Chapter 30: Beetles

The curse of the gods, Chriss does not believe, but for the disappearance of a huge prosperous city, the occurrence of natural disasters is more reliable than man-made disasters, such as the movement of the earth's crust, volcanic eruptions, and so on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Well, we're not going down. Chris said.

Curiosity is there, but Chris doesn't think there's any special point in finding a lost city.

Especially when he wasn't very interested in money.

He bent down and opened the lid again, and Pandis was anxious and grabbed him: "Isn't it impossible to say?"

"Don't worry, just look at it from above!" Chriss, smiling at Pandis, lit a torch and threw it into the dark hollow.

The torches collided on the stairs and rolled downward, splashing scattered sparks along the way, making a "tuk-tuk" sound, and finally falling to the ground with a "poof" and not moving, the dim fire gradually filling in the darkness.

Chris unleashed the wind kite, drove it downward, and closed its eyes.

In the view of the wind kite, a larger space stands out.

It was a square room, empty, there seemed to be nothing else on the floor, but there were patterns on the walls on all four sides. Because of the swaying of the fire, it is not very clear to see.

"Empty!" Chriss, turning to Pandis and whispering.

"It looks like there shouldn't be any danger!" said Chris, "or, this is better for our sleep tonight." I'll go down and see, you're waiting for me here. ”

"No, I'm going down together!" Pandis said, biting her lip.

"Good!"

Chris picked up the torch and carefully walked down the stairs.

The stairs were not long, only a dozen floors, and Chris quickly stood on the ground, and after making sure that they were all stone slabs, he looked up and said to Pandis, "Come down." ”

Pandis also walked down.

Chris pulled Pandis along to the surrounding stone walls, and raised the torches in his hands, and the patterns on the stone walls were clearly revealed in the light of the fire.

Chris looks from left to right.

The first picture depicts a man coming into a mountain range, and because there are no other references, it is impossible to see what race it is, and the weapons or tools in his hands are vague.

In the second picture, this person has dug a hole at the foot of the mountain, and from this point of view, it is faintly connected to the origin of the city of Avalon, so the two paintings should refer to a dwarf who came here, and I don't know why he chose to start digging here.

In the third picture, a lot of minerals were piled up outside the cave in the mountain range, and then many similar people came to this mountain range together, some people dug on the other side of the foot of the mountain, and some people climbed to the top of the mountain to dig.

From the fourth point onwards, small buildings appear on the edge of the mountains, and other taller races and dwarves are building more and more houses, higher and higher, even higher than the mountain next to them.

In the sixth picture, the mountains are almost obscured by the city that was built, indicating that the city has entered a period of high prosperity.

In the seventh picture, a number of men with mounts and weapons appear outside the city and attack the city.

In the eighth picture, the dwarves are enraged, not only defeating the invading enemy, but also launching a counterattack on their city, which seems to be in the era of many divided countries and occupying the city, similar to the warlords of the previous Republic of China.

In the next two images, the dwarves defeat their enemies one by one, destroying their cities, and capturing the remaining enemies to their original cities as slaves. They fell on their knees and prostrated to one dwarf and another much taller.

Because this man appeared so suddenly, Chris and Pandis had to go back and look for this person in the previous pictures, but they couldn't find it, so they could only barely determine that this person should have played a big role in the dwarves' war, or that he was the one who tricked the dwarves into starting the war.

This is the end of the stone carvings, which are twelve paintings in all.

Chris shook his head: "I didn't explain the destruction of this city. ”

Pandis said with a smile, "They didn't have time to engrave the pattern when they were destroyed." ”

"No," said Chriss, "I mean, there's no hint in these patterns. ”

Pandis pointed to the last picture and said, "Maybe it gave a hint, it's this person who suddenly appeared." ”

Chrissy pondered over the pattern for a moment, then suddenly pulled Pandis's hand away and brought the torch closer to the pattern.

"What's wrong? What did you find?" said Pandis, looking at the last picture.

"Look, what's the difference between this last picture and the other patterns?" said Criss.

Pandis looked at it and said, "No, what's the difference?"

"This painting is the only sectional drawing. Chris said softly.

In this painting, two people, one tall and one short, stand together on a high place similar to a temple and receive the prostrations of the people, surrounded by the outline of the building, which implies the nobility of the temple, and there are other outlines of other buildings, as well as a faint protrusion in the upper left corner.

Chris's finger was on this protrusion.

"This is it!"

Pandis asked curiously, "What does this mean?"

"I think it's the mountain range that appeared in the first picture. ”

"The mountains?" Pandis's eyes widened and he looked back at the first painting, "so short?"

"Well," Chrissy nodded, "this is probably the case that the dwarves had already exploited all the minerals in this mountain range by then, but does this have anything to do with the sudden appearance of this man?"

Pandis shook his head: "I don't see a connection, this person may be the one who came to Avalon before, and then helped the dwarves win, that's all." ”

Chris pondered for a moment: "Can't guess!"

He put down the torch and began to shine on the ground, and stomped with his foot: "It's empty down there, too, and the secret is underneath." ”

Pandis's face turned pale: "Don't go down, okay? ”

Chris smiled, "I just realized today that you have very little guts!"

"Nasty!" Pandis blushed.

Chris reached out and scratched her nose, "Alright, let's sleep here tonight," he listened intently, "the storm should have passed, and hopefully our camels are still there." ”

"Hmm!"

The two of them walked up the stairs together.

It's quiet outside.

When they walked out of the door, they saw the camels at a glance, and they also saw the two of them standing up from the ground very spiritually, but only two remained. The rest was swept away by the storm.

These two should have snuggled up to each other behind the house, resisted the raging storm, and finally survived.

The camel's contents were mostly still there, and Chris checked and found that only some of the water and food were missing, but it was already lucky.

After feeding the two camels with water and food, and tying the reins to the stone slab of the house, it was discovered that the "door" was actually just a hole in the slab that had been broken through, and from the bevel of the inside, it could be seen that it should have been the spire of a tall building.

Because of the bones on the first floor, Chris chose the camp on the second floor, laid out the tent, washed the two hastily, checked the surroundings again, lay down, and soon fell asleep.

"Poof" Chriss, startled, opened his eyes.

What is this sound?

As if something had swooped on top of the tent, he raised his hand to condense an elemental ball that glowed faintly, and then looked out, and couldn't help but gasp - there were many insects crawling on the tent, and it looked like beetles. (To be continued.) )