The mountain path leads to the woods below the highest peak, and if you look down from above, you will probably find the path twisting and turning like a snake through the mountains, and finally disappearing into the mountains.

Under the leadership of Du Zhengyi, they quickly found the path, but they didn't go too far along the path, and stopped before they reached the foot of the main peak, and the mage's public post station was on the side of the road halfway.

Guan Xinyue let out an exclamation first, "If no one points it out, I can't even tell that it's man-made." ”

Luo Qi felt that Guan Xinyue was right, whether there was a trick or not from the mages, the place itself was not easy to see. The architectural remains here are almost obliterated in the surrounding environment, and the shape of the stone piles can only be seen if you look closely, but even if you look closely, the first impression will be that it is the main part of the common stone bridges in the south, but no one will build a stone bridge in the woods deep in the mountains.

However, this place is too ancient, the stone bridge in the ancient town in the south is about the remains of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and further away can only be counted to the Yuan Dynasty. But this stone-piled building is as old as the ancient Roman aqueduct, although it is not as magnificent as the aqueduct, no more than two meters high, no more than six or seven meters long, lonely in the mountains and forests, like a tomb entrance with little weather. But as soon as you get closer, you will see a strange sense of exoticism carved on the remaining stone chips, which is very different from the familiar forms of civilization on this continent. The stone building has a perfect arch in the middle, so at first glance it may seem like a stone bridge, but the arched area is only half the thickness of the building, and it looks a bit like a Buddhist shrine.

"Have there been any gods worshiped here before?" Guan Xinyue asked again, "Now the shrine is empty. ”

Mahjong shook his head and pointed to the flat low end of the arched area, "Look down here, there is no trace of the god being placed. It has been argued before that if we mages also have faith, there should be a pedestal here, after all, the gods should be on high and should not be on an equal footing with people. ”

Roach also felt that Mahjong made sense, and it was the first time he had seen this kind of ancient public post station, and if the mages found an energy node that could be used as a public post station, they would mark the vicinity. For example, if you build a house, a public post station in a modern city will often open a café or teahouse, and in recent years, there are even bars. The public inn here must have been abandoned for a long time, so long that even the mages themselves could not tell when it was discovered, or what era the mages built the markers here.

Hearing Guan Xinyue say that it looked like a shrine, Luo Qi also pondered, "Actually, I think this height and shape is more like a door, an arch." ”

Guan Xinyue reached out and pressed the solid wall inside, "Dead-hearted, the arch that leads to the dead end." ”

"Ah, what a door to a dead end." Roach almost cried out, wasn't yesterday's events enough to stimulate him.

Du Zhengyi couldn't help laughing, he was silently chanting the secret words with his eyes closed near him, "Luo Qi, shut up, don't disturb me." ”

"Why do you mean me again? I'll go farther. Roach grumbled half-truthfully, and circled the stone shape, carefully admiring the mutilated carvings in the stone.

Roach saw many of the symbols used in books, and he reached out and stroked several complex secret words, the language of his ancestors, which mages today could no longer communicate. The remaining primitive mage language lacked the vocabulary to communicate, and could only be used as a spell to drive magic. However, the incantation is based on the name of the humans, and in the original language of the mages, they call it the secret language, the secret word that drives the power of all things.

He was vaguely sad, if one day the mage's bloodline really disappeared, these secret words, along with these ancient ruins, would eventually be ignored by humans. If one day, extraterrestrial civilizations visit this planet, they must think that there is only a single intelligent creature here, and there is no trace of their mage, a unique civilization that is very different from human beings.

He was a little sad, and hurriedly walked away from the others, for fear that his mental barrier would not be strong enough if he was not careful. Fortunately, they didn't seem to be affected by him, and he heard Guan Xinyue asking, "There is no place that can be used as a public post station, and it happens to be occupied by humans?" ”

"Absolutely." Mahjong chuckled lightly and said gently, "You must know that humans are not really without telepathy, do you think that humans really have no sense of force fields?" There are always places in this world where human beings suddenly have strange emotions when they go there, or solemn, or ethereal, or sacred, or some other indescribable feeling. So humanity will build its own place of faith in those places. Many shrines, churches, and temples were built on the site of our public caravanserais. ”

"Oh." Guan Xinyue said excitedly, "It's so interesting, sometimes I don't think we are so different, it's just that we see the world differently." ”

"I think you have a point." Mahjong said approvingly.

Of course, you old pervert thinks everything she says makes sense, and Roach shrugs his shoulders at himself inwardly. He walked around and walked back to Du Zhengyi, and they were standing in front of the stone arch. Roach looked at the totems that were wound around the arch, the patterns were intricate, but if you didn't look closely, you might just think that they were natural cracks in the stone.

Roach read the secret words of the arch slowly, laboriously translating them, knowing that they were actually talking about the method of opening the public post station, like an agreement to connect to a computer network. Du Zhengyi was compiling the secret letter, and he was bored reading all the way to the vault, and suddenly froze.

Roach stood on tiptoe and looked carefully at the very center of the vault, where he seemed to see a twisted serpentine.

He reached out and hurriedly wiped the sticky dirt from the vault, almost not high enough.

Suddenly, a hand reached over his head and easily brushed twice on the vault that he couldn't reach. It was Du Zhengyi, with a relaxed face, and even a wicked smile on his lips, "Short-legged tanuki." ”

"Holy." Luo Qi said unhappily, but then he became nervous, and the vault revealed a serpentine mark twisted into the shape of an infinite symbol and swallowed by the tail under Du Zhengyi's brush.

"Isn't this," he swallowed nervously, "isn't this the mark of the Great Black Celestial Temple?" ”

Du Zhengyi also looked at it carefully for a while, "This is carved in stone, looking at the style of carving, it is consistent with other secret words, this should also be an ancient symbol." ”