Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Lost City
However, this is not the only one, as the two of them walked inward, there was such a "click" of broken bones all the way underfoot, most of the bones were badly weathered, some were still wearing some clothes, and some were completely dry and mummified. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Chris carefully stooped down and picked up a piece of wood and lit it, and the room suddenly lit up.
The light of the fire drove away most of the darkness.
In the depths of the darkness, there is a faint oblique angle inward.
In the middle is a load-bearing stone pillar of the main body, and there are some furniture around it that is difficult to distinguish the original, even if it seems that some of them are still stone, and the ground is mostly covered with yellow sand, but because the walls are made of stone slabs, there is only one door leading to the outside, and the rest of the place is still intact.
The storm outside is still continuing, and the whirring wind can still be heard very clearly even through a wall, and if it goes out at this time, it will definitely be swept into the air at the first time, and then it will be crushed in an instant.
Chris took Pandis's hand and walked cautiously into the depths.
Coming to the deepest point, the two had to bend down gradually as the angle of inclination got lower and lower.
There seemed to be nothing but the yellow sand on the ground and the debris beneath it.
Either way, the two survived the storm.
Chris carefully cleaned the floor, exposed the floor, sat down carefully, and then sat down on his lap with Pandis in his arms: "Hungry?"
Pandis whispered, "Sort of." ”
Now the time should be close to eight o'clock in the evening, before in order to hurry without eating, at this time after a life rush, physical and mental consumption have been exhausted, after being rescued, I immediately found the emptiness in my stomach.
Chris stuck the stick of wood in his hand into the sand, used it as a torch, and then took out pieces of meat and dry food, handed them to Pandis, and the two of them had a simple dinner together.
"We're pretty lucky," Chriss, handing the bladder to Pandis, "and we don't have to sleep out tonight." ”
Pandis nodded and looked out the door: "How long will this storm last?" ”
Storms in the desert come and go as fast as they come, because they are almost always on the same plane, and most of the time they move forward with maximum wind speed, destroying everything they encounter along the way.
"It should be soon," Chriss, removing the face towel wrapped around his head.
He stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, wiped off the fine sand stuck between his mouth and nose, and then also helped Pandis clean it carefully, there is not much hygiene in the desert, after a few days, not to mention Chris, even Pandis can only simply wash his body once every night before going to bed, after all, the water in the desert is too precious.
After a hasty dinner, Chris helped Pandice to his feet and prepared to clear a piece of cleaner ground for the night's camp.
"Just... Just sleep here..."Pandis's eyes looked at the dry bones in the room, a little frightened.
Chris smiled and nodded, "I'll sweep them all out, okay?"
Pandice stuck out her tongue.
Chris picked up a plank and was about to bend down when he suddenly moved.
Pandis said curiously, "What's wrong?"
Chrissy looked at the ground beneath his feet, "There's something wrong here!" he stretched out his foot, swept away a layer of fine sand from the ground, and then picked up the torch and tapped it lightly on the ground.
"Knock"
is empty.
As the tapping of Chris's hand continued, a small range was circled.
Chris swept away the sand, bent down, and kept his eyes almost close to the ground, until at last, he saw a gap in the sand, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He reached out and stroked the circled area, pulled out a small dagger, inserted it into the gap, and gently swiped it down, revealing a square larger than a man.
"It's... It's like an entrance!" Pandis could see clearly.
Chris shook his head, raised his head and said, "No, it's not an entrance, it should be an exit!"
Pandis's eyes widened, "You mean, there's still room down there!"
Chris nodded, and he struck with the handle of his dagger, making a "thump" sound, and outside the square range, he struck with a "thump" sound, and it was evident that there was a plank on the inside and a stone slab on the outside.
Sure enough, yes.
Chris thrust the dagger into the crack and pried it vigorously, and with the "squeaking" screeching sound of the wooden shaft rubbing, the plank was lifted up, revealing a dark hole in the ground, and a staircase could be faintly seen running down.
Chris looked in, and was suddenly pulled by Pandis's clothes:
"Wait, Chris!"
"What's wrong?" Chrissy turned around, only to see Pandis's face a little frightened, "You know here?"
Pandis shook his head a little helplessly: "I... I'm not sure if it's not, but I always feel like this... It's dangerous!"
Chris turned his head to look down.
There was nothing to be seen in the cave, but there was a cold breath from the bottom up, with a rotten breath, and the flow of air brought a strange "whine" sound, like a girl's cry, and like a whimper of a monster.
"It doesn't seem like anything!"
Pandis pulled Chris up and said a little uneasily, "Cris, we can't go down, okay?"
Chris looked at her, "Why, you should always tell me what the hell this is, right?"
"I'm not sure!" said Pandish.
Chris hugged her comfortingly: "That... Is there a similar legend?
"Can you cover it first? I... I've always felt a little uneasy!"
Chris kissed her, smiled and put the plank back in place.
"Okay, now don't worry, let's hear it!"
Pandis looked at the wooden cover that had returned to its original state, and pulled Chris back a few steps before he began to speak.
A long, long time ago, the Dantur Desert was not all covered with yellow sand, there was a mountain range here, with very rich mineral resources, the first to discover was the dwarves, they not only found a large number of iron ore, copper ore, gold ore, silver ore here, but also successively excavated Mithril, Thoryin, Precious minerals such as ink crystal, with the birth of these resources, many races came to participate in the acquisition of various minerals, and then in a few years, it was slowly built into a city, with the entry of various races, the civilization here has also been extremely high-speed development, there are gorgeous palaces and temples here, they are all made of gold as the root of the wall, silver as the wall, the palace is inlaid with gold and gems, the gold is splendid, so the city is called "Avalon", the dwarven language means to conquer the earth.
Here, the people lived very richly, however, perhaps because they were too rich, the dwarven patriarch here listened to the advice of other races and began to constantly conquer the surrounding cities, wars, The plundering continued, and finally Avalon wiped out the other cities in the desert and smashed them into ruins, bringing all the captured slaves to Avalon, participating in the construction of the city of Avalon, and gaining victory began to immerse himself in a rotten life, but perhaps it was the excessive killing that angered the gods, and the gods cast a world-destroying magic, and overnight, the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and the city was buried under the sand, disappeared into the ground, and became a desert around it.
In the hundreds of years since, many people have been searching for this lost city, but in the end they have found nothing.
"Maybe this is the city cursed by the gods. Pandice said. (To be continued.) )