In the deep countryside, two figures were walking slowly.
"There's actually no one patrolling." Bediwell felt strange when he saw the ruins and deserted surroundings.
"South Africa has not developed much of the island of Madagascar since it turned it into its own colony. The inhabited places are concentrated in several mining areas and port areas in the southwest." As Sherrichard walked, he also paid careful attention to his steps and avoided them.
He opened a white bone on the ground and said: "This is the ruins of the royal city of the Kingdom of Solis. They are neither willing to clean up the remains of the ruins nor develop this unknown place into a residential area, so it has been like this for so many years.
Leave it alone."
"We didn't even clean up the corpses of those who died in the war, but let them turn into bones in the wilderness. It's a bit too much." Bedivere snorted.
"Because to those human supremacists, the orcs are not humans at all, they are just beasts that look a bit like humans in outline." Sherrichard said unhappily.
Bedivere was still thinking about something, but his nose suddenly felt itchy and he sneezed.
"Are you okay?" Looking at Bedivere, who was dripping with water and looking like a drowned man, Sherrichard asked, "Would you like to find a bush first and change out of your soaked clothes?"
"Doing such a rude thing in front of a lady? No, let's forget it." Bediwell forced out a bitter smile: "And even if you change your clothes, the hair on your body is still wet, and it's still of no use."
The werewolves (Eskimo tribe) live in the snowfields of Western Siberia and are born with relatively long wolf fur. On the contrary, the snow lion Sherrichard's body hair is shorter, and it dries quickly after swimming.
"It's you," Bedivere asked, "Why do the clothes dry so quickly?"
"This dress is a quick-drying fabric specially developed by a consortium. It will constantly contact and interact with photons in the air, taking away water molecules. It can even make the hair on my body dry quickly." Sherry Chad
Smiling: "If you want, I can give you a set now, but it's women's clothing."
"Hahaha, no, thank you." The werewolf young man smiled perfunctorily, shuddered and quickly changed the subject: "So what exactly are you looking for here? Is there some kind of ancient artifact hidden in the old site of the royal city?"
"
"No, how can that kind of thing still be hidden? Even if it exists, it has been wiped out by the group of plunderers in South Africa." Sherrichard walked in front and replied casually: "The invasion has reached the final stage. They are here
The entire royal city was set on fire. The rubble you see now is far from the original royal city. It is the broken walls and rubble left after being burned by the raging fire for ten days and ten nights. Is there really any powerful ancient artifact? The Kingdom of Solis has long been
So I took it out to fight the enemy. If there was anything valuable, it would have been burned to ashes or looted. So there is actually nothing here, just a ruin."
"But you spent so much effort to get here," Bedivere expressed disbelief. There must be something else hidden in these ruins, but it's just so well hidden that no one knows about it.
"Over there," the Snow Lion girl pointed at what seemed to be the remains of some kind of tower in the distance.
However, it was severely damaged after the fire, and after years of weathering and natural erosion, it is difficult for Bediville to confirm that it was really a tower originally.
"The ruins of the Wangli Astrology Library." Sherrichard walked quickly: "Now there is only a small fragment of one of the towers left. It was originally more than ten times larger than the tower you see.
It’s such a shame that the building has become like this.”
"Astrology? Maybe?"
"You guessed it right, this is where my father used to work."
By the way, Sherrichard's father seems to be the high priest of the Kingdom of Solis. Bedivere seemed to have heard Sherrichard hear this before, but he couldn't remember when.
(Note: Sherichard told Bediwell about the Soris Kingdom before meeting Lord Sunbird. Lord Sunbird is a god who feeds on [Mantra], and most of Sherrichard’s descriptions are regarded as
[Mantra] was eaten, so Bedivere could not remember what Sherrichard had said, only a vague memory.)
Because she had found the target she was looking for, the Snow Lion girl ignored the danger of the ruins collapsing and walked inside to explore around. She soon found a secret door hidden under a large amount of rubble.
"I'll leave the hard work to you, Captain Bedivere." She took it as a matter of course.
"Okay, of course." Bedivere walked over and moved the rubbles angrily. They were indeed very heavy, and it was exhausting to move them. After all, the secret door was well hidden, if Sherrichard hadn't known about the secret door.
Due to its location, probably no one would notice it. In the eyes of outsiders, this is just a pile of rubble piled there meaninglessly. But Bediwell knows that this is definitely not rubble that the other party has placed on the ground casually. Probably,
When the kingdom fell and there was no hope of defending the country, a certain explosives expert detonated a part of the library that was in flames, allowing the falling rubble to bury the secret door.
Although Sherichard insists that there are no treasures in the old site of the royal city, looking at this well-hidden secret door, it may be that there is indeed some amazing treasure hidden in it, which is big enough to allow the ruined Kingdom of Solis to make a comeback.
With this in mind, Bediwell worked harder to clean up the rubble. Fortunately, there were no outsiders around. The old site of the Royal City was completely ignored by the South Africans. It seemed that there was no problem in making a slightly louder noise when he was clearing the rubble. About ten minutes passed.
, sweating profusely, Bediwell finally removed the last large piece of rubble blocking the road.
"Very good, the next step is my job." Sherrichard walked to the secret door, found a switch disguised as a stone on the wall, and pressed it. The switch triggered the code disk on the secret door, and a password appeared from inside.
There were dozens of stone rings on the resulting cipher disk, all of which were hieroglyphs that Bediwell couldn't understand. Sherrichard turned the stone rings, seemingly aiming to align the hieroglyphs in a certain position.
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Click, click, click—
Not long after, the secret door opened. After such a long time, Sherrichard still remembered the password from back then. The basement protected by this secret door is indeed very important.
Since they were still wearing night vision goggles, there was no need to turn on lights. Sherrichard walked up the stone steps of the basement in the dark. Bedivere also followed silently, wondering what kind of amazing treasure was inside.
room.
However
Nothing.
At the end of the simple stone steps, there is a neatly arranged but simple studio. There are ancient books everywhere that Bediwell cannot understand, but the werewolf youth can guess the names of these books.
They are related to astrology and magic. But the value of these books is definitely not as good as real magic books. Bedivere has dealt with mages a lot, and he knows that truly high-value magic books will be protected by various enhanced magic, either
Add enchantments to the cover so that the book and pages will never wear out; either add a magic lock to the cover so that unauthorized people cannot read or even open the book; or the book itself is too dangerous and will be sealed directly.
Only a powerful enough magician can break the seal.
These are ordinary astrology books. They have been in the basement for a while, and they have even accumulated a thick layer of dust. And Bediwell can see from Sherichard's actions that she doesn't care about those books at all. Instead of being interested, he walked straight towards the wooden table in the middle of the studio to pick up a beautifully packaged small box on the table. The wrapping paper even had dust-proof and anti-oxidation enchantments, making the whole box pass It still looks new and clean after all these years, which shows the ingenuity of the person who originally packaged this box.
"I'm sorry, Captain Bedivere. I just went through the entire ruins of the royal city and there was no treasure left. I was not careful." The Snow Lion girl quickly opened the wrapping paper in the alley and took out a small thing from the box. .
"This is?" When he saw that inexplicable little thing, Bedivere became even more curious.
"This is my irreplaceable treasure." Sherichard held the little thing in the palm of her hand.
It's actually just a snowball. It's the kind of snowball that you bring back when traveling as a souvenir. You can buy it with one or two gold coins, and it's a snowball for decoration.
However, this snowball is quite well made. Inside the glass ball is an extremely delicate house model made of clay. Even though the snowball itself is only the size of a palm, the houses inside are clearly visible brick by brick. Bediwell can even see it. There are a few broken bricks on the roof on the chimney side of the house. They are obviously not scars caused by the slippery hands of the model craftsmen, but the ones made by the custom modelers who specifically asked the craftsmen to make them look like this. And the snowball itself uses floating tiles. Snow is an incredibly fine silver-white pearl glitter. As Richard touches the glass ball, the glitter quickly disperses in the water inside the glass ball, just like real snow at an extremely slow speed. It slowly lowered and landed on the roof of the model house.
Seeing this, Bediwell has understood everything. To others, this is just a useless decoration, a piece of rubbish. But to Sherrichard, this may be the most valuable treasure in the world. .
What he turned around to see was the snow lion girl holding a snowball and crying silently.
"Miss Sherrichard?" the werewolf young man asked in a low voice.
"Father is really an upright fool." She replied in a low voice, her voice a little hoarse: "Well, if you want to give me a birthday gift, you must wait until my birthday to give it. As a result, the Solis Kingdom came two days before my birthday. The country was destroyed a few days ago, and this gift was locked up in his underground studio for so many years, and he never had the chance to personally deliver this to me."
Bedivere was silent. At this time, he didn't know what to do. It seemed that all the words of comfort he could think of were not applicable. It was better to let Sherrich be alone.
"Give me ten minutes." Sherrichard wiped his tears and said, "When we finish mourning our father, let's leave here."
"Do you want to bury him?" The werewolf young man noticed a certain body lying in the pile of books, which had turned into bones.
"No. Let him rest in peace here. He likes to be with his collection of books. That is the place that makes him feel most at peace." Sherrich Chad.