Chapter 103 Ancient Disaster

The Shadow Moon Leopard suddenly attacked the skeletons in the sacrificial field.

Yu Ke, who was squatting beside the mold, subconsciously cast his eyes over and immediately noticed that the skeleton that was knocked away had clearly fallen apart, but the spine was trembling constantly. A brown-red spell appeared on the surface of the gray-white bones, and then attracted the other skeletons around it to move closer to it.

This scene made Yu Ke quickly realize that these seemingly harmless skeletons had been cursed long ago.

The tomb robbers who broke into this place that year not only set a trap in the statue.

They not only wanted to prevent the awakened forest spirit from taking back the statue, but also wanted to kill the later ones viciously to prevent others from discovering this place.

But what can these jagged skeletons do?

Almost at the moment when the skeletons were pieced together again, an arrow flew over and directly shattered the spine, causing it to break again.

Then came the strange movements of several other skeletons nearby. Scriptures also appeared on their spines, urging these skeletons to stand up again after a hundred years and attack the later ones.

However, what Yu Ke saw were more than a dozen trembling skeletons, who could not even run, but approached him and the Shadow Moon Leopard with broken clothes hanging on them.

Perhaps when they were first placed here, they had strong killing power and could launch a sudden attack on any creature that approached.

However, the passage of time has weakened them continuously. No matter how mysterious the spells engraved on the spine are, the fragility of the skeleton itself is irreversible.

Yu Ke was even too lazy to take the Leviathan Axe. He just bent his bow and arrows to kill them one by one. With the cooperation of the Shadow Moon Leopard, he easily destroyed all the skeletons.

After kicking the skull open, Yu Ke bent down and picked up the half of the spine with the scattered cloth next to it and looked at it from left to right.

The Shadow Moon Leopard approached the skeleton and sniffed a few times, then rushed to the dark area on the other side.

The trait of checking for omissions and filling gaps quickly gave Yu Ke the information he wanted.

Cursed spine: A spine with an evil curse attached to it. Any living being approaching it will cause it to react and trigger the hidden curse energy.

Judging from the situation in the sacrificial field, the tomb robbers' team had fought with the guards of the sacrificial field.

After achieving the final victory, the tomb robbers chose to take away the guards, whose identities were still unknown, and used the bodies of their companions to create a curse trap on the spot, trying to prevent further exploration by later comers.

Yu Ke found other fragments of the spine in his hand one after another, wrapped them with cloth and put them in the bag on his waist. These are the key clues to explore the identity of the tomb robber. After returning, he can take a few photos and ask Ye Yingtong to help interpret and check the source.

Roar~ Roar~

The low roar of the Shadow Moon Leopard came from the darkness not far away.

Yu Ke hurriedly got up and hurried over. When he arrived, he found that the Shadow Moon Leopard was roaring at a wall full of pits.

Previously, in the center of the sacrificial field, most of the surrounding area was shrouded in darkness. Now, as he approached the rock wall here, Yu Ke discovered that there was a whole carved stone wall here, with many reliefs and human-shaped pits covered with dust on it.

He turned up the brightness of the helmet, but still couldn't see the reliefs on the wall and the contents of the surrounding murals. Yu Ke simply waved his hand to activate the wind and snow control ability, summoning a group of light green airflow to blow away the dust from the wall.

The ancients liked to record some major events through murals and carvings. The content on the stone wall in front of him was probably related to the foundry here, which might allow Yu Ke to glimpse the secrets of thousands of years ago.

When the dust was blown away by the breeze, the true face of the stone wall appeared in front of Yu Ke.

Walking from left to right, Yu Ke quickly caught several important pieces of information as he looked around the walls covered with murals and reliefs.

The murals and reliefs should record the same thing.

Because there is no clear time, Yu Ke can only roughly judge that it should be in a feudal dynasty thousands of years ago. At that time, a beast disaster broke out in a certain place. Countless monsters rushed out from the ground, broke through the human town, and slaughtered and devoured the people.

In order to fight against this disaster, the court summoned a large army to fight against it in the strong pass.

In this process, humans suffered heavy casualties, and for a time, the human beings were devastated. Some aliens joined the war with some tools, which reversed the situation.

The aliens and humans discussed the means to fight the enemy, and presented something that looked like a bamboo slip to the emperor. The location of the pit on the wall should be the relief commemorating the aliens, but it was a pity that no one knew where it went.

Seeing this, Yu Ke couldn't help but look back and glance at the sacrificial site.

Under normal circumstances, there would be no such pits left in half of the carving. There must have been reliefs in these places at the beginning, but they disappeared after being destroyed. This made him speculate that these alien statues should be the guards here.

They helped the human race to repel the beasts, and at the same time left behind methods to suppress disasters and restore order. This is why there are foundries and sacrificial sites here. It is normal for the human race to regard them as loyal partners.

To create a space of this scale inside the mountain, it is needless to say that the manpower and material resources consumed are self-evident.

After thinking about it, it is indeed true that only the dynasty at that time could implement this plan without regard to the loss in order to fight monsters and suppress disasters.

What exactly did they build?

Confusion resurfaced in Yu Ke's mind. He walked to the end of the mural, but found that this part of the stone wall had been completely erased by some means, leaving only a dozen interlaced gullies silently mocking the later comers.

While Yu Ke was concentrating on checking the mural, the Shadow Moon Leopard next to him still stayed in the original place, turning back and forth anxiously, shaking his head left and right while sniffing the air.

"What are you looking for?"

After several side-by-side battles, Yu Ke and the Shadow Moon Leopard had become more familiar with each other. Noticing the latter's abnormality, he turned around and asked.

The Shadow Moon Leopard couldn't speak, but just looked up at the fluorescent green light ball, then ran back to the sacrificial site, picked up a skull, threw it to the place where it had been before, raised his hand to fiddle with the skull, and smashed it into powder.

"I know these tomb robbers have stayed here before, and there are traces of them there. No, you mean, they disappeared here?"

Looking at the skull that turned into powder and disappeared, Yu Ke guessed what Shadow Moon Leopard wanted to express.

Shadow Moon Leopard nodded and growled to indicate that Yu Ke guessed correctly.

"How can people suddenly disappear? Is there any mechanism here?"

Yu Ke frowned and thought, reaching out to knock on the stone wall next to him, and heard a dull sound. It should be solid inside, and there is no secret door. He looked at the fluorescent green light group again, hoping that the forest spirit could give some hints.

In fact, since entering this area, the activities of the forest spirit have been inexplicably silent, and no longer lead the way, just wandering around, like a lost person looking for the right direction in a daze.

After all, the forest spirit has also been sleeping for hundreds of years and has just woken up recently. It is hard to say whether its will is complete.

More importantly, up to now, Yu Ke has never found the connection between the forest spirit and this area, and there is no place for the forest spirit in the murals and stone carvings.

This is abnormal.

If the forest spirit is just an insignificant role, why build such a magnificent temple for it and worship the bronze statue?

"There must be a reason why they built the foundry and sacrificial site behind your temple. The tomb robbers also desecrated your statue before leaving to prevent you from coming back. There must be some kind of connection here. Think carefully, what can you sense around here?"

Yu Ke can only hope that the forest spirit will wake up, so he stood up and looked at the latter and asked.

The fluorescent green light ball that hosts the forest spirit's will sank to the location of the shadow moon leopard, and the light pattern on the surface trembled continuously, and then suddenly crashed into the bluestone floor in front of the stone wall.

"Hey, even if you can't find it, there is no need to seek death, right?"

Yu Ke, who was standing next to him, subconsciously reached out his hand, but saw that the light ball actually penetrated in along the gap of the bluestone bricks.

Realizing a certain possibility, Yu Ke raised his foot and stomped several times, then lay on the ground again, with his ears close to the ground, calming his mind, and relying on his super perception to hear an unusual sound, there is nothing underneath!

"Old way, you retreat to the side."

Yu Ke waved his hand to signal Shadow Moon Leopard and Forest Spirit to retreat, drew out the explosive arrow, aimed at the bluestone bricks in front of the rock wall, and released the bowstring.

Bang~

The sound of bricks and stones breaking and falling mixed with the explosion sound. When the smoke and dust dissipated, a three-meter square gap appeared in front of Yu Ke. Several iron rings and wooden utensils could be seen near the bottom of the wall.

Walking to the edge area and letting the light shine in, Yu Ke first saw the broken stone plank leading directly to the bottom. Obviously, there should have been a plank road here, but it was deliberately destroyed by the group of tomb robbers, and the gap was covered with bluestone bricks.

Fortunately, it was Yu Ke who came today. The Forest Spirit and Shadow Moon Leopard were both extremely perceptive beings, otherwise it would be easy to miss them.

Squatting at the edge, with the help of the light, Yu Ke was surprised to find that there were a lot of plant roots underneath. They grew along the stone wall, as if supporting this layer of space.

Deeper in the room, a faint blue light could be seen, and the extremely rich breath of life inside could be sensed.

Before Yu Ke could figure out the situation inside, the Forest Spirit could not wait to drill in from the gap, and the Shadow Moon Leopard was still following closely behind. Yu Ke had no choice but to follow and leap down on the stone steps against the wall.

In the process, the scene of the bottom space finally appeared in front of Yu Ke.

Unexpectedly, this place was not built by the ancients. The top was full of lush green plants, and the walls were no longer bricks and stones, but hard soil with slippery moss on the surface.

Descending to the middle layer, Yu Ke saw a lush giant tree growing underground. Its height was perhaps only a little over 20 meters, but its size was extremely large, with a trunk diameter of more than 6 meters, and its crown covered the entire top layer of the space.

There were a large number of branches connecting the upper bricks and stones, and it was obvious that it was supporting the entire mountain space above.

Not only that, Yu Ke noticed that there were complex lines near the locations where the branches were connected, extending to various parts of the ceiling, and finally forming a huge underground magic circle!

After entering this underground space, the forest spirit went straight to the bottom of the giant tree, like a tired bird returning to the forest.

Yu Ke could feel the rich natural energy fluctuations in the air, which was enough to show the excitement of the forest spirit.

Judging from the current situation, the key reason why the ancients built the foundry and sacrificial site here has surfaced.

They wanted to use the energy contained in this giant tree to realize their plan, and for this reason they spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to dig and build the space inside the mountain, and the former forest spirit should be the owner of this place.

The temple outside is their reward to the forest spirit.

Just thinking of the gap above his head that was deliberately hidden by someone, Yu Ke couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.