Chapter 150 Stone Tower
Lightning flies over the Misty Forest.
In her eyes, the world seemed smaller. As far as the eye can see, the details have disappeared, leaving only patches of color. The brown ones are the earth, the gray ones are the mountains, the green ones are the forests, and the blue ones are the rivers.
And green occupies the vast majority of the field of view.
Different from the bright and vivid grass green in the fields in Bianbian Town, the green here is mixed with gray and black, deep and thick. No matter whether you go west or north, you can't see the end of this dark green. If you look at it for a long time, you will feel like you are falling, and Lightning has to look up at the sky every once in a while to dispel the growing sense of restraint.
And behind him, gray dark clouds pressed down very low, covering the peaks of the Impassable Mountains, and covering Border Town under rain and fog.
She is currently searching for the ruins of four hundred and fifty years ago in the Misty Forest. This is undoubtedly a great expedition. Half a month ago, when she heard the task Roland gave her, Lightning immediately agreed with her chest. Unlike Hakara, the snake magister who is holding on to the ancient books, His Highness Roland repeatedly explained that this blueprint can only be used for reference, and he must pay attention to safety, and it doesn't matter if you can't find it. This made the little girl very happy.
She knew that what His Highness said was right, even a castle, after more than four hundred years, would be swallowed by plants growing everywhere and gradually turn into a pile of dust. But she still wanted to find this place. Confirming the position of the six-pointed star was equivalent to determining the position of the Holy City of Taquila. Lightning, who has heard the ins and outs of the matter, naturally understands what Taquila means.
There, she is likely to help His Royal Highness discover the real reason for the church's concealed war with the devil.
This is much more exciting than father taking him to explore the route!
According to the method of making a sea chart, Lightning filled a square piece of parchment with equidistant grids, and then simply calculated the content filled in the grid based on the distance he flew within a period of time. When the grid is filled, almost this area is also searched.
Now she's halfway there.
The approaching speed of the rain cloud behind him was faster than Lightning imagined, and the little girl could even faintly hear the rolling thunder in the clouds. She lowered her altitude and swept towards the forest below.
At this moment, a gray-white shadow flashed past the corner of his eye.
She was startled, stopped her body, suspended in the air, and turned her head to scan the area she just passed by.
Nothing was found.
Is it an illusion? Lightning thought about it, and decided to fly to this area again.
This time, she lowered the height, and the forest is no longer a whole piece of green, with mottled trunks, forked branches, and leaves of various shapes... The details are separated from the color blocks and returned to the eyes of lightning again .
After dozens of breaths, she suddenly saw a small half of the white stone pagoda under the layers of branches. The top of the stone tower was completely cut off, causing the tower body to be covered by trees, making it difficult to find in the sky. If it wasn't for dodging the rain clouds, she probably would have missed it.
Lightning's heart beat violently, could this be the location of the ruins shown on the map?
She circled the stone tower for a week and found nothing unusual, so she decided to take a closer look.
After landing, the little girl realized that it was not appropriate to call it a white stone tower.
Its surface is covered with vines and moss, which has turned gray-green when viewed up close. The body of the tower is slightly tilted, as if it had been hit by some huge force. There are scattered stones all around. The material and color are similar to those of the stone tower. They should come from the broken top of the tower. The small estimate has been buried in the weeds and dirt. The entire stone tower is quite huge, and the area at the bottom of the tower is equivalent to the castle of His Royal Highness Roland. Man-made objects like this usually have basements.
Logically speaking, she should record the location of the ruins at this moment, and then return to Border Town.
The various adventure stories in her mind also reminded her that it is not a good choice to break into a ruin that has been sleeping for hundreds of years alone, and the corrupt gas sealed underground can kill her.
But Lightning found that she couldn't move her feet at all, and curiosity kept nagging in her ears: go in and have a look, just take a look. She looked up at the sky, and the originally clear sky had become gloomy and gloomy at this moment. Obviously, a heavy rain was coming.
Well, she told herself, it would be uncomfortable to fly in the rain, go to the tower to hide from the rain and take a look. If you find a basement, never go in alone.
After thinking about it, Lightning obeyed his irrepressible curiosity, walked to the vine-covered entrance, pulled out a knife from his waist, cleared a small hole for himself to walk through, and climbed in. The door panel made of wood has long been corroded, and she entered the tower smoothly.
With the top off, the inside can be seen clearly without a torch. Lightning circled around the bottom of the tower, but found nothing. Obviously, the exposed items and traces have been erased by time, except for the dilapidated partition wall, nothing remains on the ground. She also found progressive holes in the walls that should have been used for stairs, but the stairs themselves had disappeared.
The passage to the basement is very conspicuous, just to the southwest of the first floor, facing the entrance of the stone tower. Lightning suspected that if he headed towards the barren land in this direction, he would be able to find the holy city of Taquila recorded in the ancient books.
Just then, fine rain fell from the sky and dripped on Lightning's nose. She walked slowly into the passage extending underground, turned a corner, and a wooden door appeared in front of her. It wasn't completely corroded, but it looked dilapidated and would fall apart at the slightest touch.
Soon, the light rain outside turned into a downpour, and the crackling sound of the rainwater hitting the ground gradually became one, from chaos to inseparability. Although there is no rain in this place, the accumulated water quickly flows down the stone steps. In order to avoid getting his shoes wet, Lightning lifted his feet off the ground and slowly floated up.
Suddenly, she vaguely heard a cry, mixed with the sound of rain, it was almost indistinguishable.
The sound immediately made her hair stand on end, the little girl looked around in panic, there was nothing in the narrow passage except for a few scattered withered vines. Taking advantage of the faint light coming in from outside, she opened her waist bag, took out a portable torch and flint from inside, and wanted to light a fire to examine it carefully.
But at this time, the shout sounded again, this time it seemed to come from the wooden door behind her. Lightning couldn't help but tremble all over, and turned around quickly. The torch accidentally fell to the ground, splashing a cloud of water.
This time the voice seemed much clearer, and she could vaguely distinguish it was a woman's voice.
Someone in the basement? This thought made her back sweat, how could this be possible! The stone pagoda should be a relic left over four hundred years ago, and it is located in the depths of the Hidden Forest. Who else can reach here except myself?
"help me……"
When the third sound sounded, it was already very clear. The sound did indeed come from behind the wooden door, and it sounded like it was calling for help. Lightning swallowed, carefully placed his hand on the door, and pushed gently. The wet and slippery wooden door fell backwards, hitting the ground with a muffled bang.
A tall figure suddenly appeared in front of her!
Lightning felt that the blood in his whole body was coagulated, and the appearance of the figure was exactly the devil in Soraya's painting! In the dim light, the devil seemed to be watching her as well. His huge body leaned forward slightly, and an ax was held in a big hand with only three fingers. Dark red blood stains reflected on the ax. In an instant, all the bloody images of these brutal men killing the sisters of the Mutual Aid Society came to mind.
"Ah!" She burst into a scream, threw the flint in her hand at the opponent, turned around and rushed out of the passage at the fastest speed, flew directly into the rain, and fled in the direction of Border Town.
Lightning didn't notice that the piece of flint hit the devil's chest, making a crisp crashing sound. A circle of tiny cracks appeared at the place where it was hit, and then quickly spread until it spread all over the body. The devil's body collapsed and shattered in these more and more cracks, turning into waves of white dust and disappearing with the wind. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)