Chapter 27: Scrolls

The slope of the hill is very small and covered with a thick layer of green grass, like a green carpet.

Svek heard her say that after crossing the hill, he would immediately move forward.

Plopped, he fell into a large pit.

There were still a few small wildflowers on the surface of the pit, and there were no signs of traps, and Svek didn't expect that there would be traps on the path that he thought was quite safe.

Inside the trap, there is a square bamboo stick array, and the bottom of the pit is full of long, vertical and upward sharp bamboo sticks, if this pit is set up not long ago, Sweik is already a dead man at this moment, and his body will be inserted into countless holes by bamboo sticks.

I don't know when the trap was laid, the bamboo skewers more than a meter long have rotted like loose flour balls, and Svek crushed the full bamboo skewers into piles of crushed bamboo chips.

Svek wiped the cold sweat from his head and said ashamed.

Sophia chanted a spell, and a rattan sprouted from her palm, bringing Sweikra up.

"Didn't you want to follow me?"

"To be protected by a woman, that's a man's shame. ”

Sophia's pupils shrunk, like a cat looking at an uninvited guest.

"If you want to show your gentlemanly demeanor, I don't mind if I follow you,"

After she finished speaking, she looked at Svek defiantly.

Svek took the first step, his ass still hurts, the big hole is too deep, and he has already picked up a treasure if he didn't fall and hurt it.

"I bet there's a hidden trap here, is there a boar trap?"

"Boar traps?"

Sophia saw that Sveker's heart was weak, and walked forward, Svek followed her honestly, sometimes, unnecessary dignity is much weaker than life.

Standing at the top of a hillside, in a row of redwood trees, Sveck spotted the target.

Under the slope of the mountain, there is a small long plain, the length and width are within three kilometers, in front of the plain, there is a river, the width of the river is about 30 meters, the river is turbulent, and the sound of flowing water can be heard in the distance.

In the east, west, and north directions of the plain, there are continuous steep rocky mountains.

At the top of the mountain, the rock layer is grayish-brown, and under the blue sky, the rock layer exudes a mysterious color.

In the middle of the plain, the ancient trees were densely packed and covered the sky, and next to the ancient trees, near the river, Svek saw more than a dozen stone and wood houses.

On the top of the river, there is a stone wall made of large stones, and the length of the stone wall is breathtaking, and it extends along the river to the east and west.

It is a small pity that the stone wall has been damaged in many places, revealing a lot of openings.

Directly in front of Sveker, there is a suspension bridge, which is now flat on the deck.

They walked down the hill to the drawbridge.

The width of the suspension bridge was enough for a small car to pass through, and the ropes of the suspension bridge were completely rotten, and Schvek pulled it with his hand, and the whole one broke.

The stone wall near the suspension bridge is the highest, and it looks like a full-fledged wall.

On the opposite side of the drawbridge, there are two gates, which are hidden.

If you look inside from the city gate, you can see the buildings inside.

Alcatraz is actually inhabited, who lives here, it doesn't matter anymore, what matters is how long this place has been deserted, Sophia said, at least fifty years, Svecker said, a little less, it should be a hundred years.

Svek stepped on the suspension bridge cautiously and stepped on it hard, the thick planks were now deep in rotten wood.

It's okay, although the deck of the suspension bridge makes a frightening sound, like a crackling sound that is about to break at any time, and it can still support the weight of a person, but some places have rotted into hanging holes, and the bridge deck is almost ten meters away from the river, and it will also be terrifying to look down from the hole.

After crossing the drawbridge, Svek ascended to the top of the stone wall through a stone staircase from the inside of the stone wall, and found a large number of thirty crossbows and crossbows mounted on the stone wall.

The arrows in the crossbow were about the same as a javelin, and Svek flicked his fingers, and the arrows snapped, and the rusty arrows fell, emitting a buzzing echo.

Descending from the stone wall, they went inside.

The dilapidated house here can be imagined, but fortunately, the house is made of stones, and the wind and rain have hit, and the walls of the house only have countless cracks, and they have not collapsed.

Here, there are a total of eighteen houses with a straight street in the middle.

It's just that the street is no longer visible, it is obscured by weeds, fallen leaves, and dead branches.

As Svek stepped forward, he stepped on something, clicked, and looked down, it was a bone, weathered bone, very brittle, Svek pushed aside the weeds, and a skull grinned at him.

Svek was shocked, this is a human skull!

Nima, he continued to move forward, one after another, they found more than a dozen corpses, lying horizontally and vertically.

When they entered the stone house, there were furniture, stained silverware, bronze, wine barrels, rakes, hoes, and all sorts of miscellaneous items, and of course, weapons, knives, axes, sledgehammers, sickles.

And, of course, a large number of bones.

They came to the end, where there was a huge stone sculpture with a human head and a lion's body.

Although it has been baptized by wind and rain, this statue is still lifelike, with its head held high and its eyes blazing.

If the eyes give people perseverance and majesty, then the exaggerated body of the statue is a manifestation of strength, and Svek can also feel its majestic power when standing in front of the statue, domineering and leaking.

Beyond the statue, there is a pyramid-like building.

The crevices in the stone steps of the pyramid were also overgrown with weeds, and as they climbed the stairs, Svek counted them, ninety-three steps.

At the top of the pyramid, there is a temple.

The exterior of the temple is rectangular in shape, with a colonnade of eighteen cobblestone columns, a row of gilded bronze shields on the cornice and eaves, and a dazzling chain of reliefs.

At the entrance to the temple, there is a trapezoidal pool.

It was surprising that there was still water in the pool at such a high place.

On both sides of the pool, there are two white statues, the one with wings, which should be an angel, the one holding a giant arrow, which Schveck does not recognize, sitting in a carriage as if traveling to the stars, Schveck does not know it, and the last one is a woman, draped all over, as if she is about to set off on an expedition at any time.

All of this is not important, it is important, the jade gate of the temple is actually the iron general's gate.

Locked?

As long as it is metal, after such a long time, under the wind and rain, it will inevitably be rusty.

The U-shaped iron lock on the temple gate was the same, and Svek broke it hard, but he couldn't move, he pulled out his pistol, and aimed it at the big lock.

The iron lock was opened.

Open the door to the temple, and a cloud of dust falls overhead.

Puff, svecker spit the dust off his mouth and wiped the dust off his face.

The vault of the temple was quite magnificent, with mottled frescoes on both sides, and Svek didn't go to see any of the frescoes, but as soon as he entered, he was attracted by something on the throne.

The shrine is usually dedicated to the statue of the deity, which is a black box.

Svek knocked it with his hand, well, it's made of iron, why it's not rusty, Svek won't understand it for a while, what is in the box, even Sophia is curious.

The box also has a lock, and Schweiker draws a gourd in the same way, and it is a shot against the lock, and one shot is not enough, so another shot.

The box was carefully opened by Sveker, he was afraid that there was a mechanism in the box, poison gas or something.

No, not as Sveck imagined, and there were no gold, silver and pearls.

What's lying in the box, what?

Sophia: "It's a scroll, a scroll. ”

After doing it for a long time, it was a gimmick, he snatched the scroll from Sophia's hand, untied the rope on the scroll casually, and opened the scroll.

The text on the scroll, like a bug, Svek glared at it and handed it to Sophia.

"You're a witch, well-informed, what kind of text is this. ”