[Chapter 15 Ancient Altar]

Laura was very puzzled. What did David mean by this expression? “You want me to stay outside?”

“If possible…”

“Don’t worry, I have more experience in this situation than you.” Laura thought David was worried about her safety, but Laura, who had an adventure experience, didn’t think that such an ordinary cave could threaten her at all.

She didn’t know that David was not worried about Laura’s safety at all, but the safety of this cave. After all, this man, who was called the tomb destroyer, collapsed wherever he walked. He was very worried that the cave would collapse the next second after he and Laura entered it.

Such an outrageous reason was really impossible to explain to Laura, so she had to light a torch and walk into the cave.

Laura also pulled out the flashlight hanging on her belt and followed David into the cave.

The temperature in the cave was lower than outside, which made David feel a little cool. Apart from that, the two did not find anything unusual after walking in the cave for a while.

Although the cave was obviously downward and circling, it didn’t take long for the two to reach the end of the cave.

“That’s it?” Looking at the cave that had reached the end, Laura looked at the various ores on the surrounding cave walls and could only helplessly say: “It seems that this is a very ordinary natural mine.” “

Well, and it’s not difficult to mine.” This open-pit mine is the easiest type to mine. He has no way to judge the reserves now. Even if the reserves are not high, it is enough for the current Winter Village: “It seems that in addition to hiring a blacksmith, we have to hire a few miners.”

Reaching out and brushing the metallic ore on the wall, David thought that if this is a farming and development game, his birthplace is quite good.

Although the location is a bit remote, there are also advantages to being remote, that is, it will not be besieged by “various forces.

” “It seems that this is just an ordinary natural mine, let’s go.”

“Wait.” David was about to turn around and leave, and was stopped by Laura, who was squatting in the corner studying something: “It seems to be windy here.” “

Ah?”

David looked at Laura squatting there with her palms spread out, feeling something, and then groped on the wall for a while, and finally stopped at a place and tapped it lightly with a mountaineering pick.

“There’s a cave here.”

“So?” It’s normal for this kind of cave to have some smaller caves and gaps, right?

“I just want to see if I can go deeper.” Laura stood up and swung the mountaineering pickaxe, aiming at the place she just determined and hitting it hard a few times. Laura thought it would take some effort to break the stone wall, but she didn’t expect that she would break the stone wall into pieces after just two hits.

But this is not the most important thing. The key is that when the stone wall was broken, a chain reaction occurred. Even the place where Laura was standing on was broken. Laura felt that her feet were empty and she fell down.

David reacted very quickly. When Laura exclaimed and the place where she was standing on broke and fell, he rushed out to catch Laura, but he was still half a beat slower. He watched Laura fall in front of him… Then he nailed the pickaxe head to the stone wall in front of him in the air, and hung steadily less than one meter in front of David.

“…”

“Huh~ Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough.” After saying that, he raised his head and looked at David, who was one meter above him, half of his body was leaning out and doing the “Purple Myrtle Hand”. “How is it, are you scared?”

After experiencing the Himiko incident, Laura is no longer the ordinary girl she was when they first met. Now she is a top adventurer with rich experience in distress and can always make the most correct judgment in the shortest time (hanger).

She has experienced similar scenes too many times, and she is very familiar with how to deal with them. This time her movements are considered slow.

“Do you want to pull you up?” David has already taken his hand back. He has seen that even if he doesn’t help, Laura can climb up with a mountaineering pick.

She is still hanging there without moving, just not wanting to come up.

“Wait, there seems to be something down there.” Laura took a few more lighting sticks, lit them up, and threw them directly down.

The moment she threw them down, the lighting sticks fell to the ground. Laura was not far from the bottom, and it could even be said that she was very close. Even if Laura had not been able to nail herself to the mountain wall with a mountaineering pick before, she would not die if she fell directly as long as the posture was correct.

“I’ll go down and take a look!”

Laura used two mountaineering picks to slide down a distance, and finally jumped directly down. She reached the bottom skillfully. She found that the space here was not large, only about a hundred square meters. Standing in place and shining a flashlight, she could see the entire location here clearly.

So she quickly noticed the special thing.

“This is…” Located in the center of the hole was a stone tablet-like object, which was obviously a man-made product, and there were words engraved on it: “It’s the common language!”

During this period, in addition to Fording’s hard work in learning English, Laura and Mark were also learning the common language of this world – in fact, Fording was also learning it.

“Thanks… for your blessing, I offer you… the fruits of my hard work… hope…”

The handwriting on it was not complete, most of it was no longer clear, only a small paragraph could be read. With Laura’s movements, she quickly found the base of the stone tablet and more traces of man-made things covered by dust.

“Below is a stone slab that has been carefully processed.”

The footsteps behind her had already let her know that David had come to her side.

At this time, David also squatted down, gently pried a few times with his hands, and saw the stone slabs with various patterns carved below: “It seems that there are stone slabs under this area.”

As for the stone tablet in front of him, he had just observed it, and the few contents that could be identified had been read out by Laura.

“This is an altar.” Turning back and forth a few times, Laura quickly figured out what it was: “It is used to thank the gods for their blessing and let people get a good harvest… um…”

Laura suddenly remembered that when David introduced this world to her before, he mentioned that the universal language was the language used by humans in this world, which meant that this altar should have been built by humans.

“Has this place ever been the territory of a human kingdom?”

“According to the historical knowledge I know, the human kingdom has never ruled such a northern area. The Kingdom of Tilan is the northernmost kingdom in human history.” The history and various “glories” of the Kingdom of Tilan are often passed down as stories throughout the kingdom, so David is so sure.

But now he is also confused. Is this the altar of the elves? But the elves don’t seem to want to live in such a cold place: “Maybe a small number of humans have lived here?” It is

not uncommon for people to live in isolation. The fact that the human kingdom has not ruled this area does not mean that no one has come. Maybe the people who once lived here did not survive due to environmental reasons.

Of course, there is another possibility: this altar did not actually exist, but it appeared when Laura appeared.

David couldn’t help but think about it. After all, there was the example of Mark Watney and potatoes before, and Laura and the ancient altar were very logical.

“If that’s the case, what’s the use of this thing?”

Looking at the only words that could be read on the stone tablet, David guessed that this thing wanted him to offer some harvested food? And then protect himself to continue the harvest?

“Maybe we can try?”

David stood there thinking about various possibilities. Laura had already roughly explored the entire altar. After confirming that the pattern of the stone slabs on the ground had no special meaning, she lost interest in this place – the only thing worth studying was the stone tablet, and the content on it was pitifully small.

“It seems that there is nothing else.” Laura tried to find gaps in the surrounding stone walls again, but found nothing more: “Although I don’t know why, this ancient altar and the mineral veins are mixed together. Maybe it is caused by the movement of the earth’s crust…” Without

anything to explore, Laura lost interest in this place and prepared to return to the ground along the rope that David used when he came down (fixed with iron nails at the top).

David did not continue to waste time here. After Laura climbed up, he also left here, and then put away the rope and walked out of the cave together.

“Continue to search for the wolf pack… What is that?” Laura, who returned to the sun, was startled by the huge creature in her sight just halfway through her words.

It was an ugly creature that was nearly three meters tall, with abnormally thick arms, covered with dirty white hair, and holding a huge wooden stick in his hand.

When Laura was startled by the other party, the giant monster also discovered Laura and David.

There was no communication at all. After the two sides’ eyes met for a second, the monster roared and rushed towards the two people with a wooden stick.

There was no reminder to be careful. At the moment when the monster launched the attack, Laura and David had already launched the attack first. In just a blink of an eye, two arrows had shot towards the eyes and throat respectively.

The monster reacted quickly, stopped and turned sideways to avoid the arrows. Although it failed to get rid of the monster immediately, the two arrows also bought some time for David and Laura.

Raising his hand, he released a golden holy light. Laura and David were covered and protected by golden shields one after another. Then David stretched out his left hand and aimed at the huge monster. Before the monster could react, a sacred light appeared and exploded in front of the monster.

Although this holy light did not cause much damage to the monster, it successfully interfered with the monster’s vision and once again delayed the monster’s actions.

Seeing that the arrows shot by Laura did not do much damage to the monster, David also dropped his bow and arrow and rushed over.

At the same time, David’s right hand burned with golden flames. When David rushed to the monster, the suddenly expanded holy light shield blocked the wooden stick in the giant’s hand in mid-air, and the golden flame in David’s hand became more fierce and fierce.

With a flash of strong light, the holy fire thrown by David’s hand instantly turned the monster into a giant bonfire.

(End of this chapter)