As a new country in the New World, the White Eagle Federation has learned from various experiences and lessons from the Old World. In particular, the lack of adequate infrastructure in populated areas led to several large-scale plagues. Therefore, before the construction of various buildings, there will always be
A series of infrastructure construction, including a complete sewer system.
Of course, sewers often mean dirty and dirty. Fortunately, Lawrence and the others are entering a newly built sewer that is not in use, so there is only a little smell of dust in the air.
"This sewer is well repaired." Lawrence held up the lantern in his hand and sighed while looking at the sewer, which was large enough for two carriages to travel side by side. As a result, the gunman next to him said with a little pride. "Of course.
.Our boss Gonzalez specifically requested that this place reach the level of the sewers in the main city, so as to avoid having to spend time and energy on expansion in the future.”
"What a visionary man." Lawrence nodded slightly. He had heard a famous saying in his previous life, that is, if a building saves money during construction, it will inevitably cost more in the future use.
The cost is high. This is the case with sewers. If it is not repaired once, it will inevitably have to be dug, filled, and dug frequently in the future. Overall, it is much more expensive than repairing it all at once.
"You're right, that's why our boss can become the largest plantation owner on Hailam Island." The gunman nodded, with an expression of pride. Of course, this is a matter of course.
It is normal that the gunman who can be called to participate in such a thing must be the baron's most elite and loyal subordinate.
After a group of people walked in the slightly cold sewer for more than ten minutes, the part paved with red bricks and cement slowly disappeared. The surrounding area turned into an original earth and stone cave, with various tools for digging on the walls on both sides.
traces of the past.
"We dug through this place before, but everyone found something wrong here." Not far after walking out of the cave, everyone was blocked by a stone wall. At this time, Bubu, the foreman, stood up and said.
"We tried using pickaxes, chisels, and even the specially ordered steam hammer drill, but none of them were able to cause damage to the stone wall."
"Haven't you ever tried to avoid this strange place?" the younger sister of the demon hunter brother and sister asked. "The sewers don't have to be straight. In many places, you have to go around rocks when you encounter them."
"We tried." Bubu shrugged. "But no matter whether we dug to the sides or downwards, all we saw were stone slabs." After saying that, he pointed to several places, and Lawrence took a few steps forward.
, and then looked at the place where his finger was pointed by the light of the lantern.
From the excavation marks, we can see that the workers tried to dig in all directions, but they could not find the edge of the stone wall.
"We initially thought it was a problem with the texture of this stone. After all, we have encountered hard rocks in previous constructions." Watching everyone go to check the traces, Bubu then introduced to the members of the expedition team
, "But then when we used tools to try to find weak points in the stone wall, we found something unusual."
As he spoke, he raised the lantern in his hand and illuminated a stone wall. This stone wall may have been damaged during the early excavation, causing its surface to peel off, revealing the gray stone behind. It was just what attracted everyone's attention.
It's not the gray stone itself, but there are many traces on it that are obviously carved by humans.
"We found that this stone wall is actually two layers." Bubu continued. "The outermost layer is very brittle, and ordinary tools can easily destroy them. But these gray stones at the back are completely different. We have
All the means could not even leave enough traces on it, let alone destroy it."
"This is indeed an aboriginal ruins." Professor Edward from Miska University put down the lantern in his hand and said. "And the ruins are very important remains of a sacrificial place."
"For example, here," Professor Edward said, he gestured to his students to raise the lanterns in their hands, and then pointed to the carved marks on the gray stone exposed after the surface rock formation was destroyed. "These little people form a circle to represent
It represents a kind of sacrificial activity, and the leaf in the middle represents the most common giant tree worship in the northeastern coastal areas of the New World."
"Giant tree worship, what is that?" Senior Liszt asked curiously.
"It is a type of natural spirit worship, worshiping a huge extraordinary plant and using its power to master some extraordinary power. This is also the earliest path to the extraordinary that most intelligent creatures have mastered." Professor Edward explained
"But in theory, the sacrificial activities of giant tree worship should be held on the ground. I don't know why traces of sacrificial rituals are found here."
"In this case, let's clean up this wall first. After all, the pattern exposed now is only part of it." Baron Gonzalez decided, "Maybe after all the patterns are cleared, we can figure out this place.
What happened to the ruins?"
Just do it. The workers led by Bubu swarmed up and started smashing the stone wall with the tools in their hands. Because the gray stone they wanted to retain was extremely hard, they only needed to smash it hard, and there was no need to worry about the gray stone on the surface.
Important rock carvings were damaged.
Half an hour later, all the places with carved patterns had been cleaned up, and the workers even dug out a large space on the left and right for cleaning. After the cleaning work was completed, what was presented to everyone was a surface of more than ten square meters on one side.
Large and small, a flat stone wall carved with various patterns.
In the middle of the stone wall is a huge relief tree, surrounded by reliefs of various characters and action figures. The other parts are like comic strips, using much smaller patterns to depict stories one by one.
.
"Yes, this should be the first picture." Professor Edward illuminated the picture on the lower left side of the wall with a lantern and said. "The meaning of this picture should be that some kind of disaster happened in their hometown, and some people chose to flee their hometown and come here.
On a piece of land. And then—yes, here."
As he spoke, he stood up little by little along the wall with the lantern, and the yellow light illuminated the next picture. "They came to the peninsula where we are now and found a powerful tree. The shamans
The power gained by worshiping the big tree, and at the same time, the entire tribe successfully established itself here through the protection of the big tree."
"The following picture shows how this tribe slowly developed and grew after establishing a foothold here. There are a series of stories including how they made sacrifices, how they fought against the evil creatures around them, how they hunted, how they fished, how they planted corn, etc.
This is very useful for us to study the history of this tribe and this land——"
"Professor, please wait a moment." Baron Gonzalez interrupted Professor Edward who was talking endlessly. "These pictures on the stone wall will not escape. We can study them slowly in the future. Now can you tell me about this ruins?"
what is going on?"
After being interrupted, Professor Edward seemed a little unhappy, but for the sake of the sponsor, he could only stop his previous introduction and said, "The picture shows that the real ruins are behind this wall, but the passage
It takes extraordinary strength to open it."
"Unfortunately, there is no way to open the passage on these patterns. According to my previous experience in inspecting other tribes, only tribal shamans, shaman apprentices and tribal chiefs can enter such sacrificial sites."
"If we can't find the correct way to open it, I think our only option is to find a way to eliminate the remaining magic power on this stone wall, and then use violent means to force it open." Finally, Professor Edward concluded.