Chapter 234 "The Door"

"This...how did you do it?" Lei Ting opened his mouth in disbelief. ]]

There are dozens of small holes on the wall, and a stone emitting pure white light is placed in each hole. Not only that, even a circle of this strange light stone is placed on the upper edge of the ceiling. Under the soft light, every corner of the hall Every detail is spot on.

It was the first time for Ashes to see such an expression on the explorer's face, and he couldn't help feeling a surge of joy in his heart, "Don't you know? After the witch injects power into the magic stone, it can stimulate extra abilities."

"What about these? Are they also magic stones?"

Lei Ting carefully took out a light stone and held it in his hand. After leaving the small hole, its light did not weaken at all.

"I don't know," Tilly shook her head. "These stones may have been here for hundreds of years—if the ruins really have such a long history. They were all hidden behind the stone slabs before, so they have never been seen." Now, to open this special mechanism, only a witch can do it."

"Didn't you make them light up?"

"No, they can light up by themselves." Tilly grabbed a magic stone and held it up in front of her eyes, the pure white light illuminated her beautiful face, "If this is a device that needs magic power to maintain, then it is impossible To be taken down so easily, is like the flame of a candle cannot be easily removed from the candle. At present, the hole in the wall has no special purpose except that it provides a place for the light stone."

"If it is as you said, it can light itself, and it can last for hundreds of years, then the value is simply incalculable," Lei Ting said in amazement. You can sell hundreds of gold dragons, and the brightness is less than half of it."

When the sailors heard such an astonishing price, their eyes on those stones suddenly changed.

"According to what we said before, you can take half of it," Tilly said noncommittally, or her focus was not here at all. With plenty of light, she could explore the hall more closely. Ashes couldn't bear to watch her tear the seaweed piece by piece, so she swung the big sword and swept away all the attached plants on the wall like mowing grass. Soon, the second magic stone hidden in the wall was also discovered.

Tilly injected magic power into it in the same way. Accompanied by the clear and crisp metal impact, everyone was surprised to see that a huge stone slab above Tilly's head descended obliquely, with several tight copper ropes pulled on both sides, and the inside was a dug ladder. Finally, one end of the slate slowly fell to the ground, and the other end led to the top of the ceiling. Ashes looked up and saw a horizontal metal door blocking the end of the passage.

"Tilly," Seeing the fifth princess walking up the stone stairs without hesitation, Ashes couldn't help but said, "Let me go first."

"It doesn't matter, this is not... a place where treasures are hidden," she climbed to the top of the stone ladder, holding a raised magic stone next to the door, and the metal door quickly opened in response.

Seeing Tilly getting into the door and disappearing into the ceiling, Ashes had no choice but to follow closely while holding the giant sword in her hand.

Passing through the ceiling, Ashes couldn't help but widen her eyes, and saw above the ceiling was a room that was much smaller than the hall, and the walls were also embedded with light stones—what surprised her even more was that this place was hardly soaked by water past traces.

Wooden tables, chairs, bookshelves, cabinets...all the furnishings are intact, covered with thick dust, and even broken spider webs can be seen. A row of books were neatly placed on the bookshelf, all stained gray by dust. In addition to the books spread out on the table, there were also cups, water jugs and pen holders. There was only a solitary shaft of the quill pen left, and the ink had long since dried up. It was a world away from the algae and shell-filled halls below.

Lei Ting climbed up the third one, took a deep breath after looking around, "This is..."

"Abandoned residence," Tilly picked up the book spread out on the table, gently patted off the dust, and flipped through the pages. "Someone lived here for a long time."

"What's written on it?"

"I don't understand," she shook her head, and unfolded the book to show the two of them. "They are all words that I have never seen before."

"The ones on the bookshelf seem to be the same," Ashes wiped off the dust on the spine of the book with his fingers, the words were like strange wavy lines, completely meaningless.

"We can take it back and study it slowly," Tilly said with a smile. "According to the agreement, both the book and the magic stone belong to me."

"Of course," Lei Ting touched his beard, "but when you find something, I hope you can share this ancient story with me."

"no problem."

...

The three searched carefully in the room on the second floor, and quickly checked the general situation.

Instead of finding a new magic stone, they found a strange thing at the other end of the room—it looked like a thick metal pipe at first glance, one end sank into the stone wall, and the other end shrunk step by step. Only the thickness of the wrist remains, with a glass lens embedded in the end.

"What is this?" Ashes knocked on the body of the tube, and a series of crisp echoes came from inside - obviously the middle of the tube is hollow.

"It's a bit like a lookout glass for nautical use. Maybe the people living here often use it to observe the outside world." Lei Ting put his eyes next to the mirror and looked at it for a while. It's broken."

"Not necessarily." Tilly pointed to the wall behind the metal pipe, "Look here."

Ember looked in the direction of her finger, and saw a copper plate with a handle embedded in the wall, and there was a small hole under the handle, which seemed to be a place for a key to be inserted. The fifth princess walked over and tried to pull the handle, but the copper plate remained motionless, "It's locked."

"Let me do it," Ashes held the handle and pulled it hard, and the entire copper plate fell off the wall immediately.

"Ha, it looks like you guessed it right," Lei Ting applauded, "It's another magic stone mechanism."

A huge magic stone was stuck in the groove behind the copper plate. Unlike the previous two pieces, it looked much larger in size and more purple in color.

"Do you want to activate it?" Ashes asked.

"Well," Tilly nodded without hesitation, holding the stone with both hands, but this time there was no movement for a long time.

"what happened?"

"It...is too big," beads of sweat had already appeared on her forehead, "I feel that it is absorbing magic power continuously, as if the mechanism behind it is very huge."

"Forget it," Ashes frowned. She knew that once the mana was exhausted, the witch would probably fall into a coma directly, and it was obviously not a good choice to spend all her mana in such a dangerous place.

"No, it's getting better soon, I can feel it." Before Tilly finished speaking, a loud sound came from inside the wall, like continuous thunder, and then the whole room shook.

"This is... an earthquake?" Lei Ming held on to the metal pipe to prevent himself from falling, and Ashes immediately grabbed Tilly and hugged her into his arms. The dust fluttered down, and the three couldn't help coughing.

This shaking lasted for nearly a quarter of an hour before gradually returning to calm.

Molly poked her head out from the stairs, "What happened just now?"

"A new organ," Ashes curled his lips, "Is the bottom all right?"

"Everyone was terrified, and several ceilings fell. Fortunately, I covered them with my magic servant." The little girl walked to her side, "Master Tilly, what are you looking at?"

Surprisingly, Tilly didn't answer her, her eyes were stuck to the end of the metal pipe, and it took a long time before she let out a long breath, "It's unbelievable..."

Ashes moved his eyes curiously, then was shocked by the scene before him and couldn't speak.

A vast land emerged from the other end of the "lookout mirror". The edge of the land was like a cliff, and the bottom could not be seen at a glance. And in the center of the cliff stands a huge stone arch, the inside of which is deep and dark, like a giant mouth that chooses to devour people. (To be continued.)