Based on the location he had just detected, Lawrence went down the creaking wooden stairs to the first floor, and then passed through a dim corridor to the door of the room closest to the outer wall.
"This is too dirty." Lawrence frowned after arriving at his destination. He found that the wooden door in front of him was greasy and dirty, with thick dust accumulated in the cracks of the door, and some dusty spider webs hanging on it.
It's glued to the top. It looks like the door hasn't been opened in a long time.
Holding back the nausea in his heart, Lawrence kicked open the door in front of him. Unexpectedly, the door's hinges had been completely rusted due to not being used for a long time, so after he kicked it down, the entire door fell into the room.
"Bang." The door panel fell to the ground and stirred up a lot of dust. Lawrence quickly hid aside to avoid the dust pouring out of the room. Since the whole room was not ventilated, after waiting for five or six minutes, the dust in the room
Only then did most of the dust fall on the ground, and then he walked to the door and used the light outside to see clearly what was going on in the room.
This room looks like it should be a storage room. There are several empty wooden shelves in the room. One of the legs of one shelf was eaten by insects or mice, and the whole thing fell to the ground. Other than that, the whole thing fell to the ground.
The house was empty, with nothing but dust on the floor.
"It feels like no one has been to this place for a long time. Who would put things here?" Lawrence thought and released the [Detection Magic] magic again.
In an instant, a dim magical light appeared in the dusty open space. After seeing this light, Lawrence quickly took a few steps to get in front of it, and then used his feet to push away the thick dust covering the ground.
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Underneath the dust was a floor paved with red tiles, but Lawrence didn't notice any difference between the glowing floor and the surrounding floors.
"Should we dig it down?" Lawrence thought about unloading a piece of wood from the broken shelf next to him, and then began to pry up the bricks one by one at the place where the magic light appeared just now.
He first pried open the bricks on the ground, then knelt on the ground and began to use the thin wooden board on the broken shelf as a shovel to clean the layer of cinders under the bricks to prevent moisture.
More than an hour later, looking at the excavated raw soil, Lawrence sat down on the ground regardless of the dust around him. After cleaning up the cinders, he opened a washbasin-sized pot on the rammed soil mixed with lime below.
hole. As a result, nothing suspicious was found until the raw soil layer was dug.
"Where is that thing?" After resting for a few minutes, Lawrence released [Detection Magic] on the ground again. As a result, he was surprised to find that the magical aura that was here just now disappeared.
"Was what I just found some kind of extraordinary creature?" Lawrence frowned. "But if it was a living creature, it would have left traces in the room, but when I came in just now, I noticed that there were no traces in the room.
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"Let's look for it, maybe that guy hasn't gone far yet." Thinking of this, he stood up and patted the dust on his body, and then tried to use [Detection Magic] to explore the surrounding magic reaction. As a result, when the magic range spread to the area he had just dug,
When the pile of construction debris came out, a magical aura appeared again.
"Huh?" Lawrence immediately walked towards the pile of construction debris, and found that the magic light emitted was an ordinary red brick that had been laid on the ground just now. If there is any difference, it can only be said that this brick has more
There was a strange crack.
"What kind of treasure is this?" Lawrence curiously raised the brick in front of his eyes and found that there was no difference between this brick and ordinary bricks. If I had to say it, I can only say that the surface of this brick was not as good as other bricks.
Complete, with a few cracks on the top.
Because he couldn't see anything clearly in the dark storage room, and the dust stirred up in the room made it difficult to breathe. So Lawrence held the brick and came to the corridor, and then used the light filtering through the gap in the corridor window to
A little sunlight examined the brick carefully.
"Hey, what is this?" As he was looking at the sunlight in the cracks in the window, he found that when he placed the bricks at a certain angle, a little golden light flickered in the cracks of the bricks. "
Gold jewelry or——”
Thinking of this, Lawrence knocked the brick against the window sill with all his strength. As the brick broke into two pieces, he finally discovered the mystery behind it.
The thing in his hand was not an ordinary brick at all. It was made of cement into the shape of a brick and then painted with a layer of red paint on the outside. However, the person who made this cement brick was so good at it that Lawrence just didn't know it at all.
Nothing wrong with this brick was found.
The glowing place just now was also found: on the cross section of the cement brick, an ellipsoid-shaped lead block was embedded there, like a flattened gray egg. The golden light he saw just now was an ellipsoidal lead block on the lead block.
It leaked from the cracks.
Using a knife to pry open the lead block along the cracks, Lawrence found that the lead block was hollow, with a golden pendant inside, which was a little larger than a coin.
Pouring out the pendant, Lawrence discovered that the pattern on the pendant was a relief skull. It was inlaid with red chalcedony and rubies. It may be because of the magic on the pendant, or it may be because it is very beautifully made.
This very compact pendant gives people the impression that the skull is floating up from a sea of blood.
Lawrence suddenly realized that it must be the most precious thing in this house. The fact that its owner spent so much time wrapping it in lead and then placing it in cement bricks is a good indication of the owner of this pendant.
the importance attached to it.
But what the person who hid this thing didn't expect was that modern cement will produce some cracks after being left for a long time, and as a result, the lead sheet inside will also crack. This is how Lawrence discovered it through [Detection Magic].
The presence of the pendant.
[Identification Technique] Lawrence released a magic that was mutated due to Bai Ze's bloodline on the pendant, and a piece of information instantly appeared in his mind.
[A magic key, related to the Church of the Bloody Sky.] Even with the blessing of Bai Ze's bloodline, Lawrence only got an unclear message.
"Hey, is this also related to the Bloody Sky Church?" Lawrence thought about using the piece of lead to re-wrap the pendant. After all, this building previously belonged to the ancestor of the woman who turned into a monster. Maybe his ancestors were important to the Bloody Sky.
People, in those days, they hid such important things just to avoid something.
After wrapping it in lead, Lawrence put away the pendant. He felt that this thing was probably the key to entering a certain Bloody Sky Church stronghold. And now he happened to have a map of those strongholds in his hand, and he might go explore in the future.
You can use this thing.
After packing up the loot, Lawrence was about to retrace his steps and evacuate the place. As he was walking upstairs, he suddenly heard a strange sound coming from the stairwell on the first floor.