Because of the strangeness of this relic, everyone played with 12 points of caution.
From the outside, the ruins are very ordinary, with gray-yellow ruins and broken walls, concise and powerful lines, and broken and indistinguishable patterns. Everything silently talks about the ancient ruins themselves.
Compared with the elven ruins that Muhadi has seen, these ruins have their own unique style. The ancient buildings of the elves paid attention to beauty, and used a lot of purely decorative structural fasteners such as scull crowns, tooth ornaments, egg ornaments, scroll ornaments and curved body pallets, with more curves than straight lines. These features make the buildings of the ancient elves look refined and elegant, like works of art in need of careful care.
The ruins in front of us obviously use a very different architectural language. The thick stone pillars replace the delicate elf-style columns, the large and thick walls, the straight joints, and the thick and heavy structure all show that this building attaches great importance to practicality and aesthetics. Aspects are compressed to a minimum.
It looks like it's a fort, but most of it is buried, so it's impossible to see its full scale.
Except for the wind, the ruins were silent, and there was no movement at all.
"That's it?!" The dagger boy said unacceptably, "This is the relic of the orcs? This is found?!"
He looked around exaggeratedly, as if trying to find out some ferocious monster hidden in the dark. "Shouldn't we defeat waves of enemies, travel hard, and finally overcome all difficulties before reaching the end?"
Mother Sledgehammer knelt in front of the ruins, carefully identified a piece of writing left on it, and said after a long time, "It should be, it is written on it, this is the 'city of bliss and perfection' of the orcs."
"Then what are we waiting for?! Come in and have a look, maybe another adventurer has come and cleaned up the monsters!" The giant butcher expressed anxiously.
"What's the hurry!" Muscle Dad grabbed the giant butcher who was eager to enter the ruins, like catching a little gray-scaled bird that just laid eggs. "This place is so weird, we have to be careful."
"Hey, what do you two think?" The muscular dad looked thick and thin, and came to consult the opinions of the two psions.
Muhadi tried to use his psychic energy to perceive the situation inside the ruins, but he found nothing. He could notice the subtle movements around his body, but he couldn't sense the situation inside the ruins at all. Those ancient walls seem to be attached to something that can completely isolate external detection. In the youth's psionic sense, the ruins were just strangely emitting white noise like a radio with no channels.
"No result," he said finally.
Aisha also shook her head, "I can't sense what's going on inside at all."
"Then let's go in and confirm the situation with the naked eye." Muscle Dad made a decision, "Dagger boy, you and the psionic boy are in the front. I'm in the middle with the giant butcher, and the psionic girl and the sledgehammer mother break."
Hearing that he was assigned to the task of opening the road, Muhadi snorted and walked ahead with the Dagger Boy without saying a word. The others also took their places, and after tying up their mounts, they carefully entered the ancient ruins.
Compared with the elven ruins that Mohadi had discovered before, the ruins were much better preserved. Only a small amount of sand had accumulated in the passages and rooms, making it barely passable.
Everyone moved as quietly as possible. After all, this building is too old, and maybe a little heavy pressure will cause it to collapse.
In the psionic perception, there is still a strange white noise around.
"What is that?" The giant butcher found a mark carved on a wall.
"Orc writing." Mom Sledgehammer replied, only she and Aisha were literate in the entire team. After Muhadi came to this world through time travel, he did not obtain the memory of the original owner of his body. Although he somehow mastered the language, he still did not know a single word. When he was in the tribe, Fatuma and Fahad didn't know a few words, so no one taught him.
"It looks like it was carved with the tip of a knife." Muscle Dad commented.
"What did it say?" Muhadi asked.
Aisha crouched down to translate, "It said, 'O aliens, if you pass by the orc village, please tell them that we have done our duty, so the scene is here'."
"What does that mean?" asked the giant butcher.
"It seems that this is the last word of the orc soldiers in the battle of purification. They are here to hold the enemy, and they would rather turn their capital into a common cemetery with the enemy." Mother Sledgehammer replied.
"It's a pity, they didn't do it in the end." Muscle Dad teased, "You can't even see the bones around, or they put down the big talk and ran away..."
"...Either the scum was destroyed by magic." Mom Sledgehammer finished his words.
"Anyway, it seems that this is indeed the place we are looking for, let's move on, little ones!" The muscular dad became more interested and urged to move forward.
The passage in the ruins gradually extended underground, and the group went deeper and deeper. The room temperature gradually changed from the unbearable heat in the desert to a more pleasant warmth, the air was very fresh, and there was no decay as imagined.
Along the way, you can see the marks left by swords and slashes on the walls. Many arrows left over from ancient times are scattered in the building. The metal head has long been rusted and the shaft has been weathered. , as long as it is touched lightly, it will crack and scatter, breaking into countless pieces.
The passages and halls seem to be endless, and the open doors in some places seem to lead to courtyards or streets, but they are now blocked by sand and cannot go out.
After walking, there seemed to be several hourglasses, not to mention the treasure, and half a pottery coin was not found, and finally someone couldn't help but speak up.
"How deep is this ghost place?!" Mom Sledgehammer questioned, "We only have enough water for three days, and it will take about a day to get back to the oasis with water. We can go deep into this place for a day at most. , no matter what treasure is found or not, you must leave the turning and withdraw."
"Well, the water source is indeed a problem." Muscle Dad pondered, "Well, when we walk three more hourglasses, if we still get nothing, we will withdraw first."
The plan has been decided, and the group is on the road again, and Mohadi and the Dagger Boy are still headed.
When walking to a rectangular stone hall, Muhadi felt that the psionic white noise that had been pervading the ruins seemed to have grown louder, and he was feeling strange when he suddenly heard a "click" from behind.
"What did you step on?!" The muscle man asked the giant butcher, who was blank, "No, I've been walking on the slate."
"Crack!" It was another sound, and everyone could see it clearly. On the walls on both sides of the stone hall, the bricks and stones were moving by themselves!
"I'm dying!" Muscle Dad saw that the masonry on the wall suddenly changed like running water, moved and reorganized into a new shape, and immediately pulled out his machete, alerting him to the sudden change.
The bricks and stones on the walls on both sides kept moving and reorganizing, and finally two new passages were opened up. A giant ant with a reddish-brown shell and a stone spear rushed out of the passage.
"Fucking ants!" Someone shouted.
The term ant tribe is just right to describe this bizarre monster, which is more than five feet tall, with a full ant lower body and a front end that resembles a mix of ants and humans. They also have locust-like mouthparts, which are divided into several lobes, which are constantly rubbing and making noises. This group of ants grabbed all kinds of crude stone weapons with the pair of limbs at the front of the body, and the last two pairs of limbs trotted like flying, rushing fiercely into the middle of the group.
"Fuck you!" The muscular father slashed the long hair in the hands of an ant tribe with a wave of his machete, but the blade failed to cut through the chitinous insect shell of the opponent, leaving only a shallow wound, look. Disgusting green body fluids flowed out.
Others also joined the battle. Aisha cast a crystal shard, and more than a dozen sharp crystals with different gleams appeared in the air out of thin air, and then roared and shot at the opponent. Mom Sledgehammer hit an ant's compound eye with her head mallet, spattering a lot of goo.
Giant Butcher and Muscle Daddy face the enemy back to back, while Dagger Boy himself faces two Ant Clan with stone axes. Muhadi's psionic sense was almost filled with white noise, but he was barely able to predict the opponent's movements.
With a loud scolding, he showed an ability, and the ant tribe facing him immediately felt the spear in his hand was hot like a red-hot branding iron, and could not help but slow down. Taking advantage of the opponent's absence, Muhadi stabbed the dagger into its left chest with force, and the steel bit into the shell.
This time, it seemed that it only angered the ant tribe. Aisha caught a glimpse of it from a distance and quickly reminded loudly, "Be careful, Muhadi!"
"The ants are like insects, their circulatory organs are in the back blood vessels! There is no heart in the chest!"
Muhadi cursed in a low voice in his native language, what kind of monsters are on this Attas, he drew out his machete, and fought with his opponent.
There was a tremor on the ground, and suddenly several floors in the middle of the stone hall were lifted, and more ants joined the fight.
Muscle Dad was caught off guard and stumbled and fell. Fortunately, he had countless battles in his life and was rich in experience. As soon as he fell to the ground, he immediately rolled over and turned to the side, just avoiding a few spears. The giant butcher was not so lucky. After losing his balance, he was hit in the head by a stone axe, and then another ant tribe mercilessly pierced his stomach with the spear in his hand.
"Damn!!!" Muscle Dad let out an inhuman roar, and the knife caused another ant tribe, with severed limbs and body fluids flying around in the small stone hall. But more reinforcements are still coming, and the dagger boy behind Muhadi has also been brought down by the ant tribe because of a momentary miss.
You must escape the siege immediately! Muhadi said to himself in his heart, while resisting the joint attack of the four ant tribes, he looked at the escape route.
There seemed to be no enemies in the front and back, but there were too many ants in the middle of the stone hall, and it was impossible to kill them in the back. As for the front, although there is no enemy shadow in sight, the psionic white noise in that direction is abnormally loud.
Muhadi deduced that this noise had something to do with the ant clan, and there must be many enemies hidden in front of it, but at the beginning, there seemed to be no white noise on both sides of the ant clan.
Fight, take a gamble. Teenager decides.
Muhadi showed his psionic power, condensed his will into a sharp sword, and hit the Ant Clan's mind unexpectedly. Taking advantage of his opponent's lack of attention, he moved forward and opened the two spears that were attacking from the left and right, and shot towards the passage on the right side of the stone hall like arrows.
It seems that the ants did not expect him to rush in this direction at all, and actually let him successfully rush to the passage.
The passage, as Mohadi had predicted, was empty, leading to further passages on either side, and into other passages.
A few ant tribes were provoked, and rushed towards the young man frantically, determined not to let him escape. Muhadi glanced back at the stone hall, and found that only Muscular Dad was still struggling, leaving behind a stump of ants. The others had already been dealt with, and Aisha's beautiful face was covered in blood and mucus, making Muhadi's heart aches.
The ants tied up the downed people, as if they were going to pack them up and transport them away. Muhadi knew there was no time to hesitate now, so he hardened his heart and fled into the dark passage.