The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters.

Chapter 103 Ancient Disaster

The Shadow Moon Leopard suddenly attacked the bones in the sacrificial site.

Yu Ke, who was squatting beside the mold, subconsciously cast his gaze over, and immediately noticed that the blown skeleton had clearly fallen apart, but his spine was trembling. A brownish-red spell appeared on the surface of the gray-white bones, and then attracted other people around him. The skeleton moved closer to it.

This scene made Yu Ke quickly realize that these seemingly harmless skeletons had long been cursed.

The tomb robbers who broke into this place didn't just set traps inside the statues.

Not only do they want to prevent the awakened forest spirit from taking back the idol, but they also viciously want to kill the newcomers to prevent others from discovering this place.

But what can these jagged skeletons do?
Almost at the moment when the bones were put back together, an arrow flew over and directly shattered the spine, causing it to shatter again.

What followed was the strange movement of several other nearby skeletons. The same scriptures appeared on the spines, urging these skeletons to stand up again after a hundred years and launch attacks on those who came after them.

However, what Yu Ke saw in his eyes were more than a dozen trembling skeletons. It was difficult to even run. They only had incomplete clothes hanging on them that had not yet been weathered, approaching him and the Shadow Moon Leopard.

Perhaps they had strong lethality when they were first placed here and could launch a surprise attack on any creature that came close.

When the dust was blown away by the breeze, the true face of the stone wall appeared in front of Yu Ke.

Yu Ke successively found other fragments of the spine on hand, wrapped them in pieces of cloth and put them in his waist bag. These were key clues to discovering the identity of the tomb robber. After returning, he could take some photos and give them to Ye Ying. Hitomi helps with interpretations and sources.

The characteristic of checking for leaks and filling gaps quickly gave the information Yu Ke wanted.

Lifting his foot and kicking the skull open, Yu Ke bent down and picked up half of the spine with a piece of cloth scattered nearby and looked around.

However, the passage of time has continuously weakened them. No matter how mysterious the incantations engraved on the spine are, the fragility of the bones themselves is irreparable.

Previously in the center of the sacrificial site, most of the surrounding area was shrouded in darkness. Now approaching the rock wall, Yu Ke discovered that there was an entire carved stone wall with many dust-covered reliefs and human figures on it. of pits.

Yu Ke hurriedly got up and hurried over. When he got there, he found that the Shadow Moon Leopard was roaring at a wall full of potholes.

The alien race and the humans discussed how to fight the enemy, and then presented something that looked like a bamboo slip to the emperor. The recessed position on the wall should be a relief sculpture commemorating the alien race, but unfortunately, I don’t know where it went.
Seeing this, Yu Ke couldn't help but turn around and glance at the sacrificial site.

Yu Ke didn't even bother to take the Leviathan Ax. He just bent his bow and arrows to kill them one by one. With the cooperation of the Shadow Moon Leopard, he easily destroyed all these skeletons.

Even after turning up the brightness of the helmet, he still couldn't clearly see the reliefs on the wall and the surrounding murals. Yu Ke simply waved his hand to activate his wind and snow control ability, attracting a ball of light cyan airflow and blowing the dust away from the wall.

Judging from the situation inside the sacrificial site, the team of tomb robbers once fought with the guards of the sacrificial site.

In this process, human beings suffered heavy casualties, and for a time the world was devastated. An alien race brought some kind of equipment to join the war, which turned the situation around.

Because there is no clear time, Yu Ke can only roughly judge that it should be in a certain feudal dynasty thousands of years ago. At that time, a beast disaster broke out in a certain place. Countless monsters rushed out from the ground and broke through. Human towns, massacre and devour the people.

Walking from left to right, his eyes wandered among the walls full of murals and reliefs. Yu Ke quickly captured several important pieces of information.

After the final victory, the tomb robbers chose to take away the guard who was still unknown, and at the same time used the corpses of his companions to create curse traps on the spot, trying to prevent further exploration by latecomers.

Hoo~ho~
The low roar of the Shadow Moon Leopard came from the darkness not far away.

The murals and reliefs should record the same thing.

In order to combat this disaster, the imperial court summoned a large army to fight against it relying on the dangerous city of Xiongguan.

The ancients liked to record some major events through murals and sculptures. The content on the stone wall in front of me is most likely related to the foundry here. It may allow Yu Ke to glimpse the secrets of thousands of years ago.

The Shadow Moon Leopard approached the skeleton and sniffed it a few times, then seemed to rush towards the area shrouded in darkness on the other side.

Cursed Spine: A spine with an evil curse attached to it. Any living body that comes close will cause it to react, triggering the hidden curse energy within it.

Under normal circumstances, there are no carvings that leave a few pits in half. There must have been reliefs in these places at first, but they disappeared after being destroyed. This led him to speculate that these alien statues should be the guards here.

They helped the human race repel the beast herds, and at the same time left behind methods to suppress disasters and restore order. This is why the foundry and sacrificial site here were established. It is normal for the human race to regard them as loyal partners.

Needless to say, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to create a space of this size inside the mountain.

After thinking about it, it is true that only the dynasty at that time could implement this plan regardless of losses in order to fight against monsters and suppress disasters.

What exactly did they build?

Confusion resurfaced in Yu Ke's mind. He walked to the end of the mural, only to find that this part of the stone wall had been completely erased by some means, leaving only a dozen interlaced ravines silently mocking those who came after.

While Yu Ke was concentrating on examining the mural, the Shadow Moon Leopard next to him still stayed in the same place, spinning back and forth anxiously, moving his head left and right while constantly sniffing.

"What are you looking for?"

After fighting side by side for several times, Yu Ke and Shadow Moon Leopard became more familiar with each other. After noticing the latter's strange behavior, he couldn't help but turn around and ask. The Shadow Moon Leopard couldn't speak. He just looked up at the fluorescent green light ball, then ran back to the sacrificial site, brought back a skull, threw it to where it was before, raised his hand to fiddle with the skull, and smashed it into pieces. into powder.

"I know these tomb robbers stayed here before, and there are still traces of them there. No, you mean, they disappeared here?"

Looking at the skull that turned into powder and disappeared, Yu Ke guessed what the Shadow Moon Leopard wanted to express.

Shadow Moon Leopard nodded and growled to indicate that Yu Ke had guessed correctly.

"How can people disappear suddenly? Is there some mechanism here?"

Yu Ke frowned in thought and reached out to knock on the stone wall next to him. He heard a dull sound. The inside should be solid. There was no such thing as a secret door. He looked at the fluorescent green light group again, hoping that the forest spirit could give some hints.

In fact, since entering this area, the activities of the forest spirits have become inexplicably silent, and they no longer lead the way, but just wander around, like a lost person looking for the right direction.

After all, the forest spirit has been sleeping for hundreds of years and has only recently awakened. It is hard to say whether its will is complete.

What's more important is that so far, Yu Ke has never found the connection between the forest spirit and this area, and there is even no place for the forest spirit in the content expressed in the murals and stone carvings.

It's not normal.

If the forest spirit is just a dispensable role, why build such a magnificent temple for it and enshrine the bronze statue?

"There must be a reason why they built the foundry and sacrificial site behind your temple. The tomb robbers desecrated your statue before leaving to prevent you from coming back. There must be some connection here. If you think about it carefully Think about it, what can you sense around here?"

Yu Ke could only hope that the forest spirit would wake up. He stood up and looked at the latter and asked.

The fluorescent green light containing the will of the forest spirit sank to the location of the Shadow Moon Leopard. Light patterns on the surface trembled, and then suddenly hit the bluestone floor in front of the stone wall.

"Hey, there's no need to seek death even if you can't find it, right?"

Yu Ke, who was standing nearby, subconsciously stretched out his hand, only to see a ball of light seeping in along the cracks in the bluestone bricks.

Realizing a certain possibility, Yu Ke raised his foot and stamped a few times, then lay down on the ground again, his ears pressed to the ground, his mind calm, and with his super sense, he heard an unusual noise. It was empty underneath!

"Old way, you step aside."

Yu Ke waved his hand to signal the Shadow Moon Leopard and Forest Spirit to move away, drew out the explosive arrow, aimed at the bluestone bricks in front of the rock wall, and loosened the bow string.

Pang Rang~
The sound of broken bricks and falling bricks was mixed with the sound of the explosion. When the smoke and dust dissipated, what appeared in front of Yu Ke was a three-meter-square gap. Several iron rings and wooden pieces could be seen against the bottom of the wall. utensils.

Walking to the edge area and letting the light shine in, the first thing Yu Ke saw was the broken stone stack leading directly below. Obviously there should have been a plank road here, but it was deliberately destroyed by the group of tomb robbers and built with bluestone bricks. Live the gap.

Fortunately, it was Yu Ke who came today. Forest Spirit Will and Shadow Moon Leopard were both existences with extremely strong senses, otherwise it would have been easy to miss them.

Squatting on the edge, with the help of light, Yu Ke was surprised to find that there were a large number of plant roots underneath. They were growing along the stone wall, as if supporting this layer of space.

A faint blue light can be seen deeper, and the extremely rich breath of life inside can be sensed.

Before Yu Ke could figure out what was going on inside, the forest spirit couldn't wait to get in through the gap, and the Shadow Moon Leopard was still following closely. Yu Ke had no choice but to keep up, stepping on the stone stacks against the wall and leaping down.

In this process, the scene of the underlying space finally appeared before Yu Ke’s eyes.

Unexpectedly, this place was not built by ancients. The top of the building is covered with lush green plants. The walls are no longer made of masonry, but rather hard soil, with slippery moss on the surface.

Descending to the middle level, what Yu Ke saw was a lush giant tree growing underground. Its height was perhaps only a little over twenty meters, but its size was extremely large. The diameter of the trunk was more than six meters, and the crown covered the entire top floor of the space. .

There are a large number of branches and vines connecting the upper masonry, which obviously supports the entire mountain space above.

Not only that, Yu Ke noticed that there were complicated lines near where the branches and vines connected, extending to all parts of the ceiling, eventually forming a huge underground magic circle!

After entering the underground space here, the forest spirit went straight to the foot of the giant tree, like a tired bird returning to the forest.

Yu Ke could feel the rich natural energy in the air fluctuating continuously, which was enough to show the excitement of the forest spirit.

Judging from the current situation, the key reasons why the ancients built the foundry and sacrificial site here have already emerged.

They wanted to use some energy contained in this giant tree to realize their plan, so they did not hesitate to spend huge manpower and material resources to dig out and build the space inside the mountain, and the former forest spirit should be the owner here.

The temple outside is their reward for the forest spirits.

Just thinking about the gap above his head that was deliberately hidden, Yu Ke couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

(End of this chapter)