Chapter 16: The Falling Peaks
Early the next morning, Dai Dameng and other fifty-two people lined up in a neat line, roaring the song of the dragonborn, and set off towards the Hanluo Mountain Peak. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Located between Snowman City and Creek Town, Hanluo Mountain is a rolling mountain range. The Hanluo Mountain Peak mentioned by Dai Dameng and others is actually an ancient tomb on the highest peak of the Hanluo Mountain Range.
They walked west along the avenue, and soon arrived at the western watchtower, twenty miles away.
Once a fortress, all that remains is a lone watchtower, ruined, scorched, and blackened with huge paw prints.
Dragons are so powerful and terrifying that they can easily destroy a military fortress.
According to the record of "How the Dragonborn is Refined", when Grabbing Genbao came back from the Hanluo Mountain Peak and sent the dragon stone to Longxiao Palace, a giant dragon attacked the western sentry tower, Grabgen Bao and Irelais led a team of Snow Man guards to support, after a fierce battle, all the Snow Man guards were killed, and finally grabbed Genbao to kill the dragon, absorb the dragon soul, and were recognized as Dragonborn.
For them, this is a holy place. The fifty-two brothers, as if they had a good heart, immediately split up, rummaging through the broken bricks and rocks to see if they could find some souvenirs.
The five guards of the western watchtower were terrified, they had never seen so many well-dressed and nervous homeless people. The five guards immediately drew their weapons and were on full alert.
"Who?" The Xueman guards led by him shouted at Dai Dameng, "What are you doing? Several of the other guards drew their bows and arrows at Dai Dameng.
The guards were all wearing helmets and their faces were so tightly covered that they couldn't see their expressions, but they seemed to be upset when they heard the tone.
Especially the cold and shining arrows, Dai Dameng's legs were cold, and he hurriedly waved his hand and explained: "Hey, don't shoot arrows, your own people." I'm a rat-slayer warrior of Lord Qinfeng, and I was drinking and chatting with General Caius last night. ā
"Rat Slayer," the guards immediately put away their weapons, and said the man in the lead, "We have heard of you, what are you doing here when you are not recuperating from your wounds in the snowman?" ā
"Actually, we're just passing through here," said Dai Dameng to the guard, "We're going to the Hanluo Peak, do you know the way?" ā
"You also want to go treasure hunting in the ancient tombs there?" The guards laughed, "Don't go. Since the news of the discovery of the ancient tomb on the peak of Hanluo Mountain spread, several groups of adventurers have gone there in the past month to hunt for treasure. I bet the ghouls of the Coldfall Mountains have been stripped of their pants by now! ā
"I don't believe it." Dai Dameng patted his chest and said, "The Hanluo Mountain Peak obviously has dragon stones and golden dragon claws. ā
The Snow Man guard was amused and asked, "Who said that?" ā
Dai Dameng took out "How the Dragonborn Practiced" and said, "The book says it." ā
The guard scolded directly: "It's pure fart!" ā
"This book is the Bard slapping the Dragonborn's ass." He said angrily, "The book only talks about the great feats of the dragonborn slaying dragons, but there are no fifty guards who died in battle. They only praise heroes, but no one cares about the nobodies who have died, and I have heard that the widow of one of the guards and her six-year-old daughter makes a living by selling vegetables, and is harassed from time to time by the damned bard. ā
Another guard said, "The book doesn't say that the Snowman Guards weren't all killed, and that the most powerful of them, the pride of the Snowman Guards, Saint White Cole, turned into a blue-eyed monster before his dying experience and disappeared after the battle. ā
Dai Dameng had a disagreement with the guards and broke up unhappily. With the brothers, they continued to the peak of Hanluo Mountain, and in the afternoon, they finally arrived at the ancient tomb on the top of the mountain.
It is a large ancient Nord ruin, with many tall stone pillars and wide staircases, and a huge burial chamber that blends into the mountain, which is very spectacular.
The altitude is very high, and the snow does not melt all year round. There were several corpses in the snow, both men and women, as the guards had said, all naked, without a single strip of cloth on them.
The door of the tomb was open, and there were torches lit inside, and Dai Dameng and others immediately entered the tomb and found ......
Clean!
It's so clean!
There was nothing of value in the tomb.
There are two rows of tombs carved into the stone wall, just large and narrow enough for the corpse to lie down. Most of the tombs contained a dried corpse. Gray skin, crumpled against the body, dry, thin and disgusting. As the guards said, the dried corpses were also naked, without a shroud.
Dai Dameng and the others couldn't help but be stunned, those adventurers were all poor and crazy, right? However, they were not discouraged, after all, this time it was for the dragonstone and the golden dragon claw, so they hurried inside.
"Hahaha......" There was a dry and strange laugh, and a dry corpse lying still suddenly had a blue light in its eyes, and it stood up and rushed towards Dai Dameng and them with its fists raised.
"With a bare ass, you still have a smile on your face." Damon slapped it down with a shield.
So easy to do? Dai Dameng pouted. These dried corpses, when lying down, are called dry corpses, and when they stand up, they are called ghouls, and they are one of the monsters that adults scare children.
They continued to walk forward, and a few more ghouls got up, and without Dai Dameng's hand, the brothers took stones up and smashed them wildly, and a dozen people surrounded a ghoul and smashed the ghoul to lie down in an instant.
They continued to walk inside, and occasionally a ghoul got up, but they were all bare-handed, and it was not a danger at all, and the more they fought, the happier they became.
It's a pity that nothing was found that could be sold for money, and all the traps and traps were destroyed, and even the metal nails on them were buckled. Dai Dameng couldn't help but sigh that the tomb robbers were really crazy.
But there was one thing he couldn't understand, why did he light torches all the way?
Dai Dameng has an advantage, don't think about it if you don't understand it. They passed through a stone gate and came to the depths of the tomb, a valley with gloomy vegetation and roaring water, and a waterfall in the middle of the valley.
In the center of antiquity, there is a two-meter-high circular platform with a diameter of more than ten meters, on which is placed a black sarcophagus, behind which there is a semi-circular wall with rows of strange characters engraved. The strokes of those words were like the claws of some very large animal.
This was the end of the burial chamber, and as it was written in the book, Dai Dameng was very happy, and the book said that the dragon stone was hidden in this black sarcophagus.
But there is a little strangeness, the book says that entering this valley requires the golden dragon claw to open the stone gate, and now that the stone gate is open, where is the golden dragon claw?
"Forget it, let's get the dragon stone first." Dai Dameng immediately beckoned the brothers to lift the sarcophagus lid and clicked. The sarcophagus lid rose in response, surprisingly light.
Dai Dameng was wondering when the sarcophagus lid suddenly fell to the ground, and a tall ghoul stood up from the sarcophagus.
Unlike the sleek ghouls before, this ghoul had bright blue flames in his eyes, just like the man in black that Xue Man had encountered.
The ghoul wore a black helmet with two sharp horns, and a tattered black armor that seemed to be embedded in the body, stuck to the tight flesh.
The book says that Grab Genbao killed a ghoul scourge monarch in the Coldfall Mountains, presumably this one, I don't know why he is alive again.
Although the ghoul looked hideous, he was also bare-handed, and Dai Dameng was undaunted, and raised his sword and slashed at his head.
The ghoul stood still, as if unaware. Dai Dameng was secretly happy in his heart, and the long sword went straight to his neck and fell.
Suddenly, the ghoul puffed up his chest and took a deep breath, and he opened his mouth and let out a loud explosion with a loud bang, "Luo...... Reach! ā
Dai Dameng felt as if his chest was hit by a giant hammer, a huge force hit, and his body wanted to be torn apart, he took several steps back and squatted on the ground.
Brother Fifty-Two raised his orchid finger and shouted at the ghoul, "Smash it!" The others threw stones at the ghoul.
"Ho Ho ......" the ghoul rushed into the crowd, waving his arms like a tiger into a flock. Dai Dameng's brothers were knocked away like sandbags, and they screamed for a while.
The screams of his brother irritated Dai Dameng's nerves, and he struggled to his feet, shouting: "Get out of the way, let me come!" He rushed over and swung his sword and struck the ghoul in the neck, and to his surprise, the ghoul's neck was so tough and hard that the long sword couldn't cut in.
The ghoul was in pain, turned around and slapped it, and Dai Dameng hurriedly raised his shield to block. Dai Dameng was born with divine power, and his two arms were full of strength, which was comparable to that of a brute bull, but he didn't expect that the ghoul had more strength than him. A slap on the shield almost cracked the shield, and Dai Dameng's arm was numb.
The ghoul couldn't strike a blow, and stumbled and rushed over, pounced and clawed, and Dai Dameng fled in embarrassment.
Cutting and chopping could not move, the strength was not as great as it, and Dai Dameng was so anxious that he was sweating.
At this time, he remembered Selene's words, "The ghouls are stupid and clumsy, and they are not as smart as you...... Dai Dameng suddenly had an idea in his heart.
He fought and retreated, retreating to the edge of the waterfall, and the ghoul pounced on him with great force, and Dai Dameng flashed his head down.
The ghoul rushed straight into the waterfall and fell into the pool, waving his hands and feet wildly, up and down, and probably not coming up for a while.
Dai Dameng breathed a sigh of relief, approached the sarcophagus, and found that there were two things inside. One is a pentagonal stone, cyan, with delicate gold stripes on it, drawn as a map of Skyrim Province with a few dots. There was a note on the stone, written on the dragon stone, the handwriting was beautiful and clean, and it looked like it was written by the girl. The other is a golden claw, the size of a palm, with three toes, and the claw handle is engraved with the image of a bear, an eagle, and a owl, and a note with a golden dragon claw written on it.
The book said that it was good, and sure enough, they found the dragon stone and the golden dragon claw, Dai Dameng and the others were very happy and left the tomb happily. Descending from the cold falling peak, he roared the song of the Dragonborn all the way and went straight to Ximu Town.