Chapter 38: 37. Ancient Civilization (Continue to ask for follow-up reading)

37. Ancient Civilization (Continue to ask for follow-up reading)

The road ahead is right in front of him, and there are no doubts.

The two unified their opinions and goals, and after resting for a while, they began to prepare to leave the island core world.

Li Ang originally thought that picking up gems would take a long time, but Zoe summoned the Earth Snake.

The golden holy snake coiled beside the girl in a piece of light. It no longer showed ferocity, but followed the girl's lead, like a puppy she raised, snuggling up to her.

"She is already familiar with me, we can talk in our hearts."

Zoe said while gently stroking the giant snake's chin. Its giant mouth was enough to swallow her whole body at once, but it indeed looked like they were connected in heart.

"She can help us collect gems."

Zoe and the holy snake looked at each other. The other side turned its snake head, and the crown on its head lit up with light, as if using some spell. The surrounding air trembled slightly.

Soon, the sound of breaking ground and hard objects colliding resounded through the cavity. The gems pushed away the gravel and floated into the air, and then flew towards the Earth Snake.

It opened its upper and lower jaws, and the gems flew into the snake's mouth inlaid with amethyst on the inside like a stream of water.

"This is?"

"Her body can save these gems, and then merge with me, so I can carry them casually."

This is a good way.

In the Nubis world, equipment like storage rings or space pockets in some fantasy works in the past is very, very, very, very rare. Only particularly wealthy and powerful forces can possess them.

Even for a top team, there might be only one or two, and they are used to carry the most important things.

Li Ang estimated the value of the gems swallowed into the snake's mouth. He couldn't buy a manor in the Holy City, but buying a small building with a courtyard was no problem at all.

To buy an airship, good equipment and magic engines need to be gathered, but the hull should be able to be won.

The starting capital for re-adventuring came all at once.

The "hidden location has rich rewards" said by the system map is really not nonsense.

He was a little curious, are there "hidden locations" in other places, whether he has been there or not?

He felt that this hidden location definitely didn't refer to the island core cavity, it's just that the island core cavity of Satus Island has things, so it counts as a hidden location.

It is necessary to go to every place to see.

It's just that I hope the hidden location with a high power level like the Holy City is not a bank vault... actually, it's not impossible, I haven't settled the account with the bank yet.

How did they collect Rams' bribes, freezing it just because they said so?

Once thinking, all kinds of troublesome things gradually emerged: favors owed in the past, invitations to explore forbidden lands, orders taken over, customized orders, invitations to join the team from some difficult young lady...

Throwing these things to the back of his head, Li Ang and Zoe returned to the ruins.

The Earth Snake's five consecutive vibration waves shook the rock layer on the surface of the cave wall into huge falling rocks, burying the ruins underneath, but it seemed to have mysterious power to maintain its shape and was not smashed by the stones, but instead supported the giant stones, only some cracks appeared on the hall pillars.

Now with the Earth Snake, its body only needs to arch forward to push away the giant stones.

Re-entering the hall and seeing the remaining half of the circular array and mechanical pillars again, Li Ang found that a small amount of golden light spots remained in the deepest part of the circular array's groove.

He wiped a little with his gloved index finger and saw that it was some golden powder, very much like the residue after some liquid dried up.

And at the center of this half of the circular array was an egg with a golden shell that had long since hatched.

"This is?" Zoe's gaze drifted to the Earth Snake.

"According to your dad's notes, this snake was bred here." Li Ang said.

The girl said to the giant snake: "Do you remember this thing, Xiao An?"

"Xiao An?"

"Yeah, she just told me her name is Anastasia. This name is so long and awkward to read, so I just abbreviated it."

"Fine."

The Earth Snake, or Xiao An, arched the eggshell in the center of the circular array with its head, which was not small at all.

"She said she couldn't remember." Zoe said.

Li Ang was a little concerned about one point, that is, why does the Star Soul have a name?

Monsters are not like intelligent races that give children names to identify individuals. They are born from accidental anomalies like magic disasters, and most of them are similar to beast habits.

After forming a population, intelligent races will name them, but they are all species names.

And some people like to name the contracted monster summon beasts, with a mentality similar to raising pets.

Super monsters like the King of the Island or some regional BOSSes are identified by titles. For example, "King of Worms", "King of Purgatory", "Heavenly Disaster God", "Abyss Demon", etc.

Zoe's father said in his notes that Anastasia was "bred" by this ruin.

Li Ang pondered in the ancient ruins for a while.

Sinking the various conjectures that emerged into his heart, he just drew the runes with his portable adventure notebook.

Before raiding the Ancient City of Dark Night, he had been to the Thousand Tacheng, the City of Magic, and specifically checked all relevant information in the Corridor of Ten Thousand Volumes there.

The reason why the Ancient City of Dark Night is called the Ancient City of Dark Night is because there is space distortion above it. This distortion causes the supernatural world and the natural world to collide. The magic power that would not actively interfere with the material world continues to interfere in the distortion, causing the sky light to disappear, and dark night has shrouded it for thousands of years.

Monsters have been produced in the dark night, and they occupy the ancient city below as a nest. Many scholars speculate that this is the reason for the extinction of that civilization.

Among these monsters, the strongest is the King of Worms. It manipulates the power of death, continuously reviving the dead ancient people in the ancient city into high-rank undead creatures, making the Moon Night Island where the ancient city is located a forbidden land, and also polluting the nearby airspace, affecting other islands.

In the process of crusade against it, Li Ang found that this ancient city belongs to a very special civilization. They mastered the ability to travel between the cloud seas very early, built cities on different islands, and there were a large number of runes of unknown meaning in the cities.

Scholars in Thousand Tacheng classified civilizations that use similar runes as a nation called "Deus".

Regarding the Deus, Li Ang didn't continue to check. If so, he didn't know how many days he would have to soak in the library.

Nubis is very old. Various brilliant ancient civilizations existed and then perished. The time interval between them is even longer than their own survival.

Some of the wealth in these civilizations is used by adventurers, and they often find good things that have special functions but cannot parse the principles and cannot be imitated.

And the magic technology that is now prevalent is also developed by the inventors relying on their cross-era knowledge combined with the knowledge left by various ancient civilizations.

Ruins related to Star Souls, Deus, Li Ang feels it is worth noting.

Except for the circular array and the creation equation prompted by the system, there is nothing else in the ruins, and Zoe did not have any special reaction again.

The two returned to the ground.

Returning was very cool, because they could ride on Xiao An's back. Its snake body easily climbed the steep surface between the rock crevices, carrying the two back to the ground.

On the fifth night of Satus Island, the island core journey ended, as if living again.

Coming to the wellhead of the basement, Xiao An turned into light and merged with Zoe, and the two returned to her home.

"Finally back, so tired, want to sleep." The girl stretched and was about to walk into the house.

"I suggest you wash up." Li Ang said.

After the battle underground, both of them were covered in sweat and dust.

There is only a wooden shed for water pipe showering in the backyard. To take a full bath, you have to go to the pond in the mountain forest, and the bath supplies in Zoe's house have long been used up.

It won't take long, Li Ang will take her away from this life where everything is in short supply.

Avoiding the attempt of this problem girl to pull him into the shed, after she came out with a pout, Li Ang went in.

He wet himself with the water pipe, and the cool mountain spring brushed his cheeks. A group of red light lit up in his dark vision.

Opening his eyes, the distant night sky was lit up in red, as if dyed by the red clouds of the evening, but there was a touch of purple mixed in it.

Various roars resounded through the sky, especially the explosions.

He frowned.

Purple-red light group, that is the dust cloud produced by magic ship cannons, which shows that a war is happening in the sky not far away. ===== CHAPTER 39 =====