Chapter 92: Crawling Bones
The Dark Realm is not completely in darkness.
The thick black clouds in the sky
Such thinness will allow the sunlight outside to shine in.
However, as one goes deeper into the center, such faint lights become increasingly rare, and one can only see them once in a long time.
Although these lights are weak, they are the only ones in the darkness.
This is also the best time for ships to determine their direction.
Using this dim beam of light that appeared every once in a while, Alka, who was steering the ship, spotted a conspicuous sign.
It was a giant statue standing next to the island.
The height of the statue is at least 20 meters. In the dim light, one can vaguely see a warrior holding a sharp blade and slashing downwards.
"Fight the statue, we are almost reaching our destination."
Xiadaiti, who was standing next to Alka and teaching him how to operate the boat, also saw the statue and said.
Then he directed Alka: "Turn left and move forward for another half a day. You should be able to reach the area circled on the map."
Hearing this, Alka nodded and followed the instructions, circling the rudder.
The hole in the cloud disappeared and the place was plunged into darkness once again.
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"We're here. It should be within this range."
As they were about to reach their destination, everyone came to the deck.
Nothing can be seen in the pitch-black sea.
At this time, a small hole appeared in the clouds in the sky again, allowing everyone to see a small island not far from them.
Alka used a mirror to focus the beam of light and shone it towards the island.
"There is no suitable spot. Let's go around and have a look." Andre looked at the island in front of him and found that there was no suitable anchoring spot, so he gave instructions.
After walking around for a while, I finally saw the right place to log in.
"This should be the former port."
As they were talking, the boat slowly moved in and Andre turned around and looked at everyone.
"This island is the one with the map. The situation there has been explored and it is not very dangerous."
After saying that, Andre thought for a moment and said again: "Alka, Jason, and Gami, the three of you form a team and explore this island first."
"The rest of you will follow me to the other two islands that have not yet been explored. Let Xia Daiti take notes first."
Everyone had no objection to Andre's team.
Andre also stuffed the map of the island into Alka's arms. The meaning was very clear. This temporary team was led by Alka.
Alka stood by the boat and used a searchlight constructed of a mirror to briefly check the situation on the island.
The edge of the island is covered with lush vegetation, which is quite different from the islands outside, but some fluorescent plants can be seen in the dark.
Years of darkness and the elements that permeate it have long changed the ecology of these plants.
Maybe you can find a lot of interesting magic materials.
In addition, you can see some rubble that is obviously from the collapse of man-made buildings buried in it.
Many of them have been buried by soil and plants, and these things have long been integrated into the environment of the island.
After taking a quick look and making sure there were no major problems, Alka turned around and nodded to the two people behind him.
The three of them jumped directly off the boat.
Well, Jamie glided down in a vehicle.
Then Alka turned around and waved to everyone on the boat.
Andre nodded in the boat.
"Be safe and don't let your guard down."
The ship was then controlled, withdrew from the island and immediately disappeared into the darkness.
All I could see were a few points of light moving away.
Jason and Gami each took out a lighting stone to illuminate the environment around them, while Alka used a mirror to reflect the light to illuminate the way forward for them.
Because it was dark all around, the three of them stayed close to each other and kept their eyes on different directions.
Several people moved forward slowly together, alerting each other to the dangers around them.
At this time, Jason's voice sounded: "Sometimes I wonder why there is no spell that can allow us to see the surroundings clearly even in the dark."
"Why not? Didn't you read a book?" Alka asked.
Jamie said directly: "There is such a spell, but neither the church nor anyone else has recorded the style of this spell. Maybe it has been lost or maybe someone still knows it."
"Okay, okay." Jason said helplessly, raising the searchlight in his hand and shaking it around to see if there was anything strange.
As they moved forward, they came to a place that looked like an abandoned town.
Almost all of these buildings are well preserved, with only some collapsed and damaged ones, but their original appearance can still be seen.
But now the outside of these buildings are covered with all kinds of plants.
"When the treasure exploded, the people here probably didn't even know what happened, and they died here without knowing what was going on."
Jason said with some regret as he looked at a skeleton lying at the door of a collapsed building not far away.
This place is neither far nor close to the core of the explosion, but just within the range that can be affected and lead to death.
Looking at the skeleton, Jason was about to walk over to take a look to see if he could collect any useful information.
Alka immediately caught him.
"Wait, don't just go there casually."
Hearing this, both of them turned their heads to look at him: "What's wrong?"
Alka pointed to where the skeleton was and said, "Look carefully, the place where the skeleton is lying is not right."
As he spoke, he controlled the light to waver around the bones.
"Although there are a lot of plants covering the bones, but if you look at his body, it doesn't look like it has been lying there for hundreds of years."
The two looked carefully.
There were some roots, stems, branches and leaves of plants where the bones fell, but it didn't look like they were being pressed down by the bones and growing away.
This is a situation that only occurs when something is obviously suppressed.
However, shrouded in white bones and darkness, it would be difficult to notice such a problem if you were not careful.
Seeing this, Jason couldn't help but swallow his saliva and said nervously, "Could this corpse be alive? It can move like a ghost."
"Very likely."
Jamie stared at Jason and asked curiously, "Why are you so nervous? Haven't you seen a ghost?"
Jason shook his head.
He had only been a member of the treasure hunting team for two years, and had spent all this time busy searching for the treasure house.
Not to mention that he was just an ordinary person not long ago.
To him, the dead were more like characters in stories and picture books. This might be the first time that a real living being appeared before him.
"Alka, aren't you nervous?" Jason couldn't help but turned around and asked. After all, he felt that Alka should be the same as him.
Even Alka had just officially stepped into the extraordinary world not long ago and began to know some secrets about this world.
Alka shook his head: "It's okay."
After all, I have gained some experience.
After saying that, Alka reached out and pulled the locker out from his thigh.
I took a look and made sure the bullets were in place.
Then he pulled the pistol out from under his armpit, popped out the magazine and checked the bullets inside.
The bullets in the pistol are obviously different from the ordinary bullets before.
There are simple patterns engraved on the bullet, indicating that the bullet has special effects.
Jason did the same thing.
He also took out a pocket watch from his arms, opened the cover, moved the pointer on the dial with his hand, and then closed the cover.
This pocket watch is exactly the magical equipment he obtained before.
Alka had borrowed it to play with. Simply put, this was something that could increase the user's sensitivity in a short period of time.
But there is a prerequisite, you have to spend magic power to move the pointer inside before using it.
Close the cover, then input magic power and the pointer inside will rotate to provide gain.
Now Jason just puts the cover on the watch, and when he wants to use it, he will inject magic into it to make the hands start to move.
Gami was standing still in his strange vehicle that he had made himself, with two rifle-like rock-shaking barrels extending from its left and right sides.
By the way, four tentacles popped out to provide long-range support for the two.
The two of them slowly walked towards the corpse.
The mirrors used for lighting began to adjust their angles, spreading the light around and illuminating a large area.
When the two men approached the corpse within 10 meters.
“Crack.”
With a noise, the corpse twitched.
A faint green light appeared in the hollow skull, and he slowly climbed up from the ground, pulling out a rotten long sword from where he was pressed from behind.
He opened his jaws in an attempt to let out a silent roar.
His lower jaw fell directly to the ground, making a click sound.
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For a moment the air became somewhat quiet.
Alka raised the Locker in his hand, as magic power flowed into the gun from his hand.
A large number of magical patterns appeared on the bronze-covered decorations on the handle and the back of it.
The trigger is pulled.
"Bang!"
With a dull sound, the marbles gathered and shot out.
The gathered marbles were covered with a faint white flame, like a fireball.
It directly hit the skull of the skeleton in front of it, and bones flew everywhere in an instant.
The green light flickering in the skull was directly extinguished by the marble.
The remaining bones softened weakly and scattered all over the ground, forming a pile of bones.
"That's it?"
Jason, who was originally a little nervous, was a little confused when he saw the skeleton falling down after being hit.
Then he curled his lips in disdain, which somewhat wasted his nervousness and excitement.
Jamie walked over and said, "It was just an ordinary skeleton, and the bullet he just fired was attached with holy flames. Of course, this kind of skeleton was easily destroyed."
Jason squatted down, moved the piled bones, and looked at the rotten long knife that also fell next to it.
He tapped his own pistol.
"What's the use of this kind of knife? It's not said to be used for chopping people, but it's more like used for smashing people."
The three of them also began to look around.
In addition to this skeleton, there are many corpses that can be seen around, but these corpses are obviously much more normal.
The corpses had long been covered in mud and had become dirty, covered with all kinds of plants that had grown alongside them.
These corpses have completely merged into the earth.
