Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji sat on the wooden ladder, holding the unknown object taken out of the metal hanging basket with both hands, and looked at the curly flower wrapped in crystal or glass with puzzled eyes.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Ji remembered that when he was cleaning and hunting slime monsters in the swamp outside Kendall, he once saw a huge weird plant in the center of the swamp on a full moon.

At that time, the weird plant was bathed in the light of the full moon, Zhao Ji felt that it was not kind, so he didn't approach it.

As a result, this thing that may be used for lighting has now been found in this ancient elf ruins.

In other words, it turns out that the flowers of that strange and mysterious plant can be used to make lighting equipment.

Finally figuring out one thing, Zhao Ji carefully put this rather heavy polyhedron into the backpack on his back. He didn't dare to drop it on the ground, what if it was smashed, he didn't know how much money he would lose.

After putting the polyhedron into the backpack, Zhao Ji reached into the metal hanging basket and groped for a while, but found nothing. After confirming that there was nothing inside, Zhao Ji carefully climbed down the wooden ladder step by step.

Pushing away a charging station a little, Zhao Ji took out the wooden ladder and put it aside to wait for it.

The things in this room are placed like this first, Zhao Ji picked up the torch and spear, first returned to the cave of the ruins, put the polyhedron in the backpack on the ground, and then returned to the depths of the passage, ready to open the stone door on the other side of the passage .

Still first push the stone door open a small gap, let the fresh air in the passage flow into the interior. Zhao Ji waited for a while before continuing to push the stone gate.

After the stone gate was opened, Zhao Ji first walked around with the light of the torch to see if it was the same as the house on the opposite side.

Zhao Ji could tell at a glance that the two rooms were not the same, at least there were not as many charging stations as in the opposite room. The interior of this newly opened house is quite messy, with all kinds of sundries piled up on the ground, and many things have collapsed and decayed. It seems that they have not survived the wear and tear of ten thousand years.

This made Zhao Ji actually happier. After all, although the opposite room is very clean and tidy, it also shows that the real and useful things in the opposite room have been taken away by the elves. And this messy room, although it may be some sundries, is a useless thing that the elves at that time dismissed.

But Zhao Ji doesn't mind. The sundries that the elves may not like may be of greater use to him.

After Zhao Ji figured it out, he went in and cleaned it up without any excitement. He still picked up the birdcage with a long spear first, and stretched it far into the interior of the house.

The waiting time is boring, but Zhao Ji does not want to capsize in the gutter, he has to pay attention to all kinds of small places, after all, he is only one person who came to explore the ruins, if he fainted after inhaling poisonous gas and substances, he No one could come to help him.

He can only die silently in this place where no one knows.

After waiting for a while, Zhao Ji took out the cage and breathed a sigh of relief. The birds in the cage were very healthy.

In this way, Zhao Ji felt relieved, raised the torch and walked carefully into the room.

This room is still the same hexagon as a whole, and its size should be the same as that of the opposite room, with the same area. But there is a wide metal shelf standing on the side of this room, which may have been filled with various supplies. But the metal shelf has not changed for a long time, but the various materials on the shelf have been completely damaged.

Zhao Ji approached a metal shelf placed at a ninety-degree angle to the wall. I tapped the metal frame with my gloved hand, and the metal frame made a bang sound.

You can tell that these metal shelves are still strong just by the sound.

I grabbed a handful of rotten materials on the shelf and grabbed them with one hand. The palm of my hand just felt like I had grabbed a handful of flour. Even though there were some other things in it, a little force with my hand would crush those things.

Zhao Ji frowned, if all the supplies here were like this, then he wouldn't get anything. There are at least a lot of crystal gems inlaid on the charging station in the opposite house. I hope this house can also give him enough gains.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji knocked on these metal shelves that have stood for thousands of years, and felt that these things are quite good. They have not decayed after being placed for so long, and they still maintain sufficient strength. If they are smashed into pieces and smelted again , I wonder if it is possible to make up a whole set of metals for armor?

Zhao Ji became interested in these unknown metals made of metal shelves. He grabbed a metal shelf with one hand and lifted it up. He wanted to test whether the shelf was heavy, but unexpectedly, he just lifted it casually, and the whole shelf tilted to one side.

All kinds of decaying materials on the shelf fell down in a large area at an inclined angle.

Zhao Ji hurriedly let go to escape from the fallen rotten supplies.

With a bang, these materials that had been decayed by time fell together and aroused a large cloud of thick smoke and dust. Zhao Ji hurriedly evacuated here, and he also took the birdcage at the door of the house with him before he left.

Zhao Ji ran to the passage gate before stopping. Turning his head to look, the room that was just opened was still emitting puffs of smoke and dust.

At this time, Zhao Ji suddenly discovered something. The smoke and dust pouring out of the house did not simply fall to the ground slowly, but drifted along the passage to the depths of the ruins regularly.

windy?

But it has been so long since he opened the passage, the air pressure inside the ruins should be the same as the air pressure outside, right?

It's hard to say that there is still a working ventilation system inside the ruins.

His current location should be under a certain hill next to the outside world. It stands to reason that there should be no ventilation system that can work normally. Are the ventilation passages blocked?

Zhao Ji leaned against the silver wall of the silver passageway, thinking about various possibilities, but in the end he couldn't come up with anything. After all, if he wanted to get the answer, he had to search inside the ruins to find out.

After waiting for a while, until all the smoke and dust had settled, Zhao Ji stepped forward to explore again. This time, he didn't dare to move those metal shelves casually anymore. He didn't expect the weight of those shelves to be so light, and he could lift such a big metal shelf with just one hand.

After learning the lesson, Zhao Ji no longer puts on airs, but other rotten materials still need to be checked.

There are many non-organic materials that are still intact. Although they are still broken at the touch of a touch, they are much better than things that may be grains.

Zhao Ji touched all these things on the shelf left and right, some were made of stone and metal, no matter what they were, Zhao Ji put them all in his backpack and took them with him.

Some things that may be jars are still intact after thousands of years, which makes Zhao Ji feel very good. These jars look like porcelain, but they are extremely light, and most of them are empty inside, but there are also some that may have something in them. Some jars with open lids can be shaken, and the sound of dust moving can be heard, and some An unknown liquid was stored inside.

Zhao Ji didn't move the jars with contents inside. He just carried the empty jars one by one to the entrance of the ruins, and took out all kinds of odds and ends from the house one by one from his backpack and put them into the jars. Temporarily stored.

In the room where the materials are stored, apart from some small odds and ends that have survived the erosion of time on the shelves, there are also some relatively large unknown tools, which are all stored on the bottom of the metal shelf and placed close to the floor. Zhao Ji ignored some damaged items, but Zhao Ji took out some of the items that looked good one by one.

As for the former lighting equipment on the roof of the new room, Zhao Ji still leaned against a metal shelf with a wooden ladder to take out the crystal polyhedron in the metal hanging basket.

Zhao Ji put both things together, hoping they are good things.

After the exploration of the two houses was completed, Zhao Ji continued to explore the interior of the ruins with lighting tools.

After walking through the silver passage for a while, Zhao Ji suddenly felt as if he had walked into a rather empty underground space. He held up the torch and looked around. Except for the small area around him being illuminated, there was no return light from the torch light emitted to the front and left and right.

Zhao Ji opened his eyes wide, and carefully looked at the large dark and empty space in front of him.

Every sound he made told himself that there was a vast void in front of him, but he couldn't see a bit of it.

Turning around and lighting a torch at the top of the passage where he came, Zhao Ji found that the roof here is very high, and the walls extend along the top of the passage. It is estimated that there are at least seven or eight meters above the passage to reach this empty dark space top layer.

Swallowing a mouthful of spit, Zhao Ji said that he was not afraid of darkness, but his human instinct told him that darkness is what humans should fear, and that only light and flames are the real and reliable partners of humans.

A torch was not enough for lighting. Zhao Ji put down a wooden lamp holder, poured some kerosene and string, and lit it.

Lampholders provide more consistent lighting than torches. The lamp holder placed on the ground made Zhao Ji realize that he is now on a terrace in the sky.

The entire terrace is not small, and it is more than enough to park a few donkey carts. On the edge of the terrace, there is a circle of stone fences, which are carved with various flowers, plants and trees, preventing people from accidentally falling into the darkness one step away.

On the left side of this terrace, there is an unprotected area without a terrace, but Zhao Ji found the scratches on the stone floor that have not disappeared for thousands of years, and found that there was a frequent transportation back and forth leading to this empty place. Bulky supplies.

On the right side of the terrace, Zhao Ji found a slow-moving staircase with a guardrail. The staircase followed the direction of the wall along an arc and slowly extended into the darkness ahead.

Only then did Zhao Ji discover through the wall that this empty space might be a cylindrical shape, at least the one on the upper floor is cylindrical. He doesn't know the bottom line.

To test how big this dark space is and how deep it goes down from the terrace. Zhao Ji took out a useless thing from his backpack and threw it far into the darkness.

Boom, ----------- Boom Boom.

The useless thing Zhao Ji threw hit the wall not far from the balcony first, and then fell down. After a while, the thing fell to the ground and bounced a few times.

From the time of the flight and fall, Zhao Ji probably guessed how big it was.

From this terrace to the opposite wall, there is at least a dozen meters away, and from the terrace to the bottom of this space, there is a height of fifty meters.

Drink, this place is really big, no wonder the light from the torch doesn't reflect much back.

In addition to the fact that the material of the wall is not covered with silver, which reduces the reflectivity, there is also the fact that it is really big here.

There must have been lighting equipment here, but let’s not talk about whether the lighting equipment in the Wannian era can be used. Even if it can be used, the elves probably have taken away the original energy equipment of this ruin.

what to do? Should he continue to explore now?

Zhao Ji thought about it for a while.

I think it is still necessary to explore, but the places that have already been explored do not need so much lighting equipment, and several oil lamps outside can be moved in.

As for the Silver Passage, he only needs torches~www.readwn.com~ It took a while, Zhao Ji extinguished all the oil lamps in the Silver Passage and moved them into the terrace, and then he moved many more from the camp. wood and some stones.

He built a campfire on the patio. Compared with torches and oil lamps, the lighting brought by campfires is stronger.

Under the light of the campfire, Zhao Ji finally got a rough view of the upper part of the terrace, but the bottom was still pitch-black.

Sure enough, seven or eight meters above the terrace is the top of the ruins. The top is not made of large rocks, but huge petrified tree roots.

This result was beyond expectations, but within reason. Sure enough, the elves still rely on these huge plants to build the main building of the entire ruins.

At the height of the entire terrace, there is only one platform like it. Looking along the left and right curved walls, there are walls made of large stones on both sides. There is nothing on it. At most, there are only some things that should have been hung there. the hook. But the things hanging on the hook must have been taken away by the elves long ago.

Zhao Ji thinks that most of the things that were hung on those hooks may be some expensive decorative items, such as some paintings or some artworks.

In the open and unfenced place on the left side of the terrace, Zhao Ji also saw a metal guide rail on the wall with enough firelight. Zhao Ji guessed that this must be something similar to an elevator. After all, it is so big that it is too inconvenient to walk up and down the stairs. It's good that the elves can fly, but if they don't have the ability to fly, they have to rely on the elevator on the left side of the terrace.

Now there is nothing on the left side of the terrace, and Zhao Ji guessed that the lifting platform should be at the bottom.