Chapter 228: Orange Treasure Light
The line that divides the sky passes again.
The curtain of darkness was torn apart, revealing the glow of the scorching sun.
Simon, who was assembling something by the campfire, took out his ball as soon as he felt the dawn.
"18 hours?"
This time, the night and the adjacent day were of exactly the same time.
It can even be described as accurate to the second, which is extremely outrageous.
"Is it a coincidence? Or must it be so?"
Simon muttered to himself, putting the orb back away.
They have only been here for a few days, so we can't be sure.
At this time, with the arrival of daylight, all the other people who were still in the room came out and gathered around the campfire.
Alka looked at everyone and said, "Then let's split into two teams according to the teams we divided last night."
Jason, Juanlu, Lucelia, Zero and One, they stayed in the town.
Lucelia is the only one who can speak both languages, and Jason is the main force in gathering intelligence.
The rest of the people naturally explored outside with Alka, helping Xiadaiti to detect the surrounding environment so that she could draw an accurate map.
For a normal treasure hunting team, intelligence is obviously much more important than the so-called map.
But for their team, intelligence and maps are equally important.
Even maps take priority over intelligence.
Yesterday, Alka asked the residents on the island if they had such a thing as a map.
They answered yes, but the problem is, their map can be described as graffiti, with only dangerous areas marked and no other areas marked.
They even drew the entire island's shape rather sloppily, with very low precision.
Simply put, only the person who draws it can know how to use it, so it can be said to have built-in encryption.
If it is not used for a long time, he himself might not understand it.
It cannot be used as a map at all, which is obviously incredible for a small town that has lived on this island for many years.
But Alka had no choice but to let them paint the picture themselves.
However, this rough map can also provide them with certain help, such as deciding which area to draw first.
Then everyone acted together.
Following Alka, we arrived at the port behind the town.
Although it is in the rear, the town gate is 3 kilometers away from the port.
Fortunately, they built a small path.
On this road, you can also see two teams of hunters from the small town patrolling.
Besides them, there were some fishermen from the town on the path, dragging their fishing gear.
Hunting, planting, fishing.
It seems that there are many sources of food in the town, so they obviously don't have to worry about food.
They certainly didn't see any thin or hungry people in the town yesterday.
All the way to the port.
This port is a small port just as Bai Shi said before. Although it is a small port, there are two large ships of about 40 meters in length and many small fishing boats docked there.
The two boats were towed ashore, evidently the town's own vessels.
Alka came to the port and called out briefly, and a ship came from afar.
If Alka hadn't instructed the Sound of Dawn with the harmonica, it might have floated up directly from the bottom of the sea in front of them.
Dock the Voice of the Dawn at the harbor.
"Okay, the rest is up to you." Alka said to Jason and the others.
"Don't worry."
After that the two teams said goodbye.
Alka and the others walked directly out of the town, but he did not go away directly. Instead, he walked around the town wall and came to the place where they entered before.
Sure enough, they saw Bai Shi, who brought them here yesterday, patrolling the city wall with a team of hunters.
"It's you, what's the matter?" Bai Shi asked Alka and the others.
Judging from the actions of these people, they were obviously here earlier than me.
Hearing this, Alka smiled and said, "We don't know much about this island, and you also said it's very dangerous, so we hope to find a guide to take us around the island first and tell us some areas that we can't go to or that are dangerous."
Alka added: "Of course, we will pay."
Hearing Alka's words, Bai Shi nodded in understanding.
He is familiar with this job. Among the strangers who come to the island, 5 out of 10 need a guide, and 4 out of the remaining 5 will look for a guide in the next period of time.
The last one died on the road.
Although it is an exaggeration, this is what is circulated among hunters.
After thinking for a while, he said, "Okay, then I will be your guide."
"You?" Alka was a little surprised.
Isn't this the leader of the patrol team? And he is also a toucher.
Does this count as being absent from duty?
"Why? I can't do it? I grew up on this island, too. Don't worry, I've been a guide a few times before."
Shiraishi said with a smile, allaying Alka 's concerns.
Okay, after all, the person in front of you is quite powerful, and he doesn’t mind what you and others mind.
Then he said, "It's really boring to just watch the gate. If there are really wild beasts rushing to the gate, then our town can be declared doomed."
Alka nodded in agreement and said, "Of course, I would love to."
Hearing Alka's agreement, Bai Shi smiled, then called one of his team members and said a few words to him, then he put on his bow and arrow, took a few pots of arrows and walked over.
"Come on, is there anywhere you want to explore? This island is huge, you can't expect to explore it all in one day."
Hearing this, Alka nodded, then flipped his hand and a palm-sized golden sail appeared in his hand.
"A golden sail, until you take us around the island, is that enough?"
Looking at the golden sail in Alka's hand, Bai Shi took it and said with a smile: "Of course it's enough. I have to say that you strangers are quite generous."
Put it in your pocket.
"Is your ultimate goal to visit all the islands?"
Alka nodded.
After understanding Alka's purpose, Bai Shi directly said, "Three days. If you want to visit the entire island, it will take three days. After the last day, you need to pay another gold sail. Is that okay?"
"no problem."
Although he didn't know the specific value of these currencies on the island, Alka could accept this price.
And if Shiraishi were to be the guide, it would be much more beneficial than Alka thought.
After all, he is the leader.
It can also better convey to the leadership of the entire town that Alka and others have no malicious intentions.
After seeing Alka nod, Shiraishi took out the rough map that Alka had seen yesterday from his arms.
No way, do we really need to use this map?
Looking at the looks of the few people, Bai Shi was a little embarrassed and said, "Although this map is a little more crude than the maps used by you strangers, it is enough for the people on our island."
He had also seen the maps used by these outsiders. In comparison, their simple maps could indeed be called graffiti.
But what can they do? After all, they are just a small town with a population of only a few thousand.
Looking at Bai Shi's slightly embarrassed expression, Alka nodded and didn't say anything.
Then he placed the map in front of everyone and gestured, saying, "If you want to visit the entire island in three days, you have to follow my instructions. Otherwise, it will take longer and be very dangerous."
"Let's start here, the bay you came up from yesterday. It's safer over there."
Seeing that everyone had no objection, he led everyone and started walking in that direction.
Then he began to lead Alka and others in a circle, taking a different route from yesterday.
The first place they arrived at was a ruin they had never seen before, but they could tell from the stones and patterns on the ruins.
The ruins they saw yesterday should belong to the same force.
And obviously, this is also the reason why Bai Shi brought them here.
"It must be these ruins that interest outsiders like you."
"If you are interested, you can go and have a look. This is an activated one."
Everyone gathered around the ruins and looked at it, but it was obvious that they couldn't understand it unless Lucelia was around.
However, their main purpose this time was to draw maps, so a cursory look would be enough.
Alka asked curiously, "It has been activated before. What happened after it was activated?"
"After being activated, the vegetation on the island has become more lush." He pointed around.
The vegetation around the ruins is indeed more lush than in other places, and the ruins are also located in a dense forest.
“This place used to be very desolate.”
As he spoke, seeing that no one seemed to be very interested, he continued to lead everyone to walk around this ghost place.
If we calculate based on the duration of one day, and if they were allowed to walk around freely without restraint, they could explore the entire island in one day.
But at the current rate of progress, this is obviously impossible.
And they also saw that the place they bypassed was indeed dangerous.
Not long after, they were led back to the bay where they had landed before by a different route.
There were still traces of their landing on the beach, scattered randomly, and they did not cover them up.
"According to the older generation, this place wasn't actually a bay hundreds of years ago. It's just that someone activated a ruin here and blew it all up into the sky."
Hearing this, Alka and the others turned around and looked at him in surprise.
There is no trace of that in this bay.
"Ruins can also explode?"
"Of course." Bai Shi nodded.
This indirectly shows that some of these ruins are really dangerous.
After looking around here, he led everyone to move forward.
As he walked, he took out the dust that he had seen yesterday from his arms and threw it on everyone.
As he threw the dust, he explained, "This dust can disgust some of the surrounding monsters. If we continue to move forward, the number of monsters will increase. It will be very troublesome to fight meaninglessly."
After all, they basically didn't encounter even a single magical beast along the way. Bai Shi used his skilled experience to lead Alka and others to bypass the territories of almost every magical beast.
Moreover, he didn't know the specific strength of Alka and others, so it was better to avoid fighting as much as possible.
After walking a few steps, Alka saw a ruin not far away, but Bai Shi did not stop.
"Don't you want to go there and take a look?" Mathilda asked weakly, she was a little curious.
Hearing this, Bai Shi, who was leading the way, turned around and took a look, then casually said, "That's a section of the city wall that has been exposed. The ruins of the city wall surround the island, but a large part of it is buried in the soil. There's nothing strange about it."
As they walked, he said, "This island must have been a huge city in the past. They spoke the same language as us, so they could be considered our ancestors.
It’s a pity that there are no specific records or traditions, otherwise we wouldn’t have to suffer from these damn ruins.
I don’t need to tell you how big the ruins of a city-state are. How can every exposed ruin be useful? Most of them are like this, just a pile of rotten stones. "
"It's just that there are strange things buried in some ruins that can be activated by certain languages. You have to be careful, but don't be too careful."
He was like a tour guide, leading the group, Alka and the others, on a tour around the island.
It introduces these ruins and some dangerous areas as if it were a story about a scenic spot.
As they walked and talked, he pointed to a place not far away and said, "We have to take a detour ahead because there is a ruin that was activated a few years ago. Although it was finally closed, it also affected the surrounding area and made it very dangerous."
Not every ruin is useful if it is closed.
"And the brat who activated the ruins is still staying in the town with a broken leg."
When he said this, one could tell that he was still a little angry.
Without waiting for Alka and the others to ask curiously, he said to himself: "After the ruins were activated, the surrounding stones seemed to be alive and would attack anything alive they saw."
He had stopped walking when he said this, and everyone followed his sight and saw the living stone he was talking about.
It looks like a humanoid stone giant made up of countless large and small stones, with a height ranging from 2 to 4 meters.
The lower body is made up of rolling gravel, while the upper body is composed of a stone head and irregular fists.
The rubble was moving aimlessly around the ruins.
The magic power gathered in Bai Shi's hands and formed a ball of water, which he threw out with force.
The water ball slid past and hit the stone man closest to them accurately.
The stone man looked at the white stone that was attacking him and moved over angrily.
The speed of movement is not fast, roughly equivalent to a normal person jogging.
Bai Shi just stood there with his hands on his hips.
He said in a relaxed tone: "Don't be afraid, just watch."
The stone man who came over raised his stone fist and was about to smash the white stone, then he turned into pieces and scattered all over the ground.
At this time, Bai Shi explained: "They can only move in a circle around the ruins. If they come out, they will be broken into pieces like now."
"And their stone heads obviously can't understand the difference between inside and outside."
Then everyone saw another pile of stones gathering around the ruins, forming a new stone giant.
“But there are endless stone monsters around these ruins. Their number is fixed. If you kill one, a new one will gather.” Bai Shi said helplessly, and then kicked away the stones scattered on the ground in front of him.
This is also the reason why this ruin cannot be solved.
Julia's voice rang in everyone's ears: "These are all stone elements. There must be some spell creation or spell array activated in the ruins, causing the magic power around to move towards the earth element, which is why these things are produced."
She said as she keenly sensed the changes in the environment around the ruins.
Everyone nodded, and Bai Shi didn't understand what they were saying, nor did he care.
Because Julia used the language of white crocodiles, not the common language of the Home Sea.
In this way they walked and stopped, listening to some explanations from Bai Shi from time to time.
We also killed some unscrupulous prey along the way.
After walking for more than ten hours, we finally returned to the town.
"Let's continue tomorrow. I'll wait for you at the gate." Bai Shi waved at them and said with a smile.
They communicated with each other along the way and became quite familiar with each other.
Alka was also convinced that Shiraishi was really a chatterbox.
Very expressive.
He actually acted like a tour guide, chattering the whole day long.
But this is obviously a good thing for them.
"He said it was going to get dark. How did he feel that?" Simon was a little confused.
Hearing this, Alka said, “The white birds have returned to their nests, which means that the night is coming.”
There was obviously no timekeeping device in the town, and the chaotic day and night were obviously not a problem that could be solved by a timekeeping device.
The townspeople's decision on whether to keep it day or night depends entirely on a species of bird on the island.
A kind of bird with pure white feathers but only the size of a palm. When they return to their nests, it means that night will soon come.
"Really? It seems I can observe those birds later." Simon said after thinking for a while.
He has been studying the day and night here.
Then they came to the corner of the town, where they rented the house yesterday.
As soon as I arrived, I saw Juanlu using his portable boiler to prepare dinner.
After seeing Alka and the others return, he smiled and said, "I thought it would be dark soon and you guys should be back by now."
Lucelia also came out of the room.
"Where's Jason?" Alka asked after taking a look.
"He met a hunter who was traveling outside today and went out for a drink." Juanlu said.
Alka nodded.
Although it is dangerous at night, it is night outside and the town is still safe.
Everyone took a rest.
Porro also began to tell Lucilia and Juanlu about some of the things they had experienced today.
The two were also very curious about the specific situation of the town, especially the ruins that could be activated.
"Once you finish drawing the map, you must take me out for a walk," Lucelia said.
Xiadaiti came to Alka and asked, "Do you want to draw it? Or do you want to draw it after you have toured the entire island?"
Alka thought for a moment and said, "First, draw the places we visited today. Don't draw them in too much detail. After a few days, when you have visited all parts of the island, draw a map of the entire island."
"How is it?" He looked at Xia Dai and asked.
After all, Xia Daiti had a perfectionist habit when drawing a complete map, so I wonder if this would happen when making a partial map.
Xia Daiti nodded: "No problem, I'll give it to you after dinner , just give it a rough sketch."
She didn't demand too much of herself for this kind of thing, just drawing a partial map of an island for practice.
Just as we were about to start eating, we saw Jason coming back. We could smell a faint smell of alcohol on him, but he seemed to be in good condition.
Judging from his smile, the intelligence he obtained was obviously good.
After dinner.
Xiadaiti had also finished her first draft of the practice drawing and handed it to Alka.
"have a look."
Alka takes the map.
It was indeed crude, with only simple lines, but as the eyes blinked, light flickered from it.
Dense white spots.
Several flashing blue lights.
And a point of light that had never been seen before.
An orange beam of light.
So conspicuous.
