dark moon

Chapter 199 Francel Excavation Site

"Left, then left, okay, put it down, slower, slower, are you in a hurry to eat? Slower, yes, at this speed, it's off to the side, move right, right here, put it, Let it go, let it go, it's done."

"Use your strength, boys. Work harder. Dig another meter and then you can rest. That one over there, be gentle. Do you think you are forging iron? If you shovel this shovel down, if you hit some recording slate, Then you are the sinner of Parvatija. Be gentle, hey, you are too gentle, are you massaging the ground? I swear by my beard, you definitely did it on purpose."

"Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding."

"Drill deeper, maybe thirty centimeters more. The spar must be detonated deep in order not to cause damage to the structure of the ancient city. Stop, stop, stop, don't you hear the sound? You dug something. Rock? I know. It's a rock. Do you think it's enough to just say it's a rock? The city walls are also made of rock, and the ancient buildings are also made of rock. Damn it, who knows what you have chiseled into. Let me see, where is the torch? Give me some light, I Look, well, keep chipping away, it’s rock.”

"Hahaha, I knew there was a treasure, the camel skin. It's a big harvest. Don't touch it. Put your hands down. For more than 4000 years, even the camel skin can't hold it. It will break as soon as you touch it. Cook, damn it. Yes, Cook, you damn old thing, have you died in the sun? If not, come over here and see what I found. Hahahaha, help me solidify this animal skin book. If you fail, be careful I will burn it. Your beard."

"Magic fluctuations. There are magic fluctuations down here. Guys, if you don't want to die, stay back. This is not something you can move casually. Kevin, stop being lazy and come over to help me control the ambient temperature. It is constant at [-] degrees. If the temperature gets too high and you get blown up, no one will care about you. You guys, I told you to stay away. What’s there to see? Why are you so close? If there is an accident, I will be fine. How about you? Everyone will die."

"Wow, the ruins of the Heart of the City. I was the first to discover the ruins of the Heart of the City. Hahahaha. I just said that the Heart of the City should be at this location. You guys who may see Hades at any time are a bunch of idiots. , actually dare to say that I made a mistake in my calculation, bah, before you knew how to count, I had already started to deal with the development of ruins, maybe I made a mistake in my calculation?"

It was another fruitful day, and it was already afternoon. Although the weather was hot, the excavation site was still noisy.The experts of the excavation team are distributed in twos and threes in different areas, each directing the workers to excavate. The average age of these experts is at least five or sixty years old, but each of them is more energetic than the young people, running around under the scorching sun. Go, not caring that the sweat has already soaked your clothes.

If you zoom out, you can see the entire excavation site.

This is a very formal camp, as orderly as a military camp or a militarized mercenary group camp.The camp, which is about 400 meters in diameter, is surrounded by a loess wall to form a closed environment. There is a circle of horses outside the wall. There is also a ditch three meters wide and eight meters deep outside the wall. There are sharp wooden nails standing at the bottom of the ditch. It's frightening to watch.

There are twenty earthen sentry towers distributed within the wall. The archers on the sentry towers can attack any position inside or outside the camp. The arrow towers are manned 22 hours a day, which can serve as both sentries and defenses.

Further inside, a layer of insect-proof tape isolates all kinds of poisonous insects, and a layer of fire zone is covered with flammable magic products. Once the enemy breaks through the outer layer of defense, the ignited fire zone will be the last line of defense.There are also a large number of low walls scattered throughout the burning zone. When a battle breaks out, these low walls serve as the defensive positions of the mercenaries.

Inside the fortification, many simple houses were built in one corner, which were the residences of the owners of the excavation site. On the other side, there used to be a spacious open space, which is where the excavation site is now.

When we just arrived at the destination with Dak, what everyone saw was such a formalized camp like a temporary fortress. Needless to say, only a leader of a militarized mercenary group like Dak could set up such a defense. Excellent camp.

Seven days have passed since the excavation team arrived at their destination.

When we first arrived at our destination, it was just a barren wilderness with no grass growing on the loess. The strong wind rolled up the loess and dyed the entire field of vision yellow. Under the scorching sun, the wilderness was lifeless, as if it were a dead world.

No one would believe that there are ancient relics from the pioneering era here, not even the excavators hired from the gravel city. They lived in the gravel city in their time, but they have never heard of any ancient relics, it must be those strange ones The mage was mistaken.

For the sake of remuneration, they still followed the instructions of professional scholars and dug on the loess under the scorching sun.Earning five gold coins for a month of hard work is really too lucrative. As for whether they can dig things out, they don't care, just wait and see the jokes of these experts and adults.

However, these workers who wanted to see a joke were doomed to be disappointed. On the third day, the first stone mass that was suspected to be the roof of an artificial building was dug out from under the soil. In just four days, the excavation site had changed. became what it is now.

The original empty field has been dug into a deep pit of more than 20 meters. Standing on the edge of the pit and looking down, this ancient city named Francel seems to have emerged from ancient history and is once again revealed to the world.

The city is similar to Gravel City. The buildings are also made of blue rocks. The southern end is the tallest and largest building in the entire city. It is thick, solid, and has excellent defense. It is a very important facility at first glance. According to experts, this is the pioneering team. The leader of the city, that is, the residence of the city's lord.

Similar to most newly built pioneering cities, the City Lord's Mansion is not only the residence of the City Lord, but most of the administrative departments are located in the City Lord's Mansion, which is equivalent to the combination of the City Lord's Mansion and the City Hall.Not only that, in the event of serious danger, citizens will take refuge in the city lord's palace and rely on solid buildings for final defense.This style is in line with the castles of the lords at the end of the Emerging Age, and was indeed very effective for the small settlements of that period.

The east and west sides are still covered by loess, and only the roofs of two or three buildings poke out from the soil. Presumably, there are relatively low buildings on both sides. If nothing else, they should be some residences and workshops. .

On the north side of the city ruins is a building that can make all scholars hold their breath. It is a simple magic tower.Due to the simple conditions, the magic tower is not too high and the shape is very simple, but the magic energy in the tower is still stirring even after more than 4000 years.

As for the center of the city, it is a huge square. The heart of the city was once buried in the middle of the square.This place was built as a square because it is the closest to the heart of the city. When encountering non-biological abnormal disasters, such as when a rift breaks out, it is safer for citizens to gather in the square.But now that the city has been abandoned, the heart of the city has lost its effectiveness. It is just an ordinary square.

"Brother, turn fossils into mud. Control the area and don't collapse the wall. You guys, take advantage of the opportunity to dig quickly. Be careful when digging and don't touch things you shouldn't touch."

"Wind, wind, I want wind. It's full of poisonous gas. Which one of you is the mage? Please bring some wind here. With such a small entrance, I have to wait until tomorrow for the poisonous gas to dissipate on its own."

"Wait, wait until I cast a detection magic. I'm worried that there are magic traps here. Please be careful. Nonsense, I know it's been more than 4000 years. The problem is that magic traps that have been set for more than 4000 years are sometimes worse than the ones just set. It’s even scarier because no one knows when it will explode.”

The excavation site was in full swing. More than 50 workers were shuttled between the ravines, and were ordered by more than [-] experts to run around. They were exhausted and panting. The experts were not relaxed either. They didn't just use their mouths. Everyone was talking. He was highly concentrated, lest he accidentally destroy something important, which would lead to regrets for the rest of his life.It can be said that the interior of the excavation site is the domain of experts and workers. There is only a small mercenary group composed of ten people, led by their leader, a silver-level mercenary, patrolling the site.The task of these people is to be ready to deal with emergencies at any time, ranging from building collapse and ground subsidence to digging out some ancient monster from the soil.

Well, the ancient monsters are not their responsibility, that is the responsibility of the mercenaries on the ground, such as Mia and the mercenaries she hired.

Outside the excavation site, the remaining 40 or so ordinary mercenaries were divided into three groups. One group stood guard on the sentry tower, always paying attention to the movements around the camp.We are not in a safe city now, this is a wilderness full of dangers. Not to mention medium-sized monsters, even a few insects crawling into it may kill people. If you are not careful, half of the people in the camp will have died.

The second group has the strongest combat effectiveness. They are stationed at different locations in the camp, ready to take action at any time.

The last group patrolled back and forth between the barracks and the construction site. The dangers in the wilderness came not only from the ground, but also from the sky. The shadows imprinted on the ground were not necessarily ordinary birds. In the case of the three plague vultures in the morning, On the surface, if the female swordsman who always hides behind the clergy hadn't heard something wrong and rushed over in time, and joined forces with the winged man who likes to fly around in the sky to kill these three monsters, the mercenaries would have A funeral ceremony was held.

This is also the reason why high-level mercenaries receive the highest remuneration, but are usually the most leisurely. They only eat, sleep, and wander around the excavation site every day, but they do not cause dissatisfaction among others.In the past seven days, the camp has encountered several overt or covert attacks by powerful monsters, including a raid by a group of more than 100 wilderness thieves, all of which were solved by these high-level mercenaries themselves.Everyone has a clear division of labor and performs their own duties. Ordinary mercenaries are responsible for trivial matters. High-level mercenaries take action at critical moments. Among them, team leader Mia is the most critical link. All personnel scheduling is under her command.

However, now she is a bit unable to speak.

"Here and here, the defenses of these two points need to be strengthened. Hiss, the manpower is a bit insufficient."

In the largest barracks, high-level mercenaries are gathered here because...it's cool here.

The two assistants of team leader Mia were outside directing the excavation, while she mainly stayed with the high-level mercenaries.Although the excavation team is led by her, she has another identity after all, that is, the leader of this escort team composed of high-level mercenaries, so she stays in the barracks now and listens to the team members discussing issues seriously. .

A defense map of the camp was spread out on the table, high-ranking mercenaries were sitting scattered around, and Duck was standing beside the map, pointing on the map.

There are circles and dots on the defense map. The various lines are very complicated and have colorful nails inserted. The mercenaries have big heads. Although Dak has carefully explained the meaning of various marks, it is a pity. Everyone was still dizzy and could only listen to him blankly, with no one able to say anything.

"Pa", Shuuer pressed his finger on a certain mark on the map and slowly moved to the location pointed out by Duck.

"No." Similar situations have occurred many times in the past few days, so Dak knew who it was without looking up. He shook his head and said, "The four people here cannot move. The scouts I led reported yesterday. Outside There is a brood of bone raccoons, and they stay here just to deal with the bone raccoons."

Shuer frowned. This was a monster that caused headaches. It was best to live in peace with it. Even if they wanted to cause trouble, a few people really had to be left to keep an eye on them.

"I need at least three more people." Dak said thoughtfully, "The person staring at the ring-tailed lizard cannot move, and the person controlling the fly nest cannot move either."

"Turn back the people from the direction of Fransel's gap." Xiuer tapped his thigh with his fingers, "It's just three, enough."

"What about the burrowing spiders? Those who like to hunt in groups at night, and the outer walls of the camp can't stop them. I don't want to wake up one night and see several big spiders surrounding me. "

"Can spiders dig holes?" Shuer asked.

"Well, you want to solve the problem once and for all." Dak thought about it and said, "Blow up the Franchal Gap completely?"

"With a 57-meter-long crack in the ground, it's not difficult to just blow up the entrance and exit."

"What should I do if the induced collapse affects this side?"

"Ask the experts." Shuer pointed to Mia, who was listening in a daze. "If you dare to excavate ancient ruins, there must be experts in this field in the team."

Similar situations have occurred many times in the past few days. Although the first meeting etiquette when the two met for the first time was very unique, they became surprisingly serious once they got into work.It's not just the two of them. Although these high-level mercenaries appear to be lazy on the surface, everyone is actually very serious. After all, everyone knows that their current task is related to the safety of more than 100 people in the excavation site. Any A negligence may lead to the casualties of the protected person, and professional ethics make them have to be serious.

"Indeed." Although she couldn't get into the topic of camp security, Mia still understood the last thing. She stood up and walked out expressionlessly, "I'll call him. You can ask him face to face."

However, before she could go out, the door of the house was knocked open, and an excavation team member rushed in panting, "Master Mia, go take a look, you have found something."

　Happy new year to everyone in advance

　　
　
(End of this chapter)