Chapter 14: The Ruins
The leader of the coyotes was overjoyed to hear the news of the discovery of the ruins. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Golden Tower was finally discovered by himself, and he collected taxes from a group of poor ghosts every day, as long as the gold was excavated, it would be enough for a few lifetimes. That night, he led his minions, large and small, to the Herero tribe. The people who drove all the people to dig excavated, but found that the deeper they dug, there was still no entrance to the stone tower.
It took several days to dig up the sand, and after a few gusts of wind, the stone tower was restored to its original state. In the end, the top of the ruins could only be entered, and after everyone wasted their efforts and removed the huge stone slab at the top, the coyote warriors swarmed in, and Hall, as the only wizard among the coyotes, also followed the coyote into the ruins.
The top floor of the stone tower is a boxy room, in the center of the room, there is a three-foot-high stone platform, the stone platform is inlaid with a naturally formed diamond-shaped crystal pillar, the top tip and the bottom of the point, the height reaches an astonishing two meters.
The crystal pillar is extremely transparent, and the diamond-shaped surface has been meticulously polished, shining with colorful light under the torch. The stone platform is carved with extremely complex patterns, including people, animals, and plants, and the dot-like existence is more like stars, which together form a group of sacrificial scenes.
After the coyote entered the stone tower, the coyote warrior had already entered the next layer of exploration, and with the exploration of the layer by layer, the true face of the stone tower was revealed in front of everyone's eyes.
No matter how beautiful things are, they can't resist the passage of time, and the various exquisite fabrics in the upper layers, which look good, are reduced to ashes as soon as the wind blows in from the entrance.
The wood products also rotted and could not be touched, and turned into powder at the touch of the hand. Only the murals on the walls are still brightly colored and lifelike, telling people about the original glory.
There was a tumultuous cheer from the next floor, and a voice came out: "Gold, gold, there is gold." Hahahaha, tell the chief, there is as much gold as a mountain. ”
The coyote was escorted to the lower level, and after passing through the corridor and entering a stone door, everyone was stunned by what they saw. Under the reflection of the torches, the entire hall turned into the color of gold, and the golden light refracted each other, and the stone walls illuminated were bright, and the light brought everyone into a golden country.
While everyone was frantically rushing towards the gold, Hall's eyes were on the open stone door, because on the stone door on the left side was a line of dark red paint written on it, "Whoever disturbs the monarch's sleep, death will spread its wings and descend on his head." ”
Quickly turn around and look at the stone gate on the right, on which the same paint reads: "Whoever enters this tomb with an impure heart, I will strangle him by the neck like a bird." ”
The font is written in ancient Hebrew, which means that the history of this necropolis is at least more than 2,000 years, because the Hebrews were destroyed by war 2,000 years ago.
For this curse in ancient ruins, Hall has never dared to take it lightly. He took a slight step back.
At the end of the hall, there was another small stone door, several samurai were prying open with iron rods, and with the samurai's force, there was a faint fluctuation of magic inside the small door, and Hall shouted "Chief, be careful, there is danger behind the small door." "It's a pity that it's too late, the stone door has already opened a gap.
A faint puff of smoke floated out, and the flames of the torches were all pressed low, and the light turned an eerie turquoise. This was followed by a sound of soot.
The coyote leader's reaction was still extremely fast, after all, he and Hall and his party were the last to enter the stone gate, and when they saw that things were not good, they turned around and ran towards the door faster than the guards around them.
A black tide poured out, not a tide, but a strange black bug, with a flat body the length of a thumb, and sharp mouthparts with a hint of metallic light.
With a "buzz", these insects actually had wings and flew up, and after rushing out of the small stone gate, they flew up like a swarm and rushed towards the samurai in the hall.
The samurai in front of him brandished a scimitar and slashed at the insect's body, and the hardness of the insect's body was extremely high, and only a few were split in two and wriggled on the ground.
More of them rushed through the protection of the weapon and pounced on the samurai. "Ahh
Hall turned around and ran out, the coyote's martial arts were extremely high, more than one level higher than the samurai who guarded him, and he had already grabbed the stone door into the hall in a few steps.
Even if the insects were still some distance away from the stone gate, and the guards could run out, the coyote still ignored the guards who did not run out, and with two roundabout kicks in his legs, he slammed the heavy stone door shut with his own strength, and then pressed his back tightly, leaving the wailing and the sound of slapping the stone door unmoved.
Seeing that the insects did not rush out, Hall also turned around to help, and with all his strength, the spell of the "Earth and Stone Prison Cage" was activated, and the cracks between the stone doors became one under a few wriggling.
The screams of wailing passed through the stone door, and the sound became extremely small, muffled, and indescribably strange. In a few breaths, there was no sound inside the stone door, and the two people looked at each other, and the fright in their eyes was overflowing.
The coyote gasped a few times and said, "Hall, what kind of monster is this?"
"I haven't seen it, it's not like a creature from the continent, it seems to be more like a summoned creature, just behind the small stone gate, there are strong magic fluctuations. If it was a creature in the stone tower, without any food, it would not have lived for such a long time. ”
"Is it okay to attack with fire? This time the losses were great, and more than 200 samurai died inside. The two tacitly did not mention that it was because the coyote closed the stone door too early that it caused all this.
"Chief, let's go back to the camp first, you need to make some preparations, and then you can try it. ”
"That's the only way, let's go back first, who knows if there is anything else in this ghost place. ”
This time it had a great impact on morale, and more than 500 people came, and nearly half of them stayed in the secret room forever. However, compared to the gold in the secret room, it is clear that gold is more attractive.
Within three days, the coyote made a comeback with the samurai. Hale was well prepared this time, opening up the supply of resources to the only mage in the bandits, and promising Hale to take full responsibility for the cleaning of the stone tower.
If you open the secret room, eliminate the magical creatures inside, and take out the gold, 20% of it will be used as Hall's research funds and will be at Hall's personal disposal. All of a sudden, Hall's enthusiasm for work was at its peak.
Came to the stone gate again, now Hall will not be reckless to open the stone door, Hall has measured at the beginning, the thickness of the stone door is about half a meter, such a thickness, you can open a small hole first, wait for the insects inside to come out one by one, and then kill.
Although it takes a little time, the advantage is that it can be controlled, and it is easier to block small holes when things are not good. So Hale carefully controlled the magic of the "Earth and Stone Cage" and opened a very small hole.
Sure enough, after the small hole was opened, the insects along the small hole began to crawl out, and only one crawled out, and it was firmly clamped by the warriors waiting next to it with large iron tongs, and the warriors behind sealed the hole with iron rods.
Finally able to observe this insect up close, Hall could be sure that he had never seen this insect, its hard shell, its vigorous vitality, and its mouthparts constantly expanding and retracting even when it was caught in iron tongs.
After being thrown into the brazier, the six little short legs kept wriggling, making a "squeak" sound, fortunately, as an insect is always afraid of fire, in the flames, the strange insect did not last long to turn into a cloud of ashes.
Afraid of fire, Hale commanded the coyote warriors to build stone troughs with stones at both ends of the passage outside the stone gate, and used magic to smooth out the gaps between the stone troughs.
Looking at the passage that was more than thirty meters long, Hall nodded, such a long distance, he finally felt a little safe. Commanding the coyote warriors to pour a large amount of fire oil into the passage, and after igniting the oil of fire, Hale enlarged the hole in the stone door.
Sure enough, the strange insects swarmed out, and then they were scorched by the flames, and rained down into the fierce fire oil, and the sound of crackling insects and squeaks was mixed together, and the stench filled the entire underground passage.
Worried that the flames were not strong enough, Hall specially added a small amount of lava gold ore powder to the fierce fire oil, and now it seems that the effect is very good, and almost no bugs can rush through the thirty-meter-long wall of fire.
With a wave of his hand, the warrior behind raised his scimitar and swung it at the goats that had been prepared for a long time, and the blood flowed down the ground stream like a stream, and under the stimulation of the smell of blood, the insects inside became even more crazy.
The fire burned for a whole day, and the rocks at the top of the corridor were a little loose, and the insects did not fly out from the last threes and threes. The ashes in the stone trough were more than a foot thick, and they were all burned insect corpses.
Everyone secretly wondered how many strange insects could have so many ashes. The stone door was completely opened, and the samurai, who was sealed in armor all over, entered the secret room first, and after careful investigation, there was no more insect in the hall.
Hall led everyone into the hall, and on the pile of gold, more than 200 white bones were neatly placed, and the flesh and blood had been eaten clean by the strange insects. All the white bones are twisted, and some of the bones have even been broken by themselves, which shows how much pain they experienced at the beginning.
The source of the summoning magic was the smaller stone door at the end of the hall, and in the spirit of academic research, Hall didn't pay attention to the revelryers, anyway, the gold himself didn't have long legs and couldn't run away.
After passing through the long hall, he pushed open the half-hidden stone door and came to the small stone room, ready to study the difference between the ancient summoning magic array and the present. I saw that this was a stone room that was not very large, and a magic array with a diameter of five meters was in operation in the center, and the magic stone inlaid on it flickered.
Oops, just now, the magic array produced another magic fluctuation, just like the fluctuation a few days ago, Hall wanted to cry without tears, he passed through the hall more than a hundred meters by himself, and now he was so close to the source of the summoning, unless he grew wings, he couldn't run away.
The damn magic array doesn't start sooner or later, but it's activated at this time, it's fatal, think about it, there are still two percent of the gold coins waiting to be squandered, will you die here for no reason?