Chapter 1685 Qiubao and Qiu Tower
Tyson really set off the airship at four o'clock in the morning that night. The area they still had to search was relatively large. Zhuyan Town was just their temporary supply. Collision Since there is no gain in luck, there is no need to waste time and start early.
At dawn, two giant airships towed three hot air balloons flying at a very slow speed in a very low airspace. The observers were searching for all suspicious places with telescopes. Tyson hopes to see something from the surface that matches the characteristics of the Phoenician Kingdom. It would be bad if it was buried underground like the tomb of Princess Green Algae in Blood Rock. However, things must be done step by step. It is necessary to search the entire area designated by Ruola first.
During the period, they discovered some ruins of ancient ruins and also saw some dilapidated villages. These villages may be temporary strongholds left by sand pirates.
On this day, their airship flew to a hilly area in the vast desert. Tyson gestured at the map and said: "We are now returning to the Qiu Island area. The terrain here is complicated. We may be able to Go down and have a look.”
"Qiudao, do you mean the continuous bare hills below?" Tusi Xiong looked out the window with a telescope. The yellow sand was rolling and dim in the distance, but he could still see the undulating mounds on the horizon.
Qiu Ya said: "Yes. I have been near Qiu Island before, but never here. I heard that people in the desert in this area call these undulating hills the islands in the desert ocean. So it’s called Qiu Island.”
“Hey, there’s a castle marked on the map.” Ruola pointed to the mark of a castle on the map: “Is it called ‘Qiu Castle’?” My eyesight is a bit bad and the words are too small to read clearly.
“Wait, let me take a look.” Tyson took out a small notebook that he carried with him, searched inside, and compared it with the map: “Yes, it’s called Qiu Bao. It’s a castle that’s been there for who knows how many years. According to the information collected, this castle is often used as a temporary cornering point for sand pirates to avoid being hunted. It is far away from the edge of the desert, and few people come here. Oh, it also said that there are many ancient ruins near Qiu Island, especially there are many grottoes. Well, it is a place to go directly." br>
Everyone soon saw the castle, which was located on a higher hill among the mountains. The appearance of the castle is very dilapidated, but it is quite large and thick, and it still maintains its original outline.
"Let's land here." Tyson ordered two airships and three hot air balloons to land on a nearby mountain and moor them, leaving some people to guard them while the others headed for the castle.
The hills here are not high, and the highest one is only about three or four hundred meters above the ground. The mountains are gentle, and most of them are connected to each other. In addition, there are no trees, so you can see the surrounding mountains at a glance.
Everyone came to the foot of the hill fort and found that there was a short tower standing on another hill directly opposite the hill fort. Because the color of the tower was the same as the color of the sand, they did not see it when the airship came down. .
Several sand demons gathered together in front of the castle, moving slowly like cold and unconscious puppets.
“Let’s go in and have a look.”
They wanted to see all the ancient monuments with their own eyes. Unfortunately, the inside of the castle was also very dilapidated. The ground was covered with gray carbon and bricks that had accumulated for countless years. There were some badly rusted weapons and iron pots in the corners of the walls. There were also a few pieces of dried and crusted feces, which looked like someone had been here not long ago. But there are more traces buried by time.
It is difficult to see any cultural characteristics in this abandoned castle. The walls are covered with graffiti carved with swords and paint by later generations. The copper lamps embedded in the walls have also been knocked out, leaving only One got it.
There are many rooms in the castle. Everyone spent more than an hour walking around in a circle. Basically, what they saw was a mess. Even some of the secret rooms in the castle were opened and the mechanisms were all destroyed. Invalid or destroyed. Ruola carefully observed the damaged ancient stone carvings on the wall, trying to discern something from them, but accidentally slipped, stepped on something and almost fell.
She stood up holding on to the wall, and people in the nearby room heard her voice and rushed over.
“What’s wrong, sister Ruola?” Fuzi supported Ruola and looked at her with concern to see if she was injured.
Ruola picked up the thing she stepped on, and it turned out to be a ring.
"Mellon Ring, I had one of these before." The flat-nosed mage of the White Skeleton Mercenary Group said when he saw the ring.
Tyson came over with Jin and his guards. Jin took the ring and took a look at it: "There are some traces of oxidation and rust on the ring. It has not been left for a long time. The Mellon ring is a standard equipment mass-produced by a country five hundred years ago. It is not that long ago. The monuments here have nothing to do with them. They should have been left here by people from the past." She threw the ring back to Ruola.
Tanbi said: "The magic power of this ring is very good, and it also has a certain magic reserve capacity. It is very suitable for magic beginners like you and Fuzzy."
Fuzi He shouted: "I am not a beginner in magic, I am the Great Demon King..."
Everyone is used to him being like this, and no one listens to his nonsense. Ruola didn't pay attention to the ring, but she made a new discovery on the base of the wall. When she was picking up the ring just now, she found that someone had carved a simple pattern on the base of the wall with a sharp weapon such as a dagger or a dagger. Such graffiti graphics are everywhere in the castle. Some are layer by layer, and I don’t know what they were painted on. However, this one still retains a relatively complete style because it is at the root of the wall.
Ruo La held her head against the wall and looked at the picture upside down. The crooked lines allowed her to roughly see what it was: "Angels and demons?"< br>
"What?" Everyone didn't hear clearly for a while and all looked at the simple picture.
Ruola was suspicious and said to himself: "Angels and demons are symbols of Bemut culture. How can they appear here? It's really strange."
Jennifer felt confused. She looked left and right at the picture but couldn't tell it had anything to do with angels and demons: "This is just something randomly carved by a child. It doesn't look like an angel or a devil."
Ruola shook her head in denial. Others couldn't see it, but this figure was extremely familiar to her. It is true that the person who drew this simple diagram was very poor in skills and the drawing was nondescript. It was probably carved by some sand pirate when he was bored. However, the overall line segment distribution of the figure is consistent with the Bemut culture she has studied for a long time. The patterns of various angels and demons matched each other, so she felt they looked familiar after just one glance, and she immediately identified them.
But here comes the problem. How come people who come here, whether they are taking shelter from winds and sandstorms or taking a temporary rest, leave such a pattern behind? Throughout history, there have been cultures that have inherited the graphics of angels and demons, and there may also have been scattered gold coins of Bemut, that is, coins of angels and demons. Did someone happen to have the same gold coin as hers and copied it, or was there originally traces of Bemut culture in this castle and was copied crudely?
Ruola doesn’t know or understand, there are many possibilities here. Perhaps the owner of this castle also had a hobby of collecting cultural relics during his lifetime, or it is possible that the site here is the site of the Bemut culture, although this castle was definitely not built during the Bemut period.
It is rumored that the Bemut culture was annihilated overnight, leaving only a desert and wasteland. But no one knows the specific location of this very ancient culture. She knew that most of the ancient legends were exaggerated. The so-called overnight might not mean overnight, but a short period of time.
There are too many possibilities here, but the sudden appearance of angels and devils still gave Ruola a sudden thought.
“Let’s go.”
Without any more discoveries, everyone took Ruola back to the main hall on the first floor of the castle. I checked around again and found nothing, so I went out.
After leaving the castle, everyone ran to the hill opposite to look at the khaki short tower.
The tower is not high, only about ten meters high, but there are many densely packed layers outside the tower, and there are many small doors on each layer. This dense and fragmented appearance makes people feel dizzy. Hemp, like a big beehive growing on the ground. The tower is solid. I don’t know what it is used for. It is damaged in some places, but it is still very strong. There are signs of weathering, but it is not very obvious. It should be related to the material. The tower looks earthy on the outside, but it is not actually made of mud. I don’t know what material it is. The alligator hit him hard with his fist a few times.
Cannabis Ban jumped onto the tower with a magic stone gun on his back and kicked it twice, wondering: "What on earth is this thing used for? It's like poop flowing straight through a weight. It's yellow and looks disgusting."
< br>Everyone frowned, and Jennifer said dissatisfied: "Hey, you can't be more polite. You obviously feel uncomfortable when you see this thing. "I'm very uncomfortable."
Handpatch scratched his head and smiled with his big yellow teeth, and said while holding Fuzi: "Miss Ruola, and Her Royal Highness, let's go eat, we are hungry."< br>
Everyone was speechless. They just talked about shit and then talked about eating. Does this person know how disgusting he is?
It was getting late, so everyone decided to rest for the night and continue exploring the surroundings tomorrow.
A peaceful night passed. After breakfast the next day, we started exploring the Qiu Island area. The area around Desert Hill Island is not particularly large, so there is no need for an airship, and it only takes one or two days to complete the search on foot, or at most three days. There are many sand demons wandering in this area. This kind of ignorant and emotionless creature can often be seen in the desert. Sometimes when traveling on foot, a sudden gust of wind blows, and it gathers sand and takes shape next to it.
However, there are relatively few elemental beasts of this kind formed from sand in the purely endless desert areas. They are mostly found in areas where desert and soil overlap. Some people say that it is precisely because of these sand demons that the desertification of the land has become more serious.
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(End of this chapter)