The three members of the combat team slid down the rope from the high vent. Samira quickly hid behind a broken stone wall. She bent down and stared at a group of hell dogs a few hundred meters away.
The hell dog has been wandering around here for a while, but did not notice that the reconnaissance team had sneaked into the ruins.
Surdak stepped on the rubble under his feet and hid behind a broken stone wall with Samira.
There was a section of the mouth of a clay pot buried under the gravel. Seeing the exquisite patterns on the mouth of the bottle, he picked it up from the gravel. However, he picked it up very lightly. When he picked it up, he realized that the pot only had only
A bottle mouth was broken off from the neck of the clay pot, and part of the bottle body remained in the sand.
The ruins are full of a sense of age, and most of the mottled stone walls have collapsed. Even those that just stand in the ruins cannot withstand any external force. A light touch may completely collapse the entire wall.
Lose.
The team of hellhounds walked farther and farther down the street, and finally disappeared from sight.
The light on the roof of the cave was very weak. This underground ruins was like the darkest moment at dusk. Only a blurry black shadow could be seen a hundred meters away. However, the combat team was standing at a high place and could see better.
further away.
The buildings in the ruins of this city are all extremely tall. Suldak walked into a relatively well-preserved residence. Although the roof had completely collapsed, the basic pattern of the foundation could still be seen clearly. What remained in the ruins
There were some broken stones and pottery fragments. Surdak found that these pottery vessels were very delicately made, and almost every fragment had patterns.
Andrew, an indigenous warrior of the Nanai tribe, found a stack of silver plates in a room. However, these silver plates were only palm-sized and covered with a layer of gray-black hard skin. He picked up the heavy ones and scraped off the black skin with a dagger.
You can see the pure silver inside. Even if it is covered with a layer of black leather, you can still see the exquisite patterns printed on these silver plates.
"I hope the archaeologists in Wozhimara City will like these silver plates." Andrew happily put the pile of silver plates into his backpack.
Surdak walked to a room that looked like a kitchen. Samira was squatting next to a broken low wall. From a stone platform that looked like a stove, she took out a piece of green rusty stone.
He lifted off the red copper rune plate and dusted it off vigorously. Smoke filled the air for a while, and Samira was surrounded by thick dust.
The magic circle engraved on the rune plate has been damaged beyond recognition, but the magic patterns engraved on it can still be vaguely visible. From the rough outline inside, you can also see the magic patterns on the scroll of Suldak's fire gathering technique. You can find
There are many similarities. However, the magic patterns on this ancient magic rune board are much more complicated.
"This rune board should be worth some money." The half-elf archer rubbed the patina on it hard, trying to see the extent of the damage to the rune board.
Surdak was in the corner of the room, looking for a complete-looking pottery pot among the gravel. He moved the pot hard and found that it was not moving at all. This made Surdak feel strange about the pot.
Even more curious, he took out his craftsman's sword and carefully dug up the sand next to the pot.
"Captain, you seem to like these pottery very much?" Andrew came over and helped Suldak dig out a pottery pot buried in the fine sand.
Suldak couldn't explain that he had a very unique attachment to ceramics in terms of antiques, so he smiled lightly at Andrew.
The pot was heavy in his hand. It was hard to imagine how this pot, which looked as big as a can, could be so heavy. Surdak used the horn on his dagger to break the calcified mud on the top of the pot.
After sealing it, I found that it was half filled with gold shells that looked like small shells.
"Oh my God, Captain, you dug a pot of gold..."
Andrew exclaimed, immediately attracting Samira who was not far away. The half-elf girl also looked at the half pot of gold with glittering eyes, with an unbelievable look in her eyes.
Samira reached out and took out a golden shell that was only as big as a thumbnail. She looked at the fine patterns on the shell and exclaimed: "I have never seen this kind of gold shell. The craftsmanship of these patterns is really exquisite."
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Andrew also said with great interest: "The ruins of this city are really full of surprises. The people who live here do not seem to be giants. These pottery pots and silver plates are not enough to make wine cups for giants. Could it be ancient times?
The ruins of an ogre’s underground city?”
Suldak and Samira turned to look at Andrew, and Andrew could only shrug his shoulders and said:
"Okay, even if I didn't say it..."
These small discoveries in the ruins completely aroused the team's desire to search. After the three of the team left the ruins, they quickly crossed a street and searched for a larger ruin. However, these ruins looked more dilapidated, and there were many
The ruins all had some traces of later life, and they searched for three or four more building ruins in succession. Except for Samila finding a copper candlestick, Suldak and Andrew didn't gain anything.
The initial desire to search and explore gradually calmed down, and the three of them discovered that they had unknowingly walked into the ruins of the city. They were already a long way away from the edge of the ruins. The ruins of the city were very large and could only be seen occasionally.
A group of hellhounds passed by on the main road.
The three of them were all stained with cannibal pollen, so the hell dogs' noses couldn't feel their presence at all. These hell dogs seemed to have poor vision. The darker the place, the less able they were to see very far, so the combat team
With Samira's keen vision, she almost always avoided the hell dogs searching in the city ruins in advance.
Along the way, they saw no trace of the ghost monkey.
Some exposed flat rock strips can be seen on the ground, and in front of them is a square covered by ruins.
The building ruins around the square are arranged very neatly. There is also a huge dilapidated ruin in the middle of the square. It looks like this dilapidated ruin is like a high tower. After the collapse, only the magnificent base part and the thick stone remain.
There are many giant stones scattered around the base, and some exquisite reliefs remain on many of them.
However, judging from the patterns of these reliefs, apart from elves and winged men, the ones that appear most often on the reliefs are a group of races smaller than dwarves. They look a bit like those ghost monkeys seen in the jungle, but this race
It seems to have an extremely glorious civilization. They have their own language and writing, and they seem to have created powerful war beasts that can actually wage war against the ancient elven dynasty and the winged people of the Sky City...
Samira's fingers lightly touched a relief sculpture, which instantly turned into a handful of gravel. The elf girl Samira turned to look at Surdak and asked: "What are they? They don't look like humans."
Ancestors.”
"Definitely not." Suldak replied firmly.
Samira added: "Is it the ancient dwarf dynasty?"
"It doesn't look like it either!" Suldak shook his head and said.
The biggest symbols of the dwarves are the long beards that can be braided, fine wine, huge furnaces, and underground fire veins, and this is just an underground city in a large mountain cave.
"Why should we bother with this..." Andrew said honestly, standing on a huge gear.
He stood on tiptoe and moved a knight's spear with all his strength. This knight's spear was fixed in the center of a huge and flat circular wall. The spear was covered with dust, but it could not hide its exquisite shape. This wall
There are three spears with different lengths and thicknesses. The longest one can reach five meters, and the shortest and thickest one is four meters long.
Andrew failed to remove the spear from the wall, but his great strength made the circular stone wall make a dull sound.
"when……"
Dust is flying on the stone wall.
After the dust settled, what appeared in front of Surdak was a clock dial with a diameter of more than ten meters, with twelve areas clearly divided on it, and a very strange text engraved on it. Even though Surdak
Ke didn't know it, but he could guess that those above should be some numbers.
What Andrew wanted to remove was not the knight's lance at all, but the giant hands on the clock face.
Surdak didn't expect that this was a collapsed bell tower, and that after so many years, the clock dial that fell from the bell tower was actually preserved so completely.
Andrew's face was covered with dust and hung on a pointer. He tried his best to move the pointer but could not move it.
At this moment, Andrew's attention had been diverted from these hands. He also found that he could not take away these huge hands with his own strength. He saw a row of hammers under the dial. These hammers should be used by the bell tower.
To tell the time, the handles of these hammers are more than three meters long. One side of the hammer head is cylindrical and the other side is tapered. After the dust has cleared, these hammers actually reveal their shiny black color.
Surdak didn't know how much magic metal was mixed into these hammers to keep them rustless for thousands of years. At this time, Andrew had already used all his strength to remove a hammer from the metal frame. He laughed and said: "This hammer is probably Gree."
Temu likes it, this is much stronger than his big wooden stick!"
"Are you sure you are going to carry this away?" Samira looked at the heavy battering ram in Andrew's hand and asked doubtfully.
Andrew used all his strength to lift the battering ram in front of Suldak, and said with a smile: "I'm going to hand this to the captain, he will definitely have a way to take it away!"
Perhaps the loud noise just now attracted some creatures around. A ghost monkey crawled out of the drainage channel with a hard armor scale on its head and a blow dart in its mouth. When it saw Surdak and his party
, and was so frightened that he peeed and fled into the ditch.
Surdak saw the ferocious face of the ghost monkey. It had short limbs, a disproportionately large head, a mouth full of sharp teeth, a pair of big eyes full of bloodshot eyes, full of greed and cunning, and it had a tooth in its mouth.
A blow dart looks a little crazy.
While running, the figure actually looked similar to the race on the stone relief. Surdak said with some confusion: "Do you think it is possible that the former owners of this underground city ruins were these wild monkeys?"
When Andrew heard what Surdak said, he immediately laughed and said: "Are you talking about these uncivilized subspecies of wild monkeys? If I am the owner of this civilization relic, then I will be the supreme god of this world."
"Don't talk nonsense..."
Surdak still had some respect for the gods. He always felt that the sacrificial ceremony was a blessing from a certain god, but these blessings were equivalent to him.
This city is very well planned, with neat streets and well-proportioned buildings. Although it is so dilapidated that only a few foundation stones remain, you can still see the drainage ditches dug out on both sides of the road, and some intersections are decorated with exquisite carvings.
In the public pool, Surdak regretted that he did not study the general history of the world in more depth when he was in the Knight Academy. He just read through the history of the Green Empire and took a general look.
From a distance, I saw a three-headed hell dog leading a large group of hell dogs searching in this direction. The three-headed hell dog was like a king, patrolling his territory. Surda
Of course, the three of them did not want to meet these vicious hell dogs head-on, so the three of them immediately got into the depths of the ruins to avoid these vicious hell dogs.
The three of them did not go far, but hung far behind these hell dogs, following them through half of the ruins of the city. There were obviously more hell dogs here, but the three of them did not find any connection.
The evil gate of the underworld.
The three hell dogs led a group of men into a library-like building. This is almost the only building in this ruined city that is still intact. There are nearly a hundred hell dogs surrounding the library, which can be said to be heavily guarded.
Seeing that they could not go deep into it, the three of Surdak carefully withdrew from the area and hid in the ruins.
Andrew guessed: "Is this another incubation room for the children of the devil?"
Surdak shook his head and said noncommittally: "We are withdrawing. As long as we bring this information back, the mission should be completed!"
The combat team bypassed the patrolling Hellhound and planned to return the same way.
Just when she was passing a ruins not far from Gu Library, Samira, who was responsible for exploring the path, suddenly stopped and her eyes were looking into a circular ruins.
"What's wrong?" Suldak asked in a low voice.
Samira nimbly jumped onto a low wall of a ruins, gathered her hands on a transparent pointed ear, and listened.
After a short while, he said with absolute certainty: "There are shouts over there..."
"Hell dog or ghost monkey?" Surdak asked casually without reacting for a moment.
"Green Empire people!" Samira said.
Suldak stopped and said, "Let's go over and take a look..."
After walking into the circular ruins, I discovered that this area was also filled with a large number of hell dogs. It was also heavily guarded and the three of them could not get close.
Surdak saw a high platform a few hundred meters away, which looked like an altar, so he pointed there. The three members of the team immediately moved over there. As expected, there were not many patrolling hells here.
The vicious dogs relied on Samira's keen intuition to avoid the vicious dogs of hell. The three of them secretly climbed onto the altar, which was dozens of meters high, and looked down at the circular ruins.
This circular ruins looks like a colosseum, with huge cages lined up in the field, and the shouts are coming from the cages...