Chapter 77 Generally speaking, the statues in the ruins are movable.
Facing the sword guard's hand to comfort him, Black Wind kept avoiding it. It looked behind the sword guard, and it seemed to see a natural enemy in its spiritual eyes. of panic.
"Tell me, is it because the Earl is gone that Heifeng is like this? If true, then this horse is really smart." The sword
guard stepped forward and wanted to hold Heifeng's reins, but Heifeng repeatedly Back away.
"You put your work aside first, and let's tie up the black wind together first... eh? Why is the wind blowing?" The sword guard was very dissatisfied when he couldn't hear his companion's answer. When he turned around, he found that he was halfway through the process. The camp was deserted.
A piece of firewood slowly rolled over and didn't stop until it hit his shin guard.
The sword guard seemed to notice something and suddenly turned his head.
Black Wind is also gone.
He faced a gust of wind that came from nowhere, drying up the cold sweat that rolled down his face.
The surroundings were silent, and the neighing of the fierce horses could no longer be heard.
Another gust of wind passed by and he disappeared.
.........
Geralt adjusted his condition for a while, raised his head and drank a bottle of magic potion. In an instant, a black meridian bulged under his eye sockets, and even the whites of his eyes turned black.
And his two amber cat eyes began to glow in the darkness. When they looked back, everyone felt as if they were being stared at by some kind of hunting beast, and their hair grew cold.
Several soldiers who were relatively close to Lan even wanted to raise their shields as a reflex, and their hands holding weapons tightened.
Geralt glanced around in the darkness and suddenly said: "Someone has been here."
What?
Lan En suddenly became nervous. Could there be some unexpected enemy?
Geralt reached for a torch and walked more than ten steps in the darkness. A man's skeleton was illuminated into everyone's sight.
The skeleton looked like firewood, weathered into disfigurement. A hoe was drilled through the gap between his ribs and buried in the soil beneath it.
Geralt stepped forward and tried to pull out the hoe with slight force. Unexpectedly, the spine of the skeleton broke into two sections with a "click".
"It's been at least fifty years." Geralt judged, "It must be a tomb robber. I don't know where I got the news about this magic laboratory, so I wanted to come here to try my luck." Lann relaxed slightly, not for a
moment Just the enemies you will encounter during the adventure. The biggest fear when exploring this kind of ruins is variables.
Geralt fumbled around on the other person for a while, and suddenly took out a necklace set with rubies; after a while, he took out a bunch of Orens.
Geralt threw an Oren towards Lan and said: "Oren is the currency of the Kingdom of Temeria. It seems that these tomb robbers ran far away."
Then he raised the necklace in his hand and signaled again. He flicked the hoe: "These tomb robbers must have indeed discovered something, and they tried to take something out. But they couldn't get out, and eventually there was internal strife." "Since they have gained something, I think we can try to follow these tomb robbers
. Try following the footsteps of the thieves. They must have been to the laboratory, and we can reach our destination by following them. Generally speaking, tomb robbers will not take away these notes and the like, as they think they are worthless. If the
laboratory If there's nothing you want in there, let's go look for more corpses of tomb robbers and search them."
Lann nodded and said, "You are the most professional here, I will listen to you. You can find fifty The footprints of tomb robbers from years ago?"
"You hired me to do this, didn't you?" Geralt didn't look back.
Then the witcher took a deep breath, and his eyes in the darkness seemed to shine even brighter. He turned his head slightly. In a place where outsiders like Lan and others couldn't see, the pheromones around him were gathering towards the demon hunter.
In the witcher mutation, witchers are given a special ability: witcher senses.
After turning on the senses of the witchers, their five senses can receive information that ordinary people cannot detect: the
smell that wolves cannot smell will become eye-catching guide signs in their eyes;
the ground washed by rain has something in their eyes. Gleaming footprints;
there seemed to be flashing reminders everywhere in the airtight and airtight room to indicate the exit for them.
These are special ways in which environmental information is presented under synaesthesia. Demon hunters with this sense are all natural detectives.
At this moment, Geralt saw dozens of marks of different shades on the floor, and hundreds of smells in the air penetrated Geralt's nose.
He compared this information one by one with the information he collected from the bones, and a luminous road that only he could see gradually appeared in front of him in the complex maze of underground ruins.
"Found it."
Geralt walked into the darkness first, followed by the others.
This underground ruins gradually showed its true appearance in the eyes of Lan En and others. This should be a huge palace, with long corridors and staircases connecting halls and secret rooms, like a maze, and full of obvious ancient elven style.
But in the darkness, the elegance and beauty that only belonged to the ancient elves disappeared. Empty footsteps echoed here, leaving only fear.
Everyone soon arrived at a place that seemed to be a prayer room. Geralt's glowing eyes glanced around the room, and suddenly he raised his hand and released an Igni seal.
The flames whose power had been deliberately controlled flickered gently in the darkness, and the people behind them could not even feel the change in temperature.
Rows of candles were ignited by the flames released by Geralt, illuminating the room; behind the candles was a statue of a woman, with a holy appearance and seemingly compassionate appearance. She might be some kind of god in elven faith.
Next to the female statue are two leopard statues, seemingly guarding something.
This room appears to be a prayer room.
The candles used for lighting were placed on a tall candlestick. Under the candlestick were boxes that had been violently pried open.
There are many skeletons on the side of the box.
This room seems to be more than just a prayer room.
Geralt stepped forward to check and said: "These boxes should be used to store treasures. It seems that a large-scale uneven distribution of spoils broke out here, and many tomb robbers died." Facing the corpses
of these tomb robbers, behind them The soldiers were ready to move. Lann glanced at them and tilted his head in agreement.
The soldiers bowed slightly to Lann gratefully, suppressed their excitement and went forward to search for these bones, and they all found good results.
Geralt took out the necklace from his arms, stepped forward to compare it with the statue of the unknown lady, and suddenly took a step forward and put the necklace around the neck of the statue.
The size and length are just right. It’s just that the statue that originally had a hint of holiness seems to have fallen into the world, contaminated by worldly treasures, and is no longer noble.
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