Mercenaries and Adventurers

Zhao Ji thought about it many times, he couldn't spend so much silver, and owning them was a very dangerous thing for him. But after thinking about it again and again, he was still reluctant to part with so much treasure, so much silver, even if he spent it, he might not be able to spend it all in this life.

In the end, Zhao Ji still felt that it would be better to take out the silver from this ruin and hide it.

Although this place is remote, the four huge petrified tree stumps outside can be seen on the hills on both sides as long as they are not blind. People's curiosity cannot be suppressed. If someone is curious to explore these tree stumps, they will definitely find the relic hole inside the tree stumps.

In this way, they will definitely discover this ruin just like him.

No matter how Zhao Ji regards the silver in the silver passage outside as his own, it is impossible for him to give up.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji made up his mind to find a time to take off the silver and bury it in a safe place.

But for now, let's explore the elf ruins first.

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Zhao Ji repeatedly confirmed that the petrified leaky tree root had been blocked, and then he walked out of the elf residence.

The seat of the elf residence is already half the height of the ruins. Zhao Ji guessed that there should be three rooms below to reach the bottom of the ruins.

Judging from what the elves built the ruins here and what they did, it should be the working area below here.

Not sure what might be down there.

He didn't want to have any dangerous things down there, but he also hoped that there would be some useful things down there. Don't be the same as above, mostly empty, nothing.

Zhao Ji held the torch and continued down.

The stairs washed by the water were a little slippery, and the leather boots without the iron pieces were a little slippery, which made Zhao Ji more careful to hold the wall around him with his hands to avoid slipping.

Slipping and falling from here is not a joke, it's okay to slide down the stairs, but the **** may hurt from being bumped. But once it falls from the side of the unprotected stairs, a height of more than 20 meters can directly kill a person.

Walking carefully along the stairs, there were another fifty steps, and Zhao Ji came to a place that was different from the residence of the elves above, as expected.

There are also terraces and stone gates in this place, but the terraces are quite large, not giving way to the terrace at the entrance of the passage, and the stone gates are not single-opening stone gates, but double-opening stone gates like the stone gate at the entrance of the passage.

Zhao Jineng judged that there must be an important place inside. He first observed the stone gate. There were a lot of words written in Elvish language on the stone gate. Zhao Ji had to copy them into the notebook first.

Unlike other large and small stone gates, there are no images of plants carved on this stone gate, but various gestures of animals. The above animals have natural postures, such as running, screaming with heads raised, or playing and playing, all kinds of images in life are portrayed on them. Zhao Ji even saw the image of a human being. A man and a woman wrapped in animal skins were happily waving and greeting each other, looking very natural.

Zhao Ji touched his chin. This must be the human image in the eyes of the elves back then. It was not too different from the image of the goblins he had dealt with before.

He didn't find any water stains seeping from the inside of the stone gate on the stone gate, so Zhao Ji opened the stone gate directly.

The whistling sound of the wind came from the opening of the stone door, and Zhao Ji was careful not to let himself be sucked in. He didn't know what was going on inside, and it was not safe to just go in like this.

After a while, all the fresh air poured into the room. Zhao Ji could tell from the echo of the wind in the room that the space inside the room was not small.

After rubbing his hands, Zhao Ji didn't bother to use the birdcage to test the air inside. After all, it was in a negative pressure state before, and it might even be in a vacuum state. Now the air in the room is fresh air just poured in. Zhao Ji Ji is still very relieved.

Holding a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, Zhao Ji just walked into this new room.

The interior space of the room is huge, and its height is not high. Zhao Ji can see the top floor of the rock when he looks up. The difference is that the lighting equipment on the top floor of this room is not the same as the two metal hanging baskets in the house in the silver passage. The lighting in this room seems to be done by the crystal polyhedron fixed on the roof of the room. Of course, they will not be lit up now, and all the lighting is done by the torches in Zhao Ji's hand.

The whole room is quite big, and Zhao Ji estimated that it would have to be as big as a basketball court no matter what. Of course, such a large space is not empty. The whole space is divided into various areas by low stone walls and stone troughs where large plants may be planted.

Zhao Ji didn't really see how the elves divided the various areas. After all, the various plants that had grown luxuriantly were taken away by the elves, leaving only the stone troughs and the dry soil in the stone troughs.

Beside the low stone walls, there are various other stone furniture, such as tables, chairs, benches, bookshelves and pools. It doesn't look like it's prepared for the three elves. It's hard to think that there were other intelligent creatures waiting to assist here ten thousand years ago?

Zhao Ji couldn't figure it out, so he had to hold a torch and look for things that might be useful in these areas separated by low stone walls.

The elves cleaned it up completely, and Zhao Ji didn't even find a hair, only found some huge mushrooms in the stone trough next to the inner wall.

These mushrooms are as tall as a person, with hard stems. When you strike them with a long sword, you can make a crisp collision sound, but when you touch them with your hands, you can feel the softness inside. The canopy of the mushrooms is not conspicuous, not gray The autumn ones are not good-looking, and Zhao Ji guesses that's why the elves didn't take them away.

In addition to the tall mushroom, some other small mushrooms also grow here. Zhao Ji touched the other small mushrooms and found that they were also very hard, not like something edible.

Zhao Ji no longer cares about this place. Zhao Ji was not surprised to find such creatures as mushrooms. First, mushrooms do not need sunlight to grow and survive. Second, these mushrooms can grow in the stone troughs of elves, which are obviously plants that were raised by elves before.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji wanted to understand why these mushrooms grew here. The elves might have taken away the mushrooms that had grown here before, but the spores of the mushrooms might still be in the soil, and they continued to grow after the elves gave up the ruins, and they looked like this.

Ignoring these mushrooms, Zhao Ji continued to search the rest of the room.

Zhao Ji searched around the room twice, but he still couldn't find anything useful. It should be said that he found nothing. All the useless things were taken away by the elves.

There was no other way, so Zhao Ji had no choice but to use a stupid method. He moved all the stone furniture one by one, and began to look for odds and ends that might be stuck on the backs and bottoms of the furniture.

Needless to say, this trick is really effective. Zhao Ji found some dried seeds of plants from the back of the bookshelf, and found a few precious elf coins that he had never seen before from the underground gap of the stone chair.

Elvish coins are much like human coins, flat, round metal coins. However, the elves' coins are obviously not equivalent to precious metals such as copper, silver, and gold in the eyes of humans. Zhao Ji only found two kinds of their coins, one was a little smaller, and I picked up several pieces, which were made of a kind of green metal, one side looked like a blooming flower, and the other side was covered with finely divided gemstones , forming an unknown symbol. On one side of the symbol, there is a short sentence written in elven script.

It's a pity that Zhao Ji couldn't recognize that kind of plant, nor could he recognize the meaning represented by the symbols composed of gems, let alone what the elf language meant.

He only found one other slightly larger coin. This coin was made of purple metal, and on one side was a weird plant with teeth and claws. It looked very annoying. On the other side, there are no symbols made of gemstones, and on this side of the coin, there are more elven characters written on it. If it weren't for the fact that the size of this coin is the size a coin should be, Zhao Ji might have used this coin as a tool for the elves to record words.

Zhao Ji put these coins away carefully. Needless to say, compared to the large amount of silver that would cause death, these elven coins are easy to carry, and it is estimated that it is easy to find rich collectors in big cities to exchange them. into money.

Most importantly, this thing shouldn't cause him any trouble. He only has a few elven coins, and you won't be able to find more.

Unlike a whole piece of silver, if you take out one, people will think you have more. This is a very dangerous thing.

In addition to these elf coins, Zhao Ji also found some other gadgets. He didn't know what these various unknown gadgets hidden in the corners were for, so he had to put them all in his backpack.

Among these things, Zhao Ji also found a metal ring, should it be a ring? Zhao Ji is also not sure, the ring was under a stone table and was covered by a supporting stone leg of the stone table. He was very excited to find this thing. This kind of thing is already a good thing.

The fingers of the elves are obviously bigger than those of humans. Zhao Ji took off the gloves and tried all the fingers, but they couldn't fit them securely. He had no choice but to put it in his backpack first.

After that, I didn't find anything again. Zhao Ji was a little tired after being busy for so long. He extinguished the fire in the oil lamp along the way, held the torch and returned to the large terrace on the top floor of the ruins.

After adding some wood to the campfire that was getting smaller, Zhao Ji just put on a full set of armor, rested and fell asleep on the rocky ground that was not cold.

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Not to mention that Zhao Ji was not vigilant, it took ten thousand years to wipe away all dangers. Throughout the ruins, the elves left here in an orderly manner. When they left, they didn't even leave a single plant, and they obviously didn't come back here again. Therefore, there is no need to be careful about possible defense measures in the ruins.

Zhao Ji didn't sleep well this time, and there was no sound in the ruins. All Zhao Ji could hear, except for his own breathing, was the crackling of wood burning in the campfire.

Monotonous, quiet, silent.

This made Zhao Ji, who was used to the sound of natural wind, the sound of chickens and donkeys barking, and the sounds of human life, feel quite uncomfortable.

He seemed to have a vague dream in his sleep. In the dream, he saw a tall female elf always taking care of various plants, watering and fertilizing, sometimes shaking the flowers of each plant, and even more so. Always beware of a pet raised by another elf stepping on her carefully cultivated plants.

The elves sometimes gather in a certain elf's residence and pray around a half-person-high stone 'furniture'. This 'furniture' Zhao Ji felt a little familiar, but he couldn't recognize it as something he had seen before.

Just when Zhao Ji watched these elves emit various silver lights around this 'furniture'. A burst of chirping animals pulled Zhao Ji out of this bizarre dream.

Zhao Ji listened to the chirping of animals coming from the top of the ruins facing him.

He was a little puzzled, chirping?

Are there no animal sounds in the ruins? No, there is not even a living creature in the ruins, and where did the cry come from?

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji quickly came to his senses~www.readwn.com~ drew out his long sword in his hand, and at the same time lit the torch that was set aside on a small campfire.

Raise your hand and poke the torch up.

Zhao Ji saw many small heads and eyes staring at him. Suddenly so many eyes and heads were staring at him, Zhao Ji was taken aback, but when he came back to his senses, Zhao Ji realized that those eyes and heads staring at him were actually some rocks and petrified rocks hanging upside down on the top of the ruins. Bats among the roots.

"It's strange, why didn't these bats hibernate outside, why did they come in." Zhao Ji scratched his head, but his gloved hand only touched the sturdy helmet.

Zhao Ji added a few pieces of wood to the campfire, and then walked out of the ruins through the silver passage.

In the rooms on both sides of the stone gate, Zhao Ji also found a few bats making nests inside. They were crowded together, and they were not afraid of Zhao Ji, a human being with a torch. When he came into the house, the bats stared at him with wide eyes.

This made Zhao Ji speechless, as if he had become an outsider, and these bats had become the masters of this ruin instead.

When he came outside the ruins, Zhao Ji found that the bats that had been hiding in the crevices of the petrified tree stumps had basically run into the ruins one by one, and there were some other bats flying from outside the tree stumps.

Zhao Ji climbed to the top of the tree stump along the rope. It is now noon outside and the air can be slightly warmer. Zhao Ji saw the bats living in a few tree stumps in the distance, flying over in twos and threes, throwing themselves into the cave entrance of the ruins. The dark ruins can't cause the bats a little trouble. After all, they rely on ultrasonic echolocation to detect the environment, and their eyes are not very good.

Zhao Ji took off his helmet and really scratched his hair this time, sitting on the top of the tree stump wondering.