The wind began to rise on the sea, and the waves gradually increased, and the two of them could not speak, so they swam cautiously and quickly.

The two of them swam not long before they reached the front of the mountain, then went out to sea and climbed the hillside. Gradually, the sound of a loud and dull wave was heard, which was caused by the direct impact of the tide against the mountain. The cave that Liu Qin'er said was all within easy reach. Although it took a lot of physical effort to wade into the water, and both of them were a little out of breath after going ashore, Liu Qin'er still couldn't hide the excitement of discovering the treasure.

At this moment, Luo Yin, who has experienced countless winds and waves with his father all the year round, is not excited, with his past experience and unique sensitive intuition, Luo Yin has an indescribable bad feeling about this place, he began to cheer up and pay attention to the surroundings carefully, carefully observing those aquatic plants and rocks, and his heart became more and more confused and vigilant. From the moment he had noticed, the rocks were so neatly arranged that they were not naturally occurring, and that the heels that had submerged into the sea were not so deep as the shallow extension of the mountains on land, but rather like huge pillars of stone falling from the sky into the seabed, and the rocks on the surface of the sea were no more than the tops of the pillars.

Seeing that Luo Yin was silent, looking a little nervous, Liu Qin'er patted him on the shoulder and said, "What's wrong?"

"Hmm...... Nothing, just a little tired. Luo Xun smiled lightly and replied.

Luo Yin looked up and looked around, and finally his eyes fell on the bare rocky mountain. The mountain is not high, but there is no grass, and the bare rock surface is very dark, almost black, and the whole body glows a faint purplish red in the sunlight. Luo Yin immediately knew that this was an iron ore mountain, and it was rich in iron that was so unusually good that the mountain was stubborn and there was no grass. But doubts followed, the Jialan territory has never produced iron ore, and no traces of iron ore have ever been found.

Near the cave, there was a lot of rubble, as if it was caused by the gravel being removed during the digging of the cave. Walking to the entrance of the cave, Luo Yin found several shiny transparent gems buried in the sand and gravel pile, the thickness of the index finger, long strips, regular shape, polished and symmetrical, just like the stone that Qin'er showed him in the morning, but there were blue, green and red. At a glance, you can see that it is not a natural occurrence, but must be the work of a skilled craftsman. He picked them up and handed them to Liu Qin'er, and then walked into the cave. The entrance of this cave is not big, only one person is high, about seven feet wide, as you go inside, the space in the cave becomes more and more narrow, after walking twenty or thirty steps, it is forced to allow only one person to bow in, Luo Yin told Liu Qin'er to wait here, and then crawled forward from his own cat's waist.

After crawling for a long time, the figure of Luo Yin could no longer be seen clearly from where Liu Qin'er was standing, and it was dim inside, and only a slight sound of crawling on the ground could be heard. After a while, the voice of the fallen and hidden Weng Weng came.

"Qin'er, this cave has gone straight down here...... I'll go down and take a look...... You're waiting for me outside. ”

"Well, you must be careful, Luoyin!" Liu Qin'er shouted into the dark depths of the cave.

After a while, Luoyin's voice came again, sounding more distant and indistinct than before, "Qin'er...... Come down...... There's a secret room here. When Liu Qin'er heard this, she also crawled into the hole, climbed for a short while, and found that the front had reached the end, and the hole really extended straight down, she slowly leaned into the hole, stepped on the wall of the cave, and moved down step by step, and did not know the depth of geometry. Thinking about it, she accidentally slipped under her feet, and Liu Qin'er screamed and fell straight down.

After a while, she only felt a shock to her body, Liu Qin'er felt supported, and when she opened her eyes, it turned out that Luo Yin had caught her steadily, and at this moment Luo Yin held her in her arms, the two of them were head to head, their eyes were facing each other, and their cheeks were crimson when they landed, so they were not embarrassed. Liu Qin'er hurriedly broke free from the ground and looked around, it turned out that this was a huge cave, the cave wall obviously left traces of artificial excavation and decoration, and there were stone holes on the walls on all sides that were specially placed for torches. Through this dim light, Liu Qin'er saw a huge stone pillar in each of the four directions, east, east, west, and north, extending to the top of the cave. The stone pillars were carved with murals, and Liu Qin'er was attracted to the scenes, including scenes of people hunting, scenes of war, scenes of prophets educating the people, and scenes of people bowing down to the gods of the earth. After watching it for a long time, she exclaimed.

"Luoyin, we seem to have found an ancient sacrificial hall!" Liu Qin'er turned to Luoyin, but there was no trace of Luoyin.

"Luoyin, where are you?" Liu Qin'er immediately shouted.

"I'm here. It turned out that Luo Yin patronized and looked around, but he didn't pay attention to his feet, just now he tripped over something, fell on his back and faced the sky, and at this moment he was lying on the ground on all fours, touching the place where the fall hurt and humming.

Liu Qin'er walked over, pulled up Luo Yin, and found that the thing behind him that tripped him was like a wooden stick, and the rod was carved with ornaments, because it was wrapped in thick dust, and it was not easy to see clearly. "Luoyin, what do you think this is?"

Luo Yin also turned around and saw this thing. Puzzled for a moment, he said, "Dig it out and take a look!" Then he took out a dagger from behind his waist, squatted on the ground and dug it up, and said without raising his head while digging, "What did you just say, this is a sacrificial hall?"

"Well, I guess yes, you see, the higher flat ground under our feet is supposed to be the altar where the Prophet stands, and the rest of us are standing underneath. ”

"How can this altar be hidden in a cave?" Luo Yin wondered.

"Well, it's strange indeed, it stands to reason that the altar is usually built on land or on the top of a mountain, but judging from the murals I have just seen, it is believed that there was a great accident that took place in order to hide from the foreign invaders, and the rest of the people hid in the mountain, and then built the altar in a hidden cave. Liu Qin'er said, and after a while, she exclaimed: "Hey, Luoyin, your hand is bleeding!"

Luo Yin looked down and saw that his right hand was down from his elbow, and a bloody wound was cut that was not deep but not shallow, and blood was gushing out, and it had flowed down his wrist to the back of his hand. If you don't say it, you can just say it, and when you say it, you immediately feel a hot pain. "I guess I just fell and cut my arm on this stone wall. Luo Yin hurriedly wiped the blood on his waist on his hand, then tore off a piece of his shirt, handed it to Liu Qin'er, and said, "Quickly help me tie it up!"

Liu Qin'er has been following Doctor Zhang for a long time, and she knows some wound bandaging methods, so she immediately bandaged the wound for Luoyin. Luo Yin picked up the dagger again, ready to continue digging the soil, but looked down to find that the white octagonal stone tablet tucked into his waist was faintly glowing, and the cold white light that seeped out could be seen through the belt. Liu Qin'er also noticed this light and said in surprise: "What is this?"

"I don't know what it is. Luo Yin took out the stone tablet from his waist, with a dazed and somewhat puzzled look, "This is what I picked up in the bamboo forest on the mountain." ”

The stone tablet lay in the palm of Luoyin's palm, and the light seemed to be a little more intense. Liu Qin'er snatched the stone plaque and looked at it carefully, wanting to see why. Who knew that as soon as the stone tablet arrived in Liu Qin'er's hand, it didn't take long for the light to gradually weaken, and it dissipated in an instant. The two of them were even more puzzled when they saw this.

"It's really strange......," Liu Qin'er muttered, looking left and right at the stone plaque, "I've never seen the patterns and words on it, and it doesn't seem to be the stuff of the various clans of the Dawning Alliance." ”

"Give it back to me, don't worry about it for now, it's important to dig up the stuff buried in the ground first. "Fall into the shadows.

But it was said that Liu Qin'er had just returned the stone tablet to Luo Yin's hand, and the stone tablet began to shine again, but the light was already much weaker, and after a while, it was completely dimmed. Liu Qin'er suddenly realized and said, "Luoyin, do you have blood on your hands?"

Luo Yin spread out his palm and looked at it, and sure enough, there were some blood stains. "If I'm not mistaken, it was your blood that got on the stone tablet and caused the light. There must be some mechanism in this. Liu Qin'er frowned and explained.

"However, nothing happened, and I didn't see any difference in this stone tablet, it was still the same. Luo Yin took the stone tablet and looked at it repeatedly.

"I don't understand this, so why don't I ask my dad when I go back, maybe he's seen this thing." Liu Qin'er said.

"Forget it, maybe it's just an ordinary stone plaque" Luo Yin didn't really want to give this thing to others, and he didn't really want people to know that he had picked up such an unusual stone plaque, so he immediately changed the topic and said: "Don't worry about these for now, let's dig out this thing in the soil first!"

After a while, he only heard Luo Yin say excitedly, "Hey, there is!", Liu Qin'er saw that he had dug a pit two feet deep in the ground, and there was an unknown artifact stuck in the pit.

Luo Yin immediately put away the dagger, grasped the long handle of the object with both hands, and pulled it out with a whoosh. Brushing off the dust on it, a closer look reveals a cane with four gems inlay, the head of the cane is slightly thicker, and four long, red, green, blue, and black long transparent gemstones are evenly set around the perimeter. The handle of the staff is about six feet long, and the body of the staff is carved with intricate patterns and some symbols that resemble words.

"Luoyin, this seems to be a magic staff!" Liu Qin'er said in surprise.

"Staff?" Luo Yin was a little puzzled, "What is it for?"

"According to my father, the staff is a very powerful but rare weapon, and only those mages or high priests with powerful spell abilities have a staff, and in turn the staff will enhance their spellcasting ability to some extent. Even my father had only seen this thing in the red-robed mage camp of the Cangyan Prophet, and this different staff could only be used by the corresponding mage, and for others, it was just a useless cane. ”

When Luo Yin heard this, he was also very surprised, first, he was surprised that this thing was so powerful, and second, he was surprised that Liu Qin'er knew so much. The red-robed mage battalion that Liu Qin'er said can be regarded as the most mysterious and powerful attacking mage in the entire Dawn Continent, there are only six people in total, all of them have the ability to summon some kind of great destructive power, under normal circumstances, few people can see them, even if they once sacrificed their lives to ride south to invade the battle, they have never shown up. It can be seen that its status is high.

"You see, the stones on this are very similar to the ones we picked up, but they are a little bigger. Luo Yin carefully studied the staff.

"Ah, I see, these gems were searched for to make staffs. Liu Qin'er suddenly realized.

Sure enough, they then found a few scattered gems in all corners of the hall. After searching for a while, he didn't find anything new, and he beckoned Liu Qin'er to leave. However, Liu Qin'er stood in front of a wall, watching intently, and did not move. Luo Yin also stepped forward to take a closer look, and found that what Liu Qin'er was looking at was a map-like picture, a large continent on the left, marked with different city-states and ethnic groups, probably the Dawning Continent they were painting now, but it seemed to be a little shorter than the now known continent in the north-south direction, and on the north side of the Dawning Continent, across a strait, there was a smaller continent, which was full of black mountain patterns. In the southwest of the Dawning Continent, that is, on the Liming Sea, there are two small islands next to each other, the farthest is an island in the shape of a chicken heart, and in the center of the island is a house similar to a temple.

"What the hell is going on?" Luo Yin said to himself as he heard Liu Qin'er's eyes staring at the map of the mural on the wall.

"What's wrong?" Luo Yin asked, not quite understanding the meaning of the picture.

"No, definitely not. Liu Qin'er said slowly, took a step back, and glanced at the whole map, "As far as I know, the northern part of the Dawning Continent is a cold plateau, with large areas of primeval forests, and there are no people, and there are actually several ethnic groups and cities in the northernmost part of the Dawning Continent. Moreover, north of the mainland is the vast ocean, and I have never heard of any strait, let alone any continent. And here, too. Liu Qin'er paused, pointing to the two islands in the sea to the southwest.

"Nanli Minghai goes out for hundreds of miles, there is only one Jialan Island, legend has it that Jialan's ancestors lived on that island two thousand years ago, and then the climatic conditions changed, and then moved to the mainland. You see, it's the one on the left, but you've never found another island in the sea. If so, judging from the depiction on this map, it should be only a few miles away from Jialan Island. ”

"Then, maybe this isn't a map of the Dawn Continent?" Luo Yin guessed.

"No, this largest continent must be the Dawning Continent, you see, there is also a totem symbol of the Cangyan clan painted in the center, and here, there is also a totem of Jialan. But why is it different from what we already know?" Liu Qin'er frowned and pondered, and suddenly exclaimed: "Could it be that a long time ago, the mainland was like this? The north and south were separated, and later changed by some force and merged into one?"

Hearing Liu Qin'er say this, Luo Yin looked at the map carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt. Liu Qin'er was immersed in her major discovery, a little excited, still looking at the mural, the corners of her mouth trembling slightly with excitement.

Suddenly, there was darkness in the cave, which startled the two of them. It turned out that the torch burned out and went out. "Don't panic, the torch must be extinguished, you take my hand and follow me, let's go out quickly. Luo Yin grabbed Liu Qin'er's hand in the darkness and comforted her.

With a vague memory, Luo Yin touched the position where he came down just now, and when he reached out and touched it, there was a hole in the hard rock wall on his head, which was the way he came. He pulled Liu Qin'er over, grabbed her by the waist, and was so shocked that Na Qin'er was ashamed and angry, and shouted while slapping: "Oh, what are you doing, if you want to play hooligan, I won't clean you up!"

"What are you yelling about, you reach out and touch the stone wall on your head!" Luo Yin said solemnly.

"I see. Liu Qin'er stretched out her hand and touched the wall of the cave when she came, and immediately apologized a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Luoyin, I thought you were taking advantage of the darkness to make a bad ......"

"Come on, if you want to be bad, you won't take a fancy to you, no breasts and no ass. When he said this, Luo Yin's hand happened to be on Liu Qin's buttocks.

"You, you're actually ......"

"Okay, okay, climb up, my hands are sore. Luo Yin said impatiently.

Liu Qin'er snorted coldly, stepped on Luo Yin's shoulders, held the rock wall with both hands, and climbed up with all his strength. Then Luo Yin stood under the mouth of the cave and stretched the staff that was more than six feet long upward. He shouted upwards, "Qin'er, grab this staff and pull me." ”

"Don't pull!" Liu Qin'er said angrily, pushing the head of the staff, still angry about what happened just now, "You just stay down there!"

"Really?" said the voice in the cave.

"It's really not pulling, hum!" Liu Qin'er sat at the entrance of the cave, deliberately picked up a small pebble and threw it down, only to hear the sound of "ouch!", and then couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh.

After laughing for a while, there was suddenly no sound under the cave, and Liu Qin'er shouted down: "Luoyin, what are you doing? A small pebble will kill you?"

No one answered. Liu Qin'er leaned down, and when she touched the cave, she couldn't touch the staff, and shouted twice, but no one answered. At this moment, Liu Qin'er couldn't help but be a little flustered, and shouted towards the cave: "Luoyin, Luoyin, where are you, what's going on, don't make trouble, okay? It's me who is not good, I teased you, can you come up quickly?"

After waiting for a long time, it was still quiet, only Liu Qin'er's own echo came.

Liu Qin'er panicked and shouted desperately into the cave, but unfortunately there was no other sound except for her own echo. The cave was so dark that I couldn't see it clearly. After waiting for half a pillar of incense for a long time, she still didn't see a figure or a voice, Liu Qin'er was completely panicked, and her heart was terrified, and the big tears rushed out of her eyes, and she was at a loss for a while, so she had to sit at the entrance of the cave and cry bitterly.

After crying for a while, Liu Qin'er suddenly seemed to faintly hear a few shouts, and immediately woke up and lay down at the entrance of the cave to identify it carefully.

"Is that you?" Liu Qin'er shouted loudly.

"Qin'er, Qin'er......" is the voice of Luoyin. But it didn't seem to come from the cave below, but from the mouth of the cave from outside.

Liu Qin'er hurriedly wiped away her tears, quickly turned around and crawled out along the cramped hole, leaning down at the entrance of the cave and looking out, it was the damn Fall, floating in the sea outside the cave at this time.

"Pull me up!" Luo Yin swam to the reef by the cave and stretched out his hand to Liu Qin'er. Liu Qin'er grabbed his hand hard and pulled him up.

I don't know if it's a momentary urgency or other feelings, Liu Qin'er suddenly hugged Luo Yin, leaned on his shoulder and cried loudly. Since she was born, she has never been in contact with a girl so closely, and she is at a loss for a while, and she is so panicked that she doesn't dare to move. It's just that the heart is beating fast.

finally waited for Liu Qin'er's girl to finish crying, and Luo Yin dared to pat Liu Qin'er's back tentatively with his hand. This beat made Liu Qin'er wake up, she felt out of shape, and suddenly felt very ashamed, she actually took the initiative to hug a wild boy, if she let others know, wouldn't she be ashamed to death. She hurriedly pushed Luo Yin away, sat aside, and wiped the remaining tears on her face with her cuffs.

"Just now, just now, I thought you were dead, and I was sad for a while, so I ...... It's just ......," Liu Qin'er said a little incoherently.

"What's that?" Luo Yin was confused.

"Cai, I hugged you...... Don't think about it! I'm just scared, nothing else!" Liu Qin'er said, blushing, don't go aside.

Luo Yin sighed, and didn't say much.

As soon as the tension passed, he felt tired and collapsed to the ground, showing exhaustion. At this time, the staff was still floating in the water outside the cave.

"Why don't you just die inside, you always worry me, I've been scared to death by you several times!" After a while, Liu Qin'er turned her head and said angrily, giving him a blank look by the way.

"I don't know what's going on, just now in the hole, it looks like my feet slipped, and there is a secret passage underneath, and I don't know how far I slipped, and I fell into a secret room. Luo Yin said with some trepidation, "The secret room is very small, only six or seven steps from front to back, left and right, and there are stone walls on all sides, so smooth that there is no way to start, and it is pitch black in front of you, and you don't see five fingers." The more I thought about it in the dark, the more frightened I became, thinking that I was going to die there, and I shouted in my heart to let me out, but the jewel on the staff actually glowed, and I reached out to touch it, and as soon as I touched the staff, I felt that my whole body sank, as if I had fallen into the water, I quickly closed my breath and opened my eyes, and sure enough, I was already in the sea, and immediately floated up. It's so weird. ”

After listening to Luo Yin's words, Liu Qin'er was dumbfounded, with an incredible look, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

"It's hell around...... There is really a method of space-time transformation in this world...... Hidden, this staff is really not a mortal thing...... We'll have to hide it. Liu Qin'er said with a look of not yet calm.

"What do you mean?"

"In our land of dawn, all races have their own methods, just like Cangyan's flame slash, Cangyan's blade, our Jialan clan's solid yuan technique, the method of binding, and the Feihuang clan's phantom rush, but these are still all moves that follow the power of nature to attack and defend. But there is a little-known legend that says that there is also a method that violates the power of nature, such as time and space transfer is one of them, and the others are resurrected from the dead, day and night are reversed, these methods are extremely mysterious, no one knows where these methods come from, and how to master them, and the archmages of various ethnic groups also believe that this kind of method that violates the power of nature does not follow this natural cause and effect, and even if it is mastered, it will inevitably bring bad consequences, and it will bring disaster to the people who use it or even the clansmen. ”

"What do you mean?" said Luo Yin with some hesitation.

"This staff is too dangerous and terrifying, we can't take it with us, it's better to find a place where no one knows about it and bury it so that no one else can get it. ”

"Well, that's true!" Luo Yin thought for a moment and nodded vigorously, "Let's get out of here first, it's not too early." ”

With that, the two of them dived into the sea and returned the way they came.