Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 34 Discovery

Borkal and Eriksson happily followed Welikro to hunt. For them, the biggest goal of this Egret adventure was to get a few good prey.

Because Welikro said that because of the horrible legends and rumors of Egret, and few people are willing to collect and hunt, there are many prey on Egret, which is easier to harvest than to go hunting in the mountains. The main reason why Welikro's father brought him here during the winter holiday.

The mountain deer that was hunted last night has proved that Welikro is not a lie. In the mountains, I want to hunt a mountain deer. Just looking for the trace of the mountain deer group, the hunter has to run off the leg, not to spend It’s impossible to have a result in a ten-and-a-half-month period. It’s so easy to hunt a mountain deer in the creek.

This time Borkal and Eriksson are full of dreams of making a fortune, looking forward to a good harvest in the afternoon hunting. In addition, they are also ready to collect, even if they do not hit the prey, as long as they find a few rare herbs, they can get a good price when they get the pharmacy in the town.

Looking at the partners leaving, Claude is also ready to go to the ruins of this magic tower, even if he is eager to go to the underground layer to search for the things left by the Master Landers, but he can still calmly restrain himself. The impulse, at least, to investigate the entire environment around, so as not to accidentally change accidents when you get something.

Speaking of this is also the sequela of past online novels. Anyway, the protagonist in each novel always has various accidents when searching for treasures. It is not the enemy who suddenly jumps out and what is happening, which leads to the protagonist. Chickens fly eggs, they have to go through the test of life and death to escape. So many online novels, transmigrator has not seen a protagonist can smoothly and peacefully, what happened unexpectedly did not happen to get treasures…

Well, you must learn the lesson. Although the things left by the Master Landers are not treasures, Claude does not want any accidents. Therefore, you must first search the entire magic tower site to prevent any possibility. The threat that arises.

It was only Claude who spent one hours carefully searching the entire magic Tower site, and did not find anything unusual, except for insects such as spider ants, in addition to the whining sound of the walls of the broken, which skimmed the site. Occasionally there are a few seagulls and what seabirds stop in the distant gravel heap lightly pecking what, feel very quiet and peaceful.

Far from the roar of a rifle, I don’t know if Welikro had hit any prey. However, at this time Claude is arranging a torch. There are several dry pine branches in the firewood. This is a good choice for making a torch. Wrap a broken rope and then ignite the oil. Under the ground layer, it will not be illuminated. .

Claude has found the three underground entrances that Welikro calls, the front, middle and back of the magic tower ruins. The entrance to the middle is the largest, and the entrance to the back is close to the cliffs of the sea, and the front entrance is on the outer edge of the site.

The most likely is the middle and back entrances, Claude thinks so. Because the diary says that the small room near the stone ladder is the place where Master Landers lived. It can be seen from this sentence that as a four-ring rune mage, Landers is in the magic tower. The status is not high, perhaps equivalent to those apprentices or slaves, otherwise he is unlikely to live on the ground floor.

Just like those nobility families, the owner will not live in the underground room. Only hired servants, such as cleaning women, will live in the underground room. If the senior servant is like a butler, the chef and the close-up maid will accompany them, and they will not live in the underground room, but in the room next to the kitchen, restaurant, and warehouse.

With this in mind, the ground floor, which can be a resident, is obviously not the one in front, because no one will arrange the entrance of the underground room where the servant lives in the house next to the door of the house. The simplest reason is like When the family came in from the gate, they saw the servants coming in and out at the entrance to the underground room at the gate. It was very unsightly and polite.

So Crowder thinks that the two entrances in the middle and the back are what he is looking for. As usual, the entrance to the back is very close to the cliff. If the ground layer is the residence of the mage, it is very likely that it is in the sea. There are several windows on the cliff, so that you can ventilate and you can see the view of the sea. Although the status is equal to the servant who only lives on the ground floor, the lower mage is a mage after all. Claude believes that this favor is that the Rands Master should be there…

It is a pity that the cliffs in the sea have protruded outwards. Even if Claude is on the edge of the cliff, he can't see whether the cliff below has a window. It is impossible for him to see if there is a window on the cliff to make a big circle. . What's more, hundreds of years have passed. Although the cliffs on the sea have been hit by the wind and rain, there are still many places where dense vines and low trees are grown. Claude suspects that even if there are windows, they are also covered by vines. Cover up…

However, Claude still regards the entrance on the edge of the coastal cliff as the first search target. Anyway, he does not need to search the entire underground layer. It is only necessary to check whether there is a bluestone at the bottom of the lower stone ladder. It is. If there is no behind the stone ladder at the back entrance, look for the back of the entrance to the stone ladder.

The torch has been tied six, which is estimated to be enough. Just standing on the entrance of the ground floor, Claude found that the underground layer of the magic tower could not be simply regarded as the underground room, because there is no underground room with a height of five or six meters, which is almost an underground cave. It’s almost the same.

In addition, there is the stone ladder going downstairs. The stairs in the general housing will be folded down to save the space occupied by the stairs. The stone ladders on the ground under the three entrances are all straight down, and the light of the entrance only shines on a small part of the stone ladder. Claude stood looking down at the entrance, black and faint, no light, and smelled like a smelly ditch.

Welikro said that the ground layer was all mud, one or two feet deep, which his father told him. He didn't want to lie to him, and there was nothing to lie to. Claude suspects that this should be dust accumulated for hundreds of years, and the melting of snow and ice in the winter and the rainwater flowing in the entrance make the dust become mud, and it is likely to block the sewage outlet below, which makes the sludge below. The more…

Claude is also worried about whether the mud below will produce biogas, after a few hundred years. Although he only smelled the smell of a stinking ditch, he ordered a torch to throw it into the mouth and tried it for the sake of insurance. He found that nothing happened. When I came to the entrance, the torch was still burning underneath, but the flame was very small, which probably fell into the mud.

I checked the equipment, the hunting knife, the small shovel, the short dagger inserted in the hiking boots, and the short shackles of the fire rope. After confirming that there was no omission, Claude was ready to put the rope ladder.

That's right, it's the rope ladder. Claude doesn't want to go down the stone ladder, and then walks one or two feet deep of mud around the stone ladder, which is a waste of time, and Claude has no interest in the mud below. . The accumulated mud that has been accumulated for hundreds of years, who knows what kind of germs are there, is what you find when you go back and get some strange skin diseases.

Claude calculated that the first stone step is 13 centimeters high, 30 centimeters wide but less than forty centimeters, and the height of the underground layer is estimated to be five to six meters. More than forty steps, the total length is about 13 meters, so going down the stone steps and going back more than ten meters, holding the mud behind the stone ladder, it is too much trouble.

Therefore, Claude decided to go straight from the top of the stone ladder to the back of the stone ladder. The entrance was lowered and the rope ladder was placed. Anyway, there was no railing next to the stone ladder, which was bare. Then go down the rope ladder for a maximum of four or five meters, and then it is estimated that the distance behind the stone ladder is two or three meters, which is much more convenient than going back from the stone ladder.

The rope ladder was also compiled by Claude when the torch was tied. The rope is for the purpose of taking the climbing rope brought in, just 20 meters long, and the rope ladder is enough. The crosspiece of the ladder is taken from the site, and the harder the tougher the firewood is. Claude tried to support his body weight. As for the braided ladder, it is even simpler. The rope is tied at 30 centimeters, and the end of the firewood is put into the bundle. It does not need to be strong, and it will be used temporarily.

Just before going down, Claude went to cut some bush branches and tied them into a bundle and threw them down. In this way, there was a place to go, instead of stepping into the sludge. After spending more than half an hour, Claude dropped four bundles of shrubs and felt almost the same. Then he picked up the torch and climbed down the rope ladder.

In the end, Claude raised the torch to illuminate the surroundings, and the surroundings were very dark. This space should be large. Underneath is a bundle of shrub branches, and there are three bundles next to it. The mud underneath is very moist, but there is no way to cross the sewage.

The good news is that the distance of less than one meter in front is the corner of the stone ladder, and the corner is the back of the stone ladder. The bad news is that Claude has found that the depth of the mud has exceeded two feet. The diary said that the bluestone slab is at the bottom of the back of the stone ladder, which means that Claude needs to dig the mud first to know if there is any Block bluestone…

Don't say anything, let's work hard. Claude first moved a bundle of shrub branches to the front, so that they reached the corner of the stone ladder, and then threw a bundle to the back of the stone ladder. Another bundle of shrub branches was thrown far away, one meter away from the back of the stone ladder. Distance, then bring the torches brought over to the two, check the bundle of shrubs to ensure that there is enough light.

It is a pity that the back of the stone ladder looks like a huge gray rock. There is no gap, and there is no way to insert the torch. But there is also a good thing. If there is a bluestone plate underneath, then you can see it at a glance.

The mud is stinky, which is inevitable. Claude threw the mud away with a small shovel and soon the bottom of the stone ladder was exposed. Even though the bottom of the mud appears to be a piece of dark black because of the deposition of the mud, it is obvious that the bottom piece reveals a rectangular outline.

The Master Landers didn’t lie…Claude's heart was so excited that she didn't expect it. The underground entrance to the cliffs near the sea was really the residence of the lower mage.

Use a small shovel to carefully scrape the silt on the stone wall and push it with your hand. The outline of this rectangular shape is a little shaken, but it is not pushed.

Claude thinks carefully about what that is said in the diary, yes, push hard. It’s just that Claude is kneeling on the branches of the bushes, and the left hand is still holding the root torch. It’s not right to use the right hand, just use your feet to squat.

The shape of this rectangular shape is really the bluestone plate, and it is tilted up with a foot. With a handful of slaps, the bluestone slab was picked up, revealing a square-shaped hole like a drawer.

Use a torch to look inside, inside is a white jade-like scorpion, which looks like a length of thirty centimeters, a height of ten centimeters, a feeling of weight.

Claude looked at the side and prepared to find a place to insert the torch. It is obvious that one hand to get the jade scorpion may still be unable to move.

It was just at this moment that Claude suddenly heard a "beep" sound, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer. When he looked up, he couldn’t help but be shocked, but he saw a bloody mouth rushing toward himself…