Chapter 55: The Tomb Mechanism

When the mage team arrived at the castle, they entered the courtyard through a small gate. Gosling and the other two members of the Coalition were already waiting www.biquge.info and they had already checked the situation inside and outside the castle.

This ancient castle has a history of 400 years, it was built by a local man who made a fortune doing business in the west in ancient times, and the style has both the traditional structure of Hua'an Kingdom, and has a strong Western style, and is decorated with a large number of murals. Although the picture is blurry and faded now, you can imagine how delicate and magnificent it was at the beginning. Everywhere there are signs hung by the Cultural Relics Bureau, reminding visitors not to touch them.

Gosling briefly introduced the two people he had brought, neither of whom were magicians, but technicians of the Alliance. An old man, dressed in a plain robe, was a great scholar of the Alliance, specializing in ancient treasures and formations. HE WAS HOLDING AN IPAD-LIKE ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH SOME ODD CHARACTERS ON THE SCREEN. The old man smiled at Xi Yunyun, who was curious, and raised the electronic screen in his hand to show her, and the characters on it immediately changed to Chinese, only to see some charts and numbers displayed on it.

"This is a procedure for measuring the mana of the enchantment, I came to measure it last night, and from the measurement of this time, the power of the enchantment here is weakening, and it is weakening at an accelerated rate. It seems that the last few Beast Tide Shocks have consumed a lot of enchantment mana, so we need to move fast and try to complete the task before the next Beast Tide erupts. The old man repeated to the crowd what he had already reported to Gosling, and then led the way deeper into the castle.

The other technician was not that old, an uncle with a serious expression, and had an oriental face. Gosling didn't give much introduction, only saying that he was also an expert in the study of Noble Phantasm.

Walk through the porch to a separate building in the deepest part of the castle, where a staircase leads to the second floor. Xi Yunyun was a little puzzled, didn't it say that it was an underground tomb? Why are you going up? The magicians have already come, and no one thinks it is strange.

After walking a few more steps, seeing that he was about to reach the second floor, Gosling, who was walking in the front, waved his hand and cast some mana, only to see a formation diagram appear out of thin air in the air, and then disappeared after a few flashes. Looking at the stairs again, there was a fork in the road, and a black hole appeared in the original wall.

After entering the hole, the stairs began to spiral downward, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally stepped on a flat ground. A fire mage skillfully set out a lighting array, lighting all the candles in the underground space, instantly illuminating the surrounding arrangement.

Xi Yunyun sighed in her heart, she didn't expect there to be such a large space underground, she seemed to hear the sound of running water, there should be an underground river nearby. The dΓ©cor here is completely different from the style of the kasbah on the ground, much older and generally more rustic. The murals decorated on the walls are also rough lines and abstract graphics, closer to primitive art. There are more than a dozen brick and stone display tables in the ancient tomb, on which are placed some dusty artifacts, which are supposed to be immortal vessels.

Xi Yunyun was very fresh, and he was afraid of something in the dark, so he naturally took Zhou Wensen's hand, and then walked away with peace of mind. I thought to myself, everything here is a thousand-year-old cultural relic, and it should be worth a lot.

After looking at the old utensils around, Xi Yunyun was a little disappointed, she walked to the deepest and largest display table, but saw that there was nothing on it, and she was surprised. Usually the coffin of the tomb owner is placed in this position, why is it missing? Could it be that the tomb has been stolen here?

The old man also walked to the stage and explained to Xi Yunyun: "This empty platform is just a reminder to the people who come in, there should be an important item here, which is the main purpose of setting up this space. However, in order to protect this item from anyone who knows magic, a final layer of mechanism has been set up. ”

He turned to look at Claude who was following him, and said, "You guys were stuck in this place before, right?"

Claude stepped forward and replied, "We spent some time opening this tomb space, but we didn't find the tomb owner and the treasure that created the enchantment, and we've been trying to figure out a way here ever since, but the communication was cut off before we could come up with it. Some soldiers of the Western Army fled into the castle and said something outside, and I felt that we couldn't solve this last mechanism with our ability, so I went to support, but I didn't expect to encounter a beast tide, and it was delayed for several days. ”

"You really can't solve it, I have already told the alliance leader the specific situation. The scholar looked at Gosling, and then at Xi Yunyun, and suddenly there was some understanding.

Gosling was not in a hurry, he walked around the surrounding tomb walls, carefully looked at the original art style murals, and then spoke: "You can also see, this last step needs one thing." β€œ

Claude nodded, briefly explaining his guess. In addition to introducing the life of the owner of the tomb, these murals also show that there is an ancient treasure in the tomb, but the last painting they did not understand, it should be the key step of how to take out the treasure. There was no text on the mural, and there was nothing like a formation diagram, so they could only try various transformation formations and try to open the mechanism of the tomb, but they were unsuccessful.

The crowd gathered around the last mural, and saw a long-haired female figure with a bulging belly, and many people from the tribe kneeling in front of her, some like warriors, some ordinary people. This woman must have been a high-ranking person in ancient times, but her clothes were very simple, simpler than the commoners kneeling on the ground.

Xi Yunyun guessed that she was a priest or something, or was it the object of some witchcraft ritual, but the woman's expression looked calm, like a goddess looking at all beings. Moreover, there was a huge black cloud over the woman's head, I don't know what it meant.

The university scholar also noticed that the black cloud was a little strange, and took a closer look, and then cried out in surprise.

"This is not a cloud, but a magical firmament!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and when they looked closely, if they wanted to make the clouds land, sure enough, the terrain was very similar to the Habitat Continent, and the surrounding black gas was like the sea around the continent. A forest and several high mountains loom on the continent, and there are symbols of humans and alien beasts. This tomb owner actually knows about the Continent of Life!

When they thought about it again, they understood a little. The history of the three thousand years on the living continent is equivalent to one thousand years on the earth, and the magic human race traveled from the earth to the magical firmament. Then it is not surprising that the owner of the tomb more than 1,000 years ago knew, and it may also be a story handed down from his ancestors.

"But how do you open the mechanism and get the treasure?" Claude asked the scholar. The scholar was silent and looked at Gosling.

Gosling did not answer, but stroked back and forth with his hand on the tomb platform, his fingers feeling some shallow grooves in the stone slab, connecting all the grooves as if it were a formation diagram. The scholar went over to scan it with the device, and a clear picture appeared on the screen, which was an ancient formation.

"I think the last step requires Xi Yunyun's blood. Once the blood has flowed into these grooves, the final mechanism can be opened. Gosling's voice was a little heavy.

When Xi Yunyun heard that she wanted her blood, she didn't feel anything, but Zhou Wensen was more anxious than her, and immediately pulled Xi Yunyun behind him. This method of opening the mechanism, he sounded very dangerous.