Chapter Seventy-Four: Strange Ruins
The skeleton behind the door is dead.
But it kept shaking its body, as if it was laughing uncontrollably at the outside, and turning its neck again from time to time, as if it was looking at someone else.
The skeleton by the door still maintained its relatively complete outline, but it could be seen that it had a broken arm, which matched the white bone right arm on the surface outside the door.
The most uncomfortable thing is that there are more than one skeleton suspended at the top of the passage, most of them are just a few scattered bones, and it is difficult to see the complete human form.
The upside-down skull, the half-broken rib cage, or the limbs with missing parts all writhed or trembled irregularly, and the clothes hanging on them were almost nothing but loose strips of cloth, which were not much broken.
There were countless fragments of bones scattered on the ground, as if they were covered with a carpet of dust of unknown years.
All four of them took in such an eerie scene.
Esther couldn't help but think of the puppet show, the invisible threads twisting and wriggling, pulling and twisting the men, but she didn't know if they were dead or ...... when they were lifted up
She quickly connected it all to the foresight, and the black threads hanging from the ceiling just confirmed the source of this strange scene.
Thoma spoke suddenly, and his nervousness could be felt just by listening to the voice: "There seems to be silk threads, and I can see some marks." ”
"The threads are just over a meter above the ground, and it's not safe to step inside the door." Aaron's eyes had deepened a lot because of his vision, and he had put away the crystal ball in his hand and replaced it with a long-barreled revolver that he had pulled out of his backpack.
Aaron's expression wasn't very good-looking, though, and the dense threads were swaying like worms, and it was hard to imagine how they could get through.
"Do we need to return? If we don't go back, maybe the ground is an option," Alexander pointed to the "Inspiration Alert Spider" still working on the ground, "If we keep going, we may need to crawl this way." ”
Aaron's brows furrowed more and more: "It's not safe to crawl over, it's impossible that no one among these people has considered this method, these silk threads that only have spirits and no entities may be able to extend down." ”
Thoma swapped the scrolls in his hand for the other two: "I can use a spell with a purification effect to test it a little." ”
During the conversation, Esther finished thinking and took a half step forward: "I have an idea, I can try it." ”
Aaron gave Thoma a look and told him not to be too impatient, and then turned his head: "You shouldn't be too moving, right?" The collapse is also a bit dangerous for us. ”
Considering that the four people present were all extraordinary, it would not take much time to run back to the hole as soon as possible, so Aaron didn't mind letting Thoma be bold enough to clear these obstacles, but since Hamel said so, Aaron would definitely be more inclined to let her try first.
Esther nodded: "You guys retreat a little more, I'm afraid that these black lines will move." ”
The other three did not dissuade her, and immediately retreated to the previous safe spot five meters away, leaving the lantern at Esther's feet to illuminate her.
Aaron, they didn't let Hamel act entirely out of trust in her, but because the three of them didn't have a safer way for a while, Thoma's scroll spell spread widely, and it was really not suitable in the narrow passage.
Esther took a deep breath, put her left hand in front of her forehead, closed her eyes and sketched the shape of the light cluster in her mind, and soon, those black silk threads appeared quite clearly in her perception, but the shape of the skeleton hanging above it became blurred, almost merging with the silk threads hanging from above.
Even if you just touch those skeletons, there is a possibility that they will be entangled in black wires......
With a humming sound, tiny dots of light broke away from Esther's hair and flew up in the passage, converging more and more around her, like stars around the center.
Aaron's Adam's apple twitched, and his eyes gradually drifted out of focus. It was only after Thoma reacted quickly to press down on the back of Aaron's head and forced Aaron to lower his head that Aaron found himself and got out of that state of loss full of longing and longing.
The silver-haired Esther raised her eyes slightly, and with a slight feeling in her heart, she did not hesitate to pass on her orders to these points of light.
All the light stretched out, and they didn't go fast, falling lightly towards the black lines, allowing themselves to be curled up. All the illusory black threads that touched the point of light at the tip began to grasp it and curl up, like a fern that had retracted from stretching back to a note, and soon became entangled in the light.
More and more of the hanging bones fell to the ground, turning into looser shards, and the mandibles of the skull in the doorway were knocked off and fell to Esther's feet.
Thoma stared at the changes in the black lines and the points of light, and felt that his eyes were getting more and more painful, and he had to blink hard, and soon his eyes were red, but out of vigilance, he never turned off his vision.
Alexander's mood was still the calmest, as an extraordinary person in the "generalist" pathway, he had not yet reached the sequence that would greatly enhance his inspiration, let alone the thick glasses made of extraordinary materials on the bridge of his nose.
In Alexander's eyes, those points of light were just black qi that almost condensed around them, and the light was wrapped in black qi, and the gloom that permeated the passage was constantly weakening. The point of light emitted by Hamel stretched far away, illuminating the end of the passage, and Alexander realized that the distance was not very long, just over ten meters.
This made him even more curious about the true face of Hamel's power, and if it weren't for Hamel's privacy, Alexander really wanted to offer to let him study it.
Esther did not depart from her strange vision, waiting for the black threads to be covered in the points of light, her perception became calm, and all the points of light obeyed her will, quietly levitating between the passages to illuminate the place.
Esther didn't look back, but whispered to the three behind her, "It's okay, shall we walk ahead?" It is safe within the range of the light point, and there is no influence of this force in front of it. Keep your body as low as possible, and if you feel a sluggish sensation in your legs and feet when walking, make a sound immediately. ”
Alexander picked up the undamaged "Inspiration Warning Spider" from the ground, and turned his head to look at Thomas and Aaron, who were rubbing their eyes: "Let's continue to use this to explore the way and prevent other accidents, are you two okay?" ”
Thoma pinched the bridge of his nose and eyebrows twice, and quickly opened his eyes again: "I'm fine." ”
Aaron also nodded, showing a rather peaceful smile: "Hmm." ”
Unbeknownst to him, it was such an untimely smile that made Alexander feel furious, and Alexander had to remind Thoma: "Be optimistic about Aaron." ”
Thoma grabbed Aaron by the back with his backhand and dragged Aaron to his side, and it could be seen that he was not as calm as the "no problem" in his answer.
Esther bent down and stepped on the bones that cracked as she had been trampled, and there was no other choice, and every part of the passage was covered with a jumble of broken bones.
For some reason, she remembered a toy that had been maliciously torn apart. This thought caused a momentary sense of disobedience in Esther's mind, but it was quickly overshadowed from her consciousness, and it was time to focus more on the exploration in front of her.
Alexander followed closely behind, and Aaron was pushed twice by Thoma before recovering from the sluggishness of looking up at the point of light above his head. Aaron kept an eye on Alexander's footsteps, resisting the urge to stare at the light, and Thoma followed him, keeping an eye on Aaron's situation.
The four of them walked out of this passage smoothly, and Esther hesitated for a moment, not directly retracting the points of light used to suppress the black line, at least retaining the safety of this retreat, so as not to encounter an unexpected situation when they got it, and several people turned back as soon as possible but there was no way to pass.
Alexander put down the "Inspiration Warning Spider" and let it jump towards a wider, dark corner in front of it, the green light turned into a yellow light five meters away, and he checked around the room, but there was nothing unusual in the room.
Esther lifted the lantern upwards to illuminate the hollow room.
It was more empty than she had imagined, and Esther had thought that there might be some important tomb or storage room with such a vicious protection, but now it seemed more like a ......
"Bath?" Thoma looked around several times, and asked the question with great disbelief.
The square site is almost ten meters long and wide, and in the middle is a deep pit dug nearly a meter downward, and although the masonry inside is broken and shapeless, there are a few broken crystals or gold ornaments buried in the gravel on the outer edge, which is obviously a rather luxurious place.
Esther walked into the corner and looked at the stacked slabs.
Aaron looked at the wall carvings, the notches barely preserved in the long silence, and though they were covered with faint traces of corrosion and cracks everywhere, they could barely make out some of them.
Aaron pointed to a picture of kneeling and praying: "It should not be an ordinary bath, but probably a special place for purification or baptism." ”
"That's right, otherwise it wouldn't be so resource-intensive." Thoma looked at the broken stones, even if he was curious, he would never have started to flip through those stones, who knows what might be hidden inside?
Alexander also walked up to Aaron, and soon his brow furrowed: "It doesn't look like the remains of the House of Antigonus......"
Aaron, of course, objected: "My divination is conclusively related, perhaps the palace of the side branch of the House of Antigonus collapsed due to an accident. ”
Esther's hand reached for the pile of stone slabs, and the sound of her turning them was not light, immediately attracting the attention of several others.
Thoma couldn't help but shout at her, "Hamel! Be careful! ”
Aaron wasn't that nervous, and his trust in Hamel could be described as blind: "She must have noticed something, let's go see." ”
So the other three also came to Esther's side, and Aaron put the backpack next to him, and stepped forward to help Esther turn the rocks here.
Soon, Esther's actions, driven by "spiritual intuition", bear fruit, and they pull out a coat of arms from underneath.