Chapter 242 Museum Exploration
When another day falls.
Alka and the others packed up and prepared to head to the ruins of the Lookout Hall Museum.
"Is the Golden Trout ready to leave?" Xia Daiti stood on the deck, watching the sails of the huge ship outside the harbor fall.
The man also turned to look.
The huge sailing ship had three extremely exaggerated masts, and there were secondary masts at the bow and stern.
As the sails were raised, the entire ship began to move slowly, then accelerated and moved away from the island.
The goods that were previously piled up at the port have also disappeared.
"Looks like he left." Alka said as he flipped through the small card in his hand.
This small card was given to him by Balazs, and it served as a business card. If they were to go to Southern Cross Island later, they could use the address on it to find their station on the island.
"Alright everyone, it's time to get down to business."
Alka said, looking at everyone's clothes.
With the experience of the previous two times, Alka told them in advance that this time they would also dig holes and excavate the ruins that were once buried deep underground.
Therefore, everyone is dressed in well-fitting leather clothes, which are dirt-resistant and cheap.
I won’t feel bad if it gets dirty or torn.
After all, digging would get them covered in mud, so several girls wore hats to protect their hair to prevent their hair from getting contaminated by the mud, which would be difficult to clean.
The crowd just skipped the town and headed towards their destination.
With the guidance of the map along the way, we did not encounter any dangerous situations.
We arrived at the ruins very smoothly, but did not approach them rashly.
Because the ruins were surrounded by the territories of several small monsters, which they had seen before.
Looking at the two ferocious bull-like monsters, Alka looked towards Julia.
As companions, they would generally consider Julia's feelings regarding this kind of active killing that did not have much meaning.
After all, these two bull-like monsters had no intention of attacking them, they were just driving them away.
"I'll go and drive them away," said Julia, and she walked over.
Her legs turned into a fish tail as the water flowed. The spiral water flow wrapped around her fish tail, lifted her up, and led her towards the two ends of the current.
A soft humming could be heard.
The two monsters stared at her with red eyes, but as the singing became more recent, they still did not attack, but instead pawed at the spot restlessly with their hooves.
"It's okay, it's okay." Julia carefully stretched out her hands and stroked the heads of the two monsters while they looked nervous.
After all, these two monsters are not creatures of the ocean, so they still require a certain communication process.
You have to gain their favor first and let down their guard, just like taming an animal.
If it was a magical beast in the ocean, Julia would be able to communicate more easily.
She could even easily make the creatures in the ocean understand what she meant.
Julia just gave the two bison-like monsters a simple touch, and they calmed down.
The slightly red eyes gradually recovered and his emotions became stable.
Then Julia turned around and nodded to Juanlu.
Juanlu immediately took out two huge tree roots as thick as his arms from his pocket ring and threw them over.
This was what Julia asked Juanlu to help prepare just now.
After feeding the two huge tree roots to the two monsters, they became even quieter. They came directly to the side with the two tree roots in their mouths and started to chew them silently, completely ignoring the presence of everyone.
It turns out to be vegetarian, which suits the appearance quite well.
"Okay, you can come in now. They won't attack you rashly anymore."
Everyone nodded and walked over.
The brave Er even ran in front of them, squatted beside the bison and looked at it.
Seeing that these two bison-like monsters had no intention of attacking, he even climbed onto their horns.
Fortunately, the two monsters seemed to have better tempers after having food, and they had no intention of paying any attention to Er who climbed onto them.
Xia Daiti, who was originally a little worried, couldn't help but hold his forehead and sighed.
Watching this scene.
Lucilia sat on Alka's shoulders and suddenly said, "It's a good thing I wasn't naughty when I was little."
Otherwise she couldn't imagine what her army of puppets would look like.
Hearing this, Xia Daiti felt awkward for some reason. He stretched out his index finger to scratch his cheek and said quickly, "I'll detect it first and divide it into areas."
Having said that, he went to work.
The rest of the people also began to divide the work and cooperate.
"This relic..."
"What's wrong?" Alka asked beside him after hearing Xiadaiti's slightly surprised voice.
"This ruins covers a large area, and a large part of it is still well preserved. Wait, don't do anything yet, I will explore it carefully."
Xia Daiti asked the people who were about to take action to stop first, and then she detected more carefully. Even the ring of light on her forehead appeared to enhance the detection accuracy of her silver light.
In this way, several people watched Xia Daiti explore farther and farther, and almost explored the entire area of nearly 1 kilometer.
"Huh, so big?" Jason was shocked.
Although the two previous temples were buried deep and built high, their area was only three or four hundred meters at most.
Moreover, the main excavation area is still the 100 meters or so close to the ruins. Other places are just simply dug to reduce some pressure and avoid collapse.
Judging from Xia Daiti's exploration, the area of this place is a bit exaggerated.
If we really keep digging, how long will it take?
Jason already had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, Xiadaiti began to mark the entire area.
Although most of the signs were drawn within a radius of four to five hundred meters, it was large enough, after all, they had to dig downwards.
As the signs were drawn, everyone's expressions became more and more uncomfortable.
They also realized that such a large project would obviously not be completed in a day or two.
How tiring it must be! A not-so-bright future seems to have appeared before their eyes.
Only after the painting was completely finished did Xia Daiti wipe the sweat from his head and turn around to look at everyone.
Look at everyone's expressions.
She couldn't help but laugh: "Haha, no need to be so sad, it's not as serious as you think."
"The area below is relatively well preserved, so it doesn't need to be dug very deep. The deepest place actually only needs to be dug 10 meters.
Just dig a little in other places to make sure the bottom does not collapse.
And I found a gap to a pristine area, I just need to open that up."
The main purpose is to reduce some weight and re-fix some places to make their journey downwards safer and to better preserve the entire ruins.
After all, their further excavation is likely to cause even bigger landslides and destroy more ruins, which would be a loss.
After all, this relic is the best preserved one they have encountered in the past few days, and there will definitely be enough gains.
After listening to Xia Daiti's explanation, everyone's expressions finally returned to normal and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
If the area is this large, it will take at least four or five days to dig it out like we did before.
"Okay, now that we've got it done, let's start digging."
Everyone started to dig, and soon Simon released his four intact sentinel patrol planes and had them fly in a spiral alert around the area to prevent any wild beasts from disturbing them.
Due to the large excavation area, the accumulation of various types of soil became a problem.
"Bull, pull quickly!" Several puppet girls rode on two magical bulls and started using the two ox carts Simon had just made to pull the mud to a farther place.
They are also helping people in their own way.
"Jason, go away. Why did you bring your eggs out again?" Porro felt a tingling sensation in his body and couldn't help but say to Jason beside him.
Hearing this, Jason just shrugged helplessly: "I can't help it. It has to follow me today."
As he spoke, he touched the egg in his hat through his hood.
Although they had arrived at the Boundless Ocean, the egg was no longer as tightly attached to Jason as before, but it still stayed attached to him for at least 2/3 of the day.
The digging a few days ago has caused it to be posted less frequently, and it seems that this section is unwilling to be too far away from it.
With everyone working together, it took about 10 hours to finally dig through the deepest part.
Other places have also been reinforced.
"Going down from here is the place below that is buried but not completely destroyed." Xia Daiti said and jumped down directly.
Alka looked up and said, "Lucelia and Julia, follow us down."
As they spoke, the three of them jumped down as well, while the rest stood guard outside.
In this case, it is obviously impossible to get all of them in.
As soon as we landed, we saw one light ball after another controlled by Xia Daiti illuminating the area.
They seemed to be next to a passage, but there was all sorts of mud and collapsed ruins on both sides of the passage, making the passage somewhat narrow.
"Go here, the entrance should be behind this passage." Xia Daiti pointed in front of them.
And behind it, one can indeed see a structure that looks like a gate, but it has also been twisted and deformed, and has long been embedded with the surrounding soil.
As the ball of light illuminated, everyone walked inside.
As you go further in, the collapsed ruins around you become fewer and fewer, and the inside becomes more intact.
Then I saw two complete statues.
Standing in front of the statue, everyone looked up.
This statue is similar to a human-shaped statue, about 2.4 meters tall, and a little slender, but not thin.
Although the carving has become a little cracked with the passage of time, at least one can still see how fine it once was.
The body is carved very delicately, including the texture of the skin and even the facial expressions are completely carved out.
It's a bit like sculpting from a real person.
It can be seen that the pair of statues are a man and a woman.
Although they are humanoid, they have two pairs of ears, one pair is larger and has sharp tips, and the other pair is smaller and also sharp.
And their smiles revealed their teeth, which were very sharp, like neat shark teeth.
But like humans, there are only two rows, upper and lower.
The proportions of the two arms are also longer than those of normal people. Although there are also five fingers, the fingers are also more slender and long.
Generally speaking, although it is different from humans, it is still more like humans, with only slight differences in some details.
The female statue, wearing an unknown ornament, holds a book in one hand and something like a quill in the other.
The male statue is wearing an open-faced helmet like a warrior, wearing light armor, carrying three javelins on his back, holding a long sword in one hand, and an axe in the other.
"Is this the Vastwa?" Xiadaiti asked, looking at the statue.
Placing the human-shaped statue here is obviously the ethnic appearance of this place.
After all, this is a place to showcase their city-state culture.
And Lucilia nodded. She looked at the words on the bases below the two statues and brushed away the dust.
"The female is called the original Eye of Mysticism, and the male is called the original Hand of Conquest."
"I know the Eye of Mysticism, but what is the Hand of Conquest?" Julia asked curiously.
They had never heard of the term before, except Alka.
Hearing this, before Lucilia could answer, Alka said, "You can think of it as a military position equal to the Eye of Mysticism."
After saying this, several people understood.
"Let's go in and take a look."
As he spoke, Xia Daiti controlled the sphere to float inside, and several people followed in.
As soon as they came in, they found that it was a huge hall, so empty that their voices could echo.
But you can also see that a small half of the hall has collapsed, and there are also different signs of collapse around it.
As the light came into full focus, Alka looked up.
Above is a huge semicircular dome, which would be very beautiful if it were still standing.
The second floor can be seen under the dome, with an aisle surrounding it on both sides. However, the second floor has almost completely collapsed, and even the stairs leading to it have been completely broken.
And in the center of the entire hall, there is also a statue.
The appearance of this statue is very strange, it is not human-shaped.
Instead, it is a statue consisting of four spheres of different shapes connected together, and each sphere is at a different height and position.
And below the sphere is what looks like an island.
Lucelia ran over and carefully cleaned the stone slab in front of the statue.
Several people also walked over.
Lucilia looked at the stone tablet and translated: "This statue represents the Four Gods and Vastewa."
Hearing this, everyone looked at the spherical statue, which means that in the eyes of the Vastwa people, the Four-Part God is four connected spheres.
Each of these four spheres is different, and each has a unique appearance, but it makes people feel that the sphere is a whole, which fully demonstrates the skill of the sculptor.
"But this island is obviously wrong." Xia Daiti turned his attention to the island statue below.
Several people also looked down.
The entire island looks like a water droplet, but the head of the water droplet is sharper and thinner. But in any case, it is completely different from the long strips they know.
Everyone looked at the island statue carefully.
The statue is carved very delicately, completely depicting some important landmark buildings on the island.
Since the island is in the shape of a teardrop, you can draw a circle on it, with four identical temples in the four directions of the circle.
These four temples are the highest.
These should be the four great temples mentioned by the golden light.
On the tail of the water drop, there is a low temple which is not high but occupies a large area and looks very important.
Xia Daiti gestured at the statue with his hand and said, "Look, if we cut it from here, it will look like the shape of the island we are on now."
The place where her hand drew was exactly where the tail dug a deep groove towards the water droplet.
This deep depression just happened to cut out one of the large temples, and the low temple at the end of the tail was also included in it.
Seeing this, he reached out and covered the tip of the map.
"Is this like the semicircle that Shiraishi mentioned was blown up?"
Everyone looked at it and nodded involuntarily. It looked very similar.
No, they're even exactly the same.
"That is to say, this island is actually a part of the Broken Island. If you think about it this way, it seems reasonable to call this island Broken Island." Julia concluded.
This statue island has basically confirmed that where they are is just a part of the original city-state.
Look around for other places.
Everyone turned their attention to other places in the hall.
There are also various statues around the hall, and these statues have become human-shaped like the statue at the door.
It’s just that their dress and appearance have changed differently, even their heights are different.
However, several statues have collapsed and been damaged.
And Alka also saw several objects with white light edges among them.
After a quick look, I saw that they were all jewelry and decorations made of various precious metals, diamonds and gems.
However, except for Lucilia, no one else could understand the words, so they just simply looked at the appearance.
Wait for Lucelia to finish reading the text introduction carved above and then translate it for them.
Although this place covers a large area, most of it is open space, with statues and some items placed only on the edges of the space.
Not to mention that many of the items have become waste, and the stone slabs that introduced them have long been blurred and unclear.
The few of them could only hear Lucelia's exclamations from time to time.
She seemed quite surprised by some of her discoveries.
This exclamation also made Alka and others who were waiting nearby feel itchy. After all, who wouldn't be curious about such ancient secrets?
However, they didn't have to wait long. Lucillia read through all the information she could get from it.
Then he ran over with a look of surprise.
"You know what? I saw some incredible information."
