Bockaar and Ericson happily went hunting with Virikro. For them, the biggest purpose of this adventure in Bailuzhou was to hunt a few more good prey.
Because Verricro said that due to the terrifying legends and rumors about Bailuzhou, few people are willing to go to collect and hunt. Therefore, there are many prey on Bailuzhou, and it is easier to harvest than hunting in the mountains. This is also
The main reason why Viricero's father brought him here during the winter annual holidays these two years.
The mountain deer hunted last night has proved that what Viricero said is not a lie. If you want to hunt a mountain deer in the mountains, just to find the traces of the mountain deer herd, the hunter will have to break his legs. It doesn’t take much time.
There is no way it would be possible to achieve results after ten days and a half. It is not as easy as hunting a mountain deer by lying in wait by a stream.
This time Bockaar and Erikson were filled with dreams of getting rich, looking forward to a good harvest in the afternoon hunting. In addition, they were also ready to collect. Even if they didn't catch good prey, they would only need to find a few rare plants.
The medicinal herbs can be sold at a good price at the pharmacy in town.
Watching his friends leave, Claude was also ready to start visiting the ruins of this magic tower. Even though he urgently wanted to go to the underground level to search for the things left by the Landes mage, he could still calmly restrain himself.
Resist your impulse and at least check out the entire surrounding environment to avoid unexpected changes when you get something.
Speaking of which, this is also a sequelae of those online novels I read in my previous life. Anyway, every time the protagonist in the novel is looking for treasure, various unexpected situations will occur. Either an enemy suddenly jumps out or some abnormal situation occurs, which leads to the protagonist
It's hard to beat the odds, but I still have to go through the test of life and death before I can escape. There are so many online novels, but the time traveler has never seen one where the protagonist can survive smoothly without any accidents and get a hidden treasure...
Well, we must learn a lesson. Although the things left by the Landes mage are not considered treasures, Claude doesn't want any accidents to happen. Therefore, we must first search the entire magic tower ruins to eliminate any possibility.
threats to oneself.
It's just that Claude spent an hour carefully searching the entire magic tower ruins. Apart from the whining sound of the sea breeze passing through the ruins of the ruins, he found nothing unusual, not even spiders and ants.
Insects are very rare, and occasionally there are a few seagulls and other seabirds parked on the gravel piles in the distance and pecking at something. It feels very quiet and peaceful.
There was a roar of matchlocks in the distance, and it was not known whether Verricro and the others had caught another prey. But at this time Claude was lighting a torch, and there were a few dry pine branches in the firewood pile.
It's a good choice to use as a torch. Wrap it around a broken hemp rope and dip it in some kerosene. Then you won't have to worry about lighting when you go down to the basement.
Claude has found the three underground entrances that Verricro said, which are at the front, middle and back of the Magic Tower ruins. The middle entrance is the largest, the back entrance is close to the cliff near the sea, and the front entrance is at the ruins.
on the outer edge of .
The most likely ones are the two entrances in the middle and the back, Claude thinks so. Because the diary says that the small room near the stone staircase downstairs is where Master Landers lives. From this sentence, it can be said that
It can be seen that as a fourth-level rune mage, Landers' status in the magic tower is not high, perhaps equivalent to those of apprentices or slaves, otherwise he would not be able to live on the underground floor.
Just like those aristocratic families, the master will not live in the basement. Only hired servants, such as cleaning ladies and kitchen handymen, will live in the basement. If it is a high-level servant such as a butler, a chef and a valet, the coachman will accompany them.
, they will not live in the basement, but will be placed in rooms next to the kitchen, dining room, and warehouse.
Thinking about it this way, it is obvious that the underground floor where people can live will not be the entrance in the front, because no one would arrange the entrance to the basement where the servants live next to the door of the house. The simplest reason is that it is just like the entrance at home.
When guests enter through the main door, they see servants coming in and out of the basement entrance next to the main door. This is very unsightly and polite.
So Claude thought that the two entrances in the middle and the back were what he was looking for. Generally speaking, the entrance at the back is very close to the cliff, so if this underground floor is used as the mage's residence, it is very likely to be near the sea.
Several windows were opened on the cliff, so that one could have ventilation, and secondly, one could see the view of the sea. Although the status was equivalent to that of a slave who only lived on the underground floor, a low-level mage was still a mage after all, and Claude believed in this preferential treatment.
There should be that Landers mage...
It's a pity that the cliff facing the sea protrudes outward. Even if Claude is lying on the edge of the cliff, he can't see whether there are any windows on the cliff below. It's impossible for him to go around to see if there are any windows on the cliff.
Not to mention that hundreds of years have passed. Although the cliffs near the sea have been beaten by wind and rain, there are still dense vines and low trees growing in many places. Claude suspected that even if there were windows, they would be covered by those
It was covered up by vines and trees...
However, Claude still regarded the entrance on the edge of the sea-facing cliff as the first search target. Anyway, he did not need to search the entire underground level. He only needed to check whether there was a bluestone slab at the bottom behind the stone staircase going downstairs.
That's enough. If there isn't one behind the stone staircase at the back entrance, then look behind the stone staircase at the middle entrance.
There are six torches, which is probably enough. Standing at the entrance of the underground level just now, Claude discovered that the underground level of this magic tower cannot be simply regarded as a basement, because there is no basement with five
At a height of six meters, it is almost the same as an underground cave.
There is also the stone staircase going downstairs. Generally, the stairs in houses are folded to save the space occupied by the stairs. However, the stone staircases on the underground floor below these three entrances are all straight all the way.
The light from downwards to the entrance only illuminated a small part of the stone staircase. Claude stood at the entrance and looked down. It was dark, without any light, and he also smelled a smell like a smelly ditch.
Vericro once said that the underground layer was full of silt, with a depth of one or two feet. This was what his father told him. He thought he would not lie to him, and there was nothing to lie about. Claude guessed that this should be hundreds of years ago.
The accumulated dust, coupled with the melting of ice and snow in winter and the rainwater flowing into the entrance, turned the dust into silt, and probably blocked the sewage outlet below, which caused more and more silt below...
Claude was also worried about whether the sludge below would produce methane gas, after all, it had been there for hundreds of years. Although he only smelled a hint of the smell of the stinking ditch, he lit a torch and threw it into the entrance from a distance just to be on the safe side.
I went to try it and found that it was fine. When I came to the entrance, I saw that the torch was still burning underneath, but the flame was very small. It probably fell into the mud.
After checking the equipment on his body again, including the hunting knife, small shovel, the dagger inserted into the hiking boots, and the matchlock gun, Claude was ready to put down the rope ladder after confirming that there were no omissions.
That's right, it's a rope ladder. Claude is not going to stupidly go down the stone ladder and then go around the back of the stone ladder with a foot or two of silt. That would be a waste of time, and Claude is not aware of the silt below.
Not the slightest bit interested. Who knows what germs are in the silt accumulated over hundreds of years? If I get any strange skin disease after I go back, I'll blame it on myself.
Claude calculated that the first level of the stone staircase is 134 centimeters high and more than 30 centimeters but less than 40 centimeters wide. The height of the underground floor is estimated to be five to six meters. In this way, this stone staircase
There are about forty steps, with a total length of about thirteen or four meters. It would be too troublesome to go down the stone steps and have to walk back more than ten meters and go to the back of the stone steps through the mud.
So Claude simply decided to go down directly from the top of the stone staircase to the back of the stone staircase. There was a rope ladder just a little way down from the entrance. Anyway, there was no railing next to the stone ladder, so it was bare. Then the rope ladder would only be four feet long at most.
The height is five meters, and then it is estimated that the distance to the back of the stone staircase is only two or three meters, which is much more convenient than going down the stone staircase and then going back.
The rope ladder was also made by Claude when he was setting up the torch. The rope was a climbing rope brought up just in case. It was nearly 20 meters long and was enough to make a rope ladder. The rungs of the ladder were made from on-site materials. The drier they are, the stronger their toughness will be.
The firewood is. Claude tried it, and it can support his body weight. As for the rope ladder, it is even simpler. Tie a knot on the rope thirty centimeters apart, and just put one end of the firewood in and tie it up. It doesn’t need to be strong.
, it’s just for temporary use anyway.
But before going down, Claude cut down some bush branches and tied them into a bundle before throwing them down, so that he would have a place to stay instead of stepping into the mud. It took more than half an hour, and Claude threw them down.
I picked up four bundles of shrub branches and felt that it was enough, so I lit a torch and climbed down the rope ladder.
When they reached the bottom, Claude raised a torch to light up the surroundings. The surroundings were very dark, and the space must be very large. There was a bundle of shrub branches under his feet, and there were three bundles next to him. The mud underneath was very moist, but not enough for sewage to flow across it.
situation.
The good news is that less than one meter in front is the corner of the stone staircase, and the corner is the back of the stone staircase. The bad news is that Claude found that the depth of the mud underneath has exceeded two feet. Master Landers said in the diary.
The bluestone slab is at the bottom of the back of the stone staircase, which means Claude needs to dig out the mud first to know whether there is the bluestone slab...
Don't say anything and just work hard. Claude first moved a bundle of shrub branches to the front, so that it reached the corner of the stone staircase, then threw another bundle behind the stone staircase, and the other bundle of shrub branches.
Throw it far away, more than one meter away from the back of the stone ladder, then light two of the torches you brought and check them on the bundle of shrub branches to ensure there is enough light.
It's a pity that the back side of the stone staircase also looks like a huge gray rock with no gaps, so the torch cannot be inserted on it. But there is also an advantage. If there is a bluestone slab underneath, it can be clearly seen by digging through the mud.
The silt smelled very bad, which was inevitable. Claude took a small shovel and lifted up the silt and threw it aside. Soon the bottom of the back of the stone staircase was exposed. Even though the bottom looked dark black due to the deposition of silt,
, but it is obvious that the bottom piece reveals a rectangular outline.
That Mage Landes was not lying... Claude was extremely excited. As expected, the underground entrance near the cliff near the sea was really the residence of a low-level mage.
Use a small shovel to carefully scrape away the mud on the stone wall. When you push it with your hand, the rectangular outline shakes a little, but it doesn't push.
Claude carefully recalled what the diary said. Yes, push in hard. But now Claude was squatting on the branches of the bush, holding a torch in his left hand. He couldn't use his right hand to exert force, so he simply
Kick it with your feet.
This rectangular outline is indeed the bluestone slab. When you kick it with your foot, it will tilt up. Then you lift it with your hand, and the bluestone slab is picked up, revealing a square hole like a drawer inside.
.
Use a torch to shine a light inside. Inside is a white jade-like box. It seems to be thirty centimeters in length and about ten centimeters in height. It feels very substantial.
Claude looked to the side, preparing to find a place to stick the torch. It was obvious that he might not be able to lift the jade box with one hand.
But just at this moment, Claude suddenly heard a sound of "呲呲呲岲", which seemed to be getting closer and closer. When he looked up, he couldn't help being shocked, but he saw a bloody mouth rushing towards him...