Chapter 800

Dwarves are generally fond of liquor and tobacco. They also like to smash the chopping board with a hammer. Mining and digging pits are the innate ability of every dwarf. This can be seen from their short and strong body characteristics.

The Silver Eagle Scout has only five dwarves, but they are stronger and more powerful than ordinary dwarves, and they naturally know where the catacombs are and where to start. The five dwarves waved sharp and heavy pickaxes in turn and soon dug more than a dozen ventilation holes connecting the underground tombs. Then, yudrite, the Dragon hunter, chose a position and planed casually against the rubble. Sparks splashed, the stones broke and rolled, revealing a dark hole, and a smell of corruption filled out from inside.

Eglo Grey beard had explained in advance that there was a tomb under the ruins. When the entrance of the tomb appeared, Victor and the Elven soldiers frowned one after another.

Elves instinctively hate the narrow cave environment, especially those who have mastered the popular talent. They prefer the open area with active wind elements. Victor is no exception. Rocks block the flow of wind elements. He had not perceived that there was still a space under the ruins before.

Thick - skinned dwarves don't care about the complex emotions of their Elven companions, igloo Ash beard stopped several dwarf brothers who picked up dead vines and shouted to victor and others: "Hey, if one of you sends a burst of fresh air in, we don't have to burn a fire."

Olawi Yuege whispered, "of course it's OK to send air for air, but I don't want to get into the grave."

Vick multi-path went straight forward, called for the wind element, let the cold fresh air flow into the cave, squeeze the dirty gas in the cave out of the vent hole just dug by the dwarf, and use the wind element to sense the environment of the tomb * *.

The underground space is much larger than expected, almost ten times the area of the ruins. Victor controlled the wind element for a long time before changing the air inside. Even the dwarf's eyes are full of worship and surprise.

The dwarves thought that if olawi injected air into it, the guy would have been lying on the ground pretending to be a dead dog.

Victor stopped the surge of the wind element and turned back to ELUS Yuege said, "there is no sign of monster activity in it. It seems to be a normal tomb."

Yiruth keenly grasped the subtle information in the Nightingale's words. She first looked at the half body strange, then turned to victor and asked suspiciously, "I don't feel any danger inside... What do you mean by 'no sign of monster activity'?"

"Qiqi also didn't feel the danger inside." The halfling adventurer raised his round face and said.

Iris Yuege belongs to the top strongman of the golden stage. Her dangerous intuition is not applicable to other Silver Eagle scouts, but Qiqi, a halfling, said that if there is no danger, everyone will be relatively safe.

Victor nodded and said in a flat tone: "the wild intuition of violent creatures is invalid for dormant undead creatures. I saw with my own eyes that the violent soldiers and fierce war animals of the human exploration team were raided by undead creatures... There are no signs of monster activity below, which does not mean that there is no sudden dangerous situation."

"Thank you for your reminder, Lord nightingale." Yiruth thanked Victor sincerely, and then chose three dwarves, a wind dance war, two war dancers, and the halfling Qiqi to go down with her. Agnes Fengge leads other scouts to guard around the ruins.

Victor certainly won't stay on it. He just hates the cave environment, even if there are few enemies who can really threaten him in the cave. Moreover, the wind elements inside and outside the tomb have blended with each other, providing a path for empty walking. Even if the cave suddenly collapses, don't want to trap him underground.

In fact, he doesn't have to worry about the danger of cave collapse. Just as fierce soldiers can foretell the danger, the dwarves are naturally keen on the rock structure and know where, when and how to solve the problem of cave collapse. Therefore, the dwarf stonemason's construction talent is unparalleled in the world. He can build wonders on cliffs, or transform a mountain into a dwarf fortress.

Udric the Dragon hunter was the first to get into the tomb, followed by his dwarf brother and the prophet igloo. The elf warrior and the halfling Qiqi followed the dwarf guard, and Victor fell at the end of the line.

There was darkness in the tomb, and only a little light leaked from the vent. With his dark vision talent, Victor can roughly see the terrain of the tomb * *, and details such as color are difficult to distinguish. On the contrary, the dwarves with dark vision are not affected by the dark environment, but they take out some stone like objects from their waist and rub them repeatedly with their rough palms. The stones gradually bloom golden light, expelling the darkness like torches and illuminating some areas.

The dwarf prophet explained to Victor holding the glowing stone: "This is not a low-grade product like fluorspar... Oh, you see how dazzling and bright their light is, just like the sun. So we dwarves call it the sun diamond. Although it is usually inconspicuous, it can absorb the sun by placing it under the sun tree. The longer it is put, the more powerful it will be. If it is put for half a year, it can continue to illuminate the sun for a day... Such a high-grade sun Treasure diamond, Silver Eagle City doesn't have many pieces. "

"Qiqi stole it from the treasure house of Silver Eagle City." The halfling adventurer hiding behind Victor raised his head and said happily.

Eglo ignored the little thief who took the opportunity to sell his work and said, "lighting in the dark cave is not a good idea. Dwarves don't need lighting, but long eared elves need..."

"Shut up!" Yiruth whispered at the chatty dwarf, slapped him in front and ordered: "the dwarf guard walks in front. The elf soldiers pay attention to the movement around. Let's explore the whole tomb first, make sure there are no monsters, and then carefully investigate the clues... Be careful and start."

The dwarf guard in heavy armor put the sun diamond in the groove of his helmet and opened the way in front with a shield and iron rod. They have the task of attracting monsters. The heavy breathing sound and the clanging sound of armor collision are particularly harsh in a dead tomb. Elven warriors and halfling adventurers with bows and arrows followed the dwarves quietly, like silent ghosts. They rely on the blind sense talent to determine the position and distance of their teammates. Once the heavy dwarf guard who leads the way is attacked, they will immediately use bows and arrows to support, and there will be no chaos.

The four races of the elf Empire live together. According to different racial talents, they form efficient and complementary tactical cooperation methods, which can cope with different environments. In the current situation, the heavy armor dwarf guards act as meat shield bait, and the light armor elf soldiers provide cover in the dark.

However, the three dwarfs with light on their heads are eye-catching enough, that is, they look a little funny, like walking candles.

Thanks to the lighting of the "big candle", the details of the tomb * * are clearly displayed. The tomb is well preserved. It is about 2.5 meters high from the top to the ground. It is built with low walls of stones to form a corridor, like a maze. Probably because it was built on the mountain, the tomb * * is still dry, and there is no ponding and silt on the ground. But it is strange that the closed and dry tomb * * Department can not see the iconic sculptures, murals, decorations and funerary objects.

It's not like a grave, it's more like a basement.

The team walked along the low wall corridor and found no valuable items. To be exact, there was no trace of human activities except the stone low wall. Victor was even more puzzled. The scale of this tomb was not small. It took a lot of labor to build a low wall corridor alone. According to the truth, azolta craftsmen always eat, drink and Lazar when building tombs, which will inevitably leave traces of life in the * * part of the tomb, such as containers for food and water, damaged tool parts... Even if Assyrian craftsmen clean up their items, the tomb is so well closed that there will always be some metabolites such as grain particles, hair and feces.

However, Victor didn't see these small things. Therefore, the clean tomb shows an unusual strangeness.

The lively halflings and chatty dwarfs would stop talking, and the repressive atmosphere gradually spread in the team. Until the dwarf took everyone into the core area of the tomb, the narrow space suddenly opened, and an empty hall appeared in front of everyone.

There are still no statues, stone slabs or funerary objects in the hall, but there is a square pool built of stones in the center of the hall, with a side length of about 8 meters. In the middle of the pool is a stone platform, on which lies a faint human object.

The Silver Eagle Scout carefully explored every corner of the hall. After confirming that there was no abnormality, the dwarf dragon Hunter udrit came forward alone to check the pool. He turned around, exhaled and said: "Oh, I can't speak just now. I'm suffocating... Come and see, there's a dead man... Er, dead monster, who cares. It's not an elf, dwarf or halfling anyway... It's definitely not a four hoofed halfman."

Eglo rushed forward, looked at the pool, ha smiled and shouted excitedly, "black mud... There is black mud in the pool. My divination interpretation is accurate!"

The grey bearded dwarf was beaming. He divined in the forest to predict factors such as pits, black mud and ants. Now the black mud in the tomb greatly encouraged his confidence and gave the Silver Eagle scouts confidence.

Victor used his old enemy's talent to peep into the whole process of the dwarf prophet's divination. He was too lazy to pretend that he didn't know anything and just focused on the stone platform.

This is a stone platform made of black glazed rock. It is 1.6m high, 2.2m wide and 2.9m long. Under the illumination of the sun drill, it reflects deep and faint light, and looks solid and heavy. Victor visually measured that this black glazed rock platform weighs 14 tons, but it is not the product of the nearby mountains, but it was brought in from the outside. Its side seal has strange characters, which are different from the common characters of elves and humans Victor didn't know them. The bottom and base of the stone platform are smooth and flat, in sharp contrast to the rough style of the upper part. This smooth bottom is obviously to facilitate the movement of the stone platform.

On the stone platform lay a dry body, as if it had been sleeping in a tomb for hundreds of years. Its shape and size were similar to that of human beings, but there was a thin layer of withered scales on its neck and palm, and two sharp teeth protruded from its withered lips, which was exactly the same as the Assyrians described in the notes of trigowar's ancestors - it was like human beings, with vertical pupils in its eyes and a hole in its mouth Empty long teeth, a few people's necks and limbs grow small scales.

No matter the soldiers of the spirit empire or the civilians of the human kingdom will be afraid of dead bodies. In this world with monsters, although Assyrians are a kind of wisdom we have never seen before, the people present will not make a fuss. But it is strange that this corpse is wearing colorful fabrics and colorful feather crowns. The modeling style of the dress is mysterious and self-confident However, compared with the trace of primitive worship, the mummy seems to have died for hundreds of years. They are well preserved, just like a product decades ago.

If the corpse has gone through the process of decay to dryness, its clothes will always have traces of contamination by body fluid, but they are very clean, clean enough to violate common sense. It's like someone changed clothes for hundreds of mummies.

So, in this sealed tomb, how did the people who came to change clothes get out?

"I think a ghost is hiding in a corner of the hall to peep at us. It is the slave of the tomb master. When we move the body, the ghost slave will appear." The halfling Qiqi began to weave his adventure story again and chattered with his dwarf companions.

"Eglo, what do you say we should do now?" ELUS asked the dwarf prophet.

The grey bearded dwarf was studying the words on the side of the stone platform and said without looking back: "Don't touch the things here for the time being. Let me have a look first... These words are like a variant of the ancient words of the Empire. It will take me a long time to translate them... Also, its clothes are a little strange. It looks like something 20 years ago, but this tomb has been excavated for more than 1000 years."

Victor's heart moved and asked, "how do you know this is a tomb more than 1000 years ago?"

"I just know... Dwarf masons know. I'm the magical eglo prophet." The grey bearded dwarf replied triumphantly.

When it comes to the blood talent of the dwarf's son of the hills, Victor doesn't need to ask the truth, nods and says: "This corpse should be a famous azoltan nobleman. His blood has been drained. He also took some medicine to keep his body dry and not rotten. His clothes, especially his feather crown, have not been more than 30 years. That is to say, this azoltan nobleman entered this tomb that has been gone for more than 1000 years in 30 years, lay on the stone platform and drained his blood... He committed suicide. To be exact, he looks like A sacrifice. "

The dwarf prophet gaped and asked, "how do you know?"

"I just know." Victor smiled. The perception of the wind element was more subtle than the autopsy of the corpse. He not only "saw" the bleeding wounds of the azolta nobles, but also analyzed the age of the corpse, clothes, feathers and crowns.

Ilus Yuege couldn't help asking, "more than 20 years ago, an azolta nobleman ran into the tomb opened more than 1000 years ago and sacrificed himself... However, the entrance of the tomb was well sealed. Who opened the door for it?"

"Good question." Victor nodded in appreciation and said, "if you ask how the sacrifice came in, I can answer now... There is a hole under the stone platform, and I can feel the wind element inside."

Yudrite, the Dragon hunting dwarf, was afraid of a trap on the stone platform. Before grey beard took action, he jumped over the black mud pool and fell on the base of the stone platform. He stamped his feet and felt it for a while. He said loudly, "there is really a stone hole below... The hole is more than ten meters down vertically before it comes across. There is a long and large stone tunnel below."

"Black mud... Tunnel?"

Another dwarf guard remembered something, slapped the shoulder armor of eglo, and exclaimed, "the moon god is up and the hill is down. Brother eglo, you were really right last time!"

According to Ruth's eyes, she said in a deep voice, "push away the stone platform and have a look."

"OK, look at me!" The Dragon Hunter youdelite found a foothold suitable for strength, held the stone platform, took a deep breath, and the muscles on his arm expanded and bulged. He pushed the black glazed rock platform weighing more than ten tons away, revealing a dark deep hole below, and an air stream with fishy astringency gushed out of it.

Victor, ELUS and the dwarf prophet all jumped on the base and observed the deep hole with the help of the light of the sun diamond.

"This hillside tunnel has built a set of ventilation system by using the cracks in the mountain wall... Tut Tut, the azolta people are going to catch up with us dwarves in digging tunnels." Udric smacked his lips.

"No... look at the stone wall of the pit. There is no trace of digging with an iron pick tool... It's a claw mark?"

Eglo and udritte lay on the cave, pointed to the obvious claw marks on the stone wall of the tunnel, and said in disbelief: "the azoltas dig the tunnel with their hands, and the stones are as soft as mud in their hands... How can this be possible? How can the azoltas be better at digging stones than dwarves?"

Yiruth ignored the two dwarf masons with inner pain, thought for a moment, shook her head and said, "it's not the masterpiece of the azolta people. At least this hillside tunnel was not dug by the azolta people, but an ant monster."

Then she raised her head and explained to Victor: "Ant man monsters are the old enemies of the ancient Yalta people. After the demise of the azolta Empire, they attacked the forest Centaur territory in the Far East. Silver Eagle City has cooperated with the forest Centaur to deal with the threat of ant man for more than 1000 years. It is said that ant man monsters are better at digging holes than dwarves. They can secrete a kind of mucus to soften hard rocks."

She paused and added: "however, these are the documents of Silver Eagle City... My subordinates and I have not participated in the war to eliminate ant man. According to the veterans of Silver Eagle City guard, they have not seen ant man monsters dig holes. Silver Eagle City guard generally suspects that ant man can dig holes... Now it seems that the rumor is true."

The last war between forest centaurs and ant invaders should have been more than 30 years ago. The young general Yuege and most of her subordinates have not been born yet.

Victor nodded and tried to say, "maybe two different ant man monsters, like soldier ants and worker ants."

According to the account of the alchemist of the secret society, there is only one kind of template for alchemical ant man, but it is divided into flammable old ant man and non flammable ant man. The reason why ant people don't dig holes is that all the ant people who fight with forest centaurs are dying old ant people, and the queen of ant people deliberately consumes them.

Eluse, who didn't know the truth, shook her ears to show that she didn't care. Eglo Grey beard became happy. He and yodrite jumped back to the open space, held each other's arms with another dwarf, danced the dwarf's kick dance, and shouted, "black mud, tunnel, ant... Grey beard's divination is correct; black mud, tunnel, ant... Grey beard's divination is very accurate."

The halfling Qiqi occupied the previous position of the dwarf and said in a clear voice: "Thirty years ago, an azolta nobleman entered the azolta tomb more than 1000 years ago through a tunnel dug by his old enemy ant man, and then lay on the stone platform and killed himself... This story is very strange. Well, I think what's more strange is that this vertical tunnel is not easy to use. How could the suicidal azolta push away such a heavy stone platform from below."

Olavi Yuege jumped over and said, "Qiqi, do you want to say that there are ghosts in this tomb, which helped the azoltan nobles push away the stone platform?"

Qiqi nodded repeatedly, and his bright eyes scanned around to find the ghost hidden in the tomb.

In fact, ghosts are very weak and have no power to change reality. They can only affect the mind of creatures. Ghosts with a short existence time can't do this, and Silver Eagle scouts are not afraid of ghosts. The moonlight Leaf Charm they carry has the blessing effect of expelling ghosts.

Without the ghost factor, the azolta nobles climbed into the tomb from the mountainside tunnel to form an unsolved mystery. Olawi stared at the rotten black mud in the pool and said, "I guess it has something to do with these black mud."

"Fools think of the black mud." Eglo stopped singing and dancing and said confidently, "don't guess. Let the magical eglo prophet know divination once, and you can figure out any problems."

Later divination?

Victor expressed his doubts with his eyes. Olavi Yuege explained in a low voice: "hindsight divination is a required course for dwarf prophets. Only by learning hindsight divination can he learn predictive divination. Just like dwarf blacksmiths have to hone their blacksmithing skills, but they are still natural miners... Eglo's predictive divination has not been recognized by his mentor, and his hindsight divination is still very accurate."

Gray beard, who was preparing the ritual instruments, raised his head and shouted, "Hey, I heard the long ears of bad words... The magical prophet eglo accurately divined black mud, tunnels and ants. My mentor will give me a prophet robe."

Olawi bowed and apologized to the angry dwarf prophet. Victor interrupted with interest, "what is the principle of divination?"

Eglo's expression became serious and solemn, and said with a little pride: "you came, the hill saw; you left, the hill was still there; he recorded silently, the hill was gone, the stone was still there; the stone was gone, the soil was still there; the soil was gone, the dust was still there, and the hill explained his record to the dwarf prophet."

With that, the dwarf prophet buried his head in preparing ceremonial supplies. Victor was a little silent and whispered, "what's the price?"

"... gray beard becomes white beard." Ilus Yuege responded softly, looked at the busy dwarf and murmured with a complex look: "but the dwarf prophets are proud of their white beard."