On the southern border of the Kingdom of Gaston, in the famous Spiky Thorn Forest, a group of people are busy around a small mound.

If you look closely, the mound is actually an ancient tomb, and the tombstone standing in front of the tomb has long since decayed with time, and the inscriptions on it have been weathered, like a piece of dead wood left after the death of a big tree.

The group, numbering about twenty or thirty men, dug up the top of the grave, revealing the dark and decaying chamber inside. Then a simple lifting device was made out of wood and rope, and two brave men entered the burial chamber and tied the ropes to the sarcophagus in the center.

"Ready, get up!"

With the shout of the leader, more than 20 people worked together to immediately lift the sarcophagus in the tomb and slowly place it on top of the mound.

More than 20 people immediately threw down the ropes and gathered around, looking at the sarcophagus not only did not be afraid, but their eyes were full of excitement, if it weren't for the fact that they didn't know how to open this ancient sarcophagus, they were afraid that they would have to rush up now.

Dressed in simple leather and cloth armor, with rudimentary weapons and bags, the group did not look like professional gravediggers, but a group of adventurers or mercenaries.

In fact, this group is all members of a group of mercenaries called the Grey Dove, and they are also a group of adventurers who wander all over the world. They usually make a living by accepting hired assignments and exploring dangerous sites, but if business is sluggish, they will occasionally make a cameo appearance as gravediggers, digging up some ancient graves and selling burial antiquities for profit.

It's the same this time, the Grey Dove Mercenary Regiment, perhaps the Grey Dove Adventure Group, plans to explore the Spiky Thorn Forest to see if they can find any ancient ruins that have been missed, a good windfall.

This is also one of the most favorite and most frequent things for adventurers on the southern border of the Duchy of Gaston. Because the Thorny Forest and the Shadow Mountains were the domain of the gods' electors in ancient times, there are a large number of ancient ruins left behind by the disappearance of the electorate, and any small utensils pulled out of them can be considered cultural relics and can be sold for a lot of money.

Of course, the adventurers' activities are limited to the Spiky Forest, bounded by the Cold Stone River, and the Shadow Mountains behind the forest, although there are still a large number of unexcavated ruins, also come with great dangers, and it is not a place that humans can enter at will.

The Grey Dove Mercenary Regiment wandered through the Thorny Forest for seven or eight days, and not a single hair was found, except for a few ruins where even the brick walls were about to be torn down by the adventurers.

Seeing that the food reserves were about to be exhausted, the head of the regiment, Dennis, could only order to return, this middle-aged man who was only thirty-nine years old, his head had turned a lot gray, and his expression was very haggard.

He is an elite warrior, but not a qualified leader, and the Grey Dove Mercenary Regiment has only been handed over to him for two or three years from his dead eldest brother, and it seems that it will not be able to sustain itself.

The tomb was found on the way back from the Grey Dove Mercenary Regiment, next to the Cold Stone River, not far from the Shadow Mountains.

The appearance of this ancient tomb made the gray dove mercenary group overjoyed, and everyone had a smile on their faces, and the dull atmosphere that had accumulated a few days ago because they had found nothing was also swept away.

If the news of the ancient tomb is sold, the gray dove mercenary group can get a lot of intelligence fees, but the head of the group obviously does not intend to earn such a small amount of money, and there are seven or eight graves they have dug, and they still have some experience, so it is no problem to do it themselves.

Based on this, coupled with the mercenary group's increasingly difficult finances, the regiment leader decided to monopolize this accidental ancient tomb, and this decision was unanimously approved by the gray dove mercenary group. God sees mercy, the decision of the head of the regiment has not received such a high approval rate for a long time.

A group of people worked hard for two days, and finally hung the sarcophagus in the tomb, if it was a professional gravedigger, they would definitely not do this, but the gray dove mercenary group took it for granted, because they were too poor, no better than the poor, so they planned to drag the entire sarcophagus and the dead people inside back to sell, because some nobles have a habit of collecting such things, and the ancient tombs of thousands of years can definitely be bought for a good price.

The sarcophagus is nearly two meters long, more than one meter high, the carvings on it have been somewhat blurred, the style looks very ancient, this kind of sarcophagus generally has a special mechanism, after the cover can not be opened, to prevent people from digging the grave.

However, there are also experts in this area in the gray dove mercenary group, and the two twin brothers who look almost identical next to them are professional gravediggers in the past, and they have visited the cemetery in the border city several times.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, and give it to Brother Casey." A beautiful girl dressed in leather armor stood in the middle of the group of sour men, holding a long double-edged straight sword in her hand, and began to drive away the group of mercenaries staring at the sarcophagus.

Her name is Susan, she is only eighteen years old this year, she is the daughter of the former leader of the Gray Dove Mercenary Regiment, and the niece of the current leader, she has extremely high popularity and prestige among the Gray Dove, and these popularity and prestige are not obtained by her two elders, but by her own strength and charm.

Driven by Susan, the mercenaries honestly stood aside, and the Casey brothers immediately approached the sarcophagus with hammers and nails, and clanked up and down, and they didn't know how they got it, only to hear a soft "pop", and the mechanism inside the sarcophagus had been destroyed.

Seeing that the mercenaries were about to squeeze up again, Susan swung the long sword in her hand fiercely and forced the group of eager mercenaries back: "What's the hurry, Delaney, you prepare first." ”

Draenei is a seventeen-year-old girl with a few freckles on her fair face, she is the only spellcaster among the gray doves, she is a priest by profession, the rank is only an apprentice, usually responsible for treating wounded mercenaries, and occasionally casting one or two arrows of holy light to participate in battle.

The eyes of the crowd made her face slightly red, and she walked to the sarcophagus after a peace.

It is an ancient tomb like this, and there is a high chance of carrying the curse of the dead, and it will be dangerous to open the lid of the coffin rashly, and the importance of the priest at this time is reflected, although the purification technique is only an apprentice-level spell, it can purify most low-level curses.

The purification technique that Freel had taught her followers to expel evil and darkness was now being used for such immoral things as gravedigging, and the god known for his mercy would not have been so angry that he would have been punished if he had learned of it.

However, in the face of money, the gods also had to stand aside, and Delaney did not have the slightest burden in his heart, and quickly prepared the purification technique.

After the draenei prepared the purification technique, Susan appointed four stronger mercenaries to lift the lid of the sarcophagus open, and the regimental commander Dennis could only watch his niece give orders from the sidelines, looking at her heroic and capable posture, with both relief and loneliness in his eyes.

The four mercenaries grabbed the four corners of the coffin lid and lifted it up with all their might.

The mercenaries who were watching around immediately stretched out their hands to cover their mouths and noses, in this ancient sarcophagus, how many years have been settled, there will be an ominous smell of decay and foul smell, if you smell it, you will inevitably get seriously ill.

But strangely, after the sarcophagus was opened, there was no foul smell coming out, and Susan was the first to let go of her nose and smell it, but there was only the smell of wet earth peculiar to the jungle, and there was no other smell.

The four mercenaries who were holding their breath lowered the lid of the coffin to the ground, and a group of people immediately gathered around and scrambled to look inside the sarcophagus.

There were no gold or silver treasures, no funeral antiquities, and in the disappointment of the people, they saw only a handsome young man lying in the empty sarcophagus.

Hmmm, wait?!

For a moment, the entire mound fell silent, and almost everyone looked at the young man lying in the sarcophagus in amazement.

There was no rotting flesh, no black dry bones, only a young man alive with flesh and blood.

And he didn't look like a dead man, but as if he had just fallen asleep, dressed in an old costume, and his handsome countenance had a serene expression on it, as if he were having a wonderful sleep.

Susan was the first to come to her senses, barely suppressed the shock in her heart, and turned to the gravedigger brother and asked, "Brother Casey, what's going on?" ”

"No, I, and we don't ......," the brother stammered as soon as he was nervous, trying to explain to Susan that they didn't know either, but Brother Casey muttered for a while, and said, "We've heard people say before that when digging graves, sometimes dead people are dug up, but in a few quarters of an hour they rot to the ground." ”

"So that's what you mean?"

Susan glanced down at the young dead man in the sarcophagus, her eyes fell on his handsome appearance, she died at such a young age, she secretly felt a little pity, but she quickly frowned, this dead man had no funeral items at all, and he didn't see any ornaments worn, more than 20 people in the gray dove were busy for two days, and the reward they got was a sarcophagus and a dead man who looked good?

Susan had a headache, she knew that it would definitely turn out to be the captain's fault after a while, no matter what decisions Dennis made in the past two years, almost none of them were proven right, and the gray dove mercenary's favorite complaint when they were in trouble was "It's all the captain's fault." ”

Dennis, the head of the regiment, opened his mouth, unable to say a word, and he looked at his niece with a pleading gaze, and now she shrugged her shoulders with a helpless expression.

If you sell the news of the ancient tomb, you may also get a lot of money for intelligence, and you don't have to take any risks. But now, the risk of digging the grave is up to the dove himself.

Although the commander's decision was approved by everyone, the mercenaries would not be thinking about it now.

And at this moment, a sharp-eyed mercenary looked at the dead man in the sarcophagus, suddenly widened his eyes, looked like a ghost, trembled and stretched out a finger, and opened his mouth wide: "Alive, alive!" ”

When the person next to him heard him say this, he hurriedly widened his eyes and looked into the sarcophagus, only to see the young man lying inside, his chest really rising and falling slightly.

The atmosphere on the mound instantly dropped to freezing, everyone seemed to stop breathing, and they didn't know who let out a panicked scream, and the mercenaries around the sarcophagus all ran away at once, Delaney's whole little face turned pale, and his feet kept shaking, but instead of running, he raised his hands and shouted: "Saint, holy light......

"Holy your head, don't run yet!"

A mercenary grabbed Draenei by the back and dragged her down the mound.

After a while, there was no movement on the mound, and the mercenaries slowly approached back, although they were scared away just now, but after all, they were all often engaged in the business of licking blood from the knife edge, and they were more courageous than ordinary people.

Susan glanced at the Draenei, and the priest girl understood, chanting two incantations in a low voice, releasing the purification technique that she had not had time to release just now.

"Answer my call, O Holy Light, to come down to earth and purify darkness and evil."

With the sound of Draenei's incantation, a golden light appeared above the sarcophagus out of thin air, flickering and falling into the sarcophagus.

Under the purification of the holy light, there was no scream or black smoke in the sarcophagus, everyone look at me, I look at you, and finally a more courageous mercenary slowly leaned over, he raised the weapon in his hand, if there was any movement in the sarcophagus, he would directly cut it with a sword.

Soon, the mercenary leaned over to the sarcophagus, looked inside, and the young man lying inside was still the same as before, unchanged at all, he stared at it for a while, then put down his weapon, and shook his head at his companions around him, indicating that there was no danger.

A group of people immediately hugged and looked curiously, and one of the young people who wanted to poke the sarcophagus with a weapon was immediately stopped by others.

The mercenaries all looked at Susan, and when she had an idea, Susan turned her head to look at her uncle again.

Dennis didn't know what to do, and he didn't dare to make a decision now, so he could only say, "Susan, you can do it." ”

Susan pondered for a while and waved her hand: "Then bring this "dead man" back first, and see if it's useful." ”

The mercenaries immediately looked at each other, not knowing who to call, and they all turned their heads to look at Susan, and she immediately became angry: "What's the use of you looking at me, do you want me to carry it?" ”

In the end, it was decided that the Casey brothers would come, and they had been in contact with more dead people than women, so naturally they would not be afraid of this.

The two brothers didn't talk nonsense either, and directly carried out the young man in the sarcophagus and carried it on the back of Casey's brother.

As for the burial chamber under the mound, there was nothing to accompany the burial except a cloaked humanoid statue, and the amateur gravediggers had no interest in staying here, and quickly packed up their tools and left with the only catch, a mysterious young man, who had gone into the jungle.

The sun in the sky was obscured by a dark cloud, the forest was plunged into darkness, and the excavated tomb finally fell silent.

But the mercenaries of the gray dove didn't know that not long after they left, the humanoid statue in the tomb suddenly shook, shaking off a piece of dust stained with the cloak, and a pair of deep eye holes revealed a scarlet light.

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