Chapter 17: Strange Patterns

"Let's go and have a look."

Su Bai said.

The two of them walked towards the wooden bridge.

As soon as I arrived at the wooden bridge, I heard a voice in the distance.

"Laura, come up here! I found something. ”

"Just go uphill and find a place with a gate!"

"It's the Doctor's voice." Laura said immediately.

"I hear you." Su Bai narrowed his eyes, "Dr. Whitman seems to have discovered something, and he sounds like he's excited." ”

But he complained in his heart.

Anyway, this Whitman is shouting there, how can you be sure that Laura can hear it? Can't you come back to Laura?

"Let's get over there." Laura said.

"Let's go, let's see what amazing Mr. Doctor has discovered." Su Bai said with a smile.

The two of them crossed the wooden bridge and continued forward, and there was another gate in front of them. Behind the gate is a stone staircase that leads up the slope, lit by stone lanterns lit with candles. I don't know who lit the candles for these stone lanterns, but they are still lit.

At that moment, a low roar came from the bushes next to him.

"It's a wolf! Laura! ”

Su Bai's face turned pale, and he shouted in a low voice.

Laura had already removed her bow and placed the arrow on it, scanning her surroundings warily.

"Be careful!"

Su Bai held the crow-axe in his hand, back to back with the girl, and was a little nervous in his heart.

Although according to his current physical fitness and reflexes, it should be enough to kill a wolf in hand-to-hand combat. But theory is one thing, reality is another. When he actually faced the wolf, he still felt sweaty in his palms.

"Hopefully, just like in the game, there will be only two wolves, not a whole pack."

Su Bai prayed silently in his heart, without showing the nervousness in his heart.

As a man, in this kind of thing, he should be the support of weak women - although in terms of strength, Laura is not weak, and he is more experienced in dealing with wild wolves than him.

"Laura, don't panic, calm down. Listening to the movement doesn't look like a wolf pack, we can solve it. ”

Su Bai decisively ignored the fact that Laura had killed the three wolves alone last night, and comforted the girl.

Hearing Su Bai's voice, Laura, who had killed three wolves but was still a little flustered and nervous, suddenly calmed down. Maybe it was because of her previous experience, as long as Su Bai was by her side, she had a feeling that nothing was a problem.

The girl took a deep breath, pulled her bowstring, and began to catch the wolf's trail in the bushes.

"Whew!"

A stout wolf pounced suddenly, but Laura, who already had experience, caught its movements as soon as possible, completed her aim in an instant, and released the bowstring.

Shout!

The whistling arrow pierced directly through the wolf's neck.

At the same time, another wolf attacked from behind her, targeting Su Bai.

"Sue!"

Laura turned around with all her strength to attack the second wolf, but it was too late and she couldn't help but exclaim.

"Leave it to me!"

Su Bai shouted, clenched the crowaxe in his hand, and only felt calm in his heart.

At the moment when the wolf pounced on him, he shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”

Immediately, he bent down to dodge the wolf's attack, and the crowaxe in his hand slashed into the wolf's abdomen.

Laugh at!

The crow-axe pierced the wolf in the abdomen, and then directly disemboweled it with the inertia of its sprint.

And Laura flashed to the side as soon as she heard Su Bai's voice, dodging the pounce of the wild wolf. The wolf suddenly hit his head on the ground, his limbs twitched a few times, and he didn't move.

"Hoo ......"

After confirming that no third wolf rushed out, Su Bai stood up straight, looked at the two wolf corpses on the ground, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sue, are you alright?"

After confirming that it was safe, Laura put down the bow and arrow in her hand as soon as possible, rushed to Su Bai, and asked nervously.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Su Bai smiled at the girl, "Let's keep walking." ”

After this stubble, the two were more cautious. Laura, in particular, has been holding a bow and arrows and looking at the woods on both sides with a vigilant gaze, as if a wolf will pounce out of it in the next second, which makes Su Bai amused.

"Okay Laura, there's no need to be so nervous, you're trying too hard." "It should be safe in this area, after all, as you can see from these candles, this road is often crowded, and those wolves should avoid this neighborhood." ”

Laura nodded obediently and put the bow back on her back.

The two of them walked all the way up, and soon saw a ruined palace in front of them in sight.

Walking into the palace, Whitman's voice was heard.

"It's so fascinating...... These are two very different styles. ”

The two looked at each other, stepped forward, and saw Whitman standing in front of the palace gate and carefully examining something.

Su Bai looked at the gate and saw that it was painted with white symbols of unknown meaning, as well as familiar goddess statues.

"Laura, you're here." Hearing the movement, Whitman didn't look back and said, "This gate is very old, but the traces on it seem to be recent." ”

"We've seen it before." Laura looked at the patterns, "They should be related to some kind of ritual." ”

Whitman turned around and saw Su Bai beside Laura, he was stunned for a moment, and then said, "You should be that Huaxia student, right?" ”

"Yes, my name is Su Bai." Su Bai smiled and nodded, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Whitman." ”

Whitman just glanced at him, then ignored it, and pointed to the statue of the goddess and said to Laura, "Look, this female portrait is very special, and it was painted recently. It must be the work of those islanders! ”

Seeing Whitman's attitude towards Su Bai, Laura's delicate eyebrows furrowed. Su Bai gently pulled down her little hand and shook her head at the girl.

Then he asked, "Islanders?" ”

Whitman said casually: "Judging from the wreckage of those ships on the beach, they should all be shipwrecked survivors who ended up on this island." ”

He turned around and said with a smile, "It's amazing to be just like us." ”

"yes, I hope we don't become murderers like them." The girl said in a cold tone.

Whitman was stunned, then shook his head and said, "Something very interesting is happening on this island, Laura. ”

"I don't know if to describe it as funny...... "Laura bit her lip, "those bloody, barbaric rituals." ”

She looked up and asked, "What do you think these symbols mean?" ”

"Diagram of the sun. But it's a very primitive and simple pattern...... Hardly. Whitman held a thick book in his hand, which seemed to contrast with the drawings on the gate, "probably a symbol of some kind of religious worship, or just graffiti of a cultural nature." Let me take a closer look......"

Laura was about to ask, but Whitman waved impatiently and said, "Don't bother me!" ”

His bad attitude immediately annoyed Su Bai. He raised an eyebrow, strode forward, snatched the book from Whitman's hand, and closed it with a "snap".