Chapter 14: Footprints and Conjectures

At around four o'clock in the afternoon, Tianyi and the Count arrived outside the Colosseum, a place that was not heavily regulated in the Middle Ages and was not protected by the government, and could come and go as they pleased most of the time.

Tianyi led the Count to a stone wall in the Colosseum, and stopped, he did not lift his hood, and the Count could only see the lower half of his face.

"Hmm...... I think it's good here. Tianyi said.

The Earl looked left and right, and said to himself, "What are you doing?" You pick a random landmark building, stand under a stone wall, and tell me that it is good. Do you want me to bring a few people and dig a big hole here overnight and throw the treasure in?

"Master...... Such...... It's not right. The Count tactfully expressed his doubts.

Tianyi knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, and said with a strange smile: "I'm going to tell you something next, it must seem very bizarre to you, but it's true, you have to accept it as soon as possible." ”

The Earl was still mentally prepared for this situation, anyway, since he met Tianyi, he had seen at least two or three strange events beyond his comprehension.

"Master, say it. The Count replied.

Tianyi said: "Under this Colosseum, there is a huge temple in the shape of a pyramid. ”

The Count's eyes were straight, his mouth was half open, and the corners of his eyes jumped involuntarily.

Tianyi continued: "I plan to ...... from here" He pointed to his feet: "Dig a passage, if we keep it vertically downward, we can reach an entrance to that temple at a depth of two hundred to two hundred and thirty meters." ”

"Hmm......" The Count just wanted to ask him at the moment, how to dig?

In the Middle Ages, where could anyone have the engineering technology to go so deep underground, and even if there were, Count Beauge, as a fugitive wanted by the Holy See, and being watched by countless dark forces in the shadows, could not have hired an engineering team of hundreds of people to build in the Colosseum, right?

Tianyi didn't wait for him to ask this question, so he said directly: "I can complete the construction of the passage alone, and it can be completed in about three days." All you have to do is remember where we are standing at this moment, and in three days, you take the treasure out of the temporary hiding place, find some loyal and reliable people to take care of it, and we will transport the treasure to the temple underground in batches, all in a week. ”

When the earl heard this, he was a little relieved, he almost forgot that the person in front of him was a wizard, how could such a thing as digging tunnels be difficult to pour the master of Tianyi, maybe someone would cook a pot of eyeballs, mix a little cat urine, chant a few incantations, and a big snake came out of the center of the earth to help him open up the ground.

"Okay, I'll do it. When the Count had finished answering, he thought of something and said, "By the way, Master, in the next three days, in case ......"

Tianyi interrupted him and said, "You just don't make abnormal behaviors, everything is as usual, there is no danger." ”

............

Vanessa followed the light of the flashlight to look in the direction the advisor was pointing, and after a few seconds of careful observation, she almost cried out. On the wall on one side of the passage, the uneven surface of the wall made of earth and stone was faintly recognizable as the imprint of a human face.

"How can this be......" Venissa muttered softly to herself.

The advisor said to her in a natural tone: "Someone must have put it on his face." ”

"You mean, seven hundred years ago, someone crushed the walls of this place with his own face?" asked Vanessa.

"Huh...... How do you know that the owner of this face took the initiative to imprint his face on the wall?" the advisor laughed, "Also, look at the footprints on the ground." ”

Vanessa looked down and shone a flashlight on the stairs, but she couldn't see it at all, there were more than a dozen people walking in front of her, and the footprints were messy.

However, the consultant sees things differently from others, and the fact that he can see the only and inconspicuous "face print" on the wall under the conditions of poor lighting is enough to show that there is no information on the road that can escape his observation, memory and analysis.

"There are footprints that go up. As soon as the advisor came out, Vanessa understood.

She could also make out a few footprints on the ground, but she just replied casually, "What's so strange about this, the Templars who transported the treasure had to return to the surface through this passage in the first place." ”

Seeing the lights in front of him fading away, the advisor said, "Let's keep up with the team first." ”

Vanessa followed him back on, picking up a little quicker.

The advisor explained as he walked: "This passage is undoubtedly affected by some special force, after being closed, many traces left by eight hundred years ago are still in their original state, and I noticed the problem of footprints from the moment I entered, almost the same as our new footprints, so it is very valuable for reference." "Actually, the advisor has probably guessed what is going on in this passage, because it is connected to the fortress of the Dark Water Clan, so this place should be affected by the power inside the ruins.

Inside the fortress of the Dark Water Tribe, living beings are not aware of physiological needs, time passing, etc., which is the characteristic of facilities based on the "eternal core", in fact, not only living things, but also matter in this environment, it will also enter a state similar to no space and no time. This passage is not even inside the ruins, and it has already been affected. This will inevitably become even more evident when the expedition actually enters the ruins.

The advisor continued, "It's hard to tell exactly how many people were walking down the line, as the people in our team were carrying equipment on their backs, and the Templars were supposed to be carrying treasure when they were heading down. Without knowing the weight data, it is very difficult to distinguish from the depth of the footprint. So I'll talk about the upward footprints.

From the top of the passage to all the stairs between that face, I saw only two of them in the footprints of the way up. But from the position of that face, so far, there are three people. So...... The footprints that disappeared probably belonged to the owner of the face, and I saw that the footprints that came up from him were only the soles of his feet on the ground, very deep and powerful, and the stride was very large, as if he was ......"

"Escape?" Vanessa continued.

"Yes, run away. The advisor replied, "I can imagine that something happened to that man when he fled to the location where he had just left his face print, causing him to hit his face against the wall. You notice, there are no palm prints near the face, whether a normal person is hit, pushed, or beaten, when his face is smashed against the wall, his two hands will instinctively protect the front of the face, or at least prop it up on the wall, right, but there is none.

And to my bewilderment, the footprints were gone, but no body remained, and if there was a headless corpse nearby, and a human head on the staircase not far away, it would all make sense. For example, when he fled here, he was beheaded and his head flew against the wall or something, but there was no body...... Could it be that something ate it after death? ”

"Don't be malicious and scary. Vanessa said in an unkind tone.

"If we're at a test of courage and you're wearing a swimsuit and holding my arm, that's the right time to scare people. The consultant's train of thought was moving quickly, and in order to deny the other party, he instantly gave an example of what he thought was the right time to be scary: "I'm just speculating normally now, and I feel that fear is your own problem." ”

"Okay, I've got you. At this moment, Vanessa thought to herself that the advisor was simply a freak. A normal person can only come to the conclusion that he can come to after careful inspection, taking pictures, and taking it back for analysis, this guy just looked at it when he passed by, and got the same answer in his head. That's it, he can also instantly construct a scene like a test of courage conference in his mind to make irony, and if someone else says this, Venisha must think that this person has been yy herself for many years, imagining the scene of eating her tofu.

"Hmm...... The footprints have increased again, which is interesting. When he was about to catch up with the large army in front, the adviser stopped again, and he shone a flashlight at his feet: "Look, this is the fourth upward footprint, and like the owner of the face print, he is also running." ”

Vanessa looked at it and asked, "What about the owners of the other two footprints?" Are they the two who went up alive?"

"See for yourself. The light of the advisor's flashlight was slightly crooked to the side: "Can you see clearly, these two footprints exist all the way to the top of the passage." ”

"It's a normal walk...... "Venisha wondered, "the people who walked succeeded in leaving, but the runners stopped." ”

"It's not surprising that there is danger chasing after you, and people will run. The advisor snapped a picture of the walls on either side, and even looked at the slope overhead: "The fourth footprint is missing here, but he has left no other traces, and of course, there is no body. ”

Vanessa thought for a moment and said, "I guess it's something that happened between the Templars, maybe there was a conflict, and the absence of corpses is easy to explain, they may have died at the hands of the able, and the mighty person has the means to destroy the corpse on the spot." ”

"Hmm...... That's a reasonable explanation. The advisor nodded: "But there is one more unusual thing. ”

"And?" Vanessa said.

"Judging from the footprints, the number of people who went down is unknown, but it should be in the range of a few people to a dozen, and only two people came up in the end. The advisor paused and said, "But...... No matter how you look at it, these are just the footprints left by the team that carried the treasure after one round trip, and the two people who went out alive had different footprints, so it is impossible for the same person to leave two round-trips. He looked back at Vanessa, "Of course, it's not just a matter of one or two people. My question is...... Can the Templar treasure be transported in a single round trip? How many people will be needed to carry it?"

Venisha was also stunned, her expression obviously changed: "Could it be...... Is there any other entrance to this ruin?"

The advisor shrugged and replied, "I don't know, but it's obviously impossible for more than a hundred people to carry a sack of treasure each." I prefer to believe that there were only a dozen people who came down that year, and they knew that this was a life and death, so they chose to take only the most valuable treasures in the treasure, and did not bring too much gold or silver.

The two who made it out alive either divided the rest of the gold and silver, or hid it somewhere else. There is also a small chance that the two will return to the ruins and have to bring in more treasure, but this time they did not escape alive, so they did not leave a trace of the second time. Of course, there are other possibilities, all kinds of odds, just looking at the footprints upward, I can only speculate so much. ”

Venisha said, "Do you want to go to the front and lead the team......

"There's no need, in fact, these are just what I saw in my eyes, and I naturally thought of what did the life and death of those people have to do with me. The advisor replied: "Besides, if you go to the front now, you won't see anything, according to my speculation about the depth of the channel......

"Found the entrance!" shouted someone at the front of the line.

The advisor tilted his neck and spread his hands.

Vanessa always thought that the other party was just a hacker who was a little weaker than herself, and she was a little clever, and it was not strange that such strength could be a military advisor against the Cross. But after walking down this way, she only felt shuddering, this kid is not just a little "smart", he is not a normal human at all.

"From now on, don't leave my sight, it's best to stay within five meters of me. Vanessa squinted at him: "If you dare to play any tricks, no matter how far away my ability can be activated, I advise you not to risk your life." ”

"Okay, I don't care, this kind of surveillance is what I deserve. The advisor smiled and walked down.

At this time, at the front of the team, the staircase at the end of the passage and the slope of the ruins form a funnel-shaped angle, but the slope is not very steep, although it looks like the slope is a black metal wall, the material is no different from the spire of the pyramid, and it is also covered with fine textures, but the unique vision of the dark water can see through, the wall is just a camouflage, similar to a virtual projection, and you can enter the ruins directly through it.

But the problem is that below this layer of projection, there is a relatively large space, after passing through the inclined plane, it will fall, about a dozen meters high. There should be no problem for those with the ability to jump if they are prepared, but those who are below this level may be injured if they jump down.

Darkwater walked to the end of the passage and stopped at the stairs, he didn't go up to touch the slope of the ruins, but thought about what he could do to make sense. Because he has to play John DeSoto after all, he can't mess around. It was impossible for him to look back and say: "This wall is a projection, I can see through it, and I can visually detect the drop below more than ten meters without a flashlight." ”

If he did so, Sueside behind him would probably immediately ask, "What is the purpose of your coming to Earth?"

Dark Water pondered for a long time and thought of a countermeasure: just pretend that he didn't know anything, step on the air, and then quickly turn around and grab the stairs, so that others will pull him up, and the projection thing can be regarded as being discovered by him "accidentally". Then go through the projection and pretend to throw a pebble or something, tell them the depth, and let them prepare the rope.

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