Things developed as smoothly as expected, but Chen Ziyan did not relax. He quickly came to Huahu, tied up the struggling molting turtle, and then quickly headed towards Chen Wenjin.
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From the way Hua Hu staggered when he was hit just now, he could already see that the strength of this molting turtle was definitely not small. If he waited for the other one locked by the nine-claw hook to fall to the ground, Chen Wenjin would probably be unable to control it with his strength.
Can’t live.
Facts have proved that Chen Ziyan's prediction was correct. After the molting turtle landed on all fours, he subconsciously picked up Chen Wenjin. If Chen Ziyan hadn't arrived in time, he would have been dragged away by this small movement.
However, when the molting turtle was in Chen Ziyan's hands, it was difficult to mess with it anymore. He simply stepped on it and fell to the ground. Then he copied the previous routine and also gave him a bundled package.
No matter how great the brute force of the molting turtle is, it cannot be used under such circumstances.
But Chen Ziyan was not happy because the appearance of the second molting turtle meant that the plot had once again gone awry.
After handing the tied molting turtle to Huahu, he came to the place where the second molting turtle had just escaped.
The dense blood bait red flowers here have been overturned, revealing a gap about half a meter wide. It seems that the two molting turtles should have come out of it.
After taking a flashlight and looking inside, I found that the crack did not go straight down, but had a turning point less than one meter away.
"This seems to lead to the bottom of the crystal boulder?" Chen Wenjin also walked over and said after taking a look at the situation inside the crack.
"Well, it seems that the problem is under the crystal boulder." Chen Ziyan nodded.
In fact, even without this crack, Chen Ziyan would have placed his suspicion on the crystal boulder.
"Master Chen, should we go back now or not?" Chen Wenjin glanced at the silent Hua Hu next to him and asked tentatively.
She is determined to explore the secrets here. After all, archaeologists are very curious, and Chen Wenjin is no exception.
But she also understands who has the say in the team, so she asks this question.
If Chen Ziyan is also curious, then she will satisfy her curiosity. But if Chen Ziyan's exploration is not pure, then she will have to put her little thoughts away.
Chen Ziyan naturally heard what she meant. After hesitating for a while, he nodded: "Let's see what's going on first."
The reason why he supports this is not only to find out how there is an extra molting turtle, but also to find a way to continue.
After seeing the sudden appearance of the ice crack, Chen Ziyan felt that their next path might have a new choice.
After making the decision, Chen Ziyan sent a signal to the people above and asked them to follow him down. Since he felt that he wanted to study this place, it would be better to brainstorm.
While the others were coming down, Chen Ziyan was not idle either. He walked around the crystal boulder several times, trying to find out the turtle shell that was pressed underneath.
But after walking around for several times, he was surprised to find nothing.
After Chen Ziyan recalled it carefully, he was very sure that the turtle shell should be pressed under the crystal boulder.
How come I can’t find it now?
With such doubts, he looked at the two molting turtles held by Hua Hu. Is it possible that they really need to be relied on to detoxify the blood bait?
Although it is not impossible, the certainty will be much smaller and the risk will increase accordingly.
Fortunately, this doubt did not last long. When Chen Ziyan looked at the crystal boulder again, he finally made a breakthrough discovery.
Chen Ziyan discovered that what was exposed at a certain edge of the crystal boulder was not the kind of corpse that was treated as scrap, but a dark red bone material.
The moment he saw the bone object, he knew he had found what he was looking for.
It’s true that if you plant rice seedlings intentionally, you will fail, but if you plant willows unintentionally, they will create shade!
When Hu Bayi and the others came down, they saw Chen Ziyan cleaning the edge of the crystal boulder.
Wang Kaixuan asked: "Master Chen, what are you doing? Are you trying to take this thing back?"
Naturally, he was referring to the stacked crystal boulder.
But even though the traces of stacking are obvious, under the temper of the years, the bricks made of glacier crystal stone have long been integrated into one. If you want to take it away, you have to move the entire crystal boulder.
But according to the importance of this thing, it is impossible to get it out of the ground or even to the ground.
Even if it could be lifted, the ice along the way would not allow it to bear weight.
"I just want to see what's down here." Chen Ziyan replied casually, and then greeted: "Hurry up and help."
This work was not tiring, but it was a bit cumbersome, so Chen Ziyan directly captured the young man.
After they removed the obstacles next to the crystal boulder, they finally saw clearly what was pressed underneath.
Chen Ziyan's idea was not wrong. There was indeed a turtle shell underneath, but he was mistaken about the size of the shell.
The turtle shell below is just a little smaller than the crystal boulder above, so it looks like a deformed base with red background and black stripes.
"Is this the shell of an old turtle?" Hu Bayi looked at the shell and said with some confusion.
Judging from the shape of the shell, it is not as symmetrical as the traditional turtle, so he suspected that it was left behind by a certain type of turtle.
As for why it is so big, he feels that there is no point in asking this question. There is only a shell left. Who can explain it clearly?
"This is something that will save your lives!" Chen Ziyan showed a smile.
Then without waiting for others to ask questions, he said directly: "The legendary 'Fenglin Dragon Turtle', among these four spiritual beasts, only the turtle is the most common, but that is not an ordinary turtle, but a dark red shell."
Thousand-year-old turtle."
Speaking of this, he pointed to the turtle shell below: "This is the shell of a thousand-year-old turtle!"
"Mr. Chen, does this turtle shell really work?" Wang Kaixuan was a little unconvinced.
Chen Ziyan didn't give him any explanation. He just used a shovel to cut off some of the exposed turtle shell, mashed it into pieces and applied it to the areas where Hu Bayi and Huo Ling had blood bait.
The two of them didn't feel anything at first, but after just a few seconds, they felt a bone-deep coolness coming from the place where the medicine was applied. Then they saw the medicine falling off together with the granulations that grew out, and then they started to grow.
The granulation area looks like nothing happened.
"This..."
This immediate effect, let alone others, even Chen Ziyan, who knew the inside story, was stunned.
The effect is a bit too good, right?
When Black Glasses saw this, his eyes couldn't help but move to the two molting turtles, and asked: "Mr. Chen, since even these turtle shells are treasures, what about these two little things?"
As the saying goes, people are not judged by appearance, and this beast sometimes agrees with the same reasoning. He does not think that the creatures living here are useless.
Black Glasses remembers clearly that Chen Ziyan said that this little thing can feed on the blood bait fruits here. He must have eaten restrained detoxification. Now the answer is in front of him. The so-called detoxification is Qian
Carrying the shell left by the old turtle.
If you look at it this way, these two little guys are probably full of treasures!
"These two should be molting turtles..." Chen Ziyan hesitated and said.
In fact, when he saw two molting turtles appearing, Chen Ziyan's first reaction was to wonder whether these molting turtles were actually molting turtles.
But after seeing such a big turtle shell, he suddenly had another new idea. Maybe this is a molting turtle, but it's not the earliest molting turtle.
"Shedding turtle?" Hu Bayi looked puzzled. He had never heard of this.
"This is a very rare thing, or a kind of ability. Those who can shed their shells must be old turtles, that is, they have become sperms." Chen Ziyan explained.
This is what he suddenly figured out. There seems to be no necessary connection between the molting turtle and the shell of this thousand-year-old turtle.
"Such a stupid monster?" Wang Kaixuan glanced at the two molting turtles and couldn't help but question it again.
It wasn't that he wanted to find fault, but after watching the arrest process of Chen Ziyan and the others, it was really hard to believe that these two things could be monsters.
"Not all flowers in the greenhouse are like this." Chen Ziyan didn't care about this and simply explained.
To put it bluntly, these two molting turtles have lost their sense of worry, that is, they will jump twice in a life-and-death crisis. Combined with the terrain here, they are not the most typical greenhouse flowers.
"This makes sense." After taking a look at the semi-sealed situation here, Wang Kaixuan agreed with this statement.
Then he asked curiously: "Mr. Chen, are these old tortoise shells and molting turtles worth anything?"
"It's valuable. The thousand-year-old turtle shell is said to be able to cure hundreds of poisons. It is a rare treasure in the world. Such a whole turtle shell can no longer be described as sky-high. It is absolutely priceless!"
"As for the molting turtle, this thing is also extremely rare, and it is a type that cannot be measured in value."
After Chen Ziyan thought about it for a while, he gave this answer.
"Priceless treasure?!" When Wang Kaixuan heard this, he immediately became energetic and immediately approached Huahu enthusiastically: "Brother Huahu, thank you for your hard work. I think you are also very tired. How about I take it?
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The turtle shell can be discussed later, but he must first get addicted to the treasure he has already caught.
Now Wang Kaixuan doesn’t think this molting turtle is ugly at all!
Chen Ziyan nodded slightly to the flower fox, signaling it to hand over the molting turtle to Wang Kaixuan.
Since he is willing to take it, let him take it. It just saves a manpower to make the evocation more convenient.
"This crystal boulder...why does it give me such a weird feeling?" At this moment, Shirley Yang's voice sounded in Chen Ziyan's ears.
Chen Ziyan turned his head and glanced at her, and found that she was staring at the crystal boulder in front of her, and it seemed that she had discovered something.
"Is it similar to the golden pagoda in the ice cave?" Chen Ziyan gave a hint.
"That's right! It's that golden pagoda!" Shirley Yang suddenly realized that although the shapes and materials of the two were completely different, they gave people very similar feelings.
"Is this also a thing that is closed to the town?" Shirley Yang reacted quickly and immediately thought of this.
Chen Ziyan is not sure either: "I can't be sure, but I feel it might be."
He felt that the crystal boulder in front of him should be, but there was no conclusive evidence, so he could only give such an ambiguous answer.
"What is recorded here seems to be a ritual similar to the art of killing." After looking at it for a while, Shirley Yang said.
She had seen similar runes in ancient books, so she could roughly translate them.
Shirley Yang told Chen Ziyan that this was an extremely cruel sacrificial ritual that used the body of the murdered person as a tool to nurture an invisible energy. This energy would be gathered into the core to achieve the purpose of suppressing the enemy. "It seems that this is indeed a counterfeit, but more primitive and cruel." Chen Ziyan said.
"This is a product of the Demonic Kingdom." Shirley Yang thought for a moment and said, "The King Xian's evil technique originated in the Snowy Region, and now it can be seen that the earliest source of the evil magic is the Demonic Kingdom, but at that time
The art of killing is not perfect yet."
She actually had this idea in that ice cave, but the corpses inside the ice walls were not easy to use as evidence, and the only snow-capped golden mummy that could be used for verification was directly burned to ashes, so she didn't mention it.
Get over this.
"Master Chen, there is ice below."
Before Chen Ziyan could continue exploring, Hu Bayi's voice came again not far away.
After detoxification, Hu Bayi did not sit idle and began to research. When he cleared a piece elsewhere, he also made his own discovery.
Chen Ziyan frowned when he walked over and took a look, because the so-called ice layer was very thin, so thin that he could clearly see the underwater creatures below through the ice layer.
But the question arises, how can such a thin layer of ice withstand such a heavy crystal boulder?
"Clean up other places as well." Chen Ziyan said.
He wanted to know if there was ice only here, or if there was ice underneath them.
It didn't take long for Chen Ziyan to get the answer.
Not only was there ice under the 'land' they were on, but there was also ice under the surrounding pools.
Strictly speaking, where they are now is on a thin but solid layer of ice.
However, he also found the way to the next day that he was looking for.
At the edge of the ice layer, there is a gap, which can also be said to be a channel, connecting the top and bottom of the ice layer. This is why underground river water continues to remain, but the place has not been completely flooded.
"Master Chen, what should we do next? Should we dive down and take a look?" Hu Bayi asked.
Because they were afraid of encountering an underground river, they specially brought a batch of simple diving equipment. Now they are fully capable of going under the ice to have a look.
Chen Ziyan hesitated when he heard this. He knew that if he kept walking along the underground river, he would be able to reach the area where Shadow Evil Luohai City is located, but he was not sure whether walking here would count as following the underground river.
The situation below is obviously unknown and is a secret not covered in the original plot.
"Forget it, let's talk about it when we get back." After thinking for a moment, Chen Ziyan still shook his head and rejected the proposal.