Chapter 2 The strange stone platform

"Ouch!" Alice cried out in pain. She fell face down into the sea of ​​gold coins, and once again her fragile nose bone received a heavy blow.

Pulling Alice up with all hands, Vician took off the hanging object from her head, then held it in his hand and looked at it carefully.

Alice also noticed such a thing, and she asked curiously: "Is this a necklace? I thought there were only gold coins here."

"I originally thought so, but when I looked around, I also found a lot of rare and valuable items." Wei Xi'an shook his head and put the necklace in Alice's hand.

Alice took the necklace. She looked at the round gem that reflected her face, and wondered how many more such gems there were in this room.

The three of them have been walking in this treasure room for almost ten minutes. This room seems to have no end, and there is nothing else in sight except large sums of treasure.

Although from time to time, they would like to accidentally find other colors from the golden ocean like just now, but after all, it is not what they are looking for.

"Everything that cannot be taken away is garbage." Vician called the treasure at their feet.Alice had some doubts about this at first, but now she has come to agree with him.

To put it bluntly, their thinking is "aesthetic fatigue". No matter how beautiful the jewelry is, it will be eliminated one day, and the same is true for the golden valuables. The big gift that occurs is the so-called "aesthetic fatigue" and "vanity".

"Wait a minute, I feel something." Caschia suddenly stopped.He has been walking at the back since he entered this room, and at the same time he was extremely vigilant about his surroundings, as if he was looking for some invisible enemy.

When he said this, Alice and Vician both put their hands on their weapons.They trust Caschia's feeling, because people who are abyssal crossers generally have the ability to "perceive malice".

Although the triggering conditions and triggering restrictions of that ability are still unclear, it is there, and there will definitely be a day when a warning is issued to its body.

Could this be when [Malicious Perception] takes effect?

Caschia narrowed his eyes and looked toward a certain point in the northeast.His expression was very serious, so serious that it made people fearful.Alice was confused. She already had the staff in her hand, ready to cast the spell anytime and anywhere.

Vician did not pick up the dagger in advance, but followed Caschia's example, squinting and looking in the same direction.His eyesight was not as good as Caschia's, and he could only vaguely see a gray blurry shadow.

But it was enough, it was enough to attract his attention.

"That thing... is a bit interesting." Wei Xi'an smiled, with a small part of the tiger teeth on both sides of his mouth exposed, making him look very cunning.

On the other side, Alice couldn't see as far as the two of them.So she was urging the other two to tell them what they had discovered.

Caschia answered Alice by saying: "There's something unusual over there, and it gives off a... smell that makes me uncomfortable. It's a bit like before... Anyway, we should go there and have a look. .”

"Well, let's go take a look." Visian relied on years of tacit understanding and felt the uneasiness in Caschia's tone. He stretched out a hand and put it on Caschia's shoulder while continuing to use his relaxed words. He said in a low tone: "If there is really danger, wouldn't it be me?"

"Don't worry, nothing will happen this time."

He didn't know who he meant to say this, maybe it was to Caschia, or maybe it was to Alice.

It has to be said that Visian is indeed the leader of the entire team sometimes.He pulled the hesitating two people forward in the direction of the gray unknown object. Along the way, he led the two companions with a rather tough attitude.

Through Vician's "efficient" mobility, the three of them found the location of the strange object they had captured previously.There was a marble stone table standing quietly in front of them. Alice put her hand on the table and was surprised to feel the warm touch from her palm.

Thank God, she missed this warm touch so much.

While Alice was intoxicated and spread most of her body on the table, Vician and Caschia stood nearby and "commented" on the stone platform.

"The carving technique is very ancient, but it is indeed a human handiwork. Look at the flowers engraved on it, they are species that are only found in Xios." Vexian's profound knowledge reserve came in handy, and he The magnificent carved flowers are instantly recognizable.

Even though the flower is made of gray stone, its appearance is still the same as its own. If a skilled painter adds color to it, Vician is sure that it will look real.

"Fake things look real", this is almost the highest evaluation that Visian can give. Although it can't be seen from the outside, he is actually very picky about works of art...

"Have you noticed that there is no accumulation of debris around here? It seems that an area has been cleared specifically for this purpose to put the fast stone platform." Caschia pointed to the surroundings, and he continued: "I still I can feel the bad smell, and it’s very close to us.”

"It's nearby..." Wei Xi'an said and glanced around, and finally his eyes stayed on the stone platform.He watched Alice rolling around on the stone platform like a kitten that found catnip. He walked over helplessly, led her by the collar and pulled her off.

Alice's act of keeping warm was interrupted. She stared resentfully at Vician, the culprit, and complained: "Can't you just let me lie down for a while?"

"No, you are so brave. What if this thing is actually a coffin, can you climb up as unscrupulously as before?" Wei Xi'an let go of his hand.

Alice imagined what Vician said, smiled and waved her hands and said, "How is that possible?"

But after five minutes, her sentence changed from "How is that possible?" to "How is this possible!?"

What Weisian used to tease Alice came true unexpectedly. He found the mechanism hidden under the stone platform and used it to open the upper part of the stone platform.

The noise of clicking came to life, and the marble countertop automatically moved aside in a "head to toe" manner, revealing the true appearance of the entire stone countertop.

"She, who is she? Why would she..." Alice hesitated.

Chapter 2 Gem

The beautiful woman lay quietly in the sarcophagus. The gray marble made the person's skin whiter and whiter.But this kind of white is not lifeless white, but with a little pink, which is a healthy and attractive color.

From her face to her hands, and then from her hands to her feet, she looked like a living Sleeping Beauty.Unfortunately, she showed no signs of breathing, her abdomen showed no heaving, and even the bottom of her palm was cold when she touched it.

This lady did indeed lose her life at some point, and everyone present was sure of this, but the way she looked now was very difficult to understand.

After death, the body will stiffen and deteriorate, and will eventually turn into dust and merge into the new cycle. This is what the people of Nirnati believe.But the person in front of him seems to have violated the laws of the world and survived in a perfect posture.

How is this done?Everyone began to think involuntarily.

Surrounded by the sarcophagus, everyone did not dare to act rashly.Even Alice, an active person like her, didn't try to lie on it to keep warm.

The "thing" hidden under the stone platform scared her and caused a lot of hurt to her heart.

"I was holding a coffin just now to keep warm!" Alice thought in a state of collapse.

It is now the fifth minute after discovering the mystery hidden under the stone platform. The first discoverer, Vician, is discussing with Caschia how to lift the woman out of the sarcophagus.

Their movements had to be light and decisive, because no one knew what the consequences of moving the body would be.

do you remember?This is the inside of the underwater maze.

"I will lift her legs, and you will pull her upper body?" Visian took his hands out of his pockets, and as he spoke, he walked to the sarcophagus and started waiting.

Caschia followed after a moment. He gently lifted up the woman's shoulders and dragged her out of the sarcophagus a little.

Next, the two of them worked together to drag her out.

"Huh... unexpectedly heavy..." Wei Xi'an said while rubbing his wrist.He estimated the weight in his hand just now and was surprised to find that it was almost the weight of two adults.

Where in the world is there a woman who is petite but as heavy as a stone?It's not a stone puppet made by a dwarf. The lady in front of her clearly doesn't have the roughness of a stone puppet.

"Huh? What is this?"

Just as the other two people were inspecting the unusual corpse, Alice suddenly said this.She found a small wooden box with half a corner exposed under a doily inside the sarcophagus. She pulled out the wooden box and held it in her hand.

"This box is so shabby. It's really strange. Do you want to take a look too?" Alice walked to her companions holding the wooden box.

"Let me take a look." Wei Xi'an took the wooden box.He originally wanted to open it directly, but Caschia pushed him back the moment he started.

Visian's old friend, the abyss ferryer who was more than twice his age, had a serious face.His eyes were fixed on the old wooden box, as if he was looking at the contents inside through the wooden lid.

"You can't just open this box, there's..." Caschia thought hard about how to describe the contents of the box inside.He did not have special clairvoyance ability, but the unique perception of the abyss crossing told him that the things in the box were abnormally evil.

This alone gave him reason to stop anyone from acting recklessly.

"Calm down, here! You take it!" Vician shrugged and pushed the box neatly into Caschia's arms.Then he blinked like Alice, waiting for the other party to reveal the secret in the box.

Caschia felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by the two of them. He cleared his throat, and then opened the box with his own hands without saying anything.

There was a piece of velvet lining at the bottom of the box. It was rough and looked like it had been there for some time.On the lining cloth, there was an oval-shaped gemstone, with an unknown light flowing inside the gemstone.

At the same time, Caschia also discovered that the wooden box should have contained many objects similar to this gem, judging from other marks left on the lining.

In order to see clearly what Caschia saw, Alice and Vician both moved closer to Caschia and stood beside him to observe.

"It must be a very important gem, right? That's why it's placed in such a small box and hidden." Alice said.

Vician agreed with her, and beyond that, he connected the gem with the female body they carried out.He assumed that the box and the gems inside were her burial gifts and had extremely important meanings.

But even after confirming this, Caschia still couldn't figure out why the lingering malice attached to this gem.

After much thought, Caschia finally had to ask for help from the two magicians present. He was doubting the possibility of magic causing trouble.

Alice and Vician happily accepted this task, but no one expected that this task would bring a lot of trouble to their party.

At first, there was a dazzling white light emitting from Alice, followed by the melting and reorganization of the surrounding scenery.By the end, they weren't even there anymore.

After their vision recovered from the chaos, they immediately found themselves in a foreign land.They were surrounded by blazing fires, and the choking black smoke made them cough continuously. This feeling of suffocation and the burnt corners of their clothes showed that they were in the real world.

"Squat down, cough, think of a way out of here first, and then let us talk about it!" Wei Xi'an covered his mouth and nose and shouted to his companions in a vague voice.He wore leather gloves on his hands. Although they were soaked in water, they were obviously of no use in the fire.

Caschia was not in danger of being suffocated, but Alice next to him was like Vician, driven to tears by the thick smoke.

Alice didn't speak. She nodded in panic, lowered her body and ran with Caschia.

It was extremely lucky to have a companion who could guide the way in the fire. Caschia used his racial advantage to lead his companions out of the burning building.Just when they stepped out of the damaged door and gasped for breath, a man fell from the sky and fell to death in front of them.

—TBC—

Chapter 1: Counterfeit Miracles

What would an ordinary person do if they saw someone fall to death directly in front of them?

Stunned, opened your mouth, screamed?

Oh, this is such an uncreative reaction, just like the woman next to me.

"Ah, ah... ah!"

Alice heard the trembling voice, and the source was right behind her.But she didn't want to look back because there was a burning building behind her.

She was afraid of fires, remember?

After the screaming stopped, the woman who made the noise rushed over.She looked surprisingly young, with brown hair, the same color as the woman who was lifted out of the sarcophagus by Vician and Caschia.

"No, no, no, no! Why, why is this happening... This shouldn't, shouldn't be you!" This woman obviously knew the guy who fell to death. She was lying on the side, wailing repeatedly in a sad voice. With.

"Everything happened so suddenly, didn't it?" At this time, Weixi'an suddenly started talking. He leaned down and continued to the woman with tears in his face: "Before we had time to react, this happened. Such a thing. It’s so unfortunate…”

The woman nodded slowly, and answered with a choked voice: "Yes, yes. Who would have thought that they would cross the city wall and come in? It's them. If it weren't for them, my brother wouldn't have..."

She whimpered again at the mention of this, but after half a minute she found her voice again.She looked at the embarrassed young man in front of her. He seemed to be as old as her brother, and even his voice when speaking was the same gentle.

"Go quickly and take your companions with you!" The woman looked behind Visian, stood up, grabbed Visian's arm tightly and pushed him over.She said: "Go! Run to the north! Someone will meet you there, our knight captain, he is a good man, he will help you."

"Don't be like him, don't be stupid. As long as you live, there is still hope for you."

After saying that, she continued to squat down, hugging her brother who was no longer breathing, and shedding tears quietly.

Wei Xi'an staggered and stood not far from his companions. He turned back to look at the woman, then turned his head and started talking quietly with his companions.

"Okay, now we know that there was an attack here, but there is a knight commander in the north who is helping the victims." Visian briefly summarized the information revealed in the woman's words.

"If you want to go north, go in that direction." Caschia quickly identified the direction and calculated the best escape route.

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