Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Usefulness of the Chilin Gopher
Because of the nature of quicksand, the abrupt basin in the desert does not last long. As time passes, the sand and dirt blown by the wind will soon bury the place, and it will be countless times more difficult to enter the ruins at that time.
It's been a few months since Tym left the Gravel Wasteland, and the basin that was hundreds of meters deep has been filled with gravel, and most of the tunnels of the first layer of ruins have been buried. But it also makes it delusional for anyone who wants to sneak into the ruins.
The Baroque circled the basin of ruins for miles and had to give up. He had arrived too late, and there was no trace of any ruins from the outside, except for the yellow and brown gravel, and the only way to understand it was to go through the only entrance.
The team that cut down the sand coconut trees to protect the only entrance was called the [Iron Fang Adventure Team], and it was very powerful, they had hundreds of people, and at least a third of the Fighting Spirit Warriors. Although it still can't be compared with the thousands of adventurers around them, they don't dare to monopolize it, but it can also let them take the initiative. Any adventurer who wants to enter the ruins will need to make a deal with them...... Whoever finds the treasure must give a third of the Iron Fang adventurers.
Baroque followed Tyme and saw a small team of more than a dozen people preparing to enter the entrance of the ruins, and the people of the Iron Fang Adventure Team counted all the items they were carrying outside the entrance, and when they came out again, they had to rummage through them again. Anything extra is considered a treasure in the ruins, and the defense is not impenetrable.
"What do we have on us? Don't hide it. Or simply stay outside, or don't want to come back once you're in the ruins and come out if they find out. "Tame told his teammates, but it was mainly to Baroque. After all, they are all poor people, and even the way to the gravel wasteland is the money of the Baroque who eats and drinks.
Baroque patted some of his shabby clothes, except for an arm-length handful hanging from his waist. Aside from the nondescript blades that were not long swords or daggers, there were only six swarthy and inconspicuous iron rings on their hands. The ugly broken ring didn't even look down on Hagen and the others, but Baroque explained that it was a relic of his former teammates on the adventure team. Because they all died during an expedition somewhere, the Baroque left their only relic as a memorial.
Each carrying a small cloth bag followed Tame to the entrance of the ruins. One of the Iron Fang Adventurers walked over and looked at Tyme's shivering face. I couldn't help but show a contemptuous expression: "Want to enter the ruins and make a fortune?" Just with guys like you, don't you go in and die for nothing?"
"My lord, maybe our luck may not be good. Tim smiled and said, "And whether our luck is good or bad, it's not a loss for your Iron Fang adventure team, is it?"
The Iron Fang Adventurer didn't bother to talk to Tym, and casually pointed at them, "Old rules. What did you all bring with you?" you wouldn't have to search yourself when you entered the ruins, and the Iron Fang Adventurers wished everyone had something else to carry in secret. If you find it when it comes out, it's public property!
A few of them each had a most ordinary long sword, and Baroque flashed six black rings on his hands, and then they had nothing but the cloth bags on their hands.
"What's in the bag?" asked the iron-toothed adventurer.
"Oh, a few fat gophers we caught, they taste good, why don't you keep a few for you?" Tyme pulled out the Chilin gopher that had been fat, and smiled at the man.
Everyone knows that the people of the Duchy of Dalintan are known as the orcs of the human race, and they are known for their vulgarity and barbarism, and they have the custom of eating raw meat. When this man saw the fat gopher, he was really disgusted, and hurriedly waved his hand, and said in disgust: "Take it away, get out of it!"
Tyme was really right, the tunnel here was very low, and Baroque had to bend his waist very low to move forward, and he couldn't walk hundreds of meters before he was tired and out of breath. Fortunately, I happened to enter a tunnel node, where the space is relatively open, and you can straighten up and relax.
"Boss Tem, how are we going to get the Kirin gophers to find their way?" Baroque asked, gasping for breath.
"Not yet. Tim looked at the environment and said, "All the surrounding pits are marked, indicating that they have been explored, and we need to continue to dig deeper to find a place that has not yet been searched, and then release the Chilling Gopher." β
Baroque had no choice but to continue to bend over and follow Tyme into the tunnel. At the same time, taking advantage of the gap in front of them, they quietly released the four brothers of Don Wolf and let the four guys explore the environment. Anyway, within a certain distance, they can communicate with each other, and they will not be separated.
Baroque found that the walls of these tunnels were very smooth, and all of them were made of hard, light white rock. All the stones are the same size and have a very standard character. As we go deeper, these tunnels become more and more numerous, dense as spider webs. And he also noticed that the cobweb-like tunnels were not chaotic, but followed some kind of pattern. He was familiar with this pattern, as if he had seen it somewhere.
The more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, and Baroque couldn't help but use his hands to explore and touch the corners of those rocks, even after countless years, there were still no gaps, representing the superb skills of the ancients at that time. Suddenly, Baroque felt a bulge in the corner, and pried the thing out with his sword, wiping away the ash and revealing a faint blue sheen. Tame and the others had already come over, and Hagen shouted in surprise: "It's kyanite gold, it's a big piece, it weighs three or four pounds, hey, this piece is worth ten gold coins, even if we can't find anything, it's not a trip in vain." Aragon, yours is true. β
Saying okay, anything he finds belongs to everyone, and Baroque casually handed it to Hagen: "I'm too tired to bend over and walk, can you help me carry it?" You must know that his six storage rings contain a lot of materials, even if it is just the treasure of Attenbona the Apocalypse that Dennis found, it is no less than 100,000 gold coins.
Hagen was pleased. took the azurite gold, looked at it again and again, and then reluctantly put it into the animal skin bag on his back. Moving on, they followed the marks left by the previous explorers, walked for a long time, and finally met other adventurers. Peers are enemies, and those adventurers look at Tim and the others with fierce eyes. Look for what they have learned. Tim calmly patted the shriveled leather pouch on his body, avoiding the obvious intent on eating black, and turned into another pit to go deeper.
After those adventurers found out that Tyme and the others had nothing to gain. One of them couldn't help but exclaim, "Hey, guys, the front of the road you are walking has collapsed, and more than a dozen people have been stoned to death a few days ago. Do you want to go to the funeral?"
Hagen and the others immediately froze. Some hesitated. Baroque moved in his heart and urged in a low voice: "Keep going." Tyme nodded as well, agreeing with Baroque's words, and did not stop, moving on. Behind him came the wanton laughter and curses of those adventurers.
Those people were right, they walked for more than half an hour, the markings on the wall were gone, and there was a pile of rubble in front of them. The passage was blocked, and sure enough, the tunnel collapsed. Hagen and the others were at a loss. With a smirk, Tim quietly unfastened his pocket, grabbed a chilin gopher, tied it to its tail with a string, and stuffed it into the gap in the collapsed rock. Soon, the chilin gopher disappeared from the gap, and the string in his hand kept going deeper. The speed was not fast at first, but after a few minutes, suddenly the rope was quickly pulled in. Tym tugged at the rope and thought about it for a moment, then turned back to Baroque and smiled: "These rocks are not thick, only more than ten feet, we can move them." β
I can't understand it, it's clear that this is a unique craft of Taim, and Baroque chooses to believe him. Together with Hagen and others, he moved stones outward. Those dozens of pounds of stones were like children's building blocks in Baroque's hands, and they quickly dug into it very deeply, and Hagen and others behind him were secretly shocked, shocked by the strength of Baroque, and the five of them could not move more stones than Baroque himself.
The people outside were all liars, and there were no dead bodies underneath. After digging for more than half an hour, a stone was pushed away, and suddenly it scattered with a loud bang. Sure enough, as Tim had calculated, the rocks were only more than ten feet thick. γThe front is dark and deep, and it has been passed.
In that darkness, Baroque knew that the eternal night of the four wolf brothers had gone around in front of them from another passage. And it has made discoveries, is calling other brothers and Baroque.
Tyme was still tugging on the rope and dragging the gopher back, he seemed to have a special communication skill with the gopher, and after muttering for a long time, he untied the rope and let the gopher gopher go. Soon the Chilin gopher disappeared into the darkness, and Baroque immediately warned the [Eternal Night] in the darkness ahead not to bite the gopher to death, and to see how Taim could use the gopher to find his way.
They carried their torches and continued on their way, and since this was already unexplored territory,2 no one knew what the danger was. All had weapons in their hands. Every once in a while, Tame would let go of a gopher ....... By the time there was only the last one of the ten gophers in their hands, they had already gone far, far away.
And Baroque finally remembered why it felt familiar............ The tunnels here are actually some kind of veins, if you look at them from the air, you will find that they are similar to the veins of the magic array, or the totem array, circling and entangled, but they definitely do not coincide, in fact, they are moving within a radius of several miles. This surface tunnel is composed of a huge altar totem array, which has many similarities with the pattern of the sealed totem circle that Baroque copied in the gray dwarf cavern tunnel.
It seems that there is a very high probability that this is the royal court of King Maudun, and Baroque can't help but get excited again. Knowing what the first layer is, Baroque has a goal, since it is a star totem array, then it is bound to place totem poles on the six points of the hexagram. Those six points may be the gateway to the next level.
It was the discovery of a closed chamber-like place that summoned Baroque in the Eternal Night.
"Okay, the Chilin gopher has been discovered!" At this time, Tim finally exclaimed in surprise, and immediately led everyone into the darkness, he was not worried about the dense cobweb-like tunnel, he was not worried about whether he would get lost, so he turned left and right, and actually found the closed secret room that the wolf found in the eternal night.
Baroque was a little surprised, it seems that even small people have their own magical abilities. (To be continued.) )