Chapter 12 Deep sea or desert?
The building is composed of long black stones. The texture of the stone is very special and the hardness is not too high. You can leave marks on it with a little force. However, the marks left will be restored to the original state within a few minutes, with no trace at all. And no matter how you rub it, there is no stone chips falling. No wonder these stones are exposed to wind and sun exposure, and there is no sign of damage.
No one knows what kind of stone this is, and even the geological expert Mobak couldn't tell it. It seemed that it could only be a specialty of this world.
I don’t know where Makajren pressed it a few times, and a sound of masonry and stone friction sounded, and the spire of the building automatically flipped to one side, exposing the interior to the night.
Easily climb up along the sixty-degree wall. Sure enough, under the spire is a spacious quadrilateral space, with nothing inside, only a metal ladder that is fixed up and down there.
"Mia, air detection."
"It's done, exactly the same as the outside world."
"It's actually..." I didn't expect that the interior was not a closed environment, and I don't know how the builder could prevent the pervasive fine sand from invading the inside of the building while ensuring the normal flow of air. "The breath-holding potion is ready, don't be careless, Marca Jaylen, Mobak."
"I know, boss." The two of them were old partners. They didn't walk on the vertical ladder and jumped down and began to check the internal environment in case of any traps.
"There are no signs of life, and there are no undead." Before Shul could ask, Militi had already reported the result.
"There is no hostile reaction, it's very safe." Xiu's consciousness was always detecting hostility. Now he was finally relieved. He turned around and waved to the three people below, pointed at the position where he stood, signaling the three people to guard here later, so that they could go in and hide in the first time when encountering majeure dangers.
"Safe, boss."
"Go down, Marca Jaylen, mark the switch that closes the door."
"Here." The half-ling drew a small circle on the wall. Sure enough, there was a stone pull rod on the black stone wall.
"What kind of metal is this?" Sul asked by jumping into the building, knocking on the vertical ladder.
"The roughest iron product, anti-rust treatment is also the roughest technology." Mobak could tell it without even looking at it. "But the environment here is difficult to rust even if it is difficult. I don't know why they have to do anti-rust."
"It won't be like this all the time, otherwise no living creature could live here." Shaking his head, not wasting too much time on it, "The fastest speed, comprehensive exploration, and ensure the safety of the internal environment."
When you open a stone door locked by iron chains, it is natural that behind it is a downward staircase. The staircase is also made of stone, exactly the same as the material outside.
The steps extend downward layer by layer, each layer is about four meters high. According to Shuer's speculation, there should be five to six layers. In this way, it is buried quite deep.
As we go along, the general structure of each floor is exactly the same. There are four doors in the stairwell leading to four different suites. Although the exterior wall is conical in four sides, the walls of the interior rooms are still vertical, and there is not much difference between architectural habits and Pavattiga. The difference between the layers is only the size of the suite, and even the number of houses is exactly the same.
Leaving Mobak and Militi in the stairwell to ensure that nothing would run into the room that had been inspected. Sulmiya and Makajren began to check the room one by one, magic traps, physical traps and toxins that would not appear. The three of them happened to be responsible for one aspect, which has been a habit that has been developed for many years.
However, what is disappointing or satisfying is that all rooms are safe, without enemies, without traps, and even strange items beyond everyone's understanding. This is a place where ordinary humanoid creatures live normally.
In each suite, the most common daily necessities, beds, cabinets, tables and chairs are placed. Although everything is made of stone, every thing is closely related to life and has no special features at all. As for things that have the value of shadow, you don’t have to think about it.
"No gain." It was not until we explored the last room that everyone returned to the stairwell in disappointment. There was a door leading to the outside, but it had been buried under tens of millions of tons of yellow sand outside, so it was impossible to open it again, so we simply asked Mia to find a way to seal it with earth magic.
"It's not a bad thing, at least there is a place to live during the day." Shuer ordered simply, "The cooler the downwards, but the further away from the exit is, which is not safe. We live on the third floor, and the location is under the sand. Even if the wind blows, it will not be directly exposed to the wind."
"We'll go to the bones later to take a look. Marca Jaylen, you and Mobak stay to protect Kelly, and then set traps on each floor without attacking, as long as you can warn."
"Boss, let's stay and we have no opinion at all. The problem is that priest." Taking advantage of Kelly's absence, Marca Jaylen whispered, "You take care of her too much. Even if she is the client, is it necessary?"
"Be a little kinder to her, don't reject her like this." In fact, Shuer had already discovered that the shadow-seekers all rejected Kelly. No one even took the initiative to talk to her except Shuer, and even if they talked passively, they should try to be as simple as possible.
This cannot be blamed on the shadow-seekers, because being wary of outsiders is the instinct of the shadow-seeker. Being able to accept her join is already for the sake of Shuer and the reward. It is normal to reject her, but it is strange to accept her. Especially Marca Jaylen, who joined the shadow-seeker team, but after experiencing countless ordinary tasks, he was accepted. Of course, he has objections to Kelly, who can compete with his comrades when he meets for the first time.
Shuer didn't care about this at first, but he would have to complete the task in the end, so he didn't remind everyone from the beginning, but that night he thought of a lot of things and suddenly realized that maybe... Kelly was a little pitiful.
"Be a little better to her, at least a little normal. After all, she is likely..." Xiuer wanted to speak but stopped, and finally decided to hide some things for the time being. After all, it is not certain. "In short, the difference is too harsh. You will understand the reason at that time."
"No problem, Captain, listen to you, I won't be bothering with her about the grudges of Lord Olfregan for the time being." Not only did Macajren nod and agreed, but the dwarf also held his beard and said indifferently, "But, Captain, see if I sacrificed so much, is it when the spoils are distributed..."
"I will give you a little less." Of course this was a joke. Shuer patted the dwarf's shoulder and squeezed his arm hard to show his gratitude.
"It doesn't matter to me." Militi blew her thoughtful fingers, "As long as she doesn't come to get in the way of me and doesn't mess with me, I won't target her especially. But I want me to take the initiative to be kind to her, sorry, this is difficult."
"Ha, that's fine, but you two probably have no grudges, why are you so resistant to her?"
"She has so good skin, this idiot is exposed to jealousy." Mia coldly exposed the undead mage's thoughts.
"Flat chest, you want to try my methods again." Militi glared at her eyes and snorted coldly, "The rest is still a long time today, I don't mind teaching you a lesson."
"Ha? Of course I have no objection to you if you want to die." The magic around Mia began to surge.
"Let's go, work." She was too lazy to deal with the two mad men who fought every few days, and then beat the door closed. Shuer turned around and left, "You two set up a trap, we'll go up first."
When I returned to the ground, I found that after nearly an hour of inspection, the brightness outside had slightly increased. It seemed that it was not far from dawn. Moria and the other two were still on the top floor and remained alert at all times. Even Kelly, although she was not energetic because she didn't sleep all night, she still insisted on keeping herself from dozing off.
He sighed secretly, and Shul gave her to the care of the two left behind, pointing to the direction where he saw the huge ribs just now: "You see, that's what I want to check carefully."
Standing at a high place, everyone finally saw what Shuer cares about. The area was not just three ribs, but a large piece of bone was buried. The area covered was at least hundreds of meters, and a piece of white bone was exposed a few meters away.
When I got closer, I found that there were more white bones than I thought. And from the thickness, the size of the bones must be extremely large in life, and these bones are likely to belong to it.
In other words, if all the bones are pieced together, even if some are missing, the general appearance of the corpse can be restored. This is not impossible. Militi is very good at doing this. This is not meaningless. Understanding the general situation of local creatures can make targeted arrangements after the action. An experienced shadow-by-shadow team will do this.
The problem is that it is too troublesome and there is no time to waste it on it. Such a huge creature will take at least more than ten days just by digging out all the bones. It is completely unworthy of the loss, so I can only give up regretfully. However, there is also an easy way to barely infer the appearance of the corpse, although it is not very reliable.
"Here." Militi waved her hand and called everyone over, "I found it, this area should be its skull area."
The flat and wide raised skull, the oblong thick jaw, the spine that connects horizontally to the skull, and the thick and long body shape.
"This thing... the more you look at it, the more you look like a whale." Holding her chin, Shuer smiled bitterly to draw the conclusion.
"No surprise, think about the undead we saw last evening, all of them are the shapes of fish." Mia said coldly, "Maybe before it became like this, this place was originally a deep sea."
"Then are living in the house like sea elves?" Shur shook his head, "It's unlikely. Don't forget that we just saw the room. The furnishings inside are basically all land supplies, at least they are not fixed on the ground, so this is not a deep sea."
"But these fish..." Mia pointed to the bones, "You can't explain."
"Yoyou, there is good news." Moria suddenly jumped in front of Shuer and said with a smile, "It's almost dawn."
"Uh, then what?"
"Then I can see further and further."
Shuer blinked, suddenly the corner of his mouth twitched, picked up Mia and threw it on the deer's back, pulled up Saff, who was still fiddling with the bones with one hand, turned around and ran away.
Chapter completed!