75. Ancient Ruins Area
A Godhead clay tablet.
If it can be auctioned off, it will be very valuable, and there will definitely be a lot of people vying for it. It's just that in the long run, it's more valuable to return this clay tablet to Ace Wintertle. And when I talked to Tini before, I had already called the goddess's name many times, presumably this goddess would be difficult to hear even if she wanted to, but Sean's front foot had just left, and Shephaño had already set off to find the godhead clay tablet.
If it really doesn't matter, it's definitely fake, but this thing can be seen or not, and Sean only forced himself not to think so much, just as he was contributing to the development of the territory.
At the beginning, the conversation between Sean, Cecilia and Tini did not fall into the ears of the others, so only Sean and the three of them knew about it. After leaving the No. 3 Fire Cave, after another trip of about a day and a half, the sword wind finally began to get smaller, and unlike the previous mountain road, the sword wind never stopped, and the sword wind would stop from time to time here, so the team finally got a rare rest.
After briefly solving the problem of eating and drinking Lazar, the team set off again under the leadership of Andre.
This trip was not long, about two or three days, but Sean soon saw another scene that he would never forget.
When it was still far away, because of the fog, I could barely see some architectural outlines. Although he had already heard Andre talk about the situation here on the road before, Sean didn't have much of a feeling when he looked at the ruins of these buildings through the fog.
But when the morning sun shines down and dispels the fog, what is presented in front of Sean is a catastrophic scene like the end of the world!
More than thirty meters high, the stone wall that was supposed to connect the mountain walls on the left and right. Except for the section of the wall on the left, which seemed to be connected to the mountain wall, the entire section on the right had completely collapsed, and there were many gray bricks and stones on the crimson ground. Judging by the different shades of color displayed on these stones, it is clear that many places are not products of the same era, and perhaps in the past few years, the kingdom of Dabion has tried to build a fortification here that can officially defend against the forces of the Wild Lands, but all of them have failed without exception.
Although Sean is a blacksmith and can draw some architectural blueprints and other things because of the lord system, it doesn't mean that he is an architect or craftsman, so he can't tell when the city was last built from the color on these stones. It's just that Cecilia accidentally stepped on a rock. As a result, the stone immediately turned into powder, and the oldest history probably dates back to a hundred years ago.
I don't know who broke through the collapsed stone wall, and there is no trace left on the battlefield, but the stone wall on the left that is still relatively intact is completely impossible to climb. And from the cross-section of the castle wall, it can also be seen that the thickness of the castle wall is about four meters. Although the width is more than 10 meters, it is after deducting the thickness of the front and back resistance. There is also a blank space of about five meters in the middle. Presumably, this is the inner passage of the city wall, but I don't know what the reason for the construction of this building structure was in the first place.
In the collapsed stone wall, there is a passage about five meters wide, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of grayish-white powder, which looks like stone bricks that have been turned into powder by time. It's just that because there are more people stepping on it, it has been compacted here. Completely integrated with the crimson earth, there is more of this gray-white passage.
Andrei said that slave hunters used to refer to this gray-white passage as the underworld.
Because after crossing this road, it is a journey of character. Because no one knows if he will become a white bone in the wilderness in the next moment.
Entering the world realm behind the stone wall through the underworld path is not as beautiful as imagined.
It can be seen that it was built as a facility of some kind, but it is not known whether it was a fortress or a city, or a semi-militarized fortress. The only thing that remains today is the crumbling foundations and countless ruins, and the whole land looks like a sandcastle on the beach, only to melt the whole sandcastle after a wave rushes in, and then someone has to step on it again.
Everything in front of him gave Sean this feeling.
"My lord, this is the Ancient Ruins District." Andre opened his mouth and said, "Generally, the people of our slave hunting team call this area behind the underworld road the ancient ruin area, because it is said that the Dabiang Kingdom has tried to establish a unified stronghold here since more than a hundred years ago, hoping to effectively resist the tribal attacks that invade the wilderness from time to time, but more than five buildings in more than a hundred years can only die in the end, and after losing a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, the Dabiang Kingdom finally gave up this plan, so there is this ruin in front of you." ”
"Naturally formed?" Sean asked curiously.
"No, it's war." André said, "The kingdom of Dabion has been building here five times, and wants to build a huge fortress, probably the size of the fortress of Tonys, right? However, only the first time it was established, it was closest to completion, but the luck of the Dabiang Kingdom was really bad, and when the big tribes jointly attacked, the fortress that was almost completed was completely destroyed, and then it was tried four times, and many methods and tactics were used, such as building a small city first, and then gradually increasing it little by little, but unfortunately it still failed without exception, so the Dabiang Kingdom also gave up this plan, and over time it became the current level. ”
Sean nodded slightly, and he looked around, where it seemed that he could witness a near-success milestone.
But alas, history always remembers only the winners, not the losers.
Therefore, when the Tonys Fortress was successfully established, it became a sensation all over the world; As for the construction in the Gap Rift, which obviously costs far more than the Tonys Fortress, no one knows about it in this world, and some people may know about it, but it will only be a joke, and those who have not actually been here cannot imagine how tragic the battle in this ruin was now.
Almost every inch of land here is a battleground for soldiers, and it is completely filled in with human lives.
Sean even saw that there were still many skeletons on the ancient ruins, but most of them were only a skull or a certain bone, and most of the bones were gone. Just looking at the white powder on the ground that was almost as white as snow that could reach the ankles, it was basically not difficult to imagine where those missing bones had gone, and these bones were not just human races, basically any race bones that could be found in the wilderness.
Of course, if you touch it lightly, it will basically turn into powder.
Sean can probably understand what it's like to call this place the underworld. But what Sean was also curious about was the extreme of the Gap Rift—the middle section of the Knife Wind Mountain, where the wind was almost enough to tear people apart; The cold air in the three fire caves is obviously connected, and Sean feels that it should not only be because of the relationship between the godhead clay tablets, there must be other secrets; In the ancient ruins area, it is said that fog begins at night, and there will be ghost fires, but when the first rays of light shine in the morning, the fog will begin to disperse.
All kinds of signs show that the birth of the Gap Rift is by no means as simple as ordinary people imagine.
At this moment, Sean suddenly missed the team in the original game. At the very least, if he yells at the forum, there will definitely be countless scholars who will come to visit the site.
Wait a minute!
Sean's brow furrowed suddenly: he had never heard of such a situation in the game, and those sophisticated parties like flies did not hear about it, which was definitely unreasonable. Then the only thing that can be explained is that in the game, either someone solved the puzzle one step ahead of the Exquisite Party, so the abnormal state of the Gap Rift was lifted; Either that, or it's all really related to that godhead clay tablet, as long as that godhead clay tablet is removed, there is nothing special about the Gap Rift.
And Sean felt that if he hadn't guessed wrong, the godhead had been stolen by the ice god after the failure of Shephaneo's mission and the fall of Eswintertle, so maybe he was also taken away with the godhead tablet located in Fire Cave 3.
But even so, it can only explain the secrets of the three fire caves, so what about the secrets of the Daofeng Mountain section and the ancient ruins area?
"My lord, we may need to speed up our journey." Just as Sean was thinking, Andre suddenly spoke, "The ancient ruins are not safe here, especially after dark, once the fog thickens, it is likely that there is only a visual range of three to five meters, so we better hurry up and arrive at the lookout area ahead before sunset, which is the only clean place to stay." ”
In this world, the birth of ghost fire is not just the spontaneous combustion of some kind of phosphorus fire like on earth, but a kind of undead creature that truly belongs to it. However, this kind of ghost fire is just an unconscious spirit existence, and usually as long as you provoke the ghost fire or make the ghost fire go berserk, the danger is not particularly great. It's just that it is usually accompanied by the appearance of ghost fires, and there are usually two creatures, skeletons and ghouls, although no one has seen whether these two undead creatures have appeared, but there are not a few people who have disappeared because they are still wandering around the ancient ruins area after the fog at night.
Sean didn't want to test his character, especially in some unfamiliar environment, so he decided to follow Andre's advice and rush to the lookout first to think about it. (To be continued.) )
PS: I would like to recommend another book to you, "Fairy Yuan", which is said to be pretty good.