"Lina, in most church teachings, what is the crime of destroying the icon?" Penis asked, "Will it be serious?"

"The holy image cannot be destroyed by ordinary people." Lina said: "Unless you use the power of a stronger god, mortals cannot damage the holy image at all."

"What if I push it down?" Panis asked, "It was not destroyed, it was just intentional."

"You mean this statue? You have to judge the situation." Lina walked towards Panis and said as she walked: "If it is more serious, it can be regarded as blasphemy, and even the laws in various places do not protect it. But it is generally not qualified like this, most of them are just... Huh? What's going on."

The statue carved by white jade fell sideways to the ground, breaking into three sections, and the reason for the break is now impossible to tell. But these are not important. What is important is that Lina found that two white bones were pressing under the legs of the statue, which were the shins and fibula in the calf. The two calf bones were not complete. At the position where the upper end should be connected to the knee, they were neatly cut off. The feet below and the shoes on the feet were not found at all. Only two lonely leg bones were left, pressed tightly under the statue, and they were buried deep in the mud and sand, and could not be pulled out.

"It seems that some people want to move the icon, or simply want to push it down." Panis took out a knife and dug it on the mud and sand surrounding the leg bones: "But it seems that he was very unlucky. The icon fell down and just hit his leg. Well, if he looked at it like this, he shouldn't want to push the icon down but just move it away. If a push can hit his leg, then this man would be stupid to a certain extent."

"This is not the chief guard." Lina agreed with Panis's guess: "He doesn't even have a waist. He is even less likely to be hit on his leg. In this case, it should be the archbishop who comes back with him. However, according to our previous guesses, those who can fight here under the deep sea pressure are at the lowest level. No, the legendary level can only barely persevere at the bottom of the sea for a short time. If you want to fight normally, you must have a demigod. Then the demigod may be pressed by a statue. In the end, you have to cut off your legs to get out? This is a bit unreasonable."

"He might be seriously injured so much that he didn't even have the strength to support his companion." Catherine also walked over and pointed to the half-corpse behind him: "Of course. Maybe he still has the strength but is unwilling to waste it on his companion who is bound to die, but I think a normal person can't watch his companion crawl on the ground no matter what, so I think it's understandable that his legs are pressed and unable to pull them out. But what prompted him to move the statue in this state?"

"Of course, it verified your previous guess." After Penis dug out two leg bones, he began to dig out the location where the icon might have existed: "Obviously, there are some things that can only be obtained by moving the icon away. Indeed, the image below should be considered the safest place on the entire ship. It is a very good way to hide the most important thing here."

Several people gathered next to the collapsed statue and began to dig together. Since the entire wall was directly destroyed, a large amount of mud and sand were accumulated on half of the deck of the room. It was indeed difficult to find any valuable clues here. As everyone digged, the deck of this area slowly emerged from the mud and sand, but the five people expanded the excavation range several times in a row. Finally, they found the original base of the statue. When the last shovel in Lina was inserted into the soil, a series of bubbles emerged from the gap in the insertion of the shovel, and the few people gathered around rolled back at the same time. Avoid these bubbles and watched them float until the top of the cabin was broken under the impact before returning to the place where the shovel was inserted.

The bubbles were all over, and a shovel was used to dig out the covered mud and sand. Soon a lattice of sixty or seventy centimeters long and wide was found under the base of the icon. There was a metal box in the dark grid. The surface of the box was shiny and there was no rust at all.

"Well. This looks like it was forged by Magic Steel." Panis moved the box out of the dark lattice. The box was unexpectedly heavy, and even underwater, it pressed the deck creaked when placed on the floor. He touched the surface of the box with his fingers, and Panis said: "But if it was forged by Magic Steel, it should be heavier than this one."

"It should be more than magic steel." Vivian recalled: "I remember there is a method of preserving magic items. It does not have a exact name, but it is used to calling it a hundred-layer box. It is said that it was developed to secretly preserve some magic items and prevent it from being discovered by other mages. This kind of box is very troublesome to make. Simply put, it is a layer of magic steel and mitral, which is combined into one layer. Then, there are many magic arrays that are hidden from both sides of each layer of mitral layer that block the fluctuations of magic energy. The simplest hundred-layer box is only ten layers. The better the production process, the thinner each layer is forged, the more layers you can make. At most, I have seen eighty layers, which are something that only storage artifacts can be used. I think the shape and workmanship of this box are very similar to the hundred-layer box, but I don't know how many layers you have."

"Will the thing be here?" Lina asked, "Look at how tightly it is stored, maybe it's still there."

"The possibility is very small, otherwise there should be an extra body here." Catherine shook her head and said, "Pennis, Vivian, please help open it and see. Whether you are there or not, you must confirm it."

"You guys retreat a little." Vivian lay in front of the box: "I'll check if there are any magic traps first."

The box is silver-white and has no locks. The box cover is simply covered, and it looks like it can be opened with a slight push. But no one dares to underestimate it at this time. It is normal to add a few traps to prevent such important items when storing them. As adventurers, no one will do stupid things at this time. If several experienced high-level adventurers die in the process of adventure because they open the box of unknown origin without being inspected, they will definitely be ridiculed for many years, and even teach the younger generations as negative examples.

Vivian did not use his hands, but used puppet control to directly control two thin mitril silver probes, touching back and forth at various nodes around the box, and sometimes stretching the probe into the inside of the box along a gap in the box for search. After walking around the box for more than ten minutes, Vivian frowned and said, "There are seven magic traps, but there is no connection between the trap and the opening state of the box. In other words, the trap now belongs to the inactive state. Come behind Pannis."

"Well, it's my turn." This time it was Panis' turn to lie down. Many unknown gadgets were constantly changing in his hands, and took turns to touch the gap between the boxes and boxes. Panis's movements were faster. In less than three minutes, he saw the corners of his mouth twitching, saying, "Why are these people who set traps always so insidious?"

"Did you find a trap?" Catherine asked, "Why do you suddenly feel like this? The trap is very complicated?"

Panis didn't say anything, but shook his head, and suddenly he used both hands to lift the box directly. What he lifted was not the box cover, but directly lifted it from the position close to the bottom of the box, revealing the space inside. The girls then discovered that in addition to the box cover, there was a slight slit that was invisible at one-third of the height of the box, which was the real opening of the hundred-layer box. The box cover that looked decent before was just an illusion. Panis sighed and said, "If you really open the fake lid, it will definitely trigger the trap. As for what will happen, it's hard to say."

"Thank you for your hard work." Catherine nodded and looked into the box. The inside of the box was made of mitral silver that also emitted silver light. There was nothing in the space more than 20 centimeters deep. The empty box was like a big open mouth, mocking everyone.

"It's true that there is nothing." Lina waved her mace unhappily: "I'm having trouble now. Who knows where the Archbishop took that thing?"

"Don't rush to make a judgment first." Catherine said: "There is something wrong with this box cover."

It is indeed like Catherine said that the box cover is very wrong. Normal box covers are all inwardly recessed inside, but this box cover is close to the flat plate. Not only does it not inwardly recessed, but it is a bit protruding outward. If you turn the box cover up and down, it is more like a small box nested in the lid.

"This...it's okay to open it." Catherine quickly found a gap in the box cover, which looked like a dark grid that could be opened. After hesitating for a moment, Catherine asked, "Will the trap be triggered?"

"The magic trap will not trigger." Vivian shook his head and said, "I have checked it repeatedly just now. There are only seven unrelated traps inside. Even if you smash the box, you won't trigger it."

"Where is the physical trap?" Catherine asked, "Pennis, can you be sure?"

"Not sure." Panis shook his head and said, "The gap is too thin, and the most detailed inspection inside cannot be done. However, it is basically certain that there are no powerful traps. Even if there are, it is just the simplest trigger trap, such as spring-type or pull-type. As long as you are careful, there will be no problem."

"Then I'll open it." Catherine blocked the magic steel shield tree in front of her, put her armor on her exposed arms, poked out half of her face from the magic steel shield, and carefully pried open the hidden slit on the box cover.

The box has good quality. Although it is made of metal, there is no rust on the shaft part of the switch cover and it is quickly opened, revealing the space of about 30 cm long, wide and high.

But unfortunately, it is also empty, but dozens of magic arrays are carved on the four walls. Judging from the importance of these magic arrays, things should have been placed here before.
Chapter completed!