Chapter 25: The Flames

The remaining light refracted from above the forest, but it was psychedelic and dim due to the heavy fog.

The shadows of the swaying trees loomed in the air, full of eerie and silence.

Roerich was lightly sprinkling something as he walked ahead and groped for the direction he was going, and the two of them followed behind Loerich with the sound of "squeak, squeak" under their feet.

"I've secretly marked all the routes we're coming...... Keep up, the fog is thicker ahead. ”

Roerich said softly, the distance between the three of them now, as long as they left the slightest bit would be engulfed by the fog.

Sanjing nodded, Rorich's dragon transformation technique was a perception system, and it seemed that he had a general route in mind.

Suddenly, Roerich stopped under a large tree in front of him.

"What's wrong?" Sanjing asked softly.

"There are four divergent paths in front of us, left, left, front, right, and a flame test is needed." Roerich pulled out a very small Molotov cocktail from his bag, which appeared to be specially made.

"Flame test?" The two didn't understand what the experiment was.

"It's normal that you don't know this."

"I've studied a lot of ancient dragonmen's mystical patterns, and I've come to the conclusion that flames represent guidance in the culture of dragonmen's ancestors, and dragonmen's ancestors believed that flames would illuminate the way forward, which is one of the reasons why flames appear so often in dragonmen's ancient patterns. ”

"Do you think if there are dragonman ruins here, then this flame experiment might be successful?" Sanjing said.

"The flame test is just speculation, what exactly will happen here, everything is unknown, but we don't have time to try anything else, while we haven't been discovered by the snake dragon yet."

Roerich took another pale green pellet out of his bag and stuffed it into a Molotov cocktail, and then a faint flame quietly rose in the bottle.

"Has anything changed?" Hanami asked.

She looked around, and there was silence, nothing had happened, and there were still dense trees and mist around her.

The outside of the flame shook slightly, transmitting a faint temperature, but it seemed to be no different than usual.

"Failed?" Sanjing asked, now it seems to be nothing more than a hypothesis and a fantasy.

If the flame is a symbol of guidance, how will it tell them to be directional?

"Wait......"

Roerich was still staring at the flames, considering that the strong flames and flames would attract the snake dragon closer, and he did not take a larger Molotov cocktail with him when he traveled.

Could it be that the flame was too weak to make any wonderful changes?

After all, it was only the first experiment, and there were no more comparisons and references for Roerich, so he could only reject one idea after another from many speculations, and finally come to a conclusion that was most probable.

No, the flames that appear in the ancient patterns of the dragonmen's ancestors are not the same size, does it mean that it has nothing to do with the size of the flames, but what does it have to do with it?

The gently jumping flame swayed its body as it was about to be extinguished, and its body shook slightly, and its body seemed to slowly lean against the upper right side of the Molotov cocktail.

"Did you see that?" Sanjing asked, as if he had caught a strange movement in the flame's body for a moment.

Roerich took out another Molotov cocktail, and following the same steps, the leaping flame rose again.

At the moment when its swaying body was about to extinguish, its body slowly leaned against the upper right side of the Molotov cocktail again......

"Top right? Guidelines? Roerich's head was buzzing, both times in the same direction, how could there be such a coincidence.

"The direction in which the flame is about to be extinguished is the direction of the guide!"

Sanjing and Roerich glanced at each other and came to this astonishing conclusion.

"Three scenes! That's right! "Roerich was a little excited, if this was the guide of the flame test, the upper right direction would probably have the answer they wanted.

Roerich shifted his position to the upper right and pulled out a third Molotov cocktail, this time in the direction that the flames were about to go out.

"Three scenes, Hanami follows me ......"

Roerich's hand holding the Molotov cocktail trembled slightly, and he continued to grope in the direction of the direction.

Complex and psychedelic forks of the road continued to appear in front of them, and they were slowly moving deeper into the Misty Forest according to their guidance.

"This is the last Molotov cocktail......" Roerich whispered.

Beneath them was a dark pool of water, the twisting light seemed to be completely lost in it, and unknown suspended particles were floating in the air, as if they were rocking strange bodies to stop there, and they had to go around it.

"Left, up, right, three directions." Sanjing said.

"If we don't find the ruins on the next route, let's go back the way we came, it's too dangerous to rush forward without guidance......

Sanjing nodded, his impression of Roerich slowly changed a little, from the fact that he didn't care about the danger and didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to come here and enter the misty forest, just for the possibility of the existence of the truth, but he was able to calmly restrain the urge to decipher the unknown at the most critical time.

It's really not something that ordinary people can do......

In this operation, Roerich has discovered the so-called flame guidance of the dragonman ancestors, and he thinks that even if he doesn't have a chance to succeed this time, then he will definitely be able to do it next time.

This is also his most calm and rational judgment as a relic hunter, and Roerich is not a hunter who is so enthusiastic that he loses his mind and is easily tempted by impulsiveness.

Long-term experience has taught him that the closer he gets to the truth of things, the more vigilant he must be, so he has walked through many dangerous mysterious areas, conducted many complex and mysterious researches, and still survived to this day, and only living hunters can finally find the final truth......

Roerich once again took out the flame test, and this time when the flame was about to be extinguished, it did not point in any direction to the left, above, or right.

"Strange ......" Sanjing saw that the flame's body seemed to hang down.

Hanami let out a "huh", observed in the direction of the flames, and whispered, "Could it be ...... Below? ”

Her words made Sanjing and Roerich excited, below? Feet? Pool?

However, the flames were now completely extinguished, and there were no more Molotov cocktails for them to experiment with, leaving them with endless fantasies and an unpredictable future.

"As Hanami said, it's really down there, but it's likely that the ruins are here."

Roerich said, seeing with his own eyes the direction in which the flames were extinguished, not on either side of the left, above, or right, but underneath the dark pool.

The pool was bottomless, and its surface was too dark to see what it looked like.

The three of them looked at each other and nodded, and jumped down one after another.