Steel steam and flame

Even though it is a withered skeleton, it still seems to have substantial eyes, staring at something long and deeply in the silent air.

"Dragon!" Cassia muttered to herself, then subconsciously looked away and looked around.

The place where it fell was a natural shaft, about twenty or thirty meters high. The hard stone wall was covered with spots of light yellow moss that was not fresh, emitting a very weak light green fluorescence. Some tree roots broke through the rock, revealing a thin patch of aerial roots. As expected, the place was still infected by those "germs".

The bottom of the shaft seemed a bit spacious, with two stone steps, and Cassia saw the traces of manual digging on it. He landed on the top level of the stone steps. The bottom was occupied by an underground river. The water was flowing very fast, but the sound of the water did not echo around him. This should not be a closed space, Cassia immediately judged.

"I seem to have arrived at a surprising place." The beam of the bright flashlight hit the huge dragon skull again, and Cassia wanted to determine whether there were any strange characters or symbols on it. But it seemed to be just an unrelated skull, lying there alone. There was even a thin layer of dust accumulated on it, but there was no moss to climb on it.

Only then did he look at his feet. The bones of his left leg had pierced the skin and were completely exposed to the air. The weight completely had the opposite effect at this time. Their texture was harder than steel, so it was not easy to break. All the impact force was absorbed bluntly.

When the light of the flashlight illuminated the surroundings, Cassia discovered that there was a pile of black and gray human bones under her body. In the past, the teams looking for minerals used this place as a natural burial ground.

The clothes rotted into pieces and became a gathering place for all kinds of insects. Cassia took a look and found that they were full of molted shells and eggs of small animals, as well as a layer of feces.

The skin of the legs was scratched many times by these dead bones, but within a minute or two, all the wounds had scabbed over. Enduring the pain, Cassia violently reattached the exposed bones of his left leg. He had learned anatomy in school, and some simple medical knowledge also helped him a lot at this time. His excellent self-healing ability makes him not too worried about such injuries.

"It's just a minor injury. At most, you have to endure the pain for a while." Cassia commented. It was estimated that it would take two or three hours before he could move. During this time, Cassia could only look around.

Among the pile of dead bones beneath him, Cassia found a soft steel cable rope that had been corroded.

"That group of people came down after discovering this place." At this time, the eyes naturally shifted to the skull next to them. "They wanted to take this skull away. After all, it is a very mysterious thing to them. After carving, , it will be very simple to exceed the value of these works of art such as giant ivory on the market.”

The preferences of nobles have always been something Cassia doesn't understand. Compared with the great nobles in the four forces, such as families such as marquis and count, their quality of life seems to be more luxurious. In Cassia's impression, just like Ye Jielin's Webley family, as one of the seven giant companies, except for the reception room used to receive customers, the decorations in other places are very simple, unlike the hall in the Marquis and Count family. The bedrooms are filled with gorgeous works of art, including ivory carvings, paintings by famous artists, reliefs and lamps studded with jewels, furniture and tables made of precious fragrant wood, etc. The level of appreciation between the two is not the same, or there has been a differentiation.

Cassia moved gently to the side of the skull. There was no vague feeling like Blino in his body, which made him relax a little. The feeling of oppression that remained in the Brino area is still deeply engraved in his memory. Even though the operation has reached the second stage and dragon blood can be used to stimulate the body to scale, Cassia still does not The confidence that can defeat a dragon.

There was only one skull there, about two meters high, without a lower jaw, and the length remained at four or five meters. After wiping away the thin layer of ash, the exposed white bones are more like top-grade jade, and appear a bit crystal clear under the light. After getting closer, I realized that under the shadow cast by the light, the hollow skull was filled with something.

There were many bulging black bags. Cassia just touched them lightly with her hand and they fell into pieces. With a crisp collision sound, the irregular shapes of diamonds and jewelry fell from the eye sockets like quicksand, and quickly crowded into a small pile on the ground.

Months of hard work by the group of prospectors were all here, and some time was spent clearing it, including the huge bones mentioned in a geologist's diary. There were a lot of white marks, and Cassia estimated that the group of people used it as a very useful whetstone.

"Why are there dragon bones here? It can't be a coincidence." Two hours later, Cassia's injuries had fully recovered, but it was still inconvenient to move. He walked behind the skull. The dust had been wiped away, and a symbol of unknown meaning was engraved on it. It was the road sign Grote had told him.

Cassia has seen this symbol, and it is found on the Brinosaurus bone fossils. But he no longer had magical powers. He remembered that those strange symbols had the power to directly affect his own spirit. He didn't need to take the initiative to memorize them, and all the symbols and texts were imprinted in the depths of his mind.

"Groot also knows this kind of writing and can use it skillfully. Did he move this skull?"

"For insurance purposes, is this the protector of the second-generation holy sword? Just because of time and volcanic eruptions, a complete skeleton was forced to be scattered. Then the group of prospectors discovered it and moved him to Come here." Cassia began to speculate on the actual progress of the matter based on limited information. It seems reasonable, but Cassia knows that other things must have happened in the middle, and Grote's preparations should not be limited to these. Cassia became more and more skeptical about the conversation in the spiritual dream at that time. After all, in his heart, Grote and Sukarius were completely equal. At that time, I had just entered the military school, and I looked like a sincere young man who had just come out of a small town.

"It's too easy to deceive." Cassia thought that this was the image of herself at that time.

More importantly, Cassia has determined that there is no such vague feeling in this skull. In other words, the remaining consciousness of the sleeping dragons is not on the skull, but exists in their spines just like the Blino region.

Knowing that Grote would definitely be hiding something, he did not tell all the information here. On those two stone steps, Cassia also found a string of strange words. Perhaps it was because of the cracks on it, but this time there was no sense of mental oppression like before.

The rushing water rang in her ears. Cassia put her hand into the water and used a flashlight to reach the end of the underground river. A round hole was illuminated by light. A substantial beam of light rushed behind the cave entrance. Except for a small stone wall at the edge and a moss-covered line, the moist darkness swallowed up everything that entered its territory.

"This is a source of snow water that flows into the lake." The cold feeling and slight burning, as well as the lines full of modern texture under the bright light, told Cassia that this place seemed to be more than just a temporary cemetery for the group of prospectors. Simple.

They have explored the cave network here, Groat said. Perhaps the disaster of "germs" was brought on by themselves? Suddenly feeling connected to something, Cassia stood still, trying to catch the beginning of this connection.