"It's you."

After taking down the ghoul without danger, Bai Ye continued to climb upward.

He quickly climbed to the bottom of the sarcophagus platform, and Rick Jones reached out and pulled him, giving him a thumbs up.

"That short spear of yours seems to be a treasure?"

The legendary explorer suddenly became interested in the [Spear of the Chieftain] and hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can you let me take a look?" ”

“？”

Bai Ye was a little surprised, in normal games, NPCs wouldn't be curious about the player's equipment props, right?

'Is there a side quest?' ’

Strange as he was, he handed the Chief's Spear to Rick.

"Oh~~ It's a very rare treasure, if I'm not mistaken, the symbol carved on it should be from the legendary African country of Wakanda......"

Speaking of this, Rick Jones suddenly looked at him, his eyes were solemn, his arms were crossed in front of his chest, and he said respectfully: "Wakanda forever!" ”

“……”

What the heck? Have you been to Wakanda?

Anyway, the great route can't fit your exploration footprints?

“emmm…… Does it take luck to play to its true strength? ”

Rick Jones touched the short spear and sighed in admiration twice, then returned the weapon to Bai Ye.

"Finished?"

Bai Ye didn't know what Rick was doing.

He looked at the attributes of the short spear, and there was no change on it, there was no such thing as 'enchantment' or 'enhancement'.

'Is it just to admire this weapon?' I was looking forward to it in vain. ’

At this time, Joey interrupted from the side: "What are you doing over there?" We've got to hurry, the battle between those two monsters seems to be almost over! ”

When Bai Ye heard this, he hurriedly looked in the direction of the sea.

The water column rises above the sea, and the waves are raging.

Standing at this distance, Mordicgian could not be seen at all, only the octopus tentacles of Dagon's frantically danced wildly, the number of tentacles had increased to eight, which showed that this deep-sea beast had moved in its true form, and the roar of the ancient desolation kept coming, and a very obvious anger could be heard in the sound.

However, its opponents were even more ferocious, as evidenced by the fact that the sea was occasionally covered in a large area of ice, and the cold mist of the forest eroded the opponent's body like a terrible virus, constantly freezing and tearing Dagon's tentacles apart.

Under such an offensive, Dagon fought and retreated, and was already far from the coastline, and the deep diver troops below lost their commander and began to scatter.

It won't be long before the battle ends with a victory for the ghouls.

"Come on, let's hurry up and open the sarcophagus."

Rick Jones rubbed his hands and strode to the square sarcophagus in the center of the platform.

The square sarcophagus in front of him resembles the one in the tomb of a skinned gnome, and is also carved with intricate reliefs that depict a half-human, half-dog ghoul worshipping an old man with a staff holding a 'strange sculpture' in his hands.

"I used to think that the sculpture was a symbol of power for a skinned gnome."

Rick touched the sarcophagus relief with his hand and continued, "I didn't expect it to be able to dominate this half-human, half-beast monster race as well. ”

"I don't think these sculptures are just symbols of power."

Bai Ye shook his head and put forward a different opinion.

He gestured to one of the reliefs—a dozen or so ghouls guarding the odd sculptures, confronting creatures of all shapes.

"Judging by the behavior of these monsters on the reliefs, their identity is more like guardians, and their actions are to protect the sculpture from being taken away by outsiders."

"Huh? Look. ”

Joey suddenly shouted, holding a magnifying glass in her hand, observing one of the strange creatures on the relief pattern of the 'Ghoul Guardian Sculpture'.

"Do you think it...... This monster looks like the frogman below?! ”

Rick Jones stepped forward, took Joey's magnifying glass, and took a closer look.

"Oh! It really is. ”

"I agree with White Night."

Joey looked back at the devastated plaza below, "The meaning of this relief pattern is obvious, these fish frogmen have probably always coveted the sculpture and have always wanted to seize it, and this is certainly not the first time that a war like this has happened." ”

"Aha, there's a good chance your statement is true, which makes me even more interested in the origin and background of the sculpture!"

Rick clenched his fists, his face excited.

"The answer may be revealed when we have all the quirky sculptures gathered."

Bai Ye approached the sarcophagus and noticed that the surface of the sarcophagus was also inlaid with a square gem that glowed blue.

He remembered that the gem had a hidden property that made the gravity of an object disappear, but when you held it in your hand, the system would only give a very simple introduction.

"Gems? We also did a lot of research on the last gemstone, but unfortunately ...... Haven't been able to achieve much. ”

Rick explained to Bai Ye that the gem last time was given to him by Bai Ye, and he thought it was necessary to let Bai Ye know about the gem.

"We've experimented with other objects, and the gravity disappearance of the gemstone doesn't work, which means it only works on the lid of this sarcophagus."

Rick said as he reached for the lid of the sarcophagus in front of him.

Shh

The sarcophagus made a deflated sound, and the heavy lid lifted up a little and was easily pushed aside by Rick.

Inside the sarcophagus, lies a strange sculpture that looks the size of a skull, resembling a monster covered in scales, with multiple ugly tentacled heads and a pair of rudimentary bat-shaped wings on its back, which has a mysterious and terrifying connotation as a whole.

Rick reached in, carefully picked up the strange sculpture, and said with some excitement: "Finally got it, all our efforts and sacrifices have not been in vain!" ”

Bai Ye abruptly interrupted on the side: "Let's wait until you successfully escape, the monsters below are all going crazy." ”

This is the normal story flow, adventurers will be chased by a large wave of monsters after obtaining the treasure, and must go on a dangerous and thrilling escape before the end of the story can usher in the rescue of a helicopter, or a horse galloping against the backdrop of yellow sand at sunset, or hugging each other tightly and throwing their tongues at each other's lips.

Therefore, Bai Ye and the three of them must not be an exception at this time.

From the moment Rick Jones picked up the strange sculpture, the ghouls in the square who had not died in the battle against their old enemies suddenly locked their eyes in the direction of the stone platform on the cliff.

Their eyes were red, and they let out angry roars, and they all put down what they were doing and began to crawl towards the three members of the expedition.

Far beyond the mountain, the ghoul king Mordiggian had sensed it.

It immediately gave up its pursuit of Dagon, the runes on its arms flashed with a faint blue light, and the cold mist condensed an ice path directly on the surface of the sea that led to the mountain square, allowing it to run back as wildly as it wanted.

"Let's go, go to the top of the mountain."

Rick hurriedly loaded the sculpture into his backpack, but took out his mountaineering pickaxe and beckoned Bai Ye and Joey to continue climbing the cliff.

……