Chapter 232
"Listen, there's the sound of water dripping." Veil walked ahead, and in the empty cavity of the earth, there was the sound of water droplets hitting the water.
Walking all the way from the place down, there is a huge stone space, but there are few branches.
The two of them continued to walk forward, passing through a passageway, and Weir stopped in front of him, "It's the end of here, there's no road ahead." ”
Under the firelight, a stone bridge appeared in front of the foot of Weir, but the section in front of Weier's foot had collapsed and collapsed, and the jagged and sharp stones on the bridge deck highlighted the dark background below it in the firelight.
"It's a broken bridge, Veel, and it seems like you can go down here." Eletair followed, his magically blessed night vision eyes looking around, "Far on the other side, just on the other side. ”
Wiel struggled to look forward with his torch, but could not see the broken bridge on the other side in the light of the fire.
"Not even the light of the fire. It looks like it's still a hassle to jump over...... However, it is not impossible. ”
"We can go down and have a look." Elletair suggested.
"What's down there?" Weir asked, holding the torch and walking to the sides.
The bridge was disbursed, and there was a huge cavity underneath, at least to Weyer, and the bottom was not visible.
"Down, it's dark...... Wait, there's the reflection of your torches, it's supposed to be water, no wonder. Elletair bent down and looked down. Maybe we can make it to the water. ”
Weir hesitated, "You say this?" I don't want to go unless I have to. Weir shook his head, then reached into his backpack behind his back, took out a small piece of meat bought at the bazaar, and threw it underneath.
In Elletaire's eyes, the small piece of flesh fell downward, and the water was far deeper than she could see. The small piece of meat fell into the water, and suddenly, two small bubbles appeared on the water, and there was a gurgling in the water, and the small piece of meat that was slowly sinking suddenly disappeared.
"What's that?" Eltail said subconsciously. With that, she raised her head and looked at Vere, only to see a solemn look on her face.
"The voice just now...... I'm afraid there are some very unfriendly creatures down there. Weir whispered.
"But we can't go anywhere else, there are no ruins in the place we came to before, only some ruins here." Elletel said.
"We shouldn't have gone wrong, after all, there were no branches in the road before." Ver walked to the front of the broken bridge, "Looks like we can get past here, we should be able to get to the ruins." ”
"Looking at the appearance of this bridge, it must have been deliberately destroyed...... Could it be that the mage at the time was hiding from something and deliberately destroyed the bridge? ”
Weir, on the other hand, closed his eyes and listened quietly to his surroundings, he always had a feeling that this place seemed to be visited again, but he didn't hear any special sound, "Is it just my delusion?" …… Elletaire, I have an easy solution. ”
As he spoke, Ver pulled out his ice wand.
Immediately, a cold air poured out of Weir's hands and spread over the water, freezing a thin layer of ice floe on the surface.
"Sure enough, it was right to find a helper." Eletair looked down and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm not as good as you are to reach out and help each other?" Ver handed her a long rope.
Eltail looked at the rope in Will's hand and understood what he was thinking. "Okay, you wait here, I'll go over."
With that, Elettel took the other end of the rope and ran downward, stepping on the ice, and in an instant his figure crossed the distance below, and with a slight leap, he went up the stairs from the opposite bridge to the opposite bridge.
The thin surface of ice shattered at the swordswoman's feet, turning into a ballast of ice and falling into the water, before being swallowed by the unknown creature.
The rope in Weiel's hand, who was standing on this side, let go, then tightened, and stretched straight between the broken bridges.
"Is that okay? Vere? The voice of a female swordsman came from the other side.
"Okay, pull the other side tight, and I'll go over." As he spoke, Ver tied a rope to his spear and stuck it into the ground.
Hearing the sound of Wiel, Eltail jumped the rope around a nearby stone edge, forming a long, tight ropeway between the bridges.
Ver leaned upside down and slowly crawled along the long rope to the opposite side, the torch extinguished, of course, and placed in the backpack.
The already dark void became completely dark.
At this time, climbing on the rope and coming to the broken bridge, Weir above the water found that under the water, it was not pitch black, but some dim points of light swimming underwater.
Just like the 'lantern' of the lantern fish, behind it, a long black shadow looms behind the faintly glowing point of light.
Weir's brow furrowed slightly, "How can there be such a creature here...... Could it be that there is some dark river connected under this pool? Without much thought, Vere followed the rope and climbed to the opposite side of the broken bridge.
"Just leave it like that, and you can use it when you come back." Will landed on the broken bridge, and the female swordsman on the side nodded.
"We've come to the right place, Will, look here." Elletair waited for Wiel to rekindle the torch and lead him to a stone doorframe. "There should have been a stone gate here before, and we've come to the right place."
"It's going well, and we'll be able to find what we're looking for soon." Ver nodded, holding his torch and dangling around the stone door. "Look, there's some markings on this."
The attentive Wille saw an aqua blue pattern in one part of the stone door, and could not see what it was, because a large piece should have been painted on the door, but the stone door had disappeared, and only the door frame remained.
"You say, could this be a sign to us of where this is?"
"It's been too long, who knows?" The swordswoman didn't pay much attention, "Let's go inside, if this is a ruin, we should not be far from the mage's hermitage." ”
"To be honest, I feel like we're coming in through the back door."
"Regardless of his back door and front door, it's not easy to find it now."
"Are you sure no one has been here before?"
"Believe me, at least the entrance we came down didn't have, but the last time we came, we didn't bring anything with us......"
The sound gradually faded away from the stone door frame, and the waterhole returned to calm, only occasionally there was a strange sound of water like water droplets, sounding on the water surface, and the broken lines of water blue on the stone door frame seemed to be faintly lit up in the darkness.
Ver and Eltail walked through the stone door frame and inside. The sides turned into stone corridors, and occasionally some blue and red mushrooms grew from between the cracks in the stones, and Wille picked many of them.
"Well, it's better not to touch those things, who knows what toxins they have?" Eltail looked at Ver curiously, "Mr. Wiel, it looks like you're a fan of collecting these strange things. ”
"Strange stuff?" Will took a mushroom and looked at it and put it in his backpack, "Is it strange?" Not surprising...... It's okay, I won't eat it anyway, I won't be poisoned. ”
Eltail shook her head, "That's weird. …… Well? ”
Eletair stopped suddenly, "There's a hole in front of you. ”
"Oh? Is the stone gallery at the end? Vere wanted to lift the torch forward to see clearly.
"Wait a minute!" The female swordsman hurriedly pressed Weier's hand, "You smell it...... There is something strange about the taste here. ”
"Huh? …… Flavor...... What does it taste like? No? Ver sniffed, and had no olfactory sensation, except that his head seemed to be a little dizzy.
"It's exploding air...... I'm afraid only I can smell this smell, Wel...... Put out the torches, if you set those things on fire, this place will be blown up. ”
"So serious? Is it the smell of gas? …… Do you know not only cat's eyes, but also dog noses? Vere quickly put away the torches.
The female swordsman was slightly embarrassed when she heard Will's question, but did not say anything.
"Hey......" took two steps forward, "The stone corridor is over, and there is a cave in it." Although there were no torches, Ver could still faintly see something, the stone pillars that stood were thick at both ends and thin in the middle, and they were jagged in the hole, like pillars one after another.
"Will, you have to follow me, we have to get out of ...... quickly."
"Well, let's go quickly, it's not good to stay in the gas for a long time." Wiel woke up and breathed in the air that always smelled stinking from nowhere.