless tiny ice blades, producing a dense and muffled crackling sound.
The carriage struggled through the thick snow, its wheels leaving deep ruts as they rolled over the ice, only to be quickly covered by fresh snow. Outside the window lay an endless, breathtakingly white world.
Inside the train carriage, the atmosphere was colder than the wind and snow outside.
After saying that, Xiao Dingshan put his black veiled hat back on, seemingly becoming one with the cold air...
Xiao Ce, however, acted as if nothing had happened, closing his eyes to rest...
However, as he stretched out his spiritual energy, he could hear the whispers of Shahar and Rhys in the carriage behind him...
"...Father, can we really find that thing in this godforsaken place?"
Rhys's voice was extremely low, trembling with a hint of frozen fear.
"Keep your voice down..."
Shahar's voice was even deeper: "What you desire, sir, is no ordinary thing. Remember, apart from what you specify, the rest of the tomb contains the very essence of my Slavic Empire! With it, how can we fear the destruction of the Xiao Kingdom? As for Xiao Ce... Hmph, once you've used it all, that will be the day he's reduced to ashes!"
His voice was filled with the fervor of revenge and the thirst for power, as if he could already see the Slavic army sweeping across the East.
Xiao Ce sneered inwardly, but his face remained expressionless.
In his eyes, the foolishness and shortsightedness of Shahar and his son were like clowns.
They were engrossed in the unrealistic promises Xiao Dingshan had made, unaware that they had already become pawns. Xiao Dingshan's true goals were beyond their comprehension.
Even his son could understand it, but these two were completely confused and couldn't understand a thing...
The carriage bumped along in the wind and snow for an unknown amount of time before the terrain began to become rugged.
Through the crack in the car window, Xiao Ce's spiritual senses detected that the monotonous ice field ahead was no longer a vast expanse. The massive, mostly snow-covered, ruined outlines of buildings stood silently in the snowstorm, like the skeleton of a prehistoric behemoth...
Broken pillars, crumbling domes, half-buried walls... This was once a magnificent city, now only frozen ruins remain...
"arrive."
Xiao Dingshan spoke without warning, his voice coming through the black veil, cold and devoid of any emotion...
The carriage stopped in front of a huge, relatively sheltered, broken wall.
The car door opened, and a biting cold wind rushed in instantly, almost suffocating him. Xiao Ce subconsciously wrapped his clothes tighter and got out of the car.
The scene before me was breathtaking. Vast city ruins were covered by thick snow and ice, with only the tops of the tallest buildings or massive wall remnants stubbornly piercing the snow to reveal mottled, ancient, and weathered rock...
These buildings are extremely ancient and heavy, carrying an aura of desolation and majesty that does not belong to this era. They are clearly not built by the Slavs in the last few centuries, but rather are more like the remnants of an ancient civilization.
The wind and snow howled and whistled through the ruins, adding to the deathly silence and mystery...
"This is the ruins of the Tsar... the legendary birthplace of the Slavic Empire..."
As Shahar gazed at the scene before him, his eyes flashed with a complex light—awe, greed, and a hint of fear of the ancient and unknown.
Rhys couldn't help but shiver and muttered a curse under his breath about the damn weather.
Xiao Ce's gaze swept across the ruins, his spiritual power acting like the most sophisticated radar, meticulously scanning the surrounding environment.
Ling's answer was that the energy field here was unusually chaotic, and beneath the ice and snow, there seemed to be a faint and ancient pulse echoing something.
Because Xiao Dingshan's body was a lifelike replica, he was completely immune to the cold...
He acted like nothing had happened...
"This way..."
Xiao Dingshan ignored the comments of others and walked straight into the depths of the ruins.
His pace was slow but exceptionally steady, as if he knew the terrain inside and out!
The two silent, statue-like "blue-eyed iron men" guards followed closely behind, their metal feet crunching rhythmically on the snow.
However, it has little effect on the simulated human, but it does have some effect on these iron men.
I could hear a clicking or cracking sound coming from the joints.
It seems that the advantages of humanoid simulation still exist...
Shahar and his son quickly followed, not daring to fall behind even a step.
Xiao Ce maintained a steady pace, continuously sensing with his spiritual energy, focusing on Xiao Dingshan and the two iron-man guards.
He discovered that the deeper he went into the ruins, the closer Xiao Dingshan's aura seemed to be to a certain frequency with the surrounding environment!
The energy cores of the two iron-man guards seemed to be undergoing subtle adjustments to adapt to the force field of the area.
Clearly, this was not Xiao Dingshan's first visit; his knowledge of the place far surpassed that of Shahar and his son.
Yesterday, he left the Slavic Empire's royal palace, presumably heading this way...
The group traversed a maze of broken walls and ruins. The wind and snow seemed to be blocked by some unseen force, and the wind in the core area of the ruins was much calmer. Finally, they stopped in front of a building that was almost completely covered by ice and snow, with only the top of a huge and twisted bronze archway visible.
The archway is deeply embedded in the sloping rock wall, and the lintel is carved with a strangely styled, long-blurred totem of a giant beast, exuding an ancient and wild atmosphere.
Beneath the arch, a massive, dark, downward-facing entrance is clearly visible.
The snow and ice at the edge of the entrance seemed to have been deliberately cleared, revealing smooth, mirror-like black stone steps that stretched into the unknown depths of darkness.
Six figures stood quietly in front of the entrance.