The safe return of the pork chop finally let go of Gordon's heart, which they had been lifting for most of the day.

When the former reported on the situation in the underground cavern, Gordon specially called Ms. Duda over.

Exploring the unknown is the primary concern of the scholars of the Dragon Academy, who have always dreamed of discovering some new ruins.

But after listening carefully to the report of the pork chop, Ms. Duda frowned.

"Listening to the description, the cave under this ruins is not like an artificially built ruins, but more like a naturally formed hollow landform.

Little pork chops, have you found any traces of artificial creations? ”

"There's a meow!"

The pork chop pulled the picture it had drawn, "In these areas, many man-made remnants of meows, masonry building fragments, and large metal components were found. ”

Speaking of which, Pork Chop thought for a moment and added, "The area where these man-made objects are distributed coincides with the area where those golden beetles appear."

I don't know if there will be any correlation between the two. ”

Lady Duda nodded slowly, "In that case, it may be that ancient craftsmen have built around this naturally formed cavern. ”

After Ms. Duda had finished, Gordon spoke.

He paid more attention to the golden beetle monsters than the ruins or anything.

"Pork chops, those golden beetles, do you communicate with each other?"

"Meow?"

"Let me put it more bluntly, do you think there is a social relationship between these monsters, living in groups like Athlon do? Or do they go it alone, or even compete with each other? ”

Pig Chop scratched his beard, "I'm not sure about meow, it should be a group meow?" But not necessarily meows, those beetles don't get too close to each other. ”

"I hope it's not a group, otherwise once a battle breaks out, there will be a lot of trouble." Anhill whispered.

Speaking of the unknown golden beetle, Ms. Duda also seemed quite concerned.

Although her main research direction is in the field of archaeology, as a scholar of the Dragon Calendar Academy, she also has a fairly in-depth understanding of the types of monsters and their evolution.

"From the sketches that Anhill had given me, this creature of what appears to be a beetle species has a very primitive body structure, and it is likely that it is some kind of ancient species that has become extinct or has never been discovered.

If you have the chance, I hope you can bring back some specimens, the old guys in the paleontology research department should be crazy, and the lead researcher will not be stingy with rewards. ”

If you say that, we're not sleepy.

Gordon exchanged glances with Anhill, ready to find a chance to come back with at least one leg.

After the debriefing, Gordon asked the pork chops to go to rest early, and he discussed with Anhill and Ms. Duda late into the night to determine the process of exploring the underground cavern.

He had a hunch that some surprise awaited them in the underground cavern.

......

In the pitch-black cavern where humans can't see their fingers, a spark lights up.

"Ugh."

Gordon struck the flint and steel, lit the wick of the kerosene lamp, and the orange-red light of the fire expelled the darkness within a radius of tens of meters.

"Hugh~."

Gordon whistled, "This underground cavern is really, taller and more spacious than I thought. ”

Anhill also lit a kerosene lamp, but instead of holding it himself, he hung it on Gale and used it as a mobile light source.

Looking around by the light of the fire, Gordon quickly came to a judgment, "It's a naturally formed cave, and I don't know if the ancients built a fortress on such an unstable terrain. ”

Anhill ignored Gordon's emotion, he was a very efficient person, "Pork Chop leads the way, let's go to the place where you said you found the remains of man-made objects." ”

"Good meow!"

The group moved in a compact formation.

Unlike the previous cautious exploration alone, this time with companions by his side, the pork chop led the way quickly.

It didn't take long for them to come to the cave area where the artifacts in the pork chop's mouth were scattered everywhere, and the golden beetle was active, and the exploration officially began.

In this vicinity, there are all kinds of messy building fragments, and there are indeed a lot of metal constructions, but there is no trace of the golden beetle.

Gordon speculated that it might be because of time.

Yesterday it was afternoon into night when Pork Chop explored the ruins, and now it's morning, and those golden beetles may have gone somewhere else.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for hunters.

While they did come with the idea of "getting some specimens back", it was best before they were ready to leave the underground cavern.

Otherwise, the movement of the battle is likely to attract other beetles and affect the subsequent exploration.

What is this, like a wheel made of steel? It's almost 20 meters in diameter, so big!

What is this? Is it a statue made of brass?

How can there be artillery?!

The more Gordon looked into it, the more strange it became, that the metal structures had nothing to do with each other, and that they were all too heavy to be together.

Could it be that this underground cave is a garbage dump for ancient people to discard metal scrap? Or is it a smelter that recycles metals or something?

"Gordon, come and have a look."

Gordon, who was looking around the large-caliber gun, heard Anhill's call and walked over quickly.

"Look at these." Anhill pointed to a large piece of building in front of him.

The shards of a two-story house, made of grayish-yellow masonry, furrowed Gordon's brow, and he felt a sense of déjà vu.

"Is this ......?"

"Well, it should be part of the ancient ruins of the city wall, and the specifications and weathering of the bricks are the same." Anhill touched the fragments of the city wall.

Gordon crouched down and examined the section of the fragments of the lower wall, and focused on the ground beneath the fragments of the lower wall.

The expression gradually became serious, "The section is relatively new, judging from the ground traces, it should have just fallen here, if you guess correctly......"

"Yes, it should be a part of the ancient city wall that the mechanical giant beast gnawed away before." Anhill answered.

With that, he tilted his head at Gordon again, "Let's take a look at this again." ”

Anhill led Gordon to a much smaller piece of the building, and Gordon's brow furrowed even tighter.

Unlike the gray and yellow bricks that can be found everywhere in the ruins, this building is made of broken and cyan stone bricks, which obviously came from elsewhere.

"This kind of blue-gray stone is not visible in the desert area, but it is more common in the Shurett region in the north of the continent, all the way to the area of East Dorumana." Anhill added on the side:

"If nothing else, this piece alone weighs at least several tons, and it's not easy to transport, and no one is going to put a lot of effort into transporting these worthless pieces of construction."

"It should be the mechanical beast, it has a habit of destroying walls and devouring them, which may have been gnawed down from somewhere else and spit out here."

"It's an incomprehensible habit."

"yes....."

"Wang!"

Gordon and Anhill were discussing when they suddenly heard the barking of a gale.

The big dog ran over and grabbed the corner of Anhill's armor, dragging him to a huge stone pillar that fell to the ground.

It slapped the stone pillar with its paws and stuck out its tongue as if it were inviting merit.

Gordon stared intently.

By the light of the oil lamp, he found that there were some bright golden threads stuck to the place where the gale struck.