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The bottom of the pit is smaller than expected, compared to the area of 1,000 square meters at the entrance of the hole, the bottom of the pit is only six or seven hundred square meters in size, which is indeed a lot smaller. Looking up from the bottom of the cave, the blue sky shows only a small patch within the confines of the cave entrance, which is extremely small in contrast to the four walls of the cave.

The bottom of the pit was full of bare rocks, and there were no signs of plant growth, and a very small number of leaves drifting from the surrounding dense forest were piled up at the bottom of the pit, and the fallen leaves had long since rotted into mud, giving off a strange smell.

"It's damp in here. Catherine picked up a little of the decayed leaf with her fingers, put it under her nose and sniffed it: "There is no sign of dryness and dehydration, it is completely rotten." ”

"With such a deep pit, the time for the sun to shine directly is too short. Pannis kicked away a rock that had been stationary for an unknown number of years, and although there was damp dirt scattered under the stone, there were no insects left: "There seems to be something wrong here, there is no moss, no trees, not even the insects that can be found everywhere, but I don't know if this is the only one in this hole, or if all seven of them are like this." ”

"Why is this happening?" Catherine lifted a few more stones, and there were indeed no visible creatures, "Is it really as Elad said, that there is still a destructive force left here?"

"It's not that exaggerated, if there is a special power that has an effect on the human body, I can definitely feel it. Pannis shook his head, pointed to a few rotten leaves, and said: "And you see, those leaves are rotten, indicating that there are still normal fungi that can survive here, as for the lack of signs of ordinary animals and plants, I am afraid that it is because there are certain minerals buried in the ground, which causes the soil to be affected and changed, so that the plants die, and the animals instinctively hate here." At least as it stands, there will be no problem moving around here for a short period of time. ”

"So sure?" Catherine was a little incredulous, but she immediately understood when she followed Pannis's gaze. The location where Pannis was looking was the corner of the rock wall of the crater, where there were a few inconspicuous blackened marks, and around one trace, there were even the remains of some small animal bones and some household garbage.

"In the past 30 years, at least two groups of people have camped here, and they have not left in a hurry. Pannis approached the trace, squatted down and looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "You can also safely organize all your belongings before leaving, which means that there will not be a big enough threat in a short time." ”

"I'm camping here. Catherine shook her head: "I can't understand it, if you encounter a falling rock, it is easy to be seriously injured or even killed, and there is no way back here, it is a dead end." ”

"Maybe there's a special reason, like a thunderstorm. Pannis shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "Instead of being a lightning target protruding from the ground in a flat clearing above, it is better to run down and dodge, there are always signs of falling rocks or something, and it is only a hundred meters high here, it will not be a problem to pay attention to it." Alright, let's go up and take a look at the next one. ”

"How do you know it's not here by simply looking at it?" Catherine took out four climbers and hung them on the rope, adjusted them slightly, and without waiting for Pannis's answer, she directly followed the rope with her hands and feet and quickly ascended.

"The conclusion drawn from that picture. Pannis's voice rang in her ears.

"Huh???" was startled by Pannis's sudden reply, and Catherine almost didn't fall off the rope. Turning her head, Pannis didn't use a rope at all, and directly leaned on the raised rocks and rock crevices, climbing up at the same speed as her: "Hey, are you a monkey, and you're not afraid of falling to death?"

"I'm not carrying a hundred kilograms of equipment and items like you. Pannis jumped sideways, grabbed the rope under Catherine with one hand, and flicked it upwards with a slight force, crossing a smooth stone wall of nearly two meters and then climbing back onto the rock wall: "I only have twenty or thirty kilograms of weight here, of course it is easy to get up, don't worry, I won't die." ”

"Shut up. Catherine scolded: "If you want to climb, you can concentrate on climbing, don't joke about safety, don't talk, and talk about it when you have something." ”

"Okay, okay, you're always right, Captain. Pannis muttered wistfully, bouncing back and forth on the rock wall like a monkey, quickly overtaking Catherine's position, and soon disappearing to the top of the crater.

When Catherine peeked out of the hole, she found that Pannis had run to the next hole and was beginning to push the iron drill into the ground, and Lina, in the camp, saw the two of them crawling out of the hole, and shouted from a distance, "How is it, big sister, have you found anything?"

"I didn't, but you were careful to wake Vivien up. Catherine also replied loudly: "I don't care if she beats you up then." ”

"She couldn't beat me. Lina tilted her head and thought about it, but still shouted loudly, "And when she sleeps like a dead pig, she won't be woken up." ”

"Flame Burst. A giant flame flashed in the camp in the distance, and Lina's shrill laughter was heard.

"The world is finally clear. Catherine put away her climbing iron and rope, and flapped her head in anguish and walked over to Pannis, who had secured another set of climbing equipment and was waiting for her arrival.

"I'll go down first, be careful when you go down, this pit is the one Vivien used as a trap last night. Pannis explained: "Although there is no movement at the moment, it cannot be ruled out that there are marrow eaters who are lucky enough not to fall to their deaths, and it is best to be prepared." ”

"Okay. Catherine raised her flis shield and single-handedly slid down the rope behind Pannis, and the rappeller worked a few times before falling smoothly to the ground. Inside the pit, Pannis struggles to piece together the pieces of corpses scattered on the ground in order to count the number of corpses.

"I think there were fifteen of them. Catherine asked, "Together, they killed one on it, and the remaining fifteen came down." ”

"Yes, all of them here are dead, but I'm going to count them and see if they're right. "Because there are many protruding rocks on the ground below the crater, several corpses have fallen on the rocks and their limbs are scattered, and the ground is full of coagulated blood and brains, and broken flesh and bones can also be seen everywhere.

"Well, there's water here. "There is a deep groove on the bottom side of the pothole, and the inside is black, and you can't see the inside clearly, only the sound of rushing water can be heard coming from the inside of the groove. Catherine tentatively dropped a stone, and it took about two seconds for the sound of the stone falling into the water to come back: "The groove is quite deep, and the current is very fast, and the water is also very deep, is there a dark river underground?"

"Well, there should be underground rivers in the lower parts of these seven deep pits, and this dark river should not be small, otherwise it would not have caused such a large-scale ground subsidence to form such a terrain. After Pannis finished counting the corpses, he went to the side of the groove and activated a micro-sized light-attribute shard fragment and threw it down. The space below is not small, and the faint spar brilliance can't illuminate the entire space at all, and you can only see a ball of light falling straight to the bottom of the groove, being swept away by the current and disappearing quickly: "Be careful not to fall, if you really fall and be swept away by the current, I'm afraid the chance of survival is almost zero." ”

"It's such a narrow gap, I can't go down even if I want to. Catherine said, "Why, have you counted them?"

"No, exactly fifteen. Pannis replied, "All dead, no survivors." ”

"That's good, don't worry about Dora and them. Catherine said: "Could it be that this is what the map refers to? Although the map is depicting a puddle, from what I observed yesterday, there is no puddle in the center of the pothole, and the only thing related to water is probably only here." Well, maybe we'll find others later, but I think it's quite possible. ”

"That's a possibility. Pannis frowned and looked at the sky: "But my opinion is just the opposite, and it's not here. ”

"Why?" asked Catherine, "I wondered from just now, how did you look up and be sure?"

"It's not just about looking up. Pannis replied, "Let me explain it in detail." ”

Pannis took out the map and spread it out, pointed to the three moons and said: "Last night, no, in the early hours of this morning, when I looked at this map carefully, I felt that there was something special. In this picture, the shape of the pit or something is very sloppy, and it seems that it is simply depicted. But if you look at these three moons, I carefully recalled the moon chart of the night of the mana tide, and I felt that the trimoon strings were almost indistinguishable from the real moon map. ”

"Is that so?" Catherine closed her eyes and recalled in her mind the moon she had seen every night, the moon that she was usually familiar with to the extreme, only to find it so strange when she needed to seriously imagine it, "I'm sorry, I can't really imagine it, but it's okay, you go on." ”

"Then I thought, why is this happening? If it's just a hint of time, and it's enough to draw only the blue moon of the full moon, why do we need to draw the other two moons so accurately?" Pannis stroked his chin and said in a trance: "Moreover, the function of such a thing as a map is to give the user enough hints so that the user can find the target, so could it be that the hints that we haven't found are in these three moons?"

"That's a bit of an overstatement. Catherine asked, "The trilutony alone does not support your conjecture." ”

"yes, I thought so too, and then I asked Vivien to do something. "Because my calculations were not very high, and I had forgotten a lot about astronomy and didn't have enough knowledge to support my calculations, I asked Vivien to help me calculate the angles between the three moons and the ground on the map, based on the scale on the drawing and the length of some of the shadows of the objects measured with a ruler." It turned out to be the moment when the magic energy was at its most active in the blue night, and the three moons should be in the position. In other words, in this picture, the shape of the pit is completely arbitrary, but the distance between the three moons and the length of the shadows are drawn exactly to the real scale. ”