I don't know how long I walked...
Sean couldn't see the weather display in the dark, so he estimated that it was probably more than half an hour.
However, there is a spacious enough space in this cave. You can't see the main point even if you keep walking inside. The surroundings are so empty that it looks like a bunker.
If this place wasn't on a plateau, Xiaosen would even suspect whether it was a military fortress!
"Why does this place look like something man-made?" Lucille also felt the abnormality here. No matter which aspect, this cave looked too much like an underground palace.
“Probably not!”
Sean replied.
If it was built by humans, it only means that the technological power of people in ancient times was too strong.
This place is thousands of meters underground. For most people, digging a hundred meters down is already a good thing. Ordinary underground palaces are only this deep. What kind of tools would you need to dig thousands of meters down? ! !
I have seen many historical documents now. If there really was such a powerful era, it is impossible that nothing would be left behind. Besides, this is an uninhabited plateau area and is not suitable for long-term human habitation. Why would we need to build a fortress here?
Can……
To say no, it doesn't seem so certain.
The surrounding environment always makes people feel that it is deliberately polished. Even the walls are very smooth. Something formed naturally cannot be like this. Even if it was dug by the giant insect, it is unlikely.
If it was the giant underground worm that dug this place, it should be like an earthworm hole, with crisscrossing roads everywhere. It is impossible for there to be only one road like this, and it really looks like a bunker.
“But it really looks like this here!”
"It does, but I can't imagine anyone building a bunker here."
Are you saying it’s used to store national wealth?
It seems possible.
Just like in those novels, a certain country is too powerful and is deeply afraid that its descendants will be retaliated against or destroyed, so when it is strong, it buries the national treasure somewhere and waits for its descendants to open it when they encounter difficulties.
This is not just a situation in novels, it also seems to happen in reality. Jagon once seemed to have done this.
But this area is not ordinary after all...
There has never been any powerful nation in the plateau area in history. Many historians even believe that the original inhabitants of the Xiata country migrated from the plains and had to move to the plateau to avoid war, and gradually formed the local ethnic group.
Regardless of whether this research is true or not, it is certain that there has been no powerful country in the plateau area in history. It is too difficult for them to dig underground fortifications thousands of meters underground!
Sean pulled Lucille and continued walking.
What is strange is not only that this place is like an underground fortification, but also that there is plenty of oxygen here, which is a bit strange.
The fact that the air environment so deep underground can be maintained is the same as that on the surface means that there must be a passage facing the outside. But even if there is another passage, the air cannot be exactly the same as on the surface.
It must be some other device.
Sean subconsciously thought it was some kind of magic...
Now the two of them were walking deep into the plateau.
Since it is not easy to move on the surface, it takes time to travel through the mountains. However, once they reach the flat road underground, their walking speed will definitely be faster.
The distance is probably much closer...
Judging by the distance on the surface, Sean felt that he might have reached deep underground below the highest mountain.
That means I'm getting closer to what I'm looking for this time.
This should be the place where the ancient crystal guided me to.
"Are we getting to where we're going, mentor?" Lucille also felt something strange, but she didn't think about it that way.
I simply thought that this place should be close to the roof of the world where the two of them had planned to go.
Even though it’s underground, it must be above!
"It should be here... Do you feel that the air here is the same temperature as the surface?" After all, it is thousands of meters underground. It felt very stuffy before, but it felt much better after walking here.
"Yeah, that's weird!"
Lucille said, looking around.
So weird...
"This might be some kind of magic, or something with energy," Sean said.
"Is the stone still there?"
Lucille hurriedly opened her waist bag...
“It’s still there.”
Because the shock wave from the previous violent explosion almost destroyed most of the things the two people carried, there was not much left. When they were on the ground before, Lucille sorted out the remaining things. Among them, the purple crystal stone was the only thing that was not damaged at all.
It looks as good as new, as if it has not been affected at all.
“Here…”
Lucille took him out and gave it to Sean.
Holding it in the palm of your hand, you can feel a cool feeling.
This thing stores a certain power, a power that even humans cannot explain, but this power cannot be unlocked by existing technology or magic. Therefore, to outsiders, it is just a strange stone with cold properties.
Even if it has powerful abilities, if it cannot be used it is just a piece of stone.
Sean didn't know who was able to activate the Ancient Crystal and allow the Shoggoth to escape more than ten years later in the Kingdom of Bashalan.
Sean still doesn't understand this.
But this time it should be much better. Even if the Shoggoth appears again, with his current strength, he is not afraid of any creature, even ancient creations.
The two continued to walk forward, and the feeling of the underground fortress and the comfort of the environment became more and more obvious...
It was as if this place was intentionally created to accommodate human habitation. Both the air and the environment no longer felt like being deep underground. Even if one ignored the surrounding walls, it would not be an exaggeration to say that one was on the ground, and on a comfortable plain.
Lucille and Sean had originally worn thick coats when they reached the plateau, but now they actually felt hot.
The surrounding environment began to become more comfortable!
Light gradually appeared in the dark distance.
"There's light over there."
"Well, go check it out!"
Sean also discovered a light in the distance.
Like the colorful beams of light emitted from the ice under the sun, the dark underground cave is illuminated as if it were daytime.
When Sean and Lucille got closer, they discovered that the reflective parts were all huge blocks of crystal, hundreds of them extending from underground to high up, so high that they couldn't see the top.
This thing should be the part that leads directly to the surface...
The light is refracted from outside.
“There are statues inside!”
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