Chapter 188, Ruins entrance passage, stone sculptures and stone gates

Author: Yuan Zhen’s Fish

Chapter 188, The entrance to the ruins - Passage, Stone Sculptures and Stone Doors

After Zhao Ji finished preparing, he picked up the last bird that had been kept in the birdcage. In the past few days, he had been feeding and watering the bird. The bird had no resistance, so Zhao Ji gave it to it.

Eat and welcome everyone who comes.

It made Zhao Ji want to keep a bird as a pet for a long time.

But let’s talk about pets for a moment. We still need this bird to explore the ruins.

Climbing up and down the rope to the bottom of the tree hole, Zhao Ji checked his equipment again.

Weapons, no problem.

Various tools, no problem.

Provisions, no problem.

Exploring supplies, no problem.

Armor, no problem.

Very good. With all the things on him, Zhao Ji began to climb the wooden ladder carefully.

Thump, thump, thump, thump.

Because the equipment on his body was very heavy and the wooden ladder made by Zhao Ji was too simple, he had to climb up the wooden ladder carefully step by step.

When he climbed to the top of the wooden ladder, Zhao Ji's hands could just hold the solid stones at the edge of the cave entrance. The stones at the edge of the cave entrance were all made of dark black hard large rocks. Zhao Ji did not

Worry that they will become loose and brittle over time.

After Zhao Ji held the edge of the hole with both hands, the weight of the entire body was mainly borne by the palms. He used both arms to put his elbows on the edge of the hole, and then used both arms to lift the upper part of his head and chest.

The bottom part also rests on the edge of the hole.

Both feet kept stepping on the stone wall below the cave entrance, and soon, Zhao Ji rolled up.

Came up.

As soon as he came up, Zhao Ji quickly got up from lying on the ground and drew out his long sword to guard against possible dangers.

After waiting for a while, nothing came out of the deep and dark cave to attack Zhao Ji, so he relaxed his vigilance a little.

The long sword was placed at his feet. Zhao Ji took out a small bucket of lamp oil from his backpack, then filled a wooden bowl with lamp oil, then took out a piece of string and dipped it into the lamp oil, lit a fire and lit the lamp.

Lamp oil was not cheap. Zhao Ji did not dare to ask the village for more, and the village only prepared a small bucket of lamp oil for him. It was probably the supplies that the elders used themselves. This was how much they could just take out a small bucket.

After all, most people in ordinary villages are illiterate, and there is no need to use lighting at night. These items are not sold in grocery stores, and most of them belong to the elders.

Exploring the ruins requires a steady approach. Zhao Ji will first build the forward camp at the entrance of the ruins.

The entrance to the cave is a regular hexagonal passage with large dark stones on the bottom, and the walls are made of gray stone bricks on the inside and luxurious silver-coated walls on the outside. People have pried off the silver on many walls around the edge of the cave.

There were traces of scratches, but the man was not very strong and could only lift some silver off the edge, leaving many metal scratches.

Zhao Ji guessed that these relatively fresh traces should have been left by the clue provider many years ago. The young girl probably could only get so much marginal silver.

Zhao Ji found a fixed position on the wall of the cave entrance that should be used to place lighting tools. He placed the oil lamp here. The relatively bright light was reflected by the silver wall and illuminated a long end of the passage.

Zhao Ji looked into the passage and found that there was a stone door not far from the passage, about fifteen meters away.

Don't rush to explore the gate first. Zhao Ji placed the supplies and some exploration materials at the edge of the cave entrance. After reducing the load on the backpack, he started exploring further.

The fifteen-meter passage was surrounded by silver-coated walls on the left and right sides and above. Zhao Ji lamented how luxurious the elves in ancient times were. The passages for walking were all paved with precious metals.

He touched the wall vigorously with his hand, and the armor's leather gloves wiped away a layer of dust on the silver wall. Bright reflections reflected from the silver wall, and Zhao Ji carefully looked at the wiped wall.

On the surface, I found that the silver wall was very smooth and smooth. Tens of thousands of years had only lightly covered its surface with a thin layer of dust, but other than that, no trace remained.

Zhao Ji lamented that the elves' craftsmanship in manufacturing building walls could not be damaged even after thousands of years. Except for the death of the huge trees outside, there was no impact here.

There is a lighting position protruding from the side wall every five meters of the passage, but Zhao Ji did not prepare so much lamp oil and wooden bowls. In order to maximize the lighting, he moved the oil lamp at the entrance of the cave to a lighting position on the wall in the middle of the passage.

In this way, the entire passage can be barely illuminated.

Lighting a torch and holding it in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand, Zhao Ji came to the huge stone door at the end of the passage.

He knocked hard on the stone door with the hilt of his sword, only to hear a dull echo. Just by hearing the dull echo, Zhao Ji could tell that the stone door was quite thick and was not something he could easily destroy.

There was a gap in the middle of the stone door, and Zhao Ji judged it to be a double door.

On the upper part of the stone door, there was a simple and solemn carving with a long passage that may be in Elvish script. Zhao Ji did not understand Elvish script, so he had to take out a small book from his backpack, hold a torch under his arm, and use charcoal to carefully and accurately write the words on it.

The elven text was copied and copied.

In the middle of the stone door are several elves with long ears. They are both men and women, and they are gathering together to chat. The elves on the stone sculptures all look happy, and one of them is dressed in women's clothing.

She is the happiest, which can be seen from her smiling eyes.

The craftsman who carved this stone carving must be a master stonemason, and the clothes, movements and expressions of each elf are vividly and permanently preserved on this stone door.

In the stone sculpture, the background of the elves' conversation was several huge trees. From the positions of those trees, Zhao Ji judged that they should be the four tree stumps outside the ruins.

Looking at it this way, the stone carvings on the stone gate may be an event that happened outside thousands of years ago.

But why is a simple conversation carved on the stone door of the only passage to the ruins? Unless these elves seem to be talking happily, which is very important, or if any of the elves on the stone sculptures have a different status.

Elf.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji brought the torch closer and carefully observed the positions and costumes of the elves on the stone sculpture. Sure enough, as expected by Zhao Ji, among the four elves on the stone sculpture, three men and women were smiling.

Facing another elf man, and unlike the three elves on the left who were smiling happily, the elf on the right was also smiling, but his expression was just a smile. You could tell he was smiling, but he was very restrained.

At the same time, Zhao Ji also saw slight differences in the clothes of the four elves. Because they were colorless stone sculptures, Zhao Ji could only judge by their clothes. The clothes of the three elves on the left, men and women, were all robes, but

The sleeves of the robe are tight, with a hood behind the collar, and the hem of the robe only reaches the calf. It can be seen that they are wearing different shoes on their feet.

The elf on the right is also wearing a robe, but without a hood. The sleeves are also wide sleeves. The hem of the robe reaches directly to the steps, covering most of the shoes. Zhao Ji can only see that the elf is wearing a pair of shoes with the toes turned up.

Curly thin-soled shoes.

The status of this elf should be different from the other three.

The elves on the stone carvings are all smiling. They must have done something here, so what happened at that time was carefully carved on this door.

Does what they happily accomplish have anything to do with the ruins behind the stone gate?

Zhao Ji can't make a judgment. The clues are still very small and he can only confirm it after he explores the situation behind the stone gate.

The lower part of the stone gate has some decorative patterns. Zhao Ji looked at it carefully and found nothing special.

Now, it depends on how he opens the stone door.

——

Zhao Ji placed the torch on the lighting position closest to the stone gate, came to the stone gate, stretched out his hand to support the stone gate, and stepped firmly on the ground with his thick leather boots.

He took a deep breath for a while to accumulate enough strength for his body, then slowly exerted force with his arms and pushed!

No effect.

Shimen didn't even make a sound. Facing Zhao Ji's strong push, it didn't move at all.

Taking a deep breath, Zhao Ji not only exerted force on his arms this time, but also began to exert force on his legs after he stood firm.

push!

Push hard!

Zhao Ji smiled and had no reaction at all.

He didn't believe in evil. This time, his whole body started to shake and he moved for a while to relax his muscles.

Then, he summoned all his strength, like a powerful plowing ox, roaring and pushing against the stone door.

"Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!"

Zhao Ji continued to push the stone door, big beads of sweat dripped from his hair, and some sweat beads slid down his cheeks to his chin, and then dripped onto the dark hard stone ground and shattered. His feet

Due to the exertion of force, it rubbed hard against the ground behind him, and the thick leather boots made a sound as they rubbed against the hard and rough rocky ground.

"Hehe, hehe." Zhao Ji finally sat down on the ground after using up all his strength. He gave up. This stone door was not something he could push open.

After gasping for breath for a while, Zhao Ji even wondered whether this stone door required non-human knight-level strength like Knight Crow to open the door. The more he thought about it, the more Zhao Ji thought it was possible. The ancient elves were very powerful, so he said

Maybe all of them have the physical strength of today's human knights.

This possibility makes Zhao Ji very disappointed. Is it difficult for Shimen to stop him like this?

He may have knight-level power in the future. He believes this is still very possible. He may even become one of the magicians in the story. But that is all in the future.

At least he doesn't have these powers at this moment.

Could it be said that we can only give up? The ancient elf ruins behind this stone gate can only be opened at some point in the future?

Zhao Ji was quite unwilling. After sweating a lot, he returned to the entrance of the cave, took out a pot of drinking water from the supplies, and drank half of the bottle.

Just when Zhao Ji was leaning against the silver wall with his head down in depression, he suddenly saw the shovel hanging on his waist.

An inspiration flashed in my mind, yes.
To be continued...