Chapter 254

Receiving Miss Beiya's signal, Xia De pulled the two ladies in front and behind, and then lit the 【Bordeaux Candle】. The sound, heat, and figure of the three disappeared, and the light of the candle illuminated the front.

The three could almost be said to have rushed out of the tunnel, and when they raised their hands to face the attacks from all directions, they didn't see anyone with ferocious faces waiting for them outside.

The candle light illuminated the surroundings, and they finally felt relieved.

The tunnel was connected to an underground space similar in size to Xia De's bedroom, barely a cubic space. Opposite the wall dug out by Mercury Blood was a closed stone door. And except for the stone door, it was empty here, with nothing.

This was the official entrance to the ruins, and using the word "shabby" to describe this place was probably just right. It was not the huge building complex in the underground hollow in the imagination, nor the tomb of the ancient witch emperor in the legends of the story, but just a place like a dark room buried deep underground.

"If this place was really built by the last believers of the 【Innocent Creator】, they should have almost reached the end at that time."

Miss Beiya commented. She was a bit sentimental; after all, the other party was also a believer of the good god, and persisted for a thousand years after the god left.

Without pushing the door immediately, the three dispersed to observe the surroundings. Xia De raised his finger to observe the rock walls carefully. Except for the side where the stone door was located, the other three sides were actually engraved with text. Clearly, the ruins were established in the early Sixth Era (Chapter 172), but the text used was not the text of this era.

Fortunately, no matter which era those texts belonged to, it made no difference to Xia De, and he opened his mouth to translate them:

【Sixth Era Common Calendar Year 532, Joel Ode Caris, Scarlett Cade Guzman, Gina Angela Sewell, jointly sealed the ruins. Our Lord has left, and we are also about to sleep for a long time. The glory of the sect has been brilliant for a thousand years, but all things must have an end. May the day of the revival of our Lord 'Innocent Creator' grant glory again.】

He read while looking, and both ladies looked over.

"Do you recognize these texts?"

Xia De stopped translating and asked them.

"Don't recognize."

The brown-haired girls shook their heads together.

"No, I don't mean whether you recognize these words, but whether you know which kind of text this is?"

Xia De asked again, and Miss Beiya blushed:

"My ancient literature grades... the Holy See almost didn't let me pass the test."

"Don't recognize, this should be some kind of rare ancient literature. Such sects inherited from ancient times like to use rare ancient literature as a means of internal communication, on the one hand to highlight the antiquity of their own organization, and on the other hand for safety."

Miss Annette said, she knew Xia De could understand all texts, so she didn't ask much:

"【Mercury Blood】 should not have been able to translate these contents. See if there is any valuable information, we must move forward as soon as possible. Detective, give me the Magic Eye first, and I will walk at the very front in a while."

Xia De handed her the small jar he carried with him, and then raised his finger to continue looking at those texts. The vocabulary information of this kind of text was very small, and it needed a large paragraph of text to describe simple things, so there was not much content left:

【If our Lord revives, the oracle will definitely guide later people to excavate the sect's ruins. Our Lord's last creation, turned into a divine artifact rated as a Sage-level Relic by the Zhengshen Sect Society, is in the depths of the ruins...】

"Divine artifact?"

Miss Beiya interrupted Xia De in surprise:

"【Divine Gift Box】 is the creation of the Old God 'Innocent Creator'? Or is it that there is a more powerful Relic inside the ruins?"

"Detective, continue translating."

Miss Annette also frowned.

The three of them were sweating on their foreheads. Although the oxygen underground was sufficient, it was really too stuffy here:

【Later comers must not profane our Lord's divine artifact, and need to bring it away according to the sect's etiquette.】

"What is the etiquette?"

Miss Beiya asked again.

Xia De browsed through the next few paragraphs:

"Didn't say, it seems they assumed later comers knew the etiquette."

"Detective, continue translating, besides the so-called Old God creation, what else is in the ruins?"

【The sect's thousand-year accumulation, before sealing the ruins, was all donated through the Zhengshen Sect Society...】

"Ah?"

The young girl was surprised subconsciously, then covered her mouth embarrassedly, signaling Xia De to continue.

【Besides our Lord's creation, a defense system was built with several Relics to warn thieves. There are also...】

The traces were a bit blurry, but it could barely be seen:

【There are also the sect's teachings "Book of the Ignorant", left with eighteen pure gold carved plates;】

【There are also our Lord's holy emblem statues, sleeping with the three of us;】

【There are also filthy Relics sealed by the sect, suppressed here;】

Xia De suddenly coughed, covered his mouth subconsciously, and looked down, actually seeing blood in his palm.

Miss Beiya and Miss Annette nearby both saw the blood at the corner of his mouth and immediately stopped him:

"Don't look, Detective, stop quickly."

Saying this, Miss Beiya was about to pull Xia De.

"It's okay, there is one last sentence left."

Xia De shook his head, moved his eyes slightly away from the stone wall, and finally felt dizzy. This kind of ancient text itself was power; he didn't realize it at all just now. If this was a longer article, he would very likely have died silently.

【Did you forget that there is still me? If there is really danger, I will remind you.】

"Didn't forget."

He replied in his heart, continued to look up, but Miss Annette held his hand, and her purple eyes looked at him:

"Be careful."

The female diviner reminded softly.

【The sect was brilliant for a thousand years, and finally ended in the hands of the three of us. Sleeping here, spirit...】

The Life Ring in his soul trembled violently, and the spirit in his body was actually moved by the words, which made the 【Dark Box】 runaway incident appear before his eyes.

Xia De, who had learned his lesson, immediately closed his eyes and forced himself to forget the shapes of the dozens of marks behind. It took a long time before he said:

"No, the last sentence is like an incantation. There are defensive measures here."

Fortunately, he only read the beginning, so he didn't cause trouble. And through the marks on the three walls, they also knew that besides the 【Divine Gift Box】, there were actually other valuable things in the ruins.

It's just that, even if 【Mercury Blood】 couldn't translate these texts, having occupied this place for so long, they were very likely to have already searched inside the ruins. So besides the Sage-level Relic 【Divine Gift Box】 that couldn't be moved, there was probably nothing worth taking away in the ruins.

Next, they had to officially enter behind that door. Although Miss Annette only divined three dangerous Relics on the road, clearly it was impossible for there to be only these three Relics blocking the way in the ruins.

Even, the Silver-Eyed One might be at the door, just waiting for the three to open the door and then finish them off in one move.

Since they had already come here, there was no need to talk about retreating.

Xia De put on the golden necklace and lit the candle to make himself and Miss Beiya disappear. Miss Annette held the two jars containing the Magic Eyes in her left hand and hit the stone door with her right arm.

The stone door was opened, as if endless darkness floated out from behind the door. The only thing that could be seen behind the door was two huge red light sources, which made Xia De think of Mia the cat peeking at him from the crack of the door in the dark.

But the thing behind the door was clearly not a harmless creature like Mia. Even though Xia De stood behind Miss Annette, he still felt the terror and distortion coming from behind the stone door.

The creature's instinct was afraid of the unknown existing behind the door, and the two red light sources seemed to be warning of danger.

Ice layers spread out from the crack of the door, and the cold wind mixed with the stench, like an airflow coming out of a lonely grave in the mountains. An inexplicable feeling warned Xia De absolutely not to move forward.

After this moment, he suddenly understood that the two huge red balls should be eyes, and the volume of the owner of the eyes calculated accordingly was... Xia De never had any megalophobia, but thinking of this, he still felt his scalp tingling.

The wind was blowing violently, and in the darkness behind the door, something was rushing here. Miss Annette and Xia De were stunned, but now that they reacted, without thinking, they threw the two jars they were holding forward.

The candle in his hand could only illuminate a space very close inside the stone door. The three saw together that the two glass jars containing Magic Eyes thrown toward the inside of the door were grabbed by a giant hand stretched out from the darkness. Then the giant hand retracted into the darkness not yet illuminated by the candle light, the ice layer spreading from inside the door stopped, and the wind with the stench also stopped.

The three were breathing violently. At that moment just now, there was really a feeling of impending disaster. After the giant stone hand retreated, they dared to enter behind the door completely. Xia De raised his finger high, and Miss Beiya summoned several bright yellow light balls to fly upward.

Clearly, the space outside the door was not as narrow as a normal bedroom, but the space behind the first door really looked a bit like the underground ancient ruins in the story.

The space behind the door was still very empty, with a specific area about the size of St. Deran Square, and a height of more than four stories. A giant-like stone statue stood in the center of this empty space, stepping on the ground and reaching the sky, with its head almost directly sticking to the highest stone wall.

The stone statue had a total of two legs, four hands, and three heads, with a semicircular stone ring connecting the two shoulders, drawing an arc trajectory on the top of the head.

The huge red eyes seen just now were located on the central head, and besides that, almost all over the entire stone statue, from top to bottom, were densely covered with other eyes. The stone statue was like a dead object and didn't move, but those thousands of eyes were constantly opening and closing under the silver and yellow light, and the eyeballs looked at the "tiny" three people, and each eye clearly revealed the color of wisdom.

"Is this a gargoyle?"

Even if this thing didn't move, its own oppressive feeling was enough to make people with fragile spirits go crazy. At the same time, this could also be considered the 【Relic】 with the largest volume Xia De had ever seen.