"Huh?" Catherine's digging action suddenly stopped, and she was stunned for a few seconds while holding the shovel, before carefully putting the shovel aside, slowly squatting down, and holding the white bones in the palm of her hand through the armor: "Could it be that the mission goal is such a small piece of bone?"

"No, no, no. Catherine shook her head vigorously and said to herself in a self-deprecating manner: "How did I suddenly become so stupid, this is obviously just a human bone, it should be left by the archbishop with something, yes, it should be him." Now that his bones are here, it's not far off to think of quest items. Sure enough, this is the place we are looking for, okay, keep digging. ”

"Click", under the gaze of countless controlled sea tribes, Catherine bent down and silently continued to dig. There were more and more controlled sea tribes around, and at last they were almost crowded, each of them staring at Catherine with a hostile gaze, as if they would pounce on her at any moment and tear her to shreds. If it were an ordinary person, his heart would have collapsed under the gaze of so many people, and even if he didn't collapse, I am afraid that he would be so frightened that his hands and feet would be sore, and he would no longer be able to dig. However, Catherine's face was calm, her expression did not fluctuate at all, and she would even look at these controlled sea tribes for a while while resting during the excavation, and occasionally smile.

As Catherine excavated, more and more rubble was removed from the ground, revealing the smudged bones underneath. The deceased appears to be a female, relatively short in stature, with only one calf, the other of which has been severed. On her bones, there was no damage to her lower body except for the loss of a lower leg, but her upper body, sternum and ribs were broken by a total of eight, judging from the traces, it should have been broken before death. There were also some subtle cracks in her skull, and it was clear that she had also suffered a severe blow to her head during the battle.

"With such a serious injury, you can actually struggle to swim all the way from the wreck to here, and you still bear the pain of floating from the deep sea, huh, I really have to admire you. "Every time Catherine digs up a bone, she carefully places it beside her, trying to spell out what the deceased looked like before she died. When Catherine found these serious scars, Catherine couldn't help but draw her long sword, bow deeply in front of most of the skeleton, and whispered: "No matter what your position is, stick to your beliefs, even if you are seriously injured and die, you will not forget your beliefs, this will alone is enough to be admired." I do not share your beliefs, but I respect your will, so please accept a compliment from an ordinary knight. ”

"Big sister, big sister. In the defensive fortress, although she knew that there was calm on the other side of the crowd, Catherine's lack of reaction also made it difficult for the three girls to reassure, Lina finally couldn't help it, and shouted loudly: "How are you doing over there, are you sure it's safe?"

At a distance of more than forty meters, the sound had become faint, but there was silence on the island except for the sound of the tide, and more and more controlled sea tribes did not make any sound. Therefore, Catherine still heard Lina's shout clearly, and shouted with a warm smile in her heart: "I am very good here, there is a great discovery, a very shocking discovery, I have exhumed a corpse here, a human corpse, I think this is the archbishop who escaped from death in the end." ”

"Good news. Lina shouted: "The quest item should be near the corpse, with the piety of an archbishop, even if he dies, he will not drop an artifact, and it will definitely not be too far from him." ”

"It's her. Catherine corrected, "I'll keep digging, don't be distracted by me, just concentrate on defense, I'll be fine." ”

"The frequency and intensity of attacks on our side are getting lower and less. Freya also joined in: "At this intensity, even if we don't do any reinforcement, just rely on the current defense, and it will be no problem to support it for another half an hour." ”

"Then you can wait patiently. Catherine shouted, "I'll be back soon when I find it." ”

Turning her attention back to the excavations, Catherine had unearthed fewer and fewer bones, and most of the archbishop's remains had been moved from under the rubble to the surface, but the target of the mission had not yet been found. However, Catherine was not worried, because the two most critical hand bones had not yet been found, and with the state of the archbishop at that time, it was most likely that the artifact was held in his hand, so the hand bones were the key targets. Although the mission target was not found, the only man-made items found during the excavation process were found, such as the remains of a sheepskin scroll, a hedron that had no energy, and a very small object such as the Mithril thread used for spellcasting, which were pressed down by the bones, and it seemed that the archbishop had never been able to get up since he fell face down for the last time.

Catherine stood there and thought about it, simulating the scene in her mind, the archbishop escaped from the sea, and with the idea that the farther away from the sea the artifact was safer, she tried her best to climb the mountain. But she had already suffered multiple fatal injuries, even with her demigod physique, it was difficult to continue to support, the injuries were getting more and more severe against her, making her speed slower and slower, and she had already broken a leg, and at this time she could only crawl through the mountains with both hands and one leg. No, I'm afraid there is only one hand, judging from her relics, she no longer has a pocket on her body that can hold slightly larger objects, and she can only hold the artifact with one hand, so she can really only use one hand and one leg. Finally, her vitality was exhausted, and she was no longer able to move forward, so she could only regretfully fall halfway up the mountain.

"What would she be thinking at this time?" Catherine thought as she tried to put herself in the other side's shoes, "If she climbed up the mountain to get as far away from the sea as possible, then her purpose was to protect their artifact." If so, she should have protected the artifact under her body before she died. But the corpse had been searched all over, and there was nothing. ”

"No, no, at this time, her consciousness is already blurred, and she will not think of such a complicated thing, but will follow her instinct to fulfill her original hope. What is the hope? Well, it should be to climb up the mountain and keep the artifact far away from the sea. In that case, she should finally use her last strength to lift the artifact upwards, so, is it above?"

Catherine nodded, deciding that she had the right idea, and began digging up from the side of the bone. Sure enough, not far up, I found the arm bone that had been separated from the body due to the landslide, and then up along the arm bone, digging out the forearm and hand bones all the way, and the bones of the three parts were obviously in a straight line, showing the deceased finally trying his best to stretch his arm upward. However, Catherine's disappointment and confusion happened, the corpse did not hold anything in the palm of its hand, and even if it turned over the rubble under the palm of the hand, nothing was found.

"No, it doesn't make sense. Catherine was a little irritated and used her shovel to flick the rubble around her, pacing back and forth around the location where she found the bones of her hand: "The performance of these controlled sea tribes shows that the mission target must be around here, and her physical condition cannot allow her to hide things elsewhere." But where can she hide her things, and there is no place for her other hand. ”

"No, no, there must be something I didn't think of, think about it again. Catherine put down the shovel, slapped her cheeks hard with both hands, and encouraged herself, "No problem, Catherine, you can think of it." ”

"Before she died, she would definitely lift the artifact up as much as possible, this idea should be correct, and the location of her bones also shows this, but why not? strange, did she hide things on purpose? But it is said that she is on the verge of death, how can she hide things again when she falls to the ground. ”

"No, I see, after she fell for the last time, she already knew that she was going to die, so instead of trying to climb up, she used the last bit of strength to hide the artifact. In this case, the artifact can only be within the range of her side, and the most likely is the range of an arm or so, because she has no strength to move anymore, and I am afraid that only her arms can move. But her arms are raised diagonally upwards, is this just a disguise?"

"Does she really have the energy to think about disguise before she dies? Maybe it's true, in order to protect the artifact, she used the last bit of strength to disguise. Well, if I'm not mistaken, ......"

"Lina. Catherine suddenly shouted, "If you lie on the ground and have no strength to move, and you want to hide something, where will you hide?"

"Me?" In the fortress, Lina was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment and responded: "I must hide something under my body and cover it with my body, so that I won't be discovered." ”

Catherine didn't say anything more, didn't care if Lina could see it or not, just nodded.

"Sure enough, everyone should think so. I understand that if normal people think like this, if you want to hide something, you must go against everyone's ideas, that is, the thing will hide outside her body, so that it will not be guessed. Her left arm stretched forward as hard as it looked like she was trying to keep things as far away from the surface as possible, but if you think about it, maybe she's covering up, okay, let's try her left position. ”

Having made up her mind, Catherine swung her shovel down and began to dig to the left of where the bones were found, until the depth at which the bones were found, but still found nothing. Catherine frowned, tilted her head and thought for a while, gritted her teeth, and continued to dig down. Until she dug down to a depth of nearly half a meter, as she raised the shovel from the ground again, a black mist suddenly appeared from the gap in the ground, and the mist was full of aggressive aura.

However, as soon as the large cloud of mist emerged from the ground, it was illuminated by the light of the silver moon, and it made a terrible hiss in the moonlight, and quickly melted away like ice and snow under the scorching sun, and turned into a puff of blue-white smoke that drifted into the air.

The fog cleared, revealing the affairs beneath the gap. It was a small horn the size of a hand, and the horn was pitch black, smooth and clean, and it was not at all obvious that it had been buried for thousands of years.

Catherine threw down her shovel and stood there thinking about it, before finally stooping down and pulling out the black horn from the gap. As soon as the horn was held by Catherine, the surrounding controlled sea tribes changed dramatically. (To be continued.) )