"Captain, someone is here! Look at the flag, they are from our "Wind Wolf Mercenary Group"... They are Gle's team."
"Is the fat man from the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce on board?"
"Yes! There is also a Sequence 7 old man on the ship, who should be the patriarch of the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce. They are now on Poison Island..."
"Hehe... We have been searching around here for almost two days and still haven't found the entrance to the ruins. I'm afraid that fat guy is hiding some key information. Let's follow..."
...
Raymond felt that he had been ruthless by killing his two sisters.
But compared to this guy, Fatty, his level is still far behind.
This kind of guy who can turn against his wife when he pulls out a gun is the kind of ruthless person who can really "kill his sister to prove his truth". This kind of person would not be unknown in any novel.
...
Duzhang Island is very close to Niguel Volcano.
The extraordinary mercenaries had very strong physical strength, and the lottery boat they rowed was as fast as a speedboat, leaving a string of white waves on the sea. But even so, they spent several hours shuttling between the twists and turns of the islands before finally
Land on the target island.
The Niguel Islands are covered with giant trees that block out the sun. It has a tropical rainforest climate and the vegetation grows very fast. In one day, new vines and trees can grow two to three meters high. So even if there are adventures on the island the day before
Those who opened the road left traces, and the next day it might turn into a forest. If it were an ordinary person, it would be easy to get lost in the jungle and die in the belly of a monster deep in the jungle...
Duzhang Island is so big that when viewed from the sky, it looks like an octopus spread out on the sea.
The fat man's behavior of "abandoning his sister to sacrifice to God" seemed a bit heartless, but after being so unlucky, he reached the peak of his life, which turned out to be a good one.
With the blessing of Matthew's cuckold halo, the group's treasure hunt became inexplicably smooth...
The voyage was smooth and we landed on the island smoothly...
Not long after the group landed on the island, they followed a direction pointed out by the fat man and didn't go very far. They didn't even explore a tenth of Duzhang Island. They successfully found the landmark stone on the treasure map.
It goes so smoothly that it feels like a dream...
There were no twists and turns in this treasure hunt. There were no pirates, no murderous adventurers, no poisonous miasma, and no encounters with monsters... Even all the methods prepared by the mercenaries were not used, and they were found directly.
The place of treasure.
...
In front of everyone's eyes was a broken stone pillar that looked like an ancient palace.
This kind of dilapidated buildings with ancient ruins can be seen in many places on the Niguel Volcanic Islands, which is not unusual.
Matthew lay on the stone and looked at the carved patterns carefully, and after a while he confirmed that it was the place recorded on the treasure map.
"Yes! This is it!"
This discovery made the fat man's sadness disappear in an instant.
The expression of being hopeless all the way suddenly turned into a smile,
He excitedly shouted to Raymond: "Brother Nicholas, you have really helped me a lot! If you hadn't helped me decipher the map, I wouldn't have been able to find this place even if I wanted to die. There are no traces of anyone digging here.
It’s a complete ruin, and we’re going to make a fortune!”
"Um."
Raymond nodded and smiled slightly.
He was not as optimistic as others. He stared at the surrounding forest and frowned slightly, and immediately sensed something.
The powerful qi lurking in the jungle was obviously aimed at their group. Moreover, the auras of those people were not weak, and they were obviously extraordinary beings of high rank.
Raymond didn't say anything, because at the moment he was not sure who was behind these people.
Maybe they were pirates who wanted to kill people and steal goods,
Maybe it was Fatty himself who arranged to kill people and silence them, in order to seize the treasure for himself...
Although Raymond had no harmful intentions, he didn't completely believe this fat man whom he had only known for a few days. Matthew's series of operations tonight really made him have a great change in this guy, mostly with praise, but also with three opinions.
Be on guard against each other. This kind of deep scheming is fine if you can become a friend, but naturally you can't keep it if you are an enemy.
While Raymond was thinking for a moment, the mercenaries over there had already started digging.
"Captain Gree, please start digging. The entrance to the ruins is about ten meters above the ground..."
Matthew took a measuring tape and measured the length of the section of stone pillar that emerged from the ground. Then he looked at the direction of the moon at the hole in the stone and determined a direction for digging.
"In this direction, dig vertically."
"OK!"
Gelie nodded, told the other mercenaries to put down their luggage, picked up the guy and started digging.
After all, we are all extraordinary beings with extraordinary physical strength.
However, a quarter of an hour later, Raymond and the others watched as the outline of some ancient palaces gradually emerged from the mud pit dug by the mercenaries.
"Look, we really dug it!"
"Everyone, please work harder, the ruins are down there..."
"It will be unearthed soon... This time we will really find a treasure, and everyone will get rich too!"
"..."
After a while, the soil on both sides piled higher and higher, and the fresh mud smell in the air became stronger and stronger. A complete and sealed giant stone door appeared in front of everyone.
"Haha, thank you for your hard work, everyone!"
Matthew's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he shouted excitedly: "This is really an ancient civilization relic that has never been excavated! We are rich!"
Not to mention anything else, this well-preserved finely carved stone carving is worth a lot of money.
"Oh, I didn't expect to be so lucky. This is my first time to explore the sea, and I actually dug up a complete ancient civilization ruins..."
Ilya's face was filled with excitement,
There was something strange in her crystal eyes, and she muttered: "But why do I feel that the patterns on this underground palace are familiar..."
As she said that, she turned to look at Raymond who was not far away, and said hello: "Hey, uncle, don't you understand the ancient Nix language? What do you mean by the words carved on this stone carving?"
Raymond stood by the big pit and roughly saw the stone carvings cleared by the mercenaries, and said calmly: "The words on it probably mean 'A place of great sacrifice, no outsiders are allowed to enter, otherwise they will die'..."
"
There are many ancient ruins palaces like this in the game, and most of them say something like "you will die if you break in", but no one takes it seriously. After all, these ruins of ancient civilizations have been thousands of years ago, and if there are any curse mechanisms or something like that, they will not work.
That's pretty much it. At most, there are some monsters and beasts entrenched in the ruins.
"Oh, that's how it is..."
Ilya raised his eyebrows slightly, not knowing what he thought of, and a strange light flashed across his crystal eyes.
...
"Captain, you can't pry open this stone door! The stone is also very hard. I chiseled it with all my strength, but it didn't even leave a trace..."
The mercenaries who dug the hole tried to open the closed stone door, but found that it was impossible.
This stone door is like a completely closed stone wall with no gaps at all.
"I'll try."
The mercenaries tried various methods to no avail. Captain Glee had no choice but to jump down into the pit and try again, but also failed to open the door.
Conventional methods are useless, so I thought I could only try to open it violently.
Gelie drew out the giant sword behind him, his true energy surged and overflowed, and he slashed down with all his strength.
"Keng~"
After the fire splashed, a shallow white mark was left on the stone door.
The extraordinary person who had awakened his power in Sequence 7 struck with all his strength, which was as powerful as explosives, but it was of no use at all.
Obviously, violence cannot open the stone door.
"There's something weird about this stone door. I'm afraid the steel cast isn't that strong..."
Gelie shouldered the giant sword and looked solemn.
Matthew panicked when he heard this, "Ah? Then... if you can't open this door, wouldn't it mean that you can't get the treasure below?"
Gelie let out a long sigh, "I've tried all the methods that need to be tried. I'm afraid it will be difficult to open it..."
"..."
The treasure is just behind the door, how can Matthew be willing to do so?
"Let me take a look..."
He also dragged his fat body and jumped into the mud pit. After researching for a long time to no avail, he could only ask for help from Raymond.
"Brother Nicholas, you are a polymath, have you seen any clues?"
Raymond thought for a while, and it seemed that this kind of stone also appeared in some high-level temples revealed in the later stages of the game.
"This...if I remember correctly, it looks like the 'Olin Stone' in mythology. Legend has it that it was a stone mined from the sacred mountain where the gods lived in the ancient times of the gods. It is usually used to build palaces for worshiping gods. It is extremely hard. I want to use it.
It is unlikely that external force will open it..."
If it is as he guessed, the ruins of the temple in front of him may not be simple.
Matthew felt itchy after hearing this and said anxiously: "Then what should we do?"
Raymond thought about the ways to open the stone door of the ruins in the game, and said: "There should be a specific way to open this, either a mechanism, a spell, or some kind of magic seal..."
Hearing this, Matthew immediately thought of the spell on the treasure map and said in surprise: "Could it be the spell on the treasure map?"
As he spoke, he excitedly pulled out a piece of paper, which recorded the original words of the spell translated by Raymond.
He didn't wait for Raymond to say anything, and spoke directly: "Great God Nix, you broke the darkness and brought light... Nothingness and destruction, the prohibition of liberating the soul, you guided me to open the door of mystery.
..”
The mantra is finished,
Silence, deathly silence.
After a while,
Nothing happened.
Gah, gah, gah...
The dozen or so onlookers who were staring at the fat man felt as if a few black crows were flying above their heads, creating an awkward silence.
After chanting this awesome-sounding spell, it actually had no effect at all.
The stone door was still tightly closed, with no intention of triggering the door-opening mechanism at all.
"This sand sculpture spell is completely useless..."
Matthew's fat face suddenly twitched, and he asked Raymond again in embarrassment: "Brother Nicholas, this seems of no use. Did I pronounce it wrong?"
Raymond smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "Even if it is really a spell, it should be recited in the ancient Nyx language... But the Nyx civilization is a civilization that dates back to the past, and the meaning of the words can still be deduced, so the pronunciation has really been completely lost.
.”
"ah?"
Matthew made sense after thinking about it.
He showed a very unwilling expression and said: "Then we are completely helpless now? We can't just give up when the treasure is right in front of us, right?"
"Spells are just one possible method."
Raymond thought for a while and said: "Maybe this door is not opened by a spell, but we just haven't found the right way. If you look carefully, there may be other passages and mechanisms..."
"That's right!"
Matthew rolled his eyes and said to the mercenaries: "Everyone, please search carefully and dig deeper to see if there are any other entrances."
With an order, everyone got into the pit.
After a while, the soil near the stone gate was completely cleaned up, revealing its complete appearance.
...
"This stone gate is so well preserved, I'm afraid it really is the remains of an ancient civilization that has never been opened for thousands of years..."
Raymond also squatted in front of the stone door, rubbing the engraved symbols on the stone door.
He was surprised that during this expedition, he actually encountered the ruins of a temple forged by "Olin Stone".
The appearance of such stones in mythical stories means that the grade of this ruins may be very high, and it is definitely not an ordinary sacrificial temple... The relevant plot trigger levels in the game are all very high, and Black Sea has never heard of it
It has been said that there are temple ruins of this level.
At this moment,
I don’t know where that girl Ilya came out from,
She also imitated Raymond and squatted in front of the stone door, rubbing and studying the stone carvings as expected, and mumbled: "Oh... why do I always feel that these patterns are so familiar... which ancient book are they in?"
Have you seen it?"
"..."
Raymond rolled his eyes and had no intention of paying attention to this chatty girl. He lowered his head and studied the stone door by himself.
Ilya didn't mind either, just caressing the ancient symbols.
No one else noticed that under her crystal eyes, there was an increasingly weird emotion, as if she was meeting an old friend.
I don’t know when,
Raymond suddenly heard someone chanting an ancient spell in his ear, and the voice sounded like a lark.
"?ερογλ?φο?Э?Ю?Я?а㏕мн...о㎜бвγλ?φειν?..."
He listened carefully, but he didn't understand what the mantra was saying at all...
This chant is vaguely like the soft chant of nature, vaguely conforming to some strange magic rules, and seems to resonate with the ancient gods in the dark.
This seems to be an ancient spell?
"what happened!"
Raymond was shocked and quickly turned his head to see the source of the sound.
I happened to see that girl Ilya smacking her lips, as if she had just finished singing.
Raymond felt in a daze that he must have triggered another hidden plot, and asked: "Ilya, what spell did you recite just now?"
"ha?"
Ilya blinked his crystal eyes, full of confusion, "Uncle, what did you say? What spell?"
"Didn't you recite a spell just now? What were you reciting?"
"I didn't read it? Did you hear it wrong?"
"..."
Raymond looked at Ilya's pure gem-like eyes and did not doubt what she said.
Could it be that she heard it wrong and that the mantra was not recited by her?
Or is it...
This ruin itself has left a setting that will trigger auditory hallucinations under certain circumstances, such as when mental power reaches a certain limit?
He thought about the plot in the game. This kind of ancient civilization ruins would always trigger some mysterious events, which was normal.
"I seem to have memorized that spell..."
At this moment, Raymond only felt that the ancient mantra was chanting repeatedly in his mind, lingering.
When he awakened in sequence 8 [Tomb Robber], he automatically learned a C-level passive skill [Photographic Memory].
Now, no matter what he has seen or heard once, he can clearly write it down.
For example, the ancient mantra just seemed like an "auditory hallucination".
"How about... I try it myself?"
Thinking of this,
Raymond then spoke out the first syllable,
The syllables he just heard were a bit difficult to pronounce, and they were completely different from the pronunciation habits of the current common language of the great sea. He could only slowly recall syllables one by one, and sang them out in a jerky manner like babbling.
"?ερογλ?φο?Э..."
Just when this spell was recited from his mouth, a strange scene appeared!
Click...
Suddenly everyone felt their bodies sway slightly, as if a slight earthquake had occurred.
Everyone heard the melodious chanting and obviously understood something.
At this moment, they all put down what they were doing and focused their eyes on Raymond in great shock.
The noise is getting louder and louder, as if the entire temple is about to emerge from the ground...
The sound of "click" is endless.
"Look, the door is open a crack!"
At this moment, everyone saw that the stone door that had been completely helpless before slowly opened a gap. As the chanting of the mantra became louder, the gap in the door opened wider and wider.
At this moment, Fat Matthew looked at Raymond, the sparkle in his eyes getting brighter and brighter, and he was extremely shocked, "My dear...Brother Nicholas not only knows the ancient characters, but also really knows how to recite them...this time
It was really the right thing to bring him here!"
The last syllable of the ancient spell came from Raymond's mouth,
Click, click, click...
Stone chips fell and the huge door opened.
Ancient ruins that had been sealed in dust for thousands of years finally came to light at this moment.
Behind the huge stone door, an endless long dark passage was revealed...
"Hahaha..."
Seeing this scene, Matthew thought he was going crazy and shouted excitedly, "Brother Nicholas! Open it, we have really opened the gate to the ruins!"
At this moment, everyone was extremely excited.
The treasure is finally in front of you!
At your fingertips...
"Walk!"
Matthew hugged Raymond's shoulders affectionately and prepared to walk into the ruins, "Brother Nicholas, the treasure is waiting for us again."
However, Raymond did not move at this moment, but frowned slightly.
"What's wrong?"
Fatty was still a little confused just now.
But when he turned around, he saw dozens of strangers appearing on the pit.
His face changed drastically in an instant.
"Hehe... This ruins is so secretly hidden, it's really not easy to find. I didn't expect that some of you actually know the ancient language of Nyx... Tsk, thank you very much for helping us open the door to the ruins...