363 Dungeon
Taking advantage of the fog to disperse, the group couldn't think much about it, the barbarians were reluctant to abandon those provisions, while desperately stuffing them into their mouths, while carrying the hand-held ones on their shoulders to take them away, and finally Wutong couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to release the first-order spell [Floating Saucer Technique] that he felt was the most useless, and used transparent floating saucers to transport away those big burdens wrapped in animal skins.
Perhaps it was because they had "killed" the Fire Elemental Skeletron, and the rest of the journey went very smoothly, and the team that had been walking for a night never encountered any more monsters, and because the fog had cleared, their movement speed increased greatly, until they finally reached their destination on the map before dawn
Standing on the edge of a huge city ruins, Wutong looked at the long series of force field floats that followed behind him, some of which were wrapped in huge animal skins, and a few of them sat on them with little Lori and a few mage sister papers, Wutong had to praise the barbarians' appetite was very good and strong, and they ate nearly one-fifth of the supplies along the way, freeing up some force field floats for the mage sister papers to ride.
But that's almost the end of it, Wutong waved his hand to disperse those force field floats, and the things carried on it fell with a bang, including the girls, which immediately caused a burst of exclamations and complaints.
Even if Sycamore didn't do this, they would have fallen down later, because even with the amplification of the Fire Suit, the level 7 [Floating Saucer Technique] could only maintain its existence for 7 hours and carry a weight of 700 pounds, and it was not permanent, and after a night of traveling, it was almost time limit.
The leader of the barbarians, who had almost been hit by an oak barrel, roared angrily at Sycamore, who shrugged, "Alright, Cole, this food is placed here, no skeleton will be interested in it." Besides, there is no way to move when you go in with these things, so you can bring some with you to replenish your strength at any time, and throw the rest here, and take it with us when we leave. ”
I don't know if it was because of the victory over the skeletons, they didn't encounter any other monsters along the way in the second half of the night, and went directly through the territory of the skeletons and arrived at their destination, a ruin located in the depths of the Weeping Wilderness - it is said that this is the remains of a mysterious alchemy laboratory left behind by the extinction of the ancient goblin civilization more than 5,000 years ago before history (-5000 years).
Of course, it's just a legend, a place like this that is rumored to be the remains of an ancient goblin civilization, on the Kovarare continent, there are not a hundred but eighty, and many people like to press things they don't understand in the ancient history that cannot be verified to prove their erudition.
But then again, before humans ruled the Kovarare continent and dominated civilization, the goblin civilization was indeed a highly developed civilization.
As early as 36,000 years ago (-36,000) before history, goblins had established the first ancient goblin kingdom on the continent of Kovaré, and since then, many ancient goblin kingdoms have blossomed all over the continent of Kovare.
Around 30,000 years ago (-30,000) before history, another indigenous race on the Kovarare continent, the Orcs, rose up in the western part of the Kovaré continent and established a huge orc empire, and began to fight against the goblins.
In order to fight against the increasingly powerful orc empire, 16,000 years ago (-16000), in order to compete with the murderous orcs for living space and rich territory, a great goblin king "Dakani" unified all the goblin kingdoms and established the huge [Dakan Goblin Empire]
In the tens of thousands of years of survival war, the high-level goblins have created a glorious civilization far beyond modern humans, and only a small part of the civilization legacy they have left behind has been inherited by humans.
As a result, when adventurers occasionally dig up some remnants of ancient goblin civilization from certain ruins and bring them back to the town, a large number of polymath scholars will always be able to study and try to reproduce the various magical items invented and created by the ancient high-level goblins.
Goblins are creatures with amazing tenacious vitality, although the ancient goblin civilization has perished, and most of them have faded into a primitive and barbaric race, but their numbers have not decreased at all, and they are still like weeds in the wasteland, tenacious and tenacious survival.
The ruins of this city in [Wailing Wilderness], one of the most credible of the many legendary ancient goblin civilization ruins, are first and foremost [Wailing Wilderness] is inaccessible, and not many people are willing to set foot in this cursed land full of undead creatures.
Even if someone comes in without fear of death, it is difficult to go back alive after arriving here, adventure is a profession, but knowing that you can't come back and still go, then it's not an adventure but looking for death, so this is the most complete one of the many ancient goblin civilization ruins.
Secondly, in some historical documents, it is indeed mentioned that the northeast of the Duchy of Andel is the capital of the [Dakan Goblin Empire], and it is also the site of the origin of the Goblin Emperor Dakani [Dakani City].
However, there are historical sources that prove that 14,000 years ago (-14,000) before history, the Hokuriku barbarians who migrated from the northernmost part of the [Kovarare Continent], the Hokuriku on the other side of the [Sea of Tribulation], and the [Iluscan Continent], destroyed and occupied this place.
In the face of these tall enemies who are several times their height, the high-ranking goblins of the [Dakan Goblin Empire] can only reluctantly abandon the northern territory and the capital of the empire [Dakani City], retreat to the south, and move the capital to the territory of the former [Kingdom of Serre], which is now the capital of the [Kingdom of Dagon] [Lucanzor].
But this is only the beginning of the tragedy of the [Dakan Goblin Empire], about 12,000 years ago (-12000) BC, the dwarves also migrated from the [Frostfall Homeland] of the [Iluscan Continent] to the Kovarare Continent, occupying the [Tiegen Mountains] in the east of the continent, and the territory of the [Dakan Goblin Empire] began to shrink.
About 10,000 years ago (-10,000) ago, the elves of the southern [Eleno Continent] crossed the [Storm Sea] and easily put the southeast of the Kovarare Continent under the rule of the elves.
Nine thousand years ago (-9000) before history, an apocalyptic disaster befell the Kovarare continent, the world fell into chaos, more than 4,000 years of historical materials were lost, and finally five thousand years ago (-5000) before history, the ancient goblin empire with a history of tens of thousands of years on the Kovarare continent finally fell apart and was destroyed, and the goblins withdrew from the stage of history.
It wasn't until more than 3,000 years ago (-3000) that humans officially landed in Kovaré and became a member of the Kovarare continent, and so far, it is only more than 5,000 years old (+2012).
If the indigenous races are fighting for survival, and humans are fighting for war, it only took a few thousand years for human beings to completely erase the history and traces left by the indigenous people of Kovaré, and now, people can only learn from some myths and legends, as well as the research reports of archaeologists that have only a few words, to know the sporadic stories that have happened on this continent.
Regardless of whether this huge city ruins were the capital of the [Dakan Goblin Empire] and the ruins of [Dakani City], in fact, it didn't matter to Wutong, because they didn't come to archaeology, but to find clues to the inaugural mission, as long as they knew that the damn Auraon Martial Arts Academy trial team that had been missing for an unknown number of years had indeed entered here.
Fortunately, the Goblin Alchemy Laboratory marked on the map that Lin Linling had rubbed in the Goblin Tribe Sacrifice Hall was only on the periphery of this [Dakani City] ruins, and from their point of view, it would take about half an hour or so to reach it.
Although after passing through the territory of the skeletons, there were no monsters encountered along the way, and this city, which only has a large area of broken walls covered with the earth, does not look like there are monster activities, but it is scary if there are no monsters, if they can, they are not even willing to come close here, if you want to say that there are no monsters in a notorious murderous place, will anyone believe it?
Anyway, they don't believe in the sycamore who almost died on the edge, so it is necessary to reduce the weight so that it can deal with emergencies at any time, with a large string of floating saucers, the sycamore can't even have a stable spell in a state of concentration, in this case, either the spell fails, or the float technique fails, or simply can't take care of both ends, in this way, it is better to just throw the excess supplies outside.
"This way!"
Holding the map given to him by Lin Linling, Pea looked at the leader while looking at it, with a blank expression, which made people very uneasy, but there was no way, there was only him in the team as a treasure hunter type wanderer, and even infinite could not be qualified for this job.
The surface buildings of [Dakani City] are only a fragment of ruined stone, and Pea can only judge its former use by the collapsed and chaotic buildings that expose the foundations of the ground, so as to find the landmark buildings to determine their location and the direction of the alchemy laboratory.
Watching the peas lying on the stones from time to time, taking out a ruler and charcoal, marking and calculating on a piece of parchment, the sycamore looked around nervously, vigilantly around.
Although there is no thick layer of gray fog like cotton wool on the periphery, whether it is the sky or the ground, it looks so gray, coupled with the silence, even the stones here exude a thick dead air, and the psychological pressure caused to people is quite large, everyone involuntarily closed their mouths, as much as possible not to make a sound, and even the breathing was suppressed very lightly, even the barbarians who were babbling along the way, they were tiptoeing at this time.
"I think I know why there are no more monsters" Xiangyuan muttered softly, "It's dawn, and they're all back to sleep." ”
"you! The undead are not the same thing as our Eastern ghosts, right? Although they hate the sun, they will not turn into green smoke and disappear in the sun 'biu~'."
July Liuhuo babbled: "Besides, the environment here is so gloomy, they can come out even during the day, right?" ”
"Maybe they don't like the bright place and go underground?" Xiang Yuan raised the bar with him: "Maybe we accidentally stepped on something after a while, and a lot of rotting zombies appeared around us, and skeletons with missing arms and broken legs."
The mage sister concubine Wow, confused and threatening, Chong Xiangyuan waved her pink little fist: "I warn you! It's scary enough! If you say these horrible things again, I'll beat you up!" ”
July Liuhuo and Xiangyuan shrank their heads, and in this team of yin and yang, the status of players with male surnames was automatically lowered.
"What's there to be afraid of, this is not a horror movie."
July Drifter tried his best to look calm, but his eyes still revealed his true thoughts.
"It's a lot scary than a horror movie!"
Even the elven royal sister Shadow Light Moon, who has always been calm, can't help but be very uneasy, as an elf clan and a female surname, she has a keener perception than others, and she always feels that there seems to be something around them spying on them, which makes her feel hairy.
"Found it!"
While they were muttering, Pea suddenly jumped up excitedly and said with a smile: "Xiangyuan, you guessed half right, our destination is underground, but I don't know if there are sleeping undead creatures in it." ”
Not far away, he pointed to a noticeably raised mound, which seemed to be the base of a building, but the collapsed stone had been covered with dust and dirt that looked like a small hill.
"I hate going underground!" The handsome foreigner Ais muttered with a big tongue, and pulled out his two-handed big sword, he actually has such a thing as a staff.
"Are you sure it's here?"
Walking to the small hill where the grass does not grow, Wutong looked around, but did not find the entrance: "How do we get in?" ”
No matter how strong the building is, it can't stop the passage of time, and there must be nothing of value on the surface, whether it is tens of thousands of years ago or not, the ruins are usually underground.
"I know how to get in, and it's not wrong on the map! It's written, but the map is a house, but now it's a big mound, how do I know where the entrance is? ”
Pea spread his hands, also said that there was nothing he could do, he was a treasure thief, yes, but he was not an architect, he could see the direction of the building, and in this ghost place, he couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest.
Reminded by Pea, Wutong suddenly remembered that he had studied [architecture] and [engineering], although it was only theoretical knowledge, but he could see some clues, so he had to go up alone, and began to carefully observe the foundation of the building that was buried in the dirt, revealing no corners and corners, trying to distinguish that there was the gate.
"This is the colonnade. This is the backyard" Wutong looked for a while, discerned the direction of the building, raised his head happily, pointed to a small pile of stones not far from him, and exclaimed, "There! Dig it up, it should be"
"Boom!"
Before Wutong's words were finished, among the players who helped find the entrance, one of the guys was very unlucky to step on the ground, and fell down without even saying a word, and in the gap in the collapsed ground, a pillar of smoke erupted!
"Excellent! Let's not dig anymore! Lin Linling carefully stood in the gap and looked down.
"Uh" Wutong scratched his head, turned his head to look at the entrance he found, shrugged his shoulders, and walked over, in fact, he didn't need to go through the entrance, he could get in, right?
Xiangyuan stood next to the gap and shouted, "Hey! Are you still alive? After not responding for a long time, he nodded: "Very good, non-combat attrition!" ”
"Do you want to wake up all the monsters and welcome us in the mezzanine?" Sycamore pushed him aside and looked down as well, where a mage had already thrown [Dancing Light] down, and below was a wide passage, but now only one end was left revealing a small gap, and he could barely climb through the rubble if he cleared it.
Without Wutong's instructions, the warrior players took out ropes and wood from their backpacks, began to make simple rope ladders, and laid pitons on the rocks that felt relatively solid as support, and soon more than a dozen rope ladders were put down, and everyone climbed down the rope ladder one by one, and then drilled into the small gap.
Walked in the dark passage, everyone was quiet, the lighting brightness of the dance light technique was obviously not as good as the eternal torch, fortunately, there were a lot of such props in the hands of the sycamore, after the person sent one, the bright yellow light, the passage was found to be delicate, but in the place where the light in front of him could not shine, it was pitch black as if some monster swallowed the light.
"With such a big movement, there are still no monsters coming out, so there really aren't any monsters here, right?"
Xiao San followed Wutong suspiciously, but Wutong suddenly stopped, everyone quickly stopped because of his movements, listened for a while, and turned his head to look at Wutong in infinite doubt: "What's wrong?" Don't you hear a sound? ”
"It's not a sound!" Sycamore's eyes widened, trying to distinguish what was hidden in the black in front of him: "It's the taste!" Do you smell anything? ”
"Taste?" As soon as he reminded him, everyone sniffed their noses, and most of them were at a loss, but Pea covered his nose and scolded: "! It's a corpse stench! ”
"Corpse stench?"
"Why didn't I smell it?"
"I didn't smell it either!"
"Your noses are broken! You can't smell such a heavy corpse? ”
"Impossible? It's been closed here for I don't know how many years, how can there still be a smell of corpses? ”
"That's it! Even if there were corpses, they would have turned to bones or simply turned to ashes! How can it still taste! ”
Everyone was gossiping, and Sycamore suddenly launched a ball of [Light Technique] forward, and after a flash of light, Sycamore shouted, "Be careful! It's a ghoul! He said how could it feel so familiar! It's the ghoul he'd encountered in the ruins of the underground temple!
And there's more than one!! It's a big bunch!!
(To be continued)