Chapter 767: The Graveyard (2)
Even though it was already a dry bone, it still seemed to have substantial eyes, and in the silent air, it was looking at something from a long time and deeply.
"Dragons!" Kasia said silently to herself, and then subconsciously looked away.
The place where it fell was a natural shaft, about twenty or thirty meters high, and the hard stone walls were speckled with pale yellow moss that was not fresh, and glowed faintly pale green. Some of the roots drilled through the rocks, revealing a thin patch of aerial roots. As expected, it was still infected by those "germs".
The shaft was a little spacious, with two stone steps, on which Kasia could see the traces of artificial excavation. He landed at the top of the stone stairs, and was occupied by the underground river, a rushing stream, but the sound of the water did not echo around him. This shouldn't be an enclosed space, Kasia immediately decided.
"I feel like I've come to an amazing place. The beam of the flashlight struck the massive dragon skull again, and Kasia wanted to make sure if there were any strange text symbols on it. But it seemed to be just an unrelated skull, lying there alone, with a thin layer of dust accumulated on it, but no bryophytes could climb on it.
Only then did he look at his feet, and the bones of his left leg pierced the skin, completely exposed to the air. Their weight was completely counterproductive at this point, and they were harder than steel, so they didn't break easily, and all the impact was absorbed stiffly.
As the light of the flashlight lit up her surroundings, Kasia discovered that beneath her was a pile of black, gray human bones, which had previously been used as a natural burial ground by the mineral-searching team.
The clothes were rotting to shreds and a gathering place for all kinds of insects, and Kasia took a photograph of it, which was full of molts and eggs of small animals, as well as a layer of feces.
The skin of his legs had been cut by these dry bones, but in less than a minute or two, the wounds had all scabbed. Enduring the pain, Kasia violently retrieved the exposed bone of his left leg, having studied anatomy at school, and some simple medical knowledge helped him a lot at this time. His excellent self-healing ability made him not worry much about such injuries.
"It's just a small injury, at most you have to endure the pain a little more. Kasia commented. It was estimated that it would take two or three hours before he could move, and during that time Kasia could only look around.
In the pile of dry bones beneath him, Kasia found a soft-steel rope that had been rusted away.
"The group has come down after discovering it. At this time, his gaze naturally shifted to the skull beside him, "They want to take this skull with them, after all, it is a very mysterious thing to them, and after carving, it will be worth more than the works of art such as giant ivory on the market, it will be very simple." ”
The preferences of the nobility have always been something that Kasia does not understand, and compared to the great nobles in the Quartet, such as the families of the Marquis and Earl, their quality of life seems to be a little more luxurious. In Kasia's impression, as one of the seven giants, except for the reception room used to receive customers, the decoration of the rest of the place is very simple, unlike the Marquis family, where there are all kinds of gorgeous works of art in the hall and bedrooms, ivory carvings, famous paintings, reliefs and lamps decorated with jewels, and furniture and tables made of precious incense wood. The two are not the same in terms of appreciation, or there is already a differentiation.
Kasia moved slightly to the skull, and the vague sensation that Brino did not appear in his body made him relax slightly. The feeling of oppression left over from the Brino region is still deeply etched in his memory, and even though the operation reached the second stage and the dragon blood was able to stimulate the scaling of the body, Kasia still did not have the confidence to defeat a dragon.
There was only one skull, about two meters high, no jaws, and the length remained four or five meters. Wipe off the thin layer of ash on it, and the white bones exposed are more like top-grade jade, and they look a little crystal clear in the light. When I got closer, I realized that the hollow skull was filled with something in the shadow of the light.
It was a lot of bulging black bags, and Kasia just touched them lightly with her hand, and they were in pieces. With the crisp sound of collision, the irregular shape of diamonds and jewelry rough slid down from the eye socket like quicksand, and quickly squeezed into a small pile on the ground.
The group of prospectors had been working for months and had spent some time cleaning up, including the huge bones described in the geologist's diary. There were a lot of white marks, and Kasia estimated that the group used them as useful whetstones.
"It shouldn't be a coincidence why dragon bones appear here. Two hours later, Kasia had fully recovered from her injuries, but she was still a little inconvenient to move. He walked behind the skull, the dust had been wiped away, and an unknown symbol was carved into it, which was the signpost that Grlot had told him in the first place.
Kasia had seen this symbol, and it was found on the fossilized bones of the Brinorian dragons. But he didn't have magical powers, he remembered that those strange symbols had the power to directly affect his own spirit, and he didn't need to take the initiative to memorize them, and the pieces of symbols and words were all imprinted in the depths of his mind.
Grote also understands this script and is proficient in using it. He moved this skull?"
"For the sake of insurance, this is the protector of the second-generation holy sword, it's just that because of time and the volcanic eruption, a complete skeleton was forced to disperse. Then the group of prospectors found it and moved him here. Based on limited information, Kasia began to speculate on how things were actually going to happen. It seemed reasonable, but Kasia knew that there must have been something else going on in between, and that wasn't the only thing Grote was prepared for. Kasia became more and more skeptical of the conversation she had in her mental dreams. After all, in his heart, Grote and Sucarius were completely equated. At that time, he had only entered the military school for a long time, and he was a sincere teenager who had just come out of a small town.
"It's so easy to deceive. Cassia thinks that this is the image of herself at that time.
More importantly, Kasia had determined that there was no such vague induction in the skull. Or is it that the residual consciousness of the sleeping dragons is not in the skull, but in their spine, as in the Brino region.
Knowing that Grote would definitely have something to hide, he didn't tell all the information here. On the two stone steps, Kasia also found a string of strange writings. Maybe it's because there are cracks on it, but this time there is no sense of mental oppression from before.
The rushing water rang in her ears, and Kasia put her hand into the water and struck her flashlight at the end of the dark river, a round hole illuminated by the light. Substantial beams of light rushed into the back of the cavern, and the wet darkness swallowed up everything that entered its territory, except for a small stone wall at the edge and a moss-covered line.
"It's a source of snow that flows into the lake. The coldness and slight burning, as well as the modern texture of the line in the light, told Cassia that this was more than a makeshift graveyard for the prospectors.
They had explored the network of caves in Grote's mouth. Perhaps the calamity of the "germs" was of their own incurre, and suddenly something was connected, and Kasia froze still, trying to grasp the beginning of the connection.