Laura wondered what David's expression meant, "You want me to stay outside?" ”

"If you can......"

"Don't worry, I'm more experienced in this situation than you." Laura thought that David was worried about her safety, but Laura, who had an adventure experience, did not feel that such an ordinary cave could threaten her.

She didn't know at all that Davy wasn't worried about Laura's safety at all, but about the safety of the cave - after all, this person was called the Tomb Destroyer, and he was very worried that after he entered the cave with Laura, the cave would collapse in the next second.

I couldn't explain such an outrageous reason to Laura, so I had to light a torch and go into the cave.

Laura also pulled out the flashlight hanging from her belt and followed David into the cave.

The temperature in the cave was a little cooler than outside, which made David feel a little cool, but after the two of them walked in the cave for a while, they didn't find anything unusual.

Although the cave has a clear downward and spiral, it didn't take long for the two men to reach the end of the cave.

"That's it?" Looking at the cave that had come to an end, Laura looked at the various ores on the walls of the surrounding caves, and could only helplessly say: "It seems that this is a very ordinary natural cave." ”

"Well, and it's not that hard to mine." This kind of open-pit mine is the easiest type to mine, and he has no way to judge the reserves now, even if the reserves are not high, they are enough for the current Winter Village: "It seems that in addition to recruiting a blacksmith, he also has to recruit a few miners." ”

Reaching out and brushing over the metallic ore on the wall, David thought to himself that if this was a game of farming and development, his birthplace would be quite good.

Although the location is a little remote, it also has the advantage of being biased, that is, it will not be surrounded and suppressed by 'various forces'.

"Looks like this is just an ordinary natural mine, let's go."

"Wait." David was about to turn around and leave, when he was stopped by Laura, who was squatting in the corner and didn't know what he was studying: "It seems to be windy here." ”

"Huh?"

David watched as Laura crouched there with her palms spread out and felt something, then fumbled around the wall for a while, and finally stopped at one place and tapped lightly with her pickaxe.

"There's a cave here."

"So?" It's normal for this kind of cave to have some smaller caves, crevices, and the like, right?

"I just want to see if I can go deeper." Got up and picked up the pickaxe, aimed at the place just judged and smashed it a few times, thinking that it would take some effort to break the stone wall, Laura, but I didn't expect that after only two smashes, this stone wall was knocked to pieces by itself.

But this is not the most critical, the key is that when this stone wall is broken, there is a chain reaction, and even the place under Laura's feet is shattered, and Laura only feels that her feet are empty, and the whole person falls downward.

Davy's reaction was very fast, and when Laura exclaimed and fell where he stepped on his feet, he pounced and tried to catch Laura, but after all, he was half a beat slower and watched Laura fall in front of his eyes...... Then a dashing pickaxe in mid-air was nailed to the stone wall in front of him, and hung steadily less than a meter in front of David's eyes.

“……”

"Whew~ Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough." After speaking, he raised his head and looked at David, who was one meter above him, leaning out half of his body and doing 'crape myrtle hands' at the same time: "How is it, are you taken aback." ”

Laura, who has experienced the Himiko incident, is no longer an ordinary girl when she first met, and now she is a top adventurer with rich experience in distress and can always make the most correct judgment in the shortest possible time.

She has experienced similar scenes too many times, and she needs to deal with how to deal with her, and this time the movements are slow.

"Am I going to pull you up?" David had already put his hand back, and he could already see that Laura could climb up with a pickaxe even if he didn't help.

She was still hanging there and didn't move, she just didn't want to come up.

"Wait, there's something down there." Laura took a few more light sticks, lit them and threw them down.

The moment he dropped it, the light stick fell to the ground, and Laura was not far from below, and it could even be said that it was very close, even if Laura had not been able to nail herself to the mountain wall with a pickaxe before, and if she fell directly, she would not have fallen to death as long as she was in the right position.

"I'll go down and take a look!"

Using two pickaxes, she slid down for a while, and finally jumped straight down, and Laura made it to the bottom with great skill. She found that the space here is not large, only about 100 square meters in size, and she can see all the locations of this place by standing in place and shining a flashlight.

So she quickly noticed something special.

"This is ......" In the center of the cavity is a stone tablet, apparently artificially made, with the inscription: "It's the lingua franca!" ”

During this time, in addition to Ferdin's efforts to learn English, Laura and Mark are also learning the world's lingua franca - in fact, Ferdin's is also learning.

"Thank you...... Blessings, here...... The fruit of hard work...... Hope ......"

The handwriting on it was incomplete, most of it was already illegible, only a small paragraph could be read, and with Laura's movements, she quickly found the base of the stele, and more artificially created traces hidden by the dust underneath.

"Underneath this is a finely treated slate."

The footsteps behind her already let her know that David was beside her.

At this time, David also squatted down, gently touched it with his hands a few times, and saw the stone slabs carved with various lines underneath: "This area seems to be paved with stone slabs underneath. ”

As for the stele in front of him, he had already observed it just now, and the few that could be discerned had already been read out by Laura.

"It's an altar." After a few turns left and right, Laura quickly figured out what it was: "To thank the gods for their blessings and to give people a good harvest...... Forehead ......"

Laura suddenly remembered that when David introduced the world to her before, he mentioned that the lingua franca is the language used by humans in this world, which means that this altar should be built by humans.

"This place, was it once the territory of some human kingdom?"

"According to what I know about history, the kingdom of humans has never ruled such a northern region, and the kingdom of Tiran is the northernmost kingdom in human history." The history and various 'glories' of the Kingdom of Tiran are often told as stories throughout the kingdom, which is why David will be so sure.

But now he also wondered, could this be the altar of the elves? But the elves don't seem to want to live in such a cold place: "Maybe a small number of humans have lived here?" ”

It is not uncommon for people to live in isolation, the human kingdom has not ruled this area, it does not mean that no one has come, and perhaps the people who once lived here have not been able to continue due to environmental and other reasons.

Of course, there is another possibility: the altar did not actually exist, but Laura appeared, and it appeared.

David couldn't help but think about it, after all, there was the example of Mark Watney and the potato, and Laura and the ancient altar or something was very logical.

"If that's the case, what's the use of this thing?"

Looking at the only words that could be read on the stele, David guessed that this thing was hoping that he would offer some harvest food? And then shelter yourself to continue the harvest?

"Maybe you can try?"

David stood there contemplating the possibilities, and once Laura had groped the entire altar and made sure that the pattern of the stone slabs on the ground had no special meaning, she lost interest in the place—the only thing worth studying was the stone tablet, which had a pitiful amount of content.

"Nothing else." Laura tried to find cracks in the surrounding stone walls again, but found no more: "Although I don't know what the reason is, this ancient altar and the ore vein are mixed together, maybe it is caused by the movement of the earth's crust ......"

With nothing to explore, Laura loses interest in the place and prepares to return to the surface on the rope that David used to come down (the upper end is secured with an iron nail).

David didn't waste any more time here, waiting for Laura to climb up and leave the place as well, and then put the rope away and walked out of the cave together.

"Keep searching for the wolves...... What's that? Laura, who returned to the sun, was startled by the huge creature in her sight in the middle of her sentence.

It was an ugly creature nearly three meters tall, with unusually thick arms, dirty white hair, and a huge wooden stick in his hand.

When Laura is startled by the other party, the giant monster also discovers Laura and David.

There was no communication at all, and after the eyes of the two sides met for a second, the monster let out a loud roar and rushed towards the two with a stick.

There was no shout to be careful, and at the moment when the monster attacked, Laura and David had already launched the attack first, and in the blink of an eye, two arrows had already shot towards the eye and throat respectively.

The monster reacted quickly, paused and sideways to avoid the arrows, although it could not deal with the monster immediately, but the two arrows also bought David and Laura some time.

Raising his hand to release a golden holy light, Laura and David's bodies were successively protected by golden shields, and then David stretched out his left hand and aimed at the huge monster, and before the monster could react, a divine light appeared in front of the monster's eyes and exploded.

Although this holy light did not cause much damage to the monster, it successfully interfered with the monster's vision and once again delayed the monster's movement.

Seeing that Laura's arrows shot took the opportunity to do little damage to the monster, David also dropped his bow and arrows and rushed over in stride.

At the same time, David's right hand was burning with golden flames, and when David rushed to the monster, the suddenly expanding shield of holy light also blocked the wooden stick in the troll's hand in mid-air, and the golden flame in David's hand became even more fiery and ferocious.

With a flash of bright light, the sacred fire thrown out by Davy's wave of his hand instantly turned the monster into a giant bonfire.