Sacrifices were often something they cherished, or items that were recognized as of high value at the time. For a time, pure women did play an active role in various rituals, and such women were more easily accepted by the gods they worshipped.

Kasia looked at the six women in the stone painting several times, and the two pairs of wings behind them did not match the basic characteristics of dragons, and the insect-like crystal wings were completely different from dragon wings.

What other species is it that uses the tissues of other second-class organisms after surgery? Cassie speculated that perhaps it was something that dragons liked, or perhaps it was a natural predator of dragons, and the sacrificial crowd used this way to please the gods.

"Were dragons gods on the continent before?" Cassia focused on the sketch of the dragons on the stone paintings, which did not quite match the appearance of the gods, but rather the way they shaded the sun, showing the symbol of the dragon's power among the people who sacrificed in the stone paintings. But the dragon in the stone painting is also a special case among dragons, and the empire itself alone has raised half a million dragons in captivity for the adoption of surgical raw materials, plus the other two giant countries and hundreds of small countries in the Houxiang Continent, its number will only be more.

Dragons also have their own kingdoms and civilizations, which is what Kasia knew after the military school opened up some of the information permissions. Perhaps the dragons in the stone paintings are the kings of a dragon kingdom.

There were also a few strange words on the side of each stone painting, and Kasia could only memorize them all in his mind for now, and when the matter was over here, he would go back to Manoma and ask Shako for help.

In addition to these, in the corner of the stone painting, Kasia saw traces of later digging, which were the marks left by Grote.

"It seems like it's going to convey something to me, or some secret message. After taking a closer look at the surroundings and making sure that he had left nothing behind, he went to the caves that connected the hollows in the ground, and entered a dry cave according to the route fixed by the miners.

The air is neither fresh nor muddy, and there is a place to connect with the outside world, but it has not been discovered by Kasia. Depending on the skin and the feeling of breathing, the concentration of "germs" present here suddenly becomes much higher. After only a few minutes in this environment, Kasia felt sick. Sit down and rest for a while, and wait until your body is getting used to it before moving on.

One thing is now more certain, the disaster of the "germs" may have been caused by the group of miners themselves. The fixed line on the cave indicates that the group of prospectors did come here, but with such a concentration of "germs", ordinary people may not survive for more than a few minutes if they are in it. The only explanation is that such concentrations did not exist at the time, or that by the time the group was driven by diamonds and jewels to explore the cave network, the substance "germs" had not yet flooded the entire area.

The trail was a cumbersome web of threads, with many branches of the finders' paths, and Grote's mark appearing from time to time, but it did not serve as a signpost for Kasia. In the slow progress of exploration, the time unconsciously came to about 10 p.m. Kasia didn't know how many circles he had spared, but when he got to the back, he even opened his cross pupils to gain a good sense of direction, and then remembered the path he had traveled, and formed a network of connected caves in his head.

Several other spacious underground cavities have been discovered, but there are no valuable clues to them other than stone paintings and some tools left over from the prospectors as temporary rest. The content of the stone paintings is also mostly similar, except that the same kind of painting of the sacrifice and worship and the giant whale rushing out of the sea is the most frequent.

In the time recorded in the stone paintings, these two paintings may have great significance, and they may have been two great events.

Kasia thinks as she moves forward. On the way, I often rested, and I didn't know when I felt that after opening the cross pupils, there were faint warnings of danger in my body from time to time. In order to maintain the physical strength to cope adequately, every step forward is very careful.

The map in the brain, which began with the natural shaft, has now expanded into a complex network. At this time, Kasia added the route he had traveled not long ago, rubbed his head, and then turned on the bright flashlight to shine ahead, it was still dark, only the stone walls that protruded from time to time, or the stalagmites that had formed for a long time revealed their shape.

"The flashlight is about to run out, and according to the number of steps you take as a distance meter, although I have been in it for more than ten hours, but the actual length of progress is not much. Compared to the size of the mountain I saw by the lake, I was only a little bit into the mountain now. After all, most of the time is spent going around in circles. ”

chose to leave, this time the preparation was not sufficient, and the strong flashlight was almost unable to support the exploration later. And there's a lot more that Kasia needs to record down.

"The next time you come here, you can consider bringing pen and paper, as well as ink, and rubbing down those stone paintings and taking them with you. ”

It took more than an hour to get back to the dragon skull. The skull and the pile of diamonds glowed a very penetrating green, far brighter than other "germs" that were tainted with "germs", and even illuminated the surroundings.

"Is this skull also something they moved here?" was contaminated with far more germs than around, and that seemed to be the way Kasia considered where the item came from. Inside the mountain, the content of "germs" is significantly higher than outside.

Kasia had thought the skull had existed in the first place, but the scarcity of the marks left by Grote had made him suspicious. He was led wrong from the beginning, and with the impact of time and volcanic eruptions, some of the cave networks were disrupted, and Grote's signposts no longer worked.

Back in the abandoned town, Kasia wrote down everything he saw in the cave network and planned to return to the nearest city tomorrow. The tools for exploring the cave network need to be more professional, and a town with a large number of old people can't meet this requirement, such as solid fuel and corresponding tools. And I also want to buy some energy materials, or used energy conversion materials. I'm not afraid of the dark, and I enjoy the peace of mind that comes from being wrapped in darkness, but I still have to be in the light to explore the unknown.

With two pneumatic swords, the two tubes inside can meet all the power requirements of the routes laid out by the prospectors. What is lacking now is only conversion materials and a huge number of suitable lamps.

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"At this rate, it will take us another week or so to reach our destination. ”

"The later the better, I don't want to run into prey in the Borghese territory. You didn't see it, but I saw the prey as it was. There is nothing wrong with the second stage of surgery, but the threat and danger brought by the squamous state are far more dangerous than the third stage of surgery. I started three years ago, and until now, I'm still worried about the development of surgery for hard skin. Hard skin is just a transition point in the development of deep squamous surgery. Don't tell me that your body enhancement and healing enhancement are complete. ”

In the only hall in the airship for the crew to rest, Resa and Trono sat at the table, drinking wine to pass the boring time of the journey.

"If there is any new development on Manoma's side, maybe we can just go back halfway. Trono was not in a good mood, he had been thinking a lot about it in the past few days, and he felt more and more that the task given to them by the Knights was to send them to death in a clear way. Knowing his strength in his heart and passing the official knight assessment task with just a passing score is indeed nothing in the Knights of the Rose and Rose, which has many elites, or nothing in the first place. But he was also a member of the Knights, and this kind of treatment made him feel uncomfortable.

This is true of the territory of the Messiria, and the same is true of the territory of the Borghese. The advance team is a decent way to say it, but they know in their hearts that the real meaning is to rush to the front cannon fodder. The fate of Milton and Sprawling may soon be played out against them.

Ressa didn't answer anything in the end, just sighed.

"All the staff were equipped with plenty of blue and silver bullets, and we also had pneumatic weapons with us. Heavy firepower, artillery, bombs, also prepared. The small and medium-sized airship was also a semi-modified military warship, equipped with six three-in-row 20mm cannons, two bomb launchers, a wide range of incendiary fire bomb launchers, and a military-grade turret with a single shell from the main gun that could completely shatter several connected residential houses to pieces. That kind of firepower may help us regain our advantage. Resa thought about other aspects, "After all, the Knights mission treats us like this, since we have something to use, when it completely loses its due value, we will go down and face the prey, and we will not be said by the people above." ”

"It's all about capturing the target. He added.

"Even if I run out of airship, I don't want to get off the airship. I said you didn't see it, but I did. Trono noticed that Ressa had not listened to him.