It is easy to identify whether or not to set foot on the ancient salt railway, because the Suyong stone used to build the ancient salt railway is not the stone produced by the Savile Kingdom, but the purple stone slag unique to the Maris Kingdom.

The ancient Maris kingdom admired purple, palace houses like to be built with purple materials, and also highly admired purple gemstones, and a gemstone called purple lazuli is the most precious, a large piece of ordinary purple stone stone can produce a book-sized purple lazuli, and its value far exceeds the value of ordinary stone, generally speaking, as long as a purple gold stone is found, then the entire quarry has no loss.

So many times the quarries occupied by those nobles mined stones not for building stone, but for purple lazuli.

As a result, the quarry will produce a large amount of waste rock, some of which can be used in other places after grinding, but most of the waste rock is only a few fragments.

So, at that time, the ruler of the Maris Kingdom decided to use these posture debris to build a purple stone through the whole country, and at that time, the Quincy Snow Mountain Stone was controlled in the hands of the Maris Kingdom, and the abandoned ancient castle was also the outpost of the Maris Kingdom, and the ancient salt railway was also built at that time, and the purple stone slag was naturally used.

Entering the confines of the Quincy Snow Mountain, the surrounding vegetation quickly became denser, and the number of tall trees increased considerably.

The trees here are mainly withered cypress, which is a special tree species in the Mares Kingdom, and now it appears here, which should have been transplanted by the people of the Mares Kingdom in the past.

This kind of dry bark cypress is a kind of fuel wood comparable to the charcoal tree, the burning time is long, the temperature is high, is the advantage of this wood, the only disadvantage is that the growth cycle is too long, a sapling at least three years to be considered to be complete, and the dry bark cypress is also the most famous tall tree in the world of vinylon, its maximum can be more than 200 meters.

It's just that the withered bark cypress that grows here is very, very peculiar, they don't rise higher and higher like the dead bark trees in other places, but after growing to a certain height, as if suppressed by some force, the top of the tree begins to bend and grow, and finally grows into a spiral, and the spiral top of each tree will also nest and intertwine with each other because of the growth, and finally become a strange forest with a flat top like a tabletop and a forest of stumps below.

I don't know if it's because of the influence of the power that causes the growth and mutation of the withered cypress, all in all, all the plants that grow in this forest grow extremely weird, plus the sunlight can't shine on it all year round, making the forest dark and gloomy, even if the tribes in the grassland next to it urgently need firewood, they will never come to this forest to look for it.

However, there is a strange thing, no matter how the trees in the forest grow, they will not destroy the ancient salt railway that runs through the forest, as if this road contains an unknown mysterious power.

As the caravan passed through the forest, everyone fell silent, both the outer guards and the rest of the caravan put their hands on their weapons, and all the braziers on each pack cart were lit, illuminating the area around the carriage for more than ten meters.

Some of the beasts that lived in the forest all year round could not adapt to such a light, and quickly retreated into the darkness, revealing only a pair of fierce eyes reflecting an eerie light, staring at the moving caravan, looking for an opportunity to attack.

The veterans in the caravan did not stay in the pack cart tent at this time, but all came out, walking back and forth from time to time, checking the situation, and loudly warning the novices in the caravan not to approach the forest.

In this tense atmosphere, the caravan made a thrilling journey through the forest to the other side, and the destination of this trip, the ancient castle, was at the exit of the forest road.

If you want to reach the other side, you must first pass through the castle on the lowest floor, go around a narrow passage that is easy to defend and difficult to attack to the second floor, and then cross the artificial canal of the second floor square, pass through the artificial road below the third floor, and reach the ancient salt railway opposite.

This fort can be said to hold the key point of the entire ancient salt railway, and anyone who tries to cross the Quincy Snow Mountain will either take a steeper and more difficult road or must pass through this ancient fort.

However, such a military and economic fortress was abandoned thousands of years ago, and even the Savile tribes who occupied the castle at that time were unwilling to stay in the castle for a while.

The reason why the ancient castle will be abandoned, and no one has even taken over the ancient castle for thousands of years, resulting in the complete abandonment of this ancient salt railway, is mainly because of a tragedy that happened in the ancient castle that year.

Although the relationship between the Savile Kingdom and the Maris Kingdom was very bad at that time, the relationship between the knight generals and low-level soldiers stationed in the ancient castle in charge of the ancient salt railway and the tribes on the grassland outside the ancient castle was still very good, and it could even be said to be intimate.

At that time, the grassland area was still very large, and the Gusi Desert was relatively small, and there was no difference between large and small Gusi, which is why the tribes on the grassland were also very strong, far from being comparable to the tribes on the small grassland now, and the leaders of the grassland tribes at that time were also more ambitious.

At that time, the leader of the steppe tribe wanted to become the overlord of western Savile, but this was not an easy task, whether it was recruiting soldiers, or army supplies, etc., it required a lot of money, and although the steppe tribe at that time relied on the ancient salt railway to earn a lot of profits, but in the face of the consumption of the war was still a drop in the bucket.

At that time, the leader of the grassland tribe put his mind on the ancient castle, he wanted to occupy the ancient castle and monopolize the interests of the entire ancient salt railway, with the interests of the ancient salt railway, he would no longer worry about money.

So, when the leader of the steppe tribe was invited to visit the castle, he led his people to take down the knights and soldiers who invited them to be guests.

If it was just to take the castle and drive away the knights and soldiers, the leader of the steppe tribe would at best be treacherous and provoke war, but then he did something that shocked everyone, and that was to slaughter all the people in the castle.

You must know that in the castle there are not only knights and soldiers, but also their families, many of whom are from various tribes of the steppe.

And more importantly, he was invited to the banquet at that time, but the guests attacked the host at the invited banquet and slaughtered the host's family, which is absolutely taboo in the whole of Savile.

It's just that there is no need for the people of the Savile tribe to blame them, these people immediately relaxed after killing all the people in the castle, and began to eat and drink, and while eating and drinking, they accidentally ignited a batch of animal skins that were originally going to be transported to the kingdom of Mares, and at that time those people were either drunk or did not know how to use the fire prevention measures in the castle, so that the fire could not be suppressed, and finally covered the entire castle, and the vast majority of people were burned to death in the castle, and only a few people who were assigned to guard escaped.

After that, this burned castle became the most terrifying place in the area, and anyone who entered this castle, whether it was from the Kingdom of Mares or the Kingdom of Savile, as long as they spent the night in the castle, would have the same dream, in which they would all go back to the night when the castle was destroyed, and if they were killed in the dream, then they would disappear in reality.

Yes, they are the whole person disappears directly, and not leaves all the corpses after death.

After that, strange legends about the castle spread, and some people who were not afraid of death came to verify it, and in the end they only added to the legend.

Over time, the terrifying legends of this place affected this ancient salt railway, and no caravans passed through here, and the kingdoms of Savile and Maris opened a newer and more spacious trade route in the flat area to the south, so the castle and the trade route were completely abandoned, and only legends about the castle were circulated.

Later, for profit and other reasons, the smugglers of Maris and Savile began to reuse the ancient salt railway to smuggle contraband from the two countries.

Although thousands of years have passed, when this castle wrapped in various ways appeared in the eyes of everyone, everyone still couldn't help but have a trace of fear, and they didn't know if it was because of the cool weather in the mountain, or because they were affected by the legendary stories, and they shivered in addition to fear.

The wooden part of the castle has long been burned in the fire thousands of years ago, and the rest of the buildings that were not burned are also rotten, and most of the buildings in the castle have collapsed, some of them collapsed in the fire of a thousand years ago, but more because of the squeezing of some vines and plants.

Today, the castle is almost as ruined except for a few stone buildings that lean on the mountain wall.

The caravan circled through the lower castle and entered the large square of the middle castle through a slope guarded by a gate.

Because it was a very prosperous trade route, when the castle was built, the designer built a large square that could camp a large number of caravans, the square area is larger, than the temporary market that left yesterday, and a large number of taverns, shops, warehouses, and inns were originally built around the square for the caravans, but because most of the wooden buildings have been burned out a thousand years ago, only a neatly planned foundation remains, which still proves that something once existed here.

After arriving at the square, the caravan quickly cleared a clearing from the vines and plants all over the ground, and then lit some bonfires around the clearing, followed by the guards with swords and shields, and beat hard around the clearing, making a lot of noise.

As the sound of the beating sounded out, there were immediately some noises in the shadows of various parts of the castle, accompanied by the low roar of some threatening beasts, and soon all the beasts hiding in the castle were overwhelmed by this metallic noise and fled from the castle.

After clearing the surrounding beasts, the caravan began to formally set up the camp, tents were erected one after another, and some people, accompanied by the guards, began to look for some wood to burn in the castle, although they had already prepared wood when they came, but because they had to repair for a day and a night, then the prepared wood was somewhat insufficient.

It was early in the morning, and everyone was very tired, but they still had the strength to pull the camp up, and after a hasty meal, except for the group of guards who were still sitting by the campfire and kept awake, everyone else went into the tent and fell asleep.

However, Leo did not sleep, but opened his spiritual net to check the situation inside and outside this ancient castle.

Before the caravan decided to rest in the castle for a day and a night, Leo had already discovered the anomaly of the castle, because he happened to take out the surveyor and was about to check the changes on the map, but he was surprised to find that the ancient city and the surrounding area could not be displayed on the map, as if some force was interfering.

It's just that because he didn't want to be troubled, he didn't plan to enter the castle alone to explore the secrets here, but when he learned that the caravan was going to stay in the castle to rest, his previous idea resurfaced, and he planned to see if he could find anything in the castle when the caravan was resting.

In addition, while searching the ancient castle, the spirit network also carefully searched the caravan, and he did this mainly to find out if this caravan had secretly transported the page of knowledge from the Thirteen Ancient Gods of the Madman.

However, before the investigation, he already knew the result, because whether he had just joined the caravan, or when the caravan was stationed in the Xiaogus Desert halfway, he had repeatedly used the spirit net to check the situation of the caravan, if there was really a page of ancient god knowledge, it was impossible for him to find it, so it was obvious that the page of the book transported was not in this caravan, but in other caravans.

Just as there were no anomalies in his exploration of the caravan, there was no anomaly in this ancient castle that had been almost destroyed, and there was no anomaly in his spiritual network.

He took out the surveyor and looked at the map, where the map was still blank, and the same blank place was the summit of Mount Quincys.

Leo was not in a hurry to explore the castle now, he rested in his tent, and carefully recalled the legends about the castle that Sans had told him earlier.

Although there are many legends that have caused accidents because of overnight stays at the castle, there is a loophole in these legends, that is, if all the people who stayed at the castle overnight have accidents, then how did these legends spread? This is also the rumor that many people believe that these legends are made up by smugglers, in order to prevent others from approaching this place, so as to monopolize the interests of this ancient salt railway.