Chapter 9: Opening the Ancestral Ruins
Bucky remembered that Chris had said that there was a way to open the secret passage of the ancestral ruins on the parchment scroll. In fact, the lowest part of the parchment is not written in the world, but in ancient cuneiform.
In other words, if no one can decipher the meaning contained in the text, Bucky's treasure hunt is likely to be fruitless, and if he can't decipher the secret, he will try to bomb the place with Bucky Shells - a terrifying cannonball that can destroy a town with a single shot.
However, Robin's sudden appearance makes this matter not so troublesome.
Robin slowly walked to the front of the statue, unfurled the parchment, and placed it on an uneven platform of stone troughs in front of the fractured statue.
Bucky curiously followed, standing beside Robin, his eyes fixed on the parchment.
The moonlight poured on the uneven stone trough platform, probably because of the uneven distribution of the air above Jiali Island, the location of this stone trough illuminated the moonlight was the richest and brightest, and the original map and cuneiform writing on the surface of the parchment scroll dimmed under the moonlight, and began to show strange patterns inside, piecing together another map.
Robin explained: "This stone trough should be a breathing stone, it is blocked by a parchment roll on it, like a person is covered with a mouth and nose, the stone will secrete a strange liquid, with the special ink on the parchment roll and the richest moonlight, the real secret of this picture will emerge." β
Bucky nodded secretly, "Miss Robin, you are really a knowledgeable and intelligent archaeologist!" β
"Ka Chirp Ka Chirp!" For some reason, the big octopus also became a little excited.
Robin looked at the map on the parchment scroll and said, "Rednose-kun, there is a switch twenty meters to the west and sixteen meters to the north, you go to that location and listen to my instructions." β
When Bucky got to that position, Robin also walked to another stone brick next to the altar and said to Bucky, "There's a mechanism to open the door where we're standing, I'll count three two one, and step down at the same time." β
Bucky nodded, "No problem. β
"Three ......"
"Two ......"
"One!"
As the two of them stepped the stone below, the stone bricks in the center of the altar began to make a "boom" sound, and the two stone doors on the ground slowly parted inward and on both sides, and a dark path leading to the underground appeared in front of them.
"Kachiu!" The big octopus suddenly became very excited, and ran to the ground in disregard, only to be dragged back by Bucky with the rope.
"Octopus fillet, be honest, or I'll have to think about whether it's slightly sweet or slightly spicy!"
Forced by Bucky's obscenity, the big octopus did not dare to protest directly, but spit out ink in his mouth, drew a turtle pattern on the ground, and then pointed at Bucky with a tentacle, pointed at the turtle picture with one tentacle, and looked at Bucky with a shy: "Ka Jiu Ka Jiu!" β
Knock knock knock......
Bucky mercilessly left a three-layer bag on the octopus's head, only then did he withdraw his hot fist, and the big octopus suddenly spun around and couldn't stand.
After waiting for a moment, Robin took out the lit candle and placed it on the palm of one of the open hands on the ground at the entrance of the passage, and the candle was flickering and flickering, and finally it was not extinguished.
"We can go down."
After deciding that there was enough oxygen underneath, Robin walked straight down the steps, and Bucky led the big octopus and followed.
The rock wall below looked like it was supposed to be artificially polished and smooth, rather than a naturally occurring cave, and there was no sound around it, only the slight footsteps of a few people.
Although this one-way road made several turns, there were no expected pitfalls.
"There's a secret door here." Observing carefully, Robin reached out and pressed against the rock wall beside him, and the huge stone door rumbled and turned, and a stone room was reflected in the light of an oil lamp.
"Kachiu!" The big octopus suddenly broke free of the rope and rushed in with great excitement, and its body was only halfway inside, when the two rows of spears sunk in the stone cracks on both sides of the roof and the ground suddenly closed, like the teeth of a sea king.
The big octopus moved quickly, its speed suddenly doubled, and escaped the moment the spear closed, and it spat out a few times humanely: "Ka Ji Ka Chirp ......"
"Gragraβ"
The spear mechanically moved in place, slowly retracting into the crack.
Looking at the behavior of the big octopus, Bucky was puzzled, this big octopus didn't seem to be familiar with this place, didn't the power on its body come from here?
Robin held the oil lamp high, but the faint light was not enough to illuminate the darkness in the stone chamber.
"Miss Robin, give me the lamp."
Bucky took the oil lamp from Robin's hand and separated the palm of the lamp. Cautiously dangling into the stone chamber.
The palm of the hand moved in the air, illuminating the surrounding stone walls one by one, and there were no carved words or images, and when I looked at the ground, the ground was so potholed that I couldn't see where the traps were.
The entire stone room was probed by the light, and there was no trace of the golden treasure, it was an empty room.
The big octopus moved its head intently to the light in Bucky's hand in the process, and finally had a dejected look on his face.
"It's strange why there is no mechanism, so there is nothing." Bucky withdrew his hand with intent, handing the lamp back to Robin.
Robin followed Bucky's words, explaining Bucky's confusion as he walked: "The stone chamber here has a long history, and it is likely that the aborigines of that era set up a mechanism to lure invading enemies, and it stands to reason that the stone chamber will have gold treasures as bait, and of course it is also possible that the treasure inside has been plundered by the invaders, so it has become an empty room." β
There wasn't much change in the expression on Robin's face, she wasn't a person who showed her inner thoughts easily, and continued to lead the way cautiously in front of her with an oil lamp.
The two of them walked through the passage with an octopus, and soon saw a half-cut stone statue lying on the ground, and when they looked closer, it looked like the upper body of the broken stone statue in the altar.
The statue was of a muscular man, holding a harpoon in his right hand and his left hand on his chest, with a hairy face that looked wild.
Robin crouched down, looked at the half-section of the statue repeatedly, and muttered for a moment: "The upper body of the statue outside...... How did you end up here, Rednose-kun, what do you think? β
Bucky glanced at the large octopus that didn't respond, and said, "It looks like someone put it here on purpose...... Keep moving forward, and maybe there will be an answer ahead. β
"Well......" Robin replied softly, stood up, and walked forward slowly.
The two of them walked very cautiously and slowly, and the journey that would have taken only two or three minutes took nearly ten minutes, without encountering any traps along the way.
At the end of the underground passage was a stone wall, and Robin reached out and pressed the switch when he found the switch on the side.
"Boom-"
The huge stone wall opened in response to the sound and slowly merged into the mezzanine.
Looking at the rotating stone door, Bucky couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, there should be a treasure inside!
It is important to know that pirates do not have a stable rear base to provide maintenance and daily expenses, so most pirates rely on raiding villages and towns to replenish supplies, becoming maggots-like existences.
If there is enough treasure in the stone chamber to solve these costs for Bucky, then the next step to enter the Great Voyage will be much smoother.
Finally, the stone gate was all merged into the mezzanine, and there was a ...... in front of me
Navy!!!