Chapter 446: Deep into the Tomb

"Why don't we just find a better place and dig deeper? This will also allow Xia Daiti to detect deeper places.

We can also learn more about the area and see if there are any strange soil conditions.”

Looking at Alka who was thinking, Simon next to him suggested.

Hearing this, Alka shook his head slightly: "What we are looking for should be a tomb, and it may be the tomb of a high-ranking person. This kind of tomb is likely to have defensive measures.

If we dig down rashly, we might activate some defenses. And we don't know how deep it is, after all the problems this area has experienced.

And the Empire is thousands of years away from us.”

Xia Daiti beside him also said: "The rocks below are very hard, getting harder as you go down, and there is also a settled abyss aura.

Even if I dig 5 meters deeper, the distance I can detect will not increase by 5 meters. This is because the various auras and the power of the earth below will hinder my detection distance. "

Hearing this, Simon nodded and took back his suggestion.

Lucilia, who was sitting on Alka's shoulder, frowned at his words. After thinking for a while, she said, "Perhaps we can first understand the style of the Saralan Empire's tomb construction? And their funeral culture."

"Do you have any information about this?" Alka turned to Lucelia and asked.

Of course it would be better if there is information on this.

Lucilia nodded. "Yes, there is, but I had no interest in it before. I only found out about this research and records in a book when I was learning about the Saranan Empire."

"Wait a minute, I'll look for it. I put all the books about the Saralan Empire in my pocket ring."

As she spoke, Lucilia reached out and placed her hand on her bracelet, then she closed her eyes and began to search carefully in her pocket space.

It means to explore the pocket space with your spirit, which is equivalent to searching inside with your eyes.

Only about half a minute later, Lucelia took out a thick book in her hands. Judging from the cover, it was quite old.

“This is it.”

As he spoke, he controlled the book to float up and began to flip through it.

He quickly found the information he needed.

Alka and the others also leaned over to look at the information in the book.

The above article explores some of the culture of the Saralan Empire and traces its origins through the styles of funerals and tomb construction, so that people can better understand some of the customs, folk customs and character of the empire.

It even comes with many simple drawings, including some architectural styles of tombs and even architectural drawings.

Detailed theory is carried out through these drawings.

Alka looked at the introduction above and found that the burial style was burial in the ground rather than burial at sea. This was quite rare in an ocean world like the Infinite Sea.

I like to build tombs in various circular shapes, or in more regular shapes.

Of course, most of them are circular. Even the royal tombs of the Saralan Empire are circular in style.

Because it is a burial, there is also a custom of burial objects, and a kind of stone called dry stone is used to make the sarcophagus.

They believed that sarcophagi made of this stone could bring them peace, and the stone was gray in color.

But the stone exudes a faint plant fragrance, and the people of the Saralan Empire believe that they can return to the world in such a sarcophagus.

Isn't it a return to the embrace of the gods? In this world where gods clearly exist, this style is quite peculiar.

As he got to know more, Alka also had a general understanding of the entire tomb style.

After understanding these styles, Alka immediately looked at the map again and re-read the information about the treasure.

Just as he thought, the expansion did appear, but the expansion information was somewhat ambiguous.

【Left in a tomb that did not belong to him.】

Although the specific meaning of this information is unknown, it has at least been confirmed that the treasure is located in the tomb.

Based on the expansion of the information he had just seen, it can be basically confirmed that there is a tomb under their feet.

The treasure is in this tomb, and the depth of the tomb is very deep.

Thinking of this, Alka looked at the map.

Start drawing circles with your hands.

Because the golden treasure light spots and the surrounding white light spots are indeed considered one area on the entire map .

Then Alka had reason to suspect that these treasures were in a tomb.

It's impossible that there are several different tombs under his feet. That would be too strange. According to the funeral style, the family tomb is a circle.

He was trying to draw a circle that could encompass all the treasures, so as to determine the exact scope of the tomb.

At first he painted a circle with a golden treasure light spot as the center.

But no matter how you summarize it, this circle seems a little too big, and there will be a lot of gaps.

Not very realistic.

After drawing a few circles like this, Alka finally drew a circle that he was relatively satisfied with.

That is, the golden light spots are not in the center of the tomb, but at the edge of the tomb, so that all the white light spots can be included in a more correct circle.

The size of this tomb is also within a relatively normal range.

Comparing the circle he had drawn, Alka began to make a simple plan of where they were now.

The entire 1-kilometer circular area they had just explored was obviously too large.

The diameter of this circle should be only about 700 meters, and the maximum error is only 1 kilometer.

“This should be the tomb of a powerful person. According to what is written here, this kind of tomb should have a correct passage.

Because of some major festivals, their descendants would enter the tomb to offer sacrifices.”

Alka said that he would start from the circle he had just drawn and begin a simple plan based on the more classic tomb construction cases.

After some planning, several locations were determined.

"Let's dig down from these points."

Alka felt that this point should be outside the tomb, but it was very likely close to the tomb, making it easier to detect the edge of the tomb.

It is possible to detect the tomb without harming or affecting it.

Hearing Alka's words, several people nodded.

Start looking for the starting point on the spot.

After finding and marking, Simon began to build a machine to dig. He directly unfolded his treasure and drove a huge mecha.

The mecha's hands are assembled through a series of mechanical structures, and include electric drills and tools for digging holes.

Once it started, the effect was very strong and the efficiency was maximized. Soon a deep pit of seven or eight meters appeared, but it was not dug very big, just enough for Xia Daiti to jump in.

After digging, Xia Daiti jumped directly in and began to explore downwards.

"It was slightly extended by three meters, and there is still no strange situation."

Alka nodded, thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to other locations and dig pits of the same depth first. If there are none, we can continue to deepen them."

Simon nodded, and everyone took action again.

In this way, a total of 6 deep pits were dug, and the scale of each pit was the same, but as Xia Daiti said, there was nothing more to detect at the extended detection distance, so everyone began to dig bit by bit.

…

A few hours later.

The depth of Pit No. 3 has reached 20 meters.

When Xia Daiti jumped in again, this time her eyes shone and there was a smile on her lips .

"Found it. The curved wall of a man-made structure is 40 meters below the ground. It is protected by very solid stones."

When they heard that the building had been finalized, everyone smiled. After working so hard for so long, they finally got some results.

"It's still 30 meters away from where I am now." Xia Daiti said after drawing.

Then he pointed in a direction.

Simon made a simple calculation and said, "Let's get closer and dig a new hole."

Since Simon said so, everyone naturally had no objection.

After finding a good position, continue to dig a hole downwards. This time, you need to dig a hole deep enough. The rocks below and the breath of the abyss will have an impact, so you need to do it slowly and not rush.

It took about three more hours before we finally reached a pit that was 45 meters deep.

The breath of the abyss can already be felt inside, this breath is immersed underground through the earth, affecting the scars of the entire world.

After expanding the entire cave entrance, Xia Daiti began a more careful exploration plan at the bottom of the cave.

Be so meticulous that you won’t stop until you know how many meters you need to dig.

"Dig another three meters from here, and after three meters you will only be one meter away from the wall. Then I will detect more carefully to see if there are any mechanisms or something like that."

Hearing Xia Daiti's words, Simon nodded and jumped down again, starting to dig more gently. This time he couldn't do it as quickly as before, he had to be more careful.

But after all, it was only a few meters and it was quickly cleared. Xia Daiti once again stuck to the mud wall to conduct detection.

Silver ripples passed through the stone wall and detected the location of the tomb.

She quickly found out the information she wanted to know.

"There is no mechanism in this direction, you can open it."

Soon the last meter was opened, and everyone could clearly see that the stone revealed after the dirt was cleared away was gray.

Although this kind of stone is strong, it is not rare. It is a very common building material, and the stone used in the magic-proof fortress is mainly this material.

"Can we start digging?" Simon asked.

"Yes, it should be fine if it's normal and mild."

Hearing this, Simon Of course took action and quickly opened the hole. Everyone could see the dark space inside.

There was a somewhat decayed smell coming from inside, as well as a dull taste.

"Now we just need to enlarge the hole."

"How about I go in and take a look at what's going on inside?" Lucilia asked, looking at the cave entrance.

The hole was just big enough for her to fit into.

Hearing this, Alka thought about it and nodded.

Lucelia's figure immediately slipped into the shadows, disappeared from the spot, and entered the cave entrance.

Start exploring inside the tomb.

However, she just explored around the cave entrance and then came out again.

"There shouldn't be any situation around here."

The small hole was enlarged by Simon until they could squeeze through.

They also brought out steel frames for support to prevent their actions from causing any problems with the structure of the entire tomb.

After everything was ready, everyone slowly and carefully entered the tomb.

After confirming that it was just a dull smell and no poisonous gas, everyone looked at the scene in the tomb through dark vision.

If there is danger inside, you can use dark vision instead of light to avoid alerting the enemy.

Right next to them stood a sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus is completely sealed and no information can be seen on it.

This is because each sarcophagus is tailor-made for the deceased after his death, and is made through some kind of spell that can control the shape of the stone.

He knew this from the book he had just read.

There are also patterns carved on the sarcophagus that were used when it was made.

Through dark vision, Alka looked at the patterns carved on the top of the sarcophagus. The patterns and some sentences on it described the life of the deceased.

The owner of the sarcophagus in front of him obviously had a not very exciting life when he was alive, and only had a few listless words.

It roughly means something like a responsible father, a good brother, etc.

It's a fairly common phrase.

The mural should be a family portrait.

Although it seems a bit strange to paint a family portrait on a coffin, it is the local custom after all.

There was a white outline in a pile of broken lime next to the coffin. Alka walked over and gently moved the broken lime a few times with his legs.

The white lines wrapped around some kind of metal product. When Alka picked it up, the light from the white lines disappeared.

Obviously an ordinary treasure.

Looking at what Alka was holding, Lucelia took a quick look.

It was a luxurious-looking hourglass, which was older than the hourglasses they used to record time.

Of course, this does not mean that the time he recorded was not accurate enough, but in that era, such a recording hourglass was obviously very valuable.

Moreover, the appearance of this hourglass is also very exquisite. After simply cleaning off the lime and dirt on it, you can see that it is embellished with several gems and decorated with precious metals.

"Using this thing as a burial object shows that the deceased's occupation during his lifetime was more focused on the concept of time.

Then it is very likely that the person lying in this coffin was once a government official of the Alalan Empire.

The government of the Saralan Empire was famous for its efficiency at one time. "

Lucilia said after a simple deduction.

Alka nodded and put the hourglass away.

Obviously a small and valuable item.

It was their first harvest after entering the tomb.

Looking around, this is a circular tomb, which can be simply divided into two parts. The first is the central part, which is a place similar to a square.

The construction of such a tomb obviously indicates that it belongs to a family. In this square, you can learn about the deeds of the family and find a passage leading to the outside.

Of course, that passage had obviously been blocked long ago.

After all, it is below 40 meters.

Then you can go to other tombs through the central square and passages.

These tombs are divided by walls like pizza, one grid at a time.

The sarcophagi stored in each compartment represent the deceased members of a family from the same era.

That is, family members of the same generation.

The tomb that Alka and the others are in now is already at the end of the pizza, which means that it is likely that this tomb was in its later stage of use.

There were two sarcophagi next to it, and they were of a pair of brothers.

Passing through the passage and entering the central square , everyone was able to see the family.

Lucilia began to interpret the stone tablets in the center of the square, which were built at different times.

It records the family's glorious moments as well as its low points.

This is a family of neither size nor large.

The original founder of the family was a wealthy businessman, and his descendants used money to enter politics.

The most powerful person ever was the deputy of a city's highest official.

After a brief understanding, everyone began to check the sarcophagus in each tomb chamber.

Alka walked directly towards where the golden light was.

Then what he saw was a gap in the wall that was also broken.

At the gap, you can see that a corner of the sarcophagus has been broken, as if violent means had been used.

Next to the broken part of the sarcophagus was a decayed corpse.