In front of this vast desert Gobi, there is a disfigured building that has been eroded by the wind and sand, it has no roof to protect it from the wind and rain, and most of the walls have collapsed due to the passage of time, if you look down from the air, you will see such a scene......

This is not just a lonely building in the vast and boundless Gobi, this is an ancient city without any people, the old city wall is full of countless shocking cracks, the far part of the city wall is still crawling with creepers, and the farther city wall has collapsed because of the corroded relationship of the wall, and the ancient city wall guarding this ancient city can no longer stop anyone......

In this ancient city, there are the ruins of the mountains and water in the city, the dilapidated houses and various buildings, the stone bridge that I don't know if you can pass through people and carriages, the lake pavilion in the middle of the lake that has dried up, the road signs that have been erected at the entrance of the streets in the city are a little broken and rusty, and even the buildings as small as shrimp and even as large as the city wall all reveal a sad atmosphere, like the old history, the heavy with the unknown story, and the sad end......

This...... It's a ruined ancient ruin, and no one knows why it came to be the way it is......

The city was littered with broken stone pillars and masonry falling from the roads......

Located in the heart of this ancient city are ...... Even if most of the castle collapsed, it was still shocking, but at this moment it had been deserted for a long time, and the roof of the castle was overgrown with grass and trees, and it seemed that it could not withstand the weight and bent down. Although its walls are made of solid flake blocks that are abundant in the area, there are numerous cracks that allow ivy to hook onto them. Two houses at right angles, sandwiched between a tall tower and facing the pond, are the whole castle. The doors and blinds were loose from rot, the railings were rusty, and the windows were in tatters, as if they were about to fall off one by one when the storm came. The north wind was whining over the ruins, and in the hazy moonlight, the castle looked like a giant ghost.

In addition to this ancient castle, there is also a high mountain that rises at the end of this ancient ruins, and it is amazing that this high mountain has not been eroded by the wind and sand, and at the foot of this high mountain there is a huge cave that resembles the entrance to a cave, and the interior of this cave is pitch black, and it seems that nothing in the cave can be seen clearly.

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The area around "Lesa Yaga", in the Gobi.

A carriage pulled by three wildebeest horses was parked in this treacherous area, and the coachman who had been driving the carriage at the front of the cart had jumped from the cart to the ground of the Gobi Desert, and he used his calloused hands to hold a huge cowhide kettle to feed the three wildebeest horses who had run with the wagon before.

At this moment, a slightly dirty hand opened the door from the door of the carriage, and when the door was opened, a goblin wearing leather armor with chains on his hands and feet jumped off the carriage and almost stumbled, followed by two orc warriors in heavy armor jumped from the carriage to the ground, and when the two orc warriors jumped out of the door, an orc warrior sitting on the front of the carriage and another orc warrior sitting on the roof of the carriage also jumped out of the carriage and stood firmly on the ground.

After the five orc warriors in heavy armor standing on the Gobi ground first gathered together and talked, three of the five orc warriors stood around the carriage vigilantly scouting the surroundings, and one of the remaining two orc warriors used a key to open the chains on the hands and feet of the goblin in leather armor.

As the chains were unwound by the orc warrior, the goblin shook off his hands and feet, which were a little sore from wearing the chains for a long time, and as he moved his body, another heavily armored orc warrior standing next to the goblin held a burlap bag that he didn't know what was in his hand.

"Sinner Tut, this is the weapon you handed over before you were imprisoned, and now return it to you. The orc warrior said as he lightly opened the burlap bag and dumped its contents onto the ground.

I couldn't help but curl the corners of my mouth as I looked at my weapon on the ground, 'You' have finally returned......

"Lost Black Talisman" and "Frost Zhi" These are the two main weapons I use, a black sword with unknown runes carved on the sword, and a sword with a crystal body. Spare weapons: a short sword and a short knife, both forged from fine steel. And the short crossbow that I bought a few days ago from the lizardman boss and the hundred arrows that came with it in a quiver. In addition to these tones, there are potions that I have placed in my potion bag for various purposes, and I am glad that none of the bottles in the purse have been broken......

After I made sure that my weapons were not missing, I picked up the "Lost Black Talisman" and "Frost Angelica" and tied them firmly to my back with the belt on the scabbard, and after doing this, I tied the spare weapon to my body in turn with a short crossbow and quiver, and after fastening these weapons, I easily tied the potion bag placed on the ground to my waist, after all, I didn't want to break the potion contained in the small glass bottle.

The orc warriors standing on either side of me nodded to each other when they saw the goblin warrior dressed up in his gear, and it seemed that they had something to say to the goblin warrior next.

"Sinner Tut, I advise you not to have the idea of escaping, you need to know that you are escaping from here... Our patriarch will go to your goblin clan to hold you accountable. The orc warrior standing beside me on my left side with a few scars on his face admonished me with a serious face.

"Why should I run away? I don't have to run now, okay. "Hearing the words of the orc warrior standing next to me to my left, I couldn't help but clench my right fist and respond loudly to him.

"Courage is a good ......," the orc warrior teased with a smile on his face when he heard what I said.

"It's almost time for us to go back, right?"

At this moment, the orc warrior standing next to me looked up at the sky and subconsciously said, hearing what the orc warrior said, the other three orc warriors with strict expressions who were standing guard around the carriage walked in front of their two companions.

"Complete the task that the patriarch told you!"

"Come on!"

"You don't want to die here!"

"I heard that you are very strong, I am optimistic about you!"

The four orc warriors standing beside me gave me words of encouragement one by one, and after they finished speaking, they boarded the carriage one by one.

"Tut, I wish you good luck!"

The leader of the four orc warriors was an orc with a standard warrior look, and he patted me on the shoulder and said words of encouragement before boarding the carriage.

"Coachman!let's go!!"

As the leader shouted in his heavy voice to the coachman sitting at the front of the carriage holding the reins, the coachman sitting in front of the carriage picked up the whip with one hand and gently whipped it towards the horse's hips, and the three wildebeest horses, each whipped by their master, immediately opened their hooves and galloped quickly in the next second.

Looking at the back of the departing carriage, I turned around and looked at the dilapidated but still tall and majestic building not far away, which seemed to be the 'Lesa Yaga' as the orc patriarch said......

"Let's go!"

I said as if encouraging myself, and when I finished speaking, I ran towards the buildings not far away.

I ran very fast, and after a while, I came to the position of the city wall in front of these buildings, and looked at the ancient city wall in front of me, which was still some distance away, and my expression became solemn, this is a city wall that has been mostly damaged, and the heavy wall bricks are left on the ground of this Gobi like broken stones.

(This really surprised me...... ）

I couldn't help but be a little surprised to see that some of the walls were still standing and had not collapsed, and there were many shocking shock-like cracks on these walls, and it seemed that these walls that had not collapsed would collapse completely if they were hit hard again, stirring up a large cloud of gray-yellow dust......

It was still early morning and morning, which meant that I still had plenty of time to explore the buildings in the area, and I thought as I walked into what looked like a street.

The dilapidated road was not easy to follow, but I walked with my face unchanged.

The houses on both sides of the street, which used to be a street, have now collapsed and destroyed like the previous city walls, and everywhere on this road are incomplete bones that have fallen to the ground and weathered by time and wind and sand, these bones should be the residents who lived in the mining city of "Lesa Yaga", and there are obvious signs of tearing and blunt force breaking on the bones of some areas of the Mori Sen white bones that fell to the ground head-on.

I don't know what happened to them when they were alive, but they must have seen something horrible while they were alive......

I didn't pay much attention to the bones that fell to the ground, but walked into an old house without a roof, built of the most common stone in the area, and with the passage of time, there were several signs of erosion on the walls outside the house.

Inside the room were an old wooden table and two armchairs, which were a little broken, covered in a thick layer of dust. In addition to the most ordinary furniture, there is also a shelf that is neither high nor low in this room, and when I saw it, I calmly walked over to see what was placed on it.

Well...... Placed in the shelves are rusted and slightly damaged weapons and armor, swords, knives, shields...... Judging from these utensils, the owner who once lived in this house must have been an orc warrior.

(Huh, what's that?)

Just as I was about to look elsewhere in the room, I casually glanced at the old table against the wall, which seemed to be a small object, and I had to walk over to the wooden table in order to figure out what was on the wooden table.

What appears to be a ...... on the wooden table covered by a wooden frame?

Puzzled, I picked up the dusty wooden frame, and as I blew on the wooden frame, the dust on the wooden frame instantly flew forward, and the central part of the wooden frame was a painting protected by glass...... Although all this time has passed, it is incredible that the contents of this painting can still be clearly seen......

It seems that the owner of this house was not only a warrior but also a painter!

This picture, protected by a frame... It depicts a bustling street. There are many orc inhabitants of different species walking through this street, and these orc inhabitants dressed in different clothes have completely different faces and appearances, and it is no exaggeration to say that I have not seen any orcs in this painting with the same face, and from this point of view the orc who painted this painting is a very good painter.

Couple holding hands, mother wiping sweat for her child, young man helping his grandfather...... This is the main theme of the painting, where each orc resident "plays" his or her own role in this bustling street......

After looking at this painting, I habitually turned the picture frame in my hand upside down, and I was stunned when I saw the wooden board on the back of the frame......

On the back of the frame is an inscription carved with some sharp object:

"If you want to find out what's going on here...... Then open the compartment on the wooden table, and you might be able to figure out what's going on......

This is the unique orc script engraved on the wooden board behind the frame, and after reading this text, I carefully put the picture frame in my hand back on the wooden table.

(compartment?)

Thinking of this, I opened and carefully inspected the surrounding and ambiguous corners of this wooden table, and after some observation, I did not find anything different.

(Huh?)

Just as I was about to give up looking, I seemed to see a small sheen of some kind of metal on one side of the wooden table.

What is that?

I leaned over to the metallic glow on the side of the wooden table to get ready to see what it was, and after wiping the dust away, I saw a keyhole that looked like it was going to be inserted, and it looked like the key to opening the compartment of the old wooden table.

Even though I found the key to open the compartment of the wooden table, I was not happy at all, why am I not happy? I don't have the key to open the compartment of the wooden table, even if I have the key... The lock that locks the compartment is probably rusty inside.

But I don't have nothing to do, as long as I can analyze the lock structure of the lock compartment well, I am willing to open it. If you still can't open it...... I'm afraid I'll have to violently destroy this lock body and take out the contents inside.,It's a way to do it.,Otherwise, I won't take this approach.。

I channeled the magic in my body to the tip of my right index finger, and when the magic reached the point of my right index finger, there was a metallic glow from my fingertips.

"'Perception'. ”

I pressed my right index finger against the keyhole that locked the compartment of the wooden table, and quietly chanted the guiding spell to cast the magic next, and as soon as my words fell, I began to use the gold elemental magic of my fingertips to sense the lock structure that locked the compartment.

Well, sure enough, it's all rusty......

It is not surprising that the toggle levers, the mounts, the sliders, the latches, the tiny springs, and the fastening parts have all rusted to death, after all, hundreds of years, nay, much more time.

I manipulated the gold magic at my fingertips to carefully penetrate into the depths of the lock body little by little, and when the gold elemental magic completely filled the lock body, I began to remove the rust from the inside of the rusted lock body.

Click, click......

With a small metal sound coming from the inside of the lock body, which had long been rusted, a touch of red and black rust was slowly discharged from the position of the keyhole by the gold element magic inside the lock body.

Beads of sweat were all over my forehead, and I didn't care about the pain caused by the beads of sweat sliding into my eyes......

Click!

A small sound came from inside the lock.

Hearing this voice, I slightly hooked the corners of my mouth and smiled proudly, at this moment, the lock that locked the compartment of the wooden table had been opened by me with the magic of the gold element, and the process almost took me about ten minutes.

After retracting the gold elemental magic inside the lock body, I cautiously pulled open the handleless compartment, but when I pulled the compartment to the end, I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw the empty drawer.

(Nothing?)

Looking at the empty compartment drawer with no objects placed inside, I subconsciously frowned and thought.

(Isn't that right...... ）

With the mentality of giving it a try, I tapped the inside of the compartment drawer with the two fingers of my left hand, and a dull and suspicious voice came from the compartment drawer as I knocked it.

Two layers of bottoms?

When I heard this voice, I subconsciously used my own hands to carefully take out a suspicious wooden board in the drawer, and after taking out this wooden board, I saw the things placed in this drawer at a glance.

Placed in the dark layer of this drawer was a book made of sheepskin, and around the book were several pieces wrapped in something I didn't know what to do, and I took the book out with one hand and a piece of it next to it in the other. Looking at the unknown thing in my hand, I sniffed it with my nose out of the desire to find out what it was.

(The smell is fire oil and charcoal, and they are wrapped in a material that protects against corrosion and moisture...... ）

I seemed to smell what was in my hand, and even though it had faded a little bit, I could still smell what it was, and I put the moisture-proof material in my hand back into the compartment drawer in front of me.

At this time, my attention was drawn to the parchment book I was holding in my other hand, and I swallowed the saliva that came out of my mouth as I looked at the parchment book in my hand. Eager to find out what the parchment book was about, I held it firmly in one hand and opened the cover of the book with the other.

The first page of the book is a sketch of a young orc warrior in armor. The orc warrior in the sketch has a pair of animal ears on his head that resemble cat ears, and he is supposed to be an orc belonging to the cat people. In the painting, he is half-kneeling on the ground, holding the right hand of a woman in a cloth dress on the right side of the sketch, and kissing the back of the woman's right hand with a gentle expression.

It looks like the content of the painting is a marriage proposal...... This is probably the owner who wrote this parchment book and his lover......

With peace of mind, I turned the next page with my left hand, and I couldn't help but frown as I looked at the words written on the next page. The words written on the paper are supposed to be written with a quill dipped in the right amount of ink, but after such a long time, some of the words in the book have become a little blurry. I didn't have any distractions looking at the words in the book in my hand, and every time I finished reading one page, I turned to the next......

When I had finished the last page of the parchment, I closed the book in my hands with a long sigh, and I closed my eyes and sighed, as if I was thinking back to all the mutilated and strange parts of the book that had just been written......